François, Claude
Music
Age 39
February 1, 1939 - March 11, 1978
Cimetière de Dannemois / Dannemois / France / Europe
Claude François was a popular French pop singer, composer, songwriter, record producer, drummer and dancer. François co-wrote the lyrics of "Comme d'habitude" (composed by Jacques Revaux), the original version of "My Way" (as ma...
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy
Historical Figure
Age 64
July 28, 1928 - May 19, 1994
Arlington National Cemetery / Arlington / Virginia / USA / North America
Former First Lady of the United States of America and style icon. She devoted much of her time to making the White House a historical museum of American History while First Lady. Following the assassination of her husband John F. ...
List, The Family of John
Crime and their Victims
Age
- November 9, 1971
Fairview Cemetery / Westfield / New Jersey / USA / North America
John List was a narcissistic mass murderer who suffered from obsessive-compulsive personality disorder who systematically murdered his mother, his wife and three children on November 9, 1971. Fired from his accounting position at ...
Duncan, Michael Clarke
Show Business
Age 54
December 10, 1957 - September 3, 2012
Forest Lawn Memorial Park – Hollywood Hills / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Remembered for his huge size and deep, resonant voice, American actor Michael Clarke Duncan's breakout role came as John Coffey in The Green Mile (1999), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor a...
Sanders, Colonel
Business and Finance
Age 90
September 9, 1890 - December 16, 1980
Cave Hill Cemetery / Louisville / Kentucky / USA / North America
Colonel Harland Sanders was an American businessman and founder of fast food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (also known as KFC). When Sanders was only 6, his father died. So at a young age, he had to care for his ...
Ruth, Babe
Sports
Age 53
February 6, 1895 - August 16, 1948
Gate of Heaven Cemetery / Hawthorne / New York / USA / North America
Considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time, over the course of his career, Babe Ruth went on to break baseball's most important slugging records, including most years leading a league in home runs, most tota...
Marley, Bob
Music
Age 36
February 6, 1945 - May 11, 1981
Bob Marley Centre and Mausoleum / Nine Mile / Jamaica / North America
Bob Marley was a Jamaican singer, songwriter and musician whose brilliant and ongoing distillation of early ska, rock steady, and reggae musical forms blossomed in the 1970s into an electrifying rock-influenced hybrid that made hi...
Crosby, Bing
Show Business
Age 74
May 3, 1903 - October 14, 1977
Holy Cross Cemetery / Culver City / California / USA / North America
With over 70 feature films and 1,600 recorded songs and countless television appearances, Bing Crosby was the first multimedia star in America. From 1930 through the mid-50s he was the leader in record sales, radio ratings and mot...
Mansfield, Jayne
Show Business
Age 34
April 19, 1933 - June 29, 1967
Fairview Cemetery / Pen Argyl / Pennsylvania / USA / North America
Jayne Mansfield was an American actress, singer, model, nightclub entertainer, and Playboy Playmate. A sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s while under contract at 20th Century Fox, Mansfield was known for her well-publicized p...
Nureyev, Rudolph
Artists
Age 54
March 17, 1938 - January 6, 1993
Cimetière Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois / Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois / France / Europe
Russian born Rudolf Nureyev is considered by many to be the greatest male ballet dancer of his generation. In addition to his technical prowess, Rudolf Nureyev was an accomplished choreographer serving as the chief choreographer ...
Borden, Lizzie
Crime and their Victims
Age 66
July 19, 1860 - June 1, 1927
Oak Grove Cemetery / Fall River / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Lizzie Borden is infamous for being the prime suspect in the double murder of their father and step-mother. She was tried and acquitted and no one else was charged in the murders. The murders and trial received widespread publicit...
Aznavour, Charles
Music
Age 94
May 22, 1924 - October 1, 2018
Cimetière de Montfort-l'Amaury / Cimetière de Montfort-l'Amaury / France / Europe
Charles Aznavour was a French singer of Armenian ancestry, as well as a songwriter, lyricist, actor and diplomat. Aznavour was known for his distinctive vibrato tenor voice: clear and ringing in its upper reaches, with gravelly an...
Kennedy, Joseph Patrick
Business and Finance
Age 81
September 6, 1888 – - November 18, 1969
Holyhood Cemetery / Chestnut Hill / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Joseph P. Kennedy is best known for being the father of three political leaders: President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, who served as a U.S. senator and attorney general. Kennedy became a bank pres...
Custer, George Armstrong
Historical Figure
Age 36
December 5, 1839 - June 25, 1876
United States Military Academy Post Cemetery / West Point / New York / USA / North America
George Armstrong Custer (1839–1876) was a U.S. Army officer and cavalry commander during the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. Born in New Rumley, Ohio, Custer attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, gra...
Fleming, Victor
Show Business
Age 59
February 23, 1889 - January 6, 1949
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Were film director Victor Fleming’s legacy limited to his two best-known films – "The Wizard of Oz" (1939) and "Gone with the Wind" (1939) – he would have one of the most successful track records in Hollywood history. But th...