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Roger Dumas

Roger Dumas (9 May 1932 – 2 July 2016) was a French actor and comedian. He appeared in more than 100 movies between 1954 and 2016. He was born in Annonay, Ardèche. He was known for his roles in That Man from Rio, Le Concert, and The First Day of the Rest of Your Life.

Dumas died in Paris, France on 2 July 2016, aged 84.

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1932 births
2016 deaths
French movie actors
French television actors
French comedians
Lou Fontinato

Louis Joseph "Leapin' Louie" Fontinato (January 20, 1932 – July 3, 2016) was a Canadian defenceman in the National Hockey League. He played with the New York Rangers from 1954 to 1961 and the Montreal Canadiens from 1961 to 1963.

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Beatrice de Cardi

Beatrice Eileen de Cardi (5 June 1914 – 5 July 2016) was a British archaeologist. He worked in the study of the Persian Gulf and the Baluchistan region of Pakistan. She was president of the British Foundation for the Study of Arabia, and she was Secretary of the Council for British Archaeology from 1949 to 1973.

References

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Making history: the world's oldest archaeologist (Independent Online)
"Better than Indiana Jones", a BBC short clip.
 "Leading TV historians pay tribute to “the world’s oldest archaeologist”", Heritage Daily, 25 February 2014

1914 births
2016 deaths
Accidental deaths from falls
Accidental deaths in the United Kingdom
British archaeologists
British centenarians
Scientists from London
Lüscherz

Lüscherz is a municipality in the administrative district of Seeland in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.

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Kim Chaek

Kim Chaek (Korea:김책, 金策; 14 August 1903 – January 31 1951) was a North Korean resistance activist, military leader, politician and poet. His realname was Kim Hong-gye(김홍계, 金洪啓). First Industry Minister of DPRK, September 2 1948 to January 31 1951. He was military leader of North Korea in the time of Korean War.

In his child years, his family went to Manchuria after 1926, he joined to communist organization. In 1925, he was study to Dongheung Middle school, but in 1927, dropped out of Middle School. In 1930s he was in a communist military organization and friend of Soviet Union. In September 2, 1948, he was appointed to Industry Minister of DPRK, until his death. In January 31, 1951, he died in battle at the time of Korean war, in Pyongyang. His death cause was myocardial infarction or wartime bombing.

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UEFA Euro 2016 Final

The UEFA Euro 2016 Final was a football match that took place on 10 July 2016 at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France. The game determined the winner of the UEFA Euro 2016. The match was played with Portugal and France, and Portugal won the match with a goal from Éder at the 109th minute.

Match

Details

Statistics

References

Other websites 
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2016 in association football
2016 in France
2010s in Île-de-France
July 2016 events
Football in France
Final
Sperlinga

Sperlinga is a comune in the province of Enna, in the central part of Sicily. Sperlinga is about  above sea level. It is on a hill on the southern slopes of the Nebrodi mountains, about  north of Enna. It has a number of dwellings. The village has a large medieval castle, dating from Norman times.

In 2014 the population was 819 people. The main activity in the area is farming.

History 

The village is first mentioned (as "Sperlingua") in a document belonging to the Norman Count Roger from 1082. The castle is first mentioned in 1113.

It is believed that Sperlinga did not take part in the Sicilian Vespers, the bloody uprising against the Angevin French rulers of Sicily in 1282. The village may have offered them protection. There was an inscription over a door in the castle which read ,, meaning "what pleased the Sicilians, only Sperlinga denied".

From about 1360 Sperlinga was ruled by the Ventimiglia family. In 1597 it was sold for 30,834 ounces of gold to Giovanni Natoli.  Natoli was granted a licentia populandi or "licence to populate" by the king of Sicily, Philip II of Spain, and was made Prince of Sperlinga in 1627. His son Francesco sold Sperlinga in 1656 to Giovanni Stefano Oneto, but kept the princely title. Oneto was made Duke of Sperlinga in 1666 by Charles II of Spain.

During the Allied invasion of Sicily, in the Second World War, Allied forces moved past Sperlinga to envelop Nicosia, a few kilometres to the south. They met strong resistance. After a show of force by American tanks, the Axis forces withdrew from Sperlinga and Nicosia during the night of 27 July 1943. Units of the American 16th Infantry Regiment entered Sperlinga the next morning.

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French-speaking countries
History of Italy
Lütschental

Lütschental is a municipality in the administrative district of Interlaken-Oberhasli in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.

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 Official Website 

Municipalities of Bern
Italy national under-21 football team

The Italy national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of Italy. They are the most successful team in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship (with 5 titles).

Andrea Pirlo has made the most appearances for the team, with 46, and Alberto Gilardino is the top scorer, with 19 goals.

UEFA U-23 Championship Record
 1972: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 3 in qualification group.
 1974: Losing quarter-finalists.
 1976: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 3 in qualification group.

UEFA U-21 Championship Record

*Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.

Olympics football Record

Since 1992 Olympics football changed to U-23 event, and the European U-21 teams, technically is a U-23 teams.
The winner, runner-up and third place of UEFA U-21 Championship qualify for Olympics.
Before 1992: See Italy national football team
1992: Losing quarter-finalists.
1996: Group stage.
2000: Losing quarter-finalists.
2004: Bronze Medal.
2008: Losing quarter-finalists.
2012: Did not qualify.
2016: Did not qualify.
2020: Did not qualify

Coaches

1976–1986: Azeglio Vicini
1986–1996: Cesare Maldini
1996–1997: Rossano Giampaglia
1997–2000: Marco Tardelli
2000–2006: Claudio Gentile
2006–2010: Pierluigi Casiraghi
2010–2012: Ciro Ferrara
2012–2013: Devis Mangia
2013–present: Luigi Di Biagio

Related pages
 Italy national football team
 Football at the Summer Olympics

Other websites 
 UEFA Under-21 website Contains full results archive
 The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation Contains full record of U-21/U-23 Championships.

National under-21 football teams
Football in Italy
Lützelflüh

Lützelflüh is a municipality in the administrative district Emmental in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.

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 Official website 

Municipalities of Bern
Lyssach

Lyssach is a municipality in the administrative district of Emmental in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

 Official website of Lyssach 

Municipalities of Bern
Madiswil

Madiswil is a municipality in the administrative district of Oberaargau in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.

Since January 1, 2007, Gutenburg is part of the municipality. On 1 January 2011 Kleindietwil and Leimiswil were merged with the municipality of Madiswil.

References

Other websites

 Official website of Madiswil 

Municipalities of Bern
Gutenburg, Switzerland

Gutenburg was a municipality in the Swiss canton of Bern.

Since January 1, 2007, it is part of the municipality of Madiswil.

Villages in Bern
Former municipalities of Bern
Malleray

Malleray is a former municipality in the administrative district of Jura bernois in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Malleray, Bévilard and Pontenet merged into the new municipality of Valbirse.

Former municipalities of Bern
2015 disestablishments in Switzerland
Hämikon

Hämikon is a former municipality of the district of Hochdorf in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2009 the former municipalities of Hämikon, Gelfingen, Mosen, Müswangen, Retschwil and Sulz merged into the municipality of Hitzkirch.

Former municipalities of Lucerne
Hitzkirch

Hitzkirch is a municipality of the district of Hochdorf in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2009, Gelfingen, Hämikon, Mosen, Müswangen, Retschwil and Sulz joined Hitzkirch.

References

Other websites

 Official website of Hitzkirch 
 

Municipalities of Lucerne
Brief (law)

In law a brief is a formal written argument submitted to a court. It is in a format required by that particular court system. in civil law A brief generally contains the legal arguments in a lawsuit. In a criminal procedure briefs involve the state prosecuting one or more defendants for breaking one or more laws. In general, briefs contain references to the statutes, legal precedents and arguments applied to the facts for this particular case. When an attorney writes a brief, they are implicitly promising to give the court good reasons for ruling in favor of their client.

An appellate brief is a brief prepared for an appellate court. An amicus curiae, literally a "friend of the court", is a third party not involved in the case but who has a strong interest in the case. They may ask the court's permission to file an amicus brief in support of one of the parties.

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Law
Matten bei Interlaken

Matten is a municipality in the administrative district of Interlaken-Oberhasli in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.

References

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Letters patent

Letters patent (always in the plural) are a type of legal instrument in the form of a published written order issued by a monarch, or government. They are generally used in granting an office, right, monopoly, title, or status to a person or corporation.  Letters patent can be used for the creation of corporations or government offices. They may be used for the granting of city status or a coat of arms. Letters patent are issued for the appointment of representatives of the Crown, such as Governors and Governors-General of Commonwealth realms. In the United Kingdom they are also issued for the creation of peers of the realm. A particular form of letters patent has evolved into the modern patent (referred to as a utility patent or design patent in United States patent law). This grants exclusive rights of an invention (or a design in the case of a design patent). In this case it is essential that the written grant should be in the form of a public document so other inventors can consult it to avoid infringement. It is also important to understand how to "practice" the invention or put it into practical use.

The opposite of letters patent are letters close. These are personal in nature and sealed so that only the recipient can read their contents. Letters patent are comparable to other kinds of open letters in that their audience is wide.

References 

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Law
Mattstetten

Mattstetten is a municipality of the administrative district of Bern-Mittelland in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.

References

Municipalities of Bern
Ravichandran Ashwin

Ravichandran Ashwin (born 17 September 1986 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu) is an Indian cricketer playing for the international team. He is a right arm spin bowler. But he bats too well in Test cricket.Ashwin is a right hand batsman. He is a 6 ft 2 inch tall cricketer.

Cricket statistics
Ravichandran Ashwin had played for Indian international cricket team, Chennai Super Kings (IPL), Rising Pune Supergiants (IPL), Tamil Nadu (Ranji trophy) etc. teams.

Test cricket
Ashwin scored 2 centuries in Test cricket, 124 and 103 both vs West Indies cricket team. His best bowling figure in Test cricket is 12/85 vs Australia in Hyderabad. Ashwin is the fastest Indian bowler to reach 100 wickets in 18th Test match and 5th fastest bowler in the world. He became the first Indian to hit a century and take 5 wickets in the same match. The third Indian to receive Man of the Match award on debut. He took 28 wickets in a single series against Australia beating Anil Kumble's world record. He totally picked up 176 wickets and scored 1204 runs in 32 Matches.

