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John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr., often referred to as John F. Kennedy, Jr., JFK Jr. or John-John (November 25, 1960 – July 16, 1999) was an American lawyer, journalist, and publisher. He was the son of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy.
Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American blues-influenced rock singer and occasional songwriter with a distinctive voice. Joplin released four albums as the frontwoman for several bands from 1967 to a posthumous release in 1971.
Steve McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was an American movie actor. Nicknamed "The King of Cool," he was considered one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1960s and 1970s due to what many film goers consider a captivating on-screen persona. McQueen was considered a combative and archetypal "difficult movie star" who didn’t like working with directors or producers. In retaliation, he would only work if paid a higher than average "movie star" salary for his films.
Ingrid Bergman (August 29, 1915 – August 29, 1982) was an Academy Award-winning Swedish actress. Bergman was honored posthumously with an Emmy Award for Best Actress in 1982 for the television mini-series A Woman Called Golda, about the late Israeli prime minister Golda Meir. Her co-star in the mini-series was Leonard Nimoy. For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Ingrid Bergman has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6759 Hollywood Blvd.
Dennis Carl Wilson (December 4, 1944 – December 28, 1983) was an American rock and roll musician best known as a founding member of The Beach Boys. On January 4, 1984 he was given a burial at sea off the California coast.
Rock Hudson (November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985) was an American actor, famous for his rugged good looks. He was the first major American celebrity known to have died from AIDS (specifically, AIDS-related cancer of the lymph glands), and the announcement of his death from the disease at the age of 59 brought it wider public attention in the United States.
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986), better known as L. Ron Hubbard, was a prolific American author and founder of the controversial Church of Scientology. In addition to Scientological and self-help books, he wrote fiction in several genres, business management texts, essays, and poetry.
Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993), born in St. Louis, Missouri to Vincent Leonard Price and Marguerite Willcox Price, was an American film actor. He is most well remembered for his roles in a series of low-budget horror films where his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude were well used. In such films, his tall physique and polished urbane manner made him something of an American counterpart to the older Boris Karloff.
Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was famous as lead guitarist and vocalist of the psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead, though his extensive career involved many other projects. Named after composer Jerome Kern, Garcia started on the piano, moved on to the guitar, and eventually became a master on many stringed instruments, despite the loss - by his brother Clifford ("Tiff") - of his right middle finger just below the first knuckle while chopping wood at the age of four.
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an accomplished American film actor and singer. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Mitchum is largely remembered for his starring roles in several major works of the film noir genre, and is considered a forerunner of the antiheroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and '60s.
Legendary and fictional people buried at sea
- Boromir, fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien 's Middle-earth receives a burial by letting the boat carrying his remains drift away on a river
- Sigurd Ring, from the Norse sagas
- Balder, from Scandinavian mythology
- Emmeline and Richard, the main characters of The Blue Lagoon, were buried at sea at the beginning of Return to the Blue Lagoon .
- James Bond received a traditional Anglican burial at sea when his death was faked in You Only Live Twice .
- In the first season of the anime series Pokémon, when the main characters were assumed lost in a shipwreck, they received a burial at sea without a body.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what they had to teach; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
~ Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"
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