Lockwood Jr., Robert
Music
Age 91
March 27, 1915 - November 21, 2006
Riverside Cemetery / Cleveland / Ohio / USA / North America
Robert Lockwood Jr. was a Delta blues guitarist who recorded for Chess Records and other Chicago labels in the 1950s and 1960s. He was the only guitarist to have learned to play directly from Robert Johnson. Robert Lockwood was on...
Hauffe, Friederike
The Odd and the Interesting
Age 27
September 23, 1801 - August 25, 1829
Waldfriedhof Löwenstein / Löwenstein / Baden-Württemberg / Germany / Europe
Friederike Hauffe was a German mystic and somnambulist. She suffered from convulsions, and fell into spontaneous trances. Frederike claimed to have communicated with spirits and experienced visions, and she was made famous by the ...
Inness, George
Artists
Age 69
May 1, 1825 - August 3, 1894
Rosedale Cemetery / Montclair / New Jersey / USA / North America
Often called "the father of American landscape painting", George Inness was a prominent American landscape painter during the late 1800s. Although Inness's style evolved through distinct stages over a prolific career that spanned ...
Hammer, Armand
Business and Finance
Age 92
May 21, 1898 - December 10, 1990
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
After earning his medical degree from Columbia University Armand Hammer went on to become a successful entrepreneur before retiring in his 50s. Shortly after he was approached by a friend who suggested that he finance two wildcat ...
Kovacs, Ernie
Show Business
Age 42
January 23, 1919 - January 13, 1962
Forest Lawn Memorial Park – Hollywood Hills / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Ernest Kovacs was a American comedian, actor and writer whose visually experimental and often spontaneous comedic style influenced numerous television comedy programs for years after his death. Kovacs has been credited as an influ...
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...
Ousley, King Curtis
Music
Age 37
February 7, 1934 - November 13, 1971
Pinelawn Memorial Park / Farmingdale / New York / USA / North America
Playing the saxophone when he was 12, King Curtis turned down college scholarships in order to join the Lionel Hampton Band and in 1952 moved to New York to become a session musician where he recorded Nat Adderley, Wynton Kelly, B...
Heublein, Gilbert F.
Business and Finance
Age 87
December 28, 1849 - March 21, 1937
Cedar Hill Cemetery / Hartford / Connecticut / USA / North America
German-born Gilbert F. Heublein was a prominent hotelier, restaurateur, food and liquor distributor in Hartford, Connecticut. While most people remember Gilbert for securing the license and distribution rights of A-1 Steak Sauce t...
Talmadge, Natalie
Show Business
Age 73
April 29, 1896 - June 19, 1969
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Unlike her more famous sisters, Constance and Norma, Natalie was an occasional silent film actress and wife of silent film actor and comedian Buster Keaton. She appeared in D.W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916), and Buster Keaton's O...
Van Heusen, Bobbe
Music
Age 98
November 28,1901 - May 2, 1999
Desert Memorial Park / Cathedral City / California / USA / North America
Bobbe Van Heusen was married to the famous composer Jimmy Van Heusen. She was part of The Brox Sisters, which was an American trio of singing sisters, enjoying their greatest popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s. The trio perfo...
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...
Tillion, Germaine
Historical Figure
Age 100
May 30, 1907 - April 18, 2008
Le Panthéon / Paris / France / Europe
Germaine Tillion was a French ethnologist, best known for her work in Algeria in the 1950s on behalf of the French government. She was member of the French resistance, she spent time in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Germain...
Red Jacket
Historical Figure
Age 79
December 31, 1969 - January 20, 1830
Forest Lawn Cemetery / Buffalo / New York / USA / North America
Red Jacket, chief of the Wolf clan nation, became famous as an orator, speaking for the rights of his people. After the Revolutionary war, he played a prominent role in negotiations with the new U.S. federal government. The US pre...
Bruno, Angelo
Crime and their Victims
Age 69
May 21, 1910 - March 21, 1980
Holy Cross Cemetery / Yeadon / Pennsylvania / USA / North America
Known as the “Docile Don,” his time at the top of Philadelphia’s criminal hierarchy was marked by a relative lack of violence, and like Bufalino, he kept a low profile. His organization ran gambling and loan sharking enterpr...
Robeson, Paul
Historical Figure
Age 77
April 9, 1898 - January 23, 1976
Ferncliff Cemetery / Hartsdale / New York / USA / North America
Paul Robeson was an American actor, singer, and activist. Some of his best know work on stage included The Emperor Jones, All God's Chillun Got Wings, and Othello. Robeson best known movies include Show Boat (1936), Sanders of the...