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Anitta (singer)

Larissa de Macedo Machado (stage name: Anitta; born March 30, 1993), is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, television host, actress, and businesswoman.

In 2017, she was ranked as one of the most influential celebrities in social media according to Billboard.

References

Other websites

 
 
 Anitta on Spotify
 Anitta on Youtube
 
 
 

1993 births
Brazilian singers
Living people
Brazilian movie actors
Brazilian television actors
LGBT singers
People from Rio de Janeiro
Brazilian Americans

Brazilian Americans (,  or ) are Americans who are of full or partial Brazilian ancestry.  They are relatively new arrivals, for the 1960 Census only counted 27,855 Brazilians. The first major wave of immigration came after 1986, when 1.4 million Brazilians emigrated to various countries. Nearly half live in New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey, with significant populations in the south as well.

References

Ethnic groups in the United States
Brazilian food

Brazilian food is a mix of foods from Portuguese, African and indigenous culture.

Commnon dishes
Flora and fauna of Brazil

Brazil is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world. Brazil is home to many hummingbirds, toucans, parrots, macaws, waterfowl and birds of prey. Mammals living in Brazil are anteaters, pumas, jaguars, armadillos, otters and dolphins. Caimans, turtles and anacondas are reptiles found in Brazil.

Biology
Brazil
Tom Acker

Thomas James Acker (March 7, 1930 – January 4, 2021) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. He was born in Paterson, New Jersey. From 1956 to 1959, he played for the Cincinnati Reds.

Acker died on January 4, 2021 in Caernarvon Township, Pennsylvania at the age of 90.

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Other websites

1930 births
2021 deaths
Cincinnati Reds players
Sportspeople from New Jersey
People from Paterson, New Jersey
Caernarvon Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Caernarvon Township is a township in northeastern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. 4,748 people lived here in 2010.

References

Townships in Pennsylvania
C. George Boeree

Cornelis George Boeree (January 15, 1952 – January 5, 2021) was an American psychologist and professor emeritus at Shippensburg University. He worked in personality theory and the history of psychology.

Boeree was also the inventor of the auxiliary language Lingua Franca Nova. He was the coeditor of the Lingua Franca Nova dictionary. 

He was born in Badhoevedorp, near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. He died on January 5, 2021 at his home in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania from pancreatic cancer.

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1952 births
2021 deaths
American academics
American psychologists
Cancer deaths in Pennsylvania
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Naturalized citizens of the United States
People from North Holland
Scientists from Pennsylvania
Lingua Franca Nova
Educators from Pennsylvania
John Georgiadis

John Georgiadis (1939 – 5 January 2021) was a British violinist and conductor. He was the Concert Leader with the London Symphony Orchestra during the 1960s and 70s. He was a member of both the ensembles London Virtuosi and the Gaberieli String Quartet as well as conductor for both the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. 

He was Director of Orchestral Studies at the Royal Academy of Music. Georgiadis died on 5 January 2021, aged 81.

References

1939 births
2021 deaths
British violinists
British conductors
Three Little Birds

"Three Little Birds" is a song by Bob Marley. It was made in 1984.  It was on the Legend album. It is a reggae song.

References

1984 songs
Reggae songs
Saweetie

Diamonté Quiava Valentin Harper (stage name: Saweetie (); born July 2, 1993), is an American rapper and songwriter.

References

Other websites 

 
  on SoundCloud
 
  on Spotify

1993 births
Rap musicians from California
Living people
African-American rappers
American hip hop musicians
Vladimír Oplt

Vladimír Oplt (1937 – 5 January 2021) was a Czech politician. He was a member of the Czech Senate from 1996 to 2001. He was a member of the Civic Democratic Party. Oplt was born in Kladno, Czech Republic.

Oplt died on 5 January 2021 in Prague, aged 83.

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1937 births
2021 deaths
Czech politicians
John Richardson (actor)

John Richardson (19 January 1934 – 5 January 2021) was an English actor. He was known for his roles in Black Sunday (1960) and in She (1965). He also starred in One Million Years B.C. (1966).

Richardson died of COVID-19 on January 5, 2021, at age 86.

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1934 births
2021 deaths
English movie actors
English television actors
English stage actors
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
Actors from Sussex
William Windham (rower)

William Ashe Dymoke Windham (2 April 1926 – 5 January 2021) was a British rower. He competed for Great Britain in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was born in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. 

He died on 5 January 2021 at the age of 94.

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1926 births
2021 deaths
British Olympians
Sportspeople from Bedfordshire
Bobby Few

Bobby Few (October 21, 1935 – January 6, 2021) was an American jazz pianist and singer. He played with saxophonist Charles Gayle and led his own trio in Paris. He was working on a Booker Ervin tribute project called Few's Blues.

Few died on January 6, 2021 aged 85.

References

Other websites
[ AllMusic biography]
All About Jazz
 
 

1935 births
2021 deaths
American jazz singers
American jazz musicians
American pianists
Musicians from Cleveland, Ohio
Singers from Cleveland, Ohio
Edward Gnat

Edward Gnat (1 March 1940 – 6 January 2021) was a Polish politician. He was a Deputy from 1985 to 1989 and again from 1993 to 1997. He was born in Maurzyce, Poland. 

