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• Acker, Jean    b. October 23, 1892  d. August 16, 1978
  Actress. Despite having a undistinguished motion picture career, she gained lasting notoriety as the first wife of film icon Rudolph Valentino. Born on a farm near Trenton, New Jersey, she made her film debut in 1913. An expert horsewoman, she performed her own stunts in several westerns and serials but never progressed beyond secondary roles. In 1918 she went to Hollywood as a protégé of actress [Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Section N, Plot 542
   
• Adams, Abigail    b. November 22, 1744  d. October 28, 1818
  Presidential First Lady. She was the wife of 2nd United States President John Adams, and the mother of 6th United States President John Quincy Adams. Born in Waymouth, Massachusetts, on her mother's side she was descended from early prestigious leaders of the colony; her father was a Congregational minister. An avid reader, she formed an immediate bond with...[Read More] (Bio by: D C McJonathan-Swarm)
  First Unitarian Church, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
   
• Adams, Charles W.    b. August 16, 1817  d. September 10, 1878
  Civil War Confederate Army Officer. He served during the Civil War first as Colonel and commander of the 23rd Arkansas Infantry regiment, then as Chief of Staff for General Thomas C. Hindman's Division in the Army of Tennessee. During a the later part of the war he was in command of he Northern Sub-District of Arkansas, where his military acumen and leadership was found wanting by Confederate general [Read More] (Bio by: Anonymous)
  Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, USA
  Plot: South Grove Section, Lot 156
   
• Adams, Louisa Catherine    b. February 12, 1775  d. May 5, 1852
  Presidential First Lady. The wife of 6th United States President John Quincy Adams, she was born in London, England to an American father. She was education in a French convent school, met John Quincy Adams while he was a diplomat serving in England and were married three years later at a ceremony in London (her new father-in-law, John Adams, had just...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
  First Unitarian Church, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
   
• Adams, Rosey Carter    b. July 13, 1958  d. October 24, 2003
  Bluegrass/Country Singer. Born Rozanna Lea Nix, she was the daughter of country singer June Carter Cash and the step daughter of music legend Johnny Cash, and appeared on several recordings by her mother and step-father. She also recorded with her husband, bluegrass performer Phillip Adams. Along with fiddle player [Read More] (Bio by: Evening Blues)
  Cause of death: Accidental carbon monoxide poisoning
  Hendersonville Memory Gardens, Hendersonville, Sumner County, Tennessee, USA
  Plot: Next to Johnny and June
   
• Albertson, Mabel    b. July 24, 1901  d. September 28, 1982
  Actress. Most remembered for her role as 'Phyllis Stephens' on the television situation comedy "Bewitched", she had a career in entertainment that spanned from the 1920s to the 1970s. Some of her more notable motion picture roles were in the films "The Long, Hot Summer" (1958), "All The Fine Young Cannibals" (1961) "Barefoot in the Park" (1967), and "What's Up, Doc?" (1972). She was the older sister of actor Jack Albertson[Read More] (Bio by: Lisa S)
  Cause of death: Alzheimer's Disease
  Cremated, Ashes scattered at sea, Ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean
   
• Alda, Robert    b. February 26, 1914  d. May 3, 1986
  Actor. Born Alfonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto D'Abruzzo, he appeared in the theater, in motion pictures, and on television from the 1940s to the 1980s. He was the father of actor Alan Alda.
  Cause of death: Stroke
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale), Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Garden of Ascension
   
• Allilujewa-Stalina, Nadezhda Sergejevna    b. 1901  d. November 9, 1932
  She was the second wife of Josiph Vissarionovich Stalin. Stalin married Allilujeva in 1918, and she was young enough to be his daugter. Allilujewa never fit in the political environment of her husband, she became outsider and she was very unhappy. She was found dead in her sleeping room with one revolver in her hand. At that time (1932) the official version of her death was suicide. But a lot of facts pointed to murder. The death of Stalin's second and last wife remains for all time a secret.
  Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Russian Federation
  Plot: entering the cemetery turn to the right. You will always find the flowers on her grave
   
• Anastasio, Anthony 'Tough Tony'    b. 1906  d. March 1, 1963
  Organized Crime Figure. He was a powerful labor boss and racketeer on the Brooklyn waterfront. He was Vice-president of the International Longshoremen's Association and the head of local 1814 of the ILA in Brooklyn during the 1940s and 1950s. Brother of Mafia figures Albert and Frank Anastasia.
  Cause of death: Heart attack
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
   
• Anderson, Josephine    b. 1849  d. August 13, 1863
  Civil War Figure. She was the 14-year-old sister of Confederate partisan "Bloody" Bill Anderson, who was one of William Quantrill's men. In August 1863, shortly after Union General Thomas Ewing issued the infamous Order No. 11, she, her 10-year-old sister, plus [Read More] (Bio by: Mr. Denardo)
  Union Cemetery, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA
  Plot: Corner of East Spruce
   
