MacAnnan, George
Show Business
Age 82
November 30, 1887 - November 12, 1970
Desert Memorial Park / Cathedral City / California / USA / North America
George MacAnnan was an American actor best known for his supporting roles in Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943), Supernatural (1933) and White Zombie (1932).
Rogers, Charles "Buddy"
Show Business
Age 94
August 13, 1904 - April 21, 1999
Forest Lawn Cemetery / Cathedral City / California / USA / North America
Charles (or Buddy to his friends) Rogers, was an American actor / handsome leading man and band leader who starred in ''Wings'' (1927), the first film to win an Academy Award, and who later married Mary Pickford, ''America's Sweet...
Turner, Big Joe
Music
Age 74
May 18, 1911 - November 24, 1985
Roosevelt Memorial Park Cemetery / Gardena / California / USA / North America
Big Joe Turner, a 300-pound legend who learned to sing the blues as a Kansas City junkman and transformed decades of urban black music into the roots of rock ‘n’ roll. Turner sang rhythm and blues songs such as “Shake, Rattl...
Rodgers, Jimmie
Music
Age 35
September 8, 1897 - May 26, 1933
Oak Grove Baptist Church Cemetery / Meridian / Mississippi / USA / North America
Jimmie Rodgers was an American singer, songwriter and musician who rose to popularity in the late 1920s. Widely regarded as "the Father of Country Music", he is best known for his distinctive rhythmic yodeling. During his all-to b...
Gardner, Ava
Show Business
Age 67
December 24, 1922 - January 25, 1990
Sunset Memorial Park / Smithfield / North Carolina / USA / North America
Ava Gardner was a celebrated American actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She first signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew critics' attention in 1946 with her p...
Johnson, Judy
Sports
Age 89
October 26, 1899 - June 15, 1989
Silverbrook Cemetery / Wilmington / Delaware / USA / North America
William "Judy" Johnson was an American professional third baseman and manager whose career in Negro league baseball spanned 17 seasons, from 1921 to 1937. Slight of build, Johnson never developed as a power threat but achieved his...
Charles, Lorenzo
Sports
Age 47
November 25, 1963 - June 27, 2011
Oakwood Cemetery / Raleigh / North Carolina / USA / North America
Charles Lorenzo (Zo to his friends and teammates) was a Brooklyn, New York native and was born to Panamanian immigrants. He played basketball for the University of North Carolina State from 1981 to 1985 where he was coached by the...
Spann, Otis
Music
Age 46
March 21, 1924 - April 24, 1970
Burr Oak Cemetery / Alsip / Illinois / USA / North America
Arguably the most important pianist of the postwar Chicago blues scene, Otis Spann started playing piano at the age of seven, with some instruction from local piano players in his native Jackson. By 1944 he was playing in local ba...
Forester, C. S.
Writers and Poets
Age 66
August 27, 1899 - April 2, 1966
Loma Linda Memorial Park / Fullerton / California / USA / North America
C.S. Forester is best known for his Horatio Hornblower series, 12 novels set during the Napoleonic Wars that track the adventures and the growth of a young Englishman in the Royal Navy. By 1937, he was well on the way to success ...
White, Will
Sports
Age 56
October 11, 1854 - August 31, 1911
Forest Lawn Cemetery / Buffalo / New York / USA / North America
William "Whoop-La" White was an American baseball pitcher and manager from 1875 to 1889. He played all or parts of 10 seasons in Major League Baseball, primarily for the Cincinnati Reds in the National League (1878–1879) and the...
Revson, Charles
Business and Finance
Age 68
October 11, 1906 - August 24, 1975
Ferncliff Cemetery / Hartsdale / New York / USA / North America
Charles Revson was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was best known as a pioneering cosmetics industry executive who, with brother Joseph Revson along with a chemist, Charles Lachman (who contributed the "L" in the Re...
Salvador, Henri
Music
Age 90
July 18, 1917 - February 13, 2008
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Henri Salvador was a velvet-voiced French musician credited with inspiring the bossa nova, recording the first french rock 'n' roll single and helping create the music video. Known for his booming laughter, raucous sense of humor,...
Kennedy, Michael
Historical Figure
Age 39
February 27, 1958 - December 31, 1997
Holyhood Cemetery / Chestnut Hill / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Michael LeMoyne Kennedy was born into a very public family as Robert F. and Ethel Kennedy's middle of 11 children. He graduated from Harvard in 1980 and then went to law school at the University of Virginia, where he earned a law ...
Pepper, Art
Music
Age 56
September 1, 1925 - June 15, 1982
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Considered by many to be the the world's great altoist of his generation, Art Pepper was an alto saxophonist anda longtime fixture in West Coast jazz circles. He first started jamming at the age of 13 on Central Avenue (the black ...
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...