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Alexander Peter Grammas (April 3, 1926 – September 13, 2019) was an American professional baseball infielder, manager and coach. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama. Grammas played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Redlegs and Chicago Cubs. He threw and batted right-handed, and was listed as tall and . Grammas coached the Cubs, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Reds, the Atlanta Braves and the Detroit Tigers. Grammas died at his home in Vestavia Hills, Alabama on September 13, 2019 at the age of 93.
"Don't Call Me Angel (Charlie's Angels)" is a song recorded by American singers Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus, and Lana Del Rey. It was released on September 13, 2019, as the theme song to the upcoming remake of the film "Charlie's Angels". It is an pop and R&amp;B song. All three artists wrote the song with Savan Kotecha, Alma-Sofia Miettinen, and its producers, Max Martin and Ilya.
António Joaquim Fernandes (November 27, 1951 – September 15, 2019), known as Roberto Leal, was a Portuguese-Brazilian singer-songwriter. He sold more than 17 million albums, and received 30 golden records and 5 platinum records. He was born in Macedo de Cavaleiros, Portugal. In an opinion poll by Datafolha in Rio de Janeiro, asking what was the first famous Portuguese person people could think of, Leal came in first, with 15%, ahead of Pedro Álvares Cabral (9%) and Luís de Camões (4%). Some of Leal best known songs are: "Bate o Pé", "Clareou", "O Vinho de Meu Amor", and "Marrabenta". In 2007 and 2010, he released albums both in Portuguese and Mirandese languages. In January 2019, Leal revealed that he had skin cancer. He died at the age of 67 on September 15, 2019 at a São Paulo hospital. The cause of death was kidney failure caused by skin cancer-related medicine.
Phyllis Newman (March 19, 1933 – September 15, 2019) was an American actress, activist and singer. She won the 1962 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as Martha Vail in the Broadway-theatre production of "Subways Are for Sleeping". She was nominated twice for the Drama Desk Award. Newman was a breast cancer survivor. She died on September 15, 2019 in New York City at the age of 86. The cause of death was lung disease-related problems.
Bhikajirao Jijaba Khatal-Patil () (March 26, 1919 – September 16, 2019), popularly known as "Dada" or "Khatal Saheb", was an Indian politician, writer and activist. He was a member of the Indian National Congress (INC). Khatal-Patil was born in Sangamner, Ahmednagar District. He was a member of the Maharashtra legislative assembly between 1962 through 1978 and again through 1980 through 1985. Khatal-Patil died on September 16, 2019 at his home in Sangamner of pneumonia at the age of 100.
Michael Stefanik (May 20, 1958 – September 15, 2019) was an American professional stock car racing driver. He competed mainly in the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour. He was a seven-time champion in the Modified series, Stefanik was named the second greatest NASCAR Modified driver of all-time in 2003. His nine total championships (two in the Busch North Series) tie him with Richie Evans for most in NASCAR history. He was born in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. Stefanik was killed in an airplane crash near Sterling, Connecticut September 15, 2019 at the age of 61.
Richard Theodore Otcasek (March 23, 1944 – September 15, 2019), known as Ric Ocasek (), was an American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and painter He was best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and primary lyricist for the rock band the Cars. His best known songs were "Just What I Needed", "My Best Friend's Girl", "You Might Think" and "Drive", the first and latter on which bandmate Ben Orr sang lead vocals. Ocasek was born in Baltimore, Maryland and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. In 2018, Ocasek was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Cars. Unlike most bands that made it big, The Cars did not do recreational or illicit drug use. The Cars were known to drink and stay up late and record most of their music throughout the night hours. Ocasek was found dead in his New York City apartment on September 15, 2019 from hypertension and heart disease at the age of 75.
Kodela Siva Prasada Rao (2 May 1947 – 16 September 2019) was an Indian politician. He was born in Kandlagunta, Andhra Pradesh. Rao was a member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly (APLA) from 1983 through his death. He was the Speaker of the APLA from 2014 until his death.  On 16 September 2019, Rao died at a hospital in Hyderabad after hanging himself at the age of 72.
Paul Cronin (8 July 1938 – 13 September 2019) was an Australian actor. He was known for his roles in the Australian television series "Matlock Police" and "The Sullivans". He won the Silver Logie five times. Cronin was born in Jamestown, South Australia. Cronin died on 13 September 2019 in Melbourne at the age of 81.
John R. Ralston (April 26, 1927 — September 14, 2019) was an American football player, coach, and sports executive. He was born in Oakland, California and raised in Norway, Michigan. Ralston was the head football coach at Utah State University (1959–1962), Stanford University (1963–1971), and San Jose State University (1993–1996). He also coached the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL) from 1972 to 1976 and the Oakland Invaders of the United States Football League (USFL) in 1983. Ralston was added into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1992. Ralston died on September 14, 2019 in Sunnyvale, California at the age of 92.
Norway is a city in Dickinson County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,840 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Iron Mountain, MI–WI Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Neil F. Hartigan (born May 4, 1938) is an American Democrat. He was Illinois Attorney General, the 40th Lieutenant Governor, and a justice of the Illinois Appellate Court.  Hartigan also was the Democratic nominee for Governor in 1990, but lost the race to Republican Jim Edgar.
Tijjani Muhammad-Bande (OFR) (born December 7, 1957) is a Nigerian political scientist, administrator and career diplomat. He was the President of the United Nations General Assembly from 2019 to 2020. He was the permanent representative of Nigeria to the United Nations and was the Vice-President of the General Assembly during its 71st session in September 2016.  On June 4, 2019 he was elected the President of the 74th session of the Assembly to replace María Fernanda Espinosa in September 2019.
Philippe Pétain (24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951) was a French General who served as leader of Vichy France between 1940 and 1944.  During World War I Pétain was the hero of the Battle of Verdun and led the French Army until the end of the war in 1918. In 1940 during the Battle of France the French government asked him to govern the country. He surrendered to the Germans. From 1940 to late 1942, Vichy France was a client state of Nazi Germany. In November 1942 Pétain became a puppet of Nazi Germany as they fully occupied and disarmed Vichy France. After the war, Pétain was tried and convicted for treason. He was originally sentenced to death, but due to his age and World War I service his sentence was commuted to life in prison. He died in 1951.
Lynx is a customizable text-based web browser for use on cursor-addressable character cell terminals. , it is the oldest web browser still in general use and active development, having started in 1992. History. Lynx was a product of the Distributed Computing Group within Academic Computing Services of the University of Kansas. It was first created in 1992 by a team of students and staff at the university (Lou Montulli, Michael Grobe and Charles Rezac) as a hypertext browser. It was used only to distribute campus information as part of a "Campus-Wide Information Server". It was also used for browsing the Gopher space.
Penelope Whetton (5 January 1958 – 11 September 2019) was an Australian climatologist. She was an expert in regional climate change effects due to global warming and in the impacts of those changes. Her primary scientific focus was Australia. In 1989, she joined the Atmospheric Research division of CSIRO (later becoming CMAR CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research). She was one of the of the of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.  Whetton was born in Melbourne. She was married to Senator Janet Rice. In 2003, she had sexual reassignment surgery. Whetton died on 11 September 2019 in Sisters Beach, Tasmania at the age of 61.
Luigi Colani (born Lutz Colani; 2 August 1928 – 16 September 2019) was a German industrial designer. He was born in Berlin. His long career began in the 1950s when he designed cars for companies including Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Volkswagen, and BMW.  Colani died in Karlsruhe on 16 September 2019 at the age of 91.
Steven Donald Dalachinsky (September 29, 1946 – Septemeber 16, 2019) was an American poet. He was from New York City.  He was a 2014 recipient of a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, received the Franz Kafka Prize, Acker Award, PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award and was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize.  Dalachinsky died of a stroke on September 16, 2019 at a hospital in Long Island, New York at the age of 72.
Harbrinderjit Singh Dillon (23 April 1945 – 16 September 2019) was an Indonesian Sikh and political/human rights activist. He was Assistant to the Minister of Agriculture and Commissioner of the National Commission on Human Rights. He was an outspoken critic of corruption in Indonesia. Dillon died on 16 September 2019 at a hospital in Jakarta at the age of 74.
