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The burials of many famous personalities become more important than a particular cemetery. Their burial place sits outside the norm:
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Elvis Presley (1935-1977)
Elvis Aaron Presley was born in Tupelo Mississippi in 1935, his twin Jessie was still-born.
His parents moved to Memphis in 1948 and he graduated there in 1953. In 1954 he began his singing career when he was signed by Sam Phillips of Sun Records, Memphis – it also handle Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison and Jerry Lee Lewis.
His sound and style gained him international success, As a teen idol he became the ‘King of Rock & Roll’ and sold over a billion records.
He sold over one billion records worldwide, more than anyone in the record industry history. Elvis has had 150 different albums and singles that have been certified gold, platinum or multi-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Elvis has had 149 songs that appeared on Billboard’s Hot 100 Pop Chart in America. Of these, 114 were in the top forty, 40 were in the top 10, and 18 went to number one.
Elvis starred in over thirty feature films and he had successful television shows. He had 14 Grammy nominations and won three. He took up a residency in Las Vegas.
He died of a heart attack, probably promoted by his drug abuse, while at his Memphis home, Graceland, in 1977. He was aged just 42.
Elvis Presley’s funeral took place on 18 Aug 1977, at Graceland, his mansion in Memphis, Tennessee. The event was private with family, friends and associates. His grave is at Graceland and attracts over 600,000 visitors each year.
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Princess Diana of Wales (1961-1997)
Diana Spencer was of noble birth and grew up close to the royal family’s Sandringham home.
She married Prince Charles (later Charles III0 in 1981 at St Paul’s Cathedral.
She became celebrated in the media for carrying out royal duties and for her unconventional approach to charity work, mostly for children and the elderly, but also campaigning for the removal of landmines and set about changing public attitudes to HIV/AIDS.
She delivered Charles two sons, William and Harry, but the relationship faltered and they divorced in 1996.
Diana died in a car crash in Paris in 1997 and her funeral attracted a million to watch her hearse travel to Westminster Abbey.
The funeral attracted over 32m UK television audience and a 2.5 billion television audience worldwide.
Two thousand attended her royal ceremonial funeral ceremony – PM Tony Blair dubbed her as the ‘People’s Princess’.
Diana was buried by her family members at their estate in Althorp Park, Leicestershire. She is buried on an island in the centre of a lake, where visitors are not permitted. However, an arboretum and a memorial serve as a public place to remember Diana. Over 150,000 visit Althorp, and pay the £20+ admission charge.
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Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022)
While we are considering the British royal family, we do need to present Queen Elizabeth II.
She was queen of the UK and many Commonwealth realms in a reign that lasted 70 years and 214 days from 1950-2022. This has only been surpassed by Louis XIV of France, 72 years and 110 days.
Elizabeth II’s reign spanned fifteen PMs and fourteen US Presidents, she met with ten French presidents and reigned during the term of eleven Soviet and Russian leaders.
She died and was buried in September 2022. Her funeral was at Westminster Abbey attended by 2,000. Some 28m watched the funeral on UK television, and 5.1 billion worldwide – the ceremony cost the UK government £162m.
Ten sovereigns prior to QEII were buried at King George VI Memorial Chapel – King Henry VI (d1471), King Henry VIII (d1547), King Edward IV (d1483), Charles I (d1649), King George III (d1820), King George IV (d1830), King William IV (d1837), King George V (d1936, here from 1939), King Edward VII (d1910), and King George VI (d1952, reburied here 1969). There had been 23 interments prior to QEII.
She was buried alongside her husband and her mother.
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Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
Queen Victoria (1819-1901) ascended to the throne at the age of eighteen and reigned for just under sixy-four years.
Three years into her reign she married Prince Albert in 1840. They had nine children, five girls and four boys, across seventeen years.
Albert died in 1861 and as a result Victoria wore black for the remaining 40 years of her life.
In 1862 she built the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore, near Windsor, Berkshire, for Albert and herself. Frogmore earns its name for the wet, marshy location the estate is built upon, an inadequate original drainage system, coupled with the wet location, has meant the Mausoleum has faced damp problems for decades. The latest restoration project began in June 2018.
She died at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight at the age of 81
She had requested a plaster cast be made of Albert’s hand (at his death) and she was buried with this. In her coffin she also wore the lace wedding veil from her 1840 wedding to Albert. One of Albert’s dressing gowns, plus an elaborate cape that her daughter Alice had made for Albert were also buried with Victoria.
