Can you name the famous people whose tombstones are pictured below?

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Tombstone Quiz

by Hejman

Created Sep 6, 2010 in History
Featured Sep 26, 2010
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	nowaybrah77:	Sep 26th, 2010 at 04:12 GMT	11 points
	john locke also great in Lost

	Hejman:	Sep 26th, 2010 at 04:12 GMT	25 points
	I'll repeat what I said at the outset: It was not my intention here to be disrespectful in any way. Each of these people is rightfully known for their accomplishments in life and, either because of their instructions or their family's wishes, those accomplishments are, in some way, memorialized on their tombstones. It is my intention to celebrate their accomplishments (or in some cases their humor) by including them here. The only modifications I've made to these images is to remove names where they were visible.

	Hejman:	Sep 26th, 2010 at 04:14 GMT	13 points
	Remember also that all browsers have a zoom function (control++ in Firefox, control+ in Internet Explorer, an upper right drop-down menu in Chrome) if your monitor size or vision require the pictures to be larger.

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	triviafanpatriot:	Sep 26th, 2010 at 04:24 GMT	12 points
	We all have our time, and I wish more people would accept theirs with grace and humility.

	Hejman:	Sep 26th, 2010 at 04:33 GMT	16 points
	@tomstar86- the site these images are from is an American site with predominantly American contributors. That being said, I made a concerted effort to include non-Americans (there are 4) in the quiz. The challenge was to find gravestones that said something about the person other than just their name and dates of birth and death and most of them have that information only.

	DanTravers:	Sep 26th, 2010 at 04:43 GMT	31 points
	The order I entered answers made it so the last two I put in were Locke and Key. I liked that.

	ZapRowsdower:	Sep 26th, 2010 at 05:41 GMT	3 points
	Glad a took a couple semesters of Russian!

	NightOwl:	Sep 26th, 2010 at 06:46 GMT	11 points
	@tomstar86: Oh please! Six of these (Paine, Milton, Gagarin, King, Locke, and Earhart) are internationally known to anyone who went to high school. Two more (Wilder, Sinatra) are internationally known to anyone who has watched an old movie in the last fifty years.

	WithShoes:	Sep 26th, 2010 at 07:02 GMT	2 points
	I'm surprised that Locke has such an American tombstone. It was obviously made well after his death, so you have to wonder whether they just got rid of his old tombstone, or if this is just some other memorial stone in the area and not his actual tombstone.

	Masternachos:	Sep 26th, 2010 at 07:13 GMT	10 points
	'Here lies Ezekiel Aikle, Age 102. The Good Die Young.'

	dje:	Sep 26th, 2010 at 08:44 GMT	3 points
	i'd be interested to see a quiz with tombstones that have maybe little or no blurb, but we'd have to guess the person by death/birth date with some really obvious ones (for example, 10/30/1735-7/4/1826 would be John Adams, and a lot of people know that he died on the 4th of july).

	johnspartan4187:	Sep 26th, 2010 at 09:24 GMT	2 points
	Lots of scope for a sequel. I'd like to see one with Spike Milligan included. "I told you there was something wrong with me" is probably one of the best epitaphs!

	brokenviolin:	Sep 26th, 2010 at 09:42 GMT	-1 points
	@dje: Only concern with that is that the dates must be in full, as in have the month spelled out (at least to 3 letters) otherwise confusion over mm/dd/yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy could occur.

	HulkLogan:	Sep 26th, 2010 at 10:29 GMT	2 points
	I'd like to see John bonham's grave on this quiz RIP

	LoveShack:	Sep 26th, 2010 at 10:50 GMT	-1 points
	Heard of 7, got 0.

	object_holder:	Sep 26th, 2010 at 12:50 GMT	9 points
	I love the Billy Wilder one!

	BonnieH:	Sep 26th, 2010 at 13:27 GMT	2 points
	Me, too. And kicking myself for not getting it as I consider it the best last line of a movie ever. It must be too early for me.

	Wilson:	Sep 26th, 2010 at 13:36 GMT	5 points
	Tough but fun. Quite a bit of space related was odd but overall a good variety. I missed a few that looking back on made sense. That's fun. I hope there is a part II.

	Saxonthebeach:	Sep 26th, 2010 at 13:42 GMT	18 points
	Great quiz. Totally thought the one that said "The Entertainer" would be Scott Joplin.

	bmo1616:	Sep 26th, 2010 at 14:09 GMT	4 points
	Pretty sure the 2nd one on the bottom should've said "Don't Tell Me What I Can't Do" lol

	JimAkin:	Sep 26th, 2010 at 14:54 GMT	3 points
	Wilder's is perfect!

	Cheesecakeninja:	Sep 26th, 2010 at 15:34 GMT	3 points
	Here lies the body of Fred, who once was living, but is now dead :)

	jism:	Sep 26th, 2010 at 16:02 GMT	3 points
	Jack Lemmon's should be on there. It just says "Jack Lemmon........In".