Pedro González Olivares (December 12, 1937 – January 10, 2021), nicknamed "Speedy Gonzalez", was a Dominican professional baseball second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees from 1963 to 1965) and Cleveland Indians from 1965 to 1967. He was one of the first 15 Dominicans to play big league baseball. He was born in San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic.
González died on January 10, 2021 in San Pedro de Macoris, aged 83.
Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier
Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier (August 18, 1935 – January 10, 2021) was a Mexican politician and lawyer. He was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He was Governor of Durango between 1998 and 2004.
Guerrero Mier died on January 10, 2021 in Durango, aged 85.
Dee Rowe
Donald "Dee" Rowe (December 22, 1929 – January 10, 2021) was an American college basketball coach. He coached for the UConn Huskies men's team. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was the director of athletics and the head coach of both the men's basketball and baseball teams at the University of Connecticut for 13 years, from 1955 to 1969.
Rowe died on January 10, 2021 in Storrs, Connecticut at the age of 91.
Afrophobia
Afrophobia is a term to describe hatred and fear towards Black people. A person with afrophobia hates and fears Black people and anyone of African descent. The term "afrophobia" is observable in as discrimination and racist violence on the basis of a persons skin colour, ethnic origin, and nationality. Afrophobia is like homophobia or Islamophobia and other forms of discrimination grounds in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.  Afrophobia can also intersect with other grounds such as sex, homophobia, islamophobia, and disability creating cases of multiple discrimination grounds. A person who displays afrophobia or is thought to do so is described as being afrophobic and labeled as an afrophobe.
There is also afrofobic hate crimes through afrophobic verbal abuse, degrading language, physical violence against black people.
Millions of black Europeans lack equal access to education, employment, housing, as well as goods and services. A 2009 survey by the EU fundamental rights agency shows that 41 per cent of sub-Saharan African respondents had been discriminated against on the basis of their ethnicity at least once in the previous 12 months.
Black people in the United Kingdom are on average six times more likely to be stopped and searched by the police than white people. A recent report on Afrophobia in Sweden reveals that Afro-Swedes are the Swedish minority most exposed to hate crimes.
Storrs, Connecticut
Storrs is a village and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Mansfield, Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. 15,344 people lived here at the 2010 census.
Mohammad Khaledur Rahman Tito
Mohammad Khaledur Rahman Tito (1946 – 10 January 2021) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician. He was a member of the Awami League. In 1986, he was elected to the Jatiya Sangsad. He left the job in 1988 and was re-elect to the parliament in 2008. Tito retired in 2014.
Tito died on 10 January 2021 in Jessore, Bangladesh at the age of 74.
Mehdi Attar-Ashrafi
Mehdi Attar-Ashrafi (Persian: مهدی عطار اشرفی‎; 23 December 1948 – 9 January 2021) was an Iranian middleweight weightlifter. He won a bronze medal at the 1974 Asian Games and a silver at the 1979 Asian Championships and competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Attar-Ashrafi was born in Tehran. He died on 9 January 2021 in Tehran, aged 72.
František Filip
František Filip (26 December 1930 – 9 January 2021) was a Czech movie and television director. Filip was born in Písek, Czechoslovakia. He was known for directing "Tři chlapi v chalupě", "Chalupáři" and "Utrpení mladého Boháčka".
Filip died on 9 January 2021 at the age of 90 from COVID-19 in Prague.
José Méndez (rower)
José Méndez (9 May 1937 – January 2021) was a Spanish rower. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Pontevedra, Spain.
Mendez died in January 2021, aged 83.
Ken Middleditch
Kenneth Arthur Middleditch (5 October 1925 – 9 January 2021) was a British motorcycle speedway rider. He was born in Camberley, Surrey. Middleditch signed for Third Division team Hastings in 1948. By 1949 he had become Hastings top points scorer. He later played for Poole.
Middleditch died on 9 January 2021, aged 95.
Ezra Nawi
Ezra Yitzhak Nawi (; 1952 – 9 January 2021) was an Israeli Mizrahi Jew, left-wing, human rights activist and pacifist. He was supportive of the Bedouin herders and farmers of the South Hebron Hills. He was a supporter of Uri Avnery. He was called "a working-class, liberal gay version of Joe the Plumber".
Nawi died on 9 January 2021 from cancer, aged 69.
John Reilly (actor)
John Henry Matthew Reilly (November 11, 1936 – January 9, 2021) was an American actor. He appeared on soap operas including "General Hospital", "Sunset Beach", and "Passions". Reilly was born in Chicago. His career lasted from 1965 until 2013.
Reilly died on January 9, 2021 at the age of 84.
Madhav Singh Solanki
Madhavsinh Singh Solanki (30 July 1927 – 9 January 2021) was an Indian politician. He was leader of Indian National Congress party. He was External Affairs minister of India from 1991 to 1992. He also was the Chief Minister of Gujarat three times from 1976 to 1977, 1980 to 1985 and from 1989 to 1990.
Solanki died on 9 January 2021, aged 93.
Cástor Oswaldo Azuaje Pérez
Càstor Oswaldo Azuaje Pérez (19 October 1951 – 8 January 2021) was a Venezuelan Roman Catholic bishop. He became a priest in 1975.
Azuaje Pérez was titular bishop of Vertara and as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maracaibo, Venezuela, from 2007 to 2012. He then was bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Trujillo, Venezuela, from 2012 until his death.
Azuaje Pérez died from COVID-19 at the age of 69 on 8 January 2021 in Valera, Trujillo.
Steve Carver
Steve Carver (April 5, 1945 – January 8, 2021) was an American movie director, producer, and photographer. He was born in New York City. His career began in 1970 and he retired in 1996. His best known works were "Lone Wolf McQuade", "Big Bad Mama" and "Capone".
Carver died in Los Angeles from a heart attack on January 8, 2021, at age 75.
David Darling (musician)
David Darling (March 4, 1941 – January 8, 2021) was an American cellist and composer. In 2010, he won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album. He performed and recorded with Bobby McFerrin, Paul Winter Consort, Ralph Towner and Spyro Gyra.
His best known works were "Journal October", "Cycles", "Cello", "Dark Wood", and "Prayer for Compassion".
Darling died on January 8, 2021 at the age of 79.
Květa Eretová
Květa Eretová (21 October 1926 – 8 January 2021), née Jeništová, was a Czech chess player. She held the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 1986). She was a ten-time winner of the Czechoslovak Women's Chess Championship (1955, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1975, 1976, 1986). She was born in Prague.
Eretová died on 8 January 2021 in Prague, aged 94.
Michael Fonfara
Michael Fonfara (11 August 1946 – 8 January 2021) was a Canadian keyboard player. He was known as a member of The Electric Flag and Rhinoceros in the 1960s, Rough Trade and Lou Reed's backing band in the 1970s and The Downchild Blues Band, from 1990 until his death. He won a Juno Award in 2014. He was born in Stevensville, Ontario.
Fonfara died on 8 January 2021 in Toronto from cancer, aged 74.
European Games
The European Games is a continental multi-sport event which includes athletes from European nations and several near Europe countries. The European Games were created by the European Olympic Committees (EOC). The first Games took place in 2015 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The second in Minsk, Belarus in 2019.
The 2019 Minsk European Games Sports Programme had 15 kinds of sport.
Emile Hemmen