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...
Armstrong, Lil Hardin
Music
Age 73
February 3, 1898 - August 27, 1971
Lincoln Cemetery / Blue Island / Illinois / USA / North America
Lil Hardin Armstrong was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, singer, and bandleader. She was the second wife of Louis Armstrong, with whom she collaborated on many recordings in the 1920s with the Louis Armstrong Hot Fiv...
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...
Hepburn, Audrey
Show Business
Age 63
May 4, 1929 - January 20, 1993
Cimetière de Tolochenaz. / 1131 Tolochenaz / Vaud / Switzerland / Europe
Audrey Hepburn (née Ruston was a British-born actress, recognized as a film and fashion icon. Born into an aristocratic family in Ixelles, Brussels, Hepburn began performing as a chorus girl in West End musical theatre production...
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...
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...
Scott, Randolph
Show Business
Age 89
January 23, 1898 - March 2, 1987
Elmwood Cemetery / Charlotte / North Carolina / USA / North America
Randolph Scott was a Hollywood film actor whose career spanned from 1928 to 1962. As a leading man for all but the first three years of his cinematic career, Scott appeared in dramas, comedies, musicals, adventures, war, horror an...
O'Riordan, Dolores
Music
Age 46
September 6, 1971 - January 15, 2018
Caherelly Graveyard / Limerick / Ireland / Europe
Dolores O'Riordan was an Irish musician who achieved international fame as the lead vocalist of the rock band the Cranberries. O'Riordan was the principal songwriter of the band, and additionally performed acoustic and electric gu...
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...
Allen, Fred
Show Business
Age 61
May 31, 1894 - March 17, 1956
Gate of Heaven Cemetery / Hawthorne / New York / USA / North America
Fred Allen was an American comedian with a talent for ad-lib. His absurdist topically-pointed radio program The Fred Allen Show (1932–1949) made him one of the most popular and forward-looking humorists in the Golden Age of Amer...
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...
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...
Kelly, Lisa Robin
Show Business
Age 43
March 5, 1970 - August 15, 2013
Forest Lawn East Cemetery / Matthews / North Carolina / USA / North America
Lisa Robin Kelly was a talented Hollywood actress best known as the flirty character Laurie Forman on the television sitcom "That '70s Show". Kelly was a cheerleader in high school who graduated from DePaul University in Chicago ...
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...