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...
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...
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...
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...
Writers and Poets
Age 55
April 13, 1885 - November 5, 1940
Winthrop Cemetery / Winthrop / Massachusetts / United States / North America
Otto Emil Plath was a German-American writer, academic, and biologist. After reading the writings of Charles Darwin, Plath also developed an interest in biology. In the following years, Plath taught and studied in both German and...
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 ...
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...