Michael Parseghian, Jr.

Age: 9

Summary: grandson of former Notre Dame University football coach Ara Parseghian whose family had established the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation in 1994 to raise millions of dollars to pay for medical research on the treatment and cure of the rare, incurable childhood illness called Niemann-Pick disease Type C as his two younger sisters Marcia and Christa were also afflicted with the disease, which strikes one in a million children.

Cause of Death: After a seizure

Born: March 26, 1987

Died: March 22, 1997

Location: Tucson, Arizona