Music
Age 25
August 1, 1951 - December 4, 1976
Calvary Cemetery / Sioux City / Iowa / USA / North America
Tommy Bolin was an American rock guitarist and songwriter who played with Zephyr (from 1969 to 1971), the James Gang (from 1973 to 1974) and Deep Purple (from 1975 to 1976), in addition to maintaining a career as a solo artist and...
Music
Age 40
September 23, 1926 - July 17, 1967
Pinelawn Memorial Park / Farmingdale / New York / USA / North America
John Coltrane was one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century, whose career transformed the sound and scope of modern jazz. He first gained national attention in the 1950s playing with bandleaders like Miles Dav...
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 ...
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...
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...