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Leslie "Les" Lazarowitz (October 2, 1941 – January 6, 2017) was an American sound engineer. He was active between 1971 and 1999. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the Best Sound category. He was best known for movies including "Taxi Driver" (1976), "Raging Bull" (1980), "Tootsie" (1982), "Carlito's Way" (1993) and "Groundhog Day" (1993). Lazarowitz died from cancer on January 6, 2017 in Florida. He was 75.
Claude Lebey (born Claude Jolly; 20 November 1923 – 10 January 2017) was a French food critic and writer. He was known for writing the food book "Guide Lebey". He also wrote for the news magazines "Paris Match" and "L'Express". He co-presented a show on TF1 between 1974 and 1981. Lebey died on 10 January 2017 in Provence at the age of 93.
Steve Wright ( – January 16, 2017) was an American bass guitarist. He played with The Greg Kihn Band. He was from El Cerrito, California. Wright died from a heart attack on January 16, 2017 in Sacramento, California.
Sergei Amanovich Khummedov (, born 12 February 1957), better known by the pen name Sergei Aman (), is a Russian writer and journalist. Sergei Aman was born in former Soviet Union in Turkmenia. He graduated the Moscow State University in 1985. In 1995 Sergei Aman became a journalist of the daily "Moskovskij Komsomolets". Also he worked in "Vechernyaya Moskva", "Stupeni", "The New Medical Gazette", magazine "Auto M". The most famous book of Sergei Aman is "Journalists" (novel). He published this novel in 2013. Also he wrote the love story "Nights after" in the book “On the Edge of Magellanic Clouds”. In 2018 Sergei Aman published the novel "Everything Will Be Okay, We're All Going to Die!" Sergei Aman lives in Moscow. His hobby is sport fishing from a boat.
Brenda C. Barnes ( – January 17, 2017) was an American businesswoman. She served as the chief executive officer of Sara Lee from 2005 to 2010. She was also the first female CEO of PepsiCo from 1996 to 1997. Barnes died from a stroke on January 17, 2017 in Naperville of Chicago, Illinois. She was 63. Her three children outlived her.
Yaron Ben-Dov (11 January 1970 – 6 January 2017) was an Israeli footballer. He played for Ironi Rishon LeZion, Maccabi Netanya and Hapoel Tel Aviv. He was born in Netanya. Ben-Dov died after an illness on 6 January 2017 at the age of 46.
Srirangam is an island in the Kaveri River. It is a part of the city of Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu, India. It is a famous place because it is one of the 108 Divya Desams, or holy places, according to Hinduism. Srirangam is border by the Kaveri River and its tributary Kollidam River. Srirangam can be considered the largest functioning Hindu temple in the world, as it covers an area of about 631000 m2 with a perimeter of 4km (10,710 ft). There are many other famous temples near Srirangam. They include Rockfort Temple, Samayapuram Mariamman Temple, and Vayalur Murugan Temple.
Ion Besoiu (11 March 1931 – 18 January 2017) was a Romanian actor. He played the lead role in the television series "Toate pînzele sus". He appeared in movies when Romania was under a Communist one-party state rule. Those movies include "Thirst" (1961), "Michael the Brave" (1970), "The Actor and the Savages" (1975), "Mihail, câine de circ" (1979), "The Last Assault" (1985). His later roles included "Loverboy" (2011) and "Bucharest Non Stop" (2015). He was born in Sibiu. Besoiu died on 18 January 2017 in Bucharest at the age of 85.
Gustav Frištenský (18 May 1879 – 6 April 1957) was a Czech strongman and Greco-Roman wrestler. He competed in the first half of the 20th century. During his career, he competed in almost 10,000 fights. His first fight was when he was just 19 years old and the last one was when he was 72. Frištenský was a legend among Czech strongmen. Life. Gustav Frištenský was born in Kamhajek (now part of the village of Křečhoř). He had 3 brothers and 2 sisters. When he was child, he was small so nobody thought he could become famous sportsman. As teenager he started to lift weights and wrestle. He was learning to be a blacksmith but after suffering serious burns on his hand by a horseshoe, he left his craft. Frištenský went to Brno and he became a butcher in the butchery of Moritz Soffer. He trained in the gymnasium of the Hellas sports club. Soon, he left his job in butchery and started to focus on wrestling. In 1900, Frištenský participated in an international competition in Prague. There he won in weightlifting, wrestling and the discus throw. In 1901 he became the Moravia champion in wrestling and discus throw. In 1902, he became the Austria-Hungary champion. The following year he was the European champion. Professional career. But Frištenský was still an amateur. After these achievements, he became a professional. He worked for the Kludský circus. Frištenský traveled around the world including the United States. Finally, he returned to his homeland. Frištenský married Miroslava Ellederová in Litovel. In 1917, he stayed in Litovel permanently. He and his wife built a house next to the Morava River. Frištenský traveled to the US again and wrestled in New York in front of an audience of 30,000.
