Borge, Victor
Music
Age 91
January 3, 1909 - December 23, 2000
Putnam Cemetery / Greenwich / Connecticut / USA / North America
Victor Borge was a Danish-American comedian, conductor, and pianist who achieved great popularity in radio and television in both North America and Eu...
Watson, Douglass
Show Business
Age 68
February 24, 1921 - May 1, 1989
Putnam Cemetery / Greenwich / Connecticut / USA / North America
Douglass Watson was an American actor who was best known for his portrayal of Mac Cory on the daytime soap opera Another World. A character actor sinc...
DeMille, Cecil B.
Show Business
Age 77
August 12, 1881 - January 21, 1959
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Considered the founding father of the American cinema and the most commercially successful producer-director in film history he was also one of the fo...
Finch, Peter
Show Business
Age 60
September 28, 1916 - January 14, 1977
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Peter Finch was a hard-drinking, hell-raising womanizer and one of his generations finest actors best remembered for his performance as Howard Beale i...
Adams, Don
Show Business
Age 82
April 13, 1923 - September 25, 2005
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Hollywood actor and director whose standup comedy led to his role as secret agent Maxwell Smart in the television series Get Smart. Adams won three E...
Carpenter, Karen
Music
Age 32
March 2, 1950 - February 4, 1983
Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park / Westgate Village / California / USA / North America
Karen Carpenter was an American singer and drummer, who formed half of the sibling duo the Carpenters alongside her older brother Richard. With a dist...
West, Sandy
Music
Age 47
July 10, 1959 - October 21, 2006
Forest Lawn Memorial Park / Cypress / California / USA / North America
Sandy West's ferocious drumming fueled the influential all-female ’70s rock band the Runaways which she co-founded with Joan Jett. Along with band m...
Street, Richard
Music
Age 70
October 5, 1942 - February 27, 2013
Forest Lawn Memorial Park / Cypress / California / USA / North America
Richard Street was an American soul and R&B singer, most notable as a member of Motown vocal group The Temptations from 1971 to 1993. Street was the l...
Forester, C. S.
Writers and Poets
Age 66
August 27, 1899 - April 2, 1966
Loma Linda Memorial Park / Fullerton / California / USA / North America
C.S. Forester is best known for his Horatio Hornblower series, 12 novels set during the Napoleonic Wars that track the adventures and the growth of a ...
Campanis, Al
Sports
Age 81
November 2, 1916 - June 21, 1998
Loma Linda Memorial Park / Fullerton / California / USA / North America
Al Campanis was a baseball player, farm team scout and finally an executive in Major League Baseball (MLB). He’d been a Montreal Royal shortstop in...
Crandall, Del
Sports
Age 91
March 5, 1930 - May 5, 2021
Loma Linda Memorial Park / Fullerton / California / USA / North America
Delmar Crandall was an American professional baseball player and manager. Crandall played as a catcher in Major League Baseball and spent most of his ...
Knott, Walter
Business and Finance
Age 91
December 11, 1889 - December 3, 1981
Loma Linda Memorial Park / Fullerton / California / USA / North America
Walter Knott was an American farmer who created the Knott's Berry Farm amusement park in California. In the 1920s, Walter Knott was a somewhat unsucc...
Alves, Louis
Disasters
Age 33
October 1, 1969 - February 20, 2003
Mount Saint Mary's Cemetery / Pawtucket / Rhode Island / USA / North America
On February 20, 2003 music fan Louis Alves attended a concert at the Station Nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island. After opening bands Trip and Fat...
Patriarca, Raymond
Crime and their Victims
Age 76
March 17, 1908 - July 11, 1984
Gate of Heaven Cemetery / Riverside / Rhode Island / USA / North America
Raymond Patriarca was an American mobster from Providence, Rhode Island, who became the long-time boss of the Patriarca crime family, whose control ex...