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Helen Flanagan

Helen Joyce Gabriel Flanagan (born 7 August 1990) is an English actress. She is best known for presenting the role as Rosie Webster in Coronation Street with Jack P. Shepherd. Flangan is an anchor from the ITV reality show I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out Here.

She was born at Bury, Greater Manchester, England.

1990 births
Living people
English Roman Catholics
Actors from Greater Manchester
English models
English television personalities
People with bipolar disorder
Malcolm Hebden

Malcolm Hebden (born 21 December 1939) is an English actor. He is known for portraying the role of Norris Cole in the long-running ITV soap opera, Coronation Street, a role which he played from 1994 to 1997, 1999 to 2017, and again from 2019 to 2020.

References

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1939 births
Living people
English television actors
Actors from Cheshire
Brooke Vincent

Brooke Levi Vincent (born 4 June 1992) is an English actress. She is known for her role as Sophie Webster in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street, which she played from 2004 to 2019.

Vincent was born in Audenshaw, Greater Manchester, England.

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1992 births
Living people
English child actors
English television actors
Actors from Greater Manchester
Stanisław Stefanek

Stanisław Stefanek (7 May 1936 – 17 January 2020) was a Polish bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He was born in Majdan Sobieszczański. He became a priest in 1959. He later held the roles of auxiliary bishop of Szczecin-Kamień and titular bishop of Forum Popilii. He served as bishop of Łomża from 1996 until his retirement in 2011.

Stefanek died on 17 January 2020 in Lublin, at the age of 83.

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Roman Catholic bishops
Rob Mallard

Robert Stephen Mallard (born 19 May 1992) is an English actor, best known for playing the role of Daniel Osbourne in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 2016 onwards. He is the third actor to play the role, replacing Lewis Harney and Dominic Holmes. He was born in Manchester, England.

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David Rudman

David Larry Rudman (born June 1, 1963) is an American puppeteer, cartoonist, producer, director, and singer,  he is known for performing Ernie, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Grover, and the left Two-Headed-Monster on Sesame Street.

1963 births
Living people
American television actors
Actors from Chicago
Muppets
American puppeteers
Two-Headed Monster

The Two-Headed Monster is a light purple monster on "Sesame Street". It first appeared in 1978 in Season 9.

Performers
The performers for the Two-Headed Monster are listed below:

 Richard Hunt and Peter Friedman (ca. 1978)
 Jerry Nelson and Richard Hunt (1978–1991)
 Jerry Nelson and Adam Hunt (1995)
 Jerry Nelson and David Rudman (1998–2000)
 Joey Mazzarino and David Rudman (2001–2016)
 Eric Jacobson and David Rudman (2016–present)

Sesame Street characters
Sky Atlantic

Sky Atlantic is a British pay drama comedy television channel also by the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, owned by Sky Limited in the United States.

2011 establishments in the United Kingdom
British Sky Broadcasting
British television channels
David Neilson

David Neilson (born 13 March 1949) is an English actor, best known for his role as Roy Cropper in the long-running British ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 1995 onwards.

He was born in Loughborough, Leicester, England.

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1949 births
Living people
English television actors
People from Leicester
Tristan Gemmill

Tristan John Gemmill (born 6 June 1967) is an English actor, most notable for his roles as Dr Adam Trueman on Casualty, and Robert Preston in Coronation Street. He was born in Kensington, London, England.

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1967 births
English movie actors
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Musical theater actors
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Living people
Dick Scott (historian)

Richard George Scott  (17 November 1923 – 1 January 2020) was a New Zealand historian and journalist. He wrote many books on the history of New Zealand. His first book, 151 Days (1952), was about the 1951 New Zealand waterfront dispute. His most well-known work is Ask That Mountain (1975), which tells the events of the non-violent Māori resistance to European occupation in Parihaka. Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark called it "one of New Zealand's most influential books." His autobiography, Dick Scott: A Radical Writer's Life, was published in 2004.

Scott was born in Palmerston North. He was the father of writer Rosie Scott (1948–2017).

Scott died on 1 January 2020, at the age of 96.

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John N. Brandenburg

John Nelson Brandenburg (April 29, 1929 – January 14, 2020) was an American lieutenant general in the U.S. Army. He was born in Enid, Oklahoma. He was a commander of the I Corps at Fort Lewis, a post which he served from 1981 to 1984. He was also a commander of the 101st Airborne Division from 1978 to 1980. He retired from the military in May 1984 after 33 years of service.

On January 14, 2020, Brandenburg died at his home in Canton, Georgia. He was 90.

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Palmerston North

Palmerston North is a city in the North Island of New Zealand. It is the seat of the Manawatū-Whanganui region. The city is  north of the capital, Wellington. Palmerston North is the country's seventh-largest city. As of June 2018, the city had an urban population of 86,600.

