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Patachou

Henriette Ragon (10 June 1918 – 30 April 2015), better known by her stage name Patachou, was a French actress and singer. She appeared on stage, television and movies between 1953 and 2006. She also wrote at least twenty songs. On 1 January 2009, she was awarded the Legion of Honour.

Patachou was born in Paris. Her son, Pierre Billon (born 1946), is a songwriter.

Patachou died on 30 April 2015 in Paris, aged 96.

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Actors from Paris
French movie actors
French singers
French stage actors
French television actors
Legion of Honour
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Gregory Mertens

Gregory Mertens (2 February 1991 – 30 April 2015) was a Belgian professional footballer. His position was central defender. He played in the Belgian Pro League, playing for Cercle Brugge (2011–2014) and Lokeren (2014–2015). He was born in Anderlecht.

Mertens went into cardiac arrest and collapsed on 27 April 2015 while playing a game against K.R.C. Genk. He died from heart failure on 30 April at a Genk hospital, aged 24.

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Lennart Bodström

Ture Lennart Bodström (20 April 1928 - 30 April 2015) was a Swedish politician. He was born in Gothenburg. He served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs in Olof Palme's Social Democratic cabinet from 1982 to 1985. Following the 1985 election, Bodström was reassigned to the post of Minister for Education.

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United Nations Integrated Mission in East Timor

The United Nations Integrated Mission in East Timor (UNMIT) is a peacekeeping operation that was created in August 25, 2006 by UN Security Council Resolution 1704. Its objectives are "to support the Government in consolidating stability, enhancing a culture of democratic governance, and facilitating political dialogue among Timorese stakeholders, in their efforts to bring about a process of national reconciliation and to foster social cohesion". The operation ended on December 31, 2012.

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Killing of Eric Garner

Eric Garner (September 15, 1970 – July 17, 2014) was a man from Staten Island, New York City. He died in the same borough after a police officer put him in a chokehold for 15 seconds. The New York City Medical Examiner's Office found that Garner died partly because of the chokehold.

New York City Police Department officers talked to Garner because they thought he was selling cigarettes illegally. When Officer Daniel Pantaleo took Garner's wrist behind his back, Garner swatted his arms away. Pantaleo then  put his arm around Garner's neck and pulled him backwards and to the ground. After Pantaleo removed his arm from around Garner's neck, he pushed Garner's face into the ground. Four officers went to restrain Garner, who said "I can't breathe" several times.

On December 3, 2014, a grand jury decided to not indict officer Pantaleo. This led to protests and rallies with charges of police brutality. As of December 28, 2014, more than fifty demonstrations had been held across the United States.

In the aftermath of Garner's death, his daughter Erica, Al Sharpton and many others began to protest against police brutality. Erica died of complications from a heart attack on December 30, 2017 at the age of 27.

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Anticonvulsant

An anticonvulsant is a drug that is used to treat seizures which are commmonly associated with epilepsy. For this reason, they are also known as antiepileptic drugs or anti-seizure drugs. Many of these drugs act as mood stabilizers. For this reason they are also used to treat mood disorders, such as bipolar disorder. 

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David Day (broadcaster)

David "Daisy" Day (1951 – 1 May 2015) was an Australian radio broadcaster. He began his disc jockey career at age 16 in Moree. He was best known for working on radio stations such as 5KA and Triple M from the 1970s in South Australia. In 2013, he published his autobiography, Rock Jock. He was born in New South Wales.

Day died on 1 May 2015 in Adelaide, aged 63. He had health issues for some time before his death.

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Thomas Perez

Thomas Edward Perez (born October 7, 1961 in Buffalo, New York) is an American politician, consumer advocate and civil rights lawyer. On July 23, 2013, he was sworn in as the United States Secretary of Labor. Perez is a member of the Democratic Party. He previously was the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice.

Perez announced his candidacy for Chair of the Democratic National Committee in the 2017 election on December 15, 2016. On February 25, 2017, Perez was elected Chairman on a second ballot.  Minutes after being elected, Perez named Keith Ellison as deputy chair. He resigned in January 2021.

On June 23, 2021, Perez announced that he would be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Maryland in the 2022 election.

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1961 births
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Ben E. King

Benjamin Earl "Ben" King (born Benjamin Earl Nelson; September 28, 1938 – April 30, 2015) was an American soul and R&B singer. He was best known as the singer and co-composer of "Stand by Me". The song became a US Top 10 hit in both 1961 and later in 1986 (when it was used as the theme to the movie of the same name).

King was born in Henderson, North Carolina and grew up in Harlem, New York City from age nine. He later lived in Teaneck, New Jersey. He was married to Betty from 1964 until his death. He had three children.

King died from coronary heart disease on April 30, 2015 in Hackensack, New Jersey, aged 76.

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Musicians from Manhattan
Musicians from New Jersey
Musicians from North Carolina
People from Teaneck, New Jersey
Stirling Castle

Stirling Castle, is a castle in Stirling, Scotland. It is one of the largest and most important castles in the United Kingdom. It guarded an important crossing of the River Forth, which exits to the North Sea in the east.

