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Warfield, William Caesar b. January 22, 1920 d. August 25, 2002
Singer. He is best known as the brass-baritone who gave an unmatched redition of "Ol' Man River" in MGM's 1951 production of "Showboat."
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Plot: Section AA, Lot 2
Elliott-Cooper, LTC. Neville Bowes [memorial] b. January 22, 1889 d. February 11, 1918
World War I Victoria Cross recipient.
Ripon Cathedral, Ripon, North Yorkshire, England
Landau, Lev Davidovich b. January 22, 1908 d. April 1, 1968
Scientist. He began his scientific career at the Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute. He was also a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, was head of the Theoretical Department of the Ukrainian Physico-Technical Institute at Kharkov, and the head of the Theoretical Department of the Institute for Physical Problems of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. in Moscow, Foreign Member of the Royal Society (London), of the Danish Royal Academy of Sciences, of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Sciences...[Read More] (Bio by: Graveaddiction)
Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Brookings, Robert b. January 22, 1850 d. November 15, 1932
Robert worked with his elder brother for Cupples & Marston, a wood products manufacturing company. He eventually became a partner in the business at the age of 21. After turning Cupples into a leader in its industry, Brookings retired at the age of 46 and turned his attention to Washington University Corporation. He purchased many new properties for the university and convinced the board of directors to establish a medical school & financed the development himself. President Woodrow Wilson...[Read More] (Bio by: Connie Nisinger)
Bellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, St. Louis city, Missouri, USA
Plot: Block 333, Lot 5759
Yupanqui, Atahualpa b. January 22, 1908 d. May 23, 1992
Musician, composer, singer. Born in Pergamino, Province of Buenos Aires as Hector Roberto Chavero. Married with Paule Fitzpatrick. He travelled to Paris, where Edith Piaf gave him the opportunity to share the stage, debuting in June 1950. It took his art to Colombia, Japan, Morocco, Egypt, Israel, Italy and Spain. It settled in France where he was distinguished as the "Chamberlain of the Order of Arts and Letters"; He died in Nimes, France for a heart attack, but his remains were at the foot of...[Read More] (Bio by: Victor)
Cerro Colorado, Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina
Plot: Pie del Cerro Colorado
Houdini, Bess (Beatrice Rahner) b. January 22, 1875 d. February 11, 1943
Entertainer. Born Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner, she met an unknown magician named Ehrich Weiss in 1894 who, with his brother, Dash was performing under the name Houdini Brothers. She was performing a song and dance act as one of the Floral Sisters in Brighton Beach, New York. After a three week courtship, and despite objections to a Gentile daughter-in-law, the couple were married on June 22, 1894. Bess left the Floral Sisters and became her husband's new stage assistant and the act became The...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Cause of death: Heart and lung ailment
Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 48, 184-10
Roubert, Matty b. January 22, 1907 d. May 17, 1973
Actor. Often appearing in melodramas produced and/or directed by his real-life father, William L. Roubert, Matty's popularity remained high through the 1910s but waned as he grew into young adulthood. (Bio by: MC)
Cremated, Location of ashes is unknown
Bell, Mary Hayley b. January 22, 1911 d. December 1, 2005
Actress, Playwright and Novelist. Widow of actor Sir John Mills. Mother of Juliet, Jonathon, and Hayley Mills. Best known for her 1958 Novel "Whistle Down the Wind," which would later become a stage production and a film starring her daughter Hayley. Mary Hayley Bell was born in Shanghai, China where her father was a customs official. She attended school in England and set out to become an...[Read More] (Bio by: David)
St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Denham, Buckinghamshire, England
García Morillo, Roberto b. January 22, 1911 d. October 26, 2003
Composer, journalist, professor and critic. He was Honorary President of the Argentine Association of Composers. Among his compositions are "Usher," "Divertimiento para Quinteto de Vientos," "Harrild," "Décima Cantata" and many others. He also wrote the books "Mussorgsky," "Rimsky Korsakoff," "Estudios Sobre Danza," and "Estudio Sobre Música Argentina." (Bio by: 380W)
Cementerio de la Chacarita, Buenos Aires, Capital Federal, Argentina
Plot: Panteón SADAIC
Ponselle (Ponzillo), Rosa b. January 22, 1897 d. May 25, 1981
Opera Singer. A dramatic soprano, she was the Metropolitan Opera's reigning prima donna for almost 20 years. Born Rosa Melba Ponzillo into a musical family, she learned to sing at home and in church, took to the stage at an early age, and at 15 teamed with her older sister Carmela to form a popular vaudeville act, The Ponzillo Sisters. There are various versions of what happened next but in substance Rosa was invited to sing at the Metropolitan by tenor Enrico Caruso after he heard her in...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
Oursler Sr., Fulton b. January 22, 1893 d. May 24, 1952
Author. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he wrote mystery novels under pseudonym Anthony Abbot. Most famous book, "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1949). Was Editor of "Liberty" magazine, and former senior editor of Reader's Digest. (Bio by: David Zipperer)
Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York, USA
Lewis I., Rev. Felix Early b. January 22, 1892 d. September 13, 1968
Religious Figure. He was co-founder, with Mary Lena Tate and Walter Curtis Lewis, of the internationally recognized religious organization known as The Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth, Inc. in 1903. He was Chief Overseer of the organization from 1931 until his death in 1968. He established the New and Living Way Publishing Company in Nashville, Tennessee in 1923. (Bio by: Meharry Lewis)
Greenwood Cemetery, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
Plot: Cemetery Entry
Davis, Edwin Hamilton b. January 22, 1811 d. May 15, 1888
Scientist. He co-author the famed "Squier and Davis Archeological Surveys", which were published by Smithsonian Institution. An authority on early Moundbuilders and prehistoric Indians, he gathered the largest collection of relics ever assembled in America. He is a member of the Ohio Hall of Fame.
