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...
Voltaire
Historical Figure
Age 83
November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778
Le Panthéon / Paris / France / Europe
Voltaire was a French writer and philosopher who produced prolific works that challenged the 18th century's ideas about religion and civil rights. Voltaire is most famously known for his satirical novel Candide, which was very pop...
Wilson, Carl
Music
Age 51
December 21, 1946 - February 6, 1998
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Carl Wilson playing the guitar as a teenager when brothers Brian and Dennis, cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine formed a music group called the Beach Boys in 1961. In addition to guitar Brian's vocals can be heard on Good Vibr...
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...
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 ...
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.
Brynner, Yul
Show Business
Age 65
July 11, 1920 - October 10, 1985
Abbaye Royale Saint-Michel de Bois-Aubry Luzé / Luzé / France / Europe
Exotic leading man of American films, famed as much for his completely bald head as for his performances, Yul Brynner masked much of his early life in mystery. He traveled to the U.S. in 1941 to study with acting teacher Michael C...
Camus, Albert
Writers and Poets
Age 46
November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960
Cimetière de Lourmarin / Lourmarin / France / Europe
Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. Some of his best ...
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...
Jackson, Al Jr.
Music
Age 39
November 27, 1935 - October 1, 1975
New Park Cemetery / Memphis / Tennessee / USA / North America
Dubbed “The Human Timekeeper” for his impeccable rhythm and timing, Al Jackson, Jr. was a member of the seminal Stax Records house band Booker T. and the MG’s and provided the beat for the likes of Al Green, Sam & Dave, Otis...
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...
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...
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...
Drucci, Vincent
Crime and their Victims
Age 29
January 1, 1989 - April 4, 1927
Mount Carmel Catholic Cemetery / Hillside / Illinois / USA / North America
Sicilian-American mobster who succeeded friend Dean O'Banion by becoming co-leader of the North Side Gang, Al Capone's best known rival. Vincent "The Schemer" Drucci is the only US organized crime boss to have been killed by a pol...