Wolf, Edith Anisfield
Writers and Poets
Age 73
August 2, 1889 - January 23, 1963
Knollwood Cemetery / Mayfield Heights / Ohio / USA / North America
Edith Anisfield Wolf was an American poet and philanthropist from Cleveland, Ohio who founded and endowed an award in 1935 for non-fiction books that advance racial understanding. In 1941 the foundation expanded the award, now cal...
Robbins, Irv
Business and Finance
Age 90
December 6, 1917 - May 5, 2008
Forest Lawn Cemetery / Cathedral City / California / USA / North America
Irvine Robbins was a Canadian-born American businessman. He co-founded the Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlor chain in 1945 with his partner and brother-in-law Burt Baskin. Robbins grew up scooping ice cream at his family’s dairy. ...
Rees, Florence Bernardin
The Odd and the Interesting
Age 2
July 20, 1859 - February 7, 1862
Hollywood Cemetery / Richmond / Virginia / United States / North America
In 1862 two-year-old Bernardine died from Scarlet Fever and her grave is often found adorned with trinkets, toys, rings, flowers, and stones. But what makes Bernardine's final resting place such a tourist draw is that it is guarde...
Harmon, Claude
Sports
Age 73
July 14, 1916 - July 23, 1989
Desert Memorial Park / Cathedral City / California / USA / North America
Claude Harmon was an American professional golfer and golf instructor. He is a member of the World Golf Teachers' Hall of Fame and the PGA of America Hall of Fame. Claude Harmon is best known for winning the 1948 Masters Tournamen...
Pratt, Hugo
Artists
Age 68
June 15, 1927 - August 20, 1995
Cimetière de Grandvaux / Grandvaux, Bourg-en-Lavaux / District de Lavaux-Oron, Vaud / Switzerland / Europe
Hugo Pratt is considered one of the greatest graphic novelists in the world. His strips, graphic works, and watercolors have been exhibited in major museums such as the Grand Palais and Pinacothèque in Paris, the Vittoriano in Ro...
True, Andrea
Music
Age 68
July 26, 1943 - November 7, 2011
Calvary Cemetery / Cleveland / Ohio / USA / North America
Andrea True was a porn star turned pop singer who recorded a classic hit of the disco era, "More, More, More,"
Mitchell, Cameron
Show Business
Age 75
November 4, 1918 - July 6, 1994
Desert Memorial Park / Cathedral City / California / USA / North America
Burly, tough-guy leading man and character actor famous as the hard-drinking, hardworking Buck Cannon on the TV series "High Chaparral." Mitchell began acting on Broadway in the late 1930s before signing a contract with Metro-Gold...
Parker, Charlie
Music
Age 34
August 29, 1920 - March 12, 1955
www.lincolncemeterykc.com / Independence / Missouri / USA / North America
Charlie Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure in the development of bebop jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuosic technique, and advanced harmonies. Parker was a blazingly fast virtuoso and introduced rev...
Woolrich, Cornell
Writers and Poets
Age 64
December 4, 1903 - September 25, 1968
Ferncliff Cemetery / Hartsdale / New York / USA / North America
Cornell Woolrich was an American novelist and short story writer. He published six 'jazz-age' novels, and is known best for his prolific work in pulp and detective fiction under his pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley.
Monet, Claude
Artists
Age 86
November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926
Cimetière de Giverny / Giverny / France / Europe
Claude Monet was a French painter and a founder of the Impressionist movement, best known for his vibrant landscape paintings that capture the fleeting effects of light and atmosphere. Born on November 14, 1840, in Paris, Monet gr...
Glasgow, Ellen
Writers and Poets
Age 72
April 22, 1873 - November 21, 1945
Hollywood Cemetery / Richmond / Virginia / United States / North America
Ellen Glasgow was an American novelist whose realistic depictions of life in her native Virginia helped direct Southern literature away from sentimentality and nostalgia. A lifelong Virginian who published 20 books including 7 nov...
Parker, George S.
Business and Finance
Age 85
December 12, 1866 - September 26, 1952
Harmony Grove Cemetery / Salem / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Founder of the game company Parker Brothers, Inc which produced a multitude of card and board games including Monopoly, Clue, Sorry!, Risk, Trivial Pursuit, and the notorious paranormal-oriented Ouija board. Despite popular opinio...
Testa, Philip
Crime and their Victims
Age 56
April 21, 1924 - March 15, 1981
Holy Cross Cemetery / Yeadon / Pennsylvania / USA / North America
Philip Testa aka "The Chicken Man" was an Italian-American mobster known for his brief leadership of the Philadelphia crime family of the Italian-American Mafia. He became boss of the Philadelphia crime family after the previous b...
Shelley, Mary
Writers and Poets
Age 53
August 30, 1797 - February 1, 1851
St Peter's Church / Bournemouth BH1 2EE / London / United Kingdom / Europe
Mary Shelley (1797–1851) was an English novelist, best known for writing Frankenstein, one of the most influential works in the horror genre. She was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, the daughter of the feminist writer Mary Woll...
O'Shea, Michael
Show Business
Age 67
March 17, 1906 - December 4, 1973
Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park / Westlake Village / California / USA / North America
Michael O'Shea was a talented actor who appeared in feature films and later in television and whose career spanned the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Some of his most memoriable roles included the leading man opposite Barbara Stanwyck L...