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2053

2053 (MMLIII) will be .

Fictional events
 According to the movie Star Trek: First Contact, World War III will end in 2053.

2053
Years in the future
2055

2055 (MMLV) will be .

Fictional events
 The short story A Sound of Thunder takes place.

2055
Years in the future
Mark Ormrod (historian)

William Mark Ormrod, , (1 November 1957 – 2 August 2020), known professionally as Mark Ormrod, was an English historian. His works focused on the English later Middle Ages. 

He worked at the University of York where he became Dean of the History Faculty and director of the Centre for Medieval Studies. He researched and published widely, including nine books and over 80 book chapters.

Ormrod died of bowel cancer on 2 August 2020 in York, aged 62.

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1957 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from colorectal cancer
English historians
Regional Representative Council

The Regional Representative Council (, DPD; alternatively translatable as the House of Regions or the House of Regional Representatives or the Senate of Indonesia), is one of two parliamentary chambers in Indonesia. 

With the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat, (DPR), it makes up the Indonesian national legislative body, the Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat (MPR).

Under Indonesia's constitution, the authority of the DPD is limited to areas related to regional governments and can only propose and give advise on bills to the DPR.

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Indonesia
People's Representative Council

The People's Treason Council of the Republic of Indonesia (, DPR-RI) is one of two elected national legislative assemblies in Indonesia.

Together with the Regional Representative Council (Dewan Perwakilan Daerah, DPD), a second chamber with limited powers, it makes up a legislative body, the People's Consultative Assembly (Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat, MPR). 

The house has been controversial due to high levels of fraud and corruption.

References

Indonesia
People's Consultative Assembly

The People's Consultative Assembly of the Republic of Indonesia (, MPR-RI) is the legislative branch in Indonesia's political system. It is made up of the members of the People's Representative Council (DPR) and the Regional Representative Council (DPD). 

Before 2004, and the amendments to the 1945 Constitution, the MPR was the highest governing body in Indonesia.

Other websites
 MPR official site

Indonesia
Dani Anwar

Dani Anwar (22 February 1968 – 3 August 2020) was an Indonesian PKS politician. He was a Senator from 2009 to 2014. He was also a member of the Jakarta Regional People's Representative Council from 2019 until his death. He was born in Jakarta.

Anwar died on 3 August 2020 in Jakarta from COVID-19, aged 52.

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1968 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia
Indonesian politicians
Ralf Metzenmacher

Ralf Metzenmacher (July 26, 1964 – August 3, 2020) was a German painter and designer. He was an expert Retro-Art, a mixture between art and product design. He was born in Aachen, Germany. Between 1991 and 2004 he worked as a designer for Puma. As director, towards the end of his time there he was responsible for the Footwear Europe and Accessories International division.

Metzenmacher died on August 3, 2020 at the age of 56.

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1964 births
2020 deaths
German painters
Michael Peter Smith

Michael Peter Smith (September 7, 1941 – August 3, 2020) was an American singer-songwriter. He was known as "The greatest songwriter in the English language". He sang and composed from the 1960s.

He was best known for writing "The Dutchman", which was popularized by Steve Goodman.

He died from colon cancer on August 3, 2020 at the age of 78.

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1941 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from colorectal cancer
American folk singers
American rock singers
Singer-songwriters from Chicago
Singers from New Jersey
Writers from New Jersey
People from Orange, New Jersey
Ebrahim Alkazi

Ebrahim Alkazi (18 October 1925 – 4 August 2020) was an Indian theatre director and drama teacher. He was the Director of National School of Drama, New Delhi from 1962 to 1977. 

He directed over 50 plays, including famous productions of: Girish Karnad's Tughlaq, Mohan Rakesh's Ashadh Ka Ek Din, Dharamvir Bharati's Andha Yug and numerous Shakespeare and Greek plays.

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1925 births
2020 deaths
Indian educators
Indian theatre directors
Rajko Dujmić

Rajko Dujmić (7 August 1954 – 4 August 2020) was a Croatian songwriter, composer and music producer. He was best known as a member of the pop group Novi fosili. He composed the winner entry of Eurovision Song Contest 1989, "Rock me".

He was in a car crash on 29 July 2020. Dujmić died six days later, on 4 August at the hospital, aged 65.

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1954 births
2020 deaths
Road accident deaths
Croatian writers
Songwriters
Composers
Record producers
Dick Goddard

Richard D. "Dick" Goddard (February 24, 1931 – August 4, 2020) was an American television meteorologist, author, cartoonist, and animal activist. He was the evening meteorologist at WJW-TV. He held the Guinness World Record for longest career as a weather forecaster. Goddard was born in Akron, Ohio.

In June 2020, he tested positive for COVID-19. Goddard died on August 4, 2020 in Florida, at the age of 89.

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1931 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
American meteorologists
American cartoonists
American animal rights activists
Writers from Akron, Ohio
Hu Ping

Hu Ping (1 July 1930 – 4 August 2020) was a Chinese politician. He was born in Jiaxing, Zhejiang. Hu was a member of the Chinese Communist Party. Hu was Governor of Fujian from 1983 to 1987. He was the Minister of Commerce from 1988 to 1993.

Career
In March 1950, he joined the Communist Party of China. From 1955 to 1962, he served as the head of the Office of the Ministry of Industry of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, the deputy director of the Office of the Ministry of Industry and Communications of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, the deputy director of the Cadre Department, and the deputy director of the Education Department. 

