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Life as the main story: For deaths where the person's life is the main story, where the news reporting of the death consists solely of obituaries, or where the update to the article in question is merely a statement of the time and cause of death, the "recent deaths" section is usually used.
This is a list of people who died in the last 5 days with an article at the English Wikipedia. For people without an English Wikipedia page see: Wikipedia:Database reports/Recent deaths (red links). Generally updated at least daily, last time: 10:49, 05 February 2025 (UTC).
This category is for articles about people who died as children or teenagers. NOTE: Only add articles directly to this category if they can't be more appropriately listed under one of the subcategories listed within Category:Children by cause of death .
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 late October of that year, the children's stepmother, Candice Crocker, pleaded guilty to murder, torture, sexual battery, and keeping both Elwyn Jr. and Mary in dog crates. She agreed to testify against her husband, mother, and brother to escape the death penalty. She will serve a term of life imprisonment without parole. [8]
A series of lead poisonings in Zamfara State, Nigeria, led to the deaths of at least 163 people between March and June 2010, [1] including 111 children. [2] Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health figures, state the discovery of 355 cases [1] with 46 percent proving fatal.
Mary Slessor and four children, Old Calabar in the late 19th century. The killing of twins was a cultural practice among some ethnic groups in Nigeria, predominantly among the Igbo and the Efik people. [1] [2] Giving birth to twins was considered a bad omen that could bring devastation or calamity upon society. [3]
The birth rate is 35.2-births/1,000 population and the death rate is 9.6 deaths/1,000 population as of 2017, while the total fertility rate is 5.07 children born/woman. [230] Nigeria's population increased by 57 million from 1990 to 2008, a 60% growth rate in less than two decades. [231]