List of people buried at sea

Burial at sea on the USS Enterprise, May 19, 2004

This is a list of people buried at sea

• Richard B. Anderson (1922–1944)
• John Carradine (1906–1988)
• Francis Drake (1540–1596)
• Captain James Cook (1728–1779)
• George Duff (1764–1805)
• Frank Watson Dyson (1868–1939)
• Zheng He (1371–1433/35)
• Zachary Hickes (d. 1771), first lieutenant aboard HMS Endeavour on its voyage to Australia^[1]
• Sir Arthur Kennedy (1809–1883)
• Christopher Levett (1586–1630)
• William Lowndes (1782-1822), U.S. Congressman from South Carolina
• James Martin (Australian soldier) (1901–1915)
• Atholl MacGregor (1883-1945), Chief Justice of Hong Kong
• Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1901–1960)
• Michael Parks (1940-2017)
• Christian Ferdinand Schiess (1856–1884)
• Frederic John Walker Royal Navy (1896–1944)
• Dennis Wilson (1944–1983)
• Alan Young (1919-2016)
• 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."^[2] It was also done to prevent his burial place from becoming a "terrorist shrine".^[3]

People whose ashes were scattered at sea

Janis Joplin whose ashes were scattered at the Pacific Ocean

Chyna whose ashes were scattered at the Pacific Ocean

Sridevi whose ashes were scattered at Rameswaram coast

John F. Kennedy Jr. whose ashes were scattered at the Atlantic Ocean

• Harry Lauter
• Moe Keale
• Gilbert Lani Kauhi
• Jack Lord
• Norman Chandler
• Anne T. Hill
• Lon McCallister
• Hermann Göring
• Nancy Walker
• Marvin Gaye
• Deng Xiaoping
• Virginia Field
• Kirk Alyn
• Richard Jaeckel
• Tom Neal
• Joey Bishop
• Russ Conway (actor)
• Frederica Sagor Maas
• George Meeker
• Harry Von Zell
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Moyna MacGill
• Paul Hartman
• Elliott Reid
• Alice Pearce
• Lee Bowman
• Bill Thompson (voice actor)
• Edward Andrews
• Kurt Cobain
• Fritz Sauckel
• Diana Hyland
• Cliff Burton
• Robert Douglas (actor)
• Zelma O'Neal
• Chester Morris
• Lana Turner
• Gail Patrick
• Joan Caulfield
• Cleo Baldon
• Brian Donlevy
• John Anderson (actor)
• Yip Harburg
• Jack MacGowran
• George O'Brien (actor)
• Sig Arno
• Dev Anand
• Ring Lardner Jr.
• Wally Cox
• Marlon Brando
• Ted de Corsia
• Buck Jones
• George Brent
• Susan Strasberg
• Kenneth Hawks
• Kelly Jean Van Dyke
• Tris Coffin
• Virginia Grey
• Finlay Currie
• Malcolm Atterbury
• Frances Dee
• Bob Fosse
• Russell Rouse
• Richard Haydn
• Eleanor Parker
• Jerome Robbins
• Gar Samuelson
• Jean Heather
• Karen Morley
• Jerry Garcia
• Patrick McVey
• Edith Atwater
• John Williams (actor)
• Lonny Chapman
• Charles McGraw
• Alma Reville
• Ward Bond
• Tommy Rettig
• Ed Wood
• Meredith MacRae
• Lynn Bari
• Dick Martin
• Brenda Marshall
• Margaret Tallichet
• Jascha Heifetz
• Veda Ann Borg
• Arthur Hill (actor)
• Doris Duke
• Robert Preston (actor)
• Richard Long (actor)
• James Dunn (actor)
• Barbara Kent
• Chyna (1969–2016) (cremated and ashes scattered at the Pacific Ocean)^[4][5]
• Sridevi (1963–2018) (cremated and ashes immersed in the sea off Rameshwaram coast in Chennai)^[6][7]
• George Stephen Morrison
• Regis Toomey
• Elvin Jones
• Lawrence Dobkin
• John Hart (actor)
• Edna Skinner
• Sam Peckinpah
• Lester Bangs
• Van Heflin
• Walter de Havilland
• Ib Melchior
• Buddy Ebsen
• George Nader
• Larry Linville
• Fred Clark
• John Smith (actor)
• John Payne (actor)
• Joel McCrea
• Robert Bray
• Olive Carey
• Merian C. Cooper
