On publication of the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to be given an obituary in the New York Times ; 6 August 1975 " Hercule Poirot is Dead ; Famed Belgian Detective ".

The series is named after a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, in 1882 after a match at The Oval in which Australia beat England on an English ground for the first time.

On 2 September a more celebrated mock obituary, written by Reginald Brooks under the pseudonym " Bloobs ", appeared in The Sporting Times.

:“ In 1882, she said, it was first spoken of when the Sporting Times, after the Australians had thoroughly beaten the English at the Oval, wrote an obituary in affectionate memory of English cricket “ whose demise was deeply lamented and the body would be cremated and taken to Australia ”.

Neither his letters nor his diaries nor his New York Times obituary ever mentions the game, and he was never inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

* Johnson's obituary, from The New York Times

His date of birth was given in his obituary in The Times as 26 December 1792.

Thomas ' obituary in the Times was written by fellow poet and long-time friend, Vernon Watkins.

* Ernst Mayr obituary in the Times

The New York Times ' obituary of Thayer on August 22, 1940, p. 19 quotes comedian DeWolf Hopper, who helped make the poem famous:

A common story says that his New York Times obituary called him " Henry Melville ", implying that he was unknown and unappreciated at his time of death, but the story is not true.

In a fictional obituary, purportedly published in The Times, Bond's parents were given as Andrew Bond, from the village of Glencoe, Scotland, and Monique Delacroix, from Yverdon, Switzerland.

* Joanna Russ obituary at NY Times

* New York Times obituary

* New York Times obituary, September 21, 1994

Max Zorn died in March 1993 of congestive heart failure, according to his obituary in The New York Times.

The defeat was widely recorded in the English press and a mock obituary was published in The Sporting Times, lamenting the death of English cricket and noted that " the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia ".

According to his The New York Times obituary published on April 3, 1872, Morse received respectively the decoration of the Atiq Nishan-i-Iftikhar ( English: Order of Glory ) medal on wearer's right depicted in photo of Morse with medals, set in diamonds, from the Sultan Ahmad I ibn Mustafa of Turkey ( c. 1847 ), a golden snuff box containing the Prussian gold medal for scientific merit from the King of Prussia ( 1851 ); the Great Gold Medal of Arts and Sciences from the King of Württemberg ( 1852 ); and the Great Golden Medal of Science and Arts from Emperor of Austria ( 1855 ); a cross of Chevalier in the Légion d ' honneur from the Emperor of France ; the Cross of a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog from the King of Denmark ( 1856 ); the Cross of Knight Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, from the Queen of Spain, besides being elected member of innumerable scientific and art societies in this States and other countries.

He then notes that it is ridiculous and weird that there are intensities of treatment by the scientists and press, in particular, that he was " much less badly treated ," when in fact he had been the main target of US press, specifically The New York Times, where his obituary ten years later would mock deconstruction and not consider Jacques Derrida, the person, in the face of those grieving his death.

A mock obituary was published in the Sporting Times the following day, mourning the death of English cricket, as this was the first time that an England team had lost on home soil.

In 1971, after seeing Virginia's obituary in The New York Times, four friends formed a company, called Elizabeth Press, and published a children's book titled Yes, Virginia that illustrated the editorial and included a brief history of the main characters.

Keynes's obituary in The Times included the comment:

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* New York Times obituary

However, her obituary in The New York Times states that she was born on May 4, 1914, which would have made her 87 at the time of her death on April 8, 2002.

In 1888 Alfred's brother Ludvig died while visiting Cannes and a French newspaper erroneously published Alfred's obituary.

Alfred Nobel had the unpleasant surprise of reading his own obituary, titled The merchant of death is dead, in a French newspaper.

In 1888, Nobel was astonished to read his own obituary, titled The merchant of death is dead, in a French newspaper.

Her obituary, in the February 8, 1975 edition of The Washington Post newspaper, reflects her many contributions to military heraldry.

Author Peter Lehman suggests that had he died in the 1970s when his career was in the doldrums, it might have earned a minor mention in the obituary section of the newspaper.

To support the illness story, the " agent " eventually " died " and an obituary was placed in the local newspaper as further evidence to convince the Germans, who were also persuaded to pay a pension to the agent's " widow ".

An obituary notice about his death was printed in one Maribor daily newspaper, mentioning his ranks ( engineers and captain ), his illness, but nothing about his work about space.

A famous victory on the 1882 tour of England resulted in the placement of a satirical obituary in an English newspaper saying that English cricket had " died ", and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia.

| title = Keith Ingram — Long-serving Dragon prep school headmaster who won the respect and affection of staff and pupils ( obituary ) | newspaper = The Times | date = 12 February 2007

After Cheung's death, Cheung's family published a full-page obituary in a Hong Kong newspaper, in which Tong was listed as a surviving spouse ( 未亡人 ).

Following Stalin ’ s death on March 5, 1953, the North Korean leader wrote an emotional obituary in his honor titled " Stalin Is the Inspiration for the Peoples Struggling for Their Freedom and Independence " in a special issue of the WPK newspaper Rodong Sinmun ( March 10, 1953 ), the opening of which reads:

On Sunday, December 15, 1918, nine days before Christmas Eve, the following obituary appeared in the Washington Star newspaper:

Mahadev Desai's obituary in Harijan, Gandhi's newspaper

Her obituary in the newspaper she had once edited, the Daily Tribune, said that her works had a few great sentiments, " but as a whole they must commend themselves mainly by their vigor of thought and habitual fearlessness rather than freedom of utterance ".

Shortly after his death, his obituary in The Guardian newspaper declared that " For ten brief but glorious years, Sydney Newman ... was the most important impresario in Britain ... His death marks not just the end of an era but the laying to rest of a whole philosophy of popular art.

His death was first reported on the blog of his former collaborator Andrei Zelevinsky and confirmed a few hours later by an obituary in the Russian online newspaper Polit. ru.

Several doctors — Boggs ' brother among them — pronounced Boggs as good as dead ; at least one newspaper ran an obituary.

After this match The Sporting Times, a major newspaper in London at the time, printed a mock obituary in which the death of English cricket was proclaimed and the announcement made that " the body was cremated and the ashes taken to Australia.

In this regard, some people will seek to have an unsuspecting newspaper editor publish a premature death notice or obituary as a malicious hoax, perhaps to gain revenge on the " deceased ".

No official announcement of the actor's death was made, only a brief obituary appeared in the Moscow newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva, and a note informing of Vysotsky's death and cancellation of the Hamlet performance was put out at the entrance to the Taganka Theatre ( the story goes that not a single ticket holder took advantage of the refund offer ).

He pesters the bellboy ( Barry Levinson ) with repeated requests about getting a newspaper, wanting to look in the obituary for information concerning Dr. Wentworth's demise.

Rivals in life, both men shared a combined obituary in the local newspaper.

While he was missing, he was incorrectly listed as killed in action and an Amherst newspaper printed his obituary under the headline, " Another Hero Gone.

His obituary in Amor de Cosmos ' Victoria Colonist newspaper read: