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Albert Uderzo

Alberto Aleandro Uderzo (; ; 25 April 1927 – 24 March 2020), known as Albert Uderzo, was a French comic book artist and scriptwriter. He was best known for his work on the Astérix series and also drew other comics such as Oumpah-pah, also in collaboration with René Goscinny.

Uderzo died on 24 March 2020 of a heart attack in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, aged 92.

References

1927 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
French artists
Lata Mangeshkar

Lata Mangeshkar () (born Hema Mangeshkar; 28 September 1929 – 6 February 2022) was an Indian playback singer and music director.

Reputation
She is one of the best-known playback singers in India. She has recorded songs in over a thousand Hindi movies and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional Indian languages.

Life
Lata Mangeshkar was born in 1929, the eldest daughter of Deenanath Mangeshkar, a Marathi and Konkani musician and his wife Shevanti in Indore. 
Mangeshkar died on 6 February 2022, from multiple organ failure after contracting COVID-19 and undergoing 28 days of treatment at the Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai, India.

Death 
Mangeshkar died on 6 February 2022, from multiple organ failure after contracting COVID-19 and undergoing 28 days of treatment at the Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai, India.

The Government of India announced a two-day national mourning and that the National Flag will fly at half-mast from February 6 to 7 throughout India in her respect.

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1929 births
2022 deaths
Indian singers
Bollywood playback singers
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in India
Ilyushin Il-2

Ilyushin Il-2 (Russian: Ильюшин Ил-2; NATO reporting name: Bark) was a Soviet ground-attack aircraft produced by Ilyushin in WWII.

Soviet & Russian aircraft
World War II aircraft
Ruthie Tompson

Ruthie Tompson (July 22, 1910 – October 10, 2021) was an American animator. She was best known for her work on animated features at The Walt Disney Company. She was born in Portland, Maine. Her best known works were in Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio, Dumbo and Fantasia. Tompson retired in 1975 after working for The Walt Disney Company for almost 40 years.

In July 2020, Tompson turned 110. She died on October 10, 2021 at her home in Woodland Hills, California at the age of 111.

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American animators
American supercentenarians
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People from Portland, Maine
Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Bonds

is a 2008 Japanese animated movie based on Masashi Kishimoto's manga and anime series (Naruto). It was announced in Weekly Shōnen Jump and was released on August 2, 2008. The English version was released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 25, 2011. The theme song "No Rain No Rainbow" is performed by Home Made Kazoku.

Voice cast

References

Other websites 
 Official website 
 TV-Tokyo's Naruto site 
 
 

2008 anime movies
Japanese movies
Japanese-language movies
Sonali Bendre

Sonali Bendre (born 1 January 1975) is an Indian actress, model, television personality and author. She was born in Mumbai.

Her best known roles were in Diljale (1996), Bhai (1997), Qahar (1997), Major Saab (1998), Sarfarosh (1999), Hum Saath Saath Hain (1999), Kadhalar Dhinam (1998) and its Hindi bilingual Dil Hi Dil Mein (1999) and Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai (2000).

In July 2018, Bendre was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer and was undergoing treatment in New York City.

References

Other websites
 

1975 births
Living people
Indian movie actors
Indian television actors
Writers from Mumbai
Models from Mumbai
Television personalities
People with cancer
Actors from Mumbai
Val Bettin

Valentine John "Val" Bettin (born August 1, 1923) is an American actor. He is known for using an English accent in all of his roles. He is perhaps best known for voicing Dr. David Q. Dawson in the 1986 Disney animated movie The Great Mouse Detective and the Sultan in The Return of Jafar and Aladdin and the King of Thieves.

References

Other websites

Val Bettin at the Great Mouse Detective fansite

1923 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American voice actors
Actors from Wisconsin
Herbert Kretzmer

Herbert Kretzmer, OBE (5 October 1925 – 14 October 2020) was a South African-born English journalist and lyricist. He was best known as the lyricist for the English-language musical adaptation of Les Misérables as well as for his long-time writing works with the French singer Charles Aznavour.

He was nominated for Best Original Song at the 85th Academy Awards and the 70th Golden Globe Awards for the song "Suddenly" from the 2012 movie version of Les Misérables.

Kretzmer died on 14 October 2020 in London from Parkinson's disease-related problems at the age of 95.

References

Other websites
Herbert Kretzmer official website

Tony Award winners
Grammy Award winners
1925 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from Parkinson's disease
Disease-related deaths in London
South African writers
Lyricists
English journalists
Vogelkop bowerbird

The Vogelkop bowerbird (Amblyornis inornata), also known as the Vogelkop gardener bowerbird, is a medium-sized, bowerbird of the mountains of the Vogelkop Peninsula at Western New Guinea, Indonesia.

The birds are about 21–35 cm in length, with the females being slightly smaller.

The species is known for their mating method. Males are seen, in order to mate, to build a nest with decorations. The more attractive the nest, the most likely it will attract a mate.

References

Other websites
 Avian Visual Cognition: Photo of male arranging red flowers and black beetle elytra. Retrieved 2007-FEB-19.
 BirdLife Species Factsheet. Retrieved 2007-FEB-19.

Passeri
Birds of Indonesia
Eiza González

Eiza González Reyna (; born 30 January 1990) is a Mexican actress and singer. She became famous for her role as Dolores "Lola" Valente in the Mexican musical telenovela Lola...Érase una vez (2007–2008). 

