Death
Holmes had been suffering from a form of non-Hodgkins lymphoma but eventually died of pneumonia. He died on 30 April 2011, aged 65.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“You stars that reigned at my nativity,
Whose influence hath allotted death and hell.”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
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—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“For, surely, surely, where
Your voice and graces are,
Nothing of death can any feel or know.”
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