Other websites

Cities in New Zealand
Canton, Georgia

Canton is a city in and the county seat of Cherokee County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 	22,958.

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Cities in Georgia (U.S. state)
County seats in Georgia
Jane Danson

Jane Danson (born Jane Elizabeth Dawson; 8 November 1978) is an English actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Leanne Battersby in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street (1997–2000, 2004–present). Her other television credits include Children's Ward (1995–1997), The Grand (1997), Always and Everyone (2001–2002) and The Bill (2002–2003).

For her role on Coronation Street, Danson won the 2011 British Soap Award for "Best Dramatic Performance".

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1978 births
Living people
British people
English child actors
English television actors
Actors from Greater Manchester
Georgia Taylor

Georgia Taylor (born Claire Jackson; 26 February 1980) is an English actress. She is best known for her roles as Toyah Battersby in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street (1997–2003, 2016–present), Ruth Winters in the BBC One medical drama series Casualty (2007–2011) and Kate Barker in the ITV police drama series Law & Order: UK (2013–2014).

She was born and raised in Wigan, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

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Wigan
Alan Halsall

Alan David Halsall (born 11 August 1982 in Greater Manchester|Walkden, Worsley, Greater Manchester) is an English actor, known for playing Tyrone Dobbs in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street, a role which he has played since 1998. 

He has a daughter with ex-wife Lucy-Jo Hudson.

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1982 births
Living people
English television actors
People from Salford, Greater Manchester
David Maslanka

David Maslanka (August 30, 1943 - August 7, 2017) was a composer. He is best known for his pieces for wind ensemble and his fourth symphony.

Life 
Maslanka learned how to write music with H. Owen Reed.  He taught at Kingsborough Community College and Sarah Lawrence College. After 1990, Maslanka stopped teaching. He only wrote music after then. He lived in Missoula, Montana for most of his career.

References 

21st-century American composers
20th-century American composers
Jimmi Harkishin

James "Jimmi" Harkishin (born Rajan Harkinshindas; 19 March 1965) is a British actor, best known for his role as shopkeeper Dev Alahan in the long running ITV soap opera Coronation Street, which he has played continuously since 10 November 1999. He also had a small role in the film East is East, as well as Bhaji on the Beach. Harkishin played Gary Lobo in the Jonathan Creek episode "Danse Macabre".

Harkishin was born in Paris, France, to an Indian father, Deepak, and an Italian mother, Soni.

He began acting in 1987 under the stage name James Harkishin, and played the regular character of Jose Cuervo for 18 episodes between 1990–1993 in the children's TV series Uncle Jack.

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1965 births
Living people
British television actors
British movie actors
Actors from Paris
Sue Cleaver

Sue Cleaver (born 2 September 1963) is an English actress. She is best known for playing Eileen Grimshaw in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street, a role she has played continuously since May 2000. She also played Glenda alongside Victoria Wood in the BBC One sitcom Dinnerladies from 1998 to 2000. She was covering for Denise Robertson as the agony aunt on ITV daytime programme This Morning until Robertson's death in 2016. Cleaver was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, England.

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1963 births
Living people
English television actors
Actors from Hertfordshire
People from Watford
Actors from Manchester
This Morning

This Morning is a British daytime television programme that is broadcast on ITV in the United Kingdom and Virgin Media One in the Republic of Ireland. The show airs live and features news, topical items, showbiz, style and beauty, home and garden, food, health, real life and other segments. The longest serving presenter of the show is Ruth Langsford, who presented the series continously 21 years since 1999. The show orginally presented by husband and wife duo Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan for more than a decade after its launch. It is currently presented by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby to Monday to Thursday, and Dermot O'Leary and Alison Hammond on Fridays and Bank Holidays. During all school holidays including the 6 week Summer Holiday, the show is presented by Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford, five days a week, while all other presenters are absent.

English-language television programs
Cherokee County, Georgia

Cherokee County is a county in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the county had a population of 214,346. The county seat is Canton.

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1830s establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
1831 establishments in the United States
Georgia (U.S. state) counties
Shale gas

Shale gas is natural gas that comes from shale, a kind of sedimentary rocks. The majority of natural gas in the world is thought to be shale gas, but getting it out of the Earth is difficult.

Sedimentary rocks
Fossil fuels
Hydrocarbons
Jimmy Heath

James Edward Heath (October 25, 1926 – January 19, 2020), nicknamed "Little Bird", was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band leader. He was the brother of bassist Percy Heath and drummer Albert Heath. In 1975, the brothers formed the Heath Brothers. He worked with notable musicians such as John Coltrane, Stanley Cowell, Benny Golson, Specs Wright, Cal Massey, Johnny Coles, Ray Bryant, Nelson Boyd, Miles Davis, Kenny Dorham, Gil Evans, Milt Jackson, Nancy Wilson, Gerald Wilson and Art Farmer. Heath was nominated for three Grammy Awards.

