Testa, Salvatore
Crime and their Victims
Age 28
March 31, 1956 - September 14, 1984
Holy Cross Cemetery / Yeadon / Pennsylvania / USA / North America
Salvatore "Salvie" Testa, nicknamed "The Crowned Prince of the Philadelphia Mob", was an Italian-American mobster who served as a caporegime and later acting underboss for the Philadelphia crime family. Testa made his reputation a...
Schubert, Franz
Music
Age 31
January 31, 1797 - November 19, 1828
Der Wiener Zentralfriedhof / Simmeringer Hauptstraße 234 / Vienna / Austria / Europe
Franz Schubert was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a vast oeuvre, including more than 600 secular vocal works (mainly lieder), seven complete symphon...
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 ...
Teagarden, Jack
Music
Age 58
August 20, 1905 - January 15, 1964
Forest Lawn Memorial Park – Hollywood Hills / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Until Jack Teagarden, jazz trombone sounded like "a dying cow in a thunderstorm" according to jazz trombonist Vic Dickerson. Like musical innovators Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker before him Teagarden developed new ideas and a...
Rachell, Yank
Music
Age 94
March 16, 1903 - April 9, 1997
New Crown Cemetery / New Crown Cemetery / Indiana / USA / North America
One of a few pre-war blues artist to continue performing into the 1990s, Yank Rachell was the primary exponent of the blues mandolin.
Goodwin, Bill
Show Business
Age 47
July 28, 1910 - May 9, 1958
Desert Memorial Park / Cathedral City / California / USA / North America
Bill Goodwin was for many years the announcer and a recurring character of the Burns and Allen radio program, and subsequently The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show on television from 1950–1951. In 1945, Goodwin was the "featur...
Johnson, Bunk
Music
Age 63
December 27, 1885 - July 7, 1949
St. Edward Cemetery / New Iberia / Louisiana / USA / North America
Willie "Bunk" Johnson was an prominent jazz trumpeter in New Orleans who lied and/or exaggerated his role in the development of jazz that historians have a difficult time understanding the truth from fiction. But what everyone agr...
Williams, Big Joe
Music
Age 79
December 17, 1982 - December 17, 1982
Crigler Cemetery / Crawford / Mississippi / USA / North America
As a first generation bluesman, Joseph Lee "Big Joe" Williams recorded more often, performed longer and lived longer than almost all of his contemporaries. In 1935 Williams recorded his signature song “Baby Please Don’t Go,”...
Broonzy, Big Bill
Music
Age 55
June 26, 1903 - August 15, 1958
Lincoln Cemetery / Blue Island / Illinois / USA / North America
Big Bill Broonzy was an American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist and was one of the few country blues musicians of the '20s and '30s to find success when the music evolved into an electric, urbanized form. From his initial ...
Manuel, Dean
Music
Age 30
January 1, 1934 - July 31, 1964
Spring Hill Cemetery / Nashville / Tennessee / USA / North America
"Dockie" Dean Manuel played piano for several noteworthy bands of the mid-twentieth century both on the West Coast and in Nashville, Tennessee. While attempting to re-establish himself in the West Coast country music scene after r...
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 ...
Power, Tyrone
Show Business
Age 44
May 5, 1914 - November 15, 1958
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
One of the greatest matinee idols in the 1930s and 1940s, often in swashbuckler roles or romantic leads in such films as The Mark of Zorro, Blood and Sand, The Black Swan and Witness for the Prosecution
Sturges, Preston
Show Business
Age 60
August 29, 1898 - August 6, 1959
Ferncliff Cemetery / Hartsdale / New York / USA / North America
Preston Sturges was one of the more celebrated American playwright, screenwriter, and film director of the 1940s and early 1950s with films like “The Great McGinty,” “The Lady Eve,” “Sullivan's Travels,” “The Palm Be...
Maggio, Michael
Crime and their Victims
Age 69
July 21, 1889 - March 14, 1959
Holy Cross Cemetery / Yeadon / Pennsylvania / USA / North America
Michael Maggio was one of the original Philadelphia organized crime figures beginning in the 1910s. The leader of "the Greaser Gang" in south Philadelphia, he quickly ascended to a leadership role in the Philly crime family. Known...
Taylor, Mel
Music
Age 62
September 24, 1933 - August 11, 1996
Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
His name might not be familiar, but music fans young and old would recognize his signature drumbeat on one of the most popular instrumental songs ever recorded – “Hawaii Five-O” by the Ventures. Joining the Ventures after th...