Memorials in Jackson County (Missouri)
Jackson County: 20 memorial pages
of people who were born or died here, or were laid to rest here
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Burt Bacharach
05/12/1928 – 02/08/2023
94 years
American pianist, composer, producer
Memorial
Ed Asner
11/15/1929 – 08/29/2021
91 years
American actor
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James Gunn
07/12/1923 – 12/23/2020
97 years
American science fiction author
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Jane Dee Hull
08/08/1935 – 04/16/2020
84 years
American politician
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Lynn Cohen
née Lynn Harriette Kay
08/10/1933 – 02/14/2020
86 years
American actress
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Robert Morris
02/09/1931 – 11/28/2018
87 years
American artist
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Kate Spade
née Katherine Brosnahan
12/24/1962 – 06/05/2018
55 years
American fashion designer
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Michael Massee
08/16/1955 – 10/20/2016
61 years
American actor
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Leslie Feinberg
09/01/1949 – 11/15/2014
65 years
American transgender activist and writer
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Bob Brookmeyer
12/19/1929 – 12/15/2011
81 years
American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, arranger, and composer
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Virginia Davis
12/31/1918 – 08/15/2009
90 years
American actress
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Walter Cronkite
11/04/1916 – 07/17/2009
92 years
American broadcast journalist
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Dorothy Vaughan
09/20/1910 – 11/10/2008
98 years
African-American mathematician
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Margaret Truman Daniel
02/17/1924 – 01/29/2008
83 years
American author of murder mysteries; daughter of 33rd President of the United States Harry S. Truman
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Robert Altman
02/20/1925 – 11/20/2006
81 years
American filmmaker
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Basil Poledouris
08/21/1945 – 11/08/2006
61 years
Greek-American composer, conductor, and orchestrator of film and television scores
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Ellen Drew
11/23/1915 – 12/03/2003
88 years
American actress
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Walter J. Ong
11/30/1912 – 08/12/2003
90 years
American philosopher and historian
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Stan Brakhage
née Robert Sanders
01/14/1933 – 03/09/2003
70 years
American filmmaker and writer
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Florynce Kennedy
02/11/1916 – 12/22/2000
84 years
American activist