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Joost Eerdmans

Bernard Johannes "Joost" Eerdmans (born 9 January 1971) is a Dutch politician and former civil servant.

Eerdmans was born in Harderwijk and studied public administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

He worked at the justice department and as an assistant to Rotterdam mayor Ivo Opstelten.

As a junior civil servant he founded with other junior civil servants the youth organisation FUTURE in 1997. The purpose of FUTURE was to give civil servants more responsibility for what they are doing.

Eerdmans got impressed by the performance of critic Pim Fortuyn. He joined the Pim Fortuyn List (LPF) and became an MP in 2002. After leaving the LPF because of the ongoing upheaval, he established with Marco Pastors the Eén NL party in 2006, but the party failed in the 2006 Dutch general election, so he lost his seat.

Subsequently he worked as a columnist, as a manager at Deloitte consultancy, and as a radio and TV presenter. Keen on law and order, he also founded a civilian committee against injustice in 2009.

Meanwhile, Eerdmans became active in local politics. From 2009 to 2014 he was an alderman of Capelle aan den IJssel on behalf of Livable Capelle. From 2014 to 2018 he was an alderman of the neighbouring city of Rotterdam on behalf of Livable Rotterdam. From 2018 to 2021 he was a municipal councillor and Livable Rotterdam group leader in this city.

In the run-up for the 2021 Dutch general election he became a candidate for the Forum for Democracy (FVD) party but broke up after dubious comments of FvD leader Thierry Baudet.

Afterwards he established with Annabel Nanninga the conservative liberal JA21 party, of which he is both party leader and list puller. JA21 gained three seats, so he has been parliamentary group leader and an MP since March 2021.

Joost Eerdmans is married with two children and lives in Rotterdam.

References 
 Biography at Parlement.com
 Website of Joost Eerdmans

Other websites 
 Biography at Dutch House of Representatives

1971 births
Living people
Aldermen of the Netherlands
Dutch civil servants
Dutch columnists
Dutch councillors
Dutch radio personalities
Dutch television presenters
Independent politicians in the Netherlands
Leaders of political parties in the Netherlands
Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands
People from Rotterdam
Pim Fortuyn List politicians
Politicians from Gelderland
Writers from Gelderland
Estrava Seraiva tree frog

The Estrada Saraiva tree frog (Dendropsophus nahdereri) is a frog that lives in Brazil. Scientists have seen it in one place, Serra do Mar in Santa Catarina.

References

Frogs
Animals of South America
Bola Tinubu

Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu (born 29 March 1952) is a Nigerian politician and serving national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He was the governor of Lagos State.

Biography 
Tinubu was born on 29 March 1952 in Osun State, Nigeria. He did his first school at St. John's Primary School, Aroloya, Lagos and Children's Home School in Ibadan. He studied at Richard J.Daley College in Chicago, Illinois, he was also at Chicago State University in 1975 where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting in 1979.

References 

Nigerian politicians
Malagasy striped civet

The Malagasy striped civet or spotted fanaloka (Fossa fossana) is a small mammal, about 47 centimetres (19 in) long, with a tail 20 centimetres (7.9 in) long. It can weigh 1.5 to 2.0 kilograms (3.3 to 4.4 lb). It lives in tropical forests of Madagascar. The Malagasy civet looks for food at night. It eats small vertebrates, insects, aquatic animals, and eggs stolen from birds' nests. The mating season of the Malagasy civet is August to September and the young are born after three months, one at a time. The Malagasy civet is listed as vulnerable by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

References

Mammals of Africa
Madagascar
Monito del monte

The monito del monte (Spanish for "little monkey of the mount") or colocolo opossum, (Dromiciops gliroides) is a small mammal that lives in South America.  It is also called chumaihuén in Mapudungun.  It is a marsupial, meaning it grows its young in a pouch like a possum or kangaroo. It lives only in Argentina and Chile. It is the only living species in the order Microbiotheria. It is the only animal in the superorder Australidelphia that lives in the New World. (All other New World marsupials are in the paraphyletic "Ameridelphia.") The species is active at night and lives in trees.  Its tail is partially able to grab things. It lives in places where South American mountain bamboo grows close together in the Valdivian temperate rain forests of the southern Andes Mountains.  It eats primarily insects and other small animals without bones, but it also eats fruit.

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Marsupials
Animals of South America
Robert Nivelle

Robert Nivelle (15 october 1856  - 22 March 1924) was a French general during World war 1. He mostly became known for his suceses at the First Battle of the Marne. .For these suceses, hew was made general. Later, he replacced Philpipe Pétain near Verdun.

1856 births
1924 deaths
French generals
University of Maiduguri

University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) is a Nigerian public university in Maiduguri, Borno State.

The university was established in 1975 by the previous Nigerian Government.

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Colleges and universities in Africa
1975 establishments in Africa
Peter Doig

Peter Doig (born 17 April 1959) is a Scottish painter. He lived in Canada and lives in Trinidad and Tobago since 2002. He is one of the most important living figurative painters. His works are some of the most expensive in the modern art market.

1959 births
Living people
Scottish painters
The Barbarian and the Geisha

The Barbarian and the Geisha is a 1958 American biographical drama movie directed by John Huston and starring John Wayne, Eiko Ando, Sam Jaffe, Sō Yamamura, Fuyukichi Maki. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.

Other websites
 
 
 

1958 drama movies
American biographical movies
American drama movies
20th Century Fox movies
Movies directed by John Huston
Khorramabad

Khorramabad is a city in Iran. It is the capital of Lorestan Province. In 2016, about 373,000 people lived in the city. The city's industry is mainly focused on processing agricultural products.

