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 ".

:“ 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.

In the obituary of Michael Andreevich Romanoff, the highest-ranking member of the Russian imperial family at the time of his death in 2008, it was noted that his family spent most of WWII at Craigowan Lodge.

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

However after the obituary appeared, a nephew wrote to say that Charles Babbage was born one year earlier, in 1791.

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

The day Edgar Allan Poe was buried, a long obituary appeared in the New York Tribune signed " Ludwig ".

Isaac Baker Brown ( 1812 – 1873 ), an English gynaecologist who was president of the Medical Society of London in 1865, believed that the " unnatural irritation " of the clitoris caused epilepsy, hysteria, and mania, and would remove it " whenever he had the opportunity of doing so ," according to an obituary.

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.

His obituary was written by Vint Cerf and published as RFC 2468 in remembrance of Postel and his work.

An obituary notice, however, which appeared in the Daily Courant for 5 October 1727, says: " He was not above twenty-two when he undertook of himself his admirable treatise on the Truth of the Christian Religion ".

After the death of Mary Hastings Bradley in 1976, " Tiptree " mentioned in a letter that his mother, also a writer, had died in Chicago — details that led inquiring fans to find the obituary, with its reference to Alice Sheldon ; soon all was revealed.

In an obituary of Arthur Lee in early 2007, Kandia Crazy Horse of Vibe Magazine wrote that "' Forever Changes ' ( was ) his psychedelic masterpiece ... an exhilarating mash-up of West Side freak folk with East Side mariachi and blues.

There was varied response in the obituary pages of leading publications, although most recognized her technical breakthroughs in film making:

A short obituary for the Russian Academy of Sciences was written by Jacob von Staehlin-Storcksburg and a more detailed eulogy was written and delivered at a memorial meeting by Russian mathematician Nicolas Fuss, one of Euler's disciples.

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 ".

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

As it was Alfred's brother Ludvig who had died, the obituary was eight years premature.

( On his death in 1998, his obituary was published as RFC 2468.

This was clearly shown in their obituary cartoon with the caption: Roy Jenkins, 1920 – 2003.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

In an obituary published in the American Journal of Science, Gibbs's former student Henry A. Bumstead referred to Gibbs's personal character:

As Jean Pierre Lion has pointed out, " the only serious and analytical obituary to have been published in the months " after his death was by a Frenchman, Hugues Panassié.

Telemann wrote choral cantatas for Frankfurt ( later published in solo versions as the Harmonische Gottesdienst ) and Graupner cycles for Darmstadt, but Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ) made a truly monumental contribution: his obituary mentions five complete cycles of his cantatas, of which three, comprising some 200 works, are known today, in addition to motets.

An overview of Smith's mathematics contained in a lengthy obituary published in a professional journal in 1884 is reproduced at NumberTheory. Org.

A detailed obituary was published in the American magazine The Manufacturer and Builder ( Volume 19, Issue 6, June 1887 ).

Selby often wryly noted that The New York Times would not review his books when they were published, but he predicted that they would print his obituary.

In an obituary published in The Nation, Christopher Hitchens wrote that Shahak's home was " a library of information about the human rights of the oppressed ", and that The families of prisoners, the staff of closed and censored publications, the victims of eviction and confiscation -- none were ever turned away.

However his obituary was published in November 1900 before he retired.

An obituary regarding Black was published by IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control in 1984.

The Society's journal, which had published his papers, printed an obituary by Edward Clodd.

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 ).

This article, first published in 1870, also accompanied Hopkins ' obituary in the Baltimore American as a tribute in 1873.

Besides these he published a number of articles in the Journal des savants ; for many years he wrote the history of the Académie des Inscriptions in the collection of Memoirs of this Academy, and he composed obituary notices of his colleagues, which were inserted in the Bulletin.

* Variety Obituaries, 15-volume series with every obituary published by the entertainment trade magazine Variety from 1905 to 1994

The piece was finished by Robert Bridges and published along with Fowler ’ s " Preposition at End " and a brief obituary.