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The Richard D. Winters Leadership Monument near Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Normandy, France. Winters died on January 2, 2011, [12] at an assisted living facility in Campbelltown, Pennsylvania, aged 92. He had suffered from Parkinson's disease for several years. [13] Winters was buried in a private funeral service, which was held on January 8, 2011.
Robert F. Sink (1905–1965), US Army lieutenant general and former regimental commander of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division; a close friend of Easy Company commander Major Richard Winters, he is portrayed by Vietnam veteran and retired US Marine Corps captain Dale Dye in the HBO/BBC miniseries Band of Brothers
Lake View Cemetery is a privately owned, nonprofit garden cemetery located in the cities of Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, and East Cleveland in the U.S. state of Ohio. Founded in 1869, the cemetery was favored by wealthy families during the Gilded Age, and today the cemetery is known for its numerous lavish funerary monuments and mausoleums.
Richard Butcher, 29, English footballer (Macclesfield Town), natural causes. [140] Ruth Cavin, 92, American mystery novel editor, lung cancer. [141] Debbie Friedman, 59, American songwriter, pneumonia. [142] Sir Ernest Lee-Steere, 98, Australian horse racing official, Lord Mayor of Perth, Western Australia (1972–1978). [143]
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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 ...
January 21 – Richard Winters, World War II soldier (d. 2011) [4] January 23 – Gertrude B. Elion, pharmacologist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1988 (d. 1999) [5] January 24 – Oral Roberts, neo-Pentecostal televangelist (d. 2009) January 25 – Ernie Harwell, baseball sportscaster (d. 2010) January 26. Philip José ...
The 506th PIR was an experimental airborne regiment created in 1942 to jump from C-47 transport airplanes into hostile territory.. E Company was established at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, under the command of 1st Lieutenant Herbert Sobel.