Notable people buried in New York

• Mark Twain1835-1910
  American author and humorist
  Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, NY
• Theodore Roosevelt1858-1919
  26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909
  Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay Cove, NY
• Louis Armstrong1901-1971
  American jazz musician, trumpeter and singer
  Flushing Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Martin Van Buren1782-1862
  President of the United States from 1837 to 1841
  Kinderhook Cemetery, Kinderhook, NY
• Carl Sagan1934-1996
  American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author
  Lake View Cemetery, Cayuga Heights, NY
• Millard Fillmore1800-1874
  President of the United States from 1850 to 1853
  Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, NY
• Malcolm X1925-1965
  American Black rights activist
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• Chester A. Arthur1829-1886
  President of the United States from 1881 to 1885
  Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, NY
• Herman Melville1819-1891
  American writer and poet
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Ayn Rand1905-1982
  Russian-born American writer and public philosopher
  Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
• Jackson Pollock1912-1956
  American painter
  Green River Cemetery, Springs, NY
• Andrew Carnegie1835-1919
  Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist
  Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, NY
• Mae West1893-1980
  American actress, singer, screenwriter, and writer
  Cypress Hills Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Washington Irving1783-1859
  American writer, historian and diplomat
  Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, NY
• Elie Wiesel1928-2016
  Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor
  Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
• Béla Bartók1881-1945
  Hungarian composer and pianist
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• Alexander Hamilton1757-1804
  American Founding Father and statesman (1755/1757-1804)
  Trinity Churchyard, New York City, NY
• Joan Crawford1905-1977
  American actress
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• Miles Davis1926-1991
  American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Samuel Finley Breese Morse1791-1872
  American inventor and painter
  Green - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• Gary Cooper1901-1961
  American actor
  Sacred Hearts Cemetery, Tuckahoe, NY
• Harry Houdini1874-1926
  Hungarian-born American illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer
  Machpelah Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Frederick Douglass1818-1895
  African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist
  Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY
• I. M. Pei1917-2019
  Chinese-American architect
  Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
• Hans Bethe1906-2005
  German-American nuclear physicist
  Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Cayuga Heights, NY
• Susan B. Anthony1820-1906
  American women's rights activist
  Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY
• Sergei Rachmaninoff1873-1943
  Russian composer, pianist and conductor
  Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
• James Cagney1899-1986
  American actor and dancer
  Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
• Philip Roth1933-2018
  American novelist
  Bard College Cemetery, Tivoli, NY
• Billie Holiday1915-1959
  American jazz singer
  Saint Raymond Cemetery, Bronx, NY
• Piet Mondrian1872-1944
  Dutch painter
  Cypress Hills Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Duke Ellington1899-1974
  American jazz pianist and composer
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Martin Landau1928-2017
  American actor
  Beth David Cemetery, Elmont, NY
• Mario Puzo1920-1999
  American author, screenwriter, and journalist
  North Babylon Cemetery, North Babylon, NY
• Emanuel Lasker1868-1941
  Greman chess player, World Chess champion
  B'nai Jeshurum and Shereth Israel Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Anne Bancroft1931-2005
  American actress
  Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
• Lucille Ball1911-1989
  American actress
  Lake View Cemetery, Jamestown, NY
• Leonard Bernstein1918-1990
  American conductor and composer
  Green - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• James Baldwin1924-1987
  American writer
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• Peter Debye1884-1966
  Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist
  Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Cayuga Heights, NY
• Joseph Pulitzer1847-1911
  Hungarian-American newspaper publisher and politician
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Ludwig von Mises1881-1973
  Austrian-American economist
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton1815-1902
  American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Babe Ruth1895-1948
  American baseball player
  Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
• Aaliyah1979-2001
  American R&B singer
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• Paul Auster1947-2024
  American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter
  Green - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• Nelson Rockefeller1908-1979
  Vice President of the United States from 1974 to 1977
  Rockefeller Family Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, NY
• Frances Hodgson Burnett1849-1924
  English-American playwright and author
  Roslyn Cemetery, Greenvale, NY
• Wilhelm Steinitz1836-1900
  Austrian-American chess player
  The Evergreens Cemetery, Queens, NY
• John Coltrane1926-1967
  American jazz saxophonist
  Pinelawn Memorial Park, East Farmingdale, NY
• Irving Berlin1888-1989
  American composer and lyricist
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Dorothy Parker1893-1967
  American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Sidney Lumet1924-2011
  American director, producer and screenwriter
  Beth David Cemetery, Elmont, NY
• Helen Hayes1900-1993
  American actress
  Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, NY
• Robert Fulton1765-1815
  American engineer and inventor
  Trinity Church Cemetery, New York City, NY
• Mark Rothko1903-1970
  American painter of Latvian-Jewish descent
  East Marion Cemetery, Greenport, NY
• Nellie Bly1864-1922
  American journalist
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Montgomery Clift1920-1966
  American actor
  Quaker Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• Franz Boas1858-1942
  German-American anthropologist
  Dale Cemetery, Ossining, NY
• Ruth Benedict1887-1948
  American anthropologist and folklorologist
  Mount Hope Cemetery, Norwich, NY
• Ralph Bunche1904-1971
  Diplomat, educator, civil rights activist and the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Tony Bennett1926-2023
  American singer
  Calvary Cemetery, Manhattan, NY
• Sholem Aleichem1859-1916
  Jewish writer and playwright of Yiddish, who worked in Russian Empire, Switzerland, Germany and the United States
  Mount Carmel Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Dizzy Gillespie1917-1993
  American jazz trumpeter
  Flushing Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Raymond Davis Jr.1914-2006
  American scientist
  Blue Point Cemetery, Blue Point, NY
• Henry George1839-1897
  American political economist and journalist
  Green - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• Scott Joplin1867-1917
  American composer, musician, pianist (1867/68-1917)
  Saint Michael's Cemetery, Manhattan, NY
• Robert Capa1913-1954
  American photographer
  Amawalk Hill Cemetery, Yorktown Heights, NY
• Margaret Sanger1879-1966
  American birth control activist and nurse
  Green - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• Edward Thorndike1874-1949
  American psychologist
  Hillside Cemetery, Peekskill, NY
• Shirley Chisholm1924-2005
  First black woman elected to the United States Congress
  Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, NY
• Karen Horney1885-1952
  American-German psychoanalyst
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• Thelonious Monk1917-1982
  American jazz pianist and composer
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• David Rockefeller1915-2017
  American banker and philanthropist
  Rockefeller Family Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, NY
• John Barry1933-2011
  British composer and conductor
  Locust Valley Cemetery, Locust Valley, NY
• George Armstrong Custer1839-1876
  United States cavalry commander
  West Point Cemetery, West Point, NY
• Louise Bourgeois1911-2010
  French-American artist
  Cutchogue Cemetery, Cutchogue, NY
• Edward Hopper1882-1967
  American realist painter and printmaker
  Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, NY
• Celia Cruz1925-2003
  Cuban singer
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Cicely Tyson1924-2021
  American actress
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Jean-Michel Basquiat1960-1988
  American artist
  Green - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• Danny Kaye1911-1987
  American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian
  Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
• Soong May-ling1898-2003
  Chiang Kai-shek's wife, First Lady of the Republic of China
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• Edward G. Robinson1893-1973
  Romanian-American actor
  Beth El Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Carson McCullers1917-1967
  American writer
  Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, NY
• C. Wright Mills1916-1962
  American sociologist
  Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, NY
• Jackie Robinson1919-1972
  American baseball player
  Cypress Hills Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Barbara W. Tuchman1912-1989
  American historian and author
  Temple Israel Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
• Cliff Robertson1923-2011
  American actor
  Cedar Lawn Cemetery, East Hampton North, NY
• Broderick Crawford1911-1986
  American actor
  Ferndale Cemetery, Gloversville, NY
• Maureen Stapleton1925-2006
  American actress
  Saint Marys Cemetery, Troy, NY
• Paul Robeson1898-1976
  American singer, actor, and political activist
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• Leo Baekeland1863-1944
  Belgium American inventor
  Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, NY
• Lewis H. Morgan1818-1881
  American anthropologist
  Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY
• Dorothy Day1897-1980
  American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert
  Cemetery of the Resurrection, Staten Island, NY
• Count Basie1904-1984
  American jazz musician and composer
  Pinelawn Memorial Park, East Farmingdale, NY
• Ornette Coleman1930-2015
  American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Richard Holbrooke1941-2010
  American diplomat
  Oakland Cemetery, Sag Harbor, NY
• Cornelius Vanderbilt1794-1877
  American businessman and tycoon
  Moravian Cemetery, Staten Island, NY
• Alexander Archipenko1887-1964
  American sculptor and artist of Ukrainian origin
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Levi P. Morton1824-1920
  Vice president of the United States from 1889 to 1893
  Rhinebeck Cemetery, Rhinebeck, NY
• Mary Higgins Clark1927-2020
  American author of suspense novels
  Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
• George Whipple1878-1976
  American physician and biomedical researcher
  Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY
• William A. Wheeler1819-1887
  Vice president of the United States from 1877 to 1881
  Morningside Cemetery, Malone, NY
• Otto Preminger1905-1986
  Austrian-American director, producer, and actor
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Alice Brady1892-1939
  American actress
  Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, NY
• Lorenzo Da Ponte1749-1838
  Italian opera librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest
  Calvary Cemetery, Manhattan, NY
• Albert Ellis1913-2007
  American psychologist
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Sergei Dovlatov1941-1990
  Soviet writer
  Mount Hebron Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Ed White1930-1967
  American astronaut
  West Point Cemetery, West Point, NY
• James A. Van Allen1914-2006
  American astrophysicist
  Southampton Cemetery, Tuckahoe, NY
• Kurt Weill1900-1950
  German composer
  Mount Repose Cemetery, Haverstraw, NY
• Otto Rank1884-1939
  Austrian psychoanalyst
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• George Balanchine1904-1983
  American choreographer, dancer and ballet master
  Oakland Cemetery, Sag Harbor, NY
• James S. Sherman1855-1912
  American politician and Vice President of the United States from 1909 to 1912
  Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica, NY
• Margaret Brown1867-1932
  Survivor of the sinking of the Titanic (1867-1932), women's rights activist, philanthropist
  Holy Rood Cemetery, Westbury, NY
• Thomas Cole1801-1848
  19th-century American painter
  Catskill Village Cemetery, Catskill, NY
• Michel Fokine1880-1942
  Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• Basil Rathbone1892-1967
  English actor
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• Albert Fish1870-1936
  American serial killer, pedophile and cannibal
  Flushing Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Rip Torn1931-2019
  American actor
  Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery, Poughkeepsie, NY
• Edith Roosevelt1861-1948
  First Lady of the United States from 1901 to 1909
  Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay Cove, NY
• E. L. Doctorow1931-2015
  Novelist, editor, professor
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Lucky Luciane1897-1962
  Italian American mobster
  Saint John Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Frances Allen1932-2020
  American computer scientist
  Saint Augustine Cemetery, Peru, NY
• Madam C. J. Walker1867-1919
  American entrepreneur
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.1934-2012
  United States Army general
  West Point Cemetery, West Point, NY
• Andy Kaufman1949-1984
  American entertainer
  Beth David Cemetery, Elmont, NY
• Bella Abzug1920-1998
  American politician
  Mount Carmel Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Winsor McCay1869-1934
  American cartoonist and animator
  The Evergreens Cemetery, Queens, NY
• John Jacob Astor I1763-1848
  German-American businessman
  Trinity Church Cemetery, New York City, NY
• Louise Brooks1906-1985
  American actress
  Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Rochester, NY
• Fred Trump1905-1999
  American real estate developer; father of Donald Trump
  Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery, Middle Village, NY
• Beverly Sills1929-2007
  American operatic soprano
  Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
• Ed Sullivan1901-1974
  American television host
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• Cab Calloway1907-1994
  American jazz singer
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• David Farragut1801-1870
  United States Navy admiral
  Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
• Ernst Toller1893-1939
  German writer, politician and leader of the Munich Soviet Republic
  Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
• Bernard Mannes Baruch1870-1965
  American businessman
  Flushing Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Horace Greeley1811-1872
  American politician and publisher
  Green - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• Mario Cuomo1932-2015
  Governor of New York from 1983 to 1994
  Saint John Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Herman Wouk1915-2019
  American writer
  Beth David Cemetery, Elmont, NY
• Alan J. Pakula1928-1998
  American film director, writer and producer
  Green River Cemetery, Springs, NY
• Typhoid Mary1869-1938
  Infected houseworker in New York City
  Saint Raymond Cemetery, Bronx, NY
• Bernard Herrmann1911-1975
  American composer and conductor
  Beth David Cemetery, Elmont, NY
• Abe Vigoda1921-2016
  American actor
  Beth David Cemetery, Elmont, NY
• Thomas John Watson, Sr.1874-1956
  USA IBM executive and art collector
  Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, NY
• Lola Montez1821-1861
  Irish dancer and actress
  Green - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• Peter Boyle1935-2006
  American actor
  Green River Cemetery, Springs, NY
• Jack Dempsey1895-1983
  American boxer
  Southampton Cemetery, Tuckahoe, NY

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