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Helge Solum Larsen (14 January 1969 – 18 December 2015) was a Norwegian businessman and politician. He was a member of the Liberal Party. He served as deputy leader of the party from 2010 to 2012.

From 1994 to 1997 he was leader of the Young Liberals of Norway, the youth wing of the Liberal Party. He served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Rogaland during the terms 1997–2001 and 2005–2009.

Larsen died from a sudden illness on 18 December 2015, aged 46.

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Sebastian Fabian Hoffner, known by his nickname Buckshot Hoffner (January 20, 1924 – December 17, 2015), was an American politician. He was a member of the North Dakota House of Representatives and North Dakota State Senate for 18 years in total. 

He was born and raised in Esmond, North Dakota. He was a veteran of World War II. Hoffner served as a Democrat in three separate stints in the House of Representatives: from 1962 to 1966, 1968 to 1972 and 1983 to 1984 in addition to serving as the House's minority leader in the 1971 session. During his eight years in the Senate from 1972 to 1980, he was its minority leader from 1975 to 1980.

Hoffner died on December 17, 2015 in Bismarck, North Dakota from heart failure, aged 91.

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Harry Zvi Tabor (7 March 1917 – 15 December 2015) was a British-born Israeli physicist. He was known as the father of Israeli solar energy.  Tabor was also involved in bringing Israel's solar energy program to international awareness.

Tabor was born in London. He died in Jerusalem on 15 December 2015 at the age of 98.

Awards and recognition 
 1975 – Royal Society Energy Award
 1979 – Inducted in Solar Hall of Fame
 1981 – International Solar Energy Society Award
 1981 – Krupp Foundation Energy Award
 1994 – Passive Low Energy Architecture International Award
 1995 – Israeli Knesset Quality of Life Award
 2014 – Israeli President's Medal of Distinction

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Hector Harold "Hal" Brown (December 11, 1924 - December 17, 2015), nicknamed "Skinny", was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played from  through  for the Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, and Houston Colt .45s.

He batted and threw right-handed; nicknamed 'Skinny Brown' by his parents because he was obese as a child. Brown weighed  and stood  tall during his active career. Brown was born in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Brown died in Greensboro, North Carolina, aged 91.

References

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Baseball Library 
Retrosheet
The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia – Gary Gillette, Peter Gammons, Pete Palmer. Publisher: Sterling Publishing, 2005. Format: Paperback, 1824pp. Language: English. 

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Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE FRSL (16 December 1927 – 16 December 2015) was an English author and poet. He was best known for children's books and detective stories.

Dickinson won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for both Tulku (1979) and City of Gold (1980), each being called as the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. Through 2012 he is one of seven writers to win two Carnegies; no one has won three. 

For his contributions as a children's writer Dickinson was a finalist for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2000.

Dickinson died on his birthday in Winchester, Hampshire, England from an illness, aged 88.

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A combine harvester, also called a combine, is a machine that harvests crops. Its name comes from doing three separate parts of harvesting crops at once: 
reaping: cutting and collecting crops when they are ready for harvesting, 
threshing: separating the parts of a crop that can be eaten by people from the parts that can't.
winnowing: removing the already separated parts of the crop that can't be eaten by people, the chaff, while keeping the part that can be eaten, the grain. 

Far fewer people work in farming as a result of the combine harvester.

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Greville Ewan Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone (11 July 1928 – 19 December 2015) was a British politician, barrister and writer.

He was QC since 1971, he was a Labour MP from 1970 to 1997; and then a member of the House of Lords until he died. He was associated with a number of Jewish organisations including the Board of Deputies of British Jews, of which he was chairman from 1978 to 1984, and he was prominent in the field of education about the Holocaust.

Janner was alleged to have abused vulnerable children from 1955 to 1988.

Janner died on 19 December 2015 in London from Alzheimer's disease, aged 87 and months earlier he had been deemed unfit to stand trial over allegations of 33 years of sexually abusing vulnerable children.

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"Prayer in C" is a song by the band Lilly Wood and the Prick.  It was originally released as a folk-pop song. The song was later remixed by DJ Robin Schulz in 2014. Schulz' remix peaked at number one on Billboard's Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart. It hit number one in many European countries including the UK and Belgium. It reached the top twenty in Canada.  The remix is a dance and house song.  It was included on Schulz' album, Prayer.

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Dance-pop songs
Mutabar Tadjibayeva (Uzbek: Mo'tabar Tojiboyeva) is a journalist and human rights activist from Uzbekistan. She started the “Fiery Hearts Club” NGO. She also started the Uzbek news website Jarayon.  In 2009 she received the International Women of Courage Award.

Work 

In August 2003, Tadjibayeva got people in a group to demonstrate against corruption.  The police stopped the demonstration.  Tadjibayaeva was hurt and went to the hospital. In 2005, Tadjibayeva wrote about the Andijan Massacre.  Many people died when police stopped the demonstration. Tadjibayeva was in jail from October 2005 to June 2008.

Awards 

In 2005, the international organization "Peace Women Across the Globe", part of the Nobel Committee, added Tadjibayeva’s name to the list of "1000 women peace activists".  This made her a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Mutabar Tadjibayeva was on a top 10 list of women who worked for human rights.
In 2008, Tadjibayeva received the Martin Ennals Award.  When she received the award, she was still in prison. 

For the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Fiery Hearts Club received the "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" Prize from France. Mutabar Tadjibayeva accepted the prize in Paris.