Sakahoko Nobushige (born as Yoshiaki Fukuzono; 18 June 1961 – 16 September 2019) was a Japanese sumo wrestler. His highest rank was "sekiwake." He later became the head coach of Izutsu stable. He was the elder brother of Terao Tsunefumi. Nobushige was born in Kagoshima, Japan. Sakahoko made his professional debut in January 1978. Sakahoko died of pancreatic cancer on 16 September 2019 at the age of 58.
Amrit Sanchar ("nectar ceremony"; also called Amrit sanskar, Amrit Parchar, or Khande di Pahul), is the name given in the Sikh tradition to the Baptism ceremony which is also known as the initiation ceremony into the Khalsa "brotherhood". The word Pahul or Puhul is a derivative from a substantive, "pahu" — meaning an agent which brightens, accelerates or sharpens the potentialities of a given object. In Sikhism, the baptised Sikh is also called an Amritdhari, literally meaning "Amrit Taker" or one who has ‘Taken on Amrit’.  History. This practice has been in existence since the times of Guru Nanak Dev (1469 - 1539). During that time-period, this ceremony was known as Charan Amrit or Charan Phul or the Pag Pahul, the words "Charan" and "Pag" both signifying the foot of the teacher. During that time-period, the neophytes poured water over Guru's toe to be initiated into the fold. When the Guru was not present, the "masands" or the local "sangat" leaders officiated. The water was poured on Guru's toe and then the devotees would drink it and seek blessings of the Guru. The Guru would guide the Sikhs about the Sikh teachings and instruct them to adopt them as a way of life. Khande di Pahul (Amrit ceremony) was initiated in the times of Guru Gobind Singh when Khalsa was inaugurated at Sri Anandpur Sahib on the day of Baisakhi in 1699. Guru Gobind Singh asked a gathering of Sikhs, "who is prepared to die for God?" At first, the people hesitated, and then one man stepped forward, and he was taken to a tent. After some time, Guru Gobind Singh came out of the tent, with blood dripping from his sword. He asked the same question again. After the next four volunteers were in the tent, he reappeared with the five, who were now all dressed like him. These
Brian McClendon (born 1964) is an American software designer, developer, and engineer. He was a co-founder and angel investor in Keyhole, Inc.. Keyhole is a geospatial data visualization company that was purchased by Google in 2004. Google bought it so they could create Google Earth. He was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2015. Early life. McClendon grew up in Lawrence, Kansas. His childhood home, Meadowbrook Apartments in Lawrence, is the default center point of Google Earth. He graduated from Lawrence High School in 1982. He graduated from the University of Kansas in 1986 with a degree in electrical engineering. Career. Technology. McClendon became a vice president at Google in 2004. This was when Google purchased Keyhole. Keyhole's main application suite, Earth Viewer, formed the basis of Google Earth. He left Google to join Uber in June 2015. He did this to work on mapping. In March 2017, he quit Uber (though was still an adviser) to return to his hometown. He said he was interested in Kansas politics. Politics. In January 2018, he said he would run for Kansas Secretary of State as a Democrat. He had no opponent in the primary election. He was selected as the Democratic candidate. He was defeated in the general election by the Republican candidate Scott Schwab.
