This list compiles information culled from various internet sources, and is intended to serve as a starting point for any who wish to visit and photograph graves for The Gravestone Project. Those with a single asterisk (*) after their name are not literary figures per se, but influenced 18th and 19th century literary cultures. Those with a double asterisk (**) preceding their name are missing, their ashes were scattered, etc. Those with a pound sign (#) preceding their name require more research to locate. Those crossed out are gravesites for which we have received a photograph since compiling the list.
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Adams, Hannah (1755-1831)— Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge/Watertown, Massachusetts
Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)— Westminster Abbey, London
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907)— Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge/Watertown, Massachusetts
Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321)— Free-standing mausoleum, Ravenna, Italy
Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)— All Saints’ Churchyard, Laleham, Middlesex
Attwood, Thomas * (1765-1838)— St Paul’s Cathedral, London
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Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851)— St-John-at-Hampstead, Hampstead, Greater London
Barham, R.H.D. (1815-1886)— Dawlish Cemetery, Dawlish, Devon, England
Barnes, William (1801-1886)— St Peter’s, Winterborne Came, Dorset, England
Barbauld, Anna Letitia (1743-1825)— St Mary’s, Stoke Newington, Greater London
Barrie, James Matthew (J.M.) (1860-1937)— Kirriemuir Cemetery, Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland
Beethoven, Ludwig van* (1770-1827)— Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Austria
Behn, Aphra (1640-1689)— Westminster East Cloister, London
Berlioz, Hector * (1803-1869)— Cimetiere de Montmartre, Paris, France
#Bell, Charles * (1774-1842)— ? died in Midlands. Needs more research.
Beyle, Marie Henri (a.k.a. Stendhal) (1783-1842)— Cimetiere de Montmartre, Paris, France
**Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1913)— Disappeared in Mexico
Bloomfield, Robert (1766-1823)— All Saints, Campton, Bedfordshire, England
Boswell, James (1740-1795)— Auchinleck Old Churchyard, East Ayrshire, Scotland
Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672)— Old Burying Ground, North Andover, Massachusetts (likely burial site; new memorial stone in place)
Brahms, Johannes * (1833-1897)— Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Austria
Braille, Louis (1809-1852)— The Pantheon, Paris, France
Bridges, Robert (1844-1930)— St Peter and St Paul, Yattendon, Berkshire, England
Bronte, Anne (1820-1849)— St Mary’s, Scarborough
Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855)— St Michael and All Angels, Haworth, West Yorkshire
Bronte, Emily (1818-1848)— St Michael and All Angels, Haworth, West Yorkshire
Brown, William Wells (1814-1884)— Cambridge Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861) Cimitero Accatolico / English Cemetery Cemetery— Florence, Italy
Browning, Robert (1812-1889)— Westminster Abbey (Poet’s Corner)— London
Bunyan, John (1628-1688)— Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, London
Burney, Frances (Fanny) (1752-1840)— St Swithin’s, Walcot, Bath, Somerset, England
Butler, Samuel (1612-1680)— St Paul’s (unmarked), Covent Garden, London
Byron, Lady Anne Isabella Noel (Millbanke) * (1792-1860)— Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London
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Cabanis, Pierre Jean Georges (1757-1808)— The Pantheon, Paris, France
**Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844)— Westminster Abbey (Poet’s Corner)— London
Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881)— Ecclefechan Churchyard, Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898)— Mount Cemetery, Guildford, Surrey
Chapman, George (1559-1634)— St Giles-in-the-Fields, London
#Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)— Needs research: Buried in Holborn, Greater London (All bones later removed from original burial site? To build Farringdon Market, at which point all bones went to graveyard on Gray’s Inn Road…?)
Chaucer, Geoffrey (1343?-1400)— Westminster Abbey (Poet’s Corner)— London
Child, Lydia Maria (1802-1880)— North Cemetery, Wayland, Massachusetts
Chopin, Frederic * (1810-1849)— Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise, Paris, France; heart is in Holy Cross Church, Warsaw, Poland
Chopin, Kate (1851-1904)— Cavalry Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri
Cleland, John (1709-1789)— St Margaret Churchyard, Westminster, Greater London
Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819-1861) Cimitero Accatolico / English Cemetery Cemetery— Florence, Italy
Collins, Wilkie (1824-1889)— Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London
