Michael H. Higgins was born on 27 July 1927, in North Platte, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. He died on 10 February 2003, in his hometown, at the age of 75, and was buried in Fort McPherson National Cemetery, Maxwell, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUiginn ‘descendant of Uiginn’, a byname meaning ‘viking, sea-rover’ (from Old Norse víkingr). Compare McGuigan .
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): variant of Higgin, itself either a Lancashire variant of Huggin (from a pet form of Hugh ), or a variant of Hickin (from a pet form of Richard ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. See Hick and compare Higson .
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