Gnat died, aged 80, in Łódź, of COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland.

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1940 births
2021 deaths
Polish politicians
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland
Francis Hammel

Francis Hammel (11 December 1950 – 6 January 2021) was a French politician. From 1997 to 2002, he was a member of the National Assembly. Hammel was born in Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, France. He was a member of the Socialist Party.

Hammel died on 6 January 2021 at the age of 70.

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1950 births
2021 deaths
French politicians
Gord Renwick

Gordon Ralph Renwick (February 13, 1935January 6, 2021) was a Canadian ice hockey administrator. He was president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA). He also was vice-president of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) and was the team president of the Galt Hornets. He was born in Galt, Ontario.

Renwick died on January 6, 2021 in Cambridge, Ontario at the age of 85.

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1935 births
2021 deaths
Canadian businesspeople
Ice hockey people from Ontario
Antonio Sabàto Sr.

Antonio Sabàto Sr. (2 April 1943 – 10 January 2021) was an Italian-American actor. He was the father of model and actor Antonio Sabàto Jr. He was known for his roles in spaghetti western movies. His best known movies were One Dollar Too Many and Due volte Giuda.

Sabàto Sr. died in Los Angeles on 10 January 2021 from COVID-19, aged 77.

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1943 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
Italian movie actors
Italian television actors
Italian stage actors
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Antonio Sabàto Jr.

Antonio Sabàto Jr. (born February 29, 1972) is an Italian-American model, actor, and politician. Sabàto was an underwear model for Calvin Klein and playing Jagger Cates on the soap opera General Hospital from 1992 to 1995. 

Sabàto ran unsuccessfully as the Republican candidate for U.S. Congress against incumbent Democratic Congresswoman Julia Brownley for California's 26th district in the 2018 election.

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1972 births
Living people
Italian movie actors
Italian television actors
Italian models
Italian stage actors
Italian politicians
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
Actors from California
Models from California
Actors from Rome
Politicians from California
US Republican Party politicians
Jim Townsend (Irish politician)

James Townsend (20 June 1937 – 7 January 2021) was an Irish Labour Party politician. In 1991, he was elected to Carlow County Council. He was a member of the Seanad Éireann from 1993 to 1997.

Townsend died on 7 January 2021, aged 83.

References

1937 births
2021 deaths
Irish politicians
Albanian food

Albanian food is the cuisine of Albania. Albanian food is Mediterranean, but also has oriental influences as part of Balkan cuisine. One of the most famous Albanian dish is Tavë kosi.

Albanian culture
Foods by nationality
Filip Trifonov

Filip Trifonov () (4 May 1947 – 6 January 2021) was a Bulgarian actor. He appeared in more than thirty movies. His career began in 1971. Trifonov's best known role was as Ran in the 1972 movie The Boy Turns Man. Trifonov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Trifonov died on 6 January 2021 from a heart attack in Sofia, aged 73.

References

Other websites
 

1947 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Movie actors
People from Sofia
Greek food

Greek food is the cuisine of Greece. Greek food is Mediterranean.
Jan Blommaert

Jan Blommaert (4 November 1961 – 7 January 2021) was a Belgian sociolinguist and linguistic anthropologist. He was a Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization and Director of the Babylon Center at Tilburg University. Blommaert was born in Dendermonde, Belgium.

Blommaert died on 7 January 2021, aged 59.

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1961 births
2021 deaths
Belgian scientists
European anthropologists
Biserka Cvejić

Biserka Cvejić (; November 5, 1923 – January 7, 2021) was a Serbian operatic mezzo-soprano and contralto. She was a university professor. Her career began at the Belgrade Opera in 1954. 

She was a member of the Vienna State Opera from 1959 to 1979. She first appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in 1961 as Amneris in Verdi's Aida.

Cvejić died at the age of 97 in Belgrade on January 7, 2021.

References

1923 births
2021 deaths
Serbian singers
Serbian actors
European opera singers
Playboi Carti

Jordan Terrell Carter (stage name: Playboi Carti; born September 13, 1995), is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia.

References

Other websites
 Playboi Carti on SoundCloud

1995 births
African-American rappers
Living people
African-American singers
Rap musicians from Georgia
Musicians from Atlanta, Georgia
Singers from Atlanta, Georgia
Vladimir Kiselyov

Vladimir Viktorovich Kiselyov (; ; sometimes listed as Volodymyr Kyselyov 1 January 1957 – 7 January 2021) was a Soviet-born Ukrainian athlete. He competed in the shot put during his career. He competed for the USSR in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, where he won the gold medal.

Kiselyov died on 7 January 2021, aged 64.

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1957 births
2021 deaths
Soviet sportspeople
Ukrainian sportspeople
Soviet Olympic gold medalists
Rich the Kid

Dimitri Leslie Roger (stage name: Rich the Kid; born July 13, 1992), is an American rapper and songwriter.

