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...
Dolezal, Frank
Crime and their Victims
Age 51
May 4, 1887 - August 24, 1939
West Park Cemetery / Cleveland / Ohio / USA / North America
A Cleveland, Ohio resident who was suspected and awaiting trial as the Cleveland Torso Serial Killer when he was murdered in prison. His name was cleared almost 70 years after his death.
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...
Clavel, Bernard
Writers and Poets
Age 87
May 29, 1923 - October 5, 2010
Frontenay Communal Cemetery / Frontenay / France / Europe
The popular French novelist Bernard Clavel, who started his career as a baker, published his first novel "Night Worker" in 1956 and went on to write more 40 more, including "The Fruits of Winter" which in 1968 won France's coveted...
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.
Dale, Dick
Music
Age 81
May 4, 1937 - March 16, 2019
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Dick Dale was an American rock guitarist. He was the pioneer of surf music, drawing on Middle Eastern music scales and experimenting with reverb. Dale was known as "The King of the Surf Guitar", which was also the title of his se...
McDonald, Maurice
Business and Finance
Age 69
November 26, 1902 - December 11, 1971
Desert Memorial Park / Cathedral City / California / USA / North America
Maurice McDonald and Richard McDonald, together known as the McDonald Brothers, were American entrepreneurs who founded the fast food company McDonald's. They opened the original McDonald's restaurant in 1940 in San Bernardino, Ca...
Nelson, Baby
Crime and their Victims
Age 25
19081206 - 19341127
St Joseph Catholic Cemetery & Mausoleums / River Grove / Illinois / USA / North America
Lester Gillis, aka George Nelson, aka Baby Face Nelson was a notorious gunman and bank robber who was responsible for killing more FBI agents than any other person. He was called Baby Face Neslon due to his small size and youthful...
Flemmi, Vincent
Crime and their Victims
Age 44
September 5, 1935 - October 16, 1979
Milton Cemetery / Milton / Massachusetts / USA / North America
There's only one Boston mob hitman and psychopath more vicious that Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi (long time associate of Whitey Bulger) and that was his brother Vincent "Jimmy the Bear" Flemmi. Suspected or convicted of dozens of...
Rickenbacker, Eddie
Historical Figure
Age 82
October 8, 1890 - July 23, 1973
Green Lawn Cemetery / Columbus / Ohio / USA / North America
Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker was called America’s Ace of Aces during World War I, the highest scorer of American aerial victories over the Germans. He could just as easily have been labeled the ‘luckiest man alive,’ howeve...
Rathbone, Basil
Show Business
Age 75
June 13, 1892 - July 21, 1967
Ferncliff Cemetery / Hartsdale / New York / USA / North America
Basil Rathbone was an English actor who began his career in the United Kingdom as a Shakespearean stage actor, and went on to appear in more than 70 films. He is best known for his role as Sherlock Holmes in fourteen Hollywood fil...
Masterson, Bat
Historical Figure
Age 67
November 26, 1853 - October 25, 1921
Woodlawn Cemetery / Bronx / New York / USA / North America
Bat Masterson was a U.S. Army scout, lawman, professional gambler, and journalist known for his exploits in the 19th and early 20th-century American Old West. He was born to a working-class Irish family in Quebec, but he moved to ...
Gabor, Magda
Show Business
Age 81
June 11, 1915 - June 6, 1997
Desert Memorial Park / Cathedral City / California / USA / North America
Magda Gabor was a Hungarian-American actress and socialite, and the elder sister of Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor. Magda is most remembered as the beautiful, vivacious, red-headed socialite with a thick Hungarian accent, her six marriages...
Tyler, Judy
Show Business
Age 24
October 9, 1932 - July 3, 1957
Ferncliff Cemetery / Hartsdale / New York / USA / North America
Judy Tyler was an American actress and began acting as a teenager on Howdy Doody. She later landed a starring role in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Pipe Dream. Life did a story on rising Broadway talent with Tyler on the mag...
Fleming, Ian
Writers and Poets
Age 56
May 28, 1908 - August 12, 1964
St. James' Churchyard / Swindon / Wiltshire / England / Europe
Ian Fleming was a British writer and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his iconic James Bond series of spy novels. The Bond stories rank among the best-selling series of fictional books of all time, having sold over...