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Poe, Edgar Allan b. January 19, 1809 d. October 7, 1849
Author, Poet. Most remembered for his influence on other writers and poets through his imaginative use of literary style and for his near flawless use of rhythm and sound in his poetry. He is considered the father of the modern detective story and the psychological thriller. Born in Boston, the son of touring actors David Poe Jr. and Elizabeth Arnold Poe. When he was three years old, his parents died, and he was taken into the home of John Allan, a wealthy merchant in Richmond, Virginia, who...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Westminster Burial Ground, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Lee, Robert Edward [original burial site] b. January 19, 1807 d. October 12, 1870
Civil War Confederate General. He is remembered for leading the Army of Northern Virginia to the brink of victory in the Civil War. Born to a Virginia family of nobility but little money, his father was Revolutionary War General, Virginia Governor, and Congressman Light Horse Harry Lee, his mother was Ann Hill Carter Lee of the distinguished Carter family, and his Lee collateral relatives included two signers of the Declaration of Independence. By the time young Robert arrived his father's...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Lee Chapel Museum, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
Lee, Robert Edward b. January 19, 1807 d. October 12, 1870
Civil War Confederate General. He is remembered for leading the Army of Northern Virginia to the brink of victory in the Civil War. Born to a Virginia family of nobility but little money, his father was Revolutionary War General, Virginia Governor, and Congressman Light Horse Harry Lee, his mother was Ann Hill Carter Lee of the distinguished Carter family, and his Lee collateral relatives included two signers of the Declaration of Independence. By the time young Robert arrived his father's...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Lee Chapel Museum, Lexington (Lexington City County), Lexington City, Virginia, USA
Joplin, Janis b. January 19, 1943 d. October 4, 1970
Rock Singer. Born in Port Arthur, Texas, her father was a cannery worker and her mother a registrar for a business college. Graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School, she was a member of the Glee Club and the Future Teachers of America. She attended Lamar State College and the University of Texas, where a fraternity voted her the ugliest man on campus in 1963. She dropped out and spent two years traveling, performing and becoming drug addicted. In 1966, she became the lead singer for "...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Cremated, Ashes scattered at sea, Ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean
Watt, James b. January 19, 1736 d. August 19, 1819
Inventor. He will be remembered as the inventor, improver of the steam-engine. This resulted from his improvements to Thomas Newcomen's steam-engine by inventing a separate condenser. He perfected a rotary engine and defined one horse power as the rate at which work is done when 33,0001bs are raised one foot in one minute. The electrical unit of power, the "watt", was named after him. Besides being an inventor and mechanical engineer, he was also a civil engineer and made various surveys of...[Read More] (Bio by: s.canning)
St Mary Churchyard, Handsworth, Staffordshire, England
Readitt, John b. January 19, 1897 d. June 9, 1964
World War I Victoria Cross Recipient. Born in Manchester, England, he served as a Private in the 6th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment, British Army. On February 25, 1917 at Alqayat-al-Gaharbigah Bend, Mesopotamia, Private Readitt advanced five times along a water-course in the face of heavy machine-gun fire at very close range, being the sole survivor on each occasion. These advances drove the enemy back and about 300 yards of the water-course was made good in an hour. After his officer had...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Gorton Cemetery, Manchester, Lancashire, England
Kinkade, Thomas b. January 19, 1958 d. April 6, 2012
Artist. Called the "Painter of Light", he created a large body of popular and best-selling works that often depicted idyllic pastoral themes. Raised in Placerville, California, at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, he studied at the University of California, Berkeley, before transferring to Pasadena's famed Art Center College of Design. He was to spend the 1980s traveling and refining his craft, along the way publishing 1982's "The Artist's Guide to Sketching" and producing the background...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Madronia Cemetery, Saratoga, Santa Clara County, California, USA
Cézanne, Paul b. January 19, 1839 d. October 22, 1906
Artist. Called “The Father of Modern Art”, he is most remembered for his post Impressionist work, and his influence on the development of Modern Art. His study of the underlying structures of composition became the foundations of Cubism and Abstraction. His use of color and tone, combined with the formal elements of composition, made it possible for later artists to question how they represented what they saw on canvas. Pablo Picasso called him, "the Father of us all”. Born in France, the...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Cimetière de Saint Pierre, Aix-en-Provence, Departement des Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
Palmer, Robert b. January 19, 1949 d. September 26, 2003
Rock Singer. Two-time Grammy winning singer/songwriter who's career over the past four decades was as colorful as some of the bands he was a member of and the styles of music he embraced. His earliest musical influences were Lena Horne and Nat King Cole, and he would eventually become an opening act for The Who and Jimi Hendrix early in his career. His first solo release was 1974's "Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley," but he didn't achieve real success until 1978 with the release of the single "...[Read More] (Bio by: Allcalmap)
Cause of death: Heart attack
Lugano Cemetery, Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
Blackjack b. January 19, 1947 d. February 6, 1976
Ceremonial Horse. The horse has always played an important part in American government. He pulled the carriages of Presidents, delivered the mail and served in the military as a warhorse with distinction. After the acceptance and widespread use of the automobile, the equine's role was reduced mainly to a ceremonial function. The 3rd U.S. Infantry, "The Old Guard" which is the Army's oldest active infantry regiment, predates the Constitution, tracing its origin to 1784. The unit was...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
Fort Myers Army Base, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA
Plot: Parade Grounds
Brashear, Carl Maxie b. January 19, 1931 d. July 25, 2006
One of the first black U.S. Navy divers. He joined the Navy in 1948. Despite almost daily occurances of discrimination, he graduated from the diving program in 1954. In 1966, he was tasked with recovering a bomb in the waters off Spain. During the mission he was struck below his left knee by a pipe that was being used to hoist the explosive out of the water. Damage to his leg was too severe and it was amputated to avoid gangrene. He was the first Navy diver to be restored to full active duty...[Read More] (Bio by: Ron Bridges)
Woodlawn Memorial Gardens, Norfolk, Norfolk City, Virginia, USA
Casement, John Stephen b. January 19, 1829 d. December 13, 1909
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General, Railroad Pioneer. Born in Geneva, New York, in 1829, he and his family moved to the Ann Arbor, Michigan area when he was about 15 years old. At the age of 18, he began work as a common laborer for the Michigan Central Ralroad. By 1853, he was a contractor laying track in Ohio. He and his brother Daniel Casement built railroads in the northeast United States until the outbreak of the Civil War. He joined the Union Army in 1861, serving first as Major of...[Read More] (Bio by: Cherie Atkinson Clark)
Evergreen Cemetery, Painesville, Lake County, Ohio, USA
Plot: Block 10, Lot 79
Wonderon Jr., Rudolph Walter 'Minnesota Fats' b. January 19, 1913 d. January 15, 1996
Billiards Player, Entertainer. Best known by the name "Minnesota Fats" (a miniker he chose after the character in the motion picture "The Hustler"), he was perhaps the best known pool player in the United States, despite of the fact that he never won a single major pool tournament. He even went as far as to tell people that the character in the movie was based on him. The author of the book "The Hustler" denied this. Rudolph Wanderone was born in New York in 1913. He started playing pool as a...[Read More] (Bio by: Ump72)
Hermitage Memorial Gardens, Old Hickory, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
Webb, Capt. Matthew b. January 19, 1848 d. July 24, 1883
He was the first person to swim across the English Channel, doing so in 21 hours and 45 minutes on August,24 and 25, 1875. A year earlier, he became the first person to win the Royal Humane Society Gold Medal for trying to save a man who fell overboard the SS Russia. He was born in Dawley, Shropshire, England. He drowned while attempting to swim the rapids of Niagara Falls. (Bio by: Bigwoo)
Oakwood Cemetery, Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York, USA
Harmon Jr., Gen. Millard Fillmore 'Miff' [cenotaph] b. January 19, 1888 d. March 3, 1945
World War II US Army Lieutenant General. He was declared dead by the US Army Air Forces Feb. 27, 1946, almost one year after the B-24 bomber ferrying him from Guam to Washington, DC disappeared over the Pacific Ocean. With Lieutenant Generals Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. and Leslie J. McNair, Harmon was one of the three highest-ranking general officers in the US military to die in World War II. Born into a military family at Fort Mason, near San Francisco, he graduated from the US Military Academy...[Read More] (Bio by: John Andrew Prime)
Honolulu Memorial ABMC, Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA
Plot: Tablets of the Missing
Nelon, Rex b. January 19, 1932 d. January 24, 2000
Rex Nelon gospel bass singer for the Rex Nelon singers and the Nelons and also part of the Gaither Homecoming concerts. (Bio by: John Legg)
Cause of death: Heart attack
Georgia Memorial Park, Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, USA
Highsmith, Patricia b. January 19, 1921 d. February 4, 1995
Author. Born Mary Patricia Plangman in Fort Worth, Texas, she is widely recognized as one of the most original mystery writers of her time. Her first novel, "Strangers on a Train", was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock. She is perhaps best known for her creation of Tom Ripley, the chameleon-like protagonist of several of her novels. During her career Highsmith received the O. Henry Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and the French Grand prix de littérature policière. In 1990 she was...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Cimitero di Tegna, Ticino, Ticino, Switzerland
Starzynski, Stefan b. January 19, 1893 d. 1943
Polish politician, economist, writer and statesman. President of Warsaw before and during the Siege of Warsaw in 1939. After the start of Polish Defence War of 1939 Starzynski refused to leave Warsaw together with other state authorities and diplomats on September 4, 1939. After the Germans entered the city on September 28, 1939, Starzynski was allowed to continue his service as the president of Warsaw. He was active in organisation of life in the occupied city as well as its reconstruction...[Read More] (Bio by: Kasia)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Plot: Symbolic grave erected in 1957
Misic, Zivojin Vojvoda b. January 19, 1855 d. January 20, 1921
General. Fought in two Serbian wars against the Ottoman Empire (1876 to 1878) and in two Balkan Wars in 1912 and 1913. General Zivojin Misic was proclaimed Duke after successfully ending the Battle of Kolubara on December 15th 1914, when the Austro-Hungarian army was pushed out of Serbia. He was promoted to Chief of Serbian General Staff in July 1918, while Franche D'Eperre was commander of the Salonika. (Bio by: Jelena)
Novo Groblje, Belgrade, City of Belgrade (Grad Beograd), Serbia
Plot: Parcel 28, Grave 42, Class II
Mynn, Alfred b. January 19, 1807 d. November 1, 1861
Cricketer. He is credited with the invention of cricket pads. He was a hop farmer by trade, but became famous as one of the greatest cricketers of the "round-arm" era. He played first-class cricket for Kent, and was popularly known as "The Lion of Kent". He was an all-rounder, scoring 4,955 runs as a batsman and taking 1036 wickets as a bowler. In 1836 he suffered an ankle injury before a match, and while batting his legs were also badly bruised by the fast-bowler Sam Redgate. He only narrowly...[Read More] (Bio by: js)
Thurnham, St Mary the Virgin Church, Thurnham, Kent, England
Plot: Churchyard.

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