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Zubin Mehta

Zubin Mehta (born 29 April 1936) is an Indian conductor of Western classical music. He is the music director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO).

Career
Mehta was Music Director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra from 1961 to 1967, and Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra from 1962 to 1978, being the youngest music director ever for any major North American orchestra. In 1969, he was appointed Music Adviser to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and in 1981 Mehta became its permanent Music Director for Life.

In 2016, Mehta has been appointed as Honorary Conductor of the Teatro San Carlo, Naples.

In December 2016, the Israel Philharmonic announced that Mehta is to retire from his permanent position as music director in October 2019.

Awards
The Government of India honoured Mehta in 1966 with the Padma Bhushan and in 2001 with India's second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan.

In September 2006 the Kennedy Center announced Mehta as one of the recipients of that year's Kennedy Center Honors, presented on 2 December 2006 by President George W. Bush.

References

Other websites

 Official website

 Two interviews with Zubin Mehta by Bruce Duffie, 8 December 1993 and 29 February 1996
 Zubin Mehta interview on BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs, 6 July 1984

1936 births
Living people
Conductors
People from Mumbai
Chuck Close

Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close (July 5, 1940 – August 19, 2021) was an American painter, artist and photographer.

Early life
Close was born in Monroe, Washington. He was raised in Everett, Washington. Close studied at the University of Washington and at Yale University. He suffered from dyslexia.

Career
Close achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits. Close often paints abstract portraits of himself and others, which hang in collections internationally. Although a spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, he has continued to paint and produce work that remains sought after by museums and collectors.  Close also creates photo portraits using a very large format camera.

Personal life
Close worked in Bridgehampton, New York and Long Beach, New York. He had two daughters with Leslie Rose. They divorced in 2011. 

Close married artist Sienna Shields in 2013. They divorced before his death.

Close was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2015. He died on August 19, 2021 in Oceanside, New York from congestive heart failure at the age of 81.

Gallery

References

Other websites

 Personal Website
 Pace Gallery Page
 Chuck Close: Process & Collaboration
 Chuck Close at the Walker Art Center

1940 births
2021 deaths
American photographers
American painters
People from Everett, Washington
Artists from New York City
Deaths from congestive heart failure
Deaths from frontotemporal dementia
Alcee Hastings

Alcee Lamar Hastings  (September 5, 1936 – April 6, 2021) was an American politician and judge. He was the U.S. Representative for  from January 3, 1993 until April 6, 2021.  The district included most of the majority-black precincts in and around Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach.  He was a Democrat.

Hastings served as a judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida until his impeachment and removal due to Hastings being involved in bribery-related actions. He was nominated to the court by President Jimmy Carter in 1979.

In January 2019, Hastings was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He died from the disease in Boynton Beach, Florida on April 6, 2021 at the age of 84.

References

Other websites

Congressman Alcee Hastings official U.S. House site
Alcee L. Hastings for Congress

 
 

1936 births
2021 deaths
American judges
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Cancer deaths in Florida
United States representatives from Florida
US Democratic Party politicians
Deaths in 2018

The following is a list of deaths that should be noted in 2018. For deaths that should be noted before the month that the world is in, please see "Months". Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are noted here also if it is worth noting.

Each listing of a death must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, where they came from, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and a source.

Months
 January
 February
 March
 April
 May
 June
 July
 August
 September
 October
 November
 December

Related pages
 Deaths in 2014
 Deaths in 2015
 Deaths in 2016
 Deaths in 2017
 Deaths in 2019
 Deaths in 2020

Other websites
The Guardian, UK obituaries
The Telegraph obituaries
Obituaries, Chicago Tribune
Obituaries, Los Angeles Times
The New York Times, US obituaries
The Washington Post obituaries
The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian obituaries

Index lists
Van Nuys

Van Nuys is a neighborhood in the central San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California. As of 2000, the population is 136,443.

The town was founded in 1911 and named for Isaac Newton Van Nuys, one of its developers. It was annexed by Los Angeles on May 22, 1915.

References

Neighborhoods of Los Angeles
Rampage (2018 movie)

Rampage is an American science fiction monster movie directed by Brad Peyton. It is loosely based on the video game series of the same name by Midway Games. The movie stars Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Åkerman, Joe Manganiello, Jake Lacy, P. J. Byrne, Marley Shelton, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

It is produced by Warner Bros. and set in Chicago, Illinois. 

New Line Cinema will release the movie on April 20, 2018 in 3D and IMAX.

References

Other websites
 

2018 science fiction movies
2010s action movies
2010s monster movies
English-language movies
2010s American action movies
American monster movies
American science fiction movies
Movies set in Chicago, Illinois
Movies shot in Chicago, Illinois
Warner Bros. movies
Movies about animals
Giant gorilla movies
2017 UK Independence Party leadership election

The 2017 UK Independence Party leadership election was held on 29 September 2017. UKIP members voted for who they want to lead the party. Henry Bolton won the election after receiving 30% of the vote.

The election was called for after the party's poor performance in the 2017 general election.

Nigel Farage decided not to run for the UKIP leadership position.