In March 2009, Tadjibayeva received the International Women of Courage Award from the U.S. State Department. Later she returned the award.

In 2011, Mutabar Tadjibayeva was on a list of ten most influential women in Central Asia.

References

Other websites 
Jarayon Website "Fiery Hearts Club"

Uzbekistani people
1962 births
Living people
Human rights activists
Women who received the International Women of Courage Award
The Fly is an American science fiction horror movie set in Montreal. It is directed by Kurt Neumann and written by James Clavell.

It was followed by two sequels: Return of the Fly and Curse of the Fly. A remake was released in 1986.

Other websites 

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Ambiga Sreenevasan (born 1956) is a lawyer and human rights advocate from Malaysia. In 2009, she received the International Women of Courage Award.

Life 
Sreenevasan went to high school at Convent Bukit Nanasin Kuala Lumpur.  in 1979, she got a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of Exeter in England.  She became a lawyer in 1980. She worked in two London law firms, then she became a member of the Malaysian Bar in 1982. In July 2011, she received an Honorary Doctorate in Law (LLD) from the University of Exeter in England.

Work 
Sreenevasan was the president of the Malaysian Bar Council from 2007 to 2009.  She was also the head of  Bersih, an NGO for free and fair elections. 

Because Sreenevasan wanted to help with problems between ethnic groups, she received hate mail and death threats.  Hundreds of people from religious groups and conservative members of government protested against Sreenevasan at the Bar Council building and called for her arrest.
In 2008, as President of the Malaysian Bar she helped start LAWASIA, the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute and Transparency International-Malaysia, to study abuses of power.

Bersih demonstration 
Sreenevasan was head of Bersih 2.0, the organisation behind the July 2011 demonstration in Kuala Lumpur.  There were 20,000 people at the demonstration. Sreenevasan said the main problems for Malaysia were "unhappiness... in the Sarawak [election], unhappiness about corruption, [and] unhappiness about the lack of independence of our institutions."

Sreenevasan said the problems from the first demonstration in 2007 were not fixed, so there was another demonstration.

References

Other websites                                              
 Ambiga Sreenevasan, "Malaysia’s Many Scandals", The New York Times, August 20, 2015

1956 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Exeter
Malaysian lawyers
Women who received the International Women of Courage Award
Red Fisher (22 August 1926 – 19 January 2018) was a Canadian retired sports journalist. His columns focused on the National Hockey League and its Montreal Canadiens team. He was born in Montreal, Quebec. he began his hockey coverage in The Montreal Star newspaper in 1954 where he remained as writer and sports editor until that paper's demise in 1979. He retired in 2012.

Fisher died in Montreal on 19 January 2018 at the age of 91.

References

Other websites
Montreal Gazette: Red Fisher , accessed 11 November 2006

1926 births
Canadian journalists
Elmer Ferguson Award winners
2018 deaths
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Wazhma Frogh is a women's rights activist from Afghanistan. In 2009, she received the International Women of Courage Award.

Life 
In the eighth grade, Frogh taught her landlord's children, so that the landlord would reduce her rent.  She wanted money so she and her sisters could go to school. At age 17, she worked as an intern at a newspaper in Pakistan.  Because of her job, she saw the difficult lives of the women in Afghan refugee camps.

Work  
From 1992 to 2001, Frogh lived in Peshawar, Pakistan, while she started programs for women in Aghanistian. In 2002 Frogh finished the first study of women’s conditions in Nuristan, Afghanistan. Frogh also helped start women's centers in the Kandahar, Ghazni, Herat, and Parwan provinces of Afghanistan.
Frogh helped start the Afghan organization "Research Institute for Women".  She became the director. In 2013, she wanted to visit the United States after she wrote about a militia commander in a report to NATO. The militia commander was a repeat abuser of rights. The militia commander threaten Frogh and her sisters.  The Institute of Inclusive Security invited Frogh to come to the U.S. as a visiting fellow, but her visa was refused. Frogh also wrote for The Guardian on the subject of Afghanistan.

Other websites 
Wazhma Frogh's blog

References  

Women who received the International Women of Courage Award
Afghan human rights activists
Living people
Christopher "Chris" Diamantopoulos (born May 9, 1975; ) is a Greek-Canadian actor and comedian. He is known for playing Moe Howard in the 2012 The Three Stooges film, and for voicing Mickey Mouse in the 2013 TV series of the same name.
Selected filmography
 The Adulterer (2000)
 Drop Dead Roses (2001)
 Law & Order (2002, TV series)
 Third Watch (2003, TV series)
 Frasier (2004, TV series)
 Nip/Tuck (2004, TV series)
 Charmed (2004, TV series)
 American Dreams (2004, TV series)
 Kevin Hill (2004, TV series)
 Jake in Progress (2005, TV series)
 Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Mork & Mindy (2005, TV) 
 The Sopranos (2006, TV series)
 Wedding Daze (2006)
 Boston Legal (2006, TV series)
 Three Days to Vegas (2007)
 Raines (2007, TV series)
 The Starter Wife (2007, TV miniseries)
 State of Mind (2007, TV series)
 24 (2010, TV series)
 The Kennedys (2011, TV miniseries)
 Up All Night (2011–2012, TV series)
 The Three Stooges (2012)
 Community (2013, TV series)
 The Office (2013, TV series)
 Arrested Development (2013, TV series)
 Family Guy (2013, TV series)
 American Dad! (2013, TV series)
 Mickey Mouse (2013–present, TV series)
 The Art of the Steal (2013)
 Doctor Lollipop (2013, web cartoon)
 Dr. Cabbie (2014)
Dr. Cabbie (2014)
 Episodes (2014, TV series)
 Hannibal (2014, TV series)
 About a Boy (2014, TV series)
 Silicon Valley (2015–present, TV Series)
 The Truth About Lies (2015)
 Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts - (2015, Direct-to-video)
Animated films
 Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2021 movie)
 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2022 movie)
 Diary of a Wimpy Kid (animated movie series)