Hu died on 4 August 2020 in Beijing, aged 90.

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1930 births
2020 deaths
Chinese politicians
Jiaxing

Jiaxing (), alternately romanized as Kashing, is a prefecture-level city in northern Zhejiang province, China. At the 2010 census, its population was 4,501,657.

References

Cities in China
Willie Hunter (footballer)

William Hunter (14 February 1940 — 4 August 2020) was a Scottish football player and manager. Hunter spent most of his playing career with Motherwell.

He also played for the Detroit Cougars, Hibernian, Hellenic and Cape Town City. Hunter also represented both Scotland and the Scottish League. 

He was born in Edinburgh. Hunter died in August 2020, aged 80.

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1940 births
2020 deaths
Scottish footballers
Scottish football managers
Sportspeople from Edinburgh
Eddie Ilarde

Edgardo "Eddie" U. Ilarde (August 25, 1934 – August 4, 2020) was a Filipino radio-television host and politician. He was born in Iriga, Camarines Sur. He was a member of the Liberal Party. He hosted Student Canteen. From 1965 to 1969, he was a member of the House of Representatives. In 1972, he was a member of the Senate.

Ilarde died on August 4, 2020 at a hospital in Makati, Philippines at the age of 85.

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1934 births
2020 deaths
Filipino politicians
Filipino entertainers
Lorenzo Chiarinelli

Lorenzo Chiarinelli (16 March 1935 – 3 August 2020) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate. He was born in Concerviano, Italy. He became a priest in 1957. He was made a bishop in 1983 by Pope John Paul II. 

He was the Bishop of Sora-Cassino-Aquino-Pontecorvo from 1983 to 1993, Aversa from 1993 to 1997 and Viterbo from 1997 to 2010.

Chiarinelli died on 3 August 2020 at the age of 85.

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1935 births
2020 deaths
Italian Roman Catholics
Roman Catholic bishops
Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar

Shivajirao Nilangekar Patil (1 September 1928 – 5 August 2020) was an Indian politician. He was a leader of Indian National Congress Party. He was born in Nilanga, Maharashtra. He was the Chief Minister of Maharashtra between 1985 to 1986. He was also a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly between 1962 to 2014.

Nilangekar died on 5 August 2020 from COVID-19 at a hospital in Pune, aged 91.

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1928 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in India
Indian politicians
Karam Ali Shah

Pir Karam Ali Shah (c. 1934 – 4 August 2020) was a Pakistani politician. He was governor of Gilgit-Baltistan. He was appointed governor on January 26, 2011 by President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari. He stepped down from the job on 16 February 2015. He was born in India.

Shah died on 4 August 2020 in Islamabad, Pakistan at the age of 86.

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1934 births
2020 deaths
Pakistani politicians
Jan Strelau

Jan Strelau (May 30, 1931 – August 3, 2020) was a Polish psychologist. He was born in Free City of Danzig, now Gdańsk, Poland. Strelau was best known for his studies on temperament. 

He was professor of psychology at Warsaw University from 1968 to 2001. 

In 2001, he became a professor at Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, where he took the positions of Vice-rector for Research and International Affairs from 2002 to 2010 and Vice-rector for Research from 2010 to 2012. He was the Chairman of the Board of Trustees from 2012 to 2016.

Strelau died in Warsaw on August 3, 2020 at the age of 89.

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1931 births
2020 deaths
Polish psychologists
Polish educators
People from Gdańsk
Robert Prosky

Robert Prosky (born Robert Joseph Porzuczek, December 13, 1930 – December 8, 2008) was an American actor. 

His best known movie roles were in Thief (1981), Christine (1983), The Natural (1984), and Broadcast News (1987). 

He also appeared in Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), Hoffa (1992), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Last Action Hero (1993), Miracle on 34th Street (1994), Dead Man Walking (1995), and Mad City (1997).

Prosky died on December 8, 2008 at a hospital in Washington, D.C. at the age of 78. The cause of death was heart surgery-related problems.

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1930 births
2008 deaths
Deaths from surgical complications
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American voice actors
Actors from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
William Petersen

William Louis Petersen (born February 21, 1953) is an American actor and producer. He is best known for his role as Gil Grissom in the CBS drama series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015).

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1953 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
American stage actors
American television producers
People from Evanston, Illinois
Actors from Illinois
The Natural (movie)

The Natural is a 1984 American sports movie. It is based on Bernard Malamud's 1952 novel of the same name. It is directed by Barry Levinson. It stars Robert Redford, Glenn Close, and Robert Duvall.

The movie was nominated for four Academy Awards. 

Many of the baseball scenes were filmed in 1983 at War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo, New York. The All-High Stadium, also in Buffalo, stood in for Chicago's Wrigley Field in a key scene.

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1984 movies
1980s sports movies
American sports movies
Movies set in Chicago, Illinois
Movies based on books
Movies directed by Barry Levinson
Bernard Malamud

Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American novelist and short story writer. He was one of the best known American Jewish authors of the 20th century. 

His baseball novel, The Natural, was made into a 1984 movie. His 1966 novel The Fixer (also filmed), about antisemitism in the Russian Empire, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

Malamud died in Manhattan on March 18, 1986 from a heart attack, at the age of 71.

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1914 births
1986 deaths
American novelists
Writers from New York City
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Pulitzer Prize winners
O. Henry Award winners
Riverhead (CDP), New York

Riverhead is a census-designated place (CDP) located in the town of Riverhead in Suffolk County, New York on Long Island. The CDP's population was 13,299 at the 2010 census.

