Valli, Virginia
Show Business
Age 73
January 18, 1895 - September 24, 1968
Welwood Murray Cemetery / Palm Springs / California / USA / North America
Virginia Valli was an American stage and film actress whose motion picture career started in the silent film era and lasted until the beginning of the sound film era of the 1930s. Valli was an established star at the Universal stu...
Moore, Alvy
Show Business
Age 75
December 5, 1921 - May 4, 1997
Forest Lawn Memorial Park – Hollywood Hills / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
You may not remember his name, but Alvy Moore was a reliable supporting actor who appeared in over 150 movies and TV shows in his 43-year career in show business. He starred opposite Henry Fonda, Marlon Brando, Dick Van Dyke and, ...
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...
St. John, John Patrick
Crime and their Victims
Age 77
February 18, 1918 - May 3, 1995
Rose Hills Memorial Park / Whittier / California / USA / North America
John Patrick St. John, better known as "Jigsaw John", was a Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective, renowned for his investigations of many of Los Angeles's highest-profile murder cases. St. John served 43 years as a hom...
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...
Gibson, Althea
Sports
Age 76
August 25, 1927 - September 28, 2003
Rosedale Cemetery / Montclair / New Jersey / USA / North America
Althea Gibson was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and one of the first Black athletes to cross the color line of international tennis. In 1956, she became the first African American to win a Grand Slam title (th...
Lincoln, Mary Todd
Historical Figure
Age 63
December 13, 1818 - July 16, 1882
Oak Ridge Cemetery / Springfield / Illinois / USA / North America
Mary Todd Lincoln was the wife of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and as such the First Lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865.
Gulden, Charles
Business and Finance
Age 72
September 23, 1843 - August 15, 1916
Woodlawn Cemetery / Bronx / New York / USA / North America
Charles Gulden is known as "The Father of American Mustard" and the founder of Gulden's. Gulden's is the third largest American manufacturer of mustard, after French's and Grey Poupon. It is the oldest continuously operating musta...
Glasgow, Ellen
Writers and Poets
Age 72
April 22, 1873 - November 21, 1945
Hollywood Cemetery / Richmond / Virginia / United States / North America
Ellen Glasgow was an American novelist whose realistic depictions of life in her native Virginia helped direct Southern literature away from sentimentality and nostalgia. A lifelong Virginian who published 20 books including 7 nov...
Berigan, Bunny
Music
Age 33
November 2, 1908 - June 2, 1942
Annunciation Cemetery / Fox Lake / Wisconson / USA / North America
Bunny Berigan was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader who rose to fame during the swing era of the 1930s and early 40s. Although he composed some jazz instrumentals such as "Chicken and Waffles" and "Blues", Berigan was bes...
Halstead, Bianca
Music
Age 36
May 5, 1965 - December 15, 2001
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Halstead performed as a singer and bassist in Los Angeles punk band Butt Trumpet before departing with two other members — guitarists Blare N. Bitch and Sharon Needles — to form Betty Blowtorch. She died during a tour with Nas...
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 then considered the...
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...
Kennedy, Kara
Historical Figure
Age 51
February 27, 1960 - September 16, 2011
Holyhood Cemetery / Chestnut Hill / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Kara Kennedy was born into a public family, the daughter of the Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Joan Bennett Kennedy, but was a private person who was able to live her life outside the public glare. After graduating from the Nationa...
Coogan, Jackie
Show Business
Age 69
October 26, 1914 - March 1, 1984
Holy Cross Cemetery / Culver City / California / USA / North America
Jackie Coogan was an actor and comedian who began his film career as a child actor in silent films. Coogan's role in Charlie Chaplin's film The Kid (1921) made him the first child star in the history of Hollywood. The son of a vau...