References

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Living people
Actors from Toronto
Comedians from Toronto
Canadian movie actors
Canadian television actors
Canadian voice actors
The Rest of the Robots (1964) is a collection of eight short stories and two full-length novels by Isaac Asimov. The stories are all part of the Robot series, and follow on from ʽI, Robotʼ. The novels were not included in some published versions.

The stories are as followsː

Robot AL-76 Goes Astray (1941).

Robot AL-76, known as Al, is manufactured to do mining work on the Moon, but ends up in a rural part of Earth. It can't find the tool it is meant to use, so builds a better one out of ̼junk it finds in a workshop.

Victory Unintentional (1942)

Intelligent life has been discovered on the planet Jupiter. Humans cannot land on the planet because of the powerful gravity and lack of air. They send a spaceship containing three very powerful ZZ series robots. They land on Jupiter, but the inhabitants, known as Jovians, try to attack and kill them. But when the Jovians eventually discover that the robots are too powerful to be destroyed, they decide instead to make peace with humans.

First Law (1956)
First Law (1956)

A robot engineer tells a story about Emma Two, a EM series robot, that abandoned him to die in a storm on the asteroid Titan.

Let's Get Together (1957)

An American secret service agent claims that the Soviet Union has developed humanoid robots (they cannot be distinguished from humans), and that they are being infiltrated into the USA. The head of robotics realises just in time that the agent is himself a robot and destroys him.

Satisfaction Guaranteed (1951)

Robot TN-3, Tony, is introduced into the house of Claire Belmont as an experiment, by her husband, a robot engineer with US Robots. Tony realises that Claire has very low self-esteem and tries to help, even offering to become her lover and making sure that the neighbours know it.

Risk (1955)
Risk (1955)

Humans have set up an experimental base on an asteroid to build the first spaceship to travel through hyperspace (faster than light). The ship is piloted by a robot, but the experiment fails. An engineer goes on board and discovers that the fault lies with the robot, not the ship.

Lenny (1958)

An LNE robot, known as Lenny, is built, but with a fault. It's brain is childlike and it can't speak. Susan Calvin experiments with it and eventually teaches it to speak a few words.

Galley Slave (1957)

Robot EZ-27, known as Easy, is placed in a university to carry out a variety of jobs, including proof-reading. A professor of sociology, Simon Ninheimer, claims that the robot changed the text of a book by himself that it was checking. He takes US Robots to court. Susan Calvin is able to prove that Ninheimer set up the text changes deliberately, so that he could ruin the reputation of the Company and the robots they make.

The Caves of Steel (1953)

The Naked Sun (1956)
Reception
Algis Budrys praised the collection as "a fine book of entertainment," but faulted Asimov's extensive annotations, saying they "[suck] the juice out of some very vivacious writing indeed, and [embalm] one of science fiction's most ebullient personalities."

References

Science fiction books
1964 books
Isaac Asimov
Selma Reis (24 August 1960 – 19 December 2015) was a Brazilian actress and singer. She was born in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro. She acted in many telenovelas and miniseries for Rede Globo, including Caminho das Índias, Páginas da Vida, Presença de Anita and Chiquinha Gonzaga. After 1987, she released a debut album, the first of eleven releases.

Personal life
She was married to photographer Locca Faria, with whom she had a son. The couple separated but remained friends for the last three years of her life.

In July 2014, Reis was diagnosed with brain cancer. Reis died at a hospital in Teresópolis, Brazil from the disease, aged 55. She was cremated in a Lutheran service in Nova Friburgo.

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2015 deaths
Brazilian television actors
Brazilian singers
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Cancer deaths in Brazil
Red Star OS is the operating system used by computers in North Korea. The latest version of the operating system is Red Star 3 and it looks almost exactly like macOS. Before Red Star 3 came out, Red Star looked more like Windows instead of macOS. Red Star OS also has its very own web browser called Naenara which means "my country" in Korean. It has a modified version of Mozilla Firefox and it has the North Korean internet called Kwangmyong.

Operating systems
North Korea
Maureen McGovern (born July 27, 1949) is an American singer and Broadway actress. She is well known known for her renditions of songs such as "The Morning After" from the 1972 movie The Poseidon Adventure. 

McGovern was born in Youngstown, Ohio. In August 2022, McGovern was diagnosed with a rare form of dementia.

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Living people
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American stage actors
American television actors
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Singers from Ohio
"Because You Loved Me" is a 1996 pop-R&B ballad by Canadian singer Celine Dion. Its lyrics are about the protagonist thanking a loyal loved one for guiding, encouraging and protecting her and for making her who she is. It was originally written for the movie Up Close and Personal. Diane Warren, who wrote the song (and others for artists like Cher, Aerosmith, Monica, and Lady Gaga), said the song was a tribute to her father. "Because You Loved Me" won Warren a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television, or Other Visual Media.

