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Ice Bucket Challenge

The Ice Bucket Challenge, sometimes called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, was a viral challenge in which people would dump a bucket of ice water over a person's head, either by another person or by themselves. This was done to promote awareness of the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as motor neuron disease and in the US as Lou Gehrig's disease) and encourage donations to research. 

It went viral on social media during July–August 2014.

References

2014
Internet culture
Reinhard Bonnke

Reinhard Bonnke (April 19, 1940 – December 7, 2019) was a German-American Pentecostal evangelist. He was known for his gospel missions throughout Africa. Bonnke was an evangelist and missionary in Africa, starting in 1967.

Bonnke's autobiography, Living a Life of Fire, is a collection of stories of his life.

Bonnke died on December 7, 2019 in Orlando, Florida at the age of 79. The cause of death was femur surgery-related problems.

References

Other websites
 CfaN Christ for all Nations

1940 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from surgical complications
German writers
Naturalized citizens of the United States
American autobiographers
Writers from Florida
People from Orlando, Florida
Bump Elliott

Chalmers William "Bump" Elliott (January 30, 1925 – December 7, 2019) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He was born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in Bloomington, Illinois.

He played halfback at Purdue University (1943–1944) and the University of Michigan (1946–1947). Elliott spent ten years as an assistant football coach at Oregon State, Iowa, and Michigan.  He was appointed as Michigan's head football coach in 1959 and held that position until 1968.

From 1970 to 1991, he was the athletic director at the University of Iowa. In 1989, Elliott was added into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Elliott died on December 7, 2019 in Iowa City, Iowa at the age of 94.

References

Other websites
 Profile at Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan Athletics History
 

1925 births
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American football running backs
American football coaches
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Sportspeople from Illinois
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Giuseppe Frigo

Giuseppe Frigo (30 March 1935 – 7 December 2019) was an Italian judge. He was a judge on the Constitutional Court of Italy from 23 October 2008 to 7 November 2016. He retired on 7 November 2016, citing health reasons. He was born in Brescia, Italy.

Frigo died in Brescia on 7 December 2019 at the age of 84.

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1935 births
2019 deaths
Italian politicians
Italian judges
People from Brescia
Herbert Joos

Herbert Joos (21 March 1940 – 7 December 2019) was a German jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and graphic designer. He made recordings solo and in groups. He worked with the Vienna Art Orchestra. In 2017, he received the Jazzpreis Baden-Württemberg for his life's work.

He played at festivals and in the  of the SWF at a flugelhorn workshop with Kenny Wheeler, Ian Carr, Harry Beckett and Ack van Rooyen and made a name for himself with his solo recording, The Philosophy of the Flugelhorn in 1973.

Joos died on 7 December 2019 after surgery in a Baden-Baden hospital at the age of 79.

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1940 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from surgical complications
German musicians
Jazz musicians
Trumpeters
Ali Mufuruki

Ali Mufuruki (1959 – December 7, 2019) was a Tanzanian businessman, author, founder and board member of several organisations. He was the founder of Infotech Investment Group. He was the board chairman of Vodacom Tanzania and Wananchi Group Holdings. He was the co-author of the book Tanzania's Industrialisation Journey, 2016–2056.

He died on 7 December 2019 at the Morningside Hospital in Johannesburg.

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1959 births
2019 deaths
Tanzanian people
African writers
African businesspeople
Zaza Urushadze

Zaza Urushadze (; 30 October 1965 — 7 December 2019) was a Georgian movie director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in Tbilisi. His first movie, Here Comes the Dawn (1998) was very successful and participated in many international film festivals. His other movie Tangerines was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards. He died of a heart attack on 7 December 2019.

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1965 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Movie directors from Georgia (country)
Movie producers from Georgia (country)
Screenwriters from Georgia (country)
People from Tbilisi
Paweł Pawlikowski

Paweł Aleksander Pawlikowski (; born 15 September 1957) is a Polish filmmaker. His best known movies are Last Resort and My Summer of Love. His movie Ida won the 2015 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

At the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, Pawlikowski won the Best Director prize for his 2018 movie Cold War, a movie which also earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Foreign Language Film.

References

Other websites
 
 BBC Interview 2004
 Pawel Pawlikowski's website 
 Paweł Pawlikowski at Culture.pl
 Interview with Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air, 12 February 2015

Academy Award winning directors
1957 births
Living people
Polish movie directors
Polish movie producers
Polish screenwriters
Writers from Warsaw
Ron Saunders

Ronald Saunders (6 November 1932 – 7 December 2019) was an English football player and manager. He played for Everton, Gillingham, Portsmouth, Watford and Charlton Athletic.

He managed seven clubs in 20 years, and he was the only manager to have taken charge of Aston Villa, Birmingham City and West Bromwich Albion.

He died on 7 December 2019, aged 87.

