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William J. Boarman

William Joseph Boarman (June 30, 1946 – August 22, 2021) was an American printer. He was the 26th Public Printer of the United States from 2010 until 2012. He was Senior Vice-President of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and President of that union's Printing, Publishing & Media Works Sector. 

Boarman died on August 22, 2021 in Severna Park, Maryland, aged 75.

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1946 births
2021 deaths
Businesspeople from Maryland
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US Democratic Party politicians
Severna Park, Maryland

Severna Park is a census-designated place (CDP) in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. Severna Park's population was 37,634 at the 2010 census.

References

Census-designated places in Maryland
Charlie Watts

Charles Robert Watts (2 June 1941 – 24 August 2021) was an English drummer and composer. He was known for being the main drummer of the Rolling Stones. He was one of the band's longest serving members from 1963 until his death. Watts was born in London. His career began in 1959. 

In 2006, Watts was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2016, he was named 12th on Rolling Stones "100 Greatest Drummers of All Time" list.

Watts died in a London hospital on 24 August 2021, at the age of 80.

Gallery

References

Other websites
 Charlie Watts on Drummerworld
 Charlie Watts and the Tentet

1941 births
2021 deaths
English rock drummers
English composers
Musicians from London
Writers from London
The Rolling Stones members
Musicians from Middlesex
Record producers
Said al-Harumi

Said al-Harumi or Saeed Alkharumi (, , (January 10, 1972August 25, 2021) was an Israeli politician. He was a member of the Knesset for the Joint List (2017–2021) and the United Arab List (2021). Al-Harumi was born in Shaqib al-Salam, Israel.

Al-Harumi died on August 25, 2021 of a heart attack in Beersheba, Israel at the age of 49.

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1972 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Israeli politicians
2020 Summer Paralympics

The , branded as Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport parasports event governed by the International Paralympic Committee. They took place in Tokyo, Japan between 24 August and 5 September 2021.

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August 2021 events
September 2021 events
Mahamat Déby

Mahamat ibn Idriss Déby Itno ( ; born 1 January 1984), also known as Mahamat Kaka, is the Chairman of the Transitional Military Council of Chad acting as the de facto interim President of Chad. He is the son of the late Chadian President Idriss Déby.

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Living people
1984 births
Heads of state of Chad
Generals
Gail Omvedt

Gail Omvedt (2 August 1941 – 25 August 2021) was an American-born Indian scholar, sociologist and human rights activist. She was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her career began in 1970. She was known for being active in the environmental, farmers' and women's movements, especially with rural women.

She was a senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and research director of the Krantivir Trust.

Omvedt died on 25 August 2021 at the age of 80.

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1941 births
2021 deaths
American academics
Indian academics
American sociologists
American feminist writers
American human rights activists
Indian activists
Indian scientists
Scientists from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Writers from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Educators from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Wilfried Van Moer

Wilfried van Moer (1 March 1945 – 24 August 2021) was a Belgian footballer. He played 57 times and scored nine goals for the Belgium national team between 1966 and 1982.

Van Moer died in a hospital in Leuven on 24 August 2021 from a stroke, aged 76.

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1945 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from stroke
Belgian football managers
Belgian footballers
K.S.K. Beveren

Koninklijke Sportkring Beveren (Royal Sporting Club of Beveren) is a Belgian association football club from the town of Beveren in East Flanders.

Other websites
 UEFA page

Belgian football clubs
East Flanders
Jan Suchý

Jan Suchý (10 October 1944 – 24 August 2021) was a Czech ice hockey player. He was born in Německý Brod, then-Nazi Germany.  He was sometimes known as the "European Bobby Orr".

He played in the Czechoslovakia national team in the world championships of 1965, 1966, 1968–71, 1973 and 1974. He also played in the ice hockey tournament of the 1968 Winter Olympics, winning a silver medal with his team.

Suchý died on 24 August 2021 at the age of 76.

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1944 births
2021 deaths
Czech ice hockey players
Olympic silver medalists
Ghazali Mohd Seth

General (Rtd) Tan Sri Dato' Mohd Ghazali bin Mohd Seth (4 February 1929 – 24 August 2021) was a Malaysian military personnel. He was the 7th Chief of Defence Forces of Malaysia from 1982 until 1985. He also was the Army chief from 1977 until 1982. He was born in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

Ghazali died on 24 August 2021 at a hospital in Kuala Lumpur from heart failure, aged 92.

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1929 births
2021 deaths
Malaysian politicians
Military people
Deaths from heart failure
Mangala Samaraweera

Mangala Pinsiri Samaraweera  (21 April 1956 – 24 August 2021) (, ; ) was a Sri Lankan politician. He was also the first openly gay politician from Sri Lanka. 

He was the Minister of Finance from 2017 to 2019, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, for two terms from 2005 to 2007 and 2015 to 2017. He was born in Matara, Sri Lanka.

Samaraweera died at a hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 24 August 2021 from COVID-19, aged 65.

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1956 births
2021 deaths
Sri Lankan politicians
LGBT politicians
Gay men
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka
Simply Red

Simply Red are a British soul and pop band which formed in Manchester in 1985.

Their singles "Holding Back the Years" (1987) and their cover of "If You Don't Know Me by Now" (1990) were nominated for a Grammy Award.

