Bly, Nellie
Writers and Poets
Age 57
May 5, 1864 - January 27, 1922
Woodlawn Cemetery / Bronx / New York / USA / North America
Nellie Bly, born Elizabeth Cochran on May 5, 1864, in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania, was a pioneering American journalist, industrialist, and humanitarian best known for her groundbreaking investigative reporting. She gained natio...
Tunney, Gene
Sports
Age 81
May 25, 1897 - November 7, 1978
Long Ridge Union Cemetery / Stamford / Connecticut / USA / North America
Gene Tunney, born James Joseph Tunney on May 25, 1897, in New York City, was an American professional boxer and world heavyweight champion from 1926 to 1928. Raised in a working-class Irish-American family, Tunney developed a pass...
Vario, Paul
Crime and their Victims
Age 73
July 10, 1914 - May 3, 1988
St. John Cemetery / Middle Village / New York / USA / North America
Paul Vario was a prominent New York mobster and high-ranking member of the Lucchese crime family. Born on July 10, 1914, in Brooklyn, he became involved in organized crime at a young age, eventually rising to become a caporegime (...
Clark, Huguette
The Odd and the Interesting
Age 104
June 9, 1906 - May 24, 2011
Woodlawn Cemetery / Bronx / New York / USA / North America
Huguette Clark was an American heiress, philanthropist, and recluse, born on June 9, 1906, in Paris, France. She was the daughter of U.S. Senator and copper magnate William A. Clark, one of the wealthiest men of the Gilded Age, an...
Straus, Isador
Business and Finance
Age 67
February 6, 1845 - April 15, 1912
Woodlawn Cemetery / Bronx / New York / USA / North America
Isidor Straus (1845–1912) was a German-born American businessman, politician, and philanthropist best known as a co-owner of Macy’s department store and for his tragic death aboard the RMS Titanic. Born in Otterberg, Germany, ...
Alo, Vincent
Crime and their Victims
Age 96
May 26, 1904 - March 9, 2001
Woodlawn Cemetery / Bronx / New York / USA / North America
Vincent “Jimmy Blue Eyes” Alo was a mobster and made man who operated for decades alongside Meyer Lansky and Charles “Lucky” Luciano while staying well outside of the spotlight. Called "one of the most significant organize...
Macy, Rowland Hussey
Business and Finance
Age 54
August 30, 1822 - March 29, 1877
Woodlawn Cemetery / Bronx / New York / USA / North America
Rowland H. Macy (1822–1877) was an American businessman best known as the founder of Macy’s department store. Born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, he began his career at sea as a whaler before turning to retail. Macy opened a ser...
Femia, Nicholas
Crime and their Victims
Age 44
October 13, 1939 - December 16, 1983
Winthrop Cemetery / Winthrop / Massachusetts / United States / North America
Nicholas "Nicky" Femia was a low-level, but extremely violent, mobster and member of the Joe "the Animal" Barboza gang on Bennington Street in East Boston. After the Barboza gang diminished in 1967, he later became involved with ...
Clark, William Andrews
Business and Finance
Age 86
January 8, 1839 - March 2, 1925
Woodlawn Cemetery / Bronx / New York / USA / North America
William Andrews Clark (1839–1925) was an American industrialist, banker, politician and one of the most powerful figures of the Gilded Age. Born in Pennsylvania, he moved west during the mid-19th century and first worked as a mi...
Plath, Otto
Writers and Poets
Age 55
April 13, 1885 - November 5, 1940
Winthrop Cemetery / Winthrop / Massachusetts / United States / North America
Otto Emil Plath was a German-American writer, academic, and biologist. After reading the writings of Charles Darwin, Plath also developed an interest in biology. In the following years, Plath taught and studied in both German and...
Oakes, Sir Harry
Crime and their Victims
Age 68
December 23, 1874 - July 8, 1943
Dover Cemetery / Dover-Foxcroft / Maine / United States / North America
The Bahamas in the 1940s was, in all reality, a seething cauldron of Nazi sympathizers, British spies, money launderers, narcotics traffickers, gambling mobsters, land swindlers, murderers and paid-for-hire assassins. And then you...
Neiman, LeRoy
Artists
Age 91
June 8, 1921 - June 20, 2012
Woodlawn Cemetery / Bronx / New York / USA / North America
LeRoy Neiman, the painter and sketch artist was best known for evoking the kinetic energy of the world’s biggest sporting and leisure events with bright quick strokes. Neiman's easily recognized style was known for his brilliant...
Gagliano, Tommy
Crime and their Victims
Age 67
May 29, 1883 - February 16, 1951
Woodlawn Cemetery / Bronx / New York / USA / North America
Tommy Gagliano (born Tommaso Gagliano) was an Italian-born American mobster and boss of what U.S. federal authorities would later designate as the Lucchese crime family, one of the "Five Families" of New York City. He was a low-pr...