Deaths in the 2000s
23,000+ memorials
Ralph Houser
1914–2001 (age 87)
Arlington National Cemetery
Ralph Houser (1914–2001) of Iowa City was an American military officer whose wartime years are honored by his burial a...
Ray Cromley
1910–2007 (age 97)
Arlington National Cemetery
Ray Cromley (1910–2007) was an American journalist and wartime correspondent whose overseas dispatches informed reader...
Reginald R. Myers
1919–2005 (age 86)
Arlington National Cemetery
Reginald R. Myers (1919–2005) was a U.S. Marine Corps officer awarded the Medal of Honor for his leadership during the...
Rex D. Davis
1924–2008 (age 84)
Arlington National Cemetery
Rex D. Davis (1924–2008) was an American military officer whose decades of service were honored with burial at Arlingt...
Richard Carr
1925–2002 (age 77)
Arlington National Cemetery
Richard Carr (1925–2002) of El Centro served as an American military officer during the mid-20th century and is rememb...
Richard Grenier
1933–2002 (age 69)
Arlington National Cemetery
Richard Grenier (1933–2002) was an American journalist and author best known for his conservative commentary in outlet...
Richard Halsey Best
1910–2001 (age 91)
Arlington National Cemetery
Richard Halsey Best (1910–2001) was a U.S. Navy dive-bomber pilot credited with crippling the Japanese fleet during th...
Richard M. Scammon
1915–2001 (age 86)
Arlington National Cemetery
Richard M. Scammon (1915–2001) was an American political scientist and elections analyst whose work helped shape telev...
Richard P. Bordone
1930–2007 (age 77)
Arlington National Cemetery
Richard P. Bordone (1930–2007) was an American military officer whose service is commemorated by his interment at Arli...
Robert C. Bassett
1911–2000 (age 89)
Arlington National Cemetery
Robert C. Bassett (1911–2000) of Sturgeon Bay was an American military officer and civic leader honored with burial at...
Robert C. Duncan
1923–2003 (age 80)
Arlington National Cemetery
Robert C. Duncan (1923–2003) of Jonesville served as an American military officer during the Cold War era before being...
Charles Edward Bennett
1910–2003 (age 93)
Arlington National Cemetery
Charles Edward Bennett (1910–2003) was a long-serving U.S. Representative from Florida who also served in the Army dur...
Claude Brinegar
1926–2009 (age 83)
Arlington National Cemetery
Claude Brinegar (1926–2009) of Rockport served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President Nixon and later joi...
David Hackworth
1930–2005 (age 75)
Arlington National Cemetery
David Hackworth was a decorated U.S. Army colonel, author, and critic who chronicled his experiences from Korea to Vietn...
Donald Regan
1918–2003 (age 85)
Arlington National Cemetery
Donald Regan was an American businessman and politician who served as Secretary of the Treasury and White House Chief of...
Pierre Salinger
1925–2004 (age 79)
Arlington National Cemetery
Pierre Salinger was a journalist and Democratic political operative best known as President Kennedy’s press secretary ...
John Andrew Young
1916–2002 (age 86)
Arlington National Cemetery
John Andrew Young was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Texas who represented Corpus Christi and the surrounding reg...
Charles Carmin Noble
1916–2003 (age 87)
Arlington National Cemetery
Charles Carmin Noble was a U.S. Army officer whose career of service is commemorated by his Arlington National Cemetery ...
Stanley H. Ruttenberg
1917–2001 (age 84)
Arlington National Cemetery
Stanley H. Ruttenberg was an American labor economist and government official whose work influenced mid-twentieth-centur...
Michael P. Ryan
1916–2005 (age 89)
Arlington National Cemetery
Michael P. Ryan was a United States Marine Corps lieutenant general whose lengthy career included leadership during mult...
Donn J. Robertson
1916–2000 (age 84)
Arlington National Cemetery
Donn J. Robertson rose to the rank of Marine Corps general after a career that spanned World War II through the Vietnam ...
Robert R. Scott
1920–2006 (age 86)
Arlington National Cemetery
Robert R. Scott was an American military officer from Des Moines whose service was honored with burial at Arlington Nati...
William Estel Potts
1935–2004 (age 69)
Arlington National Cemetery
William Estel Potts was a career U.S. Army officer whose long service earned him interment at Arlington.
E. Ann Hoefly
1919–2003 (age 84)
Arlington National Cemetery
E. Ann Hoefly was a pioneering leader in the U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps who reached the rank of brigadier general.
