Astor, Caroline Schermerhorn
Business and Finance
Age 78
September 22, 1830 - October 30, 1908
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum / New York City / New York / USA / North America
Caroline Schermerhorn Astor, often called “The Mrs. Astor,” was one of the most influential and wealthy social figures in the United States during the late 19th century's Gilded Age. Married to William Backhouse Astor Jr., she...
Orbach, Jerry
Show Business
Age 69
October 20, 1935 - December 28, 2004
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum / New York City / New York / USA / North America
Jerry Orbach had a distinguished career spanning more than four decades in theater, film, and television. He first gained prominence on Broadway, where he originated major roles in acclaimed musicals such as The Fantasticks, Promi...
Helmsley, Leona
Business and Finance
Age 87
July 4, 1920 - August 20, 2007
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery / Sleepy Hollow / New York / USA / North America
Leona Helmsley began her career in real estate, rising from brokerage work to executive positions before meeting Harry Helmsley in the late 1960s. After Harry dumped his wife of 30+ years Leona married him in 1972. Having lost a m...
Jumel, Eliza
Business and Finance
Age 90
April 2, 1775 - July 16, 1865
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum / New York City / New York / USA / North America
Eliza Jumel was one of the most remarkable rags-to-riches story in early American history. Born Elizabeth Bowen in poverty in Providence, she endured a difficult childhood marked by financial hardship and periods in workhouses. As...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Peterson, Robert
Crime and their Victims
Age 13
February 11, 1942 - October 16, 1955
Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum / Chicago / Illinois / USA / North America
Robert Peterson was a young boy who was brutally raped and murdered with his friends Anton Schuessler Jr. and John Schuessler in 1955. The crime scene where the bodies where found was largely contaminated by investigators and phot...
Lennon, Julia
The Odd and the Interesting
Age 44
March 12, 1914 - July 15, 1958
Allerton Cemetery Liverpool UK / Allerton, Liverpool L19 5NF / United Kingdom / Europe
Julia Lennon was the mother of English musician John Lennon, who was born during her marriage to Alfred Lennon. After complaints to Liverpool's Social Services by her eldest sister Mimi Smith (née Stanley), she surrendered the ca...
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...