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Musical groups established in 1984
Musical groups disestablished in 2010
British pop music groups
Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union

The Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union () was the highest body of state authority of the Soviet Union from 1989 to 1991.

References

Soviet Union
Jerry Harkness

Jerald B. Harkness (May 7, 1940 – August 24, 2021) was an American professional basketball player. He played for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Indiana Pacers of the American Basketball Association (ABA). Harkness also played for the Loyola of Chicago, where he won the 1963 NCAA Title. He was born in Harlem, New York.

Harkness died on August 24, 2021 at age 81.

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1940 births
2021 deaths
New York Knicks players
Indiana Pacers players
Sportspeople from New York City
Sportspeople from Chicago
American civil rights activists
Country Joe and the Fish

Country Joe and the Fish was an American psychedelic rock band formed in Berkeley, California, in 1965.

The band self-produced two EPs that drew attention on the underground circuit before signing to Vanguard Records in 1966. Their debut album, Electric Music for the Mind and Body.

Their second album, I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die, was released in late 1967.

Other websites
 
 Country Joe McDonald's Website
 Barry "The Fish" Melton's Homepage
 Country Joe & the Fish Legacy

Musical groups established in 1965
Musical groups disestablished in 1970
Musical groups from California
American rock bands
Musicians from Berkeley, California
Olabiyi Durojaiye

Olabiyi Durojaiye (8 February 1933 – 24 August 2021) was a Nigerian politician. He was a member of the Senate of Nigeria for the Ogun East constituency of Ogun State from 1999 until 2003.

Durojaiye died on 24 August 2021 from COVID-19, aged 88.

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1933 births
2021 deaths
Nigerian politicians
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria
Anatoliy Chizhov

Anatoliy Chizhov (; 15 June 1934 – 24 August 2021) was a Russian engineer and politician. He was Director of the Progress Rocket Space Centre from 1980 to 1996. He was a member of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union from 1989 to 1991.

Chizhov died on 24 August 2021 at the age of 87.

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1934 births
2021 deaths
Soviet politicians
Russian politicians
Russian engineers
1964 United Kingdom general election

The 1964 United Kingdom general election happened on 15 October 1964. This was five years after the previous election. It resulted in the Conservatives, led by the current Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home losing. The Labour Party won the election. This meant Harold Wilson would become the new Prime Minister. Labour got a overall majority of four seats.

The Labour Party got a lot more votes in Scotland than before. This was the start of them winning most seats in Scotland. They did this until Scottish National Party won more at the 2015 general election.

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1960s in the United Kingdom
1964
United Kingdom general elections
O. Chandrashekar

O. Chandrasekhar Menon (10 July 1936 – 24 August 2021) was an Indian professional footballer. He played as a defender. He represented India at the 1960 Summer Olympics (Rome), the 1962 Asian Games (Gold medal),1964 AFC Asian Cup (Silver medal),  Merdeka Tournament (Silver Medal - 1959 & 1964) and 1964 Summer Olympics (Tokyo Qualifiers). He was born in Irinjalakuda, British Raj. 

Chandrashekar died on 24 August 2021 in Kolkata, India at the age of 85.

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1936 births
2021 deaths
Indian footballers
Olympians
Volodymyr Bondarenko (politician)

Volodymyr Dmytrovych Bondarenko (; 4 December 1952 – 24 August 2021) was a Ukrainian politician. He was a member of the Verkhovna Rada from 1996 until 2014. Bondarenko was the Head of Kyiv City Administration from 7 March 2014 until 25 June 2014. Bondarenko was born in Okhinky, then-Soviet Union. He was a member of the Fatherland and Reforms and Order Party.

Bondarenko died on 24 August 2021 in Kiev, Ukraine at the age of 68.

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1952 births
2021 deaths
Ukrainian politicians
Jean-Luc Nancy

Jean-Luc Nancy (; ; 26 July 1940 – 23 August 2021) was a French philosopher. He was born near Bordeaux, France. He taught at the University of Strasbourg.

Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was Le titre de la lettre (The Title of the Letter, 1992). He wrote many books such as La remarque spéculative in 1973 (The Speculative Remark, 2001) on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Le Discours de la syncope (1976) and L'Impératif catégorique (1983) on Immanuel Kant, Ego sum (1979) on René Descartes, and Le Partage des voix (1982) on Martin Heidegger.

Nancy died on 23 August 2021 in Strasbourg, France at the age of 81.

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1940 births
2021 deaths
French philosophers
French academics
French writers
People from Bordeaux
Tom Flynn (author)

Thomas W. Flynn (August 18, 1955 – August 23, 2021)  was an American author, journalist, novelist, executive director of the Council for Secular Humanism, and editor of its journal Free Inquiry.

Flynn died on August 23, 2021 at aged 66.

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1955 births
2021 deaths
American editors
20th-century American novelists
People from Erie, Pennsylvania
Writers from Pennsylvania
Brick Bronsky

Jeffrey M. Beltzner (April 18, 1964 – August 23, 2021) known by his ring name Brick Bronsky, was an American actor, movie producer, professional wrestler and sports promoter. He was known for his roles in Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. (1990), Class of Nuke 'Em High 2: Subhumanoid Meltdown (1991), and Class of Nuke 'Em High 3: The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid (1994). Bronsky was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 

Bronsky died at a hospital in Sherman Oaks, California on August 23, 2021 from COVID-19, aged 57.

