Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)

The list Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York) includes Diahann Carroll, Miles Davis, Cicely Tyson, Olive Thomas and Duke Ellington. The list consists of 424 members and 1 sublist.

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Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)

Large cemetery in New York City

Burials in the Jay Gould Mausoleum
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Diahann Carroll

American actor and singer

Overview: Diahann Carroll (born Carol Diann Johnson; July 17, 1935 – October 4, 2019) was an American actress, singer, model, and activist. She rose to prominence in some of the earliest major studio films to feature ...

Date of birth: 17 July 1935

Date of death: 4 October 2019

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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2019 deaths 9,204T

Baptists from New York (state) 133T

2019 deaths 6,613T
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Miles Davis

American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1926–1991)

Overview: Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and ...

Date of birth: 26 May 1926

Date of death: 28 September 1991

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Trumpeter

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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American male jazz composers 567T

Miles Davis Quintet members 18T

American male trumpeters 659T
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Cicely Tyson

American actress (1924–2021)

Overview: Cicely Tyson (December 19, 1924 – January 28, 2021) was an American actress and fashion model. In a career spanning more than seven decades, she became known for her portrayal of strong African-American ...

Date of birth: 19 December 1924

Date of death: 28 January 2021

Age: 96 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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2021 deaths 6,887T

American women memoirists 660T

African-American memoirists 21T
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Olive Thomas

American actress and model (1894–1920)

Overview: Olive Thomas (born Oliva R. Duffy; October 20, 1894 – September 10, 1920) was an American silent-film actress, art model, and photo model.

Date of birth: 20 October 1894

Date of death: 10 September 1920

Age: 25 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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Deaths from heavy metal poisoning 3T

1920 suicides 20T

20th-century American screenwriters 2,121T
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Lance Reventlow

American racing driver and entrepreneur (1936–1972)

Overview: Lance Graf von Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow, (February 24, 1936 – July 24, 1972) was a British-born American entrepreneur, racing driver and heir to the Woolworth fortune. Reventlow was the only child ...

Date of birth: 24 February 1936

Date of death: 24 July 1972

Age: 36 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Auto Racing

Gender: Male

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Racing drivers killed in aviation accidents 20T

Reventlow 15T

20th-century American racing drivers 1,299T
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Duke Ellington

American jazz pianist and composer (1899–1974)

Overview: Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death over a career spanning more than ...

Date of birth: 29 April 1899

Date of death: 24 May 1974

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Pianist

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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American male jazz pianists 7T

American male film score composers 623T

Composers from New York City 37T
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Diana Barrymore

Actress

Overview: Diana Blanche Barrymore Blythe (March 3, 1921 – January 25, 1960), known professionally as Diana Barrymore, was an American film and stage actress.

Date of birth: 3 March 1921

Date of death: 25 January 1960

Age: 38 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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1960 suicides 22T

Drug-related deaths in New York City 71T

20th-century memoirists 804T
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Celia Cruz

Cuban-American singer and entertainer

Overview: Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso (21 October 1925 – 16 July 2003), known as Celia Cruz, was a Cuban singer and one of the most popular Latin artists of the 20th century. Cruz rose to fame ...

Date of birth: 21 October 1925

Date of death: 16 July 2003

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: Cuban

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Deaths from brain cancer in New Jersey 8T

Neurological disease deaths in New Jersey 38T

20th-century American women singers 2,186T
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Barbara Hutton

American philanthropist and socialite (1912–1979)

Overview: Barbara Woolworth Hutton (November 14, 1912 – May 11, 1979) was an American debutante, socialite, heiress, and philanthropist. She was dubbed the "Poor Little Rich Girl", first when she was given a lavish ...

Date of birth: 14 November 1912

Date of death: 11 May 1979

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Socialite

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Hewitt School alumni 16T

People with acquired Dominican Republic citizenship 29T

20th-century American women 4,137T
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Lionel Hampton

American jazz musician and bandleader

Overview: Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, and bandleader. Hampton worked with jazz musicians from Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, and ...