References

Other websites

1992 births
African-American rappers
Rap musicians from New York
Living people
Musicians from Queens
Kodak Black

Bill Kahan Kapri (stage name: Kodak Black; born Dieuson Octave, June 11, 1997),  is an American rapper, singer and songwriter.

References

Other websites
 

1997 births
Living people
African-American rappers
Rap musicians from Florida
American people convicted of drug offenses
Musicians from Florida
Tom LaBonge

Thomas J. LaBonge (October 6, 1953 – January 7, 2021) was an American politician. He was a member of the Democratic Party. LaBonge was born in Los Angeles. He was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 2001 to 2015.

LaBonge died on January 7, 2021 from cardiac arrest in Los Angeles, aged 67.

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1953 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from cardiac arrest
Politicians from Los Angeles
US Democratic Party politicians
Genival Lacerda

Genival Lacerda Cavalcante (5 April 1931 – 7 January 2021) was a Brazilian forró singer-songwriter. He was born in Campina Grande, Paraíba. His best known songs were Severina Xique-Xique, Radinho de Pilha and O Chevette da Menina.

In December 2017, Lacerda was honored with the Order of Cultural Merit.

Lacerda died on January 7, 2021, in Recife, Pernambuco from COVID-19, aged 89.

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1931 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
Brazilian singers
Brazilian writers
Songwriters
John Land

John Land (17 July 1938 – January 2021) was a British field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Land died in January 2021, aged 82.

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1938 births
2021 deaths
British ice hockey players
British Olympians
Marion Ramsey

Marion Ramsey (May 10, 1947 – January 7, 2021) was an American actress and singer. She was known for her role in Cos and as Officer Laverne Hooks in the Police Academy  movies. She also starred in Lavalantula and 2 Lava 2 Lantula!.

Ramsey died on January 7, 2021 in Los Angeles at the age of 73.

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1947 births
2021 deaths
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American singer-songwriters
Singers from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Actors from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Writers from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Norberto James Rawlings

Norberto James Rawlings (February 6, 1945 – January 7, 2021) was a Dominican Republic poet. His poetry was about the everyday life in his country’s multicultural society. His first book of poetry from 1969, "Sobre la marcha" ("On the March").

Works
 Sobre la marcha (1969)
 La provincia sublevada (1972)
 Vivir (1981)
 Hago constar (1983)
 Obras 1969-2000 (2000)
 Poesía 1969-2000 (2011)
 Poesía completa, 2020 (2020)

References

Other websites
 "Poesía"
 “Los inmigrantes”

1945 births
2021 deaths
Dominican Republic writers
Poets
Henri Schwery

Henri Schwery (14 June 1932 – 7 January 2021) was a Swiss prelate of the Catholic Church. He was Bishop of Sion from 1977 to 1995. He was promoted to cardinal in 1991. Schwery was born in Saint-Léonard, Switzerland.

Schwery died at a retirement home in St-Léonard on 7 January 2021, aged 88.

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1932 births
2021 deaths
Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church
Swiss people
Reynaldo Umali

Reynaldo Villar Umali (February 26, 1957 – January 7, 2021) was a Filipino politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 2010 to 2019. He ran as governor of Oriental Mindoro in 2019 but lost to Humerlito Dolor.

Umali died on January 7, 2021 from COVID-19 while being treated with liver cancer, aged 67.

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1957 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines
Filipino politicians
Filipino lawyers
Back-to-Africa movement

The Back-to-Africa movement is a movement for African Americans and the black diaspora to move back to Africa. African repatriation for ex African slaves and free black people from North America and other Western societies began during the eighteenth century. They founded the country of Liberia.

References

African-American history
History of Africa
Mel Weitsman

Hakuryu Sojun Mel Weitsman (born Mel Weitsman; July 20, 1929 – January 7, 2021) was an American Buddhist. He was the founder, abbot and guiding teacher of Berkeley Zen Center. Weitsman was a Soto Zen roshi.

He was also a co-abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center, where he was from 1988 to 1997. Weitsman was also editor of the book Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai.

Weitsman died on January 7, 2021 at the age of 91.

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1929 births
2021 deaths
People from Long Beach, California
American Buddhists
Hubert Auriol

Hubert Auriol (; 7 June 1952 – 10 January 2021) was a French professional off-road motorcyclist and auto racer. He was born in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. He was the director of The Paris-Dakar rally. Auriol was known for being the first competitor to win the Dakar rally on motorcycles and in automobiles. 

In 2012, Auriol was named an FIM Legend for his motorcycling achievements.

Auriol died of cardiac arrest caused by COVID-19 at a Paris hospital on 10 January 2021, aged 68.

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1952 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from cardiac arrest
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in France
French sportspeople
Racecar drivers
Tosh Chamberlain

Trevor "Tosh" Chamberlain (11 July 1934 – 10 January 2021) was an English professional footballer. He played at outside left. He was born in London. 

In 1952, he joined Fulham for whom he made 204 first-team appearances, scoring 64 goals. He played for Dover Athletic in 1965. He finished his professional career at Gravesend and Northfleet.

Chamberlain died on 10 January 2021, aged 86.

