Sales began in April that year, just a month before his untimely death.

Bridwell began the collection in 1963, three years before his death.

He became Bach's last pupil, beginning study only three months before the master's death.

The son's podium career, though begun in Munich three years before the father's death, did not arouse much attention until the late 1950's.

If Greene authored the play, it must have been written, or at least begun, before his 1592 death.

In fact, the search for a successor began a year before Karajan's death.

The work, which was obviously begun sometime before Philip's death, remains unfinished.

Logelin had begun a blog many years before his wife's death.

Construction of the lantern was begun a few months before his death in 1446.

The restoration of the west front did not begin before his death in 1906.