He was honored with the National Medal of Science from President George W. Bush in 2005.
Achenbach died on 22 August 2020 at the age of 85.
Fujio Matsuda
Fujio "Fudge" Matsuda (October 18, 1924 – August 23, 2020) was the first Japanese American president of the University of Hawaii. This made him the first Asian American to become president of a major university in the United States.
After retiring, Matsuda was on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including for the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii just after its near-closure in 2003.
Matsuda died at his home on August 23, 2020, at the age of 95.
Zuray Marcano
Zuray Marcano Fuenmayor (26 May 1954 – 23 August 2020) was a Venezuelan teacher and Paralympic powerlifter. In 2016, she was a competitor at the Rio Paralympics at the age of 62. She was born in El Tigre, Venezuela.
She was paralyzed at an early age due to polio.
Marcano died on 23 August 2020 in Maracay, Venezuela, aged 66.
Augusto Caminito
Augusto Caminito (1 July 1939 – 23 August 2020) was an Italian movie director, screenwriter, and producer. He was born in Naples. As a director, he was known for his works "Grandi cacciatori" (1988) and "Vampire in Venice" (1988). He produced "Ne parliamo Lunedì" (1990). He also wrote the screenplay for "Halleluja for Django" (1967).
Caminito died on 23 August 2020 in Rome, aged 81.
Carl Garrett
Carl L. Garrett (August 31, 1947 – August 24, 2020) was an American football halfback. He began his professional career with the American Football League's Boston Patriots. He also played for the Chicago Bears, New York Jets, and Oakland Raiders. His career began 1969 and he retired in 1977.
Garrett was born in Denton, Texas. He studied at New Mexico Highlands University. Garrett died on August 24, 2020 in Denton at the age of 72.
Daejeon Station
Daejeon Station is on South Korea's KTX railway network, 166.6 km south of Seoul Station.
The station opened on January 1, 1905, in the period of Korea under Japanese rule. The station was expanded in 2015.
Alien TV
Alien TV is a 2020 hybrid animated series produced by Entertainment One and Pop Family Entertainment for Netflix. The series focuses on a television news crew made up of the extra-terrestrials Ixbee, Pixbee and Squee, who are sent to learn about the planet Earth.
"Alien TV" was released on 21 August 2020 on Netflix.
Jorge Sanjinez Lenz
Jorge Sanjinez Lenz (January 24, 1917 – August 24, 2020) was a Peruvian military veteran. He participated as a military volunteer in World War II, on the side of the Allies for the liberation of Europe from the Axis Powers.
He was part of the foreign troops of the Piron Brigade. He was born in Moquegua, Peru.
He was the last Latin American soldier to die who participated in D Day.
Sanjinez died of lung cancer in Lima on August 24, 2020 at the age of 103.
Francisco Belaúnde
Francisco Belaúnde Terry (3 October 1923 – 25 August 2020) was a Peruvian politician. He was a member of Congress between 1980 to 1990. He also was President of the Congress between 1980 to 1981. His brother Fernando Belaúnde Terry was President of Peru.
Belaúnde died on 25 August 2020 in Lima, aged 96.
Fernando Belaúnde Terry
Fernando Belaúnde Terry (October 7, 1912 – June 4, 2002) was a Peruvian politician. He was President of Peru (1963–1968 and 1980–1985).
The second of four children, Belaúnde was born in Lima into an aristocratic family of Spanish forebears: his father, Rafael Belaúnde Diez Canseco (1886–1972), a professor, served as Prime Minister under José Bustamante y Rivero; his paternal grandfather, Mariano Andrés Belaunde was a Finance Minister; and one of his great-grandfathers, Pedro Diez Canseco, was also President of the Republic.
He attended the Sagrados Corazones Recoleta in Lima.
During the dictatorship of Augusto B. Leguía, the persecution for the political activities of his father Rafael and his uncle Víctor Andrés Belaúnde prompted the family to move to France in 1924, where Fernando attended high school and received his initial University education in engineering.
From 1930 to 1935, Belaúnde studied architecture in the United States, where he first attended the University of Miami(where his father was also teaching), and in 1935 transferred to the University of Texas at Austin, where he obtained his degree as an architect. He later moved to Mexico and worked as an architect for a brief time, but returned to Peru in 1936 and started his professional career as an architect designing private homes. In 1937, he started a magazine called "El Arquitecto Peruano" ("Peruvian Architect"), which dealt with interior design, general urbanism and housing problems the country was facing. This also gave way to the Architects Association of Peru and the Urbanism Institute of Peru.
As a result, Belaúnde also became a government public-housing consultant throughout the country and abroad. In 1943, Belaúnde began teaching architecture and urban planning at Escuela Nacional de Ingenieros of Lima and later became the dean of the Civil Engineering and Architecture department. Belaúnde also directed the construction, along with other professors and students, of the faculty of architecture of the National University of Engineering in 1955.
Don Parkinson (politician)
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Parkinson died on August 31, 2020, aged 77–78.
Jürgen Schadeberg
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Schadeberg died on 29 August 2020 from a stroke at the age of 89.
S. I. Padmavati
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She was director of the National Heart Institute, Delhi and the founder president of the All India Heart Foundation.
Padmavati was awarded India's second highest civilian honour, the Padma Vibhushan in 1992.
Padmavati was an elected fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences. She was the first woman cardiologist in India in 1954.
Padmavati died on 29 August 2020 from COVID-19 in New Delhi at the age of 103.
André-Paul Duchâteau
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Duchâteau died on 26 August 2020 in Uccle, Belgium at the age of 95.
Adrien Gouteyron
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Gouteyron died on 26 August 2020 at the age of 87.
Victor Hugo Martínez Contreras
Víctor Hugo Martínez Contreras (29 March 1930 – 26 August 2020) was a Guatemalan Roman Catholic archbishop. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1956. He was auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Huehuetenango, Guatemala, from 1970 to 1975 and as bishop of the diocese from 1975 to 1987.
He was bishop from 1987 to 1996, and then the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Altos, Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán, Guatemala from 1996 to 2007.
Martínez Contreras died on 26 August 2020 in Guatemala City from problems caused by lung disease, aged 90.
Don Kidd