Mount Auburn Cemetery

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Est. 1831 175 acres 1,300+ memorials
America's first landscaped cemetery, founded in 1831, and a National Historic Landmark.

Memorials

David Gergen
1942–2025 (age 83)
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David Gergen (1942–2025) closed his life in Durham before being laid to rest at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Arthur G. Siler
1935–2013 (age 78)
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Arthur G. Siler (1935–2013) concluded his life journey before burial at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Mary Hunting Smith
1922–2010 (age 88)
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Mary Hunting Smith (1922–2010) spent her final years in New York City and now rests at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Toby Kimball
1942–2017 (age 75)
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Toby Kimball (1942–2017) was an American professional basketball forward/center who played for teams including the Bos...
Stanley Cavell
1926–2018 (age 92)
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Stanley Cavell (1926–2018) was an influential American philosopher of ordinary language and a longtime Harvard profess...
Bernard Bailyn
1922–2020 (age 98)
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Bernard Bailyn (1922–2020) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of early American colonial history at Harvard Univer...
William von Eggers Doering
1917–2011 (age 94)
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William von Eggers Doering (1917–2011) was an American organic chemist whose work on carbocations and mentorship shape...
Bud Collins
1929–2016 (age 87)
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Bud Collins (1929–2016) was an American tennis journalist and broadcaster who became the voice of the U.S. Open.
Leo Beranek
1914–2016 (age 102)
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Leo Beranek (1914–2016) was an American acoustical engineer and co-founder of Bolt Beranek and Newman, contributing to...
Stanisław Barańczak
1946–2014 (age 68)
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Stanisław Barańczak (1946–2014) was a Polish poet, literary critic, and Harvard professor renowned for his translati...
Elisabeth Jane Blake
1924–2010 (age 86)
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Elisabeth Jane Blake (1924–2010) is remembered through her burial at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Erwin N. Hiebert
1919–2012 (age 93)
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Erwin N. Hiebert (1919–2012) was a Waldheim native who later found his resting place at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Josef Anton Hofmann
1924–2010 (age 86)
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Josef Anton Hofmann (1924–2010) began life in London and is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Wolfgang Martin Freitag
1924–2012 (age 88)
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Wolfgang Martin Freitag (1924–2012) originally hailed from Berlin and is among those interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery...
Richard Kindleberger
1942–2010 (age 68)
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Richard Kindleberger (1942–2010) was a Baltimore native whose name lives on at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Gene Dresselhaus
1929–2021 (age 92)
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Gene Dresselhaus (1929-2021) was an American physicist noted for the Dresselhaus effect in spin-orbit coupling.
Edgar H. Brown
1926–2021 (age 95)
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Edgar H. Brown (1926–2021) was an American mathematician noted for his contributions to homotopy theory and cohomology...
Tom Magliozzi
1937–2014 (age 77)
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Tom Magliozzi (1937–2014) was an American radio broadcaster best known as the co-host of NPR's Car Talk.
Brad Ecklund
1922–2010 (age 88)
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Brad Ecklund (1922–2010) was a Los Angeles-born professional football center who lies in Mount Auburn Cemetery.