She is reported to also have a picture of John Brown her trusty Scottish servant – he was often suggested as being rather more than this. Some say she held a lock of Brown’s hair. Certainly, a bouquet of Scottish heather from Balmoral was placed in her coffin.
Queen Victoria requested that she be buried with as much of her jewellery as could fit on her body. Thus, when she died, a ring was placed on every finger, her wrists were stacked with bracelets, and her neck wore layers and layers of necklaces.
She was duly buried in the Royal Mausoleum next to Prince Albert. Victoria asked her subjects to wear white when she died.
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John F Kennedy (1917-1963)
JFK, or Jack, served as the 35th president of the United States, and was the youngest elected President. He was the eldest son of Joseph P Kennedy a businessman, investor, philanthropist, and politician. The Kennedy family was strongly political.
In WWII Kennedy left Yale Law School to seek to join the army, but was rejected on medical grounds (back problems). But he pulled strings to join the Naval Reserve, initially posted to the Panama Canel. But he argued to be transferred to the Pacific, where he saw active service and won a purple heart.
Jack was elected to the House of Representatives in 1947 (aged 30), became senator for Massachusetts in 1953 (aged 36) and President in 1961 (age 44). His inaugural address, urged all Americans to be active citizens. ‘Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country’.
He took that office in from 1961 until his assassination at Dallas in November 1963. His period of office was frenetic including the Cold War picking up pace, notable meetings with Kruschev, the Berlin Wall, a the Bay of Pigs failed invasion of Cuba, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the beginnings of the Vietnam War, a whole raft of hotspots around the world and the civil rights’ movement and Women’s Lib domestically.
His administration earned the epithet ‘Camelot’ to relect the youthful grandeur accorded Kennedy in death, and the nostalgia this generated.
After the assassination, Kennedy’s body was brought back to Washington. On 23-Nov, six military bearers carried the flag-draped coffin into the White House, where he lay in repose for 24 hours. Later the coffin was carried on a horse-drawn caisson to the Capitol building to lie in state. Throughout the day and night, hundreds of thousands lined up to view the guarded casket, with a quarter million passing through the rotunda during the eighteen hours of lying in state.
Kennedy’s funeral service was held on 25-Nov, in Washington DC attended by approximately 1,200 guests, representing over 90 countries. After the service, Kennedy was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (Onassis) requested that the eternal flame be established on JFK’s grave as a never-ending tribute. Tens of millions have subsequently visited JFK’s gravesite.
| ASIDE: Conspiracy Theory: Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846, John F Kennedy in 1946. Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860, Kennedy in 1960. The names Lincoln and Kennedy both have seven letters. Both were particularly concerned by civil rights. Both wives lost babies, both sons, while resident at the White House. Lincoln’s secretary was named Kennedy and Kennedy’s was named Lincoln. Both secretaries had bad feelings about their bosses going to the events at which they were assassinated – Kennedy’s secretary’s memo is a matter of record. Both Presidents were killed on a Friday. Lincoln was killed in Ford’s Theatre, Kennedy was killed in a Lincoln, owned by Ford. Both were shot in the back of the head, in public, while in the company of their wives. Both were carried to their resting place on the same gun carriage. Both were assassinated by Southerners and succeeded by Southerners. Both Vice Presidents were in the Senate at the time of the assassination. Both successors were named Johnson. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy was born in 1808, Lindon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy was born in 1908. Both names have thirteen letters John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839, Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939. Both assassins were known by their three names. Both names comprise fifteen letters. Booth ran from a theatre and was caught in a warehouse. Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theatre. Both were themselves assassinated before their trials. And here’s the kicker: A week before Lincoln was shot he was in Monroe, Maryland. A week before Kennedy was shot he was said to be in Marilyn Monroe! |
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Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962)
Marilyn was Norma Jeane Mortenson, born and raised in Los Angeles. During her childhood she had lived in twelve foster homes and an orphanage. She then married James Dougherty at the age of sixteen.
She worked in a factory during WWII, but met a photographer who launched her as a pin-up, and had some short-lived movie contracts. But then signed a deal with Twentieth Century Fox and had a few minor roles. She then took comedic roles and built a proper career. It emerged she had done nude modelling but if anything this grew her popularity.
In the early 1950s he became a highly succesful ‘dumb blonde’, and her nude pictures became a Playboy centrefold.
