K
John Keats (by himself) - 1795-1821
"Here lies one whose name was writ in water."
Kent (by himself) -
"Grim death took me without any warning
I was well at night and dead at nine in the morning"
Nikos Kazantzakis (by himself) -
"Then elpizo tipota. The fovame tipota. Eimai eleftheros." ("Δεν ελπιζω τιποτα. Δε φοβαμαι τιποτα. Είμαι ελευθερος"). Translation from greek: "I hope for nothing. I I fear nothing. I am free."

L
Jack Lemmon (30's- 60's Hollywood Comedian) (by himself) -
"In"
Charles Lindbergh and Anne Lindbergh (Psalm 139:9) -
"If I take the wings of the morning
and
dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea"
Jack London (unknown) -
"The Stone the Builders Rejected"
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes (May 27, 1971 – April 25, 2002-
"I seen a rainbow yesterday

But too many storms have come and gone Leavin' a trace of not one God-given ray Is it because my life is ten shades of gray I pray all ten fade away Seldom praise Him for the sunny days

And like His promise is true Only my faith can undo The many chances I blew To bring my life to anew Clear blue and unconditional skies Have dried the tears from my eyes No more lonely cries My only bleedin' hope Is for the folk who can't cope Wit such an endurin' pain That it keeps 'em in the pourin' rain Who's to blame For tootin' caine in your own vein What a shame You shoot and aim for someone else's brain You claim the insane And name this day in time For fallin' prey to crime I say the system got you victim to your own mind

Dreams are hopeless aspirations In hopes of comin' true Believe in yourself The rest is up to me and you."
Her lyrics for the song "Waterfalls" by her band, TLC
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (unknown) -
"I am Providence"
a reference to the deceased's beloved hometown
Bela Lugosi (his children) -
"Beloved father"

M
Rob Roy MacGregor (unknown) -
"Despite them"
At the time of Rob Roy's fame, the MacGregor name became banned and was never allowed to be heard or seen by law. The epitaph phrase in full, "Rob Roy MacGregor, despite them" is a last standing testament to defy that law.
Roger Maris (unknown) 1935-1985
"61/61
Against all Odds"
Dean Martin (by himself) w:1917-1995
"Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime"
Groucho Marx (by himself)
"Excuse me, I can't stand up."
Karl Marx (unknown) -
"Workers of all lands unite. The philosophers have only
interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it."
John Laird McCaffery ("your friends") - 1940 - 1995
"Free your body and soul
Unfold your powerful wings
Climb up the highest mountains
Kick your feet up in the air
You may now live forever
Or return to this earth
Unless you feel good where you are!"
Note: First letters of each line spell out, "F-U-C-K Y-O-U." Is unknown concerning McCaffery's "friends'" motives.
George McDonald (Scottish Children's Writer) (by himself) -
"Here lie I Martin Elginbrodde.
Have mercy on my soul Lord God
As I would do were I Lord God
And ye were Martin Elginbrodde"
H. L. Mencken (by himself) - 1880-1956
"If after I depart this vale you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner, and wink your eye at some homely girl"
Spike Milligan (by himself) - 1918-2002
"I told you I was ill!"
(written in Irish, Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite, to avoid offending sensitive readers, at least those who don't read Irish)
Lester Moore (unknown) -
HERE LIES
Lester Moore
four slugs
from a 44
no Les
no more
Jim Morrison (unknown) - 1943-1971
(Written in Greek) "Truth to your own spirit"
His body is buried in Paris's famous Pere LaChaise cemetery in the company of many other celebrities. Next to him in the "Poet's Corner" are buried many celebrated writers, including Balzac, Moliere, and Oscar Wilde.
Matthew Mudd (unknown) - Massachusetts:
"Here lies Matthew Mudd,
Death did him no hurt;
When alive he was only Mudd,
But now he's only dirt."
Audie Murphey (unknown) -
"MEDAL OF HONOR
DSC - SS & OLC
LM - BSM & OLC
PH & 2 OLC"

N
Isaac Newton
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was light.
Joshua A. Norton
Norton I
Emperor of the United States
and
Protector of Mexico

O
Osho
Never born, Never died: visited the planet earth between December 11, 1931 and, January 19, 1990."

P
Dorothy Parker (by herself) -
"Excuse my dust"
Penn and Teller (by themselves) -
"Is this your card?" and a graphic of a card of the 3 of clubs.
From the Book "Penn and Teller's How to play in traffic" ISBN 1572972939 - Penn and Teller bought a cenotaph (an epitaph without a grave beneath it) and placed it in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Hollywood. They invite people touring there to use it to surprise their friends as a punchline for a card trick.
Fernando Pessoa (himself) -
"I was that which I am not" (in original Portuguese: "Fui o que não sou")
Allan Pinkerton (unknown) -
"A friend to honesty and a foe to crime"
Edgar Allan Poe (himself) -
"Fly
Quoth the Raven,
'Nevermore.'"
From his poem "The Raven"
Fritiof Nilsson Piraten (by himself) - 1895-1972
"Här under är askan av en man som hade vanan att skjuta allt till morgondagen. Dock bättrades han på sitt yttersta och dog verkligen den 31 januari 1972."
Text in Swedish, roughly translated "Here lies the dust of a man who had the habit to postpone everything. He bettered at last and died really 31st of January 1972."

R
Will Rogers (himself) -
"If you live life right
death is a joke
as far as fear is concerned"
William P. Rothwell (Unknown author) - Rhode Island:
(carved into a boulder) "This is on me."
Babe Ruth (Cardinal Spellman) -
"May
That Divine Spirit
That Animated
BABE RUTH
to Win the Crucial
Game of Life
Inspire the Youth
of America"

S
William Shakespeare - baptized April 26, 1564- April 23, 1616
"Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear
To dig the dust enclosèd here.
Blessed be the man that spares these stones,
And cursed be he that moves my bones."
It was not unusual, at the time of Shakespeare's death, for corpses to be removed from graves and burnt allowing for the reuse of the grave site. Shakespeare's grave remains undisturbed.
Frank Sinatra (by himself) - December 12, 1915-May 14, 1998
"The best is yet to come."
Harry Edsel Smith (Unknown author) - 1903-1942
"Looked up the elevator shaft
To see
If the car was on the way down.
It was."
Robert Louis Stevenson (by himself) - 1850-1894
"Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie,
Glad did I live and gladly die
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be.
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill."
Jonathan Swift (unknown) -
"Here lies the body of Jonathan Swift,
Professor of Holy Theology, for thirty
years Dean of this cathedral church,
where savage indignation can tear his
heart no more. Go, traveller, and if you
can imitate one who with his utmost
strength protected liberty. He died in the year 1745, on the 19th of October,
aged seventy-eight"
Lucius Cornelius Sulla (by himself) died 78 BC
"No better friend - No worse enemy"

T
Alfred Lord Tennyson. Tennyson's poem "Crossing the Bar" is included at the end of every collection of his works:
Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark;
For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.
Studs Terkel. (Suggested by himself)
Curiosity did not kill this cat.

U
Peter Ustinov (suggested by himself) - 1921-2004
"Do not walk on the grass"
According to an obituary in DIE ZEIT, Ustinov's answer to the question what he would like to see written on his headstone.