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Ailbhe of Ceann Mhara

Ailbhe was a cleric of the church of Coman of Kinvara, and his obituary demonstrates that a church was already in existence in Kinvara by the early 9th-century.

Aldo Zargani

Jews were prohibited from studying or teaching in state and private schools, forbidden to marry non-Jews, expelled from the Fascist Party and excluded from the public administration, from telephone directories and from obituary columns.

Alexander Francis Chamberlain

Boas's obituary for him (one of a number he had to write for younger colleagues including Pliny Earle Goddard and Edward Sapir) recalls him as a genuinely good person.

Amin al-Hindi

In its obituary, The New York Times described Hindi as being "widely suspected of having played an organizing role" in the Black September attack in Munich that led to the deaths of 11 athletes and coaches representing the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Summer Games who had been taken as hostages at the Olympic village on the morning of September 5, 1972.

Anatol Rapoport

Markus Schwaninger, "Obituary Anatol Rapoport (May 22, 1911 - January 20, 2007): Pioneer of Systems Theory and Peace Research, Mathematician, Philosopher and Pianist." Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Vol.

Arthur Pember

Mr. Pember died on 3 April 1886 in LaMoure, North Dakota according to an obituary note in the 4 April 1886 edition of the New York Times.

Ben Corday

While his obituary listed Singapore as his place of birth, a report of his U.S. citizenship application stated that Corday was born in Lucknow, India.

Bill Epton

"Even as a high school student," the obituary reads, "he demonstrated for civil rights and helped organize unions. He was drafted into the Army and served in the Korean War."

Bob Stump

After the Associated Press mistakenly placed Bob Hope's obituary on its web site in June 1998, Stump announced on the floor of the House that the entertainer had died.

C.F. Ball

“A delightful companion, unassuming, sincere and a most lovable man…” quoted from a short and touching obituary (and portrait) was also published in The Garden (October 16, 1915, p.514) by his friend and fellow soldier , the editor Herbert Cowley (who had been invalided out of the army).

Chaulnes

Each year, more than 500 fans turn up to see and listen to bands like Obituary, Sodom, Rage or Nashville Pussy.

Claude Buckenham

He played for Essex from 1899 to 1914, but suffered, particularly in his early years, from slipshod fielding which meant, according to his obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, he was more expensive than he perhaps deserved.

D. D. Conway

Conway died at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota on December 15, 1926, and was described in his obituary as "active in state Democratic politics".

Edward William Davies

His obituary mentioned only his business successes, his election to public office, and that he died at his residence in Beaconsfield on 25 January after a long illness.

Francis P. Smith

An obituary in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette noted that Smith's presidency "guided the university through a major post-World War II expansion fed by the influx of veterans studying under the G.I. Bill" and "supervised an expansion of the school's physical plant, improvements in faculty benefits and the founding of WDUQ, the city's first college radio station".

Frederick York Powell

The Society's journal, which had published his papers, printed an obituary by Edward Clodd.

Friedrich Chrysander

He then focused his studies on music, and in an obituary for Chrysander in October 1901, the Musical Times said of him that

Gabriel Bonnot de Mably

Mably's complete works were published in 15 volumes in 1794-1795, with an obituary/biography by Gabriel Brizard.

Hibernus Mortis

Taking influence from a variety of sources, musically the band took inspiration from the old-school death metal bands like Incantation, Autopsy, Morbid Angel, Death, Dismember, Immolation, Entombed, Obituary, Vader and Suffocation just to name a few.

Hubert Garrett

According to his obituary in the 1916 edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, Garrett was killed while serving as a lieutenant in the 9th service battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment in the Dardanelles campaign.

James Niven

An Oldham Chronicle obituary of 1925 said: "Dr Niven also showed an interest in child welfare well in advance of his time."

Jock Hamilton-Baillie

NOTE Tittmoning is in Bavaria, not Czech Republic as stated in the Telegraph obituary Tittmoning

John D. Winters

He served in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, but his obituary does not list the branch of service.

John MacMurray

Conductor, Mark Elder, spoke of his former colleague at the evening, and an obituary was provided in the programme notes by trumpeter and personal friend of MacMurray's, Ken Brown.

John Milford

Milford's Los Angeles Times obituary credits him with using his engineering background to help create the original design for the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

John Neville Wheeler

When he died on October 13, 1973, in Ridgefield, Connecticut, at the age of 87, his obituary in the Ridgefield Press described him as one who "never quit newspapering, permanently, until his death." Cape Wheeler in Antarctica was named for him.