She appeared in many films and won a Golden Globe for Best Actress for her role in Some Like It Hot in 1959. In the midst of all this she married the baseball star Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller – her private life never quite achieved the same success as her career.
At age 36 she died from an overdose of barbituates at her Los Angeles home, it was ruled as a suicide.
She was buried in LA’s Westwood Village Memorial Park, where her grave draws huge numbers of fans, who cover it with red lipstick kiss marks.
Hugh Hefner bought the tomb next door so he could lie next to Playboy’s first Playmate. He was Playboy‘s founder and editor-in-chief.
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Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924)
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov is better known as Lenin, a leading Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He was born in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk) c450m east of Moscow.
Mug shot from his arrest
Lenin embraced revolutionary politics after his brother’s 1887 execution. While at University in St Petersburg he espoused Marxism. In 1897, he was arrested for sedition and exiled to Shushenskoye in Siberia for three years. He returned to Moscow and played a leading role in the October Revolution.
Opponents were suppressed in the Red Terror. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. These were formed as a Marxist one-party state, the Communist Party, but his ideology shifted it to Leninism.
He was in Spain and Switzerland for the early parts of WWI, where he urged for a continent-wide proletarian revolution. He was in Finland as the 1917 October Revolution broke out, but he became central as a new regime dawned.
A series of decrees dealt with land ownership, people’s rights, working practice, workers’ ownership of enterprises, child education and these revised the legal system.
However, he presided over famine and civil war, still waiting on the European-wide revolution.
In the early 1920s he was ill and suffered strokes, the third stroke took away his speech – and Stalin’s status grew.
He died at Gorki in 1924, aged 53. He was embalmed and a mausoleum, the Mavzoley Lenina, was built to house his body and have it on public display in Red Square. 100,000 visited him in the first six weeks, while the mausoleum was still temporary.
His body has been on constant display (apart from during WWII). Black spots began to appear and the body has needed constant care and preservation.
Some 2.5 million visitors are received each year – it helps that admission is free.
He became a figurehead for Marxism–Leninism and influenced the international communist movement.
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
His full name was Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci. He was born out of wedlock to a successful notary and a lower-class woman in, or near, Vinci. Educated in Florence by the Italian painter and sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio.
He began his career in Florence, but then entered the service of Ludovico Sforza in Milan. He alo worked in Rome, gathering a reputation and a number of imitators and students.
He became a painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer. His ideas and sketches illutrated that he was a true polymath.
He is credited as the founder of the High Renaissance, as he created some of the most influential paintings in Western art.
He was invited by King Francis I of France to work and live there. As a result he spent his last three years in France and died there in 1519.
Leonardo was buried in the collegiate church of Saint Florentin at the Château d’Amboise in France.
Much of this château was damaged during the French Revolution, and in 1802 it was demolished. As a result, some of the graves were destroyed and those interred there were scattered, Leonardo’s remains are therefore subject to dispute.
Yet the château grounds have breathtaking views over the Loire Valley and this draws thousands of visitors a year, ostensibly to see da Vinci’s tomb.
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Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Born in Shrewsbury, the fifth child of a society doctor and financier. One of his grandfathers was the potter Josiah Wedgewood. Charles became an apprentice doctor, helping his father, before going in 1825 to the University of Edinburgh Medical School with his brother Erasmus.
Darwin found the lectures dull and didn’t take to surgery distressing, but while there learned learned taxidermy. He also he joined the Plinian Society, a student natural-history which held lively debates. He learned the classification of plants, and assisted at the University Museum, one of the largest museums in Europe at that time.
His father moved him to Cambridge to take a degree course. There a second cousin introduced Darwin to his butterfly collection and entomology – Charles started to collect beetles.
At 22, he was proposed as a naturalist to join HMS Beagle on a voyage around the world from 1837-1839. His passage was privately funded so that he could maintain his findings and samples, so that he might donate these to a major scientific institution.
The English naturalist, geologist and biologist, became best known for his scientific theory of evolution by natural selection and this became the foundation of modern evolutionary biology. The work he did in the late 1830s was not published until 1859, as On the Origin of Species, on the Preservation of Favoured Species in the Struggle for Life.
His theory shocked religious Victorian society in his suggestion that animals and humans shared a common ancestry. His biology appealed to thegrowing legion of scientists, and permeated all of science, literature, and politics.
In 1882, Charles was diagnosed with angina pectoris or coronary thrombosis and disease of the heart. His famous last words were, ‘I am not the least afraid of death.’