Congreve, William (1670-1729)— Westminster Abbey, London
Constable, John * (1776 – 1837)— St John-at-Hampstead, Greater London
Cooper, James Fenimore (1749-1851)— Christ Churchyard, Cooperstown, New York
# Cottle, Joseph * (1770-1853)— died in Bristol??
Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)— St James, Picadilly, Greater London
Cowper, William (1731-1800)— St Nicholas Church (plaque in Church), East Dereham, Norfolk, England
Crabbe, George (1754-1832)— St James’s, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England
Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)— Evergreen Cemetery, Hillside, New Jersey
# Cruikshank, George (1791-1878)— Kensal Green Cemetery, London (original); St Paul’s Cathedral, London (later)
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Darwin, Charles * (1809-1882)— Westminster Abbey, London
Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)— All Saints, Breadsall, Derbyshire, England
Davy, Humphry (1778-1829)— Cimetiere des Rois, Geneva, Switzerland
Defoe, Daniel (1661-1731)— Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, London
Degas, Edgar * (1834-1917)— Cimetiere de Montmartre, Paris, France
Delacroix, Eugene * (1798-1863)— Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise, Paris, France
De Vigny, Alfred, (1797-1863)— Cimetiere de Montmartre, Paris, France
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)— Westminster Abbey (Poet’s Corner), London
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)— West Cemetery, Amherst, Massachusetts
Diderot, Denis (1713-1784)— The Pantheon, Paris, France
Disreli, Benjamin (1804-1881)— St Michael and All Angels, Hughenden, Buckinghamshire, England
Dobson, Henry Austin (1840-1921)— Hanwell Cemetery / Westminster Cemetery, Ealing, Greater London, England
Donne, John (1572-1631)— St Paul’s Cathedral, London
Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)— Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York
Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930)— All Saints, Minstead, Hampshire, England
Dryden, John (1631-1700)— Westminster Abbey (Poet’s Corner), London
Dumas, Alexandre (father) (1802-1870)— Cimetiere de Villers-Cotterets, Aisne, France (c.1872-2002); The Pantheon (location as of 2002), Paris, France
Dumas, Alexandre (son) (1824-1895)— Cimetiere de Montmartre, Paris, France
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Edgeworth, Maria (1768-1849)— St Johns, Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland
**Equiano, Olaudah (1745?-1797)— unknown
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Fern, Fanny (Sarah Willis) (1811-1872)— Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge/Watertown, Massachusetts
Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)— British Cemetery, Lisbon, Portugal
Fields, Annie Adams (1834-1915)— Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge/Watertown, Massachusetts
Fields, James Thomas (1817-1881)— Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge/Watertown, Massachusetts
FitzGerald, Edward (1809-1883)— St Michael, Boulge, Suffolk, England
Forster, John (1812-1876)— Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London
Fourier, Charles Francois Marie * (1772-1837)— Cimetiere de Montmartre, Paris, France
Fragonard, Jean Honore * (1732-1806)— Cimetiere de Montmartre (original burial site), Paris, France
Fuller, Sarah Margaret (Ossoli) (1810-1850)— Mount Auburn Cemetery (memorial gravestone), Cambridge/Watertown, Massachusetts
Fuseli, Henry * (1741-1825)— St Paul’s Cathedral, London
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Gaboriau, Emile (1832-1873)— Cimetiere de Montmartre, Paris, France
Garrick, David * (1717-1779)— Westminster Abbey (Poet’s Corner), London
Gaskell, Elizabeth (1810-1865)— Brook Street Chapel, Knutsford, Cheshire, England
Gay, John (1685-1732)— Westminster Abbey (Poet’s Corner), London
Gautier, Theophile (1811-1872)— Cimetiere de Montmartre, Paris, France
Godwin, William (1756-1836)— St Peter, Bournemouth, Dorset, England
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)— Historic Cemetery, Weimar Stadkreis, Thuringen, Germany
Goldsmith, Oliver (1728-1774)— Temple Church, London
Gower, John (? – 1408)— Southwark Cathedral, Southwark, Greater London
Grahame, Kenneth (1859-1932)— St Cross, Holywell, Oxfordshire
Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)— St Giles, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England
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**Handel, George Frederic * (1685-1759)— Westminster Abbey (Poet’s Corner), London
Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)— St Michael’s, Stinsford, Dorset, England (heart only); ashes in Westminster Abbey, London
Hays, Mary (1759-1843)— Abney Park Cemetery, London
Haywood, Eliza (1693?-1756)— St Margaret, Westminster, Greater London (unmarked grave in churchyard)
Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)— St Anne, Soho, Greater London (restored 2003)
Herbert, George (1593-1633)— St Andrew, Bemerton, Wiltshire, England
Herrick, Robert (1591-1674)— St George Martyr Church, Dean Prior, Devon, England (unmarked grave, but commemorative window)
Heine, (Christian Johann) Heinrich (1797-1856)— Cimetiere de Montmartre, Paris, France
Hobhouse, John Cam (Baron Broughton) (1786-1869)—Kensal Green Cemetery, London
Hogarth, William * (1697-1764)— St. Nicholas / Old Chiswick Cemetery, Chiswick, London
Hogg, James (1770-1835)— Ettrick Parish Church, Ettrick, Scottish Borders, Scotland
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)— Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge/Watertown, Massachusetts
Homer, Winslow * (1836-1910)— Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge/Watertown, Massachusetts
Hood, Thomas (1798-1843)— Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London
Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889)— Glasnevin Cemetery / Prospect Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland
Housman, A. E. (1859-1936)— St Laurence, Ludlow, Shropshire, England
Howe, Julia Ward (1819-1910)— Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge/Watertown, Massachusetts
Howells, William Dean (1837-1920)— Cambridge Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Hugo, Victor (1802-1885)— The Pantheon, Paris, France
Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh (1784-1859)— Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London
Hunter, John * (1728-1793)— St Martin in the Fields, London (original burial place, 1793-1859, commemorative plaque at current); Westminster Abbey, London (later)
Hunter, William * (1718-1783)— St James, Picadilly, Greater London
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Inchbald, Elizabeth (nee Simpson) (1753-1821)— St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington, Greater London
Irving, Washington (1783-1859)— Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Tarrytown, New York
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Jacobs, Harriet Ann (1813-1897)— Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge/Watertown, Massachusetts
James, Henry (1843-1916)— Cambridge Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
James, William * (1842-1910)— Cambridge Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jewett, Sarah Orne (1849-1909)— Portland Street Cemetery, South Berwick, Maine
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)— Westminster Abbey (Poet’s Corner), London
Jonson, Ben (1572-1637)— Westminster Abbey, London
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Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804)— Koningsberg Cathedral, Kaliningrad, Russia (formerly Koningsberg, Germany)
Keble, John (1792-1866)— All Saints, Hursley, Hampshire, England
Kingsley, Charles (1818-1875)— St Mary, Eversley, Hampshire, England
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)— Westminster Abbey (Poet’s Corner), London
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Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)— All Saints, Edmonton, Greater London
Lamb, Mary (1764-1847)— All Saints, Edmonton, Greater London
Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864)— Cimitero Accatolico /English Cemetery, Florence, Italy
Lear, Edward (1812-1888)— Cemetery Foce / Cimitero Monumentale della Foce, San Remo, Italy
Leech, John * (1817-1864)— Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London
**Lewis, Matthew (1775-1818)— died at sea; ??buried at sea??
Liszt, Franz * (1811-1886)— Alter Friedhof, Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)— Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge/Watertown, Massachusetts
Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)— Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge/Watertown, Massachusetts
Lowell, Maria White * (1821-1853)— Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge/Watertown, Massachusetts
Lyell, Charles * (1797-1875)— Westminster Abbey, London
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Macpherson, James (1736-1796)— Westminster Abbey (Poet’s Corner)— London
Manley, Delarivier (16??-1724)— St Benet Paul’s Wharf, London
Malthus, Thomas Robert * (1766-1834)— Bath Abbey (plaque), Bath, Somerset, England
Manzoni, Alessandro (1785-1873)— Cimitero Monumentale di Milano, Milan, Italy
Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593)— St Nicholas (unmarked grave; memorial plaque), Deptford, London
May, Thomas (1595-1650)— St Margaret Church, Westminster, Greater London (memorial tablet for remains moved to St Margaret from Westminster Abbey after the restoration of Charles II to the throne)
Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)— St Giles-in-the-Fields, London
Melville, Herman (1819-1891)— Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York
Mendelssohn. Felix * (1809-1847)— Dreifaltgkeitsfriedhof I, Kreuzberg, Berlin
Meredith, George (1828-1909)— Dorking Cemetery, Dorking, Surrey, England
Mill, John Stuart and Harriet * (1806-1873)— Cimetiere de St. Veran, Saint-Veran, Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur, France
Milton, John (1608-1674)— St Giles Cripplegate, London
Mitford, Mary Russell (1787-1855)— Swallowfield, Berkshire
Moore, Thomas (1779-1852)— St Nicholas, Bromham, Wiltshire, England
More, Hannah (1745-1833)— All Saints Churchyard, Wrington, Somerset, England
Morris, William (1834-1896)— St George’s, Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, England
Murray, John (1778-1843)— Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London
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Nelson, Horatio * (1758-1805)— St Paul’s Cathedral, London
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Offenbach, Jacques * (1819-1880)— Cimetiere de Montmartre, Paris, France
Opie, John * (1761-1807)— St Paul’s Cathedral, London
Osgood, Frances Sargent (nee Locke) (1811-1850)— Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge/Watertown, Massachusetts
Ottway, Thomas (1652-1685)— St Clement Danes Churchyard, London
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Pater, Walter (1839-1894)— St Cross, Holywell, Oxfordshire
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)— St Mary’s Churchyard, Twickenham, Greater London
Priestley, Joseph * (1733-1804)— Riverview Cemetery, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)— Westminster Abbey, London
Pushkin, Alexander (1799-1837)— Svaytogorsk Monestary, Pskovskaya Oblast, Russia
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Radcliffe, Ann (1764-1823)— St George Hanover Square Church, Mayfair, London
Raleigh, Sir Walter (1554-1618)— St Margaret Church, Westminster, Greater London
Reynolds, Joshua * (1723-1792)— St Paul’s Cathedral, London
