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Aleksandr Salnikov

Aleksandr Petrovych Salnikov (; born 3 July 1949 – 17 November 2017) was a Ukrainian basketball player. He was born in Sevastopol, Ukraine. He competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Salnikov died on November 17, 2017 at the age of 68.

References 

1949 births
2017 deaths
Basketball players
Soviet sportspeople
Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Lièpvre

Lièpvre is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Schönenwerd

Schönenwerd is a municipality in the district Olten in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

 Official website 

Municipalities of the canton of Solothurn
Fritz Egner

Fritz Egner (born 3 August 1949) is a German radio presenter. He was born in Munich, Germany. In 1978 Egner joined the regional broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk. At this time his two friends and colleagues Thomas Gottschalk and Günther Jauch also joined.

Since 2016 he hosts the radio shows Fritz und Hits and Stars und Hits for Bayern 3, in addition he also hosts the Christmas radio show Christmas Hits mit Fritz.

Other websites
BAYERN 3-Urgestein 
Bayerischer Rundfunk at 60 

1949 births
Living people
People from Munich
German television presenters
1996 African Cup of Nations

The 1996 African Cup of Nations was the 20th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations. The tournament was held from 13 January to 3 February in South Africa. It was also won by South Africa. The top scorer was Kalusha Bwalya, with 5 goals.

The winner of this tournament qualified for the 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup tournament in Saudi Arabia.

Teams

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage

Other websites 

 Details at RSSSF
 Details at www.angelfire.com

Africa Cup of Nations tournaments
Football in South Africa
1996 in association football
1990s in Africa
20th century in South Africa
Ruth Dreifuss

Ruth Dreifuss (born 9 January 1940) is a Swiss politician. She was a member of the Swiss Federal Council from (1993–2002), representing the Canton of Geneva. In 1970 she received a Master of Economics from the University of Geneva. She was a member of the Social Democratic Party.

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1940 births
Living people
Presidents of the Swiss Confederation
Pierre Imhasly

Pierre Imhasly (14 November 1939 – 17 June 2017) was a Swiss novelist and poet. He was born in Visp, Switzerland. He studied German literature in Fribourg and Zurich. His major work is The Rhone Saga an epic poem about the Rhône River. He was the principal translator of Maurice Chappaz's works.

Imhasly died from cancer on 17 June 2017 at the age of 77.

Works
 Maithuna: Liebesakt transzendierend - Matterhorn: Berg der Welt. Frankfurt am Main; Basel: Stroemfeld-Verlag, 2005.
 Blick auf ... Zermatt. Ayer: Editions Porte-plumes, 2004.
 Leni, Nomadin. Frankfurt am Main; Basel: Stroemfeld Verlag, 2001.
 Widerpart oder Fuga mit Orgelpunkt vom Schnee: Ein Poem. Frankfurt am Main; Basel: Stroemfeld-Verlag, 2000.
 Paraiso si. Frankfurt am Main; Basel: Stroemfeld-Verlag, 2000.
 Rhone Saga. Basel: Stroemfeld, 1996.
 Alfons Studer oder ein Eros in allen Dingen. Bern: Erpf, 1984.
 Corrida: der spanische Stier und sein Fest. Bern: Erpf, 1982.
 Widerpart oder Fuga mit Orgelpunkt vom Schnee: Ein Poem. Zürich [etc.]: Suhrkamp, 1979.
 Widerpart oder Fuga mit Orgelpunkt vom Schnee. Zürich: Editio Princeps [E. Ammann], 1977.
 Armin: Visp. Variationen & Etüden. Brig: Rotten-Verlag, 1976.
 Heremence Beton = Heremence beton. Lausanne: Editions du Gran-Pont, 1974.
 Sellerie, Ketch up & Megatonnen: Eine Textsammlung. Bern: Kandelaber-Verlag, 1970.

References

Other websites
 Switzerland is Different for the Swiss  poem
 Pierre Imhasly
 Pierre Imhasly 

1939 births
2017 deaths
Swiss poets
Novelists
Deaths from cancer
Paspels

Paspels () was a municipality in the district of Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2015 the municipalities of Paspels, Almens, Pratval, Rodels and Tomils joined together and became a new municipality called Domleschg.

Former municipalities of Graubünden
List of English-translated volumes of Découvertes Gallimard

This is a complete list of English-translated volumes of the French book collection . In United Kingdom, the collection was published by Thames & Hudson under the title “New Horizons”, which contains 107 volumes. In United States, Harry N. Abrams produced 111 volumes in the collection “Abrams Discoveries”.

List

Other websites 
 List of Abrams Discoveries series at Goodreads
 List of New Horizons series at Publishing History

Lists of books
Encyclopedias
Series of books
Non-fiction books
English-language picture books

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2016–17 First Professional Football League (Bulgaria)

The 2016–17 First Professional Football League (Bulgarian: Първа професионална футболна лига 2016/17, Parva profesionalna futbolna liga 2016/17) was the 93rd season of top division football in Bulgaria. It was played from 29 July 2016 to 4 June 2017. Ludogorets Razgrad won the tournament. The top scorer was Claudiu Keșerü, with 22 goals.

Regular season

Championship round 
Points and goals will carry over in full from the regular season.

Relegation round 
Points and goals will carry over in full from the regular season.

