Description
Book SynopsisKarl Marx is buried in London, John Keats in Rome and Leon Trotsky in Mexico. Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris is today known for the graves of Jim Morrison, Victor Hugo and Oscar Wilde, but when it opened in the early 19th century the owners felt that they needed some star names to make it a desired burial site – and so they had Molière’s body transferred there.
Arranged thematically into 75 entries, Graves of the Great and Famous tours the world exploring the resting places of leading artists, thinkers, scientists, sportspeople, revolutionaries, politicians and pioneers. Some, such as communist leaders Ho Chi Minh and Vladimir Lenin, are interred in great mausoleums, where they are visited by millions each year; others are buried in little-known country graveyards. From lives cut short through assassinations – Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln – to those who suffered terrible accidents (Princess Diana), from mobsters such as Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegel and John Gotti to Napoleon and his mistress Marie Walewska, from Nelson Mandela to Eva Peron, Graceland to Highgate Cemetery, the book provides a guide to some of the most famous and unusual graves of the great and the good.
Featuring 150 photographs of graves, cemeteries, graveyards and mausoleums, Graves of the Great and Famous is a compact guide to the final resting place of the famous – and infamous.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Actors and Directors
James Dean
Marilyn Monroe
Stan Laurel
Buster Keaton
Judy Garland
Bruce Lee
Natalie Wood
Ingrid & Ingmar Bergman
Bette Davis
Yves Montand/Simone Signoret
Marlene Dietrich
Akira Kurosawa
Debbie Reynolds and daughter Carrie Fisher
Artists and Designers
Leonardo
Albrecht Durer
Michelangelo
Jacques-Louis David
Goya
Gauguin
Christian Dior
Albert Namatjira
Coco Chanel
Max Ernst
Musicians, Entertainers and Sportspeople
JS Bach
Wolfgang Mozart
Beethoven
Frederic Chopin
Richard Wagner
Tchaikovsky
Johann Strauss
Giuseppe Verdi
Edith Piaf
Jimi Hendrix
Jim Morrison
Elvis Presley
Bob Marley
John Lennon
Frank Zappa
Michael Hutchence
Frank Sinatra
Johnny Cash & June Carter
Muhammad Ali
Revolutionaries, Rebels and Humanitarians
Martin Luther
Oliver Cromwell
Simon Bolivar
Sojourner Truth
V I Lenin
Leon Trotsky
Hans and Sophie Scholl
Mahatma Gandhi
Martin Luther King
Ho Chi Minh
Oskar Schindler
Mao Tse-Tung
Mother Teresa
Rosa Parks
Nelson Mandela
Royals, Rulers and Politicians
Julius Caesar
Augustus
Saladin
Vlad the Impaler
Hideyoshi
Elizabeth I & Westminster Abbey
Peter I the Great and Catherine the Great
Napoleon
Abraham Lincoln
Sun Yat Sen
Kemal Ataturk
FDR
Eva Peron
John F Kennedy
Winston Churchill
Sukarno
Haile Selassie
Princess Diana
Thinkers, Scientists and Explorers
Confucius
Columbus
Copernicus Galileo
Isaac Newton
Charles Darwin
Karl Marx
Richard Burton
Marie & Pierre Curie
Albert Schweitzer
Yuri Gagarin
Dian Fossey
Stephen Hawking
Writers, Poets and Playwrights
Omar Khayyam
William Shakespeare
Moliere
Voltaire
Yosa Buson
Mary Wollstonecraft
Jane Austen
John Keats
Balzac
Mary Shelley
Hans Christian Anderson
George Eliot
Victor Hugo
Oscar Wilde
Leo Tolstoy
Ivan Franko
Wilfred Owen
Marcel Proust
Franz Kafka
James Joyce
Colette
Bertoldt Brecht
Truman Capote
Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir
