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Dorothy Mengering

Dorothy Marie Mengering (July 18, 1921 – April 11, 2017) was an American television personality. She was the mother of late-night talk show host David Letterman. She made many telephone and live guest appearances on his shows: Late Night and Late Show. 

Following several years of appearing through telephone, Mengering (usually known as "Dave's Mom" or "Dave's Mom Dorothy", with no mention of her surname) became a recurring on-camera guest on Letterman's subsequent Late Show, initially by covering the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. 

In 2015, Mengering suffered a stroke, but recovered months later. Mengering died on April 11, 2017 at her home in Carmel, Indiana at the age of 95. She died one day before Letterman's 70th birthday.

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Other websites

 
 Dorothy Mengering being interviewed by her granddaughter,HOW editor Bryn Mooth, for StoryCorps (Reported by Family Tree Magazine (at familytreemagazine.com/insider) 
 

1921 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from natural causes
Disease-related deaths in Indiana
American television personalities
Entertainers from Indiana
Douglas H. Ginsburg

Douglas Howard Ginsburg (born May 25, 1946) is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was appointed to this court at age forty in October 1986 by President Ronald Reagan, and served as its chief judge from July 2001 until February 2008. 

Ginsburg was nominated by Reagan to fill a U.S. Supreme Court vacancy left by Lewis F. Powell, Jr. in October 1987, but soon withdrew from consideration after his earlier marijuana use created a controversy.

He is of Jewish descent.

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1946 births
Living people
American Jews
American judges
Jewish judges
Politicians from Chicago
University of Chicago alumni
Potter Stewart

Potter Stewart (January 23, 1915December 7, 1985) was an American judge. He was the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1958 through 1981. During his tenure, he made, among other areas, major contributions to criminal justice reform, civil rights, access to the courts, and views of the Fourth Amendment.

Stewart died of a stroke at his Hanover, New Hampshire home on December 7, 1985, aged 70.

References

Other websites

Biography, bibliography, location of papers on Potter Stewart  at Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

Oyez Project, U.S. Supreme Court media on Potter Stewart.
Supreme Court Historical Society, Potter Stewart. 

1915 births
1985 deaths
Deaths from stroke
Cardiovascular disease deaths in the United States
Burials at Arlington National Cemetery
United States Supreme Court justices
People from Jackson, Michigan
Akhilesh Das

Dr Akhilesh Das Gupta (31 March 1961 – 12 April 2017) was an Indian politician, sports executive, educator and philanthropist. He was born in Uttar Pradesh, India.

Das was the President of Badminton Association of India, Vice President of Badminton Asia Confederation, Member - Executive Council of Badminton World Federation and Vice President of Indian Olympic Association. Das served as a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1996 through 2014 and mayor of Lucknow from 1993 through 1995.

Das died on 12 April 2017 from a heart attack at a hospital in Lucknow, India, aged 56.

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1961 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Cardiovascular disease deaths in India
Politicians from Uttar Pradesh
Indian businesspeople
Indian educators
Indian philanthropists
Amy Ridenour

Amy Moritz Ridenour (November 9, 1959 – March 31, 2017) was an American political activist. She served as president of the National Center for Public Policy Research, a Washington, D.C. conservative think tank. Ridenour held this post since the organization's founding in 1982 until her death in 2017. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Ridenour died of complications from breast cancer in Burnie, Maryland, aged 57.

References

Other websites
NCPPR staff bio 
Ridenour's blog
Profile at SourceWatch

1959 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from breast cancer
Cancer deaths in Maryland
American political activists
American conservatives
Politicians from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
US Republican Party politicians
Noord-Beveland

Noord-Beveland, Zeelandic: Noôrd-Beveland or Noord-Beveland, is a (former) island and municipality of the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands. In 2016 the municipality had about 7,400 people. The municipality covers an area of 122 km², the island an area of 86 km².

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Zeelandic Islands
Municipalities of Zeeland
Jerrier A. Haddad

Jerrier A. "Jerry" Haddad (July 17, 1922 – March 31, 2017) was an American computer engineer. He was a fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He was born in New York City.

Haddad died on March 31, 2017, aged 94.

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1922 births
2017 deaths
Engineers from New York
American computer scientists
Scientists from New York City
Schouwen-Duiveland

Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeelandic: Schouwen-Duveland, is an island and municipality of the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands. In 2016 the municipality had about 34,000 people. The municipality covers an area of 488 km², the island an area of 230 km².

Other websites 
 

 
Zeelandic Islands
Bagrat de Bagration y de Baviera

Prince Don Bagrat de Bagration y de Baviera, also Prince Bagrat Bagrationi-Mukhraneli and Prince Bagrat Bagration-Moukhransky (12 January 1949 – 20 March 2017) was a member of the Bagration dynasty which once ruled the Kingdom of Georgia in the Caucasus and a relative of the royal family of Spain.

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Irakly, prince Bagration-Mukhransky

1949 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Spain
People from Madrid
Goeree-Overflakkee

Goeree-Overflakkee is an island and municipality of the province of South Holland, the Netherlands. In 2016 the municipality had about 48,000 people. The municipality covers an area of 422 km², the island an area of 262 km².

It was created on 1 January 2013, Goeree-Overflakkee has also been a municipality. It is made from the former municipalities of Goedereede, Dirksland, Middelharnis, and Oostflakkee.