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1932 births
2019 deaths
English footballers
English football managers
Sportspeople from Cheshire
St. Joseph County, Indiana

St. Joseph County, commonly called St. Joe County by locals, is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of Census 2010, the population was 266,931. The county seat is South Bend.

References

Indiana counties
1830 establishments in Indiana
2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption

The volcanic island Whakaari/White Island in New Zealand's northeastern Bay of Plenty region explosively erupted on 9 December 2019 at 2:11 pm NZDT. There were 47 people on or near the island at the time. There are currently twenty two people killed, including two bodies are still missing believed to be dead. While twenty-five were injured, many critically.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that "the scale of this tragedy is devastating". New Zealand Police launched an investigation into the disaster, in conjunction with WorkSafe New Zealand.

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2010s in New Zealand
December 2019 events
Holbrook, Arizona

Holbrook () is a city in Navajo County, Arizona, United States.  According to the 2010 census, the population of the city was 5,053. The city is the county seat of Navajo County.

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Cities in Arizona
County seats in Arizona
Holding Out for a Hero

"Holding Out for a Hero" is a song recorded by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler for the soundtrack to the 1984 movie Footloose, and later included on her 1986 album Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire. 

It was written by Jim Steinman and Dean Pitchford. The song only just reached the Top 100 in the UK Singles Chart, but made it to number 2 the following year, and re-entered the charts again at number 69 in 1991. The song reached No. 1 on the Irish Singles Chart on 28 September 1985. It reached the top 40 in the United States and Canada.

The song later become popular after Jennifer Saunders recorded the song for the 2004 movie Shrek 2.

Charts

References

1984 songs
Bonnie Tyler songs
Shrek music
Total Eclipse of the Heart

"Total Eclipse of the Heart" is a song recorded by Bonnie Tyler. It was written and produced by Jim Steinman, and released on Tyler's fifth studio album, Faster Than the Speed of Night (1983). The song was released as a single by Columbia Records on 11 February 1983 in the United Kingdom and on 31 May 1983 in the United States.

Worldwide, the single has created 6 million copies and was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of over 1 million copies after its release. In 2015, the song was voted by the British public as the nation's third favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV.

In early 2021, the Marsh family, a couple with four children in Faversham, Kent, produced a parody version titled "Totally Fixed Where We Are." The lyrics express the feelings of people in the U.K. under a third lockdown during the 2020/2021 Covid-19 pandemic. The video was uploaded to YouTube on February 2, 2021, and in less than a week got over 1.4 million views.

References

1983 songs
Bonnie Tyler songs
UKF

UKF is a Label Started in 2007 Offering a wide variety of Genre's in Techno. Sub-Genre's such as Drum & Bass & Dubstep made it a success. most notable artists can be people such as Bare Noize, Macky Gee & Fox Stevenson.

UKF TOP TRACKS
 1. Macky Gee - Tour
 2. Fox Stevenson - Bruises
 3. Flux Pavilion - I Can't Stop
 4. Bare Noize - Dire
 5. Fox Stevenson - On My Own
 6. Kove & Friction - Your Love
 7. Sub Focus & Dimension - Desire
 8. Camos & Krooked - Lesson (ft. Skittles)
 9. Fox Stevenson - Miss You
 10. Bare Noize & Clockvice - Daybreak

British record labels
Electronic music
YouTube
It's a Heartache

"It's a Heartache" is a song recorded by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler for her second studio album, Natural Force (1978). The song was recorded in the same year by Juice Newton as a standalone single.

Tyler's version received positive reviews from music critics. The song reached number three in the United States and number four in the United Kingdom. Tyler's version is one of the best-selling singles of all time.

References

1978 songs
Bonnie Tyler songs
Jim Steinman

James Richard Steinman (November 1, 1947 – April 19, 2021) was an American composer, singer, lyricist, record producer, and playwright.

Steinman died on April 19, 2021 at a hospital in Connecticut from a "sudden medical emergency", aged 73.

References

Other websites

Steinmania – Features the 1969 Recording of the Dream Engine

1947 births
2021 deaths
American composers
American singer-songwriters
American playwrights
American pop singers
American rock singers
American pop musicians
American rock musicians
American pianists
Record producers
Singers from New York City
Musicians from New York City
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Gavriil Kharitonovich Popov

Gavriil Kharitonovich Popov (; born 31 October 1936) is a Russian politician and economist. He was the Mayor of Moscow from 1990 until he resigned in 1992.

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Mayor of Moscow

The Mayor of the City of Moscow is head of the executive branch of the political system in Moscow, the Government of Moscow. The mayor's office is in charge of all city services, public property, police and fire protection, most public agencies, and enforces all city and state laws within Moscow.

The budget overseen by the mayor's office is the largest municipal budget in the Russian Federation.

List of mayors

Other websites
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Vladimir Resin

Vladimir Iosifovich Resin (; ; born 21 February 1936) is a Russian politician. He was the acting mayor of Moscow, appointed by Russian president Dmitry Medvedev to replace Yury Luzhkov on 28 September 2010. Resin was the first deputy mayor under Luzhkov.