Group A

Group B

Statistics

Top goalscorers 

22 goals

  Claudiu Keșerü (Ludogorets Razgrad)

17 goals

  Martin Kamburov (Lokomotiv Plovdiv)

14 goals

  Marcelo Nascimento da Costa (Ludogorets Razgrad)

13 goals

  João Paulo da Silva Araújo (Ludogorets Razgrad and Botev Plovdiv)
  Wanderson Cristaldo Farias (Ludogorets Razgrad)

11 goals

  Todor Nedelev (Botev Plovdiv)
  Daniel Mladenov (Pirin Blagoevgrad)
  Junior Mapuku (Beroe Stara Zagora)

References

Other websites 

First League (uefa.com)
bulgarian-football.com

2016 in sports
2017 in sports
Football in Bulgaria
Ligsdorf

Ligsdorf is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Masevaux-Niederbruck

Masevaux-Niederbruck is a new commune of the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France. It was incorporated on 1 January 2016 by the combination of the former communes of Masevaux and Niederbruck.

References 

Communes in Haut-Rhin
2016 establishments in France
Linsdorf

Linsdorf is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France. The mayor is Serge Gaisser. In 2014, 315 people lived in the commune.

Population

Related pages
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

References

INSEE commune file

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Demirören Group

Demirören Holding is a Turkish holding company headquartered in Istanbul. Demirören Holding assets include the Milliyet and Vatan newspapers, Milangaz (a liquefied petroleum gas distributor with 9% of the Turkish market) and several shopping mall in Beyoğlu.

References

Istanbul
Holding companies of Turkey
Erdoğan Demirören

Erdoğan Demirören (born 20 September 1937 in İnegöl, died on 8 June 2018 in İstanbul) is Turkish industrialist and businessman. He is owner, founder, and Chairman of the Board of Demirören Holding. Demirören also is a member of the High Advisory Council of Rumeli Administrators and Businessmen's Association.

He died of respiratory failure.

References

1938 births
2018 deaths
Turkish businesspeople
Linthal, Haut-Rhin

Linthal is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Canaan (son of Noah)

According to Islam, Canaan, son of Noah or Yam, son of Noah was the fourth son of Noah and his wife Naamah.

Canaan is not in the Jewish holy book, the Torah, or the Christian holy book, the Bible.  Those two books talk about Canaan's older brothers, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, but Canaan is only in the Muslim holy book, the Quran, or Koran.  

In the Muslim version of the story of the Great Flood, (The Quran did not mention any name for the son of Noah, the name Canaan does not exist there) Canaan did not believe in God the way his father, mother and brothers did.  They followed God's instructions and built a large boat, the arc, in time to survive the flood, but Canaan drowned instead.

Canaan is the son of Noah, son of Lamech, son of Methuselah, son of Enoch, son of Jared, son of Mahalalel, son of Kenan, son of Enos, son of Seth, son of Adam father of humans.

According to the Koran, Noah asked Canaan to come with him on the boat, but Canaan decided to climb a mountain insteadː "O my son, come aboard with us and be not with the disbelievers." Canaan said, "I will take refuge on a mountain to protect me from the water." Noah said, "There is no protector today from the decree of The Lord our God, except from whom He gives mercy." Then the Koran says Canaan drowned.

Some versions ( Christian/Jews) say Noah's wife, Canaan's mother, went to the mountain with Canaan because she loved him so much.  In this version, Canaan is still a boy small enough to be picked up.  It says when the water came, Canaan's mother held him above her head so he would live longer before he drowned.

Other versions of Canaan

The holy books of the Jews, Christians and Muslims also talk about Canaan son of Ham, Noah's grandson.  This Canaan is still alive after the flood.  One Jewish scholar thinks this Canaan might have been Noah's son and not grandson.  So this could be the same Canaan or it could be another person with the same name.

References

Quran
Islam
Vignemale

The Vignemale (, , ) is the highest of the French Pyrenean summits, on the border with Spain (the highest in the whole of the Pyrenees is Pic Aneto).

The Vignemale is between the Spanish province of Huesca and the French department of Hautes-Pyrénées. It is the highest mountain in the French Pyrenees, the Occitanie region and in the Hautes-Pyrénées department.  The mountain is in the Pyrénées National Park (France) and in the Reserva de la Biosfera Ordesa-Viñamala (Spain).

Geography
The Vignemale is the name given to the mountain massif that is formed by several distinct summits; the main summits are:

 Pique-Longue or Grand Vignemale, ;
 Pointe Chausenque, ; and
 Petit Vignemale, .

The Pique-Longue can bee seen easily from other mountains and even from the city of Lourdes.

The Vignemale is also where is the second largest of the Pyrenean glaciers (after the one one in Aneto): the Ossoue glacier with an area of around . The easiest route to climb the mountain, and the one most used, is across this glacier.

History
On August 1792, some shepherds climbed the Pique-Longue following orders from Louis-Philippe Reinhart Junker who was in charge of a team that was studying the French-Spanish border. But the names of those shepherds are not known.

The first known ascent of this peak was made 45 years later, on 8 October 1837, by Henri Cazaux, from Luz (now Luz-Saint-Sauveur), and his brother-in-law Bernard Guillembet.

References

Other websites

 Altituderando: La Pique Longue du Vignemale (3298m) 
 Camptocamp.org: Vignemale - Pique Longue 
 Randozone - Vignemale (Pique Longue) 

Pyrenees
Mountains of France
Occitanie
Richard H. Watson

Richard H. Watson is a New Zealand-born American Biotechnology researcher, known for introducing grass-based dairies in Georgia. Watson specializes in animal nutrition and grazing systems.

