Harris, Phil
Show Business
Age 91
June 24, 1904 - August 11, 1995
Forest Lawn Cemetery / Cathedral City / California / USA / North America
Phil Harris, the brash, bourbon-swigging, fast-drawling band leader who became a comic radio star as a Jack Benny sidekick in the 1930's and then enchanted new generations of fans as the unlikely voice of Baloo the Bear in Walt Di...
Branca, Ralph
Sports
Age 90
January 6, 1926 - November 23, 2016
Gate of Heaven Cemetery / Hawthorne / New York / USA / North America
Ralph Branca was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1944 through 1956. As a college student, Branca played for NYU in the NCAA basketball tournament at Madison Squ...
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...
Kaye, Danny
Show Business
Age 76
January 18, 1911 - March 3, 1987
Kensico Cemetery / Valhalla / New York / USA / North America
Danny Kaye, the rubbery-faced, gibberish-spouting comedian, was one of the world’s most successful entertainers of the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s. Kaye’s silly patter, funny walks and air of innocence and likability propelled hi...
Rizzitello, Michael
Crime and their Victims
Age 78
March 29, 1927 - October 26, 2005
Forest Lawn Cemetery / Cathedral City / California / USA / North America
Michael Rizzitello (aka "Mike Rizzi") was a capo (underboss) in the Milano crime family of Los Angeles. Rizzitello's criminal record stretched back to 1947 whe he worked for "Crazy Joe" Gallo in the 1950s who was a member of the P...
Walker, T-Bone
Music
Age 64
May 28, 1910 - March 16, 1975
Inglewood Memorial Park / Inglewood / California / USA / North America
Infusing the blues with an electrifying, yet, sophisticated uptown flavor, T-Bone Walker was the driving force that redirected the course of the blues - moving it from juke joints and roadhouses to swank nightclubs and theaters. F...
Horton, Big Walter
Music
Age 60
April 6, 1921 - December 8, 1981
Restvale Cemetery / Alsip / Illinois / USA / North America
Big Walter “Shakey” Horton was legendary blues harmonica and vocalist and while much less known than Little Walter or Sonny Boy Williamson #2, was one of the greatest harp players in the history of the blues. While he recorded...
Byers, Eben
The Odd and the Interesting
Age 51
April 12, 1880 - March 31, 1932
Allegheny Cemetery / Pittsburgh / Pennsylvania / USA / North America
Eben Byers, popular Pittsburgh sportsman, socialite and industrialist, fell out of an upper berth in 1927 returning from a Yale-Harvard football game and injured his arm. His Pittsburgh physiotherapist, Dr. Charles Clinton Moyar, ...
Scott, Gordon
Show Business
Age 80
August 3, 1926 - April 30, 2007
Kensico Cemetery / Valhalla / New York / USA / North America
In 1954 Gordon Werschkul was the lifeguard at the Sahara Hotel on the Las Vegas strip when movie producer Sol Lesser struck up a conversation with the handsome, muscle-bound lifeguard. Next thing you know Gordon was on a plane to ...
Hoyos, Maria Elena Milagro de
The Odd and the Interesting
Age 22
July 31, 1909 - October 25, 1931
Key West City Cemetery / Key West / Florida / USA / North America
On April 22, 1930, Maria Elena Milagro De Hoyos walked into the Marine Hospital in Key West, Florida suffering from a fatal infection of tuberculosis. Instead of a cure, she found a radiologist named Carl Tanzler who instantly bec...
Modigliani, Amedeo
Artists
Age 35
July 12, 1884 - January 24, 1920
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Amedeo Modigliani was an Italian-born artist who moved to Paris in 1906, where he became known for his distinctive portraits and nudes, characterized by a surreal elongation of faces, necks, and figures — works that were not re...
Coughlin, Kevin
Show Business
Age 30
December 12, 1945 - January 19, 1976 ·
Gate of Heaven Cemetery / Hawthorne / New York / USA / North America
Kevin Coughlin was an American actor who made his debut on television on “The Children's Hour” in 1950. His television debut in a series was on his seventh birthday, on December 12, 1952, on the memorable show "Mama", where he...
Robbins, Harold
Writers and Poets
Age 81
May 21, 1916 - October 14, 1997
Forest Lawn Cemetery / Cathedral City / California / USA / North America
Harold Robbins, a writer whose formula of sex, money and power made him one of the best-selling authors of his day, wrote over 25 best-sellers, selling over 750 million copies in 32 languages. Among his best-known books is The Car...
Bancroft, Anne
Show Business
Age 73
September 17, 1931 - June 6, 2005
Kensico Cemetery / Valhalla / New York / USA / North America
Anne Bancroft was a gifted and talented American actress whose 50+ year career was studded with renowned successes on stage, screen, and television. She won both a Tony Award and an Academy Award for best actress for one of her mo...
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...