Fender, Leo
Music
Age 81
August 10, 1909 - March 21, 1991
Fairhaven Memorial Park / Santa Ana / California / USA / North America
Keith Richard's once said "thank God for Leo Fender". For it was Leo Fender, with $600 in his pocket, started the Fender Radio Service company during World War II which eventually led to a lifetime obsession with creating and buil...
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...
Franks, Bobby
Crime and their Victims
Age 14
September 19, 1909 - May 21, 1924
Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum / Chicago / Illinois / USA / North America
Bobby Franks was the son of the very wealthy Chicago real estate speculator and developer Jacob Franks. On May 22, 1924, the body of 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks was found murdered on Chicago’s South Side. The murder would ...
Rossini, Gioachino
Music
Age 76
February 29, 1792 - November 13, 1868
Santa Croce Basilica / Firenze / Florence / Italy / Europe
Gioachino Antonio Rossini was the most significant Italian composer of the first half of the nineteenth century. Although he wrote many songs including chamber music and piano pieces, Rossini is most famous for his 39 operas, in p...
Fairbanks, Douglas Jr.
Show Business
Age 90
December 9, 1909 - May 7, 2000
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Son of actor Douglas Fairbanks and once married to Joan Crawford, Fairbanks Jr. was a decorated navel officer in WW II and a well respected actor who starred in The Prisoner of Zenda, Gunga Din, The Corsican Brothers and later in...
Brossolette, Pierre
Historical Figure
Age 40
June 25, 1903 - March 22, 1944
Le Panthéon / Paris / France / Europe
Pierre Brossolette was a French journalist, a leading left-wing politician, and a major hero of the French Resistance.
Montand, Yves
Show Business
Age 70
October 13, 1921 - November 9, 1991
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Yves Montand was an Italian-French actor and singer who began his career in show business as a music-hall singer and, in 1944, he was discovered by Édith Piaf in Paris and she made him part of her act. He is perhaps best known fo...
Sheeran, Frank
Crime and their Victims
Age 83
October 25, 1920 - December 14, 2003
Holy Cross Cemetery / Yeadon / Pennsylvania / USA / North America
Frank Sheeran was a truck driver, corrupt labor union official and alleged mafia hitman. Sheeran is thought by some to have murdered Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa, (among dozens of others) and was the subject of the 2019 film "T...
Goodman, Benny
Music
Age 77
May 30, 1909 - June 13, 1986
Long Ridge Union Cemetery / Stamford / Connecticut / USA / North America
American jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing". Benny Goodman led one of the first integrated jazz groups and help start the careers of many jazz musicians including Lionel Hampton, trumpeters Ziggy Elman an...
Cochran, Eddie
Music
Age 21
October 3, 1938 - April 17, 1960
Forest Lawn Memorial Park / Cypress / California / USA / North America
Eddie Cochran was an American rock and roll musician and songwriter with such hits as "Twenty Flight Rock", "Summertime Blues", "C'mon Everybody" and "Somethin' Else", captured teenage frustration and desire in the mid-1950s and e...
Vianney, Jean-Marie Baptiste
Historical Figure
Age 73
May 8, 1786 - August 4, 1859
Basilica of Ars / Ars-sur-Formans / France / Europe
The little town of Ars, France, about 20 miles north of Lyon, has become famous through the holy life and labors of St. John Vianney, its beloved Cure. The story of Jean Vianney emphasizes how God uses the simple and under-rated p...
Byers, Eben
The Odd and the Interesting
Age 51
April 12, 1880 - March 31, 1932
Allegheny Cemetery / Pittsburgh / Pennsylvania / USA / North America
Eben Byers, popular Pittsburgh sportsman, socialite and industrialist, fell out of an upper berth in 1927 returning from a Yale-Harvard football game and injured his arm. His Pittsburgh physiotherapist, Dr. Charles Clinton Moyar, ...
Royal, Billy Joe
Music
Age 73
April 3, 1942 - October 6, 2015
Greenwood Cemetery / Morehead City / North Carolina / USA / North America
Billy Joe Royal was a Georgia-born singer who debuted on Columbia Records with "Down in the Boondocks" in 1965, which reached No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100. But he struggled to match his initial success with his subsequent record...
Robards, Jason
Show Business
Age 78
July 26, 1922 - December 26, 2000
Oak Lawn Cemetery / Fairfield / Connecticut / USA / North America
Recognized around the world as the definitive interpreter of the works of Eugene O'Neill throughout his long and esteemed career, Jason Robards has been hailed as one of this country's finest stage actors and acclaimed for his out...
Blackwell, Richard
Show Business
Age 86
August 29, 1922 - October 19, 2008
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Mr. Blackwell, whose first name was Richard, was a little-known dress designer when he issued his first tongue-in-cheek criticism of Hollywood fashion disasters for 1960 – long before Joan Rivers and others turned such ridicule ...