Dzemijetul Hajrije is the oldest Muslim organization in the United States. It is a benevolent society started in 1906 to help Muslim immigrants from Bosnia. History. In the late 1800s, many young men came from Bosnia to Chicago to work in construction. They built roads, buildings, and tunnels for the Chicago commuter train system. Many Bosnians worked on the tunnels for Arif Dilich’s Paschen Construction Company, a large company in Chicago. The Dzemijetul Hajrije was like a family to the many young single men. It had religious services and special activities for Eid and other holidays. It helped pay for medical expenses and funerals. Many Muslims also lived in Gary, Indiana and worked in the steel mills. Another group of Bosnian Muslims went to work in the copper mines in Butte, Montana. Dzemijetul Hajrije started chapters in Gary, Indiana in 1913, Wilpen, Pennyslvania in 1915, and Butte, Montana in 1916. They did not have a mosque, but they met in coffeehouses. In 1956 the last Bosnian coffeehouse closed. After World War II more Bosnians immigrated to Chicago. Many were well-educated, but they had to take jobs as taxi cab drivers, factory workers, and janitors. In the early 1950s, they asked Sheik Kamil Avdich, a religious scholar, to be their first imam. They started the Muslim Religious and Cultural Home. In 1957, they opened a mosque on Halsted Street. In 1968, they changed their name to the Bosnian American Cultural Association. In the 1970s they bought land in Northbrook for a larger mosque, the Islamic Cultural Center of Greater Chicago.
Nagham Nawzat Hasan (Arabic: نغم نوزات حسن ) or Nagham Nawzat is a doctor from Iraq. In 2015 she received the International Women of Courage Award. Nagham Nawzat Hasan is a Kurdish Yazidi gynecologist. She works with Yazidi girls who were kidnapped by the Islamic State (ISIS). After the city of Sinjar fell in 2014, ISIL killed many Yezidi men and enslaved many Yezidi women. Hasan rescued many Yezidi girls. She gave psychological and medical help. She visits Yezidi people in refugee camps to encourage girls to visit her clinic. She started a program against sexual abuse called "I am Yezidi – I am against harassment."
Sinjar is a town in the Sinjar District of the Nineveh Governorate in northern Iraq. It is located about five kilometers south of the Sinjar Mountains. Its population in 2013 was estimated at 88,023. Its local inhabitants are exclusively Yazidi. The main language spoken by the Yazidis in the town is the Kurmanji dialect of the Kurdish language. In August 2014, it was the site of the Sinjar massacre which was conducted by ISIS towards the local Yazidi population following their capture of the town.
Takobeya labour (, Romanization of Japanese: tako-beya rōdō) was a Japanese form of work. It was a harsh system started in Hokkaido during the Meiji period. It replaced in Hokkaido. The workers slept in accommodation huts at construction sites. The concentration huts were called "Takobeya". Takobeya workers engaged in takobeya labour without enough meals. They were oppressed as labor camps. Some also died from overwork. In 1946, the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in occupied Japan banned takobeya labour. In Japanese, "Tako" often means octopus. But Takobeya (Tako room) doesn’t necessarily mean octopus room. About Takobeya's "Tako", the original meanings is not clear.
Latifa Ibn Ziaten (Arabic: لطيفة بن زياتن) is an activist from France. She started the Imad Association for Youth and Peace for interfaith understanding. In 2016, she received an International Women of Courage Award. Latifa ibn Ziaten was born in Morocco. She is Muslim. When she was a teenager, she moved to France. In 2012, Latifa's son, Imad, died in a terrorist attack. Imad was a French soldier. Latifa went to the neighborhood of her son's killer in Toulouse. She talked to the boys in the neighborhood. The boys told her the killer was a hero of Islam. When she told them her son was killed, they apologized. Then Latifa decided to start an organization to help the young people. She tells young people to learn about Islam from their parents, not from the internet. Latifa receives threats and has a bodyguard.
Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (3 March 1919 – 18 January 2017), better known as Peter Abrahams, was a South African-born Jamaican novelist, journalist and political commentator. He was best known for his novels "Mine Boy" (1946), "A Wreath for Udomo" (1956), "A Night of Their Own" (1965), "This Island Now" (1966) and "The View from Coyaba" (1985). He also wrote the memoir, "Tell Freedom" (1954). Abrahams was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg. His father was from Ethiopia and his mother was mixed race. He moved to Jamaica in 1956. Abrahams was found dead on 18 January 2017 in Rock Hall, Saint Andrew Parish. He was 97.
Yosl Bergner (‎; 13 October 1920 – 18 January 2017) was an Israeli painter. He was best known for his art which had people with long pale faces, pointed chins and huge dark, soulful eyes. This was said to show joy and sadness of being Jewish. He was awarded the Israel Prize in 1980. Bergner was born in Vienna, Austria. He grew up in Warsaw, Poland. He lived in Melbourne, Australia from 1937 until 1948, when he moved to Israel. Bergner died on 18 January 2017 in Tel Aviv at the age of 96.
Charles Wesley "Bobo" Shaw (September 15, 1947 – January 16, 2017) was an American jazz drummer. He worked in the free jazz genre. He was best known as a member of the Human Arts Ensemble and Black Artists Group. He was born in Pope, Mississippi. Shaw died on January 16, 2017 in St. Louis, Missouri. He was 69.
Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint (11 June 1939 – 18 January 2017) was an English female cricketer, businesswoman and philanthropist. She was born in Wolverhampton, England. Flint was best known for being captain of England from 1966 to 1978, and was unbeaten in six Test series, while in total she played for the English women's cricket team from 1960 to 1982. She was captain when England won the inaugural Women's Cricket World Cup, held in England in 1973. She was also the first women cricketer ever to hit a six in a test match. Flint's death was announced by Lord's on 18 January 2017 at the age of 77.
Willow Shields (born June 1, 2000) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Primrose Everdeen in all four of "The Hunger Games" movies (2012–2015). She was also a dancer on "Dancing with the Stars" in 2015. At the age of 14, she was the youngest to ever compete on the show. Shields was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She has a twin sister and an older brother, both of whom are actors.
New Medical Gazette (NMG) () is a Russian newspaper published in Moscow. "New Medical Gazette (NMG)" was established in 1992 in Moscow by a group of journalists (, Andrei Gusev and others; some of them had medical education and practical experience in health care). The Russian newspaper "NMG" registered with the Ministry of press and information of the Russian Federation in December 18, 1992. The first number of "NMG" was released on May 18, 1993. Since 1993 Andrei Gusev (, born 27 October 1952 in Moscow) serves as "NMG’"s editor-in-chief. "NMG" came out in format A3 and A4. Since 1999 "NMG" has web-based publications.  The paper specialises in topical medical materials and medical news.  Famous journalists and writers work in "NMG’" editorial staff: Sergei Aman, , Andrei Gusev, Sergei Sokurov, etc. However, the newspaper authors write not only on medical topics. "NMG" has literary pages created in conjunction with public fund "Union of Writers of Moscow”.
Andrei Gusev (, born 27 October 1952) is a Russian writer and journalist. Early life. Andrei Gusev was born in former Soviet Union, in Moscow. His father Evgeny Gusev and mother Rosalind Maltseva were engineers. His father was born in Ukraine, his mother in Moscow. Andrei Gusev graduated the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1975. He worked as a medical physicist more than ten years. Also he received a medical education. He is the author of 10 inventions, 23 published scientific works. Career. In 1990 Andrei Gusev became a correspondent of the daily "Moskovskij Komsomolets". Later he worked as the special correspondent of the All-Russia "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" and an editor-in-chief deputy of the youth newspaper "Stupeni". Since 1993 Andrei Gusev serves as editor-in-chief of "The New Medical Gazette" (published in Russian). The first books of Andrei Gusev are "Ticket to America" (1992) and "Presentation" (1993). Then he published "Mister Novelist" (1994), "With Chronos’ Permit" (1995), "The Russian Story" (1996) and also the story collection "On the Edge of Magellanic Clouds" (1998). He published his novels "The Painter &amp; Eros" and "Role Plays" in 2003 and "The World According to Novikoff" in 2006. In his prose in 2010s Andrei Gusev developed the themes of BDSM subculture in Russia. Themes include female domination, bondage, erotic spanking and BDSM fiction. Personal life. Andrei Gusev lives in Moscow. He was married twice and divorced twice. The first wife – Nina Guseva (nee Odnoletko), worked as a nurse; the second wife – Ivetta Sarkisyan, philologist by education. He has two daughters.  His hobby is beekeeping.
