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...
Chagall, Marc
Artists
Age 97
July 6, 1887 - March 28, 1985
Le cimetière - Saint-Paul de Vence / Saint-Paul-de-Vence / France / Europe
Marc Chagall was a Russian and French artist considered by many the last great master of his century. An early modernist, he was associated with the École de Paris, as well as several major artistic styles and created works in a ...
Concannon, Jack
Sports
Age 62
February 25, 1943 - November 28, 2005
New Calvary Cemetery / Mattapan / Massachusetts / USA / North America
With only one winning season to his name, Jack Concannon was an as an American football player who played professionally as a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) with the Philadelphia Eagles, Chicago Bears, Dallas Co...
Rand, Ayn
Writers and Poets
Age 77
February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982
Kensico Cemetery / Valhalla / New York / USA / North America
Ayn Rand escaped to the United States, where she would eventually publish four novels and a handful of political screeds encouraging selfishness and a lack of concern for others. After the release of her third novel The Fountainhe...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Pollina, Antonio
Crime and their Victims
Age 100
September 20, 1892 - February 27, 1993
Holy Cross Cemetery / Yeadon / Pennsylvania / USA / North America
Antonio "Mr. Miggs" Pollina was an Italian-American mobster and was the short lived boss of the Philadelphia crime family during the late 1950s. Shortly after immigrating from Caccamo, Sicily he developed an arrest record dating b...
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...
Carroll, Lewis
Writers and Poets
Age 65
January 27, 1832 - January 14, 1898
Count Cemetery / Guildford GU2 4JB / United Kingdom / Europe
Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in Daresbury, England, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, and photographer, best known for his iconic works Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-...
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 ...
Mineo, Sal
Show Business
Age 37
January 10, 1939 - February 12, 1976
Gate of Heaven Cemetery / Hawthorne / New York / USA / North America
Sal Mineo was a talented American actor who was best known for his role as John "Plato" Crawford in the drama film Rebel Without a Cause (1955), which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at age ...