Candidates 

 Henry Bolton, former British Army office and police officer.
 Jane Collins, a UKIP MEP.
 David Kurten, a UKIP member of the London Assembly.
 Aidan Powlesland
 John Rees-Evans
 Anne Marie Waters, anti-Islam activist.
 Peter Whittle, Deputy Leader of UKIP.

Results

After the election 

Bolton said that his victory stopped UKIP from becoming a fascist party. Waters left UKIP and created her own political party, For Britain, in October. Rees-Evans also left UKIP and created his own political party, Affinity.

References 

2017 in the United Kingdom
September 2017 events
2017 elections in Europe
Bulgarian Communist Party

The Bulgarian Communist Party (Bulgarian: Българска Комунистическа Партия; shortened BCP) was the ruling political party in Bulgaria from 1946 until 1990.

The party led a coup against the tsarist government in 1944.

Todor Zhivkov was leader of the party and Bulgaria from 1954 until 1989. He was the longest-serving leader of any Eastern Bloc nation. The party's first leader was Dimitar Blagoev.

On 11 December 1989, leader Petar Mladenov announced that the party was giving up its guaranteed right to rule. In 1990, the party became much more moderate and was no longer a communist party. In April 1990, the party changed its name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP).

References 

1919 establishments in Europe
1989 disestablishments in Europe
Communist parties in Europe
Type 56 assault rifle

The Type 56 is a Chinese assault rifle which is a copy of the Soviet AK-47 assault rifle. The Type 56 was first used by the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong during the Vietnam War along with the Soviet AK-47 and AKM assault rifles. The Type 56 is used by many armies and battlefields in Africa, Middle East and Asia.

Variants 
 Type 56: Copy of the AK-47.
 Type 56-1: Copy of the AKS-47.
 Type 56-2: Same as the Type 56-1 but with a side folding stock instead of a under folding stock.

Users 
The Type 56 assault rifle is used in many countries. These include:

Users

 
  Locally produced under small modification of the Albanian Army needs. Main armament of the army until recently when it's being replaced with ARX-160, and M4A1.

 
 
  Boko Haram : Type 56 and Type 56-1
 
 
 : Burundian rebels.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 : Used by Croatia in its war of independence.
 
 
 
 
 : Purchased in the 1990's and used by Finnish Army rerserve personnel. Now in long-term storage.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 : Used by the Nepalese Army and formerly by the People's Liberation Army rebels
 : Contras.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 : South Sudan Liberation Movement, South Sudan Democratic Movement, Sudan People's Liberation Army and Lou Nuer militias.
 
 
 
 
 Lord Resistance Army
 
 : Captured from Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam War.

References 

Assault rifles
William Wright

Sir William Thompson Wright (born 1925) is a Northern Irish business owner and former Unionist politician. Wright grew up in Ballymena.

In the 1970s, Wright joined the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party, and was elected as its Chairman.  He stood for the party in North Antrim at the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention election in 1975, and was elected.  He later followed the party leaders in joining the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), and was elected to Ballymena Borough Council.

In the 2011 Birthday Honours, he was awarded the CBE. In the 2018 Queen's Honours list, he received a knighthood.

References

1925 births
Living people
Northern Ireland politicians
British businesspeople
Activists
Recy Taylor

Recy Elisabeth Taylor (December 31, 1919 – December 28, 2017) was an African-American kidnapping and rape victim and activist.

Incident
On September 3, 1944, she was kidnapped while leaving church and gang-raped by six white men. Even though the men admitted the rape to authorities, two grand juries subsequently declined to indict the men, meaning no charges were ever brought against her six assailants.

In 2011, the Alabama House of Representatives apologized on behalf of the state "for its failure to prosecute her attackers."

Death
Taylor died of congestive heart failure in her sleep at a nursing home in Abbeville, Alabama on December 28, 2017, just three days before her 98th birthday.

References

Other websites

 Treading the Tightrope of Jim Crow; Montgomery NAACP. The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.

1919 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from congestive heart failure
American civil rights activists
American crime victims
People from Alabama
Hulst

Hulst, Zeelandic and East Flemish: ('t) Ulst, is a municipality and village in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, Province of Zeeland, the Netherlands.

About 27,000 people were living in the municipality in 2017.<br/ >
About 11,000 people were living in the village in 2017.

The municipality borders the Western Scheldt, and the Belgian Province of East Flanders.

Hulst received city rights in 1180.

The nature reserve of the Drowned Land of Saeftinghe (Dutch: Verdronken land van Saeftinghe) lies in the municipality.

Other websites 
  

Municipalities of Zeeland
Settlements in Zeeland
Cities in the Netherlands
Terneuzen

Terneuzen, Zeelandic and East Flemish: Terneuzen or Neuzen, is a municipality and town in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, Province of Zeeland, the Netherlands.

About 55,000 people were living in the municipality in 2017.<br/ >
About 25,000 people were living in the town in 2015.

The municipality borders the Western Scheldt, and the Belgian Province of East Flanders.

Terneuzen received city rights in 1584.

The south entrance of the Western Scheldt Tunnel is in Terneuzen.

