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Michael Gwisdek (14 January 1942 – 22 September 2020) was a German actor and movie director. He was born in Berlin. His first movie was "Treffen in Travers" (1988). He was also known for his works "The Big Mambo" (1998) and "Nightshapes" (1999). Gwisdek died on 22 September 2020, aged 78.
Sergey Khoruzhiy (5 October 1941 – 22 September 2020) was a Russian physicist, mathematician, philosopher, and theologian. Khoruzhiy became a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences in 1993. He was a professor at the Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences. He also was a professor in the Department of Comparative Study of Religious Traditions at UNESCO, and directed the Institute of Synergistic Anthropology, beginning in 2005.  Khoruzhiy died on 22 September 2020, aged 78.
Frie Leysen (19 February 1950 – 22 September 2020) was a Belgian festival director. She was director of the art centre deSingel from 1980 until 1991. In 1994, she co-founded the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. Leysen died on 22 September 2020 aged 70.
Dan Olweus (April 18, 1931 – September 2020) was a Swedish-Norwegian psychologist. He was a research professor of psychology at the University of Bergen, Norway. Olweus was known as a pioneer of research on bullying. He was born in Nässjö, Sweden. He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1990. Olweus died in September 2020 at the age of 89.
Joseph Michael Laurinaitis (September 12, 1960 – September 22, 2020) better known by his ring name, Road Warrior Animal (or simply Animal), was an American professional wrestler. Along with Road Warrior Hawk, he was one half of the tag team The Road Warriors/The Legion of Doom. He performed with many pay-per-view events for the WWF and WCW, competing for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship at 2001's Sin. Animal was inducted with Hawk and their manager Paul Ellering into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2011. Laurinaitis died of natural causes on September 22, 2020, ten days after his 60th birthday in Osage Beach, Missouri.
The Parliament of Jamaica is the legislative branch of the government of Jamaica. It consists of three elements: the Crown (represented by the Governor-General), the appointed Senate and the directly elected House of Representatives. What makes up the parliament? The Senate (Upper House) – the direct successor of a pre-Independence body known as the "Legislative Council" – made up of 21 senators appointed by the Governor-General. The House of Representatives, the Lower House, is made up of 63 (previously 60) Members of Parliament, elected to five-year terms on a first-past-the-post basis in single-seat constituencies. Meeting location. The Parliament meets at Gordon House at 81 Duke Street, Kingston. It was built in 1960 and named in memory of Jamaican patriot George William Gordon.
Adamu Daramani Sakande (6 May 1962 – 22 September 2020) was a Ghanaian politician. He was a member of the Fifth Parliament of the Fourth Republic for the Bawku Central Constituency between 2009 and 2013. He was a member of the New Patriotic Party. The membership of Adamu Dramani Sakande was challenged by a member of the National Democratic Congress which happened to be the government of the day. The Supreme Court of Ghana subsequently decleared the election of Adamu Dramani Sakande null and void prompting a by-election at Bawku Central. Adamu Dramani Sakande was subsequently sentenced to 2 years imprisonment.  Sakande died of a long-illness at a London hospital on 22 September 2020, aged 58.
Tore Klas Agne Simonsson (19 October 1935 – 22 September 2020) was a Swedish footballer. He played as a striker. Beginning his career with Örgryte IS, he went on to represent Real Madrid and Real Sociedad in La Liga in the early 1960s before returning to Örgryte in 1963. Simonsson won 51 caps for the Sweden national team. He was a part of the Sweden team that finished second at the 1958 FIFA World Cup. He was the recipient of the 1959 Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal. Simonsson died on 22 September 2020 from pneumonia in Gothenburg at the age of 84.
André Vltchek (, , December 29, 1963 – September 22, 2020) was a Soviet-born American political analyst, journalist, and a filmmaker. Vltchek was born in Leningrad. Career. Vltchek covered armed conflicts in Peru, Kashmir, Mexico, Bosnia, Sri Lanka, Congo, India, South Africa, East Timor, Indonesia, Turkey, and the Middle East. He traveled to more than 140 countries and wrote articles for "Der Spiegel", Japanese newspaper "The Asahi Shimbun", "The Guardian", ABC News and the Czech Republic daily "Lidové noviny". From 2004, Vltchek served as a Senior Fellow at the Oakland Institute. Death. On September 22, 2020, he died, seemingly in his sleep in his car in Istanbul, Turkey. His death is seen as suspicious by the police and an investigation is still ongoing.