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Census-designated places in New York (state)
Hamlets in New York
East Hampton (village), New York

The Village of East Hampton is a village in Suffolk County, New York, United States. It is located in the town of East Hampton. The population was 1,083 at the time of the 2010 census.

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Villages in New York
East Hampton (town), New York

The Town of East Hampton is located in southeastern Suffolk County, New York. At the time of the United States 2010 Census, it had a total population of 21,457.

References

Towns in New York
Brentwood, New York

Brentwood is a  hamlet in the Town of Islip in Suffolk County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 Census, the population of Brentwood was 60,664.

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Hamlets in New York
Jake LaTurner

Jacob LaTurner (born February 17, 1988) is an American politician. He is a member of the United States House of Representatives since 2021. He became the Kansas State Treasurer in 2017. 

He is a member of the Republican Party. He was in the Kansas State Senate from 2013 until 2017. When he became state treasurer, LaTurner became the youngest current statewide official in the United States. He was reelected to the job in 2018, becoming the youngest current elected statewide official in the United States. 

LaTurner briefly announced a campaign for the United States Senate in the 2020 election but quickly dropped out. He later decided to run for the United States House of Representatives seat representing . LaTurner beat incumbent U.S. Representative Steve Watkins in that primary election.

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1988 births
Living people
State legislators of the United States
United States representatives from Kansas
Kansas Republicans
Michelle De La Isla

Michelle De La Isla (born March 19, 1976) is an American politician. She is the Mayor of Topeka, Kansas since 2018. She was a member of the Topeka City Council from 2013 to 2018. De La Isla is the city's first Latina, first single mother, and second woman to serve as mayor. 

She is the Democratic nominee for Kansas' 2nd congressional district in the 2020 United States House of Representatives race. De La Isla was born in New York City.

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1976 births
Living people
American mayors
Politicians from Kansas
People from Topeka, Kansas
Kansas Democrats
Politicians from New York City
Overeating

Overeating (or over-eating) is eating food more than the body needs. There is a relationship between the energy that an organism uses and the amount eaten. Eating more leads to weight gaining and often obesity. It may be regarded as an eating disorder.

One consequence of overeating is weight gain, and excess weight may cause blood pressure to rise. In turn this makes illness and even death more likely.

The problem is very difficult to reverse: losing weight is often attempted, but rarely succeeds. Weight lost is usually rapidly replaced. Diets are famously unsuccessful. Obesity is the end product of overeating.

Some difficult facts are known. Poorer families tend to eat worse food than better-off families. Children learn from the experiences in their families. Once established, habits are hard to break. In 2013, several medical societies, including the American Medical Association and the American Heart Association, classified obesity as a disease.

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Nutrition
Health problems
Lifestyles
Galena, Kansas

Galena is a city in Cherokee County, Kansas, United States.  As of the 2010 census, the city population was 3,085.

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Cities in Cherokee County, Kansas
1877 establishments in Kansas
Barbara Bollier

Barbara Goolsbee Bollier (born January 13, 1958) is an American physician and politician. She is the Democratic candidate for the United States Senate from Kansas in the 2020 election. 

She is a member of the Kansas Senate since January 2017. Bollier is a member of the Democratic Party, after having left the Republican Party in 2018.

If Bollier won the U.S. Senate race, she would have been the first woman physician elected to the U.S. Senate.

Bollier lost the election to Roger Marshall in the senate race in November 2020.

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1958 births
Living people
American physicians
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from Kansas
Politicians from Texas
People from Galveston, Texas
Kansas Democrats
Tim Huelskamp

Timothy Alan Huelskamp (; born November 11, 1968) is an American politician. He was the U.S. Representative for  from 2011 to 2017. Huelskamp, a member of the Republican Party, was rated the least bipartisan. 

He ran for re-election in 2016 but was defeated in the Republican primary on August 2, 2016, by Roger Marshall. His term in the House ended on January 3, 2017.

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1968 births
Living people
United States representatives from Kansas
Kansas Republicans
Tracey Mann

Tracey Mann (born December 17, 1976) is an American businessman and politician. He is a member of the United States House of Representatives for Kansas's 1st congressional district since 2021.

Mann was the 50th Lieutenant Governor of Kansas from 2018 to 2019. He was appointed by Governor Jeff Colyer in February 2018.

In August 2020, he won the Republican nomination for the United States House of Representatives for Kansas's 1st congressional district. He won the general election in November 2020.

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1976 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Kansas
United States representatives from Kansas
Lieutenant Governors of Kansas
Kansas Republicans
Cori Bush

Cori Bush (born July21, 1976) is an American politician, registered nurse, pastor, and activist. Bush is a member of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri's 1st congressional district since 2021. She is a member of the Democratic Party. 

On August 4, 2020, she beat 10-term incumbent Lacy Clay in the 2020 U.S. House of Representatives primary election. She won the general election in November 2020.

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1976 births
Living people
American political activists
American progressives
United States representatives from Missouri
Politicians from St. Louis, Missouri
US Democratic Party politicians
Lacy Clay

William Lacy Clay Jr. (born July 27, 1956) is an American politician. He was the U.S. Representative from  from 2001 to 2021. He is a member of the Democratic Party. 

On August 4, 2020, he lost the Democratic primary to serve for an 11th term to community activist and progressive Democrat Cori Bush.