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Islands of the Netherlands
2010s establishments in the Netherlands
2013 establishments in Europe
Tholen (island)

Tholen is a (former) island of the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands. In 2007 it had about 22,000 people. It covers an area of 125 km². It belongs to the municipality of Tholen. 

Zeelandic Islands
Tholen
Tholen

Tholen, Zeelandic: Tole, is a small city and municipality of the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands. In 2016 the municipality had about 25,000 people.

The municipality of Tholen consists of the (former) island of Tholen and the (former) island of Sint Philipsland.

It borders the province of North Brabant.

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Cities in the Netherlands
Settlements in Zeeland
Sint Philipsland (island)

Sint Philipsland is a (former) island of the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands. In 2008 it had about 2,700 people. It covers an area of 23 km². It belongs to the municipality of Tholen. 

Zeelandic Islands
Tholen
Walcheren

Walcheren is a (former) island of the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands. In 2016 it had about 114,00 people. It covers an area of 216 km². It comprises the municipalities of Middelburg, Veere and Vlissingen. 

Zeelandic Islands
Zuid-Beveland

Zuid-Beveland used to be an island of the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands. About 95,00 people were living there in 2016. It covers an area of 344 km². There are four municipalities of Borsele, Goes, Kapelle and Reimerswaal. 

Zeelandic Islands
Tiengemeten

Tiengemeten is an island of the province of South Holland, the Netherlands. It lies in the Haringvliet and belongs to the municipality of Hoeksche Waard.

About ten people are living on the island. It covers an area of 10.5 km².

Islands of the Netherlands
Hoeksche Waard
Beers, North Brabant

Beers is a village in the province of North Brabant, the Netherlands. It is part of the municipality of Cuijk and is in the very northeastern part of the province, close to the Meuse River.

As of 2016, about 1,700 people were living in Beers.

Till 1994 Beers was also a municipality.

20th-century disestablishments in the Netherlands
Settlements in North Brabant
Former municipalities of North Brabant
Land van Cuijk
Marion Jones

Marian Jones (Born 12 Oct 1975) is a female athlete. Her contribution for women across the ages was that she was the first women to win five track and field medals at a single Olympics. Many say that Marion Jones changed the world. What Jones did to affect future generations was prove that women can do anything, to prove that women don't have to fall under a stereotype because of the gender someone is assigned in birth. Many suspected Marion Jones accomplished so much because she was on steroids. Jones denied the allegations. In 2007, Jones admitted that she used steroids. The International Olympic Committee took away her five medals and sentenced her to six months in prison. People described Jones as a liar, and she was, but she admitted to her lies.

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1975 births
Competitors in athletics
Clothes iron

A clothes iron (also flatiron or smoothing iron) has a handle and a flat triangle shaped surface. Electricity makes the flat surface hot. A hot iron is rubbed on clothes to make them flat and smooth. This is called ironing. The handle does not get hot because that is where it is held. They are named clothes irons because they used to be made out of the metal iron.

Cloth is made from lots of small strings. When people wear clothes or move other things made from cloth, the little strings might bend and make lumps. Because the iron is heavy and hot when it is turned on, the little strings stretch and go flat when the iron is put on top. Different kinds of cloth need to be ironed in different ways. If the iron is too hot then the cloth might get broken or burn. If the iron is too cold then the strings might stay lumpy and not go flat. Sometimes people use water with an iron, which makes steam.  This can make it easier to iron clothes because the small strings get soft. Some cloth does not need to be ironed because the strings always stays flat.

Some people think wearing clothes that have been ironed shows they are not lazy. Other people think that not ironing clothes can make them look nicer.

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Home appliances
Bab Christensen

Barbra Karine "Bab" Christensen (8 January 1928 – 10 April 2017) was a Norwegian actress.

Christensen was born in Kristiania, Norway. She made her stage debut in 1947 at the National Theatre, and was employed at Den Nationale Scene from 1949, the National Theatre from 1952, Trøndelag Teater from 1963, Fjernsynsteatret from and Det Norske Teatret from 1970. 

Christensen appeared in a small number of movies, but her best known work was in Stevnemøte med glemte år (1957).

She was married to Lasse Kolstad from 1957 until his death in 2012.

Christensen died on 10 April 2017 in Oslo, aged 89.

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1928 births
2017 deaths
Norwegian movie actors
Norwegian stage actors
Dennis F. Kinlaw

Dennis Franklin Kinlaw (June 26, 1922 – April 10, 2017) was an American academic. He was born in Lumberton, North Carolina.

Kinlaw was President of Asbury College from 1968 through 1981 and again from 1986 through 1991 and Chancellor of the school in 1992.

He was a professor of Old Testament Languages and Literature at Asbury Theological Seminary from 1963 through 1968 and a visiting professor at Seoul Theological College, Seoul, South Korea in 1959.

Kinlaw studied at Asbury College and at Brandeis University. He was the founder of the Francis Asbury Society and authored several books. He was married to Elsie Kinlaw until her death in 2003.

Kinlaw died on April 10, 2017 in Wilmore, Kentucky, aged 94.