Sha Tin, also spelt Shatin, is a satellite town along Shing Mun River in Sha Tin District of East New Territories, Hong Kong. Administratively, it is part of the Sha Tin District. It is one of Hong Kong's most prominent examples of new town developments in the 1970s. Together with its satellite town Ma On Shan, Shatin is the most populous city in the New Territories, with a 2011 population census of 630,273 within an area of . It is in the southern half of New Territories East below Tolo Harbour, it is the principal city of Sha Tin District, which is the second most populous district of the territory. The city was founded in 1973 under the New Towns Development Programme of the Hong Kong government. Its current name was named after the nearby village of Sha Tin Wai. Housing the industrial area of Fo Tan, Shatin's economy once heavily relied on manufacturing, logistics and transportation. Since the late 1990s, it has undergone an extensive transition into areas such as business, service, tourism, entertainment, culture, education, sports, technology and scientific research. This has been marked by the building of Sha Tin Racecourse, Hong Kong Sports Institute and the Hong Kong Science Park in its outskirts. Geography. Sha Tin is in a valley, on both sides of the Shing Mun River, running from the southwest to the northeast. It is bordered by Tai Wai in the southwest and by Fo Tan (left bank) and Shek Mun (right bank) in the northeast. Cross-border activities. Because they are close to the Shenzhen border, towns in the northern parts of Hong Kong, notably Sheung Shui and Yuen Long, have become hubs for parallel traders who have been buying up large quantities of goods, forcing up local prices and disrupting the daily lives of local citizens. Since 2012, there has been an increase in mainland parallel traders arriving in the North District of Hong Kong to re-export infant formula and household products – goods popular with mainlanders – across the border to Shenzhen. The volume of smuggling activity spilled over into Tuen Mun and Sha Tin in 2014. The first anti-parallel trading protest was started at Sheung Shui in September 2012. As government efforts to limit the adverse impact of mainland trafficking were widely seen as inadequate, so there have been further subsequent protests in towns in the North District including Sha Tin.
Vakha Agaev (15 March 1953 – 23 September 2020) was a Russian politician. He was a member of the State Duma representing the Krasnoyarsk region from 2011 until his death. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.  Agaev died on 23 September 2020 in Moscow from COVID-19, aged 67.
Suresh Angadi (1 June 1955 – 23 September 2020) was an Indian politician. He was a member of parliament from 2004 until his death. He was Minister of State for Railways from 2019 until his death in 2020. He was a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party from Karnataka. He was born in Karnataka, India. Angadi died on 23 September 2020 at a hospital in New Delhi from COVID-19 at the age of 65.
Zlatko Portner (16 January 1962 – 23 September 2020) was a Yugoslav handball player. He competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Portner was born in Ruma. During his successful career he played for RK Metaloplastika and FC Barcelona Handbol. In 1988 he was part of the Yugoslav team which won the bronze medal. He played in all six matches and scored 31 goals. Portner died on 23 September 2020, aged 58.
Vilborg Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (born 1963) is an Icelandic novelist. She writes both crime novels and children's fiction in Icelandic. She has been writing since 1998. Her works have been translated into English by Bernard Scudder, Philip Roughton and Victoria Cobb. She is known for her Thóra Gudmundsdóttir (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir) crime novel series. As a children's writer, she won the 2003 Icelandic Children's Book Prize for "Biobörn". Yrsa was born in Reykjavík. She is married and has two children. Outside of writing, she has had a career as a civil engineer.
Pierre Troisgros (3 September 1928 – 23 September 2020) was a French restaurateur. He was best known for his restaurant Frères Troisgros. Within ten years, it became the most popular restaurant in the region and soon it was one of the best known restaurants in France. In 1965, the restaurant, got its second star, and, in 1968, its third. On 23 September 2020, Troisgros died at home in Le Coteau near Roanne from a heart attack, aged 92.