"Because You Loved Me" is the second track on Dion's album Falling into You. The song was at the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks. It finished as the third-best performing song of 1996 there.  It also reached number one in Canada and Australia and reached number five in the UK.  It was certified Platinum in the US for sales and shipments of over one million copies.

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1996 songs
1990s ballads
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Delirium is the third studio album by English singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding.  The album was released on 6 November 2015.  It features the lead single "On My Mind", which reached the top five in the United Kingdom and the top twenty in the United States.  The hit song "Love Me like You Do", recorded for the movie Fifty Shades of Grey, is also included on the album.  Delirium has reached number two on the album charts in Canada and the top three in the US, UK, and Australia.

2015 albums
Ellie Goulding
Pop albums
The iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus are two smartphones designed by Apple Inc. They were released on September 25, 2015. They replace the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, respectively.  These "S" models have a rose gold finish. They have cameras on the front (5 megapixels) and back (12 megapixels). The screens are  for the 6S and  for the 6S Plus.  The storage capacities are 16, 64, and 128 gigabytes.  A new feature, Force Touch, is on these models and is also on the Apple Watch.  Live Photos is a new feature that allows users to take moving photos.

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Mobile phones released in 2010s
Mobile phones with 4K video recording
Apple products released in 2015
The following is a list of notable deaths in 2016. For notable deaths for each month, please see "Months".  Names under each date are reported in alphabetical order by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are reported here also if notable.

Months
 January
 February
 March
 April
 May
 June
 July
 August
 September
 October
 November
 December

Other websites
 The Guardian, UK obituaries
 Obituaries, Los Angeles Times
 Obituaries, Chicago Tribune
 The New York Times, US obituaries
 The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian obituaries
 The Telegraph obituaries

Index lists
The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2016. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Previous months".  Names under each date are reported in alphabetical order by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are reported here also if notable.

 Each listing of a death must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, nationality, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and most importantly a source.


