Winter, Johnny
Music
Age 70
February 23, 1944 - July 16, 2014
Union Cemetery / Easton / Connecticut / United States / North America
When it comes to the world of blues and rock 'n' roll, few names command as much respect and admiration as Johnny Winter. A true guitar virtuoso and a master of his craft, Winter's influence on the genre is immeasurable. John Daws...
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 ...
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...
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...
Acuff, Roy
Music
Age 89
September 15, 1903 - November 23, 1992
Spring Hill Cemetery / Nashville / Tennessee / USA / North America
Roy Acuff was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter known as the "King of Country Music". Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedown" format to the singer-based format t...
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...
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...
Churchill, Winston
World Leaders
Age 90
November 30, 1874 - January 24, 1965
St Martin's Church / Bladon, Woodstock OX20 1RS / England / United Kingdom / Europe
Winston Churchill was a British statesman, soldier, writer, and orator who played a central role in 20th-century world history. Born in 1874, he began his career as an army officer and war correspondent before entering Parliament ...
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...
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...
Hayworth, Rita
Show Business
Age 68
October 17, 1918 - May 14, 1987
Holy Cross Cemetery / Culver City / California / USA / North America
Rita Hayworth (Margarita Carmen Cansino 1918-1987) was a film actress and dancer who performed publicly for the first time at the age of six with her father, dancer Eduardo Cansino, Sr. By the age of 8 she was featured in her firs...
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...
Marx, Groucho
Show Business
Age 86
October 2, 1890 - August 19, 1977
Eden Park Memorial Cemetery / Mission Hills / California / USA / North America
Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx was best known as a master of quick wit and widely considered one of the best comedians of the modern era. His rapid-fire, often impromptu delivery of innuendo-laden patter earned him many admirers 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...