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Franklin, Benjamin b. January 17, 1706 d. April 17, 1790
Declaration of Independence Signer, Continental Congressman, US Diplomat, Printer and Inventor. Published the "Pennsylvania Gazette" and "Poor Richard's Almanac". Famous for his confirming lightning is electricity by flying a kite in a thunderstorm. Invented bifocals, Franklin Stove and other inventions. Served as a Delegate from PA to the Continental Congress from 1775 to 1776. Signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Served as U.S. Minister to France during the Revolutionary War...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Very near 5th and Arch Streets corner
Capone, Alphonse 'Al' b. January 17, 1899 d. January 25, 1947
Organized Crime Figure, Chicago Gangster. Probably the best known of the 1920s gangsters, he controlled Chicago until brought down by FBI Agent Elliott Ness. Ness later wrote a book "The Untouchables" which detailed his efforts to jail Capone. Capone was the largest of the racketeers, and captured the American public's imagination as few ever did. Born Alphonse Capone in Brooklyn, New York, of Italian immigrant parents, Gabriele and Teresina Capone, the fourth of nine children. Raised in a...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Cause of death: Syphillis
Mount Carmel Cemetery, Hillside, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Plot: Section 35. At the Roosevelt entrance go right approx 6 markers and there is a large gray marker with the name Capone on it.
GPS coordinates: 41.8629112, -87.9064026 (hddd.dddd)
Capone, Alphonse 'Al' [original burial site] b. January 17, 1899 d. January 25, 1947
Organized Crime Figure, Chicago Gangster. Probably the best known of the 1920s gangsters, he controlled Chicago until brought down by FBI Agent Elliott Ness. Ness later wrote a book "The Untouchables" which detailed his efforts to jail Capone. Capone was the largest of the racketeers, and captured the American public's imagination as few ever did. Born Alphonse Capone in Brooklyn, New York, of Italian immigrant parents, Gabriele and Teresina Capone, the fourth of nine children. Raised in a...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Cause of death: Syphillis
Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Plot: Section 52, Near 115th Street
Lewis, Shari b. January 17, 1933 d. August 2, 1998
Entertainer. Ventriloquist and Puppeteer, Shari Lewis was born Phyllis Hurwitz in New York City. Through the encouragement of both of her parents, Shari began performing at the age of thirteen. She had lessons in acrobatics, juggling, piano, violin and ventriloquism. She attended New York's High School of Music and Art and the American School of Ballet. She attended Columbia University for one year, then left to become a performer. As a result of a short marriage to Stan Lewis she took her...[Read More] (Bio by: Paul G. Healy)
Cause of death: Uterine cancer
Cremated, Ashes given to family or friend
Kitt, Eartha b. January 17, 1927 d. December 25, 2008
Entertainer. Born Eartha Mae Keith, she was raised in South Carolina and New York City, joined the Katherine Dunham Company and made her film debut with them in 1948's "Casbah". In 1950 she got her first starring role on stage, playing Helen of Troy in Orson Welles' "Dr. Faustus". In 1958, Kitt appeared with Sidney Poitier in "The Mark of the Hawk". She appeared on film and television throughout the 1950s and 1960s while also establishing herself as a recording artist and nightclub singer...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Cremated, Ashes given to family or friend
Comte, Auguste b. January 17, 1798 d. September 5, 1857