Iván Verebély (born Iván Weinberg 7 December 1937 – 23 September 2020) was a Hungarian actor and comedian. He was born in Budapest. He played in Miskolci Nemzeti Színház, Nemzeti Színház, and in Vidámszínpad. He appeared in the 2008 movie "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas". He gave the voice to Mayor Manx for the Hungarian dub of "". Verebély died on 23 September 2020 in Budapest at the age of 82.
Blanche M. Manning (December 12, 1934 – September 20, 2020) was an American politician and lawyer. He was the Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois between 2010 until his death. Manning was nominated to the court by President Bill Clinton in 1994. Manning was born in Chicago. Manning died on September 20, 2020 in Chicago at the age of 85.
Dame Georgina Mary Mace, (12 July 1953 – 19 September 2020) was a British ecologist and conservation scientist. She was Professor of Biodiversity and Ecosystems at University College London.  She was Professor of Conservation Science and Director of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London (2006–2012) and Director of Science at the Zoological Society of London (2000–2006).
Donald Keith "D.K." Duncan, CD, (1940 – September 17, 2020) was a Jamaican dental surgeon and politician. He was a member of the People's National Party (PNP). He was Minister of National Mobilization &amp; Human Resource Development between 1977 to 1980. Duncan was born in St. Ann, Jamaica. He was a member of the Parliament of Jamaica between 1976 to 1983 and again from 2007 to 2016. Duncan died on September 17, 2020 from COVID-19, aged 80.
Juan Hormaechea Cazón (5 June 1939 – 1 December 2020) was a Spanish politician. He was the President of Cantabria between 1987 and 1990, and again from 1991 to 1995. He was also Mayor of Santander between 1977 and 1987. He was born in Santander. Hormaechea died on 1 December 2020 in Santander at the age of 81.
Jaime Blanco García (1 May 194424 September 2020) was a Spanish politician. He was President of Cantabria between 1990 and 1991. He was born in Santander, Cantabria. He was a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. Blanco García died on 24 September 2020, aged 76.
Sekhar Basu (20 September 1952 – 24 September 2020) was an Indian nuclear scientist. He was born in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. From 2012 to 2016, he was Director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. Between 2015 to 2018, he was Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India. Basu died of COVID-19 in Kolkata, West Bengal on 24 September 2020, four days after his 68th birthday.
Claude Moisy (26 June 1927 – 21 September 2020) was a French journalist and writer. He was President of the Agence France-Presse from 1990 to 1993. He was born in Caen, France. Moisy began his journalistic career with "Ouest-France". Moisy joined Reporters Without Borders. He also worked for "Le Monde". Moisy died on 21 September 2020 at the age of 93.
Sir Harold Matthew Evans (28 June 1928 – 23 September 2020) was a British-American journalist and writer. He was editor of "The Sunday Times" from 1967 to 1981. He also worked for "U.S. News &amp; World Report", "The Atlantic Monthly", and the New York "Daily News". In 1986, he founded "Condé Nast Traveler". Evans was honored as a Knight Bachelor in 2004. On 13 June 2011, Evans was appointed editor-at-large of the Reuters news agency. From 2013 until 2019, he was chairman of the European Press Prize jury panel. Evans died in New York City on 23 September 2020 from heart failure, aged 92.
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (born January 29, 1942) is a Cuban military officer, legislator, and former cosmonaut. He was the first person of African heritage in space.  As a member of the crew of Soyuz 38, he became the first Cuban citizen, the first Latin American, and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the United States to travel into Earth orbit.
Vaporization is a phase change from liquid to vapor. There are two types of vaporization: evaporation and boiling. Evaporation is a phase change from liquid to vapour. Evaporation happens below the boiling point of a substance at a given pressure. Evaporation happens on a surface. Boiling is also a phase change from liquid to gas. Boiling takes place when the vapor pressure of the substance is greater than or equal to the pressure of its environment. The temperature at which a substance boils is called the boiling point.
Richard Harrison Truly (November 12, 1937 – February 27, 2024) was a retired Vice Admiral in the United States Navy. He was the eighth Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from 1989 to 1992. He was the first former astronaut to head the space agency.
Barbara Radding Morgan (born November 28, 1951) is an American teacher and a former NASA astronaut. She participated in the Teacher in Space program as backup to Christa McAuliffe for the 1986 ill-fated STS-51-L mission of the Space Shuttle "Challenger". She then trained as a Mission Specialist, and flew on STS-118 in August 2007.
