1.   Gelsinger died from the treatment in September, in what is believed to be the first death caused directly by gene therapy.

2.   And just because this is the first recorded death from heatstroke in NFL history, it hardly means that it will be the last.

3.   Certainly, these are not the first child death cases filed in Palm Beach County.

4.   Eleven bombings now, the first death.

5.   Even as the first deaths were occurring and dozens of buildings in South Central were ablaze, key subordinates were still making plans.

6.   Fulton County officials Friday reported the first American death from West Nile this year, in a Georgia woman.

7.   Hernandez became the first civilian death attributed to U.S. military forces on an anti-drug mission.

8.   He was the first American combat death in Afghanistan.

9.   His was the first death directly attributed to gene therapy.

10.   In a base in Qatar, an American Air Force sergeant was killed, the first military death since Operation Enduring Freedom commenced.