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Anderson, Marian
1897-1993, Opera Singer, Social Reformer.
Breckinridge, Mary
1881-1965, The driving force behind rural health-care in America as well as the development of nurse midwives
Brennan, William J.
1906-1997, Retired Supreme Court Justice. The liberal lion whose intellect and charisma made him one of the most influential jurists in America's history,
Byrd, Richard Evelyn
1888-1957, American explorer.
Cooper, Gary
1901-1961, Actor
Crosby, Bing
1904-1977
Custer, George Armstrong
1839-1876, Civil War Union Major General. One of the most famous and controversial figures in United States Military history.
Douglas, William O.
1898-1980, Supreme Court Justice.
Fitzgerald, Ella
1917-1996, Celebrated Jazz singer.
Gerry, Elbridge
1744-1814, Signer of The Declaration of Independence, Governor of Massachusetts and US Vice-President. Born in Massachusetts. He is the only vice-president whose name was adopted as part of the English language, the word gerrymander.
Goldberg, Arthur Joseph
1908-1990, He served as Secretary of Labor in the Cabinet of President John F. Kennedy and was appointed to the Supreme Court by Kennedy in 1962.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
1841-1935.
Jolson, Al
1886-1950, Legendary singer, actor, entertainer. Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers of the first half of the 20th century
Juan Ponce de Leon
1460-1521.
Kennedy, John F.
1917-1963, US President
Maris, Roger
1934-1985, Major League Baseball Player for the NY Yankees
Monette, Paul
1945-1995, Gay author and poet.
Morrison, Jim
Presley, Elvis A.
1935-1977, 'The King' was an international popular culture icon and rose to fame in the mid-1950s.
Rachmaninoff, Sergei Vasilievitch
1873-1943, Composer, pianist and conductor.
Redding, Otis
1941-1967, Musician
Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich
1908-1979, US Vice President / Governor of New York from 1959 to 1973.
Twain, Mark
1835-1910, Writer of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and many important short works.
William, Tennessee
1911-1983, Writer
Wizard of OZ
Posthumous reunion.
African-American Cemeteries
After the Civil War, freed slaves began at once to establish their own communities and churches. During the years before the Civil War, slaves were often buried in a designated place beyond family plots so that tombstones marking their graves are rare.
African-American Cemeteries
Search in over 30 states.
African-American Cemeteries Online
Cemeteries listed by state.
American Battle Monuments Commission
The Commission administers, operates, and maintains twenty-four permanent American burial grounds on foreign soil. Presently there are 124,917 U.S. War Dead interred at these cemeteries, 30,922 of World War I, 93,245 of World War II and 750 of the Mexican War.
American Civil War Gravesites
In Europe.
American Presidents Gravesites
From George Washington to the current era.
American WWII
WWII Military & Memorials in Belgium.
Arlington National Cemetery
Gravesites in Arlington National Cemetery Page1, Click on an image for personal details.
Beneath Los Angeles
The Famous, The Infamous and The Just Plain Dead. In Los Angeles everybody's always coming or going. Except the dead. They're the only permanent residents here.
Cemeteries
Optima philosophia et sapientia est meditatio mortis
Africa
Algeria, Egypt, Israel and Tunisia
America
Middle & South America, North America
Europe
Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Deutschland, England, France, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Scotland, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland.
Cemetery Junction
Thousands of cemeteries listed.
Cemetery Records on the Internet
Burial records and links to cemetery sites. Browse million's of cemetery records in more than 54,00 cemeteries worldwide.
City of the Silent
Welcome to the web's most extensive cemetery site.
City of the Silent
Once they walked among us, laughing, yelling, whispering, keeping watch. We knew them. We spoke to them. We took them by the hand. We loved them. They were our friends, our families, our heroes. Now, in the crumbled earth, they are our memories, remaining in this world if not visible to it.
Confederate States Navy Gravesite Locator
Dead People Server
Index of famous persons (find date of death or if still living).
Dead Presidents
If you're into dead presidents (and gosh, who isn't?), you came to the right place.
Deceased Boxers Gravesites
Famous Graves
Austria, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Russian FederationSlovak Republic and Spain
Famous Resting Places
My name is Michael and I live in Central New Jersey. I've been traveling the world photographing the graves of famous people. The following photographs are just a small example of my work. For best results, maximize your page.
Find-A-Grave - US
Where everybody who was anybody is buried...
Finnish Gravemarkers in North America
On these pages one finds pictures of Finnish gravemarkers and cemetery transcriptions from Finnish cemeteries outside of Finland. They may be to the memory of individuals who once emigrated from Finland or to their descendants.
Gravesites of Prominent Nurses
From the American Association for the History of Nursing
Graveyards of Chicago
Graveyards and sites.
Haunted Cemeteries
Haunted cemeteries inside the United States
History of African-American Cemeteries
Understanding how African groups buried their dead might help us better understand the early development of African-American cemeteries here in the Southeast.
Hollywood Underground
The burial sites of Hollywood's most famous Stars, Moguls and Eccentrics!
IJCP
International Jewish Cemetary Project.
King Capuchin's Catacombs
This is a photographic trip to the Capuchins' Catacombs located in Palermo, Italy, where there are thousands of corpses lined on the walls like paintings. The catacombs date back to the 1599 when the local priests mummified a holy monk for all to see. They wanted to pray to him after death.
Morbid Curiosity
A Fascinating Site About Celebrities, their tombstones, and their final moments.
ObitPage
"The focus of obitpage.com is the lure of the obituary both as history and as literary art form. This site is the result of a life-long habit of reading the obituary page, collecting obituaries and sharing the most unusual with a cadre of friends writers, lawyers, actors, educators, historians, among others.".
Obituary Daily Times
Search the obituary death dates (full-text obits not included) from nearly 2,000 publications around the United States.
Political Graveyard
The Internet's Most Comprehensive Source of U.S. Political Biography, or The web site that tells where the dead politicians are buried.
The Cemetery of Rock
This site contains the final resting place, tombstone, gravesite, death site, memorial or tribute to many great dead rock stars. No musical or international boundaries are recognised here.
The Page of the Dead
This page proposes to take you to some places of death. Let's have a look at a few tombs, and reflect on their illustrious inhabitants.
Biographical Dictionary
This dictionary covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day. The dictionary can be searched by birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, achievements, and other keywords.
Epitaphs
Eloquent, funny, and goofy; accepting reader's epitaphs An inscription in verse or prose upon a tomb; and, by extension, anything written as if to be inscribed on a tomb).
NNDB-Tracking the World
NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead. Superficially, it seems much like a "Who's Who" where a noted person's curriculum vitae is available (the usual information such as date of birth, a biography, and other essential facts.)
The Death List
So here is Deathlist for 2006. A quick summary of the idea behind DeathList: The DeathList committee draws up the list at the end of each year with the objective of selecting the celebrities most likely to die in the next calendar year. The list comprises 50 celebrities, with no more than 25 who appeared on the previous year's list.
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