Writings
 Preaching in the Spirit (Francis Asbury Press, 1985)
 The Mind of Christ (Francis Asbury Press, 1998)
 We Live as Christ (Francis Asbury Press, 2001)
 This Day with the Master: 365 Daily Meditations (Francis Asbury Press, 2002; Zondervan, 2004)
 Let's Start with Jesus: A New Way of Doing Theology (Zondervan, 2005)
 La Mente De Cristo, Spanish translation of The Mind of Christ (Francis Asbury Press, 2006)

References

Other websites
Kinlaw Bio at Asbury College Archives
Francis Asbury Society Home Page
Asbury College Home Page
Asbury Theological Seminary Home Page
Kinlaw Library at Asbury College

1922 births
2017 deaths
Educators from North Carolina
Writers from North Carolina
Writers from Kentucky
Educators from Kentucky
Kirill Kovaldzhi

Kirill Vladimirovich Kovaldzhi (; 14 March 1929 – 10 April 2017) was a Russian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator.

Career
In Moscow, published collections of poems At Dawn  (1958),  Voices  (1972), After Noon  (1981), Yearly Rings  (1982),  High Dialogue  (1988),  Links and Grains  (1989),  The Book of Lyrics  (1993),  The Invisible Threshold  (1999),  To You. On Demand (2002), the book of prose and poetry Countdown  (2003), the short book Zerna (2005).

The author of a number of short stories, the story  Five Points on the Map  (1965), the novel  Liman Stories  (1970) - his new supplemented edition, published under the title Candle in draft  (1996), was nominated for the State Prize of Russia.

Death
Kovaldzhi died in Moscow on 10 April 2017, aged 88.

References

Other websites
 Интернет-презентация 

1929 births
2017 deaths
Russian poets
Russian novelists
Critics
Michael Ballhaus

Michael Ballhaus, A.S.C. (5 August 1935 – 11 April 2017) was a German cinematographer.

Career
When his career began, Ballhaus became known for his works with Rainer Werner Fassbinder beginning with Whity (1971) and, including The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Chinese Roulette (1976) and The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978).

After settling in the United States, he worked on many American movies, including Baby It's You (1983), Old Enough (1984), After Hours (1985), The Color of Money (1986), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Goodfellas (1990), The Age of Innocence (1993), Air Force One (1997), Gangs of New York (2002) and The Departed (2006). He is also known for his works in Dracula (1992) and Sleepers (1996).

Ballhaus was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, for Broadcast News (1987), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), and Gangs of New York (2002), but never won. However, he did win the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography for Goodfellas.

Death
Ballhaus died on 11 April 2017 in Berlin, aged 81.

References

Other websites

 
 Cinemascope interview 
 Michael Ballhaus in Genealogy Wiki

1935 births
2017 deaths
Cinematographers
People from Berlin
Charlie Murphy

Charles Quinton "Charlie" Murphy (July 12, 1959 – April 12, 2017) was an American actor, comedian, voice artist, and screenwriter. He was the older brother of Eddie Murphy. 

Murphy was best known for being a writer and cast member of the Comedy Central sketch-comedy series Chappelle's Show and for writing and starring in the Adult Swim animated series The Boondocks. He also wrote the screenplay for Norbit and Vampire in Brooklyn.

Murphy died from leukemia on April 12, 2017 in New York City, at the age of 57.

References

Other websites

 
 
 Charlie Murphy on the end of Chappelle's Show 

1959 births
2017 deaths
Actors from New York City
American movie actors
American television actors
American television writers
American voice actors
Cancer deaths in New York City
Comedians from New York City
Deaths from leukemia
Screenwriters from New York City
Margit Schumann

Margit Schumann (14 September 1952 in Waltershausen – 11 April 2017 in Oberhof) was an East German luger. He competed during the 1970s and early 1980s. Competing in three Winter Olympics, she won two medals in the women's singles event with a gold in 1976 and a bronze in 1972).

References

Other websites
 FIL-Luge.org January 7, 2004 Hall of Fame induction.
 Fuzilogik Sports - Winter Olympic results - Women's luge.
 Hickoksports.com results on Olympic champions in luge and skelton. 
 Hickok sports information on World champions in luge and skeleton. 
 List of European luge champions 
 SportQuick.com information on World champions in luge  
 

1952 births
2017 deaths
East German sportspeople
German Olympic bronze medalists
German Olympic gold medalists
Sportspeople from Thuringia
Sportswomen
Wayne Hardin

Irving Wayne Hardin (March 23, 1926 – April 12, 2017) was an American football player and coach. 

Hardin was born in Smackover, Arkansas. He was raised in Stockton, California. He studied at College of the Pacific.

Hardin served as the head football coach at the United States Naval Academy from 1959 to 1964 and at Temple University from 1970 to 1982. Hardin led Navy to the 1961 Orange Bowl and the 1964 Cotton Bowl Classic. He coached two Midshipmen to the Heisman Trophy, Joe Bellino in 1960 and Roger Staubach in 1963. 

After leaving Navy, Hardin coached the Philadelphia Bulldogs of the Continental Football League, leading the team to a championship in 1966. Hardin was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2013.

Hardin died at the age of 91 on April 12, 2017 after suffering a massive stroke at his home in Oreland, Pennsylvania.

References

Other websites
 Biography of Wayne Hardin  at the Football Foundation

1926 births
2017 deaths
American football coaches
American football quarterbacks
Cardiovascular disease deaths in the United States
Deaths from stroke
Sportspeople from Arkansas
Sportspeople from California
People from Stockton, California
Sheila Abdus-Salaam

Sheila Abdus-Salaam (Sheila Turner; born on March 14, 1952 – April 12, 2017) was an American judge. Sheila served as a judge on the New York Court of Appeals. She was the first black woman and Muslim to be appointed to a seat on New York's highest court, and the first Muslim woman to serve on the bench in the United States.

