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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 ...
Celestine Tate Harrington. Celestine Tate Harrington (October 15, 1955 – February 25, 1998) was an American quadriplegic street musician who was well known for playing the keyboard with her lips, teeth and tongue on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Her 1976 child custody court battle with Philadelphia welfare officials gained ...
4. Father. Pat Harrington Sr. Daniel Patrick Harrington Jr. (August 13, 1929 – January 6, 2016) was an American Emmy Award –winning stage and television actor, best known for his role as building superintendent Dwayne Schneider on the sitcom One Day at a Time (1975–1984). His father Pat Harrington Sr. was also an actor.
Adelina Domingues (February 19, 1888 – August 21, 2002) was a Cape Verdean American supercentenarian who was the world's oldest person from the death of 114-year-old British-American woman Grace Clawson on May 28, 2002, to her own death less than three months later. [ 42 ] Domingues was born in Cape Verde.
Richard Lewis Spencer (May 3, 1942 – December 27, 2020) [1][2] was an American funk and soul singer, musician, and teacher. He played tenor saxophone in Otis Redding 's band, behind Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions with the Winstons. He was awarded the Grammy Award (R&B Songwriter of the Year 1969) for his composition "Color Him Father". [3]
J. J. Harrington. Joseph Julian "Monk" Harrington (February 18, 1919 – September 10, 2008) was a member of the North Carolina Senate from 1963 to 1988, representing the 1st District. During his last two terms in office (January 1985 – December 1988), Harrington, a Democrat, served as President pro tempore. He retired from the legislature in ...
Zebb Quinn was an 18-year-old American male who went missing on January 2, 2000, in Asheville, North Carolina. On July 25, 2022, Quinn's friend, Robert Jason Owens, entered a plea bargain and confessed from prison that his abusive uncle, Walter "Gene" Owens, had killed Quinn after making Owens lure Quinn to the forest. Owens and his uncle ...
Criminal charge. Murder. Penalty. Life without parole (2002); 35-year sentence for solicitation of murder (2007) Mark Alan Winger (born November 26, 1962) is a former nuclear engineer from Springfield, Illinois. He was convicted in 2002 of the 1995 murder of his wife, Donnah Winger (born 1963), and Roger Harrington (born 1967).