George Hugh Niederauer (June 14, 1936 – May 2, 2017) was an American bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the Archbishop Emeritus of San Francisco. Before that, Niederauer served as Bishop of Salt Lake City from 1994 to 2005.
Niederauer was born in Los Angeles, California. He studied at Stanford University, at the Catholic University of America and at Loyola University. Niederauer died on May 2, 2017 in San Rafael, California from lung cancer at the age of 80.
Abelardo Castillo
Abelardo Castillo (March 27, 1935 – May 2, 2017) was an Argentine writer, novelist, essayists. He was born in the city of San Pedro, Buenos Aires. He practiced amateur boxing in his youth. He also directed the literary magazines "El Escarabajo de Oro" and "El Ornitorrinco". He was well regarded in the field of Latin American literature.
In 2014 he won the Diamond Konex Award as the best writer in the last decade in Argentina.
Castillo died on May 2, 2017 in Buenos Aires from pneumonia, aged 82.
Yisrael Friedman
Yisrael Friedman, also known as Pashkaner Rebbe (November 8, 1923 – May 1, 2017) was a Israel rabbi and educator. He was born in Buhuși, Romania. He was a former lecturer at the Tel Aviv University and the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the "rosh yeshiva" of a "hesder yeshiva" in Netivot.
Friedman died on May 1, 2017 at a medical center in Tel Aviv, Israel, aged 93.
José Manuel Martín
José Manuel Martín Pérez (born May 24, 1924) is a retired Spanish actor, radio broadcaster, and screenwriter. He was a popular character actor in Spanish cinema during the 1950s and 60s. He is best remembered for playing villainous henchmen, appearing in more than 100 movie and television productions.
Martín born in Casavieja, Spain. He studied at Madrid's Teatro Español Universitario and the Lope de Rueda, and began working for Radio Nacional de España in 1942, before making his feature movie debut in César Fernández Ardavín's 1952 war drama "La llamada de África" starring Ali Beiba Uld Abidin, Yahadid Ben Ahmed Lehbib and Farachi Ben Emboiric.
Martín is particularly noted for his work in the Spaghetti Western genre, alongside regulars such as Aldo Sambrell and Andrea Scotti, with supporting roles in "Savage Guns" (1961), "Gunfighters of Casa Grande" (1964), "Minnesota Clay"(1964), "A Pistol for Ringo" (1965), "Seven Dollars on the Red" (1966), "Arizona Colt" (1966), "A Bullet for the General" (1966), "Blood River" (1967), "100 Rifles" (1969), and "Cut-Throats Nine" (1972).
Martín also had memorable roles in EuroHorror movies such as "Sax Rohmer's The Castle of Fu Manchu" (1969), "The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff" (1973), "Count Dracula's Great Love" (1974), and "Curse of the Devil" (1974).
Mitch Landrieu
Mitchell Joseph "Mitch" Landrieu ( ; born August 16, 1960) is an American politician. He recently served as the 61st Mayor of New Orleans. Landrieu previously served as the 51st Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana from 2004 to 2010. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
His father is Moon Landrieu, the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development during the Jimmy Carter administration. His sister is former United States senator Mary Landrieu.
Seth Moulton
Seth Wilbur Moulton (born October 24, 1978) is an American former Marine Corps officer and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Massachusetts's 6th congressional district since 2015.
Moulton served in the Marine Corps during the early years of the Iraq War.
On April 22, 2019, Moulton launched his presidential campaign for the 2020 election. He suspended his campaign on August 23, 2019 due to low polling numbers and failed qualifications for the debates.
Harold Bedoya Pizarro
Harold Bedoya Pizarro (December 30, 1938 – May 2, 2017) was a Colombian politician and military personnel. He was General and Commander of the Colombian National Army from 1994 through 1996. Bedoya has also run for President of Colombia in the 1998 and 2002 elections. He was born in Cali, Colombia. On July 24, 1997, Bedoya was forced into retirement by then President Ernesto Samper due to his unwillingness to negotiate with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Bedoya Pizarro died at a military clinic in Bogotá from lymphoma on May 2, 2017 at the age of 78.
Kohlrabi
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Mohamed Talbi
Mohamed Talbi (16 September 1921 – 1 May 2017) was a Tunisian historian and professor. He was the author of many books about Islam. He was born in Tunis. Talbi was appointed president of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts between 2011 and 2012.
Talbi died on 1 May 2017 in Tunis from respiratory failure, aged 95.
Stoyanka Mutafova
Stoyanka Mutafova (née Stoyana-Maria Konstantinova Mutafova; ; 2 February 1922 – 6 December 2019) was a famous Bulgarian actress. During her career, she starred in over 53 theatrical plays and 25 movies.
Mutafova was nicknamed "Ms. Natural Disaster" for a play she performs in and "The Queen of Bulgarian comedy", she was an official applicant for a Guinness Book of World Record as the actress with the longest active professional career.
At the age of 94 in 2016, she toured the theater halls in major cities of the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Great Britain and Germany.
Mutafova died on 6 December 2019 in Sofia at the age of 97.
Let L-410
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Pingali Venkayya
Pingali Venkayya (2 August 1876 - died 4 July 1963) was an Indian freedom fighter and the designer of the flag on which the Indian national flag was based.
Negombo
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Saas Grund
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St. Niklaus, Switzerland
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Stalden, Switzerland
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Staldenried
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Karel Schoeman
Karel Schoeman (26 October 1939 – 1 May 2017) was a South African novelist, historian, and translator. He was the author of 19 novels and many works of history. He was one of South Africa's most honored authors.
Schoeman wrote mainly in Afrikaans, although several of his non-fiction books were originally written in English. His novels are increasingly being translated into other languages, notably, English, French and Dutch.
Shoeman died in an act of suicide by refusing to eat or drink at a retirement center in South Africa at the age of 77.
Mishaal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
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