Before he graduated from DeWitt Clinton, his mother died of a cerebral hemorrhage.

Before she died, Sophie Germain was recommended by Gauss to receive her honorary degree.

Before this happened, Iwama died in August 1982 ; subsequently, a CCD chip was placed on his tombstone to acknowledge his contribution .< ref >

Before his mentor Sholes died in 1968, Atkins had become vice president of RCA's country division.

Before filming of the remake commenced, Wray died in her sleep of natural causes on August 8, 2004, in her Manhattan apartment.

Before the Great Hunger (" Irish Potato Famine "), in which over a million died and more emigrated, there had been the Penal Laws which had already resulted in significant emigration from Ireland.

Before he died, Rabbeinu HaKadosh said: ‘ I need my sons !… Let the lamp continue to burn in its usual place ; let the table be set in its usual place ; let the bed be made in its usual place .” ( Kesubbos / Ketubot 103a )

Before Lawrence died, the Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation was formally established.

Before any further steps could be taken at Rome, Gregory XI died ( 1378 ).

Before he died, Marx asked Engels to write up these ideas, which were published in 1884 under the title The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State.

Before she died, my mother told me to be happy that I was the son of this other man.

Before Michele Ghislieri could return to his episcopate, Pope Pius IV died.

Before the arrival in Italy of his candidate Charles, Urban IV died at Perugia on 2 October 1264.

Before his death he had urged the College of Cardinals to elect Giovanni di San Paolo as his successor, but Lotario de ' Conti was elected pope on the very day on which Celestine III died.

Before he died, he told Little John ( or possibly another of his Merry Men ) where to bury him.

Before his death, he confessed of his sins and died repentant.

Before the season even started, quarterbacks coach Dick Rehbein died of a heart attack.

Before the widower William Randolph, an old friend of Peter Jefferson, died in 1745, he appointed Peter as guardian to manage his Tuckahoe Plantation and care for his four children.

Before pre-production could begin, Moe fell ill from lung cancer, and died three months later on May 4, 1975.

Before this run was concluded, Bizet died suddenly, and thus knew nothing of the opera's later celebrity.

Before he died in battle, he was reported to have said: " Let it never be the case that a Bohemian king runs a fight!

Before Sigismund died, he ordered to be buried next to the king saint.

Before Irving Leonard died, he and Eastwood had discussed the idea of Malpaso producing Play Misty for Me, a film that was to give Eastwood the artistic control he desired, and his debut as a director.

Before they were completed, Lucius died in Verona.

Before Isabella could be taken into custody, she fled to Fontevraud Abbey, where she died on 31 May 1246.

Before the break with papal authority in the 16th century, the Church of England was an integral part of the Western European church.

Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game ( 2005 ), by David Block, suggests that the game originated in England ; recently uncovered historical evidence supports this position.

Before the Civil War, baseball competed for public interest with cricket and regional variants of baseball, notably town ball played in Philadelphia and the Massachusetts Game played in New England.

Before 1873, England had two parallel court systems: courts of " law " that could only award money damages and recognized only the legal owner of property, and courts of " equity " ( courts of chancery ) that could issue injunctive relief ( that is, a court order to a party to do something, give something to someone, or stop doing something ) and recognized trusts of property.

Before the fighting, the Parliament of England did not have a large permanent role in the English system of government, functioning as a temporary advisory committee, summoned by the monarch whenever the Crown required additional tax revenue, and subject to dissolution by the monarch at any time.

Before insurance was established in the late 17th century, " friendly societies " existed in England, in which people donated amounts of money to a general sum that could be used for emergencies.

Before opening the play in England, Whale decided to tour the art museums of Europe.

Before his first visit to England in 1834, the labours of Hugh Miller and other geologists brought to light the remarkable fish of the Old Red Sandstone of the northeast of Scotland.

Before Lindow Man, it was estimated that 41 bog bodies had been found in England and Wales and 15 in Scotland.

Before 1900, England had none of these except for the civil registration of births, marriages, and burials briefly attempted under the Commonwealth ( 1653 – 1660 ) and an even more short-lived initiative of the same kind in 1694 in connection with the attempt to raise a tax on the occasion of every birth, marriage, and death — paupers excepted.

* Before 1 October, Huntingdon Beaumont completes the Wollaton Wagonway, built to transport coal from the mines at Strelley to Wollaton just west of Nottingham, England.

* June 25 – Before his coronation, King Edward V of England is deposed by his uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who becomes King as Richard III of England.

Before Henry's father Henry VII ascended the throne, England was beset by civil warfare over rival claims to the crown and Henry wanted to avoid a similar uncertainty over the succession.

* Before May – The Second Barons ' War, a civil war in England, begins.

Before his prison sentence he managed to escape to England with a new identity.

He has been chosen by Battles to perform at the ATP Nightmare Before Christmas festival that they co-curate in December 2011 in Minehead, England.

Before the Norman conquest of England, the most powerful Welsh ruler at any given time was generally known as King of the Britons.

She-Wolves: the Women who Ruled England Before Elizabeth.

Before the creation of the East of England region there had been a smaller standard statistical region of East Anglia which did not include Essex, Hertfordshire or Bedfordshire.

Before embarking for England, Crusoe shows the mutineers how he survived on the island and states that there will be more men coming.

Before returning to England to become the new Foreign Secretary, writer, soldier and diplomat Robert Conway has one last task in 1935 China: to rescue 90 Westerners in the city of Baskul.

Before him, the hereditary title of " Marshal " designated head of household security for the king of England ; by the time he died, people throughout Europe ( not just England ) referred to him simply as " the Marshal ".

Before Wright's birth, his parents had moved to England when they fell out with their fellow Protestants in the community after his grandfather had challenged tradition by running as an Independent Unionist candidate and defeated the local Official Unionist MP.