Wilson, Jackie
Music
Age 49
June 9, 1934 - January 21, 1984
Westlawn Cemetery / Wayne / Michigan / USA / North America
Jackie Wilson was an American singer who was a prominent figure in the transition of rhythm and blues into soul. Nicknamed "Mr. Excitement", he was considered a master showman and one of the most dynamic singers and performers in ...
Foley, Red
Music
Age 58
June 17, 1910 - September 19, 1968
Woodlawn Memorial Park / Nashville / Tennessee / USA / North America
Red Foley was a hugely influential figure in early country music, whose career spanned from the 1930s through the 1960s. Rising to fame through radio programs like the National Barn Dance and the Grand Ole Opry, he became known fo...
Hawkins, Coleman
Music
Age 64
November 21, 1904 - May 19, 1969
Woodlawn Cemetery / Bronx / New York / USA / North America
Coleman Hawkins was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and considered by many to be the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument. Hawkins was one of the most influential tenor saxophonists in the history of jazz and a majo...
Lombardo, Guy
Music
Age 75
June 19, 1902 - November 5, 1977
Pinelawn Memorial Park / Farmingdale / New York / USA / North America
Guy Lombardo was a Canadian and American bandleader, violinist, and hydroplane racer whose unique sweet jazz style remained popular with audiences for nearly five decades. Lombardo formed the Royal Canadians in 1924 with his broth...
Hoover, J. Edgar
Crime and their Victims
Age 77
January 1, 1895 - May 2, 1972
Congressional Cemetery / Washington DC / USA / North America
J. Edgar Hoover was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the fifth and final director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). President Calvin Co...
Crocker, William Henry
Business and Finance
Age 76
January 13, 1861 - September 25, 1937
Cypress Lawn Memorial Park / Colma / California / USA / North America
William Henry Crocker (1861-1937) was the youngest son of Charles Crocker, one of the "Big Four" railroad magnates of the 19th century that also included Leland Stanford. William was founder and later president of Crocker National...
Tormé, Mel
Music
Age 73
September 13, 1925 - June 5, 1999
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Singer, actor, writer, composer, arranger, drummer and pianist Mel Tormé was extraordinarily versatile, but he will primarily be remembered as one of the supreme popular vocalists of this century, a superb song stylist equally pe...
Hammett, Dashiell
Writers and Poets
Age 66
May 27, 1894 - January 10, 1961
Arlington National Cemetery / Arlington / Virginia / USA / North America
The name Dashiell Hammett is synonymous with the "hard-boiled" genre of detective fiction. Born Samuel Dashiell Hammett, he worked as a detective in his early twenties and later wrote numerous popular mystery novels, most famously...
Taylor, William Desmond
Show Business
Age 49
April 26, 1872 - February 1, 1922
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
William Desmond Taylor was an Anglo-Irish-American film director and actor. A popular figure in the growing Hollywood motion picture colony of the 1910s and early 1920s, Taylor directed fifty-nine silent films between 1914 and 192...
Normand, Mabel
Show Business
Age 36
November 9, 1893 - February 23, 1930)
Calvary Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Mabel Normand, was an American silent film actress, comedienne, director and screenwriter. She was a popular star and collaborator of Mack Sennett in their Keystone Studios films, and at the height of her career in the late 1910s ...
Vélez, Lupe
Show Business
Age 36
July 18, 1908 - December 14, 1944
Panteón Civil de Dolores / Miguel Hidalgo / 11100 Ciudad de México, CDMX / Mexico / North America
Lupe Vélez was a Mexican actress, singer, and dancer during the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. The Mexican actress made 45 films in her short 36 years, acting with nearly all the top performers of the silent era by the time sh...
Herman, Woody
Music
Age 74
May 16, 1913 - October 29, 1987
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Woody Herman (1913–1987) was a major figure in American jazz, known for leading a series of innovative big bands over five decades. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he was a child performer in vaudeville before turning to music ful...
Maybrick, Florence Chandler
Crime and their Victims
Age 79
September 3, 1862 - October 23, 1941
Saint Michael's Chapel Graveyard / Kent / Connecticut / USA / North America
Florence Chandler Maybrick (1862–1941) was an American woman whose life became one of the most controversial legal dramas of the Victorian era. Born Florence Elizabeth Chandler in Mobile, Alabama she married much older English c...
Devos, Raymond
Show Business
Age 83
November 9, 1922 - June 15, 2006
Cimetière de Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse / Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse / France / Europe
Raymond Devos was a celebrated Belgian-born French humorist, stand-up comedian and clown who was best known for his sophisticated puns, surreal humour and sophisticated wordplay. He is fondly remembered as a master of the French ...
Astor, Vincent
Business and Finance
Age 67
November 15, 1891 - February 3, 1959
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery / Sleepy Hollow / New York / USA / North America
Vincent Astor was the grandson of Caroline Schermerhorn Astor—famously known as “the” Mrs. Astor—who presided over New York’s high society. Born in her Fifth Avenue mansion in 1891, he was the son of Col. John Jacob Asto...