M. Elizabeth Osborn

She was always highly appreciative of theater artists, as typified by her obituary tribute to director colleague John Hirsch in the New York Times.

Marino Lucas

In the 1932 obituary for Lucas that appeared in The Herald newspaper (now the Melbourne Herald Sun), reference was made to the fact that a relative of Marino's had visited the country and returned to Ithaca with tales of great potential in the distant land.

Montague Chamberlain

The same year, Theodore Sherman Palmer, secretary of the American Ornithologists' Union, wrote an obituary of Chamberlain in The Auk.

National Hall of Records

The National Hall of Records is an obituary service that was introduced at the National Funeral Directors Association annual convention in Las Vegas in October 2007.

Norman Mapp

In February 1988, Anthony Scaduto wrote Mapp's obituary for New York Newsday, and quoted his best friend and fellow musician jazz trumpeter Clark Terry saying: "He was the warmest human being who ever lived. Very beautiful, very talented."

O-Force

Obituary is being considered as a "potential recruit" for the Initiative program.

Paraire Tomoana

The year of his birth is uncertain; the obituary says he was aged 78 i.e. born c1868, but the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography has 1874-75.

Percy LeSueur

In a Canadian Press obituary, fellow Hall of Famer Newsy Lalonde described him as "one the best goalies he ever faced", and Cyclone Taylor, a teammate on the 1909 Stanley Cup-winning Senators team, stated that LeSueur would always be in goal whenever "he was asked to pick an All-Star team".

Peter Smithers

Smithers' Financial Times obituary suggests he was the model for Fleming's most famous character, Commander James Bond.

Raymond Ameijide

Ameijide served as an illustrator a variety of clients, including Fortune, National Geographic, IBM, Pfizer, TV Guide, Chase Manhattan, Discover, Harcourt Brace and the United States Post Office (per his obituary January 12, 2000, TheJournalNews.com).

Responsions

Karl Pearson's obituary of Raphael Weldon (p.8) refers to Weldon "preparing (c. 1877) for Little-Go and the London Preliminary Scientific. For the classical part of the former he seems to have worked by himself."

Robert Carter I

When Lord Fairfax saw Carter's obituary in the London monthly The Gentleman's Magazine, he was astonished to read of the immense personal wealth acquired by his resident land agent.

Robin Day

Day's obituary in The Guardian by Dick Taverne stated that "he was the most outstanding television journalist of his generation. He transformed the television interview, changed the relationship between politicians and television, and strove to assert balance and rationality into the medium's treatment of current affairs".

Rudolph de Landas Berghes

According to his obituary, he "declared in statements after his arrival at Villanova that he had seen service under" Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, both in Sudan and in Egypt.

S. K. Rudra

In an obituary Gandhi wrote in Young India, he called Rudra and Andrews his revisionists and described Rudra as a silent but deeply interested spectator in the happenings of the national struggle.

Sally Ride

After death, her obituary revealed that Ride's partner of 27 years was Tam O'Shaughnessy, a professor emerita of school psychology at San Diego State University and childhood friend, who met Ride when both were aspiring tennis players.

Sennett and Bertha Kirk House

A long-time friend Manford Schoonover wrote in Kirk's obituary, "there are a score or more of men in Anderson County who owe their start in life to his help financially, and by council and friendship."

Stapleford Park

He restored the buildings, according to his obituary "hiring Wedgwood, Turnbull & Asser, Crabtree & Evelyn to decorate its rooms".

Thirteenth stroke of the clock

An obituary notice of a John Hatfield that appeared in the Public Advertiser a few days after his death states that a soldier in the time of William and Mary was tried by a court-martial on a charge of having fallen asleep when on duty upon the terrace at Windsor.

Thomas Joseph Banks

He died at Goathland, and an obituary notice in The British Architect described him as "a Yorkshire artist of considerable local repute".

Walter R. Nickel

In 1989 when Dr. Nickel died, then-Senator Pete Wilson eulogized him on the floor of the Senate and placed his obituary in the Congressional Record.

Władysław Sikorski's death controversy

In 1968, the play, Soldaten. Nekrolog auf Genf (Soldiers, An obituary for Geneva) by German writer Rolf Hochhuth debuted in London.

Wyszesława of Kiev

Also, was exposed the theory that the Queen Agnes (Agnes Regina) whose obituary is recorded in Zwiefalten was the wife of Bolesław II; is also believed that she belonged to the Přemyslid dynasty.


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