January
January

1
 Fazu Aliyeva, 83, Russian poet and journalist, heart failure.
 Lennie Bluett, 96, American actor (Gone with the Wind, Mighty Joe Young, A Star Is Born).
 Dale Bumpers, 90, American politician, Governor of Arkansas (1971–1975), Senator from Arkansas (1975–1999), complications from a fall.
 Antonio Carrizo, 89, Argentine broadcaster.
 Brian Johns, 79, Australian company director, managing director of the ABC (1995–2000), cancer.
 Gilbert Kaplan, 74, American conductor and businessman, cancer.
 Mark B, 45, British hip-hop record producer, heart failure.
 Mike Oxley, 71, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from  (1981–2007), lung cancer.
 Ian Pieris, 82, Sri Lankan cricketer.
 Jim Ross, 89, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers).
 Vilmos Zsigmond, 85, Hungarian-American cinematographer (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Deer Hunter, The Black Dahlia), Oscar winner (1978).
2
 Marcel Barbeau, 90, Canadian painter and sculptor.
 Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan, 91, Indian politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (1996–2012), complications from a stroke.
 Michel Delpech, 69, French singer-songwriter and actor, throat cancer.
 Tim Francis, 87, New Zealand diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1988–1991), cancer.
 Maria Garbowska-Kierczyńska, 93, Polish actress.
 Matt Hobden, 22, English cricketer (Sussex), accidental fall.
 Gisela Mota Ocampo, 33, Mexican politician, Mayor of Temixco (2016), shot.
 Nimr al-Nimr, 56, Saudi Shia religious leader, executed by beheading.
 Shigeji Kaneko, 84, Japanese boxer, progressive supranuclear palsy.
 Frances Cress Welsing, 80, American psychiatrist and author (The Isis Papers), complications from a stroke.
 Sabri Yirmibeşoğlu, 87, Turkish military officer, Secretary-General of the National Security Council (1988–1990), kidney failure.
3
 Paul Bley, 83, Canadian jazz pianist.
 Stephen W. Bosworth, 76, American diplomat, Ambassador to South Korea (1997–2001), prostate cancer.
 Amby Fogarty, 82, Irish footballer (Sunderland, Hartlepool).
 C. B. Forgotston, 70, American political blogger, suicide by gunshot.
 Demmus Hentze, 92, Faroese politician, Finance Minister (1975–1981).
 Peter Powell, 83, English kite maker, stroke.
 Bill Plager, 70, Canadian ice hockey player (St. Louis Blues).
 Peter Naur, 87, Danish computer science pioneer, Turing award winner.
 Georg Nees, 89, German academic and artist, heart failure.
 Tommy Sale, 97, English rugby league player (Leigh, Widnes).
 Igor Sergun, 58, Russian military officer, Director of the GRU (since 2011).
4
 Tom Allin, 28, English cricketer (Warwickshire), suicide by jumping.
 Fernando Barrachina, 68, Spanish footballer (Valencia CF).
 Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds, 73, Latvian computer scientist and mathematician, heart attack.
 Michel Galabru, 93, French actor (Subway, Belle Époque, Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar).
 S. H. Kapadia, 68, Indian judge, Chief Justice (2010–2012).
 Jorge Lepra, 73, Uruguayan diplomat and politician, heart failure.
 Achim Mentzel, 69, German musician and television presenter.
 Marjorie Pizer, 95, Australian poet.
 John Roberts, 69, Welsh footballer (Arsenal, Birmingham, Wrexham).
 Andres Rodríguez, 31, Venezuelan equestrian competitor, car accident.
 Leo Rucka, 84, American football player (San Francisco 49ers).
 Robert Stigwood, 81, Australian music impresario and movie producer (Grease, Saturday Night Fever). (death announced on this date)
5
 María Lorenza Barreneche, 89, Argentine socialite, First Lady (1983–1989).
 Sian Blake, 42–43, British actress (EastEnders), head and neck injuries. (body discovered on this date)
 Pierre Boulez, 90, French composer.
 Percy Freeman, 70, English footballer (Lincoln City, West Bromwich Albion, Reading).
 Rudolf Haag, 93, German theoretical physicist and educator.
 Lev Nikolayevich Korolyov, 89, Russian computer scientist.
 Jean-Paul L'Allier, 77, Canadian politician, Mayor of Quebec City (1989–2005).
 Antônio Pompêo, 62, Brazilian actor.
 Michael Purcell, 70, Australian rugby union player.
6
 Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros, 87, Cuban trumpeter, prostate cancer.
 Pat Harrington, Jr., 86, American actor (One Day at a Time, Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels), complications from a fall and Alzheimer's disease.
 Florence King, 80, American writer.
 Christy O'Connor Jnr, 67, Irish golfer, nephew of Christy O'Connor Snr.
 Silvana Pampanini, 90, Italian actress (The Road a Year Long, The City Stands Trial, Roman Tales).
 Ioannis Petridis, 84, Greek politician, MP for Pieria (1985–1989).
 Sol Polansky, 89, American diplomat, Ambassador to Bulgaria (1987–1990). (death announced on this date)
 Nivaria Tejera, 86, Cuban poet and novelist, pancreatic cancer.
 Yves Vincent, 94, French actor.
7
 Klaas Bakker, 89, Dutch footballer (Ajax).
 Robert M. Cundick, 89, American organist and composer. 
 Kitty Kallen, 94, American singer ("Little Things Mean a Lot").
 Judith Kaye, 77, American lawyer, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals (1993–2008), cancer.
 Richard Libertini, 82, American actor (Fletch, All of Me, The In-Laws), cancer.
 Ashraf Pahlavi, 96, Iranian princess.
 Mohammad Sayeed, 79, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir (2002–2005, since 2015), Minister of Home Affairs (1989–1990), multiple organ failure.
 Troy Shondell, 76, American singer, complications from Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.
 Sergey Shustikov, 45, Russian football player (Torpedo Moscow) and manager (Solyaris Moscow).
 Anton Srholec, 86, Slovak writer and priest, lung cancer.
 Valerio Zanone, 79, Italian politician, Secretary of Italian Liberal Party (1976–1985) and Mayor of Turin (1990–1991).
8
 Otis Clay, 73, American R&B and soul singer ("Tryin' to Live My Life Without You", "The Only Way Is Up"), heart attack.
 Oscar Fritschi, 76, Swiss politician.
 German Moreno, 82, Philippine television host (Walang Tulugan with the Master Showman) and actor, cardiac arrest.
 Royal Parker, 86, American television personality, congestive heart failure.
 Red Simpson, 81, American country singer-songwriter ("I'm a Truck"), complications from a heart attack.
 Piet Steenkamp, 90, Dutch politician, President of the Senate (1983–1991).
9
 Merab Chigoev, 65, South Ossetian politician, Prime Minister (1998–2001), traffic collision.
 Lawrence H. Cohn, 78, American surgeon, stroke.
 Hamada Emam, 68, Egyptian footballer (Zamalek SC).
 Maria Teresa de Filippis, 89, Italian racing driver, first woman to race in Formula One.
 Peter Gavin Hall, 64, Australian mathematician and statistician, leukemia.
 John Harvard, 77, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (2004–2009).
 Umberto Raho, 93, Italian actor (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Last Man on Earth, Superfantagenio), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
 José María Rivas, 57, Salvadoran footballer, leukemia.
 Angus Scrimm, 89, American actor (Phantasm, Alias, John Dies at the End).
 Ed Stewart, 74, British broadcasting personality (Top of the Pops, Crackerjack), stroke.
 Zelimkhan Yaqub, 65, Azerbaijani poet.
10
 Abbas Bahri, 61, Tunisian mathematician.
 Wim Bleijenberg, 85, Dutch footballer (Ajax, national team).
 David Bowie, 69, British singer-songwriter ("Space Oddity", Ziggy Stardust, Rebel Rebel), record producer and actor (Labyrinth, The Prestige, Arthur and the Invisibles), liver cancer.
 Ann Z. Caracristi, 94, American cryptographer, Deputy Director of the NSA (1980–1982), complications from dementia.
 Jeanne Cordova, 67, American LGBT activist, brain cancer.
 Teofil Codreanu, 74, Romanian footballer (Rapid București).
 Kalevi Lehtovirta, 87, Finnish footballer.
 Hernán Gamboa, 69, Venezuelan musician (Serenata Guayanesa), cancer.
 Ulrich Hahnen, 63, German politician (SPD), Deputy of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia (since 2010), cancer.
 Ralph Hauenstein, 103, American philathropist and businessman.
 George Jonas, 80, Canadian writer, Parkinson's disease.
 Bob Oatley, 87, Australian yachtsman (Wild Oats XI) and winemaker (Rosemount).
Arthur S. Obermayer, 84, American entrepreneur and philanthropist, cancer.
 Cornelis Zitman, 89, Dutch sculptor.
 Yusuf Zuayyin, 84, Syrian politician, Prime Minister (1965, 1966–1968).
11
 Reginaldo Araújo, 38, Brazilian footballer, heart attack.
 William Del Monte, 109, American centenarian, last known survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
 Berge Furre, 78, Norwegian politician and historian.
 Alexander Hickman, 90, Canadian judge and politician. (death announced on this date)
 Monte Irvin, 96, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Newark Eagles, New York Giants, Chicago Cubs).
 Brian Johnson, 59, Australian rugby league player and coach (Warrington), Alzheimer's disease. 
 David Margulies, 78, American actor (Ghostbusters, The Sopranos, Conversations with My Father).
 János Radványi, 93, American political scientist and diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1962–1967).
 Gunnel Vallquist, 97, Swedish writer and translator.
12
 Robert Black, 68, Scottish serial killer and kidnapper.
 Ivan Bukavshin, 20, Russian chess player, stroke.
 Rose Chibambo, 87, Malawian politician, Deputy Minister for Hospitals, Prisons and Social Welfare (1963–1964), heart attack.
 Andrew Smith, 25, American basketball player (Butler Bulldogs), non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
 Gastón Guzmán, 83, Mexican mycologist and anthropologist, heart attack.
Meg Mundy, 101, American actress (Fatal Attraction, All My Children, Ordinary People).
 William Needles, 97, Canadian theater actor.
 Dave Sime, 79, American sprinter and ophthalmologist, cancer.
 Carolyn D. Wright, 67, American poet, cancer.
13
 Brian Bedford, 80, British actor and voice actor (Robin Hood, Nixon, Much Ado About Nothing), cancer.
 William Craig, 97, American philosopher and educator.
 Giorgio Gomelsky, 81, Georgian filmmaker, impresario, music manager, songwriter and record producer.
 Bern Herbolsheimer, 67, American composer, cancer.
 J. F. R. Jacob, 92, Indian military officer, pneumonia.
 Conrad Phillips, 90, British television and movie actor (The Adventures of William Tell).
 Lawrence Phillips, 40, American football player (University of Nebraska, St. Louis Rams) and convicted felon, apparent suicide.
 Jim Simpson, 88, American sportscaster (NBC Sports).
 Zaharije Trnavčević, 90, Serbian politician, Acting President of the National Assembly (2012).
 Ellen Meiksins Wood, 73, American historian, cancer.
 Tera Wray, 33, American pornographic actress, suicide.
14
 René Angélil, 73, Canadian entertainment manager (Céline Dion), heart attack complicated by throat cancer.
 George Carroll, 94, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of Richmond (1964–1965), respiratory failure.
 Franco Citti, 80, Italian actor (Accattone, The Godfather, The Godfather Part III).
 Alan Rickman, 69, English actor (Harry Potter, Die Hard, Love Actually), pancreatic cancer.
 Shaolin, 44, Brazilian humorist, heart attack.
 Rajesh Vivek, 66, Indian actor (Lagaan), heart attack.
 Leonid Zhabotinsky, 77, Soviet weightlifter, Olympic champion (1964, 1968).
15
 Francisco X. Alarcón, 61, American poet, cancer.
 Noreen Corcoran, 72, American actress (The Girls on the Beach, Gidget Goes to Rome, Bachelor Father), cardiopulmonary disease.
 Dan Haggerty, 74, American actor (Easy Rider, The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, Big Stan), spinal cancer.
 Ken Judge, 58, Australian football player and coach (Hawthorn), cancer.
 P. J. Mara, 73, Irish public affairs consultant, Senator (1977–1981, 1982–1983).
 Oleksandr Shevchenko, 78, Ukrainian scientist, jurist and politician, member of the Verkhovna Rada (2012–2014).
 Manuel Velázquez, 72, Spanish footballer (Real Madrid).
16 
 Carina Jaarnek, 53, Swedish singer and Dansband artist, brain haemorrhage.
 Ted Marchibroda, 84, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Chicago Cardinals) and coach (Baltimore Colts, Indianapolis Colts, Baltimore Ravens).
 Rudy Migay, 87, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).
 Jean-Noël Rey, 66, Swiss politician, CEO of Swiss Post, shot.
 Aristide von Bienefeldt, 56, Dutch writer. 
 Gary Loizzo, 70, American guitarist, singer, recording engineer, and record producer. He is best known for being the lead singer with The American Breed.