Heath was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the father of musician James Mtume.

On January 19, 2020, Heath died of natural causes in Loganville, Georgia. He was 93.

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1926 births
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African American musicians
American jazz musicians
American saxophonists
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Musicians from Queens
Samia Longchambon

Samia Maxine Longchambon (née Ghadie, previously Smith; born 13 July 1982) is an English actress. She is best known for playing Maria Connor in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street, a role she has played since 2000.

Early life
Samia Ghadie was born in Eccles, Greater Manchester to Joseph, a French-Lebanese shop owner and Patsy, an English actress whom he met whilst working in Abu Dhabi. Samia lived there for a period as a child. She has a brother named Tariq.

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1982 births
Living people
British people
English child actors
English television actors
English movie actors
Actors from Greater Manchester
Albert Heath

Albert "Tootie" Heath (born May 31, 1935) is an American jazz hard bop drummer. He is the brother of saxophonist Jimmy Heath and the bassist Percy Heath. In 1975, the brothers formed the Heath Brothers. He notably worked with musicians such as John Coltrane, J. J. Johnson, Wes Montgomery, Art Farmer and Benny Golson's Jazztet, Cedar Walton, Bobby Timmons, Kenny Drew, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Herbie Hancock, Friedrich Gulda, Nina Simone and Yusef Lateef.

Heath was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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1935 births
Living people
African American musicians
American drummers
American jazz musicians
Musicians from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Loganville, Georgia

Loganville is a city in Walton and Gwinnett counties, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 10,458.

References

Cities in Georgia (U.S. state)
Gwinnett County, Georgia
East is East

East is East is a 1994 British comedy-drama movie produced by Sky Cinema. It is directed by Damien O'Donnell. It stars Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jimi Mistry, Jordan Routledge and more.

1994 comedy-drama movies
British comedy-drama movies
Minié ball

The Minié ball, or Minni ball, is a type of muzzle-loading spin-stabilized bullet for rifled muskets named after its developer, Claude-Étienne Minié, inventor of the French Minié rifle. It came to prominence in the Crimean War and American Civil War.

Rifling, the addition of spiral grooves inside a gun barrel, givesa spin to a bullet, greatly increasing the range and accuracy of a gun. Before the Minié ball, balls had to be jammed down the rifle barrel, sometimes with a mallet, and after a relatively small number of shots, gunpowder leftovers built up in the spiral grooves, which then had to be cleaned out. The development of the Minié ball was significant, because it was the first projectile that was small enough to be easily put down the barrel of a rifled long gun. Both the American Springfield Model 1861 and the British Pattern 1853 Enfield rifled muskets, the most common weapons used during the American Civil War, used the Minié ball.

The Minié ball did a lot if damage in the American Civil War. It made it really hard for surgeons to treat wounded soldiers because Minié balls shattered bones often.

References

Weapons
Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele

Grace Rhona Wurtele Gillis  (January 21, 1922 – January 17, 2020) and Isabella Rhoda Wurtele Eaves  (born January 21, 1922) were Canadian skiers. They were identical twin sisters. The pair were active in the 1940s and 1950s. The duo won many North American skiing competitions. Together they made up the entire 1948 Winter Olympics women's alpine team for Canada. Rhoda also competed at the 1952 Winter Olympics. The Wurteles were born in Saint-Lambert, Quebec.

References

Other websites
Rhona Wurtele  at Sports-Reference.com
Rhoda Wurtele  at Sports-Reference.com

1922 births
2020 deaths
Living people
1952 Winter Olympics
Canadian Olympians
Order of Canada
Sibling duos
Sportspeople from Quebec
Twin people from Canada
Weekend (Polish band)

Weekend is a Polish band. They have made disco polo music and dance music.

Discography

Albums

Singles

Other charted songs

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Musical groups established in 2000
Disco groups
2000 establishments in Europe
Pop music groups
Globe Town

Globe Town is an area in East London. It is in the borough of Tower Hamlets, in London, United Kingdom. It is centered around Roman Road. Globe Town can be described as being east of Bethnal Green.

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Areas of London
John Mackey

John Mackey (born October 1, 1973) is an American composer. He writes for wind ensemble most of the time. He used to write for dance companies. He studied at Cleveland Institute of Music first and then Juillard. Mackey currently lives in San Francisco, California.

References
Ludovico Einaudi

Ludovico Maria Enrico Einaudi  (born 23 November 1955) is an Italian pianist and composer. He has made several original albums of piano music and has made the soundtracks for several films, including This is England, The Father and Nomadland. He now lives in Milan, Italy.

