Kevin "Racks" Gene Roster Jr. (March 9, 1983 – July 26, 2019) was an American poker player and activist. He had terminal cancer who moved to California where he fought to protect the state's right-to-die legislation. He supports medical aid in dying.
He played in the 2019 World Series of Poker in the summer of 2019, and used the event as a platform to raise awareness about sarcoma and to encourage people to push for early detection and diagnosis.
Roster died via medical aid in dying in Rancho Cordova, California on July 26, 2019 at the age of 36.
Carlos Cruz-Diez
Carlos Cruz-Diez (17 August 1923 – 27 July 2019) was a Venezuelan artist. He was thought to be one of the greatest artist of the 20th century. He was best known for his kinetic and op art.
His teaching and art career was based between both Paris and Caracas. His work was represented in museums and public art sites internationally, such as Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Tate Modern, London; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Centre Pompidou, París; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Colonia, and others.
Cruz-Diez died on 27 July 2019 in Paris at the age of 95.
Biljana Plavšić
Biljana Plavšić (; born 7 July 1930) is a Serbian politician. She President of Republika Srpska who was indicted in 2001 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for war crimes committed during the Bosnian War.
She plea-bargained with the ICTY and was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2003.
She was released on 27 October 2009 after serving two-thirds of her sentence. Plavšić is, together with Radovan Karadžić, the highest ranking Bosnian Serb politician to be sentenced.
Humphrey Mijnals
Humphrey Mijnals (21 December 1930 – 27 July 2019) was a Surinamese-Dutch footballer. He played international football for both the Netherlands and Suriname.
He also played 45 times in the Suriname national football team. In 1999, he was elected Surinamese footballer of the century. On 24 August 2008, Mijnals also received Sports Medal of the city of Utrecht.
Mijnals died on 27 July 2019 in Utrecht at the age of 88.
Mike Roarke
Michael Thomas Roarke (November 8, 1930 – July 27, 2019) was an American catcher and coach in Major League Baseball. He threw and batted right-handed. He stood tall and weighed . Roarke played for the Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Cardinals and the San Diego Padres.
Roarke died on July 27, 2019 in West Warwick, Rhode Island at the age of 88.
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West Warwick, Rhode Island
West Warwick is a town in Kent County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 29,191 at the 2010 census.
John Robert Schrieffer
John Robert Schrieffer (; May 31, 1931 – July 27, 2019) was an American physicist. With John Bardeen and Leon Cooper, he was a recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was known for developing the BCS theory. It was the first successful quantum theory of superconductivity.
In 2005, Schrieffer fell asleep while driving and received a sentence of two years in prison for vehicular manslaughter which killed one, and injured seven other people.
Schrieffer died on July 27, 2019 in Tallahassee, Florida at the age of 88.
Leon Cooper
Leon N Cooper (born February 28, 1930) is an American physicist. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer in 1972. He helped developed the BCS theory of superconductivity.
He is also the namesake of the Cooper pair and co-developer of the BCM theory of synaptic plasticity.
Eduardo Gómez
Eduardo Gómez Manzano (27 July 1951 – 28 July 2019) was a Spanish actor and comedian. He was born in Madrid, Spain. He was know for his roles in "Aquí no hay quien viva", "La que se avecina" and "Butterfly's Tongue".
Gómez died from laryngeal cancer in Madrid on 28 July 2019 at the age of 68.
Vladimir Kara-Murza Sr.
Vladimir Alexeyevich Kara-Murza (; 24 October 1959 – 28 July 2019) was a Russian journalist and television host. He was born in Moscow.
Kara-Murza died on 28 July 2019 in Moscow at the age of 59.
In 1992, with the onset of President Boris Yeltsin's democratic reforms, he joined the weekly "Itogi" programme on Channel One of Russian TV—first as editor, then as correspondent.
In 1993, along with his colleagues, joined the newly created NTV, Russia's first independent television channel founded by Vladimir Gusinsky. In April 1995, Kara-Murza became the anchor of NTV's news programme "Today at Midnight".
He was the father of opposition politician Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza.
Loek van Mil
Ludovicus Jacobus Maria "Loek" van Mil (; 15 September 1984 – 28 July 2019) was a Dutch professional baseball pitcher. At , he was one of the tallest players in the history of professional baseball.
He played for Curaçao Neptunus of the Honkbal Hoofdklasse and for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
On the Netherlands national baseball team he was the team's closer in the 2013 World Baseball Classic and the 2015 Premier 12 and appeared in the 2007 Baseball World Cup.
van Mil died on 28 July 2019 from problems caused by a hiking injury at the age of 34.
Jaipal Reddy
Sudini Jaipal Reddy (16 January 1942 – 28 July 2019) was an Indian politician. He was the member of the Lok Sabha of India for five terms.
He represented the Chevella constituency of Telangana and was a member of the Indian National Congress.
He was a Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting in the I. K. Gujral cabinet in 1998. In 1999 he returned to Indian National Congress after 21 years. In 2004 he was re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha from Miryalaguda Lok Sabha Constituency and then he was a Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting and Union Minister for Urban Development in the United Progressive Alliance-1.
In 2009 he was re-elected to the 15th Lok Sabha from the Chevella constituency and was a Union Minister for Urban Development and Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas.
He was the Union Minister for the Ministry of Earth Sciences and the Ministry of Science and Technology from 29 October 2012 to 18 May 2014.
Reddy died on 28 July 2019 at a hospital in Hyderabad of pneumonia at the age of 77.
Ruth de Souza
Ruth de Souza (May 12, 1921 – July 28, 2019) was a Brazilian actress. She was born in Rio de Janeiro. de Souza was known for her roles in "The Landowner's Daughter", "Macumba Love" and in "A Glass of Rage".
de Souza died of pneumonia on July 28, 2019 in Copacabana, Brazil at the age of 98.
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro
Copacabana () is a "bairro" (neighbourhood) located in the South Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is known for its 4 km (2.5 miles) balneario beach, which is one of the most famous in the world.
Egil Danielsen
Egil Danielsen (9 November 1933 – 29 July 2019) was a Norwegian javelin thrower. He was born in Hamar, Norway. He competed at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics. He won the gold medal in 1956. Danielsen set a new world record at 85.71 m and won the gold medal. He could never reproduce that throw. For his Olympic victory and world record Danielsen was selected Norwegian Sportsperson of the Year in 1956.
He retired after the 1960 Olympics and focused on his family and work at the Hamar Fire Brigade. In the 2000s he was a minor political candidate for the Norwegian Pensioner Party.
Enrique Lafourcade
Enrique Eduardo Lafourcade Valdenegro (14 October 1927 – 29 July 2019) was a Chilean writer, critic and journalist. He was born in Santiago de Chile. Lafourcade published at least 24 novels (over 30 by some accounts) and over a dozen anthologies and collections of short stories and essays. His novel "Palomita Blanca" (1971) sold over a million copies, making it one of the all-time best sellers in Chile. He worked for the newspaper agency "El Mercurio".
Lafourcade died on 29 July 2019 in Santiago at the age of 91.
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