David Edward Crombie (born April 24, 1936) is a Canadian politician, professor and consultant. Crombie served as Mayor of Toronto from 1972 to 1978.
Art Eggleton
Arthur C. "Art" Eggleton, (born September 29, 1943) is a Canadian politician. He was a Senator representing Ontario from 2005 to 2018. He was the longest serving Mayor of Toronto, serving from 1980 to 1991.
Eggleton has held several federal government posts, including President of the Treasury Board and Minister of Infrastructure from 1993–1996, Minister for International Trade from 1996–1997, and Minister of National Defense from 1997 until 2002.
Martha MacIsaac
Martha MacIsaac (born October 11, 1984) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role of Becca in the 2007 teen comedy "Superbad".
MacIsaac was born and raised in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, the youngest of three girls; her mother Irene was one of twelve.
MacIsaac started her career playing Emily Byrd Starr in the "Emily of New Moon" television series, based on the books by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
She has appeared in several plays including the 2006 play "The Wild Duck" in which she played Hedwig and was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for "Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Principal Role - Play". In 2009, she played Paige in a remake of the Wes Craven film "The Last House on the Left". She also performed in three consecutive productions of Soulpepper Theatre Company's "Our Town" as Emily, beginning in 2006.
In a 2007 "Entertainment Weekly" article, she stated she has been inspired by Julia Roberts from the age of four and was self-described as "obsessed". She also stated she would like to perform alongside her in a film, particularly "a female version of "Twins"".
In late 2012, MacIsaac began a main role on the NBC comedy "1600 Penn" as the president's eldest daughter, Becca. Brittany Snow was originally cast as Becca but because she did not physically resemble and fit in well with the other family members, Martha MacIsaac was cast. In a 2012 interview with the CBC Radio series "Island Morning", she revealed that "1600 Penn" was her last audition before she considered returning to Canada.
She was married to film producer, director, and writer Torre Catalano from 2010 to 2015. She lives in Los Angeles, California as of 2017.
She is represented by the Agency for the Performing Arts.
Jerrod Carmichael
Jerrod Carmichael ( ; born June 22, 1987) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. Carmichael is best known for creating and playing the lead role in the semi-biographical NBC sitcom "The Carmichael Show."
Cirilo Bautista
Cirilo F. Bautista (July 9, 1941 – May 6, 2018) was a Filipino poet, fictionist, critic and writer of nonfiction. He was awarded with the National Artist of the Philippines award in 2014. He was born in Manila.
Bautista works include "Boneyard Breaking", "Sugat ng Salita", "The Archipelago", "Telex Moon", "Summer Suns", "Charts", "The Cave and Other Poems", "Kirot ng Kataga", and "Bullets and Roses: The Poetry of Amado V. Hernandez". His novel "Galaw ng Asoge" was published by the University of Santo Tomas Press in 2004.
Bautista died on May 6, 2018 in Manila of neuroendocrine cancer at the age of 76.
Ben Miller
Bennet Evan "Ben" Miller (born 24 February 1966) is an English comedian, actor, and director. He is best known as one half of comedy double act Armstrong and Miller, with Alexander Armstrong. Miller starred in the Channel 4 sketch show "Armstrong and Miller", as well as the BBC sketch show "The Armstrong & Miller Show".
Miller also played the lead role of Richard Poole in the first two series of the BBC Crime Drama "Death in Paradise".
Noah Taylor
Noah George Taylor (born 4 September 1969) is an English-Australian actor. He is best known for his roles as David Helfgott in "Shine", Locke in HBO series "Game of Thrones", Mr. Bucket in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and Danny in "He Died with a Felafel in His Hand".
Freddie Highmore
Alfred Thomas "Freddie" Highmore (born 14 February 1992) is an English Actor and Director. He is known for his film roles in "Women Talking Dirty" (1999), "Finding Neverland" (2004), "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (2005), and "The Spiderwick Chronicles" (2008). He has appeared as a television actor in 2 TV series: as Norman Bates in the A&E drama series "Bates Motel" (2013–2017), and as autistic resident surgeon Dr. Shaun Murphy in "The Good Doctor" (2017–2020) on ABC TV.
Highmore won a Saturn Award in 2007. He also twice won the Critic's Choice awards for Best Young Performer in a film.
William Gillock
William Gillock (July 1, 1917 - September 7, 1993) was an American composer. He was born in La Russell, Missouri. He taught music and composed piano music.
Gillock studied music at Central Methodist College (called Central College at that time), in Fayette, Missouri. His instructor was N. Louise Wright.
He moved to New Orleans as a young man. He taught music there for many years. Later, he stopped teaching and moved to Texas. In Texas, "
he was the first and only judge for the first twenty-one years of the Junior Pianists’ Guild, which involved over fourteen hundred students."
Gillock wrote piano music for children. Some of his compositions were solo pieces, and some were ensemble pieces. He taught music at many workshops. Because his music was very melodic, he was called "the Schubert of children’s composers."
His music is often played at piano festivals.
Gillock was given the Award of Merit for Service to American Music by the National Federation of Music Clubs five times.
He died in Dallas on September 7, 1993.
In March 2018, the AADGT held a piano competition in honor of Gillock.
The ABRSM exam syllabus includes his works.
Naser Cheshm Azar
Naser Cheshm Azar (31 December 1950 – 4 May 2018) was an Iranian pianist, composer, and arranger. Cheshm Azar was known for his vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple genres. He was mater in classical music, musical theatre, blues, folk music, jazz, and popular music. He was born in Ardabil, Iran.
Cheshm Azar died of a heart attack in Tehran on 4 May 2018 at the age of 68.
Renate Dorrestein
Renate Maria Dorrestein (25 January 1954 – 4 May 2018) was a Dutch writer, journalist and feminist. She won the "Annie Romein" prize in 1993. She started working as a journalist for a magazine called "Panorama". She published her first novel ("Buitenstaanders") in 1983. She was born in Amsterdam.
Dorrestein died on 4 May 2018 of esophageal cancer in Amsterdam at the age of 64.
Paolo Ferrari
Paolo Ferrari (26 February 1929 – 6 May 2018) was an Italian actor. He appeared in 45 movies between 1938 and 2018. He made his acting debut at 9 years old, in Alessandro Blasetti's "Ettore Fieramosca". He became first known as "the balilla Paolo", a character he played in numerous radio programs for children and teenagers during the fascist era.
Ferrari died in Rome on 6 May 2018 of complications from pneumonia at the age of 89.
Tarcisio Gitti
Tarcisio "Ciso" Gitti (18 April 1936 – 6 May 2018) was an Italian lawyer and politician. He was born in Gardone Val Trompia. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1979 and served until 1994.
Gitti was Undersecretary of the Treasury from 30 July 1897 to 22 July 1989, and President of COPASIR from 29 January 1991 to 22 April 1992. From 1992 to 1994, he was Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies.
Gitti died in Brescia, Italy of Parkinson's disease-related complications on 6 May 2018, aged 82.
Khaled Mohieddin
Khaled Mohieddine (August 17, 1922 – May 6, 2018) was an Egyptian Communist politician and a major in the Egyptian Army. He fought in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, which overthrew the monarchy under King Farouk.