Lenore Fenton MacClain
1912–2005 (age 93)
Arlington National Cemetery
Lenore Fenton MacClain was an American servicewoman whose dedication to her country is reflected by her resting place at...
William J. McCaffrey
1914–2006 (age 92)
Arlington National Cemetery
William J. McCaffrey was a senior U.S. Army officer who served in multiple command and staff roles before retiring.
Charles Woods
1921–2004 (age 83)
Arlington National Cemetery
Charles Woods was a U.S. military officer from Dothan whose commitment to national service is recognized by his Arlingto...
Clinton A. Puckett
1926–2002 (age 76)
Arlington National Cemetery
Clinton A. Puckett was a United States Marine Corps officer whose decades of service culminated in his interment at Arli...
Cord Meyer IV
1920–2001 (age 81)
Arlington National Cemetery
Cord Meyer IV (1920–2001) was a native of Washington, D.C., who was interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
Daniel J. Murphy
1922–2001 (age 79)
Arlington National Cemetery
Daniel J. Murphy (1922–2001) hailed from Brooklyn and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
David M. Jones
1913–2008 (age 95)
Arlington National Cemetery
David M. Jones (1913–2008) of Coos Bay rests at Arlington National Cemetery.
David O. Cooke
1920–2002 (age 82)
Arlington National Cemetery
David O. Cooke (1920–2002) was born in Buffalo and was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
Delbert Black
1922–2000 (age 78)
Arlington National Cemetery
Delbert Black (1922–2000) from Love County is interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
Delbert O. Jennings
1936–2003 (age 67)
Arlington National Cemetery
Delbert O. Jennings (1936–2003) of Silver City was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Dick Johnson
1917–2002 (age 85)
Arlington National Cemetery
Dick Johnson (1917–2002) was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
William A. Knowlton
1920–2008 (age 88)
Arlington National Cemetery
William A. Knowlton (1920–2008) of Weston was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
William Anderson
1921–2007 (age 86)
Arlington National Cemetery
William Anderson (1921–2007) from Bakerville is interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
Parren Mitchell
1922–2007 (age 85)
Arlington National Cemetery
Parren Mitchell (1922–2007) of Baltimore was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
Charles Leonard
1913–2006 (age 93)
Arlington National Cemetery
Charles Leonard (1913–2006) of Fort Snelling rests at Arlington National Cemetery.
Guy Gabaldon
1926–2006 (age 80)
Arlington National Cemetery
Guy Gabaldon (1926–2006) of Los Angeles was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
1912–2002 (age 90)
Arlington National Cemetery
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. (1912–2002) of Washington, D.C., is interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
L. Fletcher Prouty
1917–2001 (age 84)
Arlington National Cemetery
L. Fletcher Prouty (1917–2001) of Springfield was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
Ignatius Wolfington
1920–2004 (age 84)
Arlington National Cemetery
Ignatius Wolfington (1920–2004) from Philadelphia rests at Arlington National Cemetery.
Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan
1987–2007 (age 20)
Arlington National Cemetery
Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan (1987–2007) was a U.S. Army specialist from Neptune Township who was killed in Iraq and is b...
Kenneth M. Taylor
1919–2006 (age 87)
Arlington National Cemetery
Kenneth M. Taylor (1919–2006) was the Enid-born Army Air Forces pilot who scrambled to defend Pearl Harbor and rests a...
Johnny Micheal Spann
1969–2001 (age 32)
Arlington National Cemetery
Johnny Micheal Spann (1969–2001) was a CIA paramilitary officer from Winfield who became the first American killed in ...
Tex Biard
1912–2009 (age 97)
Arlington National Cemetery
Tex Biard (1912–2009) was a U.S. Navy cryptologist whose wartime intelligence work earned him a place at Arlington Nat...
Thomas Alexander Parrott
1914–2007 (age 93)
Arlington National Cemetery
Thomas Alexander Parrott (1914–2007) was a longtime American intelligence officer who is buried at Arlington National ...
Thomas F. Healy
1931–2004 (age 73)
Arlington National Cemetery
Thomas F. Healy (1931–2004) of Cambridge was a U.S. Army general whose decades of service culminated in burial at Arli...
Thomas H. Miller
1923–2007 (age 84)
Arlington National Cemetery
Thomas H. Miller (1923–2007) of San Antonio was a career U.S. military officer honored with interment at Arlington Nat...