Deaths in the 1950s

Skelton Knaggs

1911–1955 (age 44)

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Skelton Knaggs (1911-1955) was a British-born character actor known for his sinister roles in horror films and is interr...

Vera Sisson

1891–1954 (age 63)

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Vera Sisson (1891-1954) was a Salt Lake City-born silent film actress whose Hollywood career ended with her burial at Ho...

Mady Christians

1896–1951 (age 55)

Ferncliff Cemetery

Mady Christians (1896-1951), born in Vienna, became known for her stage and screen work before being laid to rest at Fer...

Friedrich Schorr

1888–1953 (age 65)

Ferncliff Cemetery

Friedrich Schorr (1888-1953) was an Oradea-born Wagnerian bass celebrated for his operatic performances who rests at Fer...

Judy Tyler

1932–1957 (age 25)

Ferncliff Cemetery

Judy Tyler (1932-1957) was a Manhattan-born actress and dancer whose promising Hollywood trajectory ended with her inter...

Hattie Carnegie

1886–1956 (age 70)

Ferncliff Cemetery

Hattie Carnegie (1886-1956) emigrated from Vienna to become a leading American fashion designer whose life ended with bu...

Harvey Peake

1866–1958 (age 92)

New Albany

Harvey Peake (1866-1958) was a longtime New Albany resident whose life came full circle with his burial in the city wher...

Margaret Campbell Knower

1888–1956 (age 68)

Albany Rural Cemetery

Margaret Campbell Knower (1888-1956) remained connected to the Albany area until her death, earning her final rest at Al...

Joe Frisco

1889–1958 (age 69)

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Joe Frisco (1889-1958) was a vaudeville comedian and dancer who helped define Jazz Age entertainment before being buried...

Julia Boynton Green

1861–1957 (age 96)

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Julia Boynton Green (1861-1957) was a New York City-born poet whose literary career and life concluded with interment at...

Jesse Duffy

1894–1952 (age 58)

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Jesse Duffy (1894-1952) worked within Hollywood’s mid-century film community and was laid to rest at Hollywood Forever...

Max Asher

1885–1957 (age 72)

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Max Asher (1885-1957) was an Oakland-born actor of the silent and early sound eras whose grave is at Hollywood Forever C...

Leo R. Sack

1889–1956 (age 67)

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Leo R. Sack (1889-1956) left Tupelo to pursue a career that carried him to Hollywood, where he was ultimately buried at ...

Benjamin Nikulin

1866–1953 (age 87)

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Benjamin Nikulin (1866-1953) emigrated from Zhytomyr and spent his final years in California before being interred at Ho...

Mary H. O'Connor

1872–1959 (age 87)

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Mary H. O'Connor (1872-1959) from Saint Paul contributed as a screenwriter to early American cinema before her burial at...

Florence Wix

1883–1956 (age 73)

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Florence Wix (1883-1956) was a Hertfordshire-born character actress whose work in Hollywood ended with her interment at ...

Mort Glickman

1898–1953 (age 55)

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Mort Glickman was a prolific American film composer for Republic Pictures whose Chicago-born life ended with burial at H...

Vadim Uraneff

1895–1952 (age 57)

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Vadim Uraneff was a Russian-born stage and film actor whose career took him to Hollywood, where he was laid to rest at H...

Harlan G. Palmer

1885–1956 (age 71)

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Harlan G. Palmer, who lived from 1885 to 1956, is remembered as part of early 20th-century Los Angeles society and is in...

Jack Cohn

1889–1956 (age 67)

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Jack Cohn was a New York City-born film executive and Columbia Pictures co-founder buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Barton Hepburn

1906–1955 (age 49)

Lakewood Cemetery

Barton Hepburn was a Minneapolis-born film and stage actor whose final resting place is Lakewood Cemetery.

Frank Jaquet

1885–1958 (age 73)

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Frank Jaquet was a Milwaukee-born character actor remembered for numerous film roles and now buried at Hollywood Forever...

Edward Vermilye Huntington

1874–1952 (age 78)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Edward Vermilye Huntington was an American mathematician known for his work on ordered sets and algebraic structures, bu...

William Scott Ferguson

1875–1954 (age 79)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

William Scott Ferguson was a Canadian-American classical scholar who taught at Harvard and rests at Mount Auburn Cemeter...

Merritt Lyndon Fernald

1873–1950 (age 77)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Merritt Lyndon Fernald was a distinguished American botanist whose lifelong research on the flora of New England conclud...