Abdus-Salaam was found dead on April 12, 2017 at the age of 65. Her body was found floating in the Manhattan side of the Hudson River hours after she was reported missing from her home in Harlem.

Police believe Abdus-Salaam committed suicide by jumping into the river as she was suffering from depression for a long time.

References

Other websites
 Hon. Sheila Abdus-Salaam at NY Court System

1952 births
2017 deaths
American judges
American Muslims
American crime victims
People from Washington, D.C.
People from New York City
Women judges
Santa Luzia, Cape Verde

Santa Luzia is an island of the Cape Verde archipelago. It covers an area of 35 km².

Islands of Cape Verde
Léon Degrelle

Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle (; 15 June 1906 – 31 March 1994) was a Belgian politician and collaborator. He was born in Bouillon, Belgium and died in Malaga, Spain.

Degrelle was the founder of the fascist party of Rex in 1936.

During World War II he erected the Walloon Legion, which fought as a Waffen-SS unit at the Eastern Front. He ultimately had the rank of SS-Standartenführer der Waffen-SS (comparable with the rank of colonel).

After the war he managed to escape to Spain, where he died in 1994, aged 87.

References 
 For Rex and Belgium: Leon Degrelle and Walloon Political & Military Collaboration 1940-1945. Eddy de Bruyne, Marc Rikmenspoel. Solihull, West Midlands, England: Helion, 2004.

1906 births
1994 deaths
Belgian politicians
Colonels
European military people
People from Luxembourg (Belgium)
SS officers
Waffen-SS people
Denis Mathen

Denis Mathen (born October 29, 1965 in Namur) is a Belgian politician of the conservative liberal Mouvement réformateur (MR).

Mathen was a councillor and alderman of the city of Namur, and also briefly a member of the provincial parliament of Namur.

From 2004 to 2006 he was both a member of the Walloon Parliament and the Parliament of the French Community of Belgium.

He has been governor of the province of Namur since January 8, 2007.

1965 births
Living people
Alderman of Belgium
Governors of Provinces of Belgium
Mouvement réformateur (Belgium) politicians
People from Namur
Walloon politicians
Benoît Lutgen

Benoît M.A.J. Lutgen (born March 10, 1970 in Bastogne) is a Belgian politician of the Centre démocrate humaniste (cdH).

Lutgen has been party chair since 2011 and also mayor of his home town since 2012.

Previously he was a minister in the Walloon government.

1970 births
Living people
Belgian mayors
Centre démocrate humaniste politicians
Parti social-chrétien politicians
People from Luxembourg (Belgium)
Walloon politicians
Win–loss record (pitching)

In baseball, a win–loss record shows the number of games that a pitcher has won and the number of games he has lost. In each game, one pitcher on the winning team is awarded a win (the "winning pitcher") and one pitcher on the losing team is given a loss (the "losing pitcher"). These pitchers are known as the pitchers of record. The awarding of a win or a loss for a pitcher is known as a decision, and only one pitcher for each team receives a decision in each game. A starting pitcher who does not receive credit for a win or loss is said to have no decision. In certain situations, another pitcher on the winning team who pitched in relief of the winning pitcher can be credited with a save, and holds can be awarded to relief pitchers on both sides, but these are never awarded to the same pitcher who is awarded the win.

Baseball rules
Terry Francona

Terrence Jon "Terry" Francona (born April 22, 1959), is the manager of the Cleveland Indians. He has previously managed the Philadelphia Phillies and the Boston Red Sox. He won the World Series with the Red Sox in 2004 and 2007. As a player, he was a first baseman and outfielder for the Montreal Expos, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians, and Milwaukee Brewers between 1981 and 1990. His father was baseball player Tito Francona.

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Living people
1959 births
Sportspeople from South Dakota
Major League Baseball managers
Boston Red Sox managers
Chicago Cubs players
Cincinnati Reds players
Cleveland Indians
Cleveland Indians players
Milwaukee Brewers players
Montreal Expos players
Philadelphia Phillies
Terry County, Texas

Terry County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 12,651 people lived there. The county seat is Brownfield.

Texas counties
Yoakum County, Texas

Yoakum County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 7,879 people lived there. The county seat is Plains.

Texas counties
Cochran County, Texas

Cochran County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 3,127 people lived there. The county seat is Morton.

Texas counties
Bailey County, Texas

Bailey County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 7,165 people lived there. The county seat is Muleshoe.

Texas counties
Parmer County, Texas

Parmer County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 10,269 people lived there. The county seat is Farwell.

Texas counties
Deaf Smith County, Texas

Deaf Smith County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 19,372 people lived there. The county seat is Hereford.

Texas counties
History of the St. Louis Browns

The St. Louis Browns were a Major League Baseball team in St. Louis, Missouri from 1902 to 1953. The team was a member of the American League. Following the 1953 season, they relocated to Baltimore, Maryland and became the Baltimore Orioles. The Browns never won a World Series and they only won the American League once (1944).

St. Louis Browns
1902 establishments in the United States
20th-century establishments in Missouri
1950s disestablishments in the United States
20th-century disestablishments in Missouri
Dan Rooney

Daniel Milton Rooney (July 20, 1932 – April 13, 2017) was an American politician and sports executive.

