Gaynor, Janet
Show Business
Age 77
October 6, 1906 - September 14, 1984
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Gaynor was the first actress to win the Academy Award as best actress. She won for Sunrise (1927), 7th Heaven (1927) and Street Angel (1928) and continued a successful film career until a near fatal auto accident in San Francisco.
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...
Brown, Les
Music
Age 88
March 14, 1912 - January 4, 2001
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Les Brown was an American musician, big band leader and composer best known for his nearly seven decades of work with the big band Les Brown and His Band of Renown (1938-2001). The Band of Renown began in the late 1930s, initially...
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...
Piaf, Édith
Music
Age 47
December 19, 1915 - October 10, 1963
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
The most popular singer in France in the 1950s, Edith Piaf gained international recognition through her emotional songs of doom and tragic love. Unlike her contemporaries Charles Aznavour and Maurice Chevalier, Piaf achieved stard...
Elliot, Cass
Music
Age 32
September 19, 1941 - July 29, 1974
Mount Sinai Memorial Parks / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Her unmistakable voice as a founding member of The Mamas and The Papas in songs like California Dreamin’, Monday Monday and Dream a Little Dream of Me, catapulted her into the iconography of the 1960’s.
London, Julie
Music
Age 74
September 26, 1926 - October 18, 2000
Forest Lawn Memorial Park – Hollywood Hills / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
American singer and actress whose career spanned more than 40 years. Julie London was known for her sultry vocals, and her recording of "Cry Me a River" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001. As a successful actress, L...
Monroe, Marilyn
Show Business
Age 36
June 1, 1926 - August 4, 1962
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
In and out of foster homes, actress and film star Marilyn Monroe overcame a difficult childhood to become one of the world's biggest and most enduring sex symbols of modern times. In her prime her films grossed more than $200 mill...
Cassavetes, John
Show Business
Age 59
December 9, 1929 - February 3, 1989
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Primarily known as an actor early in his career, John Cassavetes would later be regarded by some as one of the most daring and influential filmmakers of the 20th Century and contributed as an artist who shaped the current definiti...
Soo, Chung
Other Entertainers
Age 56
April 16, 1861 - March 24, 1918
East Sheen Cemetery / Richmond / England, United Kingdom / Europe
At the beginning of the 20th century, audiences across Europe were wowed by a Chinese magician who drew on ancient Asian mysticism to perform illusions and contact the spirit realm. But he was, in fact, none of these things, as â€...
DeMille, Cecil B.
Show Business
Age 77
August 12, 1881 - January 21, 1959
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Considered the founding father of the American cinema and the most commercially successful producer-director in film history he was also one of the founders of Paramount Pictures. As a director, producer, writer and actor. Cecil B...
Campbell, Krystle
Crime and their Victims
Age 29
May 3, 1983 - April 15, 2013
Oak Grove Cemetery / Medford / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old Medford, Massachusetts native, was one of three people killed in the April 15, 2013 bombings at the Boston Marathon finish line. She was a graduate of Medford High School and attended the University...
Kennedy, John F.
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.
Bernhardt, Sarah
Show Business
Age 78
October 23, 1844 - March 26, 1923
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame Aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas; Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La ...
Davis, Bette
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...