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Charles W. Eliot II

1899–1993 (age 94)

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Charles W. Eliot II was a member of the prominent Eliot family whose life spanned 1899 to 1993 and who is interred at Mo...

Helen Warton Kaan

1897–1991 (age 94)

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Helen Warton Kaan, a Brookline resident, lived from 1897 to 1991 and was laid to rest at Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Saly Ruth Ramler

1894–1993 (age 99)

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Saly Ruth Ramler, born in Kolomyia in 1894, died in 1993 and is interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Helen Peabody

1898–1992 (age 94)

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Helen Peabody (1898-1992) of Newton is remembered through her burial at Mount Auburn Cemetery, though public accounts of...

Katherine Louise Trippe

1900–1994 (age 94)

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Katherine Louise Trippe (1900-1994) is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery, though detailed public records of her life’s w...

Martha Lee Batchelder

1906–1994 (age 88)

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Martha Lee Batchelder (1906-1994) rests at Mount Auburn Cemetery, and little is widely documented about her professional...

Thomas H. Eliot

1907–1991 (age 84)

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Thomas H. Eliot (1907–1991) was a Massachusetts congressman, educator, and diplomat now buried at Mount Auburn Cemeter...

Erwin Griswold

1904–1994 (age 90)

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Erwin Griswold (1904–1994) was an influential American lawyer who served as Harvard Law dean and U.S. Solicitor Genera...

N. Louise Young

1907–1997 (age 90)

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N. Louise Young (1907–1997) of Baltimore is laid to rest at Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Elisha Atkins

1920–2005 (age 85)

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Elisha Atkins (1920-2005) was a Belmont resident whose long life touched the community she called home.

Edward Mason

1919–2007 (age 88)

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Edward Mason (1919-2007) remained connected to the Mount Auburn area throughout his life before being laid to rest there...

Charles Hamilton Sanford Jr.

1907–2001 (age 94)

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Charles Hamilton Sanford Jr. (1907-2001) spent his life in Syracuse and was laid to rest at Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Henry Burkhardt III

1945–2000 (age 55)

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Henry Burkhardt III (1945-2000) had deep ties to the Mount Auburn community that became his final resting place.

Jonathan Cole

1925–2009 (age 84)

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Jonathan Cole (1925-2009) is commemorated by his burial at Mount Auburn Cemetery after a long life centered around the B...

Janet Akyüz Mattei

1943–2004 (age 61)

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Janet Akyüz Mattei (1943-2004), a Turkish-American astronomer, directed the AAVSO for decades and championed variable s...

John R. Meyer

1927–2009 (age 82)

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John R. Meyer (1927-2009) was an MIT economist whose pioneering transportation research influenced U.S. infrastructure p...

Robert W. White

1904–2001 (age 97)

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Robert W. White (1904-2001) was an American psychologist noted for his work on competence motivation and personality the...

Thomas F. August

1926–2005 (age 79)

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Thomas F. August (1926-2005) spent his final years in Cambridge and was laid to rest at Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Herbert Bloch

1911–2006 (age 95)

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Herbert Bloch (1911–2006) was a German-born American classical scholar and medievalist who taught at Harvard and becam...

Claude Shannon

1916–2001 (age 85)

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Claude Shannon (1916–2001) was an American mathematician and electrical engineer celebrated as the father of informati...

John Rawls

1921–2002 (age 81)

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John Rawls (1921–2002) was an American philosopher whose work in political liberalism, especially A Theory of Justice,...

Robert Nozick

1938–2002 (age 64)

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Robert Nozick (1938–2002) was an American philosopher best known for his libertarian counterpoint to Rawls in Anarchy,...

Caroline Knapp

1959–2002 (age 43)

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Caroline Knapp (1959–2002) was an American writer and columnist who chronicled her struggles with addiction and relati...

Arthur M. Schlesinger

1917–2007 (age 90)

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Arthur M. Schlesinger (1917–2007) was an American historian and social critic whose Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies...