Alan Roger Mulally (born August 4, 1945) is an American engineer, business executive, and former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Ford Motor Company. He retired from Ford Motor Company on July 1, 2014. Ford had been struggling during the late-2000s recession. Mulally made it profitable again. Because of him, Ford was the only American major car manufacturer to avoid a bailout fund given by the government. On July 15, 2014, he was chosen to be on the Google Board of Directors. Mulally was the executive vice president of Boeing and the CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA). He started his career with Boeing as an engineer in 1969. He was mostly credited with BCA's against Airbus in the mid-2000s. In 2015, Mulally was inducted into the International Air &amp; Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air &amp; Space Museum. Early life. Mulally was born in Oakland, California. He was the son of Lauraine Lizette (Clark) and Charles R. Mulally, who met at a USO dance. Mulally grew up in his mother's hometown of Lawrence, Kansas. This was where he was a member of Plymouth Congregational Church. He considered Rev. Dale Turner "a mentor and an inspiration". He used to sit at the front of the church to study the minister's influence on the congregation. Mulally said that he was motivated at the age of 17 by president John F. Kennedy's challenge to send a man to the moon. Education. Mulally graduated from the University of Kansas. It was also his mother's alma mater. He graduated with Bachelor of Science (1968) and Master of Science (1969) degrees in aeronautical and astronautical engineering. He was also a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
Lawrence High School (LHS) is a public secondary school in Lawrence, Kansas, USA. It is operated by Unified School District 497. It serves students of grades 9 to 12. The school is one of the two public high schools located in the city. Lawrence High had 1,260 students in the 2007–2008 school year. The school colors are red and black. The mascot is the "Chesty Lion". Lawrence High School was created in 1857. It was created to help educate Lawrence because there were a lot of people living there. The first classes were held in the basement of a Unitarian Church. Three years later, the school was moved to the current place of Liberty Memorial Central Middle School, on Massachusetts Street. In 1930, the Lion became the school symbol. In 1946, it made its official debut as the school mascot. Lawrence High moved to its current place on Louisiana Street in 1954. Extracurricular activities. Athletics. Currently Lawrence High has more than 100 state championships in various sports, one of the highest totals in the United States. The first state championship was won in 1914 in boys basketball. Due to the success of Lawrence High and the University of Kansas, Lawrence was featured as a candidate for Titletown, United States by ESPN. Football. The Lawrence High School Chesty Lions have 31 undefeated seasons in football. This is the most in the United States. The Chesty Lions won a High School Football National Championship in 1960. From 1930–2008, games were played at Haskell Memorial Stadium. Once the new football stadium was finished being built at Lawrence High School, the football team started playing games at the new stadium in 2009. State Championships. Lawrence High has won the following state championships: "^ predates KSHSAA playoffs and AP poll" "+predates KSHSAA playoffs; ranked #1 in final AP poll"
The Centre hospitalier intercommunal de Poissy-Saint-Germain-en-Laye is a well-known hospital in the Poissy and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, close to Paris. It was created in 1997. It is partner of the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
Manuel Delgado Parker (November 18, 1936 – 16 September 2019) was a Peruvian businessman. He was born in Lima. He founded the media company Grupo RPP. In 1990 Manuel founded the Society of Latin America Broadcasting, made up of the main radio networks of Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela Bolivia and Argentina. He was responsible for leading Panamericana Televisión during the 1990s. Delgado Parker died on 16 September 2019 in Lima at the age of 82.
Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Roberts (née Boggs; December 27, 1943 – September 17, 2019), known as Cokie Roberts, was an American journalist, political commentator and bestselling author.  Her career as a political reporter and analyst included working for National Public Radio and ABC News. She also appeared on "Morning Edition", "The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour", "World News Tonight", and "This Week". In 2002, Roberts was diagnosed with breast cancer. She died from problems of the disease in Washington, D.C. on September 17, 2019 at the age of 75.
Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. (February 15, 1914 – disappeared October 16, 1972) was an American Democratic politician and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Orleans, Louisiana. He was the House majority leader and a member of the Warren Commission. In October 1972, Boggs was travelling with congressman Nick Begich, of Alaska, and two others when the plane disappeared while flying from Anchorage to Juneau, Alaska. He was declared dead in declared dead in "absentia" in December 1972.
A board of education, school committee or school board is the board of directors or board of trustees of a school, local school district or anything like those. In the United States. For over a century, local boards were responsible for public education funding, standards, instruction, and results. To a extent is still true. At their height in the 1930s, there were as many as 127,500 boards. Some rural states had more school board members than teachers. Such boards looked over school systems serving agrarian and industrial economies.
A school district is a special-purpose district that runs local public primary and secondary schools in various nations. United States. In the U.S, public schools belong to school districts. They are governed by school boards. School districts in the Midwest and West often cross city borders. School districts in New England and the Mid-Atlantic regions tend to stay inside of city, township, and/or county boundaries. A unified school district includes both elementary schools and secondary schools (middle schools and high schools). There are also some school districts that operate only high schools, or only elementary schools.