Other websites 
  

Cities in the Netherlands
Municipalities of Zeeland
Settlements in Zeeland
Sluis

Sluis, Zeelandic and West Flemish: Sluus, is a municipality and village in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, Province of Zeeland, the Netherlands.

About 24,000 people were living in the municipality in 2017.<br/ >
About 2,400 people were living in the village in 2014.

The municipality borders the Western Scheldt and the North Sea, and also the Belgian Provinces of West and East Flanders.

Sluis received city rights in 1290.

Other websites 
  

1995 disestablishments in Europe
20th-century disestablishments in the Netherlands
2003 establishments in the Netherlands
Cities in the Netherlands
Municipalities of Zeeland
Settlements in Zeeland
Action camera

An action camera is a small video camera made for sticking to a person while playing sport or traveling on a vehicle. This kind of camera is for used for filming an event in a way that people watching the film feel like they are looking from the eyes of person who are doing activities in the event themselves (first-person perspective). While action camera is made for filming, it can also take pictures. All films and pictures it took will be kept on a tiny card that you can pull them out and watch them later.

Action camera is made to be small and very light, so that a person who wear it does not feel its weight while doing his or her things. And it usually uses wide-angle lens to film as many details around as possible. Inside the camera, there is a battery that lasts long enough for you to film for few hours. Action camera is also made to be stronger than normal video camera, so that it keeps filming even when the wearing person moves at high speed or crashes into something.

Camera sellers usually give you a hard clear plastic box that fits with the camera when you buy it. When they do, you should store the camera in this box every time you are going to film something. This box will have holes, a belt, or a metal rod which you can use for tying it to a person, or screwing it on an object that person wears (usually a helmet). Some kind of these boxes can stop water from coming into it when closed, so you may use them to film under water without breaking the camera as well.

Related pages 

 Dashboard camera, which looks like an action camera, but made for sticking on a vehicle instead of person.
 Webcam, a small video camera that is made to be used with a computer.

Cameras
Electronics
Sports equipment
Michael Massee

Michael Groo Massee (September 1, 1952 – October 20, 2016) was an American actor. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Massee was perhaps best known for accidentally shooting Brandon Lee during the filming of the 1994 movie The Crow. He was also known for his role as Ira Gaines in 24 and The Gentleman in the 2012 movie The Amazing Spider-Man. He also reprised this role in the 2014 sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Massee died of stomach cancer in Los Angeles on October 20, 2016 at the age of 64.

References

Other websites 
 

1952 births
2016 deaths
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Actors from Kansas City, Missouri
Cancer deaths in California
Deaths from stomach cancer
Niffer

Niffer is a commune that is in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Oberbruck

Oberbruck is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Related pages
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

References
INSEE commune file

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Oberentzen

Oberentzen is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Related pages
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

References
INSEE commune file

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Oberhergheim

Oberhergheim is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Related pages
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

References
INSEE commune file

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Oberlarg

Oberlarg is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France. In 2014, 142 people lived there.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Obermorschwihr

Obermorschwihr is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Obermorschwiller

Obermorschwiller is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Obersaasheim

Obersaasheim is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France. In 2014, 1,022 people lived there.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Oderen

Oderen is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Related pages
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

References
INSEE commune file

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Oltingue

Oltingue is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Orbey

Orbey is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Orschwihr

Orschwihr is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France. In 2014, 1,070 people lived there.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Erica Garner

Erica Garner (May 29, 1990 – December 30, 2017) was an American activist. She fought for police reform, especially in the use of force during arrests. Garner became involved in activism after her father, Eric Garner, died in 2014. A New York City police officer put him in a chokehold during an arrest and killed him.

Garner said that she believed her father's death had more to do with police misconduct than race, and in 2017, she rejected a meeting with the United States Justice Department to discuss the police killing her father.  

During the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Garner supported Bernie Sanders, and appeared in an advertisement for him.

Garner died in a Brooklyn hospital while in a coma after she had a serious heart attack on December 30, 2017. She was 27 years old.

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1990 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Cardiovascular disease deaths in New York City
American activists
People from Brooklyn
Jean-Pierre Lehmann

Jean-Pierre Lehmann (29 August 1945 – 21 December 2017) was an American-born Swiss economist. He was born in Washington, D.C.. He was professor of international political economy at IMD and the founding director of The Evian Group at IMD. In August 2011, he was appointed senior fellow at the Fung Global Institute (FGI).

Lehmann died on 21 December 2017 of a pulmonary embolism in Lausanne, Switzerland at the age of 72.

References

Other websites
 www.imd.org/eviangroup  (Evian Group @ IMD Official Website) 
 www.imd.org
 www.fungglobalinstitute.org

1945 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pulmonary embolism
Disease-related deaths in Switzerland
American economists
Swiss scientists
Scientists from Washington, D.C.
John C. Portman Jr.

John Calvin Portman Jr. (December 4, 1924 – December 29, 2017) was an American neofuturistic architect and real estate developer. He was born in Walhalla, South Carolina. He was known for popularizing hotels and office buildings with multi-storied interior atria.

Portman also had a large impact on the cityscape of his hometown of Atlanta, with the Peachtree Center, Hyatt, Westin, and Marriott hotels.

