Sadou Hayatou (15 February 1942 – 1 August 2019) was a Cameroonian politician. Hayatou was the 4th Prime Minister of Cameroon from 26 April 1991 to 9 April 1992. He was born in Garoua, Cameroon.
Hayatou died on 1 August 2019 at the age of 77.
Simon Achidi Achu
"Pa" Simon Achidi Achu (5 November 1934 – 4 May 2021) was a Cameroonian politician. He was the Prime Minister of Cameroon from 1992 to 1997. He was Minister of Justice from 1972 to 1975.
Achu was a leading member of the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM). He was appointed as Chairman of the National Investment Corporation in 2003, and he was "elected" to the Senate of Cameroon in 2013.
Achu died on 4 May 2021 at a hospital in the United States from an illness, aged 86.
Joseph Ngute
Joseph Dion Ngute (born March 12, 1954) is a Cameroonian politician. He is the 9th and current Prime Minister of Cameroon, following his appointment in January 2019 by President Paul Biya. He replaced Philémon Yang.
President of Cameroon
Under the current Constitution of Cameroon, the President of Cameroon is the head of state and has the most executive power. The authority of the State is done both by the President and by the Parliament.
The office of President of Cameroon was created in 1960, following the country's independence from France.
Ahmadou Ahidjo
Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo (24 August 1924 – 30 November 1989) was a Cameroonian politician. He was the first President of Cameroon, holding the office from 1960 until 1981.
Ahidjo played a major role Cameroon's independence from France as well as reuniting the French and English-speaking parts of the country. He was also the country's first Prime Minister from January 1960 to May 1960.
Ahidjo resigned from the presidency in 1981, and Paul Biya replaced him. He was accused of being behind a coup plot against Biya in 1984. He was sentenced to death, but he died of a heart attack on 30 November 1989 at the age of 65.
Federal Chancellor of Switzerland
The Federal Chancellor (; ; ; ) is the head of the Federal Chancellery of Switzerland. It acts as the general staff of the seven-member Federal Council. The Swiss Chancellor is not a member of the government.
The Federal Chancellor is elected for a four-year term by the Federal Assembly. The current Chancellor, Walter Thurnherr who began his term on 1 January 2016.
Walter Thurnherr
Walter Thurnherr (born 11 July 1963) is a Swiss politician. He is the 16th and current Federal Chancellor of Switzerland since 1 January 2016.
François Couchepin
François Couchepin (born 19 January 1935) is a Swiss lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland (FDP). He was the 13th Chancellor of Switzerland from 1991 to 1999.
Annemarie Huber-Hotz
Annemarie Huber-Hotz (16 August 1948 – 1 August 2019) was a Swiss politician. She was the Federal Chancellor of Switzerland between 2000 and 2007. She was nominated by the FDP for the office, and elected to it on 15 December 1999.
In 2011, she became President of the Swiss Red Cross and ex officio vice-president of the IFRC.
Huber-Hotz died on 1 August 2019 at the age of 70 from a heart attack.
Ueli Maurer
Ulrich "Ueli" Maurer (born 1 December 1950) is a Swiss politician. He was the President of the Swiss Confederation from 1 January 2019 until 31 December 2019. He is a member of the Swiss People's Party.
René Felber
René Felber (14 March 1933 – 18 October 2020) is a Swiss politician. He was a member of the Swiss Federal Council (1987–1993). In 1980/81, he was the floor leader of the Social Democratic Party in the Federal Parliament. He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 9 December 1987 as member of the Canton of Neuchâtel and for the Social Democratic Party.
Milovan Minja Prelević
Milovan Minja Prelević (28 February 1970 – 1 August 2019) was a Montenegrin football coach and player.
Milovan´s football career started in the FK Kom from Podgorica. Later on he played in FK Crvena Stijena, FK Budućnost, OFK Belgrade and FK Obilić. Milovan played for youth national team of Montenegro.
He stops with the active playing football quite early and becomes devoted to the coaching instead. His coaching job starts at FK Budućnost. He even worked in OFK Petrovac, FK Kom, FK Mladost, Montenegro U-19 national team and Hajer FC.
He was coach with UEFA PRO license and lecturer at the UEFA school of coaches of Montenegro.
On August 1, 2019, Prelević was found dead at his apartment at the age of 49.
Deepak Obhrai
Deepak Obhrai (July 5, 1950 – August 2, 2019) was a Tanzania-born Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Calgary East (until 2015) and Forest Lawn (from 2015) for the Reform Party of Canada and then the Conservative Party of Canada from 1997 until his death in 2019.
Obhrai was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was the first and only Hindu to become an MP in Canada, and at the time of his death was the longest continuously-serving Conservative MP.
He ran in the 2017 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election, but was defeated in the first round of voting.
Obhrai died in Calgary on August 2, 2019 from liver cancer, aged 69.
Schoschana Rabinovici
Schoschana Rabinovici ("née" Suzanne Weksler; November 14, 1932 – August 2, 2019) was a Holocaust survivor. She was the author of the memoir "Dank meiner Mutter" (1994) which was published in the United States in 1998 under the title "Thanks to My Mother". She survived Vilnius Ghetto and the Kaiserwald and Stutthof Nazi concentration camps as a young girl (ages 8 to 12).
Jocelyne Roy-Vienneau
Jocelyne Roy-Vienneau (1956 – August 2, 2019) was a Canadian politician. She was the 31st Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick. She was sworn-in on October 23, 2014.
She was the viceregal representative of Queen Elizabeth II of Canada in the Province of New Brunswick.
Roy-Vinneau died at the age of 63 from cancer on August 2, 2019 in Bathurst, New Brunswick, after first being diagnosed in May 2018.
Alexandra Strelchenko
Alexandra Ilinichna Strelchenko (; 2 February 1937 – 2 August 2019) was an Ukrainian actress and singer. She was a performer of Russian folk songs, Russian romances and pop songs. She was awarded the People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1984.
From 1976 to 1980 she studied at the Gnessin State Musical College. From 2002, she had been a professor at Moscow State Art and Cultural University.
Miklós Ambrus
Miklós Ambrus (31 May 1933 – 3 August 2019) was a Hungarian water polo player. He was born in Eger. He competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics. He won the gold medal at the Olympics.
Ambrus died in Budapest on 3 August 2019 at the age of 86.
Jean-Claude Bouttier
Jean-Claude Bouttier (13 October 1944 – 3 August 2019) was a French actor and professional boxer.
During his boxing career, which spanned from 1965 to 1974, he won 64 out of 72 bouts, 43 of them by knockout.
In June 1971 he won the European Boxing Union (EBU) middleweight title, and in 1972 and 1973 unsuccessfully was part of the WBC and WBA titles against Carlos Monzon. He lost the EBU title to Kevin Finnegan in May 1974.
Cliff Branch
Clifford Branch Jr. (August 1, 1948 – August 3, 2019) was an American professional football player. He was a wide receiver with the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders during his entire 14-year National Football League (NFL) career.
He won three NFL championships with the Raiders in Super Bowl XI, XV and XVIII. He was selected by the Raiders in the fourth round of the 1972 NFL Draft after playing college football for the Colorado Buffaloes.
Branch was born in Houston, Texas. He died in Bullhead City, Arizona on August 3, 2019 at the age of 71.
Brian Lochore
Sir Brian James Lochore (3 September 1940 – 3 August 2019) was a New Zealand rugby union player and coach. He captained the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks. He played at number 8 and lock, as well as captaining the side 46 times (18 of those tests).
In 1999, Lochore was added into the International Rugby Hall of Fame.