He died at his home in Down, Kent and expected to be buried at the local church. But the success of his work accorded him the ultimate British accolade of burial at Westminster Abbey, London.
Many visit the grave of Charles Darwin, which is located close to those of two other polymaths – John Herschel and Sir Isaac Newton.
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J R R Tolkien (1892-1973)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was English though born in South Africa. His father, a bank manager, had been posted to the bank’s Blomfontein office. At three years old, Tolkein travelled back to England with his mother and brother on a family visit. But his father died, back in South Africa of rheumatic fever. The family was left without income in the UK, living with his mother’s parents in Kings Heath, Birmingham.
The family soon moved out to a Worcestershire village. Young Tolkein keenly explored the Malverns, local villages, mills and farms – which later inspired locations for his writings. He consumed much fiction as a child.
His mother died, at 34, when he was just twelve, of Type 1 Diabetes – insulin would not be discovered for twenty years! Tolkien grew up in Edgbaston, Birmingham under the guardianship of Father Francis Xavier Morgan, who expanded his horizons and rounded his personality.
In his teengae years Tolkein engaged in creating alphabets and languages with his cousins. Tolkien began studying at Exeter College, Oxford, initially reading classics but then he changed to English language and literature, graduating in 1915 with first-class honours. Unsurprisingly later still he became a philologist and writer.
In the 1920s, Tolkien created a translation of Beowulf. It was finished in 1926, but not published. It was later edited by his son Christopher and published in 2014.
He had served at the Somme in WWI and was a codebreaker in WWII. In between wars he published The Hobbit (1937).
From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke College, both at the University of Oxford. He then became the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, from 1945 until his retirement in 1959.
Tolkien took much of a decade to write and publish The Lord of the Rings (1948).
His wife died in 1971, and he followed twenty-one months later, but not before he received a CBE. He had the name Lúthien engraved on Edith’s tombstone at Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford. He died of a chest infection and an ulcer, he was placed in the same grave and had Beren inscribed for himself. Lúthien is a beautiful elf and Beren is her warrior lover in his Middle Earth lore.
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Charlotte (1816–1855) and Emily (1818–1848) Brontë
The Brontës were a nineteenth-century literary family of Irish descent, living in the village of Thornton, and later associated with the village of Haworth, both in Yorkshire’s West Riding. Their father was a rector.
There were three sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne (1820–1849), who all became well-known poets and novelists. Yet they published their works under male pseudonym – Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.
They had a brother, (Patrick) Branwell (1817-1848) who painted his sisters, with him stood between them, but then decided it was too cluttered, and painted himself over. Branwell was, their mother, Elizabeth’s maiden name.
It was Charlotte’s Jane Eyre that first gained popularity. Emily’s Wuthering Heights, Anne’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and other works only became accepted as masterpieces after their deaths.
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Emily was the first sister to die, according to Charlotte the cause was tuberculosis, but there is some controversy as to where she actually died – the dining room sofa or in her bed. Emily didn’t live to see the success of Wuthering Heights.
Anne died the next year after a long illness. She had been taken to Scarborough, for its beneficial airs, but died and was buried there. The tombstone there initially bore an incorrect date suggesting she died at 28 years, but it was 29. This is after it was corrected:
Charlotte died at the age of 38, there are suggestions that it was pregnancy related although the cause was given as TB, with typhoid fever. Some sources indicate that her marital home, a parsonage, was in the centre of a large graveyard with very poor sanitation.
Emily and Charlotte were buried at St Michael and All Angels Church, Haworth, Yorkshire.
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Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
Florence was born into a wealthy and well-connected British family at the Villa Colombaia, in Florence, Tuscany – she was named for her birthplace. The family moved back to England in 1821, with Nightingale brought up in the family’s homes at Embley, Hampshire, and Lea Hurst, Derbyshire.
She, and her older sister, benefited from their father’s, then advanced, ideas about women’s education. They learned history, mathematics, Italian, classical literature and philosophy – and Florence showed her grasp of data manipulation early. He then took the family on an extended European tour.
In 1844, Florence believed she had received a ‘call from above’ to serve others and entered nursing, despite the qualms of her family. She educated herself in the art and science of nursing.
