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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 ...
The Orange County Review is a weekly newspaper based in Orange, Virginia owned by Lee Enterprises. The newspaper focuses on local community news. The newspaper focuses on local community news. Public notices from the county commissioners also appear in the newspaper.
George Earl Preddy Jr. (February 5, 1919 – December 25, 1944) was a United States Army Air Forces officer during World War II and an American ace credited with 26.83 enemy air-to-air kills (a number that includes shared one-half and one-third victory credits), [1] ranking him as the top P-51 Mustang ace of World War II and eighth on the list of highest scoring American aces.
Sometimes the prewritten obituary's subject outlives its author. One example is The New York Times' obituary of Taylor, written by the newspaper's theater critic Mel Gussow, who died in 2005. [7] The 2023 obituary of Henry Kissinger featured reporting by Michael T. Kaufman, who died almost 14 years earlier in 2010. [8]
Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ← March April May → The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2024.
George Preddy (1919–1944), USAF fighter ace ; Edward F. Rector (1916–2001), USAF fighter ace, member of the Flying Tigers ; Ida Van Smith (1917–2003), pilot and flight instructor ; William E. Thornton (1929–2021), NASA astronaut
Orange is a town and the county seat of Orange County, Virginia, United States. The population was 4,880 at the 2020 census , representing a 3.4% increase since the 2010 census . [ 5 ] Orange is 28 miles (45 km) northeast of Charlottesville , 88 miles (142 km) southwest of Washington, D.C. , and 4 miles (6 km) east of Founding Father and fourth ...
1919 – Birth of George Preddy, American WWII fighter ace, top P-51 Mustang ace of WWII and 6th on the list of all-time highest scoring American aces. 1919 – Birth of Ion Dobran, Romanian WWII flying ace and airliner pilot. 1918 – Death of Harold Day, Welsh WWI flying ace, killed in action in his in his Sopwith Camel.