Career
In 1994, Watson obtained Bachelors in Agricultural Science from Massey University (Palmerston North, New Zealand) and Masters degree in Applied Science in 1995. Watson received his PhD for Animal science and Grazing systems in 2000 and subsequently recruited by the University of Georgia to lead a cattle grazing research program in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences where he helped developed a statewide grazing research program for cattle producers, looking at new forage and grazing technologies.

Watson served as the State Extension Forage Specialist and Assistant Research Professor at Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at Mississippi State University between January 2004 to August 2006.

Notable publications
Reinfection of Tall Fescue Cultivars with Non-Ergot Alkaloid–Producing Endophytes
Liveweight and growth rate of cow-calf pairs grazing tall fescue pastures infected with either non-toxic (MaxQ) or toxic endophyte strains. Journal of Animal Science 79, Suppl. 1: 220.
Use of temperature data loggers to measure body temperature in cows grazing toxic or non-toxic tall fescue. Journal of Animal Science 79, Suppl. 1: 458.
Non-toxic endophyte (MaxQ) use for alleviating tall fescue toxicosis in stocker cattle. Journal of Animal Science 79, Suppl. 1: 220

References

Living people
American biochemists
Invercargill

Invercargill () is the southernmost and westernmost city in New Zealand, and one of the southernmost cities in the world. It is the commercial centre of the Southland region. It lies in the Southland Plains on the Oreti or New River some 18 km north of Bluff, which is the southernmost town in the South Island. It sits amid rich farmland that is bordered by large areas of conservation land and marine reserves, including Fiordland National Park covering the south-west corner of the South Island and the Catlins coastal region

References

Cities in New Zealand
1853 establishments in Oceania
19th-century establishments in New Zealand
Bhimbetka

The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an archaeological site of the Paleolithic. They are the earliest traces of human life on the Indian Subcontinent, and  the beginning of the Indian Stone Age. Here are many beautiful drawn drawings by the Stone Age people. There you can see some drawings of people who are hunting.

India
Kalibangan

Kalibangān is a prehistoric site at  in Rajasthan. It is on the left or southern banks of the Ghaggar (Ghaggar-Hakra River), India. It is on a triangle-shaped piece of land at the confluence of Drishadvati and Sarasvathi Rivers. A report on the excavations at the site were published in 2003 by the Archaeological Survey of India, 34 years after the completion of excavations. The report said that Kalibangan was a major provincial capital in the Indus Valley. Discoveries at Kalibangan include unique fire altars and world's earliest known ploughed field. There is also evidence of two types of burials, namely circular graves and rectangular graves.

References

History of Pakistan
Ancient history
History of India
History of Afghanistan
Jiří Kormaník

Jiří Kormaník (26 March 1935 – 3 November 2017) was a Czech amateur wrestler. He competed for Czechoslovakia at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics in Greco-Roman wrestling and won a silver medal in 1964. He was born in Scăiuş, Caraș-Severin County, Romania.

Kormaník died in Chomutov on 3 November 2017 at the age of 82.

References

1935 births
2017 deaths
Czech sportspeople
Wrestlers
Olympic silver medalists
Wendell Eugene

Wendell Eugene (October 12, 1923 – November 7, 2017) was an American jazz trombonist. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was a popular trombonist on the New Orleans jazz scene and recorded with artists such as Lionel Ferbos, Harold Dejan, and Kermit Ruffins.

Eugene died on 7 November 2017 in New Orleans of pneumonia at the age of 94.

References

1923 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
American jazz musicians
American trombonists
Musicians from New Orleans, Louisiana
Bernhard Eckstein

Bernhard Eckstein (21 August 1935 – 10 November 2017) was a German cyclist. In 1960, he won the road race at the world championships and finished in 22nd place in the road race at the 1960 Summer Olympics. 

During his career he won six one-day races, four in 1958, one in 1960 (the Manx Trophy in the amateurs division), and one in 1966. He was born in Zwochau, Germany.

Eckstein died on 10 November 2017 in Berlin at the age of 82.

References

Other websites

1935 births
2017 deaths
German cyclists
German Olympians
Franciszek Kornicki

Franciszek Kornicki (18 December 1916 – 16 November 2017) was a Polish fighter pilot. He served in the Polish Air Force in Poland, France and Britain during the Second World War and later served in the Royal Air Force (RAF).

Kornicki died just a few weeks short of his 101st birthday in Worthing, England of a heart attack. He was the last surviving Polish fighter squadron commander from the Second World War.

References

Other websites
 Biographical sketch (this contains some inaccuracies)  
 Kornicki at Goraska air show 2010  
 Press coverage of Korean edition of Kornicki's book 
 Video of Kornicki reunited with a Spitfire he flew during the war 
 Kornicki reunited with a Spitfire he flew during the war  

1916 births
2017 deaths
Polish people
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Military people
Salvatore Riina

Salvatore "Totò" Riina (; 16 November 1930 – 17 November 2017), called Totò 'u Curtu (; Totò being the diminutive of "Salvatore"), was an Italian mobster and chief of the Sicilian Mafia. He known for the murder campaign that reached a peak in the early 1990s when the assassinations of Antimafia Commission prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino occurred.

Riina advocated the killing of women and children, and killed blameless members of the public solely to distract law enforcing agencies. Assassin Giovanni Brusca estimated he murdered 100-200 people on behalf of Riina. 

After 23 years living as a fugitive he was captured.

Riina died on 17 November 2017 at the hospital in Parma of sepsis caused by surgery at the age of 87.

References

1930 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from sepsis
Deaths from surgical complications
Italian people
Mobsters
Murderers
Rikard Wolff

Jan Rikard Wolff (8 April 1958 – 17 November 2017) was a Swedish actor and singer. His career included both movie roles in House of Angels and its two sequels and theatre roles such as in Waiting for Godot at Royal Dramatic Theatre, and A Chorus Line at The Göteborg Opera. He was born in Farsta, Sweden.

Wolff provided the voice of Scar in the Swedish-dub of The Lion King. Wolff was openly gay.

Wolff was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour for his work with French music. His best known song was Pojken på månen from the album of the same name.

Wolff died on 17 November 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden of emphysema at the age of 59.

References

Other websites
 

1958 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from emphysema
Swedish movie actors
Swedish television actors
Swedish voice actors
Swedish stage actors
Swedish singers
Gay men
LGBT actors
LGBT singers
Earle Hyman

Earle Hyman (October 11, 1926 – November 17, 2017) was an American actor. He was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Hyman was known for his role on ThunderCats as the voice of Panthro. He also appeared on The Cosby Show as Cliff's father Russell Huxtable. He made his Broadway stage debut as a teenager in 1943 in Run, Little Chillun.

In 1980, he was nominated for a Tony Award and in 1986, was nominated for an Emmy Award.

Hyman died on November 17, 2017 in Englewood, New Jersey of stomach cancer at the age of 91.

References

Other websites

1926 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from stomach cancer
Cancer deaths in New Jersey
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American voice actors
Actors from North Carolina
People from Rocky Mount, North Carolina
Giorgio Antonucci

Giorgio Antonucci (1933 – 19 November 2017) was an Italian physician. He was born in Tuscany, Italy. He was known for his questioning of the basis of psychiatry. In 1969 he worked at the psychiatric hospital of Gorizia. From 1970 to 1972 he directed the mental hygiene centre of Castelnuovo nei Monti in the province of Reggio Emilia. From 1973 to 1996 he worked in Imola on the dismantling of the psychiatric hospitals Osservanza and Luigi Lolli.

Antonucci died on 19 November 2017 in Florence, Italy at the age of 84.

References

Other websites
 The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care, review by Dr Peter Barham,  Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford
 UK Parliament, Memorandum from the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (DMH 291)

1933 births
2017 deaths
Italian physicians
People from Tuscany
Commins Menapi

Commins Menapi (18 September 1977 – 18 November 2017) was a Solomon Islands striker. He was last the manager of Western United. He guided them to their first and only Telekom S league title season 2014/2015. 

In the 2006–2007 season, he became the first player to be sent off in a New Zealand Football Championship Grand Final. He represented the Solomon Islands national football team on over 30 occasions, scoring a record 34 goals (including 7 against non-FIFA members). Menapi was arguably the most famous Solomon Islands footballer.

Menapi died in Honiara on 18 November 2017 of a heart attack at the age of 40.

References

Other websites
 Player profile  – Waitakere club website

1977 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Oceanic footballers
Solomon Islands
Skunk Fu!

Skunk Fu! is an Irish/American animated series produced by Cartoon Saloon, Telegael and Cartoon Network Studios. The series currently airs in the United States on Cartoon Network on September 22, 2007. The series comes in over 2 countries in 1 language. The first season of the show was produced by Cartoon Saloon, Telegael and Cartoon Network Studios. The series premiered airs at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT time on September 22, 2007 on Cartoon Network in the United States. The series is produced 26 episodes divided in 1 seasons.

Plot
Skunk and the other valley animals led by Panda thwart Dragon's efforts to overtake their valley with Baboon and the Ninja Monkeys from their lair in the Mountains. Historically Dragon and Panda were friends, but since Dragon was punished by Heaven for his arrogance, he perceives the valley residents as the reason for his downfall (displacing the responsibility of his own actions) and seeks to destroy them. Panda sees Skunk as crucial to saving the valley and endeavors to teach Skunk who often tries to circumvent laborious Kung Fu training, only to learn the value of the initial lesson from the consequences of his actions with Skunk ultimately saving the day, usually by himself or with the help of his friends.

2007 television series debuts
2008 television series endings
2007 establishments in the United States
2000s establishments in the Republic of Ireland
English-language television programs
Youssouf Ouédraogo

Youssouf Ouédraogo (25 December 1952 – 18 November 2017) was a Burkinabe politician.

In 1992 he became the first Prime Minister of Burkina Faso since 1983, serving from 16 June 1992 to 22 March 1994. Ouédraogo, a member of the ruling Congress for Democracy and Progress (CDP), later served as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from January 1999 to June 2007.

Biography 
Ouédraogo was born in Tikaré, in Bam Province. Under Thomas Sankara, Ouédraogo was appointed to the government as Minister of Planning and Popular Development on 31 August 1984, remaining in that position for three years. Shortly after Sankara was assassinated in October 1987, Ouédraogo became Minister for the Plan and Cooperation under Blaise Compaoré. He left that position on 25 April 1989 and became President of the Economic and Social Council, in which position he served until he was elected to the National Assembly as a deputy from Bam in the May 1992 parliamentary election. He was appointed as Prime Minister by Compaoré on 16 June 1992.

The CFA franc was devaluated in January 1994, and this was followed by controversy.vOuédraogo signed an agreement with trade unions to raise salaries on 12 March 1994, but the agreement fell through and Ouédraogo resigned a few days later. He then served as Ambassador to Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Luxembourg and the European Union before being appointed as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in January 1999.

Ouédraogo was elected to the National Assembly again in the 2007 parliamentary election as a candidate of the CDP from Bam Province. In the government of Prime Minister Tertius Zongo, which was appointed on 10 June 2007, he was replaced as Foreign Minister by Djibrill Bassolé.vHe subsequently became Special Adviser to the President of the African Development Bank.[8

References

1952 births
2017 deaths
Prime Ministers of Burkina Faso
Ambassadors to the United Kingdom
Friedel Rausch

Friedel Rausch (27 February 1940 – 18 November 2017) was a German football player and manager.

In April 2006, Rausch was diagnosed with skin cancer. He died of the disease on 18 November 2017 at the age of 77.

References

Other websites
Friedel Rausch at eintracht-archiv.de 
Friedel Rausch  at mackolik.com 

1940 births
2017 deaths
German football managers
German footballers
Deaths from skin cancer
FC Schalke 04 managers
Mönchsdeggingen

Mönchsdeggingen is a municipality in the district of Donau-Ries in Bavaria in Germany.

References 

Donau-Ries
Ben Riley

Ben Riley (July 17, 1933 – November 18, 2017) was an American jazz drummer. He was born in Savannah, Georgia. He was known for his work with Thelonious Monk, as well as Alice Coltrane, Stan Getz, Woody Herman, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Ahmad Jamal, Kenny Barron, and as member of the group Sphere.  During the 1970s he was a member of the New York Jazz Quartet.

Riley died on November 18, 2017 in West Islip, New York at the age of 84.

References

Other websites
 Ben Riley — Drummerworld
 Interview with Ben Riley — by Don Williams for All About Jazz

1933 births
2017 deaths
American jazz musicians
American drummers
Musicians from Georgia (U.S. state)
People from Savannah, Georgia
Why Him?

Why Him? is a 2016 American comedy movie directed by John Hamburg, written by Hamburg and Ian Helfer. It stars James Franco, Bryan Cranston, Zoey Deutch, Megan Mullally, Griffin Gluck, Keegan-Michael Key and Kaley Cuoco with Cedric the Entertainer. The movie is about a father who tries to stop his daughter's childish tech-millionaire boyfriend from asking her to marry him.

Why Him? premiered in Los Angeles on December 17, 2016, was released by 20th Century Fox in the United States on December 23, 2016 and grossed $118 million worldwide.

Other websites
 
 
 Filming Location

2016 movies
American comedy movies
Movies set in California
Movies set in Michigan
Naim Süleymanoğlu

Naim Süleymanoğlu (in Bulgaria forced to change as Naim Suleimanov (Bulgarian: Наим Сюлейманов), 23 January 1967 – 18 November 2017) was a Turkish World and Olympic Champion in weightlifting. In the 1988 Summer Olympics he set a record by lifting 190 kg in the clean and jerk. He was awarded the Olympic Order in 2001. 
 

In 2000 and 2004 he was elected member of the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame.

On 25 September 2017, he was hospitalized due to liver failure. On 6 October, he had liver transplantation was made when a liver donor was found. On 11 November a surgery was made due to a cerebral hemorrhage which led to cerebral edema. He died on 18 November 2017.

References

1967 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from liver failure
Deaths from cerebral edema
Turkish sportspeople
Olympians
Hiromi Tsuru

was a Japanese actress. 
She was most known for voicing the character of Bulma (Dragon Ball) for over 31 years. She was born in Hokkaido, Japan.

She was also known for her roles as Ukyo Kuonji (Ranma ½),  Dokin-chan (Soreike! Anpanman), Madoka Ayukawa (Kimagure Orange Road), Miyuki Kashima (Miyuki), Reiko Mikami (Ghost Sweeper Mikami), Meryl Strife (Trigun) and Naomi Hunter (Metal Gear Solid series).

Tsuru died of an aortic dissection in Tokyo, Japan on November 16, 2017 at the age of 57.

References

1960 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from aortic dissection
Japanese movie actors
Japanese television actors
Japanese voice actors
Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo

Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo (27 August 1925 – 19 November 2017) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was archpriest of the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls from 2005 to 2009. He was made a cardinal and made a cardinal-deacon by Pope Benedict XVI on 24 March 2006. He was elevated, according to custom, to the rank of cardinal-priest by Pope Francis on 20 June 2016. He was born in Turin, Italy..

References

Other websites
Catholic Hierarchy – Andrea Cardinal Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo
Catholic Pages

1925 births
2017 deaths
Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church
Italian Roman Catholics
People from Turin
Tai Chen-yao

Tai Chen-yao () (2 April 1948 – 19 November 2017), was a Taiwanese politician. He served three terms in the Legislative Yuan, from 1990 to 1996 and again from 1999 to 2002, and was later named vice chairman of the Council of Agriculture.

Tai died in Taipei of pancreatic cancer on 19 November 2017 at the age of 69.

References

1948 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Taiwanese politicians
Pancho Segura

Pancho "Segoo" Segura (Francisco Olegario Segura; June 20, 1921 – November 18, 2017) was a leading Ecuadorian-American tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1950 and 1952, as a professional, he was the World Co-No. 1 player.  He was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, but moved to the United States in the late 1930s. He was the only player to have won the US Pro title on three different surfaces (which he did consecutively from 1950 to 1952).

In later years, Segura became a tennis coach and was known for coaching Jimmy Connors.

