Early members of his group included Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Page Hamilton of Helmet, Phil Kline of The Del-Byzanteens, and several members of Swans including Michael Gira, Dan Braun, and Algis Kizys.
On May 13, 2018, Branca died from throat cancer at the age of 69.
Lay ministry
Lay ministry are members of faiths and Christian denominations who are not full-time paid clergy, or not ordained clergy, but who perform the same or similar function.
Epitácio Cafeteira
Epitácio Cafeteira Afonso Pereira (June 27, 1924 – May 13, 2018) was a Brazilian politician. He was federal deputy (1975–1987), governor of Maranhão (1987–1990) and senator (1991–1999, 2007–2015). Cafeteira was born in João Pessoa, Paraíba.
Cafeteira died on May 13, 2018 of pneumonia in Maranhão at the age of 93.
Steve Hogan
Stephen D. Hogan (1948 – May 13, 2018) was an American politician. He served as the Mayor of Aurora, Colorado from November 2011 until his death in May 2018. Hogan was a member of the Republican Party. He sat on the Colorado House of Representatives between 1975 and 1976. He was born in Lincoln, Nebraska.
His mayoralty received international attention when twelve people were killed during the 2012 Aurora shooting.
Hogan died of cancer on May 13, 2018 in Aurora at the age of 69.
Franz Marc
Franz Marc (8 February, 1880 – 4 March, 1916) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movement. He was a founding member of "Der Blaue Reiter" (The Blue Rider), a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it.
Margot Kidder
Margaret Ruth Kidder (October 17, 1948 – May 13, 2018) professionally known as Margot Kidder, was a Canadian-American actress and activist. She was known for her role as Lois Lane in the 1978 movie "Superman" and the eventual other movies within the movie series, alongside Christopher Reeve.
Kidder also starred in Brian De Palma's cult thriller "Sisters" (1973); in the slasher movie "Black Christmas" (1974); and the dramas "The Great Waldo Pepper" (1975); "The Reincarnation of Peter Proud" (1975). She starred as Kathy Lutz in "The Amityville Horror" (1979).
Kidder was born in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. She studied at Havergal College in Toronto. From 1975 to 1978, she was married to Thomas McGuane. From 1979 to 1980, Kidder was married to John Heard, for a total of six days. From 1983 to 1984, Kidder was married to Philippe de Broca. She had one child.
Kidder suffered from paranoia and bipolar disorder which caused her to suffer from mental breakdowns and temporarily retire a few times. In April 1996, Kidder went missing for four days in Los Angeles and was found at a backyard of a house after she was nearly raped.
Kidder was in a car crash in December 1990, after which she was unable to work for two years, causing her financial problems.
In 1978, Kidder won a Saturn Award for Best Actress for her Lois Lane role. In 2015 Kidder won an Emmy award for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming for her performance in "R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour".
In 2005, Kidder became a naturalized U.S. citizen. In later years, Kidder became an outspoken political, environmental, and anti-war activist. She endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for President of the United States in 2016.
Kidder died on May 13, 2018, at her home in Livingston, Montana at the age of 69. On August 8, 2018, it was reported that Kidder's death had been ruled a suicide by drug and alcohol overdose.
María Elena Meneses Rocha
María Elena Meneses Rocha (1 December 1961 – 14 May 2018) was a Mexican journalist and professor and researcher into media, communications and the Internet with the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City. She was born in Monterrey, Mexico. She lived in Mexico City. She worked for Univision during her early journalist career.
Meneses Rocha died in Mexico City on 14 May 2018 of complications from surgery at the age of 56.
E. C. George Sudarshan
Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan (also known as E. C. G. Sudarshan; 16 September 1931 – 14 May 2018) was an Indian theoretical physicist. He was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Sudarshan was known for his works to the field of theoretical Physics including Optical coherence, Sudarshan-Glauber representation, V-A theory, Tachyons, Quantum Zeno effect, Open quantum system, Spin-statistics theorem, non-invariance groups, positive maps of density matrices, quantum computation among others.
His works include also relations between east and west, philosophy and religion.
In 2005, the Nobel Committee controversially did not award Sudarshan the Nobel Prize in Physics yet awarded his work about Glauber–Sudarshan P representation to Roy J. Glauber only.
Roy J. Glauber
Roy Jay Glauber (September 1, 1925 – December 26, 2018) was an American theoretical physicist. He was the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University and Adjunct Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona.
Glauber was awarded one half of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence", with the other half shared by John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch.
Glauber died on December 26, 2018 at a hospital in Newton, Massachusetts at the age of 93.
Abdallah Said
Abdallah Said (; born 13 July 1985) is an Egyptian football player. He is an attacking midfielder. He plays for Kuopion Palloseura, on loan from Al Ahly. He also plays in the Egyptian national team.
Quim Torra
Joaquim Torra i Pla (born 28 December 1962) is a Catalan nationalist politician, lawyer and editor. Torra was a member of the Parliament of Catalonia from 2018 to 2020 and is the 131st President of Catalonia since May 2018.
Torra was elected to the Parliament of Catalonia at the 2017 regional election as an independent candidate for the pro-independence Junts per Catalunya electoral alliance. In May 2018 he was elected 131 President of Catalonia after the Spanish courts blocked three other candidates.
In March 2020, Torra tested positive for COVID-19 during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.
In September 2020, he was removed from office.
Waleed Al-Husseini
Waleed Al-Husseini (born June 25, 1989 in Qalqilya) is a Palestinian essayist, writer and blogger. In October 2010, the Palestinian Authority arrested him for allegedly blaspheming against Islam on Facebook and in blog posts; his arrest garnered international attention. He later escaped to France, where he successfully applied for asylum. In 2013, he founded the Council of Ex-Muslims of France, and in 2015 he wrote his first book, "blasphemer : the price i paid for regecting islam".
Amelita Ramos
Amelita "Ming" Jara Martinez-Ramos (born January 29, 1926) is the wife of Fidel V. Ramos–the twelfth President of the Philippines–and was the eleventh First Lady of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998.
Jose Miguel Arroyo
José Miguel "Mike" Tuason Arroyo (born June 27, 1945) is a former First Gentleman of the Philippines. He is the husband of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, the current Representative of the Second District of Pampanga. He is the only male Spouse of a President of the Philippines and Vice President of the Philippines.
Loi Ejercito
Luisa Pimentel-Ejército (also Loi Ejercito Estrada or simply Loi Estrada; born Luisa Fernandez Pimentel on 2 June 1931), is the wife of Philippine President Joseph Ejercito Estrada. She was the twelfth First Spouse of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001.
President of the Philippines
The President of the Philippines (, informally known as "Presidente ng Pilipinas") is the head of state and head of government of the Philippines.