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| Buried, according to an urban myth dating at least to a 1937 biography, under King's Cross Station; but this is based on a misunderstanding and possibly a hoax – her actual burial place is unknown |
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Boudicca (Boadicea) |
| Died 687, and buried at Lindisfarne, but moved several times; ended up in Durham where the Cathedral (built later) was dedicated to him (along with Christ and Blessed Mary the Virgin) |
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Saint Cuthbert |
| Oak Ridge Cemetery, in Springfield, Illinois, is the second most visited cemetery in the United States – after Arlington National Cemetery – largely because it's the last resting place of |
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Abraham Lincoln |
| Died in 1953, and was buried alongside Lenin in his mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow; moved unceremoniously in 1961 to the Kremlin Wall Necropolis (along with several other Soviet leaders) |
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Joseph Stalin |
Buried at Drumcliff, County Sligo (in the shadow of the Dartry Mountains), where his epitaph reads
"Cast a cold eye / On life, on death / Horseman, pass by!" – the closing lines of his poem Under Ben Bulben
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| W. B. Yeats |
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| Saddam Hussein (his birthplace, 8 miles from Tikrit) |
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Al–Awja | |
| Princess Diana (in the grounds of – her childhood home) |
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Althorp | |
| William H. Taft, John F. Kennedy (the only US presidents to be buried there); Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
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Arlington Cemetery, Virginia (near Washington DC) | |
| Mausoleum of the Aga Khan |
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Aswan | |
| Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner |
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Bayreuth | |
| Winston Churchill (family plot – in the graveyard of the church whose parish covers Blenheim Palace) |
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Bladon, near Woodstock | |
| Mary Shelley, and Percy Bysshe Shelley's heart |
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Bournemouth | |
| William the Conqueror |
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Caen | |
| Henry IV (the only monarch buried there), and Edward the Black Prince |
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Canterbury Cathedral | |
| Sir John Moore (scene of the battle in which he was fatally wounded – as celebrated in Charles Wolfe's poem) |
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Corunna | |
| St. Patrick (according to tradition - a small cathedral town, 21 miles south of Belfast) |
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Downpatrick | |
| Robert the Bruce (all except his heart – see below) |
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Dunfermline Abbey | |
| The Venerable Bede, St. Cuthbert (reburied there 417 years after dying at Lindisfarne), and the head of St. Oswald |
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Durham Cathedral | |
| Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard I |
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Fontrevault Abbey, near Saumur | |
| Edward II |
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Gloucester Cathedral | |
| Pocahontas (Rebecca Rolfe) |
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Gravesend, Kent | |
| George I |
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Hanover | |
| Karl Marx, Michael Faraday, Herbert Spencer, George Eliot |
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Highgate Cemetery (London) | |
| Lord Byron (6th Baron Byron of Rochdale) and his daughter, Ada Lovelace |
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Hucknall, Nottinghamshire | |
| Napoleon Bonaparte (complex of buildings in Paris) |
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Les Invalides | |
| John Smith (Leader of the Opposition, died 1994) |
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Iona | |
| Noel Coward, Bob Marley |
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Jamaica | |
| Francisco Pizarro (conqueror of the Incas, and founder of this city) |
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Lima | |
| Five of the six Tolpuddle Martyrs (all except James Hammett – they emigrated there after their release and return from Australia) |
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London, Ontario | |
| James Ramsay Macdonald (his birthplace) |
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Lossiemouth | |
| The prophet Mohammed |
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Medina | |
| Robert the Bruce's heart (according to legend – recovered from Spain) |
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Melrose Abbey | |
| Richard Burton (the explorer) |
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Mortlake cemetery | |
| Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Edith Piaf, Fryderyk Chopin, Maria Callas, Isadora Duncan |
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Paris (Père Lachaise) | |
| Catherine of Aragon; Mary Queen of Scots (originally – moved 25 years later) |
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Peterborough Cathedral | |
| Robert Adam, Robert Browning, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Congreve, Charles Dickens, John Dryden, David Garrick,
John Gay, G. F. Handel, Thomas Hardy, Dr. Johnson, Ben Jonson, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Macaulay, John Masefield, Laurence Olivier,
Richard B. Sheridan, Edmund Spenser, Alfred Lord Tennyson (among others)
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Poets' Corner (Westminster Abbey) | |
| Bonnie Prince Charlie |
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Rome | |
| James Prescott Joule |
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Sale, Cheshire | |
| Che Guevara (site of his final, decisive victory in the 1958 Cuban revolution) |
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Santa Clara | |
| Rupert Brooke (Greek island) |
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Skyros | |
| Ernest Shackleton |
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South Georgia | |
| Edward IV, Henry VI, Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, Charles I, most kings and their consorts and children since George III (but not Victoria); including Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother, both in 2002 (chapel in Windsor Castle) |
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St. George's Chapel | |
| Duke of Wellington (the only prime minister buried there); Nelson |
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St. Paul's Cathedral | |
| Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard, Lady Jane Grey
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Tower of London | |
| George Formby (Sr. and Jr.) |
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Warrington | |
| Anne of Cleves (the only one of Henry VIII's wives that is buried there); Elizabeth I; Mary, Queen of Scots (moved there from Peterborough in 1612) |
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Westminster Abbey | |
| Henry Purcell (at the foot of the organ of) |
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Westminster Abbey | |
| Alfred the Great |
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Winchester |
| King Canute | |||
| Jane Austen |
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Winchester Cathedral | |
| Queen Victoria, Prince Albert: Royal Mausoleum at |
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Windsor Castle | |
| George III, George IV, William IV (beneath the Albert Memorial Chapel) |
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Windsor Castle | |
| King John, Prince Arthur (eldest son of Henry VII), Stanley Baldwin |
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Worcester Cathedral | |
| Dick Turpin |
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York | |
| Britain's Unknown Soldier (buried on 11 November 1920) |
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Westminster Abbey | |
| France's Unknown Soldier |
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Under the Arc de Triomphe | |
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