Holmes, H. H.
Crime and their Victims
Age 34
May 16, 1861 - May 7, 1896
Holy Cross Cemetery / Yeadon / Pennsylvania / USA / North America
The country’s first serial killer was a smooth-talking doctor who ran a murder hotel in Chicago. The tale of H. H. Holmes and his Murder Castle is perhaps one of the most fascinating cases in American criminal history. Born Herm...
Letts, Arthur
Business and Finance
Age 60
June 17, 1862 - May 18, 1923
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Arthur Letts Sr. was an immigrant from England who made his fortune in Los Angeles, California, in the early year 1900s when he built a department store and real estate empire by transforming a small, bankrupt dry goods store in d...
Frey, Albert
Artists
Age 95
October 18, 1903 - November 14, 1998
Welwood Murray Cemetery / Palm Springs / California / USA / North America
Albert Frey was a Swiss-born architect who established a style of modernist architecture centered on Palm Springs, California, United States, that came to be known as "desert modernism". Some examples of his work include Raymond L...
Tatum, Art
Music
Age 47
October 13, 1909 - November 5, 1956
Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) / Glendale / California / USA / North America
Art Tatum transported the art of jazz piano improvisation beyond the real and imagined confines of his day. Technically the most advanced and respected pianist in the 1920s nd 1930s, Tatum's influence on later jazz pianist - Bud P...
Triolet, Elsa
Writers and Poets
Age 73
September 24, 1896 - June 16, 1970
Maison Elsa Triolet-Aragon / Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines / France / Europe
Elsa Triolet was a Russian-French writer and translator. In 1944 Triolet was the first woman to be awarded the Prix Goncourt for her novel 'Le Premier Accroc Coûte 200 Francs' (The First Mishap Costs 200 Francs). The Prix Goncour...
Lodge, Henry Cabot Sr.
Historical Figure
Age 74
May 12, 1850 - November 9, 1924
Mount Auburn Cemetery / Cambridge / Massachusetts / USA / North America
With four degrees from Harvard and a highly published historian, Henry Cabot Lodge was an American Republican politician, historian, and statesman from Massachusetts. He served in the United States Senate from 1893 to 1924 and is ...
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...
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...
Frank, Richard
Show Business
Age 42
January 4, 1953 - August 27, 1995
Sharon Memorial Park / Sharon / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Richard Frank was an American actor and a graduate of The Julliard School in New York City. He was perhaps best known as Father Vogler in the 1984 academy award winning movie Amadeus. Frank had numerous guest appearances in televi...
Tubman, Harriet
Historical Figure
Age 90
March 1822 - March 10, 1913
Fort Hill Cemetery / Auburn / New York / USA / North America
Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist, humanitarian, and spy for the Union Army during the Civil War. Born into slavery around 1822 in Dorchester County, Maryland, she endured a harsh and brutal life before escaping to freed...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Kerouac, Jack
Writers and Poets
Age 47
March 12, 1922 - October 21, 1969
Edson Cemetery / Lowell / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist who, alongside Jack Cassidey, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation in the late 1950s through the early 60s. After the publication of On The Road and T...