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Abbandando, Frank b. July 11, 1910 d. February 19, 1942
Organized Crime Figure. Known as "The Dasher", he was a member of a murder-for-hire gang made up of Jewish and Italian street gangsters working out of Brooklyn, New York City, New York during the 1930s. This gang, who came to be known in the news media as "Murder Inc.", carried out gangland murders in the New York City area under the direction of mob bosses Lepke Buchalter and [Read More]
Saint John Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 12, Plot P, Grave 75
Abbas, Abu b. December 10, 1948 d. March 8, 2004
Terrorist. Born Muhammad Zaydan, he was the head of the terrorist group "Palestine Liberation Front". He masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the Italian passenger ship "Achille Lauro" in which a wheelchair-bound American tourist, Leon Klinghoffer was thrown overboard. He was captured by United States forces in Iraq in April, 2003, and was being held in United States military custody there when he died. (Bio by: Always with Love)
Martyrs Cemetery, Damascus, Syria
Abel, Rudolf Ivanovich b. July 11, 1903 d. November 15, 1971
Soviet Union Intelligence Officer. He was a Russian Cold War spy who had been captured by the United States while engaged in espionage. Born Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher in England to revolutionary parents who fled Czarist Russia, he served in the Russian Army during World War II, engaging in clandestine operations behind Nazi German lines. Trained as a spy by the KGB after the war, he resided in the United States for the purpose of gaining American nuclear secrets and other intelligence...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Cause of death: Lung cancer
Donskoi Monastery Cemetery, Moscow, Russian Federation
Accardo, Anthony b. April 28, 1906 d. May 22, 1992
Organized Crime Figure. Born in Chicago, Illiois in 1906, he joined the city's organized crime family, the "Outfit," during the late 1920s. He served under three bosses (Alphonse Capone, Frank Nitti, and Paul Ricca), before becoming the boss himself. He expanded the Outfit's...[Read More] (Bio by: Joseph)
Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Hillside, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Plot: Mausoleum, Turn right, on lef hand side
Adner, Anton b. 1705 d. 1822
German Folk Figure. He was a maker of toys and wooden boxes, which he sold in markets as far away as Munich, Switzerland, and Holland. He walked to all of these markets, with his wares in a large wooden rack on his back. He lived to be 117 years old. (Bio by: Geoff Walden)
Altfriedhof (Old Cemetery), Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Bayern), Germany
Adonis, Joe (Guiseppe Antonio Doto) b. November 22, 1902 d. November 26, 1971
Organized Crime Figure. He was a close friend of mob boss Lucky Luciano and a member of his Mafia family in both Brooklyn, New York City, New York and New Jersey. He was deported to Italy in 1956 and died there of natural causes.
Cause of death: Natural causes
Madonna Cemetery, Fort Lee, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA
Agee, Philip Burnett Franklin b. July 19, 1935 d. January 7, 2008
Author, American Intelligence Agent. A former Central Intelligence Agency field agent, he is best known for his 1975 book "Inside the Company: CIA Diary". He left the CIA after twelve years in 1969, disenchanted with the Agency and how it was being operated. In 1973, he went to the Soviet Union's embassy in Mexico City, Mexico to provide information on CIA operations, but they were suspicious of him, and turned down his offer. He then went to the Cuban embassy, and they readily accepted his...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
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Aiello, Giuseppe 'Joe' b. 1891 d. October 23, 1930
Organized Crime Figure. Born in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, he immigrated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin around 1912. He and his family eventually settled on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, where he became in volved in liquor bootlegging, and where he eventually came into a conflict with crime boss Al Capone. After several years and many deaths, he was elected president of the benevolent society "Unione Siciliane" (which...[Read More] (Bio by: Dennis Rice)
Riverside Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Aiuppa, Joseph 'Doves' b. December 1, 1907 d. February 22, 1997
Organized Crime Figure. He was a long time power in the Chicago, Illinois Mafia syndicate known as "The Outfit". He began his criminal career as a muscleman and hired gun for Al Capone in 1935; by 1970 he had risen high in the Chicago mob. Though he controlled the mob's operations in Cicero and the western suburbs of Chicago, he was always a number two or three man in the hierarchy of the Outfit . His nominal boss during...[Read More] (Bio by: Joseph)
Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Hillside, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Plot: Crucifix Garden, South Building, Tier 2, Crypt 7453
Al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab b. October 20, 1966 d. June 7, 2006
Islamic Terrorist. Born Ahmed al-Khalayeh in Zarqa, Jordan, he was considered one of the top international terrorists in Iraq and the Middle East, responsible for numerous suicide bombings, kidnappings, hostage executions and acts of violence against Iraqi civilians and American led forces within the country. He began his militancy in the late 1980s directing attacks against Soviet occupation forces in Afghanistan, and spent several years in a Jordan prison for the unsuccessful overthrow of the...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
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Alamo, Susan b. April 25, 1925 d. April 8, 1982
Religious Cult Figure. In 1969, she co-founded the Alamo Christian Foundation with her husband, Tony Alamo. The organization quickly gained notoriety for its intense evangelistic methods and "in your face" approach to sin in the Hollywood culture at large. In 1976, the ministry moved its headquarters to Alma, Arkansas, her childhood home. The Foundation gained notoriety for making high-priced, sequined denim jackets for Hollywood celebrities while not complying with Federal Wage and Hour law...[Read More] (Bio by: Mike Reynolds)