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1936 births
Living people
Mayors of Moscow
Sergey Sobyanin

Sergey Semyonovich Sobyanin (; born 21 June 1958) is a Russian politician. He has been the 3rd and current Mayor of Moscow since 21 October 2010. He has been widely criticized for banning gay pride parades in Moscow.

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1958 births
Living people
Mayors of Moscow
Russian lawyers
William Joseph McDonough

William Joseph McDonough (April 21, 1934 – January 22, 2018) was an American economist. He was a vice chairman and special advisor to the chairman at Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.. He was the 8th President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1993 through 2003. McDonough was born in Chicago.

McDonough died on January 22, 2018 of heart failure at his home in Waccabuc, New York at the age of 83.

References

Other websites
Biography at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York

1934 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
American economists
Businesspeople from Chicago
Businesspeople from New York City
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (informally the Chicago Fed) is one of twelve regional Reserve Banks that, along with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., make up the nation's central bank.

The Chicago Reserve Bank serves the Seventh Federal Reserve District, which encompasses the northern portions of Illinois and Indiana, southern Wisconsin, the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, and the state of Iowa.

Charles L. Evans is the president of the Chicago Fed. He took office on September 1, 2007 as the ninth president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

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Banks of the United States
Buildings and structures in Chicago, Illinois
Charles L. Evans

Charles L. Evans (born January 15, 1958) is an American economist and banker. He is the ninth president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He is on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the Federal Reserve System's monetary policy-making body.

References

Other websites
 Charles Evans' Biography

1958 births
Living people
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Businesspeople from Chicago
Michael H. Moskow

Michael H. Moskow (born January 7, 1938) is an American economist. He is the vice chairman and distinguished fellow on the global economy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

From 1994 to 2007, he was President and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

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1938 births
Living people
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Marie Fredriksson

Gun-Marie Fredriksson, known as Marie Fredriksson (; 30 May 1958 – 9 December 2019) was a Swedish pop rock singer-songwriter, pianist and painter. She was born in Össjö, Sweden.

Fredriksson was known for forming pop rock duo Roxette in 1986 alongside Per Gessle. They are known for their six top two hits on the Billboard Hot 100: "The Look", "Listen to Your Heart", "Dangerous", "It Must Have Been Love", "Joyride" and "Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)".

She had a solo career for a short time which included her single "Sparvöga" and two albums Den ständiga resan (1992) and I en tid som vår (1996) from 1989 through 1997.

In 2002, Fredriksson was diagnosed with a brain tumour. She died from problems caused by the disease on 9 December 2019 in Danderyd Municipality, Sweden at the age of 61.

References

Other websites

 
MarieFredriksson.net 
Marie-Fredriksson.com
Official Roxette website 
Marie Fredriksson (fan website)
Marie Frederiksson on Europopmusic.eu (English)

1958 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from brain cancer
Swedish singers
Swedish musicians
Swedish painters
Swedish writers
Songwriters
European pianists
Rock singers
Pop singers
Rock musicians
Pop musicians
Kit Kat

Kit Kat is a chocolate bar made from wafers created by Rowntree's of York, United Kingdom, and is now is made globally by Nestlé. The standard bars consist of two or four pieces composed of three layers of wafer, separated and covered by an outer layer of chocolate. Each finger can be snapped from the bar separately. There are many different flavours of Kit Kat, including milk, white, and dark chocolate. It was launched on 29 August 1935.

Other websites 
 Kit Kat website

Candy
Nestlé
Per Gessle

Per Håkan Gessle (; born 12 January 1959) is a Swedish pop singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonicist. He is the lead singer of the Swedish pop group Gyllene Tider and formed Roxette with Marie Fredriksson.

Singles

Notes

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Techmoan

Matthew Julius "Mat" Taylor (born January 1971), better known by his stage name Techmoan, is a YouTuber and blogger who has been active since May 2009, featuring reviews of consumer electronics (or consumer tech) and "RetroTech" documentaries. He lives in Wigan, Greater Manchester. 

The Daily Telegraph and Gizmodo has quoted his statements. MarketWatch listed the YouTube Channel 6th in its "binge-watching" top ten using ratings on Reddit.

Websites such as AVclub, Gizmodo, Hackaday, El Español and Popular Mechanics reference his videos.

Career 
In 2006, Taylor started a YouTube channel called "Vectrexuk", with videos of similar items of technology, such as installing a home cinema and controlled toasters, to prove people will watch anything on YouTube.

