Wolf, Howlin'
Music
Age 65
June 10, 1910 - January 10, 1976
Oakridge-Glen Oaks Cemetery / Hillside / Illinois / USA / North America
Chester Arthur Burnett, known as Howlin’ Wolf or Howling Wolf, was one of the most influential musicians of the post–World War II era. His electric blues guitar, backing his powerful, howling voice, helped shape rock and roll....
Bloomfield, Michael
Music
Age 37
July 28, 1943 - February 15, 1981
Hillside Memorial Park / Culver City / California / USA / North America
Michael Bloomfield was an American guitarist and composer who became one of the first popular music superstars of the 1960s to earn his reputation almost entirely on his instrumental prowess, as he rarely sang before 1969. Respect...
Frizzell, Lefty
Music
Age 47
March 31, 1928 - July 19, 1975
Forest Lawn Memorial Garden / Goodlettsville / Tennessee / USA / North America
Widely considered one of the greatest country singers who ever lived, Lefty Frizzell's body of work gives little indication of the enormous stylistic impact he had on country music beginning in the 1950s. Had Lefty died the way Ha...
Caesar, Adolph
Show Business
Age 52
December 5, 1933 - March 6, 1986
Ferncliff Cemetery / Hartsdale / New York / USA / North America
Adolph Caesar was an American actor, theatre director, dancer, and choreographer. He was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his supporting role in the film A Soldier's Story (1984). He also starred in the films The Col...
Cohan, George M.
Show Business
Age 64
July 3, 1878 - November 5, 1942
Woodlawn Cemetery / Bronx / New York / USA / North America
George M. Cohan began his career as a child, performing with family as "The Four Cohans". Over the span of six decades that simple beginning developed into Cohan becoming perhaps the greatest entertainer, playwright, composer, lyr...
Putnam, Thomas
Crime and their Victims
Age 47
March 22, 1652 - June 3, 1699
Putnam Family Burial Ground / Danvers / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Thomas Putnam was the father of afflicted girl Ann Putnam, Jr, and many historians consider him to be a major influence in the Salem Witch Trials. Putnam himself accused and testified against 43 people while his daughter testified...
Aragon, Louis
Writers and Poets
Age 85
October 3, 1897 - December 24, 1982
Maison Elsa Triolet-Aragon / Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines / France / Europe
Louis Aragon was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with André Breton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review Littérature. He was also a novelist and editor, a...
McDowell, Mississippi
Music
Age 68
January 12, 1904 - July 3, 1972
Hammond Hill Baptist Church / Senatobia / Mississippi / USA / North America
Inspired by seeing the legend Charley Patton playing in a juke joint, McDowell secured his reputation without a back catalog of historic blues recordings but rather by playing around the world to enthusiastic fans of low country b...
Richard, Martin
Crime and their Victims
Age 8
June 9, 2004 - April 15, 2013
Cedar Grove Cemetery / Dorchester Center / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Martin Richard was the youngest of three victims killed by two domestic terrorists who detonated two homemade improvised explosive devices near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013. He was described by a family friend, "...
Kennedy, Michael
Historical Figure
Age 39
February 27, 1958 - December 31, 1997
Holyhood Cemetery / Chestnut Hill / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Michael LeMoyne Kennedy was born into a very public family as Robert F. and Ethel Kennedy's middle of 11 children. He graduated from Harvard in 1980 and then went to law school at the University of Virginia, where he earned a law ...
Phillips, John
Music
Age 65
August 30, 1935 - March 18, 2001
Forest Lawn Cemetery / Cathedral City / California / USA / North America
He is famous for his role in organizing the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, his incestuous relationship with his daughter Mackenzie, oh and I almost forgot - as a member and leader of the vocal group The Mamas and the Papas. And it ...
Rockwell, Norman
Artists
Age 84
February 3, 1894 - November 8, 1978
Stockbridge Cemetery / Stockbridge / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Norman Rockwell was a prolific American painter and artist, producing more than 4,000 original works in his lifetime. He is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine...
Putnam, Ann Sr.
Historical Figure
Age 37
June 15, 1661 - June 8, 1699
Putnam Family Burial Ground / Danvers / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Ann Putnam, her husband and one of their daughters (Ann Putnam Jr.) all levied accusations of witchcraft, many of them against extended members of the Porter family, and testified at the trials. She is responsible for the accusat...
Montgomery, Wes
Music
Age 45
March 6, 1923 - June 15, 1968
New Crown Cemetery / Indianapolis / Indiana / USA / North America
Guitar historians can easily trace a line through all the major influential artists from Lonnie Anderson to Eddie Lang, Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt. Often that line of brillance ends at Wes Montgomery. Noted for his inc...
Buchanan, Roy
Music
Age 48
September 23, 1939 - August 14, 1988
Columbia Garden Cemetery / Arlington / Virginia / USA / North America
Roy Buchanan was an blues guitarist and a pioneer of the Telecaster sound, Buchanan worked as a sideman and as a solo artist, with two gold albums early in his career and two later solo albums that made it to the Billboard chart. ...