Kennedy, John F.
World Leaders
Age 46
May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963
Arlington National Cemetery / Arlington / Virginia / USA / North America
John F. Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States of America, negotiated the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, and initiated the Alliance for Progres...
Kenton, Stan
Music
Age 67
December 15, 1911 - August 25, 1979
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
As a pianist, composer, arranger and band leader, Stan Kenton led an innovative and influential jazz orchestra for almost four decades performing such...
Kern, Jerome
Music
Age 60
January 27, 1885 - November 11, 1945
Ferncliff Cemetery / Hartsdale / New York / USA / North America
If he had only written the score for Showboat, Jerome Kern's position as a musical genius would be secure. Instead he also wrote Smoke Gets In Your Ey...
Kerouac, Jack
Writers and Poets
Age 47
March 12, 1922 - October 21, 1969
Edson Cemetery / Lowell / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist who, alongside Jack Cassidey, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation in ...
Kilmister, Lemmy
Music
Age 70
December 24, 1945 - December 28, 2015
Forest Lawn Memorial Cemetery Hollywood Hills / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Inspired by the Beatles and worked as a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience in the 1960s, Lemmy Kilmister was the pure embodiment of the rock 'n' r...
King, Albert
Music
Age 69
April 25, 1923 - December 21, 1992
Paradise Gardens Cemetery / Edmondson / Arkansas / USA / North America
Standing at six-foot-four, 300-pounds King was able to bend notes farther and more powerfully than almost any other guitarist, and his records influen...
King, Freddie
Music
Age 42
September 3, 1934 - December 28, 1976
Sparkman Hillcrest Cemetery / Dallas / Texas / USA / North America
Known as one of the Three Kings of Blues (along with Albert King and B.B. King) Freddie King was the stylistic heir to T-Bone Walker and B.B. King. He...
King, Jimmie
Music
Age 18
June 8, 1949 - December 10, 1967
New Park Cemetery / Memphis / Tennessee / USA / North America
As a member of the Bar-Kays, Jimmy King played guitar for Otis Redding and died in the plane crash that took the life of Otis Redding, Phalon Jones, ...
Kinison, Sam
Show Business
Age 38
December 8, 1953 - April 10, 1992
Memorial Park Cemetery / Tulsa / Oklahoma / USA / North America
American stand-up comedian and actor best known for his Pentecostal preacher scream, and roles in the popular films 'Caddyshack' and 'Back to School'....
Knotts, Don
Show Business
Age 81
July 21, 1924 - February 24, 2006
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Don Knott's half-century career included seven TV series and more than 25 films, but it was The Andy Griffith Show that brought him TV immortality and...
Knust, Michael
Music
Age 54
March 11, 1949 - September 15, 2003
Forest Park Westheimer Cemetery / Houston / Texas / USA / North America
Michael was the lead guitarist for the psychedelic rock band Fever Tree who, in 1968, released their best known song, "San Francisco Girls (Return of ...
Kreisler, Fritz
Music
Age 86
February 2, 1875 - January 29, 1962
Woodlawn Cemetery / The Bronx / New York / USA / North America
Making his professional debut at the age of 13, Fritz Kreisler is considered the one of the greatest, if not the greatest, violinist ever to play the ...
La Marr, Barbara
Show Business
Age 29
July 28, 1896 - January 30, 1926
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
The woman dubbed "The Girl Who Is Too Beautiful" was silent-film actress and screenwriter Barbara La Marr who once said, "I take lovers like roses . ....
Ladd, Alan
Show Business
Age 50
September 3, 1913 - January 29, 1964
Forest Lawn Memorial Park / Glendale / California / USA / North America
Alan Ladd was an American actor became an overnight star by playing Raven, a sensitive hit man, in "This Gun for Hire" (1942). Ladd continued his succ...
Lake, Arthur
Show Business
Age 81
April 17, 1905 - January 9, 1987
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Arthur Lake portrayed the comic strip character Dagwood Bumstead and called for help with a high-pitched ''Blonnndie!'' in more than two dozen films t...
Lake, Patricia
Historical Figure
Age 74
June 8, 1919 - October 3, 1993
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
American socialite, actress, and radio comedian, and suspected of being the illegitimate child of William Randolph Hearst Sr. and Marion Davies. Patri...
Lancaster, Burt
Show Business
Age 80
November 2, 1913 - October 20, 1994
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Burt Lancaster was a failed circus performer when in 1945 (according to the sort of Hollywood legend of which one should probably believe only half) h...
Land, Edwin H.
Science
Age 81
May 7, 1909 - March 1, 1991
Mount Auburn Cemetery / Cambridge / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Edwin H. Land was an American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation and the inventor of instant photography...
Lawford, Peter
Show Business
Age 61
September 7, 1923 - December 24, 1984
Cremated / North America
At age 25, Lawford was one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood and a symbol of glamour and romance. By the end of his life, he was heavily addicte...
Lawnchair Larry
The Odd and the Interesting
Age 44
April 19, 1949 - October 6, 1993
Forest Lawn Memorial Park – Hollywood Hills / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Lawnchair Larry was an American truck driver who made a 45-minute flight in a homemade airship made of an ordinary patio chair and 45 helium-filled we...