González gained further fame in the American horror series From Dusk till Dawn: The Series (2014–2016). She is also known for her roles as Monica "Darling" Castello in the action crime movie Baby Driver (2017) and as Nyssiana in the cyberpunk action movie Alita: Battle Angel (2019).

References

1990 births
Living people
Mexican movie actors
Mexican television actors
Polistes carnifex

Polistes carnifex, also known as the executioner  wasp, is a neotropical vespid wasp in the cosmopolitan genus Polistes  and is labeled as having the most painful sting out of all discovered insect species. 

The wasp is native to Central and South America. It is a very large yellow and brown paper wasp that creates small colonies which build nests under the eaves of buildings or suspended from branches.

References

Wasps
My Hero Academia: Two Heroes

is a 2018 Japanese anime superhero movie. It is based on the manga My Hero Academia by Kōhei Horikoshi. The story occurs between the second and third seasons of the anime series. The movie was directed by Kenji Nagasaki and produced by Bones.

During the opening weekend, My Hero Academia: Two Heroes ranked 4th at the Japanese box office. It grossed  () in three days. The movie later dropped to 7th in its second weekend. The movie sold its one millionth ticket during its fourth week.

Voice cast

References 

2018 anime movies
Him & I

"Him & I" is a song recorded by American rapper G-Eazy and singer Halsey.

2017 songs
Songs about sexuality
Deadman Wonderland

is a Japanese manga series. It was written by Jinsei Kataoka and illustrated by Kazuma KondouIt. It was published in Shōnen Ace since 2008. Tokyopop got the licensing rights to distribute the manga in English. It released the first 5 volumes of the manga before the company shut down its North American Publishing division in 2011. Viz Media announced that it had licensed the series for English language release in North America on July 7, 2013. It released the first volume on February 11, 2014; new volumes were released every two months after that.

An anime based on this manga aired between April and July 2011. The content from first 21 chapters were used in the anime. The anime is licensed by Funimation and aired on Adult Swim's Toonami block on May 26, 2012. It finished its run on August 11, 2012.

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She's Gotta Have It

She's Gotta Have It is a 1986 black and white comedy-drama movie. It was written, directed and edited by Spike Lee. Lee also acts in the movie.

Plot
Nola Darling is a young and attractive woman from Brooklyn. She is in relationships with three men: the polite and well-meaning Jamie Overstreet, the self-obsessed model Greer Childs and the immature Mars Blackmon. Though Nola is attracted to the best in each of them, she refuses to commit to any of them. Instead, she likes her personal freedom.

Her carefree, sexual lifestyle comes to an end when the three men meet and talk about Nola. Greer justifies Nola's arrogant behavior by saying she doesn't see the three as individuals. She sees the three as a group. Jamie and Mars become unhappy over how little Nola cares for all three men.

Jamie realizes that Greer and Mars are too scared of losing Nola to force her to choose one of them. Jamie tells Nola she must choose a single lover. Nola asks Jamie to come to her apartment to have casual sex. Jamie rapes Nola. He mockingly asks her if he's as good sexually as Greer or Mars. Nola has a "no-sex" agreement. Jamie rejects it at first. Then he agrees.

Themes
Nola realizes the freedom to have many sex partners that men have usually enjoyed. "A woman (or, at least Nola) can be a sexual being, doesn't belong to a man and perhaps shouldn't even wish for such a thing".

Cast
 Tracy Camilla Johns as Nola Darling
 Tommy Redmond Hicks as Jamie Overstreet
 John Canada Terrell as Greer Childs
 Spike Lee as Mars Blackmon
 Raye Dowell as Opal Gilstrap
 Joie Lee as Clorinda Bradford
 Dennis Karika as The Trainer
 S. Epatha Merkerson as Dr. Jamison
 Bill Lee as Sonny Darling
 Erik Dellums as Dog 3
 Reginald Hudlin as Dog 4
 Ernest Dickerson as Dog 8
 Fab Five Freddy as Dog 10
 Scott Sillers as Dog 11
 Geoffrey L. Garfield as Dog 12

Release

Box office
She's Gotta Have It opened in one theater on August 8, 1986. It made $28,743 on its opening weekend. The movie took in $7,137,503 in the United States.

Critical reception
The movie was well-liked by critics and audiences. Rotten Tomatoes rated this movie at 90% based on the reviews of 31 critics. The Metacritic rated the movie at 79/100.

Awards
1986 Cannes Film Festival
 "Award of the Youth" Foreign Film  — Spike Lee (won)
1986 Los Angeles Film Critics Awards
"New Generation Award" — Spike Lee (won)
1987 Independent Spirit Awards
 Best First Feature  — Spike Lee (won)
 Best Female Lead — Tracy Camilla Johns (nominated)

Home media
The movie was released in VHS format. In 2008 it was released on DVD in Region 1 by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Television series
A television series based on the movie got started on Netflix in 2017. Director Spike Lee directed the first season.

References

1986 comedy movies
American comedy movies
American independent movies
Movies directed by Spike Lee
Screenplays by Spike Lee
Jordan Peterson

Jordan Bernt Peterson (born June 12, 1962) is a Canadian clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. He studies abnormal, social, and personality psychology. He is interested in the psychology of religious and ideological belief.