Richter, Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friederich Richter) (1763-1825)— Alter Friedhof, Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany
Richardson, Samuel (1689-1761)— St Bride Churchyard, Fleet Street, London
Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891)— Charleville-Mezieres Cimetiere, Ardennes, France
Roget, Peter Mark (1779-1869)— St James, West Malvern, Worcestershire, England
Rossetti, Christina (1830-1894)— Highgate Cemetery, London
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)— All Saints Churchyard, Birchington, Kent
Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778)— The Pantheon, Paris, France
Ruskin, John (1819-1900)— St Andrew, Coniston, Cumbria
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Sand, George (Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin / Baroness Dudevant) (1804-1876)— Cimetiere de Nohant, Nohant-Vic, Centre, France
Schelling, Friedrich * (1775-1854)— Bad Ragaz Cemetery, Bad Ragaz, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Schiller, (Johann Christoph) Friedrich von (1759-1805)— Historic Cemetery, Weimar Stadkreis, Thuringen, Germany
Schubert, Franz * (1797-1828)— Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Austria
Schumann, Robert * (1810-1856)— Alte Friedhof, Bonn, Germany
Scott, Walter (1771-1832)— Dryburgh Abbey, Melrose, Scottish Borders
Shadwell, Thomas (1642?-1692)— Westminster Abbey, London (memorial); All Saints, Chelsea, Greater London
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)— Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire
Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950)— Ashes mixed with wife’s (who died 1945) scattered in the garden of Shaw’s Corner (longtime home; now National Trust Property), Ayot Saint Lawrence, Hertfordshire
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)— Westminster Abbey (Poet’s Corner), London
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851)— St Peter, Bournemouth, Dorset, England
Shelley, Percy (1792-1822)— St Peter (heart buried with Mary Shelley?)— Bournemouth, Dorset, England
# Sidney, Philip (1554-1586)— St Paul’s Cathedral, London
Skelton, John (1460?-1529)— St Margaret Church, Westminster, Greater London
Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)— St John, Stoke-next-Guildford, Surrey, England
Smith, Sydney (1771-1845)— Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London
Smollett, Tobias (1721-1771) (Old) English Cemetery, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy
Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)— Westminster Abbey (Poet’s Corner), London
Steele, Richard (1672-1729)— St Peter’s, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)— St Michael, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, England
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)— Mount Vaea (near Apia), Upolu Island, Samoa
Stoker, Bram (1847-1912)— Golders Green crematorium, Golders Green, Greater London
Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896)— Phillips Academy Cemetery, Andover, Massachusetts
Strauss, Johann * (1825-1899)— Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Austria
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)— St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland
Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)— St Boniface, Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, England
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Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892)— Westminster Abbey (Poet’s Corner), London
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)— Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London
Thelwall, John (1764-1834)— St Swithin’s, Walcot, Bath, Somerset, England
Thomson, James (1700-1748)— St Mary Magdalene Church, Richmond, Greater London
Trollope, Anthony (1815-1882)— Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, Greater London
Trollope, Frances Milton (1779-1863) Cimitero Accatolico / English Cemetery Cemetery, Florence, Italy
Turner, J. M. W. * (1775-1851)— St Paul’s Cathedral, London
Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)— Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, New York
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Verdi, Giuseppe * (1813-1901)— Cimitero Monumentale di Milano, Milan, Italy
Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet) (1694-1778)— Abbey of Scellieres, Romily-sur-Siene, France (original) ;The Pantheon, Paris (1791- ); brain and heart not buried, and latter is at Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris and former seems to be lost
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Wagner, Richard * (1813-1883)— House Wahnfried, Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany
Wallace, Alfred Russel * (1823-1913)— Broadstone Cemetery, Broadstone, Dorset, England
Walpole, Horace (1717-1797)— St Martin, Houghton, Norfolk, England
Waterhouse, John William * (1849-1917)— Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London
Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)— Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, London
**Wells, H. G. (1866-1946)— Cremated at Golders Green; ashes scattered
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)— Harleigh Cemetery, Camden, New Jersey
Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)— St Peter, Bournemouth, Dorset, England
Wren, Christopher * (1632-1723)— St Paul’s Cathedral, London
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Yearsley, Ann (1753-1806)— St Andrews, Clifton, Bristol, England (tomb may not be locatable or may have been destroyed in wartime bombing)
Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)— Drumcliff Churchyard / St Columba’s, Drumcliff, Sligo, Ireland
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Zola, Emile (1840-1902)— Cimetiere de Montmartre, Paris (original location); The Pantheon, Paris (later location)
