Joseph Thomas Elliott, Jr. (born 1 August 1959) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known as the lead singer and one of the founding members of the English rock band Def Leppard. He has also been the lead singer of the David Bowie tribute band the Cybernauts and the Mott the Hoople cover band Down 'n' Outz.
He is one of the two original members of Def Leppard currently playing on the band.
Rick Allen
Richard John Cyril Allen (born 1 November 1963) is an English drummer. He has played for the hard rock band Def Leppard since 1978.
His left arm was amputated because of a car crash in 1984. He is known as "The Thunder God" by fans.
Pete Willis
Peter Andrew Willis (born 16 February 1960) is a retired English musician and songwriter. He is best known as a founding member of the band Def Leppard. He co-wrote many tracks and played guitar on the band's first three albums: "On Through the Night", "High 'n' Dry", and "Pyromania". He was fired from Def Leppard in 1982 and replaced by Phil Collen.
In 2019, Willis was added into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Def Leppard.
Phil Collen
Philip Kenneth Collen (born 8 December 1957) is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is the lead guitarist for the rock band Def Leppard, joining the band in 1982 during the recording of the "Pyromania" album, replacing Pete Willis. He was born in London.
Vivian Campbell
Vivian Patrick Campbell (born 25 August 1962) is a Northern Irish heavy metal-blues rock guitarist and songwriter. He became known in the early 1980s as a member of Dio, and has been a member of Def Leppard since 1992 (replacing Steve Clark after his death). Campbell has also worked with Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, Sweet Savage, Trinity, Riverdogs, and Shadow King.
Campbell was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In June 2013, Campbell revealed that he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Danbury, Essex
Danbury is a village in the City of Chelmsford, in the county of Essex, England. It is located northeast of Charing Cross, London. It has a population of 6,500.
The city of Danbury, Connecticut in the United States is named after the village.
Cysticercosis
Cysticercosis is a tissue infection caused by the young form of the pork tapeworm. People may have few or no symptoms for years.
In some cases, particularly in Asia, solid lumps of between one and two centimetres may develop under the skin. After months or years these lumps can become painful and swollen and then be cured.
Judy Farrell
Judy Farrell (born March 1, 1938) is an American actress. She is known for her role as Nurse Able on the television comedy series "M*A*S*H". She had small roles in other television series, then later wrote 13 episodes for the soap opera "Port Charles".
Jeff Van Drew
Jefferson H. Van Drew (born February 23, 1953) is an American dentist and Republican politician. He is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for New Jersey's 2nd congressional district since 2019.
He was the New Jersey State Senator from the 1st Legislative District from 2008 to 2018. He represented the same district in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2002 to 2008.
Van Drew was elected to congress as a Democrat. On December 19, 2019, Van Drew announced that he had joined the Republican Party.
Backbencher
In Westminster parliamentary systems, a backbencher is a member of parliament (MP) or a legislator who holds no governmental office and is not a frontbench spokesman in the Opposition. A backbencher is simply a member of parliament with no cabinet duties.
Rotelsee
Rotelsee is a lake near Simplon Pass in the canton of Valais, Switzerland.
Prosper Grech
Prospero Grech (24 December 1925 – 30 December 2019) was a Maltese Augustinian friar. He co-founded the Patristic Institute Augustinianum in Rome and was made a cardinal on 18 February 2012 by Benedict XVI. He was born in Birgu, Malta.
Grech died on 30 December 2019 at the age of 94.
Renato Martino
Renato Raffaele Martino (born 23 November 1932) is an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has been a cardinal since 2003. He has been the longest serving Cardinal Deacon, the Cardinal Protodeacon, since June 2014.
Francesco Monterisi
Francesco Marco Nicola Monterisi (born 28 May 1934) is an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1964 to 1998. He retired in 2014.
Santos Abril y Castelló
Santos Abril y Castelló (born 21 September 1936) is a Spanish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. From 2011 to 2016, he was Archpriest of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. He was born in Alfambra, Spain. On 29 April 1985, Pope John Paul II named him Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia and Titular Archbishop of Tamada. On 21 November 2011 he was named Archpriest of the Basilica of St. Mary Major.
On 28 December 2016, Pope Francis accepted his resignation as Archpriest.
Inkwilersee
Inkwilersee is a small lake on the border of the municipalities of Inkwil, Canton of Berne, and Bolken, Canton of Solothurn, Switzerland. The surface area is .
Luigi De Magistris (cardinal)
Luigi De Magistris (born 23 February 1926) is a Sardinian prelate of the Catholic Church. He was Pro-Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary from 2001 to 2003 after working for more than forty years in the Roman Curia. He was made a bishop in 1996, an archbishop in 2001, and a cardinal in 2015. He was born in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.
Groveton, Texas
Groveton is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat of Trinity County.
Karl-Josef Rauber
Karl-Josef Rauber (born 11 April 1934) is a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was a papal nuncio from 1982 until his retirement in 2009. He was born in Nuremberg, Nazi Germany.
Ernest Simoni
Ernest Simoni Troshani (born 18 October 1928) is an Albanian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was created a cardinal in a consistory held on 19 November 2016 by Pope Francis. He was born in Troshani, Albania.
Marcial Maciel
Marcial Maciel Degollado (March 10, 1920 – January 30, 2008) was a Mexican Catholic priest. He founded the Legion of Christ and the Regnum Christi movement. He was general director of the legion from 1941 to 2005.
Throughout most of his career, he was respected within the church as "the greatest fundraiser of the modern Roman Catholic church".
Late in his life, Maciel was revealed to have been for a long time a drug addict who sexually abused many boys and young men. After his death, it became known that he had sexual relationships with at least two women, one of whom was a minor at the time. He fathered as many as six children, two of whom he is alleged to have abused.
In 2006 Pope Benedict XVI removed Maciel from active ministry, before his election as Pope in April 2005. Maciel was ordered "to conduct a reserved life of prayer and penance, renouncing every public ministry", and died in 2008.
Inn (river)
The Inn (; ) is a river that flows through Switzerland, Austria and Germany. It is a right tributary of the Danube and is long.
Sumter County, Georgia
Sumter County is a county in the center of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 32,819. The county seat is Americus. The county was created on December 26, 1831.
Ripley County, Indiana
Ripley County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2010, 28,818 people lived there. The county seat is Versailles.
Ada Colau
Ada Colau Ballano (; ; born 3 March 1974) is a Spanish activist and politician. She has been the Mayor of Barcelona since 2015. She is the first woman to hold the office.
José María Álvarez del Manzano
José María Álvarez del Manzano y López del Hierro (born 17 October 1937) is a Spanish politician. He is a member of the People's Party. He became the Mayor of Madrid in 1991, a position that he held until 2003. He chaired the board of IFEMA (Institute for Exhibitions and Fairs Madrid) for 24 years, until 2015.
Manuela Carmena