References

Other websites

Brick Bronsky at Genickbruch.com
Brick Bronsky at Cagematch.net

1964 births
2021 deaths
American professional wrestlers
American movie actors
American sports commentators
American television actors
Sportspeople from Pennsylvania
Actors from Pennsylvania
Movie producers from Pennsylvania
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
People from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Jaafar Jaafar

Jaafar Jaafar is a Nigerian journalist and the founder/CEO of Daily Nigerian, an online publication company.

Education 
Jaafar holds a Master's Degree in Communication Studies in Bayero University, Kano Bachelor's Degree in Mass Communication Bayero University Kano, a diploma in Public Relations Strategy London School of Public Relations.

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1978 births
Living people
Nigerian writers
Rabiu Kwankwaso

Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso, FNSE, FNIQS is a Nigerian politician who was the Governor of Kano State, minister of depence of the fourth republic and senator.

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1956 births
Living people
Nigerian politicians
Elizabeth Blackadder

Dame Elizabeth Violet Blackadder, Mrs Houston,  (24 September 1931 – 23 August 2021) was a Scottish painter and printmaker. She was the first woman to be elected to both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy. Her work can be seen at the Tate Gallery, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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1931 births
2021 deaths
Scottish painters
People from Edinburgh
Juan Carlos Blanco Estradé

Juan Carlos Blanco Estradé (19 June 1934 – 22 August 2021) was an Uruguayan lawyer and politician. He was born in Montevideo. He was a member of the Colorado Party. Blanco was Foreign Minister of Uruguay from 1972 to 1976. He was Ambassador to the United Nations from 1982 to 1985. From 1990 to 1995, Blanco Estradé was a member of the Senate.

Blanco Estradé died on 22 August 2021 in Montevideo at the age of 87.

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1934 births
2021 deaths
Uruguayan lawyers
Uruguayan politicians
Criminals
People from Montevideo
Nick Volpe

Nicholas Peter Volpe (February 23, 1926 – August 21, 2021) was a Canadian football player. He played for the Toronto Argonauts from 1949 until 1952. He won the Grey Cup with the Argonauts in 1950. Volpe was born in Toronto, Ontario.

Volpe died in Toronto on August 21, 2021 at the age of 95.

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1926 births
2021 deaths
Sportspeople from Toronto
Andreas Norland

Andreas Norland (9 May 1935 – 21 August 2021) was a Norwegian newspaper editor. He was known as editor of three large newspapers Adresseavisen, Verdens Gang and Aftenposten. He was born in Bærum, Norway.

Norland died on 21 August 2021, aged 86.

Selected works

References

1935 births
2021 deaths
Norwegian journalists
Editors
Boutros Gemayel

Boutros Gemayel (29 June 1932 – 21 August 2021) was a Lebanese Maronite Catholic prelate. He was the emeritus Maronite Archbishop of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Cyprus. He was the Archeparch of Cyprus from 1988 until 2008. Gemayel was born in Greater Lebanon.

Gemayel died on 21 August 2021, aged 89.

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1932 births
2021 deaths
Lebanese people
Osório Bebber

Osório Claudio Bebber, O.F.M. Cap., (June 11, 1929 – August 13, 2021) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate. He was the second Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tubarão from 1981 to 1992, the Territorial Prelate of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Coxim from 1992 to 1999, and the second Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Joaçaba from 1999 until his retirement in April 2003. 

He was Bishop Emeritus of Joaçaba until his death in August 2021. Bebber was born in Flores da Cunha, Rio Grande do Sul.

Bebber died of sepsis caused by heart surgery on August 13, 2021 in Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul at the age of 92.

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1929 births
2021 deaths
Roman Catholic bishops
Deaths from sepsis
Deaths from surgical complications
People from Rio Grande do Sul
Caxias do Sul

Caxias do Sul () is a city in Rio Grande do Sul, Southern Brazil. In 2020, the population of Caxias do Sul was estimated at 517,451 people. The city is known for having a large population of German descent.

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Cities in Rio Grande do Sul
Flores da Cunha

Flores da Cunha is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is the largest producer of wines inside Brazil.

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Municipalities in Brazil
Rio Grande do Sul
Ileana Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei

Ileana Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei (12 June 1946 – 25 August 2021) was a Romanian foil fencer. She competed at the 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976 Olympics and won team bronze medals in 1968 and 1972. She was born in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei was married to Olympian Ion Drîmbă until they divorced. She later married footballer Emerich Jenei.

Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei died on 25 August 2021 in Cluj-Napoca at the age of 75.

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1946 births
2021 deaths
Romanian sportspeople
Fencers
Olympic bronze medalists
Ion Drîmbă

Ionel Alexandru "Ion" Drîmbă (also Drâmbă, March 18, 1942 – February 20, 2006) was a Romanian fencer. He competed at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics and won the first ever Olympic gold medal in fencing for Romania in 1968.

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1942 births
2021 deaths
Romanian sportspeople
Fencers
Olympic gold medalists
Emerich Jenei

Emerich Jenei or Imre Jenei (also known as Emeric Jenei or Ienei; 22 March 1937) is a Romanian former football player and coach. He is known as one of Romania's best coaches. A player, he played for the national team twelve times from 1959 until 1964.

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1937 births
Living people
Romanian football managers
Romanian footballers
Lukas Haas

Lukas Daniel Haas (born April 16, 1976) is an American actor and musician. Haas received an Emmy nomination for his role as Ryan White in the television movie The Ryan White Story.

