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Alfonso Ribeiro

Alfonso Lincoln Ribeiro, Sr. (born September 21, 1971) is an American actor, television director, dancer, and game show host. He is best known for his roles as Carlton Banks on the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and as Alfonso Spears on the sitcom Silver Spoons. Ribeiro is the current host of America's Funniest Home Videos. He took over for former host Tom Bergeron who left after fifteen years.

Ribeiro took part in the nineteenth season of Dancing with the Stars. He was paired with professional dancer Witney Carson. Ribeiro and Carson were both able to win the competition.

Filmography
Silver Spoons - Alfonso Spears (1984–87)
John Grin's Christmas - Rocky (1986) (TV movie)
Magnum, P.I. - Kenneth (1986)
Mighty Pawns - Frank (1987)
A Different World - Zach Duncan (1990)
Bill Nye the Science Guy - Himself (1994)
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air - Carlton Banks (1990–96)
Ticks - Darrel "Panic" Lumnley (1993)
Soul Train - Himself (1994) (Host)
Spider-Man - Randy Robertson/Teenage Robbie Robertson (1994–98) (voice)
In the House - Dr. Maxwell Stanton (1996–99)
Kidz in the Wood (1996) (TV movie)
Extreme Ghostbusters - Roland Jackson (1997) (voice)
Your Big Break - Himself (2000) (Host)
Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase - Moon Goon #1 (2001) (voice)
Love Wrecked - Bert Hernandez (2005)
Celebrity Duets - Himself (2006) (contestant)
GSN Live - Himself (2008–09) (Host)
Catch 21 - Himself (2008–11) (Host)
Things We Do for Love - Darren (2011)
Big Time Rush - Captain McAllister (2012)
Shake It Up - Mr. Zigfeld (2013)
Spell-Mageddon - Himself (2013) (Host)
The Graham Norton Show - Himself (2013)
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! - Himself (2013) (contestant) 
Dancing with the Stars - Himself (2014) (contestant)
Unwrapped 2.0 - Himself (2015-present) (narrator)
America's Funniest Home Videos - Himself (2015-present) (narrator)

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1971 births
Actors from the Bronx
African American actors
American child actors
American dancers
American movie actors
American television actors
American television directors
American voice actors
Dancing with the Stars participants
Living people
Gitanjali

Gitanjali is a book of poems written by Rabindranath Tagore. There are 157 poems in the book. All the poems are in the Bengali language. It has been translated into many languages by many writers. Gitanjali is a book of song offerings. Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature on November 14, 1913 for his book ''Gitanjali'. 'It also contains the special poem known as the"mind is without fear".

Poems
1910 books
Tim Francis

Harold Huyton "Tim" Francis (1928 – 2 January 2016) was a New Zealand diplomat. He was Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1978 to 1982. He was also Ambassador to the United States from 1988 to 1991.

Francis was born in Auckland. He was married to Sherrah and had three children.

Francis died from cancer on 2 January 2016 in Wellington. He was 87.

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1928 births
2016 deaths
Ambassadors to the United Nations
Deaths from cancer
People from Auckland
Politicians from North Island
Sabri Yirmibeşoğlu

Sabri Yirmibeşoğlu (1 September 1928 – 2 January 2016) was a Turkish army general. He was Secretary-General of the National Security Council from 1988 to 1990. He was said to be behind a failed killing of President Turgut Özal in 1988. He was born in Foça, Izmir.

Yirmibeşoğlu died from kidney failure on 2 January 2016 in Istanbul, aged 87.

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1928 births
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Deaths from renal failure
Disease-related deaths in Turkey
Generals
Turkish military people
Turkish politicians
Stephen W. Bosworth

Stephen Warren Bosworth (December 4, 1939 – January 3, 2016) was an American academic and diplomat. He served as U.S. Ambassador three times: Tunisia (1979–1981), Philippines (1984–1987), and South Korea (1997–2001).

Bosworth was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was married and had four children.

Bosworth died from prostate cancer on January 3, 2016 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was 77.

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1939 births
2016 deaths
American academics
Ambassadors of the United States
American diplomats
Cancer deaths in Massachusetts
Deaths from prostate cancer
Politicians from Grand Rapids, Michigan
Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun
Educators from Grand Rapids, Michigan
Jean-Paul L'Allier

Jean-Paul L'Allier (August 12, 1938 – January 5, 2016) was a Canadian politician and journalist. He was a member of the Quebec Liberal Party. He served as the 38th Mayor of Quebec City from 1989 to 2005. He served in the National Assembly of Quebec for Deux-Montagnes from 1970 to 1976. He also worked for the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir in the 1980s. He was born in Hudson, Quebec.

L'Allier died after an illness on January 5, 2016 in Quebec City. He was 77.

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1938 births
2016 deaths
Canadian journalists
Disease-related deaths in Quebec
Politicians from Quebec City
Writers from Quebec City
Paul Bley

Hyman Paul Bley  (November 10, 1932 – January 3, 2016) was a Canadian pianist. He was known for his work to the free jazz movement of the 1960s. He began his career in the 1950s and was active until his death in the 2010s. He worked with jazz musicians Lee Konitz, Charlie Haden, Evan Parker, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman and many others.

Bley was born in Montreal, Quebec. He was adopted and Jewish. He was married to Carla Bley until their divorce.