French philosopher and sociologist. Born Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier, is considered the founder of a pragmatic ideology, known as Positivism. In contrast to the metaphysical claims of Hegelian Idealism, he enunciated the theory of the priority of Scientific Knowledge in his work "Cours de philosophie positive". His doctrine is far removed from materialism and to spiritualism, that are founded on the opposition absolute and static between matter and spirit. He has published numerous...[Read More] (Bio by: Lucy Caldarelli)
Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Plot: Division 17, #1
Smith, Clement Leslie b. January 17, 1878 d. December 14, 1927
Somaliland Wars Victoria Cross Recipient. Born in Cowes, England, he served as a Lieutenant in the British Army, attached to the 5th Somaliland Light Infantry. During actions at Jidballi, Somaliland, January 10, 1904, Lieutenant Smith and a medical officer tried to rescue a hospital assistant who was wounded. The heavy enemy fire made this impossible and the hospital assistant was killed. Lieutenant Smith then did all that was possible to bring out the medical officer, helping him to mount a...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
English Cemetery, Alassio, Provincia di Savona, Liguria, Italy
Gallagher, Thomas Foster b. January 17, 1822 d. November 4, 1883
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. A mercantile businessman in New Alexandria, Pennsylvania, he was prominent in the pre-War Militia of Pennsylvania, showing an unusual talent for handling troops, so that from Lieutenant he rapidly rose to the rank of General. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was commissioned Colonel and commander of the 11th Pennsylvania Reserves. In the battle of Gaines Mills, his entire command, except one company, was surrounded and captured and taken to Richmond...[Read More] (Bio by: John Matviya)
New Alexandria Union Cemetery, New Alexandria, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA
Bronte, Anne b. January 17, 1820 d. May 28, 1849
British Novelist and Poet. She was one of the three Bronte sisters who became renowned authors, the others being Charlotte and Emily Bronte. Even though she wrote and published only two novels, she would become a major literary figure in her own right. She was born the youngest of six children in Thornton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, to Patrick and Marie Bronte. Her father, an Anglican priest, was the Thornton chapel curate as well as an amateur poet. Shortly after her birth, her father...[Read More] (Bio by: William Bjornstad)
St Mary Churchyard, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England
Barber, Joel Allen b. January 17, 1809 d. June 17, 1881
US Congressman. He graduated from the University of Vermont, taught school in Maryland and became an attorney. He moved to Wisconsin Territory in 1837, served as Grant County Clerk and District Attorney, and was a Delegate to Wisconsin's first constitutional convention in 1846. He served in the State Assembly in 1852 and 1853, and was a State Senator in 1856 and 1857. He served again in the Assembly in 1863 and 1864, and was Speaker in his final term. Barber was elected to the US House as a...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Hillside Cemetery, Lancaster, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA
Sennett, Mack b. January 17, 1880 d. November 5, 1960
'King of Comedy.' In 1912, while a player-director in D.W. Griffith's Biograph Studio in New York, Mack Sennett lost a $100 bet to ex-bookies and now movie exchange operators Adam Kessel and Charles Baumann, in the 1912 Preakness horse race. As payment, he proposed to them that he set up a comedy company in Glendale, California on the Bison lot that would make them all rich. To his amazement, they accepted and put up the...[Read More]
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: N, L490, 1. To the right of the road directly in front of the mausoleum, as you face the mausoleum. From the light pole, go 10 rows down the slope, parallel to the front of the mausoleum.
