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Sanford Koufax (/ ˈ k oʊ f æ k s /; né Braun; born December 30, 1935), nicknamed "the Left Arm of God", is an American former baseball pitcher who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers from 1955 to 1966.
[124] (death announced on this date) Giacomo Losi, 88, Italian football player (Roma, national team) and manager . [125] Enass Muzamel, 42–43, Sudanese human rights activist. [126] Étienne Nodet, 79, French Roman Catholic priest and academic. [127] Lowitja O'Donoghue, 91, Australian public administrator and Aboriginal activist. [128]
American obituary for WWI death Traditional street obituary notes in Bulgaria. An obituary (obit for short) is an article about a recently deceased person. [1] Newspapers often publish obituaries as news articles. Although obituaries tend to focus on positive aspects of the subject's life, this is not always the case. [2]
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 ...
Shirley Tonkin, 94, New Zealand paediatrician and sudden infant death syndrome researcher. [607] DeWitt Williams, 96, American politician. [608] Ihor Zaytsev, 81, Russian-born Ukrainian Soviet footballer (national team). [609]
[455] (death announced on this date) Ellis Rainsberger, 88, American football player and coach (Kansas State Wildcats, Pittsburgh Maulers). [456] David Randall, 70, British journalist and editor (The Observer, The Independent). [457] Hermann von Richthofen, 87, German diplomat, ambassador to the United Kingdom (1989–1993). [458]
Springtown is an unincorporated community in Springfield Township in extreme northern Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The community is located at the junction of Routes 212 and 412 and is drained by the Cooks Creek east into the Delaware River. Springtown has two churches, and is home to the Springtown Inn.
Springtown's post office opened in 1875. Springtown was incorporated in 1884. Population growth slowed during and after the Great Depression, but resumed after 1960 due to commuters to and from Fort Worth. [4] Springtown was the site of College Hill Institute. The school was chartered by the State of Texas in 1884.