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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 ...
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
Vincent J. Speranza (March 23, 1925 – August 2, 2023) was an American private who served in the United States Army during World War II.. Born in New York City, Speranza grew up on Staten Island with a large Italian family during the Great Depression.
Vice President JD Vance vowed Monday that the Trump administration will “finish the cleanup” of East Palestine, Ohio, during a visit to mark the 2-year anniversary of a toxic train derailment.
John William Potter, 94, American senior judge of the District Court for the Northern District of Ohio (1982–2013), Mayor of Toledo, Ohio (1961–1967). [44] Ángeles Santos Torroella, 101, Spanish painter. [45] Milton Schwebel, 99, American psychologist. [46] Chuck Smith, 86, American pastor (Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa), lung cancer. [47]
The following is a list of deaths in April 2009.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
Kurt Baum, 89, Austro-Hungarian–born American tenor (Metropolitan Opera). [221] Maurice Dunkley, 75, English footballer (Manchester City) and first-class cricketer (Northamptonshire). [222] Finlay Hart, 87–88, Scottish communist politician. Gene Johnson, 87, American football and basketball coach, created the full-court press. [223]
Jiří Baumruk, 59, Czechoslovakian international basketballer, coach and Olympian (Sparta Prague), traffic collision. [138] Martin Glaessner, 82, Austrian-Australian geologist and palaeontologist. [139] Sidney Janis, 93, American clothing manufacturer and art collector, pneumonia. [140] Rita Lenihan, 75, American naval officer, cancer. [141]