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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 ...
Barbara Coombs Lee (born 1947) is an American activist, author, former family nurse practitioner and physician assistant, and president emerita/senior adviser of Compassion & Choices, [1] a national non-profit organization dedicated to expanding and protecting the rights of the terminally ill.
Barbara Coombes killed Kenneth Coombes in January 2006, burying his body in the family home in Matlock Road, Reddish.
The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2016.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
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]
The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2011.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
John Coombs, 91, British racing driver and team owner. [36] Les Cooper, 92, American doo wop musician. [37] Dixie Evans, 86, American burlesque dancer, stroke. [38] Jack Hightower, 86, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives (1953–1955), Senator (1965–1974), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas ...
Barbara Durham, 60, American judge, first female chief justice of the Washington Supreme Court. [157] Wang Fanxi, 95, Chinese Trotskyist revolutionary. [158] Eleanor J. Gibson, 92, American psychologist. [159] Stan Javie, 83, American gridiron football player. Antony Ponzini, 69, American actor. Carl Schwende, 82, Canadian fencer and Olympian ...