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1955 births
Living people
Italian pianists
20th-century Italian composers
People from Turin
21st-century Italian composers
List of Crossroads characters

The British television soap opera Crossroads had its original run from 1964 to 1988. The only character in all twenty-four years was  Jill Richardson, played by Jane Rossington.

Characters

ITV
The Brian May Band

The Brian May Band was an English-American rock band formed by Queen guitarist Brian May. The band was originally formed in October 1991 for May's performance at Guitar Legends guitar festival in Seville, Spain. They toured with May to promote some of his studio albums.

The rhythm section for the band was Cozy Powell and Neil Murray, who had already worked together in Black Sabbath and Whitesnake. Spike Edney, who was the tour keyboardist for Queen between 1984 and 1986 took the keyboard spot.

The band soon went on a tour of the United States, Europe and Japan. The tour ended in December 1993, when May returned to the studio with fellow Queen band mates Roger Taylor and John Deacon for Queen's final studio album, Made In Heaven. Meanwhile, Cozy Powell and Neil Murray returned to work with Black Sabbath, and both later joined Peter Green's Band.

The band reunited in 1998 to promote Brian May's Another World album. Eric Singer, of later KISS fame, was brought as the last minute replacement for Cozy Powell, who had died in a car accident earlier that year.

In 2005, both Jamie Moses and Spike Edney joined the Queen + Paul Rodgers collaboration on their worldwide tour.

Their only release was the live album, Live at the Brixton Academy in 1993.

American rock bands
English rock bands
1991 establishments
Paola Santana

Paola Santana is a Dominican entrepreneur, lawyer and faculty at Singularity University. She is best known for establishing the first constitutional court in the Dominican Republic and founding a drone based logistics company, Matternet that first drone delivery platform authorized for permanent operations in any city. Santana has also founded Social Glass, a software product for the government system.

Education 
Santana got her Bachelor's degree in Law from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra in 2009. She enrolled at Ecole nationale d'administration for a Master of Public Administration and thereafter completed a program in the Foundations of American Law and Legal Education from the Georgetown University. In 2012, she completed an LLM from The George Washington University and also enrolled for a program in Policy, Law and Ethics of Exponential Technologies from Singularity University.

Career 
In 2011, Santana was appointed as the Chief of Staff and Strategic Technical Advisor at Tribunal Constitucional de la República Dominicana, where she co-led to establish the first constitutional court in the Dominican Republic. She has worked as a legal consultant at The Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD) and The World Bank. Santana co-founded Matternet, a drone delivery platform which received an FAA regulatory waiver to operate in the United States.

Santana has also worked with NASA to work on the UAS Traffic Management Software System for low-altitude airspace operations under Matternet’s partnership program. Since then she has co-led several advisory committees for drone including the Federal Drone Advisory Committee, Unmanned Aircraft Systems Advisory Group and F38 Subcommittee on Markings for Small UAS. Santana also co-drafted the public-private partnership for Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, to enable a multi-state Hyperloop system in the United States. In 2017, she founded a software company, Social Glass that builds an artificial intelligence based software to help the government with automation of processes and help in the decision making.

References

Other websites
 Matternet
 Social Glass

Business people
Lawyers
Andrew Whyment

Andrew Whyment (born 2 April 1981) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Darren Sinclair-Jones in the BBC One sitcom The Royle Family and Kirk Sutherland in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street, which he has played since 2000.

References

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1981 births
Living people
English child actors
English television actors
Actors from Greater Manchester
People from Salford, Greater Manchester
Gross indecency

Gross indecency is a legal term used in some English-speaking countries. It was first used to criminalize sexual acts between men, in 1855. Oscar Wilde was charged with gross indecency, in 1895. Alan Turing also pleaded guilty to the charge of gross indecency. If two men either have oral or anal sex, this is called sodomy. It is punished differently, in places where it is a crime.

Law
Realism theory

Realism theory is a way of thinking about politics and world history, that focuses on being realistic. It is one of the main styles of international relations theory. It gives the theoretic background to Realpolitik statesmanship of early modern Europe. According to Realism, world politics is always and necessarily a field of conflict among actors who want power. The theories of realism are contrasted by the cooperative ideals of liberalism.

Depending on what they see as the cause of the conflict between states, realists can be divided into three classes: Classical realists believe it follows from human nature; neorealists attribute it to the dynamics of the anarchic state system; neoclassical realists believe it results from both, in combination with domestic politics. Neorealists are also divided between defensive and offensive realism. Realists trace the history of their ideas back through classical antiquity, beginning with Thucydides.

Jonathan Haslam defines realism as "a spectrum of ideas." Its theories revolve around four main rules:

 states are the central actors in international politics, rather than leaders or international organizations;
 the international political system is anarchic, as there is no supranational authority to enforce rules;
 states act in their rational self-interest within the international system; and
 states desire power to ensure self-preservation.