The channel "Techmoan" was started on May 31, 2009. The first video uploaded on Techmoan was a tour of a 2009 Piaggio MP3, which was filmed at 480p and had a very basic sound quality. In 2015, he started another channel, called "Youtube Pedant", to host videos not about technology. In 2016, in a video covering the DVHS format, he uncovered 1080p video footage of New York City from 1993. This footage was uploaded separately to his "Youtube Pedant" channel where, as of December 2019, it has gotten 3.8 million views, and it has also been widely shared on websites such as Reddit and The Verge. As of June 2019, the main channel has over 870,000 subscribers and over 180 million views. Some videos on the main channel have had over 3 million views.

Later documentary videos 
Techmoan has made documentary videos that are about forgotten magnetic tape recording formats, such as the OMNI Entertainment System, which uses 8-track tape storage, and the HiPac, a successor of the PlayTape and related uses of it. Other videos show some of the smallest and largest analog recording tape cartridges ever made, such as the Picocassette for dictation machines or the Cantata 700 background music system. Further videos show other discontinued ¼-inch-tape cartridge formats, such as the Sabamobil, which uses existing 3-inch open reels in a portable format, and the portable Sanyo Micro Pack 35, as well as RCA tape cartridge and the Sony Elcaset with another compromise of playtime and sound quality, oddities and gimmicks on Compact Cassettes as "reinventing the reel", several ways of autoreverse, automatic multiple cassette players, endless loop cassettes, and cassette mass production technology.

Other documentary videos Techmoan has made are about formats of vinyl recording, such as the Tefifon endless cartridge, the Seeburg 1000 background music system, vertical turntables, and other audio encodings CX and dbx, which are systems that were designed to reduce noise on vinyl records.

Further documentaries show other items, such as the mechanical Curta calculator, devices with Nixie tube displays, wire recording, and the WikiReader.

References

Other websites 
 Techmoan YouTube Channel
 Techmoan Website
 Techmoan - Not the 10th Anniversary Show with an about introduction

1971 births
Living people
YouTubers
Dan Tillberg

Dan Arne Tillberg (born 9 April 1953 in Ystad) is a Swedish artist and producer. He is the son of Arne Tillberg and Ettie Tillberg.

Career
Dan Tillberg started his career in 1973 as a singer, guitarist and percussionist in the progg-influenced duo Änglabarn, along with Sven Ingmar Olsson. In 1977, he started his own recording studio in Malmö, Bellatrix, and a record label of the same name in 1978.

In 1979, his first LP, Gatstenar, came out, which had Swedish-language cover versions of Rolling Stones songs on it. In 1981, this was followed by the LP Mors och fars kärlek, which made him successful. The next year, his next LP, Kärlek minus noll, came out, which featured Swedish-language cover versions of Bob Dylan songs. In 1983, his next LP, "Genom tårar", was released, followed by "Erogena zoner" in 1985, which might have become his biggest success.

In Melodifestivalen 1985, he came in second place with "Ta min hand", and also took part in Melodifestivalen 1986 with  "ABCD". In 1987, his LP "Raka vägen till paradiset" was released, which was his last LP released before a long break. In 1986, Tillberg starred in an episode of the TV series "Skånska mord", with Ernst-Hugo Järegård in the lead role.

After that, he became less popular, and he went on to run an advertising company, which became bankrupt in 2001. Then he began to devote himself to music again and released some CD singles. These were followed in 2005 by Akten tar gestalt, an album that came out on two CDs and has a collection of his old songs on it, released on Mixed Media Records, a record label he started with Rickard Mattsson, also in 2005. The record label, which borrowed its name from the band Mixed Media, which was previously signed to Tillberg's former record label, Bellatrix, is now bankrupt, and the record label business with the associated recording studio has ended. While Tillberg worked as a producer, he was active in the kitchen industry through the companies Köket i första rummet AB and Skånekök & Måleri AB.

Music
1973 – Änglabarn (LP)
1979 – Gatstenar (LP, Rolling Stones)
1981 – Mors och fars kärlek (LP)
1982 – Kärlek minus noll (LP, Bob Dylan)
1983 – Genom tårar (LP)
1985 – Erogena zoner (LP)
1987 – Raka vägen till paradiset (LP)
2005 – Akten tar gestalt (double CD)

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Living people
Barrie Keeffe

Barrie Colin Keeffe (31 October 1945 - 10 December 2019) was an English dramatist and screenwriter. He was best known for his screenplay for the 1980 movie The Long Good Friday. In 2010, his screenplay for Sus was one of his last works.

Keeffe died on 10 December 2019 in London after a short-illness, aged 74.

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1945 births
2019 deaths
Disease-related deaths in London
English playwrights
Screenwriters from London
Brandi Chastain

Brandi Chastain (born July 21, 1968) is an American retired soccer player.

Chastain is known for winning the 1999 Women's World Cup against China. The US beat China in a penalty shootout, and Chastain closed the deal by scoring the last penalty kick. For her celebration, she took off her shirt and had both fists in the air signaling the win in joy. Her celebration seemed strange to many people because women rarely took off their shirts during celebrations. 

