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...
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...
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...
Belmont, Joseph
Show Business
Age 63
August 18, 1875 - May 16, 1939
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Joseph “Baldy” Belmont (born William Albertus Ducharme, circa 1873/1875 – May 16, 1939) was an American actor best known for his work in early silent-era and early talkie films. Performing under his stage name, he appeared i...
Delpech, Michel
Music
Age 69
January 26, 1946 - January 2, 2016
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Michel Delpech (1946–2016) was a celebrated French singer-songwriter whose smooth voice and melodic pop chansons made him one of France’s most beloved artists from the late 1960s onward. He rose to fame with early successes su...
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...
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...
Ulliel, Gaspard
Show Business
Age 37
November 25, 1984 - January 19, 2022
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Gaspard Ulliel was a talented French actor and model who was known for having portrayed the young Hannibal Lecter in Hannibal Rising (2007), fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in the biopic Saint Laurent (2014), and for being the...
Dibango, Manu
Music
Age 86
December 12, 1933 - March 24, 2020
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Manu Dibango (1933–2020) was a Cameroonian saxophonist, composer, and bandleader whose genre-blending style made him one of Africa’s most influential musical ambassadors. Born in Douala, he moved to Europe as a teenager and de...
Safra, Edmond
Business and Finance
Age 67
August 6, 1932 - December 3, 1999
Cimetière Israélite de Veyrier / Geneva / Switzerland / Europe
Edmond J. Safra (1932–1999) was an influential international banker and philanthropist, born in Beirut, Lebanon, into a Sephardic Jewish family with a long tradition in finance. He built a global banking empire through instituti...
Kath, Terry
Music
Age 31
January 31, 1946 - January 23, 1978
Forest Lawn Memorial Park / Glendale / California / USA / North America
Terry Kath was an American guitarist and singer who is best known as a founding member of the rock band Chicago. He played lead guitar and sang lead vocals on many of the band's early hit singles alongside Robert Lamm and Peter Ce...
Spilotro, Anthony
Crime and their Victims
Age 48
May 19, 1938 - June 14, 1986
Queen of Heaven Catholic Cemetery / Hillside / Illinois / USA / North America
Anthony "Tough Tony" Spilotro started out as an enforcer for the Chicago Outfit. He later ran a burglary ring known as The Hole In The Wall gang and took over Outfit operations in Las Vegas. Things were problematic for Spilotro in...
DiMaggio, Joe
Sports
Age 84
November 25, 1914 - March 8, 1999
Holy Cross Cemetery / Colma / California / USA / North America
Joe DiMaggio was an professional baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees. Born to Italian immigrants in California, he is considered to be one of the gre...
Mouloudji, Marcel
Show Business
Age 71
September 16, 1922 - June 14, 1994
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Marcel Mouloudji started as a street urchin and a street singer, and his long career always reflected those early beginnings. He was a real Paris sparrow, light and quick, agile, graceful and symbolic of a certain romanticism of t...
Holgado, Ticky
Show Business
Age 59
June 24, 1944 - January 22, 2004
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Ticky Holgado was a French character actor known for his short stature, distinctive face and heavy Southern accent. Holgado's original vocation was to be a musician. After playing in a band as a teenager, he found work in the Fren...