One day Internationals
Ravichandran Ashwin scored 658 runs and picked up 142 wickets in 102 matches. His best bowling figure in ODI is 4/25 vs U.A.E in World Cup 2015. He is appreciated in One day Internationals for his economy rate while bowling and different variations. His highest batting score is 65 vs New Zealand.

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Living people
Indian cricketers
People from Chennai
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Iffwil

Iffwil is a municipality in the administrative district of Bern-Mittelland in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.

References

Municipalities of Bern
Meienried

Meienried is a municipality in the administrative district of Seeland in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.

References 

Municipalities of Bern
La Baroche

La Baroche is a municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2009 the former municipalities of Asuel, Charmoille, Fregiécourt, Miécourt and Pleujouse merged into the new municipality of La Baroche.

References

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2009 establishments in Switzerland
Municipalities of Jura
Uma Shankar Mishra

Uma Shankar Mishra (1923 – 3 July 2016) was an Indian politician. He was an Indian Independence Movement Activist. He served as President-District Congress Committee Raebareli until his death in 2016. His political party is Indian National Congress. He was born in Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh.

Mishra died in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh on 3 July 2016, aged 93.

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Mauricio Walerstein

Mauricio Walerstein (29 March 1945 – 3 July 2016) was a Mexican movie director, screenwriter and movie producer. He directed 17 movies between 1971 and 2014. His 1973 movie Cuando quiero llorar no lloro was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival. He also directed Spaniards in Paris (1973).

Walerstein died on 3 July 2016 in Mexico City, Mexico, aged 71.

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1945 births
2016 deaths
Mexican movie directors
Mexican screenwriters
Mexican movie producers
Writers from Mexico City
William Hawkins (writer)

William Alfred Hawkins (May 20, 1940 – July 4, 2016) was a Canadian songwriter, poet, musician and journalist. He was known for his works in the 1960s to Canadian folk rock music and to Canadian poetry.  His best known song is "Gnostic Serenade", originally recorded by 3's a Crowd.

References

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William Hawkins Website
Hawkins reading from his Collected Poems in Ottawa on November 28, 2015.

1940 births
2016 deaths
Canadian songwriters
Canadian poets
Canadian journalists
Canadian musicians
People from Ottawa
Markus Werner

Markus Werner (; 27 December 1944 – 3 July 2016) was a Swiss writer. He was known as the author of the novels Zündels Abgang (Zündel’s Departure) and Am Hang (On the Edge). He was born in Eschlikon, Thurgau. From 1975 to 1985, he worked as a teacher, and from 1985 to 1990 as an assistant professor at the Kantonsschule (high school) in Schaffhausen.

Werner died on 3 July 2016 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, aged 72.

Works
 Bilder des Endgültigen, Entwürfe des Möglichen. Zum Werk Max Frischs, Univ. Diss. 1974 (literally: “Pictures of the definitive. Drafts of the possible. About Max Frisch’s work”)
 Zündels Abgang, novel, 1984,  (Zündel’s Departure)
 Froschnacht, novel, 1985, ,  (literally: „Frog night“)
 Die kalte Schulter, novel, 1989,  (literally: „The cold shoulder“)
 Bis bald, novel, 1992, ,  (2005/2006 in the book series Schweizer Bibliothek) (literally: „Good bye“)
 Festland, novel, 1996, ,  (literally: „Mainland“)
 Der ägyptische Heinrich, novel, 1999, ,  (literally: „The Egyptian Heinrich“)
 Am Hang, novel, 2004, , translated into English by Robert E. Goodwin as On the Edge, 2013,

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1944 births
2016 deaths
Swiss writers
Gordon Murray (puppeteer)

Gordon Murray (3 May 1921 – 30 June 2016) was a British television producer and puppeteer. He created and wrote popular children's television programmes. Camberwick Green, Trumpton,  and Chigley, known as the Trumptonshire Trilogy, were all made by the company he set up.

Murray died in London on 30 June 2016, aged 95.

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2016 deaths
British television producers
Puppeteers
Entertainers from London
Martin Lundström

Martin Lundström (30 May 1918 – 30 June 2016) was a Swedish cross-country skier. He competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He was born in Tvärliden, Norsjö Municipality.

Lundström won two Olympic gold medals during the 1948 Winter Olympics in Saint-Moritz, Switzerland at the 18 km and 4 x 10 km relay events. He also won a bronze medal in the 4 x 10 km relay at the 1952 Winter Olympics.

Lundström also won at the 18 km event at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1948. Additionally, he won a gold in the 4 x 10 km relay at the 1950 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.

He died in June 2016 in Stockholm at the age of 98.

References

Other websites
profile with image
Holmenkollen winners since 1892  - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file 

1918 births
2016 deaths
Swedish sportspeople
Geoffrey Hill

Sir Geoffrey William Hill, FRSL (18 June 1932 – 30 June 2016) was an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University. 

Hill has been thought to be among the most famous poets of his generation and was called the "greatest living poet in the English language." 
From 2010 to 2015, he held the position of Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford.