Date of birth: 20 April 1908

Date of death: 31 August 2002

Age: 94 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Percussionist

Gender: Male

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American male jazz musicians 3,235T

20th-century American male musicians 7,842T

Black & Blue Records artists 138T
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Marilyn Miller

Broadway musical star (1898–1936)

Overview: Marilyn Miller (born Mary Ellen Reynolds; September 1, 1898 – April 7, 1936) was one of the most popular Broadway musical stars of the 1920s and early 1930s. She was an accomplished tap dancer, singer ...

Date of birth: 1 September 1898

Date of death: 7 April 1936

Age: 37 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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20th-century American dancers 553T

Actors from Evansville, Indiana 13T

Musicians from Evansville, Indiana 18T
12.

Irving Berlin

American composer and lyricist (1888–1989)

Overview: Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin; Yiddish: ישראל ביילין‎; May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American ...

Date of birth: 11 May 1888

Date of death: 22 September 1989

Age: 101 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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United Service Organizations entertainers 148T

Members of The Lambs Club 85T

American male film score composers 636T
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Geraldine Fitzgerald

Irish actress

Overview: Geraldine Mary Fitzgerald (November 24, 1913 – July 17, 2005) was an Irish actress and a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame. In 2020, she was listed at number 30 on The Irish Times list of Ir ...

Date of birth: 24 November 1913

Date of death: 17 July 2005

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: Irish

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)

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Actresses from County Wicklow 8T

Actresses of Irish descent 597T

20th-century American women singers 2,001T
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Otto Preminger

Austrian-American director, producer, and actor (1905–1986)

Overview: Otto Ludwig Preminger (, 5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an Austrian-born theatre and film director.

Date of birth: 5 December 1906

Date of death: 23 April 1986

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: Austrian

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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People with acquired American citizenship 943T

People from the Duchy of Bukovina 49T

Jewish Austrian male actors 20T
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Jimmy Donahue

American Socialite

Overview: James Paul "Jimmy" Donahue Jr. (June 11, 1915 – December 6, 1966) was an heir to the Woolworth estate and a noted New York City socialite.

Date of birth: 11 June 1915

Date of death: 6 December 1966

Age: 51 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Socialite

Gender: Male

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LGBT people from Connecticut 81T

Gay men 527T

1966 deaths 4,465T
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Martha Mansfield

American, Actress

Overview: Martha Mansfield (born Martha Ehrlich; July 14, 1899 – November 30, 1923) was an American actress in silent films and vaudeville stage plays.

Date of birth: 14 July 1899

Date of death: 30 November 1923

Age: 24 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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American vaudeville performers 1,289T

19th-century American women musicians 215T

Actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood 492T
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Clarice Taylor

Actress

Overview: Clarice Taylor (September 20, 1917 – May 30, 2011) was an American stage, film and television actress.

Date of birth: 20 September 1917

Date of death: 30 May 2011

Age: 93 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Actresses from Virginia 133T

Actresses from New York City 1,485T

African-American actresses 1,087T
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George M. Cohan

American, Writer

Overview: George Michael Cohan (July 3, 1878 – November 5, 1942) was an American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and theatrical producer.

Date of birth: 3 July 1878

Date of death: 5 December 1942

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Male actors from Providence, Rhode Island 38T

Members of The Lambs Club 91T

Male musical theatre composers 105T
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Aileen Pringle

American actress

Overview: Aileen Pringle (born Aileen Bisbee; July 23, 1895 – December 16, 1989) was an American stage and film actress during the silent film era.

Date of birth: 23 July 1895

Date of death: 16 December 1989

Age: 94 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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Actresses from San Francisco, California 197T

Actresses from California 904T

20th-century American actresses 6,858T
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Harry Carey

American actor (1878-1947)

Overview: Henry DeWitt Carey II (January 16, 1878 – September 21, 1947) was an American actor and one of silent film's earliest superstars, usually cast as a Western hero. One of his best known performances is as ...

Date of birth: 16 January 1878

Date of death: 21 September 1947

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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People from Saugus, Santa Clarita, California 15T

Hollywood Walk of Fame 370T

American male silent film actors 1,231T