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Christopher Thomas Morahan CBE (9 July 1929 – 7 April 2017) was an English stage and television director and production executive. From 1972 to 1976, he was the Head of Plays for BBC Television, a department responsible for such series as "Play for Today". Morahan joined the National Theatre in 1977 as Deputy Director and was appointed Co-Director of the Olivier Theatre. He was involved in creating the 14-part television drama "The Jewel in the Crown" (1984), of which he was co-director and producer. The series won a Primetime Emmy Award and a BAFTA TV Award in 1985. Morahan was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to drama. Morahan died on 7 April 2017 in London at the age of 87. He died on the same day as Tim Pigott-Smith, one of the leads in "The Jewel in the Crown".
José Ángel Nájera Sánchez (January 6, 1951 – April 8, 2017) was a Mexican "luchador" or professional wrestler best known under the ring name "Fishman".  Fishman was one of the top wrestlers in the mid-1970s and 1980s and has worked for Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre, the Universal Wrestling Association, the World Wrestling Association and Asistencia Asesoría y Administración in Mexico as well as frequent trips to Japan and the United States.  Nájera was unmasked after losing a match in 2000 and retired shortly afterwards. Three of his sons are all "luchadors enmascarados" (masked wrestlers) known by their ring names Black Fish, El Hijo del Fishman and El Único de Ciudad Juárez. Nájera died on April 8, 2017 of a heart attack.
A water bottle is a container that is used to hold water, liquids or other beverages for drinking. Using a water bottle allows people to transport, and drink, a beverage from one place to another. Water bottles can be either disposable or reusable. Some water bottles are reusable and can help save the environment by reducing waste.
Georgy Mikhaylovich Grechko (; 25 May 1931 – 8 April 2017) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on several space flights including Soyuz 17, Soyuz 26, and Soyuz T-14. He was twice awarded the medal of Hero of the Soviet Union. He resigned from the space programme in 1992 to lecture on atmospheric physics at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Grechko has written his memoirs as "Космонавт No. 34: От лучины до пришельцев," (Cosmonaut No. 34 From Splinter to Aliens) Olma Media Grupp, Moscow, 2013. Grechko died aged 85 from heart failure. He was survived by wife Lyudmila and daughter Olga.
Knut Conrad Borge (2 September 1949 – 9 April 2017) was a Norwegian journalist and television presenter. Borge was born in Bærum.  Borge became a freelancer for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in 1973. Among his shows were "Borgulfsen" from 1984 to 1997, and "Swing&amp;Sweet" from 1986 to 1999.  Borge has hosted the "Spellemannprisen" show several times. From 2004 he hosted the classical quiz show "20 spørsmål". He worked as a jazz columnist and journalist for "Verdens Gang" from 1979 to 1989, and for "Dagens Næringsliv" from 1990 to 1995. His books include "Det største siden Svartedauen" from 1986, and "Kjære Skrythals" from 1994 (with Tore Skoglund). Borge died in Oslo on 9 April 2017 from heart failure, aged 67.
Mark Ian Goldring CBE (born 8 March 1957) is chief executive of Oxfam, the leading development charity. He started in May 2013. Goldring has a bachelor's degree in law from Keble College, Oxford, and a master's degree in Social Policy in Developing Countries from the London School of Economics. Before joining Oxfam, Goldring was chief executive of Mencap for five years.
Georges Prêtre (; 14 August 1924 – 4 January 2017) was a French orchestral and opera conductor. His Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, debut came in 1965, with first appearances at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, and La Scala, Milan, also coming in the same decade. He worked with Maria Callas on a number of occasions, and made recordings of "Carmen" and "Tosca" with her. Prêtre conducted the Vienna New Year's Concert twice, in 2008 and in 2010, the only French conductor to have been appointed for this role. Prêtre died in his home in Navès (Tarn), near Castres on 4 January 2017, aged 92.
Barbara Christina Elisabeth Helsingius-Koski (née Helsingius; 27 September 1937 – 9 March 2017) was a Finnish singer, poet, and Olympic fencer. She participated at the 1960 Summer Olympics. She was born in Helsinki. Helsingius became well-known internationally, and was a member of Visens venner in Norway. She was a member of the joint Nordic cultural organisation NordVisa. Helsingius died from a long illness on 9 March 2017 in Espoo, Finland. She was 79 years old.