George Mackey

1916–2006 (age 90)

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George Mackey was an American mathematician whose work on representation theory and functional analysis shaped modern an...

Frank Conroy

1936–2005 (age 69)

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Frank Conroy was an American author and longtime director of the National Endowment for the Arts' Literature Program, be...

Gerry Studds

1937–2006 (age 69)

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Gerry Studds was an American politician who represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives for nearly th...

Nathan M. Pusey

1907–2001 (age 94)

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Nathan M. Pusey was an American educator who served as president of Harvard University and later advised on national edu...

Gordon Willey

1913–2002 (age 89)

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Gordon Willey was an American archaeologist noted for pioneering settlement pattern studies throughout the Americas.

Adam Ulam

1922–2000 (age 78)

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Adam Ulam was a Harvard historian and expert on Soviet studies whose scholarship spanned decades.

Michael Kelly

1957–2003 (age 46)

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Michael Kelly was an American journalist and editor for The Washington Post, known for his reporting and commentary befo...

Robert Dorfman

1916–2002 (age 86)

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Robert Dorfman was an American economist whose work on linear programming and national income accounting influenced deve...

Wells Stabler

1919–2009 (age 90)

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Wells Stabler (1919–2009) was an American career diplomat who served as ambassador to several countries and is buried ...

Charlie Devens

1910–2003 (age 93)

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Charlie Devens (1910–2003) was an American baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees whose life ended in Milton and wh...

Frederick Mosteller

1916–2006 (age 90)

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Frederick Mosteller (1916–2006) was an American statistician whose pioneering work on Bayesian analysis and public-pol...

Paul Zamecnik

1912–2009 (age 97)

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Paul Zamecnik (1912–2009) was an American molecular biologist whose co-discovery of cell-free protein synthesis helped...

Robert Creeley

1926–2005 (age 79)

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Robert Creeley (1926–2005) was an American poet associated with the Black Mountain College circle who was known for hi...

Ernst Halperin

1916–2003 (age 87)

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Ernst Halperin (1916–2003) was a Zurich-born film historian who spent decades chronicling European cinema from his aca...

David Ives

1919–2003 (age 84)

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David Ives (1919–2003) was a Salem-born American whose long life spanned much of the twentieth century before he was l...

Leon Kirchner

1919–2009 (age 90)

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Leon Kirchner (1919–2009) was a Brooklyn-born composer whose modernist symphonies and chamber works, along with decade...

Slim Aarons

1916–2006 (age 90)

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Slim Aarons (1916–2006) was a Manhattan-born photographer famous for capturing glamorous portraits of high society and...

Dirk Jan Struik

1894–2000 (age 106)

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Dirk Jan Struik (1894–2000) was a Rotterdam-born mathematician and historian of science who taught at MIT and chronicl...

Curt Gowdy

1919–2006 (age 87)

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Curt Gowdy (1919–2006) was a Green River native who became a pioneering American sportscaster best known for his baseb...

David Bradford

1939–2005 (age 66)

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David Bradford (1939–2005) was a Cambridge-based economist whose research on taxation and public finance influenced bo...

Aaron Fleisher

1919–2004 (age 85)

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Aaron Fleisher (1919–2004) was a Brooklyn-born individual whose life concluded with burial at Mount Auburn Cemetery.

John Bard Sampson

1916–2002 (age 86)

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John Bard Sampson (1916–2002) of Mercer was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Norman L. Letvin

1949–2012 (age 63)

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Norman L. Letvin (1949–2012) was a resident buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Joyce Barbara Friedman

1928–2018 (age 90)

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Joyce Barbara Friedman (1928–2018) was a mathematician and computer scientist who lived in Washington, D.C., and was b...

Mildred Dresselhaus

1930–2017 (age 87)

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Mildred Dresselhaus (1930–2017) was a pioneering physicist and materials scientist born in Brooklyn and buried at Moun...

Mary Daly

1928–2010 (age 82)

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Mary Daly (1928–2010) was a radical feminist philosopher and theologian from Schenectady buried at Mount Auburn Cemete...