`` My father and mother died when I was two years old '', I said.

After the death of Lincoln's mother, his older sister, Sarah, took charge of caring for him until their father remarried in 1819 ; Sarah later died in her 20s while giving birth to a stillborn son.

While in Athens, his wife Pythias died and Aristotle became involved with Herpyllis of Stageira, who bore him a son whom he named after his father, Nicomachus.

It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.

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Alp Arslan died four days later from this wound on 25 November 1072 in his 42nd year, and was taken to Merv to be buried next to his father Chaghri Beg.

At the age of 13, Mackenzie's father died, and he was forced to end his formal education in order to help support his family.

Antoninus ’ father and paternal grandfather died when he was young and he was raised by Gnaeus Arrius Antoninus, his maternal grandfather, reputed by contemporaries to be a man of integrity and culture and a friend of Pliny the Younger.

In 59 BC, when he was four years old, his father died.

His father, for example, was guillotined during the French Revolution and his wife died shortly after their marriage.

" He died three days later on March 4 ; Louisa May died only two days after her father.

Several attempts to find a new home failed ; one such stop was on Sicily where in Drepanum, on the island's western coast, his father, Anchises, died peacefully.

After the sojourn in Carthage, the Trojans returned to Sicily where Aeneas organizes funeral games to honor his father, who had died a year before.

In 12 BC, Agrippina ’ s father died.

Alexander's father died on 8 July 1249 and he became king at the age of seven, inaugurated at Scone on 13 July 1249.

The young Alexios IV was strangled in prison, while his father Isaac died shortly afterwards, his death variously attributed to fright, sorrow, or foul play.

On 26 June, Alexei died in the Petropavlovskaya fortress in Saint Petersburg, two days after the senate had condemned him to death for conspiring rebellion against his father, and for hoping for the cooperation of the common people and the armed intervention of his brother-in-law, the emperor.

Jackson's father died in an accident in February 1767, at the age of 29, three weeks before his son Andrew was born in the Waxhaws area.

On 7 January 1325, Afonso's father died and he became king, taking full revenge on his brother.

Ammonius ' father, Hermias, died when he was a child, and his mother, Aedesia, raised him and his brother, Heliodorus, in Alexandria.

Amyntas III ( Greek: Ἀμύντας Γ ΄, died 370 BC ), son of Arrhidaeus and father of Philip II, was king of Macedon in 393 BC, and again from 392 to 370 BC.

In 1320, Andronikos accidentally murdered his brother Manuel, whereupon their father died of grief.

His father died when he was two years old and he remained under the guardianship of his cousin, Guillaume Jourdain, count of Cerdagne ( d. 1109 ), until he was five.

The current Emperor is His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Akihito, who has been on the Chrysanthemum Throne since his father the Showa Emperor ( Hirohito ) died in 1989.

* 1989 – Prince Akihito is sworn in as the emperor of Japan after the death of his father Hirohito

He did not discover the identity of his biological father until 1989.

In 1989, von Trier's mother revealed on her deathbed that the man who he thought was his father was not, and that she had had a tryst with her former employer, Fritz Michael Hartmann ( 1909 – 2000 ), who descended from a long line of Roman Catholic classical musicians ( his grandfather was Emil Hartmann, his great grandfather J. P. E.

His father, Luigi Berlusconi ( 1908 – 1989 ) was a bank employee and his mother, Rosa Bossi ( 1911 – 2008 ), a housewife.

In 1989, Prince Hans-Adam II succeeded his father to the throne, and in 1996, Russia returned the Liechtenstein family's archives, ending a long-running dispute between the two countries.

After a lengthy fight and DNA testing an American court ruled in 1989 that Jones is the boy's father.

Weaver with her father Sylvester " Pat " Weaver | Pat Weaver in 1989

* Eric Harris, one of the Columbine High School massacre perpetrators lived in Oscoda as a young child, from 1989 – 1992, while his father worked on Wurtsmith Air Force Base.

In a case of life imitating art, however, The Metamorphosis was produced on Broadway ( 1989 ), featuring Mikhail Baryshnikov as Gregor and René Auberjonois as Gregor's father.

* Gordon Jump as Ed Malone ( 1989 – 1991 ); Maggie's father.

The Bangabandhu Primary School, named after the father of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujib, a non-selective state community school, was opened in January 1989, moved to a new building in November 1991, and has over 450 pupils.

* Jordin Sparks ( born 1989 ), American Idol winner, lived here as a child while her father was playing with the Giants.

* Webster B. Todd ( 1899 – 1989 ), businessman, Republican leader, and father of Christine Todd Whitman.

In 2004, a paternity test revealed that Rossdale was the father of Pearl Lowe's daughter, Daisy Lowe ( born 1989 ); Rossdale and Pearl Lowe had had a brief relationship and Rossdale had been Daisy's godfather.

Her father was a geography teacher, polytechnic administrator and lifelong supporter of the Labour Party, who died when Whiteread was studying at art school in 1989.

Day-Lewis returned to the stage in 1989 to work with Richard Eyre, in Hamlet at the National Theatre, but collapsed in the middle of a scene where the ghost of Hamlet's father first appears to his son.

* Thomas Seung, WWII Veteran, father 1927 – 1989

Eddie continued to run the company until 1976, when son Edward took over running the transport side, but father Eddie continued to be involved, and retained his own separate warehouse until 1989, when he handed over full control to his sons Edward and William, retaining the title of non-executive chairman of Eddie Stobart Ltd.

On December 31, 1989, Yolandita married Puerto Rican producer and Ex-Vice-President of SBS Radio Broadcast Stations in Puerto Rico., Topy Mamery, who is her manager and father to her only son Imanol.

In 1989, Connolly's father died after a stroke, the eighth of his life.

Rivaldo's father Romildo was killed in a road accident in 1989, but Rivaldo went on to his first professional contract later that year.

In 1989, Selena ( now played by Jennifer Lopez ) surprises her father when she wears and creates her first bustier.

His father, Miles Copeland, Jr., was a founding member of the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) and the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), according to his 1989 biography and files released by the CIA in 2008.