Carme María Chacón Piqueras (; 13 March 1971 – 9 April 2017) was a Spanish Socialist politician.  Chacón was Minister of Defense from 2008 to 2011 in the cabinet led by Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. She also served as Minister of Housing from 2007 through 2008. With the landslide defeat of Zapatero in the November 2011 selections, Chacón resigned the Defense Minister's post to Pedro Morenés in December 2011. She filed to be Spanish Socialist Workers' Party General Secretary. On 4 February 2012 she lost to Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba 487 to 465 votes in the 38th congress of the party. Chacón died on April 9, 2017 in Madrid from a rare form of heart disease, aged 46.
Shecky Greene (born Fred Sheldon Greenfield; April 8, 1926 – December 31, 2023) was an American comedian. He was known for his nightclub performances in Las Vegas, where he became a headliner in the 1950s.  Greene appeared in several movies, including "Tony Rome", "History of the World, Part I" and "Splash", and has guest starred on such television shows as "Mad About You", "Laverne &amp; Shirley", "Love, American Style", and "Combat!". Greene died at his home in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve 2023, at the age of 97.
Bill Page (September 11, 1925 – April 26, 2017) was an American reed player, band leader, and entrepreneur. He was best known for his work in the Lawrence Welk Band. Page was born in Chicago, Illinois. He studied at Wilbur Wright College. Page left the Lawrence Welk Show in 1965 and went on to perform with Barry Manilow, Ted Mack, Frank Gorshin, Judy Garland, and on "The Tonight Show" starring Johnny Carson. Page died on April 26, 2017 in Studio City, Los Angeles at the age of 91.
Charles Lester (Chuck) Nergard (February 6, 1929 – November 9, 2017) was an American politician in the state of Florida. Early life. Nergard was born in Chicago in 1929 and moved to Florida in 1956. He studied at Schurz Junior College, Wright Junior College, and George Williams College. Political career. As a Republican, he represented the 76th District which is in St. Lucie County, Florida. He served from 1967 to 1976 and from 1978 to 1990. Personal life. He was married to Catherine Misheck. They had two children. During his time in the House, Nergard was also a part-time real estate developer. His religion was listed as Lutheran. Nergard died in Port St. Lucie, Florida on November 9, 2017 at the age of 88.
Kathleen Troia "K.T." McFarland (born July 22, 1951) was the Deputy National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump from January 20, 2017 to May 19, 2017.  On April 9, 2017, it was reported that she would soon be leaving this post and be nominated to be the next United States Ambassador to Singapore.  McFarland served previously as a staff member on the U.S. National Security Council in the 1970s and a staff member at the Defense Department in the 1980s. McFarland ran unsuccessfully for the Republican Party nomination in the United States Senate election in New York, 2006, then was a Fox News national security analyst and a contributor to its website opinion page in the 2010s.
David Melech Friedman (born August 8, 1958) is an American bankruptcy lawyer. He was the United States Ambassador to Israel from 2017 until 2021. Friedman joined the law firm Kasowitz, Benson, Torres &amp; Friedman (then known as Kasowitz, Hoff, Benson &amp; Torres) in 1994, where he met and represented Donald Trump, then chairman and president of The Trump Organization. He served as an advisor to Trump during his successful presidential campaign. In December 2016, President-elect Trump announced that he was nominee for ambassador to Israel. His nomination was met with support from conservative Israeli and Jewish American activist groups, and opposition from liberal advocacy organizations, particularly J Street. Friedman was confirmed by the full Senate on March 23 with a 52–46 vote and officially sworn in by Vice President Mike Pence on March 29. In 1984, Friedman met President Ronald Reagan when Reagan visited Temple Hillel and became the first sitting president since George Washington to visit a synagogue.
