Memphis Minnie
Music
Age 76
June 3, 1897 - August 6, 1973
New Hope M.B. Church / Walls / Mississippi / USA / North America
She transcended both gender and genre. Her recording career reached from the 1920s heyday of country blues to cutting electric sides in 1950s Chicago studios for the Chess subsidiary Checker. Minnie helped form the roots of electr...
Pigeon, Charles
Science
Age 76
March 29, 1838 - March 18, 1915
Cimetière du Montparnasse / Paris / France / Europe
Charles-Joseph Pigeon started as a salesman in department store Le Bon Marché in Paris, where he became a close friend of Ernest Cognacq. Together they became partners and co-founders of the Samaritaine department stores. Pigeon ...
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...
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...
Vealey, R.J.
Music
Age 37
September 29, 1962 - November 13, 1999
Crestlawn Cemetery / Atlanta / Georgia / USA / North America
R. J. Vealey was a respected studio drummer and former member of Roy Orbison's backing band who joined the Atlanta Rhythm Section in 1995. After the Atlanta Rhythm Section had finished an afternoon set at a concert festival in Orl...
Sturges, Preston
Show Business
Age 60
August 29, 1898 - August 6, 1959
Ferncliff Cemetery / Hartsdale / New York / USA / North America
Preston Sturges was one of the more celebrated American playwright, screenwriter, and film director of the 1940s and early 1950s with films like “The Great McGinty,” “The Lady Eve,” “Sullivan's Travels,” “The Palm Be...
Heidt, Horace
Music
Age 85
May 21, 1901 - December 1, 1986
Forest Lawn Memorial Park – Hollywood Hills / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Horace Heidt was an American pianist, big band leader, and radio and television personality. His band, Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights, toured vaudeville and performed on radio and television during the 1930s and 1940s. As le...
Vanderbilt, Harold Stirling
Business and Finance
Age 85
July 6, 1884 - July 4, 1970
Saint Mary's Episcopal Churchyard and Cemetery / Portsmouth / Rhode Island / USA / North America
Harold Stirling Vanderbilt was an American railroad executive, a champion yachtsman, an innovator and champion player of contract bridge, and a member of the Vanderbilt family. Vanderbilt was a director of the New York Central Rai...
Manuel, Dean
Music
Age 30
January 1, 1934 - July 31, 1964
Spring Hill Cemetery / Nashville / Tennessee / USA / North America
"Dockie" Dean Manuel played piano for several noteworthy bands of the mid-twentieth century both on the West Coast and in Nashville, Tennessee. While attempting to re-establish himself in the West Coast country music scene after r...
Skinner, Ludlow
Crime and their Victims
Age 32
1870 - February 21, 1903
Oakwood Cemetery / Raleigh / North Carolina / USA / North America
Ludlow Skinner was a quiet, soft-spoken young man who was the son of one of the most respected ministers in the southern region. The murder of Ludlow Skinner begins with Mrs. Gertrude Tucker, Skinner's sister-in-law and one of the...
Rachell, Yank
Music
Age 94
March 16, 1903 - April 9, 1997
New Crown Cemetery / New Crown Cemetery / Indiana / USA / North America
One of a few pre-war blues artist to continue performing into the 1990s, Yank Rachell was the primary exponent of the blues mandolin.
Frost, Frank
Music
Age 63
April 15, 1936 - October 12, 1999
Magnolia Cemetery / Helena / Arkansas / USA / North America
One of the foremost Delta blues harmonica players of his generation. Frank Frost only picked up the harmonica after an accident damaged his hand that prevented him from continuing with guitar. Taught by Sonny Boy Williams II, Fran...
Kilgallen, Dorothy
Show Business
Age 52
July 3, 1913 - November 8, 1965
Gate of Heaven Cemetery / Hawthorne / New York / USA / North America
Called by famed attorney F. Lee Bailey “A very bright and very good reporter of criminal cases, the best there was,” “One of the greatest women writers in the world,” by Ernest Hemingway, and by the New York Post, “The m...
Kelly, Margaret
Show Business
Age 94
June 24, 1910 - September 11, 2004
Cimetière de Montmartre / Paris / France / Europe
Margaret Kelly, known as Miss Bluebell, was an Irish dancer who was the founder of the Bluebell Girls dance troupe. At the age of 14, Kelly left school and joined a Scottish dance troupe called the Hot Jocks. Nine months later, sh...
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...