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...
Jacopucci, Angelo
Sports
Age 29
December 22, 1948 - July 22, 1978
Cimitero di Tarquinia / Tarquinia, Lazio / Province of Viterbo / Italy / Europe
Angelo Jacopucci was an middleweight Italian boxing champion who was affectionately called by his fellow citizens "brigetto" to underline his slender physical structure and agility. Upon winning the continental middleweight title,...
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...
Siné
Artists
Age 87
December 31, 1928 - May 5, 2016
Cimetière de Montmartre / Paris / France / Europe
Siné was a controversial French cartoonist and caricaturist whose early successes in this arena led him into the fields as a book illustrator and designer of posters, stage decors, animated cartoons and publicity films. Siné be...
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...
Somers, Suzanne
Show Business
Age 76
October 16, 1946 - October 15, 2023
Desert Memorial Park / Cathedral City / California / USA / North America
Suzanne Somers was a talented actress who first became famous for playing, as she put it, “one of the best dumb blondes that’s ever been done,” on the TV sitcom Three's Company. Holding her own playing opposite veteran actor...
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...
Smith, Horace
Business and Finance
Age 84
October 28, 1808 - January 15, 1893
Springfield Cemetery / Springfield / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Horace Smith was an American gunsmith, inventor, and businessman. He and his business partner Daniel B. Wesson formed two companies named "Smith & Wesson", the first of which was eventually reorganized into the Winchester Repeatin...
Hazzard, Walt
Sports
Age 69
April 15, 1942 - November 18, 2011
Rose Hills Memorial Park / Whittier / California / USA / North America
Walter Hazzard was an American professional basketball player and college basketball coach. Hazzard attended Overbrook High School in Philadelphia, where his teams went 89–3 and he was named the city's player of the year when he...
Gerulaitis, Vitas
Sports
Age 40
July 26, 1954 - September 17, 1994
St. Charles Resurrection Cemeteries / Farmingdale / New York / USA / North America
Dashing and daring, Vitas Gerulaitis was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Lithuanian immigrants. He was the sport’s ultimate jetsetter in the late 1970s, adored by a legion of female fans, who screamed, “Take me home!” after h...
Warfield, David
Show Business
Age 84
November 28, 1866 - June 27, 1951
Ferncliff Cemetery / Hartsdale / New York / USA / North America
David Warfield was an American stage actor and at the time was one of the world's richest entertainers. Warfield's was considered as a leading American actor in comedy largely due to his distinct style in which he portrayed a kind...
MacLeod, Gavin
Show Business
Age 90
February 28, 1931 - May 29, 2021
Forest Lawn Cemetery / Cathedral City / California / USA / North America
Gavin MacLeod was an American actor best known for his roles as news writer Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and ship's captain Merrill Stubing on ABC's The Love Boat. MacLeod made his television debut in 1957 on The ...
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...
McTell, Blind Willie
Music
Age 61
May 5, 1898 - August 19, 1959
Jones Grove Baptist Church / Thomson / Georgia / USA / North America
“Blind Willie” McTell was one of the great blues musicians of the 1920s and 1930s who continued to play through the 1950s. Displaying an extraordinary range on the twelve-string guitar, this Atlanta-based musician recorded mo...
Shepherd, Elvin
Music
Age 72
May 28, 1923 - June 2, 1995
Forest Lawn Cemetery / Buffalo / New York / USA / North America
Elvin "Shep" Shepherd was a legendary saxophonist whose career spanned half a century. He traveled with such big name bands as Buck Clayton, Bill Doggett, Billy Ekstine, Erskin Hawkins, Lucky Milinder, and Nat Towles. During his s...