Location
The castle sits on the top of Castle Hill, an intrusive volcanic crag, part of the Stirling Sill geological formation. It is surrounded on three sides by steep cliffs, giving it a strong defensive position. It guards what was, until the 1890s, the farthest downstream crossing of the River Forth, This made it an important fortification from early times.

Structure
Most of the buildings of the castle date from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. A few structures of the fourteenth century remain, while the outer defences fronting the town date from the early eighteenth century. Several Scottish kings and queens have been crowned at Stirling, including Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1542. There have been at least eight sieges of Stirling Castle, including several during the Wars of Scottish Independence. The last siege was in 1746, when Bonnie Prince Charlie failed to take the castle. Stirling Castle is a scheduled Ancient Monument, and is a tourist attraction managed by Historic Scotland.

Castles in Scotland
Casey Bailey

Casey Bailey (born October 27, 1991) is an American professional ice hockey center. He currently plays for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Career
Before playing in the NHL, Bailey played parts of 2 seasons with the Alberni Valley Bulldogs of the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) and 1 season with the Omaha Lancers of the United States Hockey League (USHL). Bailey decided to play college hockey with the Penn State Nittany Lions. He played parts of 3 years with them and was named to the Big Ten Conference First All-Star Team in 2015.

Bailey was not drafted but signed a two-year, entry-level contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs on March 21, 2015. Bailey became the first played from Penn State to sign a contract in the NHL, and also the first to play in the NHL.

On April 11, 2015, Bailey scored his first NHL goal against Carey Price of the Montreal Canadiens in a 4-3 shootout loss.

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Lee Elder

Robert Lee Elder (July 14, 1934 – November 28, 2021) was an American professional golfer. He is best remembered for becoming the first African-American to play in the Masters Tournament in 1975. He was born in Dallas, Texas.

Elder died on November 28, 2021 in Escondido, California at the age of 87.

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1934 births
2021 deaths
African-American golfers
Sportspeople from Dallas, Texas
Chi-Chi Rodríguez

Juan Antonio "Chi-Chi" Rodríguez (born October 23, 1935 in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican professional golfer. He was the first Puerto Rican to be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.

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Profile at the World Golf Hall of Fame

1935 births
Living people
Puerto Rican people
Golfers
Pete Brown (golfer)

Pete Brown (February 2, 1935 – May 1, 2015) was an American professional golfer. He was best known as the first African American to win a PGA Tour event. Brown was born in Port Gibson, Mississippi and grew up in Jackson, Mississippi.

Brown died in Augusta, Georgia on May 1, 2015 at the age of 80 from heart failure and a stroke.

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African-American golfers
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Sportspeople from Mississippi
María Elena Velasco

María Elena Velasco Fragoso (December 17, 1940 - May 1, 2015) was a Mexican actress, comedienne, singer-songwriter, dancer, screenwriter, movie producer, and one of Mexico's few major female movie directors. She was best known for creating and portraying La India María, a comical character based on indigenous Mexican women.

Velasco died of stomach cancer in Mexico City, Mexico, aged 74.

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Mexican television actors
Mexican comedians
Mexican singers
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Dancers
See You Again (Wiz Khalifa song)

"See You Again" is a song by American rapper Wiz Khalifa featuring the vocals and piano playing of American singer Charlie Puth. The song is featured in the 2015 action movie Furious 7. It was created as a final tribute to Paul Walker, who died in a car crash in November 2013. 

The single was released on March 17, 2015 in the US, followed by an international release on April 3, and a UK release on April 12.

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2015 songs
2010s ballads
Everything Is Awesome

"Everything Is Awesome" is the Grammy and Oscar nominated song featured in The Lego Movie. It was written by Shawn Patterson, Joshua Bartholomew, Lisa Harriton, and The Lonely Island. 

The single and pop version featured in the end credits of the movie was produced by Mark Mothersbaugh and performed by Tegan and Sara in collaboration with musical comedy trio The Lonely Island.

In July 2014, the song "Everything Is Awesome" was re-used in a video of Greenpeace to promote their petition calling on the Lego Company to drop its partnership with Shell.

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2014 songs
Matt Carle

Matthew Carle (born September 25, 1984) is an American professional ice hockey defenseman. He currently plays for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has also played for the San Jose Sharks and Philadelphia Flyers.

Career
Before playing in the NHL, Carle played parts of 2 seasons with the US National Team Development Program, 1 season with the River City Lancers of the United States Hockey League (USHL), and 3 years of college hockey with the University of Denver Pioneers. During his time with the Pioneers, Carle won the Hobey Baker Award in 2006 for being the top National Collegiate Athletic Association men's ice hockey player. He was also the only junior defenseman in history to win the award.

He was drafted 47th overall by the San Jose Sharks in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft. On March 25, 2006, Carle made his NHL debut and scored his first NHL goal against Manny Fernandez of the Minnesota Wild in a 5-1 win. On November 21, 2007, Carle was signed to a four-year, $13.75 million contract extension to stay with San Jose.

