Lonardo, Frank
Crime and their Victims
Age 42
April 1, 1887 - October 19, 1929
Calvary Cemetery / Cleveland / Ohio / USA / North America
One of four brothers that made up the Lonardo crime family, Frank was gunned down during a card game in the back of a downtown Cleveland barbershop years after the murder of his brothers Big Joe and John Lonardo. While the crime w...
Troup, Bobby
Music
Age 80
December 18, 1918 - February 7, 1999
Forest Lawn Memorial Park – Hollywood Hills / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Bobby Troup was a jazz pianist, singer, songwriter and actor. As a composer he has written "Daddy," "Snooty Little Cutie," "Baby, Baby All the Time," and the jazz classic "Route 66." As an actor he is probably best remembered as D...
Cassidy, Eva
Music
Age 33
February 2, 1963 - November 2, 1996
Cremated / North America
Eva Cassidy was a powerful, soulful singer and guitarist known for her interpretations of jazz, folk, and blues music whose meteoric rise to fame happened only after her passing from melanoma cancer at the young age of 33.
Jones, Brian
Music
Age 27
February 28, 1942 - July 3, 1969
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire / Cheltenham Cemetery and Crematorium / Europe
Long-time Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman said of Brian Jones, "He formed the band. He chose the members. He named the band. He chose the music we played. He got us gigs. ... he was very influential, very important, and then slo...
McGonagle, Robert
Crime and their Victims
Age 39
February 14, 1948 - March 10, 1987
New Calvary Cemetery / Mattapan / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Robert “Bobby” McGonagle was a Boston fireman and member of the Mullen crime family in South Boston. McGonagle’s family were heavily connected to Boston’s underworld primarily involved in burglary, auto theft, and armed ro...
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...
Gödel, Kurt
Science
Age 71
April 28, 1906 - January 14, 1978
Princeton Cemetery / Princeton / New Jersey / USA / North America
Kurt Gödel was a prominent Austrian/American logician, mathematician and philosopher who is mentioned as most likely autistic (Asperger's Syndrome) in Genius Genes by Michael Fitzgerald and Brendan O’Brien, in Asperger Syndrome...
Shor, Toots
Historical Figure
Age 73
May 6, 1903 - January 23, 1977
Ferncliff Cemetery / Hartsdale / New York / USA / North America
Until recently, Toots Shor was long forgotten by most –– now a whole new generation is discovering NYC’s legendary “saloon” thanks to Mad Men. The Mad Men design team even built a virtual Toots Shor set (where Don and ...
O'Banion, Dean
Crime and their Victims
Age 32
July 8, 1892 - November 10, 1924
Mount Carmel Catholic Cemetery / Hillside / Illinois / USA / North America
As the leader of the North Side Gang in the early 1920s, Dean O'Banion was a feared Chicago mobster who was the main rival of Johnny Torrio and Al Capone during the bloody and violent Chicago bootlegging wars of the 1920s. He was ...
Puente, Tito
Music
Age 77
April 20, 1923 - May 31, 2000
St. Anthony's Catholic Cemetery / Nanuet / New York / USA / North America
He has been called El Rey del Mambo, El Rey de los Timbales, The King of Latin Music, and with a hundred records and countless epic solos to his name, Ernesto “Tito” Puente - band leader, flamboyant timbales player and showman...
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...
Moorehead, Agnes
Show Business
Age 73
December 6, 1900 - April 30, 1974
Dayton Memorial Park Cemetery / Dayton / Ohio / United States / North America
Agnes Moorehead was an American actress whose 41-year career included work in radio, stage, film, and television. She is best known for her role as Endora on the television series Bewitched, but she also had notable roles in films...
Lemmon, Jack
Show Business
Age 76
February 8, 1925 - June 27, 2001
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Born the only child of a wealthy Boston family (his father was president of a baking company) Jack Lemmon was an American actor and musician who, after naval service and graduation from Harvard, headed for New York and fame - with...
Fuller, Bobby
Music
Age 23
October 22, 1942 - July 18, 1966
Forest Lawn Memorial Park – Hollywood Hills / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
"I fought the law and the law won". These words became an anthem for a generation of disaffected youth during the turbulent 60s. Written and sung by Bobby Fuller fronting the Bobby Fuller Four, like so many young talent of those u...
Kennedy, Patrick Joseph
Historical Figure
Age 71
January 14, 1858 - May 18, 1929
Holy Cross Cemetery and Mausoleum / Malden / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Patrick Joseph Kennedy (P.J. to his friends and grandfather to President John F. Kennedy) was the son of Irish immigrants. His father, Patrick Kennedy, died of cholera ten months after he was born while his mother, Bridget Kennedy...