"Shape of You" is a song by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. It is the first single from his third studio album, "÷" ("divide"). It was released on January 6, 2017. "Shape of You" has reached number one on the charts of several countries, including entering at the top of the charts in the UK, US, Canada, and Australia. It became Sheeran's first number-one song in the US. Before, he reached number two on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in 2015 with the single "Thinking Out Loud". On Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI), a website that shows the royalties and songwriters/publishers of songs, Sheeran added the songwriters of TLC's "No Scrubs" (1999). This is because lines from both songs have a similar rhythm. The song finished as the number-one song of 2017 in the US. Composition. The song in in C# minor with a moderate tempo, and chord progression following C#m-F#m-A-B, with a tresillo rhythm. Music video. The music video for "Shape of You", directed by Jason Koenig, was released on 30 January 2017 and features American actress Jennie Pegouski and retired sumo wrestler Yamamotoyama Ryūta. Chart performance. "Shape of You" has reached the number one position in 38 countries. It is one of the most successful songs in world history, having charted at the number one position for 10 weeks or more on the national singles charts in 16 countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. The song has charted for 15 weeks on Australia's ARIA Singles Chart, becoming the longest-running number one single on a national singles chart in Australian history - a record that it held until November 2019. In Canada, the song charted at number one for 16 weeks, becoming one of the two longest-running number one singles in Canadian history, with the other being the Black Eyed Peas' 2009 single "I Gotta Feeling" - a record that both songs were later equalled with by Luis Fonsi's "Despacito" in 2017 and surpassed by Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" in 2019.
Michael Bruce "Mike" Quigley (born October 17, 1958) is an American politician. He is the U.S. Representative for , serving since April 7, 2009. The district includes most of Chicago's North Side, as well as several of the city's western suburbs. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Quigley is a former member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, where he represented Chicago's northside neighborhoods of Lakeview, Uptown and Rogers Park. He also teaches environmental policy and Chicago politics at Loyola University Chicago.
Dieter Kottysch (30 June 1943 – 9 April 2017) was a German amateur middleweight boxer. He was born in Gliwice, Poland. He competed in the 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won a gold medal in 1972. He was a member of BC Sportmann, Hamburg. Kottysch died on 9 April 2017 in Hamburg, Germany from a long-illness at the age of 73.
Amory "Amo" Houghton, Jr. (August 7, 1926 – March 4, 2020) was an American politician and businessman from the U.S. state of New York. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives serving from 1987 through 2005. He was a member of one of upstate New York's most well known families in business, the Houghton family. He was a member of the Republican Party. Houghton was born in Corning, New York. He studied at Harvard University. He was married to Priscilla Dewey until her death in 2012. Houghton died on March 4, 2020 in Corning at the age of 93.
Leo C. Zeferetti (July 15, 1927 – March 21, 2018) was an American politician. He served as a member of the Democratic Party. Zeferetti served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from January 3, 1975 through January 3, 1983.  Zeferetti was born in Brooklyn, New York. He studied at New York University in 1963, and Baruch College from 1964 until 1966.  Zeferetti was a member of the New York State Crime Control Planning Board from 1972 until 1974 and a representative to President’s Conference on Correction, 1971.  In 1980, he was nearly defeated for reelection. In 1982, his district was eliminated in redistricting, and the bulk of its territory was merged with the Staten Island-based district of freshman Republican Guy Molinari, who defeated him in the general election that year. Zeferetti died on March 21, 2018 in Davie, Florida at the age of 90.
Frederick William "Fred" Richmond (November 15, 1923 – December 28, 2019) was an American politician and convicted criminal of Jewish descent. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from January 3, 1975 through January 3, 1982. In April 1978, Richmond was arrested in Washington for soliciting sex from a 16-year-old boy. In 1982 Richmond was convicted on federal corruption charges, which included possession of marijuana and payment of an illegal gratuity to a Brooklyn Navy Yard employee. As part of a plea bargain he was forced to resign from office. Richmond was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied at Boston University.  With a personal fortune estimated at $32 million, Richmond was one of the wealthiest members of Congress. Richmond died on December 28, 2019 at a nursing home in Manhattan from pneumonia, aged 96.