Portman died on December 29, 2017 in Atlanta of heart failure, aged 93.

References

Other websites

  Portmanusa.com: website of the Portman architectural firm
 Portmanholdings.com: website of the Portman real estate development firm
  Johnportmanfilm.com: 'John Portman: A Life of Building'  — film about Portman's life and works, aired on PBS stations in June 2013.

1924 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
American architects
Real estate developers
People from South Carolina
Businesspeople from Atlanta, Georgia
Khalid Shameem Wynne

Khalid Shameem Wynne (28 August 1953 – 30 December 2017) was a Pakistani four star general. Wynne served as the 14th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee before retiring on 7 October 2013. 

Before to his promotion, the official statement said that "General Wynne was appointed as Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee by President Asif Ali Zardari, on the advice of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani."

He also served as field operational Commander of the XII Corps in Quetta from 2007 till 2010, overseeing the Baloch insurgency and the fallout of the war in the Tribal Areas.

Wynne was killed in a car crash near Chakri, Punjab, Pakistan on 30 December 2017. He was 64 years old.

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1953 births
2017 deaths
Road accident deaths
Pakistani people
Military people
Yacht charter

Yacht chartering is the renting a sailboat or motor yacht for sea traveling. This is a vacation activity, but it can be a corporate event.

There are two main kinds of the charter: bareboat and skippered. Bareboat charters are when a person is renting a boat and skippering it themselves. Skippered charter meaning that boat comes with a skipper but no additional crew.

Water transport
George Walker (composer)

George Theophilus Walker (June 27, 1922 – August 23, 2018) was an African-American composer, educator and autobiographer. He was the first to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He received the Pulitzer for his work Lilacs in 1996.

Early life 
Walker was born in Washington, D.C.. He studied at Oberlin College.

Career 
Walker taught music at Columbia University, Wayne State University, Wellesley College, Temple University, Washington University in St. Louis, Williams College and Montclair State University.

In 1946, Walker composed his String Quartet no. 1. A string orchestra arrangement of the second movement of that work received its world premiere in a radio broadcast that was conducted by pianist Seymour Lipkin.

Walker was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999. The following year, Walker was inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame.

Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry proclaimed June 17, 1997 as “George Walker Day”. in the nation's capitol.

His autobiography, "Reminiscences of an American Composer and Pianist", was released in 2009 by Scarecrow Press.

Personal life 
Walker was the father of two sons, violinist and composer Gregory T.S. Walker, and playwright Ian Walker.

Walker died on August 23, 2018 from a fall at a hospital in Montclair, New Jersey at the age of 96.

References

Other websites 
 George Walker official website
 A 2017 Conversation with George Walker (includes video excerpts) 
George Walker interview by Bruce Duffie
2012 George Walker interview by Ethan Iverson
George Theophilus Walker, African American Composer & Pianist at AfriClassical.com
George Walker, Composer  Documentary produced by NJTV

Pulitzer Prize winners
1922 births
2018 deaths
Accidental deaths from falls in the United States
American autobiographers
American composers
Educators from Washington, D.C.
Writers from Washington, D.C.
Fire sprinkler

Automatic sprinklers or irrigators are one method of putting out a fire. They are usually part of a fire system based on a water reservoir for the supply of the system and a network of pipes. They are usually activated by detecting the effects of a fire, such as the increase in temperature associated with fire, or the smoke generated by combustion. Sometimes, sprinkler systems can be activated at the same time as the actual alarm at a pull station.

Fire
Kennington tube station

Kennington is a London Underground station on Kennington Park Road in Kennington. The station is at the junction of the Charing Cross and Bank branches of the Northern line. It is within the London Borough of Southwark. Its neighbouring stations to the north are Waterloo on the Charing Cross branch and Elephant & Castle on the Bank branch; the next station to the south is Oval. The station is in Travelcard Zone 2.

It is one of the station that has the notable loop, called Kennington Loop, similar to Timothy's Computer on Timothy North Metro and South Ferry on New York City Subway. It would be extended to Battersea Power Station via Nine Elms in the near future, to serve the near-refurbished Battersea Power Station.

Northern line stations
Transport in the London Borough of Lambeth
London Travelcard zone 2
Christine King Farris

Christine King Farris (born Willie Christine King; September 11, 1927) is the oldest and only living child of Martin Luther King, Sr.. She is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s only sister. 

King Farris teaches at Spelman College and is the author of several books and a public speaker on many topics. For many years, she was the Vice Chair and Treasurer of the King Center and has been active for several years in the International Reading Association, and many church and civic organizations, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. 

King Farris held a tenure professorship at Spelman College for 48 years before retiring in 2014.

References

Other websites
Young MLK The Tavis Smiley Show, January 15, 2003
 Education Update Interview with Christine King Farris
Honoring Willie Christine King Farris’ 80th Birthday

1927 births
Living people
Educators from Atlanta, Georgia
American civil rights activists
Martin Luther King Jr.
Writers from Atlanta, Georgia
J. Joseph Curran Jr.

J. Joseph Curran Jr. (born July 7, 1931) is an American politician. He is the longest serving elected Attorney General (1987 to 2007) in Maryland history, and the fourth Lieutenant Governor of Maryland from 1983 to 1987. His son-in-law, Martin J. O'Malley, served as the 61st Governor of Maryland.

References

1931 births
Living people
Lawyers from Maryland
Politicians from Florida
Lieutenant Governors of Maryland
US Democratic Party politicians
María Vicuña

Maria Alejandra Vicuña (born 13 February 1978) is an Ecuadorean politician. She is the Vice President of Ecuador under President Lenin Moreno from 2 October 2017 until 2018. She also served as the Housing and Urban Development Minister of Ecuador until 6 January 2018.

Notes

References

1978 births
Living people
Vice Presidents of Ecuador
People from Guayaquil
Hans Frauenfelder

Hans Frauenfelder (born June 28, 1922) is a Swiss-American physicist and biophysicist. He was known for his discovery of perturbed angular correlation (PAC) in 1951. In the modern day, PAC spectroscopy is widely used in the study of condensed matter physics.  

Frauenfelder was born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. He studied at ETH Zurich.

Within biophysics, he is known for experiment and theory in understanding the dynamical behavior of protein tertiary structure. In 1992, Frauenfelder won the Max Delbruck Prize.

Frauenfelder is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Other websites
 References on Perturbed Angular Correlation (PAC)
 PAC Spectroscopy 
 Frauenfelder's homepage
 Frauenfelder's math genealogy

1922 births
Living people
Naturalized citizens of the United States
American physicists
American biologists
Swiss scientists
Schaffhausen
Alain Touraine

Alain Touraine (; born 3 August 1925) is a French sociologist.  He is research director at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. He founded the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux. He is best known for being the originator of the term "post-industrial society".

References

Other websites
 Answers.com on Alain Touraine
 Jacques Hamel compares aspects of Pierre Bourdieu and Alain Touraine
 Comments of Touraine at Forum Barcelona 2004

1925 births
Living people
French sociologists
Robert Mundell

Robert Alexander Mundell, CC (October 24, 1932 – April 4, 2021) was a Canadian economist. He was a professor of economics at Columbia University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Mundell was also known for the Mundell–Fleming model and Mundell–Tobin effect.

He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1999 for his pioneering work in monetary dynamics and optimum currency areas. Mundell is known as the "father" of the Euro, as he laid the groundwork for its introduction through this work and helped to start the movement known as supply-side economics which inspired Reaganomics.

Mundell died on April 4, 2021 in Siena, Tuscany from problems caused by bile duct cancer, aged 88.

References

Other websites
 Robert Mundell's homepage 
 Single Global Currency Association – Bretton Woods 2024 
 his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas.
 Economista canadiense. Profesor en la Columbia University de New York.
  The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences
 The Kiel Institute Global Economy Prize
 Nobel biography for laureate Mundell 
 
 IDEAS/RePEc
 

1932 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from cholangiocarcinoma
Canadian economists
Writers from Ontario
University of Waterloo
Canadian Nobel Prize winners
Columbia University faculty
Adrienne

Adrienne is a female first name. It is the female form of Adrien. The name can be also spelled Adrianne.

The meaning of the name is "from the city of Hadria." It also means "the dark one."

There are a few fictional characters with the name, such as Adrienne Johnson from Days of our Lives.

People named Adrienne
 Adrienne Albert (born 1941), composer
 Adrienne Ames (1907–1947), American actress
 Adrienne Arsenault (born 1967), Canadian journalist
 Adrienne Bailon (born 1983), member of girl group The Cheetah Girls
 Adrienne Barbeau (born 1945), American actress
 Adrienne Beames (born 1942), Australian long-distance runner
 Adrienne Bolland (1896–1975), French test pilot and first woman to fly over the Andes
 Adrienne Clarke (born 1938), Australian botanist and former Lieutenant Governor of Victoria
 Adrienne Clarkson (born 1939), Canadian journalist and former Governor General of Canada
 Adrienne Corri (born 1933), Scottish actress
 Adrienne Fazan (1906–1986), American Academy Award-winning film editor
 Adrienne Frantz (born 1978), American actress and singer-songwriter
 Adrienne Goodson (born 1966), American former professional basketball player
 Adrienne Kennedy (born 1931), African-American playwright
 Adrienne Krausz (born 1967), Hungarian pianist
 Adrienne de La Fayette (1759–1807), wife of Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette
 Adrienne Lau, American singer and actress
 Adrienne Lecouvreur (1692–1730), French actress
 Adrienne Maloof (born 1961), American businesswoman and television personality
 Adrianne Palicki (born 1983), American actress
 Adrienne Posta (born 1948), English actress
 Adrienne Rich (1929–2012), American poet and essayist
 Adrienne Roy (born 1953), comic book colorist
 Adrienne Shelly (1966–2006), Russian-American filmmaker and actress
 Adrienne Du Vivier (1626–1706), one of the first white women settlers in Montreal

Given names
Adrienne Shelly

Adrienne Shelly (also known as Adrienne Levine; June 24, 1966 – November 1, 2006) was an American actress, movie director and screenwriter. Shelly was born in Queens, New York.

She wrote, co-starred in and directed the 2007 movie Waitress. She was also known for her roles in independent movies.

In 2000, Shelly won a U.S. Comedy Arts Festival Film Discovery Jury Award. She won the award for the 1999 movie I'll Take You There. Shelly also guest-starred in Law & Order and Oz.

Death 
On November 1, 2006, Shelly was found hanging in the shower of her Greenwich Village work studio apartment. It was originally thought she had killed herself. But an illegal immigrant from Ecuador, a construction worker, confessed to killing Shelly. He was later sentenced to 25 years in prison for first-degree manslaughter.

References

People murdered in North America
Murdered entertainers
Actors from New York City
1966 births
2006 deaths
MusicBrainz

MusicBrainz is an music database. It is similar to the freedb project that aims to create an open data music database. The database captures information about artists, their recorded works, and create the relationships between them.

Client software 
 Amarok — KDE audio player
 Banshee — multi-platform audio player
 Beets — automatic CLI music tagger/organiser for Unix-like systems
 Clementine — multi-platform audio player
 CDex — Microsoft Windows CD ripper
 Demlo — a dynamic and extensible music manager using a CLI
 iEatBrainz — Mac OS X, deprecated
 foo_musicbrainz component for foobar2000 — music library/pudio Player
 Jaikoz — Java mass tag editor
 Max — Mac OS X CD ripper and audio transcoder
 Mp3tag — Windows metadata editor and music organizer
 MusicBrainz Picard — cross-platform album-oriented tag editor
 MusicBrainz Tagger — deprecated Microsoft Windows tag editor
 puddletag — a tag editor for PyQt under the GPLv3
 Rhythmbox music player — an audio player for Unix-like systems
 Sound Juicer — GNOME CD ripper
 Zortam Mp3 Media Studio — Windows music organizer and ID3 tag editor

Freedb clients could also access MusicBrainz data through the freedb protocol by using the MusicBrainz to FreeDB gateway service, mb2freedb. The gateway was shut down on March 18, 2019.

References

Other websites 

  – official site
 MusicBrainz info at the BBC Music site

Music media
Entertainment websites
International Biographical Centre

The International Biographical Centre is a publisher that specializes in producing biographical publications such as the Dictionary of International Biography, Great Men and Women of Science and the other Vanity Awards. It owned by Melrose Press Ltd. It is in Ely, Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom.

Biographical reference books
2000 Outstanding Europeans of the 21st Century
2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 20th Century
2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century
2000 Outstanding Scientists - 2010
The Cambridge Blue Book
Dictionary of International Biography
Great Men and Women of Science
International Who's Who in Music
Men of achievement
Outstanding People of the 20th Century
Outstanding People of the 21st Century
Outstanding Scientists of the 21st Century
Who’s Who in the 21st Century
World Who's Who of Women

References

Other websites
 International Biographical Centre website
 Photos of some of the IBC medals
Dhaka International Film Festival

Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF) is a biennial movie festival held in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was established in 1992.

Awards
The festival authority chooses and invites Asian and Australian movies to participate in different sections. The sections are:
Retrospective
Cinema of the World
Women Filmmakers
Children’s Film
Short and Independent
Spiritual Films

Other websites
www.dhakafilmfestival.org Official Website

Movie festivals
Bangladesh
1992 establishments in Asia
Christine Lakin

Christine Lakin (born January 25, 1979 in Dallas) is an American actress. She is best known for acting on the ABC television situation-comedy Step by Step.

Other websites

American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
1979 births
Living people
The Centaurus

The Centaurus is a 64 floored skyscraper in Jinnah Avenue, F-8/4, Islamabad, Pakistan. It was designed by  WS Atkins, a British architect and his partners. It is made of 3 skyscrapers with a 36-storey hotel, 23-storey offices and 5-storey shopping mall. The Centaurus' construction started in  2005 and finished in 2011.

The Centaurus Shopping Mall has different shops and on the forth floor, there is the food court with food restaurants including McDonald's and KFC. It also includes the Fun City and Cineplex.

References

Buildings and structures in Islamabad
Johnson County War

The Johnson County War, also known as the War on Powder River and the Wyoming Range War, was a conflict over farmland that took place in Johnson County, Wyoming between 1889 and 1893. The conflicts began when cattle companies started ruthlessly persecuting alleged rustlers in the area, many of whom were innocent settlers that competed with them for land, livestock and water rights. As tensions swelled between the large established ranchers and the smaller settlers in the state, violence finally culminated in Powder River Country, when the ranchers hired armed gunmen to invade the county. The gunmen's initial incursion in the territory aroused the small farmers and ranchers, as well as the state lawmen, and they formed a posse of 200 men that led to a grueling stand-off. The siege ended when the United States Cavalry on the orders of President Benjamin Harrison relieved the two forces, although further fighting persisted in the following months.

The events have since become a highly mythologized and symbolic story of the Wild West, and over the years variations of the storyline have come to include some of its most famous historical figures. In addition to being one of the most well-known range wars of the American frontier, its themes, especially class warfare, served as a basis for numerous popular novels, films, and television shows in the Western genre.

19th century in Wyoming
Benjamin Harrison
Payerne

Payerne is a municipality of the Swiss canton of Vaud. It was the capital of the district of Payerne, and is now part of the district of Broye-Vully.

References

Other websites 

 Official website 

Municipalities of Vaud
Cities in Switzerland
Pignia

Pignia is a former municipality of the district Hinterrhein in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. Since 2009, it was part of the municipality of Andeer.

Former municipalities of Graubünden
Rongellen

Rongellen is a municipality of the district Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

 Official Website 

Municipalities of Graubünden
Gerd Cintl

Gerd Cintl (11 December 1938 – 26 December 2017) was a German rower. He competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Düsseldorf, Germany. In 1960, he was a crew member of the German boat which won the gold medal in the coxed fours event.

Cintl died on 26 December 2017 at the age of 79.

References

1938 births
2017 deaths
Sportspeople from North Rhine-Westphalia
German people
Rowers
Didier Burkhalter

Didier Burkhalter (born April 17, 1960) is a Swiss politician. He was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Burkhalter is a member of FDP.The Liberals. He was elected as a member of the Swiss Federal Council on 16 September 2009. He succeeded Pascal Couchepin on 1 November 2009 when he became head of the Federal Department of Home Affairs (the Swiss interior minister). Since 1 January 2012, he serves as head of the Department of Foreign Affairs. In 2014, he was President of the Swiss Confederation. He served as Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in 2014. He left the Federal Council on 31 October 2017 (replaced by Ignazio Cassis).

References

Other websites

Presidential year 2014 
Swiss OSCE Chairmanship 2014 
Curriculum Vitae of Federal Councillor Didier Burkhalter 
FDFA Homepage 

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1960 births
Living people
Presidents of the Swiss Confederation
Osenbach

Osenbach is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Ostheim, Haut-Rhin

Ostheim is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Coalisland

Coalisland (Irish: Oileán an Ghuail) is a small town in County Tyrone, Ulster, Northern Ireland. Its district for parliament and football is Mid Ulster.  Four miles from Lough Neagh, it was formerly a centre for coal mining. It was the site of several armed conflicts between 1969 and 2001 during the Troubles.

References

Towns in Northern Ireland
Arson in royal dockyards

Arson in royal dockyards was a crime in the United Kingdom and the British Empire. It was  one of the last crimes that were punishable by execution in the United Kingdom. The crime was made by the Dockyards etc. Protection Act 1772 (12 Geo. 3 c.24) passed by the Parliament of Great Britain and was made to protect Royal Dockyards and ships from arson attacks.

It remained one of the few crimes punished with death after reform of the death penalty in 1861, and stayed in effect even after the death penalty was stopped for murder in 1969. However, the crime was then removed from law by the Criminal Damage Act 1971.

Case of John the Painter 

Only one prosecution was brought under the Act. In that case, the Scottish saboteur John the Painter (also known as James Hill or John Aitken) was prosecuted and executed in 1777 for setting the rope house at Portsmouth Royal Dockyard on fire. He was hanged from the mizzenmast of the frigate , the highest gallows erected in British history. It was set up at Portsmouth Royal Dockyards in view of the damage he had caused. The crowd of witnesses numbered some 20,000.

References 

Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
1772
1770s in the Kingdom of Great Britain
Prince François, Count of Clermont

Prince François of Orléans, Count of Clermont (born François Henri Louis Marie; 7 February 1961 – 31 December 2017) was the eldest son of Orleanist pretender to the French throne, Prince Henri, Count of Paris, Duke of France and his former wife Duchess Marie Therese of Württemberg.

His mother suffered from toxoplasmosis during pregnancy, resulting in Prince François being mentally disabled, as is his younger sister, Princess Blanche. Because of his illness, his father named his second son, Prince Jean, Duke of Vendôme, as Dauphin of France (his heir).

On 31 December 2017, Prince Jean reported that Francis had died in France at the age of 56.

References

1961 births
2017 deaths
French royalty
Princes and princesses
Henri, Count of Paris (1933–2019)

Henri d'Orléans, Count of Paris, Duke of France (Henri Philippe Pierre Marie d'Orléans; 14 June 1933 – 21 January 2019), was head of the House of Orléans. He was one of the pretenders to the defunct French crown as Henry VII. 

Henri was a descendant in the male-line of France's "Citizen-King" Louis-Philippe d'Orléans (ruled 1830–1848), he was also recognized as the legitimate claimant to the throne by those French royalists, called Unionists, who call him as the rightful heir of Henri de Bourbon, Count of Chambord, the last patrilineal descendant of King Louis XV.

Henri of Orléans was a former military officer as well as an author and painter.

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1933 births
2019 deaths
French royalty
French painters
French military people
French writers
Cheryll Sotheran

Dame Cheryll Beatrice Sotheran (1945 – 30 December 2017) was a New Zealand museum professional. She was the founding Chief Executive of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and was thanked with the successful completion of the museum, considered the largest international museum project of the 1990s. She was born in Stratford, New Zealand.

In the 1999 New Year Honours Sotheran was appointed a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to museum administration. Sotheran resigned from Te Papa for health reasons in 2002.

In 2013,  Sotheran suffered a stroke. She died in Auckland on 30 December 2017 from an unknown long-illness and stroke-related complications, aged 72.

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1945 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from stroke
New Zealand people
Civil servants
Philanthropists
Flag of Egypt

The flag of Egypt (Egyptian Arabic: علم مصر) has three equal horizontal bands of red, white, and black with the national emblem (a gold Eagle of Saladin facing the hoist side with a shield superimposed on its chest above a scroll bearing the name of the country in Arabic) centered in the white band.

Egypt
Egypt
John Clarke (satirist)

John Morrison Clarke (29 July 1948 – 9 April 2017) was a New Zealand-born Australian comedian, writer, and satirist. He was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand. He lived in Australia from the late 1970s. He was a well known actor and writer. His work appeared on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in both radio and television and also in print.

In 1982, he was nominated for an AFI award for co-writing the acclaimed Paul Cox movie Lonely Hearts.

During the 1980s and early 1990s, Clarke featured in several movies, including Never Say Die, Death in Brunswick, alongside another New Zealand actor, Sam Neill, and Blood Oath.

Clarke was also known for his mock interviews for A Current Affair until 1997, satirising a range of figures including Paul Keating, Alexander Downer, George Bush, and Alan Bond. After a break, the pair reappeared on ABC TV's The 7.30 Report in a similar format.

Clarke died while walking in the Grampians National Park in the Australian state of Victoria on 9 April 2017. He was 68. He died because of the heart attack.

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1948 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Australia
New Zealand movie actors
New Zealand television actors
New Zealand voice actors
New Zealand comedians
New Zealand writers
Australian movie actors
Australian television actors
Australian voice actors
Australian novelists
Australian screenwriters
Australian comedians
J. Richard Clarke

John Richard Clarke (born April 4, 1927) has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 1976. He has been a member of the church's presiding bishopric and a member of the Presidency of the Seventy. 

Clarke was born in Rexburg, Idaho.

Clarke served as a bishop, stake president, and regional representative in Idaho. He also returned to South Africa as the president of the church's South Africa Cape Town Mission.

From 1998 to 2001, Clarke was president of the church's Laie Hawaii Temple.

References

Other websites
Grampa Bill's G.A. Pages: J. Richard Clarke

1927 births
Living people
People from Idaho
John Clarke (actor)

John Clarke (April 14, 1932 – October 16, 2019) was an American actor. 

Clarke was known for his role as Mickey Horton on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives for 39 years, beginning with the debut of the program in 1965, until he retired early in 2004 because of health concerns. Clarke was replaced in the role by John Ingle, who left the program in 2006.

His daughter was actress Melinda Clarke, who started out on Days of our Lives.

In 2005, Clarke received the Daytime Emmys Lifetime Achievement Award.

Clarke died of pneumonia-related problems in Laguna Beach, California on October 16, 2019 at the age of 88.

References

Other websites

1932 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
Disease-related deaths in California
American television actors
American movie actors
Actors from Indiana
Zimmersheim

Zimmersheim is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department. In 2014, 1,066 people lived there.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Tessa Jowell

Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell, Baroness Jowell (née Palmer 17 September 1947 – 12 May 2018) was an English Labour Party politician.

Jowell was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dulwich and West Norwood from 1992 to 2015. Her most senior position in Government was as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, a post she held from 2001 to 2007. 

Jowell member of both the Blair and Brown Cabinets, she was also Minister for the Olympics (2005–2010) and Shadow Minister for the Olympics and Shadow Minister for London until September 2012, resigning after the London Olympic Games.

In September 2015, she was unsuccessful in seeking to be selected as the Labour Party's official candidate in the 2016 election for Mayor of London, coming second to Sadiq Khan in the contest of six candidates.

In September 2017, Jowell announced she had been diagnosed with brain cancer. Jowell died on 12 May 2018 in Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire of a cerebral hemorrhage caused by the disease at the age of 70.

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1947 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from brain cancer
Deaths from cerebral hemorrhage
Former Labour Party (UK) MPs
Politicians from London
June Brown

June Muriel Brown, MBE (born 16 February 1927) is an English actress. She is known for her role as Dot Cotton in the long-running BBC soap opera, EastEnders, a part she played from 1985 to 1993, and again from 1997 to 2020.

References

Other websites

 

1927 births
Living people
English television actors
English stage actors
English movie actors
Actors from Suffolk
Mark E. Smith

Mark Edward Smith (5 March 1957 – 24 January 2018) was an English singer-songwriter and musician. He is the lead singer, lyricist and only constant member of the post-punk group The Fall. Smith formed The Fall in 1976 after attending a Sex Pistols gig at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in June that year.

Smith died on 24 January 2018 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester of lung and kidney cancer at the age of 60.

References

Other websites 

 The Fall online formerly: The Official Fall Website & The Unofficial Fall Website
 Various interviews
 Guardian interview (2005)
 BBC Collective interview (2005) 

1957 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer
Deaths from kidney cancer
Cancer deaths in England
English guitarists
English pianists
English singer-songwriters
Musicians from Lancashire
Singers from Lancashire
Writers from Lancashire