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Gordon Trueman Riviere Waller (4 June 1945 – 17 July 2009) was a Scottish guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known as Gordon of the 1960s pop music duo Peter and Gordon, whose biggest hit was the no. 1 million-selling single "A World Without Love".
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 ...
Variety Obituaries is a 15-volume series with facsimile reprints of the full text of every obituary published by the entertainment trade magazine Variety from 1905 to 1994. The first eleven volumes were published in 1988 by Garland Publishing , which subsequently became part of Routledge .
Gordon Marshall (2 July 1939 – February 2025) was an Anglo-Scottish professional football goalkeeper who played in the top flights of both Scotland and England in a 22-year senior career. Marshall played for Heart of Midlothian , Newcastle United , Nottingham Forest , Hibernian , Celtic , Aberdeen and Arbroath .
[125] (death announced on this date) Giacomo Losi, 88, Italian football player (Roma, national team) and manager . [126] Enass Muzamel, 42–43, Sudanese human rights activist. [127] Étienne Nodet, 79, French Roman Catholic priest and academic. [128] Lowitja O'Donoghue, 91, Australian public administrator and Aboriginal activist. [129]
Valens was born as Richard Steven Valenzuela on May 13, 1941, in Pacoima, [3] a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles.The son of Joseph Steven Valenzuela (1896–1952) and Concepción "Concha" Reyes (1915–1987), he had two half-brothers, Robert "Bob" Morales (1937–2018) and Mario Ramirez, and two younger sisters, Connie and Irma.
Mervyn Gordon was born on 22 June 1872 at Harting in Sussex, where his father, Henry Doddridge Gordon, was the rector. [2] [3] His mother, Elizabeth Oke Gordon, was an author who wrote a biography of her father, the well-known geologist William Buckland. [2] [4] [5] His maternal uncle, Frank Buckland, was a naturalist who had trained in ...
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]