On July 4, 2008, the Sharks traded Carle along with Ty Wishart and a first round pick in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft and a fourth round pick in 2010, to the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for Dan Boyle and Brad Lukowich.

After 12 games with the Lightning, they traded him along with a 2009 third round draft pick to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Steve Eminger, Steve Downie and a 2009 fourth round pick on November 7, 2008. Carle missed 5 games at the start of December because of a rib injury. During the home opener of the 2009–10 season for the Flyers, Carle tied the NHL record for assists in a single period by a defenceman when he set up four goals in the second period against the Washington Capitals and also helped Mike Richards achieve his second career hat trick, which was also his personal best for assists in a game.

On July 4, 2012, Carle signed a six-year; $33 million contract to return with the Tampa Bay Lightning.

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Philadelphia Flyers players
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Ice hockey defencemen
Stand by Me (song)

"Stand by Me" is a R&B ballad which was originally performed by Ben E. King. The song was inspired by the spiritual single "Lord Stand by Me". The song is on the soundtrack of the 1986 movie Stand by Me.

Musicians who have covered the song include Prince Royce and John Lennon. In 1999, BMI named it the fourth most performed song of the 20th century.

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Rhythm and blues ballads
1961 songs
William Pfaff

William Pfaff (December 1928 – April 30, 2015) was an American writer. He was an author and op-ed columnist for the International Herald Tribune. He also worked on The New York Review of Books.

Pfaff was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He was of German, English, and Irish ancestry. He studied at the University of Notre Dame. He was a Catholic and was married with two children.

Pfaff died from a heart attack caused by a fall on April 30, 2015 in Paris, France. He was 86.

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American columnists
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Stephen Milburn Anderson

Stephen Milburn Anderson (March 13, 1948 – May 1, 2015) was an American movie director, producer and screenwriter. He wrote and directed eight movies. He was best known for South Central, which was produced by Oliver Stone and released by Warner Bros. in 1992. He also wrote and directed Cash (2010), starring Sean Bean and Chris Hemsworth. He produced the Academy Award-winning short movie Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall (1987). He was born in New Mexico.

Anderson died from throat cancer on May 1, 2015 in Denver, Colorado, aged 67. His wife of more than thirty years, Mary Weir, outlived him.

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American movie directors
American movie producers
American screenwriters
Cancer deaths in Colorado
Deaths from throat cancer
Writers from New Mexico
Writers from Colorado
Milap Chand Jain

Milap Chand Jain (21 July 1929 – 29 April 2015) was an Indian judge and politician. He served as the Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court. He also served as the acting Governor of Rajasthan from 3 February to 14 February 1990. He was also the chairman of the Jain Commission set up by the government to inquire into Rajiv Gandhi's assassination.

Jain was born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. He had three children; a son and two daughters.

Jain died after a short illness on 29 April 2015 in Jaipur, aged 86.

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Indian judges
Governors of Rajasthan
Ronald Senator

Ronald Senator (17 April 1926 – 30 April 2015) was a British composer. He was best known for Holocaust Requiem, for which he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He had concerts in New York (1990, 1998, 2001), London (1989, 1997), Sydney (1978), Moscow (1993), and St. Petersburg (1991).

Senator studied at Oxford University (1944–1947) with Austrian-born British composer Egon Wellesz. He was Jewish and married to Miriam Brickman. He lived in London and New York, United States.

Senator and his 81-year-old wife died in a fire on 30 April 2015 at their home in Yonkers, New York. He was 89.

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British Jews
François Michelin

François Michelin (15 June 1926 – 29 April 2015) was a French heir and business executive. He served as the CEO of Michelin from 1955 to 1999.

Michelin was born in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne. His grandfather, Édouard Michelin (1859–1940), was the founder of Michelin. He became an orphan at the age of ten. He was a Roman Catholic. He had five children, including Édouard (1963–2006).

Michelin died on 29 April 2015 in Clermont-Ferrand, aged 88.

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2015 deaths
Chief executives
French businesspeople
Roman Catholics
People from Clermont-Ferrand
Valentine Lamb

Valentine Edward Martin "Val" Lamb (26 January 1939 – 24 April 2015) was a British sports journalist. He was editor of The Irish Field from 1970 to 2003.

Lamb was born in Coombe Bissett, Wiltshire. He was the son of the artist Henry Lamb and his wife Lady Pansy Pakenham. He was married twice and had three children.

Lamb died on 24 April 2015, aged 76.

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1939 births
2015 deaths
English journalists
Writers from Wiltshire
Gary Liddell

Gary Liddell (27 August 1954 – 1 May 2015) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a striker. He played from 1972 and 1983 for the teams Leeds United, Grimsby Town, Hearts and Doncaster Rovers.

Liddell was born in Stirling. His son, Andy (born 1973), was also a footballer.

Liddell died on 1 May 2015 in Falkirk, aged 60.

