Marcus Garvey had a stroke in January 1940, which seriously affected his speech, and left him partially paralysed. Not too long after, George Padmore, a writer for the Chicago Defender erroneously reported Garvey as dead. Newspapers around the world picked up on that article, and falsely announced his death. More @Wikipedia
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