Realism is often associated with Realpolitik, as both deal with the pursuit, possession, and application of power. Realpolitik, however, is an older prescriptive guideline limited to policy-making, while realism is a wider theoretical and methodological paradigm to describe, explain, and predict events in international relations. As an academic pursuit, realism is not tied to ideology; it does not favor any particular moral philosophy, nor does it consider ideology to be a major factor in the behavior of nations. Priorities of realists have been described as Machiavellian, single-mindedly seeking the power of one's own nation over others.

References 

International relations
Political philosophy
Loris Zanatta

Loris Zanatta (born 19 September 1962) is Professor of Latin American History at the University of Bologna (Italy).

He is author of several books and articles, published in Europe and Latin America, and commentator on Latin America in various media.

Zanatta was featured in the 2018 documentary El pueblo soy yo.

Bibliography 

 Del Estado liberal a la Nación católica. Iglesia y Ejército en los orígenes del peronismo. 1930-1943 (Buenos Aires, 1996)
 Perón y el mito de la Nación católica. 1943-1946 (Buenos Aires, 1999)
 Historia de la Iglesia argentina (Buenos Aires, 2000)
 Breve Historia del peronismo clásico (Buenos Aires, 2009)
 Eva Perón. Una biografía política (Buenos Aires, 2011)
 Historia de América Latina: de la Colonia al siglo XXI (Buenos Aires, 2012)
 La internacional justicialista (Buenos Aires, 2012)
 El populismo (Buenos Aires, 2014)
 La larga agonía de la nación católica (Buenos Aires, 2015)

Other websites
 Department of Political and Social Sciences / Università di Bologna

Italian historians
1962 births
Living people
Italian academics
Blagovest Sendov

Blagovest Hristov Sendov (; 8 February 1932 – 19 January 2020) was a Bulgarian diplomat, mathematician and politician. He served as the chairperson of the National Assembly from 1995 to 1997. He was also the National Assembly's deputy chairperson from 1997 to 2002. He was the Bulgarian ambassador to Japan from 2004 to 2009. He was born in Asenovgrad.

On 19 January 2020, Sendov died at the age of 87.

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1932 births
2020 deaths
Ambassadors to Japan
Bulgarian politicians
Mathematicians
Claudio Roditi

Cláudio Roditi (28 May 1946 – 17 January 2020) was a Brazilian jazz trumpeter. He was born in Rio de Janeiro. In 1976, he moved to New York City. Roditi was a member of Dizzy Gillespie's United Nations Orchestra. He also notably worked with Herbie Mann, Charlie Rouse and Paquito D'Rivera. He was nominated for two Grammy Awards in 1995 and 2010.

On 17 January 2020, Roditi died of prostate cancer in South Orange, New Jersey. He was 73.

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1946 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from prostate cancer
Brazilian musicians
Cancer deaths in New Jersey
People from Rio de Janeiro
Trumpeters
Jaroslav Kubera

Jaroslav Kubera (16 February 1947 – 20 January 2020) was a Czech politician. He was a member of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS). At the time of his death, he was the President of the Senate since November 2018. He was Senator from Teplice from 2000 until his death in 2020. He served as mayor of Teplice from 1994 to 2018.

Kubera was born in Louny. He had a small role as Edvard Beneš in historical drama movie Toman, directed by Ondřej Trojan.

Kubera died on 20 January 2020 in Ústí nad Labem. He was 72.

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1947 births
2020 deaths
Czech politicians
Mayors
ZAPiT Games

ZAPiT Games, Inc. was a company from Mississauga, Canada. It started in 2003 to make a home video game console for families. To do that, they worked with companies such as National Semiconductor, Panasonic and Altera to make the Game Wave Family Entertainment System.

ZAPiT Games also makes games for the BlackBerry and iPhone.

Game Wave Family Entertainment System
The Game Wave Family Entertainment System is a hybrid DVD player and video game console. That means it can play both DVDs and video games. It first came out in October 2005 during the seventh generation of video game consoles. The games for the system are trivia games, video game versions of traditional board or card games.

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Video game companies of Canada
Lech Raczak

Lech Raczak (27 January 1946 – 17 January 2020) was a Polish theatre director. He was born in Krzyżanowo, Greater Poland Voivodeship, lived in  Poznań. He was one of the founders of the Theatre of the Eighth Day. From 1995 to 1998, Raczak was an artistic director of the Polish Theatre in Poznań. He also worked for Malta Festival as an artistic director between 1993 and 2012. He was a professor at University of Arts in Poznań from 2003.

Raczak died of a heart attack on 17 January 2020 at the age of 73.

