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...
World Leaders
Age 46
May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963
Arlington National Cemetery / Arlington / Virginia / USA / North America
John F. Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States of America, negotiated the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, and initiated the Alliance for Progress. He was assassinated in 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald.
Show Business
Age 81
April 5, 1908 - October 6, 1989
Forest Lawn Memorial Park – Hollywood Hills / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Bette Davis was an American actress of film, television, and theater. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history, she was noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic, sardonic characters and was known for h...
Artists
Age 37
March 30, 1853 - July 29, 1890
Auvers-Sur-Oise Communal Cemetery / Auvers-sur-Oise / Val-d'Oise / France / Europe
Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil painting...
Show Business
Age 40
April 5, 1962 - February 3, 2003
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
For nearly 20 years Lana Clarkson was the typical struggling actress and model in Hollywood appearing in a multitude of forgettable films such as Deathstalker, Brainstorm, Barbarian Queen and, of course, Amazon Women on the Moon. ...
Business and Finance
Age 62
November 3, 1835 - December 10, 1897
Spring Grove Cemetery / Cincinnati / Ohio / USA / North America
Charles Louis Fleischmann was a Hungarian-American who, along with his brother Maximilian and another partner, created America’s first commercially produced yeast, which revolutionized baking in a way that made today’s mass pr...
Business and Finance
Age 67
June 16, 1723 - July 17, 1790
Canongate Kirkyard / Edinburgh / Scotland / Europe
Adam Smith, a graduate of the University of Glasgow and at Balliol College, Oxford, was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. Also known as "T...
Show Business
Age 89
February 3, 1918 - October 17, 2007
Cremated / North America
Honest to God if Frank Sinatra didn't like Joey Bishop, Joey Bishop would be relegated to the mediocre talent trash heap that is Hollywood. The star of his own late night talk show that ran for a couple of years, host of the the E...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...