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Cities in Iran
Lorestan Province
We Were Strangers

We Were Strangers is a 1949 American adventure drama movie directed by John Huston and was based on the 1948 novel Rough Sketch by Robert Sylvester. It stars Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendáriz, Gilbert Roland, Ramon Novarro, Wally Cassell and was distributed by Columbia Pictures.

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1949 drama movies
1940s adventure movies
American adventure movies
American drama movies
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Columbia Pictures movies
This Earth Is Mine (1959 movie)

This Earth Is Mine is a 1959 American drama movie directed by Henry King and starring Rock Hudson, Jean Simmons, Dorothy McGuire, Claude Rains, Kent Smith, Anna Lee, Geraldine Wall. It was distributed by Universal Pictures.

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1959 drama movies
American drama movies
Movies directed by Henry King
Joy House (movie)

Joy House (French title: Les Félins / UK title: The Love Cage) is a 1964 French mystery movie directed by René Clément and was based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Day Keene. It stars Jane Fonda, Alain Delon, Lola Albright, Sorrell Booke, André Oumansky, Arthur Howard and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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1964 movies
1960s mystery movies
French movies
Movies based on books
MGM movies
Movies directed by René Clément
Donovan's Reef

Donovan's Reef is a 1963 American adventure comedy movie directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Jack Warden, Elizabeth Allen, Lee Marvin, Cesar Romero, Dick Foran, Dorothy Lamour, Marcel Dailo. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures.

Other websites
 
 
 

1960s adventure movies
1963 comedy movies
American adventure movies
American comedy movies
Movies directed by John Ford
Paramount Pictures movies
The Horse Soldiers

The Horse Soldiers is a 1959 American western adventure movie directed by John Ford and was based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Harold Sinclair. It stars John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers, Altea Gibson, Ken Curtis, Willis Bouchey, Bing Russell, Hank Worden, Anna Lee, Denver Pyle, Carleton Young and was distributed by United Artists.

Other websites
 
 
 

1959 movies
1950s adventure movies
1950s western movies
American western movies
American adventure movies
Movies based on books
Movies directed by John Ford
The Sea Chase

The Sea Chase is a 1955 American World War II drama movie directed by John Farrow and was based on the novel of the same name by Andrew Geer. It stars John Wayne, Lana Turner, David Farrar, Lyle Bettger, Tab Hunter, John Qualen, James Arness and was distributed by Warner Bros..

Other websites
 
 
 

1955 drama movies
1950s war movies
American war movies
American drama movies
Movies based on books
World War II movies
Warner Bros. movies
Movies directed by John Farrow
Guinea-Bissau Creole

Guinea-Bissau Creole, also known as Kiriol, is a Creole language. Its lexicon derives mostly from Portuguese. It is spoken in Guinea-Bissau, Senegal and The Gambia. Its native speakers also call it guinensi, kriyol, or portuguis.

Guinea-Bissau Creole is spoken as a native language by approximately 15% (190,000) of Bissau-Guineans. It is spoken as a second language by approximately 50% (as of some time before 1992).

A variant of Guinea-Bissau Creole called Portuguis Creole or Casamance Creole is also spoken in southern Senegal. It is mainly in the region of Casamance, a former Portuguese colony. Creole is the majority language of the inhabitants of the Casamance region. It is used as a language of commerce.

Standard Portuguese is the official language of Guinea-Bissau, but Guinea-Bissau Creole is the language of trade, informal literature and entertainment. It is not used in news media, parliament, public services or educational programming.

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Pidgins and creoles
Portuguese-based creole languages

Portuguese creoles are languages that are mixes of other languages and have Portuguese as one of those languages. The most widely spoken Portuguese creoles are the Cape Verdean Creole and Papiamento.

Languages
Linguistics
DWMC-AM

DWMC (1260 AM) ACI News Radio Rosales is a Pangasinan language-radio station in Rosales, Pangasinan. It is owned by Magiliw Community Broadcasting Company. Its transmitter is located at Tumana, Rosales, Pangasinan.

Radio stations in the Philippines
Tukur Yusuf Buratai

Tukur Yusuf Buratai is a retired Nigerian Army and the former Chief of Army Staff of Nigeria from 2015 to 2021.

Background 
Buratai was born in Buratai town, Biu Local Government Area of Borno State. He had his primary education at Buratai town and got admission to Government Teachers College Potiskum, Yobe State, where he graduated.

References 

Living people
Nigerian military people
Beat the Devil (movie)

Beat the Devil is a 1953 British American Italian adventure comedy movie directed by John Huston and was based on the 1951 novel of the same name by Claud Cockburn. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre, Ivor Barnard, Gina Lollobrigida, Edward Underdown, Bernard Lee and was distributed by United Artists.

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1953 comedy movies
1950s adventure movies
British adventure movies
British comedy movies
American adventure movies
American comedy movies
Italian comedy movies
Movies based on books
Movies directed by John Huston
Jaleh (name)

Jale (also spelled Jaleh, or Zhaleh, Persian: ژاله‎) is a common feminine given name and surname of Persian and  Turkish origin, used in Iran and Turkey, meaning hail stone. Notable people with the name include:

Jaleh 

 Jale, Jaleh Movaghar (born 1953), a grand daughter of Hossein Movaghar  , see Iranian Television producer
 Jaleh Amouzgar (born 1939), Iranian historian

Given names
Surnames
Medea Abrahamyan

Medea Abrahamyan (; 8 March 1932 – 3 March 2021) was an Armenian cellist, People’s Artist of Armenian SSR (1980) and Professor of the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory (1983).