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Other websites
 

1976 births
Living people
American child actors
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American voice actors
American rock musicians
Musicians from Los Angeles
Actors from Los Angeles
Gene Kranz

Eugene Francis "Gene" Kranz (born August 17, 1933) is an American aerospace engineer. He was a NASA Flight Director and manager. Kranz was NASA's second Chief Flight Director. He was in charge of the Gemini and Apollo programs. He was born in Toledo, Ohio.

Kranz is a recipient of a Presidential Medal of Freedom, given in 1970 by President Richard Nixon.

In 2010, Kranz was listed as the #2 most popular space hero by the Space Foundation.

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1933 births
Living people
NASA
American engineers
American aviators
Scientists from Ohio
People from Toledo, Ohio
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients
Seymour Liebergot

Seymour "Sy" Abraham Liebergot (born February 15, 1936) is a retired NASA flight controller. He worked at NASA during the Apollo program.  Liebergot was an EECOM controller. In 1970, he was part of the team that guided Apollo 13 back to Earth. Liebergot was born in Camden, New Jersey.

Liebergot was a Deputy Flight Director on Apollo 4. He was the EECOM flight controller on Apollo 8–15. On Apollo 17. He continued as a controller in the Skylab and ASTP missions.

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1936 births
Living people
NASA
American engineers
Scientists from New Jersey
People from Camden, New Jersey
Glynn Lunney

Glynn Stephen Lunney (November 27, 1936 – March 19, 2021) was an American NASA engineer. He began working at NASA since its creation in 1958. Lunney was a flight director during the Gemini and Apollo programs.

Lunney died on March 19, 2021 at his home near Houston, Texas from leukemia, aged 84.

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1936 births
2021 deaths
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients
American engineers
NASA
Scientists from Pennsylvania
Scientists from Houston, Texas
Deaths from leukemia
Cancer deaths in Texas
Janet Malcolm

Janet Clara Malcolm (born Jana Klara Wienerová; July 8, 1934 – June 16, 2021) was an American writer and journalist. She worked at The New Yorker magazine. She was the author of Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (1981), In the Freud Archives (1984), and The Journalist and the Murderer (1990).

Malcolm died from lung cancer at the age of 86 on June 16, 2021, at a hospital in Manhattan.

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1934 births
2021 deaths
Czech journalists
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Journalists from New York City
Deaths from lung cancer
Cancer deaths in New York City
Bob Walkup

Robert E. Walkup (November 14, 1936 – March 12, 2021) was an American Republican politician. He was the 40th Mayor of Tucson from 1999 to 2011.

Walkup died on March 12, 2021, at his home in Tucson from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, aged 84.

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1936 births
2021 deaths
American mayors
Politicians from Iowa
Politicians from Tucson, Arizona
US Republican Party politicians
Deaths from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Ombretta Fumagalli Carulli

Ombretta Fumagalli Carulli (5 March 1944 – 16 March 2021) was an Italian politician, jurist, and academic.

Carulli began her political career in 1987, when she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies as a member of the Christian Democracy party. 

In 1996, Carulli was elected to the Senate and joined the center-right Pole for Freedoms coalition.

In 1999, she became Undersecretary to the Ministry of the Interior. She then became Undersecretary to the Ministry of Health. She retired in 2001.

Carulli died in Milan on 16 March 2021 at the age of 77.

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1944 births
2021 deaths
Italian politicians
Italian academics
Italian judges
Karin Strenz

Karin Strenz (14 October 1967 – 21 March 2021) was a German politician who represented the CDU. Strenz was a member of the Bundestag for the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern between 2009 and 2021.

On 21 March 2021, Strenz fell unconscious during a flight between Cuba and Germany in Limerick, Ireland. She died a few hours later, aged 53.

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1967 births
2021 deaths
Politicians from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Susana Canales

Susana Canales Niaucel (5 September 1933 – 22 March 2021) was a Spanish actress. She starred in the 1951 drama Black Sky (1951).

Canales died on 22 March 2021 in Madrid, at the age of 87.

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Other websites
 

1933 births
2021 deaths
Spanish movie actors
Spanish stage actors
Spanish television actors
Actors from Madrid
Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum (, ; 25 December 1945 – 24 March 2021) was an Emirati politician. He was the deputy ruler of Dubai and the minister of finance and industry of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He was the second son of ruler Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum.

Rashid Al Maktoum died on 24 March 2021 at the age of 75.

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1945 births
2021 deaths
Emirati people
Asian politicians
Business people
Howard Schnellenberger

Howard Leslie Schnellenberger (March 16, 1934 – March 27, 2021) was an American football coach. He held head coaching positions with the National Football League's Baltimore Colts and in college for the University of Miami, University of Oklahoma, University of Louisville, and Florida Atlantic University. Schnellenberger was born in Saint Meinrad, Indiana.

Schnellenberger died on March 27, 2021 in Boca Raton, Florida at the age of 87.

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1934 births
2021 deaths
American football coaches
College football coaches
Sportspeople from Indiana
Saint Meinrad, Indiana

Saint Meinrad is a census-designated place (CDP) in Spencer County, Indiana, United States.

References

Census-designated places in Indiana
Bibian Mentel

Bibian Mentel-Spee (27 September 1972 – 29 March 2021) was a Dutch three-time Winter Paralympics gold-medalist. Mentel won the Paralympic gold medal in the snowboard cross discipline in the 2014 and 2018 Paralympic Winter Games, as well as in the banked slalom in 2018.

On 5 March 2021, it was announced that she had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Mentel died on 29 March 2021 from the disease, aged 48.

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1972 births
2021 deaths
Dutch Paralympic gold medalists
Deaths from brain cancer
Joye Hummel

Joye Evelyn Hummel (April 4, 1924April 5, 2021) was an American comic book author.  She is known for writing more than 70 "Wonder Woman" stories between 1944 and 1947.

Hummel died on April 5, 2021, one day after her 97th birthday, at her home in Winter Haven, Florida.

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1924 births
2021 deaths
American comics writers
Writers from New York City
Bobby Schilling

Robert Todd Schilling (January 23, 1964 – April 6, 2021) was an American politician. He was a U.S. Representative for  from 2011 to 2013. Schilling was a member of the Republican Party. In 2012, he lost his re-election to Democrat Cheri Bustos. In 2014, he ran for his former seat but lost again to Bustos.

Schilling again ran for public office in 2020 for Iowa's 2nd congressional district, but lost the Republican nomination to Mariannette Miller-Meeks.

In May 2020, Schilling was diagnosed with cancer. He died from the disease on April 6, 2021 in LeClaire, Iowa at the age of 57.

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1964 births
2021 deaths
Cancer deaths in the United States
United States representatives from Illinois
US Republican Party politicians
Politicians from Iowa
Bobby Leonard

William Robert "Slick" Leonard (July 17, 1932April 13, 2021) was an American professional basketball player, coach and color commentator. He played college basketball for the Indiana Hoosiers. He won the national championship in 1953. 

Leonard coached the Indiana Pacers to three American Basketball Association (ABA) championships. He was added into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach in 2014.

Leonard died on April 13, 2021 in Indianapolis, Indiana, at the age of 88.

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1932 births
2021 deaths
American basketball players
National Basketball Association coaches
Sportspeople from Indianapolis, Indiana
American sports commentators
People from Terre Haute, Indiana
Du Jinfang

Du Jinfang (杜近芳; 1932 – 17 April 2021) was a Chinese actress. She worked at the  of the China National Peking Opera Company. She appeared in the 1972 movie The Red Detachment of Women. She was vice chairman of the All-China Youth Federation.

Jinfang died on 17 April 2021, aged 89.

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1932 births
2021 deaths
Chinese stage actors
Chinese movie actors
Chinese singers
The Unholy Garden

The Unholy Garden is a 1931 American romantic drama movie directed by George Fitzmaurice and was based on the story by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. It stars Ronald Coleman, Fay Wray, Estelle Taylor, Warren Hymer, Tully Marshall, Lawrence Grant, Henry Kolker and was distributed by United Artists.

Other websites

1931 movies
1930s romance movies
1930s drama movies
American romantic drama movies
Movies directed by George Fitzmaurice
Frank Judd, Baron Judd

Frank Ashcroft Judd, Baron Judd (28 March 1935 – 17 April 2021) was a British Labour politician. He was a Senior Fellow of Saferworld NGO from 1994 to 2002. He was a member of the Unite and GMB trade unions. He was a member of the British Parliament from 1966 until 1979. He had cabinet jobs under the governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.

He died in April 2021 at the age of 86.

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1935 births
2021 deaths
UK MPs 1966–1970
UK MPs 1970–1974
UK MPs 1974
UK MPs 1974–1979
Former Labour Party (UK) MPs
British businesspeople
People from Surrey
Vivek (actor)

Vivekanandan (19 November 1961 – 17 April 2021), known professionally as Vivek, was an Indian actor, comedian, television personality, playback singer and social activist. He was known for his roles in Run (2002), Saamy (2003) and Perazhagan (2004).

Vivek died on 17 April 2021 from cardiac arrest in Chennai at the age of 59.

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1961 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from cardiac arrest
Indian movie actors
Indian television actors
Indian comedians
Indian activists
Indian singers
People from Tamil Nadu
Elizabeth Furse

Elizabeth Furse (October 13, 1936 – April 18, 2021) was a Kenya Colony-born American businesswoman and politician. She was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 1999, representing Oregon's 1st congressional district. She was a Democrat. She was the first naturalized U.S. citizen born in Africa to win election to the United States Congress.

Furse died on April 18, 2021, at age 84, at her farm near Hillsboro, Oregon from problems caused by a fall.

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1936 births
2021 deaths
Naturalized citizens of the United States
People from Nairobi
United States representatives from Oregon
African businesspeople
Businesspeople from Oregon
US Democratic Party politicians
Kenya Colony

The Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, commonly known as British Kenya, was part of the British Empire in Africa. It was created when the former East Africa Protectorate was transformed into a British Crown colony in 1920.

References

Kenya
Boana paranaiba

Boana paranaiba is a frog that lives in Brazil.

References

Frogs
Animals of South America
Boulevard Nights

Boulevard Nights is a 1979 American crime movie directed by Michael Pressman and starring Richard Yniguez, Danny De La Paz, Carmen Zapata, Victor Millan, James Victor, Daniel Zacapa. It was distributed by Warner Bros..

Other websites

1979 crime movies
American crime movies
Warner Bros. movies
Movies directed by Michael Pressman
Naomi Biden

Naomi Christina Biden (November 8, 1971 – December 18, 1972) was was the Daughter of President Joe Biden. 

She died in a car crash in 1972 with her mother, Neilia. Her two brothers, Beau and Hunter, were badly injured but survived.

A park in a suburban area of unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, outside the city of Wilmington, Neilia Hunter Biden Park, is dedicated in her memory.

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1941 births
1972 deaths
Road accident deaths in the United States
Joe Biden
People from Wilmington, Delaware
East Slavs

East slavs are part of the Slavic people.

The most of them are in three countries: in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. East Slavs' national languages are languages from the East Slavic languages group.

Slavic peoples
Froyla Tzalam

Froyla Tzalam is a Belizean Mopan Maya anthropologist and community leader.

It was announced on 22 April 2021 by Prime Minister of Belize John Briceno that she was nominated to be the next Governor-General of Belize. She is the third Governor-General and the second woman appointed to the role.

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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Governors-General of Belize
Giorgi Mshvenieradze

Georgy Mshvenieradze (born 12 August 1960, in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR) was a Soviet water polo player. His father Peter was the captain of the USSR team throughout the 1950s and appeared at three Olympic Games. Georgy and his brother Nugzar followed their father into the sport.

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Other websites
 

1960 births
Living people
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Celso Amorim

Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim (born June 3, 1942) is a Brazilian politician. He was the Minister of Foreign Relations from July 20, 1993 to December 31, 1994 under President Itamar Franco and again from January 1, 2003 to December 31, 2010 under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. 

He was Minister of Defence from August 4, 2011 to December 31, 2014 under President Dilma Rousseff.

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1942 births
Living people
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People from São Paulo
Seminole High School (Seminole County, Florida)

Seminole High School, originally established as Sanford High School, is a public high school located in Sanford, Florida, operated by Seminole County Public Schools. From 2006 to 2011, Seminole High School was one of the schools in Seminole County on Newsweek's list of the top 1,200 schools in the United States. The school  offers the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. The Academy for Health Careers provides a curriculum based on a future career in health care. Students take a health class and health material is integrated into the curriculum of all other subjects. Seminole High also offers Advanced Placement courses in a range of subjects.

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Schools in the United States
Udemy

Udemy, Inc. is an American massive open online course (MOOC) provider. It is aimed at professional adults and students. The company was founded in May 2010 by Eren Bali, Gagan Biyani, and Oktay Caglar.

The platform is a massively-open online course (M.O.O.C.) website,=. On it, anyone can create and promote courses in the style of traditional post-secondary education. Users can also take courses to earn credit towards technical certification, or just to pick up or improve various job-related skills.

As of April 2021, the platform has more than 40 million students, 155,000 courses and 70,000 instructors teaching courses in over 65 languages. There have been over 480 million course enrollments. Students and instructors come from 180+ countries and 2/3 of the students are located outside of the U.S.

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American technology companies
Companies based in San Francisco
2010 establishments in the United States
Võle

Võle is a village in Haljala Parish, Lääne-Viru County, in northeastern Estonia.

References

Settlements in Estonia
Herschel Walker

Herschel Walker (born March 3, 1962) is an American retired football player, bobsledder, sprinter, and mixed martial artist. He played college football for the University of Georgia. He has been called one of the best college football players of all time. He is a Republican candidate for the United States Senate in Georgia for the 2022 election.

Personal life
Walker was born in Augusta, Georgia. He studied at University of Georgia. He was married to Cindy DeAngelis Grossman from 1983 until their divorce in 2002. They have one son, Christian.

NFL career
Walker began his professional football career with the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League (USFL) in 1983. He later joined the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). In the NFL, he also played for the Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles, and New York Giants. He retired from the NFL in 1997.

He was honored into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1999.

Political career
He was named Co-Chair of the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition after being appointed by President Donald Trump in 2020. He supported Trump's presidential campaigns in 2016 and 2020.

Walker is running for the Republican nomination for the United States Senate from Georgia in the 2022 election. Former President Trump has supported his Senate campaign.

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1962 births
Living people
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Minnesota Vikings players
Philadelphia Eagles players
New York Giants players
American football running backs
Sprinters
Sportspeople from Georgia (U.S. state)
People from Augusta, Georgia
Politicians from Georgia (U.S. state)
US Republican Party politicians
Josh Green (politician)

Joshua B. Green (born February 11, 1970) is an American politician and physician. In 2018, he became the 14th Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

In August 2021, Green announced his candidacy for Governor of Hawaii in the 2022 election.

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Living people
Lieutenant Governors of Hawaii
Politicians from New York
State legislators of the United States
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Janice McGeachin

Janice K. McGeachin (born January 18, 1963) is an American politician and businesswoman. She is the 43rd lieutenant governor of Idaho since 2018. She is a member of the Republican Party. She was a member of the Idaho House of Representatives from 2002 until 2012.

In May 2021, McGeachin filed papers to run for Governor of Idaho in 2022, against incumbent governor Brad Little in the Republican primary.

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1963 births
Living people
Lieutenant Governors of Idaho
Politicians from New Mexico
US Republican Party politicians
Businesspeople from New Mexico
Businesspeople from Idaho
People from Las Cruces, New Mexico
Rushern Baker

Rushern L. Baker III (born October 24, 1958) is an American lawyer and politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He was elected county executive of Prince George's County, Maryland in 2010 and won re-election in 2014, leaving office in 2018. 

