Jam Master Jay
Music
Age 37
January 21, 1965 - October 30, 2002
Ferncliff Cemetery / Hartsdale / New York / USA / North America
Jam Master Jay was a musician and the DJ of the influential hip hop group Run-D.M.C. During the 1980s, Run-D.M.C. became one of the biggest hip hop groups and are credited with breaking hip hop into mainstream music. On October 30...
Carr, Leroy
Music
Age 30
March 27, 1905 - April 29, 1935
Floral Park Cemetery / Indianapolis / Indiana / USA / North America
Leroy Carr, together with Scrapper Blackwell 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, ...
Zawinul, Joe
Music
Age 75
July 7, 1932 - September 11, 2007
Der Wiener Zentralfriedhof / Simmeringer Hauptstraße 234 / Vienna / Austria / Europe
Joe Zawinul was an Austrian jazz and jazz fusion keyboardist and composer who first come to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley. Zawinul went on to play with Miles Davis and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion...
Moore, Mary Tyler
Show Business
Age 80
December 29, 1936 - January 25, 2017
Oak Lawn Cemetery / Fairfield / Connecticut / USA / North America
Mary Tyler Moore was an American actress, producer, and all around great human being. She is best known for her roles on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966) and The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977), which "helped define a new ...
Marfeo, Willie
Crime and their Victims
Age 40
October 1, 1925 - July 13, 1966
St Ann Cemetery / Cranston / Rhode Island / USA / North America
Willie Marfeo was a New England mobster who operating his card games and dice games in various locations in Providence, Rhode Island. In the early 1960s Willie was doing quite well - well enough to loudly brag that he didn't need ...
Winchester, Sarah
Business and Finance
Age 83
September 1, 1839 - September 5, 1922
Evergreen Cemetery / New Haven / Connecticut / USA / North America
Sarah Winchester was an American heiress who amassed great wealth after the death of her husband, William Wirt Winchester (son of Winchester Repeating Arms Company founder Oliver Winchester). Her inheritance included $20 million (...
Signoret, Simone
Show Business
Age 64
March 25, 1921 - September 30, 1985
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Legendary French actress Simone Signoret had a five-decade career of more than sixty films; her unassailable talent in creating not only memorable but iconic female characters. From 1950 to 1955 Signoret created the roles with whi...
McGonagle, Paul
Crime and their Victims
Age 35
January 21, 1939 - November 30, 1974
North America
Paulie McGonagle was a Boston mobster and head of the Mullen Gang, a South Boston street gang involved in burglary, auto theft, and armed robbery. During the war against Donald Killeen and his brothers, McGonagle successfully led ...
Barboza, Joseph
Crime and their Victims
Age 43
September 20, 1932 - February 11, 1976
South Dartmouth Cemetery / Dartmouth / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Joseph "The Animal" Barboza was one of the most violent, psychopath degenerates in New England organized crime history. Barboza was a mobster and notorious mob hitman for the Patriarca crime family of New England during the 1...
Lafayette, The Great
Other Entertainers
Age 40
February 25, 1891 - May 9, 1911
Piershill Cemetery / Edinburgh EH8 7BN / Scotland / Europe
Sigmund Neuberger (aka The Great Lafayette) was a master illusionist and one of the most highly paid entertainers in the world in his era. Sadly, on May 9, 1911 a devastating fire broke out at the Empire Palace Theatre in Edinburg...
Bancroft, Anne
Show Business
Age 73
September 17, 1931 - June 6, 2005
Kensico Cemetery / Valhalla / New York / USA / North America
Anne Bancroft was a gifted and talented American actress whose 50+ year career was studded with renowned successes on stage, screen, and television. She won both a Tony Award and an Academy Award for best actress for one of her mo...
Knox, Seymour H.
Business and Finance
Age 54
April 11, 1861 - May 17, 1915
Forest Lawn Cemetery / Buffalo / New York / USA / North America
Seymour Knox was a Buffalo, New York businessman who made his fortune in five-and-dime stores. He merged his more than 100 stores with those of his first cousins, Frank Winfield Woolworth and Charles Woolworth, to form the F. W. W...
Giancana, Sam
Crime and their Victims
Age 67
May 24, 1908 - June 19, 1975
Mount Carmel Catholic Cemetery / Hillside / Illinois / USA / North America
Sam Giancana started out as a wheelman for Al Capone and worked his way to the top of Chicago's illegal gambling operations. He had many ties with politicians, including the Kennedys, and was called to testify regarding Mafia invo...
Washington, Dinah
Music
Age 39
August 29, 1924 - December 14, 1963
Burr Oak Cemetery / Alsip / Illinois / USA / North America
Dinah Washington was an American singer and pianist who has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the 1950s". Primarily a jazz vocalist, she performed and recorded in a wide variety of styles including b...
Wills, Bob
Music
Age 70
March 6, 1905 - May 13, 1975
Memorial Park Cemetery / Tulsa / Oklahoma / USA / North America
Bob Wills was a bandleader, fiddler, singer, and songwriter who is the most famous exponent of the popular musical genre now known as western swing, which synthesized ragtime, traditional fiddling, New Orleans jazz, blues, Mexican...