He was the former United States Ambassador to Ireland, who served from July 3, 2009 until his resignation in 2012. He was chairman of the Pittsburgh Steelers American football team in the National Football League (NFL).

Rooney was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2000 for his contributions to the game. He was credited with spearheading a requirement that NFL teams with head coach and general manager vacancies interview at least one minority candidate, which has become known as the "Rooney Rule".

Rooney was also co-founder of the Ireland-related fundraising organization The Ireland Funds.

Rooney died at the age of 84 on April 13, 2017 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Other websites

 Biography for Ambassador Daniel M. Rooney 

1932 births
2017 deaths
Ambassadors of the United States to Ireland
Pittsburgh Steelers
Businesspeople from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Politicians from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
US Democratic Party politicians
Honorary Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Toby Smith

Toby Grafftey-Smith (29 October 1970 – 12 April 2017), known professionally as Toby Smith, was an English musician. He was most famous for being the keyboardist and co-songwriter for Jamiroquai from 1992 until he left from the band in 2002.

Smith left Jamiroquai in 2002 during the Funk Odyssey tour due to family commitments.

He was the music producer and manager for the English pop-rock band, The Hoosiers. 
He owned Angelic Recording Studios based near Banbury.

Smith died on 11 April 2017. He was 46 years old.

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1970 births
2017 deaths
English pop musicians
English songwriters
Keyboardists
Musicians from London
Writers from London
David Mwiraria

David (Daudi) Mwiraria (3 September 1938 – 13 April 2017) was a Kenyan politician. He served as the Minister for Environment and Natural Resources and Finance Minister of Kenya until December 2007 when Kenya held its General Elections. He ran for re election on a Party of National Unity ticket. He was defeated by Silas Muriuki, who was running on a Mazingira Green Party of Kenya ticket.

Career 
He got his master's degree in Statistics from the Makerere University, Uganda 1966 (then part of the University of East Africa). President Mwai Kibaki appointed him Minister for Environment on 24 July 2007.

Mwiraria features prominently in audio recordings released on the internet in 2006 by John Githongo, exiled former Permanent Secretary in the Kenya Government, which indicate Mwiraria was trying to stop Githongo's inquiries into the theft of over 777 million US Dollars in a series of 18 security related contracts, colloquially called Anglo Leasing.

Death 
Mwiraria died of bone cancer and from acute respiratory failure on 13 April 2017 Nairobi, Kenya on 13 April 2017, aged 78.

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1938 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from bone cancer
Deaths from respiratory failure
Kenyan politicians
Politicians
Tom Coyne (music engineer)

Tom Coyne (December 10, 1954 – April 12, 2017) was an American mastering engineer. He was known for his works in Adele's 21 and 25 albums and Taylor Swift's album 1989.

Coyne was born in Union, New Jersey. He graduated from Roselle Catholic High School in 1972. He attended Kean College where he received a degree in Commercial Design.

In 1989, Coyne was hired by the Hit Factory where he spent another five years mastering mostly Hip-Hop and R&B records by artists such as Black Box, Billy Ocean, Tribe Called Quest and De la Soul.

Coyne has won four Grammy Awards and one Latin Grammy Award and has over 35 category wins.

Coyne died on April 12, 2017 in Los Angeles, California of multiple myeloma at the age of 62.

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Grammy Award winners
1954 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from multiple myeloma
Cancer deaths in Los Angeles
Engineers from New Jersey
People from New Jersey
Fred Goldsmith (Australian footballer)

Fred Goldsmith (20 August 1932 – 13 April 2017) was an Australian rules footballer. He played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) from 1951 through 1959. He was born in Victoria, Australia.

He was captain-coach of the Albury Football Club in the Ovens & Murray Football League from 1960 to 1965. In 1966 he played nine games with Port Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football Association.

Goldsmith died on 13 April 2017 in Sydney at the age of 84.

References

Other websites
 Stats and biography of Fred Goldsmith

1932 births
2017 deaths
Australian footballers
Sportspeople from Victoria (Australia)
Gulf of Venice

The Gulf of Venice (; ; ) is a gulf that borders modern-day Italy, Slovenia and Croatia.

Geography
The Gulf of Venice is in the northern part of the Adriatic Sea between the delta of the Po river in northern Italy and the Istria peninsula in Croatia. The western and central parts of the gulf borders with the Italian regions ofVeneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia while the eastern part borders with the coast of Slovenia and Croatia.

Several rivers flow into the gulf along the Italian coast: Isonzo, Piave, Adige, Brenta and Tagliamento. The Dragonja river flows through the Istria peninsula.

The gulf is about  wide and its depth is . In the northeastern end of the gulf, in front of the Trieste city, there is shallow bay called Gulf of Trieste.

Cities 
Some of the main cities around the gulf are:
 : Chioggia, Venice, Monfalcone, Trieste
 : Koper
 : Poreč, Rovinj, Pula

Gallery

Related pages
 Istria

Gulfs
Geography of Italy
Geography of Slovenia
Geography of Croatia
Todd Helton

Todd Lynn Helton (born August 20, 1973) is an American professional baseball first baseman who played his entire 17-year career  for the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball. Helton had a batting average of .316 during his career and he hit 369 home runs. Helton also played football, and he was a quarterback at the University of Tennessee.