Segura died on November 18, 2017 at the age of 96 at his home in Carlsbad, California from complications of Parkinson's disease.

References

1921 births
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Deaths from Parkinson's disease
Disease-related deaths in California
Naturalized citizens of the United States
American tennis players
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People from Guayaquil
Fernando Matthei

Fernando Matthei Aubel (July 11, 1925 – November 19, 2017) was a Chilean Air Force General. He was born in Osorno, Chile. He was part of the military junta that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, replacing the dismissed Gustavo Leigh as Air Force Commander in Chief on July 24, 1978.

From 1976 through 1978, Matthei served as Minister of Health.

Matthei was part of the Junta from 1977 to 1990, retiring from the Air Force in July 1991.

Matthei died on November 19, 2017 in Santiago, Chile of cardiopulmonary arrest at the age of 92.

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1925 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from cardiopulmonary arrest
Chilean politicians
Military people
Hou Zongbin

Hou Zongbin (; January 1929 – 14 November 2017) was a Chinese politician. He served as Governor of Shaanxi Province from 1987 to 1990, as Communist Party Secretary of Henan Province from 1990 to 1992, and as Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection from 1992 to 1998.

Hou died on 14 November 2017 in Beijing of a heart attack at the age of 88.

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1929 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Chinese politicians
Communists
Kim Tae-yeon discography

Taeyeon's discography consists of a studio album, two EPs, twenty singles and ten soundtracks. The singer debuted in girl group Girls' Generation in August 2007 and then in Girls' Generation-TTS in May 2012. Her solo career began in 2015 with the release of her debut mini-album entitled I. The EP was a commercial success in South Korea, where it reached number two on Gaon Album Chart and since then has sold more than 140,000 physical copies. The single of the same name managed to position itself in the first position of Gaon Digital Chart and has sold more than 1,8 million digital copies. In February 2016, Taeyeon published "Rain" as the first single from SM Station. The single reached the maximum position in Gaon Digital Chart and was ranked number three in Billboard World Digital Songs. His second EP, Why, was released in June 2016, reaching the top in Gaon Album Chart and managed to sell more than 110,000 physical copies. He produced two singles that were included in the mini album, "Starlight" and "Why". Subsequently, he released a digital single titled "11:11" in November, which was ranked second in Gaon Digital Chart.

Taeyeon released her first studio album, My Voice, in February 2017. The album won first place in Gaon Album Chart and sold more than 109,000 physical copies in its first month of release. He produced the single "Fine", which was number one on Gaon Digital Chart and reached number seven on Billboard World Digital Songs.

Albums

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Singles

As lead artist

As featured artist

Promotional singles

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Notes

References 

Discographies
Fernando Ricksen

Fernando Jacob Hubertina Hendrika Ricksen (27 July 1976 – 18 September 2019) was a Dutch former professional footballer. He played as a right back and right midfielder. He was mostly known for his six-year spell at Rangers. He earned 12 caps for the Netherlands at international level.

Death
On 30 October 2013, Ricksen revealed he was terminally ill and had been diagnosed with ALS (motor neurone disease). He died from problems caused by the disease on 18 September 2019 in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire at the age of 43.

Honours

Club
Fortuna Sittard
Eerste Divisie: 1994–95

AZ
Eerste Divisie: 1997–98

Rangers
Scottish Premier League: 2002–03, 2004–05
Scottish Cup: 2001–02, 2002–03
Scottish League Cup: 2002, 2003, 2005

Zenit Saint Petersburg
Russian Premier League: 2007
Russian Super Cup: 2008
UEFA Cup: 2007–08
UEFA Super Cup: 2008

References

Other websites
  Profile at the official FC Zenit St. Petersburg website

1976 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from motor neurone disease
Dutch footballers
People from Heerlen
Sportspeople from Limburg (Netherlands)
Freddie Jones

Frederick Charles Jones (12 September 1927 – 9 July 2019) was an English character actor. He portrayed Sandy Thomas in Emmerdale. He appeared in David Lynch's movies The Elephant Man (1980), Dune (1984), Wild at Heart (1990) as well as the short-lived television series On the Air (1992) and the short movie Hotel Room (1993).

Jones died on 9 July 2019 at the age of 91 after a short illness.

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1927 births
2019 deaths
English movie actors
English stage actors
English television actors
People from Staffordshire
Michael Aspel

Michael Terence Aspel, OBE (born 12 January 1933) is an English television presenter.He is known for his programmes such as Crackerjack, Aspel & Company, This is Your Life, Strange but True? and Antiques Roadshow. He was born in London.

References

Other websites
 
 Michael Aspel biography at BFI Screenonline
 Interview with Liverpool Daily Post

1933 births
Living people
English television presenters
English television personalities
English television actors
English radio personalities
Actors from London
Shane MacGowan

Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan (born 25 December 1957) is an Irish-British musician and singer-songwriter. He was best known as the lead singer and songwriter of Celtic punk band the Pogues. He was also a member of the Nipple Erectors and Shane MacGowan and the Popes, as well as producing his own solo material.

In the summer of 2015, MacGowan fell as he was leaving a Dublin studio, fracturing his pelvis. MacGowan has been using a wheelchair since the accident.