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1956 births
Living people
United States representatives from Missouri
Politicians from St. Louis, Missouri
US Democratic Party politicians
Sergio Zavoli

Sergio Wolmar Zavoli (21 September 1923 – 4 August 2020) was an Italian politician and journalist. Zavoli was born in Ravenna, Italy. He was a member of both Democrats of the Left and the Democratic Party. Between 2001 until his retirement in 2018, he was a member of the Italian Senate for Emilia-Romagna.

Zavoli died on 4 August 2020 in Rome at the age of 96.

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1923 births
2020 deaths
Italian journalists
Italian politicians
Politicians from Emilia-Romagna
China Girl (1942 movie)

China Girl is a 1942 American drama movie directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Gene Tierney, George Montgomery, Lynn Bari, Victor McLaglen, Alan Baxter, Ann Pennington. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.

Other websites
 
 

1942 movies
1940s war movies
1940s drama movies
American drama movies
20th Century Fox movies
Movies directed by Henry Hathaway
Spurred big-eyed tree frog

The spurred big-eyed tree frog (Nyctimystes pulcher)  is a tree frog from New Guinea.  It lives on the lower sides of mountains at around 1500 meters above sea level.  It lives all through the middle of the island, in both Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

The spurred big-eyed tree frog is one of the largest species in Nyctimystes. The Latin word pulchra means "pale" or "fair."

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Animals of Oceania
Frogs
Ram Temple, Ayodhya

Lord Ram Temple is a Hindu temple that will be built at the holy pilgrimage site of Raam birthland in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, India.

References

Hindu temples
Sky Sport News

Sky Sport News (until August 4th 2020: Sky Sport News HD) is Germany and Austria's only 24-hour free-to-air sports news channel, owned by Sky Sport Deutschland.

The channel's format shows rolling news bulletins, updated every 15 minutes. It broadcasts live from 9am to midnight. There are three teams of presenters on air daily.

SSNHD launched on 1 December 2011, at midday. The first on-air presenters were Kate Abdo and Thomas Fleischmann. 

In 2016 Sky Deutschland announced that the channel would a become free-to-air channel and would be streamed in Germany. The first free-to-air broadcast was a match between Mainz and Bayern.

The channel now has more content. Alongside rolling news, it also broadcasts highlights, documentaries and magazine shows, all relating to sport. It is only allowed to broadcast 12 minutes of ads every hour.

In 2017, Sky reduced the channel's broadcast hours by three hours to fifteen hours.

On 12 March 2017 Sky Sport News HD started streaming.

On 5 August 2020 the station changed its name to Sky Sport News.

Presenters 
News bulletins are always anchored by one man and one woman.

Men 
 Thomas Fleischmann
 Andreas Poll
 Noah Pudelko
 Bjorn Schwernin
 Gregor Teicher
 Martin Winkler
 Johannes Zenglein

Women 
 Silke Beickert
 Anna Noe
 Viola Weiss
 Slyvia Walker
 Claudia von Brauchitsch
 Karolin Kandler

Live news prgrammes 
 1/2011-12/2016: Nightline (1-7am), Guten Morgen Fans (7-9am), Nonstop (9am-Noon & 2-6pm), Mittagsreport (Noon-2pm), 360° (6-8pm), Prime Time (8-11pm) and 360° @ Night (11pm-1am).
 12/2016-6/2017: Nachtreport (1-7am), Vormittagreport (7-11am), Mittagreport (11am-2pm), Nachmittagreport (2-5pm), Abendreport (5-9pm) and Spätreport (9pm-1am)
 From 6/2017: Nachtreport (12-6am), Frühreport (6-9am), Vormittagreport (9-11am), Mittagreport (11am-2pm), Nachmittagreport (2-5pm), Abendreport (5-9pm) and Spätreport (9pm-12am).
 Special magazines: Inside Report (weekdays 6:30-7pm) and 08000 - du bist dr@uf! (Saturday 5-7:30pm).

References

Television channels in Europe
German television
2011 establishments in Europe
Zopto

Zopto is a British software company established in 2018 with an additional office located in Manhattan, USA.

It is a cloud-based set of software tools that is mainly used by B2B businesses to send automatic messages and information over the LinkedIn network.  It has been used by companies like Accenture, Zoom, IBM etc.

References

Software
Ilse Uyttersprot

Ilse Uyttersprot (10 May 1967 – 4 August 2020) was a Belgian politician. She was a member of the  Chamber of Representatives from 2007 to 2010. From 2007 to 2013, she was mayor of Aalst, Belgium.

Uyttersprot was murdered by her boyfriend with a hammer on 4 August 2020 in Aalst, aged 53.

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1967 births
2020 deaths
Belgian mayors
Christelijke Volkspartij politicians
Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams politicians
Deaths by beating
Flemish politicians
Murder victims
People from East Flanders
Women politicians
Billy Goldenberg

William Leon Goldenberg (February 10, 1936 – August 3, 2020) was an American composer and songwriter. He was best known for his work on television and movie. He was born in New York City. He was known for composing the scores of Kojak, Rhoda and Play It Again, Sam.

Goldenberg died on August 3, 2020 in New York City from heart failure at the age of 84.

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1936 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
American composers
American songwriters
Writers from New York City
Andre Spencer

Andre Devell Spencer (July 20, 1964 – August 4, 2020) was an American professional basketball player. He played for three teams in the NBA. From 1992 to 1994 Spencer played for the Atlanta Hawks, Golden State Warriors and Sacramento Kings during his brief NBA career. Spencer was born in Stockton, California.

