Malraux, to be sure, does not abandon the world of violence, combat and sudden death which has become his hallmark as a creative artist, and which is the only world, apparently, in which his imagination can flame into life.

In a sense, the showdown promised by Mr. Hammarskjold's sudden and tragic death has been avoided ; ;

In good time I shall get to the distressing actuality, to Red McIver and Handley Walker, to murder and sudden death.

Alexander became heir apparent ( as Tsarevich ) with Nicholas's sudden death in 1865.

But the sudden death of the king dashed all such hopes.

Birth and death rates of Japan since 1950, with the sudden drop in hinoeuma year ( 1966 )

While living in Venice Salieri continued his musical studies with the organist and opera composer Giovanni Battista Pescetti, then following Pescetti's sudden death he studied with the opera singer Ferdinando Pacini or Pasini.

Maximilian's sudden death came at a time when Dürer was concerned he was losing " my sight and freedom of hand " ( perhaps caused by arthritis ) and increasingly affected by the writings of Martin Luther.

This action may reduce the prevalence of malignant cardiac arrhythmias, and the reduction in sudden death reported in large clinical trials.

These negotiations were complicated by the sudden death of Lord George on 21 September 1848, but Disraeli obtained a loan of £ 25, 000 ( equivalent to about £ as of ) from Lord George's brothers Lord Henry Bentinck and Lord Titchfield.

In 1950, Olive Ann Beech was installed as president and CEO of the company, after the sudden death of her husband from a heart attack on 29 November of that year.

His sudden death caused an almost unanimous shock in Turkey with millions of people mourning and tens of thousands of people attending his funeral.

There are several causes of sudden cardiac death and it is distinct from cardiac arrest.

The second was to Livia Medullina, which ended with Medullina's sudden death on their wedding day.

Until Henry's sudden death, they had both loved the theater, and she " enthusiastically supported " her husband's theatrical aspirations.

Soon after, he was elected as the 29th Vice President in 1920 and succeeded to the Presidency upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding in 1923.

About two-thirds of people with chronic symptoms have cardiac damage, including dilated cardiomyopathy, which causes heart rhythm abnormalities and may result in sudden death.

He remained a resident of La Jolla for the rest of his life, doing therapy, giving speeches and writing until his sudden death in 1987.

* 1958 – " Greatest Game Ever Played " – Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football League sudden death overtime game at New York's Yankee Stadium.

After the sudden death of Michael Jackson, whom Parton knew personally, she released a video in which she somberly told of her feelings on Jackson and his death.

On February 11, 2012, after the sudden death of Whitney Houston, Dolly Parton stated, " Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston.

The omnipresent possibility of sudden and painful death increased the religious desire for penitence, but it also evoked a hysterical desire for amusement while still possible ; a last dance as cold comfort.

Huayna Capac's sudden death and followed days later by the Incan heir apparent from a strange disease, described by one smallpox precipitated a bitter power struggle between Huáscar, whose mother was Coya ( meaning Empress ) Mama Rahua Occillo and legetimate heir, and Atahualpa, a son who, borne to a Quitu princess, and reputedly his father's " favorite.

Succeeded by his three-year old son Otto III as Emperor, his sudden death plunged the Empire into crisis.

Ptolemy V Epiphanes ( reigned 204 – 181 BC ), son of Ptolemy IV Philopator and his wife and sister Arsinoe, had become ruler at the age of five after the sudden death of both of his parents, murdered, according to contemporary sources, in a conspiracy that involved Ptolemy IV's mistress Agathoclea.

But after the sudden death of his son John in December 1470, René, for reasons which are not altogether clear, decided to move his residence to Provence and leave Anjou for good.

Alan R. Rushton notes that Harthacnut was son to Emma of Normandy, and that there was a pattern of sudden deaths among descendants of the House of Normandy.

On 13 October 2008, his son Guillaume died at the age of 37 from complications linked to a sudden case of pneumonia.

Following Henry V's sudden and unexpected death in France, he was succeeded by his infant son, who reigned as Henry VI.

Crassus, despondent at the death of his son Publius in the battle, finally agreed to meet the Parthian general ; however, when Crassus mounted a horse to ride to the Parthian camp for a peace negotiation, his junior officer Octavius suspected a Parthian trap and grabbed Crassus ' horse by the bridle, instigating a sudden fight with the Parthians that left the Roman party dead, including Crassus.

Following Edward's sudden death, possibly from pneumonia, in April 1483, Elizabeth briefly became Queen Mother as her son, Edward became king, with his uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester acting as Lord Protector.

Angry that his son did not love him enough to take care of him, he curses both Eteocles and his brother, condemning both to sudden deaths.

Also called Bahram Gur or Bahramgur (), he was a son of Yazdegerd I ( 399 – 421 ), after whose sudden death ( or assassination ) he gained the crown against the opposition of the grandees by the help of Mundhir, the Arab dynast of al-Hirah.

His eldest son, Yasuo Fukuda, after the sudden resignation of Shinzō Abe, became Prime Minister in September 2007, and remained in that office for one year, making him the first son of a Japanese prime minister to become a prime minister himself.

In 1713, the son and successor of Charles XI, Charles XII, issued a new working order for the Chancellery to enable him to conduct government from the battle-field, but his sudden death at the siege of Fredricshald in Norway in 1718 provided the opportunity for the parliament ( Riksdag of the Estates ) to write a new constitution in 1719 and 1721, that gave Sweden half a century of first renewed conciliatory, and then parliamentary government.

Smuts's inauguration as chancellor of the University of Cambridge shortly after the election restored his morale, but the sudden and unexpected death of his eldest son, Japie, in October 1948 brought him to the depths of despair.

U. S. Ambassador Charles W. Yost saw the King hours before his death and was among those who suspected that the King's son, Hassan II, had a hand in his father's sudden death.

After the sudden death of Ogedei's son Kochu in Chinese territory, the Mongols withdrew from southern China, although Kochu's brother Prince Koten invaded Tibet right after their withdrawal.

After Alexander's sudden death at Babylon in 323 BC, she bore him a posthumous son called Alexander IV Aegus.

Although Yongzheng's reign was much shorter than the reigns of both his father ( the Kangxi Emperor ) and his son ( the Qianlong Emperor ), his sudden death was probably brought about by a heavy workload.

His eldest son, Mōri Takamoto, while enroute to attack the Amago clan, died of a sudden disease, though assassination by poison was suspected.

His sudden death on 14 December 1897, at the age of 63, with no son to inherit the business, placed a heavy burden on his wife and his daughter, Margaret.

These are parts of a disjointed, 160-room Victorian mansion that Mrs. Sarah Winchester built on the northern outskirts of San Jose after the sudden loss of both her husband, the son of Oliver Fisher Winchester, the rifle magnate, and her daughter.

In 1980, a new group called Coiste ar son Teilifis Gaeltachta ( The Committee for Irish-Language Television ) was set up and in 1987 after years of delays, including the sudden death of their technician who was to build the transmitter, they set up the pirate television station Telefís na Gaeltachta.

However, the throne became vacant in 1521 with the sudden death of the Hongzhi Emperor's son, Emperor Zhengde, who did not leave an heir.