Jean Erdman (February 20, 1916 – May 4, 2020) was an American dancer and choreographer. She was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. She won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography in 1972 for her work in "The Two Gentlemen of Verona". She was known for her works as Ideal Spectator in "Every Soul is a Circus", the Speaking Fate in "Punch and the Judy" and the One Who Speaks in "Letter to the World".
Erdman died on May 4, 2020 in Honolulu, aged 104.
Job Amupanda
Job Shipululo Amupanda (born 28 August 1987) is a Namibian politician. Before his suspension and resignation in 2014, he was the Secretary for Information, Publicity and Mobilisation of the SWAPO Party Youth League. He is the co-founder and leader of the Affirmative Repositioning movement, a movement setup by radical youth activists of the SWAPO Party Youth League. In 2010 he continued his studies at Stellenbosch University where he graduated with BA Honours in Political Science (2010) and MA in Political Science (2012). He also holds a BA Honors in History from University of South Africa He successfully challenged his expulsion from the party in court and was reinstated as a party member in May 2016.
Harriet Frank Jr.
Harriet Frank Jr. (March 2, 1923 – January 28, 2020) was an American screenwriter and producer. She was born in Portland, Oregon.
Frank worked alongside her husband, Irving Ravetch. Frank won many awards during her career, such as the New York Film Critics Circle Awards and the Writers Guild of America Award, and several nominations.
Her best known works are "The Long, Hot Summer" (1958), "Norma Rae" (1979), "Murphy's Romance" (1985) and "Stanley & Iris" (1990).
Frank was one of the "leading characters" in the 2017 memoir "The Mighty Franks: A Memoir".
Frank died on January 28, 2020 at her home in Los Angeles at the age of 96.
SWAPO Party Youth League
The SWAPO Party Youth League (SPYL), formerly SWAPO Youth League (SYL), is the youth wing of the SWAPO Party, the ruling party of Namibia. It shares the same principles as those of the SWAPO Party.
Ambrose Schindler
Ambrose "Amblin' Amby" Schindler (born April 22, 1917) is a former American collegiate football player, coach, actor and stuntsman. He was born in San Diego, California. He played college football for the University of Southern California. He was in the 1940 Rose Bowl. He went on to be the MVP in the 1940 College All-Star Game, held at Soldier Field in Chicago.
Schindler was in the "The Wizard of Oz" as a Winkie Guard and as Jack Haley's Tin Man stunt double. He also appeared in "Sailor's Lady" (1940).
Sophia Shaningwa
Sophia Shaningwa is a Namibian politician. She served as Minister for Urban and Rural Development since 21 March 2015 to 2018 in President Hage Geingob's administration. She is currently the Secretary General of SWAPO Party.
Shaningwa was appointed Governor of Khomas Region in 2004. She later served as Governor of Omusati Region. In 2014, she was elected to the National Assembly. She had previously worked at the National Housing Enterprise and served as Windhoek West councillor.
Shaningwa was conferred the Most Distinguished Order of Namibia: First Class on Heroes' Day 2014.
Peter Dutton
Peter Craig Dutton (born 18 November 1970) is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Liberal Party. He has been a member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the Division of Dickson, Queensland since November 2001. From 2017 to 2018, he was the Minister for Home Affairs. He served as the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection from 2014 to 2017. He was also the Minister for Health and Sport from 2013 to 2014.
Dutton was born in Brisbane, Queensland. He was a police officer before he entered politics. He has been married twice and has three children.
On 13 March 2020, during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, Dutton was diagnosed with COVID-19.
Carmen Herrera
Carmen Herrera (born May 30, 1915) is a Cuban-American abstract, minimalist painter. She was born in Havana. She lives in New York City since the mid-1950s. Herrera's abstract works have brought her international recognition late in life.
Herrera became known for her landscape abstract art based in Cuba such as "Blanco y Verde" (1959) which depicts landscape of the Cuban oceanside. Some of her work appears at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C..
Herrera exhibited several times at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles beginning in 1949.
She turned 100 in May 2015.
William Coors
William Kistler "Bill" Coors (August 11, 1916 – October 13,2018) was an American businessman. He was born in Golden, Colorado. He was the grandson of Adolph Coors (1847-1929), founder of the Coors Brewing Company. He was known for his work with the company for 64 years, and was a board member from 1973 to 2003. He studied at Princeton University.
Coors died on October 13, 2018, aged 102.
S. Prestley Blake
Stewart Prestley Blake (November 26, 1914 – February 11, 2021) was an American businessman. He was a co-founder of the Friendly Ice Cream Corporation (known more commonly as "Friendly's").
Blake founded the Friendly's national restaurant chain during the Great Depression, in 1935. The company was sold to Hershey Foods in 1979 for $164 million, and again for $375 million in 1988. He was chairman of the company until 1979.
In 2006 he was minority shareholder in Friendly's.
Blake died on February 11, 2021 in Florida, aged 106.
Eduard von Falz-Fein
Baron Eduard Oleg Alexandrowitsch von Falz-Fein (14 September 1912 – 17 November 2018) was a Russian-born Liechtenstein businessman and journalist.
He was known as a "sports diplomat" who initiated the Olympic movement in Liechtenstein and vice president of Liechtenstein Olympic Committee in the mid-1930s. He was born in Gavrilovka, Kherson Oblast.
In 1951 and from 1953-73, he was President of the Liechtenstein Cycling Association. He turned 100 on 14 September 2012. Falz-Fein died in a house fire in Vaduz on 17 November 2018 at the age of 106.
Idriz Ajeti
Idriz Ajeti (26 June 1917 – 13 February 2019) was a Kosovo Albanologist and educator. He is known as one of the main researchers and authorities on the Albanian language studies of post World War II. He worked for the University of Pristina, and is a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo, being its chairman for seven years.
Margaret Morgan Lawrence
Margaret Cornelia Morgan Lawrence (August 19, 1914 – December 4, 2019) was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Her career began in 1948.
Her work included clinical care, teaching, and research, particularly into the development of ego strength in inner-city families. She studied young children seen as "strong" by their teachers in Georgia and Mississippi.
Lawrence was chief of the Developmental Psychiatry Service for Infants and Children (and their families) at Harlem Hospital for 21 years, as well as associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, retiring in 1984.
Lawrence died on December 4, 2019 at a nursing home in Boston at the age of 105.
Fazlollah Reza
Fazlollah Reza () (January 1, 1915 – November 19, 2019) was an Iranian university professor. He was born in Rasht.
He was a Fellow of the IEEE and AAAS for his works to network and information theory. He was an honorary member of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature and had written and spoken extensively on classical Persian poetry.
Reza was the head of Aryamehr University of Industry (Sharif University of Technology), University of Tehran, Iran's ambassador to Canada and Iran's ambassador to UNESCO.
As a professor, he taught at MIT, McGill University, and University of Tehran.
G. Venkatasubbiah
Ganjam Venkatasubbiah (23 August 1913 – 19 April 2021) was an Indian writer, grammarian, editor, lexicographer and critic. He was born in Mysore, Mysore Kingdom.