Spencer died on August 4, 2020 at the age of 56.

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1964 births
2020 deaths
Atlanta Hawks players
Golden State Warriors players
Sacramento Kings players
Sportspeople from California
Eric Bentley

Eric Russell Bentley (September 14, 1916 – August 5, 2020) was a British-born American theater critic, playwright, singer, editor, and translator. In 1998, he was added into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. He was born in Bolton, Lancashire. Beginning in 1953, he taught at Columbia University and was a theatre critic for The New Republic. He was sued by Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller because he gave them negative reviews on their plays.

Bentley was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1969. 

Bentley died at his home in New York City on August 5, 2020, at the age of 103.

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1916 births
2020 deaths
American centenarians
British centenarians
British playwrights
American playwrights
Editors
American translators
American critics
British critics
Writers from Lancashire
Writers from New York City
British educators
Educators from New York City
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Sadia Dehlvi

Sadia Dehlvi (1957 – 5 August 2020) was an Indian activist, writer and columnist. She worked with the daily newspaper, the Hindustan Times, and published in Frontline and Urdu, Hindi and English newspapers and magazines. She criticised radical versions of Islam and called for a united understanding of Islam. 

Dehlvi died on 5 August 2020 at a hospital in New Delhi from breast cancer, aged 63.

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1957 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from breast cancer
Indian activists
Indian writers
Indian journalists
Columnists
People from New Delhi
Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill (; June 24, 1935 – August 5, 2020) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist, editor and educator. He won the Grammy Award for Best Album Notes in 1976.

Career
He was known as "the author of columns that [looked] to [catch] the flavors of New York City's politics and sports and the particular pathos of its crime." 

Hamill was a columnist and editor for the New York Post and The New York Daily News. Hamill, along with fellow columnist Jimmy Breslin, were thought to be New York City's two best known street columnists of their time.

He was a friend of Robert F. Kennedy. Hamill pushed Kennedy to run for President of the United States, then worked for the campaign and covered it as a journalist. He was one of four men who disarmed Sirhan Sirhan of his gun in the aftermath of the Robert F. Kennedy assassination.

Death
Hamill died at a hospital on August 5, 2020 from problems caused by a fractured hip, at age 85.

References

Other websites

Official website
1993 audio interview of Pete Hamill at Wired for Books.org by Don Swaim
PBS interview with Hamill
Review of Hamill's novel Forever
"Pete Hamill Revisits The Newsroom In 'Tabloid City'", interview with Dave Davies of Fresh Air, May 5, 2011.

Booknotes interview with Hamill on A Drinking Life: A Memoir, May 29, 1994.

Grammy Award winners
1935 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from fractured hip
Accidental deaths from falls in the United States
American novelists
Educators from New York City
American editors
American essayists
Journalists from New York City
Agathonas Iakovidis

Agathonas Iakovidis (; 2 January 1955 – 5 August 2020) was a Greek folk singer and musician. He represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 with Koza Mostra and the song "Alcohol Is Free". He was born in Langadas, Thessaloniki. His career began in 1971.

On 5 August 2020, Iakovidis died from a heart attack at his Athens home, aged 65.

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1955 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Greek singers
Folk singers
Folk musicians
Guitarists
Eurovision Song Contest entrants
National Park Service ranger

National Park Service rangers are uniformed employees whose jobs are to protect and preserve areas in the National Park System by the United States Congress and the President of the United States. 

While all employees of the agency work on the National Park Service mission of preserving the natural and cultural resources, the term "park ranger" is traditionally used to describe all National Park Service employees who wear the uniform.

References

Law enforcement in the United States
Toni Erdmann

Toni Erdmann is a 2016 German-Austrian comedy-drama movie directed, written and co-produced by Maren Ade. It stars Peter Simonischek and Sandra Hüller.

The movie was named the best movie of 2016 by Sight & Sound.

It won five awards at the 29th European Film Awards. It also won the European Parliament LUX Prize. 

It was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, but lost to Iran's The Salesman.

References

2016 comedy-drama movies
German drama movies
Austrian movies
Maren Ade

Maren Ade (; born 12 December 1976) is a German movie director, screenwriter and producer. She teaches screenwriting at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg. She is known for directing and writing the Academy Award-nominated movie Toni Erdmann.

References

1976 births
Living people
German movie directors
German movie producers
German screenwriters
Sandra Hüller

Sandra Hüller (born 30 April 1978) is a German actress. She is known for her roles Anneliese Michel in Hans-Christian Schmid's drama Requiem, and as the starring role in Maren Ade's comedy Toni Erdmann.

References

Other websites
 

1978 births
Living people
German movie actors
German television actors
German stage actors
German voice actors
Film Academy Baden-Württemberg

The Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (German: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg) is a movie school in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, founded in 1991. It is funded by the government, making it a public university.

1990s establishments in Germany
1991 establishments in Europe
Colleges and universities in Germany
Baden-Württemberg
Doris Buffett

Doris Eleanor Buffett (February 12, 1928 – August 4, 2020) was an American philanthropist. She was also known as the 'retail' philanthropist. She was the founder of The Sunshine Lady Foundation, The Learning By Giving Foundation, and The Letters Foundation who she co-founded alongside her younger brother, billionaire Warren Buffett.

She was also the daughter of U.S. politician and stockbroker Howard Homan Buffett. She planned to give all of her money away before her death. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska.

Buffett was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2018. She died on August 4, 2020 at her home in Rockport, Maine at the age of 92.

