During his junior year at Padua Franciscan High School, Thompson delivered one line for the school's production of "Oklahoma!" and walked off to laughter and applause. "Then someone backstage said, 'They're clapping for you. They love you.' After that, I was hooked." Thompson and some of his classmates got a video camera and began making feature-length and short films, and television-style shows. He graduated from Padua in 1993.
Thompson moved to Los Angeles a few years later and performed on local television and as a stand-up comic while working toward his degree in TV, Radio and Film Production at California State University, Fullerton. He uses his middle name professionally because a "Josh Thompson" was already registered with the Screen Actors Guild.
Funicular
A funicular is a railway that uses trains that are pulled by cables wound around a pulley. This makes them able to climb very steep slopes, like those on hills and mountains.
Jean-Marie Girault
Jean-Marie Girault (9 February 1926 – 1 May 2016) was a French politician. He served as mayor of Caen from 1970 through 2001. He was a member of the Union for French Democracy. Girault was born in Pont-l'Évêque, France.
Girault died in Caen, France on 1 May 2016, aged 90.
Jonathan Cainer
Jonathan Cainer (18 December 1957 – 2 May 2016) was a British astrologer. He wrote astrological predictions six days a week for the "Daily Mail". He also forecasts for three Australian newspapers, the "Sydney Daily Telegraph", the "Melbourne Herald Sun" and the "Perth Sunday Times".
Cainer's predictions were also published in "Hello", the "Auckland Sunday News", the "Botswana Echo" and "Misty Magazine" (Japan). It has been estimated that over twelve million people read his predictions.
Cainer died of a heart attack on 2 May 2016, aged 58.
John Kaye (politician)
John Kaye (23 October 1955 – 2 May 2016 ) was an Australian politician. He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 2007. He represented the Greens. He was known for his support of renewable energy and energy efficiency. He was a spokesperson for public schools and TAFE colleges.
Roger Millward
Roger Millward MBE (16 September 1947 – 2 May 2016) was an English rugby league footballer and coach. He was born in Castleford, West Riding of Yorkshire. Millward gained a high level of fame in the sport in England by playing for Hull Kingston Rovers and Castleford, as well as representing Great Britain. Millward was added into the Rugby League Hall of Fame.
Millward was awarded the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1983.
Millward died of jaw cancer in Kippax, West Yorkshire on 2 May 2016, aged 68.
Karel Pečko
Karel Pečko (September 29, 1920 – May 2, 2016) was a Slovenian artist. In 1957, he created an arts pavilion (art school). In 1963, he became the school's principal. From 1975 to 1991, he was in charge of a cultural institute in Slovenj Gradec. He also led the Slovenj Gradec Art Gallery () until 1997. In 1996, he was honored with the Honorary Medal of Freedom of the Republic of Slovenia.
Pečko died in Slovenj Gradec on May 2, 2016 at the age of 95.
Afeni Shakur
Afeni Shakur (born Alice Faye Williams; January 10, 1947 – May 2, 2016) was an American music businesswoman, philanthropist, political activist and Black Panther. She was the mother of the late rapper Tupac Shakur. Shakur was in Federal Court on July 20, 2007, to file an injunction to prevent Death Row Records from selling any unreleased material from Tupac.
Shakur died in Sausalito, California from a heart attack on May 2, 2016, aged 69.
Ian Deans
Ian Deans (August 16, 1937 – 3 May 2016) was a Canadian politician. He was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland but raised in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1979. He was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1980 to 1986.
Deans died in Hamilton, Ontario on 3 May 2016 from Parkinson's disease, aged 78.
Wizkid
Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun (born ), also known as Wizkid is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, rapper, and record producer. He is the founder of Star Boy Entertainment, a record label he established in 2013.
Wizkid started singing in 2001. At the age of 11, he released a collaborative studio album with Glorious Five album titled "Lil Prinz" before he went solo to record his first song with OJB Jezreel.
In 2011, Wizkid released his critically acclaim debut studio album titled "Superstar" with hit singles like "Holla at Your Boy", "Don't Dull" and "Tease Me (Bad Guys)" on the tracklist. "Superstar" shot Wizkid to limelight, following it's nomination at The Headies 2012 and at the 2012 Nigeria Entertainment Awards which it won "Best Album of The Year".
On September 17, 2014, "Ayo" was released as Wizkid's sophomore album. The album contained hit tracks like "Ojuelegba", "Jaiye Jaiye" and "Show You The Money". "Ayo" won the "Best Album of The Year" and "Best R&B/Pop Album" categories at The Headies 2015 and was also nominated in the "Album of The Year" category at the 2015 Nigeria Entertainment Awards. Wizkid has been working on releasing an EP titled "Sounds From The Other Side".
In 2016, he worked with Drake on his hit single "One Dance", which reached number-one in 15 different countries. In 2020 Wizkid became the first Nigerian artist featured on Billboard’s Hot 100.
Helmut Rohde
Helmut Rohde (9 November 1925 – 16 April 2016) was a German, journalist, academic, and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was born in Hanover. He served as Federal Minister of Education and Science from 1974 to 1978.
Rohde was also a member of the Bundestag and the European Parliament.
Rohde died in Bonn, aged 90.
Johan van Minnen
Johan Tjitze van Minnen (31 October 1932 – 18 April 2016) was a Dutch journalist and politician. He was a foreign correspondent in first Luxembourg and later West Germany. From 1975 and 1978, he was the ombudsman of the television show "De Ombudsman".
Van Minnen served as a member of the European Parliament for the Labour Party between 1979 and 1984.
Van Minnen died on 18 April 2016 in Zeist, Netherlands, aged 83.
Marco Leto
Marco Leto (18 January 1931 – 21 April 2016) was an Italian movie director and screenwriter. He was known for his movies "Black Holiday" (1973) and "Al piacere di rivederla" (1976). He was born in Rome, Italy. His career began in 1960 and he retired in 1993.
Leto died in Rome, Italy on 21 April 2016, aged 85.
Robert Dolan (marine geologist)
Robert "Bob" Dolan (April 5, 1929 – April 24, 2016) was an American marine geologist. He was a professor of Coastal Geology at the University of Virginia. He was born in Los Angeles, California. He was the co-creator of the Dolan/Davis Scale for Nor'easter.
Dolan died in Charlottesville, Virginia at the age of 87 on April 24, 2016.
Walter Jackson Freeman III
Walter Jackson Freeman III (January 30, 1927 – April 24, 2016) was an American biologist, theoretical neuroscientist and philosopher. He was known for his research in how brains generate meaning. His main body of research was on the work of rabbits using electroencephalography. He was born in Washington, D.C.. He was the Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology at the University of California Berkeley.
Freeman died at his home in Berkeley, California on April 24, 2016 from pulmonary fibrosis, aged 89.
Michal Hornstein
Michal Hornstein (September 17, 1920 – April 25, 2016) was a Polish-born Canadian businessman, art collector and philanthropist. He was born in Kraków, Poland. He moved to Canada after surviving the Holocaust (he was of Jewish descent). He became a citizen in 1957. He was known for donating money to art museums and schools in Quebec. In 1984 he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 1993, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec. He was made Officer in 2002 and Grand Officer in 2013.
Hornstein died at his home in Montreal, Quebec on April 25, 2016, aged 95.
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