Rising Sun is a town in Cecil County, Maryland, United States. The population was 2,781 at the 2010 census.
Pumza Dyantyi
Pumza Patricia Dyantyi (5 September 19487 December 2020) was a South African politician and anti-apartheid activist. She was a member of the African National Congress. Dyantyi was elected to the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature in 2014. She was the Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Health from 2014 to 2018. From 2019 Dyantyi was a member of the South African National Assembly.
Dyantyi died on 7 December 2020 at the age of 78.
Howard Wales
Howard Wales (February 8, 1943 — December 7, 2020) was an American rock jazz keyboardist. He was best known for his works with Jerry Garcia in the early 1970s. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His works include 1970 Grateful Dead album "American Beauty". He played organ on the songs "Truckin'" and "Candyman", and piano on "Brokedown Palace".
Wales died on December 7, 2020 in Redding, California from a cerebral hemorrhage, aged 77.
Harold Budd
Harold Montgomory Budd (May 24, 1936December 8, 2020) was an American avant-garde composer and poet. He was known for his works with Brian Eno and Robin Guthrie.
Budd died on December 8, 2020 from COVID-19 in Los Angeles at the age of 84.
Raffaele Pinto
Raffaele "Lele" Pinto (13 April 1945 – 8 December 2020) was an Italian rally driver. He won the 1974 Rally Portugal and the 1978 Rally Sanremo. His career lasted from 1973 to 1978. Pinto was born in Casnate, Italy.
Pinto died on 8 December 2020 in Cecina, Tuscany at the age of 75.
Cecina, Tuscany
Cecina () is a "comune" (municipality) of 28,322 people living here in the Province of Livorno in the Italian region Tuscany. It is located about southwest of Florence and about southeast of Livorno.
Alejandro Sabella
Alejandro Javier Sabella (; 5 November 19548 December 2020) was an Argentine football player and manager.
He began his playing career with River Plate. He moved to England in 1978 to play for Sheffield United.
Sabella was known as "Alex" while in England. He played for Leeds United, before returning to South America and representing Estudiantes, Grêmio, Ferro Carril Oeste and Irapuato.
From 1983 to 1984, he managed the national team.
Sabella died of heart failure caused by a virus on 8 December 2020 at a hospital in Buenos Aires, aged 66.
Yevgeny Shaposhnikov
Yevgeny Ivanovich Shaposhnikov (; 3 February 1942 – 8 December 2020) was a Soviet and Russian military leader and politician. He was born in Rostov Oblast, Soviet Union. Shaposhnikov was Minister of Defence between 1991 to 1992.
Shaposhnikov died on 8 December 2020 in Moscow from COVID-19 at the age of 78.
Gerard Stokes
Gerard James Stokes (1955 – December 2020) was a New Zealand rugby league footballer. He played in the 1970s and 1980s, and coached in the 1980s through to the 2010s. He represented New Zealand. He was a coach of the Serbian national side. He was the father of England international cricketer Ben Stokes.
In August 2020 Stokes revealed that he had been diagnosed with brain cancer in January 2020. Stokes' death was announced on 8 December 2020.
Jillian Bell
Jillian Leigh Bell (born April 25, 1984) is an American comedian, actress, and screenwriter. She is known for her role in "Brittany Runs a Marathon". She starred as Jillian Belk on "Workaholics" and had a role as Dixie on the final season of "Eastbound & Down", and appeared in "22 Jump Street" and "Fist Fight". Bell was born in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Lo-fi music
Lo-fi (short for low-fidelity) is a type of music which was qualities which are usually seen as not perfect of a recording or performance are audible, sometimes as a deliberate aesthetic choice.
Lo-fi began to be recognized as a style of popular music in the 1990s, when it became alternately referred to as DIY music.
Jack (1996 movie)
Jack is a 1996 American comedy-drama movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It stars Robin Williams as Jack. The movie co-stars Diane Lane, Jennifer Lopez, Fran Drescher, Bill Cosby, and Brian Kerwin.