Abrahamyan performed in many countries, including France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Iceland, Korea, the United States, Canada, Argentina, Uruguay, Syria, Lebanon, the republics of the former USSR and more.

Alongside her concerts, Abrahamyan also lectured at Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory and the ten-year Tchaikovsky School for decades.

She has taught students of different nationalities and educated generations of musicians in her classroom, which is now widely recognized in not only Armenia, but also abroad.

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1932 births
2021 deaths
Cellists
Academics
People from Yerevan
Władysław Baka

Władysław Baka (24 March 1936 – 3 March 2021) was a Polish economist, politician, and banker. He was the President of the National Bank of Poland from 1985 to 1988 and again from 1989 to 1991. He was a member of the Politburo of the Polish United Workers' Party from 1988 to 1989.

Baka died on 3 March 2021 at the age of 84.

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Bankers
Polish politicians
Polish economists
1936 births
2021 deaths
Sérgio Eduardo Castriani

Sérgio Eduardo Castriani (31 May 1954 – 3 March 2021) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop. He became a priest in 1978. He was coadjutor bishop of the Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Tefé, Brazil, from 1998 to 2000 and was bishop of the territorial prefecture from 2000 to 2012. He then was archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manaus, Brazil from 2012 to 2019.

Castriani died from problems caused by septicemia on 3 March 2021.

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1954 births
2021 deaths
Brazilian people
Roman Catholic archbishops
Deaths from sepsis
John Sackett

John Sackett (June 3, 1944 – March 4, 2021) was an American Republican politician. He was a member of the Alaska House of Representatives from 1967 to 1971 and in the Alaska Senate from 1973 to 1987. He was born in Huslia, Alaska.

Sackett died on March 4, 2021, at age 76.

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1944 births
2021 deaths
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from Alaska
US Republican Party politicians
Huslia, Alaska

Huslia (;   in Koyukon) is a city in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States. 293 people lived here at the 2000 census and 275 as of the 2010 census.

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Cities in Alaska
National Assembly (Bulgaria)

The National Assembly (, Narodno sabranie) is the unicameral parliament and legislative body of the Republic of Bulgaria.

The National Assembly was created in 1879 with the Tarnovo Constitution.

The National Assembly has 240 members who are elected for a four-year term elected by proportional representation in multi-seat constituencies.

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References

Bulgaria
Klara Marinova

Klara Marinova (Клара Маринова; 20 April 1949 – 3 March 2021) was a Bulgarian journalist and politician. She was a member of the Bulgarian Socialist Party. She was a member of the National Assembly from 1990 until 1997.

Marinova died on 3 March 2021, aged 71.

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1949 births
2021 deaths
Bulgarian politicians
Journalists
Katharina Matz

Katharina Matz (11 June 1935 – 3 March 2021) was a Czech-born German actress. She was born in Haindorf, Sudetenland. Matz was known for her roles as Eva in The Man Who Sold Himself (1959) and as Lehrerin in The Wonderful Years (1971). She retired in 2020.

Matz died on 3 March 2021 in Berlin, aged 85.

References

Other websites
 

1935 births
2021 deaths
Czech movie actors
Czech television actors
Czech stage actors
German movie actors
German television actors
German stage actors
Actors from Berlin
Nicola Pagett

Nicola Mary Pagett Scott (15 June 1945 – 3 March 2021), known professionally as Nicola Pagett, was a British actress. She was known for her role as Elizabeth Bellamy in the 1970s TV drama series Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–73). Her movie roles include:  Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Operation Daybreak (1975), and An Awfully Big Adventure (1995).

Pagett was diagnosed with manic depression in 1997 and became obsessed with the then Prime Minister's chief Press Secretary, Alastair Campbell.

Pagett died on 3 March 2021 in London from brain cancer, aged 75.

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1945 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from brain cancer
British movie actors
British television actors
British stage actors
British voice actors
People from Cairo
Edward Sandoval

Edward C. Sandoval (January 28, 1947 – March 3, 2021) was an American Democratic politician. He was a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives representing District 17 from January 1983 through January 2015.

Sandoval died on March 3, 2021, at age 74.

References

Other websites
 Official page at the New Mexico Legislature
 
 Edward Sandoval at Ballotpedia
 Edward C. Sandoval at the National Institute on Money in State Politics

1947 births
2021 deaths
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from New Mexico
US Democratic Party politicians
Alan Cartwright

Alan George Cartwright (10 October 1945 – 4 March 2021) was an English bass player. He was born in London. He joined Procol Harum in 1972. He played with the Freddie Mack Show together with fellow Harum band member B.J. Wilson and Roger Warwick. 

Cartwright was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2020. He died on 4 March 2021 from the disease, aged 75.

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1945 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from stomach cancer
Bass guitarists
English guitarists
Musicians from London
2021 TAF AS532 crash

2021 TAF AS532 crash took place on 4 March 2021, when a Turkish Air Force (TAF) Eurocopter AS532 Cougar going to Tatvan District in Bitlis, Turkey, crashed in Bitlis Province. Eleven Turkish servicemen on board were killed in the crash, while two other servicemen survived the crash. 

It was the fourth incident in Turkey involving the particular model of aircraft, which has caused the deaths of 39 people, including two high-ranking military officers.

References

2021 disasters in Asia
2020s in Turkey
Aviation disasters in Asia
Aviation disasters in the 2020s

March 2021 events
Francis Van den Eynde

Francis Van den Eynde (1 April 1946 – 4 March 2021) was a Belgian politician. He was a member of the Flemish Movement and was part of the Vlaams Blok and Vlaams Belang. He was a member of the Chamber of Representatives from 1991 to 2010. He was born in Brussels, Belgium.