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1932 births
2016 deaths
English poets
British educators
People from Worcestershire
Juan Habichuela

Juan Habichuela (né Juan Carmona Carmona; 1933 – 30 June 2016) was a Spanish flamenco guitarist. He began his artistic life as a dancer, and later learned guitar.

He wrote songs with many famous Spanish musicians such as Manolo Caracol, Juan Valderrama, Fosforito, and Enrique Morente. He was nominated for the Latin Grammy Award for Best Flamenco Album in 2000. Habichuela received the Latin Grammy Trustees Award in 2012 for "significant contributions, other than performance, to the field of recording during their careers".

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1933 births
2016 deaths
Spanish musicians
Guitarists
Don Friedman

Donald Ernest "Don" Friedman (May 4, 1935 – June 30, 2016) was an American jazz pianist. He was born in San Francisco, California.

Friedman performed with Dexter Gordon, Chet Baker, Buddy DeFranco and Ornette Coleman, among others, before moving to New York. There, he led his own trio in addition to playing in Pepper Adams's, Booker Little's and Jimmy Giuffre's bands in the 1960s. He was also a part of Clark Terry's big band. 

He most recently worked in New York as a pianist and jazz educator. He 

Friedman died on June 30, 2016 in The Bronx, New York, aged 81.

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Pat Summitt

Patricia Sue Summitt (née Head; June 14, 1952 – June 28, 2016) was an American college basketball head coach. During her career, she won 1,098 games. They are the most in NCAA basketball history. She was born in Clarksville, Tennessee.

She served as the head coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team from 1974 to 2012, before retiring at age 59 because of a diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's disease.  She won eight NCAA championships (a NCAA women's record when she retired), a number surpassed only by the 10 titles won by UCLA men's coach John Wooden and the 11 titles won by UConn women's coach Geno Auriemma. She was the first NCAA coach, and one of four college coaches overall, with at least 1,000 wins.

Summitt died at a retirement home on June 28, 2016 from dementia in Knoxville, Tennessee, aged 64.

References

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 Pat Summitt Foundation

1952 births
2016 deaths
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People with Alzheimer's disease
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Xu Jiatun

Xu Jiatun (; 10 March 1916 – 29 June 2016) was a Chinese communist politician and dissident. He was the Chinese Communist Party secretary of Jiangsu Province from 1977 to 1983 and the Governor of Jiangsu from 1977 to 1979. After supporting  the 1989 Tiananmen Square student protests, he left the country and lived in self-exile in the United States.

Xu died in Los Angeles, California on 29 June 2016 at the age of 100.

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Chinese politicians
Communists
Sean Rooks

Sean Lester Rooks (September 9, 1969 – June 7, 2016) was an American professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1992 to 2004. He was an Assistant for Player Development for the Philadelphia 76ers. He played college basketball for the Arizona Wildcats, earning all-conference honors in the Pac-10 (known later as the Pac-12) as a senior. He was born in New York City.

For the NBA, Rooks played for the Dallas Mavericks, Minnesota Timberwolves, Atlanta Hawks, Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers, New Orleans Hornets, and the Orlando Magic. He retired from playing in 2012. He was the assistant coach for the Philadelphia 76ers at the time of his death.

Rooks died on June 7, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from heart disease, aged 46.

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Cardiovascular disease deaths in the United States
Dallas Mavericks players
Minnesota Timberwolves players
Atlanta Hawks players
Los Angeles Lakers players
Los Angeles Clippers players
New Orleans Hornets players
Orlando Magic players
Sportspeople from New York City
Stephen Keshi

Stephen Okechukwu Keshi (23 January 1962 – 7 June 2016) was a Nigerian football defender. He was also a football manager of the Nigeria national team. He was one of only two people, along with Egypt's Mahmoud El-Gohary, to have won the Africa Cup of Nations as both a player and a coach.

Keshi died of a heart attack on 7 June 2016 in Benin City, Nigeria, aged 54.

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1962 births
2016 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Nigerian footballers
Sascha Lewandowski

Sascha Lewandowski (5 October 1971 – 8 June 2016) was a German football manager. He last managed Union Berlin. Lewandowski was head coach of VfL Bochum II between 1 July 2006 to 31 December 2006. He was appointed as the head coach of Union Berlin on 1 September 2015. He stepped down on 4 March 2016, after six months in charge.

He was born on 5 October 1971 in Dortmund, West Germany.  On 9 June 2016, Lewandowski was found dead at his home in Bochum, Germany. He had died the day before his body was found.

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2016 deaths
German football managers
People from Dortmund
Sportspeople from North Rhine-Westphalia
Qahhor Mahkamov

Qahhor Mahkamov (; alternative spelling Kahar Mahkamov; born April 16, 1932 – June 8, 2016) was a Tajik politician. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan and was the first President of Tajikistan. He served as president from 1990 through 1991.

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Other websites
 Obituary

1932 births
2016 deaths
Presidents of Tajikistan
Marina Malfatti

Marina Malfatti (25 April 1933 – 8 June 2016) was an Italian actress. She was born in Florence, Italy. She was known for her roles in The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, The Red Queen Kills Seven Times, and in Black Killer.

Malfatti died on 8 June 2016 in Rome, Italy, aged 83.

