Baldwin, James
Writers and Poets
Age 63
August 2, 1924 - December 1, 1987
Ferncliff Cemetery / Hartsdale / New York / USA / North America
James Baldwin was an American author, playwright, poet and activist. His work explored the intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in the Western society of the United States during the mid twentieth-century. He used...
Fields, Totie
Show Business
Age 48
May 7, 1930 - August 2, 1978
Mount Sinai Memorial Parks / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Totie Fields was an American comedian who got her start on the east coast in nightclubs when Ed Sullivan saw her show at the Copacabana in New York Cith and gave Fields her first big break when he booked her on his show. She made ...
Woolworth, Frank Winfield
Business and Finance
Age 66
April 13, 1852 - April 8, 1919
Woodlawn Cemetery / Bronx / New York / USA / North America
F. W. Woolworth was an American entrepreneur, the founder of F. W. Woolworth Company, and the operator of variety stores known as "Five-and-Dimes" (5- and 10-cent stores or dime stores) which featured a selection of low-priced mer...
Gould, Jay
Business and Finance
Age 56
May 27, 1836 - December 2, 1892
Woodlawn Cemetery / Bronx / New York / USA / North America
Jay Gould was an American railroad magnate and financial speculator who is generally identified as one of the original Robber Barons of the Gilded Age. His sharp and often unscrupulous business practices made him one of the wealth...
Quinn, Glenn
Show Business
Age 32
May 28, 1970 - December 3, 2002
Forest Lawn Memorial Park / Cypress / California / USA / North America
Irish actor Glenn Quinn acquired a small, but devoted, following from appearances in the television situation comedy Roseanne, and as the half-demon Doyle, in Angel, the spin-off from Buffy, The Vampire Slayer. Quinn was less succ...
Cline, Patsy
Music
Age 30
September 8, 1932 - March 5, 1963
Shenandoah Memorial Park / Winchester / Virginia / USA / North America
Patsy Cline was an American singer and performer and is considered by many to be one of the most influential vocalists of the 20th century and was one of the first country music artists to successfully cross over into pop music. P...
Kelly, Grace
Historical Figure
Age 52
November 12, 1929 - September 14, 1982
Cathedral of Our Lady Immaculate / Monaco-Ville 98000 / Monaco / Europe
Grace Kelly, also known as Grace of Monaco, was an American actress and Princess of Monaco as the wife of Prince Rainier III from their marriage on April 18, 1956, until her death in 1982. Prior to her marriage, she achieved stard...
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...
Hearst, William Randolph
Business and Finance
Age 88
April 29, 1863 - August 14, 1951
Cypress Lawn Memorial Park / Colma / California / USA / North America
William Randolph Hearst was the heir to a mining fortune, publisher and politician known for developing the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications. His flamboyant methods of yellow journalism inf...
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...
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...
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...
Williams, Ted
Sports
Age 83
August 30, 1918 - July 5, 2002
Alcor Life Extension Foundation / Scottsdale / Arizona / USA / North America
Ted Williams was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, primarily as a left fielder, for the Boston Red Sox from 1939 to 1960; his career was interrup...
Nelson, Rick
Music
Age 45
May 8, 1940 - December 31, 1985
Forest Lawn Memorial Park – Hollywood Hills / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
The youngest member of America's "perfect family," Rick Nelson parlayed the free publicity that the television show The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriett afforded into a successful musical career. With teen idol good looks and tale...
Atlas, Charles
The Odd and the Interesting
Age 80
October 30, 1892 - December 24, 1972
St. John Cemetery / Middle Village / New York / USA / North America
Charles Atlas was an Italian-born American bodybuilder best remembered as the developer of a bodybuilding method and its associated exercise program which spawned a landmark advertising campaign featuring his name and likeness; it...