Brandi helped start a Bay Area sports initiative where they help teach third-fifth graders health issues. She is in the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame, American Freshman Player of the Year in 1986, First Team All Far West in 1989, and First Team All American in 1996. She was also a member of the gold medal Olympic winning soccer team in 1996, a member of the Women’s World Cup All Star team in 1999, and a member of the silver medal winning Olympic soccer team in 2000.

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Shiroki FC Serena players
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen is an American philanthropist, which means she gives money to help other people.

Early Life 
Laura Arillaga-Andreessen always wanted to help other people. She was born around 1970 in Palo Alto, California. She is famous for being generous. In seventh grade, Laura became aware of families that were less fortunate communities and decided to donate her life to philanthropy. Arillaga-Andreessen's mom helped at Children and Family Services in Palo Alto. Watching her mom, she learned that some other people did not have everything they need to live. Later on she was able to volunteer with the Ecumenical Hunger Program. She is the daughter of a real estate billionaire. She did not know her family was wealthy until she reached high school.

Education 
Arillaga-Andreessen attended Castilleja School for high school. She went to college at Stanford University. Her mom was diagnosed with lung cancer, which stoped Laura from going to Stanford Business School.

Work and Awards 
Laura has written a best selling book on philanthropy called Giving 2.0. She also founded the Marc and Laura Andreessen Foundation, which gives money to Bay Area nonprofits. She teaches classes about the idea that “giving away money is easy- doing so effectively is much harder.” Laura has won the Henry Crown Fellow of Aspen Institute and the Jacqueline Kennedy Award for Women Leadership all for her work in philanthropy.

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Year of birth missing (living people)
Tara Vanderveer

Tara Vanderveer (born June 26, 1953) is an American basketball coach. As a kid, Vanderveer taught herself basketball. She first played in Indiana. Soon after Vanderveer set out to be a teacher. She enrolled in a coaching clinic run by Bobby Knight. Out of 500 men, Vanderveer was the only woman. In 1990, Vanderveer coached at Stanford. She has won two NCAA titles, an Olympic Gold Medal, and 11 final fours. Vanderveer only coached to be a teacher; she loved teaching. Vanderveer has been known to give low-key demands also known as “Tar-isms”. “You’re a Ferrari; quit driving like a Volkswagen” “That ‘S’ on your chest stands for ‘Stanford’, not ‘Stupid’, so play like it. ” A former student mentioned she was a brilliant coach. To her, Tara Vanderveer is an Educator.

References 

1953 births
Living people
People from California
Sportswomen
Alice Waters

Alice Waters (born April 28, 1944) is an American chef.

Accomplishments 
Alice Waters later founded the edible food project. Not only did she receive a national humanity reward in 1997, but she also helped over 5,000 schools. Many people appreciate Alice’s hard work and determination to build a more organic and healthy environment in the food industry.

Journey 
Alice Waters was always inspired by her father. he influenced her throughout her entire career and to this day she remembers how her father had a huge impact on her life. Not only was she inspired by her father, but she also attended U.C Berkley which was the school that her father attended when he was her age. Although she was supported by her family during her career and that later helped her dreams come true. One day she realized that her gender had a couple of bonuses to it. She could use her gender to get what she wanted. One instance is when she asked her meat guy if he could give her a little bit of help, he then realized that he would have to help this damsel in distress.

1944 births
Living people
People from California
American chefs
Dominique Crenn

Dominique Crenn (born 1965) is a French chef. Crenn is the only woman to have earned 3 Michelin stars at her restaurant. Crenn’s restaurant is called Atelier Crenn, and is located in San Francisco. Dominique Crenn moved from France to the US at around age 20. She already had experience with cooking when she was younger, learning how to bake from her grandmother. One thing she is very famous for is her creative but luxurious food she also likes putting on a show. For example, she likes to cook in front of you, or make the food look really beautiful.

Feminism 
In the first cookbook she wrote called Atelier Crenn, she writes about her struggles and successes.  When she first started working in a restaurant she noticed that there were very very few women. over the course of her career, she had had to deal with male chefs and a lot of discrimination. In an interview with David Green, she says quote “ I will cut them” as a joke. She says that she does not like to fight physically or with violence. She will fight back with words. Another fact about her is that she fully supports the march of dimes.

References

1965 births
Living people
People from California
Chefs
Maha Elgenaidi

Maha Elgenaidi is best known for founding Islamic Networks Group (ING) which is a group of educators who go to different communities and schools to teach people about Islam. She has won many awards for her efforts, including the Civil Rights Leadership Award, Citizen of the Year, and Dorothy Irene Height Community Award.

Career 
Maha’s career started when she noticed that people were thinking badly about Muslims and the religion of Islam. In fact, 66% of Americans admit to thinking badly about Muslims. Also, more than 80% of Americans think that Islam is sexist to women. She also noticed that many of these unkind thoughts were from lack of education. This led to her career in educating people about Islam.

