Where They're Buried Flashcards
Upon her entombment in the Pantheon along with her co-Nobel laureate husband, she became the first woman to be accorded the honor on her own merits.
Marie Curie
He’s interred at 122nd Street and Riverside Drive.
Ulysses S. Grant
In 1840, nineteen years after his death on St. Helena, his remains were relocated to Paris’s Dome des Invalides.
Napoleon Bonaparte
From 1955 until 1971, her body’s location was unknown; upon their discovery in Milan, her remains were initially displayed in her exiled husband’s living room in Spain before being interred in Buenos Aires’s La Recoleta Cemetery.
Eva Peron
Her name and “1926-1962” are the only adornments to her spartan Westwood Memorial Park crypt.
Marilyn Monroe
Although Conde Nast, Tim and Wellington Mara, and fellow Yankee alumnus Billy Martin are buried in the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York, no one there is more famous than this man, appropriately in graves number three and four.
Babe Ruth
On February 23, 1997, he was interred in Resurrection Cemetery in Madison, Wisconsin; David Spade was too grief-stricken to attend
Chris Farley
Every Russian czar except Peter II and Ivan VI is interred at Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral in this city.
St. Petersburg
As featured in an Oliver Stone movie, his grave is near those of Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, and Georges Bizet at Pere Lachaise Cemetery.
Jim Morrison
Before her burial at Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, New Jersey, Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, and, unfortunately, R. Kelly sang at her service in nearby Newark.
Whitney Houston
