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Adrian Pierce Rogers (September 12, 1931 – November 15, 2005) was an American Baptist pastor and conservative author. He served three terms as president of the Southern Baptist Convention (1979–1980 and 1986–1988).
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 ...
— Burton Abbott, American convicted rapist and murderer (15 March 1957), to prison physician Dr. David Schmidt prior to execution by gas chamber "The future is just old age and illness and pain... I must have peace and this is the only way." [23] — James Whale, English film and theater director and actor (29 May 1957), in his suicide note ...
Adrian Rogers served as president for a single term in 1979–1980 and then again for two consecutive terms in 1987–1988 and 1988–1989. When the 2020 Annual Meeting was cancelled for the first time in 75 years due to the COVID-19 pandemic , incumbent president J.D. Greear 's term was extended to a third year despite the normal term limit ...
By 1920, Cleveland Heights had 15,264 residents, a six-fold increase. [182] Cleveland Heights incorporated as a city in 1921. [183] Lake View Cemetery was the burial ground of choice for the upper-middle class suburb. Although the Mayfield Road gate was locked, the cemetery gave keys to the gate to those Cleveland Heights residents who were ...
Fred Waldron Phelps Sr. (November 13, 1929 – March 19, 2014) was an American minister and disbarred lawyer who served as the pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church, worked as a civil rights attorney, and ran for statewide election in Kansas.
Adrian Rogers (1931–2005, US), televangelist [116] Lester Roloff (1914–1982), preacher, educator; Peter Ruckman (1921–2016), preacher, author; David Syme Russell (1916–2010, S/E), theologian and General Secretary of the Baptist Union of Great Britain; Frances Shimer (1826–1901, US), founder of Shimer College
George Cummings, 86, American guitarist (Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show) and songwriter. [391] Mircea Diaconu, 74, Romanian actor (The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians) and politician, minister of culture (2012) and MEP (2014–2019), colon cancer. [392] Rachel Dror, 103, German-Israeli teacher and Holocaust survivor. [393]