17
 Blowfly, 76, American musician and producer, liver cancer.
 Bob Harkey, 85, American racecar driver.
 Gottfried Honegger, 98, Swiss artist and graphic designer.
 Sudhindra Thirtha, 89, Indian Hindu religious leader, renal failure.
18
 Johnny Bach, 91, American basketball player (Boston Celtics) and coach (Fordham University, Penn State).
 Glenn Frey, 67, American guitarist (Eagles), songwriter ("Take It Easy", "Hotel California") and actor (Wiseguy, Jerry Maguire), complications following intestinal surgery.
 Michel Tournier, 91, French writer ("Friday, or, The Other Island", "The Erl-King").
19
 Robert M. Carter, 73, British-born Australian marine geologist and climate skeptic, complications from a heart attack.
 M. K. A. D. S. Gunawardana, 68, Sri Lankan politician, Minister of Land (since 2015), cancer.
 Yasutaro Koide, 112, Japanese supercentenarian, world's oldest man, heart failure and pneumonia.
 Richard Levins, 85, American mathematical ecologist and population geneticist, heart failure.
 Ettore Scola, 84, Italian movie director (A Special Day, What Time Is It?, The Dinner) and screenwriter (We All Loved Each Other So Much), pneumonia.
 Sheila Sim, Lady Attenborough, 93, English actress (Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, A Canterbury Tale, West of Zanzibar), dementia.
 William Y. Smith, 90, American air force general, congestive heart failure.
 Frank Sullivan, 85, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, Minnesota Twins), pneumonia.
20
 Edmonde Charles-Roux, 95, French writer.
 Ronald Greenwald, 82, American rabbi and activist, suspected heart attack.
 David G. Hartwell, 74, American editor, publisher and critic, injuries from a fall.