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1934 births
2021 deaths
Sportspeople from London
English footballers
Adam Dyczkowski

Adam Feliks Dyczkowski (17 November 1932 – 10 January 2021) was a Polish Roman Catholic bishop. He was born in Kęty, Poland. He became a priest in 1957. 

Dyczkowski was titular  bishop of Altava and was auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Wrocław from 1978 to 1992. He was auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Legnica in 1992 and 1993. He later was bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Zielona Góra-Gorzów from 1993 to 2007.

Dyczkowski died on 10 January 2021 in Zielona Góra, Poland at the age of 88.

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1932 births
2021 deaths
Polish Roman Catholics
Roman Catholic bishops
Nancy Walker Bush Ellis

Nancy Walker Bush Ellis (February 4, 1926 – January 10, 2021) was an American environmentalist and political campaigner. Bush Ellis was born in Milton, Massachusetts.

She was the only sister of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush, and aunt of both former President George W. Bush and the former governor of Florida John Ellis "Jeb" Bush.

Although she had been a liberal Democrat and an environmentalist. She joined the Republican Party in 1988 when her brother ran for president. 

Ellis was hospitalized on December 30, 2020 from COVID-19 in Concord, Massachusetts. She died on January 10, 2021 at an assisted living facility from the infection, aged 94.

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1926 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
American environmentalists
Bush family
People from Milton, Massachusetts
Pedro González (baseball)

Pedro González Olivares (December 12, 1937 – January 10, 2021), nicknamed "Speedy Gonzalez", was a Dominican professional baseball second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees from 1963 to 1965) and Cleveland Indians from 1965 to 1967. He was one of the first 15 Dominicans to play big league baseball. He was born in San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic.

González died on January 10, 2021 in San Pedro de Macoris, aged 83.

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1937 births
2021 deaths
New York Yankees players
Cleveland Indians players
Dominican Republic sportspeople
Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier

Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier (August 18, 1935 – January 10, 2021) was a Mexican politician and lawyer. He was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He was Governor of Durango between 1998 and 2004.

Guerrero Mier died on January 10, 2021 in Durango, aged 85.

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1935 births
2021 deaths
Mexican politicians
Mexican lawyers
Dee Rowe

Donald "Dee" Rowe (December 22, 1929 – January 10, 2021) was an American college basketball coach. He coached for the UConn Huskies men's team. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was the director of athletics and the head coach of both the men's basketball and baseball teams at the University of Connecticut for 13 years, from 1955 to 1969.

Rowe died on January 10, 2021 in Storrs, Connecticut at the age of 91.

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1929 births
2021 deaths
College basketball coaches
Sportspeople from Massachusetts
Sportspeople from Connecticut
People from Worcester, Massachusetts
Afrophobia

Afrophobia is a term to describe hatred and fear towards Black people. A person with afrophobia hates and fears Black people and anyone of African descent. The term "afrophobia" is observable in as discrimination and racist violence on the basis of a persons skin colour, ethnic origin, and nationality. Afrophobia is like homophobia or Islamophobia and other forms of discrimination grounds in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.  Afrophobia can also intersect with other grounds such as sex, homophobia, islamophobia, and disability creating cases of multiple discrimination grounds. A person who displays afrophobia or is thought to do so is described as being afrophobic and labeled as an afrophobe.

There is also afrofobic hate crimes through afrophobic verbal abuse, degrading language, physical violence against black people. 

Millions of black Europeans lack equal access to education, employment, housing, as well as goods and services. A 2009 survey by the EU fundamental rights agency shows that 41 per cent of sub-Saharan African respondents had been discriminated against on the basis of their ethnicity at least once in the previous 12 months.

Black people in the United Kingdom are on average six times more likely to be stopped and searched by the police than white people. A recent report on Afrophobia in Sweden reveals that Afro-Swedes are the Swedish minority most exposed to hate crimes.

References 

Discrimination
Africa
Storrs, Connecticut

Storrs is a village and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Mansfield, Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. 15,344 people lived here at the 2010 census.

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Villages in the United States
Census-designated places in Connecticut
Mohammad Khaledur Rahman Tito

Mohammad Khaledur Rahman Tito (1 March 1945 – 10 January 2021) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician. He was a member of the Awami League. In 1986, he was elected to the Jatiya Sangsad. He left the job in 1988 and was re-elect to the parliament in 2008. Tito retired in 2014.

Tito died on 10 January 2021 in Jessore, Bangladesh at the age of 74.

References

1945 births
Bangladeshi politicians
Bangladeshi Muslims
2021 deaths
Mehdi Attar-Ashrafi

Mehdi Attar-Ashrafi  (Persian: مهدی عطار اشرفی‎; 23 December 1948 – 9 January 2021) was an Iranian middleweight weightlifter. He won a bronze medal at the 1974 Asian Games and a silver at the 1979 Asian Championships and competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics. 

Attar-Ashrafi was born in Tehran. He died on 9 January 2021 in Tehran, aged 72.