• John Houseman
• Norman Taurog
• Jack Cassidy ^[8]
• Wende Wagner
• Desi Arnaz
• Pauline Starke
• David Bowie
• William A. Wellman
• William Holden
• Ray Milland
• William Collier Jr.
• Jorge Bolet ^[9]
• Charles McKimson
• Zeppo Marx
• Arthur Lubin
• Richard Thorpe
• Bud Abbott (1897-1974)
• Jack Albertson (1907–1981)
• Mabel Albertson (1901–1982)
• Peter Allen (1944–1992)
• Kirk Alyn (1910–1999)
• Roscoe Arbuckle (1887–1933)
• Neil Armstrong (1930-2012)
• Jean Arthur (1900–1991)
• James Avery (1945–2013)
• Raymond Bailey (1904–1980)
• Bruce Bennett (1906–2007)
• Bill Bixby (1934-1993) (ashes scattered off Hana, Hawaii)
• Joseph Boxhall (1884 –1967) (ashes scattered off Atlantic Ocean)
• Martin E. Brooks (1925-2015)
• 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 on June 3, 1979)
• Norman Campbell (1924–2004) (ashes sprinkled off Prince Edward Island)
• Allen Carr (1934–2006)
• Anthony Caruso (1916–2003)
• Adriana Caselotti (1916–1997)
• Ben Chapman (1925–2008) (ashes scattered off Hawaii and at Park Lake (Black Lagoon) at Universal Studios)
• Colin Clive (1900–1937)
• Christopher Collins (1949-1994)
• Jack Colvin (1934-2005)
• Pat Conway (1931–1981)
• Kevin Corcoran (1949-2015)
• Finlay Currie (1878–1968) (ashes scattered into the English Channel)
• Georg Danzer (1946–2007) (cremated and his ashes scattered near Mallorca)
• Don S. Davis (1942–2008)
• Roy E. Disney (1930-2009)
• Phyllis Diller (1917-2012)
• Ann (1942–1995) and Madelyn Dunham (1922–2008) (ashes were scattered on the south side of Oahu into the Pacific Ocean.)
• William Edmunds (1886–1981)
• Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962) (Following the 1962 execution in Israel of Eichmann, the Nazi responsible for overseeing the extermination of millions of Jews during the Holocaust, his body was cremated and his ashes scattered over the Mediterranean Sea in international waters because Israel did not want Eichmann buried on its soil or to have a grave anywhere else that might have become a place of pilgrimage for other Nazis.)
• Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) (ashes scattered into the English Channel off Beachy Head)
• Edith Evanson (1896–1980)
• Harold Farncomb (1899–1971)
• David Farrar (1908–1995) (ashes scattered into the Indian Ocean)
• John Fiedler (1925–2005)
• Paul Frees (1920-1986) (ashes sprinkled into the Pacific Ocean)
• Victor French (1934–1989)
• Benson Fong (1916–1987)
• Jean Gabin (1904–1976)
• Leyla Gencer (1928–2008) (cremated and ashes scattered off from Bosphorus)
• Stan Getz (1927–1991)
• Frances Gifford (1920–1994)
• Michael Gough (1916–2011) (ashes scattered into the English Channel)
• Cary Grant (1904–1986)
• Alan Hale Jr. (1921–1990)
• Alaina Reed Hall (1946–2009)
• Neil Hamilton (1899–1984)
• Hugh Harman (1903-1982)
• Phil Hartman (1948–1998) (ashes scattered off from Santa Catalina Island's Emerald Bay)
• Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) (cremated and ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean) ^[10]
• Rudolf Hess (1894–1987) (He was originally buried in Wunsiedel cemetery in Bavaria. After his tomb became a potential pilgrimage place for neo-Nazis, his body was disinterred in July 2011, cremated, and the ashes scattered at sea.)^[11]
• Edmund Hillary (1919–2008) (ashes scattered in New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf) ^[12]
• Pat Hingle (1924–2009)
• Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980)
• Don Ho (1930–2007)
• Kenny Howard (1929-1992)
• Sterling Holloway (1905–1992)
• Michael Hordern (1911–1995) (ashes were scattered into the English Channel)
• L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) ^[13]
• Rock Hudson (1925–1985)
• Joyce Jameson (1932–1987)
• Isabel Jewell (1907–1972)
• Chuck Jones (1912–2002)
• Janis Joplin (1943–1970)
• DeForest Kelley (1920–1999)
• Gene Kelly (1912–1996)
• Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (1959–1997) (ashes sprinkled into the Pacific Ocean at Mākua Beach)
• Graham Kennedy (1934–2005) (ashes sprinkled at Kiama)
• John F. Kennedy, Jr. (1960–1999) (cremated at Mayflower Cemetery crematorium,^[14] Duxbury, Massachusetts, ashes sprinkled from USS Briscoe in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard)
• Klaus Kinski (1924–1991)
• Werner Klemperer (1920–2000)
• Charles Korvin (1907-1998)
• Otto Kretschmer (1912–1998)
• Lorenzo Music (1937–2001)
• Charles Lindbergh, Jr. (1930-1932)
• Norma MacMillan (1921-2001) (ashes sprinkled off from Strait of Juan de Fuca)
• Dorothy McGuire (1916-2001)
• Elsa Lanchester (1902–1986)
• Frankie Laine (1913-2007)
• John Laurie (1897-1980) (ashes were scattered into the English Channel)
• Edward Platt (1916–1974)
• Roger Rees (1944-2015)
• 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 sprinkled in the Pacific Ocean.
• Roddy McDowall (1928-1998)
• Dallas McKennon (1919-2009)
• Kenneth McLennan (1925–2005)
• Patrick McVey (1910-1973) (ashes sprinkled into the Atlantic Ocean)
• Meredith MacRae (1944–2000)
• Don Messick (1926–1997), (ashes were sprinkled in the Pacific Ocean, at the Point Lobos State Reserve)
• Laurence Naismith (1908-1992) (ashes sprinkled into the Pacific Ocean)
• Gilbert Roland (1905–1994)
• Donald K. Ross (1910–1992)
• Steve McQueen (1930–1980)
• Robert Mitchum (1917–1997) ^[15]
• Jack Nance (1943-1996)
• Robert Nathan (1894–1985) and his wife Anna Lee (1913–2004)
• Admiral Sir Herbert Annesley Packer (1894-1962) (ashes scattered at sea off Cape Point, South Africa)
• Shirley Patterson (1922-1995) (ashes sprinkled into the Atlantic Ocean)
• Harold Peary (1908-1985)
• Vincent Price (1911–1993) ^[16]
• Dana Plato (1964–1999)
• Dudley Pound (1877–1943)
• Richard Rodgers (1902–1979)
• Nipsey Russell (1918-2005)
• Don Sahlin (1928-1978)
• George Sanders (1906-1972) (ashes sprinkled into the English Channel)
• Douglas Seale (1913-1999)
• Alan Shepard (1923–1998)
• Jean Shepherd (1921-1999) (ashes sprinkled into the Gulf of Mexico)
• Stefan Karl Stefanson
• Reinhard Suhren (1916–1984)
• David Ogden Stiers (1942-2018)
• Paul Tibbets (1915–2007) (ashes sprinkled into the English Channel)
• Arthur Treacher (1894-1975)
• Alex Toth (1928-2006)
• Vivian Vance (1909–1979)
• Marcia Wallace (1942-2013)
• Simon Ward (1941-2012) (ashes sprinkled into the English Channel)
• H. G. Wells (1866–1946)
• Adam West (1928-2017)
• Kenneth Whiting (1881-1943)
• James Whitmore (1921-2009)
• Esther Williams (1921-2013)
• Guy Williams (1924-1989) (ashes sprinkled off Point Dume)
• Robin Williams (1951-2014) (ashes sprinkled off San Francisco Bay)
• Archie Van Winkle (1925–1986)
• Edward Winter (1937–2001)
• Katherine Woodville (1938-2013)
• Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Winner.
• Dick Clark (1929–2012)

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