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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 ...
In local newspapers, an obituary may be published for any local resident upon death. A necrology is a register or list of records of the deaths of people related to a particular organization, group or field, which may only contain the sparsest details, or small obituaries. Historical necrologies can be important sources of information.
The names "John Hearse" and "John Hearse Jr." appear on the council records of October 26, 1766, being credited with meriting 400 and 100 acres (1.62 and 0.40 km 2) of land on the Long Canes in what became Abbeville District, based upon 100 acres (0.40 km 2) to heads of household and 50 acres (0.20 km 2) for each dependent of a Protestant ...
During 1970, Scott's father (W.T. “Ted” Scott) was vice-president on the executive board of the Full Gospel Fellowship of Churches and Ministers International. [8] Gene was a featured speaker at its eighth annual convention in 1970, and served as its president from October 1975 to July 1984.
William Joseph Schallert [1] (July 6, 1922 – May 8, 2016) was an American character actor who appeared in dozens of television shows and films over a career spanning more than 60 years. [2]
Veronica Patricia Hurst (born Patricia Wilmshurst; [1] 11 November 1931 – 15 November 2022) was a British film, stage and television actress. [2] Hurst was born in Malta and brought up in Tooting, London. She settled in Wimbledon before entering Denville Hall, the residential home for professional actors over the age of 70.
Henry David Hurst (July 7, 1916 – June 6, 2003), known also as Dom David Hurst OSB and to his colleagues and students as Father David, was a classicist and historian best recognized for his scholarship on Bede.
Gerald "Jerry" Hurst (June 16, 1937 – March 11, 2015) was an American chemist and fire investigator. Before becoming noted for arson investigations, Hurst designed explosives for warfare, invented a binary explosive device known as Kinepak and developed an improved chemical compound to create Liquid Paper .