Trivia
The British newspaper The Daily Mail erroneously published his obituary on the 27th June 1924, with the news being copied by the New York Times.
That same day however, the Dutch envoy in London René de Marees van Swinderen noted in a letter to the Dutch foreign minister Herman Adriaan van Karnebeek:
- "P.S. Ik kon de verleiding niet weerstaan om hierbij in te sluiten de necrologie door de Daily Mail heden gewijd aan den gelukkig springlevenden Deterding."
- (Translation: "P.S. I could not resist adding hereby the obituary dedicated by the Daily Mail to Deterding, who is fortunately very much alive.")
Deterding died in 1939.
Read more about this topic: Henri Deterding
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