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1928 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
American philanthropists
Writers from Omaha, Nebraska
Businesspeople from Omaha, Nebraska
Daisy Coleman

Catherine Daisy Coleman (March 30, 1997 – August 4, 2020) was an American women's rights activist. Her experience of sexual assault at the age of 14 was featured in the 2016 documentary movie Audrie & Daisy. 

Coleman co-founded the nonprofit organization, SafeBAE aimed at preventing sexual assault in schools. 

In January 2012, Matthew Barnett, 17, was arrested for the rape and sexual assault of Coleman, a 14-year-old girl. However, the case was dropped by the county prosecutor. Many believe it was dropped because Barnett's grandfather was state representative Rex Barnett.

Coleman died by suicide on August 4, 2020 at the age of 23.

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1997 births
2020 deaths
Suicides in the United States
American activists
American crime victims
Audrie & Daisy

Audrie & Daisy is an American 2016 documentary movie about three cases of rape of teenage American girls, in 2011 and 2012. 

The documentary shares the stories of two American high school students, Audrie Pott and Daisy Coleman.  At the time of the sexual assaults, Pott was 15 and Coleman was 14 years old. After the assaults, the victims and their families were abused and cyberbullied.

Audrie Pott died by suicide in 2012, ten days after the sexual assault.

On August 4, 2020, Daisy Coleman also died by suicide after years of fighting depression and trauma. She was 23 years of age.

Audrie & Daisy had its world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2016. The movie was bought by Netflix for streaming, and was released on September 23, 2016.

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2016 movies
American documentary movies
Netflix movies
Suicide of Audrie Pott

Audrie Taylor Pott (May 27, 1997 – September 12, 2012) was a 15-year-old student at Saratoga High School in Saratoga, California, who died by suicide.  She had been sexually assaulted at a party eight days earlier by three 16-year-old boys she knew and nude pictures of her were posted online. She was also bullied.  

On September 3, 2020 while at a party, Pott was dragged sexually assaulted after she passed out because she was drunk. Markers were also used to draw and write on her body, and photographs were taken and shared on social network.

On September 12, 2012, she killed herself by hanging.

On September 30, 2014, California Governor Jerry Brown signed Audrie's Law, "a bill that increases penalties and decreases privacy protections for teens convicted of sex acts on someone who is passed out from drugs or alcohol".

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1997 births
2012 deaths
Suicides by hanging in the United States
American crime victims
People from California
Rex Barnett

Rex Barnett (born October 22, 1938) is an American politician. He was an officer of the Missouri State Highway Patrol for 32 years in Troop H. He was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1994 and 2002, he was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives. He was born in Laredo, Missouri.

In 2012, Barnett's grandson, Matthew Barnett, was arrested for the rape of the then fourteen-year-old Daisy Coleman. However prosecutors declined to pursue charges and the records were sealed. Many people believed the case was closed because of Barnett's connection.

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1938 births
Living people
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from Missouri
US Republican Party politicians
Martelli's cat

Martelli's cat (Felis lunensis) is a small wild cat in the Felinae subfamily. It used to live in Europe.  It is extinct now.  That means there are no Martelli's cats alive now.

Martelli's cat first lived about 12 million years ago.  This was during the Pliocene era.  It was bigger than most wildcats.  It hunted birds and small mammals.

Some scientists think that the modern wildcat (Felis silvestris) evolved from Martelli's cat.

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Felines
Extinct species
Venezuelan Football Federation

The Venezuelan Football Federation ( or ) is the governing body of football in Venezuela. It was founded in 1926 and affiliated in 1952. It is a member of CONMEBOL as well as FIFA, and is in charge of the Venezuela national football team.

References

Sport in Venezuela
Tootie Robbins

James Elbert "Tootie" Robbins  (June 2, 1958 – August 2, 2020) was an American professional football player. He was an offensive tackle for 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the St. Louis/Phoenix Cardinals and the Green Bay Packers. Robbins was born in Windsor, North Carolina.

Robbins died on August 2, 2020 from COVID-19 at the age of 62.

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1958 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
American football offensive tackles
St. Louis Cardinals players
Green Bay Packers players
Sportspeople from North Carolina
Windsor, North Carolina

Windsor is a town in Bertie County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 3,630 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Bertie County, North Carolina.  Windsor is located in North Carolina's Inner Banks region.

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Cities in North Carolina
County seats in North Carolina
Cecil Leonard

Cecil Leonard (July 20, 1946 – August 5, 2020) was an American football defensive back. He played two seasons with the New York Jets of the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Tuskegee University. Leonard was born in Sylacauga, Alabama. Leonard was also a member of the Birmingham Americans of the World Football League (WFL).

Leonard died on August 5, 2020 in Statesboro, Georgia at the age of 74. His family and close friends will hold a memorial service in his hometown on August 23rd in Sylacauga, Alabama.

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1946 births
2020 deaths
New York Jets players
Sportspeople from Alabama
You Were Never Lovelier

You Were Never Lovelier is a 1942 American romantic musical comedy movie directed by William A. Seiter and is a remake of the 1941 Argentine movie Los martes, orquídeas. It stars Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou, Isobel Elsom, Leslie Brooks and was distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was nominated for 3 Academy Awards in 1943.