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Other websites
 

1940 births
2016 deaths
People from Florence
Italian movie actors
Italian television actors
Italian stage actors
Hamza Ali

Hamza Sultan Ali,  also known as Hamza Shabbir (8 August 1995 – 9 June 2016) was an English cricketer. 

He played for Hampshire, MCC Young Cricketers and Rawalpindi Rams. He played with his right-arm. He was a fast-medium bowler. He also batted right handed. Ali attended City Academy Bristol and Filton Sixth Form College.

Ali died after drowning at the River Avon, Bristol on 9 June 2016, aged 20.

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1995 births
2016 deaths
Deaths by drowning
English cricketers
People from Bristol
Meikirch

Meikirch is a municipality in the administrative district of Bern-Mittelland in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.

References

Municipalities of Bern
Nicole Courcel

Nicole Courcel (21 October 1931 – 25 June 2016) was a French actress. She was popular through the 1950s and 1960s. She was born in Saint-Cloud, western suburbs of Paris.

She appeared in 43 movies between 1947 and 1979. After working as an extra in a few movies, she won a major role in Rendez-vous de juillet (1949), with Brigitte Auber.  In 1970, she turned to television appearing in different television movies and miniseries, in which she continued to work until 2004.

Courcel is best known for her role in Serge Bourguignon's Sundays and Cybele (1962).  She had notable parts in: La Marie du port (1950, opposite Jean Gabin), Sacha Guitry's Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954), and La Sorcière (1956, opposite Marina Vlady).

Courcel died on 25 June 2016 in Paris, aged 84.

References

Other websites

Nicole Courcel at Cinémathèque française
In 'Sherlock Holmes: Case of the Deadly Prophecy at Internet Archive

1931 births
2016 deaths
French movie actors
French television actors
French stage actors
Actors from Paris
Seven Days Battles

The Seven Days Battles (June 25, 1862 – July 1, 1862) were a series of six major battles fought near Richmond, Virginia during the American Civil War. Union army. In early 1862, Major general George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac landed at Hampton, Virginia and began fighting its way up the Virginia Peninsula. By mid-may his army of over 100,000 soldiers were on the outskirts of Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital. If McClellan could capture Richmond, it could end the war. The city was defended by the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. The two armies had just fought the Battle of Seven Pines in which the Confederate general, Joseph E. Johnston, was wounded. Jefferson Davis appointed General Robert E. Lee as the new commander. Lee's victory in the Seven Days Battles proved to be among the most decisive battles of the Peninsula Campaign.

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Meinisberg

Meinisberg () is a municipality of the administrative district Biel/Bienne in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.

References

Municipalities of Bern
Siege of Yorktown (1862)

The Battle of Yorktown or Siege of Yorktown was fought from April 5 to May 4, 1862, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. Marching from Fort Monroe, Union Major general George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac encountered Maj. Gen. John B. Magruder's small Confederate force at Yorktown. McClellan suspended his march up the Virginia Peninsula toward Richmond and settled in for siege operations.

On April 5, the IV Corps of Brigadier general Erasmus D. Keyes made initial contact with Confederate defensive works at Lee's Mill. This was an area McClellan expected to move through without resistance. Magruder's movement of troops back and forth convinced the Union that his works were strongly held. As the two armies fought an artillery duel, reconnaissance indicated to Keyes the strength of the Confederate fortifications, and he advised McClellan against assaulting them. McClellan ordered the construction of siege fortifications and brought his heavy siege guns to the front. In the meantime, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston brought reinforcements for Magruder.

On April 16, Union forces probed a point in the Confederate line at Dam No. 1. The Union failed to exploit the initial success of this attack, however. This lost opportunity held up McClellan for two additional weeks while he tried to convince the U.S. Navy to bypass the Confederates' big guns at Yorktown and Gloucester Point and ascend the York River to West Point and outflank the Warwick Line. McClellan planned a massive bombardment for dawn on May 5. But the Confederate army had slipped away during the night of May 3 toward Williamsburg.

The battle took place near the site of the 1781 Siege of Yorktown, the final battle of the American Revolutionary War in the east.

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1862 in Virginia
Peninsula Campaign
Bill Cunningham

William John "Bill" Cunningham Jr. (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) was an American fashion photographer for The New York Times. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts.

Cunningham was known for his candid and street photography. He first became known as a designer of women's hats before moving on to writing about fashion for Women's Wear Daily and the Chicago Tribune. He began taking candid photographs on the streets of New York City. His work came to the attention of The New York Times with a 1978 capture of Greta Garbo in an unguarded moment. Cunningham reported for the paper from 1978 to 2016.

Cunningham died from complications of a stroke at a New York City hospital on June 25, 2016, aged 87.

References

Other websites

On the Street , Cunningham's weekly slideshow for the New York Times online

1929 births
2016 deaths
Deaths from stroke
Cardiovascular disease deaths in New York City
American photographers
People from Boston, Massachusetts
People from New York City
Meiringen

Meiringen is a municipality in the administrative district of Interlaken-Oberhasli in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.

Villages
Balm, Brünigen, Eisenbolgen, Hausen, Prasti, Sand, Stein, Unterbach, Unterheidon, Wylerli and Zaun.

