Scott, Bon
Music
Age 33
July 9, 1946 - February 19, 1980
Fremantle Cemetery Palmyra Australia / Palmyra WA 6157 / Australia / Australia / Oceania
Bon Scott, born Ronald Belford Scott on July 9, 1946, in Forfar, Scotland, was the iconic lead singer and lyricist of the Australian rock band AC/DC. His family emigrated to Australia in 1952, settling in Fremantle, Western Austra...
Hope, Bob
Show Business
Age 100
May 29, 1903 - July 27, 2003
Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana Cemetery / Mission Hills / California / USA / North America
Bob Hope was a British-born American comedian, actor, singer, and dancer whose career spanned nearly 80 years. Born Leslie Townes Hope on May 29, 1903, in Eltham, London, he moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, at a young age...
Kafka, Franz
Writers and Poets
Age 40
July 3, 1883 - June 3, 1924
New Jewish Cemetery (Nový židovský hřbitov) / Prague / Czech Republic / Europe
Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Bohemian writer born on July 3, 1883, in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now the Czech Republic). He is widely regarded as one of the most influential literary figures of the 20t...
Monet, Claude
Artists
Age 86
November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926
Cimetière de Giverny / Giverny / France / Europe
Claude Monet was a French painter and a founder of the Impressionist movement, best known for his vibrant landscape paintings that capture the fleeting effects of light and atmosphere. Born on November 14, 1840, in Paris, Monet gr...
Claudel, Camille
Artists
Age 78
December 8, 1864 - October 19, 1943
Cimetière de Montfavet par Avignon / Montfavet / France / Europe
Camille Claudel was an immensely talented yet grossly underappreciated French sculptor known for her figurative works in bronze and marble. She died in relative obscurity in a mental hospital, but later gained recognition for the ...
Switzer, Carl
Show Business
Age 31
August 7, 1927 - January 21, 1959
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Carl Switzer, the actor who as a child played Alfalfa in the Our Gang comedy film series, was the freckle-faced boy with a warbling singing voice and a cowlick protruding from the top of his head. It was Switzer’s best-known rol...
Smith, Anna Nicole
Show Business
Age 39
November 28, 1967 - February 8, 2007
Lakeview Memorial Gardens / Nassau / The Bahamas / North America
Anna Nicole Smith was a stunning, full-figured American model, a terrible actress and television personality. Smith started her career as a Playboy magazine centerfold in May 1992 and won the title of 1993 Playmate of the Year. Sh...
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
Music
Age 69
April 1,1873 - March 28, 1943
Kensico Cemetery / Valhalla / New York / USA / North America
Sergei Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor and is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classic...
Stargell, Willie
Sports
Age 61
March 6, 1940 - April 9, 2001
Oleander Memorial Park / Wilmington / North Carolina / USA / North America
Willie Stargell was a legendary Major League Baseball player who spent his entire 21-season career (1962–1982) with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Known for his powerful left-handed swing, Stargell hit 475 home runs and drove in 1,540 ...
Dorsey, Jimmy
Music
Age 53
February 29, 1904 - June 12, 1957
Annunciation Blessed Virgin Mary Church Cemetery / Shenandoah / Pennsylvania / USA / North America
Jimmy Dorsey was a prominent American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, and bandleader who played a key role in the big band and swing eras of the 1930s and 1940s. His father, a coal miner turned music teacher, taught Tommy...