Peter Billingsley (born April 16, 1971), also known as Peter Michaelsen and Peter Billingsley-Michaelsen, is an American actor, director, and producer. He is best known for his role as Ralphie Parker in the 1983 movie "A Christmas Story", Jack Simmons in "The Dirt Bike Kid", Billy in "Death Valley", and as Messy Marvin in the Hershey's chocolate syrup commercials during the 1980s.
William Pierce Rogers (June 23, 1913 – January 2, 2001) was an American politician, diplomat, and lawyer. He was United States Attorney General under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1957 to 1961 and United States Secretary of State under President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973. Rogers died of congestive heart failure, at the Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, on January 2, 2001, at the age of 87.
The Rogers Commission Report was created by a Presidential Commission charged with investigating the Space Shuttle "Challenger" disaster during its 10th mission, STS-51-L.  Outcome. The report, released and submitted to President Ronald Reagan on 9 June 1986, both determined the cause of the disaster that took place 73 seconds after liftoff, and urged NASA to improve and install new safety features on the shuttles and in its organizational handling of future missions.
Alton Gold Keel Jr. (born September 15, 1943) is an American engineer, diplomat, and businessman. He was born in Hampton, Virginia. In July 1986, President Ronald Reagan appointed Keel as the acting principal deputy to the National Security Advisor. From 1987-89, Keel was the United States Permanent Representative to NATO.
General Donald Joseph Kutyna (born December 6, 1933) is a retired United States Air Force officer. He was born in Chicago.  He was commander in chief of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and the United States Space Command from 1990 to 1992, and commander of Air Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado from 1987 to 1990.
William Ray Lucas (March 1, 1922 – February 10, 2025) was an American NASA official and chemist. He was the fourth Director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. He was director from June 15, 1974 to July 3, 1986. He was known for his handling of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Lucas was born in Newbern, Tennessee. Lucas died at his home in Huntsville, Alabama, on February 10, 2025, at the age of 102.
William Cameron "Willie" McCool (September 23, 1961 – February 1, 2003) (Cmdr, USN) was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut. He was the pilot of Space Shuttle "Columbia" mission STS-107. He and the rest of the crew of STS-107 were killed when "Columbia" disintegrated during re-entry into the atmosphere. He was the youngest male member of the crew. McCool was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
David McDowell Brown (April 16, 1956 – February 1, 2003) was a United States Navy captain and a NASA astronaut. He died on his first spaceflight, when the Space Shuttle "Columbia" (STS-107) disintegrated during orbital reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.  Brown became an astronaut in 1996, but had not served on a space mission prior to the "Columbia" disaster. Brown was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
Laurel Blair Clark (née Salton; March 10, 1961 – February 1, 2003) was an American medical doctor, United States Navy Captain, NASA astronaut and Space Shuttle mission specialist.  Clark died along with her six fellow crew members in the Space Shuttle "Columbia" disaster.
Károly Fatér (9 April 1940 – 19 September 2020) was a Hungarian footballer. He was born in Veszprém County. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, where he won a gold medal with the Hungarian team. Fatér died on 19 September 2020 in Budapest, aged 80.
Stephen Norwood Smith (November 24, 1951 – September 23, 2020) was an American Olympic pole vaulter. He was the first person to clear the 18 foot barrier indoors. He was the number one ranked pole vaulter in the world in 1973. Smith was born in Long Beach, California. He took part in the 1972 and 1980 Summer Olympics. Smith died on September 23, 2020, in San Clemente, California. He was 68.
Vyacheslav Igorevich Voinarovskiy (8 February 1946 – 24 September 2020) was a Russian opera singer and actor. He was born in Khabarovsk, Soviet Union. He was known for his roles in "The Garage" (1980), "To Kill a Dragon" (1989) and in "Mother" (1990). In 1999, he was honored as a People's Artist of Russia. Voynarovskii died on 24 September 2020 from a long-illness in Moscow, aged 74.