Pius V, Saint. Pope b. January 17, 1504 d. May 1, 1572
Roman Catholic Pope, Saint. Born Michele Ghisleri, he was the firstPpope after the Reformation to put Catholicism on the political offensive. He excommunicated (1570) Queen Elizabeth I of England and forbade English Roman Catholics to give her their allegiance, a serious political mistake on his part since it had the effect of rallying the English to Elizabeth. In his charity he visited the hospitals, and sat by the bedside of the sick, consoling them and preparing them to die. He washed the...[Read More] (Bio by: MC)
Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, Provincia di Roma, Lazio, Italy
GPS coordinates: 41.8974991, 12.4986095 (hddd.dddd)
Kaufman, Andy b. January 17, 1949 d. May 16, 1984
Comedian, Actor. Started out in show business working in various comedy clubs in the Northeast in the early 1970s. He was discovered by agent-manager George Shapiro, who had picked up on his talent right away. He was then offered a spot on the inaugural broadcast of Saturday Night Live. Andy Kaufman brought the house down with a hilarious off-shoot of the "Mighty Mouse" song. His performance brought him much critical acclaim. He was then offered a spot on the new TV sitcom "Taxi," which...[Read More] (Bio by: Soorus)
Cause of death: Lung Cancer
Beth David Cemetery, Elmont, Nassau County, New York, USA
Booth, Catherine b. January 17, 1829 d. October 4, 1890
Salvation Army Co-founder. Born Catherine Mumford, the daughter of John and Sarah Milward Mumford in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England. Raised in a pious household, by 14 she had contributed temperance articles to local publications. In 1852, Methodist minister William Booth was invited to preach at her church where they met and were later engaged. After a three year engagement, they were married in London where they then founded the Whitechapel Christian Mission in 1865 in London's East End...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Cause of death: Breast cancer
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Greater London, England
Dooley III., Thomas 'Tom' b. January 17, 1927 d. January 18, 1961
Physician, Author, Humanitarian. Best known for his philanthropic work in Indochina. Born in St. Louis, MO, Dooley served as a medical officer in the U.S. Navy after graduation from St. Louis University Medical School. In 1954, he was assigned to the USS Montague, which was traveling to Vietnam to evacuate refugees. While with the Navy, he organized refugee camps in Vietnam where he developed strong anti-communist sentiment. His experiences there are related in his first book, "Deliver Us from...[Read More] (Bio by: Katie)
Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum, Saint Louis, St. Louis city, Missouri, USA
Mottershead, Sgt. Thomas b. January 17, 1892 d. January 12, 1917
World War I Victoria Cross Recipient. Born in Widnes, Lancashire, he served as a Sergeant pilot in the Royal Flying Corps, British Army. On January 7, 1917 near Polegsteert Wood, Belgium, Sergeant Mottershead was on patrol in a FE-2d plane with an observer, when he was engaged in combat by two German Albatros D.III planes. The observer managed to hit one plane and put it out of the action. The second Albatros plane hit Sergeant Mottershead's aircraft, with the petrol tank being pierced and the...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Bailleul, Departement du Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Plot: III.A.126.
Verney, James W. b. January 17, 1834 d. November 29, 1902
Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served in the Union Navy. His citation reads "Served as chief quartermaster on board the USS Pontoosuc during the capture of Fort Fisher and Wilmington, 24 December 1864 to 22 February 1865. Carrying out his duties faithfully throughout this period, Verney was recommended for gallantry and skill and for his cool courage while under fire of the enemy throughout these variouis actions." (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Cedar Grove Cemetery, Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Oak Hill Section, Lot 150
Brown, Charles Brockden [cenotaph] b. January 17, 1771 d. February 22, 1810
Author. He is regarded as America's first professional author. Born in Philadelphia, his ancestors were Quakers who came over from England on the same ship with William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania. In 1797 he quit his law studies and moved to New York City, where he hoped to make a living as a writer. Brown's first book is his most famous: "Wieland" (1798), a tale about an evil ventriloquist who, by impersonating a supernatural being, persuades the hero to kill his wife and children...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Section 18, Lot 301
Sassoon, Vidal b. January 17, 1928 d. May 9, 2012
Hairstylist, Business Magnate. Sassoon went to work at age 14 as a "shampoo boy" where he was responsible for mixing dyes, bleach powder, peroxide and ammonia. In 1954, he opened his first salon in London and eventually opened shop in New York. He is credited with creating a geometric hairstyle called 'the bob'. Due to the popularity of his styles, he was described as "a rock star, an artist and a craftsman who changed the world with a pair of scissors". It was reported that he was flown to...[Read More] (Bio by: Louis Mata)
Cause of death: Leukemia
Cremated, Ashes given to family or friend
Daniel, Edward St. John b. January 17, 1837 d. May 20, 1868
British Victoria Cross War Medal Recipient. Daniel served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy. He was awarded his medal for service at Crimea on November 6, 1854. (Bio by: K)
Hokitika Municipal Cemetery, Hokitika, West Coast, New Zealand

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