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1948 births
2021 deaths
Iranian sportspeople
Olympians
People from Tehran
František Filip

František Filip (26 December 1930 – 9 January 2021) was a Czech movie and television director. Filip was born in Písek, Czechoslovakia. He was known for directing Tři chlapi v chalupě, Chalupáři and Utrpení mladého Boháčka.

Filip died on 9 January 2021 at the age of 90 from COVID-19 in Prague.

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1930 births
2021 deaths
Czech movie directors
Television directors
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic
José Méndez (rower)

José Méndez (9 May 1937 – January 2021) was a Spanish rower. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Pontevedra, Spain.

Mendez died in January 2021, aged 83.

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1937 births
2021 deaths
Spanish Olympians
Rowers
Ken Middleditch

Kenneth Arthur Middleditch (5 October 1925 – 9 January 2021) was a British motorcycle speedway rider. He was born in Camberley, Surrey. Middleditch signed for Third Division team Hastings in 1948. By 1949 he had become Hastings top points scorer. He later played for Poole.

Middleditch died on 9 January 2021, aged 95.

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1925 births
2021 deaths
British racecar drivers
Sportspeople from Surrey
Ezra Nawi

Ezra Yitzhak Nawi (; 1952 – 9 January 2021) was an Israeli Mizrahi Jew, left-wing, human rights activist and pacifist. He was supportive of the Bedouin herders and farmers of the South Hebron Hills. He was a supporter of Uri Avnery. He was called "a working-class, liberal gay version of Joe the Plumber".

Nawi died on 9 January 2021 from cancer, aged 69.

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1952 births
2021 deaths
Cancer deaths in Israel
Israeli activists
Gay men
Israeli LGBT people
John Reilly (actor)

John Henry Matthew Reilly (November 11, 1936 – January 9, 2021) was an American actor. He appeared on soap operas including General Hospital, Sunset Beach, and Passions. Reilly was born in Chicago. His career lasted from 1965 until 2013.

Reilly died on January 9, 2021 at the age of 84.

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1936 births
2021 deaths
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
Actors from Chicago
Madhav Singh Solanki

Madhavsinh Singh Solanki (30 July 1927 – 9 January 2021) was an Indian politician. He was leader of Indian National Congress party. He was External Affairs minister of India from 1991 to 1992. He also was the Chief Minister of Gujarat three times from 1976 to 1977, 1980 to 1985 and from 1989 to 1990.

Solanki died on 9 January 2021, aged 93.

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1927 births
2021 deaths
Indian politicians
Cástor Oswaldo Azuaje Pérez

Càstor Oswaldo Azuaje Pérez (19 October 1951 – 8 January 2021) was a Venezuelan Roman Catholic bishop. He became a priest in 1975. 

Azuaje Pérez was titular bishop of Vertara and as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maracaibo, Venezuela, from 2007 to 2012. He then was bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Trujillo, Venezuela, from 2012 until his death.

Azuaje Pérez died from COVID-19 at the age of 69 on 8 January 2021 in Valera, Trujillo.

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1951 births
2021 deaths
Roman Catholic bishops
Venezuelan people
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela
Steve Carver

Steve Carver (April 5, 1945 – January 8, 2021) was an American movie director, producer, and photographer. He was born in New York City. His career began in 1970 and he retired in 1996. His best known works were Lone Wolf McQuade, Big Bad Mama and Capone.

Carver died in Los Angeles from a heart attack on January 8, 2021, at age 75.

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1945 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
American photographers
Movie directors from Los Angeles
Movie producers from Los Angeles
David Darling (musician)

David Darling (March 4, 1941 – January 8, 2021) was an American cellist and composer. In 2010, he won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album. He performed and recorded with Bobby McFerrin, Paul Winter Consort, Ralph Towner and Spyro Gyra.

His best known works were Journal October, Cycles, Cello, Dark Wood, and Prayer for Compassion.

Darling died on January 8, 2021 at the age of 79.

References

Other websites
 Official site
 The Darling Conversations, music philosophy 
 Musicolog
 
 

1941 births
2021 deaths
American cellists
American composers
Musicians from Indiana
Grammy Award winners
People from Elkhart, Indiana
Květa Eretová

Květa Eretová (21 October 1926 – 8 January 2021), née Jeništová, was a Czech chess player. She held the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 1986). She was a ten-time winner of the Czechoslovak Women's Chess Championship (1955, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1975, 1976, 1986). She was born in Prague.

Eretová died on 8 January 2021 in Prague, aged 94.

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1926 births
2021 deaths
Chess players
Sportspeople from Prague
Michael Fonfara

Michael Fonfara (11 August 1946 – 8 January 2021) was a Canadian keyboard player. He was known as a member of The Electric Flag and Rhinoceros in the 1960s, Rough Trade and Lou Reed's backing band in the 1970s and The Downchild Blues Band, from 1990 until his death. He won a Juno Award in 2014. He was born in Stevensville, Ontario.

Fonfara died on 8 January 2021 in Toronto from cancer, aged 74.

References

1946 births
2021 deaths
Cancer deaths in Canada
Musicians from Ontario
Keyboardists
European Games

The European Games is a continental multi-sport event which includes athletes from European nations and several near Europe countries. The European Games were created by the European Olympic Committees (EOC). The first Games took place in 2015 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The second in Minsk, Belarus in 2019.