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1954 births
2015 deaths
Scottish footballers
Geoff Duke

Geoffrey Ernest "Geoff" Duke  (29 March 1923 – 1 May 2015) was a British multiple motorcycle Grand Prix road racing world champion. In the 1950s, he won six world championships and six Isle of Man TT races.

Duke was born in St. Helens, Lancashire. His son, Peter, is a businessman and founded Duke Video.

Duke died after a long illness 1 May 2015 at his home on the Isle of Man. He was 92.

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Disease-related deaths in the United Kingdom
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Sportspeople from Lancashire
Mobile app

A mobile application, also referred to as a mobile app or simply an app, is a computer program designed to run on smartphones, tablet computers and other mobile devices. Apps are usually available through an app store for that platform. These began appearing in 2008. The largest stores are operated by the owner of the mobile operating system. 

Some apps are usually bundled with the device, already installed before you buy it.  Other apps may be downloaded for free from the app store, and some must be purchased.  Software developers make as they make other computer programs, and usually offer them through the app store.

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Ruth Rendell

Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh  (née Grasemann; 17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015), also known as Barbara Vine, was an English writer. She wrote mostly psychological thrillers and murder mysteries. She released at least 90 books and was best known for her character Inspector Wexford.

Rendell was born in South Woodford, Essex (now London). Her mother was born in Sweden and grew up in Denmark, while her father was English. She was married to Don Rendell until his death from prostate cancer in 1999. They had a son, Simon (born 1953).

Rendell had a stroke in January 2015. She died on 2 May 2015 in London, aged 85.

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English children's writers
English novelists
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People from the London Borough of Redbridge
People from Suffolk
United Kingdom Life Peers
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life is a 1983 British musical sketch comedy movie. It is Monty Python's last movie. It is about seven stages of life and is told through different sketches and songs.

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1980s satirical movies
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English-language movies
Monty Python
Universal Pictures movies
August Friedrich Schenck

August  Friedrich Albrecht Schenck (23 April 1828 – 1 January 1901) was a painter. He became well known for his landscapes and paintings of animals. He was both French and German by nationality. His works were first shown in 1855.

1828 births
1902 deaths
French painters
German painters
Diante do Trono

The Diante do Trono is a Brazilian Christian pop rock band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The band was formed in 1997 in the Lagoinha Church and is known as the main worship ministry in Latin America. The band has sold over 15 million albums and is led by Ana Paula Valadão.

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 Official site

1990s establishments in Brazil
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Belo Horizonte
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Max Rojas

Juan Máximo Rojas Proenza, known as Max Rojas (June 4, 1940 - April 24, 2015) was a Mexican poet, essayist, literary critic and culture manager. Rojas wrote long-winded poem Cuerpos, his last published work originally composed of three thousand pages and that could fill twenty volumes.

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2015 deaths
Mexican poets
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George Baker (actor)

George Baker, MBE (1 April 19317 October 2011) was an English actor and writer. He was best known for playing Tiberius in I, Claudius, and Inspector Wexford in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries. He was born in Varna, Bulgaria.

Baker died on 7 October 2011 in West Lavington, Wiltshire from pneumonia after suffering a stroke, aged 80.

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Rodion Shchedrin

Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin (, Rodion Konstantinovič Ščedrin, born December 16, 1932 in Moscow) is a Russian composer and pianist. 

He won many awards such as the Lenin (1984), USSR State Prize (1972) and the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1992). He is a former member of the Interregional Deputy Group (1989–1991).

Shchedrin was married to Russian ballet dancer Maya Plisetskaya from 1958 until her death in 2015.

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 The Plisetskaya-Shchedrin Foundation
Rodion Shchedrin on the Sikorski website (publisher): portrait, biography (pdf) and works
Rodion Shchedrin 
'David Fanning on Rodion Shchedrin and his Second Symphony and Rodion Shchedrin on David Fanning's publication' 
Rodion Shchedrin interview by Bruce Duffie
Ismene Brown: theartsdesk Q&A: Composer Rodion Shchedrin theartsdesk.com 18 September 2010

1932 births
Living people
Russian composers
Russian pianists
Musicians from Moscow
Tabaré Vázquez

Tabaré Ramón Vázquez Rosas (; 17 January 1940 – 6 December 2020) was an Uruguayan politician. He served as President of Uruguay from 2015 to 2020.

In August 2019, Vázquez was diagnosed with lung cancer. He died on 6 December 2020 from the disease in Montevideo at the age of 80.

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 Site of President of Uruguay 
 Electoral site of Tabaré Vázquez
 Biography by CIDOB
 New leftist cabinet launched in Uruguay (Xinhua News Agency)
 Uruguay inaugurates first leftist president  (The Globe and Mail)
Left-wing Uruguay leader sworn in (BBC News)
Uruguay joys over new president (BBC News)
 El Espectador: Tax Reform
Leftist Chief Is Installed in Uruguay and Gets Busy on Agenda (The New York Times)
 Links for Plan de Emergencia Nacional

1940 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer
Presidents of Uruguay
People from Montevideo
Muhammadu Buhari

Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR (born 17 December 1942) is the President of Nigeria and a former Major General in the Nigerian Army. He first became Head of State of Nigeria on 31 December 1983 when he took over the government by surprise. While he was in power, he passed laws to control how people behaved that were very harsh and put many people in jail, even the famous musician Fela Kuti. On 27 August 1985, there was another surprise takeover and he was no longer in charge of the country.