Memorial Park Cemetery, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, USA
GPS coordinates: 36.0519791, -95.5265427 (hddd.dddd)
Allen, Sandy (Sandra) Elaine b. June 18, 1955 d. August 13, 2008
Guinness World Book title holder as the tallest woman on record since 1976. Sandy measured at 7 feet 7.25 inches. A pituitary tumor was the source of her body releasing excessive amounts of growth hormone. At birth the 6.5 pound normal baby began to grow quickly and by age ten she measured at 6 feet 3 inches. By age 16 she had reached 7 feet 1 inch. In 1974 she wrote to Guinness World Records looking to meet others her size. From there her fame began as the world's tallest woman. Her new...[Read More] (Bio by: Azarias)
Forest Hill Cemetery, Shelbyville, Shelby County, Indiana, USA
Allison, Robert Clay b. September 2, 1840 d. July 1, 1887
Western Outlaw. He joined the Confederate army during the Civil War on October 15, 1861 but was discharged for personality problems January 10, 1862. In the late 1860s, he was a trail boss in New Mexico working for Oliver Loving and Charles Goodnight, legendary Texas cattleman. On January 7, 1874 he met up with "Chunk" Colbert a desperado who had a grudge for him. They spent the day together carousing and drinking. That night at dinner Colbert lunged for Allison's gun and Allison shot Colbert...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Pecos Park Cemetery, Pecos, Reeves County, Texas, USA
Alterie, Louis b. August 2, 1886 d. July 18, 1935
Organized Crime Figure. He was a member of Chicago's West side gang under Dion O'Bannion. He is often credited with inventing the "one-way ride," taking Philadelphia gangster John Dougherty (alias Duffy) for a car ride in 1923, but the "honor" of creating the one-way ride goes to Earl "Hymie" Weiss. Louis Alterie did invent the ambush murder which involved renting an apartment close to the home or office of an intended victim and staging a surprise attack. He is also said to be the only...[Read More]
Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale), Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Whispering Pines, L-912, grave 6 (unmarked) [unmarked]
Amberg, Herman 'Hyman' d. November 3, 1926
Organized Crime Figure. Along with his brothers Louis "Pretty" and Joseph Amberg, they were the most feared gangsters in the Jewish neighborhoods of Brooklyn during the 1920s and 1930s. Hyman was arrested for the murder of a Brooklyn jeweler in 1926 and placed in the "Tombs" jail in Manhattan to await trial. On November 3, 1926, he and another prisoner (armed with guns) tried to escape from the jail. They got as far as the prison wall but were trapped by the guards. With all hope of escape lost...[Read More]
Cause of death: Suicide by gunshot
Montefiore Cemetery, Saint Albans, Queens County, New York, USA
Plot: Block 97, Row 6R, Grave 53, Gate 82/S
Amberg, Joseph b. 1892 d. September 30, 1935
Organized Crime Figure. He along with his brothers Louis "Pretty" and Hyman Amberg were the most feared gangsters in the Jewish neighborhoods of Brooklyn during the 1920s and 1930s On September 30,1935, Joseph Amberg and Morris Kessler (one of his henchmen) were lined-up against the wall of an auto repair garage in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn and shot to death by three gunmen of "Murder, Inc".
Cause of death: Shot to death
Montefiore Cemetery, Saint Albans, Queens County, New York, USA
Plot: Block 97, between North 8th and 9th Streets
Amberg, Louis 'Pretty Amberg' b. 1897 d. October 23, 1935
Organized Crime Figure. During the 1920s and 1930s he, along with his brother Joseph, were the most feared gangsters in the Jewish neighborhoods of Brooklyn. On October 23,1935 (the same day Dutch Schultz was murdered) Louis Amberg's body was found in a burning car in Brooklyn. He was killed with an ax and a shotgun blast, put in a car and set on fire. The murder contract was carried out by Abe Reles and his men in "Murder Inc".
Cause of death: Murdered
Montefiore Cemetery, Saint Albans, Queens County, New York, USA
Plot: Block 2, Row 12R, Grave 4
Amery, John b. March 14, 1912 d. December 19, 1945
British Traitor. John Amery was the son of British politician Leo Amery. He went to Harrow school before going into business and became bankrupt by 1936, aged twenty four. In october 1936 he went to Spain working on the side of General Franco's fascists. He then moved to France where, in 1941, he was recruited by the Nazis and in November 1942 began making pro Adolf Hitler broadcasts in Berlin. In April 1943 he established the Legion of St. George and attempted to persuade British prisoners to...[Read More] (Bio by: Stephen Tweed)
Wandsworth Prison Cemetery and Crematorium, Wandsworth, Greater London, England
Amin, Idi b. January 1, 1925 d. August 16, 2003
Ugandan Dictator and Military Leader. Idi Amin was born in either 1924 or 1925, but his exact birthdate is not known. He helped to overthrow President Milton Obote, and was officially made leader on January 25, 1971, taking office, one week later. Amin served as the ruler of Uganda from February 2, 1971 until April 11, 1979. During his 8 year reign, over 500,000 innocent people were killed. In April 1979, he was forced out of office and he fled to Libya, Iraq, and then finally to Saudi Arabia...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
Cause of death: Mulitiple organ failure
Ruwais Cemetery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Anastasia, Albert b. February 26, 1902 d. October 25, 1957
Oragnized Crime Figure. He was part of "Murder Incorporated", a group of professional killers who worked solely for the National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s. The killers received assignments and payments to murder total strangers in the New York area or anywhere in the country, murdering anyone selected by the syndicate board. Murder, Inc. was destroyed when Reles turned informant in 1940.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 182, Lot 38325

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