Alfred Tozzer

1877–1954 (age 77)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Alfred Tozzer was a celebrated American anthropologist and archaeologist who taught at Harvard and is interred at Mount ...

Edwin S. Webster

1867–1950 (age 83)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Edwin S. Webster was an American electrical engineer and cofounder of Stone & Webster, laid to rest at Mount Auburn Ceme...

Henry Asbury Christian

1876–1951 (age 75)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Henry Asbury Christian was an American pathologist who directed Massachusetts General Hospital’s medical laboratory an...

Henry E. Warren

1872–1957 (age 85)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Henry E. Warren was an American inventor and entrepreneur credited with electrical timekeeping innovations, resting at M...

Bobby Marshall

1880–1958 (age 78)

Lakewood Cemetery

Bobby Marshall was a pioneering African American athlete who broke color barriers in professional football and is buried...

Robert McAlmon

1895–1956 (age 61)

Lakewood Cemetery

Robert McAlmon was an American writer, publisher, and key figure in the 1920s expatriate literary scene, interred at Lak...

Charles Raymond Robertson

1889–1951 (age 62)

Lakewood Cemetery

Charles Raymond Robertson (1889-1951) spent his life in Madison and was laid to rest at Lakewood Cemetery.

Einar Hoidale

1870–1952 (age 82)

Lakewood Cemetery

Einar Hoidale (1870-1952) was a Minnesota politician who died in Tromsø Municipality and is buried at Lakewood Cemetery...

Guy V. Howard

1879–1954 (age 75)

Lakewood Cemetery

Guy V. Howard (1879-1954) was a Minnesota Republican who briefly represented his state in the U.S. Senate and is buried ...

Huntley Nowel Spaulding

1869–1955 (age 86)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Huntley Nowel Spaulding (1869-1955) was an American manufacturer and governor of New Hampshire whose burial site is Moun...

Berta Ottenstein

1891–1956 (age 65)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Berta Ottenstein (1891-1956) was a German dermatologist who later worked in the United States after fleeing Nazi persecu...

G. W. Pierce

1872–1956 (age 84)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

George Washington Pierce (1872-1956) was an American physicist noted for his work in electronics and communication, buri...

Theodore Lyman

1874–1954 (age 80)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Theodore Lyman (1874-1954) was an American physicist known for the discovery of the Lyman series in the hydrogen spectru...

Daniel Gregory Mason

1873–1953 (age 80)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Daniel Gregory Mason (1873-1953) was an American composer and music critic who taught at the New England Conservatory an...

George Henry Chase

1874–1952 (age 78)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

George Henry Chase (1874-1952) was an American archaeologist and Harvard professor whose remains are at Mount Auburn Cem...

Ralph Barton Perry

1876–1957 (age 81)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Ralph Barton Perry (1876-1957) was an American philosopher and educator who taught at Harvard and is interred at Mount A...

Richard von Mises

1883–1953 (age 70)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Richard von Mises (1883-1953) was an Austrian-American mathematician and scientist renowned for his work on probability ...

Ludlow Griscom

1890–1959 (age 69)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Ludlow Griscom (1890-1959) was an American ornithologist and museum curator noted for promoting birdwatching, whose grav...

Witold Hurewicz

1904–1956 (age 52)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Witold Hurewicz (1904-1956) was a Polish-American mathematician known for contributions to topology, buried at Mount Aub...

James Jackson

1881–1952 (age 71)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

James Jackson (1881-1952) was a Boston-area figure whose life concluded with his burial at Mount Auburn Cemetery.

George Howe

1886–1955 (age 69)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

George Howe (1886-1955) was an American architect associated with early modernism and is laid to rest at Mount Auburn Ce...

John Dunlop

1874–1957 (age 83)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

John Dunlop (1874-1957) hailed from Cambridge and was laid to rest at Mount Auburn Cemetery.

John Wells Farley

1878–1959 (age 81)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

John Wells Farley (1878-1959) was a Brookline native whose final resting place is Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Gerty Cori

1896–1957 (age 61)

Bellefontaine Cemetery

Gerty Cori (1896-1957) was born in Prague and is buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery after a notable lifespan.

Martha Norelius

1909–1955 (age 46)

Bellefontaine Cemetery

Martha Norelius (1909-1955), originally from Stockholm, rests in Bellefontaine Cemetery.