The 2019 Minsk European Games Sports Programme had 15 kinds of sport.

Sports competitions
Sport in Europe
Multi-sport events
Emile Hemmen

Emile Hemmen (6 December 1923 – 8 January 2021) was a Luxembourgian lyric poet and writer. Hemmen was born in Sandweiler, Luxembourg. From 1945 to 1958 he worked as a teacher. Then he studied in Paris, specializing in psychology and sociology. He worked as an attaché for the Luxembourg Ministry of Education from 1968 to 1969. He founded Éditions Estuaires.

Hemmen died on 8 January 2021 at the age of 97.

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1923 births
2021 deaths
Luxembourgian people
Poets
Educators
Steve Hendrickson

Steven Daniel Hendrickson (August 30, 1966 – January 8, 2021) was a professional American football linebacker in the National Football League. He was born in Richmond, California. He played for San Francisco 49ers (1989), Dallas Cowboys (1989), San Diego Chargers (1990 to 1994), Houston Oilers (1995) and Philadelphia Eagles (1995).

Hendrickson died on January 8, 2021, at his home in Nampa, Idaho at the age of 54.

References

1966 births
2021 deaths
American football linebackers
San Francisco 49ers players
Dallas Cowboys players
San Diego Chargers players
Tennessee Titans players
Philadelphia Eagles players
Sportspeople from California
Sportspeople from Idaho
Steve Lightle

Steve Lightle (November 19, 1959 – January 8, 2021) was an American comics artist. He worked as a penciller. He was best known as the artist of DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes and Doom Patrol titles. He was born in Kansas.

Lightle died on January 8, 2021 from cardiac arrest caused by COVID-19 at the age of 61.

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1959 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from cardiac arrest
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
American comics artists
People from Kansas
Diana Millay

Diana Claire Millay (June 7, 1935 – January 8, 2021) was an American actress. She was best known for her roles as Laura Collins in  Dark Shadows and as Kitty Styles in The Secret Storm.

Millay died on 8 January 2021 in New York at the age of 85.

References

Other websites
 

1935 births
2021 deaths
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
People from Rye, New York
Actors from New York
Bill Nankeville

George William Nankeville (24 March 1925 – 8 January 2021) was a British middle distance athlete. He won the AAA mile title four times in five years from 1948 to 1952. He was born in Guildford, Surrey. He competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Nankeville died on 8 January 2021 at the age of 95.

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Ivo Niederle

Ivo Niederle (26 December 1929 – 8 January 2021) was a Czech actor, entertainer, and commentator. He was born in Prague. He was known for his stage works at Municipal Theaters of Prague. His best known movie and television roles were in Close to Heaven, Žena za pultem, Coach to Vienna.

Niederle died on 8 January 2021 in Prague, aged 91.

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Pippo Santonastaso

Pippo Santonastaso (born 25 May 1936) is an Italian actor and comedian. He was born in Castel San Giovanni, Piacenza.

Santonastaso created an original comic duo with his younger brother Mario and were in many RAI variety shows. He appeared in many commedia sexy all'italiana movies such as Geometra Prinetti selvaggiamente Osvaldo.

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Katharine Whitehorn

Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn CBE (2 March 1928 – 8 January 2021) was a British journalist, columnist, author and radio presenter.  She was the first woman to have a column in The Observer. It ran from 1963 to 1996 and from 2011 to 2017. She was the first female rector of a university in Scotland. She was born in London.

Whitehorn died on 8 January 2021 in London, aged 92. She had Alzheimer's disease and was diagnosed with COVID-19 before her death.

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Shirley Wilson

Shirley Schaub Wilson (September 26, 1925 – January 8, 2021) was an American football coach and player. He was the head football coach at Elon University for 1967 to 1976 and at Duke University from 1979 to 1982. He was born in Madison, North Carolina.

Wilson died on January 8, 2021 in Burlington, North Carolina at the age of 95.

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Madison, North Carolina

Madison is a town in Rockingham County, North Carolina. 2,246 people lived here in 2010.

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Towns in North Carolina
Burlington, North Carolina

Burlington is a city in Alamance and Guilford counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the main city of the Burlington, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area. 50,042 people lived here at the 2010 census.

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Cities in North Carolina
Graham, North Carolina

Graham is a city in Alamance County, North Carolina, United States. It is part of the Burlington, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census 14,153 people lived here. It is the county seat of Alamance County.

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Thomas G. Carpenter

Thomas Glenn Carpenter (February 27, 1926 – January 6, 2021) was an American educator and university administrator. He was the founding President of the University of North Florida (UNF) from 1969–1980, and was President of Memphis State University from 1980 to 1991. 

Carpenter died on January 6, 2021 at the age of 94.

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Pedro Casado

Pedro Casado Bucho (20 November 1937 – 10 January 2021) was a Spanish footballer. He played as a defender. Casado was born in Madrid. From 1956 to 1966, he played for Real Madrid and Plus Ultra from 1957 to 1960. In 1961, he made one appearance for the national team.

