Leopold II of Belgium, King
World Leaders
Age 74
April 9, 1835 - December 17, 1909
Église Notre-Dame de Laeken / Laeken / Brussels / Belgium / Europe
Leopold II was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909, and the founder and sole owner and beneficiary of the riches extracted from the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908. The Congo Free State, a private colonial project...
Tiernan, Mike
Sports
Age 51
January 21, 1867 - November 7, 1918
Gate of Heaven Cemetery / Hawthorne / New York / USA / North America
Mike Tiernan, nicknamed "Silent Mike", was an American professional baseball right fielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB), exclusively for the New York Giants, from 1887 to 1899. Tiernan's debut major league game was on...
Stewart, Jimmy
Show Business
Age 89
May 20, 1908 - July 2, 1997
Forest Lawn Memorial Park / Glendale / California / USA / North America
James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart (1908–1997) was an iconic American actor known for his distinctive voice, affable screen presence, and versatility across film genres. Born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Stewart initially studied archi...
Johnson, Bunk
Music
Age 63
December 27, 1885 - July 7, 1949
St. Edward Cemetery / New Iberia / Louisiana / USA / North America
Willie "Bunk" Johnson was a prominent jazz trumpeter in New Orleans who lied and/or exaggerated his role in the development of jazz that historians have a difficult time understanding the truth from fiction. But what everyone agre...
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...
Leach, Robin
Show Business
Age 76
August 29, 1941 - August 24, 2018
Palm Memorial Park / Las Vegas / Nevada / USA / North America
Robin Leach was a TV personality, entertainment reporter, writer and columnist who became a symbol of unapologetic opulence as host of the popular syndicated television show “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” in the 1980s and...
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...
Redstone, Sumner
Business and Finance
Age 96
May 27, 1923 - August 11, 2020
Sharon Memorial Park / Sharon / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Redstone was born in a Boston tenement to a father who changed the family name from Rothstein to Redstone and built a regional movie-theater chain. After a short career as an attorney (he graduated from Harvard and Harvard Law), R...
Rothschild, James Mayer de
Business and Finance
Age 76
May 15, 1792 - November 17, 1868
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Baron James Mayer de Rothschild (1792–1868) was a prominent 19th-century banker and a key figure in the Rothschild banking family. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, he was the second son of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, the patriarch who ...
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...
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...
Keaton, Buster
Show Business
Age 70
October 4, 1895 - February 1, 1966
Forest Lawn Memorial Park – Hollywood Hills / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Along with Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton was one of the three big stars of the Hollywood silent film era. Keaton was an American silent film actor, comedian, and director renowned for his physical comedy, deadpan...
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...
Ramone, Tommy
Music
Age 65
January 29, 1949 - July 11, 2014
New Montefiore Cemetery / West Babylon / New York / USA / North America
Tommy Ramone is fondly remembered as the co-founder, songwriter and drummer for the influential punk rock band the Ramones from its debut in 1974 to 1978, later serving as its producer, and was the longest-surviving original membe...
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...