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1946 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Polish educators
People from Poznań
Polish entertainers
Lucy Fallon

Lucy Fallon (born 13 November 1995) is an English actress from Cleveleys, Lancashire. She found popular success playing Bethany Platt in the ITV soap opera, Coronation Street from 2015 to 2020. The role has earned her widespread recognition and several accolades, including two British Soap Awards, an Inside Soap Award, and a National Television Award. Fallon was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, England.

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1995 births
English television actors
Actors from Lancashire
People from Blackpool
Living people
Sam Robertson

Samuel Robertson (born 11 October 1985) is a Scottish actor and model. He is best known for his roles as Adam Barlow in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street and Flynn in the E4 comedy-drama series Beaver Falls. Robertson studied Drama and English at the University of Manchester, but dropped out at 18 to focus on his role of Adam Barlow in Coronation Street. In 2005 and 2006, he took part in the second to myers the third series of Sky1's The Match.

Other websites

1985 births
Living people
Scottish television actors
Jennie McAlpine

Jennie Elizabeth McAlpine (born 12 February 1984 in Bury, Greater Manchester, England) is a British television actress, comedian and businesswoman. She is best known for her role as Fiz Brown in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street. She also took part in season 17 of the British ITV television reality show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! during 2017, she came in fourth place.

Other websites

1984 births
Living people
English child actors
English television actors
Actors from Greater Manchester
Camagüey

Camagüey is a city and municipality in central Cuba. It is the country's third largest city and capital of the Camagüey Province. It has more than 321,000 inhabitants.

Cities in Cuba
DirectX Raytracing

DirectX Raytracing (DXR) is a feature of Microsoft's DirectX that can do raytracing in real-time. It is a big development in computer graphics. It was first made to use Nvidia's Volta platform. Some of the first products for consumers that use DXR include the Nvidia GeForce 20 series of GPUs, which was announced in 2018. DXR came out as an extension to DirectX 12 instead of a new version of DirectX.

The Windows 10 October 2018 update includes the public release of DirectX Raytracing.

Technical details
DXR adds 4 main elements to the DirectX 12 API:
 An "acceleration structure", which is an object that holds what a 3D environment looks like. This allows objects that are in the scene to be quickly found by the GPU.
 A command list method called DispatchRays, which controls raytracing.
 HLSL shader types that are appropriate for raytracing.
 The Raytracing pipeline state, which is comparable to the existing Graphics and Compute pipeline states.

References

Other websites
 Microsoft developer blog on DirectX Raytracing
 DirectX Raytracing and the Windows 10 October 2018 Update
 Dev Preview of New DirectX 12 Features
 Nvidia blog about raytracing vs. rasterization

Computer graphics
Johann Heinrich Tischbein

Johann Heinrich Tischbein, the younger (28 November 1742 – 22 December 1808) was a German painter and engraver, from the Tischbein family of artists.

1742 births
1808 deaths
German painters
People from Hesse
Lou Diamond Phillips

Louis Diamond Phillips  (né Upchurch; born February 17, 1962) is a Filipino-American actor and movie director. He is known for his role as Ritchie Valens in the biographical drama movie La Bamba (1987).

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1962 births
Living people
Filipino actors
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American voice actors
American movie directors
American television directors
Actors from Texas
People from Corpus Christi, Texas
William Bogert

William "Bill" Bogert (January 24, 1936 – January 12, 2020) was an American character actor. He was best known for his role as Brandon Brindle on the TV series Small Wonder from 1985 to 1989. He also played Kent Wallace, the host of Chappelle's Shows Frontline spoofs. 

Bogert died in New York City on January 12, 2020. He was 83 years old.

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1936 births
2020 deaths
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
Actors from New York City
Urs Egger

Urs Egger (1955 – January 19, 2020) was a Swiss movie and television director and journalist. From 1974 to 1997, he worked for the Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the Australian Cinema Papers as a correspondent. His best known movies were Kinder der Landstrasse (1992) and Opernball (1998).

Egger died on January 19, 2020 at the age of 66.

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Danny Talbott

Joseph Daniel Talbott (November 1, 1944 – January 19, 2020) was an American football, baseball, and basketball player. He quarterbacked two seasons of football at UNC-Chapel Hill. He was named the ACC Player of the Year in 1966. 

He was drafted 17th overall by the San Francisco 49ers before backing up quarterback Sonny Jurgensen for the Washington Redskins under Vince Lombardi. He also played baseball professionally in the Baltimore Orioles's minor league system.

Talbott was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. He died on January 19, 2020 in Rocky Mount of cancer-related problems at the age of 75.

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Sam Anderson

Sam Anderson (born May 13, 1945) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Sam Gorpley on Perfect Strangers, as dentist Bernard Nadler on Lost, and as Holland Manners on Angel.

