Pickett, George
Historical Figure
Age 50
January 16, 1825 - July 30, 1875
Hollywood Cemetery / Richmond / Virginia / United States / North America
Major General George Pickett was a career United States Army officer who became a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He attended the US Military Academy at West Point, accumulating a host o...
Talmadge, Constance
Show Business
Age 75
April 19, 1898 - November 23, 1973
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Constance, along with her sisters Natalie and Norma, was the youngest of the trio of sisters who took Hollywood by storm in the early days of cinema, and made their family name, Talmadge, one of dynasty proportions in the town of ...
Reed, Herb
Music
Age 83
August 7, 1928 - June 4, 2012
Puritan Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery / Peabody / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Herbert Reed is best remembered as the last surviving original member of the do-wop group The Platters. As the only member of The Platters who sang on all of the 400+ songs recorded by the group, his vocals can be heard on The Pla...
Talmadge, Norma
Show Business
Age 63
May 2, 1894 - December 24, 1957
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Norma Talmadge was one of the glamours stars of Hollywood's Golden Age of the 1920s. Beginning her stage career at the young age of 14, Norma went on to star in over 200 silent movies, winning the idolatry of millions of fans and ...
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...
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...
Salieri, Antonio
Music
Age 74
August 18, 1750 - May 7, 1825
Der Wiener Zentralfriedhof / Simmeringer Hauptstraße 234 / Vienna / Austria / Europe
Antonio Salieri was an Italian classical composer, conductor, and teacher. Salieri was a pivotal figure in the development of late 18th-century opera. As a student of Florian Leopold Gassmann, and a protégé of Christoph Willibal...
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...
Kelly, Lisa Robin
Show Business
Age 43
March 5, 1970 - August 15, 2013
Forest Lawn East Cemetery / Matthews / North Carolina / USA / North America
Lisa Robin Kelly was a talented Hollywood actress best known as the flirty character Laurie Forman on the television sitcom "That '70s Show". Kelly was a cheerleader in high school who graduated from DePaul University in Chicago ...
Twombly, Hamilton McKown
Business and Finance
Age 60
08/11/1849 - 01/11/1910
Woodlawn Cemetery / Bronx / New York / USA / North America
Hamilton McKown Twombly was a successful American businessman husband to Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly. In 1892, Twombly and his wife were both included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York...
Kroger, Bernard
Business and Finance
Age 76
January 24, 1860 - July 21, 1938
Spring Grove Cemetery / Cincinnati / Ohio / USA / North America
Bernard Kroger was a successful American businessman who created the Kroger chain of supermarkets. Kroger was a pioneering grocery innovator who introduced self-service shopping to the public in 1916 which allowed customers to ent...
Myer, Albert
Historical Figure
Age 51
September 20, 1828 - August 24, 1880
Forest Lawn Cemetery / Buffalo / New York / USA / North America
Albert Myers was a surgeon, a general, father of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, inventor of wig-wag signaling (or aerial telegraphy), and also was the founder of the U.S. Weather Bureau
Turenne
Historical Figure
Age 63
September 11, 1611 - July 27, 1675
Les Invalides / Paris / 7th arrondissement / France / Europe
Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne , commonly known as Turenne, was a French general and one of only six Marshals to have been promoted Marshal General of France. The most illustrious member of the La Tour d'Auvergne ...
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...