Suddenly there was a commotion upstairs, a despairing boyish shriek, and the strains of the waltz faltered and died as the musicians and guests gaped at an apparition descending the marble staircase.

I would have stood there and died there if left to myself, but Cousin Simmons grabbed my arm in his viselike grip and fairly plucked me out of there ; ;

He had died there.

And Houston police have the final say in the matter since she died there on September 20, 1960, `` Diane Harris Graham, 30, D.O.A., circumstances -- unusual ''.

John's mother died not long after his marriage, and there was even less Cooper money left.

But Mary would soon no longer be living there, for she would be notified in a few days that her husband had died in an accident while on a flight to Tahiti.

The other account is found in Deuteronomy 10: 6, where Moses is reported as saying that Aaron died at Moserah and was buried there.

He may have died from natural causes, though there were unconfirmed rumors that his wife Livia poisoned him.

The school's founder, James Pierpont Greaves, had only recently died but Alcott was invited to stay there for a week.

He there entered the service of Henry II of France and had undertaken a campaign to regain his lands when he died at Pforzheim on 8 January 1557.

Ealdred was back at York by 1069 ; he died there on 11 September 1069, and was buried in his episcopal cathedral.

He died there in 1249 and was buried at Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire.

He died there in around the year 428 BC.

Baldwin III died on 10 February 1163 and the kingdom passed to Amalric, although there was some opposition among the nobility to Agnes ; they were willing to accept the marriage in 1157 when Baldwin III was still capable of siring an heir, but now the Haute Cour refused to endorse Amalric as king unless his marriage to Agnes was annulled.

The crusaders had wanted to conquer Egypt since the days of Baldwin I, who died during an expedition there.

The camp's first commandant, Rudolf Höss, testified after the war at the Nuremberg Trials that up to three million people had died there ( 2. 5 million gassed, and 500, 000 from disease and starvation ).

Aelbert Cuyp was born in Dordrecht on October 20, 1620, and also died there on November 15, 1691.

Even Houbraken recalled that Cuyp was a devout Calvinist and the fact that when he died, there were no paintings of other artists found in his home.

The name was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven, as Poe lived for a time in Baltimore, died there in 1849, and is buried there.

Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.

Failing to escape on board a ship, he stabbed himself ; and, as he did not die at once, insisted on being taken to the mausoleum in which Cleopatra was shut up, and there died in her arms.

After two years there, they moved to Canterbury, Kent, where Parkinson died in March 1993, at the age of 83.

* February 23 – Robert Treat, governor of Connecticut colony during 1683 – 1698 ( died 1710 )

* May 8 – Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman ( died 1698 )

* May 22 – Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France ( died 1698 )

* c. 1698 BC: Lila-Ir-Tash the ruler of the Elamite Empire died.

Ernest Augustus died on 23 January 1698 leaving all of his territories to George with the exception of the Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück, an office he had held since 1661.

Lord Burlington died on 6 January 1698 and was buried on 3 February 1698 at Londesborough in Yorkshire.

William Lauder (– 1771 ) was a Scottish literary forger, the second son of Dr William Lauder ( 1652 – 1724 ), one of the original 21 Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, by his spouse Catherine Brown ( died 1698 ).

In 1695 he married Honora de Burke, the daughter of William Burke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde and the widow of the 1st Earl of Lucan, who died in 1698.

Five guinea coins were only produced in the last three years of his sole reign, the design probably being the work of Johann Crocker, also known as John Croker, since James Roettier had died in 1698 and his brother Norbert had left somewhat under a cloud for Paris in 1695.

The Two guinea coin was only produced in 1701, the design probably being the work of Johann Crocker a. k. a. John Croker, since James Roettier had died in 1698 and his brother Norbert had moved to France in 1695.

The guinea coin was produced in all years from 1695 to 1701, both with and without the elephant and castle, the design probably being the work of Johann Crocker, also known as John Croker, since James Roettier had died in 1698 and his brother Norbert had moved to France in 1695.

* April 17-William Molyneux, natural philosopher and political writer ( died 1698 )

* date unknown-Pierre Thomas, memoirist ( died 1698 )

* July 1-Johann Heinrich Heidegger, theologian ( died 1698 )

** Francesco Negri, priest and travel writer ( died 1698 )

Frontenac died on November 28, 1698 at the Chateau St-Louis after a brief illness, deeply mourned by the Canadian people.

Arran's father died in 1694, and in July 1698 his mother resigned all her titles into the hand of King William, who regranted them to Arran a month later in a charter signed at Het Loo, Netherlands.

* Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry, 2nd Duke of Dover ( 1698 – 1778 ), third son of the 2nd Duke, succeeded his father due to special remainder and died without issue

Paterson personally accompanied the disastrous Scottish expedition to Panama in 1698, where his wife and child died and he became seriously ill. On his return to Scotland in December 1699, he became instrumental in the movement for the Union of Scotland and England, culminating in his support of the Act of Union 1707.

* August 13-Rasmus Bartholin, Danish scientist ( died 1698 )

* Sir George Browne, 2nd Baronet ( died 1698 )

* Fitzroy Lee ( 10 May 1698 – died young ).