Eynde died on 4 March 2021 in Aalst, Belgium at the age of 74.

References

1946 births
2021 deaths
Belgian politicians
Flemish politicians
People from Brussels
István Fehér

István Fehér (6 March 1954 – 4 March 2021) was a Hungarian wrestler. He competed in the men's freestyle 74 kg at the 1980 Summer Olympics. Fehér was born in Nagykőrös, Hungary.

Fehér died in March 2021, two days before his 67th birthday.

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1954 births
2021 deaths
Hungarian sportspeople
Olympians
Wrestlers
Walter Gretzky

Walter Gretzky,  (October 8, 1938 – March 4, 2021) was a Canadian ice hockey executive. He was best known as the father of Canadian ice hockey icon Wayne Gretzky.

Walter was an installer and repairman for Bell Canada for 34 years, retiring in 1991. A work-related injury in 1961 put him in a coma and deafened his right ear.

He helped charities and fundraisers and coached at his summer youth hockey camp in California.

Walter had worked for the CNIB Foundation (formerly the Canadian National Institute for the Blind).

Gretzky died on March 4, 2021 in Brantford, Ontario from problems caused by a fractured hip at the age of 82. He had Parkinson's disease at the time of his death.

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1938 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from fractured hip
People with Parkinson's disease
Canadian philanthropists
Canadian businesspeople
People from Ontario
Paulette Guinchard-Kunstler

Paulette Guinchard-Kunstler (3 October 1949 – 4 March 2021) was a French politician. She was a member of the National Assembly representing Doubs's 2nd constituency from 1997 until 2001 and again from 2002 until 2007. She was a member of the Socialist Party. Guinchard-Kunstler was born in Reugney, France.

Guinchard-Kunstler died of assisted suicide in Switzerland on 4 March 2021 at the age of 71.

References

1949 births
2021 deaths
Deaths by euthanasia
French politicians
Reugney

Reugney is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

References

Communes in Doubs
Zygmunt Hanusik

Zygmunt Hanusik (28 February 1945 – 4 March 2021) was a Polish cyclist. He competed in the individual road race at the 1968 Summer Olympics. He was born in Śląskie, Poland.

Hanusik died on 4 March 2021 in Katowice, Poland at aged 76.

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1945 births
2021 deaths
Polish Olympians
Polish cyclists
Tony Hendra

Tony Hendra (10 July 1941 – 4 March 2021) was an English satirist, actor, and writer.

Hendra was probably best known for being the head writer and co-producer in 1984 of the first six shows of the long-running British satirical television series Spitting Image, and for starring in the movie This Is Spinal Tap as the band's manager Ian Faith.

Hendra died on 4 March 2021 from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Yonkers, New York at the age of 79.

References

1941 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from motor neurone disease
English television actors
English movie actors
English comedians
Actors from Hertfordshire
Writers from Hertfordshire
Hossain Toufique Imam

Hossain Toufique Imam (; 15 January 1939 – 4 March 2021) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician. He was a political advisor to the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. 

Imam died of kidney disease at a Dhaka hospital on 4 March 2021, aged 82.

References

Bangladeshi politicians
Bangladeshi Muslims
1939 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from kidney disease
Atanasije Jevtić

Atanasije Jevtić (Serbian Cyrillic: Атанасије Јевтић; 8 January 1938 – 4 March 2021) was a Serbian Orthodox prelate. He was the bishop of Banat from 1991 until 1992, and the bishop of Zahumlje and Herzegovina from 1992 until his retirement in 1999.

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1938 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Serbian people
Johannes Kert

Johannes Kert (3 December 1959 – 4 March 2021) was an Estonian politician and military officer. He was the Commander of the Estonian Defence Forces from 1996 until 2000. He retired from the military in 2008. Kert had been a member of the Estonian Reform Party.

Kert died on 4 March 2021 at the age of 61.

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1959 births
2021 deaths
Estonian politicians
Generals
Heinz Klevenow Jr.

Heinz Klevenow Jr. (28 August 1940 – 4 March 2021) was a German actor and theatre director. His best known movie roles were in Entlassen auf Bewährung (1965) and Chingachgook, die große Schlange (1967). 

He was artistic director of the Puppentheater Halle from 1978 to 1982 and then at the  theatre from 1989 to 2004.

Klevenow Jr. died on 4 March 2021 at the age of 80.

References

Other websites
 

1940 births
2021 deaths
German movie actors
German television actors
German stage actors
German theatre directors
Puppeteers
Actors from Prague
Paul McMullen

Paul McMullen (February 19, 1972 – March 4, 2021) was an American middle-distance runner. He was known for running in the 1500 meters. He competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. McMullen finished tenth at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics.

McMullen was killed in a skiing accident in Michigan on March 4, 2021 at the age of 49.

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1972 births
2021 deaths
American track and field athletes
American Olympians
Sportspeople from Michigan
Skiing deaths
Mark Pavelich

Mark Thomas Pavelich (February 28, 1958 – March 4, 2021) was an American professional ice hockey forward. He played 355 regular season games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Rangers, Minnesota North Stars, and San Jose Sharks between 1981 until 1991. 

Pavelich was a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team that won the gold medal in what has been called the "Miracle on Ice".

Pavelich was arrested on August 15, 2019, after allegedly assaulting and seriously injuring a neighbor with whom he'd earlier been fishing. He was charged with four felony counts. On December 4, 2019 the court ruled that Pavelich was mentally ill and dangerous and ordered him committed to a secure treatment facility.

