Delahanty, Ed
Sports
Age 35
October 30, 1867 - July 2, 1903
Calvary Cemetery / Cleveland / Ohio / USA / North America
Ed Delahanty was an American professional baseball player who spent his Major League Baseball (MLB) playing career with the Philadelphia Quakers, Cleveland Infants, Philadelphia Phillies, and Washington Senators. He was renowned a...
Dawson, Richard
Show Business
Age 79
November 20, 1932 - June 2, 2012
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Richard Dawson, the original and longtime host of “Family Feud” known for planting kisses on female contestants was also a regular on television appearing in Hogan's Heroes (a hilarious sit-com about prisoners in a Nazi German...
Drake, Nick
Music
Age 26
June 19, 1948 - November 25, 1974
Church of St Mary Magdalene, Tanworth-in-Arden / Tanworth-in-Arden, Solihull / United Kingdom / Europe
Nick Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician best known for his acoustic, mournful, melancholy songs. With only three albums released to middling reviews, abysmal sales coupled with his descent into mental illness he f...
Morton, Jelly Roll
Music
Age 50
September 20, 1890 - July 10, 1941
Calvary Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Along with Sidney Bechet, Johnny Dodds, Kid Ory, and Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton was one of the most important musical figure to emerge from the early days of New Orleans. While most will dismiss his claim that he, Jelly Ro...
Alamo, Frank
Music
Age 70
October 12, 1941 - October 11, 2012
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Frank Alamo was a French singer who achieved his greatest success in the 1960s. With his boy-next-door image and plaintive voice, the yéyé singer Frank Alamo was an engaging "idole des jeunes" – teenage idol – and a const...
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...
Davis, Varina
Historical Figure
Age 80
May 7, 1826 - October 16, 1906
Hollywood Cemetery / Richmond / Virginia / United States / North America
Varina Davis was the only First Lady of the Confederate States of America, and the longtime second wife of President Jefferson Davis. Born and raised in the South and educated in Philadelphia, she had family on both sides of the c...
Schoenberg, Arnold
Music
Age 76
September 13, 1874 - July 13, 1951
Der Wiener Zentralfriedhof / Simmeringer Hauptstraße 234 / Vienna / Austria / Europe
Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He is widely considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was associated with the expressionist movemen...
Fillmore, Millard
World Leaders
Age 74
December 31, 1969 - March 8, 1874
Forest Lawn Cemetery / Buffalo / New York / USA / North America
Millard Fillmore was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853, the last to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House. A former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Upstate New Yor...
Morrison, Jim
Music
Age 27
December 8, 1943 - July 3, 1971
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Jim Morrison was a legendary American singer, songwriter and poet, and best known for being the lead singer for the popular rock band The Doors. Morrison is regarded by music critics and fans as one of the most iconic and influent...
Scalish, John T.
Crime and their Victims
Age 63
September 18, 1912 - May 26, 1976
Calvary Cemetery / Cleveland / Ohio / USA / North America
Related to the Lonardo crime family through marriage, Scalish was the head of the Cleveland crime family for over 32 years. His reign were considered the "golden years" for the Cleveland mob, which built an empire of casinos, pinb...
Bentsen, Lloyd
World Leaders
Age 85
February 11, 1921 - May 23, 2006
Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery / Houston / Texas / USA / North America
Lloyd Bentson was a four-term United States Senator (1971–1993) from Texas, the Democratic Party nominee for vice president in 1988 on the Michael Dukakis ticket and served as the 69th United States Secretary of the Treasury und...
Coppola, Michael
Crime and their Victims
Age 66
July 2, 1900 - October 1, 1966
Ferncliff Cemetery / Hartsdale / New York / USA / North America
Michael "Trigger Mike" Coppola was a New York City mobster who became a caporegime of the 116th Street Crew, with the Genovese crime family. He entered the ranks of the New York mafiosi with a reputation as a morally depraved, sad...
Ramone, Joey
Music
Age 49
September 18, 1951 - June 5, 2002
New Mount Zion Cemetery / Lyndhurst / New Jersey / USA / North America
Suffering from crippling OCD at times, Joey Ramone was nonetheless an iconic, punk counterculture rock and roll icon as lead singer and songwriter of The Ramones. Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee and Tommy – the original Ramones, all decea...
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...