Jennings, Waylon
Music
Age 64
June 15, 1937 - February 13, 2002
Mesa Cemetery / Mesa / Arizona / USA / North America
Waylon Jennings was the "outlaw" singer, songwriter and musician who was one of the founding pioneers of the Outlaw Movement in country music in the 1970s. A protégé of Buddy Holly and devotee of Hank Williams, he sold more than...
Bartók, Béla
Music
Age 64
March 25, 1881 - September 26, 1945
Farkasréti Cemetery / Budapest / New York / Hungary / Europe
Béla Bartók was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and one founders of comparative musicology (ethnomusicologist). He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century, and he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hung...
Gabor, Eva
Show Business
Age 76
February 11, 1919 - July 4, 1995
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Eva Gabor, the youngest of the glamorous sisters from Hungary, who was best known for her role in the television series as Lisa Douglas opposite Eddie Arnold in “Green Acres” After Green Acres and a number of movies, she becam...
Holliday, Doc
Historical Figure
Age 36
August 14, 1851 - November 8, 1887
Linwood Cemetery / Glenwood Springs / Colorado / USA / North America
As a gunslinger, gambler, and occasional dentist he is perhaps best known for his involvement in the notorious Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona
Einstein, Albert
Science
Age 76
March 14, 1879 - April 18, 1955
Cremated / North America
Albert Einstein was a renown German-born theoretical physicist, and regarded as one of the greatest physicists of all time. Einstein is known widely for developing the theory of relativity, and contributions to the development of ...
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Music
Age 56
December 17, 1770 - March 26, 1827
Der Wiener Zentralfriedhof / Simmeringer Hauptstraße 234 / Vienna / Austria / Europe
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist who remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music. His works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire and span the transitio...
Braille, Louis
Historical Figure
Age 43
January 4, 1809 - January 6, 1852
Le Panthéon / Paris / France / Europe
Louis Braille was a French educator and inventor of a system of reading and writing for use by the blind or visually impaired. His system remains virtually unchanged to this day, and is known worldwide simply as "braille".
Butler, Roy
Show Business
Age 80
May 4, 1893 - July 28, 1973
Desert Memorial Park / Cathedral City / California / USA / North America
Roy Butler was an American supporting actor known for mostly B-Western movies such Return of the Lash, Sky Liner (1949), Deputy Marshal (1949) and House of Errors (1942).
Mydland, Brent
Music
Age 37
October 21, 1952 - July 26, 1990
Oakmont Memorial Park / Lafayette / California / USA / North America
Brent Mydland was a talented keyboardist, vocalist, and songwriter best remembered as a member of The Grateful Dead from 1979 to 1990, a longer tenure than any other keyboardist (aka The Hot Seat) in the band. No previous keyboard...
Blanchard, F. W.
Business and Finance
Age 64
August 25, 1864 - September 21, 1928
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Blanchard was influential in the art and music world of his adopted city of Los Angeles he founded the Brahms Quartet, served as President of the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra, and formed the Community Park and Arts Association o...
Hutton, Barbara
Business and Finance
Age 66
November 14, 1912 - May 11, 1979
Woodlawn Cemetery / Bronx / New York / USA / North America
Barbara Woolworth Hutton was born in New York City on 14 November 1912, the daughter of Edna and Franklyn Hutton and the granddaughter of Frank Winfield Woolworth, founder of the phenomenally successful chain of retail "five and d...
Adrian
Show Business
Age 56
March 3, 1903 - September 13, 1959
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Adrian was a costume designer whose most famous costumes were for The Wizard of Oz and 250 films often with the screen credit: "Gowns by Adrian"
Arridy, Joe
Crime and their Victims
Age 23
April 29, 1915 - January 6, 1939
Greenwood Cemetery / Cañon City / Colorado / USA / North America
In August of 1936 Joe Arridy was arrested for vagrancy and shortly after confessed to the rape and brutal murder of Dorothy Drain, a 15-year-old girl in Pueblo, Colorado. Only problem was that Joe Arridy had an I.Q. of 46 and the ...
Ace, Johnny
Music
Age 25
June 9, 1929 - December 25, 1954
New Park Cemetery / Memphis / Tennessee / USA / North America
A popular R&B singer with a string of eight hits in a row including "Cross My Heart" and "Please Forgive Me", he blew his brains out on Christmas Day between sets after telling everyone ‘It’s okay! Gun’s not loaded… see?...
Farina, Dennis
Show Business
Age 69
February 29, 1944 - July 22, 2013
Mt. Carmel Catholic Cemetery / Hillside / Illinois / USA / North America
Farina began his career in law enforcement as a Chicago police officer and, later in life, was a talented character actor often typecast as a mobster or police officer. A late-bloomer in the world of acting, he was prolific later ...