Bley died on January 3, 2016 in Stuart, Florida. He was 83.

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1932 births
2016 deaths
Canadian Jews
Jazz pianists
Jewish musicians
Musicians from Montreal
Grant Hill

Grant Henry Hill (born October 5, 1972) is an American retired basketball player. Hill was born in Dallas, Texas. He was part of the US basketball team who won the gold medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics. He is the son of Calvin Hill.

He was a selected third overall by the Detroit Pistons in the 1994 draft. He played six seasons, five as an All-star. He then played for the Orlando Magic from 2000-04. Hill played for 5 seasons for the Phoenix Suns. He finally retired from the Los Angeles Clippers after a 19-year career.

He was a seven time NBA All-star. Hill is a part owner of the Atlanta Hawks. He received the 2015 Candle in the Dark award. He is in the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.

References

Other websites 

 Grant Hill Webpage

1972 births
African-American basketball players
American Olympic gold medalists
Detroit Pistons players
Los Angeles Clippers players
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Living people
Orlando Magic players
Phoenix Suns players
Sportspeople from Dallas, Texas
American basketball players
Stella Gibbons

Stella Dorothea Gibbons (5 January 1902 – 19 December 1989) was an English author and poet. She won the Prix Femina for her novel Cold Comfort Farm.

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1902 births
1989 deaths
English poets
Writers from London
Cold Comfort Farm (movie)

Cold Comfort Farm is a British comedy movie from 1995. It was directed by John Schlesinger. It is based on Stella Gibbons' book of the same name. The movie stars Kate Beckinsale, Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellen and Rufus Sewell. It was first shown on the BBC on 1 January 1995.

1995 comedy movies
British comedy movies
Movies directed by John Schlesinger
Claude Gagnière

Claude Gagnière (January 20, 1928 – September 12, 2003) was a French writer. He was born in Alès.

He died in Paris. After he died he was awarded the prize of the Bouquinistes for all his work in 2004.

Works
  All over all - Small dictionary of the unusual and of the smile, 1986
 To the happiness of the words, 1989
 Of words and wonders, 1994
 Between guillemets: small dictionary of appointments, 1996
  Versiculets & texticules: epigrams, madrigals, five centuries of fugitive poetries, 1999
 The fable express: of Alphonse Went to Boris Vian, 2002

1928 births
2003 deaths
French writers
Gay bar

Gay bars are drinking establishments that cater to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people. The term gay is used as an inclusive concept for LGBT communities. Gay bars once served as the centre of gay culture. They were one of the few places people with same-sex orientations and gender-variant identities could openly socialize. Other names include boy bar, girl bar, lesbian bar or dyke bar.

The Stonewall Inn in New York City is one example of a gay/lesbian bar. The gay rights movement was born there.

References

Places where alcohol is served
LGBT
Stonewall Inn

The Stonewall Inn (or just Stonewall) is a gay/lesbian tavern and recreational bar in New York City. It was also the site of the 1969 Stonewall riots. The original inn closed in 1969. In 1990, a bar named "Stonewall" opened in the western half of the original location.

In June 2015, the Stonewall received an official landmark status from New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission for its role as the catalyst of the LGBT movement. It is the first landmark in New York City that has been recognized due to its status in LGBT history.

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Entertainment venues
Buildings and structures in Manhattan
New York City Designated Landmarks
LGBT in the United States
Dow Chemical

Dow Chemical is a company which has its headquarters in the United States. It is the second-largest producer of chemicals in the world, after BASF.

Chemistry
Companies based in Michigan
1897 establishments
German Academic Exchange Service

The German Academic Exchange Service (, or DAAD) is an organisation in Germany. It is the largest German support organisation in the field of international academic co-operation. It was founded on 1 January 1925. It closed in 1945, but was refounded in 1950.

The DAAD headquarters are in Bonn. There are 15 international regional branch offices. They provide information and advice on study and research opportunities and available grants. The German Academic Exchange Service is mainly funded by the Foreign Office of Germany and the European Union. In 2012, the DAAD received 407.4 million Euro.

Regional branch offices

 DAAD London (established in 1952)
 DAAD Cairo (1960)
 DAAD New Delhi (1960)
 DAAD Paris (1963)
 DAAD New York (1971)
 DAAD Rio de Janeiro (1972)
 DAAD Moscow (1973)
 DAAD Nairobi (1973)
 DAAD Tokyo (1978)
 DAAD Jakarta (1990)
 DAAD Beijing (1994)
 DAAD Warsaw (1997)
 DAAD Mexico City (2001)
 DAAD Hanoi (2003)
 DAAD Brussels (2007)

References

Other websites
DAAD Homepage
DAAD London
DAAD New York (North America)

1925 establishments in Europe
German language
Non-profit organizations of Europe
Education in Germany
1920s establishments in Germany
Jorge Lepra

Jorge Alberto Lepra Loiodice (4 September 1942 – 4 January 2016) was a Uruguayan diplomat and politician. He was Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining from 2005 to 2008. He was also Ambassador to France from 2008 to 2010. He was born in Montevideo.

Lepra died from heart failure on 4 January 2016 in Montevideo. He was 73.

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1942 births
2016 deaths
Ambassadors to France
Deaths from heart failure
Diplomats
Independent politicians
People from Montevideo
Uruguayan politicians
Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival is a festival held in Venice, Italy. It is held every year. It is the world's oldest movie festival. It dates back to 1932.

1932 establishments in Europe
1930s establishments in Italy
Festivals in Europe
Movie festivals
Film Festival
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is an animated children's television show. It was shown on the Disney Channel from 1988 to 1991. In the opening theme and 1989 and 1991 ending theme (that sounds similar to the opening theme), the Korg DSS-1 patch "Fantasia" (that sounds like the Roland D-50 patch "Fantasia") was heard. This show is on Spacetoon in other countries.

Disney Channel shows
1980s American animated television series
1988 American television series debuts
Television series by Buena Vista Television
1991 disestablishments in the United States
Television shows about bears
English-language television programs
Golden Bear

The Golden Bear is the highest prize given at the Berlin International Film Festival (often known as Berlinale).

List of Golden Bear winners

References

Movie awards
International standard

International standard is a guidance made by international organizations to be considered and used around the world. The standard can be used directly or with small changes to suit the local conditions. International standard is used as one of the way to ease technical differences and barriers for international trading which caused by different regulations about technical aspects by each country.

Examples
 IEC 61850

Related pages 
International Organization for Standardization

Technology
Standards
Gandaki Zone

Gandaki zone (), is one of the fourteen zones of Nepal. It is located in the Western Development Region.

Districts
Gandaki zone is divided into 6 districts. They are

Zones of Nepal
Autotransformer

An Autotransformer (sometimes called autostep down transformer) is a transformer which has only one winding. The "auto" (Greek for "self") prefix refers to the single coil acting on itself and not to any kind of automatic mechanism. The winding acts as both primary winding and secondary winding in a normal transformer. Since part of the winding does "double duty", autotransformers have the advantages of often being smaller, lighter, and cheaper than typical dual-winding transformers. The disadvantage of an autotransformer include not providing electrical isolation between the primary winding and the secondary winding. There is also a higher possibility of short circuits due to low impedance.

Usage
Autotransformers are used in power transmission, power distribution, audio, rail transport, etc. Autotransformers are often used to step up (increase) or step down (decrease) voltages in the 110–120 V range and in the 220–240 V range.

References

Other websites 

 The Basics of Autotransformers
 Difference between Isolation Transformers and Autotransformers

Electricity
Electrical wiring
Silvana Pampanini

Silvana Pampanini (25 September 1925 – 6 January 2016) was an Italian actress. She was Miss Italy in 1946. She began her acting career in 1947. She appeared in over sixty movies, mostly comedies. Her final acting role was in 1999.

Pampanini was born in Rome. She was never married and had no children. She was the niece of Rosetta Pampanini.

Pampanini died on 6 January 2016 in Rome, aged 90.

Other websites
 

1925 births
2016 deaths
Actors from Rome
Beauty pageant winners
Italian movie actors
Italian television actors
National Archive Department of Azerbaijan

The National Archive Department of the Republic of Azerbaijan () is the national archive of Azerbaijan. It is a governmental agency within the government of Azerbaijan in charge of managing, maintaining, protecting and updating national archives of the Azerbaijani nation state. The archive houses documents, maps, stamps, audio tapes, video clips, photographs and special publications. It was established on December 2, 2002. It is in the capital city Baku.

Related pages
 List of archives in Azerbaijan
 Archive
 Preservation

References

Other websites 
 National Archive Department of Azerbaijan 

Archives in Azerbaijan
Government of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Buildings and structures in Baku
2002 establishments
2000s establishments in Azerbaijan
Antonio Carrizo

Antonio Carrozzi Abasca (15 September 1926 – 1 January 2016), better known as Antonio Carrizo, was an Argentine radio host, actor and television presenter. He worked for the radio station Radio El Mundo and Radio Rivadavia. He hosted shows on many channels including Canal 7. He appeared in the movies El barro humano (1955), El noveno mandamiento (1963) and Muchachos impacientes (1966).

Carrizo was born in General Villegas, Buenos Aires Province. He had a stoke in 2008. He died on 1 January 2016 in Buenos Aires, aged 89.

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1926 births
2016 deaths
Argentine movie actors
Argentine television actors
People from Buenos Aires Province
Radio personalities
Television presenters
Tommy Sale (rugby league)

Tommy Sale  (21 July 1918 – 3 January 2016) was an English rugby league player. He played for Leigh Centurions and Widnes Vikings. He later coached Leigh.

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1918 births
2016 deaths
British rugby league players
Coaches
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Amby Fogarty

Ambrose Gerald "Amby" Fogarty (11 September 1933 – 3 January 2016) was an Irish football player and manager. He played as a midfielder from 1953 to 1975. He played for Bohemians, Glentoran, Sunderland, Hartlepool United, Cork Celtic, Cork Hibernian and the national team. He also managed Cork Hibernians, Cork Celtic, Drumcondra, Limerick and Athlone Town.

Fogarty was born in Dublin. He died on 3 January 2016 at the age of 82.

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1933 births
2016 deaths
Irish football managers
Irish footballers
Sportspeople from Dublin
John Roberts (Welsh footballer)

John Griffiths Roberts (11 September 1946 – 4 January 2016) was an Welsh football player and manager. He played as a defender from 1964 to 1983. He played for Swansea Town, Northampton Town, Arsenal, Birmingham City, Wrexham, Hull City and the national team. He was a player manager of Oswestry Town from 1982 to 1983.

Roberts was born in Abercynon, Rhondda Cynon Taff. He died on 4 January 2016 at the age of 69.

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1946 births
2016 deaths
Arsenal F.C. players
Welsh football managers
Welsh footballers
S. H. Kapadia

Sarosh Homi Kapadia (29 September 1947 – 4 January 2016) was an Indian politician and lawyer. He served as the 38th Chief Justice of India from 12 May 2010 until 28 September 2012. He was born in Mumbai and was Parsi.

Kapadia died from cardiac arrest on 4 January 2016 in Mumbai, aged 68.

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2016 deaths
1947 births
Cardiovascular disease deaths in India
Chief Justices of India
Deaths from cardiac arrest
Indian lawyers
Politicians from Mumbai
Christy O'Connor Jnr

Christy O'Connor Jnr (19 August 1948 – 6 January 2016) was an Irish golfer. He turned professional in 1967. He played in the Ryder Cup twice.

O'Connor was born in Galway, County Galway. He was married to Ann and had three children. His uncle was golfer Christy O'Connor Snr, who died in May 2016.

O'Connor died on 6 January 2016 in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, aged 67.

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1948 births
2016 deaths
Golfers
Sportspeople from the Republic of Ireland
Disease-related deaths in Spain
British Rail Class 800

The  Class 800 Hitachi Super Express is a new train built by Hitachi to replace old InterCity 125 and InterCity 225. The class 800 will use diesel fuel and electricity. The 801 trains will be electric-only. The trains can run at a speed of 125mph (200kmph). They can reduce the travel time between London, Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh by as much as 18 minutes. One train, a test version of the Hitachi Class 800 Super Express, has arrived from Japan. A new Manufacturing plant will produce 122 trains in the coming years. It will create 730 new jobs. In 2017 the first trains will run on the Great Western Railway main line. In 2018 they will run on the East Coast Main Line.

References

British Rail diesel locomotives
Masaryk University

Masaryk University (; ) is a university in Brno, Czech Republic. It was created in 1919. It is named for Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia. He wanted to have a second Czech university (until then, the only Czech university was Charles University in Prague). The Palacký University in Olomouc had been closed. The university has nine faculties and about 35,000 students. Between 1960 and 1990, the university used the name of Jan Evangelista Purkyně, a Czech scientist. Masaryk University is member of the Compostela Group and the Utrecht Network of universities.

References

Other websites 

 Masaryk University

1919 establishments in Europe
Brno
Colleges and universities in Europe
Nino Manfredi

Saturnino "Nino" Manfredi (; 22 March 1921 – 4 June 2004) was an Italian actor. He was born in Lazio, Italy. He was also a movie and stage director, screenwriter, playwright, comedian, singer, author, radio and television presenter.

During his career he won many awards, including six David di Donatello awards, six Nastro d'Argento awards and the Prix de la première oeuvre (Best First Work Award) at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival for Between Miracles. He is thought to be the greatest Italian actor of all time.

Manfredi died from complications from a stroke at his home in Rome, Italy, aged 83.

References

Other websites

Nino Manfredi at Discogs

1921 births
2004 deaths
Deaths from stroke
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Italy
Italian movie actors
Italian television actors
Italian stage actors
Italian voice actors
Italian movie directors
Italian screenwriters
Italian playwrights
Italian singers
Italian television presenters
Italian radio personalities
Comedians
People from Lazio
Andres Rodríguez

Andres Rodríguez (11 May 1984 – 4 January 2016) was a Venezuelan businessman and an international show jumping competitor. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela. 

His achievements included the team silver medal at the 2005 Bolivarian Games, the team bronze medal at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games, an individual silver medal at the 2015 Pan American Games of Toronto, and was qualified to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, but died before the event.  

Rodríguez was killed in a car crash near Wellington, Florida, aged 31.

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1984 births
2016 deaths
Road accident deaths in the United States
Venezuelan sportspeople
Business people
People from Caracas
Marvin Minsky

Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016) was an American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). He was the co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy. He won the Turing Award in 1969.

Minskey was born in New York City, New York. He studied at Phillips Academy, Harvard University and at Princeton University. Minskey died in Boston, Massachusetts of a cerebral hemorrhage on January 24, 2016 at the age of 88. His body is chronologically frozen in Scottsdale, Arizona.

References

Other websites

 
 Oral history interview with Terry Winograd at Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.  Winograd describes his work in computer science, linguistics, and artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), discussing the work of Marvin Minsky and others.
 Scientist on the Set: An Interview with Marvin Minsky 
 Marvin Minsky Playlist Appearance on WMBR's Dinnertime Sampler  radio show November 26, 2003
 Consciousness Is A Big Suitcase: A talk with Marvin Minsky
 Video of Minsky speaking at the International Conference on Complex Systems, hosted by the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) 

Turing Award winners
1927 births
2016 deaths
Cryonically preserved people
Deaths from cerebral hemorrhage
American computer scientists
Scientists from New York City
Charles Bachman

Charles William "Charlie" Bachman III (December 11, 1924 – July 13, 2017) was an American computer scientist. He spent his entire career as an industrial researcher, developer, and manager rather than in academia. He is particularly known for his work in the early development of database management systems.  The Bachman diagrams are named after him. He won the Turing Award in 1973.

Bachman died on July 13, 2017 at his home in Lexington, Massachusetts of Parkinson's disease at the age of 92.

References

Turing Award winners
1924 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from Parkinson's disease
Disease-related deaths in Massachusetts
American computer scientists
Scientists from Kansas
Turing Award

The ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community". It is named after Alan Turing and is given each year in New York City. It is the highest award that could be given to a computer scientist. and the "Nobel Prize of computing".

History 
The first Turing Award was given in 1966 to Alan Perlis, a teacher at Carnegie Mellon University. It has been given every year since.

The first recipient, in 1966, was Alan Perlis, of Carnegie Mellon University. Frances E. Allen of IBM, in 2006, was the first female recipient in the award's forty-year history.

Recipients

References

Other websites

 ACM List of Turing Laureates 
 Visualizing Turing Award Laureates

Science awards
Niklaus Wirth

Niklaus Emil Wirth (born 15 February 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist. He is best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984 he won the Turing Award, generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science, for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages.

References

Turing Award winners
1934 births
Living people
Swiss scientists
Computer scientists
People from Winterthur
Richard M. Karp

Richard Manning Karp (born January 3, 1935) is an American computer scientist and computational theorist at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his research in the theory of algorithms, for which he received a Turing Award in 1985, The Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science in 2004,  and the Kyoto Prize in 2008. 

He work includes solving problems of combinatorial optimization (mostly network flow), asking questions about what an efficient algorithm looks like, and works about algorithmic complexity theory,.

References

Other websites

 ACM Crossroads magazine interview/bio of Richard Karp 
 Karp's Home Page at Berkeley

Turing Award winners
1935 births
American computer scientists
Scientists from Boston, Massachusetts

Living people
William Kahan

William Morton Kahan (born June 5, 1933) is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist. He received the Turing Award in 1989 for "his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis." He was named an ACM Fellow in 1994, and added to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005.

Other websites
 William Kahan's home page
 portrait picture of Kahan (on page 5)
 Paranoia for modern graphics processing units (GPUs)
 Paranoia source code in multiple languages
 IEEE 1985. IEEE standard for binary floating-point arithmetic. ACM SIGPLAN Notices 22, 2 (Feb.), 9–25
 An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point, 1998-Feb-20 
 A Conversation with William Kahan, Dr. Dobb's Journal November, 1997

Turing Award winners
1933 births
Living people
Canadian computer scientists
People from Toronto
Fernando J. Corbató

Fernando José "Corby" Corbató (July 1, 1926 – July 12, 2019) was an American computer scientist. He was known as a pioneer in the development of time-sharing operating systems and for creating the password system for computers.

Among many awards, Corbató received the Turing Award in 1990, "for his pioneering work in organizing the concepts and leading the development of the general-purpose, large-scale, time-sharing and resource-sharing computer systems".

In 2012, he was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for his pioneering work on timesharing and the Multics operating system".

Corbató died on July 12, 2019 in Newburyport, Massachusetts from problems caused by diabetes at the age of 93.

References

Other websites

 Oral history interview with Fernando J. Corbató at Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.  Corbató discusses computer science research, especially time-sharing, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
 Oral history interview with Fernando J. Corbató at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.  Fernando Corbató reviews his early educational and naval experiences in the Eddy program during World War II, including the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS), Project MAC, and Multics.
 Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing, documentary ca. 1972 about the ARPANET. Includes footage of Fernando Corbató.
 , featuring MIT's CTSS time-sharing system and an interview with MIT Professor Fernando J Corbato.

Turing Award winners
1926 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from diabetes
Disease-related deaths in Massachusetts
American computer scientists
Scientists from Oakland, California
Juris Hartmanis

Juris Hartmanis (born July 5, 1928) is a Latvian-born American computer scientist and computational theorist. Hartmanis with Richard E. Stearns, received the 1993 ACM Turing Award "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory".

Other websites
Hartmanis biography at Cornell

1928 births
Living people
American academics
American computer scientists
Naturalized citizens of the United States
People from Riga
Turing Award winners
Latvian scientists
Fred Brooks

Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is an American computer architect,  software engineer, and computer scientist.

He is best known for managing the development of IBM's System/360 family of computers alongside Gerrit Blaauw and Gene Amdahl and the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month.  Brooks has received many awards, including the National Medal of Technology in 1985 and the Turing Award in 1999.

Brooks was born in Durham, North Carolina. He studied Duke University, graduating in 1953 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics, and he received a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science) from Harvard University in 1956, supervised by Howard Aiken.

References

Other websites

Turing Award winners
1931 births
Living people
Scientists from North Carolina
American computer scientists
People from Durham, North Carolina
Frances E. Allen

Frances Elizabeth "Fran" Allen (August 4, 1932 – August 4, 2020) was an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, code optimization, and parallelization. She also had a role in intelligence work on programming languages and security codes for the National Security Agency.

Allen was the first female IBM Fellow and in 2006 became the first woman to win the Turing Award.

Allen died on her 88th birthday on August 4, 2020 in Schenectady, New York from Alzheimer's disease-related problems.

References

Other websites

Frances Allen via IBM Women in WITI Hall of Fame.
Frances Allen: 2000 Fellow Awards Recipient via Computer History Museum
Fran Allen on Compilers and Parallel Computing Systems Notes from her 2008 Organick Memorial Lecture

Turing Award winners
1932 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Disease-related deaths in New York
American computer scientists
Scientists from New York
Alexandra Daddario

Alexandra Anna Daddario (born March 16, 1986) is an American actress and model. 

She was born in New York City. She was raised on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Her brother is actor Matthew Daddario. Her paternal grandfather was politician Emilio Q. Daddario. She lives in Los Angeles.

Daddario is perhaps known best for playing the character Annabeth Chase in Percy Jackson & the Olympians and Blake in the movie San Andreas. She has also played Heather Miller in the 2013 movie Texas Chainsaw 3D and Summer Quinn in Baywatch (2017).

References

Other websites

 
 
 
 

1986 births
Living people
Actors from New York City
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Tom Allin

Thomas William  "Tom" Allin (27 November 1987 – 4 January 2016) was an English cricketer. He was a right-arm medium-fast pace bowler who also batted right-handed. He played for Warwickshire. He was born in Bideford, Devon.

Allin died on 4 January 2016 in Bideford, aged 28. He jumped to his death off a bridge.

References

Other websites
 Tom Allin at ESPNcricinfo
 Tom Allin at CricketArchive

1987 births
2016 deaths
English cricketers
People from Devon
Suicides by jumping in the United Kingdom
Nivaria Tejera

Nivaria Tejera (30 September 1929 – 6 January 2016) was a Cuban poet and novelist. She was awarded the Seix Barral Biblioteca Breve prize in 1971 for her novel Sonámbulo del sol. Her book, The Ravine (2007), is based on her early life.

Tejera was born in Cienfuegos, Cienfuegos Province. Her mother was Cuban and her father was Spanish. She grew up in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. She lived in Paris, France until her death.

Tejera died from pancreatic cancer on 6 January 2016 in Paris, aged 86.

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1929 births
2016 deaths
Cancer deaths in France
Cuban writers
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
People from the Canary Islands
Poets
Percy Freeman

Ronald Peter "Percy" Freeman (4 July 1945 – 5 January 2016) was an English footballer. He played as a forward. He played for Lincoln City, West Bromwich Albion, Reading, Stourbridge and Boston United. He was born in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.

Freeman died after an illness on 5 January 2016, aged 70.

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1945 births
2016 deaths
Disease-related deaths in England
English footballers
Sportspeople from Nottinghamshire
Mustafa al-Maraghi

Muhammad Mustafa al-Maraghi (1881–1945; ) was an Egyptian modernist reformer and rector of al-Azhar in the 1930s. He was one of the students of Muhammad 'Abduh. He called for social, legal and educational changes and pursued a strong campaign - begun by Muhammad 'Abduh and finished by Mahmoud Shaltout - to include the modern sciences in al-Azhar's curriculum. To that end he organised committees to reform the university's regulations and curriculum and created a supervisory department for research whose responsibilities included publishing and translation.

Mustafa al-Maraghi was the link between the reforms of his mentor Muhammad Abduh and such subsequent leaders of al-Azhar as Mustafa Abd al-Raziq, Abdel-Halim Mahmoud and Mahmoud Shaltout. As a reformer, al-Maraghi believed in Islam's flexibility and ability to adapt to the needs of modernity. He called for the exercise of ijtihad (independent reasoning/interpretation), reinterpretation, and opposed taqlid (imitation or emulation), the blind following of tradition. And he attributed the religious, moral, intellectual, and political decline of Islamic peoples to the adherence to taqlid and the lack of ijtihad. He said that after the first three centuries, ijma' (consensus of the Muslim community or scholars for resolving legal questions) was impossible, because scholars were so scattered in the East and West that usually it was not possible to collect their opinions.

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1881 births
1945 deaths
Egyptian Muslims
Religious leaders
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed

Mufti Mohammad Sayeed (12 January 1936 – 7 January 2016) was an Indian politician. He was a member of the People's Democratic Party (PDP). He served as the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 2 November 2002 until 2 November 2005 and, again, from 1 March 2015 until his death.

Sayeed was born in Bijbehara, Kashmir and Jammu. He was a Kashmiri Muslim. He was married and had three children.

Sayeed died from multiple organ failure on 7 January 2016 in New Delhi, aged 79.

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1936 births
2016 deaths
Deaths from multiple organ failure
Disease-related deaths in India
Indian politicians
Muslims
Sergey Shustikov

Sergey Viktorovich Shustikov (; 30 September 1970 – 7 January 2016) was a Russian football player and manager. He played for Torpedo Moscow, Racing de Santander, CSKA Moscow, Osasuna and Moscow. He managed FC Solyaris Moscow from 2014 until his death.

Shustikov was born in Moscow. He is the son of Viktor Shustikov. His son Sergey (born 1989) is a footballer.

Shustikov died on 7 January 2016 at the age of 45.

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Other websites
 

1970 births
2016 deaths
Russian football managers
Russian footballers
Sportspeople from Moscow
Michael Purcell

Michael Peter "Mick" Purcell (6 September 1945 – 5 January 2016) was an Australian rugby union player. He played as a flanker and lock. He played three games for the Wallabies in 1966. He also played for the Queensland Reds.

Purcell was born in Brisbane, Queensland. He was married and had two children.

Purcell died on 5 January 2016 in Brisbane, aged 70.

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1945 births
2016 deaths
Australian rugby union players
Sportspeople from Brisbane
Agathemera

Agathemera (the chinchemolle) is a phasmid insect from  Chile and Argentina. It is famous for its intense odor, which is its main defence.

It is notable for its sexual dimorphism. Females are much bigger than males, at 75mm long and 16mm wide in the thorax.

This phasmid is an evolutionary isolate. It is alone in its suborder, and there are few publications about it.

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Phasmids
Hyundai Veracruz

The Hyundai Veracruz was a mid-size CUV sold by Korean automaker Hyundai. It was introduced in South Korea on October 12, 2006. The Veracruz went on sale in March 2007 and was Hyundai's largest crossover (CUV). It replaced the mid-size SUV, the Hyundai Terracan. The Veracruz was built on a Hyundai Santa Fe platform. The revamped 2011 Veracruz  was based on the same platform as the Kia Sorento.

The Veracruz offered third row seating and came with all-wheel drive. Hyundai discontinued the Veracruz internationally in 2013 and introduced a long wheelbase version of the Santa Fe.

The Veracruz was discontinued in 2015.

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Veracruz
2000s automobiles
2010s automobiles
Thameslink and Great Northern

Thameslink and Great Northern is a train company managed by Go-Ahead and Keolis that run the Thameslink line and the Great Northern routes. The routes were previously operated by First Capital Connect.

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Rail transport in England
Train operating companies
Railway companies of the United Kingdom
Cubic inch

The cubic inch is a unit of measurement for volume in the Imperial units and United States customary units systems. It is the volume of a cube with each of its three dimensions (length, width, and depth) being one inch long.

The cubic inch and the cubic foot are still used as units of volume in the United States. One popular use is for engine capacity, also called cubic inch displacement. The common SI units of volume, the liter, milliliter, and cubic meter, are also used, especially in manufacturing and high technology. One cubic foot is equal to exactly 1,728 cubic inches because 123 = 1,728. One cubic inch equals 16.39 cubic centimeters.

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Imperial units
Units of volume
United States Forest Service

The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests. They also manage 20 national grasslands, which encompass . Major divisions of the agency include the National Forest System, State and Private Forestry, Business Operations, and the Research and Development branch.  Managing approximately 25% of federal lands, it is the only major national land agency that is outside the U.S. Department of Interior.

History 
In 1876, Congress created the office of Special agent in the Department of Agriculture to find out the quality and conditions of forests in the United States. Franklin B. Hough was appointed the head of the office. In 1881, the office was expanded into the newly formed Division of Forestry. The Forest Reserve Act of 1891 authorized withdrawing land from the public domain as "forest reserves," managed by the Department of the Interior. In 1901, the Division of Forestry was renamed the Bureau of Forestry. The Transfer Act of 1905 transferred the management of forest reserves from the General Land Office of the Interior Department to the Bureau of Forestry. It was from that time on known as the United States Forest Service. Gifford Pinchot was the first United States Chief Forester in the Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt.

Significant federal legislation affecting the Forest Service includes the Weeks Act of 1911, the Multiple Use – Sustained Yield Act of 1960, P.L. 86-517; the Wilderness Act, P.L. 88-577; the National Forest Management Act, P.L. 94-588; the National Environmental Policy Act, P.L. 91-190; the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act, P.L. 95-313; and the Forest and Rangelands Renewable Resources Planning Act, P.L. 95-307.

In February 2009, the Government Accountability Office decided whether the Forest Service should be moved from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of the Interior, which already includes the National Park Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Land Management, managing some  of public land.

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United States Department of Agriculture
United States government agencies
1905 establishments in the United States
Forestry
Chrysler Hemi engine

The Chrysler Hemi engine, known by the trademark Hemi nickname, is a series of V6 and V8 engines built by Chrysler with a hemispherical combustion chamber. Three different types of Hemi engines have been built by Chrysler for automobiles. The first (known as the Chrysler FirePower engine) from 1951 to 1958. The second type was made from 1964 to 1971. The third beginning in 2003. Although Chrysler is most identified with the use of "Hemi" as marketing term, many other auto and truck manufacturers have used similar designs. In general the Hemi engines are smaller and more powerful than older engine designs.  They are also less expensive to build. They can produce a great amount of torque and horsepower for their size.

Australian Hemis 
During the 1970s and 1980s, Chrysler also used the Hemi name for their Australian-made Hemi-6 Engine and applied it to the 4-cylinder Mitsubishi 2.6L engine. It was installed in various North American market vehicles.

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Motors
Severnaya Zemlya

Severnaya Zemlya is an group of islands of about 30 islands in the Arctic Ocean. The islands were known as Emperor Nicholas II Land. Severnaya Zemlya was first noted in 1913 and first charted in 1930–32, making it the last group of islands on Earth to be discovered. Politically, the islands are part of Russia's Krasnoyarsk Krai region, but are uninhabited by humans except for an Arctic base. There is a meteorological station on Golomjanny island. Scientists live there for some months of the year.

Severnaya Zemlya splits the Arctic sea into an western part, called Laptev Sea, and an eastern part, called Kara Sea.

A phenomenon called Arctic sea ice decline can be shown on the islands: In the 20th century, the islands were a portion of Eurasia which was always covered by ice. Even as the ice melted in summer, some of the ice remained, and blocked what is called the Northeast Passage. If it were ice free the Northeast passage would permit to naviagate from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean easily. By the late summer of 2012, the permanent ice had reached a record low extent and open water appeared to the north of the archipelago.

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Archipelagos
Arctic islands
Islands of Russia
Hyundai Elantra

Hyundai Elantra is a compact car sold by Korean automaker Hyundai. It has been sold since 1990. The Elantra is also sold as the Avante in other parts of the world. The car is now in its sixth generation. Beginning in 2012 it was also offered as a coupé model.

Overview 
The Hyundai Elantra sedan (Lantra in some markets), created as an alternative to available Japanese cars, was launched in 1990. Then Elantra had three restyling. The biggest one was held in 1993, the front and rear bumpers, front and rear lighting have been changed and the cabin was upgraded.

The second Lantra appeared in 1995. The body was now with a smooth design and had a two-side zincing.

In 1998, during the modernization, form of optics, bumpers and hood were changed.

In 2000, the production of the Lantra model was closed, and the Elantra model appeared. It was made at factories in Ulsan and Beijing until 2006.

Hyundai offers Hyundai I30 called Elantra Touring Universal in the United States and Canada. In other countries, the car is sold as HYUNDAI I30CW.

In 2012, a sedan base coupe called Hyundai Elantra Coupe, which is sold exclusively in the United States, was introduced.

In September 2015, the sixth generation of Hyundai Elantra called Avante appeared in South Korea.

Sedan Hyundai Elantra (Avante in South Korea) debuted in Hollywood on March 18, 2020.

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Other websites 

 Official website

Elantra
1990s automobiles
2000s automobiles
2010s automobiles
Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros

Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros (4 April 1928 – 6 January 2016) was a Cuban trumpeter. He has played with artists such as Arsenio Rodríguez, Generoso Jiménez, Chico O'Farrill, Orchestra Harlow, Eddie Palmieri and Cachao. He was known for making Afro-Cuban jazz, Latin jazz and salsa more popular in the United States where he lived. He was sometimes called "Cuban Louis Armstrong".

Armenteros was born in Santa Clara, Las Villas. He was married eight times, and had nine children, one son and eight daughters.

Armenteros died from prostate cancer on 6 January 2016 in New York City. He was 87.

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1928 births
2016 deaths
Cancer deaths in New York City
Cuban musicians
Deaths from prostate cancer
Jazz musicians
Trumpeters
Kitty Kallen

Kitty Kallen (born Katherine Kalinsky; May 25, 1921 – January 7, 2016) was an American popular singer whose career spanned from the 1930s to the 1960s—to include the Swing era of the Big Band years. She was best known for her 1954 solo recording '"Little Things Mean a Lot". 

Kallen died on January 7, 2016 at her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico at the age of 94.

References

Other websites
 Profile, discogs.com
 Profile, artistdirect.com 

1921 births
2016 deaths
American movie actors
Singers from Pennsylvania
Actors from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Florence King

Florence Virginia King (January 5, 1936 – January 6, 2016) was an American novelist, essayist and columnist. She was born in Washington, D.C.. She was known for writing about the American South and worked for the National Review. She was a conservative columnist.

King died one day after her birthday on January 6, 2016 in Washington, D.C. at the age of 80.

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1936 births
2016 deaths
American journalists
American conservatives
Writers from Washington, D.C.
Pat Harrington, Jr.

Daniel Patrick "Pat" Harrington, Jr. (August 13, 1929 – January 6, 2016) was an American voice, stage, and television actor. He was best known for his role as building Superintendent Schneider on the CBS sitcom One Day at a Time. He won an Emmy Award for the role.

Harrington was born in New York City. His father, Pat Harrington, Sr., was also an actor. He was married twice. He had Alzheimer's disease.

Harrington fell in early November 2015. He had a small brain hemorrhage. He died on January 6, 2016 in Los Angeles, California, aged 86.

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Other websites

 

1929 births
2016 deaths
Accidental deaths from falls in the United States
American stage actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Disease-related deaths in Los Angeles
Emmy Award winning actors
Deaths from cerebral hemorrhage
Lev Nikolayevich Korolyov

Lev Nikolayevich Korolyov (also Korolev, ; September 6, 1926 – January 5, 2016) was a Soviet-born Russian computer scientist. He was a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He was involved in the development of the first Soviet computers.

Korolyov was born in Podolsk, Russia. He studied at Moscow State University. Korolyov died at his home in Moscow, Russia at the age of 89.

References

Other websites
Biography of L. N. Korolev  at Virtual Museum Computer.

1926 births
2016 deaths
Russian computer scientists
Marc Alaimo

Marc Alaimo (born Michael Anthony Alaimo; May 5, 1942) is an American actor. He is known for his villainous roles. He is best known for his role as recurring villain Gul Dukat in the TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He guest-starred in a Family Guy episode in which he played "The Dean". 

Alaimo was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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1942 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Actors from Milwaukee, Wisconsin