In the 21st century, Buhari decided to try and become head of state again and ran in multiple elections. He eventually won and became President of Nigeria in 2015. He brought back some of the harsh laws from the last time he was in charge of Nigeria. Now, more people have been criticizing him as part of the End SARS protests.

Related pages 
 List of Nigerians

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Other websites

 
 2011 Presidential Election Campaign website
 Muhammadu Buhari - In a HARDtalk interview on 21 January 2004

1942 births
Living people
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Nigerian military people
Presidents of Nigeria
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua

Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (16 August 19515 May 2010) was a Nigerian politician. He served as the President of Nigeria and the 13th Head of State.

He became governor of Katsina State in northern Nigeria from 29 May 1999 to 28 May 2007. He was declared the winner of the controversial Nigerian presidential election held on 21 April 2007, and was sworn in on 29 May 2007. He was a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP).

In 2009, Yar'Adua left for Saudi Arabia to receive treatment for pericarditis. He returned to Nigeria in 2010, where he died on 5 May.

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1951 births
2010 deaths
Presidents of Nigeria
Aristocrat

An aristocrat is a person of the highest social class of a society. In many places, aristocrats have hereditary titles. In some societies such as Ancient Greece, Rome, and India, aristocratic status may come from membership in a military caste. It has also been very common for aristocrats to belong to priestly dynasties.

Aristocratic status can involve feudal or legal privileges. They are usually below only the monarch of a country or nation in its social hierarchy. In modern era European societies, the term aristocracy has often been used synonymously with the nobility. This was a specific class that arose in the Middle Ages. The term aristocracy derives from the Greek  ἀριστοκρατία (aristokratia ἄριστος (aristos) "excellent," and κράτος (kratos) "power".

Related pages 
 Aristocracy
 Nobility
 Royal family

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Discovery (observation)

Discovery is the act of detecting something new, or something "old" that had been unknown. In science and academic disciplines, discovery is the observation of new phenomena. It is discovery of new actions, or new events. It provides new reasoning to explain the knowledge gathered through such observations. A discovery may sometimes be based on earlier discoveries, collaborations, or ideas. Some discoveries represent a radical breakthrough in knowledge or technology. Visual discoveries are often called sightings.

Scientific discovery 
Before the 17th century, it took extraordinary genius to make even small discoveries. Men such as Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton and many of their contemporaries made great discoveries. But their greatest contribution was in developing and furthering the scientific method. This was an organized method of making new discoveries. By the end of the century science literally exploded with new discoveries. Ordinary educated scientists could now do what only geniuses could do before. Ancient Greeks depended on observation and philosophy to come up with theories about the physical laws of the universe. Beginning in the 17th century scientists now used scientific proof of their discoveries through experiments. They also defended their discoveries against their peers. This was an important part of the scientific method.

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History of science
Cognition
Vafa Guluzade

Vafa Guluzade (; 21 December 1940 – 1 May 2015) was an Azerbaijani diplomat, political scientist and specialist in conflict resolution. He worked as Foreign Policy State Advisor for Azerbaijan President Heydar Aliyev between 1990 and 1999.

Guluzade was born in Baku to a Shia Muslim family. He was married to Leyla Ahmadova. They had a daughter (1974–2010).

Guluzade died from heart failure after surgery on 1 May 2015 in Baku. He was 74.

Related pages
List of Asian scientists by country

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Azerbaijani politicians
Deaths from heart failure
Deaths from surgical complications
Diplomats
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Michael J. Ingelido

Michael Joseph Ingelido (November 20, 1916 – April 28, 2015) was an American Air Force major general. He was Commander of the Fourteenth Aerospace Force, (Air Defense Command), Ent Air Force Base in Colorado. He joined the Air Force in 1941 less than two weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor of World War II, and retired in 1972 during the Vietnam War.

Ingelido was born in Meriden, Connecticut. He married his wife Elinor Affinto Ingelido in 1942. They had three sons.

Ingelido died from a stroke on April 28, 2015 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, aged 98.

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American military personnel of the Vietnam War
American military personnel of World War II
Cardiovascular disease deaths in the United States
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Disease-related deaths in Colorado
People from Connecticut
Dave Goldberg

David Bruce "Dave" Goldberg (October 2, 1967 – May 1, 2015) was an American businessman. He was a Yahoo! executive before joining SurveyMonkey in 2009, and later became CEO. He also co-founded LAUNCH Media with Bob Roback.

Goldberg was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to a Jewish family. He graduated from Harvard University in 1989. He was married to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and had two children.