Grandview Cemetery, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, USA
Biddle, Chapman b. January 22, 1822 d. December 9, 1880
Civil War Union Army Officer. A lawyer by trade, he served during the Civil War as Colonel and commander of the 121st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, having been commissioned and mustered in on September 1, 1862. After leading the regiment at the 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg and the May 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville, he assumed command of his brigade during the opening stages of the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg when the death of I Corps commander Major General John Reynolds forced junior...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Saint James the Less Episcopal Churchyard, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Embick, Stanley Dunbar b. January 22, 1877 d. October 23, 1957
United States Army General. An 1899 graduate of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, he served in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. During World War I he served on the staff of the Supreme War Council, and then the Commission to Negotiate Peace, for which he received the Distinguished Service Medal. In 1930 he became commandant of the Coast Artillery School. In 1932 he was appointed commander of harbor defenses in the Philippines as a Brigadier General, where he was...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA
Kosloff, Theodore b. January 22, 1882 d. November 22, 1956
Actor, Dancer, Choreographer. Born in Moscow, he studied at the Imperial Ballet School, where his fellow students included Anna Pavlova and Vaslav Nijinsky. After failing to win a place in Sergei Diaghilev's new Ballet Russes in 1909, Kosloff formed his own "Russian Ballet" and took it to London, where he had a four-year engagement at the Coliseum music hall. His most notable accomplishment there was his discovery of the great ballerina Tamara Karsavina, who soon defected to Diaghilev...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park, North Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Block I, Section 12318, Lot 2
Knight, June b. January 22, 1913 d. June 16, 1987
Actress. American motion picture figure of the 1930s and 1940s. Appeared with Jack Benny and Robert Taylor in the 1935 musical "Broadway Melody of 1936." (Bio by: A.J. Marik)
Cause of death: Complications from a stroke
Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park, North Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Portal of the Folded Wings
Roberts, Kenneth Sherwood b. January 22, 1918 d. September 12, 1975
Original inductee in the Cowboy Hall of Fame. Also an inductee into the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame. He was World Bull Riding Champion three times: 1943, 1944 and 1945. His cemetary marker reads "a Cowboy's Cowboy." (Bio by: Ralph Bedwell)
Strong Township Cemetery, Strong City, Chase County, Kansas, USA
Ross, Thomas W. b. January 22, 1875 d. November 14, 1959
Actor. A stage actor from 1902 to 1943, he appeared in: "Soldiers of Fortune," "The Wheel," "George White's Scandals" and "Our Town." Ross also appeared in 21 films including: "The Fatal Hour" (silent), "Blondie Takes A Vacation," "The Mortal Storm," "Meet John Doe," "King's Road" and "Yankee Doodle Dandy." (Bio by: Tony Scott)
Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory, Jamaica Plain, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Harris, Micki [original burial site] b. January 22, 1940 d. June 10, 1982
R&B Singer and part of one the most influential groups in music history "The Shirelles." The Shirelles was comprised by four high school friends: Doris Coley (later Doris Kenner-Jackson), Shirley Owens (later Shirley Alston), and Beverly Lee. Their recording of "I Met Him on a Sunday" climbed into the national Top 50 in 1958. Two more singles flopped. But it was their 1960 release "Will You Still Love Me Tommorrow" that brought the group success, it went all the way to number one on the pop...[Read More] (Bio by: Noni)
Passaic Memorial Cemetery, Passaic, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
Plot: Ashes disintered in 2001

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