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Detroit, as seen from Windsor, Canada. The following is a list of people from Detroit, Michigan. This list includes notable people who were born, have lived, or worked in and around Detroit as well as its metropolitan area.
A flower arrangement from Otis Williams and The Temptations sits in a hallway during the funeral for the Four Tops' Duke Fakir at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit, on Friday, Aug. 2, 2024.
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 ...
Charles Coles Diggs Sr. (January 2, 1894 – April 25, 1967) was the first African-American Democrat elected to the Senate of the State of Michigan. Born in Tallula, Mississippi, to James J. Diggs and Lilly Granderson, Diggs moved to Detroit in 1913, where he owned a successful funeral home on the lower east side.
In June 1979, Franklin was shot twice by burglars at his home in Detroit. [28] Franklin remained in a coma until his death from heart failure on July 27, 1984. [29] His funeral, held at New Bethel, was reported to be the largest in Detroit history, and featured Jesse Jackson as a speaker. [30]
George Davis, 54, of Southgate at the Historic Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church in Detroit, which will celebrate its 150th Anniversary on Nov. 7th, 2021.
20800 Grand River Ave., Detroit Parish founded in 1927. [2] St. Charles Lwanga 10400 Stoepel St., Detroit [3] St. Moses the Black Parish 1125 Oakman Blvd. Detroit [4] St. Peter Claver 13305 Grove St, Detroit Chapel ceiling collapsed in 2018 [5] [6] St. Suzanne - Our Lady Gate of Heaven 1962 19321 W. Chicago Ave., Detroit
The Detroit News is one of the two major newspapers in the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan. The paper began in 1873, when it rented space in the rival Detroit Free Press 's building. The News absorbed the Detroit Tribune on February 1, 1919, the Detroit Journal on July 21, 1922, and on November 7, 1960, it bought and closed the faltering Detroit ...