Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison

male, deceased (1971)
The Doors, rock music, singer, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Obscenity controversies…buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
James Douglas Morrison was an American singer, songwriter, writer, film director, and poet. He was best known as the lead singer and lyricist of...
Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

female, deceased (1946)
buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Radcliffe College alumni, LGBT, Stomach cancer death, Jewish person, American…Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946) was an American writer and is considered to have acted as a catalyst in the development of modern...
Maria Callas

Maria Callas

female, deceased (1977)
buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, dramatic coloratura, rossini, Divas, bellini, post-World War II best opera singer…Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
Maria Callas was an American born, Greek dramatic coloratura soprano and perhaps the best-known opera singer of the post-World War II period. She...
François Christophe Kellermann

François Christophe Kellermann

male, deceased (1820)
Duke of Valmy, buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Napoleonic Wars, From Strasbourg, Alps, Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
François Christophe Kellermann or de Kellermann was the duke of Valmy and Marshal of France during the Napoleonic Wars. He came from a Saxon f...
Édith Piaf

Édith Piaf

female, deceased (1963)
la vie en rose, Milord, Non, je ne regrette rien, cabaret singer, French Resistance member, French…buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
Édith Piaf was one of France's most beloved singers, and became a national icon. Her singing reflected her tragic life, with her specialty being t...
Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David

male, deceased (1825)
Deputy to the French National Convention, buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, neoclassical, History artist, venetian, French Revolution…Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
Jacques-Louis David was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the prominent painter of the era. In the...
Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt

female, deceased (1923)
Jewish, buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, French women writer, House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Mistress of British royalty, actor…Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
Sarah Bernhardt (October 23, 1844 - March 26, 1923) was a stage actress born in Paris. Often referred to as "the most famous actress in the history...
Michel Ney

Michel Ney

male, deceased (1815)
Moskowa, death by firearm in France, buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Moskva River, Napoleon I, Duke of the First French Empire…Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
Michel Ney, Duke of Elchingen, Prince of the Moskowa (January 10 1769 - December 7 1815), known as "Le Rougeaud" ("red faced" or "ruddy") by his...
Gustave de Molinari

Gustave de Molinari

male, deceased (1912)
free market, laissez-faire liberal, buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, corporatism, anarcho-capitalist, economistes…Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
Gustave de Molinari was a Belgian-born economist associated with French laissez-faire liberal economists such as Frédéric Bastiat and Hippolyte Ca...
Miguel Ángel Asturias

Miguel Ángel Asturias

male, deceased (1974)
novelist, diplomat, buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, guatemala city, University of Paris, guatemala…Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Père Lachaise, Cimetière du Père Lachaise
Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales was a Guatemalan writer and diplomat. He was awarded the 1967 Nobel Prize in literature "for his vivid literary a...