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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 ...
R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 590 U.S. ___ (2020), is a landmark [1] United States Supreme Court case which ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects transgender people from employment discrimination.
Born on October 29, 1937, in Thousandsticks, Kentucky, [1] Sonny Osborne's father was a farmer, teacher, and amateur banjo, guitar, and fiddle player. His older brother Bobby began playing bluegrass music after the family moved to Dayton, Ohio in 1941. [2]
Sharon Ann Chatman (December 15, 1947 – December 22, 2020) was an American college basketball coach, a lawyer, and a judge. Chatman was the head coach at San Jose State from 1976 to 1986. Chatman subsequently change careers, graduated from law school, served as a deputy district attorney , and was a senior judge of the Superior Court of Santa ...
The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2019.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
His father was a mortician who owned the Flowers Funeral Home in Henderson; the family lived in an apartment above the business. [2] Flowers played high school football and was in a band that played after the games. [3] He got his first guitar at age 17 and it became his primary inspiration for songwriting. [2]
Raiford Chatman Davis was born in Cogdell, Georgia, the son of Kince Charles Davis, a railway construction engineer, and his wife Laura (née Cooper; July 9, 1898 – June 6, 2004). [ 6 ] [ 7 ] He inadvertently became known as "Ossie" when his birth certificate was being filed and his mother's pronunciation of his name as "R. C. Davis" was ...
George Henry "Snuffy" Stirnweiss (October 26, 1918 – September 15, 1958) was an American professional baseball second baseman.He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1943 and 1952, spending most of his MLB career with the New York Yankees, and spending his last couple of seasons playing with the St. Louis Browns and the Cleveland Indians.