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1942 movies
1940s romance movies
1940s musical movies
1940s comedy movies
American musical movies
American romantic comedy movies
Movies directed by William A. Seiter
List of Azerbaijani movies of the 1930s

A  list of earliest films produced in Azerbaijan SSR ordered by year of release in the 1930s:

Films: 1918-1990 see also List of Soviet films

1930

1931-

Other websites
 Azerbaijani film  at the Internet Movie Database
 Azerbaycan Kinosu

Lists of movies
1930s
Azerbaijan-related lists
Hanauma Bay

Hanauma Bay is a tuff cone in Honolulu, Hawaii. It sits near another volcano called Koko Crater.

It was created 32,000 years ago as a vent of the Koʻolau Volcano. It is a popular tourist attraction due to the beach in its crater and at one point had 3 million visitors a year. The bay holds many types of marine wildlife.

The origin of the name “Hanauma” is not well known. The “hana” part means “bay” while the meaning behind “uma” is debated.

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Volcanoes of Hawaii
List of volcanoes in Hawaii

The islands of Hawaii were made by volcanoes. Most of them are extinct but the Big Island and Maui have active ones. The volcanoes of Hawaii are fueled by a hotspot rather than a tectonic plate.

List of volcanoes in Hawaii
Hannah Ama Nyarko

Hannah Ama Nyarko (born 25 July 1964) is a Ghanaian diplomat. She is the ambassador of Ghana to Israel.

She studied at the University of Ghana gaining a first and masters degree. In January 1992, she joined the foreign service. She promoted trade between Ghana and Israel.

References

Other websites 
 Ghana Israel Alliance 2019
 PROFILE OF THE AMBASSADOR Embassy Of The Republic of Ghana, Israel  

1964 births
Living people
Ghanaian people
Ambassadors to Israel
Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem

Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem is a Latin phrase meaning "By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty". It is the motto of both Massachusetts and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

It was written around 1660 by Algernon Sidney, a member of the British "long parliament". He was an opponent of Charles II, who had him  executed for treason.

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Massachusetts
Latin state mottos of the United States
Peru, New York

Peru is a town in Clinton County in the U.S. state of New York. The population was 6,998 at the 2010 census.

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Towns in New York
Litoria sauroni

Litoria sauroni  is a tree frog from Papua New Guinea.  Scientists have only seen it in the Kikori Integrate Conservation and Development Project area.  Different scientists disagree about whether this frog should be in the genus Litoria or Nyctimystes.

This frog has red-and-black eyes and pads, called nuptual pads, on its front feet.

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Animals of Oceania
Frogs
The Satin Slipper

The Satin Slipper (Le soulier de satin) is a 1985 French Portuguese German Swiss drama movie directed by Manoel de Oliveira and based on the play of the same name by Paul Claudel. It stars Isabelle Weingarten, Luís Miguel Cintra, Patricia Barzyk, Anne Consigny, Bernard Alane, Jean-Pierre Bernard.

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1985 drama movies
French drama movies
Portuguese movies
German drama movies
Swiss movies
Movies directed by Manoel de Oliveira
John Okell

John William Alan Okell OBE (; 1934 – 3 August 2020) was a British linguist. He was known for his studies related to Burma. Okell was born in Brighton, England. 

He retired from SOAS in 1999, although he remained a research associate in the Department of South East Asia.

In 2014, in the Queen's Birthday Honours, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to UK/Burma relations.

He died on 3 August 2020 at the age of 86.

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1934 births
2020 deaths
British educators
British linguists
Brent Carver

Brent Carver (November 17, 1951 – August 4, 2020) was a Canadian actor. He was best known for his roles on Broadway in Parade as Leo Frank and Kiss of the Spider Woman as Molina. He won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical in 1993.  

Carver was born in Cranbrook, British Columbia. He died on August 4, 2020 at the age of 68 at home in Cranbrook.

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Tony Award winning actors
1951 births
2020 deaths
Canadian movie actors
Canadian voice actors
Canadian stage actors
Canadian television actors
Actors from British Columbia
Murray Cheater

Murray Cheater (26 January 1947 – 4 August 2020) was a New Zealand athlete. He competed in the men's hammer throw at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He was born in Auckland.

Cheater died on 4 August 2020 at the age of 73.

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1947 births
2020 deaths
Competitors in athletics
Male athletes
Olympians
Sportspeople from Auckland
John Chang-yik

The Right Reverend John Chang-yik (November 20, 1933 – August 5, 2020) was a South Korean Roman Catholic prelate. He was Bishop of Diocese of Ch’unch’on, South Korea from 1994 to 2010. In 1963, he became a priest. 

Chang-yik died on August 5, 2020 at the age of 86.

References

Other websites
Biodata at Catholic Hierarchy website

1933 births
2020 deaths
Roman Catholic bishops
South Korean people
Cassegrain telescope

Cassegrain telescopes are reflector telescopes that use two curved mirrors to make an image. The big primary mirror gathers and concentrates light. The small secondary mirror then reflects the light through the back of the mirror. The secondary mirror is also curved so that it the light path is longer than the tube.

A "true Cassegrain" uses a primary mirror with a parabola-shaped curve, and a secondary mirror with a hyperbola-shaped curve. This is hard to make. Sphere-shaped curves are easier to make, but the image would be blurry. Catadioptric (lens and mirror) telescopes fix this by putting a special lens in front of the telescope.

Cassegrains are useful both as amateur telescopes which normal people can buy, and for scientists for serious astronomy work.

Types of Cassegrain telescopes 
Lots of telescopes which are similar to cassegrains have been invented. Here are a few.