On her travels she again believed she had been called by God. In 1850, she visited the Lutheran religious community at Kaiserswerth-am-Rhein in Germany, where she observed Pastor Theodor Fliedner and the deaconesses working for the sick and the deprived. She regarded the experience as a turning point in her life and issued her findings anonymously in 1851 as The Institution of Kaiserswerth on the Rhine, for the Practical Training of Deaconesses, etc. This was her first published work. She also received four months of medical training at the institute, which formed the basis for her later care.
In 1853, Nightingale took the post of superintendent at the Institute for the Care of Sick Gentlewomen in Upper Harley Street, London, a position she held until October 1854. Her father had given her an annual income of £500 which allowed her to live comfortably and to pursue her career.
Late in 1854, she and the staff of thirty-eight women volunteer nurses were sent to the Ottoman Empire. The team worked about 340 miles away from the main British camp across the Black Sea at Balaklava, in the Crimea, at Selimiye Barracks in Scutari. Her team found that poor care was being offered to the wounded soldiers by overworked staff operating under official indifference. Medicines were in short supply, hygiene was neglected, and mass infections were common, many becoming fatal. More soldiers died from illnesses such as typhus, typhoid, cholera, and dysentery than from battle wounds.
After Nightingale sent a plea to The Times for a British government solution, they commissioned Isambard Kingdom Brunel to design a prefabricated hospital. This was built in England and shipped to the Dardanelles, where it became the Renkioi Hospital. It had a death rate less than one tenth of that of Scutari.
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Florence became renowned as the founder of modern nursing, though she was a much a statistician and social reformer. She served as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, for her organisation of care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople.
She significantly reduced death rates by improving their hygiene and living standards. Once source suggests it was reduced from 42% to 2%.
She became the ‘poster girl’ for Victorian culture, by being characterised as The Lady with the Lamp, as she made her rounds of the wounded soldiers at night.
Nightingale was also a pioneer in statistics, she represented her analysis in graphical forms to assist reaching conclusions from the data. She is famous for usage of the polar area diagram (above), also referenced as the Nightingale rose diagram.
She is famous for usage of the polar area diagram (above), also referenced as the Nightingale rose diagram.
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She died at her London home. She had been an invalid for a long time, under the constant care of a physician, but apparently her death was still unexpected. She was 90.
Her family refused a burial at Westminster Abbey, choosing instead a village in Hampshire at St Margaret of Antioch Churchyard, East Wellow. Florence is buried there in the family plot.
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Tombs around the world
There are a number of burial places around the world that have maintained interest.
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UK:
| Austen, Jane | Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire |
| Cenotaph, The (empty tomb) | Whitehall, London |
| Churchill, Sir Winston | St Martin’s Church, Bladon nr Woodstock, Oxon |
| Getty, John Paul Jr | Stokenchurch, Wycombe District, Bucks |
| Kelly, Mary Jane – last Ripper victim | Leytonstone RC Cemetery, London |
| Marx, Karl | Highgate (East), London |
| Michael, George | Highgate (West), London |
| Nelson, Horatio | St Paul’s Cathedral, London |
| Plath, Sylvia | Heptonstall, West Yorkshire, England |
| Wellesley, Arthur, Duke of Wellington | St Paul’s Cathedral, London |
| Shakespeare, William | Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon (perhaps!) |
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Europe:
| Alexander I | Memphis, Alexandria – Sofia, Bulgaria |
| St Anthony | Padua, Italy |
| Augustus, Caesar | Campus Martius (Pza Augusto Imperatore) Rome |
| Brahms, Johannes | Zentralfriedhof , Vienna, Austria |
| Catacombs (Christian) | Rome, Italy |
| Chaplin, Charlie | Cimetière de Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland |
| Chopin, Frédéric | Pere Lachaise, Paris, France |
| Curie, Marie and Pierre | Panthéon, Paris, France |
| Gaius Julius Caesar | Temple of Divus Julius, Forum Romanum, Rome |
| Hadrian | Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome, Italy |
| Hugo, Victor | Panthéon, Paris, France |
| Joyce, James | Fluntern Cemetery, Zurich, Switzerland |