Casado died on 10 January 2021 in Madrid, aged 83.

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Georges Pernoud

Georges Alexis Pernoud (11 August 1947 – 10 January 2021) was a French journalist, television presenter and television producer. He was known for presenting his television documentary Thalassa from 1980 to 2017. He was born in Rabat, Morocco.

Pernoud died in Paris on 10 January 2021, aged 73.

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Eve Branson

Evette Huntley Branson (née Flindt; 12 July 1924 – 11 January 2021) was a British philanthropist and child welfare activist. She was the mother of Richard Branson. Branson was born in Edmonton, Middlesex.

Branson toured Germany as a ballet dancer with Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA). She later became an airline hostess for British South American Airways.

Branson was a member of the board of directors of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children ("ICMEC").

Branson died from COVID-19 on 11 January 2021 at the age of 96.

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Lloyd Cowan

Lloyd Cowan  (8 July 1962 – January 2021) was a British track and field athlete. He was born in London.

Cowan was selected for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, but he could not go because of an illness. He represented England in the 110 metres hurdles event, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games. 

He won his last medal at the AAA nationals in 1999.

On 11 January 2021, it was announced that Cowan had died at the age of 58.

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Turlapaty Kutumba Rao

Turlapaty Kutumba Rao (1931 – 11 January 2021) was an Indian journalist and orator. He was known for his journalism in the Telugu language. He was said to have written 4,000 biographies and delivered over 16,000 public speeches which has been recorded by the Telugu Book of Records as a world record.

He was honored by the Government of India, in 2002, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri making him the first journalist from the state of Andhra Pradesh to receive the award.

Rao died on 11 January 2021 in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh at the age of 89.

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András Haán

András Haán (19 June 1946 – 5 January 2021) was a Hungarian basketball player and sailor. He was born in Budapest. He competed in the men's basketball tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He also competed in the sailing at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Haán died on 5 January 2021 in Budapest, aged 74.

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Eddie Bernice Johnson

Eddie Bernice Johnson (born December 3, 1935) is an American politician. She was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas's 30th congressional district. Johnson is a member of the Democratic Party.

References

Other websites
 Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson official U.S. House website
 Campaign website
 
 

1935 births
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William Joseph Burns

William Joseph Burns (born April 11, 1956) is an American politician. Burns is the 8th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency since March 19, 2021 during the Joe Biden administration. He was President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was United States Deputy Secretary of State from 2011 to 2014.

He was Ambassador of the United States to Jordan from 1998 to 2001, Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs from 2001 to 2005, Ambassador of the United States to the Russian Federation from 2005 to 2008, and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2008 to 2011.

On January 11, 2021, President-elect Joe Biden nominated him to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. On March 18, 2021 the United States Senate confirmed his nomination.

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Other websites

United States Embassy in Moscow: Biography of the Ambassador

1956 births
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Natascha McElhone

Natasha Abigail Taylor (born 14 December 1969), known professionally as Natascha McElhone (), is an English actress. She was in Ronin (1998), The Truman Show (1998) and Solaris (2002).

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Life (Culture Club album)

Life is an album by Culture Club. It was released in 2018. It was their sixth album together (apart from several greatest hits albums).

Songs 
'God and Love' 'Human Zoo', 'Let Somebody Love You', 'What Does Sorry Mean?', 'Runaway Train', 'Resting Bitch Face', 'Different Man', 'Oil and Water', 'More than Silence', and 'Life'

2018 albums
David Khakhaleishvili

David Khakhaleishvili (, 28 February 1971 – 11 January 2021) was a Georgian heavyweight judoka, mixed martial artist and Olympic gold medalist. He was born in Kutaisi, Georgia. He won the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He was not able to qualify for the 1996 Summer Olympics because of his weight.

Khakhaleishvili died of heart disease on 11 January 2021 in Tbilisi, Georgia at the age of 49.

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History of Liberia

Liberia is a country in West Africa. White Americans made the American Colonization Society and bought the land in 1822. They didn't want black people who were not slaves to be in the United States. So they took some of them to Liberia. At the start of the American Civil War (in the 1860s) about 12,000 freed slaves lived there. 

The name of the country means "Land of the Free" in Latin. Liberia gained its independence on July 26, 1847. Joseph Jenkins Roberts was the first president of Liberia. European states were quick to recognize Liberia as a state, but it took the US until 1862 to do so. Many of the black people who were sent to Liberia were missionaries. Its official language today is English because of this history.

In the 1990s and in the early 2000s, two civil wars badly affected the country. 

The country's constitution is similar to that of the United States. In the 2017 elections, George Weah became the twenty-fifth President of Liberia. The President before Weah was Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first African female president.

In August 2021, spurred on by President George Weah who called for a roadmap, the Senate voted on a series of recommendations to finally turn the page on this war. It starts with the creation of a victims compensation fund.

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Liberia
Liberia
Wayne Radford

Wayne Radford (May 29, 1956 – January 11, 2021) was an American professional basketball player. He played the guard position. Raford was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He won the NCAA Division I championships in 1976. From 1978 to 1979, Radford played for the Indiana Pacers.

