Blackwell, Scrapper
Music
Age 59
February 21, 1903 - October 7, 1962
New Crown Cemetery / New Crown Cemetery / Indiana / USA / North America
Scrapper Blackwell, together with Leroy Carr are arguably the two most underrated blues musicians of the 1920s and 1930s. What is undeniable is the two together created some of the most recorded blues classics including How Long, ...
Genna, Mike
Crime and their Victims
Age 30
January 18, 1895 - June 13, 1925
Mount Carmel Catholic Cemetery / Hillside / Illinois / USA / North America
Mike "The Devil" Genna was an enforcer in the Genna Crime Family. The Gennas were Sicilian brothers who ran the Taylor Street section of Chicago (better known as Little Sicily) making and distributing a very low end of type of boo...
Sandman, Mark
Music
Age 46
September 24, 1952 - July 3, 1999
Sharon Memorial Park / Sharon / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Mark Sandman was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record label founder best remembered as the bass player and lead singer for the alt indie rock band Morphine. Sandman possessed a distinctive, deep bass-ba...
Dorsey, Tommy
Music
Age 51
November 19, 1905 - November 26, 1956
Kensico Cemetery / Valhalla / New York / USA / North America
A highly respected and influential trombonist, Tommy Dorsey—both independently and with his brother Jimmy—led several of the most popular big bands of the swing era. Dorsey was an American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor ...
Twombly, Florence Adele Vanderbilt
Historical Figure
Age 98
01/08/1854 - 04/11/1952
Woodlawn Cemetery / Bronx / New York / USA / North America
Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly was an American heiress and a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family. She and her husband, Hamilton McKown Twombly, built Florham, a gilded age estate in Madison, New Jersey. When she died at t...
Davis, Ossie
Historical Figure
Age 87
December 18, 1917 - February 4, 2005
Ferncliff Cemetery / Hartsdale / New York / USA / North America
Ossie Davis was an American actor, director, writer, and activist. He and his wife, Ruby Dee were named to the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame; were awarded the National Medal of Arts and were recipients of the Kennedy Center Hono...
Sheppard, Marilyn
Crime and their Victims
Age 28
April 14, 1923 - July 4, 1954
Knollwood Cemetery / Mayfield Heights / Ohio / USA / North America
Marilyn Sheppard was violently murdered in her home of Bay Village, Ohio on July 4, 1954. Her husband Dr. Samuel Sheppard was the primary suspect and convicted of her murder, but after 10 years in prison he was acquitted in 1966 a...
Custer, George Armstrong
Historical Figure
Age 36
December 5, 1839 - June 25, 1876
United States Military Academy Post Cemetery / West Point / New York / USA / North America
George Armstrong Custer (1839–1876) was a U.S. Army officer and cavalry commander during the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. Born in New Rumley, Ohio, Custer attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, gra...
Janssen, David
Show Business
Age 48
March 27, 1931 - February 13, 1980
Hillside Memorial Park / Culver City / California / USA / North America
In addition to his great success as Richard Kimbel on the TV series The Fugitive, David Janssen was a talented and prolific actor starring in 4 television series, appearing in 44 feature films, 20 television movies, and countless ...
Dillinger, John
Crime and their Victims
Age 31
June 22, 1903 - July 22, 1934
Crown Hill Cemetery / Indianapolis / Indiana / USA / North America
John Dillinger was an infamous American gangster of the Great Depression. He led a group known as the "Dillinger Gang", which was accused of robbing 24 banks and four police stations. Dillinger was imprisoned several times but esc...
Carrier, Willis
Business and Finance
Age 83
November 26, 1876 - October 7, 1950
Forest Lawn Cemetery / Buffalo / New York / USA / North America
As the father of modern refrigeration and air conditioning, Willis Carrier was the founder and chief executive officer of the giant Carrier Corporation and received more than 80 patents over 50 years in the field of air conditioni...
Beiderbecke, Bix
Music
Age 28
March 10, 1903 - August 6, 1931
Oakdale Memorial Gardens / Davenport / Iowa / USA / North America
Bix Beiderbecke was an American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer who was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s. As a cornet player noted for an inventive lyrical approach and purity of tone and with such clari...
Gardner, Ava
Show Business
Age 67
December 24, 1922 - January 25, 1990
Sunset Memorial Park / Smithfield / North Carolina / USA / North America
Ava Gardner was a celebrated American actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She first signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew critics' attention in 1946 with her p...
Haynes, Lloyd
Show Business
Age 52
September 19, 1934 - December 31, 1986
Eternal Hills Memorial Park / Oceanside / California / USA / North America
Actor Lloyd Haynes was probably best known for his portrayal of the popular and understanding history teacher in television’s ″Room 222″. Fans of the Emmy-award winning ″Room 222″ came to know Haynes as Pete Dixon, the t...
Cermak, Anton
Historical Figure
Age 59
May 9, 1873 - March 6, 1933
Bohemian National Cemetery / Chicago / Illinois / USA / North America
Anton Cermak was the 44th mayor of Chicago who was shot while shaking hands with President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami, Florida after a day of fishing on February 15, 1933. Cermak was shot in the lung and wounded during G...