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Here are entered short biographical sketches, especially in newspapers, published upon a person's death. Works on announcements of death either published in the press or mailed individually are entered under Death notices. Works on registers of deaths in ecclesiastical or other organizations or registers of anniversary days when services are performed for the dead are entered under Necrologies.

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• Obituaries -- Periodicals
• Obituaries -- Québec (Province)
• Obituaries -- Sweden
• Obituaries -- Switzerland
• Obituaries -- United States
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• Death -- Obituaries
• Franklin and Marshall College -- Alumni and alumnae -- Obituaries
• Grossi, Tommaso, 1791-1853 -- Obituaries
• Library directors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Obituaries
• Martens, Fedor Fedorovich, 1845-1909 -- Obituaries
• Monuments -- Obituaries
• Physicians -- Italy -- Obituaries
• Priests -- Italy -- 19th century -- Obituaries
• Quakers -- Great Britain -- Obituaries
• Quakers -- Ireland -- Obituaries
• Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Obituaries
• Rives, George Lockhart, 1849-1917 -- Obituaries
• Scientists -- Obituaries
• Society of Friends -- Obituaries
• Statesmen -- Soviet Union -- 19th century -- Obituaries
• Universities and colleges -- Alumni and alumnae -- Obituaries
• Yale College (1718-1887) -- Alumni and alumnae -- Obituaries
• Yale University -- Alumni and alumnae -- Obituaries

• Newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc. -- Obituaries

• Rouleaux des morts du IXe au XVe siècle (Mme. Ve. J. Renouard, 1866), by Léopold Delisle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Obituarium Sancti Johannis. Nécrologe de l'église St-Jean (St-Bavon) à Gand, du XIIIe au XVIe siècle (F. Hayez, 1889), by Napoléon de Pauw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inventaire des obituaires belges (collégiales et maisons religieuses) (Kiessling, et cie, P. Imbreghts, succ, 1899), by des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique. Commission royale d'histoire Académie royale des sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial of Matthias W. Baldwin. (Priv. print., 1867) (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Memoriam : John Peter Altgeld. (Cameron, Amberg and Co. Printers, 1902), by Clarence Darrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gertrude Otis Berylson : In Memoriam. (1919) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Album die Beerdigung von P.A. Kropotkin in Moskau : Album of the Funeral of P.A. Kropotkin in Moscow. (Foreign Bureau Confederation Anarcho-Syndicalists, 1922), by Rudolf Rocker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Poor Devil : A Memory of Robert Reitzel. (The Labadie Shop, 1909), by John Hubert Greusel, George Schumm, Laurance Labadie, and Jo Labadie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grant Allen. (Tucker Publishing Co., 1900), by Richard Le Gallienne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cartulaire & obituaire du prieuré des Bonshommes de Craon (V.A. Goupil, 1907), by France. Bonshommes Craon and Paul de Farcy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Über sogenannte Verbrüderungs-Bücher und Nekrologien im Mittelalter. (K.K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1853), by Georg Zappert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter bis zur Mitte des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts (W. Hertz, 1893), by Wilhelm Wattenbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial of Nathaniel W. Taylor, D.D. (T.H. Pease, 1858), by George Park Fisher, Samuel W. S. Dutton, and Leonard Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Necrologia Germaniae (apvd Weidmannos, 1888), by Gesellschaft für Ältere Deutsche Geschichtskunde (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Bengal obituary, or, a record to perpetuate the memory of departed worth, being a compilation of tablets and monumental inscriptions from various parts of the Bengal and Agra presidencies. To which is added biographical sketches and memoirs of such as have preeminently distinquished themselves in history of British India, since the formation of the European settlement to the present time. (W. Thacker & Co., 1851), by India) Holmes and Co. (Calcutta (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quatuor calendaria praesentiarum Ecclesiae quondam collegiatae fritzlariensis de annis circiter 1340, 1360, 1390 et 1450. Ex codicibus Bibliothecae cassellanae et ipsius Ecclesiae fritzlariensis. Sectio I. continens calendaria anniversariorum ... (Im Commissionsverlage von A. Freyschmidt, 1869), by Fritzlar (Germany). St. Peters kirche and C. L. Weber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Faithful servants: being epitaphs and obituaries recording their names and services. (Reeves and Turner, 1891), by Arthur Joseph Munby and J. W. Streeten (page images at HathiTrust)
• Menzioni onorifiche dei defunti, ossia, Raccolta di elogi, biografie, lapidi, necrologie, poesie, annunzi spettanti a'distinti defunti, morti in Venezia, nell'anno 1848- (Venezia, 1849), by Giovanni Battista Contarini (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Obituaires des églises Saint-Nicolas et Saint-Michel de Beauvais. (Paris, Champion [etc.], 1923), by Beauvais (France). Saint-Nicolas (Church), Pierre Louis François Luppé, V. Leblond, and Beauvais (France). Saint-Michel (Church) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nekrologe des Hieronymus. (Druck von Richard Menzel Nachf., 1907), by Paul Winter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Monatstage des Kalenderjahres; ein Andenken an Hingeschiedene (M. Poppelauer, 1872), by Leopold Zunz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diocesis Salisburgensis. (Apud Weidmannos, 1890), by Sigmund Herzberg-Fränkel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A funeral discourse, delivered in the Government Street Church, Mobile, on Sabbath, August 18th, 1839, in memory Judge Henry Hitchcock, who died at Mobile, Sunday, August 11th, 1839, of yellow fever (Printed at the Advertiser & Chronicle Office, 1839), by William T. Hamilton, Ala.) Advertiser & Chronicle Office (Mobile, and Ala.) Government Street Presbyterian Church (Mobile (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recueil de divers articles biographiques sur le Duc de Bassano. (F. Didot Frères, 1839), by Firmin-Didot (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index of obituary notices, 1880-1882. (Longmans, Green, 1882), by London Index Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vindemiae literariae; hoc est veterum monumentorum ad Germaniam sacram praecipue spectantium (M.G. Weidmann, 1723), by Johann Friedrich Schannat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le rouleau des morts de l'abbaye de Solignac. Texte et commentaire (Impr. Chapoulard frères, 1879), by France Solignac and Camille Rivain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Obituaries Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, August 6, 1820-January 19, 1914 ; Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, F.R.C.S., F.R.S., July 23, 1828-June 23, 1913 ; Charles Sedgwick Minot, D.S., LL.D., D. Sc., December 23, 1852-November 19, 1914 (s.n., 1915), by Maude E. Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Circulaire au clergé du diocèse de Québec à l'occasion de la mort du roi; Bernard Claude Panet ... (s.n., 1820), by Église catholique. Diocèse de Québec. Coadjuteur (1806-1825 : Panet) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Circulaire au clergé du diocèse de Montréal les circonstances exceptionnelles dans lesquelles la mort du regretté M. Florent Bourgeault .. (s.n., 1897), by Joseph-Alfred Archambeault (page images at HathiTrust)
• Circulaire au clergé du diocèse de Montréal pour annoncer la mort de N.S.P. le pape Grégoire XVI (s.n., 1846), by Ignace Bourget and Église catholique. Diocèse de Montréal. Évêque (1840-1876 : Bourget) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Circulaire] vous voudrez bien, Monsieur, offrir le saint sacrifice de la messe pour le repos éternel de feu M.F.X. Leduc, curé de l'Ange gardien, décédé le 16 octobre, 1861. (s.n., 1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le curé Labelle (s.n., 1891), by Auguste Bodard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Circulaire à MM. les curés la mort vient de mettre un terme aux souffrances qu'endurait notre saint archevêque .. (s.n., 1870), by E.-A. Taschereau and Charles Félix Cazeau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Circulaire je regrette d'avoir à vous informer que, depuis le jour où Monseigneur l'archevêque a été obligé d'interrompre la visite de son diocèse .. (s.n., 1870), by Charles Félix Cazeau and Église catholique. Archidiocèse de Québec. Vicaire-général (l850- l879 : Cazeau) (page images at HathiTrust)
• M. Stanislas Siméon ancien supérieur du Séminaire de Ste-Thérèse, décé dée le 20 janvier 1891, inhumé à Ste-Thérèse le 27 janvier, 1891 (s.n., 1891), by Siméon Rouleau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorials concerning deceased Friends, members of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. (Friends' Book Store, 1883), by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les obituaires français au moyen âge (Imprimerie nationale, 1890), by Auguste Molinier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eminent persons : biographies reprinted from the Times, 1880-1889. (printed and pub. at The Time Office, by George Edward Wright, 1892) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index of obituary notices ... 1880-82. (Pub. for the Index society, 1882), by London Index society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nachruf für Ferdinand Perels. 25 dezember 1903. (Kiel, 1903), by Felix Stoerk and F. Perels (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Necrology (Beacon Press, 1881), by Andover Theological Seminary, C. C. Carpenter, and Henry A. Hazen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rouleaux des morts du IXe au XVe siècle (Mme. Ve. J. Renouard, 1866), by Léopold Delisle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter bis zur mitte des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts. (W. Hertz, 1873), by Wilhelm Wattenbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Obituary of the members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland (<1842>- : York: the Executors of the late William Alexander, 1842-, 1843) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lunde domkapitels gavebøger. (I kommission hos R. Klein, 1884), by Svenska kyrkan. Lunds stift, Frederik Herman Christian Weeke, and Selskabet for udgivelse af kilder til dansk historie (Denmark) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bengal obituary, or, a record to perpetuate the memory of departed worth, being a compilation of tablets and monumental inscriptions from various parts of the Bengal and Agra presidencies. To which is added biographical sketches and memoirs of such as have preeminently distinquished themselves in history of British India, since the formation of the European settlement to the present time. (Printed by J. Thomas, 1848), by Holmes and Co. (Calcutta) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Registration of births, stillbirths and deaths (Springfield, Ill. : State of Illinois, Department of Public Health, Division of Vital Statistics, [1926], 1926), by Illinois Department of Public Health and Illinois. Division of Vital Statistics and Records (page images at HathiTrust)
• Obituarium lugdunensis ecclesiae. Nécrologe des personnages illustres et des bienfaiteurs de l'Église métropolitaine de Lyon du IXe au XVe siècle. (N. Scheuring, etc., 1867), by Marie Claude Guigue (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter bis zur Mitte des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts, in zwei Bänden. (W. Hertz, 1885), by Wilhelm Wattenbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Obituary notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. Vol. 1. (Harrison and Sons, 1904), by Royal Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johannes Schmidt. (Gütersloh : C. Bertelsmann, [1890?], 1890), by Paul Kretschmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter bis zur Mitte des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts, Erster Band (von 2) (in German), by Wilhelm Wattenbach (Gutenberg ebook)

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