Truman Capote died from an overdose of pills at the age of 59 on 25 August 1984, in the home of Joanne Carson, ex-wife of late-night TV host Johnny Carson, on whose program Capote was a frequent guest. He was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California, leaving behind his longtime companion, author Jack Dunphy, with whom he shared a non-exclusive relationship from the time of their first meeting in 1948. Dunphy died in 1992, and in 1994 both his and Capote's ashes were scattered at Crooked Pond, between Bridgehampton and Sag Harbor on Long Island, close to where the two had maintained a property with individual houses for many years.
... reburied in a different cemetery in the same city
Ludwig van Beethoven died on 26 March, 1827, after a long illness, in the midst of a fierce thunderstorm, and legend has it that the dying man shook his fists in defiance of the heavens. He was buried in the Währinger cemetery. Twenty months later, the body of Franz Schubert was buried next to Beethoven's. In 1888, both Schubert's and Beethoven's graves were moved to the Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery), where they can now be found next to those of Johann Strauss I and Johannes Brahms.
Johann Strauss I died in Vienna in 1849 from scarlet fever. He was first buried at the Döbling cemetery beside his friend Lanner before in 1904, both of their remains were transferred to the graves of honour at the Zentralfriedhof. The former Döbling cemetery is now a Strauss-Lanner Park.
Bela Bartok was interred in the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York, but after the fall of Hungarian communism in 1988, his remains were transferred to Budapest, Hungary for a state funeral on 7 July, 1988 with interment in Budapest's Farkasreti Cemetery.
Roger Casement: As was the custom at the time, Casement's body was buried in quicklime in the yard at Pentonville Prison where he was hanged. In 1965, Casement's body was repatriated and, after a state funeral, was buried with full military honours in the Republican Plot in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin. The President of Ireland, Éamon de Valera, who in his mid-eighties was the last surviving leader of the Easter Rising, defied the advice of his doctors to attend the ceremony, along with an estimated 30,000 Irish citizens. Casement's last wish, to be buried at Murlough Bay off the North Antrim coast has yet to be fulfilled.
Kahlil Gibran died in New York City on 10 April 1931: the cause was determined to be cirrhosis of the liver, and tuberculosis. Before his death, Gibran expressed the wish that he be buried in Lebanon. This wish was fulfilled in 1932, when Mary Haskell and his sister Mariana purchased the Mar Sarkis Monastery in Lebanon (Mar Sarkis and the Gibran Museum).
Mikhail Glinka died suddenly in Berlin on 15 February 1857, following a cold. He was buried there but a few months later his body was taken to St Petersburg and reinterred in the cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery.
King Nikola I of Montenegro went into exile in France 1918, but continued to claim the throne until his death three years later. He was buried in Italy. In 1989, the remains of Nikola, his queen Milena, and two of their twelve children were re-buried in Montenegro.
Manfred von Richthofen ('The Red Baron') met his death on 21 April 1918 from a single .303 bullet, while flying over Morlancourt Ridge, near the Somme River. He was buried the next day. After the war, the Red Baron's remains were exhumed and reburied in the Richthofen family cemetery in Wiesbaden, Germany. The funeral, which was held in Berlin, Germany, was the largest the city has ever seen.
Franz Werfel died in Los Angeles in 1945 and was interred there in the Rosendale Cemetery. However, his body was later exhumed and returned to Vienna for reburial in the Zentralfriedhof.
Daniel Boone died 26 September 1820, at the home of his son Nathan on Femme Osage Creek, Missouri. Boone was buried next to Rebecca at the Bryan Farm on Tuque Creek, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from present day Marthasville. The graves were unmarked until the mid-1830s. In 1845, the Boones' remains were disinterred and reburied in a new cemetery in Frankfort, Kentucky. Resentment in Missouri about the disinterment grew over the years, and a legend arose that Boone's remains never left Missouri. According to this story, Boone's Missouri relatives deliberately deceived the Kentuckians about which grave in the old Tuque Creek graveyard contained Boone's remains. There is no contemporary evidence that this actually happened, but in 1983, a forensic anthropologist examined a crude plaster cast of Boone's skull made before the Kentucky reburial and announced that it might be the skull of an African American. Black slaves were also buried at Tuque Creek, so it is possible that the wrong remains were mistakenly removed from the crowded graveyard. Both the Frankfort Cemetery in Kentucky and the Old Bryan Farm in Missouri claim to have Boone's remains.
On 3 October 1849 Edgar Allan Poe was found on the streets of Baltimore, delirious and "in great distress, and... in need of immediate assistance," according to the man who found him. He was taken to the Washington College Hospital, where he died early on the morning of October 7. Poe was buried on the grounds of Westminster Hall and Burying Ground[3], now part of the University of Maryland School of Law[4] in Baltimore. Even after death, however, Poe has created controversy and mystery. Because of his fame, school children collected money for a new burial spot closer to the front gate. He was reburied on 1 October 1875. A celebration was held at the dedication of the new tomb on 17 November.
Boris Christoff died in Rome in 1993 but his body was returned to Sofia’s Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, where he was given a state funeral.
Bing Crosby died in Madrid, Spain, after a round of eighteen holes in which he shot a respectable 85 and won the match. He was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
Vladimir Horowitz died in New York of a heart attack. He was buried in the Toscanini family tomb in Cimitero Monumentale, Milan, Italy.
Slobodan Milošević died in his cell on 11 March, 2006 in the UN war crimes tribunal's detention centre, in the Scheveningen section of The Hague. Milošević's body arrived in Belgrade on March 15 for private burial in his home town, Pozarevac, after two days of behind-the-scenes wrangling by remaining loyalists for a higher-profile funeral in the capital.
