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

Some sources have erroneously attributed Johnny Bond's 1948 " Oklahoma Waltz " to her ;< ref > Paul Wadey's obituary (" Cindy Walker: Country songwriter ", < i > The Independent </ i >, 27 March 2006 ) makes this error, as well as misidentifying the years of the Tubb and Arnold songs she wrote ; nine years earlier this error appeared in more than one book edited by Colin Larkin, e. g. probably they confused it with her own 1947 composition of that name, co-written with and recorded by Spade Cooley.

At the time of his death, the Los Angeles Times erroneously stated in his obituary that Brodie had been nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor for 1949's Home of the Brave.

The British newspaper The Daily Mail erroneously published his obituary on the 27th June 1924, with the news being copied by the New York Times.

Desborough had the unfortunate distinction of having his obituary erroneously published on 2 December 1920 in The Times which had confused him with Lord Bessborough.

The obituary stated (" The merchant of death is dead ") and went on to say, " Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday.

The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia.

His obituary in The Sydney Morning Herald stated that he had fought, " A long battle with depression.

He also wrote his own obituary, in which he stated repeatedly that he " wrote the Goon show and died ".

His obituary by the Royal Society stated: " Gregory was always very interested in the international contacts of science, and in the columns of Nature he always gave generous space to accounts of the activities of the International Scientific Unions.

His obituary stated that " he recognized Denmark as his native country, whence he came to our region ; he lived about 70 years ".

For example, in a 1993 obituary of writer Michael Musto, it stated that shortly after Abbott and Costello teamed up, they paid Musto $ 15 to write the script.

Fran Striker's obituary ( 1962 ) and a Gold Key Comics ( 1964 ) retelling of the origin both stated that " Dan " was the Lone Ranger's first name, not his brother's.

' The Law Times, in his obituary, stated that Ballantine " left behind him scarcely any lesson, even in his own poor biography, which the rising generation could profitably learn.

) Secondly, when Ne Win died on 5 December 2002, the Burmese language newspapers that were allowed to carry a paid obituary stated the age of ' U Ne Win ' to be ' 93 years '.

Most Western news agencies, based on the May 1911 birth date, reported that Ne Win was 91 years old, but the obituary put up by his family ( most probably his children ) stated that he was 93 years old, which most likely stems from East Asian age reckoning.

In its obituary of the scholar, The Independent stated that " Isaiah Berlin was often described, especially in his old age, by means of superlatives: the world's greatest talker, the century's most inspired reader, one of the finest minds of our time ... there is no doubt that he showed in more than one direction the unexpectedly large possibilities open to us at the top end of the range of human potential ".

Johns Hopkins ' views on his bequests, and on the duties and responsibilities of the two board of trustees, especially the hospital board of trustees led by his friend and fellow Quaker Francis King, were formally stated primarily in four documents, the incorporation papers filed in 1867, his instruction letter to the hospital trustees dated March 12, 1873, his will, which was quoted from extensively in his Baltimore Sun obituary, and in his will's two codicils, one dated 1870 and the other dated 1873.

Upon her death, an obituary in The Independent in London stated, " In the history of the American environmental movement, there have been few more remarkable figures than Marjory Stoneman Douglas.

The writer of the obituary notice in The Times stated that he was a very religious man who during his last years did much lecturing to young people's clubs and debating societies.

In his obituary, it is stated that Longenecker was second in the Republican primary race ( year?

An obituary in The Daily Telegraph stated that he later described the Anton Piller order " as a Frankenstein's monster that went far beyond his original design brief.

Schaaf's obituary stated that " just before his bout with Carnera, Schaaf went into reclusion in a religious retreat near Boston to recuperate from an attack of influenza " which produced the meningitis.

In its obituary, the New York Times attributed his death to " paralysis of the brain ", and stated that his death had been expected.

His obituary in The New York Times stated that, at that time, all that could be done for a victim of hyaline membrane disease " is to monitor the infant's blood chemistry and to try to keep it near normal levels.

Cohen's obituary in the New York Times stated that long before his death, Cohen had become " an almost legendary figure in American philosophy, education and the liberal tradition ".

His obituary in The Times newspaper in the United Kingdom stated that " any consideration of the American ' film noir ' of the 1940s would be incomplete without him ".

" Similarly, his Times obituary stated that: " At a time when studio productions were usually as static as the conventional theatre, he was widely respected for a creative contribution to British television drama which gave it a new dimension.

Despite chairman Ghnaim's stated mission to create a " cultural rainbow " from his football club, games against Beitar Jerusalem were particularly violent, at least partially due to the presence of Beitar's notoriously anti-Arab supporters ; when Sakhnin won the State Cup, Beitar fans paid for an obituary to be printed in Israel's leading daily Yediot Aharonot, claiming that Israeli football was dead.

He was later an editor for Newsweek ( from which he was fired for refusing to write President Franklin D. Roosevelt's obituary ) and The Fisherman.

As The New York Times reported in his obituary: " Mr. Tower's repudiation by his former colleagues, who rejected him as President Bush's nominee for Secretary of Defense after public allegations of womanizing and heavy drinking, left a bitterness that could not be assuaged.

President Hopkins was the recipient of at least 15 honorary degrees, and, while president of Dartmouth, declined an invitation to serve as president of the University of Chicago in order, according to a 1964 New York Times obituary, " to continue development of his ideas of what an undergraduate liberal arts education should encompass.

The New York Times printed an obituary, in which it described many tributes to the dead actor, including a visit by the personal secretary of the President of the Republic, Armand Fallières.

Notable soldiers in the Westminsters during WWII include the journalist Bill Deedes who served in the North-West Europe campaign, and was awarded the Military Cross, the actor Ian Carmichael ( though, according to his obituary in The Times, Carmichael served in the 22nd Dragoons ), and Lord Killanin, the former President of the International Olympic Committee.

Over 100 newspapers carried his obituary, and President George W. Bush delivered a statement via the White House's website.

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.