Ferncliff Cemetery
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Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum is located on Secor Road in the hamlet of Hartsdale, Westchester County, New York, about 25 miles north of Midtown Manhattan. It was founded in 1903, and is non-sectarian.
Notable burials
- Aaliyah (1979-2001), singer, actress
- Harold Arlen (1905-1986), composer
- Tommy Armour (1894-1968), professional golfer
- Leopold Auer (1845-1930), violinist
- James Baldwin (1924-1987), novelist and essayist
- Richard Barthelmess, (1895-1963), silent-film actor
- Béla Bartók (1881-1945), composer (original burial site was Ferncliff; in 1988 Bartok's remains were moved to Farkasreti Cemetery, Budapest, Hungary)
- Irène Bordoni (1895-1953), singer, Broadway actress
- Connee Boswell (1907-1976), singer
- Peaches Browning (1910-1956), actress
- Adolph Caesar (1933-1986), actor
- Michael Coppola (1900-1966), Mafioso, inspired a relative to make a movie
- Joan Crawford (1908-1977), actress
- Michel Fokine (1880-1942) ballet dancer and choreographer
- Alan Freed (1922-1965), disc jockey, Rock and Roll pioneer
- Judy Garland (1922-1969), singer, actress
- Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960), composer, lyricist
- Moss Hart (1904-1961), playwright
- Alberta Hunter (1895-1984), pioneer "Blues" singer, songwriter
- Madame Chiang Kai-shek, (1899-2003), First Lady of China
- Jerome Kern (1885-1945), composer
- Jackie "Moms" Mabley (1899-1975), comedian
- Hugh Marlowe (1911-1982), actor
- Jason "Jam Master Jay" Mizell (1965-2002), Rap musician
- Thelonious Monk, (1917-1982), Jazz musician
- Dagmar Nordstrom, (1903-1976), pianist, composer, one of The Nordstrom Sisters
- William Oberhardt, (1882-1958), portrait painter, sculptor
- Lya de Putti (1899-1931), silent film actress
- Basil Rathbone (1892-1967), actor "Sherlock Holmes"
- Peter Revson (1939-1974), F1 driver, millionaire playboy
- Paul Robeson (1898-1976), important black singer, actor, activist
- Sigmund Romberg (1887-1951), composer
- Diana Sands, (1934-1973), actress
- Malik Sealy, (1970-2000), basketball player
- Betty Shabazz (1936-1997), black activist, widow of Malcolm X
- El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (1925-1965), black activist known as "Malcolm X"
- Toots Shor (1903-1977), restauranteur to Broadway stars
- Preston Sturges (1898-1959), film director
- Ed Sullivan (1901-1974), television variety show host
- Anya Taranda-Arlen (1915-1970), model, showgirl
- Judy Tyler (1933-1957), actress, Elvis' co-star in Jailhouse Rock
- Cornell Woolrich (1903-1968), novelist
- Whitney M. Young, Jr., (1921-1971), black activist
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