Luigi Snozzi (29 July 1932 – 29 December 2020) was a Swiss architect. He was born in Mendrisio, Ticino. From 1962 to 1971, Snozzi worked with architect Livio Vacchini.
From 1982 to 1984, he was a Visiting Professor and in 1985 he was appointed Professor of Architecture at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Snozzi was a professor of the University of Sassari, at the Faculty of Architecture of Alghero, Sardinia.
Snozzi died in Minusio, Switzerland on 29 December 2020 from COVID-19, at the age of 88.
Arne A. Jensen
Arne Agnar Jensen (15 November 1954 – 29 December 2020) was a Norwegian media and corporate executive. He was born in Bergen, Norway. From 1989 to 1993, he was the chief executive of BSB Bates Group. He then became chief executive of TV 2, and then chief executive of the airline Braathens from 1999 until 2001.
He then became chief executive of Merkantildata, later Ementor, from 2001 to 2004.
Jensen died on 29 December 2020 at the age of 66.
Richard Choruma
Richard Choruma (23 November 1978 – 29 December 2020) was a Zimbabwean football winger. His career lasted from 1999 to 2011. He made 54 appearances with Bloemfontein Celtic from 2002 to 2006. Choruma played for Highlanders from 1999 to 2002, 2003 to 2004 and 2007 to 2011. He made eight appearances for the national team from 2001 to 2004.
Choruma died on 29 December 2020 in Thembisa, South Africa from kidney failure at the age of 42.
Pat Gillick
Lawrence Patrick David Gillick (born August 22, 1937) is an American professional baseball executive. He was the general manager of four MLB teams: the Toronto Blue Jays (1978–1994), Baltimore Orioles (1996–1998), Seattle Mariners (2000–2003), and Philadelphia Phillies (2006–2008). He was born in Chico, California.
In 2011, he was elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
Bridget Regan
Bridget Catherine Regan (born February 3, 1982) is an American actress. She played Kahlan Amnell in the television series "Legend of the Seeker", Rebecca Lowe/Rachel Turner in "White Collar", Rose Solano in "Jane the Virgin" and Dottie Underwood in "Agent Carter."
Glynn Turman
Glynn Russell Turman (born January 31, 1947) is an American actor. He played Toledo in the 2020 Netflix movie "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom".
Turman played Lew Miles on the prime-time soap opera "Peyton Place", Leroy "Preach" Jackson in "Cooley High", Bradford Taylor on the NBC sitcom "A Different World" and Mayor Clarence Royce on the HBO drama series "The Wire".
Turman was married Aretha Franklin from 1978 and they divorced in 1984.
Ted White (manager)
Theodore Richard White (born March 25, 1931), known professionally as Ted White, is an American businessman, songwriter, and producer. White was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was the manager and first husband of soul singer Aretha Franklin. White wrote or co-wrote many songs with Franklin such as "Think".
John Fiedler
John Donald Fiedler (February 3, 1925 – June 25, 2005) was an American actor. He played Juror #2 in "12 Angry Men" (1957) and was the voice of Piglet in Disney's Winnie the Pooh movies.
Leslie Jordan
Leslie Allen Jordan (born April 29, 1955) is an American actor and writer. He played Lonnie Garr in "Hearts Afire" and Beverly Leslie in "Will & Grace". In 2006, he won an Emmy Award.
Lazar Matveev
Lazar Lazarevich Matveev (Russian: Ла́зарь Лазаре́вич Матве́ев; born 17 April 1927) is a Russian intelligence leader and former Soviet intelligence leader. He was a senior KGB liaison officer during 1982 to 1989. He was the boss of Vladimir Putin when Putin worked for the KGB. Matveev was born in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Soviet Union.
Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan
Grosse Pointe Woods is a suburban city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. 16,135 people lived there at the 2010 census. It about northeast of downtown Detroit.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (movie)
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 2020 American drama movie directed by George C. Wolfe and written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson. It is based on the play of the same name by August Wilson.
The movie was produced by Denzel Washington, Todd Black, and Dany Wolf. It stars Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman, with Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo, and Michael Potts.
The movie is about Ma Rainey and talks about her career in Chicago during the 1920s and how her career was affected by racism.
It was released on a limited theatrical release on November 25, 2020, before beginning to stream on Netflix on December 18.
George C. Wolfe
George Costello Wolfe (born September 23, 1954) is an American playwright and movie-theatre director. He won a Tony Award in 1993 for directing "" and another Tony Award in 1996 for his direction of the musical "Bring in 'da Noise/Bring in 'da Funk".
He was Artistic Director of The Public Theater from 1993 until 2004.
James Hormel
James Catherwood Hormel (born January 1, 1933) is an American philanthropist, LGBT activist, and Democratic politician. He was the United States Ambassador to Luxembourg from 1999 to 2001 during the Bill Clinton presidency. Hormel was born in Austin, Minnesota.
George Smiley
George Smiley OBE is a fictional character created by John le Carré. Smiley is an intelligence officer with "The Circus". This is the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6.
He is a central character in the novels "Call for the Dead", "A Murder of Quality", "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", "The Honourable Schoolboy", and "Smiley's People", and a supporting character in "The Spy Who Came In from the Cold", "The Looking Glass War", "The Secret Pilgrim" and "A Legacy of Spies". The character has also appeared in a number of film, television, and radio adaptations of le Carré's books.
Le Carré, who created Smiley, wanted to show that Ian Fleming's James Bond series was an inaccurate picture of espionage life. Smiley is polite, shy and humble. He often allows others to mistreat him, especially his unfaithful wife. But his humility masks his inner cunning, excellent memory, mastery of tradecraft, and occasional ruthlessness. His genius being underestimated helps Smiley achieve his goals. In the end, he becomes one of the most powerful agents in Britain.
The character is held in high esteem in Britain, where he has become a pop-culture icon on par with Bond. "The Guardian" called him "the sort of spy [Britain] believes it ought to have: a bit shabby, academic, basically loyal, and sceptical of... his political masters".
Intelligence officer
An intelligence officer is a person employed to collect and or analyze information (known as "intelligence") which is of use to the organization.
The word "officer" is a working title, not a rank. It is used in the same way a "police officer" can be a sergeant, or in the military, where non-commissioned staff may serve as intelligence officers.
Organizations which employ intelligence officers include armed forces, police, and customs agencies. Mainly, though, the term is used by government intelligence agencies like MI5 and MI6.
Angelica Schuyler Church
Angelica Schuyler Church was an American woman from New York. She knew Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, the Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson.
Angelica was born in 1756. She grew up in Albany, New York. Her parents were Philip Schuyler and Catharine Van Rensselaer Schuyler. Philip Schuyler had fought in the French and Indian War. He went to the New York State Assembly and Continental Congress. During the Revolutionary War, Philip Schuyler was a Major General in the Continental Army. Her parents had fifteen children, and eight lived to be adults. Angelica's sister Elizabeth would later marry Alexander Hamilton. The Schuyler family had almost twenty slaves.