References

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 Official Website 

Municipalities of Bern
Ron Lester

Ron Lester (August 4, 1970 – June 17, 2016) was an American actor. He was best known for his roles in the movies Varsity Blues, Not Another Teen Movie, Good Burger, and the TV show Popular. He was born in Kennesaw, Georgia.

Lester died at a hospital in Dallas, Texas on June 17, 2016 from liver and kidney failure, aged 45.

References

Other websites
Official website

1970 births
2016 deaths
Deaths from liver failure
Deaths from renal failure
Disease-related deaths in Texas
American movie actors
American television actors
Actors from Georgia (U.S. state)
David Morgenthaler

David Turner Morgenthaler (August 5, 1919 – June 17, 2016) was an American businessman and capitalist. He founded the venture capital firm Morgenthaler Ventures. He was also important in helping change the U.S. capital gains tax rate from 49% to 28% in 1978 and amending ERISA legislation to allow pension funds to invest in venture capital in 1979. He was born in Chester, South Carolina.

Morgenthaler died on June 17, 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio, aged 96.

Other websites
 David Morgenthaler biography 
 David Morgenthaler testimony to the Senate Small Business Committee, February 1978.
 David Morgenthaler , March 23, 2006
 Smart Leaders: DAVID MORGENTHALER 
 “The Smart VC: He’s seen it all”, “Red Herring”     "The Smart VC: He's seen it all", "Red Herring,"
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People from Chester, South Carolina
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Betty Reid Soskin

Betty Reid Soskin (nee Charbonnet; born September 22, 1921) is an American Park Ranger with the National Park Service. Soskin speaks clearly about how important national parks are. She says national parks are very important for telling American history. She helped to develop the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California. She works there as a ranger. 

, at age 100, she is the oldest National Park Ranger serving the United States.

Famous For 
Soskin is most famous for being a guide at the Rosie the Riveter World War II National Park. She talks about how the story of World War II that we hear is mainly white and male. She also supports national parks and how they educate the public. She also talks about her and her family's experiences with racism.

Early life and family 
Soskin was born on September 22, 1921, in Detroit, Michigan. She was a mix of Spanish, French, and African, but identified as black. Betty married Mel Reid and they had four kids shortly after graduating high school. She experienced racism and decided to get involved in the civil rights movement. The couple started a business called Reid’s Records in 1945. They got a divorce after about 30 years of being married. 

Soskin then married Bill Soskin in 1976 but their marriage ended after just four years. She later worked to make less drugs and crime in Berkeley, California after that. She got a job as a businesswoman. After, she helped plan the Rosie the Riveter and World War II National Park in Richmond, California.

Soskin turned 100 in September 2021.

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Other websites
 Betty Reid Soskin: Rosie the Riveter World War II American Homefront Oral History Project
 Reid's Records
Official website for Soskin's memoir

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Mary Feik

Mary Feik (March 9, 1924 – June 10, 2016) was an American aviation engineer, master mechanic, pilot, instructor and aircraft restorer. She received many awards and honors in her career. She was a colonel in the Civil Air Patrol.

Feik died in Annapolis, Maryland from cancer on June 10, 2016, aged 92.

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Edmund Preston, Barry A. Lanman and John R. Breihan. Maryland Aloft: A Celebration of Aviators, Airfields, and Airspace
'Timeless Voices - Mary Feik' 

Cancer deaths in Maryland
American aviators
1924 births
2016 deaths
William L. Armstrong

William Lester "Bill" Armstrong (March 16, 1937 – July 5, 2016) was an American businessman and politician. He was a member of the Republican party. He served as a United States Representative and Senator from Colorado.

Armstrong died in Lakewood, Colorado on July 5, 2016 from cancer, aged 79.

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Alexander Gorlov

Alexander M. Gorlov (March 23, 1931 – June 10, 2016) was a Russian-born American mechanical engineer. He was Professor Emeritus and Director of Hydro-Pneumatic Power Laboratory at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. He was known for creating the Gorlov Helical Turbine.

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Alex Govan

Alexander "Alex" Govan (16 June 1929 – 10 June 2016) was a Scottish professional footballer. He played at outside left. Most of his career, he played with Plymouth Argyle (in two spells) and with Birmingham City during their most successful period in the 1950s. He also had a short spell with Portsmouth. 

Govan died at his Plymouth, England home on 10 June 2016 at the age of 86.

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Habib (singer)

Habib Mohebian (; 27 September 1947 – 10 June 2016), commonly known as Habib, was an Iranian singer-songwriter. He was born in Tehran.

Habib has many hit songs such as “Marde Tanhaye Shab”, “Shahla”, and “Madar”. The song “Shahla” was inspired after listening to an Azeri performer. However, there is a common misconception that Shahla has been inspired by Habib’s ex-wife (the name of his ex-wife is Shaadi and not Shahla).

Habib died on June 10, 2016 in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran, from a heart attack, aged 68.

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 Piano Sheet Music and Guitar Chords of Marde Tanhaye Shab
 http://www.cloob.com/club/album/photoall/clubname/habib 
 http://musicboxla.stores.yahoo.net/habib.html 

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Iranian musicians
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Gopal Gurung

Gopal Gurung ( ( July 27, 1935 – June 10, 2016) was a Nepali journalist, author, politician and futurist of global politics. He led the fight against the discrimination done by the Indo Aryan (Bahun and Kshetri) people to the indigenous Mongol people of Nepal. He was the founder president of Mongol National Organization (MNO) and the first pioneer of republican Nepal.