Radford died on January 11, 2021 at the age of 64.

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1956 births
2021 deaths
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Sportspeople from Indianapolis, Indiana
Jessie Cave

Jessica Alice Cave Lloyd (born 5 May 1987) is an English actress, comedian and cartoonist. She played Lavender Brown in the Harry Potter movie series. She is also known for her shows in London and at the Edinburgh Fringe.

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Shefali Chowdhury

Shefali Chowdhury (born 20 June 1988) is a Welsh actress. She played Parvati Patil in the Harry Potter movie series, except for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). 

Chowdhury was born in Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales. Her parents were from Bangladesh. Chowdhury's career began in 2005.

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Other websites
 
 I Am The Doorway  Rowney Brothers Site

1988 births
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Second impeachment of Donald Trump

Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, was impeached for a second time by the United States House of Representatives on January 13, 2021. This made Trump the only president to be impeached twice. After the impeachment, a trial happened in the United States Senate. It happened after his presidency ended. The Senate voted that Trump was not guilty, with only 57 guilty votes. Over two thirds (67) votes were needed for Trump to be found guilty.

Background
After the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol by Donald Trump's supporters on January 6, 2021, many government officials said that Trump had told them to do it. Because of this, Members of Congress from both the Democratic Party wanted to remove Trump from his office as President of the United States. Most Republicans still support the President.

Twenty-fifth amendment
Firstly, they wanted Section 4 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution to be used by Vice President Mike Pence, which would remove office from Trump immediately. If he didn't do this, they said they would impeach him in the House of Representatives and convict him in the Senate instead. Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment was also talked about.

Impeachment plans
As of January 8, Democrats planned to push for an impeachment resolution on January 11. By late January 9, it was said that Pence had not ruled out that he might use the 25th Amendment. On January 11, an Article of Impeachment saying that Trump caused the "lawless action at the Capitol" began in the United States House of Representatives.

On January 13, the House voted to impeach Trump.

House votes

Senate votes

Related pages
 First impeachment of Donald Trump

Notes

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February 2021 events
2021 United States Capitol attack
Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He wrote the best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

Eggers is also the founder of McSweeney's, a co-founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia and the human rights nonprofit Voice of Witness, and the founder of ScholarMatch.

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Amnon Rubinstein

Amnon Rubinstein (, born 5 September 1931) is an Israeli legal scholar, politician, and columnist. He was a member of the Knesset between 1977 and 2002. He was born in Tel Aviv. Rubinstein was a member and leader of the Shinui party. He was a member of the Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin cabinets.

Rubinstein was Minister of Communications from 1984 to 1987. He was Minister of Science, Technology and Space in 1992. From 1992 to 1993, he was Minister of National Infrastructures, Energy and Resources. From 1993 to 1996, he was Minister of Education, Culture and Sport.

In 2006, Rubinstein won the Israel Prize, for law.

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Nina Wiener

Nina Wiener Avidar (born 1933) is an Egyptian-born Israeli activist. She was born in Alexandria, Egypt. In 1977, she founded the ISAF - International Fund for Education.

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Other websites

 Equal Opportunity at The Jerusalem Post

1933 births
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The Jerusalem Post

The Jerusalem Post is a broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem. It was founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post. In 1950, it changed its name to The Jerusalem Post. The newspaper is published in English and also printed a French edition.

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Slash-and-burn

Slash-and-burn is a technique that has been used for thousands of years. Usually at the start of the dry season, a plot of land is  cleared of its vegetation. Very often, this is done manually, for example using machetes. This can take a long time, clearing a hectare can take up to 120 hours of work. If the land is to be used for crops that last more than two years, the roots need to be cleared as well. Usually this is not done for annual plants. The plants cleared are left to dry, often for weeks. When they are dry enough, they are burnt. The ash that is created makes the soil fertile. Weeds, and other pests have also been eliminated, so the field can be used for agriculture. After three to five years, the extra fertility is gone, and the farmer  usually moves ot another field (or again uses slash-and-burn).

Problems 
While the technique is very simple, it also has problems: Often, fires created get out of control, and more land is burned than necessary. That way, a territory the size of Belgium burned down in a fire, created in 1989, in the state of Roraima in Brazil. In general, there are few large fires in the rainforest. the climate is very wet, and rivers block the fires.  In southeast Asia, between May and October, many people have health problems because of the clouds of smoke. During that time, slash-and-burn operations happen in Indonesia. These fires are responsible for the clouds. 

Millions of people use slash-and-burn agriculture, often as a way  of subsistence farming. For this reason, the practice cannot be outlawed. Some steps can be taken ot lessen the impact on the ecosystem:

 Improving soils, for example with charcoal. see also terra preta.
 Adding fast-growing tree species to the primary forest. These trees grow faster than the primary forest. 
 Instead of burning it, the biomass can be cut into small pieces, and left to rot. 
 Using the forest on multiple layers: In the lower layers, for example bananas, in the upper layers: coconuts; alternative: wheat, and citrus fruit or palm trees.

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