Crime and their Victims
Age 44
January 1, 1970 - July 26, 1930
Calvary Cemetery / Cleveland / Ohio / USA / North America
A member of the Porrello crime family out of Cleveland, Ohio
Music
Age 89
December 23, 1908 - November 4, 1998
Evergreen Cemetery / Metcalfe / Mississippi / USA / North America
Sonny Boy Nelson was an American Delta blues musician who picked up the guitar at the young age of 9. His best known works include “44 Blues”, “...
Show Business
Age 44
May 5, 1914 - November 15, 1958
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
One of the greatest matinee idols in the 1930s and 1940s, often in swashbuckler roles or romantic leads in such films as The Mark of Zorro, Blood...
Artists
Age 68
June 15, 1927 - August 20, 1995
Cimetière de Grandvaux / Grandvaux, Bourg-en-Lavaux / District de Lavaux-Oron, Vaud / Switzerland / Europe
Hugo Pratt is considered one of the greatest graphic novelists in the world. His strips, graphic works, and watercolors have been exhibited in major m...
Music
Age 42
January 8, 1935 - August 16, 1977
Graceland / Memphis / Tennessee / USA / North America
Elvis Presley was an American singer, musician and actor. He is regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century and is ofte...
Music
Age 67
December 7, 1910 - August 24, 1978
Metairie Cemetery / New Orleans / Louisiana / USA / North America
Proud son of Italian immigrants and a talented band leader, trumpter, composer and singer Louis Prima developed his talent earning the title "King of ...
Crime and their Victims
Age 64
October 2, 1897 - June 6, 1962
St. John Cemetery / Middle Village / New York / USA / North America
Giuseppe "Joe" Profaci was an Italian-born New York City La Cosa Nostra boss who was the founder of the Profaci crime family. Established in 1928, thi...
Music
Age 77
April 20, 1923 - May 31, 2000
St. Anthony's Catholic Cemetery / Nanuet / New York / USA / North America
He has been called El Rey del Mambo, El Rey de los Timbales, The King of Latin Music, and with a hundred records and countless epic solos to his name,...
Writers and Poets
Age 64
April 10, 1847 - October 29, 1911
Woodlawn Cemetery / Bronx / New York / USA / North America
Joseph Pulitzer was a Hungarian-born American newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World. He became a leading national ...
Historical Figure
Age 36
October 18, 1679 - December 31, 1969
Putnam Cemetery / Danvers / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Ann Putnam's short and miserable life is best remembered as one of the principal accusers in the “circle” of girls who claimed to be afflicted by ...
Historical Figure
Age 37
June 15, 1661 - June 8, 1699
Putnam Cemetery / Danvers / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Ann Putnam, her husband and one of their daughters (Ann Putnam Jr.) all levied accusations of witchcraft, many of them against extended members of th...
Crime and their Victims
Age 47
March 22, 1652 - June 3, 1699
Putnam Cemetery / Danvers / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Thomas Putnam was the father of afflicted girl Ann Putnam, Jr, and many historians consider him to be a major influence in the Salem Witch Trials. Put...
Music
Age 79
May 22, 1914 - May 30, 1993
Elmwood Cemetery and Mausoleum / Birmingham / Alabama / North America
With over 200 albums over his 6 decade career, Sun Ra was revered in Europe as a genius and staged hundreds of concerts, at times with a nearly 100-pi...
Music
Age 94
March 16, 1903 - April 9, 1997
New Crown Cemetery / Indianapolis / Indiana / USA / North America
One of a few pre-war blues artist to continue performing into the 1990s, Yank Rachell was the primary exponent of the blues mandolin
Music
Age 50
September 18, 1951 - June 5, 2002
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Dee Dee Ramone was the last of the dying breed of authentic rock stars. A total f*ckup who got through it and in doing so changed the face of rock ‘...