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Living people
1973 births
American baseball players
American football quarterbacks
Sportspeople from Tennessee
People from Knoxville, Tennessee
Colorado Rockies players
Jonathan Banks

Jonathan Ray Banks (born January 31, 1947) is an American actor. His known movie roles were in the movies Airplane!, 48 Hrs., and Beverly Hills Cop. He later became well known and won many awards for his role as private Mike Ehrmantraut in the television series Breaking Bad and its spin-off, Better Call Saul, as well as Frank McPike in Wiseguy.

Banks played the voice of James Gordon in the 2015 video game Batman: Arkham Knight.

In 2012, Banks won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television.

Banks was born in Washington, D.C.. He was raised in Terre Haute, Indiana. He studied at the University of Indiana Bloomington.

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Saturn Award winners
1947 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
American stage actors
American video game actors
Actors from Washington, D.C.
Actors from Indiana
People from Terre Haute, Indiana
Ray Hassall

Raymond Geoffrey Hassall (1943 – 12 March 2017), known as Ray, was an British politician.

Hassall was a councillor in local government in Birmingham, England. He represented Perry Barr ward. He was a member of the Liberal Democrats party. He was also Birmingham City Council's cabinet member for leisure, sport and culture from 2006 to 2009. He was Lord Mayor of the city in the year May 2015 to May 2016.

References

Other websites
 Stories featuring Hassall, in the Great Barr Observer
 News releases featuring Hassall (as Lord Mayor) on Birmingham City Council's 'Newsroom' website
 News releases featuring Hassall (as Deputy Lord Mayor) on Birmingham City Council's 'Newsroom' website

1943 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Cardiovascular disease deaths in England
British mayors
Politicians from Birmingham
Wikipedia Seigenthaler biography incident

The Wikipedia biography controversy, also known as the Seigenthaler incident, was a set of events that began in May 2005. Anonymous Wikipedia editors posted a hoax article in Wikipedia about John Seigenthaler. 

The article falsely stated that Seigenthaler had been a suspect in the deaths of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.

Sequel
The then-78-year-old Seigenthaler, who was a friend of Robert Kennedy, described the Wikipedia article about him as "Internet character assassination".

The author of the hoax article was later identified as Brian Chase. On May 26, 2005, Chase added a new article that contained, in its entirety, the following text:
John Seigenthaler Sr. was the assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the early 1960s. For a short time, he was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John, and his brother, Bobby. Nothing was ever proven.

John Seigenthaler moved to the Soviet Union in 1972, and returned to the United States in 1984.

He started one of the country's largest public relations firms shortly thereafter.

The hoax was not discovered and corrected until September 2005. Afterwards, Seigenthaler wrote about his experience in USA Today. The incident raised questions about the reliability of Wikipedia and other websites with user-generated content that lack the legal accountability of traditional newspapers and published materials.

Aftermath
In a December 13 interview, co-founder Jimmy Wales expressed his support for Wikipedia policy allowing articles to be edited by anonymous users – describing the participation of editors in China and Iran in terms of privacy issues – but announced plans to roll back their article creation privileges as part of a vandalism-control strategy: "...we've decided that we want to slow down...so starting in January we're preventing unregistered users from creating new pages, because so often those have to be deleted...".

References

Other websites
 Is an Online Encyclopedia, Such as Wikipedia, Immune From Libel Suits? by Prof. Anita Ramasastry on Writ
 John Seigenthaler, "Wikipedia, WikiLeaks, and Wiccans" 49-minute presentation at Vanderbilt University, October 21, 2011, C-Span Video Library
 "Snared in the Web of a Wikipedia Liar" by Katharine Q. Seelye of The New York Times

2005
Wikipedia
You Want It Darker

You Want It Darker is the fourteenth and final studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. It was released on 21 October 2016, by Columbia Records. The album was created towards the end of Cohen's life and focuses on death, God, and humor. It was released to critical acclaim.

Songs

Crew
 Leonard Cohen – vocals
 Bill Bottrell – electric guitar, pedal steel guitar
 Michael Chaves – keyboards, bass guitar, drum programming
 Adam Cohen – classical guitar
 Patrick Leonard – keyboards, organ, piano, bass synthesizer, bass guitar, percussion, drum programming
 Brian Macleod – drums
 Zac Rae – guitar, classical guitar, mandolin, keyboards, Mellotron, celesta, piano, Wurlitzer, floor tom, octophone

References

Other websites
 

2016 albums
Leonard Cohen albums
Cinchonism

Cinchonism or quinism is poisoning from an overdose of cinchona alkaloids. Cinchona bark is the source of quinine and quindine. Quinine is used to treat malaria. In small amounts it is used in tonic water to give a bitter flavor. Cinchoism can be caused by medical doses of quinine or quindine.

Signs and symptoms
Symptoms of mild cinchonism can include:
 flushed and sweaty skin
 ringing of the ears (tinnitus)
 blurred vision
 hearing loss
 confusion
 reversible high-frequency hearing loss
 headache
 abdominal pain
 rashes
 drug-induced lichenoid reaction (lichenoid photosensitivity) 
 vertigo
 dizziness
 dysphoria
 nausea
 vomiting
 diarrhea.

Large doses of quinine can cause: 
 skin rashes
 deafness
 sleepiness
 blindness
 anaphylactic shock
 disturbances in abnormal heart rhythm
 death from cardiotoxicity. 

People treated with quinine may also suffer from low blood sugar and hypotension (low blood pressure).

Most symptoms of cinchonism (except in severe cases) are reversible and disappear once quinine is withdrawn.

