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George Glenn Strange (August 16, 1899 – September 20, 1973) was an American actor who appeared in hundreds of Western films. He played Sam Noonan, the bartender on CBS 's Gunsmoke television series, and Frankenstein 's monster in three Universal films during the 1940s.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
George M. Strange (November 9, 1880 – June 22, 1961) was a Canadian rower who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was born in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba to George William Strange and Elizabeth Johnson and died in Toronto in 1961. He is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery with wife Lillian Georgina Hall Tate.
INTERVIEW: The first memoir from Frieda Hughes tells the story of George, the magpie she adopted. The poet, painter and daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes tells Jessie Thompson of her plans ...
At Kennedy Space Center in Florida, five workers suffered anoxia due to pure nitrogen atmosphere in the aft engine compartment of Space Shuttle Columbia during a countdown demonstration test for the STS-1 mission. 51-year-old John Bjornstad died at the scene; 50-year-old Forrest Cole went into a coma and died two weeks later, and Nick Mullon ...
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Hundreds of people gathered at Strain’s Celebration of Life funeral service in his hometown of Springfield, Missouri on Friday, March 29, according to an online obituary. Because Strain, 22 ...
Thomas Simpson (31) was a Scottish Arctic explorer, Hudson's Bay Company agent and cousin of Company Governor Sir George Simpson. His violent death in what is now the state of Minnesota allegedly by suicide after gunning down two traveling companions in the wilderness on 6 June 1840 has long been a subject of controversy and has never been solved.