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Mimmo Palmara

Domenico "Mimmo" Palmara (25 July 1928 – 10 June 2016) was an Italian actor. He was born in Cagliari. Palmara made his movie debut in 1952 as character actor in drama movies by famous directors such as Luchino Visconti, Mario Monicelli and Antonio Pietrangeli. He was known for his roles as Sheriff Steven Benson in For One Thousand Dollars Per Day.

Palmara died on 10 June 2016 in Rome, Italy, aged 87.

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 Obituary

1928 births
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Italian movie actors
Vasyl Slipak

Vasyl Yaroslavovych Slipak (, December 20, 1974 – June 29, 2016) was a Ukrainian baritone opera singer. From 1994, he performed in France at such venues as Paris Opéra and Opéra Bastille. For his opera performance, Slipak received several awards, including "Best Male Performance" for the Toreador Song. Hero of Ukraine.

Repertoire 
 Escamillo / Carmen / Georges Bizet
 Figaro / The Marriage of Figaro / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 Ramfis / Aida / Giuseppe Verdi
 Boris Godunov / Boris Godunov / Modest Mussorgsky
 Igor Svyatoslavich / Prince Igor / Alexander Borodin
 Prince Gremin / Eugene Onegin / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
 Il Commendatore (Don Pedro), Masetto / Don Giovanni / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 Lindorf, Dapertutto, Coppélius, Miracle / The Tales of Hoffmann / Jacques Offenbach
 Sparafucile / Rigoletto / Giuseppe Verdi
 Sarastro, Speaker of the temple, Three priests / The Magic Flute / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 Don Giovanni / Don Giovanni / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 Colline / La bohème / Giacomo Puccini
 Méphistophélès / Faust / Charles Gounod 
 Banco / Macbeth / Giuseppe Verdi
 Mainfroid, a Sicilian, adherent of Procida / Les vêpres siciliennes / Giuseppe Verdi
 Philippe II / Don Carlos / Giuseppe Verdi
 Basilio / The Barber of Seville / Gioachino Rossini
 Ralph / La jolie fille de Perth / Georges Bizet
 Count Rodolfo / La sonnambula / Vincenzo Bellini
 Don Alfonso / Così fan tutte / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 Demon / The Demon / Anton Rubinstein
 Forester, Badger, Harašta, the poacher / The Cunning Little Vixen / Leoš Janáček
 Death, Loudspeaker / Der Kaiser von Atlantis / Viktor Ullmann

Death
Following the outbreak of the War in Donbass|pro-Russian insurgency in Donbass, Slipak returned to Ukraine and join in the 2014 Ukrainian revolution. In 2015, Slipak joined the fights against pro-Russian insurgents as a member of the 7th Battalion of the Volunteer Ukrainian Corps of the Right Sector.

On 29 June 2016, Slipak was killed by a sniper shot near Luhanske, Bakhmut Raion. He was aged 41.

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Alfred Oftedal Telhaug

Alfred Oftedal Telhaug (25 September 1934 – 10 June 2016) was a Norwegian educator.

Telhaug was born in Skudeneshavn. He graduated from Stavanger Cathedral School in 1953, the University of Oslo in 1962, and took the Ph.D. degree at the University of Trondheim in 1990.

He was assigned with Norges Lærerhøgskole in Trondheim (later the Norwegian University of Science and Technology) from 1967 to 2001, and chaired the University's Institute of Pedagogy for three periods. From 1973 to 1981, he edited the journal Norsk Pedagogisk Tidsskrift.

His publications include Fra parallelle skoler til enhetsskole from 1974, Vår nye videregående skole from 1975, Norsk skoleutvikling etter 1945 from 1982, and Norsk utdanningspolitisk retorikk 1945–2000 from 1999. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

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Giuseppe Virgili

Giuseppe Virgili (24 July 1935 – 10 June 2016) was an Italian footballer. He played as a striker.

He was born in Udine, Italy. Virgili played for Udinese, Fiorentina, Torino, Bari, Livorno and Taranto. He entered the Fiorentina Hall of Fame in 2013.

He also scored two goals in 7 appearances for the national team.

Virgili died in hospital at the age of 80, following an illness.

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1935 births
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Italian footballers
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Rudi Altig

Rudi Altig (18 March 1937 – 11 June 2016) was a German professional track and road racing cyclist. He won the 1962 Vuelta a España and the world championship in 1966. After his retirement from sports he worked as a television commentator.

Altig died on 11 June 2016 in Remagen, Germany, as a result of cancer, aged 79.

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1937 births
2016 deaths
German cyclists
People from Mannheim
Sportspeople from Baden-Württemberg
Scotty Moore

Winfield Scott "Scotty" Moore III (December 27, 1931 – June 28, 2016) was an American guitarist and recording engineer. He was best known for his work with Elvis Presley in the first part of his career, between 1954 and the beginning of Elvis's Hollywood years. 

Moore died on June 28, 2016, in Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 84.

