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...
Billingsley, Sherman
Business and Finance
Age 70
March 10, 1896 - October 4, 1966
Ferncliff Cemetery / Hartsdale / New York / USA / North America
Sherman Billingsley was an American nightclub owner and former bootlegger who was the founder and owner of New York's Stork Club in Manhattan, New York City. For more than 36 years Billingsley played host, entertained and (in some...
Lenoir, J.B.
Music
Age 38
March 5, 1929 - April 29, 1967
Salem Missionary Baptist Church / Monticello / Mississippi / USA / North America
Monticello area native J. B. Lenoir was a distinctive blues artist, in both his high-pitched singing style and the candid political critiques in many of his song lyrics and is best remembered for his 1955 hit “Mama, Talk to Your...
Boswell, Connee
Music
Age 68
December 3, 1907 - October 11, 1976
Ferncliff Cemetery / Hartsdale / New York / USA / North America
Connee Boswell was an American jazz female vocalists, and first starting performing with her sisters as the trio The Boswell Sisters in the 1920s and 1930s. They became a highly influential singing group due to their recordings an...
Shakespeare, William
Writers and Poets
Age 52
April 26, 1564 - April 23, 1616
Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon / Stratford-upon-Avon / United Kingdom / Europe
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regar...
Emmons, Louise
Show Business
Age 77
January 7, 1858 - March 6, 1935
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Louise Emmons was an American character actress who specialized in portraying old hags, such as the evil headmistress from the Our Gang film Mush and Milk (1933). Louise appeared in 53 films throughout her career including "The Fo...
Cannon, Gus
Music
Age 96
September 12, 1883 - October 15, 1979
Greenview Cemetery / Nesbit / Mississippi / USA / North America
Gus Cannon was an obscure but influential blues musician who helped to popularize jug bands (such as his own Cannon's Jug Stompers) in the 1920s and 1930s.
Barfield, Velma
Crime and their Victims
Age 52
October 29, 1932 - November 2, 1984
Parkton Cemetery / Parkton / North Carolina / USA / North America
Velma Barfield was an American female serial killer and is remembered for being one of the first women to be executed in the United States after the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Barfield was 1 of 9 children born in South ...
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...
Curie, Pierre
Science
Age 46
May 15, 1859 - April 19, 1906
Le Panthéon / Paris / France / Europe
Pierre Curie was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity, and radioactivity. In 1903, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Curie, and Henri Becquerel.
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...
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...
Isley, O'Kelly
Music
Age 48
December 25, 1937 - March 31, 1986
George Washington Memorial Park / Paramus / New Jersey / USA / North America
The eldest of the Isley Brothers, Kelly started singing with his brothers at church when in 1944 he and his three younger brothers (Rudy, Ronnie and Vernon) formed The Isley Brothers and toured the gospel circuit. Following the de...
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).
Modigliani, Amedeo
Artists
Age 35
July 12, 1884 - January 24, 1920
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Amedeo Modigliani was an Italian-born artist who moved to Paris in 1906, where he became known for his distinctive portraits and nudes, characterized by a surreal elongation of faces, necks, and figures — works that were not re...