Primordial nuclides are nuclides found on Earth which have existed since before the Earth was formed. They are also called primordial isotopes.  Primordial nuclides are found in the interstellar medium. They were formed in or after the Big Bang, by nucleosynthesis in stars and supernovae. or by being hit by cosmic rays. 286 primordial nuclides are known. There are 252 "stable" nuclides, plus another 34 nuclides that have half-lives long enough to have survived from the formation of the Earth. These are the primordial nuclides. The 34 primordial radionuclides are isotopes of 28 separate elements.  Oxygen is one of the primordial nuclides. Onviously, it is found on Earth in rocks and in the atmosphere. The molecules have existed in their current form since before Earth was formed. Primordial nuclides were present in the interstellar medium from which the solar system was formed. They were formed in, or after, the Big Bang, by nucleosynthesis in stars and supernovae followed by mass ejection, by cosmic ray spallation, and perhaps by other processes.
Dudley Riggs (January 18, 1932 – September 22, 2020) was an American improvisational comedian. He created the Instant Theater Company in New York City. He later moved to Minneapolis to become a member of the Brave New Workshop comedy group. He was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. Riggs died on September 22, 2020 in Minneapolis, aged 88.
Victory Gardens Theater is a theater company in Chicago, Illinois dedicated to the creation and production of new plays and playwrights. It is located in the Lincoln Park area of the city near DePaul University. The theater company was founded in 1974. Eight local actors gave $1,000 to start a company outside the Chicago Loop. The theater's first production, "The Velvet Rose", by Stacy Myatt premiered on October 9, 1974. Since 2011, Chay Yew has continued their mission as the Artistic Director.
Glory is a 1989 American war drama movie directed by Edward Zwick. It is about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, the Union Army's first African-American regiment in the American Civil War. It stars Matthew Broderick as Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, and Morgan Freeman as fictional members of the 54th. "Glory" was nominated for five Academy Awards and won three, including Best Supporting Actor for Washington. It premiered in limited release in the United States on December 14, 1989, and in wide release on February 16, 1990, making $27 million on an $18 million budget.
Dean Mervyn Jones (24 March 1961 – 24 September 2020) was an Australian cricket commentator, coach and former cricketer. He played Tests and One Day Internationals for Australia. In 2019 Jones was added into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame. He was born near Melbourne, Victoria. He played for Victoria, Derbyshire and the national team. He worked for "The Sydney Morning Herald". Jones died of cardiac arrest caused by a stroke at a Mumbai hospital on 24 September 2020 at the age of 59.
In crystallography, the cubic crystal system is a crystal system where the unit cell is in the shape of a cube. This is one of the most common and simplest shapes found in crystals and minerals. There are three main types of these crystals:
Nufringen is a municipality in Böblingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Corine Spier-Rottschäfer (8 May 1938 – 24 September 2020) was a Dutch model and beauty queen. She won the 1959 Miss World contest, representing the Netherlands. She was the first woman from her country to win the title. The pageant was held in London, United Kingdom. Rottschäfer was born in Hoorn, Netherlands. Rottschäfer died on 24 September 2020 at the age of 82.
Robert Keith Wilson (22 November 1935 – 22 September 2020) was a top-ranking English tennis player. Wilson reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon four times, Forest Hills twice, and Roland Garros once during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He was also a well known Great Britain Davis Cup team member. Wilson was born in Hendon, Middlesex. Wilson died on 22 September 2020 in Finchley, Middlesex at the age of 84.
Pearson's green tree frog, Pearson's tree frog, the mountain stream tree frog, cascade tree frog or Cedar Creek tree frog ("Ranoidea pearsoniana") is a frog from Australia. It lives in Queensland and New South Wales, from 200 to 1000 metres above sea level. This frog lives in forests where the trees are close together. It lives in fast-flowing streams in the forest. It hides under rocks during the day and looks for food at night. The females lay eggs in pools where the water does not flow fast, 360-730 at a time. The eggs stick to the undersides of rocks or to plants or to the bottom of the pool. The tadpoles become frogs after 2 to 2.5 months.
The Canoe Sprint European Championships is an international canoeing and kayaking event organized by the European Canoe Association (ECA). It was first held in 1933 in Prague under the auspices of the International Canoe Federation. In 1997, the European Championships were resumed, and now take place annually. Summary. Source:
The European Union of Gymnastics organises European Gymnastics Championships for each of the following gymnastics disciplines: Events. Current. European Artistic Gymnastics Championships