References

Other websites

Official Shane MacGowan website

1957 births
Living people
Irish singer-songwriters
Irish guitarists
British singer-songwriters
British guitarists
British pianists
Writers from Kent
Positron emission tomography

Positron Emission Tomography (often called PET) is a medical imaging technique. A specially constructed device can show the path and distribution of a weakly radioactive substance. This substance is called tracer. The tracer  dissolves in the blood, which will carry it the brain. There, it concentrates around brain structures that are particularly active. A PET scan detects the radioactivity and converts it into a digital image of the brain, highlighting the active areas. PET scans are often used to detect tumors. Different tracers are used for different kinds of scans. Very often, the tracers are similar to sugar, or are sugars which have been specially modified for the purpose.

The machinery which can detect these substances is expensive. The tracers have a half-life of around 30-60 minutes, Producing the tracer is difficult, and expensive. Because of different factors, the tracers need to be prepared for the event, they cannot be mass-produced.
Medical imaging
Home Run Derby

The Home Run Derby is a yearly event in Major League Baseball where the hitter with the most home runs wins after a series of rounds. It first started in 1985.

Major League Baseball
1985 establishments in the United States
The Star (1952 movie)

The Star is a movie from 1952. It was directed by Stuart Heisler. It stars Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden and Natalie Wood. Davis got a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for this movie.

1952 drama movies
1950s romantic drama movies
American romantic drama movies
Movies directed by Stuart Heisler
English-language movies
Claudio Báez

Claudio Báez (23 March 1948 – 19 November 2017) was a Mexican television actor. He was born in Guadalajara Jalisco, Mexico. He was known for the television series Mundo de fieras (2006), A Shelter for Love (2012) and El privilegio de amar (1998).

Báez died on 19 November 2017 at the age of 69.

References

Other websites 
 

1948 births
2017 deaths
Mexican television actors
Waiuku

Waiuku is a country town in the Auckland Region in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located at the southern end of the Waiuku River. It is 40 kilometres southwest of Auckland city centre, and 12 kilometres north of the mouth of the Waikato River.

Towns in New Zealand
Adalberto Giazotto

Adalberto Giazotto (1 February 1940 – 16 November 2017) was an Italian physicist. He was born in Genoa, Italy. He helped design the Virgo interferometer, which first detected gravitational waves in 2017. 

Giazotto won the Caterina Tomassoni e Felice Pietro Chisesi Prize, a Matteucci Medal, and shared the Enrico Fermi Prize with Barry Barish in 2016.

Giazotto died in Rome, Italy of a heart attack on 16 November 2017 at the age of 77.

References

1940 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Italian physicists
Meissner effect

The Meissner effect is when a magnetic field is pushed out of a superconductor when it becomes superconducting. If you were to put a superconductor in the field of a big magnet and you looked just inside the superconductor, you would see that the magnetic field was much smaller than it was outside. The deeper in you looked, the closer it would be to zero. This is one of the ways that superconductors are not the same as perfect conductors, which do let magnetic fields pass through them.

The effect was discovered by Walter Meissner and Robert Ochsenfeld in 1933. They saw that because the magnetic field cannot go through the superconductor, the field right outside the superconductor becomes stronger.

One example of the Meissner effect is a magnet levitating above a superconducting plate cooled by liquid nitrogen. In order to stop the magnetic field from going into the superconductor, the superconductor acts like a magnet pointing the opposite direction. This repels the real magnet and stops it from coming any closer.

References

Magnetism
Gillian Rolton

Gillian Rolton (3 May 1956 – 18 November 2017) was an Australian Olympic equestrian champion. She competed in two Olympic Games, the 1992 Barcelona Games and 1996 Atlanta Games, winning a gold medal in team eventing both times on her horse, Peppermint Grove. She was only one of four Australians to win multiple equestrian Olympic gold medals. She was born in Adelaide, South Australia.

Rolton was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in the 1993 Australia Day honours "for service to sport as a gold medallist in the equestrian three-day event at the Olympic Games".

Rolton died of endometrial cancer in Adelaide on 18 November 2017 at the age of 61.

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1956 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from endometrial cancer
Cancer deaths in Australia
Australian Olympic gold medalists
Sportspeople from Adelaide
Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme

Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme GCON (October 21, 1932 – November 19, 2017) was a Nigerian politician. He was the first elected Vice-President of Nigeria, in office from 1979 to 1983. Ekwueme served during the Shehu Shagari administration. He was born in the Anambra State. He was a member of the National Party of Nigeria.

Ekwueme died of complications from a fall at a hospital in London on November 19, 2017 at the age of 85.

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1932 births
2017 deaths
Accidental deaths from falls
Nigerian politicians
Vice presidents
Milan Moguš

Milan Moguš () (April 27, 1927 – November 19, 2017) was a Croatian linguist and academician. He was born in Senj, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (now Croatia). He studied at the University of Zagreb. He served as the Chairman of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts from January 1, 2004 through November 11, 2010.

Moguš died on November 19, 2017 in Zagreb of coronary artery disease, aged 90.

References

Other websites
Milan Moguš biography at the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts website

1927 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from coronary artery disease
Croatian people
Educators
Linguists
Warren "Pete" Moore

Warren "Pete" Moore (November 19, 1939 – November 19, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter and record producer. He was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was known as the bass singer for Motown group The Miracles from 1955 onwards.

Moore was one of the group's original members. He was also a 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee, and a BMI and ASCAP award-winning songwriter, and was the vocal arranger on all of the group's hits.

Moore died on his 78th birthday in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 19, 2017.