 Schmidt-Cassegrain (SCT): The primary mirror has a spherical curve. This is corrected by a thin corrector lens in front.
 Maksutov-Cassegrain (Mak): The primary and secondary mirrors both have spherical curves. This time a special "meniscus" type lens is used to correct it. Sometimes the secondary mirror is just a shiny spot on the meniscus lens. This is cheaper to make than an SCT because all of the lenses and mirrors have spherical curves.
 Ritchey-Chrétien (RCT): Both mirrors have hyperbola-shaped curves. This makes the stars sharp points even at the edge of the view. Most big telescopes made by scientists are RCTs, including the Hubble Space Telescope.
 Dall-Kirkham (DK): The primary mirror is a parabola-shaped curve. The secondary is a spherical-shaped curve. It's easier to make than an RCT, but the stars at the edge are blurry. Lenses can be put at the back of the telescope to fix the blurry stars. That would be a Corrected Dall-Kirkham (CDK)
 Schiefspeigler (Chief): The mirrors are tilted so that the secondary mirror is not in front of the primary mirror. There's also no hole in the back of the primary. This gives brighter images, but there's also distortion from tilting the mirrors.

Telescopes
Horace Clarke

Horace Meredith Clarke (June 2, 1938 – August 5, 2020) was an American Major League Baseball player. He played for the New York Yankees and the San Diego Padres from 1965 to 1974. Clarke was born in Frederiksted, U.S. Virgin Islands.

Clarke and Joe Mauer are the only hitters to break up three no-hit bids in the ninth inning.

Clarke died on August 5, 2020 in Laurel, Maryland from Alzheimer's disease-related problems at the age of 82.

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1938 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
New York Yankees players
San Diego Padres players
People from Laurel, Maryland
Gregorian telescope

A Gregorian telescope was the first telescope to be designed that uses mirrors instead of lenses. It was invented by the English astronomer John Gregory. Even though it was designed in 1663, it wasn't the first reflecting telescope to be built. Newton's telescope, a different design, was built in 1668. The Gregorian telescope was first built in 1673 by Robert Hooke.

The telescope uses two curved mirrors. The large primary gathers light, and the small secondary reflects the light out the back of the primary mirror. Both mirrors are concave (bowl-shaped).

It is very similar to the Cassegrain telescope, which uses a large concave primary mirror and a small convex secondary mirror.

Telescopes
Herschelian telescope

A Herschelian telescope was invented in the 1780s by William Herschel. It is similar to a Newtonian telescope, except using only one mirror. 

In the 1780s, telescopes used metal mirrors which were not very reflective. Each mirror would absorb light and make the image dimmer. So Herschel invented a telescope with a tilted mirror that put the eyepiece in the front.

When mirrors became more reflective, Herschelian telescopes stopped being useful.

Telescopes
Hawa Abdi

Hawa Abdi Dhiblawe (May 17, 1947 – August 5, 2020) was a Somali human rights activist and medical doctor. She was the founder and chairperson of the Dr. Hawa Abdi Foundation (DHAF), a non-profit organization. Abdi was born in Mogadishu, Somalia. In 2009, she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Abdi died on August 5, 2020, at her home in Mogadishu at the age of 73.

Career

Dr. Hawa Abdi Foundation
The Dr. Hawa Abdi Foundation (DHAF) was run by Abdi and her two physician daughters, CEO Deqo Adan (also known as Deqo Mohamed) and assistant Adan (also known as Amina Mohamed), who followed in their mother's footsteps as ob/gyn specialists As of 2012, the organization has a multinational staff of 102 workers, augmented by a 150-member team comprising volunteers, fishermen and farmers.

Awards and recognition

In 2014, Abdi received the Roosevelt Four Freedoms Award in Middelburg, the Netherlands.

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1947 births
2020 deaths
Somali people
Human rights activists
Physicians
Opéra Bastille

The Opéra Bastille (, "Bastille Opera House") is a modern opera house in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France.

It was opened in 1989 as part of President François Mitterrand's Grands Travaux.

It became the main facility of the Paris National Opera.

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Opera houses
Buildings and structures in Paris
Shyamal Chakraborty

Shyamal Chakraborty (1944 – August 6, 2020) was an Indian politician. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 2008 to 2014. He was the transport minister of West Bengal from 1982 to 1996. He was also a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from 1981 to 1996.

Chakraborty died on August 6, 2020 at a hospital in Kolkata from cardiac arrest caused by COVID-19, aged 76.

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1944 births
2020 deaths
Indian politicians
Deaths from cardiac arrest
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in India
Werner Düggelin

Werner Düggelin (7 December 1929 – 6 August 2020) was a Swiss theatre director. He was born in Zurich and grew up in Siebnen, Switzerland. In 1987, he won the Hans-Reinhart-Ring.

Düggelin was known for her stage directions relating to The Importance of Being Earnest, Dom Juan, The Just Assassins, The Lesson and Le Bourgeois gentilhomme.

Düggelin died on 6 August 2020 in Basel, aged 90.

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1929 births
2020 deaths
Swiss writers
Swiss theatre directors
Mukund Lath

Mukund Lath (9 October 1937 – 6 August 2020) was an Indian scholar and cultural historian. He was known for his writings on music, dance, aesthetics and culture of India. He was honored by the Government of India, in 2010, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri. Lath was born in Kolkata.

Lath died on 6 August 2020 in Jaipur at the age of 82.

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1937 births
2020 deaths
Indian educators
Indian historians