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Preparations for Franklin's funeral after his death on April 17, 1790, included a funeral procession to the Pennsylvania State House (now known as Independence Hall) in Philadelphia and burial at Christ Church Burial Ground on April 21. It is estimated that 20,000 mourners gathered for Franklin's funeral.
Ronald Owen Hall CMG MC* (Chinese: 何明華; Jyutping: Ho Ming Wah; pinyin: Hé Mínghuá; 22 July 1895 in Newcastle upon Tyne – 22 April 1975 in Lewknor, Oxfordshire) was an English Anglican missionary bishop in Hong Kong and China in the mid 20th century.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Philip IV of France lying in state Brazilian president Afonso Pena lying in state in the Catete Palace, 1909. Lying in state is the tradition in which the body of a deceased official, such as a head of state, is placed in a state building, either outside or inside a coffin, to allow the public to pay their respects.
On June 7, Reagan's body was removed from the funeral home and driven in a 20-mile-per-hour (32 km/h) [14] motorcade, by hearse, to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley. [15] Reagan's remains were presented in a Marsellus Masterpiece model purchased from a funeral home in Alhambra. [16]
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Rod Hall (racer) (1937–2019), American racing driver; Roderick Stephen Hall (1915–1945), American OSS agent; Rodney Hall (disambiguation), multiple people; Roger Hall (disambiguation), multiple people; Ron Hall (disambiguation), multiple people; Ronald Hall (1895–1975), British missionary; Ronald Acott Hall (1892–1966), British diplomat
President and Mrs. Bush attended the state funeral of Ronald Reagan on June 5, 2004, [38] and of Gerald Ford on December 26, 2006. [39] One month later, he was awarded the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award in Beverly Hills, California, by former First Lady Nancy Reagan.