Free University Amsterdam was established by Abraham Kuyper in 1880.
It has about 25,000 students.
Its focus is on all sorts of sciences.
Jelle Zijlstra
Jelle Zijlstra (Augustus 27, 1918 in Oosterbierum - December 23, 2001 in Wassenaar) was a Dutch economist and a politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP).
Zijlstra studied economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and was a economics professor at the Free University Amsterdam.
He was prime minister from 1966 to 1967. He was also a government minister, a member-parliamentary leader of the Second Chamber and a member of the First Chamber.
After his political career he was president of De Nederlandsche Bank, the Dutch central bank.
Zijlstra was a Reformed Christian. He died in 2001, aged 83.
Ensign (rank)
Ensign is the lowest rank of a officer in the armed forces of some countries, normally in the infantry or navy.
Aad van Dulst
Arie-Jan "Aad" van Dulst (May 9, 1929 in Rotterdam - March 5, 2001 in Hoofddorp) was a Dutch politician of the Christian Historical Union (CHU) and its successor the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).
He was a councillor in Hilversum and The Hague, and mayor of Tietjerksteradeel and Haarlemmermeer.
Van Dulst studied theology at Utrecht University.
He worked as a journalist for regional newspapers, at NRCV radio, and as a director.
Donald Harvey
Donald Harvey (April 15, 1952 – March 30, 2017) was an American serial killer. He claimed to have murdered 87 people, though official estimates are that he has from 37 to 57 victims.
Harvey said he started out killing to "ease the pain" of patients. As time progressed, he began to enjoy it more and more and became a self-described "angel of death". Harvey was serving 28 life sentences at the Toledo Correctional Institution in Toledo, Ohio, having pleaded guilty to murder charges to avoid the death penalty. His inmate number was A199449.
On March 28, 2017, authorities reported that Harvey had been found in his cell severely beaten. He died on March 30, 2017.
He is killed by James D Elliot.
Paul Mitchell (American football)
Paul Anthony Mitchell (August 10, 1920 – March 11, 2017) was an American football defensive end and tackle. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Mitchell played two seasons with the New York Yanks of the National Football League. He played college football at the University of Minnesota where he was an All-American. Mitchell also played in the All-America Football Conference for the Los Angeles Dons from 1946 to 1948, and for the New York Yankees from 1948 to 1950.
Mitchell died in Palos Verdes Peninsula, California on March 11, 2017 at the age of 96.
Ken Sparks
Ken Sparks (February 25, 1944 – March 29, 2017) was an American football coach and player. He was born in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Sparks served as the head football coach at Carson–Newman University in Jefferson City, Tennessee from 1980 until his retirement at the end of the 2016 season. He was the record-holder for the most wins as a coach in NCAA Division II history. He won five NAIA Championships (1983–1984, 1986, 1988–1989). He retired on November 2016.
Sparks died March 29, 2017 in Knoxville from prostate cancer, aged 73.
Vitaly Ginzburg
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, (; October 4, 1916 – November 8, 2009) was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, and winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was of Jewish descent.
Ginzburg was a member of the Soviet and Russian Academies of Sciences and one of the fathers of the Soviet hydrogen bomb. He was the successor to Igor Tamm as head of the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FIAN), and an outspoken atheist.
Ginzburg died in Moscow on November 8, 2009 from cardiac arrest, aged 93.
Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov
Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (; 25 June 1928 – 29 March 2017) was a Russian and American theoretical physicist. His works were in the field of condensed matter physics.
Abrikosov was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003.
He was of Jewish descent.
Darlene Cates
Darlene Cates (Rita Darlene Guthrie; December 13, 1947 – March 26, 2017) was an American actress. She played the obese housebound mother in the 1993 movie "What's Eating Gilbert Grape". Cates died of a heart attack on March 26, 2017.
Toše Proeski
Todor "Toše" Proeski (25 January 1981 – 16 October 2007) was a Macedonian multi-genre singer, songwriter and actor. He was popular across the entire Balkan area and was considered a top act of the local Macedonian music scene. He was dubbed "Elvis Presley of the Balkans" by BBC News. He died in a car crash on Zagreb–Lipovac A3 highway, near Nova Gradiška in Croatia at the age of 26.
Victor Marijnen
Victor Gerard Marie "Vic" Marijnen (February 21, 1917 in Arnhem - April 5, 1975 in The Hague) was a Dutch politician of the Catholic People's Party (KVP).
Marijnen studied law at Radboud University Nijmegen. He worked at the trade and agricultural departments, and was secretary of Catholic employers' organizations.
From 1959 to 1963 he was government minister of Agriculture and Fishery. From 1963 to 1965 he prime minister of the so-called Marijnen cabinet. From 1965 to 1966 he was an MP. From 1968 till his death he was mayor of The Hague.
Marijnen was a Roman Catholic. He died in 1975, aged 58.
Jan de Quay
Jan Eduard de Quay (August 26, 1901 in 's-Hertogenbosch - July 4, 1985 in Beers) was a Dutch politician of the Catholic People's Party (KVP).
De Quay studied psychology at Utrecht University and was a professor at Tilburg University.
During the beginning of World War II - from 1940 to 1941 - he was one of the three leaders of the Dutch Union ("Nederlandsche Unie"). This political movement wanted to unite the Dutch people considering the changed situation due to the German occupation. In December 1941 the Dutch Union was forbidden by the Germans.
From mid 1942 to mid 1943 the German occupier imprisoned him in Kamp Sint-Michielsgestel. Afterwards he went in hiding in the south of the Netherlands till the liberation of that part of the country in 1944.
Around the end of the war he was defense minister for a couple of months. Because of his wartime activities (prime) minister Willem Drees didn't want him to include in his cabinets.
Because of this he was queen's commissioner of the province of North Brabant from 1946 to 1959.
In 1959 he returned to national politics as prime minister of the De Quay cabinet. It consisted of the three Christian parties (Anti-Revolutionary Party, Catholic People's Party and Christian Historical Union) and the conservative liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. The cabinet lasted till 1963.
Three years later, he became transport and water management minister and also deputy prime minister in the Zijlstra cabinet. This government lasted only a year.
In the meantime he was a senator (1963-1966) and also afterwards (1967-1969).
De Quay was a Roman Catholic. He died in 1985, aged 83.
Jo Cals
Jozef Maria Laurens Theo "Jo" Cals (July 18, 1914 in Roermond - December 30, 1971 in The Hague) was a Dutch politician of the Catholic People's Party (KVP).
Cals studied law at Radboud University Nijmegen. He worked several years as a lawyer and attorney, at the university mentioned before and also as a school teacher.
As a councillor of Nijmegen he entered politics in 1945. Three years later he became an MP. He exercised this position till 1948, and again from 1963 to 1965. In between, he was (deputy) government minister of Education, Arts and Sciences. In 1965 he became prime minister of the so-called Cals cabinet, consisting of his own Catholic People's Party, the Anti-Revolutionairy Party (ARP) and the Labour Party (PvdA). A motion of fellow party member Norbert Schmelzer led to the end of his cabinet in 1966.
Cals was a Roman Catholic. He died in 1971, aged 57.
Deaths in April 2017