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Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
Victoria Thompson (born Victoria Ellen Straface, July 25, 1948 – August 23, 2024) was an American author of cozy mystery novels. Biography.
Aga Khan IV, 88, Swiss-born British-Portuguese religious leader, imam of Nizari Ismaili (since 1957) and Olympic skier . [78] Rickard Andersson, 35, Swedish mass murderer (2025 Risbergska school shooting), suicide by gunshot. [79] Jiří Čtvrtečka, 82, Czech Olympic sprint canoer (1968, 1972, 1976). [80] Ulises Droghei, 31, Argentine actor. [81]
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 ...
Derek Bailey, 48, American tribal leader and convicted sex offender, chairman of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians (2008–2012). [197] Guido Caroli, 94, Italian Olympic speed skater. [198] José Augusto Delgado, 83, Brazilian jurist, judge of the Superior Court of Justice (1995–2008). [199]
While Solicitor-General, he provided advice to the Victorian Government but could be swayed by political considerations as outlined in an ABC News article of 24 April 2021 The memo that erased a scandal. In 1962 he appeared for the government in the High Court, opposing any further delay to the execution of Robert Tait, who had been convicted ...
Victoria Leigh Soto (November 4, 1985 – December 14, 2012) was an American teacher who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. After the gunman, Adam Lanza, entered the school, she hid her students in her classroom.
Terry Matte (c. 1943 – December 28, 2009) was a news producer for CBWT's 24Hours program in Winnipeg in the 1980s before moving to Ottawa where he was senior producer for "Newsday", CBC Ottawa's supper-hour, television newscast.