Growing up 
Like many other Americans, growing up, Maha also thought that Islam was sexist. However, when she read the Qur’an (A Muslim religious book) she had a different view on the religion. She found that Islam was very inclusive to other religions. The best way to change someone’s views on something is to educate them.

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Year of birth missing (living people)
Activists
Julia Morgan

Julia Morgan was an American architect and engineer. Julia Hunt Morgan was born on January 26, 1872 to Charles Bill Morgan and Eliza Morgan In San Francisco. She died on February 2, 1957. She was one of five kids and grew up in Oakland.

Early life 
Starting in high school, Morgan expressed a big interest in architecture. She became the first woman to attend an architectural school in Paris and was also the first woman to graduate from there. When she moved back to California, she received her official architect’s license.

Project on the Hearst Castle 
Morgan was most famous for her project on Sam Simeon, San Francisco for the Hearst family in 1919. The project included designing and building a pan-European styled castle, which was later to be known as the Hearst Castle. It was made of fragments of architecture from Italy and Spain. This project lasted for 25 years. Morgan’s architectural team also designed many houses, churches, cottages, schools, and many other types of buildings. Her biggest goal was always to satisfy her clients and “design buildings from the inside out.” She did so in styles anywhere from Byzantine, Italianate, Craftsman, Gothic, Romanesque, etc.

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1872 births
1957 deaths
American architects
People from California
Mary C. Daly

Marcy C. Daly is an American economist. On October 1, 2018, she became the 13th President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (San Francisco Fed). She also works on the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee on a rotating basis. Daly started working for the San Francisco Fed in 1996. She was its Executive Vice President and Director of Research. She later became its President and CEO.

Early life 
Daly was born in Ballwin, Missouri. Her father was a postal worker and her mother was a homemaker. She was a good student, but she had money problems and quit school at 15. By age 16 she was living alone, working to earn full-time pay.

Career and education 
Daly went on to earn a high school equivalency diploma (GED). She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1985 and a master's degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1987. She went on to earn a Ph.D in economics from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University in 1994. She also completed a post-doctoral fellowship at National Institute of Aging at Northwestern University in 1996.

Her research is in macroeconomics and labor economics. She has published work on many economic topics. Daly has also worked to increase diversity and inclusion within the Federal Reserve System and in the field of economics.

References 

Living people
People from California
American economists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Elaine Forbes

Elaine Forbes is the Director of the Port of San Francisco. In October 2016, the mayor of San Francisco appointed her to that job. In the whole United States there are only twelve female Port Directors.

Childhood and Family 
Born in San Francisco, Forbes is the great grandchild of a Port worked. Her parents met in high school but divorced when she was three. Forbes lived with her mother. She admired her mother very much because she was a hard worker. She went to public school. Forbes liked singing. She was a member of the San Francisco Girls Chorus. 

Because it was the 1970s, Forbes experienced hippie culture. She participated in the Civil Rights Movement and lived in a commune in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of the city. Because she lived in a commune, she looked forward to having her own apartment when she grew up. Her mother died when Forbes was 19.

Now Forbes lives in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood with her partner, Angela Calvillo, and their dogs.

Education 
Forbes went to Skyline Community College and Mills College. She went to graduate school at University of California, Los Angeles to study Community and Economic Development.

Career 
Forbes had many jobs in non-profit land use and development. She was a planner for the city of Oakland, CA, USA. She then was an executive manager for the City of San Francisco’s planning department and the San Francisco International Airport. She was a policy advisor for the city of San Francisco’s budget office. In 2010 she started working at the Port of San Francisco as the Deputy Director for Finance and Administration.

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Jennifer Doudna

Jennifer Anne Doudna (born February 19, 1964) is an American biochemist. Her work on CRISPR gene editing won her the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Emmanuelle Charpentier. The award was:
"For a method for genome editing".

Doudna earned her PhD at Harvard University in 1994. She worked at Yale University with a group of scientists studying RNA.

Career
Doudna is known for co-inventing the CRISPR-Cas9 which genetically modifies DNA.  She has won medals such as the Kavi Prize, The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, The Gruber Genetics Prize, and the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize. 

Doudna currently works as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Doudna teaches chemistry and molecular cell biology. She is also an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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Tiffany Shlain



Tiffany Shlain 
Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker and business leader, was born on April 8th, 1970.

The Webby Awards 
Tiffany Shlain is most well known for making the Webby Awards, the “leading international honors for websites”. The Webby Awards take place every year and give awards to the best websites. 

Shlain is on the Leadership Board for the Center on Media and Child Health at Harvard’s Children’s Hospital in Boston. Besides being a business leader, Shlain’s films have won many awards, such as “The Future Starts Here”, which has been chosen for an Emmy award. Her signature style of filmmaking includes lots of vibrant action shots and animations. She engages her audience with bright and vivid images, thought-provoking keynotes, and humorous observations.