References

Poisons
Health problems
Illnesses
Yair Lapid

Yair Lapid, Hebrew: יאיר לפיד , (born November 5, 1963 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli politician of Yesh Atid ("There is a Future"). In 2021, he became the Alternate Prime Minister of Israel and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Bennett-Lapid Government.

Lapid is the founder and party chair of Yesh Atid. He has been a Member of Knesset since 2013, and was Finance Minister in the Third Netanyahu Government from 2013 to 2014. On May 17, 2020 he became the Leader of the Opposition.

Previously he worked as an actor, journalist, news anchor and television presenter. He has also written several books. 

Yair Lapid is the son of the late politician and journalist Tommy Lapid and playwright and novelist Shulamit Lapid.

Related pages 
 Bennett-Lapid Government

References 
 Bio at Knesset Website

Other websites 

1963 births
Living people
Government ministers of Israel
Israeli journalists
Israeli movie actors
Israeli opposition leaders
Israeli political leaders
Israeli television actors
Israeli television presenters
Jewish Israeli actors
Jewish Israeli politicians
Jewish Israeli writers
Members of Knesset
People from Tel Aviv
Television news anchors
Yesh Atid politicians
Oldham County, Texas

Oldham County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 2,052 people lived there. The county seat is Vega.

Texas counties
Hartley County, Texas

Hartley County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 6,062 people lived there. The county seat is Channing.

Texas counties
Dallam County, Texas

Dallam County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 6,703 people lived there. The county seat is Dalhart.

Texas counties
Sherman County, Texas

Sherman County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 3,034 people lived there. The county seat is Stratford.

Texas counties
Hansford County, Texas

Hansford County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 5,613 people lived there. The county seat is Spearman.

Texas counties
Lipscomb County, Texas

Lipscomb County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 3,302 people lived there. The county seat is Lipscomb.

Geography
The county has a total area of 932 square miles.

Places

City
 Higgins

Towns
 Lipscomb (county seat)
 Booker
 Darrouzett
 Follett

Texas counties
Flag of Indiana

The flag of Indiana was designed by Paul Hadley and officially adopted by the state of Indiana on May 31, 1917. It was the state's first official flag and has remained unchanged since then except for the creation of a statute to standardize the production of the flag.

Indiana
Indiana
Flag of Arkansas

The Flag of Arkansas, also known as the Arkansas flag, consists of a red field charged with a large blue-bordered white lozenge (or diamond). Twenty-nine five-pointed stars appear on the flag: twenty-five small white stars within the blue border, and four larger blue stars in the white diamond. The inscription "ARKANSAS" appears in blue within the white lozenge, with one star above and three stars below. The star above and the two outer stars below point upwards; the inner star below points downwards. It was designed by Willie Hocker of Wabbaseka, a member of the Pine Bluff Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR).

Arkansas
Arkansas
Flag of Delaware

The flag of the state of Delaware consists of a buff-colored diamond on a field of colonial blue, with the coat of arms of the state of Delaware inside the diamond. Below the diamond, the date December 7, 1787, declares the day on which Delaware became the first state to ratify the United States Constitution. The colors of the flag reflect the colors of the uniform of General George Washington.

The coat of arms in the center of the flag was adopted on January 17, 1777. It depicts a shield of horizontal green, blue, and white stripes. On the stripes are a sheaf of wheat, an ear of corn, and an ox standing on grass, all representing Delaware's agriculture. Above the shield is a sailing ship. Supporting the shield are a farmer on the left and a soldier on the right. The state motto, below the shield, reads "Liberty and Independence". These symbols are also included on the seal of Delaware.

The current flag was adopted on July 24, 1913. 

During the American Civil War, regiments from Delaware flew a flag which was similar to the state coat of arms on a field of blue.

In 2001, a survey conducted by the North American Vexillological Association (NAVA) placed Delaware's flag 52nd in design quality out of the 72 Canadian provincial, U.S. state and U.S. territorial flags ranked.

References

Delaware
Delaware
Flag of Michigan

The flag of the state of Michigan depicts the state's coat of arms on a dark blue field, as set forth by Michigan state law. (The Governor has a variant of the flag with a white instead of blue field.)

References

Michigan
Michigan
Flag of Maryland

The official flag of the state of Maryland consists of the heraldic banner of George Calvert, Lord Baltimore (1579–1632). The flag was officially adopted by the Maryland General Assembly in 1904.

References

Maryland
Maryland
Flag of South Carolina

The flag of the U.S. state of South Carolina has existed in some form since 1775, being based on one of the first Revolutionary War flags. South Carolina's flag was ranked as the 10th 
best designed state or provincial flag in North America by a non-scientific poll on the website of the North American Vexillological Association in 2001.

References

South Carolina
South Carolina
Kepler-438b

Kepler-438b is an extrasolar planet that circles Kepler-438 a red dwarf star 470 light years away in the constellation Lyra. It is one of the most Earth-like planets with an Earth Simularity Index score of 0.88. The planet was discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft using the transit method, as the planet circles it star, it will cross in front of the star causing the star to be less bright as seen from Earth, which can be measured.

References

Exoplanets
Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CSR Qingdao Sifang C151A

Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CSR Qingdao Sifang C151A is the fourth generation of rolling stock used on the Singapore MRT system. The trains operate on the East West Line and North South Line.