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Buddy Ryan

James David "Buddy" Ryan (February 17, 1931 – June 28, 2016) was an American football coach in the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL). During his 35-season coaching career, Ryan served as the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles and Arizona Cardinals, and the defensive coordinator of the Chicago Bears and Houston Oilers of the NFL.

Ryan died at his ranch in Shelbyville, Kentucky on June 28, 2016 from cancer, aged 85.

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Lake Chungará

Lake Chungará (from Aymara: chunkara "moss on the stone") is a lake in the extreme north of Chile, in the Altiplano of the Arica y Parinacota region. It is the 29th highest lake in the world (and the 10th highest in South America).

The lake is near the volcanos Parinacota () and Pomerape (). It is part of the Lauca National Park, in the Putre comuna. The lake is at about  to the east of the town of Putre and about  to the west of the border with Bolivia.

In the lake and streams nearby, there are some small fish that are endemic to the lake basin: pencil catfish, Trichomycterus chungaraensis, and Orestias chungarensis.

Related pages
 Arica y Parinacota Region

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Shaibu Amodu

Shuaibu Amodu (18 April 1958 – 10 June 2016) was a Nigerian football coach and player. Amodu has managed a number of club sides in Nigeria, such as BCC Lions, El-Kanemi Warriors, and Shooting Stars; he also managed Orlando Pirates in South Africa.

He first managed the Nigerian national team from April 2001 to February 2002.

Amodu died on 10 June 2016 in Benin City, aged 58.

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Dan Patrick

Daniel Patrick Pugh (born May 15, 1956), known professionally as Dan Patrick, is an American sportscaster, radio personality, and actor. He currently hosts The Dan Patrick Show broadcast on radio and on television. He also currently co-hosts NBC's Football Night in America and serves as a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. He previously worked at ESPN for 18 years, where he often anchored the weeknight and Sunday 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter.

Other websites
Dan Patrick Online Official website on CNN.com
Dan Patrick biography

Emmy Award winners
1956 births
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Actors from Ohio
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Sully (movie)

Sully is a 2016 American biographical drama movie directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood. It is written by Todd Komarnicki. It is about the US Airways Flight 1549 and Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, based on the autobiography Highest Duty by Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow.

The movie stars Tom Hanks as Sullenberger, with Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney, Anna Gunn, Autumn Reeser, Holt McCallany, Jamey Sheridan, and Jerry Ferrara. The movie was released by Warner Bros. on September 9, 2016.

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Asghar Bichareh

Asghar Bichareh (Persian اصغر بیچاره; June 11, 1927 – June 11, 2016) was an Iranian photographer and actor. Bichareh was a photographer for the Iranian movie and music industries. He acted in over 23 movies. Bichareh was known for his collection of old cameras and cinema and theater photos. 

Bichareh died of laryngeal cancer on his 89th birthday on June 11, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.

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Other websites
Asghar Bichareh on IMDB

Iranian actors
1927 births
2016 deaths
Deaths from laryngeal cancer
Cancer deaths in Los Angeles
Photographers
People from Tehran
Bryan Robinson

Bryan Keith Robinson, nicknamed "Big Dog", (June 22, 1974June 11, 2016) was an American football defensive tackle. He was originally signed by the St. Louis Rams as an undrafted free agent in 1997. 

Robinson also played for the Chicago Bears, the Miami Dolphins, the Cincinnati Bengals, and the Arizona Cardinals.

On June 11, 2016, Robinson was found dead in a Milwaukee motel room, aged 41.

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Lars Skytøen

Lars Mauritz Skytøen (13 December 1929 – 11 June 2016) was a Norwegian politician. He was a member of the Labour Party. He was Minister of Industry and Craft 1979-1981.

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Kunio Hatoyama

was a Japanese politician. He served as Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications under Prime Minister Tarō Asō until 12 June 2009.

Hatoyama died on 20 June 2016 in a hospital in Tokyo, at the age of 67.

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Henk Hofland

Hendrik Johannes Adrianus "Henk" Hofland (; 20 July 1927 – 21 June 2016) was a Dutch journalist, commentator, essayist and columnist. H.J.A. Hofland, as he is also commonly known, is often referred to as the éminence grise of Dutch journalism.

In 1999 he was named Dutch "Journalist of the century" in a nationwide poll among his fans. He once called himself as belonging to the "anarcho-liberal community", though his political orientation is that of the secular center of society.

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Al Howie

Al Howie (September 16, 1945 – June 21, 2016) was a Canadian long-distance runner. He was born in Glasgow to Canadian parents. He won more than fifty marathons, ultramarathons and multiday races in over 20 years. He won the 1991 Trans Canada Highway run (7295 kilometers) in the record time of 72 days and 10 hours. He won six-day foot races in California and seven-day races in New York. He was known as theSpartan Tartan. In 1987, Mr. Howie married Claudia Cole.

Howie died in Duncan, British Columbia from complications of diabetes, aged 70.

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Joan Acker

Joan Elise Robinson Acker (March 18, 1924 – June 22, 2016) was an American feminist sociologist, researcher, writer, and educator. She was a part of the University of Oregon faculty since 1967. Acker was thought as one of the leading analysts regarding gender and class within the second wave of feminism.

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