Death and state funeral of Richard Nixon Death and state funeral of Richard Nixon On April 22, 1994, Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, died after suffering a stroke four days earlier, at the age of 81. His state funeral followed five days later at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in his hometown of Yorba Linda, California. Nixon suffered a cerebral vascular accident on April 18 at his home in Park Ridge, New Jersey, and was taken to New York Hospital–Cornell Medical Center. After an initial favorable prognosis, Nixon slipped into a deep coma and died four days later. His body
John Curry (historian) John Curry (historian) John Curry (b. in Dublin, Ireland, in the first quarter of the eighteenth century; d. there, 1780) was an Irish doctor of medicine, historian, and Roman Catholic activist. He studied medicine at Paris and Reims and returned to Dublin to practise his profession. Curry took part in the campaign of the Irish Catholics for the repeal of penal laws, and was one of the founders, with Charles O'Conor, of the Catholic Committee which met in Essex Street, 1760. He published in London, in 1747, a "Brief Account from the most authentic Protestant writers of the Irish Rebellion,