21
 Bogusław Kaczyński, 73, Polish classical music journalist, stroke.
 Derrick Todd Lee, 47, American convicted serial killer.
 Mrinalini Sarabhai, 97, Indian classical dancer, choreographer and instructor, respiratory failure.
 Robert Sassone, 37, French road racing cyclist, suicide.

22
 Homayoun Behzadi, 73, Iranian football player (Shahin F.C., Paykan F.C., national team) and coach (Persepolis F.C.).
 Kamer Genç, 75, Turkish politician, cancer.
 Cecil Parkinson, 84, British politician, cabinet minister, cancer.
 Miloslav Ransdorf, 62, Czech politician (KSČM), Member of the European Parliament (since 2004), stroke.
 Rik Wilson, 53, American ice hockey player (St. Louis Blues, Calgary Flames, Chicago Blackhawks). (death announced on this date)
23
 Barry Brickell, 80, New Zealand ceramic artist.
 Josip Friščić, 66, Croatian politician.
 A. C. Jose, 78, Indian politician, Speaker of Kerala Legislature (1982), member of Parliament (1996–1997, 1998–2004).
 Elisabeta Polihroniade, 80, Romanian chess Woman Grandmaster (1982) and International Arbiter.
 Dmitry Shirkov, 88, Russian theoretical physicist, heart attack.

24
 Jimmy Bain, 68, Scottish bassist (Rainbow, Dio), lung cancer.
 Fredrik Barth, 87, Norwegian social anthropologist. 
 Marvin Minsky, 88, American cognitive scientist and pioneer in artificial intelligence, cerebral hemorrhage.
 Henry Worsley, 55, British adventurer, multiple organ failure.
 Forouzan, 78, Iranian actress.

25
 Kalpana, 49, Indian actress (Thanichalla Njan), heart attack.
 Concepcion Picciotto, 80, Spanish-born American peace activist, complications from a fall.
 Paul Terasaki, 86, American scientist and philanthropist.
26
 Black, 53, British singer-songwriter ("Wonderful Life"), head injuries sustained in a traffic collision.
 Tommy Kelly, 90, American actor (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus), congestive heart failure.
 Sahabzada Yaqub Khan, 95, Pakistani politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1982–1991, 1996–1997).
 Abe Vigoda, 94, American actor (The Godfather, Barney Miller, Joe Versus the Volcano), complications from an illness.

27
 Augusto Giomo, 75, Italian basketball player (1970 FIBA World Championship), cancer.
 Carlos Loyzaga, 85, Filipino Olympic basketball player (1952, 1956), complications from a stroke.
28
 Signe Toly Anderson, 74, American singer (Jefferson Airplane), complications from COPD.   
 Yisroel Belsky, 77, American rabbi. 
 Buddy Cianci, 74, American politician and radio host, Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island (1975–1984, 1991–2002), colon cancer.
 Aleš Debeljak, 54, Slovenian writer, car crash.
 Paul Kantner, 74, American musician (Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, KBC Band), multiple organ failure.

29
 Jean-Marie Doré, 77, Guinean politician, Prime Minister (2010). 
 Gordon Goody, 86, British criminal (Great Train Robbery) and businessman, heart attack.
 Cayetano Paderanga, Jr., 67, Filipino economist, Director-General of NEDA (2010–2012), complications after heart surgery.
 Jacques Rivette, 87, French movie director (Celine and Julie Go Boating, Out 1) and movie critic, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
 John Roper, Baron Roper, 80, British politician.
30
 Frank Finlay, 89, British actor (Othello, The Shoes of the Fisherman, The Three Musketeers), heart failure.
 Francisco Flores Pérez, 56, Salvadorian politician, President (1999–2004), cerebral hemorrhage.
 T. N. Gopakumar, 58, Indian journalist, cancer. 
 Georgia Davis Powers, 92, American civil rights activist and politician, member of the Kentucky Senate (1968-1989), congestive heart failure.
 Mohammad Salimi, 78, Iranian general, Commander-in-Chief of the Army (2000–2005).

31
 Mere Broughton, 79, New Zealand Māori language activist and unionist, heart failure.
 Sir Terry Wogan, 77, British-Irish broadcaster (BBC), cancer.
 Benoît Violier, 44, French-born Swiss chef, suicide by gunshot.

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Patricia Elliott (July 21, 1938 – December 20, 2015) was an American actress. She was born in Gunnison, Colorado. She was known for her roles as Renée Divine Buchanan in the soap opera One Life to Live and as Countess Charlotte Malcolm in the Stephen Sondheim musical A Little Night Music. She won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical in 1973.

Elliott died in New York City, from cancer, aged 77.

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Carol Burns (22 February 1947 – 21 December 2015) was an Australian actress. She was born in Brisbane, Queensland. She worked in Australia and in the United Kingdom. She began her career in 1967. Burns was known for her role as Franky Doyle in the soap opera Prisoner.

