The obituary stated (" The merchant of death is dead ") and went on to say, " Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday.

On publication of the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to be given an obituary in the New York Times ; 6 August 1975 " Hercule Poirot is Dead ; Famed Belgian Detective ".

The series is named after a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, in 1882 after a match at The Oval in which Australia beat England on an English ground for the first time.

A common story says that his New York Times obituary called him " Henry Melville ", implying that he was unknown and unappreciated at his time of death, but the story is not true.

Alfred Nobel had the unpleasant surprise of reading his own obituary, titled The merchant of death is dead, in a French newspaper.

In 1888, Nobel was astonished to read his own obituary, titled The merchant of death is dead, in a French newspaper.

Elmore Leonard, every day I wake up and – not to be morbid or anything, although morbid is my life to a degree – don't see his obituary in the paper, I think to myself, " Great!

He then notes that it is ridiculous and weird that there are intensities of treatment by the scientists and press, in particular, that he was " much less badly treated ," when in fact he had been the main target of US press, specifically The New York Times, where his obituary ten years later would mock deconstruction and not consider Jacques Derrida, the person, in the face of those grieving his death.

An overview of Smith's mathematics contained in a lengthy obituary published in a professional journal in 1884 is reproduced at NumberTheory. Org.

), however it is also common for the nickname to be identified after a comma following the full real name or later in the body of the text, such as in an obituary.

As Whitrow explained in Dingle's obituary, this is not correct .< ref > The Lorentz transformation is x '=( x − vt ) β, t '=( t − vx / c < sup > 2 </ sup >) β, and its algebraic inverse is x =( x '+ vt ') β, t =( t '+ vx '/ c < sup > 2 </ sup >) β, where β = 1 /√( 1 − v < sup > 2 </ sup >/ c < sup > 2 </ sup >).

Cunningham in his obituary of Turner wrote that it was: " recognised by the wiser few as a nobel attempt at lift in landscape art out of the tame insipidities ... evinced for the fist time that mastery of effect for which he is now justly celebrated.

Winsor Zenic McCay was born in Spring Lake, Michigan, perhaps on 26 September 1869 ( this date, found on his tombstone, is debated — his New York Times obituary states 1871 ).

No further information on the child appears to exist, and she is not mentioned in Beery's obituary.

In addition to the significant influence his novels and stories had on film, Hammett " is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time " and was called, in his obituary in The New York Times, " the dean of the ... ' hard-boiled ' school of detective fiction.

According to one obituary, " Cantinflas " is a meaningless name invented to prevent his parents from knowing he was in the entertainment business, which they considered a shameful occupation.

In Webb's autobiography ( Published in July 2011 ) Webb states, " The house in Indianapolis where I was born and which I dimly remember ..." Webb's birthplace is listed as Indianapolis in The Internet Movie Data Base, Who's Who in America, the New York Times obituary ( Oct. 13, 1966 ), The Indianapolis News obituary ( October 14, 1966 ).

In its obituary of the scholar, The Independent stated that " Isaiah Berlin was often described, especially in his old age, by means of superlatives: the world's greatest talker, the century's most inspired reader, one of the finest minds of our time ... there is no doubt that he showed in more than one direction the unexpectedly large possibilities open to us at the top end of the range of human potential ".

Srivastava is the name of his nephews and cousins, and an obituary says his name was " Mahesh Srivastava ".

Mooney's obituary is available on JSTOR in American Anthropologist 24, # 2 ( New Series ), pp. 209 – 214.

Eochaid's other sons named by the Senchus fer n-Alban are Conall Crandomna, Failbe ( who died at the Battle of Fid Eoin ), Cú-cen-máthair ( whose death is reported in the Annals of Ulster for 604 ), Conall Bec, Connad or Conall Cerr ( who may be the same person as Connad Cerr who died at Fid Eoin ), Failbe, Domangart and Domnall Donn ( not the same person as Domnall Donn unless his obituary is misplaced by 45 years like that of Ferchar mac Connaid )

Most Western news agencies, based on the May 1911 birth date, reported that Ne Win was 91 years old, but the obituary put up by his family ( most probably his children ) stated that he was 93 years old, which most likely stems from East Asian age reckoning.

* An obituary from the MIT news office

When several days later the news of Muir ’ s passing finally reached Paris, a brief obituary notice was inserted in Le Moniteur to the effect that he had died from a recurrence of his old wounds.