It was believed that he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

Pavelich died on March 4, 2021, at a residential treatment center in Sauk Centre, Minnesota at the age of 63. He is the second member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team to die, the first being Bob Suter.

References

1958 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from chronic traumatic encephalopathy
New York Rangers players
Minnesota North Stars players
San Jose Sharks players
American Olympic gold medalists
Sportspeople from Minnesota
Chris Schultz

Christopher Schultz (February 16, 1960 – March 4, 2021) was a Canadian professional football player. He was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) and Canadian Football League (CFL). He played with the CFL Toronto Argonauts. Schultz played college football at the University of Arizona. 

He was a sportscaster with Canadian sports television channel TSN.

Schultz died of a heart attack in Burlington, Ontario on March 4, 2021 at the age of 61.

References

1960 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Dallas Cowboys players
Sportspeople from Ontario
Sports commentators
Tengiz Sichinava

Tengiz Sichinava (15 May 1972 – 4 March 2021) was a Georgian football player and manager. He played as a midfielder.

Sichinava left Georgia in 2001 for Russian First Division side Baltika Kaliningrad. In 2005, he left Georgia again for Azerbaijan side Turan Tovuz. He played for MKT Araz.

Sichinava made his Georgia national team debut on 4 September 1999. He made ten appearances for them and left in 2000.

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1972 births
2021 deaths
Sportspeople from Georgia (country)
Footballers
Football managers
Patrick Dupond

Patrick Dupond (14 March 1959 – 5 March 2021) was a French ballet dancer and artistic director. He was named danseur étoile of the Paris Opera Ballet in 1980. He worked with eminent dancers such as Rudolf Nureyev, Maurice Béjart and Alvin Ailey.

In 1990, he became dance director of the Paris Opera Ballet. He left this position in 1995, then the Paris Opera in 1997. 

Dupond was gay and controversially said he made the "mistake of choosing to be gay".

Dupond died on March 5, 2021, a few days before his 62nd birthday.

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1959 births
2021 deaths
French dancers
Gay men
LGBT dancers
French LGBT people
Gerald Kogan

Gerald Kogan (May 23, 1933 – March 4, 2021) was an American politician and lawyer. He was a Justice of the Florida Supreme Court from 1987 until 1998. He was Chief Justice from 1996 until 1998. He was born in New York City. 

Kogan died on March 4, 2021 at the age of 87.

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1933 births
2021 deaths
American judges
Politicians from New York City
Politicians from Florida
Stig Malm

Stig Nils Åke Malm (4 March 1942 – 5 March 2021) was a Swedish trade unionist (Swedish Metalworkers' Union) and politician. He was chairman of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (Swedish: Landsorganisationen i Sverige, LO) from 1983 until 1993.

Malm died on 5 March 2021 from problems caused by COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden, one day after his 79th birthday.

References

Other websites
 Stig Malm, Wikiquote

1942 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden
Swedish politicians
Trade unionists
Margarita Maslennikova

Margarita Maslennikova (2 November 1928 – 5 March 2021) was a Soviet cross-country skier who competed in the 1950s. She was born in Leningrad. She won a gold medal in the 3 × 5 km relay at the 1954 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun.

Maslennikova died in Saint Petersburg on 5 March 2021, aged 92.

References

Soviet sportspeople
2021 deaths
1928 births
Skiers
Birgitta Rasmusson

Kerstin Birgitta Rasmusson, (4 September 1939 – 5 March 2021) was a Swedish television personality, baker and author. Between 2012 and 2019, she was a judge on Hela Sverige bakar, which was broadcast on TV4. She reprised the role for its celebrity version. Rasmusson was born in Ljungskile, Sweden.

Rasmusson died on 5 March 2021 in Stockholm, at the age of 81.

References

1939 births
2021 deaths
Swedish television personalities
Swedish writers
Bankers
José Carlos da Silva Júnior

José Carlos da Silva Júnior (16 June 1926 – 5 March 2021) was a Brazilian politician and businessman. He was a member of the Democratic Social Party. He was a Senator from 1996 to 1999 and Vice-Governor of the state of Paraíba from 1983 to 1986. 

Silva Júnior died from COVID-19 in São Paulo, São Paulo, on 5 March 2021, at the age of 94, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.

References

1926 births
2021 deaths
Brazilian politicians
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
Michael Stanley

Michael Stanley Gee (March 25, 1948 – March 5, 2021) was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and radio personality. From 1974 until 1987, he played for the Michael Stanley band. 

On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Michael Stanley among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.

Stanley died in his sleep on March 5, 2021, after suffering for seven months with lung cancer.

References

1948 births
2021 deaths
American singer-songwriters
American rock guitarists
American rock singers
American folk musicians
American folk singers
Deaths from lung cancer
Singers from Cleveland, Ohio
Musicians from Cleveland, Ohio
Writers from Cleveland, Ohio
Adelio Terraroli

Adelio Terraroli (24 July 1931 – 5 March 2021) was an Italian politician. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1968 to 1979 as a member of the Italian Communist Party.

References

Politicians from Lombardy
People from Brescia
1931 births
2021 deaths
Harald's tree frog

Harald's tree frog (Dendropsophus haraldschultzi) is a frog that lives in Colombia, Peru and Brazil in the valley made by the Amazon River.

References

Frogs
Animals of South America
Carlo Tognoli

Carlo Tognoli (16 June 1938 – 5 March 2021) was an Italian politician.

Tognoli was born at Milan. He was Mayor of Milan from 1976 to 1986. From 1984 until 1987 he was also elected to the European Parliament.