Burns died of cancer at her home in Brisbane at the age of 68.

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 Queensland Theatre Company – The Glass Menagerie 

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Georgetown is the capital city of Guyana. It is located in the Demerara-Mahaica region. It is the country's largest city. The population in 2012 was about 235,017 people.

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National capitals in South America
Settlements established in the 18th century

Geography of Guyana
Joseph William Kittinger II (born July 27, 1928) is a retired Colonel in the United States Air Force and a USAF Command Pilot. He was born in Tampa, Florida. He set a world record for the longest skydive from a height more than . He was also the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean, alone, in a hot air balloon.

He was a fighter pilot in the Vietnam War and was a prisoner of war in a North Vietnamese prison.

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Duolingo is a free language-learning program. Its website and mobile apps are available to anyone with an internet connection plus a computer, tablet or smartphone. Duolingo can be used on iOS, Android, Windows 8 and 10 operating systems. Duolingo allows people to learn over 106 different language courses in 40 languages. There are over 500 million people learning a language on Duolingo.

History
The project was started by Professor Luis von Ahn and graduate student Severin Hacker. The main development language used was Python.

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Learning
Wyre Forest is a large, semi-natural woodland and forest measuring . It sits across the borders of Worcestershire and Shropshire, England. It is lightly managed.

Natural history
The forest has a variety of wildlife. It was much larger, but it still is one of the largest remaining ancient woodlands in Britain. The Forestry Commission looks after about half of today's forest. Two-thirds of the forest is a SSSI (1,753.7 hectares), and a further fifth (549 hectares) is a National Nature Reserve. The Dowles Brook flows through the heart of the forest, and the A456 road also runs through the southern edge of the woodland.
It is one of the largest areas of semi-natural (partially unmanaged) woodland in the UK. Wildlife species to be found in the forest include hawfinch, fallow deer, dipper, common crossbill, pied flycatcher, redstart, and long-eared owl among many other woodland birds and plants. The small but colourful moth Oecophora bractella has one of its few English populations here, and does not seem to occur much farther northwards.

The forest is an important habitat for adders, which have been the subject of a notable study.

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Shropshire
Jan Wojciech Góra OP (8 February 1948 – 21 December 2015) was a Polish Dominican Roman Catholic Priest, Doctor of Theology, academic and chaplain. Since 1997, he had been the organiser of the Polish Youth Meeting Lednica 2000 at the Lednica Fields. He was the animator for the academic chaplaincy centre "Respublica Dominicana" in Jamna. He was the author of numerous books and articles. He was born in Prudnik.

Góra died at the age of 67 in Poznań, Poland from a heart attack.

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Rolf Bossi (10 September 1923 – 22 December 2015) was a German criminal defense lawyer. He was born in Munich. He was known for defending known actors such as Ingrid van Bergen and Romy Schneider, as well as notable criminals such as Jürgen Bartsch, Dieter Zlof, and Dieter Degowski. He also defended four former East German border guards who were accused of having killed Chris Gueffroy, who was trying to escape over the Berlin wall. He was considered to be one of Germany's best-known defense lawyers.

Bossi died in Munich, Germany from natural causes at the age of 92.

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Hocine Aït Ahmed (; (August 20, 1926 – December 23, 2015) was an Algerian politician. He was founder and leader of the historical political opposition, Socialist Forces Front, in Algeria until 2009. He was born in Ain El Hammam, Algeria. Arrested and sentenced to death in 1964, he escaped from the El Harrach prison on May 1, 1966. Exiled in Switzerland, he became a doctor of law.

Aït Ahmed died at age 89 in Lausanne, Switzerland on December 23, 2015.

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Laurence Robert Harvey (born 17 July 1970) is an English actor. He is best known for playing Martin Lomax in the horror movie The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) and as Dwight in The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence).

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Dieter Laser (17 February 1942 – 29 February 2020) was a German actor. He is known to English speaking audiences for his roles as Mantrid in Lexx, Prof. Otto Blaettchen in The Ogre, Dr. Josef Heiter in The Human Centipede (First Sequence) and Bill Boss in The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence).

Death 
Dieter Laser died twelve days after his 78th birthday on 29 February 2020. His death was not announced until a message to his official Facebook page was posted on 9 April 2020.

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Official Facebook site of Dieter Laser

1942 births
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German movie actors
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Tom Six (born 29 August 1973) is a Dutch filmmaker. He is best known for his body horror movies, The Human Centipede (First Sequence), The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) and The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence).

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Tom Six at Rotten Tomatoes
Interview with Tom Six 
Tom Six on Twitter

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The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) is a 2011 British-Dutch black and white exploitation movie written, directed, and co-produced by Dutch filmmaker Tom Six. It is a sequel to Six's 2009 movie The Human Centipede (First Sequence). The movie stars Laurence R. Harvey and Ashlynn Yennie. It was followed by The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence).

Plot
The movie is about a mentally challenged English man, Martin, who watches and becomes obsessed with the first Human Centipede movie, and decides to make his own "centipede" made up of twelve people.

Response
It was originally banned in the United Kingdom by the BBFC because of its "revolting" content but was eventually granted an 18 certificate after over 30 cuts were made. The film was also banned in Australia for a short period of time. It is banned in New Zealand. The film received negative reviews for its plot, excessive gore and violence.

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