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. ...
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...
Shaw, Artie
Music
Age 94
May 23, 1910 - December 30, 2004
Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park / Westlake Village / California / USA / North America
Widely regarded as "one of jazz's finest clarinetists", Artie Shaw led one of the United States' most popular big bands in the late 1930s through the early 1940s. Though he had numerous hit records, he was perhaps best known for h...
Herrmann, Adelaide
Other Entertainers
Age 79
August 11, 1853 - February 19, 1932
Woodlawn Cemetery / Bronx / New York / USA / North America
Adelaide Herrmann was a well-known American magician and vaudeville performer billed as "the Queen of Magic." She was married to Alexander Herrmann, another magician. Together, Alexander ("Professor Herrmann" or "Herrmann the Grea...
Hauffe, Friederike
The Odd and the Interesting
Age 27
September 23, 1801 - August 25, 1829
Waldfriedhof Löwenstein / Löwenstein / Baden-Württemberg / Germany / Europe
Friederike Hauffe was a German mystic and somnambulist. She suffered from convulsions, and fell into spontaneous trances. Frederike claimed to have communicated with spirits and experienced visions, and she was made famous by the ...
Perrin, Jean Baptiste
Science
Age 71
September 30, 1870 - April 17, 1942
Le Panthéon / Paris / France / Europe
Jean Baptiste Perrin was a French physicist who, in his studies of the Brownian motion of minute particles suspended in liquids, verified Albert Einstein’s explanation of this phenomenon and thereby confirmed the atomic nature o...
Bradley, Milton
Business and Finance
Age 74
November 8, 1836 - May 30, 1911
Springfield Cemetery / Springfield / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Milton Bradley was an American business magnate, game pioneer and publisher, credited by many with launching the board game industry. Bradley spent much of his life promoting the Friedrich Froebel kindergarten movement both person...
Fine, Irving
Music
Age 47
December 3, 1914 - August 23, 1962
Sharon Memorial Park / Sharon / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Irving Fine was an American composer with a remarkable gift for lyricism, whose masterfully crafted scores inevitably "sing." Aaron Copland wrote that his music "wins us over through its keenly conceived sonorities and its fully r...
Angiulo, Gennaro
Crime and their Victims
Age 90
March 20, 1919 - August 29, 2009
Holy Cross Cemetery and Mausoleum / Malden / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Gennaro J. “Jay” Angiulo was an American mobster who rose to the position of underboss in the Patriarca crime family of New England under Raymond L. S. Patriarca. He and his brothers oversaw the Boston, Massachusetts faction o...
Montenegro, Hugo
Music
Age 55
September 2, 1925 - February 6, 1981
Welwood Murray Cemetery / Palm Springs / California / USA / North America
Hugo Montenegro was an American orchestra leader and composer of film soundtracks. His best-known work is derived from interpretations of the music from Spaghetti Westerns, especially his cover version of Ennio Morricone's main th...
Palermo, Frank
Crime and their Victims
Age 91
January 26, 1905 - May 12, 1996
Holy Cross Cemetery / Yeadon / Pennsylvania / USA / North America
Boxing has a dark history of gangsters, crooked fights and mysterious murders. In the world of boxing at the time, Frank “Blinky” Palermo, a member of the Philadelphia Cosa Nostra crime family, was indeed royalty. Along with...
Price, Rod
Music
Age 57
November 22, 1947 - March 22, 2005
Laurel Hill Cemetery / Wilton / New Hampshire / USA / North America
Rod Price was an English guitarist who was best known for his work with the rock band Foghat. He was known as 'The Magician of Slide', and 'Slide King of Rock And Roll', due to his slide guitar playing. His signature slide playing...
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...
Farmer, Fannie
Writers and Poets
Age 57
March 23, 1857 - January 15, 1915
Mount Auburn Cemetery / Cambridge / Massachusetts / USA / North America
American cooking expert, author, and educator Fannie Farmer was an authority in the art of cooking, author of six books about food preparation (including her impressive, highly significant Boston Cooking School Cookbook (1896), of...
Wyman, Jane
Show Business
Age 90
January 5, 1917 - September 10, 2007
Forest Lawn Cemetery / Cathedral City / California / USA / North America
Jane Wyman was an American actress whose motion picture career began at age 17 at Paramount Pictures dancing in the chorus for Dance Director LeRoy Prinz in 1934. She signed her first studio contract with Warner Bros. in 1936 at 1...