Cleveland, Grover
World Leaders
Age 71
March 18, 1837 - June 24, 1908
Princeton Cemetery / Princeton / New Jersey / USA / North America
Grover Cleveland was the first Democrat elected after the Civil War in 1885, as the 22nd and 24th President Grover Cleveland was the only President to leave the White House and return for a second term four years later (1885-1889 ...
Crane, Bob
Show Business
Age 49
July 13, 1928 - June 29, 1978
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Robert Edward Crane was an actor, drummer, radio personality, and disc jockey known for starring in the CBS television comedy Hogan's Heroes about the hilarious high jinks of prisoners in a concentration camp during WW II. In the ...
Crayton, Pee Wee
Music
Age 70
December 18, 1914 - June 25, 1985
Inglewood Memorial Park / Inglewood / California / USA / North America
Pee Wee Crayton was a Texas born blues guitarist who first took up the electric blues guitar after he moved to California in 1935. In Oakland, Crayton joined Texas-born bluesman T-Bone Walker. Throughout the forties and early fift...
Custer, George Armstrong
Historical Figure
Age 36
December 5, 1839 - June 25, 1876
United States Military Academy Post Cemetery / West Point / New York / USA / North America
George Armstrong Custer (1839–1876) was a U.S. Army officer and cavalry commander during the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. Born in New Rumley, Ohio, Custer attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, gra...
Dawson, Richard
Show Business
Age 79
November 20, 1932 - June 2, 2012
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Richard Dawson, the original and longtime host of “Family Feud” known for planting kisses on female contestants was also a regular on television appearing in Hogan's Heroes (a hilarious sit-com about prisoners in a Nazi German...
Dee, Ruby
Historical Figure
Age 91
October 27, 1922 - June 11, 2014
Ferncliff Cemetery / Hartsdale / New York / USA / North America
Ruby Dee was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist. She originated the role of "Ruth Younger" in the stage and film versions of A Raisin in the Sun (1961). Her other notable fil...
Doe, Butchie
Crime and their Victims
Age 59
April 26, 1959 - June 7, 2018
Pine Haven Cemetery / Burlington / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Arthur "Butchie" Doe was one of the most hated mobsters in all of Boston Mob history. Suspected in 3 murders he also survived 4 attempts on his life. Prone to bouts of unspeakable violence, he worked with a team of Charlestown tow...
Dorléac, Françoise
Show Business
Age 25
March 21, 1942 - June 26, 1967
Cimetière communal de Seine-Port / Seine-Port, Seine-et-Marne / France / Europe
Françoise Dorléac was a beloved French actress whose father was Maurice Dorleac, a stage and screen actor and her mother, Renee Deneuve, re-voiced Hollywood movies (including Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz). However most Ameri...
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...
Falk, Peter
Show Business
Age 83
September 16, 1927 - June 23, 2011
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
American actor and comedian, known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the long-running television series Columbo, for which he won four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. In 1996, TV Guide ranked Falk No. 21 on its...
Flammarion, Camille
Science
Age 83
February 26, 1842 - June 3, 1925
Observatoire Camille Flammarion à Juvisy-sur-Orge / Juvisy-sur-Orge, Seine-et-Oise / France / Europe
Camille Flammarion was a famous French astronomer, author, magazine publisher and notable psychical researcher. He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astronomy, several notable e...
Gabor, Magda
Show Business
Age 81
June 11, 1915 - June 6, 1997
Desert Memorial Park / Cathedral City / California / USA / North America
Magda Gabor was a Hungarian-American actress and socialite, and the elder sister of Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor. Magda is most remembered as the beautiful, vivacious, red-headed socialite with a thick Hungarian accent, her six marriages...
Gallagher, Rory
Music
Age 47
March 2, 1948 - June 14, 1995
St. Oliver's Cemetery / Cork / Ireland / Europe
One of Europe's great guitar players, Rory Gallagher's single-minded dedication to the blues and refusal to change his style for radio success forever relegated him to small clubs and the college tour circuit. Born in Ballyshannon...
Gehrig, Lou
Sports
Age 37
June 19, 1903 - June 2, 1941
Kensico Cemetery / Valhalla / New York / USA / North America
Voted the greatest first baseman of all time, Lou Gehrig was a member of the NY Yankees baseball team and nicked named the Iron Horse for 2,170 consecutive games played over a 17 year career. Fans and teammates were stunned when w...
Genna, Mike
Crime and their Victims
Age 30
January 18, 1895 - June 13, 1925
Mount Carmel Catholic Cemetery / Hillside / Illinois / USA / North America
Mike "The Devil" Genna was an enforcer in the Genna Crime Family. The Gennas were Sicilian brothers who ran the Taylor Street section of Chicago (better known as Little Sicily) making and distributing a very low end of type of boo...