Franklin retired from editing and publishing at the age of 42, and for the next forty-two years devoted himself to public, scientific, and philanthropic interests.

The 1958 military pay act departed from this established formula by providing for a 6% increase rather than a proportionate increase for everyone retired prior to its effective date of June 1, 1958.

Mr. Reama, far from really being retired, is engaged in industrial relations counseling.

Since Election Day, Vice President Richard Nixon had virtually retired -- by his own wish -- from public view.

One of the local callers, a retired brigadier apparently left over from Kipling's tales of India, does not approve of the way Larkin gets his birds.

Andre Kirk Agassi (; born April 29, 1970 in Las Vegas, Nevada ) is a retired American professional tennis player and former World No. 1, who was one of the game's most dominant players from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s.

His name was derived from two other fictional detectives of the time: Marie Belloc Lowndes ' Hercule Popeau and Frank Howel Evans ' Monsieur Poirot, a retired Belgian police officer living in London.

Poirot had been forcibly retired from the Belgian police force prior to the time he met Hastings in 1916 as a refugee on the case retold in The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

Brearley retired from Test cricket in 1979 and was succeeded by Ian Botham, who started the 1981 series as England captain, by which time the WSC split had ended.

Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne and Justin Langer retired from Test cricket after that series, while Damien Martyn retired during the series.

Andrew Flintoff retired from Test cricket soon afterwards.

Alexios became estranged from Maria, who was stripped of her imperial title and retired to a monastery, and Constantine Doukas was deprived of his status as co-emperor.

He declined offers from German bishops and finally retired to the monastery of Cluny, where he died at a high age, leaving behind a solid reputation for piety and intelligence.

When Absalon retired from military service in 1184 at the age of fifty-seven, he resigned the command of fleets and armies to younger men, like Duke Valdemar, the later king Valdemar II.

Spalding retired from playing baseball in 1878, although he continued as a major force as owner of the White Stockings and major influence on the National League.

The holdings were incorporated in the United States Steel Corporation, a trust organized by Morgan, and Carnegie retired from business.

Carnegie, a self-proclaimed to devotee of Spencer is also noted as saying " My business is to do as much good in the world as I can ; I have retired from all of their business.

He formally retired in 1988 and within a few years moved to the Pyrenees, where he currently lives in isolation from human society.

He retired from scientific life around 1970, after having discovered the partly military funding of IHÉS ( see pp. xii and xiii of SGA1, Springer Lecture Notes 224 ).

Blank retired from the company in 2001 as co-chairman.

In that year he became Kappellmeister of the Imperial Chapel upon the death of Giuseppe Bonno ; as Kappellmeister he conducted the music and musical school connected with the chapel until shortly before his death, being official retired from the post in 1824.

When Salieri retired from the stage, he recognized that artistic styles had changed and he felt that he no longer had the creative capacity to adapt or the emotional desire to continue.

She retired from politics at the 2010 general election.

In 1805, aged 67, he retired from the Navy with the rank of Admiral of the Blue, and spent most of the rest of his life at Bath.

A retired professional killer If he was just a nut, no harm was done.

Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova (; born 7 June 1981 ) is a Russian retired professional tennis player.

Bernard Allan Federko ( born May 12, 1956 ) is a retired professional ice hockey centre who played fourteen seasons in the National Hockey League from 1976 through 1990.

* 1955 – Eddie L. Johnson, retired American professional basketball player and sex offender

Hagi retired from professional football in 2001, age 36, in a game called " Gala Hagi " on 24 April.

Hitler's British guests were a mélange of aristocratic Germanophiles such as Lord Londonderry, professional pacifists such as George Lansbury and Lord Allen, retired politicians, ex-generals, fascists such as Admiral Barry Domvile and Sir Oswald Mosley, journalists such as Lord Lothian and G. Ward Price, academics such as the historian Philip Conwell-Evans, and various businessmen like the newspaper magnate Lord Rothermere and the merchant banker Lord Mount Temple.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ( born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr., April 16, 1947 ) is a retired American professional basketball player.

Kain retired as a professional dancer in 1997.

Louis Jude " Lou " Ferrigno ( born November 9, 1951 ) is an American actor, fitness trainer / consultant, and retired professional bodybuilder.

* Stefan Kretzschmar, retired professional handball player and Olympic medallist

Although he was never declared a professional, Nurmi's suspension became definite in 1934 and he retired from running.

Famous athletes include Baseball Hall of Fame members Roger Bresnahan and Addie Joss, U. S. boxing Olympian Devin Vargas, 2012 Olympic silver medalist Erik Kynard ( Track & Field, high jump ), professional basketball player John Amaechi, retired NBA player Jim Jackson, and NBA Champions Chicago Bulls Dennis Hopson.

* Terran Sandwith, retired Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played eight games in the National Hockey League for the Edmonton Oilers during the 1997 – 98 season

** Edge, retired Canadian professional wrestler, 4-time WWE Champion

* Probus Clubs cater for the interests of retired or semi-retired professional or business people.

* Mitch Cook ( born 15 October 1961 in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England ) is a retired English professional football player.

* Edge ( wrestler ) ( born 1973 ), ring name of retired Canadian professional wrestler Adam Copeland

This has combined with modern business practices that have ensured that most investigators are now professional in outlook, rather than seeing the PI world as a second career opportunity for retired policemen.

Willie Howard Mays, Jr. ( born May 6, 1931 ) is a retired American professional baseball player who spent the majority of his major league career with the New York and San Francisco Giants before finishing with the New York Mets.

Roberto Durán Samaniego ( born June 16, 1951 ) is a retired Panamanian professional boxer, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time.

He finally retired in January 2002 at age 50 ( having previously retired in 1998 ) following a bad car crash in October 2001, with a professional record of 119 fights, 103 wins with 70 KOs.

A small garrison of " invalides " was appointed in 1749 to guard the interior and exterior of the fortress ; these were retired soldiers and were regarded locally, as Simon Schama describes, as " amiable layabouts " rather than professional soldiers.