The trains began operation on 27 May 2011. They were built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries and CSR Sifang. 35 six-carriage trains, totalling 210 carriages, were built in China.

Related pages
Kawasaki Heavy Industries C151
Siemens C651
Kawasaki Heavy Industries & Nippon Sharyo C751B
Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CSR Qingdao Sifang C151B
Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CRRC Sifang C151C

MRT Singapore
Rolling stock
Fattail scorpion

Fattail scorpion (or fat-tailed scorpion) is the main name given to scorpions from the genus Androctonus. Androctonus is one of the most dangerous groups of scorpion species in the world. They live in the semi-arid and arid regions of Africa and the Middle East. They are a moderate-sized scorpion. They have lengths of near 4 inches.

Stings from the Androctonus species are known to cause several human deaths each year.

Geographic range
The fat-tailed scorpion is seen widely in Armenia, Turkey, Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Many countries nearby also see the fat-tailed scorpion.

Arachnids
Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CSR Qingdao Sifang C151B

Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CSR Qingdao Sifang C151B is the fifth generation of trains used on the Singapore MRT system. The trains operate on the East West Line and North South Line.

The first train began running on the North South Line, on 16 April 2017. Until 27 May 2018, the trains only ran on the North South Line and the new Tuas West Extension of the East West Line, where the new train signalling system was turned on. This is because these new trains were installed with only new signalling system, and the rest of the East West Line did not have the new signalling system turned on yet. From 28 May 2018, these trains are now able to run on the East West Line. All 45 trains are currently running, and most of them are housed in Tuas depot.

These trains were built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries and CSR Sifang. 45 six-carriage trains, totalling 270 carriages, were built in China.

The C151B is the first train to be made with STARiS v2.0, which is a system that shows passengers information about the train's route.

Design 
The C151B is the first train to be painted with a white front, and also features a smaller SMRT logo. This train is also the last to be painted in SMRT's livery, with all following train models being painted in LTA's standard livery

Train formation 
Each train has a 4 digit serial number. The first number is the carriage number, the second is the train identification number-which for the C151B is a '6' and the last two are the train set numbers, which are the unique number given to that train set. 

each train is made up of 2 3-car train sets coupled together. The train numbers run from 601 to 670. They are either normally coupled or cross coupled. Eg: 601/602 (normal coupling) or 603/606 (cross coupling).

Each train set is made up of the following,

Dt-Mc1-Mc2-Mc2-Mc1-Dt

Dt-Driving trailer   Mc-Motor car

for example, train set 669/670 would be made up of 3669-1669-2669-2670-1670-3670

Related pages
Kawasaki Heavy Industries C151
Siemens C651
Kawasaki Heavy Industries & Nippon Sharyo C751B
Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CSR Qingdao Sifang C151A
Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CRRC Sifang C151C

References

MRT Singapore
Rolling stock
Alstom Metropolis C751A

Alstom Metropolis C751A is the first generation of communications-based train control (CBTC) rolling stock used on the Singapore MRT system. The trains operate on the North East Line.

The trains began operation on 20 June 2003. 21 six-carriage trains were built in France, by Alstom.  The C751As are the first rolling stock in Singapore to be operated without a driver.

Related pages
Alstom Metropolis & Shanghai Electric C751C

MRT Singapore
Rolling stock
Moshe Kahlon

Moshe Kahlon, Hebrew: משה כחלון , (born November 19, 1960 in Hadera) is an Israeli politician of Kulanu ("All of Us").

Kahlon is of Libyan-Jewish descent. After being eight years in the army, he worked as a businessman. Later on, he studied politicology at Haifa University, law at Netanya Academic College and management at Harvard University.

As a member of Likud Kahlon was a Member of Knesset from 2003 to 2013. During this time he was also several times a minister (communications, welfare, and social services).

He returned into the Knesset in 2015 with Kulanu, which he founded in 2014. In the Fourth Netanyahu Government he has been finance minister since 2015. He again withdrew from Knesset in 2016. From 2019 to 2020 he again was an MK.

With Kulanu he wants to fight socioeconomic problems.

References 
 Bio at Knesset Website

1960 births
Living people
Former Members of Knesset
Government ministers of Israel
Haifa University alumni
Israeli former political leaders
Jewish Israeli politicians
Likud politicians
Borkum

Borkum is an island and municipality of the state of Lower Saxony, Germany. In 2016 the municipality had about 5,500 people. It covers an area of 31 km².

Borkum makes part of the East Frisian Islands (German: Ostfriesische Inseln). It is the most western island.

It lies west of the island of Juist (and the uninhabited islands of Brauerplate, Kachelotplate and Memmert), and east of the small Dutch island of Rottumeroog.

References

Other websites 
 

Islands of Germany
Towns in Lower Saxony
Henry Hillman

Henry Lea Hillman (December 25, 1918 – April 14, 2017) was an American billionaire businessman, investor, civic leader, and philanthropist. He was chairman of The Hillman Company, a family office and investment company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and owned by the Hillman family. He chaired the board of trustees of Hillman Family Foundations. which manages 18 named foundations.

Hillman died on April 14, 2017 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, aged 98.

References

Other websites
 Henry L. Hillman Foundation 
 Hillman Family Foundations
 Hillman Hall of Minerals and Gems at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
 Elsie Hillman Chair in Women & Politics at Chatham University
 Hillman Center for Pediatric Transplantation at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

1918 births
2017 deaths
American billionaires
American philanthropists
Businesspeople from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania