Bizarre Death of Dio

I was going to post about this sooner, but I just didn't really know what to say. I will admit that I didn't really know anything about the guy. I didn't even know who he was until I read about his hoaxed death somewhere when I was surfing the Internet very early Sunday morning. I didn't read the article, but I just know that a few hours before he really died, someone decided to post on Wikipedia that he had died. I saw the title, and just thought to myself "Typical..." since it was a Wikipedia hoax. Anyone can edit articles there. There is always going to be some idiot who messes around and puts something stupid.

Several hours later, after I went to bed and got some sleep, I logged into Facebook to see that a fan page I'd become a fan of, Foamy the Squirrel: iLL WiLL PrEss, had posted a status about his death being confirmed. That he actually died at 7:45 Sunday morning. That was extremely strange to me. It appears that the creator of the Foamy toons found it bizarre too. Who wouldn't if they had read that his death was a hoax, and then a few hours later he really DID die.

I can't recall from memory of anything like this happening before. Although, I am curious now. Have there ever been any hoaxed deaths before where the person really did die several hours after it was hoaxed? I'd really like to know. If anyone knows of any, please, let me know. I'd like to read about them.

As a tribute to the guy, two Tenacious D songs.
Dio - Dio appears at the start. The song is about Dio.
Kickapoo - From the movie Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny. Dio appears in this song (as well as Meatloaf).

Edit: I found the page I saw that said his death was hoaxed. It has been updated since it was written to state that the hoax became a sad reality.