Belly, Lead
Music
Age 60
January 23, 1889 - December 6, 1949
Shiloh Baptist Church Graveyard / Mooringsport / Louisiana / USA / North America
Lead Belly (born Huddie William Ledbetter) was a renowned American folk and blues musician. His life was marked by his powerful voice, virtuosic 12-string guitar playing, and a history filled with both talent and adversity. More t...
Leopold II of Belgium, King
World Leaders
Age 74
April 9, 1835 - December 17, 1909
Église Notre-Dame de Laeken / Laeken / Brussels / Belgium / Europe
Leopold II was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909, and the founder and sole owner and beneficiary of the riches extracted from the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908. The Congo Free State, a private colonial project...
Gallagher, Rory
Music
Age 47
March 2, 1948 - June 14, 1995
St. Oliver's Cemetery / Cork / Ireland / Europe
One of Europe's great guitar players, Rory Gallagher's single-minded dedication to the blues and refusal to change his style for radio success forever relegated him to small clubs and the college tour circuit. Born in Ballyshannon...
Williams, Tex
Music
Age 68
August 23, 1917 - October 11, 1985
Eternal Valley Memorial Park / Newhall / California / United States / North America
Tex Williams was an American country music singer, songwriter, bandleader and occasional film actor. He is best known for his 1949 hit "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)," which became a major crossover success. Tex Williams, ...
White, Stanford
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...
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 ...
Smith, Anna Nicole
Show Business
Age 39
November 28, 1967 - February 8, 2007
Lakeview Memorial Gardens / Nassau / The Bahamas / North America
Anna Nicole Smith was a stunning, full-figured American model, a terrible actress and television personality. Smith started her career as a Playboy magazine centerfold in May 1992 and won the title of 1993 Playmate of the Year. Sh...
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...
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
Music
Age 69
April 1,1873 - March 28, 1943
Kensico Cemetery / Valhalla / New York / USA / North America
Sergei Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor and is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classic...
Astaire, Fred
Show Business
Age 88
May 10, 1899 - June 22, 1987
Oakwood Memorial Park And Cemetery / Chatsworth / California / USA / North America
Fred Astaire was an American dancer, singer, actor and choreographer whose style, elegance and graceful approach to movement made him the most acclaimed dancer in motion picture history. Born Frederick Austerlitz on May 10, 1899, ...
Claudel, Camille
Artists
Age 78
December 8, 1864 - October 19, 1943
Cimetière de Montfavet par Avignon / Montfavet / France / Europe
Camille Claudel was an immensely talented yet grossly underappreciated French sculptor known for her figurative works in bronze and marble. She died in relative obscurity in a mental hospital, but later gained recognition for the ...
Monet, Claude
Artists
Age 86
November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926
Cimetière de Giverny / Giverny / France / Europe
Claude Monet was a French painter and a founder of the Impressionist movement, best known for his vibrant landscape paintings that capture the fleeting effects of light and atmosphere. Born on November 14, 1840, in Paris, Monet gr...
Stewart, Jimmy
Show Business
Age 89
May 20, 1908 - July 2, 1997
Forest Lawn Memorial Park / Glendale / California / USA / North America
James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart (1908–1997) was an iconic American actor known for his distinctive voice, affable screen presence, and versatility across film genres. Born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Stewart initially studied archi...
Scott, Bon
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...
Brady, Al
Crime and their Victims
Age 26
October 25, 1910 - October 12, 1937
Mount Hope Cemetery / Bangor / Maine / USA / North America
Al Brady was an American gangster and leader of the notorious Brady Gang during the 1930s, a period marked by widespread criminal activity amidst the Great Depression. Born in 1910 in Indiana, Brady became involved in crime at a y...