| Keats, John | Cimitero Acattolico, Rome, Italy |
| Lenin, Vladimir | Red Square, Mosow, Russis |
| Macedonian royal tombs | Verghina, Greece |
| Medici chapels and tombs | Florence, Italy |
| Mercury, Freddie (Farrokh Bulsara) | Montreux, Switzerland |
| Napoléon Bonaparte | Les Invalides, Paris, France |
| Necropolis | Pécs, Hungary |
| Newgrange passage tomb | Drogheda, Ireland |
| St Peter | St Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City |
| Pompey the Great | Albano Laziale, Italy |
| Stalin, Josef | Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow, Russia |
| Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak (4th c BCE) | Kazanlak, Bulgaria |
| Wilde, Oscar | Pere Lachaise, Paris, France |
| Yeats, W B | Drumcliff, Ireland |
| Zog, King | Tirana, Albania |
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Africa and Middle East:
| Askia Muḥammad I | Gao, Mali |
| Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal | Anittepe, Ankara, Turkey |
| Buganda royal tombs | Kasubi, Uganda |
| Hatshepsut | Valley of the Queens, Luxor, Egypt |
| Khufu, Pharaoh | Great Pyramid, Giza, Egypt |
| Mandela, Nelson | Qunu, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
| Ramesses II | Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt |
| Rhodes, Cecil | Matobo National Park, Zimbabwe |
| Tutankhamun | Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt |
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Asia:
| Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Leah | Hebron, Palestine |
| Akbar, Emperor | Sikandra, Agra, India |
| Bab. The | Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel |
| Bowie, David | Bali, Indonesia |
| Buddha | Ashes at Bodh Gaya (enlightenment), Sarnath (preached four noble truths), Kushingar (died) |
| Confucius | Jining, China |
| Cyrus the Great | Pasargadae, Shiraz, Iran |
| Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) | New Delhi, India |
| Genghis Khan | Believed to be Burkhan Khaldun, Momgolia |
| Ho Chi Minh | Hanoi, Vietnam |
| Imperial tombs of Hué | Hué, Vietnam |
| Jahāngīr tomb | Near Lahore, Pakistan |
| Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung) | Mausolem, Bei Jing Shi, Dongcheng |
| Ming Tombs | Beijing, China |
| Muhammad | Madinah, Saudi Arabia |
| Mumtaz Mahal, wife of Shah Jahan | Taj Mahal, Agra, India |
| Qin first emperor and Terracotta Warriors | Xi’an, China |
| Quṭb Shāhī tombs | Near Golconda, India |
| Shah Jamal | Lahore, Pakistan |
| Sun Yat-sen, Dr | Nanjing, Jiangsu, China |
| U Thant | Yangon, Myanmar |
| Australasia/Pacific | |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Mount Vaea, Samoa |
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North America and Caribbean:
| Mohammed Ali (Cassius Clay) | Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville Kentucky |
| Louis Armstrong (Satchmo’) | Flushing Cemetery, New York |
| Johnny Cash and June Carter-Cash | Hendersonville, Sumner County, Tennessee |
| General George Custer‘s Grave and Monument | West Point Military Academy Cemetery, New York |
| Bette Davis | Glendale, California |
| James Dean | Fairmount, Indiana |
| Walt Disney | Forest Lawn, Glendale, California |
| Thomas Alva Edison | Llewellyn Park, Essex County, New Jersey, USA |
| Henry Ford | Ford Cemetery, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan |
| Benjamin Franklin | Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, PA |
| Ernest Hemingway | Ketchum, Idaho |
| Jimi Hendrix | Renton, Washington |
| Martin Luther King Jr, Dr Rev | National Historical Park in Atlanta, Georgia |
| Lassie – aka Pal took the role in the first 7 films | Canyon Country, California |
| Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee | Lakeview Cemetery, Seattle |
| John Lennon | Central Park, New York |
| Charles Lindbergh | Hana, Hawaii |
| Herman Melville | Woodlawn Cemetery, New York |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Westminster Presbyterian Church, Maryland USA |
| Prince | Paisley Park, Minnesota |
| John D Rockefeller Sr | Lake View, Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co, Ohio |
| Babe Ruth | Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, New York |
| Frank Sinatra | Cathedral City, California |
| Elizabeth Taylor, Dame | Glendale, California |
| Toto (Wizard of Oz) aka Terry the Cairn Terrier | Hollywood Forever, California |
| Mark Twain | Elmira, New York |
| George Washington | Mount Vernon, Virginia |
| Caribbean: | |
| Bob Marley | Nine Mile, Jamaica |
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South and Central America:
| Eva Perón (Evita) | La Recoleta Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Frida Kahlo | Frida Kahlo Museum, Coyoacán, Mexico |
| Pelé, Edson Arantes do Nascimento | Memorial Necrópole Ecumênica, São Paulo, Brazil |
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