Show Business
Age 79
June 3, 1910 - April 23, 1990
Cimitero di Ronco sopra Ascona / Ronco sopra Ascona / Switzerland / Europe
Paulette Goddard was an American actress and film producer best known for her work during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Born Marion Levy on June 3, 1910, in Whitestone Landing, Queens, New York, she began her career as a fashion m...
Business and Finance
Age 74
February 18, 1795 - November 4, 1869
Harmony Grove Cemetery / Salem / Massachusetts / USA / North America
George Peabody was an American financier and philanthropist and is widely regarded as the father of modern philanthropy. Born into a poor family in Massachusetts, Peabody went into business in dry goods and later into banking. ...
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...
Music
Age 68
January 12, 1905 - January 2, 1974
Oak Bluff Memorial Park / Port Neches / Texas / USA / North America
Tex Ritter was an American singer, songwriter, and actor known for his contributions to country music and his work in Western films. Ritter's early life was shaped by a love for music, especially traditional country and cowboy son...
Crime and their Victims
Age 52
November 9, 1853 - June 25, 1906
Saint James Episcopal Church Graveyard / Saint James / New York / USA / North America
Stanford White was a celebrated American architect and a partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, one of the most significant Beaux-Arts firms at the turn of the 20th century. White designed many houses for the wealt...
Music
Age 33
July 9, 1946 - February 19, 1980
Fremantle Cemetery Palmyra Australia / Palmyra WA 6157 / Australia / Australia / Oceania
Bon Scott, born Ronald Belford Scott on July 9, 1946, in Forfar, Scotland, was the iconic lead singer and lyricist of the Australian rock band AC/DC. His family emigrated to Australia in 1952, settling in Fremantle, Western Austra...
Sports
Age 30
February 1, 1970 - May 20, 2000
Ferncliff Cemetery / Hartsdale / New York / USA / North America
Malik Sealy was an American professional basketball player, active from 1992 until his death in an automobile accident at the age of 30. Sealy played eight seasons in the National Basketball Association for the Indiana Pacers, Los...
Show Business
Age 58
June 27, 1888 - June 28, 1946
Woodlawn Cemetery / Bronx / New York / USA / North America
Mary Antoinette "Tony" Perry was an American actress, director and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing. The Tony Awards were named in her honor.
Artists
Age 32
September 26, 1791 - January 26, 1824
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Théodore Géricault was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement and his expressive works include portraits and military themes. His best-known painting is The Raft of Medusa which is a dramatic interpretation of the aftermat...
Music
Age 48
May 23, 1963 - September 12, 1914
Desert Memorial Park / Cathedral City / California / USA / North America
Eddy Howard was an American vocalist and bandleader who was popular during the 1940s and 1950s who scored his first No. 1 single for Eddy Howard and his Orchestra, "To Each His Own" which spent five non-consecutive weeks at the to...
Music
Age 61
April 11, 1935 - January 24, 1997
Inglewood Memorial Park / Inglewood / California / USA / North America
Richard Berry's contribution to the world of music does not include a discussion of tonality or form; he did not conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra, he didn't invent a new form of music and he never had a #1 hit record. Rather ...
Sports
Age 78
August 11, 1936 - January 25, 2015
Oak Grove Cemetery / Medford / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Bill Monbouquette was an American professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a right-handed pitcher and was a four-time All-Star player. Monbouquette was a stalwart right-handed pitcher for...
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 ...
Artists
Age 31
December 2, 1859 - March 29, 1891
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Georges Seurat was a French painter and one of the pioneers of the Pointillist movement, a technique where paintings are made up of tiny dots of color. Born on December 2, 1859, in Paris, Seurat studied at the École des Beaux-Art...
Music
Age 61
February 10, 1932 - August 26, 1993
Calvary Cemetery / Lafayette / Louisiana / USA / North America
Rockin’ Dopsie (pronounced DOOP-sie), along with Boozoo Chavis and Clifton Chenier, is widely acknowledged to be one of the originators of zydeco music. Dopsie played music for dancing, assimilating R&B influences into zydeco an...