White, Wilford
Sports
Age 84
September 26, 1928 - August 1, 2013
Mesa Cemetery / Mesa / Arizona / USA / North America
Wilford "Whizzer" White was an American football running back in the National Football League for the Chicago Bears. His football career started at Mesa High School in Mesa, Arizona where he received first-team All-State honors as...
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...
Shelley, Mary
Writers and Poets
Age 53
August 30, 1797 - February 1, 1851
St Peter's Church, Bournemouth / Bournemouth / Dorset / United Kingdom / North America
Mary Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein (also called The Modern Prometheus 1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband,...
Brown, Clifford
Music
Age 25
October 30, 1930 - June 26, 1956
Mt. Zion Cemetery / Wilmington / Delaware / USA / North America
Clifford Brown was only 25 when he died in a car accident in 1956, yet the rich body of work he left behind sealed his reputation as one of the greatest trumpet players who ever lived. Quincy Jones even described Brown as one of t...
Austen, Jane
Writers and Poets
Age 41
December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817
Westminster Abbey / Westminster, London / United Kingdom / Europe
Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels which include Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). With the first four novels which interpret...
West, Brooks
Show Business
Age 67
February 22, 1916 - February 7, 1984
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / United States / North America
Husband of actress Eve Arden, Brooks West was a talented actor, producer and artist in his own right. He is best remembered for his work in Anatomy of a Murder (1959), My Friend Irma (1952) and The Eve Arden Show (1957).
Tatum, Art
Music
Age 47
October 13, 1909 - November 5, 1956
Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) / Glendale / California / USA / North America
Art Tatum transported the art of jazz piano improvisation beyond the real and imagined confines of his day. Technically the most advanced and respected pianist in the 1920s nd 1930s, Tatum's influence on later jazz pianist - Bud P...
Isley, Marvin
Music
Age 56
August 18, 1953 - June 6, 2010
George Washington Memorial Park / Paramus / New Jersey / USA / North America
Marvin Isley was an American musician best known as the deep, funky bass player for the Isley Brothers. The Isley Brothers were initially a vocal trio made up of brothers O'Kelly Isley Jr., Rudolph Isley and Ronald Isley. They bro...
Watson, Douglass
Show Business
Age 68
February 24, 1921 - May 1, 1989
Putnam Cemetery / Greenwich / Connecticut / USA / North America
Douglass Watson was an American actor who was best known for his portrayal of Mac Cory on the daytime soap opera Another World. A character actor since 1950, his most notable roles were in the movies Julius Caesar (1953), Sayonara...
Lodge, Henry Cabot Jr.
Historical Figure
Age 82
July 5, 1902 - February 27, 1985
Mount Auburn Cemetery / Cambridge / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and served as U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam 1963-64, 1965-67, to West Germany 1968-69; chief U.S. negotiator at Vietnam peace talks in Paris 1969; presidentia...
Wolfe, Thomas
Writers and Poets
Age 37
October 3, 1900 - September 15, 1938
Riverside Cemetery / Ashville / North Carolina / USA / North America
Thomas Wolfe is considered one of the most autobiographical novelists in American literature and is probably the greatest writer to come out of North Carolina. During his short life he wrote four novels; Look Homeward, Angel, Of T...
Farmer, Fannie
Writers and Poets
Age 57
March 23, 1857 - January 15, 1915
Mount Auburn Cemetery / Cambridge / Massachusetts / USA / North America
American cooking expert, author, and educator Fannie Farmer was an authority in the art of cooking, author of six books about food preparation (including her impressive, highly significant Boston Cooking School Cookbook (1896), of...
Bradley, Milton
Business and Finance
Age 74
November 8, 1836 - May 30, 1911
Springfield Cemetery / Springfield / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Milton Bradley was an American business magnate, game pioneer and publisher, credited by many with launching the board game industry. Bradley spent much of his life promoting the Friedrich Froebel kindergarten movement both person...
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 (...
Tyler, John
Historical Figure
Age 71
March 29, 1790 - January 18, 1862
Hollywood Cemetery / Richmond / Virginia / United States / North America
John Tyler was the tenth president of the United States, serving from 1841 to 1845 after briefly holding office as the tenth vice president in 1841. As vice president, John Tyler set the example for a seamless and immediate succes...