William "Bill" Margold (October 2, 1943 – January 18, 2017) was an American pornographic actor and director. He was born in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. He began his career in 1972. He continued to perform until 2007. He had more than 250 credits to his name as an actor and director. He was added to the AVN Hall of Fame. Margold died on January 18, 2017 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 73.
Rodney Bennett (24 March 1935 – 3 January 2017) was a British television director. He directed ten "Doctor Who" episodes, including the stories, "The Ark in Space", "The Sontaran Experiment", (both 1975) and "The Masque of Mandragora" (1976). Bennet died on 3 January 2017 at the age of 81.
Hisham Al-Otaibi (1946 – 4 January 2017) was a Kuwaiti politician. He served as the Minister of Finance and Industry from 1998 to 1999. He got a Bachelor of Science in engineering from the University of Oklahoma. Al-Otaibi died on 4 January 2017 at the age of 70.
Robert John "Johnny" Little (7 July 1930 – 18 January 2017) was a Scottish footballer. He played as a defender. He played for Queen's Park, Rangers, Morton and the Scotland national team. Little was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He moved to Scotland at a young age and grew up in Millport of Great Cumbrae. Little died on 18 January 2017 at the age of 86.
Yaacov Zilberman (born May 26, 1954 in the Soviet Union) is an Israeli and former Soviet chess player. He became a grandmaster in 1998.  Zilberman participated in the 30th Chess Olympiad at Manila in 1992.  With Robert Hübner and Ivan Morovic he was first at the Capablanca Memorial, Elite at Havana in 1998.
École nationale supérieure d'informatique pour l'industrie et l'entreprise (National School of Computer Science for Industry and Business) is a renowned graduate engineering school in France. It is in a campus of the University of Paris-Saclay (Northern France, associate member). Its different curricula lead to the following French &amp; European degrees : Academic activities and industrial applied research are performed mainly in French and English languages. Students from a dozen of nationalities participate to the different curricula at ENSIIE. Most of the 500 graduate engineer students at ENSIIE live in dedicated residential buildings nearby research labs and metro public transports. Research labs. Research activities at École nationale supérieure d'informatique pour l'industrie et l'entreprise relate to the following topics:
Edward "Eddie" Filgate (16 September 1915 – 19 January 2017) was an Irish politician. He was a member of Fianna Fáil. He served as Teachta Dála (TD) from 1977 to 1982 for the Louth constituency. He was born in County Louth. Filgate turned 100 in 2015. He died on 19 January 2017 at the age of 101.
Robert James Timlin (July 26, 1932 – January 17, 2017) was an American federal judge. He served as a Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California from 2005 to his death in 2017. Before this, he served as a judge for the court from 1994 to 2005.  Timlin was born in Buffalo, New York. He was married to Caroline. They had two children. Timlin died on January 17, 2017 in Santa Barbara, California. He was 84.
Daniel Vischer (16 January 1950 – 17 January 2017) was a Swiss politician for the Green Party. He was a member of the National Council from 2003 to 2015. Vischer was born in Basel. He was the son of jurist Frank Vischer (1923–2015). He was married and had two children. Vischer died from cancer on 17 January 2017, a day after his 67th birthday, in Zürich.