• Anderson-Manahan, Anna   d. 1984
  Folk figure. Fished from the Landwehr Canal in Berlin in 1920, refusing to speak, she was sent to a mental hospital as Fraulein Unbekannt (Miss Unknown). Several patients at the asylum noted her resemblance to the Grand Duchess Tatiana, daughter of the murdered last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II. She later claimed to be not Tatiana, but the Grand Duchess Anastasia, the youngest daughter. She claimed to have been rescued from the murder scene, gravely wounded, by a soldier named Alexander...[Read More] (Bio by: VampireRed)
  Cremated, Ashes scattered, Ashes scattered by memorial plaque at Castle Seeon
   
• Anne de Bretagne    b. January 25, 1477  d. January 9, 1514
  French Monarch. Duchess of Bretagne, twice queen of France. Only child of Francois II. de Bretagne and Marguerite de Foix, that survived their childhood. In 1483, after the death of Louis XI, Louis of Orleans asked for her hand. He intended to divorce his wife Jeanne, a daughter of the dead King, to marry Anne, but the regent Anne de Beaujeu, sister of the new king and of Louis of Orleans unloved wife, prevented that. She...[Read More] (Bio by: Lutetia)
  Saint Denis Basilique, Saint-Denis, Ile-de-France Region, France
   
• Anne of Cleves    b. September 22, 1515  d. July 16, 1557
  English Monarch. Queen of England, fourth wife of Henry VIII. Theirs was a purely political marriage, neither having any real affection for the other. Henry saw only a portrait of her, and agreed to marry her sight unseen. He was disappointed with the reality that she was a simple, domestic woman who was ill-suited to life in Henry's court of art and music (Henry referred to her as the "Flanders Mare"). Henry soon fell for another young beauty, and political tensions with Germany were...[Read More] (Bio by: VampireRed)
  Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Greater London, England
  Plot: Entombed behind a wall of chairs
  GPS coordinates: 51.5000801, -0.1292300 (hddd.dddd)
   
• Ansara, Matthew    b. August 29, 1965  d. June 25, 2001
  Actor. The 6 feet 4", 280 pound bodybuilder son of Barbara Eden (star of "I Dream of Jeannie") and character actor Michael Ansara. He was found dead in his pickup truck, and toxicology tests later revealed that he died of a massive heroin overdose. (Bio by: Val)
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Homeward, L-4403, G-4
  GPS coordinates: 34.1509209, -118.3208618 (hddd.dddd)
   
• Anthony, George Tobey    b. June 9, 1824  d. August 5, 1896
  7th Kansas Governor. Served as Governor of Kansas from 1877 to 1879. He served in the Union Army during the Civil War, attaining the rank of Major. He was a cousin of suffragette Susan B. Anthony. (Bio by: Mr. Denardo)
  Topeka Cemetery, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, USA
   
• Arafat, Dr. Fathi   b. January 11, 1933  d. December 1, 2004
  Born in Jerusalem, brother of PLO President Yasser Arafat; Studied Medicine at Cairo University, 1950-57; practiced as pediatrician in Cairo hospitals, then in Kuwait (from 1962) and Jordan (from 1967); became a member of the Palestinian National Counsel in 1967; President of Palestine General Union of Physicians and Pharmacists since 1968; Vice-Pres. of the Palestine Red Crescent Society since 1968 and President since 1978; in 1972, Honorary Secretary of the Executive Board of the Council of...[Read More] (Bio by: L.J/C.O.)
  Cause of death: Cancer
  Rummala Complex, Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
   
• Armstrong, Lillian Hardin 'Lil'    b. 1898  d. 1971
  Jazz Singer. Second wife of Jazz legend Louis Armstrong.
  Lincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, Cook County, Illinois, USA
   
• Arthur, Ellen Herndon    b. August 30, 1837  d. January 12, 1880
  Presidential first Lady. Ellen Herndon Arthur was a posthumous first lady as she had died before her husband Chester Arthur assumed the presidency. Her passing came even before his becoming Vice President. Ellen's death placed Arthur in deep mourning which continued even after becoming President following the assassination of President Garfield. After her untimely death, Chester kept her room in their New York home exactly as she left it. At the White House, he would not give anyone the...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
  Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, Albany County, New York, USA
  Plot: Located behind the grave of President Arthur
   
• Ashley (Djordjadze), Sylvia    b. April 1, 1906  d. June 30, 1977
  Wife of Hollywood legends Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. (from 1936 to 1939), and Clark Gable (from 12/20/1949 to 4/21/1952).
  Hollywood Forever, Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Garden of Legends, Lot 53
   
• Astor (Schermerhorn), Caroline Webster    b. September 22, 1830  d. October 30, 1908
  Socialite. She was "the" Mrs. Astor and the granddaughter-in-law of patriarch John Jacob Astor, who had amassed a family fortune even greater than her own. Married to William Astor in 1853, she became the queen of Gilded Age society, disdaining to associate with those not named to her elite "List of 400." A feud with her nephew William Waldorf Astor was eventually resolved with the establishment of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel...[Read More] (Bio by: Nikita Barlow)
  Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
   

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