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Wahpeton, North Dakota

Wahpeton ( ) is a city in Richland County, in southeastern North Dakota, United States. It is on the Bois de Sioux River. Wahpeton is the county seat of Richland County. The population was 7,766 at the 2010 Census.

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Bois de Sioux River

The Bois de Sioux River drains Lake Traverse, the southernmost body of water in the Hudson Bay watershed of  North America. It is a tributary of the Red River of the North. It makes up part of the western border of the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the eastern borders of North Dakota and South Dakota. It is about 41 miles (66 km) in length. The Dakota name for this River is Caninkpa Wakpa ( can = wood; inkpa = point; wakpa = river) named because it is the point or beginning of the woods all the way to Hudson Bay.[2] Where the Waters Gather and the Rivers Meet. By Paul C. Durand, Privately published, 1994 ISBN 0-9641469-0-8.

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Rosanna DeSoto

Rosanna DeSoto (born September 2, 1950) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in Stand and Deliver, for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female, and in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country as Azetbur.

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Bombshell (2019 movie)

Bombshell is a 2019 American biographical  drama movie directed by Jay Roach and written by Charles Randolph. The movie stars Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie. It is based on the stories of many women at Fox News who set out to expose CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment. Actors John Lithgow, Kate McKinnon, Connie Britton, Malcolm McDowell, and Allison Janney appear in supporting roles.

Bombshell received generally favorable reviews.

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La Bamba (movie)

La Bamba is a 1987 American biographical movie written and directed by Luis Valdez. It is about the life and career of Chicano rock 'n' roll star Ritchie Valens. The movie stars Lou Diamond Phillips as Valens, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, Elizabeth Peña, Danielle von Zerneck, and Joe Pantoliano. 

It was released on July 24, 1987 to positive reviews. In 2017, the movie was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the  Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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Esai Morales

Esai Manuel Morales Jr. (born October 1, 1962) is an American actor. He played Bob Morales in the 1987 biopic La Bamba. He also appeared in the PBS drama American Family and in the Showtime series Resurrection Blvd. 

He is best known for his roles as Lt. Tony Rodriguez on NYPD Blue, Joseph Adama in the science fiction television series Caprica, and Camino del Rio in the Netflix original series Ozark.

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Pramila Jayapal

Pramila Jayapal (; born September 21, 1965) is an American politician and activist. She is the U.S. Representative from  since 2017. She is a member of the Democratic Party. She is the first Indian-American woman to serve in the House of Representatives.

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Joe Pantoliano

Joseph Peter Pantoliano (born September 12, 1951) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in Risky Business, The Goonies, La Bamba and Midnight Run. He has also played Captain Conrad Howard in the Bad Boys trilogy and Ralph Cifaretto during seasons 3–4 of The Sopranos.

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Hudson County, a county in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is west of the lower Hudson River, which was named for Henry Hudson. The county seat is Jersey City.

As of the 2018 Census estimate, Hudson County was the fastest-growing county in New Jersey compared to 2010; the county's population was 676,061.

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Danielle von Zerneck

Danielle von Zerneck (born December 21, 1965) is an American actress and movie producer. She is best known for her role of Donna Ludwig, Ritchie Valens' girlfriend in the movie La Bamba (1987).

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Egil Krogh

Egil "Bud" Krogh Jr. (August 3, 1939 – January 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and Republican politician. He was born in Chicago, but raised in Seattle. During the Richard Nixon presidency, he was the United States Under Secretary of Transportation from February 1973 through May 1973. 

Krogh was a key figure of the Watergate scandal as he was the person who approved the break-ins of the Watergate complex.

Krogh died on January 18, 2020 at a Washington, D.C. hospital from heart failure at the age of 80.

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The Day the Music Died

On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger Peterson.

The event later became known as "The Day the Music Died", after singer-songwriter Don McLean called it as such in his 1971 song "American Pie".

Crash
On the night before their deaths, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and Jiles Perry "J.P" Richardson jr. a.k.a The Big Bopper had played one of their gigs for  the 24 city Winter Dance Party Tour. They boarded a tour bus when the heating system broke down, which meant all the musicians, including Holly's band, had to board a Beechcraft Bonanza 35 plane bound for the next gig in Moorhead, Minnesota. After the time went to 1:00 a.m, pilot Roger Peterson lost control of the plane, which crashed into a cornfield, killing Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper instantly, ejecting them on impact.

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 February 3, 1959 front page of the Mason City Globe-Gazette, via Newspapers.com 
 fiftiesweb.com The Day the Music Died 
 Bakotopia Magazine's 50th Anniversary memorial article
 1959: Buddy Holly killed in air crash
 Voices of Oklahoma interview with Tommy Allsup.  First person interview conducted with Tommy Allsup on September 8, 2011. Original audio and transcript archived with Voices of Oklahoma oral history project. 