Peterson has criticised political correctness, Marxism, and postmodernism.  Peterson has said "the climate change thing for me is a contentious issue, because you can’t trust the players." However, he does believe climate change to be an issue.

Books 
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (1999)
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (2018)
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life (2021)

Notable research papers 

 Self-Deception Explained
 You can neither remember nor forget what you do not understand
 Complexity Management Theory: Motivation for Ideological Rigidity and Social Conflict
 Play and the Regulation of Aggression
 Three Forms of Meaning and the Management of Complexity
 The Functional Neuroanatomy and Psychopharmacology of Predatory and Defensive Aggression
 Peacemaking among higher-order primates
 Neuropsychology of Motivation for Group Aggression and Mythology

Movies 
The Rise of Jordan Peterson (2019)
No Safe Spaces (2019)

References

Other websites 

 
 Jordan Peterson's channel on YouTube

1962 births
Living people
Canadian academics
Canadian critics
Canadian psychologists
Canadian scientists
Conservatives
Harvard University
People from Alberta
Viktor Frankl

Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. He survived Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Kaufering, and Türkheim. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, which is a form of existential analysis, the "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy".

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Neurologists
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Recipients of the Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria
Robert de Zouche Hall

Sir Robert de Zouche Hall, GCMG (27 April 1904 – 19 March 1995) was an English colonial governor. He served in Sierra Leone and Tanganyika.

He moved from the United Kingdom to New Zealand in 1973. He settled in Gisborne.

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1904 births
1995 deaths
Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Sierra Leonean people
Paradise, Nevada

Paradise is an unincorporated town and census-designated place (CDP) in Clark County, Nevada, United States. It is close to the city of Las Vegas and contains most of the Las Vegas Strip. The population was 223,167 at the 2010 census, making it the unincorporated town with the most people in Nevada. It was founded on December 8, 1950.

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Caledonia County, Vermont

Caledonia County is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Vermont. At the 2010 census, 31,227 people lived there. Its shire town (county seat) is the municipality of St. Johnsbury.

Vermont counties
Arlington, Massachusetts

Arlington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is six miles (10 km) northwest of Boston. The population was 42,844 at the 2010 census.

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Towns in Massachusetts
Yu Yu Hakusho

is a Japanese manga series by Yoshihiro Togashi. The series tells the story of Yusuke Urameshi. He died saving a child from a car. Yusuke goes through tests presented by Koenma, the son of the ruler of the afterlife Underworld. After those tests, Yusuke is brought back to life. He then becomes "Underworld Detective" and investigate many cases involving demons and ghosts in the human world. Later manga becomes more focused on martial arts battles and tournaments. Togashi began creating the series in November 1990.

The manga was originally published in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 1990 to July 1994. The series has 175 chapters collected in 19 tankōbon volumes. In North America, the manga ran completely in Viz's Shonen Jump from January 2003 to January 2010. There is an anime based on this manga with 112 television episodes. It was directed by Noriyuki Abe and co-produced by Fuji Television, Yomiko Advertising, and Studio Pierrot. At first, the television series aired on Japan's Fuji TV network from October 10, 1992 to December 17, 1994. It was later licensed in North America by Funimation in 2001. There it aired on popular Cartoon Network blocks including Adult Swim and later Toonami. The television series has also been broadcast in various other countries around the world. The Yu Yu Hakusho franchise has produced two animated films. It also has produced a series of original video animations (OVAs), audio albums, video games and other merchandise. The manga sold over fifty million copies in Japan. It won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga in 1993. The animated series won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize for best anime in 1994 and 1995. Yu Yu Hakusho has been watched by a large number of television viewers in Japan.

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Álex Figueroa

Álex Adolfo Figueroa Muñoz (20 September 1961 – 25 December 2018) was a Chilean politician and physician. He was Minister of Health from 1996 to 2000 during the Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle presidency. He was born in Santiago de Chile. Figueroa was a member of the Christian Democratic Party.

Figueroa died on 25 December 2018 from liver cancer in Santiago, aged 57.

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1961 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from liver cancer
Chilean politicians
Chilean physicians
Miúcha

Heloísa Maria Buarque de Hollanda (30 November 1937 – 27 December 2018), also known as Miúcha, was a Brazilian singer and composer. She was born in Rio de Janeiro. In 1960 she moved to Paris where she studied Art History at the École du Louvre. 

In 1975 she made her first professional recording as a singer on the album The Best of Two Worlds. Miúcha partnered with Tom Jobim on two albums, 1977 and 1979, and was part of the show organized by Aloysio de Oliveira along with Vinicius de Moraes, Tom Jobim and Toquinho. The act was shown for a year at Canecão in  Rio de Janeiro. 

Miúcha died on 27 December 2018, in Rio de Janeiro from respiratory failure, at the age of 81.

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1937 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from respiratory failure
Brazilian singers
Composers
People from Rio de Janeiro
Antonov An-148

Antonov An-148 (Ukrainian: Антонов Ан-148) is a regional jet designed by Antonov.

Aircraft
Tadeusz Pieronek

Tadeusz Pieronek (pronounced ; 24 October 1934 – 27 December 2018) was a Polish Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop-emeritus. He was auxiliary bishop of the Sosnowiec from 1992 to 1998.

Biography 
He was a Catholic academic and professor of theology and civil law. Pieronek was a leading member of the Stefan Batory Foundation (a George Soros Foundation branch in Poland). He was born in Radziechowy, Poland.

