Kumaritashvili was the fourth athlete to die while in preparation for a Winter Olympics competition, following speed skier Nicolas Bochatay, 27, who died while preparing for the Albertville 1992 games, British luger Kazimierz Kay-Skrzypeski and skier Ross Milne, 19, who both died in the run up to the Innsbruck 1964 games.

A. Milne, British author ( died 1956 )

* John Milne, British seismologist, father of modern seismology, died of Bright's Disease.

* February 14-Arthur Milne ( died 1950 ), English space physicist.

* 25 May-Ewart Milne, poet ( died 1987 ).

He occasionally visited his father after the elder Milne became ill, but once his father died, he did not see his mother during the 15 years that passed before her death ; even when she was on her death bed she refused to see her son.

Milne lived for some years with myasthenia gravis and died in his sleep on 20 April 1996.

Milne died of Bright's disease on 31 July 1913 and is buried in St. Paul's Church, Newport.

Mary Morrison returned to China only to die in 1821 ; Mrs. Milne had died already.

In 1822 William Milne died, after a brief but valuable missionary life, and Morrison was left to reflect that he alone of the first four Protestant missionaries to China was now left alive.

Motivated in part by a desire to prove that Australians could compete at the highest level, and believing that claims that his brother died due to inexperience was a smokescreen intended to cover-up the poor safety standards, Malcolm Milne represented Australia at the next two Winter Olympics, won a World Cup event and came third in a World Championship.

Milne got us together on October 24, 1909 and asked if we would like to become scouts and we voted we did.

As I now recall a group of boys from our First Baptist Church headed by a young man just over from the " old country " and already interested in scouting as it was than known in England, decided to form a troup and in the month of October of the year 1909 we organized such a troup, with this young man William Foster Milne as our leader.

* October 14-The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is published for the first time.

Alasdair David Gordon Milne ( born 8 October 1930 ) is a former BBC producer who became Controller of BBC Scotland, the BBC's Director of Programmes and then Director-General of the BBC in July 1982.

In addition to these artillery assets, in October a small group of five Bren carriers from the 17th Brigade's carrier platoon had been sent from Milne Bay to support the General Robert Eichelberger's 32nd Division.

* Dr Charles Milne Glennie CBE, 13 April 1982-31 October 1994

Edward James " Eddie " Milne ( 18 October 1915 – 23 March 1983 ) was a British Labour politician, who was elected as independent candidate after deselection by his party.

However, it was a short-lived victory, as Milne was narrowly defeated in the October 1974 general election by John Ryman by 78 votes.

On 22 October 1942 the Australian warships HMAS Stuart and HMAS Arunta disembarked 640 soldiers consisting of the Australian 2 / 12th Battalion, of the 18th Brigade from Milne Bay.

* Disobedience: Chris T-T Sings A. A. Milne ( 28 October 2011, Wine Cellar Records )

* Alexander Milne ( 1742 – 1838 ) -- Scottish-American entrepreneur and philanthropist

Alexander Milne ( 1742 – 1838 ) was a Scottish American entrepreneur and philanthropist and was born in Fochabers, Moray, Scotland.

His son was born in August 1920 and in 1924 Milne produced a collection of children's poems When We Were Very Young, which were illustrated by Punch staff cartoonist E. H. Shepard.

Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films ( founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel ).

Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

But once Milne had, in his own words, " said goodbye to all that in 70, 000 words " ( the approximate length of his four principal children's books ), he had no intention of producing any reworkings lacking in originality, given that one of the sources of inspiration, his son, was growing older.

Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).

Milne did not speak out much on the subject of religion, although he used religious terms to explain his decision, while remaining a pacifist, to join the army: " In fighting Hitler ", he wrote, " we are truly fighting the Devil, the Anti-Christ ... Hitler was a crusader against God.

Eddie Milne at Blyth ( Northumberland ) and Dick Taverne in Lincoln were both victims of such intrigues during the 1970s, but in both cases there was enough of a local outcry by party members – and the electorate – for them to fight and win their seats as independent candidates against the official Labour candidates.

A. Milne, after whom the character Christopher Robin in the Winnie-the-Pooh books was named, used to own the Harbour Bookshop.

Shepard was recommended to Milne by another Punch staffer, E. V. Lucas in 1923.

Initially, Milne thought Shepard's style was not what he wanted, but used him to illustrate his book of poems When We Were Very Young.

In 2006, a theatrical adaptation was created by Frances Limoncelli and directed by Dorothy Milne at Lifeline Theatre in Chicago.

A. Milne ( author of Winnie-the-Pooh ) and the person on whom Christopher Robin was based, lived with myasthenia gravis for several years before his death in 1996.

Australian troops at Milne Bay, Papua. The Australian garrison was the first to inflict defeat on the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II at the Battle of Milne Bay of Aug – Sep 1942.

Dr. William Milne was then appointed Headmaster.

Here she began taking advertising commissions and also photographed many of the leading personalities of the day, including A. A. Milne, Barbara Cartland, Diana Mitford, Louis Mountbatten and Noël Coward.

By 3 March, the convoy was within range of the air base at Milne Bay, and eight Bristol Beaufort torpedo bombers from No. 100 Squadron RAAF took off from there.

Milne wrote a book entitled No Shining Armour ( 1976 ) ( ISBN 0-7145-3514-1 ) detailing his travails with the local party, and giving his view on the corruption scandals of the 1970s.