Wright, George
Sports
Age 90
January 28, 1847 - August 21, 1937
Holyhood Cemetery / Chestnut Hill / Massachusetts / USA / North America
George Wright was baseball’s first superstar player – an extraordinary shortstop who excelled for the game’s first openly all-professional team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings. After his playing days were over, he successfully...
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...
Somers, Suzanne
Show Business
Age 76
October 16, 1946 - October 15, 2023
Desert Memorial Park / Cathedral City / California / USA / North America
Suzanne Somers was a talented actress who first became famous for playing, as she put it, “one of the best dumb blondes that’s ever been done,” on the TV sitcom Three's Company. Holding her own playing opposite veteran actor...
Tate, Buddy
Music
Age 87
February 22, 1913 - February 10, 2001
Pinelawn Memorial Park / Farmingdale / New York / USA / North America
Buddy Tate was jazz saxophone player who made a name for himself playing with such greats as Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, Benny Goodman as well as with his own band for over 20 years at the Celebrity Club in Harlem, New York City.
Crayton, Pee Wee
Music
Age 70
December 18, 1914 - June 25, 1985
Inglewood Memorial Park / Inglewood / California / USA / North America
Pee Wee Crayton was a Texas born blues guitarist who first took up the electric blues guitar after he moved to California in 1935. In Oakland, Crayton joined Texas-born bluesman T-Bone Walker. Throughout the forties and early fift...
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...
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...
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...
Shelley, Mary
Writers and Poets
Age 53
August 30, 1797 - February 1, 1851
St Peter's Church / Bournemouth BH1 2EE / London / United Kingdom / Europe
Mary Shelley (1797–1851) was an English novelist, best known for writing Frankenstein, one of the most influential works in the horror genre. She was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, the daughter of the feminist writer Mary Woll...
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...
Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique
Artists
Age 86
August 29, 1780 - January 14, 1867
Europe
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867) was a French Neoclassical painter, widely regarded for his mastery in portraiture and his precise, smooth technique. Born in Montauban, France, Ingres showed early talent in drawing, lea...
Smith, Randy
Sports
Age 60
December 12, 1948 - June 4, 2009
Forest Lawn East Cemetery / Matthews / North Carolina / USA / North America
Randy Smith was an American professional basketball player who set the NBA record for consecutive games played. From 1972 to 1982, Smith played in every regular season game, en route to a then-record of 906 straight games (since b...
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...
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 ...
Testa, Philip
Crime and their Victims
Age 56
April 21, 1924 - March 15, 1981
Holy Cross Cemetery / Yeadon / Pennsylvania / USA / North America
Philip Testa aka "The Chicken Man" was an Italian-American mobster known for his brief leadership of the Philadelphia crime family of the Italian-American Mafia. He became boss of the Philadelphia crime family after the previous b...