Redfern, Buck
Sports
Age 62
April 7, 1902 - September 8, 1964
Riverside Cemetery / Ashville / North Carolina / USA / North America
George "Buck" Redfern was an infielder in Major League Baseball where he played for the Chicago White Sox. In his short two years as a professional ball player he batted a mere .218 with zero home runs and only 38 runs batted in. ...
Ruth, Helen Woodford
Sports
Age 31
October 20, 1897 - January 11, 1929
Mount Calvary Cemetery / Roslindale / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Babe Ruth met Helen Woodford in 1914 when she served him breakfast while she worked as a waitress at Landers’ Coffee Shop in Boston. They were married in the fall, and Helen would make periodic public appearances with The Babe. ...
Sifford, Charlie
Sports
Age 92
June 2, 1922 - June 2, 1922 – February 3, 2015
Moore's Sanctuary AME Zion Cemetery / Charlotte / North Carolina / USA / North America
Charlie Sifford was a professional golfer who was the first African American to play on the PGA Tour. He won the Greater Hartford Open in 1967 and the Los Angeles Open in 1969. He also won the United Golf Association's National Ne...
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...
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...
Inness Jr., George
Artists
Age
January 5, 1854 - July 27, 1926
Rosedale Cemetery / Montclair / New Jersey / USA / North America
George Inness Jr. was one of America's foremost figure and landscape artists and the son of George Inness, an important American landscape painter. He studied with his father and Léon Bonnat in the 1870s in Europe, where he was m...
Foster, Willie
Music
Age 79
September 21, 1921 - May 20, 2001
Holly Ridge Cemetery / Holly Ridge / Mississippi / USA / North America
Not to be confused with Little Willy Foster from Chicago, Willie Foster was a talented delta blues harmonica player who was born into poverty who ended up eventually in Chicago playing for tips on Maxwell Street. Shortly after he ...
Dorsey, Jimmy
Music
Age 53
February 29, 1904 - June 12, 1957
Annunciation Blessed Virgin Mary Church Cemetery / Shenandoah / Pennsylvania / USA / North America
Jimmy Dorsey was a prominent American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, and bandleader who played a key role in the big band and swing eras of the 1930s and 1940s. His father, a coal miner turned music teacher, taught Tommy...
Snyder, Ruth
Crime and their Victims
Age 32
March 27, 1895 - January 12, 1928
Woodlawn Cemetery / Bronx / New York / USA / North America
Ruth Brown Snyder was a bored housewife from Queens, New York who, after 7 or so unsuccessful attempts, finally succeeded in killing her husband Albert Snyder with the assistance of her lover Henry Judd Gray. Although found guilt ...
Ricci, Nina
Business and Finance
Age 87
January 14, 1883 - November 28, 1970
Cimetière de Courances / Courances / Departement de l'Essonne / France / Europe
Mme. Ricci, who established her design house in 1932 and built a reputation before World War II for graceful, detailed and feminine clothes, was born in Turin, Italy. A near‐con temporary of Gabrielle Chanel, Mme. Ricci was almo...
Stargell, Willie
Sports
Age 61
March 6, 1940 - April 9, 2001
Oleander Memorial Park / Wilmington / North Carolina / USA / North America
Willie Stargell was a legendary Major League Baseball player who spent his entire 21-season career (1962–1982) with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Known for his powerful left-handed swing, Stargell hit 475 home runs and drove in 1,540 ...
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 ...
McBrier, Edwin Merton
Business and Finance
Age 91
July 16, 1865 - September 19, 1956
Rosedale Cemetery / Montclair / New Jersey / USA / North America
Born in 1865, McBrier grew up in Hermon, New York. Eventually he left his home and ended up in Lockport, New York where he went into business with Frank. W. Woolworth and Seymour Knox, a founding partner of the famous Woolworth Co...
Lehman, Ernest
Show Business
Age 89
December 8, 1915 - July 2, 2005
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Ernest Lehman was an American screenwriter, producer, and director who was nominated six times for Academy Awards for Best Screenplay during his career, but never won. Ernest Lehman received the first Honorary Academy Award to eve...
Herbert, Victor
Music
Age 65
February 1, 1859 - May 26, 1924
Woodlawn Cemetery / Bronx / New York / North America
Victor Herbert was one of the great composers and musicians of his era who enjoyed a prolific career that embraced a variety of musical genres. In addition to forty operettas and two operas, he wrote the music for several Ziegfeld...