Pieronek died on 27 December 2018 in Sosnowiec, Poland from a heart attack at the age of 84.

References

Other websites
Bp. Pieronek at catholic-hierarchy.org
'Holocaust was a Jewish invention', says top Polish bishop. In: The News.pl, 25 January 2010
Pacifici racconta barzellette: la Polonia non é antisemita. Gli Israeliani non rispettano i diritti umani dei palestinesi. La shoa non é solo ebraica, ma riguarda cattolici e polacchi. Israele gode di buona stampa: il potere economico, pontifex.roma.it, 25 gennaio 2010 

1934 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Bishops
Polish educators
Polish Roman Catholics
Tupolev Tu-104

Tupolev Tu-104 (Russian: Туполев Ту-104; NATO reporting name: Camel) was a Soviet twin engine turbofan airliner designed by Tupolev.

Soviet & Russian aircraft
Civil aircraft
Micheál Martin

Micheál Martin (; born 1 August 1960) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He has been the Taoiseach of Ireland since 27 June 2020 and Leader of Fianna Fáil since 2011. He was Leader of the Opposition in Ireland from 2011 to 2020, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2008 to 2011 and Minister for Health and Children from 2000 to 2004. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for Cork South-Central since 1989.

Martin has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-Central constituency since 1989. He was Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2008 to 2011, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment from 2004 to 2008, Minister for Health and Children from 2000 to 2004, Minister for Education and Science from 1997 to 2000 and Lord Mayor of Cork from 1992 to 1993.

References

Other websites
 
 Micheál Martin's page on the Fianna Fáil website 
 Profile of Martin's tenure as Minister for Health 

1960 births
Living people
Current national leaders
Taoisigh of Ireland
Fianna Fáil politicians
Bootleg recording

A bootleg recording is an audio or video recording of a performance or song by an artist which was not officially released by the artist. The process of distributing or making such recordings is called bootlegging. 

Recordings may be copied and traded between fans of an artist without profit. But some bootleggers have sold recordings for profit. They sometimes add professional-quality sound engineering and/or packaging to the raw material.

Bootlegs are usually made of either unreleased studio recordings, live performances or interviews with a level of quality that can't be predicted.

Bootlegging dates back to the 16th and 17th centuries, around the time of William Shakespeare.

In the early 20th century, movie soundtracks were often bootlegged. One example was a bootleg of Judy Garland. She performed Annie Get Your Gun. That was before Betty Hutton replaced her early in production. It happened after a full soundtrack had been recorded.

Bootlegging increased between the 1960s and 2000s. One of the most praised bootlegs in the 1980s is Prince's studio album The Black Album. In December 1987, Prince ordered the album taken down because of a few advance copies being used to make bootlegs.

The rise in popularity of the video sharing website YouTube caused it to be a major carrier of bootleg recordings. Its owner, Google, believes that under the "safe harbor" rule of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), it cannot be held responsible for content. That allows bootleg media to be hosted on it without any fear of a lawsuit. In 2010 Youtube removed a 15-minute limit on videos. That allowed entire concerts to be uploaded by fans and bootleggers.

References

Property crimes
Copyright
One-Punch Man

is an ongoing Japanese superhero webcomic created by ONE. It began publication in early 2009. The series quickly went viral. It received 7.9 million hits in June 2012. One-Punch Man tells the story of Saitama, a very powerful superhero. He has grown bored due to the lack of challenge in his fight against evil and is trying to find a worthy opponent.

A digital manga remake of the series, illustrated by Yusuke Murata, began publication on Shueisha's Young Jump Web Comics website in 2012. The chapters are collected and printed into tankōbon volumes. Sixteen volumes were released as of April 4, 2018. Viz Media has licensed the remake for English publication in its Weekly Shonen Jump digital magazine.

An anime television based on this manga by Madhouse aired in Japan between October and December 2015. It was dubbed in English during the summer of 2016. Later that year a planned second season was announced. On September 25, 2017, it was announced that they would be changing both its production company and director.

The series nominated for the seventh annual Manga Taishō Awards in 2014. The series was also nominated for an Eisner Award in 2015.

References
Water table

The water table is the level where the ground will be filled with water if you go any lower.

The water table is the top of an underground surface where the soil or rocks are permanently saturated with water. 

The groundwater (fresh water found underground) may come from precipitation or from water flowing into the aquifer.

References 

Water
Aquifers
Violet Evergarden

is a Japanese light novel series. It was written by Kana Akatsuki. The drawings in the book were drawn by Akiko Takase. It won the grand prize in the Kyoto Animation Award in 2014. This was for novels. This was the first time something had won a grand prize in the Kyoto Animation Award. Kyoto Animation released the first book on 25 December 2015. They released it under their KA Esuma Bunko company. An anime television series came out between January and April 2018. An original video animation episode came out in July 2018 and a movie will come out in January 2020.

References

2015 books
Light novels
Nardole

Nardole is a character created by Steven Moffat, played by Matt Lucas, in the Doctor Who television shows.

Doctor Who characters
Juan Bautista Agüero

Juan Bautista Agüero Sánchez (24 June 1935 – 27 December 2018) was an Uruguayan football striker. He was born in Caacupé, Paraguay. Agüero was part of the Paraguay national football team that qualified for and played in the 1958 FIFA World Cup, where he scored two goals for Paraguay. For the 1965/1966, he signed for Real Madrid and he also had a brief stint in Granada CF.

Agüero died on 27 December 2018 in Caacupé at the age of 83.

References

1935 births
2018 deaths
Paraguayan footballers
Robert Kerman

Robert Charles Kerman (December 16, 1947 – December 27, 2018) was an American actor. He appeared in pornographic movies in the 1970s and 1980s. Kerman was born in New York City. His nickname was R. Bolla. He was in 100 pornographic movies, but famously in Debbie Does Dallas (1978). He also appeared in non-pornographic movies such as The Goodbye Girl (1977), The Concorde... Airport '79, Cannibal Holocaust and Cannibal Ferox.

In the 2000s, Kerman played a sea captain in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, and Dr. Monroe in the drama short Vic.

Kerman died in New York City on December 27, 2018 at the age of 71.

References

Other websites

1947 births
2018 deaths
American pornographic actors
American movie actors
American television actors
Actors from New York City
Amos Oz

Amos Oz (; born Amos Klausner; May 4, 1939 – December 28, 2018) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and philosopher. He was a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba. He was born in Jerusalem.

Oz's work has been published in 45 languages in 47 countries. He was honored with a Legion of Honour of France, the Goethe Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award in Literature, the Heinrich Heine Prize and the Israel Prize. 

In 2007, a selection from the Chinese translation of A Tale of Love and Darkness was the first work of modern Hebrew literature to appear in an official Chinese textbook. His other best known works were My Michael and A Perfect Peace.

Oz was a supporter of a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

Oz died in Tel Aviv on December 28, 2018 from a short-battle with an "aggressive form" of cancer at the age of 79.

References

1939 births
2018 deaths
Cancer deaths in Israel
Israeli writers
Israeli journalists
Israeli activists
Israeli educators
Novelists
Israeli philosophers
Political activists
Political writers
People from Jerusalem
Patrick M. Shanahan

Patrick Michael Shanahan (born June 27, 1962) is an American politician and businessman. He was the acting United States Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration from January 1, 2019 to June 24, 2019.

On December 27, 2018, President Trump promoted him to Acting Secretary of Defense starting on January 1, 2019, replacing James Mattis.

The White House announced on May 9, 2019, that Trump intended to nominate Shanahan as the Secretary of Defense. That decision was reversed on June 18, 2019, when Shanahan said that he was withdrawing, and Trump announced that he would be making Mark Esper the acting U.S. Secretary of Defense. Shanahan's last day in that position was June 24, 2019.

References

1962 births
Living people
United States Secretaries of Defense
Businesspeople from California
Politicians from California
People from Palo Alto, California
David Bernhardt

David Longly Bernhardt (born August 17, 1969) is an American attorney, lobbyist and politician. He was the 53rd United States Secretary of the Interior from 2019 to 2021. He was the Deputy United States Secretary of the Interior when Ryan Zinke was secretary.

He began working for the United States Department of the Interior in 2001 and was the department's solicitor from 2006 to 2009, among other roles.

On April 28, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated him to be the United States Deputy Secretary of the Interior.  He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 24, 2017. He became Acting Secretary of the Interior on January 2, 2019, replacing Ryan Zinke. In February 2019, Trump nominated Bernhardt to serve the position as the permanent secretary. He was confirmed on April 11, 2019.

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1969 births
Living people
Lawyers from Colorado
American lobbyists
Businesspeople from Colorado
Politicians from Colorado
United States Secretaries of the Interior
US Republican Party politicians
Rifle, Colorado

The City of Rifle is a city in Garfield County, Colorado, United States. The population was 9,172 at the 2010 census. The town was founded in 1882. It is located along Rifle Creek, near its mouth on the Colorado. The community takes its name from the creek.

References

Cities in Colorado
McFlurry

The McFlurry is a brand of flavored ice cream distributed by the international fast food restaurant chain McDonald's and was first introduced in Canada in 1995.

References

Other websites 
 Nutritional information for a sample McFlurry

Ice cream
McDonald's
Bonner County, Idaho

Bonner County is a county in the northern part of the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2010 census, 40,877 people lived there. The county seat and largest city is Sandpoint.

Communities

Cities 

 Sandpoint
 Clark Fork
 Dover
 East Hope
 Hope
 Kootenai
 Oldtown
 Ponderay
 Priest River

Census-designated place 
 Blanchard

Unincorporated communities 

 Careywood
 Cocolalla
 Colburn
 Coolin
 Laclede
 Lamb Creek
 Nordman
 Outlet Bay
 Sagle
 Vans Corner
 Westmond

References 

1900s establishments in Idaho
1907 establishments in the United States
Idaho counties
Earle, Arkansas

Earle is a city in Crittenden County, Arkansas.

Cities in Arkansas
Emmet, Arkansas

Emmet is a city in the US state of Arkansas.

Cities in Arkansas
Clay County, Kentucky

Clay County is a county in Kentucky.

Kentucky counties
1800s establishments in Kentucky
1807 establishments in the United States
Clay County, Tennessee

Clay County is a county in Tennessee.

References 

Tennessee counties
19th-century establishments in Tennessee
1870 establishments in the United States
Clay County, Mississippi

Clay County is a county in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The county seat is West Point.

Mississippi counties
1870s establishments in Mississippi
1871 establishments in the United States
UNCF

UNCF, the United Negro College Fund, also known as the United Fund, is an American charity organization that funds scholarships for black students and general scholarship funds for 37 private historically black colleges and universities. UNCF was created on April 25, 1944 by Frederick D. Patterson (then president of what is now Tuskegee University), Mary McLeod Bethune, and others. UNCF is headquartered at 1805 7th Street, NW in Washington, D.C.  In 2005, UNCF supported almost 65,000 students at over 900 colleges and universities with about $113 million in grants and scholarships. About 60% of these students are the first in their families to attend college. About 62% have annual family incomes of less than $25,000. UNCF also runs over 450 named scholarships.

UNCF's president and chief executive officer is Michael Lomax. Past presidents of the UNCF included William H. Gray (Pennsylvania politician) and Vernon Jordan.

References

Other websites 
 Official website

1944 establishments in the United States
20th-century establishments in Washington, D.C.
Organizations based in the United States
Washington, D.C.
African-American history
Sigma, Capiz

Sigma is a town in Capiz, Visayas, in the Philippines. In 2015, it had a population of 30,134 people.

Sigma is 28 kilometers away from Roxas, the capital of the province of Capiz.

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Cities in the Philippines
Capiz

Capiz is a province of the Visayas region in the Philippines. The province's capital is Roxas City. The province is one of the 15th most visited places in the country and is known for its seafood.

References

 

Provinces of the Philippines
LA

LA can mean

 Louisiana a US state by abbreviation
 Los Angeles a city in California and second most populated city in the US
Aída Judith León

Aída León de Rodríguez, born Aída Judith León Lara (born June 23, 1928) is an Ecuadorian philanthropist. She was the First Lady of Ecuador to Guillermo Rodríguez, her husband from 1972 to 1976.

León was born on June 23, 1928 in Pujilí, Cotopaxi Province. In 1953, she married General Guillermo Rodríguez and had five children.

As First Lady of Ecuador, León was president of the National Children's Trust (INNFA since 1980). León was in charge of the evacuation and treatment of victims of a flood in Babahoyo.

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Living people
1928 births
First Ladies of Ecuador
South American philanthropists
Tom Weisner

Tom Weisner (October 6, 1949 – December 28, 2018) was an American politician. He was the mayor of Aurora, Illinois from 2005 until 2016. He worked for five years as a volunteer in the Peace Corps. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He was born in Batavia, Illinois. He was re-elected in 2012, but in May 2015 announced his retirement. He resigned in August 2016 due to poor health. 

Weisner died of colon cancer-related complications on December 28, 2018 in Aurora, aged 69.

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1949 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from colorectal cancer
Cancer deaths in Illinois
American mayors
Politicians from Illinois
US Democratic Party politicians
People from Aurora, Illinois
Wendy Beckett

Wendy Beckett (25 February 1930 – 26 December 2018), better known as Sister Wendy, was a British nun, television personality and art historian. She was born in South Africa.

Beckett became famous during the early 1990s when she presented a series of BBC television documentaries on the history of art. Her programmes, such as Sister Wendy's Odyssey and Sister Wendy's Grand Tour, often drew a 25 percent share of the British viewing audience.

In 1997, Sister Wendy first appeared on television in the United States, on public television. That same year The New York Times described her as "a sometime hermit who is fast on her way to becoming the most unlikely and famous art critic in the history of television".

Beckett died on 26 December 2018 at the Carmelite Monastery in Quidenham, Norfolk at the age of 88.

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1930 births
2018 deaths
Nuns
British historians
British television personalities
BBC people
South African writers
Writers from Norfolk
Peritonitis

Peritonitis is inflammation of the peritoneum, the lining of the inner wall of the abdomen and cover of the abdominal organs. Symptoms may include severe pain, swelling of the abdomen, fever, or weight loss.

Causes include perforation of the intestinal tract, pancreatitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, stomach ulcer, cirrhosis, or a ruptured appendix.

Treatment often includes antibiotics, intravenous fluids, pain medication, and surgery.

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Diseases
Tomokatsu Kitagawa

was a Japanese politician. He was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. He was a member of the House of Representatives. He was born in Neyagawa, Osaka. He was an MP from 2003 to 2009 and again from 2012 until his death 2018.

Kitagawa died on December 26, 2018 in Osaka of complications from peritonitis, aged 67.

References

Other websites
 
 Official website in Japanese.

1951 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from peritonitis
Japanese politicians
Toshiko Fujita

was a Japanese actress and singer. She was born in Dalian, Liaoning, China. She worked at Aoni Production. Fujita was known for her roles in Digimon Adventure, Zatch Bell!, Chihayafuru, Bonobono and in Fist of the North Star.

Fujita died of breast cancer on December 28, 2018 in Tokyo at the age of 68.

References

Other websites
Aoni Production profile 
Toshiko Fujita  at the Seiyuu database

1950 births
2018 deaths
Japanese movie actors
Japanese television actors
Japanese voice actors
Japanese singers
Deaths from breast cancer
Peter Hill-Wood

Peter Denis Hill-Wood (25 February 1936 – 28 December 2018) was a British businessman. He was born in London. He was chairman of Arsenal Football Club. He also was vice-chairman of Hambros Bank. On 14 June 2013 Hill-Wood stepped down and was replaced as chairman of Arsenal by Chip Keswick.

On 28 December 2018, Hill-Wood died in London, aged 82.

References

Other websites
 Peter Hill-Wood at Cricket Archive

1936 births
2018 deaths
Businesspeople from London
Robert Costanzo

Robert Jason Costanzo (born October 20, 1942) is an American actor. He was born in New York City. He is known as the voice double for Danny DeVito. His first role was in the 1975 movie Dog Day Afternoon. He is also known for his voice role of Detective Harvey Bullock on Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, The New Batman Adventures and Static Shock

His movie roles include Total Recall, Die Hard 2, Dick Tracy, City Slickers, and Down and Derby. His television roles include in Boston Legal, Hannah Montana, Friends, Days of Our Lives, The Golden Girls and as Commissioner Stenchler in the Sega CD game Sewer Shark.

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Other websites

1942 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American voice actors
American video game actors
Actors from New York City
Brenda Vaccaro

Brenda Buell Vaccaro (born November 18, 1939) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in Midnight Cowboy, Once Is Not Enough, Airport '77, Capricorn One, The Pride of Jesse Hallam, Supergirl, The Mirror Has Two Faces, Heart of Midnight, and in Zorro, The Gay Blade.

She received one Academy Award nomination, three Golden Globe Award nominations (winning one), four Primetime Emmy Award nominations (winning one), and three Tony Award nominations.

Her best known stage roles were in The Affair (1962), Cactus Flower (1965), How Now, Dow Jones (1967), The Goodbye People (1968), the female version of The Odd Couple, (1985), and Jake's Women (1992).

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Golden Globe Award winning actors
Emmy Award winning actors
Satellite Award winners
1939 births
Living people
American movie actors
American stage actors
American voice actors
American television actors
Actors from New York City
Bird Box (movie)

Bird Box is a 2018 American horror thriller movie. It was directed by Susanne Bier. The movie is based on a novel of the same name by Josh Malerman.  

The movie is about a woman, played by Sandra Bullock. Together with other people she hides from supernatural creatures. If a human sees such a creature, he kills himself. Later the woman must make it through a forest and river. She has a pair of children with her. Most of the time they are blindfolded to avoid the sight of the creatures. 

Other actors in the movie are Trevante Rhodes, Jacki Weaver, Rosa Salazar, Danielle Macdonald, Lil Rel Howery, Tom Hollander, BD Wong, Sarah Paulson, Colson Baker and John Malkovich. 

Bird Box had its world premiere at AFI Fest on November 12, 2018. The movie began a limited release on December 14. Starting December 21, 2018 the movie was streamed worldwide on Netflix.

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2018 movies
Movies based on books
American thriller movies
Netflix movies
Post-apocalyptic movies
Jason Wiles

Jason Austin Wiles (born April 25, 1970) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the television series, such as Colin Robbins in Beverly Hills, 90210 and as Maurice Boscorelli in Third Watch. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri.

Other websites 
 

1970 births
Living people
Actors from Kansas City, Missouri
American movie actors
American television actors
Clay County, Missouri

Clay County is a county in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the county had a population of 221,939, making it the fifth-most populous county in Missouri. The county seat is Liberty. It was founded on January 2, 1822.

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1820s establishments in Missouri
1822 establishments in the United States
Missouri counties
Gitega

Gitega is the capital of Burundi. It is also the second-largest city. Gitega is east of Burundi's largest city, Bujumbura. It is also the capital and largest city of Gitega Province.

History 
On 29 April 1972, the king Ntare V was killed in Gitega.

In March 2007, the President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza said that Burundi was going to bring back its capital to Gitega, saying that it is a better location for a capital than Bujumbura.

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Cities in Burundi
Capital cities in Africa
The Ant Bully

The Ant Bully is a 2006 American computer-animated adventure fantasy comedy movie written, edited and directed by Rich Moore And Eric Darnell And Executive Produced For BBC By: Mike Mitchell, Steven Spielberg, Joe Johnston, James Cameron, Kathleen Branagh And Andrew Stanton based on the 1999 children's book of the same name by John Nickle. And Original Developments Illumination Entertainment, Blue Sky Studios, Sony Pictures Animation And Blizzard Entertainment
 
Original Scoring By: James Newton Howard And Chris Bacon
Orchestratral And Scoring Conducted By: Pete Anthony And Gavin Greenaway
Recorded By: Nick Wollage And Shawn Murthy AT EMI Abbey Road And AIR Lyndhurst Hall, London UK

It features the voices of Zach Tyler Eisen, Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep and Paul Giamatti, was produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's Playtone, John A. Davis and Keith Alcorn's DNA Productions, and was released in theatres on July 28, 2006, by Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures. Concurrently with the general release, it was offered in big screen IMAX 3D, the format, also used with Blended.

Release Dates 

2006 movies
2006 animated movies
2006 computer-animated movies
Warner Bros. movies
Tripureswar

Tripureshwar is a village in Dhading District in the Bagmati Zone of central Nepal. 

At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2707 and had 497 houses in it. 

The biggest river of the district, Netrawati river passes from this village.

References

Geography of Nepal
Villages in Asia
Yakovlev Yak-18

Yakovlev Yak-18 (Russian: Яковлев Як-18; NATO reporting name: Max) is a Soviet 2-seat military fighter designed by Yakovlev.

Soviet & Russian aircraft
Yakovlev

Yakovlev is a Russian aircraft company. It is headquartered in Aeroport District, Northern Administrative Okrug, Moscow.

Other websites 

 Official website 

Aircraft companies
Companies based in Moscow
Kelly Burnett

James Kelvin "Kelly" Burnett (June 16, 1926 – December 22, 2018) was a Canadian ice hockey centre. He played in the NHL for the New York Rangers. He was born in Lachine, Quebec.

Burnett died on December 22, 2018 in Halifax, Nova Scotia at the age of 92.

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1926 births
2018 deaths
New York Rangers players
Ice hockey people from Quebec
Sportspeople from Montreal
Ice hockey centres
Børge Ring

Børge Ring (17 February 1921 – 27 December 2018) was a Danish screenwriter, director and animator. His 1978 short movie Oh My Darling won the Best Short Film award at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, and his 1984 short movie Anna & Bella won the Best Animated Short Film award at the Academy Awards.

Ring died on 28 December 2018 in Ravenstein, Netherlands at the age of 97.

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Academy Award winners
Animators
Danish screenwriters
1921 births
2018 deaths
Danish movie directors
Mohammed Nadir Shah

Muhammad Nadir Shah (,  – born Muhammad Nadir Khan; 9 April 1883 – 8 November 1933) was King of Afghanistan from 15 October 1929 until his assassination in November 1933. Previously, he served as Minister of War, Afghan Ambassador to France, and as a general in the military of Afghanistan. He and his son Muhammad Zahir Shah, who succeeded him, are part of the Musahiban.

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1883 births
1933 deaths
Pashtun people
Penny (United States coin)

The United States one-cent coin, also called the penny, is a unit of currency. It equals one one hundredth of a United States dollar. The cent's symbol is ¢. Its front has shown the profile of President Abraham Lincoln since 1909, 100 years after his birth. Its back has shown the Union Shield since 2010.

The official name for this coin from the United States Mint is "cent".

References

Currency of the United States
Dietrich von Choltitz

Dietrich Hugo Hermann von Choltitz (9 November 1894 – 5 November 1966) was an officer of the German Army in World War II. Choltitz was born in Gräflich Wiese (now Łąka Prudnicka) next to Neustadt (now Prudnik).

He participated in occupation of Sudetenland in 1938 and in the invasion of Poland in 1939.

On 7 August 1944 he was became the the military governor of Paris. On 25 August he surrendered Paris to the Allies.  

He has been called the "Saviour of Paris" because he prevented its destruction. Choltitz said he defied Hitler's direct order for its destruction because it was militarily useless. Other reasons were his affection for Parisian history and culture, and his belief that Hitler had become insane.

Choltitz died on 5 November 1966 in Baden-Baden.

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1894 births
1966 deaths
German generals of World War II
German military personnel of World War I
Schlierbach, Haut-Rhin

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

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Schweighouse-Thann

Schweighouse-Thann is a commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Schwoben

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

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Sentheim

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

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Spechbach, Haut-Rhin

Spechbach is a new commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of east France. Two communes Spechbach-le-Haut and Spechbach-le-Bas joined and became Spechbach on 1 January 2016.

References 

2016 establishments in France
Communes in Haut-Rhin
Spechbach-le-Haut

Spechbach-le-Haut was a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France. On 1 January 2016, it became part of the new commune Spechbach.

References 

Former communes in Haut-Rhin
Spechbach-le-Bas

Spechbach-le-Bas was a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France. On 1 January 2016, it became part of the new commune Spechbach.

References 

Former communes in Haut-Rhin
Seppois-le-Bas

Seppois-le-Bas is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Seppois-le-Haut

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

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Sewen

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

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Sickert, Haut-Rhin

Sickert 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
Sierentz

Sierentz is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France. It is halfway between Mulhouse and Basel.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Steinbach, Haut-Rhin

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

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Soppe-le-Bas

Soppe-le-Bas is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Zimmerbach

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

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Dierks, Arkansas

Dierks is a city in the US state of Arkansas.

Cities in Arkansas
De Graff, Minnesota

De Graff is a city in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

Cities in Minnesota
Peter Popoff

Peter Popoff (born July 2, 1946) is a German-born/American televangelist. He was exposed in 1986 for using an earpiece to receive radio messages from his wife Elizabeth. She gave him the names, addresses and ailments of members of the audience during Popoff-led religious services. Popoff falsely said God revealed the information to him so he could cure them by faith healing.

Popoff went bankrupt in 1987. But he made a comeback in the late 1990s. Beginning around the mid-2000s, he bought television time to promote "Miracle Spring Water" on late-night infomercials. He referred to himself as a prophet. The Business Insider said: "No matter how many times his claims are debunked, he seems to bounce back with another version of the same old scam."

Popoff was born in West Berlin, Germany. He was raised in California.

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Television evangelists
German people
People from California
1946 births
Living people
Yakovlev Yak-1

Yakovlev Yak-1 (Russian: Яковлев Як-1) was a Soviet WWII 1-seat fighter produced by Yakovlev.

Soviet & Russian aircraft
World War II aircraft
Yakovlev Yak-7

Yakovlev Yak-7 (Russian: Яковлев Як-7) was a Soviet WWII 1-seat fighter developed by Yakovlev

References

Soviet & Russian aircraft
World War II aircraft
Yakovlev Yak-52

Yakovlev Yak-52 (Russian: Яковлев Як-52) is a Soviet 2-seat trainer aircraft designed by Yakovlev.

Soviet & Russian aircraft
World War II aircraft