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, ...
Nelson, Ozzie
Show Business
Age 69
March 20, 1906 - June 3, 1975
Forest Lawn Memorial Park – Hollywood Hills / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Oswald Nelson big band leader, actor, director, and producer. But he is most well known as the patient, loving father Ozzie Nelson with his lovely wife Harriet in once of America's most beloved TV shows. For 14 years, from 1952 to...
Beckett, Samuel
Writers and Poets
Age 83
April 13, 1906 - December 22, 1989
Cimetière du Montparnasse / Paris / France / Europe
Samuel Beckett was an enigmatic and reclusive Irish playwright, poet and novelist who won a Nobel Prize for literature and who was best known for his 1952 drama, "Waiting for Godot". Beckett was considered one of the primary expon...
Smith, Joan Merriam
The Odd and the Interesting
Age 28
August 3, 1936 - February 17, 1965
Forest Lawn Memorial Park / Cypress / California / USA / North America
Joan Merriam Smith was an American aviator, famous for her 1964 solo flight around the world in which she became the second woman to complete the trip, by following the equatorial route attempted in 1937 by Amelia Earhart. (Jerrie...
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, ...
Factor, Max
Business and Finance
Age 60
September 15, 1877 - August 30, 1938
Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery / Culver City / California / USA / North America
Polish businessman, beautician, entrepreneur and inventor. Max Factor Sr. founded the the cosmetics giant Max Factor & Company, and modernized the cosmetic industry in the United States. He also coined the term "make-up" as a noun...
Huston, John
Show Business
Age 81
August 5, 1906 - August 28, 1987
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
The ten-time Oscar-nominated director was an eccentric rebel of epic proportions; a Hollywood titan who reigned supreme as director, screenwriter and character actor in a career that endured over five decades. His iconic films inc...
Houdini, Harry
Other Entertainers
Age 52
March 24, 1974 - October 31, 1926
Machpelah Cemetery / Flushing / New York / USA / North America
Harry Houdini is most often remembered as an escape artist and a magician. He was also an actor, a pioneering aviator, an amateur historian, businessman and performance artist of such great success that his name will live in perpe...
Chazot, Jacques
Show Business
Age 64
September 25, 1928 - July 12, 1993
Cimetière de Monthyon France / Monthyon / France / Europe
Mr. Chazot began his career in earnest as a star dancer at the Opera Comique in Paris from 1956 to 1963 and choreographed or produced many ballets. His wit made him a popular guest on television talk shows. He was also known for h...
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...
Schuessler, Anton Sr.
Crime and their Victims
Age 42
January 1, 1912 - November 11, 1955
Saint Joseph Cemetery / River Grove / Illinois / USA / North America
Anton Schuessler Sr. was the father of John Schuessler and Anton Schuessler Jr., and both of his sons were brutally raped and murdered with their friend Robert Peterson in 1955. The crime scene where the bodies where found was lar...
Hartford, George Huntington
Business and Finance
Age 83
September 5, 1833 - August 29, 1917
Rosedale Cemetery / Montclair / New Jersey / USA / North America
George Huntington Hartford headed The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, better known as A&P Super Market from 1878 to 1917. During this period, A&P created the concept of the chain grocery store and expanded into the country...
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...
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...
Kreisler, Fritz
Music
Age 86
February 2, 1875 - January 29, 1962
Woodlawn Cemetery / Bronx / New York / USA / North America
Making his professional debut at the age of 13, Fritz Kreisler is considered the one of the greatest, if not the greatest, violinist ever to play the instrument. His technique was animated by a riveting vibrato the likes of which ...