Lochore died of bowel cancer in Masterton, New Zealand on 3 August 2019 at the age of 78.
President of Palau
The President of the Republic of Palau is the head of government and head of state of Palau. The president is directly elected to a four-year term, and can be reelected once.
All officeholders are political independents.
Thomas Remengesau Jr.
Thomas Esang "Tommy" Remengesau Jr. (born 28 February 1956) is a Palauan politician. He has been the ninth President of Palau since 2013. He was the seventh president from 2001 to 2009.
Kuniwo Nakamura
Kuniwo Nakamura (; November 24, 1943 – October 14, 2020) was a Palauan politician. He was the President of Palau from 1993 to 2001. He earlier was Vice President of Palau from 1989 to 1993.
Nakamura died on October 14, 2020 at the age of 76.
John Philip Saklil
John Philip Saklil (20 March 1960 – 3 August 2019) was an Indonesian prelate of the Catholic Church who was Bishop of Timika from 2004 until his death in 2019.
Saklil died on 3 August 2019 in Timika at the age of 59.
Mike Troy
Michael Francis Troy (October 3, 1940 – August 3, 2019) was an American swimmer. He was a two-time Olympic champion, and world record-holder in three events.
Troy broke the world record in the 200-meter butterfly six consecutive times before it was taken over by fellow American swimmer Carl Robie in 1961. In 1971 he was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
Troy died on August 3, 2019 in Arizona at the age of 78.
Ernie Bowman
Ernest Ferrell Bowman (July 28, 1935 – August 4, 2019) was an American professional baseball player. He was an infielder who appeared in 165 games in Major League Baseball for the San Francisco Giants from 1961 to 1963.
He retired in 1969. Bowman died at his home in Johnson City, Tennessee on August 4, 2019 at the age of 84.
Prime Minister of Cambodia
The Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia (, ) is the head of government of Cambodia.
The prime minister is also the chairman of the Cabinet and leads the executive branch of the Royal Cambodian Government.
The prime minister is required to be a member of parliament, and is appointed by the monarch for a term of five years.
Since 1945, 36 individuals have served as prime minister; 32 as official prime ministers, and 4 in acting capacities.
The incumbent prime minister, since 1985, is Hun Sen of the Cambodian People's Party.
André Goosse
André Goosse (16 April 1926 – 4 August 2019) was a Belgian grammarian. He was known for his works on "Le Bon Usage". In 1988, he married the Belgian writer France Bastia. He was a professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain. He was also the president of the Conseil international de la langue française.
Groosse died on 4 August 2019, at the age of 93.
Willi Tokarev
Vilen Tokarev (11 November 1934 – 4 August 2019), known professionally as Willi Tokarev, was a Russian-American singer-songwriter. He was known for his 80s music about life as a Russian immigrant in New York. In 1973, Tokarev's song "Murmanchanochka" ("Murmansk Girl") became a huge local hit.
Tokarev died on August 4, 2019 from cancer in Moscow, aged 84.
Bob Wilber
Robert Sage Wilber (March 15, 1928 – August 4, 2019) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, and band leader. He was popular in the 1950s and 1960s, including Bobby Hackett, Benny Goodman, Sidney Bechet, Jack Teagarden and Eddie Condon.
In the late 1960s, he was an original member of the World's Greatest Jazz Band, and in the early 70s of Soprano Summit, a band which gained wide attention. In the late 1970s, he formed the Bechet Legacy Band.
Wilber died at the age of 91 in Chipping Campden, England on August 4, 2019.
Josef Kadraba
Josef Kadraba (29 September 1933 – 5 August 2019) was a Czech football player. He played for Czechoslovakia, playing 17 matches and scoring 9 goals. He attended the 1962 FIFA World Cup, where Czechoslovakia won the silver medal.
Bjorg Lambrecht
Bjorg Lambrecht (2 April 1997 – 5 August 2019) was a Belgian cyclist. He rode for UCI WorldTeam . In August 2018, he was named in the startlist for the 2018 Vuelta a España.
Lambrecht died on 5 August 2019 after crashing into a concrete tunnel during the third stage of the 2019 Tour de Pologne, aged 22.
Asif Mohseni
Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Asif Mohseni () (Sheik Mohseni) (26 April 1935 – 5 August 2019) was an Afghan politician and religious leader. He was seen as the most powerful Twelver shia Marja' in Afghanistan. He was the founder of the Islamic Movement of Afghanistan ("Harakat-I Islami-yi Afghanistan"). He was a Shia Pashtun.He was born in the city of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Mohseni died on 2 August 2019 in Kabul at the age of 84.
Alejandro Serrano
Nicanor Alejandro Serrano Aguilar (13 January 1933 – 6 August 2019) was an Ecuadorian politician and sports leader. He was born in Cuenca, Ecuador. Serrano was Vice President of Ecuador from 5 May 2005 to 15 January 2007. National Congress of Ecuador elected him to fill vacancy of Vicepresidency when Alfredo Palacio became President of Ecuador. Serrano has been a mayor, councilman, sports leader and civil engineer.
Serrano died on 6 August 2019 at a hospital in Cuenca from surgery-related problems, aged 86.
Vice President of Ecuador
The Vice President of Ecuador is the second highest political position in Ecuador. In many instances, the vice president succeeded the president in turbulent political situations. The last time was in 2005 after the resignation of president Lucio Gutiérrez. According to the current constitution, the vice president is elected on the same ticket as the president.
Below is the history of the office holders. The list is complete.
Pedro Pierluisi
Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia (born April 26, 1959) is a Puerto Rican attorney, lobbyist, and politician. He is the Governor of Puerto Rico since January 2, 2021.
Pierluisi was the "de facto" Governor of Puerto Rico. He was sworn-in on August 2, 2019. Five days later, the Puerto Rico Supreme Court ruled that Pierluisi was sworn in on unconstitutional grounds and removed him from office, effective 5 p.m. AST on August 7.
He was the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico in 2009–2017, as well as the Secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico in the 1990's. Pierluisi, a member of New Progressive.
On January 2, 2021, Pierluisi was sworn in. there was a private ceremony in which he was sworn in by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Maite Oronoz Rodríguez. This was followed by a controversial public ceremony on the north side of the Puerto Rican Capitol, where Pierluisi took the oath of office publicly in front of 400 guests during the COVID-19 pandemic and delivered his inagural speech.
In February 2021, Pedro Pierluisi, said Congress was "morally obligated" to respond to last year's referendum.
On March 15, 2021, Pedro Pierluisi indicated that the state of emergency related to maritime transport from the main island to Vieques and Culebra would remain in effect until 2022 when the ferry transport system would be privatized. After group protests against the inadequate ferry service, which led to clashes between police and protesters, Pedro Pierluisi said he supported the actions of the "Fuerzas Unidas de Rapida Acción", the local branch of the forces of security involved in the demonstration.
Sushma Swaraj
Swaraj was the Minister of External Affairs of India in the first Narendra Modi government (2014 – 2019). She was the second woman to hold the office, after Indira Gandhi.
She was elected seven times as a Member of Parliament and three times as a Member of the Legislative Assembly.
At the age of 25 in 1977, she became the youngest cabinet minister of Indian state of Haryana. She also served as 5th Chief Minister of Delhi for a short duration in 1998.
On 6 August 2019, Swaraj died of a heart attack at a hospital in New Delhi, aged 67.
She said in Februrary 2016, that the Romani people are children from India.
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