Walker, Madam C. J.
Business and Finance
Age 51
December 23, 1867 - May 25, 1919
Woodlawn Cemetery / Bronx / New York / USA / North America
Madam C. J. Walker, an African-American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and a political and social activist who was the first female self-made millionaire in the United States. She became one of the wealthiest self-made women in Ame...
Dugan, Joe
Sports
Age 85
May 12, 1897 - July 7, 1982
Mount Calvary Cemetery / Roslindale / Massachusetts / USA / North America
After a slow start with Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics baseball team, Jumping Joe Dugan eventually made his way to the fabled New York Yankees where he developed into one of the greatest defensive third baseman and played in...
Beveridge, Daeida W.
Business and Finance
Age 53
1861 - August 7, 1914
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Once described as “just a housewife,” Daeida Hartle Wilcox Beveridge renamed a former fig farm and secured her place history as the founder, developer and woman who named Hollywood. With first husband H.H. Wilcox, she led deve...
Young, Lester
Music
Age 49
August 27, 1909 - March 15, 1959
The Evergreens Cemetery / Brooklyn / New York / USA / North America
Lester Young, nicknamed "Pres" or "Prez", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who is considered by many to be the greatest, most influential tenor sax player in the jazz idiom. Lester rose to prominence with the Count Basie Orc...
Carvel, Tom
Business and Finance
Age 84
July 14, 1906 - October 21, 1990
Ferncliff Cemetery / Hartsdale / New York / USA / North America
Tom Carvel was the creator of soft serve ice cream and one of the founding fathers of the franchise system in America. When his ice cream truck suffered a flat tire in New York in 1934, he sold his melting ice cream from a parkin...
Schulz, Charles M.
Artists
Age 77
November 26, 1922 - February 12, 2000
Pleasant Hills Cemetery / Sebastopol / California / USA / North America
The most successful comic strip in newspaper history, PEANUTS appears in some 2,600 newspaper in 75 countries and is translated into 21 languages. United Feature Syndicate started the strip in syndication on October 2, 1950. He di...
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 ...
Hunter, Catfish
Sports
Age 53
April 8, 1946 - September 9, 1999
Cedarwood Cemetery / Hertford / North Carolina / USA / North America
Jim "Catfish" Hunter, whose pitching prowess earned him five World Series rings, 224 victories, a spot in the Baseball Hall of Fame and made him the game's first big-money free agent. Recruited right out of high school at age 18, ...
Relf, Keith
Music
Age 33
March 22, 1943 - May 12, 1976
Richmond Cemetery / Surrey / England / Europe
Keith Relf was the vocalist and guitarist for The Yardbirds, an English rock band that had a string of hits in the mid 1960s, including "For Your Love", "Over Under Sideways Down" and "Heart Full of Soul". The group is notable for...
Dunne, Dominique
Show Business
Age 22
November 23, 1959 - November 4, 1982
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park & Mortuary / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Dominique Dunne was an American actress who first appeared in the 1979 television film Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker which she parlayed into supporting roles in popular 1980s television series such as Lou Grant, Hart to Hart and...
Turner, Lana
Show Business
Age 74
February 8, 1921 - June 29, 1995
Cremated / North America
Lana Turner was an American a pin-up model and a film actress with a highly publicized personal life. In the mid-1940s, she was one of the highest-paid actresses in the United States, and one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's (MGM) biggest...
Alves, Louis
Disasters
Age 33
October 1, 1969 - February 20, 2003
Mount St. Mary Cemetery / Pawtucket / Rhode Island / USA / North America
On February 20, 2003 music fan Louis Alves attended a concert at the Station Nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island. After opening bands Trip and Fathead finished their sets, the glam band Great White took the stage just after 11...
Clark, William Andrews Jr.
Business and Finance
Age 57
March 29, 1877 - June 14, 1934
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
William Andrews Clark Jr. was a philanthropist, lawyer, book collector, founder of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the youngest surviving son of copper baron and U.S. Senator William Andrews Clark Sr. and his first wife, Kath...
Daffan, Ted
Music
Age 84
September 21, 1912 - October 6, 1996
Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery / Houston / Texas / USA / North America
Ted Daffan was a country music performer (with his band the Texans) and songwriter noted for composing the seminal "Truck Driver's Blues" and two much covered country anthems of unrequited love, "Born to Lose" and "I'm a Fool to C...
Keith, Brian
Show Business
Age 75
November 14, 1921 - June 24, 1997
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Brian Keith was an American film, television and stage actor who in his six-decade-long career gained recognition for his work in movies such as the Disney family film The Parent Trap (1961), Johnny Shiloh (1963), the comedy The R...