CEMETERY

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

Location:
Oakland, CA

Founding Date:
1863

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Stephen D. Bechtel	Business	24-Sep-1900	14-Mar-1989	Ran Bechtel from 1936-60
Warren A. Bechtel	Business	12-Sep-1872	28-Aug-1933	Founder of Bechtel Corporation
Frederick G. Cottrell	Inventor	10-Jan-1877	16-Nov-1948	Smokestack filters to fight pollution
Mac Dre	Rapper	5-Jul-1970	1-Nov-2004	Vallejo Rapper
Domenico Ghirardelli	Business	21-Feb-1817	17-Jan-1894	Founder of Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
William M. Gwin	Politician	9-Oct-1805	3-Sep-1885	US Senator from California
Henry J. Kaiser	Business	9-May-1882	24-Aug-1967	Industrialist and shipbuilder
William F. Knowland	Politician	26-Jun-1908	23-Feb-1974	US Senator, committed suicide
Fred Korematsu	Activist	30-Jan-1919	30-Mar-2005	Opposed internment camps
Victor H. Metcalf	Government	10-Oct-1853	20-Feb-1936	US Secretary of the Navy, 1906-08
Samuel S. Montague	Engineer	6-Jul-1830	24-Sep-1883	American Transcontinental Railroad
Julia Morgan	Architect	20-Jan-1872	2-Feb-1957	Designed Hearst Castle
Frank Norris	Novelist	5-Mar-1870	25-Oct-1902	The Octopus
Irving Pichel	Film Director	24-Jun-1891	13-Jul-1954	Destination Moon
Elizabeth Short	Victim	29-Jul-1924	15-Jan-1947	The Black Dahlia

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