Richard Ottinger (born January 27, 1929) is an American politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1965 through January 3, 1971. After leaving office, he served as a legal educator. After retiring from Congress, Ottinger became a professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law, founding an environmental law program there, and served as the law school dean from 1994 to 1999. He currently serves as Dean Emeritus. Ottinger was born in New York City. He studied at Harvard University, at Cornell University and at Georgetown University. He is married to June Ottinger. They have four children.
Ogden Rogers Reid (June 24, 1925 – March 2, 2019) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from January 3, 1963 through January 3, 1975. Before, he served as the United States Ambassador to Israel from July 2, 1959 through January 19, 1961 during the Dwight D. Eisenhower presidency. Reid was born in New York City, New York. He graduated from Deerfield Academy and Yale University. Reid was elected to Congress as a Republican in 1962. Reid was on the liberal fringe of the GOP and faced repeated challenges in primaries. On March 22, 1972, he switched parties and joined the Democratic Party. Reid said that he could not support Richard Nixon for re-election and the Republican Party had "moved to the right" and was "not showing the compassion and sensitivity to meet the problems of the average American." He turned back a Republican challenge later on in 1972. Reid declined to seek re-election in 1974 and he ran for Governor of New York briefly, dropping out of the race before the election. Reid died on March 2, 2019, at his home in Waccabuc, New York, at the age of 93.
Harris William Fawell (March 25, 1929 – November 11, 2021) was an American politician. He was a Republican member of the Illinois Senate from 1963 to 1977, and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1968 and 1988.  In 1976 Fawell ran unsuccessfully for the Illinois Supreme Court. In 1984, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Illinois' 13th district where he served until his retirement in 1999. In 2008, Fawell endorsed his home state's junior United States Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States, against his party's nominee, Arizona senator John McCain. Fawell died on November 11, 2021 in Naperville, Illinois from problems caused by Alzheimer's disease, aged 92.
Doctor Samuel Lee Kountz, Jr. (October 30, 1930-December 23, 1981) was an American kidney transplant surgeon from Lexa, Arkansas. He was known for his work in the field of kidney transplants, and in research, discoveries, and inventions in Renal Science. In 1961, He performed the first successful Kidney transplant between humans who were not identical twins. He was also a member of a team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, who developed a device that can preserve kidneys for up to 50 hours from the time they are taken from a person's body. It is now used in hospitals and research labs around the world. Early life and career. Samuel Lee Kountz first became interested in medicine at the age of eight, when he went with an injured friend to a local hospital for emergency treatment. He says he was so moved by the way the doctors' helped his friend, that he decided from that moment to become a doctor. During his senior year of high school, Kountz had met Senator J. William Fulbright, who had once been president of the University of Arkansas. The senator was so impressed by Kountz's energy and enthusiasm, that he urged him to consider the medical school at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. Kountz applied but was turned down. He spent the next two years finishing up his graduate work in chemistry at the university's Fayetteville campus. He did so well that he was awarded a full medical scholarship, and in 1954 became the first black student to be admitted to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.Kountz completed a master's degree in chemistry in 1956; two years later he received his M.D. He spent the next year as an intern with the Stanford Service of San Francisco General Hospital. In 1959, he began his surgical training at the Stanford University School of Medicine. It was at Stanford that he studied in organ transplants, and decided to make transplant surgery his life's work. In 1976 Kountz performed a kidney transplant on live television, The Today Show and inspired some 20,000 viewers to offer their kidneys to
Naftali Bennett, Hebrew: נפתלי בנט , (born 25 March 1972 in Haifa) is an Israeli politician of HaYamin HeHadash ("New Right") and the Yamina alliance. He was the 13th Prime Minister of Israel from 2021 to 2022. Previously he belonged to HaBayit HaYehudi ("The Jewish Home"). Military and business career. He performed his military service in an IDF special forces combat unit, in which he saw action in several operations. (He is a reservist with the rank of major). Afterwards he studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Before entering into politics, he worked in software, which has made him very wealthy. He was the CEO of software companies Cyota and Soluto. Political career. Bennett has been a member of Knesset since 2013. He was Minister of the Economy and Minister of Religious Services in the third Netanyahu government, from 2013 to 2015. Since 2013 he has been Minister of Diaspora Affairs and since 2015 also Minister of Education, both in the fourth Netanyahu government. As the Education minister, he wants more content about Judaism in Israeli schools. This affects the secular public school system as well as religious public schools. Furthermore, he is absolutely against the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. Prime Minister. After the 2021 Israel-Palestine crisis, Bennett announced that he agreed to a deal with Yair Lapid to forge a coalition government that would remove Benjamin Netanyahu from his Prime Minister position. This was after the 2021 March election. Mid June he has become Prime Minister, leading the Bennett-Lapid Government, which is the 36th government of Israel. In March 2022, he helped Russia and Ukraine communicate after the war broke out. On 20 June 2022, Bennett announced that he will call for a vote to dissolve the Knesset and step down as prime minister shortly after its dissolution, to be replaced by Lapid. On June 29, he announced that he would not seek re-election to the chamber in the next legislative election. Personal life. Naftali is an observer of Modern Orthodox Judaism. Until his election into the Knesset, he was also a citizen of the United States due to his parents being US citizens who emigrated to Israel.
Sir John Arnold Clark (27 November 1927 – 10 April 2017) was a Scottish billionaire businessman. He was the chairman and chief executive of Arnold Clark Group. In April 2015, the company celebrated its 60th year in business. He was born in Glasgow. His estimated fortune in 2016 was £1.025 billion. In the 2004 New Year Honours, Clark was knighted, for services to the motor industry, and for his community work in Scotland. Clark died on 10 April 2017 from natural causes in his home in Glasgow at the age of 89.
Cell (Japanese: セル, "Seru") is a fictional character in the "Dragon Ball" manga and third major villain in "Dragon Ball Z" anime. He first appears in chapter #361 "The Mysterious Monster, Finally Appears!!" (謎の怪物、ついに出現!! "Nazo no Kaibutsu, Tsui ni Shutsugen!!) "first published in "Weekly Shōnen Jump" on March 2, 1992. Cell is an evil artificial life form, created using cells from several of the main characters in the series, that travels back in time so he can become the perfect warrior. In order to do this, he must absorb Androids #17 and #18. Physical Appearance. In his "Imperfect" form, Cell walks fully upright on two legs (unlike his "larval" form). His facial features have not yet fully complete and he still retains an orifice-like mouth rather than normal human-like features seen in later forms. The two sections of his head go off in a V-shape. Cell has orange color parts near his abdominal area, the back of his head, and even near the area where gentials would be found. He has two wings which are both green with black spots.He has three fingers in the manga, but five fingers and three toes (just as similar as Frieza and King Cold) in the anime. He has a tail like Frieza and King Cold, but also has a stinger on the end of it. He has black sections as well near his abdominal area, in the middle between the two sections on his head, and even the black part of the opposite side of his tail. He even has visible veins in both of his arms, legs, and even some in the joints in his upper body. His eyes are pink (blue in the manga colored pages) with thin reptilian slits. In his "Semi-Perfect" form, Cell's wings disappear, and he becomes much more humanoid, he also becomes quite a bit more muscular. While the nose is not yet fully
McKinney is a city in Collin County, Texas. It is the county seat of Collin County. It is 37 mi north of Dallas. Geography. McKinney has a total area of 67.7 square miles.
Kay Ellen Ivey (born October 15, 1944) is an American politician. She is the 54th and current Governor of Alabama. She is a member of the Republican Party.  Ivey served as the 38th Alabama State Treasurer from 2003 to 2011. She then became the 30th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama, serving from January 2011 until Robert J. Bentley's resignation on April 10, 2017 in the aftermath of a sex scandal. She beat Walter Maddox in the 2018 Alabama gubernatorial election to complete her full term. Ivey is the first woman to be Alabama's governor since Lurleen Wallace, who succeeded her husband George Wallace in 1967.  Ivey was born an only child to Boadman Nettles Ivey and Barbara Ivey. The family had been in Alabama for many generations, as her ancestor Ann Johnson Nettles Riley was one of several slave owning Nettles in the state.  In September 2019, Ivey was diagnosed with early-stage lung cancer. She was cancer-free in January 2020.