Ousmane Tanor Dieng (January 2, 1947 – July 15, 2019) was a Senegalese politician. He was the First Secretary of the Socialist Party of Senegal. He was vice-president of the Socialist International from 1996 until his death. Dieng was born in Nguéniène, Senegal. He was a candidate for President in the February 2007 election.
Dieng died on July 15, 2019 from a short-illness in France at the age of 72.
Paul Albert Zipfel
Paul Albert Zipfel (September 22, 1935 – July 14, 2019) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the sixth Bishop of Bismarck, North Dakota. Zipfel was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
Zipfel died on July 14, 2019 in Normandy, Missouri from dementia at the age of 83.
Normandy, Missouri
Normandy is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 5,008 at the 2010 census.
Pernell Whitaker
Pernell Whitaker (January 2, 1964 – July 14, 2019) was an American professional boxer. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
Whitaker was a four-weight world champion, having won titles at lightweight, light welterweight, welterweight, and light middleweight; the undisputed lightweight title; and the lineal lightweight and welterweight titles. He holds the longest unified lightweight championship reign in boxing history at 6 title defenses. Whitaker was seen as one of the greatest defensive boxers of all-time.
Whitaker won a silver medal in the lightweight division at the 1982 World Championships, followed by gold at the 1983 Pan American Games and 1984 Olympics. He retired in 2001.
Whitaker was killed after being hit by a car in Virginia Beach, Virginia on July 14, 2019 at the age of 55.
Paul F. Markham
Paul F. Markham (May 22, 1930 – July 13, 2019) was an American attorney. He was the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts from 1966 to 1969. Markham was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
Markham was a key figure in the Chappaquiddick incident as he was with Senator Ted Kennedy during the incident. He played a key defense in Kennedy's favor.
Markham died on July 13, 2019 in Peabody, Massachusetts at the age of 89.
Janet Gaynor
Janet Gaynor (born Laura Augusta Gainor; October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984) was an American actress and painter. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1929, she was the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles in the movies "7th Heaven" (1927), "" (1927), and "Street Angel" (1928).
Gaynor was known for her role as Esther Blodgett/Vicki Lester in the 1937 movie "A Star Is Born".
In September 1982, Gaynor and her husband were seriously injured in a car crash after a drunk driver crashed their car. She died two years after the crash on September 14, 1984 in Palm Springs, California from problems caused by her injuries at the age of 77.
Simone Signoret
Simone Signoret (; 25 March 192130 September 1985) was a French actress. She became the second French person to win an Academy Award, for her role in "Room at the Top" (1959).
Signoret won two Césars, three BAFTAs, an Emmy, a Cannes Film Festival Award, the Silver Bear for Best Actress awards, an NBR Award and a Golden Globe nomination.
Roberto Benigni
Roberto Remigio Benigni (; born 27 October 1952) is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. He is known for writing, directing and starring in "Life Is Beautiful", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Paul Lukas
Paul Lukas (born Pál Lukács; May 26, 1894 – August 15, 1971) was a Hungarian actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in "Watch on the Rhine" (1943).
Robert Donat
Friedrich Robert Donat (18 March 1905 – 9 June 1958) was an English actor. He is best known for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps" (1935) and "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" (1939). He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1939.
Paul Muni
Paul Muni (born Frederich Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund; September 22, 1895 – August 25, 1967) was an American actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1936 movie "The Story of Louis Pasteur".
Victor McLaglen
Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen (10 December 1886 – 7 November 1959) was a British-American actor and activist. He was known for winning the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1935 for his role in "The Informer".
Wallace Beery
Wallace Fitzgerald Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American actor. He is best known for his roles of Bill in "Min and Bill" (1930), as Long John Silver in "Treasure Island" (1934), as Pancho Villa in "Viva Villa!" (1934), and as Andy Purcell in "The Champ" (1931), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
George Arliss
George Arliss (born Augustus George Andrews, 10 April 1868 – 5 February 1946) was an English actor, author, playwright and filmmaker. He was known for his role as British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in "Disraeli" (1929), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor.
Warner Baxter
Warner Leroy Baxter (March 29, 1889 – May 7, 1951) was an American movie actor. Baxter became known for his role as The Cisco Kid in the 1928 movie "In Old Arizona", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 2nd Academy Awards.
Emil Jannings
Emil Jannings (born Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz, 23 July 1884 – 2 January 1950) was a German actor. He won the first Academy Award for Best Actor at the 1st Academy Awards for his roles as Duke Sergius Alexander in "The Last Command" and as August Schilling in "The Way of All Flesh".
During World War II, he starred in many Nazi propaganda movies. After the fall for the Third Reich, he was unemployed and retired.
Jorge Aguado
Jorge Rubén Aguado (6 November 1925 – 12 July 2019) was an Argentine politician. He was born in Buenos Aires. Aguado was the "de facto" Governor of Buenos Aires Province from 1982 through 1983 and Minister of Agriculture and Livestock in 1981.
Aguado died on 12 July 2019 in Buenos Aires at the age of 93.
Werner Müller (politician)
Wilhelm Werner Müller (1 June 1946 – 15 July 2019) was a German politician and businessman. He was Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy from 1998 to 2002. Müller was born in Essen, Germany.
Müller died on 15 July 2019 in Essen from cancer at the age of 73.
Flipbook
A flipbook is a paper book with drawings that when flipped back quickly, look like they move. They are normally children drawings.
Rommel Roberts
Rommel Roberts was born on December 2, 1949, in Durban, South Africa. He is a theologian, human rights activist, Director of the Hilltop Empowerment Centre, consultant, lecturer and author.
Rommel Roberts grew up in Mafeking (today: Mahikeng, North-West Province, South Africa), where he was confronted with the effects of apartheid as a child.
His father was white, and his mother Maureen Roberts, a qualified nurse and the only medical specialist for the surrounding townships, was of Indian descent and thus classified as non-white according to the categories of apartheid, and so the family was exposed to diverse discrimination. Rommel grew up with seven siblings.
Rommel Roberts graduated from High School in Cape Town and then studied theology and philosophy at St. Joseph's Theological Institute near Pietermaritzburg.
After his studies he went back to Cape Town, and in the following years committed himself against apartheid working in various human rights groups and organising non-violent actions. Many years he worked alongside .
Rommel Roberts was married to Celeste Santos, also a human rights activist, and they had a son and a daughter. They were divorced later.
In the years after Nelson Mandela's release, Roberts was involved in various projects to build up democratic and economic structures as well as taking care of returning exiles. In 1994 he was called to Mafeking to prepare and monitor the first general free elections, also to resolve conflicts in the then ‘Homeland’