When several days later the news of Muir ’ s passing finally reached Paris, a brief obituary notice was inserted in Le Moniteur to the effect that he had died from a recurrence of his old wounds.

This was repeated by The Daily Telegraph in her obituary in November 2000, adding that " Lady Ryder of Warsaw, better known as Sue Ryder, has died aged 77 ", as well as by the BBC and many other news sources.

" As a personal friend and colleague of one whose death deserves more than a routine news story and a short obituary, I am writing this letter in the hope that its contents will be made available to the citizens of Louisiana.

* ABC news obituary including video and audio links

The British newspaper The Daily Mail erroneously published his obituary on the 27th June 1924, with the news being copied by the New York Times.

This is a promotional photograph used in the BBC obituary at http :// news. bbc. co. uk / 1 / low / entertainment / 708353. stm and is used under fair use criteria in the article Peter Jones.

An article on the tree ’ s passing in the Vancouver Sun reads more like an obituary than news story, quoting former Vancouver Member of Parliament, H. H. Stevens as saying “ I ’ ve known that tree for about 68 years now and I ’ m sorry the tree has died because it was one of our main attractions in Stanley Park .” A park superintendent felt sure that it was “ virtually impossible to establish another fir up on the rock from a young plant .” Less than three years later, however, while park crews were still working to restore the park ’ s forest from the devastation of Typhoon Freda, persistent efforts were rewarded when new saplings finally began taking root.

But WAAA was unique in its service to the community, playing gospel music, jazz and rhythm and blues and broadcasting news, daily obituary reports, and Sunday religious programming.

These are often brought to public attention at the time of death in an obituary or news story ; frequently the facts that a person is a " last " of a group is the only obvious reason that their obituary or death notice would get national or international attention — a cultural phenomenon that underscores the interest in last.

Remembering Baron Münchhausen, Asher named this condition Münchausen's Syndrome in his article in The Lancet in February 1951, quoted in his obituary in the British Medical Journal:

An obituary notice of Senussi el Mahdi by the same writer appeared in the Arab journal El Iladira of Tunis, Sept. 2, 1902 ; a condensation of this article appears in the " Bull.

This article, first published in 1870, also accompanied Hopkins ' obituary in the Baltimore American as a tribute in 1873.

* Wheeler obituary + NY Times article

The first article of the first issue of the Atlantic Monthly ( November 1857 ) is a lengthy obituary for Jerrold.

" According to an obituary article on August 24, 2007 in Entertainment Weekly, The Merv Griffin Show was on the air for 21 years and won eleven Emmy Awards during its run.

His New York Times obituary makes no mention of baseball, nor does a 1911 Encyclopædia article about Doubleday.

* Longer obituary article on Sidney and his wife Ruth

* obituary article at the web-site of The Economist magazine

* NY Times obituary article

* Lang's obituary article in the Yale Daily News

* Ralph McQuarrie obituary: Conceptual artist who brought Star Wars to life ( Guardian article )

* Luiz Bonfá obituary article ( 2001 ) by Francesco Neves

At her death, a laudatory obituary article appeared in the New York Times and said of her national conservatory:

The publicity and promotion for this film was capped by an article in Esquire introducing filmgoers to the " dashing, brooding Brown " in color photographs by Chris von Wangenheim, along with a text mention of Brown's obituary collection focusing on little-known and forgotten Hollywood personalities.

* Obs 64 ( 1942 ) 228 – 231 ( article on honorary degree from Oxford University on 28 February 1942, in lieu of obituary )

Examples included a fake magazine article of Lara Croft Vs Joanna Dark, a Nintendo Internet forum with fanboyish morons, and a newspaper obituary for the Nintendo 64.

There is a link to this obituary in the MacTutor article referred to below.

Edward Nelson's Segal obituary article concludes: "... It is rare for a mathematician to produce a life work that at the time can be fully and confidently evaluated by no one, but the full impact of the work of Irving Ezra Segal will become known only to future generations.

She could, of course, have believed a completely different article about him ( perhaps one accusing him of crimes he did not commit — Snicket makes frequent references to such articles and false information ), sent him the book and the letter, then later when she had married Bertrand, discovered the truth and also believed him ( for a time at least ) to be dead for some reason — though again, it could not be the obituary that appears in the Daily Punctilio that convinces her of this as that must appear after her death.

* Wisden obituary, which appeared in 1920, is now out of copyright and is borrowed from in part in this article