Goldberg died on May 1, 2015 at a resort in Punta Mita, near Puerto Vallarta in southwest Mexico, aged 47. He died from head trauma and blood loss after falling off a treadmill.

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American Jews
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Businesspeople from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Beth Whittall

Elizabeth "Beth" Whittall (May 26, 1936 – May 1, 2015) was a Canadian champion breaststroke and freestyle swimmer. At age 17, she won a silver medal at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. He won two gold medals at the 1955 Pan American Games in Mexico City, Mexico. In 1987, at the age of 50, she set a Canadian record in the 200-metre freestyle for competitors in the 50 to 54 age range.

Whittall was born in Montreal, Quebec. She studied pharmacy at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States. She died on May 1, 2015, aged 78.

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1936 births
2015 deaths
Canadian swimmers
Sportspeople from Montreal
Sarah Correa

Sarah Gonçalves Correa (14 August 1992 – 2 May 2015) was a Brazilian competitive free-style swimmer. She won the gold medal in the 4×200-metre freestyle at the 2010 South American Games in Medellín, Colombia, beating the competition record. At the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, she won the silver medal in the 4×200-metre freestyle. Born in Rio de Janeiro, retired from swimming in 2014 to become a model.

Correa was hit by a car while waiting at a bus stop on 1 May 2015 near her home in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. She died the next day (2 May), aged 22.

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Brazilian models
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Harry Geisinger

Harry Geisinger (October 31, 1933 – May 1, 2015) was an American politician for the Republican Party. He served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1969 to 1975 and then from 2005 until his death.

Geisinger was born in Roswell, Georgia. He got his Bachelors's degree in business from the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Geisinger died from leukemia on May 1, 2015, aged 81.

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Michael Blake (author)

Michael Lennox Blake (July 5, 1945 – May 2, 2015) was an American author and screenwriter. He was best known for the movie adaptation of his novel Dances with Wolves, for which he won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.

Blake was born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and grew up in New Mexico, Texas and Southern California. He was married and had three sons.

Blake died after a long illness on May 2, 2015 in Tucson, Arizona. He was 69.

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1945 births
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Extreme Rules (2015)

Extreme Rules (2015) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by WWE. It was held on April 26, 2015 at Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois. It was the seventh Extreme Rules event held by the WWE. 

The main event saw Seth Rollins defeat Randy Orton in a steel cage match to retain the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. In the match, Orton's RKO finisher was banned and Kane served as the gatekeeper for the cage.

Matches

1During the match, Ambrose and Harper left the arena. The next two matches started and ended before both Ambrose and Harper returned to the arena and the ring to finish their match.

2Sheamus did not fulfill the stipulation, and made Ziggler kiss his arse instead.

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Other websites
Official Extreme Rules 2015 website

2015 in professional wrestling

Sports in Illinois
WWE Extreme Rules
2015 in Illinois
April 2015 events
Philip S. Goodman

Philip Solomon Goodman (February 20, 1926 – May 2, 2015) was an American screenwriter, producer, and movie director. He was best known for directing the drama movie We Shall Return (1963), starring Cesar Romero. He also wrote for television series such as Profiles in Courage, Danger, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Rocky King Detective, and Johnny Staccato. He also directed plays at the Actors Studio.

Goodman was born in New York City to Flora and Solomon Goodman. He graduated from Brooklyn College and the University of Southern California (USC). He served in the U.S. Army from 1944 to 1946 during World War II. He was married to Evelyn Twersky and had two children, Nicholas, a producer, and Jody, a lawyer.

Goodman died on May 2, 2015 in New York City, aged 89.

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1926 births
2015 deaths
American military personnel of World War II
American playwrights
American television writers
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Movie producers from New York City
Screenwriters from New York City
Abdul Wahid Aresar

Abdul Wahid Aresar (11 October 1949 – 3 May 2015) was a Pakistani politician. He was the was one of the heads of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM), a political party in Sindh. He was the chairman of the party in the 1990s.

Aresar died on 3 May 2015 at a private hospital in Karachi, aged 65.

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1949 births
2015 deaths
Deaths from disease
Pakistani politicians
Russi Taylor

Russell "Russi" Taylor (May 4, 1944 – July 26, 2019) was an American voice actress. She was best known for being the voice of Disney's Minnie Mouse since 1986. She also voiced numerous other Disney characters. Taylor was the wife of the late voice actor Wayne Allwine. He was the third voice of Mickey Mouse from 1991 until his death in 2009. In 2008 she received a Disney Legends award.

Taylor died  from colon cancer on July 26, 2019, at her home in Glendale, California, at the age of 75.

Filmography

Film

Television

Direct-to-video

Video games

Park attractions
 Mickey's PhilharMagic - Minnie Mouse

Awards

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1944 births
2019 deaths
American movie actors
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Deaths from colorectal cancer
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Clarence Nash

Clarence Charles "Ducky" Nash (December 7, 1904 – February 20, 1985) was an American voice actor. He was the voice for Disney cartoon character Donald Duck for almost 50 years.

