Find A Grave - Explorers and Adventurers

Abruzzo, Benjamin b. June 9, 1930 d. February 11, 1985
Adventurer. He was a member of the two crews that were the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean in hot air balloons. Although a native of Rockford, Illinois he adopted New Mexico as his home state after being stationed there at Kirtland Air Force Base while in the United States Air Force. It was in New Mexico that he developed an interest in hot air ballooning. In 1978 he along with, Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman left Presque Isle, Maine and landed six days later in France...[Read More] (Bio by: Bigwoo)
Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
Plot: Garden of the Ascension
Acosta, Bertrand Blanchard b. January 15, 1895 d. September 1, 1954
Aviation Pioneer. Known as the "Bad Boy of the Air," he taught himself how to fly in 1910, and built experimental planes until 1912, when he went to work for aircraft designer Glenn Curtiss. When World War I started he joined the Royal Flying Corps, and trained Royal Navy pilots in Canada. In 1917 he was sent to the United States, where he trained United States Army Signal Corps pilots at Long Island. Commissioned into the...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park, North Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Portal of the Folded Wings
Adams, Harriet Chalmers b. October 22, 1875 d. July 17, 1937
Adventurer. She is regarded as America's greatest woman explorer, whom traveled extensively in South America, Asia and the South Pacific in the early 20th Century. From 1907 to 1935, accounts of her journeys were published in over 20 articles of the National Geographic Magazine. In 1925, she helped launch the Society of Woman Geographers and served as its first president until 1933. She also toured lecturing on her travels with illustrated talks with color slides and movies, with copies of her...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Chapel of the Chimes Columbarium and Mausoleum, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
Adams, Jameson Boyd b. March 6, 1880 d. April 30, 1962
Explorer. Born in Rippingale, England, he served as explorer Ernest Shackleton's second in command in the British Imperial Antarctic Expedition, also known as the Nimrod Expedition, of 1907 to 1909. The expedition set off from New Zealand for Antarctica in an attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole. Plagued with difficulties, the party eventually split. Expedition members Shackleton, Adams, surgeon Eric Marshall...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Golders Green Crematorium, Golders Green, Greater London, England
Adams, John C. 'Grizzly' b. October 12, 1812 d. October 25, 1860
Western Frontiersman. After a failed attempt to find gold during the 1858 California Gold Rush, he became a professional hunter of grizzly bears to supply early California restaurants. Due to his efforts historians credit him as the largest single factor in the extinction of the California grizzly bear. He a had a natural ability to tame and train cubs, of which he always kept a few trained bears with him as pets, who would accompany him on bear hunting expeditions and were used to help find...[Read More]
Bay Path Cemetery, Charlton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Adams, William 'Miura Anjin' b. September 24, 1564 d. May 16, 1620
Adventurer. He was a British seaman who became a samurai in Japan. Born in Gillingham, Kent, England, after losing his father at age 12 he was apprenticed to shipyard owner Master Nicholas Diggins at Limehouse. He spent the next 12 years learning shipbuilding, astronomy and navigation. After serving in the Royal Navy under Sir Francis Drake, Adams became a pilot for the company "Barbary Merchants." During this service, he took part in an expedition to the Arctic that lasted about two years in...[Read More] (Bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)
Tsukayama Prefectural Park, Yokosuka, Japan
Adamson, George b. February 3, 1906 d. August 20, 1989
Scientist. Along with his wife Joy Adamson, the couple are best known for being the basis of the motion picture "Born Free", a film about how they raised a lion cub. An author of several books, he was also a well-known safari hunter and senior game warden in Kenya. It is in this role that he criticized government officials of Kenya regarding their lackadaisical approach to stopping poachers. He was shot and killed on...[Read More] (Bio by: John Sheets)
George Adamson Gravesite, Kora National Park, Kenya
Plot: Cremated, ashes interred next to the grave of Boy The Lion
Alcock, John William b. November 6, 1892 d. December 18, 1919
Aviator. He was the first man, in partnership with Arthur Whitten Brown, to fly non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean. Born in Manchester, England, he was educated at the parish school at Saint Anne's on Sea. His first job (in 1909) was as an apprentice at the Empress Motor Works in Manchester. The following year, he went to Brooklands, as the assistant to the French pilot, Maurice Ducroq. In November 1912, he obtained his aviator's certificate, then went to work for Sunbeam Car Company as a...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
Southern Cemetery, Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, Lancashire, England
Plot: Section G, Lot 966
Alden, John b. 1598 d. September 12, 1687
American Colonial Figure. One of the charter members of the Plymouth Colony in America, he arrived on the first voyage of the "Mayflower". At the time of the sailing of the vessel in 1620 for America, he was about twenty-one years old. William Bradford, second governor of the colony, wrote that John Alden was "hired for a cooper, at South Hampton (England), where the ship victualed (brought on food for the voyage); and...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Myles Standish Burying Ground, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
Alden (Mullins), Priscilla b. 1602 d. 1685
American Colonial Figure. One of the charter members of the Plymouth Colony, arriving on the first voyage of the "Mayflower", her marriage to John Alden is the first marriage in Plymouth. Born Dorking, Surrey, England, at the time of the sailing of the Mayflower in 1620 for America, she arrived with her parents a young girl of about 16 or 17. Apparently having no surviving brothers or sisters, her parents died in the first...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Myles Standish Burying Ground, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
Almandos Almonacid, Capt. Vicente b. December 24, 1883 d. November 16, 1953
Argentine Aviation Pioneer. Father of the Argentine Commercial Aviation, first Argentine Flight Engineer. Ace Pilot on Wrodl War I, condecorated by the French Goverment in 1919. On March 20, 1920 he made the first night crossing of the Andes. (Bio by: 380W)
Cementerio de Olivos, Buenos Aires, Capital Federal, Argentina
Amundsen, Roald b. July 16, 1872 d. 1928
Explorer. Believed by many to be the first to reach the South Pole. He was killed when his plane crashed in the Berents Sea, and his remains were never recovered.
