Find A Grave - Cimitero Monumentale di Torino

Buscaglione, Ferdinando b. November 23, 1921 d. February 3, 1960
Singer. Born in Turin, Italy, he developed a strong passion for music since his childhood. In his teens he could usually be found playing violin and double bass in the city's clubs. After World War II he joined the Allied Radio Orchestra in Cagliari, Sardinia, where he started playing American-style music such as swing. By the end of the war he had created his own singing persona, styled like a "Clark Gable moustached "girls 'n whisky" damned club singer". In the 1950s, coupled with Leo Chiosso...[Read More] (Bio by: Luca Cottone)
Cimitero Monumentale di Torino, Turin, Provincia di Torino, Piemonte, Italy
Levi, Primo b. July 31, 1919 d. April 11, 1987
Author. Born in Turin, Italy, he was a member of Anti-fascist resistance during World War II. When captured, he was deported by the Nazis to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland in 1944, spending eleven months there until it was liberated by the Soviet Red Army in 1945. He wrote of his experiences, and his books detailed the atrocities of the Nazis in the death camps in works such as "Se Questo è un Uomo" (If This Is a Man), "La Tregua," "Storie Naturalli," "Vizio di Forma," "La Ricerca...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Cimitero Monumentale di Torino, Turin, Provincia di Torino, Piemonte, Italy
Levi Montalcini, Dr. Rita b. April 22, 1909 d. December 30, 2012
Scientist, physician. Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine. Known for having discovered and identified the cause accretion of nerve fibers, scientifically called "nerve growth factor", which in 1986 earned her the prestigious award. Graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Turin in 1936 and holder of a Research Doctorate in Neurology and Psychiatry, in 1938 she was forced to emigrate to Belgium because of the Italian racial laws. In August 1944, returned to Italy, Levi...[Read More] (Bio by: Lucy Caldarelli)
Cimitero Monumentale di Torino, Turin, Provincia di Torino, Piemonte, Italy
Plot: Family tomb
Macario, Erminio b. May 27, 1902 d. March 26, 1980
One ofActor. One of the best known figures of Italian theatre and motion pictures, his career began in the 1920s, touring with secondary companies of northern Italy. Born in Turin, Italy, he is remembered for his massive revues, comedies and movies production spanning five decades. He worked along with personalities such as Wanda Osiris, Isa Bluette, Isa Barzizza, Raffaella Carrà, Sandra Mondaini, Totò (Antonio De Curtis) and Margherita Fumero. (Bio by: Luca Cottone)
Cimitero Monumentale di Torino, Turin, Provincia di Torino, Piemonte, Italy
Plot: Section A, Plot A60
Pastrone, Giovanni b. September 13, 1883 d. June 27, 1959
Film director, actor and producer. He was an innovator of film technique who was active in the Italian silent cinema. Regarded by many the greatest film director of historical films of the time, he is best remembered as the director of the epic 1914 film "Cabiria" written by Gabriele D'Annunzio. In 1908, he founded the film production company Itala Film, and in the years that followed, he directed and produced films such...[Read More] (Bio by: Ruggero)
Cimitero Monumentale di Torino, Turin, Provincia di Torino, Piemonte, Italy
Pininfarina, Sergio b. September 8, 1926 d. July 3, 2012
Automobile Designer, Italian Senator. Pininfarina, whose very name is synonymous with exotic automobile design, was chairman of the company that his father founded in 1930. He obtained a degree in mechanical engineering at the Polytechnic University of Turin in 1950 and assumed control of the design studios upon his fathers death. The company climbed to prominence in the 50s for cutting-edge and elegant designs for among such automakers as Ferrari, Maserati, Roll-Royce, Cadillac, Jaguar, Volvo...[Read More] (Bio by: Ruggero)
Cimitero Monumentale di Torino, Turin, Provincia di Torino, Piemonte, Italy

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