Arturo Toscanini: On his passing in 1957 in New York at the age of 89, his body was returned to Italy and was interred in the Cimitero Monumentale in Milan.
General Jean Baptiste Kléber was assassinated on 14 June 1800 in Cairo. His body was repatriated to France. Napoleon, fearing that his tomb would become a symbol to Republicanism, ordered it to stay at the Château d'If, on an island near Marseille. It stayed there during 18 years until Louis XVIII granted him a burial place in his hometown in Strasbourg. He was buried on December 15, 1838 below his statue located in the middle of Place Kléber."
(thanks to David Sneek for bringing this to my attention)
Body part(s) removed and buried in a different country
Frederic Chopin is buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris; at his own request, his heart was removed and dispatched in an urn to Warsaw, where it is sealed in a pillar in the Church of the Holy Cross.
W H Auden: His last public appearance was a reading at the Palais Palffy in Vienna on 28 September 1973; he died in Vienna in 1973 later the same night or early the next morning. He was buried near his summer home in Kirchstetten, Austria.
Charles Darwin died in Downe, Kent, England, on 19 April1882. He had expected to be buried in St Mary's churchyard at Downe, but at the request of Darwin's colleagues, William Spottiswoode (President of the Royal Society) arranged for Darwin to be given a state funeral and buried in Westminster Abbey.
Henry VIII suffered a thigh wound which not only prevented him from taking exercise, but also gradually became ulcerated and may have indirectly led to his death, which occurred on 28 January, 1547 at the Palace of Whitehall. He died on what would have been his father's 90th birthday. Henry VIII was buried in St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, next to his wife Jane Seymour.
Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and J P Richardson were killed in a plane crash, several miles from Clear Lake, Iowa, en route to Fargo, North Dakota. Holly's funeral services were held at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Lubbock, Texas, and his body was interred in the City of Lubbock Cemetery.
Aram Khachaturian died in Moscow on 25 March 1978, just short of his 75th birthday. He was buried in Yerevan, Armenia, along with other distinguished Armenians who made Armenian art accessible for the whole world.
Sergei Rachmaninoff died on 28 March 1943, in Beverly Hills, California, just a few days before his 70th birthday, and was interred in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov died at Lyubensk in 1908, and was interred in Tikhvin Cemetery at the Aleksandr Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg.
Claude Debussy died in Paris on March 25, 1918 from rectal cancer, during the bombardment of Paris by airships and long-distance guns during the last German offensive of World War I. This was a time when the military situation of France was considered desperate by many, and these circumstances did not permit his being paid the honour of a public funeral, or ceremonious graveside orations. The funeral procession made its way through deserted streets as shells from the German guns ripped into his beloved city. It was just eight months before victory was celebrated in France. He was interred there in the Cimetière de Passy.
Maria Callas spent her last years living largely in isolation in Paris, and died on September 16, 1977 of a heart attack at the age of 53. The funeral service was held at the Greek Orthodox Church on Rue Georges-Bizet on 20th September 1977, and her ashes were buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery. After being stolen and later recovered, they were scattered into the Aegean Sea, off the coast of Greece.
...ashed interred in a different place in the same country
Linda Darnell died at the age of 41 on 10 April 1965, from the burns she received in a house fire in Glenview, Illinois, while staying with friends. Her 1940 film, Star Dust, was playing on television the night of the fire, and Darnell fell asleep with a lit cigarette while watching it. She reportedly awoke and tried to save her friend's child in the house -- the young girl had already escaped -- and instead was burned over 80 percent of her body. She died the next day. Her ashes are interred at the Union Hill Cemetery, Chester County, Pennsylvania, in the family plot of her son-in-law.
Myrna Loy died during surgery in New York City at the age of 88. Her remains were cremated and the ashes interred at Forestvale Cemetery, in Helena, Montana.
William Holden died as the result of a fall in his highrise apartment on the seaside cliffs of Santa Monica, California in November 1981. Holden was alone and heavily intoxicated when he apparently slipped on a throw rug, gashed his head on a night table and bled to death. Evidence suggests he was conscious for at least a half an hour after the fall but may not have realized the severity of the injury and didn't summon aid. His body was found on November 16, but forensic and other evidence suggested he had been dead for several days and most likely died on November 12. His body was cremated and his ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean.
Rock Hudson was cremated and his ashes buried at sea.
... near the person's home, in a different place in the same state
Edward R Murrow was a heavy smoker all his life, and he was rarely seen without a cigarette. He developed lung cancer and died at his home in 1965 two days after his 57th birthday. After his cremation, his ashes were scattered on the site of his upstate home, Glen Arden Farm.
Arthur Rubinstein died in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1982 at age 95. His ashes were interred in Israel.
Nikola Tesla died of heart failure alone in the New Yorker Hotel, some time between the evening of 5 January and the morning of 8 January 1943, at the age of 86. Tesla's funeral took place on 12 January 1943, at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in Manhattan, New York City. After the funeral, his body was cremated. In 1957, his ashes were taken to Belgrade, Yugoslavia. The urn was placed in the Nikola Tesla museum, where it resides to this day.
Orson Welles died at his home in Hollywood, California at the age of 70 on 10 October 1985. His ashes were placed at a friend's estate in Ronda, Spain, at his request. According to some reports, some of his ashes have been scattered in the town's famous Plaza de Toros, the oldest bullfighting ring in Spain still in use.
