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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 ...
Seale Harris (March 13, 1870 – March 17, 1957) was an American physician and researcher born in Cedartown, Georgia. He was nicknamed "the Benjamin Franklin of Medicine " by contemporaries for his leadership and writing on a wide range of medical and political topics.
There was a five-hour wake the day before the funeral on April 1, 1968. [8] Six hundred attended his funeral at Clayborn Temple on April 2, 1968. [9] Striking sanitation workers, clergy members who supported the strike, and national television representatives were all in attendance, as well as the students and faculty of Mitchell Road High School where Payne was enrolled prior to his death.
James Ford Seale (June 25, 1935 [1] – August 2, 2011) was a Ku Klux Klan member charged by the U.S. Justice Department on January 24, 2007, and subsequently convicted on June 14, 2007, for the May 1964 kidnapping and murder of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, two African-American young men in Meadville, Mississippi. [2]
Patrick Seale, 83, Northern Irish journalist, foreign correspondent and historian (The Observer), brain cancer. [239] Rolando Ugolini, 89, Italian-born British footballer (Middlesbrough). [240] Jesse Winchester, 69, American musician and songwriter, bladder cancer. [241] Carl Zimmermann, 96, American news anchor and World War II war correspondent.
In the 1970s, Seale was a police officer for the township. He also worked as Head of Security at Exxon Corporation at the Florham Park, New Jersey ECI - Exxon Company International location in 1982, and was promoted to Security Manager there in 1984. Seale resigned from Exxon a few years later to begin his own furniture business in the Carolinas.
In film, Seale provided the voice of Krebbs the koala in The Rescuers Down Under (1990) and, two years later, the Sultan in Aladdin (1992) (with Val Bettin replacing him in the later productions). He also appeared in several films, including Miloš Forman 's Amadeus (1984), and Ernest Saves Christmas (1988), in which he played Santa Claus .
Borders was born in Macon, Georgia on 24 February 1905 to Leila Birdstrong and James Buchanan Borders, a pastor for the Swift Creek Baptist Church. He attended Morehouse College, but could only afford to pay for two years.