Williams plays Jack Powell, a boy who ages four times faster than normal because of Werner syndrome, a form of progeria.
Brian Kerwin
Brian Kerwin (born October 25, 1949) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Hal Nichols in "27 Dresses" and Mr. Powell in "Jack".
Werner syndrome
Werner syndrome (WS) (sometimes Werner's syndrome), also known as "adult progeria", is a rare, autosomal recessive disorder which causes the appearance of premature aging.
Werner syndrome is named after the German scientist Otto Werner.
The odds of a baby being born with it are 1 in 100,000 live births.
John H. Edwards
John Hilton Edwards (26 March 1928 – 11 October 2007) was a British medical geneticist. Edwards reported the first description of a syndrome of multiple congenital malformations caused by the presence of an extra chromosome.
In 1979, Edwards was elected to fellowship of the Royal Society.
Vyacheslav Kebich
Vyacheslav Frantsevich Kebich ( , ; 10 June 1936 – 9 December 2020) was a Belarusian politician. He was the 1st Prime Minister of Belarus from 1991 to 1994.
Kebich died on 9 December 2020 at a hospital in Minsk, Belarus from COVID-19, aged 84.
Sergey Ling
Sergey Stepanovich Ling (; ; born 7 May 1937) is a Belarusian politician and agronomist. He was Prime Minister of Belarus from 1996 to 2000 and Permanent Representative of Belarus to the United Nations from 2000 to 2002.
Roman Golovchenko
Roman Alexandrovich Golovchenko (, Russian: Роман Александрович Головченко; born 10 August 1973) is a Belarusian politician. He has been the Prime Minister of Belarus since 4 June 2020.
Myechyslaw Hryb
Myechyslaw Ivanavich Hryb (, , , born on 25 September 1938) was the eleventh Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus from 28 January 1994 to 10 January 1996. Hryb created the first Constitution of Belarus.
Probolinggo
Probolinggo (, ) is a city on the north coast of East Java province, Indonesia. Its area is 56.67 sq. km. The population was 217,062 at the 2010 Census.
John Harvey (racing driver)
John Francis Harvey (21 February 1938 – 5 December 2020) was an Australian racing driver. He was a top Speedcar driver for many years in the 1950s and 1960s.
In the 2020 Australia Day Honours, Harvey was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to motor sports.
Harvey died on 5 December 2020, aged 82, from lung cancer in Melbourne.
Ildegarda Taffra
Ildegarda Taffra (June 30, 1934 – December 7, 2020) was an Italian cross-country skier. She competed in the 1950s. She was born in Tarvisio. Competing in two Winter Olympics, she finished eighth in the 3 × 5 km relay at Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956. Taffra also competed in the 10 km event at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, but did not finish.
Taffra died in Trieste on 7 December 2020, aged 86.
Tarvisio
Tarvisio (German and , ) is a comune in the northeastern part of the autonomous Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in Italy.
Wang Yupu
Wang Yupu (; 1956 – 8 December 2020) was a Chinese businessman and politician. He was chairman of Sinopec, the world's second-biggest oil refiner.
Wang was born in Xinmin, Liaoning. In September 2017, Wang was appointed as the Director of the State Administration of Work Safety.
He was appointed as the first Minister of Emergency Management in March 2018.
Wang died on 8 December 2020 at the age of 64.
Mohammad Yazdi
Mohammad Yazdi (, 2 July 1931 – 9 December 2020) was an Iranian cleric and politician. He was the head of Judiciary System of Iran between 1989 and 1999. In 2015, he was elected to lead Iran's Assembly of Experts. Yazdi was also Chief Justice of Iran from 1989 to 1999. Yazdi was born in Isfahan, Iran.
Yazdi died on 9 December 2020 from stomach cancer in Tehran, aged 89.
Aslanbek Fidarov
Aslanbek Fidarov (4 May 1973 – 8 December 2020) was a Ukrainian wrestler. He competed in the men's freestyle 57 kg at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He was born in Kiev, Ukraine.