Burnette, Johnny
Music
Age 30
March 25, 1934 - August 14, 1964
Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) / Glendale / California / USA / North America
The Burnette brothers, Dorsey and Johnny, are best remembered for their seminal rockabilly recordings for Coral in the mid-1950s. With lead guitarist ...
Burnside, R. L.
Music
Age 78
November 23, 1926 - September 1, 2005
Free Springs C.M.E. Church / Como / Mississippi / USA / North America
R. L. Burnside was a Delta blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. He played music for much of his life but received little recognition before the ear...
Cahn, Sammy
Music
Age 79
June 18, 1913 - January 15, 1993
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Sammy Cahn, the prolific lyricist whose Oscar-winning songs included Call Me Irresponsible, Three Coins in the Fountain and hundreds of films, pop hit...
Calloway, Cab
Music
Age 86
December 25, 1907 - November 18, 1994
Ferncliff Cemetery / Hartsdale / New York / USA / North America
Cab Calloway was an American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor. He was a regular performer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York. He was a po...
Cannon, Gus
Music
Age 96
September 12, 1883 - October 15, 1979
Greenview Cemetery / Nesbit / Mississippi / USA / North America
Obscure but influential blues musician who helped to popularize jug bands (such as his own Cannon's Jug Stompers) in the 1920s and 1930s
Carr, Eric
Music
Age 41
July 12, 1950 - November 24, 1991
Cedar Hill Cemetery / Newburgh / New York / USA / North America
Despite being a replacement of an original member, Eric Carr was immediately accepted by die hard KISS fans based on his personality and superior perc...
Carr, Leroy
Music
Age 30
March 27, 1905 - April 29, 1935
Floral Park Cemetery / Indianapolis / Indiana / USA / North America
Leroy Carr, together with Scrapper Blackwell are arguably the two most underrated blues musicians of the 1920s and 1930s. What is undeniable is the tw...
Cassidy, Eva
Music
Age 33
February 2, 1963 - November 2, 1996
Cremated / North America
Eva Cassidy was a powerful, soulful singer and guitarist known for her interpretations of jazz, folk, and blues music whose meteoric rise to fame happ...
Chopin, Frédéric
Music
Age 39
March 1, 1810 - October 17, 1849
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Frederic Chopin was a Polish-born pianist and composer of matchless genius in the realm of keyboard music. As a pianist, his talents were beyond emula...
Cole, Nat King
Music
Age 45
March 17, 1919 - February 15, 1965
Forest Lawn Memorial Park / Glendale / California / USA / North America
Nat King Cole, was a phenomanel jazz pianist, singer and national treasure. He first rose to fame as the leader of the Nat King Cole Trio which became...
Conner, Keven
Music
Age 28
November 18, 1974 - January 28, 2003
Forest Park Westheimer Cemetery / Houston / Texas / USA / North America
Known as the Kings of the Slow Jamz, R&B masters H-Town was founded in 1990 by twin brothers Keven "Dino" Conner, Solomon “Shazam" Conner and their ...
Connolly, Brian
Music
Age 51
October 5, 1945 - February 9, 1997
Breakspear Crematorium / Ruislip, Middlesex / Europe
As lead singer for the glam band Sweet, Brian Connolly and Sweet enjoyed a string of hits “Block Buster” topping the chart, followed by three cons...
Cooke, Sam
Music
Age 33
January 22, 1931 - December 11, 1964
Forest Lawn Memorial Park / Glendale / California / USA / North America
Sam Cooke's intonation was exquisitely exact. His command of pitch and texture were flawless. His skills as a vocalist were - and remain over sixty ye...
Cornell, Chris
Music
Age 52
July 20, 1964 - May 18, 2017
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Possessing a nearly four-octave range and one of the key figures in the 1990s Seattle grunge music movement, Chris Cornell was know as the lead singer...
Crash, Darby
Music
Age 22
September 26, 1958 - December 7, 1980
Holy Cross Cemetery / Culver City / California / USA / North America
Darby Crash was an American punk rock vocalist and songwriter who co-founded the seminal Los Angeles punk band the Germs. As the lead "singer" a typic...
Cruz, Celia
Music
Age 77
October 21, 1925 - July 16, 2003
Woodlawn Cemetery / The Bronx / New York / USA / North America
Originally Celia Cruz studied to be a teacher in her native Havana, but was lured into show business when a relative entered her in a radio talent con...
Cunningham, Carl Lee
Music
Age 19
December 31, 1969 - December 10, 1967
New Park Cemetery / Memphis / Tennessee / USA / North America
As a member of the Bar-Kays, Carl played drums for Otis Redding and died in the plane crash that took the life of Otis Redding, Phalon Jones, Carl C...
Daffan, Ted
Music
Age 84
September 21, 1912 - October 6, 1996
Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery / Houston / Texas / USA / North America
Ted Daffan was a country music performer (with his band the Texans) and songwriter noted for composing the seminal "Truck Driver's Blues" and two much...