Rewards 
Tiffany has received rewards for her films from many organizations, including Steven Spielberg’s Righteous Person’s Foundation. Shlain also gives convincing speeches that encourage people to think about where we are in the world in terms of connection and technology. There were over 11,000 broadcasts in the world of 50/50 thinking the Past, Present, and Future of Women + Power, which were all brought together to an online discussion in which Shlain talked about supporting gender equality. She also has been the closing speaker for TED Women and TED MED. The Webby Awards will continue even after Shlain’s death.

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Ruth Asawa

Ruth Asawa (January 27, 1926 – August 5, 2013) was an American sculptor.

Asawa was born in Norwalk, California and was the fourth child out of seven. She attended Rohwer High School in Desha County, Arkansas as she had to evacuate from California due to World War II. Rohwer was a Japanese-American concentration camp at the time. She went to  the University of Wisconsin but could not get a degree because of where she was from. After that, she went to Black Mountain College. Ever since she was a young girl, she showed an interest in art. She even drew in the mud when she was a child. Ruth is famous for making sculptures out of metal wire. “Meandering lines and patterns, explorative variations of the same form or subject, and the most economical way to convey an image and characterize her work.” She helped to found SCRAP, a recycling art program. This quote is saying that trying out different patterns and lines is the best way for her to make her work different from other people’s work. Asawa also created the San Francisco School of Arts. Ruth believed that anybody who wanted to could do art and everyone had a part of them which was artistic. “Art is for everyone. It is not something that you should have to go to the museums in order to see and enjoy.”said Asawa.

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Alicia Garza

Alicia Garza (born January 4, 1981) is an American civil rights activist. She is known for co-founding the Black Lives Matter movement.

1981 births
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Ruth Brinker

Ruth Brinker (May 1, 1922 – August 8, 2011) was an American AIDS activist. Brinker founded Project Open Hand. She also had a farm that was named Fresh Start Farms. Fresh Start Farms only hired refugees and people that used to be homeless. She received the Jefferson Award in 2005 for what she did.

Biography 
Brinker was a retired grandma when she founded Project Open Hand. Project Open Hand is a service designed to deliver food to people with HIV/AIDS. Project Open Hand currently supports many other diseases. Brinker is known for helping people with HIV and AIDS through her foundation. She was able to get volunteers and inspire projects like Project Open Hand in other places around the world. She also had a farm called Fresh Start Farms. It grew expensive and fancy vegetables for high-end restaurants. Brinker would only hire refugees and people coming out of homelessness. 

Even though she died in August 2011, but Project Open Hand still actively serves communities today.  

Brinker died with two children as well as extended family. She ran her own antique shop before working at Meals on Wheels. She always had a courageous spirit, a focused mindset, and wanted to help. In 1985, the nation-wide HIV and AIDS problem came to light. Brinker knew she had to do something to help when her neighbor died of malnutrition because of HIV.

Awards 
She received the 2005 Jefferson Award because of her public service.

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Sylvia McLaughlin

Sylvia McLaughlin (December 24, 1916 – January 19, 2016) was an American environmental activist. Sylvia Mclaughlin was best known for beginning and helping the movement to save the San Francisco Bay.

Life
Mclaughlin was born in Denver, Colorado. George E. Cranmer and Jean Chappell Cranmer were her parents. She grew up in an area with an interesting environment. She left Denver and went to Vassar College in New York.

She returned to Denver and married Donald H. Mclaughlin. Soon enough, the couple moved to Berkeley, California. They started a family in California. When Sylvia saw the environment she lived she got mad. Pollution was ruining the Bay. This inspired Mclaughlin to start Save the Bay with two other women in 1961. Save the Bay gathered together many other passionate activists and stopped 2,000 acres of land in the Berkeley bay from being filled with cement. For almost forty years, Sylvia remained on the Save the Bay board. She also joined many other environment focused boards. 

Her work helped people learn about the environment of the bay and how to better protect it. Because of Mclaughlin, California is still very careful about maintaining the bay’s healthy habitat and creating laws to further protect it. 

After many years of hard work, Sylvia Mclaughlin passed at age 99. We thank her for saving our bay and inspiring many younger generations to follow in her footsteps.

Accomplishments 
Sylvia Mclaughlin was best known for beginning and fueling the movement to save the San Francisco Bay. 

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Ginetta Sagan

Ginetta Sagan (June 1, 1925 – August 25, 2000) was an Italian-born American human rights activist.

Ginetta Sagan fought for equality. She saved many lives from 1925 to 2000. Ginetta was confident equality fighting women starting from when she was only 17 years old. She followed her. Parents path even though she knew it was dangerous. Both Ginetta’s parents were put in prison in 1943. Ginetta knew how dangerous fighting for oppressed people was. She called herself Little Mouse. Even though she went by a false name she was still caught in 1945. She was caught because a previous friend betrayed her. She was tortured for 45 days, but that didn’t stop her. She kept on fighting for equal rights for all. Ginetta put herself at risk multiple times to save others. Ginetta is known for being elected chairwoman of the American organization and receiving the Presidential Medal of freedom. Ginetta was a famous roll model for the world. Ginetta was so well known that after her death Amnesty International U.S.A started giving Ginetta Sagan Awards yearly. The Ginetta Sagan Award is given to people who work to make the world more equal. Before she moved on to speaking up for equality, she studied child development at Sorbonne University. The American Organization claims that she died in august 2000 of cancer.

