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Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY

CEMETERY

A Jewish section, "Sharon Gardens", was established in 1953.

Official Website:
http://www.kensico.org/

Location:
Valhalla, NY

Founding Date:
1889

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Glenn Anders
Actor
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Peter Arno
Cartoonist
8-Jan-1904 22-Feb-1968 The New Yorker
Anne Bancroft
Actor
17-Sep-1931 6-Jun-2005 Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate
Wendy Barrie
Actor
18-Apr-1912 2-Feb-1978 The Private Life of Henry VIII
Ed Barrow
Baseball
10-May-1868 15-Dec-1953 Yankees General Manager, 1920-45
Vivian Blaine
Actor
21-Nov-1921 9-Dec-1995 Guys and Dolls
Billie Burke
Actor
7-Aug-1885 14-May-1970 Glinda, the Good Witch of the North
Paddy Chayefsky
Playwright
29-Jan-1923 1-Aug-1981 Network
Marc Connelly
Playwright
13-Dec-1890 21-Dec-1980 The Green Pastures
Frank Conroy
Actor
14-Oct-1890 24-Feb-1964 The Ox-Bow Incident
Milton Cross
Radio Personality
16-Apr-1897 3-Jan-1975 Announcer, voice of the Metropolitan Opera
Harry Davenport
Actor
19-Jan-1866 9-Aug-1949 Gone with the Wind
Lee Dixon
Actor
22-Jan-1914 8-Jan-1953 Ready, Willing and Able
Tommy Dorsey
Musician
19-Nov-1905 26-Nov-1956 Popular bandleader
Geraldine Farrar
Singer
28-Feb-1882 11-Mar-1967 Soprano, New York Metropolitan Opera
Emanuel Feuermann
Cellist
22-Nov-1902 25-May-1942 Cellist
Fred Friendly
Journalist
30-Oct-1915 3-Mar-1998 President of CBS News, 1964-66
Lou Gehrig
Baseball
19-Jun-1903 2-Jun-1941 Played 2,130 consecutive games
Jill Haworth
Actor
15-Aug-1946 3-Jan-2011 In Harm's Way
Danny Kaye
Actor
18-Jan-1913 3-Mar-1987 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Guy Kibbee
Actor
6-Mar-1882 24-May-1956 Captain January
Herbert H. Lehman
Politician
28-Mar-1878 5-Dec-1963 Governor of New York, 1933-42
Dorothy Loudon
Actor
17-Sep-1933 15-Nov-2003 American stage actress
Robert Merrill
Singer
4-Jun-1917 23-Oct-2004 Operatic baritone, NY Metropolitan Opera
Anna Moffo
Singer
27-Jun-1932 10-Mar-2006 Operatic soprano
Allan Nevins
Historian
20-May-1890 5-Mar-1971 Civil War historian
David Graham Phillips
Journalist
31-Oct-1867 24-Jan-1911 Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
Sergei Rachmaninov
Composer
20-Mar-1873 28-Mar-1943 Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Ayn Rand
Author
2-Feb-1905 6-Mar-1982 Atlas Shrugged
David Sarnoff
Business
27-Feb-1891 12-Dec-1971 CEO of RCA, founder of NBC
Gordon Scott
Actor
3-Aug-1926 30-Apr-2007 Played Tarzan, 1955-60
Richard B. Shull
Actor
24-Feb-1929 14-Oct-1999 Holmes and Yo-Yo
Beverly Sills
Singer
25-May-1929 2-Jul-2007 Soprano at the New York City Opera
Alison Skipworth
Actor
25-Jul-1863 5-Jul-1952 Broadway and character actress
Henry Stephenson
Actor
16-Apr-1871 24-Apr-1956 The Prince and the Pauper
Lewis Stone
Actor
15-Nov-1879 12-Sep-1953 Judge James Hardy
Andrew Tombes
Actor
29-Jun-1885 17-Mar-1976 Doubting Thomas
Florenz Ziegfeld
Theatre Producer
21-Mar-1869 22-Jul-1932 The Ziegfeld Follies


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