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Detroit, as seen from Windsor, Canada The following is a list of people from Detroit , Michigan. This list includes notable people who were born, have lived, or worked in and around Detroit as well as its metropolitan area .
Dick Purtan, longtime radio personality in Detroit area (lives in West Bloomfield) Gilda Radner, comedian and actress, Saturday Night Live (born in Detroit) Rob Rubick, football player and radio-TV commentator (born in Newberry) Tom Selleck, actor, star of 1980s hit TV show Magnum, P.I., producer, National Guard veteran (born in Detroit)
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 local newspapers, an obituary may be published for any local resident upon death. A necrology is a register or list of records of the deaths of people related to a particular organization, group or field, which may only contain the sparsest details, or small obituaries. Historical necrologies can be important sources of information.
The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2019.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
A Detroit man convicted of killing a teenager whose body is believed to be lost forever in a landfill was sentenced Monday to at least 43 years in prison. Zion Foster’s remains were never found ...
Wallace Triplett, 92, American football player (Detroit Lions, Chicago Cardinals), first African-American draftee to play in the NFL. [180] Dennis Wrong, 94, Canadian-born American sociologist, heart attack. [181] Marvin Zuckerman, 90, American psychologist, cardiac arrest. [182]
A suburban Detroit businessman was charged with involuntary manslaughter Thursday in connection with an explosion at a building he owned in which a nitrous oxide cannister propelled through the ...