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Beth David Cemetery, located in Elmont, Nassau County, New York, is a cemetery serving the Jewish community. The cemetery contains nearly 250,000 burials; many of them notable people.
Notable Burials
- Sam Ash (1897–1956), violinist
- Eduard Bloch (1872–1945), personal physician to the family of Adolf Hitler
- Rube Bloom (1902–1976), musician
- Dori Brenner (1946–2000), actress
- Joseph Brody (1877–1937), composer
- Joyce Brothers (1927–2013), psychologist
- Barbara Craddock (1940–2005), dancer and choreographer
- Happy Foreman (1899–1953), baseball player
- Noah Greenberg (1919–1966), conductor
- Bernard Herrmann (1911–1975), composer
- Israel J. Hochman (1875–1940), bandleader and music arranger
- Sol Kaplan (1919–1990), composer
- Andy Kaufman (1949–1984), comedian and actor
- Martin Landau (1928–2017), actor
- Jay Larkin (1950–2010), television executive
- Sam Levenson (1911–1980), humorist
- Barry Lewis (1945–2021), historian
- Chuck Low (1928–2017), actor
- Sidney Lumet (1924–2011), film director
- Jackie Mason (1928–2021), comedian and actor
- Jack Newfield (1938–2004), journalist
- Mitchell Parish (1900–1993), lyricist
- Robert Plotnik (1943-2018), owner of "Bleecker Bob's" record shop
- Doc Pomus (1925–1991), musician
- Mnachem Risikoff (1866–1960), rabbi and scholar
- Saul Rogovin (1923–1995), baseball player
- Elyakim Rosenblatt (1933–2019), Orthodox rabbi
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal (1923–1983), politician
- Walt Singer (1911–1992), football player
- Harry Strauss (1909–1941), mobster
- Herbert Tenzer (1905–1993), politician
- Abe Vigoda (1921–2016), actor
- Leibele Waldman (1907–1969), composer and actor
- Herman Wouk (1915–2019), author