Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA

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Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA

CEMETERY

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

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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