On September 7, 2011 ( what would have been Holly's 75th birthday ), he received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame posthumously.

She received a star posthumously on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto on June 5, 2005.

Since FIDE did not award the grandmaster title posthumously, world-class players who died prior to 1950, including World Champions Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, and Alekhine, never received the title.

He received the agnomen Germanicus in 9 BC, when it was posthumously awarded to his father in honour of his victories in Germania.

Although it received enthusiastic reviews, the release failed to chart ; his next album, Grievous Angel ( released posthumously in 1974 ) met with a similar reception, and peaked at number 195 on Billboard.

On June 16, 2011, he posthumously received the Disney Legends Award.

For his actions on board Flight 93, Homer received many awards and citations posthumously, including honorary membership in the historic Tuskegee Airmen ; the Congress of Racial Equality's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award ; the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Drum Major for Justice Award ; and the Westchester County Trailblazer Award.

The medal may be awarded to an individual more than once ( John Kenneth Galbraith and Colin Powell each have received two awards ; Ellsworth Bunker received both of his awards With Distinction ), and may also be awarded posthumously ( for example, Cesar Chavez, Paul " Bear " Bryant, Roberto Clemente, Jack Kemp, John F. Kennedy, Thurgood Marshall, and Lyndon Johnson ).

" Shughart posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Mogadishu in October 1993.

* 2011 Richler posthumously received a star on Canada's Walk of Fame and was inducted at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto.

Six firemen received Certificates of Commendation for their actions at the fire, including Station Officer Townsley who was given the award posthumously.

Newman received his 45th Oscar nomination posthumously for this film, the most received by a composer.

Abbott received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Acting ( posthumously ) from the Garden State Film Festival in 2006 and was accepted on his behalf by his daughter Vickie Abbott Wheeler.

* James A. Shelton, Navy ensign who received the Navy Cross posthumously for his service during the Battle of Midway.

* Jedh Colby Barker ( 1945 – 67 ), United States Marine Corps Lance Corporal who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for heroism during the Vietnam War.

* Lt. Michael P. Murphy, a U. S. Navy SEAL and North Patchogue native ( 1976 ), posthumously received the Medal of Honor in 2007 for bravery in action against the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2005.

William " Grubho " Johnson had received a Purple Heart before his death and received another posthumously after his death in Belgium, where he was buried at his parents ' request.

Tatum posthumously received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1989.

Despite the bravery of the pilots ( Flight Lieutenant David Lord received the Victoria Cross posthumously ), the Airborne forces only recovered of supplies.

* 1942: As the United States Coast Guard is subsumed into the U. S. Navy in time of declared war, Signalman 1st Class Douglas Munro received the Navy version of the Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroic actions during the Battle of Guadalcanal.

His son, John Alexander Logan, Jr., was also an army officer and posthumously received the Medal of Honor for actions during the Philippine – American War.

After Dorgon died and was posthumously granted the title of an emperor, she received the posthumous title of Empress Chengzongyi ( 成宗義皇后 ).

In 1967, a court in West Berlin overturned the 1933 verdict, and posthumously changed Van der Lubbe's sentence to 8 years in prison.

In 1981, a West German court posthumously overturned Van der Lubbe's 1933 conviction and found him not guilty by reason of insanity.

In an attempt to pressure him into service with the Soviet-friendly East German Volksarmee, he was convicted of false war crimes, a conviction posthumously voided by a Russian court as a malicious prosecution.

In 1915, Yorinobu was posthumously promoted to senior 2nd court rank ( shō-ni-i ).

In 1910, Kiyomasa was posthumously promoted to junior 3rd court rank ( jusanmi 従三位 ).

Although he also wrote poetry and entered some poetry contests at the imperial court ( his participation in 1335 and 1344 is documented ), Kenkō's enduring fame is based on Tsurezuregusa, his collection of 243 short essays, published posthumously.

A court of enquiry praised the surviving crew and their dead captain and authorised the award of the Victoria Cross posthumously to Thomas Crisp and Distinguished Service Medals to his son and another member of the crew.

In September 1948, Schwarz was posthumously classified by the Munich de-Nazification court as a “ major offender ”.

Colonel Bartow was buried in Savannah, GA with military honors, and promoted posthumously to the rank of brigadier general.

In February 2012, on what would have been his 70th birthday, Kim Jong-il posthumously was made Dae Wonsu ( roughly translated as Grand Marshal ), the nation's top military rank.

Katō was given the honorary rank of Fleet Admiral the day before his death, and posthumously awarded the Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum and his title raised to shishaku ( viscount ).

He was promoted posthumously by Congress to the rank of Captain, and has had a Chair named in his honor at the Naval Postgraduate School.

Reid was posthumously awarded the Order of Distinction in the rank of Commander on 15 October 2007.

Chōshi was posthumously elevated to the rank of empress mother ( Zō-Kōtaigō, 贈皇太后 ).

* In 2001, President Bill Clinton elevated Clark to the rank of Captain in the US Army posthumously.

Elevation and degradation of rank might occur posthumously, and posthumous elevation was sometimes an aspiration ; Guan Yu, was styled, during his lifetime, Marquis of Han Shou ( 漢壽亭侯 ) in the Han Dynasty then posthumously in the later Song Dynasty elevated to Duke Zhonghui ( 忠惠公 ) then in the Yuan Dynasty Prince of Xianling Yiyong Wu ' an Yingji ( 顯靈義勇武安英濟王 ) then in the Ming Dynasty both beatified and royalized as Saintly Emperor Guan the Great God Who Subdues Demons of the Three Worlds and Whose Awe Spreads Far and Moves Heaven ( 三界伏魔大神威遠震天尊關聖帝君 ) and in popular culture deified as a God of Prosperity, Commerce, War, and Police.

Buckner was posthumously promoted to the rank of full four-star general on July 19, 1954 by a Special Act of Congress ( Public Law 83-508 )

He was elevated to the peerage posthumously, and given the rank of hakushaku ( count ).

On his death, Yi Hwang was posthumously promoted to the highest ministerial rank, and his mortuary tablet housed in a Confucian shrine as well as in the shrine of King Seonjo.

As the Jiajing Emperor, Zhu Houcong had his parents posthumously elevated to an " honorary " imperial rank, and had an imperial-style Xianling Mausoleum built for them near Zhongxiang.

He was posthumously given the rank of Brigadier General.

He was posthumously raised to the rank of Emperor in 1899 by Gojong, the Gwangmu Emperor, who had proclaimed the Korean Empire in 1897.

After the collapse of Communist Poland in 1989, his citizenship and military rank were posthumously reinstated.

The Polish political group Centrum ( at the time headed by Zbigniew Religa ) requested in 2004 that the President of Poland posthumously promote Kukliński to the rank of general.

* Empress Xiao Su ( 孝肅皇后 ), family name Zhou ( 周 ) ( died 1504 ), daughter of Zhou Neng ( 周能 ), held the rank of Noble Consort ( 貴妃 ), created Empress Dowager Sheng Ci Ren Shou ( 聖慈仁壽皇太后 ) in 1487, created Grand Empress Dowager ( 太皇太后 ) during the reign of her grandson, never held the title of empress in life but was posthumously honored as an empress, mother of Princess Chongqing and the Chenghua Emperor

* ( 1893 – 1938 ) Kasyan Chaikovski, Russian military commander ; World War I hero with rank of comcor ; executed during Stalin's Great Terror ; posthumously rehabilitated in 1956

Ribas-Dominicci was awarded the Purple Heart and posthumously promoted to the rank of major, effective April 15, 1986.

Estigarribia was succeeded by Higinio Morínigo and posthumously promoted to the rank of marshal.