Naomi Rachel Long (née Johnston; born 13 December 1971) is a Northern Irish politician. She has been leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland since 2016. She has again been a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Belfast East since 2020. She has also been minister of Justice in the government of Northern Ireland since 2020.
From 2010 to 2015 she was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Westminster constituency of Belfast East. She was the second elected female Lord Mayor of Belfast from 2009 to 2010.
In 2019, she was elected as the Alliance Party candidate for the European Parliament, becoming the first ever Alliance MEP.
Karin Balzer
Karin Balzer (née Richert, 5 June 1938 – 17 December 2019) was a East German hurdler. She competed in the 80 m hurdles event at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics, and in the 100 m hurdles in 1972. She won a gold medal in 1964 and a bronze in 1972.
Bronco Horvath
Bronco Joseph Horvath (March 12, 1930 – December 17, 2019) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played 434 games in the NHL between 1955 and 1968. Horvath played for New York Rangers, Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks, Toronto Maple Leafs and Minnesota North Stars. He was born in Port Colborne, Ontario.
Horvarth died on December 17, 2019 at the age of 89.
Tunç Başaran
Tunç Başaran (October 1, 1938 – December 18, 2019) was a Turkish screenwriter, movie director, movie producer and actor. He was born in Istanbul. In 1964 he directed his first feature "Survival". By 1962, he had directed about 40 movies. He directed "Ayşecik ve Sihirli Cüceler Rüyalar Ülkesinde", "Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite" and "Piano Piano Kid".
Başaran died on December 18, 2019 in Istanbul of soft-tissue sarcoma at the age of 81.
Zafar Chaudhry
Zafar Ahmad Chaudhry (Urdu: ظفر احمد چودھری; 19 August 1926 – 17 December 2019), , was a Pakistani human rights activist and an airline executive. He was the first Chief of Air Staff of Pakistan Air Force, appointed in 1972 until his resignation in 1974. He was born in Sialkot, Punjab in British India.
Chaudhry died on 17 December 2019 in Lahore of cardiac arrest at the age of 93.
Geulah Cohen
Geulah Cohen (, 25 December 1925 – 18 December 2019) was an Israeli politician and activist. She founded the Tehiya party. She won the Israel Prize in 2003. She was born in Tel Aviv. Cohen was a member of Knesset from 1972 through 1992.
Cohen died on 18 December 2019 at the age of 93.
Kenny Lynch
Kenneth Lynch, OBE (18 March 1938 – 18 December 2019) was an English rock singer-songwriter, entertainer and actor. He appeared in many variety shows in the 1960s. His best known single was "You Can Never Stop Me Loving You". An actor, his best known role were in "Carry On Loving" and "The Playbirds".
He died in the early hours of 18 December 2019 of cancer, aged 81.
Filozoa
Filozoa is a clade (a group of plants or animals with a common ancestor) that is in the Opisthokonta clade. It includes animals, and their close single-celled relatives. These relatives are more closely related to animals than they are to fungi, and other Opisthokonts.
Three groups are in Filozoa: Filasterea, Choanoflagellatea, and Kingdom Animalia. Animalia is the most important one, which has all proper animals in it.
The phylogenic tree (evolution tree) below shows how clades broke into newer clades. This includes Filozoa.
Ibrahim Diarra
Ibrahim Diarra (25 May 1983 – 18 December 2019) was a French rugby union footballer. He played as a flanker for Castres. He was born in Paris. He made his international debut for France.
Diarra died on 18 December 2019 in Paris of a stroke at the age of 36.
Constitution Party
Constitution Party, Constitutional Party, or Constitutionalist Party may refer to one of several political parties.
Wimberley, Texas
Wimberley is a city in Hays County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,626 at the 2010 census.
Edward C. Schmults
Edward Charles Schmults (born February 6, 1931) is an American lawyer. He was the Deputy Attorney General of the United States from 1981 to 1984 during the Ronald Reagan presidency. He studied at Yale University and Harvard Law School. He was born in Paterson, New Jersey.
Ralph E. Erickson
Ralph E. Erickson (born October 3, 1928) is an American lawyer. He was the 11th Deputy Attorney General of the United States from 1972 to 1973 during the Richard Nixon presidency. Erickson was born in Jamestown, New York.
Philip Heymann
Philip B. Heymann (born October 30, 1932) is an American lawyer, federal prosecutor, legal scholar and law professor.
He was in charge of the Criminal Division of the Justice Department as Assistant Attorney General during the Carter administration and was briefly Deputy Attorney General in the Clinton administration.
Diophantus
Diophantus of Alexandria was an ancient Greek mathematician. He is well know for his series of books called "Arithmetica". He mainly focused on solving algebraic equations. His work was built upon by Pierre de Fermat, a French mathematician, who claimed that a certain equation created by Diophantus was unsolvable. The attempts to prove this claim, now known as Fermat's Last Theorem, led to tremendous advances in number theory.
Not much is known of his life. Some information is given by another Greek mathematician, Metroduros, through various problems that he wrote which supposedly contained hints about Diophantus' life.
Diophantus' main notable work is his series of books called "Arithmetica." It is a collection of problems and solutions to those problems. These problems have come to be known as Diophantine equations, and the method in which they are solved is now called Diophantine analysis.
John Lewis
John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil rights leader. He was the U.S. Representative for from 1987 until his death in 2020. He was the dean of the Georgia congressional delegation. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Lewis, who as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was one of the "Big Six" leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington.
John Lewis was born in 1940 in Troy, Alabama to Eddie Lewis and Willie Mae Lewis (née Carter), who were sharecroppers in Pike County, Alabama. Sharecroppers were people who were allowed to rent a part of a piece of land for return of a share of the crops they harvested. He was the third of ten children.
He experienced segregation as a young boy in the Southern United States. When he went to visit relatives in the Northern US, he learned that places there were integrated and served Black people and white people equally.
Lewis married Lilian Miles in 1968. They had a son, John-Miles. Lillian died on December 31, 2012.
In December 2019, Lewis was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. He died in Atlanta, Georgia on July 17, 2020 from the disease, aged 80. His funeral was held at Martin Luther King Jr.'s Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
Tamisuke Watanuki
He was elected to the Diet in 1969 as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.
He was Speaker of the House of Representatives from July 2000 to November 2003.
Yoshio Mochizuki
Mochizuki died on 19 December 2019 at a hospital in Shimizu, Shizuoka of liver failure. He was 72.
Tadamori Oshima
List of Speakers of the House of Representatives (Japan)
List of Speakers ("gichō") and Vice-Speakers ("fuku-gichō") of the House of Representatives.
House of Representatives (Japan)
The is the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. The House of Councillors is the upper house.
The House of Representatives has 465 members, elected for a four-year term.
House of Councillors (Japan)
The is the upper house of the National Diet of Japan. The House of Representatives is the lower house.