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THE GREAT AMERICAN OBITUARY
Novelist and American icon Mark Twain was declared dead before his time not once, but twice. On the first occasion, in 1897, a journalist mistook the news about Twain's ill cousin for news about the famous author. While no obituary was published, it was this incident that prompted Twain's famous quote, "The report of my death is an exaggeration," commonly misquoted as "The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated."
The second occasion was in 1907, when Twain's yacht went missing at sea. The New York Times published his obituary on May 4 of that year, later it turned out Twain had disembarked from the yacht due to foggy conditions.
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