In 2017 and 2018, he ran an unsuccessful primary campaign to become Governor of Maryland. In April 2021, he announced his candidacy for governor in the 2022 election.

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1958 births
Living people
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Businesspeople from Maryland
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Lawyers from Maryland
List of current United States lieutenant governors

The lieutenant governor is the second-highest-ranking government official in 45 of the 50 U.S. States and four of the five territories. Not all states have a lieutenant governor. This article is a list of all lieutenant governors and/or political offices of equal ranking.

List of Lieutenant Governors

States

Territories

States without Lieutenant Governors

Federal districts and territories without Lieutenant Governors

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Lieutenant governor (United States)

The Lieutenant Governor is an official in state governments of 45 out of 50 of the United States.  In most cases, the lieutenant governor is the highest officer of state after the governor. In the event the governor dies or resigns, the lieutenant governor would replace them. Some people believe that lieutenant governors have no power.

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State lieutenant governors of the United States
Robin Miller (journalist)

Robin Lee Miller (October 27, 1949 – August 25, 2021) was an American motorsports journalist and sports commentator. He worked for The Indianapolis Star from 1968 until 2001. He also wrote for Autoweek, Car and Driver, ESPN and Speed.

Miller announced he had terminal leukemia in July 2021. He died in Indianapolis from the disease on August 25, 2021 at aged 71.

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1949 births
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Deaths from leukemia
American sports commentators
American journalists
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Ithaca, Michigan

Ithaca is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan located near the center of the state's lower peninsula. The population was 2,910 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Gratiot County.

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Cities in Michigan
County seats in Michigan
Alma, Michigan

Alma is the largest city in Gratiot County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,383 at the 2010 census.

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Cities in Michigan
Lance Robertson

Lance Robertson, also known as "DJ Lance Rock", is an American musician, singer, DJ, and actor best known for the Nick Jr. show Yo Gabba Gabba! and the YouTube series, Reading is Awesome.

References

Other websites

 Monster Mash-Ups - article on the creation of Yo Gabba Gabba

Living people
African American actors
Actors from St. Louis, Missouri
American DJs
Musicians from St. Louis, Missouri
Year of birth missing (living people)
List of lieutenant governors of Ohio

The position of lieutenant governor of Ohio was created in 1852. The lieutenant governor becomes governor if the governor resigns, dies in office or is removed by impeachment.

List of lieutenant governors

Parties

References
Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii

The Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii () is the assistant chief executive of the U.S. state of Hawaii.

List
Parties

Living former lieutenant governors of Hawaii

References

Other websites
 Lieutenant Governor of the State of Hawaii - Official Site
 http://lrbhawaii.org/con/conart5.html
Doug Chin

Douglas S. Chin (born July 21, 1966) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 13th Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii from February to December 2018. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He was the 14th Attorney General of Hawaii. 

On December 18, 2017, Chin announced his plans to run for the U.S. House of Representatives; in August 2018, he lost the seat's Democratic nomination to Ed Case.

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1966 births
Living people
Lieutenant Governors of Hawaii
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Shan Tsutsui

Shan S. Tsutsui (born August 9, 1971) is an American politician who was the 12th lieutenant governor of Hawaii from 2012 to 2018. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He was a member of the Hawaii Senate from 2003 to 2012, and he was President of the Senate from 2010 to 2012.

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1971 births
Lieutenant Governors of Hawaii
Living people
US Democratic Party politicians
Matthew Denn

Matthew P. Denn (born February 9, 1966) is an American lawyer and politician. He was the 45th Attorney General of Delaware from 2015 until 2019. Denn was the 25th Lieutenant Governor of Delaware from 2009 to 2015.

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1966 births
Living people
Lieutenant Governors of Delaware
Lawyers from Delaware
Politicians from Wilmington, Delaware
Businesspeople from Wilmington, Delaware
US Democratic Party politicians
S. B. Woo

Shien Biau Woo (born August 13, 1937) is an Chinese American professor and politician. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He was the 21st Lieutenant Governor of Delaware from 1985 until 1989.

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1937 births
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Secretary of State of Arizona

The Secretary of State of Arizona is an elected position in the U.S. state of Arizona. Since Arizona does not have a lieutenant governor, the Secretary stands first in the line of succession to the governorship.

List of living former secretaries

References
Linda Larkin

Linda Larkin (born March 20, 1970) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as the speaking voice of Princess Jasmine in Disney's 1992 animated movie Aladdin.

References

Other websites

 Linda Larkin at the Disney Legends Website

Living people
1970 births
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
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Actors from Los Angeles
Jonathan Freeman (actor)

Jonathan Freeman (born February 5, 1950) is an American actor and puppeteer. He is known for being the voice of Jafar in Disney's Aladdin and its sequels. He also played the character on stage.

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1950 births
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American movie actors
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Jodi Benson

Jodi Marie Benson (née Marzorati; born October 10, 1961) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for providing both the speaking and the singing voice of Princess Ariel in Disney's The Little Mermaid and its sequel, prequel, and television series spinoff. Benson also voiced the character Barbie in the Toy Story movies.

Born in Rockford, Illinois, she was raised in Gainesville, Georgia. In 1984, she married Ray Benson.

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Actors from Georgia (U.S. state)
Alrabiaa Network Television

Alrabiaa Network Television (); also called  Al Rabiaa TV is an Iraqi satellite television channe. It is based in Baghdad, Iraq. The channel was launched in 2021 by Ghazwan Jassem.

Programs
 Sout Almalaeb - صوت الملاعب (in Arabic)
 Studio Alateba - ستديو الاطباء (in Arabic)
 Halqa Waswl - حلقة وصل (in Arabic)
 Shako Mako- شكو ماكو (in Arabic)
 Sabah Alrabiaa - صباح الرابعة (in Arabic)

Alrabiaa Network Television acquired the rights to broadcast the matches of the AFC Championships exclusively in all its competitions until 2024, with an estimated amount of 12 million US dollars.

Name of the TV channel
This name represents the fourth authority, and it is a term generally applied to the press and the mass media to highlight their influential role not only in circulating news and knowledge, but also in forming opinion, disclosing information, creating issues and representing the people.

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Television channels in Asia
2012 establishments in Asia
Iraq
Daikon

Daikon (Japanese for 'big root') or mooli, Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus, is a mild-flavored winter radish usually characterized by fast-growing leaves and a long, white,  root.

References

Leaf vegetables
Root vegetables
Autoregressive model

An autoregressive model is a kind of model, which is mainly used in statistics. Like all statistics models, the idea is to describe a random process. In an autoregressive model, the output value depends linearly on one of the previous values of the model, plus a ransom variable, which describes that there is some randomness in the outcome. 

Statistics
Mr Bullet

Mr Bullet is a puzzle-platform shooter app on Google Play developed by Lion Studios. It has over 100 million downloads as of August 2021. The main character is Mr Bullet who is on a mission to kill all of the enemies within the game. There is an online versus mode where players can play against themselves using either the bullets or grenades mode. There are different modes of difficulty from training, to beginner, to intermediates, to killer, to assassin.

References 

Puzzle video games
Zoe Sugg

Zoë Elizabeth Sugg (born 28 March 1990), also known by her YouTube name Zoella, is an English YouTuber, vlogger, businesswoman and author. Sugg began posting videos to her YouTube channel in 2009. Her YouTube channel has over 10 million subscribers. In 2014, she launched Zoella Beauty.

Early life 
Zoe Elizabeth Sugg was born on 28 March 1990 in Lacock, Wiltshire. She went to The Corsham School and Arts College. She left school with A Levels in art, photography and textiles. Sugg did not go to university. Sugg is the older sister of fellow YouTuber Joe Sugg.

Bibliography 

 Girl Online (2014)
 Girl Online: On Tour (2015)
 Girl Online: Going Solo (2016)
 Cordially Invited (2018)
 The Magpie Society: One for Sorrow (2020)
 The Magpie Society: Two for Joy (2021)

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People from Wiltshire
People from Brighton
Krugerville, Texas

Krugerville is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States.

Cities in Texas
Lakewood Village, Texas

Lakewood Village is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States.

Cities in Texas
Oak Point, Texas

Oak Point is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States.

Cities in Texas
Pilot Point, Texas

Pilot Point is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States.

Cities in Texas
Sanger, Texas

Sanger is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States.

Cities in Texas
Farmersville, Texas

Farmersville is a city in Collin County, Texas, United States.

Cities in Collin County, Texas
Lucas, Texas

Lucas is a city in Collin County, Texas, United States.

Cities in Collin County, Texas
Princeton, Texas

Princeton is a city in Collin County, Texas, United States.

Cities in Collin County, Texas
Weston, Texas

Weston is a city in Collin County, Texas, United States.

Cities in Collin County, Texas
Typhoon Hagibis

Typhoon Hagibis was a super typhoon of the 2019 Pacific typhoon season. Hagibis caused enormous damage to Japan, killing 118 people and leaving three missing. Japan Meteorological Agency named this typhoon Reiwa 1 East Japan Typhoon (令和元年東日本台風). Due to the severe impacts of Typhoon Hagibis in Japan, the name ''Hagibis'' was officially retired during the 52nd Annual Session, organized by the ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee in February 2020. In February 2021, the Typhoon Committee subsequently chose ''Ragasa'' as its replacement name.

References 

 台風201919号 (HAGIBIS) [令和元年東日本台風] - 災害情報 - National Institute of Informatics
 令和元年東日本台風 (台風第19号) による大雨、暴風等 - Japan Meteorological Agency

2019 Pacific typhoon season
October 2019 events
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (/ˈhwɔːrtən/ WHAWR-tən; also known as Wharton Business School, the Wharton School, and Wharton) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, United States. Wharton School is believe to be the world's oldest collegiate business school.

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Colleges and universities in Pennsylvania
1881 establishments
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Saleh Mamman

Mamman Kwagyang Saleh (born 2 January 1958), is the Nigerian politician and current minister of power.

Education 
Saleh holds a higher national diploma in electrical electronics from Kaduna Polytechnic. He also hold an Masters Business Administration from Bayero University Kano.

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Nigerian politicians
African American politicians
Babatunde Fashola

Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN (Yoruba: Babátúndé Rájí Fáshọlá; born 28 June 1963) is a Nigerian lawyer, politician and current Federal Minister of Works and Housing. He served two terms as Governor of Lagos State.

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1963 births
Living people
Nigerian politicians
People from Lagos