References

Other websites
Songs Written by Pete Moore  list with song positions and chart dates
 Interview with Pete Moore of The Miracles on the group's 2012 Rock Hall Induction

1939 births
2017 deaths
American singer-songwriters
American R&B singers
American soul singers
American funk singers
American rock singers
African-American singers
Singers from Detroit, Michigan
Jana Novotná

Jana Novotná (; 2 October 1968 – 19 November 2017) was a professional Czech tennis player. 

Novotna was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia . She played a serve and volley game among women during her career. She won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998 and was runner-up in three previous Grand Slam tournaments. She won a silver medal in doubles at the 1988 Summer Olympics. She won the silver medal in doubles and the bronze medal in singles at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Novotná also won 12 Grand Slam women's doubles titles and four mixed doubles titles. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2 in 1997, and achieved the No. 1 ranking in doubles. Novotná retired from the professional tour in 1999. 

Novotná died of cancer in Brno on 19 November 2017 at the age of 49. She was in a relationship with Polish tennis player Iwona Kuczynska until her death.

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Terry Glenn

Terry Tyree Glenn (July 23, 1974 – November 20, 2017) was an American college and professional football player. He was born in Columbus, Ohio. He was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons. He played college football for Ohio State University. He was drafted by the New England Patriots seventh overall in 1996, and also played for the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys.

Glenn died in a car crash in Irving, Texas on November 20, 2017 at the age of 43.

References

Other websites
Official website 
Green Bay Packers bio 

1974 births
2017 deaths
Road accident deaths in the United States
American football wide receivers
New England Patriots players
Green Bay Packers players
Dallas Cowboys players
Sportspeople from Columbus, Ohio
Janusz Wójcik

Janusz Marek Wójcik (November 18, 1953 – November 20, 2017) was a Polish politician and former football player and coach. He was born in Warsaw. From 2005 to 2007, he was a member of the Sejm. He was a member of the Samoobrona.

Wójcik played in several clubs at home and abroad, including Agrykola, Gwardia, Ursus and Hutnik Warszawa, Ravalpandi (Pakistan) and the Toronto Falcons (Canada). He trained the Polish national football team. On 21 April 2008 he was appointed as Widzew Lodz manager.

In 2010 Wójcik was hired as manager for Omani club, Al-Nahda.

Wójcik died on November 20, 2017 in Warsaw at the age of 64.

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1953 births
2017 deaths
Polish politicians
Polish footballers
Sportspeople from Warsaw
Bob Clotworthy

Robert Lynn "Bob" Clotworthy (May 8, 1931 – June 1, 2018) was an American diver. He competed in the 3 m springboard at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and won a bronze and a gold medal. He also won two medals at the 1955 Pan American Games. In 1980 he was added into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.

Clotworthy died on June 1, 2018 in Salt Lake City, Utah at the age of 87.

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1931 births
2018 deaths
Divers
American Olympic gold medalists
American Olympic bronze medalists
Sportspeople from Newark, New Jersey
Víctor Hipólito Martínez

Víctor Hipólito Martínez (November 21, 1924 – November 20, 2017) was an Argentine lawyer and politician. He was best known for his position as Vice President of Argentina during the Raúl Alfonsín administration serving from 1983 to 1989. He was born in Córdoba, Argentina.

Martínez died on November 20, 2017 at a clinic in Villa Allende, Córdoba, Argentina of complications from pneumonia at the age of 92.

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1924 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
Vice Presidents of Argentina
Kamala (wrestler)

James Harris (May 28, 1950 – August 9, 2020) was an American retired professional wrestler and author. For most of his career, Harris wrestled under the ring name Kamala, using a "wild savage" gimmick. He was born in Senatobia, Mississippi.

On November 7, 2011, Harris had his left leg amputated below the knee due to complications of high blood pressure and diabetes, a condition he has had since 1992, but not accepting dialysis treatment, forcing him to retire on 2010.

On November 19, 2017, Harris underwent "life-saving" emergency surgery at a hospital in Oxford, Mississippi. The cause for the surgery was not disclosed. Following the surgery, he was put on life support due to complications resulting from the surgery. 

On August 5, 2020 he tested positive for COVID-19 and was hospitalized in New York City. He died four days later on August 9, aged 70.

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1950 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
Deaths from diabetes
Deaths from cardiac arrest
American professional wrestlers
Sportspeople from Mississippi
Tongkang LRT Station

Tongkang LRT Station  is an LRT station on the Sengkang LRT Line West Loop in Sengkang, Singapore. It was opened in January 2005. At the same time, the Punggol LRT East Loop opened.

Name
The station's name refers to a light boat (tongkang) that was used for transportation on rivers. It was named Tongkang because the area it was located in used to be closely related with water activities.

Sources

Light Rail Transit (Singapore) stations
Sengkang
Ryza Cenon

Rhiza Ann Cenon Simbulan, popularly known as Ryza Cenon, is a Filipina actress, dancer, and model.

Biography
Ryza Cenon was born on December 21, 1987 in Nueva Ecija, Philippines. 

In 2004, she auditioned in the talent show StarStruck Season 2 of GMA Network along with fellow stars Megan Young, Mike Tan, and LJ Reyes. She became the Ultimate Female Survivor of the StarStruck Season 2 in the same year. As an actress she appeared on several TV shows of GMA Network like Darna (2004), Majika (2006), Fantastic Man (2007), and Machete (2011). 

She became famous when she starred as the mistress Georgia Ferrer in the Philippine afternoon drama series Ika-6 na Utos (2016).

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Living people
Filipino actors
1987 births
Television presenters