List of people buried at sea

This is a list of people buried at sea.

• Richard B. Anderson (1922–1944)
• John Carradine (1906–1988)
• Francis Drake (1540–1596)
• George Duff (1764–1805)
• Frank Watson Dyson (1868–1939)
• Zheng He (1371-1433/35)
• Sir Arthur Kennedy (1809–1883)
• Christopher Levett (1586–1630)
• James Martin (Australian soldier) (1901–1915)
• Frederic John Walker Royal Navy (1896–1944)
• Dennis Wilson (1944–1983)
• Following the death of Osama bin Laden (1957–2011), he was buried at sea. One U.S. official stated that "finding a country willing to accept the remains of the world's most wanted terrorist would have been difficult."^[1] It was also done to prevent his burial place from becoming a "terrorist shrine".^[2]

People whose ashes were buried at sea

• Peter Allen (1944–1992)
• Roscoe Arbuckle (1887–1933)
• Jean Arthur (1900–1991)
• Raymond Bailey (1904–1980)
• Maria Callas (1923–1977) (Her ashes were originally buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery. After being stolen and later recovered, they were scattered into the Aegean Sea, off the coast of Greece.)
• Allen Carr (1937–1999)
• Adriana Caselotti (1916–1997) (cremated, and ashes scattered in Newport Beach, California)
• Ben Chapman (actor) (1928–2008) (ashes scattered off Hawaii and at Park Lake (Black Lagoon) at Universal Studios)
• Colin Clive (1898–1937)
• Georg Danzer (1937–2007) (cremated, and his ashes scattered near Mallorca)
• Don S. Davis (1942–2008)
• Ann (1942–1995) and Madelyn Dunham (1922–2008) (ashes were scattered on the south side of Oahu into the Pacific Ocean.)
• William Edmunds (actor) (1886–1981)
• Harold Farncomb (1899–1971)
• Victor French (1934–1989)
• Leyla Gencer (1928–2008) (cremated, and her ashes scattered in the Bosphorus)
• Stan Getz (1927–1991)
• Sterling Holloway (1905–1992)
• Neil Hamilton (1899–1984)
• Phil Hartman, (1948–1998) (ashes scattered over Santa Catalina Island's Emerald Bay)
• Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) (cremated, and ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean) ^[3]
• Edmund Hillary (1919–2008) (ashes scattered in New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf) ^[4]
• Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) (ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean)
• L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) ^[5]
• Rock Hudson (1925–1985)
• Joyce Jameson (1932–1987)
• Chuck Jones (1912–2002)
• Janis Joplin (1943–1970) (cremated at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, and ashes scattered into the Pacific Ocean.
• DeForest Kelley (1920–1999) (his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean)
• Gene Kelly (1912–1996)
• Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (1959–1997) (his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean at Mākua Beach)
• Graham Kennedy (1934–2005) (his ashes were scattered at Kiama)
• John F. Kennedy, Jr. (1960–1999) (cremated aboard the USS Briscoe (DD-977), and ashes scattered in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard)
• Klaus Kinski (1924–1991)
• Werner Klemperer (1920–2000)
• Otto Kretschmer (1912–1998)
• Elsa Lanchester (1902–1986)
• Edward Platt (1916–1974)
• Rod La Rocque (1896–1969) and his wife Vilma Bánky (1901–1991)
• Peter Lawford (1923–1984), actor, was cremated and ashes originally buried at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery; they were later removed and scattered in the Pacific Ocean.
• Kenneth McLennan (1925–2005)
• Meredith MacRae (1944–2000)
• Don Messick (1926–1997), voice actor, was cremated and ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean, at the Point Lobos State Reserve.
• Gilbert Roland (1905–1994)
• Donald K. Ross (1910–1992)
• Steve McQueen (1930–1980)
• Robert Mitchum (1917–1997) ^[6]
• Robert Nathan (1894–1985) and his wife Anna Lee (1913–2004)
• Vincent Price (1911–1993) ^[7]
• Dana Plato (1964–1999) (her ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean)
• Dudley Pound (1877–1943)
• Richard Rodgers (1902–1979)
• Alan Shepard (1923–1998)
• Paul Tibbets (1915–2007) (his ashes were scattered into the English Channel)
• H. G. Wells (1866–1946)
• Archie Van Winkle (1925–1986)
• Vivian Vance (1909–1979)
• Following the 1962 execution in Israel of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi responsible for overseeing the extermination of millions of Jews during the Holocaust, his body was cremated and his ashes scattered at sea over the Mediterranean, in international waters. This was done in this special case since Israel obviously did not want such a person buried in its soil, and also did not want him to have anywhere else a grave that might have become a place of pilgrimage to other Nazis.

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