Yankovic, Frankie
Music
Age 83
July 28, 1915 - October 14, 1998
Calvary Cemetery / Cleveland / Ohio / USA / North America
At his peak, Yankovic traveled around the world and performed 325 shows a year and sold 30 million records during his lifetime thus earning the title "America's Polka King". In 1969 he became a charter member of the Polka Hall of...
Concannon, Jack
Sports
Age 62
February 25, 1943 - November 28, 2005
New Calvary Cemetery / Mattapan / Massachusetts / USA / North America
With only one winning season to his name, Jack Concannon was an as an American football player who played professionally as a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) with the Philadelphia Eagles, Chicago Bears, Dallas Co...
Pinkerton, Allan
Crime and their Victims
Age 64
August 25, 1819 - July 1, 1884
Graceland Cemetery / Chicago / Illinois / USA / North America
Allan Pinkerton was a Scottish cooper, abolitionist, detective, and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency during his time in the United States. When the Civil War began, Pinkerton served as head of t...
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...
Siegel, Joanne
Show Business
Age 93
December 1, 1917 - February 12, 2011
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Joanne Siegel was an American model, who in the 1930s worked with Superman artist Joe Shuster as the model for Lois Lane, Superman's love interest. She later married Superman's co-creator Jerry Siegel and sued for restoration of h...
Dixon, Willie
Music
Age 76
July 1, 1915 - January 29, 1992
Burr Oak Cemetery / Alsip / Illinois / USA / North America
Willie Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer proficient in playing both the upright bass and the guitar. However he is best known as one of the most prolific songwriters of his ti...
Sargent, Henry N.
Crime and their Victims
Age 23
August 4, 1830 - January 13, 1854
New Boston Cemetery / New Boston / New Hampshire / United States / North America
Sevilla Jones was 17-year-old girl who was shot dead by Henry Sargent one morning as she was walking to school with her younger brother. Henry loved Sevilla, and he believed that she had “given him encouragement.” However, he ...
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 ...
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...
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...
Cummings, E. E.
Writers and Poets
Age 67
October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962
Forest Hills Cemetery / Boston / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Now remembered largely for his funky punctuation, E. E. Cummings was for decades one of America’s most celebrated, controversial, and popular poets—the dashing, impecunious prince of Greenwich Village. An American poet, painte...
Sheeran, Frank
Crime and their Victims
Age 83
October 25, 1920 - December 14, 2003
Holy Cross Cemetery / Yeadon / Pennsylvania / USA / North America
Frank Sheeran was a truck driver, corrupt labor union official and alleged mafia hitman. Sheeran is thought by some to have murdered Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa, (among dozens of others) and was the subject of the 2019 film "T...
Le Brun, Élisabeth Vigée
Artists
Age 86
April 16, 1755 - March 30, 1842
Cimetière de Louveciennes / Louveciennes / France / Europe
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was one of the great portrait artists in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, easily the equal of Quentin de La Tour or Jean Baptiste Greuze. Born into relatively modest circumstances, she firml...
Ra, Sun
Music
Age 79
May 22, 1914 - May 30, 1993
Elmwood Cemetery and Mausoleum / Birmingham / Alabama / North America
With over 200 albums over his 6 decade career, Sun Ra was revered in Europe as a genius and staged hundreds of concerts, at times with a nearly 100-piece orchestra. Taking the stage with his Arkestra members wearing wild costumes ...
Belly, Lead
Music
Age 60
January 23, 1889 - December 6, 1949
Shiloh Baptist Church Graveyard / Mooringsport / Louisiana / USA / North America
Lead Belly (born Huddie William Ledbetter) was a renowned American folk and blues musician. His life was marked by his powerful voice, virtuosic 12-string guitar playing, and a history filled with both talent and adversity. More t...