John William McCormack (December 21, 1891 – November 22, 1980) was an American politician and lawyer. He was a Democrat. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1928 through 1971. He was the 45th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1962 until his 1971 retirement. McCormack died of pneumonia in a Dedham, Massachusetts nursing home on November 22, 1980 at the age of 88.
Stanley Stair (October 1900 – April 2008) was the last British West Indies Regiment veteran. He joined in Jamaica in 1916. He dug trenches in France. He lied about his age. Of the group of friends he had enlisted with in Jamaica, he was the only one to survive the war. At the end of the war he was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.  He died in Animal Hill, Lucea, Jamaica, in April 2008 at the age of 107.
James Robertson (May 18, 1938 – September 7, 2019) was an American politician and lawyer. He was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia from 1994 until his retirement in June 2010. Robertson also was on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court from 2002 until December 2005, when he resigned from that court in protest against warrantless wiretapping. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Robertson died on September 7, 2019 at the age of 81, in Washington, D.C. from heart failure.
Henri de Contenson (4 March 1926 – 8 September 2019) was a French archaeologist. He was the Research Director at the CNRS, The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research), a research organization funded by France's Ministry of Research. He was born in Paris. He was Assistant Director of archaeological digs in the Middle East from 1951 to 1976.  de Contenson died in Paris on 8 September 2019 at the age of 93.
Sander "Sandy" Vanocur (; born Alexander Vinocur, January 8, 1928 – September 16, 2019) was an American television journalist and actor. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He focused on national electoral politics. After leaving NBC in 1971, Vanocur worked for PBS and as a television writer for "The Washington Post". He joined ABC News in 1977 and worked there until 1991. Vanocur hosted two of the History Channel's primetime series: "Movies in Time" and "History's Business". His work at NBC earned him a place on the Nixon administration's "enemies list". He played himself in the 1994 television movie "Without Warning". Vanocur died in Santa Barbara, California on September 16, 2019 from dementia-related problems at the age of 91.
Cynthia Cockburn (1934 – 12 September 2019) was a British academic, feminist journalist, and peace activist. She was active in the international women's peace movement. Cockburn was a visiting professor in the Department of Sociology at City University London and honorary professor in the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick. Cockburn was widely published in academic journals, including in "Feminist Review," "Gender &amp; Development,"" Journal of Classical Sociology", "Peace in Process." Cockburn died on 13 September 2019 of thyroid cancer at her London home at the age of 85.
Dennis Edwards (19 January 1937 – 13 September 2019) was an English professional footballer. He played as an inside forward in the Football League. He played for Charlton Athletic, for whom he made over 170 appearances. He also played league football for Portsmouth, Brentford and Aldershot. He was a goalscorer in non-league football for Slough Town and Wycombe Wanderers. He capped by England at amateur level. Edwards died on 13 September 2019 in Denmead, Portsmouth at the age of 82. Personal life. Edwards was educated at the Lea School and Slough Grammar School. After leaving school he worked as a clerk for ICI and served his national service in the RAF. Edwards was a Brentford supporter. After retiring from football, he lived in Denmead and established a frozen food business. Honours. Slough Town
Hallmark Cards, Inc. is a private, family-owned American company in Kansas City, Missouri. It was created in 1910 by Joyce Hall. Hallmark is the oldest and biggest manufacturer of greeting cards in the United States. In 1985, the company was awarded the National Medal of Arts. Employees. Worldwide, Hallmark has over 27,000 employees; 20,000 of them work in the United States. About 5,600 of them are full-time employees. About 2,700 Hallmark employees work at the Kansas City headquarters.
Ye Xuanping (; 20 December 1924 – 17 September 2019) was a Chinese politician. He was Mayor of Guangzhou from 1985 to 1991 and Governor of Guangdong from 1985 to 1991. Ye was born in Meixian, Guangdong. Ye was a strong supporter of Deng Xiaoping's reform and opening policy.  Ye died on 17 September 2019 in Guangdong at the age of 94.