Filmography

References

Other websites 
 Clarence Nash biography Internet Movie Database IMDb

1904 births
1985 deaths
Actors from Oklahoma
American voice actors
Cancer deaths in California
Deaths from leukemia
Dobri Dobrev

Dobri Dimitrov Dobrev () (born 20 July 1914 – 13 February 2018), better known as Grandpa Dobri, Elder Dobri (), or The Saint of Bailovo was a Bulgarian philanthropist. He walks several kilometers each day to sit or stand in front of the Cathedral of Alexander Nevsky in Sofia to collect money for charitable causes. Dobrev  donates all the money he collects to charities, orphanages, churches and monasteries. He turned 100 in July 2014.

On 13 February 2018, Dobrev died at Kremikovtsi Monastery at the age of 103.

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1914 births
2018 deaths
Bulgarian people
European philanthropists
Ackerly, Texas

Ackerly is a city in Dawson and Martin Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 220.

Cities in Texas
Grace Lee Whitney

Grace Lee Whitney (born Mary Ann Chase; April 1, 1930 - May 1, 2015) was an American actress and entertainer. She was best known as Janice Rand on the Star Trek television series.

Whitney died at her home in Coarsegold, California on May 1, 2015 from natural causes, aged 85.

References

Other websites

 
 
 Grace Lee Whitney Official Autograph site
 Janice Rand history 
 Grace Lee Whitney- Notable Names Database

1930 births
2015 deaths
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Actors from Michigan
Singers from Michigan
People from Ann Arbor, Michigan
Revaz Chkheidze

Revaz "Rezo" Chkheidze (; 8 December 1926 – 3 May 2015) was a Georgian movie director. He was known for directing Father of a Soldier and The Saplings, both of which entered at the Moscow Film Festival. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1980.

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1926 births
2015 deaths
Movie directors from Georgia (country)
Soviet people
Danny Jones (rugby league)

Danny Jones (6 March 1986 – 3 May 2015) was a Welsh professional rugby league footballer. He played at international level for Wales and at club level for Halifax and Keighley Cougars.

Jones died of cardiac arrest while playing in London. He was 29 years old.

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1986 births
2015 deaths
British rugby league players
Deaths from cardiac arrest
Welsh sportspeople
Stuart Archer

Colonel Bertram Stuart Trevelyan Archer GC OBE ERD (3 February 1915 – 2 May 2015), known as Stuart Archer,  was a recipient of the George Cross, the highest British and Commonwealth award for gallantry not in the face of the enemy. 

Archer was born in London.

On 3 February 2015 Archer became the first recipient of the Victoria Cross or the George Cross to reach 100 years of age. 

Archer died on 2 May 2015 at the age of 100.

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1915 births
2015 deaths
British centenarians
British military personnel of World War II
People from Hampstead
Karl Guthe Jansky

Karl Guthe Jansky (October 22, 1905 – February 14, 1950) was an American physicist and engineer. He worked in astronomy. In 1927, he discovered that the Milky Way emitted radio waves. This makes him one of the founding fathers of radio astronomy.

1905 births
1950 deaths
American physicists
Cardiovascular disease deaths in New Jersey
Scientists from Oklahoma
Konstantin K. Kuzminsky

Konstantin Konstantinovich Kuzminsky (; 16 April 1940 – 2 May 2015) was a Russian-American performance poet. He published The Blue Lagoon Anthology of Modern Russian Poetry as well as other publications including a collection of Russian poetry The Living Mirror. He also appeared in many documentary movies, including two by Andrei Zagdansky.

Kuzminsky was born in Leningrad (now called Saint Petersburg). He moved to the United States from the Soviet Union in 1978. He was married to Emma, nicknamed "Mouse".

Kuzminsky died on 2 May 2015 in New York City, aged 75.

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1940 births
2015 deaths
American poets
Russian poets
Soviet writers
Writers from Saint Petersburg
Abdul Basit Usman

Ahmad Akmad Usman y Batabol (1974 – 3 May 2015), better known as Abdul Basit Usman, was a Filipino Islamist and fugitive. He was a bomb making expert who was head of the Special Operations Group of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters and had links with Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah groups.

Usman was born in a village in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao to a Muslim family. He worked as an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) in Pakistan before taking part in militant activities.

Usman was killed on 3 May 2014 in Guindulungan, aged 40/41.

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1974 births
2015 deaths
Deaths by firearm
Filipino people
Muslims
Nigel Terry

Peter Nigel Terry (15 August 1945 – 30 April 2015) was an English stage and movie actor. He was best known by for his role of King Arthur in John Boorman's Excalibur (1981). He appeared in the movies The Lion in Winter (1968) and Troy (2004). He also appeared in the television series Covington Cross, Casualty, Doctor Who, Highlander: The Series and Waking the Dead.

Terry was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire. He died from emphysema on 30 April 2015, aged 69.