Ludvík Svoboda (25 November 1895 – 20 September 1979) was a Czechoslovak legionnaire during World War I and a commander of the Czechoslovak army in Russia during World War II. He was later elected as president of Czechoslovakia from 1968 to 1975. Early Life. Ludvík Svoboda was born in Hroznatín, Moravia, Austria-Hungary. He joined the Austro-Hungarian army in 1915 when he was 20. He was sent to the east to fight against Russia, where he was captured. Svoboda then joined the Czecholovak legion in Russia to fight against Austria-Hungary in the battles of Zborov and Bakhmach. When he returned, he was declared a hero and joined the new Czechoslovak army in 1921.  World War II. In early 1930, Svoboda taught in a military academy in Prague. After the Munich Agreement in spring 1939, he joined an underground organization called Obrana národa (Defence of the Nation). Around the same time, he also started in cooperation with the Soviet Union. In early June, Svoboda moved to Poland and established a Czechoslovak legion, but when the USSR invaded Poland from east, he was captured and sentenced to death. His allies in Moscow freed him, and he started to free people from the gulags in order to use them in his legion. He became a commander of the Czechoslovak army in the east in 1943 and fought in the battle of Sokolov in Ukraine. His position was leader of 1st Czechoslovak corps. He then fought in the battle of Dukla Pass. With trust from Klement Gottwald, Svoboda became a general in 1945 and was named a Hero of East front. Presidency. After the ending of the Antonín Novotný regime, in the period known as the Prague Spring, Svoboda was elected President of Czechoslovakia on 30 March 1968, on the recommendation
Kendang or Gendang is a two-headed drum. It is used by people from the Indonesian Archipelago. Kendang is one of the first instruments used in the Gamelan ensembles of Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese, the Kendang ensemble as well as various Kulintang ensembles in Indonesia. It is made in many ways by different ethnic groups. Accompaniments. Sundanese. In Sundanese Gamelan, a minimum set consists of three drums. Many types of Sundanese Kendang are distinguished according to their function in accompaniment : Each type of drums in Sundanese music has a difference in size, pattern, variety, and motif. Javanese. In Gamelan Surakarta, four sizes of kendhang are used: Balinese. In , there are two : Makassarese.  (Makassarese s) can be divided to three types:  Buginese. Among the Bugis ' there are two types of playing techniques based on the position of the . if the is placed on the player's lap it is called '. If the players are standing with the s tied with a shoulder strap it is called , this position are usually used for sacred ceremony, or for entertainment like beating of rice mortars or . There are generally three types of beats pattern in playing:
Eldar Kaisynovich Kuliev (December 31, 1951 – January 14, 2017) was a Soviet movie director and screenwriter. He was born in Frunze, in present day Kyrgyz Republic. He was a writer of original script for the TV miniseries "The Wounded Stones". Kuliev died at his home in Moscow, Russia on January 14, 2017, aged 65.
Babette Cole (10 September 1950 – 15 January 2017) was an English children's writer and illustrator. She was born on Jersey in the Channel Islands. She was known for her works in "Drop Dead", "Princess Smartypants" and "Prince Cinders". As a children's writer, Cole created more than 150 picture books. Her best-seller "Doctor Dog" has been adapted as a successful children's cartoon series. Cole died from a short illness on 15 January 2017 in Devon, England, aged 66.
Steven Plaut (1951 – January 17, 2017) was an American-born Israeli economist, academic and writer. He was an associate professor of Business Administration at Haifa University as well as a member of the editorial board of the "Middle East Quarterly". Plaut was an outspoken critic of the Israeli-Arab peace process and Israel's unilateral withdrawal policy. He taught at Oberlin College, the Technion, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, Central European University, Tel Aviv University, University of Nantes, and Athens Laboratory for Business Administration. Plaut died in Haifa, Israel on January 17, 2017 from complications of kidney cancer at the age of 65.
Jalal Eyvaz oglu Allakhverdiyev (; September 17, 1929 – January 19, 2017) was an Azerbaijani mathematician. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (now the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences) (1972). He was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. Allakhverdiyev was a Azerbaijan State Prize laureate of the Azerbaijan SSR (1982). He was director of the Institute of Cybernetics of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan SSR since 1970. Allakhverdiyev died in Baku on January 19, 2017, aged 87.
Teori Albino Zavascki (August 15, 1948 – January 19, 2017) was a Brazilian justice of the Supreme Court of Brazil serving since November 29, 2012. At the time of his death, he was the justice in charge of the trials resulting from Operation Car Wash. He was born in Faxinal dos Guedes, Brazil. From 2003 through 2012, Zavascki served as Minister of Superior Court of Justice. Zavascki was killed in a plane crash near Paraty, Brazil on January 19, 2017, aged 68.
Loalwa Braz Vieira (Loalva Braz, 3 June 1953 – 19 January 2017) was a Brazilian singer and songwriter. She was born in Rio de Janeiro. Braz was better known as providing the lead vocals for the French-Brazilian pop group Kaoma in their worldwide hit "Lambada".  Braz, aged 63, was found dead in a burned car near a highway in Rio de Janiero on 19 January 2017. According to police, two men were seen leaving her house earlier that day. Police say Braz was murdered.