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Mary Tape

Mary Tape (1857-1934) was a desegregation activist. Tape fought for equal education. She wanted Chinese American students to study at schools with white students.

Early life 
Mary Tape was born in China. In 1868, Tape came to San Francisco. She was an orphan. The Ladies’ Protection and Relief Society helped her. She named herself "Mary McGladery." The Society taught her the English language and how to live in the United States. She married Joseph Tape. They had four children. Tape taught her children to act like white Americans.

Activism 
Tape and her family lived in the city of San Francisco, California, USA. She wanted her oldest child to study at the public school. The school said only white children could be students. It would not accept Chinese American students. Tape took the school to court. She fought for equal education. The Tape family lost in court. The children went to special Chinese American schools. Later, the family moved to Berkeley, California where they had more rights.

Legacy 
Tape was also known for having a middle-class family that acted more stereotypically American than other Chinese-American families at the time. She changed the way that many people thought of Chinese-American families at the time, and opened a gateway for people of her race to be more accepted in their society. She also earned awards for her photography and was a skillful telegrapher. Mary Tape died of old age in 1934, five months before husband.

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Mother Wright

Mary Ann Wright (July 11, 1921 – May 7, 2009), known as Mother Wright, was a humanitarian activist. She started the Mary Ann Wright Foundation. This foundation helped feed hungry people. Her nickname is "Mother" because she reminds people of Mother Teresa. Mother Wright became an activist when she was 63.

Early life 
Before she started her work, she lived in Louisiana. She was born in New Orleans. She moved at a young age. Her mother died when she was five years old. Wright was raised by her aunts and other relatives. They were devoted Catholics. They walked miles to church from their home. When Wright grew up, she worked many different jobs. She had a husband and 12 children. Unfortunately, her husband was cruel to her. So, Wright left Louisiana and moved to California. Her children came to California with her.

Awards 
In California, she received a “vision from God” in her sleep. The dream told he to help hungry people. She continued helping the hungry, and eventually got recognition for it. Wright received the Caring Award, an award inspired by Mother Teresa. She is also in the Hall of Fame for Caring Americans. She died at the age of 87.

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Yoshie Akiba

Yoshie Akiba is the founder of a jazz club in Oakland, CA.

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Edythe Boone

Edythe Boone (born 1938), is an African-American artist and activist.

Early Life 
Edythe Boone came from a working class family. Her mother was a maid for a white, Jewish family. That family was very supportive of Boone.

Career 
Edythe Boone is a muralist who has painted many murals, or large pieces of art. She painted murals for the city of Berkeley, CA. Berkeley City Council said July 13th is “Edy Boone Day.” The first Edy Boone Day was in 2010. She started out as a sort of “under-cover muralist,” secretly painting murals at night that reflected the struggles of people of color. Now 74 years old, she has painted numerous murals, including several that are now famous landmarks. For example, in San Francisco she helped paint “Maestra Peace,” which roughly means “Woman Teacher of Peace.” Boone also likes working with people who live in a neighborhood to make their own mural, including people who are homeless and lived in People's Park in Berkeley. Recently she has been getting more attention because of a 2013 documentary called “A New Color” by Mo Morris that tells about her notable career. “She builds bridges between people who don’t think they have [any similarities].”

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Luisa Buada

Luisa Buada is a healthcare activist from East Palo Alto, CA, and is the CEO of the Ravenswood Family Health Center.

Career 
Buada has worked most of her life in health care. She helped start several clinics, specifically ones in Berkeley, CA; Watsonville, CA; and in the Salinas Valley in California. This includes "Clinicas de Salud", Berkeley Primary Access Clinic, and LifeLong Medical Care. She wants to make sure all patients can get help from a doctor. She helped improve the health care services at Ravenswood Family Health Center in East Palo Alto.  She made it more affordable.  At Ravenswood, over 14,000 people signed up for their services.  

Luisa is also a farmer’s rights advocate. She joined the farmworker’s movement in California's Central Valley, and helped organize clothing and food drives.

Education 
In 1977, Luisa finished college. She studied Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing. In 1990, she received her Master’s degree in Public Health and Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.

Awards 
She was a finalist for the 2016 Visionary of the Year Award. She also received the Woman of the Year Award from Senator Jerry Hill, and the John W. Gardner Exemplary.

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Sharon Chatman

Sharon Chatman (born December 15, 1947) is an American former college basketball coach, a lawyer, and a judge.

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