From 1981 to 1992 he was a journalist and director of the monthly newspaper Critica Sociale.

Tognoli died in Milan on 5 March 2021, at the age of 82, from problems caused by COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.

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1938 births
2021 deaths
Mayors
MEPs for Italy
People from Milan
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy
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Anton Urban

Anton Urban (16 January 1934 – 5 March 2021) was a Slovak footballer. He played as a defender for Slovan Bratislava. He was the captain of the Czechoslovakian silver medal winning team at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

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1934 births
2021 deaths
Olympic silver medalists
Slovak footballers
Bengt Åberg

Bengt Edvin Åberg (26 June 1944 – 6 March 2021) was a Swedish professional motocross racer. He competed in the Motocross World Championships from 1966 to 1979. He was a two-time FIM 500cc Motocross World Champion.

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1944 births
2021 deaths
Swedish sportspeople
Motorcycle racers
Franco Acosta

Franco Acosta Machado (5 March 1996 – 6 March 2021) was a Uruguayan professional footballer who played as a striker.

Acosta joined Centro Atlético Fénix's youth setup in 2009, aged 13. On 23 November 2013, he made his first team debut.

On 19 January 2015, he signed a -year contract with Villarreal CF, being assigned to the reserves in Segunda División B.

On 15 January 2018, Acosta joined Segunda Division B team Racing de Santander on loan until the end of the season. Acosta was then loaned out to Plaza Colonia for the 2019 season. 

On 6 March 2021, a day after his 25th birthday, Acosta disappeared after swimming across the Arroyo Pando, in the Department of Canelones, Uruguay. Two days later, on 8 March 2021, his body was found. He was declared dead at the scene.

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1996 births
2021 deaths
Accidental deaths by drowning
Uruguayan footballers
Sportspeople from Montevideo
Chi Shangbin

Chi Shangbin (; 19 September 1949 – 6 March 2021) was a Chinese football player and coach.

As player, he spent his whole career playing for Liaoning. As manager, he was best known for his record at Dalian Wanda of 55 unbeaten run between 1995 and 1997 in the league, which brought him two Chinese Jia-A League titles.

Chi died of a heart attack on 6 March 2021, aged 71.

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1949 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Chinese footballers
Football managers
Abdul Ghani Gilong

Abdul Ghani bin Gilong (30 May 1932 – 6 March 2021) was a Malaysian politician. From 1969 until 1978, he was a member of the Parliament of Malaysia. He was the Minister of Transport from 1970 until 1971. He also was the Minister of Works from 1972 until 1974 and again from 1976 until 1978.

Ghani died at a hospital in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia on 6 March 2021 from COVID-19, aged 88.

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1932 births
2021 deaths
Malaysian politicians
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia
Ismail Kijo

Ismail bin Kijo (28 May 1952 – 3 February 2021) was a Malaysian politician. He was Member of the Selangor State Assembly for Lembah Jaya of three terms from 1995 to 2008.

On 3 February 2021, Ismail died from COVID-19 during the pandemic in Malaysia. He was 68.

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1952 births
2021 deaths
Malaysian politicians
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia
Vilém Holáň

Vilém Holáň (23 September 1938 – 5 March 2021) was a Czech politician. He was Minister of Defense for KDU-ČSL from 1994 to 1996. He was an observer to the European Parliament in 2003 and 2004. Holáň was born in Ostrava.

Holáň died on 5 March 2021, aged 82.

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1938 births
2021 deaths
Czech politicians
Boris Komnenić

Boris Komnenić (; 29 March 1957 – 6 March 2021) was a Serbian actor. He appeared in more than sixty movies from 1980 until 2011.

He was known for his roles in Days of Dreams, Taiwan Canasta, Dancing in Water, The Misfit Brigade, The Belgrade Phantom, When I Grow Up, I'll Be a Kangaroo, Loving Glances and Novogodišnje venčanje.

Komnenić died on 6 March 2021 in Belgrade, aged 63.

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Other websites

1957 births
2021 deaths
Serbian actors
Valentin Kurbatov

Valentin Yakovlevich Kurbatov () (29 September 1939 – 6 March 2021) was a Russian literary critic and writer. He was a member of the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award, member of the Writers' Union of Russia. He was also member of the Public Chamber of Russia from 2010 to 2014 and member of the Presidential Council for Culture.

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1939 births
2021 deaths
Russian novelists
Critics
Allan J. McDonald

Allan James McDonald (July 9, 1937 – March 6, 2021) was an American engineer, aerospace consultant and author. He was the director of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motor Project for Morton-Thiokol.

In January 1986, he refused to sign off on a launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger which broke apart 73 seconds into flight. 

McDonald died in Ogden, Utah at the age of 83 on March 6, 2021. The cause of death was a cerebral hemorrhage caused by a fall.

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1937 births
2021 deaths
Accidental deaths from falls in the United States
Deaths from cerebral hemorrhage
American engineers
Scientists from Wyoming
Scientists from Utah
Writers from Wyoming
Writers from Utah
Thongak Lairembi

"Thongak Lairembi" (), also known as "Langol Lairemma" (), is a primordial goddess in Meitei mythology and religion. She is the divine female personification of the death, who guards the door of the entrance to the underworld, which is the land of the death, ruled by her consort, Thongalel. 
Legend says she gets departed from her husband when Thongalel was lost in the battle between the gods of the underworld and those of the upper world, in the hands of Salailen Sidaba. The winner asked the goddess, who is the wife of the loser, to be the gatekeeper of the entrance gate to the underworld, and for Thongalel, he gave him Khamnung Kikoi Louonbi, in return. 

Meitei gods and goddesses
Nikki van der Zyl

Monica "Nikki" van der Zyl (27 April 1935 – 6 March 2021) was a German voice-over artist. She was known for her dubbing work on the James Bond movie series.

Van der Zyl died on 6 March 2021 in London from problems caused by a stroke, aged 85.

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Other websites

Official website 

1935 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from stroke
German movie actors
German television actors
German voice actors
German stage actors
Actors from Berlin
Shasta Lake, California

The City of Shasta Lake, formerly known as Central Valley or CV, is a city in Shasta County, California, United States. It is the closest town to Shasta Dam and Shasta Lake, which are popular travel destinations.

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Cities in California
Settlements in Shasta County, California
Agustín Balbuena

Agustín Alberto Balbuena (1 September 1945 – 9 March 2021) was an Argentine football striker. He won four Copa Libertadores and the Copa Intercontinental with Club Atlético Independiente. He also played for the national team in the 1970s.

Balbuena died on 9 March 2021, aged 75.

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1945 births
2021 deaths
Argentine footballers
Club Atlético Colón

Club Atlético Colón () is a sports club from Santa Fe, Argentina. The football team plays in the first division of the Argentine football league system, the Argentine Primera División.

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1905 establishments in Argentina
Argentine football clubs
Hans-Christian Gabrielsen

Hans-Christian Gabrielsen (27 July 1967 – 9 March 2021) was a Norwegian industrial worker, politician, and trade unionist. He was elected leader of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions in May 2017. 

Gabrielsen died suddenly in his sleep on 9 March 2021 from heart failure, aged 53.

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1967 births
2021 deaths
Norwegian politicians
Trade unionists
Deaths from heart failure
Rafet Husović

Rafet Husović (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Рафет Хусовић, 2 April 19649 March 2021) was a Montenegrin politician. He was the Deputy Prime Minister of Montenegro from 2012 until 2020. He was the founder and long-time president of the Bosniak Party (BS). Husović was born in Rožaje, SR Montenegro.

Husović died on 9 March 2021, at the age of 56, after a long-illness.

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1964 births
2021 deaths
Montenegrin people
European politicians
Jhon Jarrín

Jhon Jarrín (21 December 1961 — 9 March 2021) was an Ecuadorian track cyclist. He competed in the individual and team pursuit events at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Jarrín killed after being hit by a car in Cuenca, Ecuador on 9 March 2021, aged 59.

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1961 births
2021 deaths
Ecuadorian sportspeople
Cyclists
Olympians
Road accident deaths
Erling Lorentzen

Erling Sven Lorentzen (28 January 1923 – 9 March 2021) was a Norwegian-Brazilian shipowner and businessman. He founded Aracruz Celulose in 1968. He was the widower of Princess Ragnhild, the eldest child of King Olav V of Norway.

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1923 births
2021 deaths
People from Oslo
Norwegian businesspeople
Brazilian businesspeople
Skirret

Skirret (Sium sisarum) is a perennial plant of the family Apiaceae. Sometimes people grow it as a root vegetable. The English name skirret comes from the Dutch word "suikerwortel," meaning "sugar root." In Scotland, it is called "crummock."

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Vegetables
Steven Spurrier (wine merchant)

Steven Spurrier (5 October 1941 – 9 March 2021) was a British wine expert and merchant. He was known as a "champion of French wine". Spurrier created the Paris Wine Tasting of 1976. He was also the founder of the Academie du Vin and Christie's Wine Course.

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1941 births
2021 deaths
British businesspeople
British writers
People from Cambridge
Gamification

Gamification is making an activity that isn't a game (a playful or competitive activity) more like a game. The word comes from "game" and "-ification", a suffix meaning "The process of becoming". Gamification is about implementing game design elements and game rules in real life. The use of gamification solutions helps to increase the involvement of users or employees. The main benefits of gamification:  
 increased commitment
 increased satisfaction
 the ability to monitor progress
 increase in productivity and satisfaction
 long-term loyalty of participants

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Design
Entertainment
Human behavior
Marketing
Josy Stoffel

Josy Stoffel (27 June 1928 – 9 March 2021) was a Luxembourgian gymnast. He was born in Differdange.  He participated in five Summer Olympic Games (1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964), but never won a medal. He won the Luxembourgian national gymnastics championships for sixteen straight years, from 1949 until 1964.

In 2008 he was promoted to the rank of Chevalier in the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

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1928 births
2021 deaths
Luxembourgian sportspeople
Gymnasts
Olympians
Tommy Troelsen

Tommy Brian Troelsen (10 July 1940 – 9 March 2021) was a Danish football player and manager, and television presenter. He played his entire club career with Vejle Boldklub, winning one Danish championship and two Danish Cup trophies. 

Troelsen played 16 matches and scored five goals for the Danish national team, and won a silver medal for Denmark at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was television host on Danmarks Radio and dk4.

Troelsen died aged 80 on 9 March 2021 after a long illness.

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2021 deaths
1940 births
Danish footballers
Sports commentators
Danish football managers
Olympic silver medalists
Jiří Ventruba

Jiří Ventruba (February 2, 1950 – March 9, 2021) was a Czech neurosurgeon and politician. He was born in Brno. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic from 2017 until his death.

Ventruba died on March 9, 2021 in Prague from COVID-19, aged 71.

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1950 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic
Czech politicians
Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf ( ; 30 July 1940 – ) also known as Baghdad Bob or Comical Ali, is an Iraqi former diplomat and politician. He became well known during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, during which he was the Media and Foreign Affairs Minister under Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. He was spokesman for the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and Saddam's government.