Cause of death: Plane Crash
Body lost or destroyed, Remains Lost in the Berents Sea
Anderson, Maxie Aron b. September 10, 1934 d. June 27, 1983
Adventurer. He, along with Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman, won worldwide fame when they piloted the Double Eagle helium balloon across the Atlantic in August 1978. They began their successful transatlantic crossing from Presque Isle, Maine, and flew 3,107.61 miles in 137 hours, 5 minutes and 60 seconds. He was killed in a balloon crash in Germany.
Sunset Memorial Park, Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
Plot: Block 24, Section 94, Grave 4
GPS coordinates: 35.0639992, -106.3803864 (hddd.dddd)
Anderson, Michael b. December 25, 1959 d. February 1, 2003
United States Astronaut. 43 years old, and a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force, he was chosen as an astronaut in 1994. He was a Payload Commander on the Space Shuttle Columbia. On February 1, 2003 NASA lost all communication and radar contact with the shuttle just minutes before a 9:16AM scheduled landing time. A short time later it was confirmed that the Columbia had exploded over eastern Texas, and that there were no survivors. Lost in the tragedy with Lt. Col. Anderson were...[Read More] (Bio by: Julie Karen Hancock (Cooper) Jackson)
Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA
Plot: Section 46, Lot 1180-1
Andr�e, Salomon August b. October 18, 1854 d. October, 1897
Polar explorer. In July, 1897 he made an attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. The attempt failed, and he and his fellow expeditionaries Nils Strindberg (born 4th of September, 1872) and Knut Fr�nkel (born 14th of February, 1870) died at White Island in their attempt to return back. Their bodies were not recovered until 1930. The grave contains the ashes of all three members of the expedition. (Bio by: Klas Gr�nqvist)
Norra begravningsplatsen (Northern Cemetery), Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Angel, Jimmy Crawford b. 1899 d. 1956
Aviator. Best known for discovering and naming Angel Falls in the Venezuelan jungle. Rising 3,212 feet above the jungle floor, it is the worlds tallest waterfall. A pilot with James Lindberg's Flying Circus, he flew to Venezuelan Guayana with James McCracken in search of a river filled with gold.
Cause of death: Internal injuries from a plane accident
Angel Falls Waterfall, Angel Falls, Venezuela
Plot: His ashes were spread over the waterfall
GPS coordinates: 33.0000000, 44.0000000 (hddd.dddd)
Astor, Vincent b. November 15, 1891 d. February 3, 1959
Financier, Businessman, Philanthropist. The son of Colonel John Jacob Astor IV, he entered Harvard only to leave after the death of his father in the sinking of the "RMS Titanic"'. He was the first Astor, in several generations, to take active control of the family investmentsm with interests in automobiles, shipping and air transportation, as well as the ancestral involvement in Manhattan real estate. A Commodore of The New York Yacht Club, his yacht, "Nourmahal", was utilized for geographical...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Bruce)
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 88, row 2
Astronauts' Memorial
Memorial erected to honor all United States Astronauts who have lost their lives while on missions or in training. Those who are memorialized are Theodore C. Freeman, Charles A. Bassett, II, Elliot M. See, Jr, Clifton C. William Jr, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White, II, Roger B. Chaffee, Michael J. Adams, Robert H. Lawrence, Jr., Francis "Dick" Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith A. Resnick, Ellison S. Onizuka, Ronald E. McNair, Gregory B. Jarvis, S. Christa McAuliffe, and Manley L. "Sonny"...[Read More]
The Astronauts Memorial Foundation, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA
Aufschnaiter, Peter b. November 2, 1899 d. October 12, 1973
Adventurer. Born in Kitzb�hel, Austria, atended schools in Kufstein and was drafted into military service during World War One. After completing his abitur (high school) he studied agriculture in Munich, Germany. While in Munich he continued mountain climbing and met several German climbers of the era. Participated in expeditions to the third highest mountain in the world, Kangchenjunga (1929 and 1931), and later the 1939 German expedition to Nanga Parbat in Kashmir which included fellow...[Read More] (Bio by: Fred Beisser)
Kitzb�heler Bergfriedhof, Kitzbuhel, Tirol, Austria
Baden-Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth b. February 22, 1857 d. January 8, 1941
British Army General, Boy Scots Movement Founder. Born in London, England, he and his brothers would explore the English countryside, pretending to be sailors, explorers or soldiers. He attended the Charterhouse School, and joined the British Army in 1876, serving in India, Afghanistan, and South Africa. During the Boer War in South Africa (1899 to 1902), he was a Colonel and senior commander of the garrison at Mafeking, when it came under siege for seven months by the Boers. His spirited...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Saint Peter's Churchyard, Nyeri, Kenya

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