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Sarah McBride

Sarah McBride (born August 9, 1990) is an American LGBTQ rights activist and Democratic politician. She is currently the National Press Secretary of the Human Rights Campaign. 

After winning the September 15, 2020 Democratic primary in the safe Democratic 1st Delaware State Senate district, she is set to become the first transgender state senator in the country as well as the highest-ranking transgender official in the country.

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1990 births
Living people
American LGBT rights activists
LGBT politicians
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from Wilmington, Delaware
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Transgender and transsexual people
Marion, Mississippi

Marion is a town in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, United States.

Towns in Mississippi
Ralph Abernathy

Ralph David Abernathy Sr. (March 11, 1926 – April 17, 1990) was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was ordained in the Baptist tradition in 1948. He was born in Linden, Alabama. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

As a leader of the civil rights movement, he was a close friend and mentor of Martin Luther King Jr. He worked with King to create the Montgomery Improvement Association which led to the Montgomery bus boycott. 

He also co-founded and was an executive board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). He became president of the SCLC following the assassination of King in 1968. He led the Poor People's Campaign in Washington, D.C. 

He was an advisory committee member of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE).

Abernathy died on April 17, 1990 of heart disease in Atlanta, Georgia at the age of 64.

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Cardiovascular disease deaths in the United States
American civil rights activists
Politicians from Alabama
Politicians from Atlanta, Georgia
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Joseph Henabery

Joseph Henabery (January 15, 1888 – February 18, 1976) was an American actor, screenwriter, and director. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska. Henabery was best known for his role of Abraham Lincoln in D.W. Griffith's controversial 1915 silent movie The Birth of a Nation.

Henabery died on February 18, 1976, aged 88, in Los Angeles, California.

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1888 births
1976 deaths
American movie actors
American silent movie actors
Actors from Omaha, Nebraska
Writers from Omaha, Nebraska
American movie directors
Reed Hastings

Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr. (born October 8, 1960) is an American businessman. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts.

Hastings is the co-founder, chairman, and co-chief executive officer (CEO) of Netflix. He is on the boards and non-profit organizations.

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1960 births
Living people
Educators from Boston, Massachusetts
American political activists
Businesspeople from Boston, Massachusetts
George Lincoln Rockwell

George Lincoln Rockwell (March 9, 1918 – August 25, 1967) was an American politician and neo-Nazi. He founded the American Nazi Party. He was born in Bloomington, Illinois.

Rockwell denied The Holocaust and believed that Martin Luther King Jr. was a tool for Jewish Communists wanting to rule the white community. He blamed the civil rights movement on the Jews.

On August 25, 1967, Rockwell was shot and killed in Arlington by John Patler at the age of 49.

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1918 births
1967 deaths
Assassinated people
American crime victims
Nazis
American political activists
Military people from Illinois
Politicians from Illinois
People from Bloomington, Illinois
John Patler

John Patler (, born January 6, 1938) is an American former neo-Nazi who was convicted of killing American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell on August 25, 1967. He was born in New York City.

Patler was in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1958 to 1960, when he was honorably discharged after being arrested at an American Nazi Party rally.

Patler later became a captain in the American Nazi Party and the editor and cartoonist for the party's magazine, Stormtrooper. However, he was expelled from the Party in March 1967 after disagreeing with party leader George Lincoln Rockwell about some of the party's policies.

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1938 births
Living people
Nazis
American people convicted of manslaughter
American cartoonists
Writers from New York City
Criminals from New York City
Frazier Glenn Miller Jr.

Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. (November 23, 1940 – May 3, 2021), commonly known as Glenn Miller or Frazier Glenn Cross, was an American domestic terrorist and former leader of the White Patriot Party. Miller was a perennial candidate for public office. 

He was a supporter of white nationalism, white separatism, Odinism, and antisemitism.

On April 13, 2014, Miller was arrested following the Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting in Overland Park, Kansas. Johnson County prosecutors charged him with one count of capital murder and one count of first-degree murder. On October 17, 2014, the separate charge for first-degree murder was dismissed and all three deaths were included in a single capital murder count.

On August 31, 2015, Miller was found guilty in the Overland Park shooting of one count of capital murder, three counts of attempted murder and assault and weapons charges. Eight days later, the same jury recommended that Miller be put to death by lethal injection. On November 10, 2015, he was formally sentenced to death.

Miller died in prison at the El Dorado Correctional Facility in Butler County, Kansas on May 3, 2021. at the age of 80.

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American Christians
American people convicted of attempted murder
American people convicted of murder
American prisoners sentenced to death
American terrorists
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Politicians from North Carolina
Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting

On April 13, 2014, two shootings occurred at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and Village Shalom, a Jewish retirement community, both located in Overland Park, Kansas. A total of three people were killed in the shootings, two of whom were shot at the community center and one shot at the retirement community.

The gunman, 73-year-old Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. of Aurora, Missouri, originally from North Carolina, was arrested during the attack and was subsequently tried, convicted of murder and other crimes, and sentenced to death. Miller is a former Klansman, neo-Nazi and former political candidate.

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2010s murders in the United States
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History of Kansas
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Overland Park, Kansas
Aurora, Missouri

Aurora is a city in Lawrence County, Missouri, United States. The population was 7,508 at the 2010 census.

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Cities in Missouri
Mount Vernon, Missouri

Mount Vernon is a city in and the county seat of Lawrence County, Missouri, United States. The population was 4,575 as of the 2010 census.

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Cities in Missouri
County seats in Missouri
Lumbar vertebrae

The lumbar vertebrae in humans are the five vertebrae between the rib cage and the pelvis. 

They are important parts of the vertebral column. They are called L1 to L5, starting at the top. The lumbar vertebrae help support the weight of the body, and allow movement. In particular, they connect to the pelvis.

Most people have five lumbar vertebrae, but some have four or six. Not much movement takes place between the lumbar vertebrae.

Bones
Embassy of the United States, Tehran

The Embassy of the United States of America in Tehran was the United States of America's diplomatic mission in the Imperial State of Iran. Diplomatic relations between the United States and Iran became intense following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, and the hostage crisis at the embassy in November 1979.

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United States
Iran
foreign relations of the United States
Economic sanctions

Economic sanctions are commercial and financial penalties applied by one or more countries against a state, group, or individual. 

Economic sanctions are acted because of economic reasons, but also for political and military reasons.

Related pages
 Embargo

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Economic policy
Head Start

Head Start is a program of the United States Department of Health and Human Services that gives early childhood education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and families. 

The program's services and resources are designed to help stable family relationships,children's physical and emotional health, and create an environment to for cognitive skills.

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United States Department of Health and Human Services
Timothy Kraft

Timothy E. Kraft (born April 10, 1941) is a retired Democratic political consultant. He is best known as the campaign manager for the unsuccessful reelection bid of U.S. President Jimmy Carter. He was born in Noblesville, Indiana.

In September 1980, only weeks before the general election, he stepped down after it his cocaine was discovered.

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1941 births
Living people
Jimmy Carter
American political commentators
Politicians from Indiana
US Democratic Party politicians
Blue House

Cheongwadae (; Hanja: ; literally "pavilion of blue tiles"), also known as the Blue House, is the executive office and official residence of the President of the Republic of Korea.

It is located in Jongno-gu of the capital Seoul. The Blue House is the most protected official residence in Asia.

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Buildings and structures in South Korea
RSD-10 Pioneer

The RSD-10 Pioneer (  tr.: raketa sredney dalnosti (RSD) "Pioner"; ) was an intermediate-range ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead, that stayed in the Soviet Union from 1976 to 1988. It carried GRAU designation 15Ж45 (15Zh45). Its NATO reporting name was SS-20 Saber.

Other websites

 SS-20 - Saber - (MAZ-547A base), RSD-10, Pioneer – Walk around photos 
 SS-20 Installations

Nuclear weapons
Intermediate-range ballistic missile

An intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) is a ballistic missile with a range  of 3,000–5,500 km (1,864–3,418 miles), between a medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) and an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

IRBMs are currently operated by the People's Republic of China, India, Israel, and North Korea.

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Nuclear weapons
Demilitarisation

Demilitarisation or demilitarization may mean the lowering of state armed forces. It is the opposite of militarisation. For instance, the demilitarisation of Northern Ireland caused a lowring British security and military weapons. Demilitarisation in this sense is usually the result of a peace treaty ending a war or a major conflict.

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Military tactics
Operation Cyclone

Operation Cyclone was the code name for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program to arm and finance the mujahideen (jihadists) in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989. The mujahideen were also supported by Britain's MI6.

Operation Cyclone was one of the longest and most expensive covert CIA operations ever. Funding officially began with $695,000 in 1979.

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1979
1989
Mujahideen

Mujahideen ( ) is the plural of mujahid (). Mujahid is the Arabic term for one engaged in jihad (literally, "struggle"). This term was first used to describe guerrilla-type militant groups led by the Islamist Afghan fighters in the Soviet–Afghan War. As of 2021, it is also used to described other jihadist groups in other countries. 

The English term jihadists is also related to the mujahideen.

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War in Afghanistan (since 1978)
Jihadism

"Jihadism" (also "jihadist movement", "jihadi movement" and variants) is a 21st-century neologism found in Western languages to describe Islamist  movements seen by the military to be "rooted in Islam" and a threat to the West. 

The term "jihadism" first appeared in South Asian media; Western journalists adopted it in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks of 2001.

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Islamic organizations
One America Appeal

The One America Appeal is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded on 7 September 2017, by all five then living former U.S. Presidents: Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. This aimed to encourage support for recovery efforts for Hurricane Harvey, but was then extended to include areas most affected by Hurricanes Irma and Maria. 

The appeal was launched when the five former Presidents aired a joint PSA on the NFL’s regular season opening broadcast.

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2017 establishments in the United States
Jimmy Carter
George H. W. Bush
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
Political organizations based in the United States
Aijalon Gomes

Aijalon Mahli Gomes  (June 19, 1979 – November 17, 2017) was an American teacher. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts.

He was detained in North Korea for illegally entering the country through China on January 25, 2010. On August 27, 2010, it was announced that former U.S. president Jimmy Carter had secured Gomes's release. In May 2015, Gomes published an autobiography, Violence and Humanity. 

On November 17, 2017, he was found burned to death in what was ruled a suicide at a park in San Diego, California at the age of 38.

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1979 births
2020 deaths
Educators from Boston, Massachusetts
American crime victims
People who committed suicide
Writers from Boston, Massachusetts
American autobiographers
Tomás Borge

Tomás Borge Martínez (13 August 1930 – 30 April 2012) was a Nicaraguan politician and writer. He was the cofounder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front in Nicaragua and was Interior Minister of Nicaragua during one of the administrations of Daniel Ortega.

Borge also held the titles of "Vice-Secretary and President of the FSLN", member of the Nicaraguan Parliament and National Congress, and Ambassador to Peru.

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1930 births
2012 deaths
Deaths from lung disease
Nicaraguan politicians
Political writers
The Elders (organization)

The Elders is an international non-governmental organisation of public figures known as elder statesmen, peace activists, and human rights advocates. They were brought together by Nelson Mandela in 2007. They describe themselves as "independent global leaders working together for peace and human rights". 

The goal Mandela set for the Elders was to use their "almost 1,000 years of collective experience" to work on solutions for controversial and long-lasting problems such as climate change, HIV/AIDS, and poverty, as well as to "use their political independence to help resolve some of the world's most intractable conflicts".

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Nelson Mandela
Nairobi Agreement, 1999

The 1999 Nairobi Agreement was a deal signed by Presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Omar al-Bashir of Sudan in Nairobi, Kenya, on 8 December 1999. 

The stated intent of the agreement was  to "provide the critical impetus for resolving the northern Uganda conflict." The deal was brokered by former US president Jimmy Carter.

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Politics of Africa
Nairobi
Sudan
Uganda
1990s in Africa
1999
Jimmy Carter
Emory University Hospital

Emory University Hospital is a 733-bed facility in Atlanta, Georgia, focusing in the care of acutely ill adults. Emory University Hospital is staffed by Emory University School of Medicine faculty who also are members of The Emory Clinic. 

The hospital is known as one of the nation's leaders in cardiology and cardiac surgery, oncology, transplantation, ophthalmology, and the neurosciences.

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Hospitals in the United States
Buildings and structures in Atlanta, Georgia
United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights

The United Nations Prizes in the Field of Human Rights were created and given by United Nations General Assembly (UN General Assembly) in 1966. They are intended to "honour and commend people and organizations which have made an outstanding contribution to the promotion and protection of the human rights. The ceremony for the laureates is hold on Human Rights Day, 10 December in every fifth year.

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United Nations
Hoover Medal

The Hoover Medal is an American engineering prize.

It has been given since 1930 for "outstanding extra-career services by engineers to humanity". 

The prize is given jointly by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

It is named for Herbert Hoover, the first recipient, who was an engineer by profession.

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Awards
Herbert Hoover
Disappearance of Brian Shaffer

Brian Shaffer (born February 25, 1979) was a medical student at Ohio State University. On the night of March 31, 2006, Shaffer went out with friends to celebrate the beginning of spring break. He was separated from them and they thought he had gone home. Shaffer has not been seen or heard from since. The case has received national media attention.

Columbus police have several theories about what happened; some interest and suspicion has been directed at a friend of Shaffer's who went with him that night but who has refused to take lie detector tests about the incident. 

While foul play has been suspected, including the possible involvement of the Smiley Face serial killer, it has also been speculated that he might be alive and living somewhere else under a new identity.

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Mysteries
March events
2000s in Ohio
2006 in the United States
Columbus, Ohio
Smiley face murder theory

The Smiley face murder theory (variations include Smiley face murders, Smiley face killings, Smiley face gang, and others) is a theory believed by retired New York City detectives Kevin Gannon and Anthony Duarte. They say that a number of young men found dead in bodies of water across several Midwestern American states from the late 1990s to the 2010s did not accidentally drown. They believe that they were victims of a serial killer or killers. 

The term "smiley face" became connected to the alleged murders when it was made public that the police had discovered graffiti showing a smiley face near locations where they think the killer dumped the bodies in at least a dozen of the cases. 

Gannon wrote a textbook case study on the subject titled "Case Studies in Drowning Forensics". The response of law enforcement investigators and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to not believe in this theory and had investigated it saying that it is a hoax.

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Mysteries
Conspiracy theories
Ahmed Al-Qadri

Ahmed Al-Qadri (1956 – 3 September 2020) was a Syrian agricultural engineer and politician. He was born in Al-Hasakah, Syria. He was a member of Bashar al-Assad's cabinet. He was Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform between February 2013 to August 2020. 

Al-Qadri died of COVID-19 on 3 September 2020 at a hospital in Damascus at the age of 64.

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1956 births
2020 deaths
Syrian politicians
Engineers
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic
Brumado

Brumado is a Brazilian municipality in the interior of Bahia, in the Northeast region of the country. In 2016, 69,473 people lived here.

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Cities in Bahia
André Lespagnol

André Lespagnol (26 July 1943 – 13 September 2020) was a French politician and professor. He was a professor at the University of Rennes 2, focusing on the history of Saint-Malo. He was President of the University of Rennes 2 from 1991 to 1996. In 2004, he was elected Vice-President of the Regional Council of Brittany, serving until 2010. He was born in Crozon, France.

Lespagnol died on 13 September 2020 at the age of 77.

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1943 births
2020 deaths
French educators
French politicians
Russ Meekins Jr.

Edward Russell Meekins Jr. (1949 – September 13, 2020) was an American politician. He was a member of the Alaska House of Representatives between 1973 to 1975 and again from 1977 to 1983. His father Russ Meekins Sr. was also a politician. Meekins was a member of the Democratic Party. He was born in Anchorage, Alaska.

Meekins Jr. died on September 13, 2020 in Massachusetts at the age of 71.

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1949 births
2020 deaths
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from Alaska
People from Anchorage, Alaska
US Democratic Party politicians
Vital Alsar

Vital Alsar Ramírez (August 7, 1933 – September 15, 2020) was a Spanish-born Mexican sailor and scientist. He made several extremely long sailing expeditions. He was born in Santander, Cantabria. He was known for having sailed .

Between 1966 and 1973, Alsar led three expeditions by raft across the Pacific Ocean, from Ecuador and Australia. The first expedition failed, but the second and third succeeded, both setting the record for the longest known raft voyages in history— and .

Vital later replaced the rafts with galleons to carry out the project "Mar, hombre y paz", which was begun in 1980. This expedition took the trapo blanco (white rag), around the world on board the La Marigalante.

Alsar died on September 15, 2020 in Mexico City at the age of 87.

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1933 births
2020 deaths
Spanish scientists
Spanish educators
Sailors
Scientists from Mexico City
Parliament of Uganda

The Parliament of Uganda is the country's unicameral legislative body.

The most significant of the Ugandan parliament's job is to pass laws. The fiscal issues of the government, such as taxation and loans need the sanction of the parliament, after appropriate debate.

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Uganda
Faith Alupo

Faith Alupo (9 October 1983 – 15 September 2020) was a Ugandan politician. She was a Member of Parliament, representing the Pallisa District. She was elected to that position in June 2018. She was a member of the National Resistance Movement.

Alupo died on 15 September 2020 in Kampala, Uganda from COVID-19 at the age of 36.

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1983 births
2020 deaths
Ugandan politicians
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda
John Ferris (swimmer)

John Edward Ferris (July 24, 1949 – September 13, 2020) was an American competition swimmer and former world record-holder. He was born in Sacramento, California.

Ferris won two bronze medals at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He received a gold medal in the 200-meter butterfly at the 1967 World University Games, where he set a new world-record time of 2:06.0.  

Ferris died in Walnut Creek, California on September 13, 2020 from lung cancer, aged 71.

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1949 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer
Cancer deaths in California
American swimmers
American Olympic bronze medalists
Sportspeople from Sacramento, California
Ahmed Ben Salah

Ahmed Ben Salah () (13 January 1926 – 16 September 2020) was a Tunisian politician and trades union leader. His ideas for a planned economy were important for Tunisia's economic development between 1957 to 1969. He was born in Moknine, Tunisia. Ben Salah was the Minister of Finance between 1961 to 1969.

Ben Salah died on 16 September 2020 in Tunis at the age of 94.

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1926 births
2020 deaths
Tunisian politicians
Trade unionists
Hurricane Alice (December 1954)

Hurricane Alice is the only known Atlantic hurricane to span two calendar years. It is one of two named Atlantic tropical cyclones. The other is Tropical Storm Zeta of 2005.

1954
Alice 1954
Hanson, Massachusetts

Hanson is a town in Plymouth County in the state of Massachusetts. One of the inland towns of the South Shore, the population was 10,209 at the 2010 census.

Towns in Massachusetts
Stanley Crouch

Stanley Lawrence Crouch (December 14, 1945 – September 16, 2020) was an American poet, music, and cultural critic. He was best known for his jazz criticism and his 2000 novel Don't the Moon Look Lonesome? Crouch was born in Los Angeles. He was also a known critic of jazz in New York City and worked with The New York Times.

Crouch died on September 16, 2020 at a hospital in New York City at the age of 74.

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1945 births
2020 deaths
American poets
American critics
American columnists
Journalists from California
Journalists from New York City
Writers from Los Angeles
Núria Gispert i Feliu

Núria Gispert y Feliu (6 June 1936 – 16 September 2020) was a Spanish politician, Catholic activist and social worker. She was born in Barcelona. She was a member of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia. Between 1979 to 1995, she was a member of the City Council of Barcelona.

Feliu died on 16 September 2020 in Barcelona of colon cancer at the age of 84.

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1936 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from colorectal cancer
Political activists
Politicians from Barcelona
Enrique Irazoqui

Enrique Irazoqui (5 July 1944 – 16 September 2020) was a Spanish actor and political activist. He was born in Barcelona. Irazoqui was best known for his role as Jesus Christ in the 1964 movie The Gospel According to St. Matthew.

Irazoqui died on 16 September 2020 in Barcelona at the age of 76.

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2020 deaths
1944 births
Spanish movie actors
Political activists
People from Barcelona
Ed Bearss

Edwin Cole Bearss (; June 26, 1923 – September 15, 2020) was an American military historian and writer. He was a United States Marine Corps veteran of World War II. 

He was known for his work on the American Civil War and World War II eras. He was a tour guide of historic battlefields for The Smithsonian Associates and was Chief Historian of the National Park Service from 1981 to 1994. He was born in Billings, Montana.

Bearss died at his home in Arlington, Virginia on September 15, 2020 at the age of 97.

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1923 births
2020 deaths
American historians
American military personnel of World War II
Writers from Montana
People from Billings, Montana
Jack Kelley (ice hockey)

John Henry "Jack" Kelley (July 10, 1927 – September 15, 2020) was an American ice hockey coach. He was a member of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame. Kelley was the first general manager and head coach of the New England Whalers of the World Hockey Association (WHA). 

He was head coach at Boston University. He was born in Medford, Massachusetts.

Kelley died on September 15, 2020 at the age of 93.

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1927 births
2020 deaths
Sportspeople from Massachusetts
William Henry Danforth

William Henry Danforth II (April 10, 1926 – September 16, 2020) was an American physician, professor of medicine, and academic administrator. He was chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis from 1971 until 1995. He was the brother of former U.S. Senator John Danforth. Danforth was born in St. Louis, Missouri.

Danford died on September 16, 2020 in St. Louis from problems caused by a fall at the age of 94.

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1926 births
2020 deaths
Accidental deaths from falls in the United States
American physicians
Educators from St. Louis, Missouri
Scientists from St. Louis, Missouri
Maxim Martsinkevich

Maxim Sergeyevich Martsinkevich (, 8 May 1984 – 16 September 2020), better known as Tesak (Cleaver, Hatchet, Hand Axe, Machete), was a Russian neo-Nazi activist, media personality, vlogger, and the leader and co-founder of the Restruct movement.

Political activities
He was known for his white power skinhead and the leader of the far-right youth group Format 18. He was also a key member of Occupy Pedophilia.

Prison sentences
Martsinkevich received three prison sentences for inciting racial or ethnic hatred. Tesak was first indicted in 2007, after disrupting political debates by performing the Nazi salute and yelling "Sieg Heil!" at a book club in Moscow. In 2009, he was sentenced to three years for making a video with racist content. 

In the autumn of 2013, Tesak was indicted again for releasing new videos featuring racist remarks. As a result, on 15 August 2014, he was sentenced to five years in prison. On 11 November 2014, the court reduced the sentence to two years and 10 months.

On 27 June 2017, the Babushkinsky district court of Moscow sentenced Martsinkevich to ten years in a strict regimen corrective labor colony for his involvement in attacks targeting synthetic cannabinoids dealers.

Death
He killed himself in prison on 16 September 2020 at the age of 36.

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1984 births
2020 deaths
Political activists
Nazis
People who committed suicide in prison custody
Criminals
People from Moscow
Balli Durga Prasad Rao

Balli Durga Prasad Rao (15 June 1956 – 16 September 2020) was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India in the 2019 Indian general election. He was a member of the YSR Congress Party. Rao was also a member of the Andhra Pradesh MLA from 1985 to 1989, 1994 to 1999, and 2009 to 2014.

Rao died at a medical center in New Delhi on 16 September 2020 from COVID-19, aged 64.

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1956 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in India
Indian politicians
Main's frog

Main's water-holding frog, Main's frog, the sheep frog or western collared frog (Ranoidea maini) is a frog from Australia.  It lives in the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia.

This frog can live on flood plains, claypans, grassland and wetlands that dry up.  It lays eggs whenever there is enough water, and the tadpoles grow into frogs quickly.

This frog is 5.0 cm long with a round body.  The skin on its back is gray or brown with darker marks.  Some frogs can change the color of their skin, making it much lighter in color in a few hours.  Their front feet are not webbed, and their hind feet are webbed about halfway.

This frog is named after frog scientist Albert Main.

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Animals of Australia
Frogs
Whirlpool (movie)

Whirlpool is a 1949 American crime drama movie directed by Otto Preminger and based on the novel Methinks the Lady by Guy Endore. It stars Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, José Ferrer, Charles Bickford, Barbara O'Neil, Eduard Franz, Constance Collier and was distributed by 20th Century Fox.

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1949 crime movies
1949 drama movies
1940s crime drama movies
American crime drama movies
Movies based on books
20th Century Fox movies
Movies directed by Otto Preminger
Saefullah

Saefullah (11 February 1964 – 16 September 2020) was an Indonesian politician and educator. He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia. He was the Mayor of Central Jakarta from 2010 to 2014. He was also Regional Secretary of Jakarta from 2014 until his death. 

Saefullah died on 16 September 2020 at a hospital in Jakarta from COVID-19, aged 56.

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1964 births
2020 deaths
Indonesian politicians
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia
Tony Tanner

Tony Tanner (27 July 1932 – 8 September 2020) was a British actor, theatre director and choreographer. He was born in Hillingdon, Middlesex. His career began in 1953. He directed Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in the West End production in 1970. He also starred as Terry in Strictly for the Birds (1964) and as Littlechap in Stop the World – I Want to Get Off (1966).

Tanner died at his home in Los Angeles on 8 September 2020 at the age of 87.

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Other websites

1932 births
2020 deaths
British movie actors
British television actors
British stage actors
British theatre directors
Choreographers
Actors from Middlesex
Edwin M. Cronk

Edwin Monroe Cronk (May 20, 1918 – September 1, 2020) was an American politician. He was the third United States Ambassador to Singapore from 1972 to 1975 during the Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford presidencies. He was born in Minneapolis. He was Dean and Director of Deep Springs College from 1976 to 1980.

Cronk died on September 1, 2020 at the age of 102.

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1918 births
2020 deaths
American centenarians
Ambassadors of the United States
Politicians from Minneapolis, Minnesota
US Republican Party politicians
Emil Kraepelin

Emil Wilhelm Georg Magnus Kraepelin (; ; 15 February 1856 – 7 October 1926) was a German psychiatrist. He is the founder of modern scientific psychiatry, psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics.

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1856 births
1926 deaths
German psychiatrists
German educators
John Kricfalusi

Michael John Kricfalusi (; born September 9, 1955), known professionally as John K., is a Canadian blogger, former animator and voice actor. He is best known for creating the Nickelodeon animated television series The Ren & Stimpy Show, voicing Ren and being the original singer for the song Happy Happy Joy Joy on the show and for voicing Dr. Theopolis in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and in the 1979 film of the same name. He was born in Chicoutimi, Quebec.

In 2018, Kricfalusi was accused of sexually abusing underage girls in the late 1990s. Kricfalusi released an apology for his behavior, blaming his bipolar disorder.

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1955 births
Living people
Canadian voice actors
Canadian television actors
Animators
Actors from Quebec
People with bipolar disorder
Liladhar Vaghela

Liladhar Vaghela (17 February 1935 – 16 September 2020) was an Indian politician. He was born in Gujarat, Indian. He was a member of Lok Sabha between 2014 to 2019 as a member of the Indian National Congress. He was also a member of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly betweem 1975 to 1980, 1985 to 1995, 1998 to 2002 and lastly from 2007 to 2014.

Vaghela died on 16 September 2020 in Gandhinagar, Gujarat from acute respiratory failure, aged 85.

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1935 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from respiratory failure
Indian politicians
September 2020 Western United States wildfires

In 2020, the Western United States experienced a series of major wildfires. 

Intense August thunderstorms lit many wildfires across California, Oregon, and Washington, followed in early September by additional ignitions across the West Coast. 

Fanned by strong, gusty winds and fueled by hot, dry terrains, many of the fires exploded and coalesced into record-breaking, fire cloud producing, megafires, burning more than  of land. It has killed at least 35 people, with many more still missing. 

Climate change and poor forest management practices led to the severity of the wildfires.

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B. C. Kamble

Bapu Chandrasen Kamble (born 15 July 1919), commonly known as B. C. Kamble, is an Indian politician, writer, editor, jurist, and social activist. He was born in Maharashtra, India. He is a member of the Republican Party. Between 1957 to 1962 and again from 1977 to 1979, he was a member of the Lok Sabha.

He was also a member of the Bombay Legislative Assembly from 1952 to 1957. In 1984, he unsuccessfully ran for Vice-President of India losing to R. Venkataraman.

During 1956 to 1957, he was a Professor of Constitutional Law in Siddharth College of Law, Mumbai.

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Sushilkumar Shinde

Sushilkumar Sambhaji Shinde (born 4 September 1941) is an Indian politician. He was the Minister of Home Affairs and  Power in the Manmohan Singh government. 

He was also the Leader of the House in Lok Sabha until 26 May 2014. 

He was the Chief Minister of the state of Maharashtra during 18 January 2003 to October 2004.

Shinde unsuccessfully ran for Vice-President of India in 2002, but lost the election to Bhairon Singh Shekhawat.

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Pinner

Pinner is an area in Greater London, in the London Borough of Harrow. It is 12 miles (19 km) northwest from Charing Cross. Previously it was in Middlesex, as that county used to be.

Pinner is close to the northern border of the London Borough of Hillingdon.

Areas of London
London Borough of Harrow
Tell Me a Riddle

Tell Me a Riddle is a 1980 American drama movie directed by Lee Grant and starring Melvyn Douglas, Lila Kedrova, Brooke Adams, Peter Coyote, Zalman King.

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Small frog

The small frog, bleating water-holding frog, creek frog or little collared-frog (Ranoidea manya) is a frog from Australia.  It lives in Queensland on the Cape York Peninsula.

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René Marqués

René Marqués (October 4, 1919 – March 22, 1979) was a Puerto Rican short story writer and playwright.

Life 
He studied at the College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts. He earned a degree in agronomy in 1942. He studied drama at the University of Madrid in 1946 and Columbia University in New York in 1949. Family. He married Serena Velasco in 1942. They  divorced in 1957. He had two sons and one daughter. 

He had many jobs.  He worked as an agronomist for the Department of Agriculture (1943-46).  He managed a department store from 1946 to 1949. He was also a college teacher and a journalist in San Juan in the 1950s. He founded the Experimental Theater of the Atheneum in 1951. 

He won a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1949.  He also won many literary prizes in Puerto Rico.

Theatrical works 
He wrote theater plays, short stories, and essays.   His most famous play is "The Oxcart (1956)" or "La Carreta" (which means "The Wagon"). It is the story of a Puerto Rican family who move from Puerto Rican countryside to New York City for a better life. The family has a hard time becoming like their neighbors. They go back home to live on a farm in Puerto Rico, but they find it is hard to go back to the way they were.  

In 1959, he published three plays in one book. The book was called Teatro ("Theater"). The first play was La muerte no entrará en palacio ("Death Will Not Enter the Palace"). This play was about a governor who betrays his ideals. The second play was called Un niño azul para esa sombra ("A Blue Child for That Shadow"). The third play was the most successful, Los soles truncos ("Maimed Suns").  Los soles truncos tells the story of three sisters who do not like modern life.

He influenced later Puerto Rican playwrights, such as Luis Rafael Sanchez (author of Antigone), Pedro Pietri (author of The Masses are Asses), and Lin-Manuel Miranda (author of Hamilton). He influenced the Puerto Rican writer Giannina Braschi (author of Yo-Yo Boing!).

Related pages

 Puerto Rico
 Puerto Rican literature

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Giannina Braschi

Giannina Braschi (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 5 February 1953) is a Puerto Rican poet, novelist, and scholar. Her best-known books are Empire of Dreams, Yo-Yo Boing!, and United States of Banana.

Life 
Giannina Braschi was a model, singer, and tennis champion in her childhood. Her family imported cars to Puerto Rico. She studied literature and philosophy in Madrid, Rome, London, Paris, and New York. She has a Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature. She taught at Rutgers University. Her life's work is the subject of the book "Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi". 

She is also an activist. She advocates for the independence of Puerto Rico from the United States. 

She lives in New York City.

Works 
Giannina Braschi writes in Spanish, Spanglish, and English. She writes about  love, creativity, immigration, and liberty.  She is "one of the most revolutionary" writers in Latin America today." The word "revolutionary" means to her style is very creative.  She also writes about revolution.

She wrote the poetry epic Empire of Dreams (1988) about New York City. Her poetry is humorours. She  wrote the first Spanglish novel Yo-Yo Boing! (1998).  Spanglish is a mix of the English and Spanish languages. She wrote the novel United States of Banana (2011) about terrorism and the collapse of the United States. The novel opens with the fall of the World Trade Center in 2001, and ends with the liberation of Puerto Rico. 

Her books have been turned into art books, photography, painting, and sculpture. There is a comic book of United States of Banana (2017) by the Swedish cartoonist Joakim Lindengren. The same book was turned into a play.

Awards 
She has won awards from National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Ford Foundation, Danforth, and Reed Foundations, Puerto Rican Institute of Culture, and PEN American Center, among others.

Related pages 
 Puerto Rican literature
Puerto Rican poetry
Julia de Burgos
Victor Hernández Cruz
Caribbean poetry

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Novelists
Murdoc Niccals

Murdoc Faust Niccals (born Murdoc Alphonce Niccals; 6 June 1966) is the fictional bassist for the British animated rock band Gorillaz. He is voiced by Phil Cornwell and was created by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett.

Appearance
Murdoc is portrayed as a middle-aged man with a black mop top haircut, green skin and black eyes. In some cases, especially in phases 1 and 2, his left eye is a dark red or grey colour. The colour of Murdoc's skin has changed over the years from a dark greenish olive to a lime-green colour, however the cause of this is unknown.

Animated characters
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Bassists
Nicolette Poulos

Nicolette Poulos (born 4 January 1977) is a South African female water polo player.

She played at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships, and 2011 World Aquatics Championships.

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Catharanthus roseus

Sadabahar is a small plant with dark green oval leaves and flat petalled pink flowers. It is the source of vinca alkaloids, used in chemotherapy (as vinblastine, vincristine, etc.) for leukaemia and other cancers. Has been used as a herbal remedy for diabetes. Its investigation as a treatment for arthritis led to the discovery of its cytotoxic properties. It the Provincial flower of the Punjab in Pakistan.

Plants of Pakistan
Hayley Duncan

Hayley Duncan (born 20 May 1981) is a South African female water polo player.

She played at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships.

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Other websites 

 Hayley Duncan Photos zimbio

1981 births
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Laura Barrett

Laura Barrett (born 1986) is a South African water polo player.

She played at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships.

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White South African people
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Tammy Heydenrych

Tammy Heydenrych (born 1980) is a South African water polo player.

She played at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships. and 2009  Women's Water Polo World League.

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 South African captain Tammy Heydenrych (R) tries to score against Australian Brionwen Knox during the water-polo preliminary round Group B match Australia vs. South Africa on July 21, 2009 at the FINA World Swimming Championships in Rome.  AFP PHOTO / ALBERTO PIZZOLI

1980 births
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Sarah Harris

Sarah Lee Harris  (born 11 November 1987 Cape Town) is a South African water polo player.

She played at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships. 

She played for University of the Pacific, and Arizona State University.

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1987 births
Christine Barretto

Christine Barretto (born 1980) is a South African water polo player.

She played at the 2009 FINA Women’s Water Polo World League, 2009 World Aquatics Championships,  and 2011 World Aquatics Championships.

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Samantha Keet

Samantha Keet (born 15 July 1988) is a South African water polo player.

She played at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships.

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1988 births
Water polo players
South African sportspeople
White South African people
Living people
Mbali Mpofu

Mbali Mpofu (born 1990) is a South African water polo player.

She played at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships.  and 2009 Women's Water Polo World League.

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1990 births
South African sportspeople
Water polo players
Republican Party (Liberia)

The Republican Party (or Liberian Party) was a political party in Liberia. The people in the party are mostly Americo-Liberians who had mixed African and European ancestry. The True Whig Party is the opposing party.

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Winston Groom

Winston Francis Groom Jr. (March 23, 1943 – September 17, 2020) was an American novelist and non-fiction writer. He was born in Washington, D.C. but raised near Mobile, Alabama.

He was best known for writing Forrest Gump, which was made into the popular 1994 movie Forrest Gump. He published a sequel, Gump and Co., in 1995. 

He also wrote many non-fiction works such as about the American Civil War and World War I.

Groom died on September 17, 2020 in Fairhope, Alabama from a heart attack at the age of 77.

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Czech Academy of Sciences

The Czech Academy of Sciences (abbr. CAS, , abbr. AV ČR) was created in 1992 by the Czech National Council. It replaced the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. The Academy is the leading non-university public research institution in the Czech Republic. It is located in the Czech capital of Prague.

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Luboš Perek

Luboš Perek (26 July 1919 – 17 September 2020) was a Czech astronomer. He was born in Prague. Perek was best known for his Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae co-written in 1967 with Luboš Kohoutek. 

From 1967 to 1970, he was General-Secretariat of the International Astronomical Union.

He worked on the mass in the galaxy, high-velocity stars, planetary nebulae, definition of outer space, geostationary orbit, space debris, and management of outer space.

Perek turned 100 in July 2019. He died on 17 September 2020 in Prague, aged 101.

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Ashok Gasti

Ashok Gasti (1965 – 17 September 2020) was an Indian politician and a lawyer. He was born in Raichur, Karnataka. He represented Karnataka in the Rajya Sabha for less than 3 months until his death in 2020. He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Gasti died of COVID-19 on 17 September 2020 at a hospital near Udupi, Karnataka at the age of 55.

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Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in India
Indian politicians
Indian lawyers
Ricardo Ciciliano

Ricardo Manuel Ciciliano Bustillo (September 23, 1976 – September 17, 2020) was a Colombian football midfielder. Ciciliano was born in Barranquilla, Colombia. He mainly played for Millonarios F.C. with 65 appearances and with Juan Aurich with 58 appearances. 

Ciciliano died on September 17, 2020 at a hospital in Barranquilla from pneumonia caused by COVID-19, aged 43.

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Colombian footballers
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Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia
Roy C

Roy Charles Hammond (August 3, 1939 – September 16, 2020), better known as Roy C or Roy "C", was an American southern soul singer-songwriter and record executive. He was best known for his songs "Shotgun Wedding" and "Impeach the President". He was born in Newington, Georgia.

Hammond died on September 16, 2020 in Allendale, South Carolina from liver cancer at the age of 81.

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Newington, Georgia

Newington is a town in Screven County, Georgia, United States. The population was 322 at the 2000 census.

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Wang Zhiliang

Wang Zhiliang (; 1941 – 15 September 2020) was a Chinese table tennis player and coach. At the 1963 World Table Tennis Championships, he and partner Zhang Xielin became the first Chinese duo to win the men's doubles gold medal in world championships. He was born in Xushui District, China.

Wang died on 15 September 2020 from a stroke in Beijing at the age of 79.

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2020 deaths
Chinese table tennis players
Deaths from stroke
Steve Carter (playwright)

Horace Edward "Steve" Carter Jr. (November 7, 1929 – September 15, 2020) was an American playwright. Carter was best known for his plays involving Caribbean immigrants living in the United States. He was born in New York City. He was known for writing the 1978 play Nevis Mountain Dew. He was a playwright-in-residence at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago.

Carter died on September 15, 2020 in Tomball, Texas at the age of 90.

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Writers from Chicago