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1940 births
Iraqi politicians
Kate Lehrer

Kate Lehrer (born Kate Tom Staples; December 17, 1939) is an American writer, novelist and book reviewer. She was a panelist on the Diane Rehm Book Club on National Public Radio.

She is the widow of writer and journalist Jim Lehrer.

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1939 births
Living people
American novelists
Writers from Texas
Writers from Washington, D.C.
People from Waco, Texas
John Porter (Illinois politician)

John Edward Porter (born June 1, 1935) is an American politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives for Illinois's 10th congressional district from 1980 until 2001.

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Other websites

 Lasker foundation essay
 

1935 births
Living people
United States representatives from Illinois
People from Evanston, Illinois
US Republican Party politicians
Brad Schneider

Bradley Scott Schneider (born August 20, 1961) is an American politician. He is the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 10th congressional district since 2017. He held this office before from 2013 to 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

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1961 births
Living people
United States representatives from Illinois
Politicians from Denver, Colorado
US Democratic Party politicians
Donald Sumpter

Donald Sumpter (born 13 February 1943) is an English actor. In seasons 1 and 2, he played Maester Luwin in the HBO series Game of Thrones.

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1943 births
Living people
British movie actors
British television actors
British stage actors
British voice actors
People from Northamptonshire
Valery Legasov

Valery Alekseyevich Legasov (; 1 September 1936 – 27 April 1988) was a Soviet inorganic chemist and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He is known for his work as the chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster.

Legasov hung himself at his Moscow apartment on 27 April 1988, aged 51.

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1936 births
1988 deaths
Soviet people
Russian chemists
Suicides by hanging
Boris Shcherbina

Boris Yevdokimovich Shcherbina (; 5 October 1919 – 22 August 1990) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician. He was a vice-chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1984 to 1989. He was in charge of Soviet crisis management of two major catastrophes: the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the 1988 Armenian earthquake.

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1919 births
1990 deaths
Soviet politicians
1988 Armenian earthquake

The 1988 Armenian earthquake, also known as the Spitak earthquake (, Spitaki yerkrasharj), happened on December 7 at  with a surface wave magnitude of 6.8 and a maximum MSK intensity of X (Devastating).

The shock happened in the northern region of Armenia. Between 25,000 and 50,000 were killed and up to 130,000 were injured.

Despite the tensions of the Cold War, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev formally asked the United States for humanitarian help within a few days of the earthquake.

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20th century in Armenia
1988 in Asia
Earthquakes in the 1980s
Earthquakes in Asia
December events
Lyudmila Lyadova

Lyudmila Alekseevna Lyadova (; 29 March 1925 – 10 March 2021) was a Russian composer and singer. In 1985, she was honored with People's Artist of the USSR. She was known for appearing in many operas and theatre shows for children.

In June 2020, Lyadova was hospitalized in Moscow with COVID-19. She died from problems caused by the infection on 10 March 2021, aged 95.

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Other websites
 Официальный сайт композитора
 МБФ «Искусство без границ» 

1925 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia
Russian stage actors
Russian composers
Russian singers
Isela Vega

Isela Vega Durazo (5 November 1939 – 9 March 2021) was a Mexican actress, singer-songwriter, and filmmaker. She was born in Hermosillo, Sonora. She was best known for her role as Elita in Sam Peckinpah's Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. She also starred as Victoria Aguirre in the Netflix original series The House of Flowers.

Vega died of cancer in Mexico City on 9 March 2021 at the age of 81.

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Other websites

Interview in La Jornada 

1939 births
2021 deaths
Cancer deaths in Mexico
Mexican movie actors
Mexican stage actors
Mexican voice actors
Mexican television actors
Mexican singer-songwriters
Mexican screenwriters
Mexican movie directors
Sandbox video game

Sandbox video games are a form of video game that implements a "sandbox" design. These games are usually open world games. A few examples of this design concept are Grand Theft Auto and Minecraft, Second Life. There are also games dedicated to sandboxes for scientific purposes.

Video game gameplay
Lou Ottens

Lou Ottens (21 June 1926 – 6 March 2021) was a Dutch engineer. He worked his entire career at Philips. He was known as the inventor of the cassette tape. Ottens was born in Bellingwolde, Netherlands

Ottens died on 6 March 2021 in Duizel, Netherlands at the age of 94.

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1926 births
2021 deaths
Dutch engineers
Dutch inventors
People from Groningen (province)
House of Nationalities

The House of Nationalities (,  Amyotha Hluttaw) is the de jure upper house of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, the bicameral legislature of Myanmar (Burma). It is made up of 224 members, of whom 168 are directly elected and 56 appointed by the Myanmar Armed Forces.

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Politics of Myanmar
Assembly of the Union

The Assembly of the Union (  Pyidaungsu Hluttaw) is the de jure  national-level bicameral legislature of Myanmar (officially known as the Republic of the Union of Myanmar) created by the 2008 National Constitution.  The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw is made up of two houses, the House of Nationalities, a 224-seat upper house as well as the Pyithu Hluttaw, a 440-seat lower house.

Other websites
 Official website of Pyithu Hluttaw 

Myanmar
House of Representatives (Myanmar)

The House of Representatives (,  Pyithu Hluttaw)  is the lower house of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, the bicameral legislature of Myanmar (Burma). It is made up of 440 members, of which 330 are directly elected through the first-past-the-post system in each townships and 110 are appointed by the Myanmar Armed Forces.

As of 8 November 2015, 90% of the members are men (389 members) and 10% women (44 members).

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Myanmar