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Ricky Ponting

Ricky Thomas Ponting  (born 19 December 1974) is an Australian cricket coach, commentator and former cricketer. He is widely thought of as as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. 

Ponting captained his country between 2004 and 2011 in Tests and 2002 and 2011 in One Day Internationals (ODIs). With the Australian national team, he has won the World Cup three times, the ICC Champions Trophy twice and the Ashes once. He appeared in 168 Tests for Australia between 1995 and 2012. His first Test was against Sri Lanka and his last was against South Africa. He also played for Tasmania from 1992 to 2013.

Ponting has been assistant coach of the Australia national cricket team since February 2019.

Ponting was born in Launceston, Tasmania. He is married to Rianna Cantor. The couple have three children.

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Steve Gillespie (wrestler)

Steve Gillespie (July 22, 1963 – January 18, 2020), better known under the ring name Dr. Hannibal, was a Canadian professional wrestler. He was born in Calgary, Alberta. He wrestled from 1987 until his retirement in 2013. He worked in promotions such as Stampede Wrestling, Canadian Rocky Mountain Wrestling, Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).

On January 18, 2020, Gillespie was found dead in his car in Calgary. He was 56.

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Robert Parker (singer)

Robert Parker (October 14, 1930 – January 19, 2020) was an American R&B singer and musician. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is best known for his 1966 hit "Barefootin'". It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA. The song reached #2 on the U.S. Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles chart and #7 on the Billboard Hot 100. The single also charted in the United Kingdom.

On January 19, 2020, Parker died of natural causes in Roseland, Louisiana. He was 89.

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Mario Bergamaschi

Mario Bergamaschi (7 January 1929 – 18 January 2020) was an Italian footballer. He played as a midfielder.

Bergamaschi was born in Crema, Lombardy. He played for 14 seasons in Serie A for Como (1950–1953), Milan (1953–1958) and Sampdoria (1958–1964). He also played for the Italy national team, playing his first game against Argentina in 1954.

Bergamaschi died on 18 January 2020 in Crema. He was 91.

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Milan
 Serie A: 1954–55, 1956–57
 Latin Cup: 1956

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Roseland, Louisiana

Roseland is a town in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,162 at the 2000 census.

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Joseph Hannesschläger

Joseph Hannesschläger (2 June 1962 – 20 January 2020) was a German actor and musician. He was born in Munich. He played the main role of Chief of Police Korbinian Hofer in Die Rosenheim-Cops from 2002 to 2019.

In October 2019, Hannesschläger was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. He died from the disease in Munich on 20 January 2020 at the age of 57.

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Ismat Ara Sadique

Ismat Ara Sadique (12 December 1942 – 21 January 2020) was a Bangladeshi politician. She was the Minister of Ministry of Public Administration from 2014 to 2018. She was a member of Jatiya Sangsad from 2014 until 2020. She was a member of the Awami League.

Sadique died on 21 January 2020 in Dhaka at the age of 77.

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Percy Heath

Percy Heath (April 30, 1923 – April 28, 2005) was an American jazz bassist. He was the brother of saxophonist Jimmy Heath and drummer Albert Heath, with whom he formed the Heath Brothers in 1975. 

Heath played with the Modern Jazz Quartet throughout their long history and also worked with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Wes Montgomery, and Thelonious Monk.

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 National Endowment for the Arts - NEA Jazz Masters biography
 Brotherly Jazz: The Heath Brothers DVD Documentary

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Kenny Burrell

Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31, 1931) is an American jazz guitarist. He is known for his work on the Blue Note label. His works with Jimmy Smith produced the 1965 Billboard Top Twenty hit album Organ Grinder Swing. 

Jimi Hendrix has said Burrell as an inspiration.

Burrell is a professor and Director of Jazz Studies at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

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Curtis Fuller

Curtis DuBois Fuller (December 15, 1934 – May 8, 2021) was an American jazz trombonist. He was known as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and worked with many classic jazz recordings.

Fuller was a faculty member of the New York State Summer School of the Arts (NYSSSA) School of Jazz Studies (SJS).

Fuller died on May 8, 2021 in New York City at the age of 86.

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Benny Golson

Benny Golson (born January 25, 1929) is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He was a member of Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie led bands. Golson is known for co-founding and co-leading The Jazztet with trumpeter Art Farmer in 1959.  His best known song is "I Remember Clifford".

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Aloïse Moudileno Massengo

Aloïse Moudileno Massengo (11 March 1933 – 6 January 2020) was a Congolese politician and lawyer. He served as Vice President of the Republic of the Congo from 1971 to 1972. He has been called the first Congolese lawyer. He was born in Vindza District.

Moudileno Massengo died on 6 January 2020 in the French city of Nancy. He was 86.

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