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1945 births
2015 deaths
Actors from Bristol
Deaths from emphysema
Disease-related deaths in England
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English stage actors
English television actors
Duri Camichel

Duri Camichel (6 May 1982 – 28 April 2015) was a Swiss professional ice hockey player.

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1982 births
2015 deaths
Swiss ice hockey players
Paul Émile Chabas

Paul Émile Chabas (March 7, 1869 – May 10, 1937) was a French painter. He was born in Nantes. He studied with William-Adolphe Bouguereau. He often travelled, to Norway, Algeria and Greece. During his lifetime, he was known for the portraits he painted. He liked to paint naked girls, in natural settings. Probably his best known work is September Morning, dated 1912.

1869 births
1937 deaths
French painters
People from Nantes
Treehouse

Treehouses are platforms or buildings built into a tree. They are constructed around, next to, or in mature trees. They are usually above ground level. Tree houses can be used for recreation, work space or as an observation deck. A tree house can be a peaceful quiet place for seclusion or solitude.

Practical uses
Treehouses are often built for children to play. They are a natural extension of children's love of climbing trees. Treehouses can also be a casual retreat or working space, especially if provided with electricity. In many parts of the world guests can rent a treehouse. They can also stay in a treehouse hotel.

Sometimes they are built for protection against wild animals. In some parts of the tropics, houses are either fastened to trees or elevated on stilts. This is to keep the living quarters above the ground to protect occupants. A tree house can also be a place to store food from scavenging animals. The Korowai, a Papuan tribe in the southeast of Irian Jaya, live in tree houses. Some are nearly  high (see image below). They are used as protection against a tribe of neighbouring head-hunters, the Citak.

Tree houses are an option for building eco-friendly houses in remote forest areas. They do not require a clearing of a certain area of forest. Because they are elevated or built into forested areas, they are not desirable to some people.

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References

Other websites 
 Amazing Treehouses
 Sphere Tree House
 Short documentary
 Map of tree houses & treehouse hotels from around the world 

Habitats
Woodworking
French touch

French touch or French house was a kind of house music, which became popular in France in the mid 1990s, and spread to the rest of Europe later.

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Music
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) is the debut album by American hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan released on November 9, 1993 by Loud Records. It was entirely produced by the group leader RZA.

The album has been considered to be one of the greatest hip-hop album in history and Wu-Tang Clan's best work.

Track list 
 "Bring Da Ruckus" - 4:10
 "Shame On A Nigga" - 2:57
 "Clan In Da Front" - 4:33
 "Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber" - 6:05
 "Can It Be All So Simple" - 6:53
 "Da Mystery of Chessboxin'" - 4:47
 "Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing Ta F' Wit" - 3:36
 "C.R.E.A.M." - 4:12
 "Method Man" - 5:51
 "Protect Ya Neck" - 4:52
 "Tearz" - 4:17
 "Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber - Part II" - 5:08
 "Method Man (Skun Mix)" - 3:12
 "Conclusion" - 1:00

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1993 albums
Hip hop albums
Mike Richter

Michael Thomas Richter (born September 22, 1966) is an American retired professional ice hockey goaltender. He played parts of 14 years in the National Hockey League (NHL) all with the New York Rangers. He also played for the United States in international play and won a silver medal with them at the 2002 Winter Olympics. He was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame along with his former teammate Brian Leetch in 2008.

Career
Before playing in the NHL, Richter played college hockey with the University of Wisconsin–Madison Badgers from 1985 until 1987. He also played 2 years in the International Hockey League (IHL) with the Colorado Rangers/Denver Rangers organization.

He was drafted 28th overall by the New York Rangers in the 1985 NHL Entry Draft. On April 9, 1989, Richter made his NHL debut in Game 4 of the Division Semifinals against the Pittsburgh Penguins.

The Rangers lost the game and were eliminated from the playoffs but Richter was chosen to be a regular member of the team. The next two seasons, he shared goaltending duties with John Vanbiesbrouck. When the Rangers traded Vanbiesbrouck to the Vancouver Canucks before the 1993–94 season, Richter became the Rangers starting goaltender. During his first year as the Rangers starter, he was able to record 42 wins and a 2.57 goals against average, as the Rangers won the Presidents' Trophy. Richter was also named the Most Valuable Player of the NHL All-Star Game that year.

Richter helped the Rangers reach the Stanley Cup Finals against the Vancouver Canucks. During Game 4, Richter made a career highlight when he was able to stop a penalty shot by Pavel Bure. The Rangers were able to defeat the Canucks in Game 7 and win the Stanley Cup, their first since 1940. He helped the United States win the 1996 World Cup of Hockey and was named as the Most Valuable Player.

Richter was able to record 300 regular season wins before he was forced to retire from playing professional ice hockey on September 3, 2003 because of a skull fracture and concussion. On February 4, 2004, the Rangers retired Richter's jersey #35.

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1966 births
American Olympic silver medalists
Living people
New York Rangers players
Sportspeople from Pennsylvania
Stanley Cup champions
American Hockey League players
International Hockey League (1945–2001) players
American ice hockey goaltenders