Richard Clifford Taylor (born 28 January 1943) is an English rock guitarist and pianist. He best known as the guitarist and founding member of the Pretty Things. Taylor was an early bassist for the Rolling Stones, but left the band to study at Sidcup Art College. He was born in Dartford, Kent.
List of world snooker champions
The World Snooker Championship snooker tournament founded in 1927 and since 1977 played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. The event is played over 17 days in late April and early May, and is chronologically the third of the three Triple Crown events of the season since 1977–78, when the UK Championship was first held. The event was not held from 1941 to 1945 because of World War II or between 1958 and 1963 due to declining interest.
The governing body that organises this event is the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Prior to this in 1968, the world championship was organised by the Billiards Association and Control Council (BACC), except for a few years when the Professional Billiards Players' Association (PBPA) staged their own event, the World Professional Match-play Championship.
The best player at the World Snooker Championship was Joe Davis, who won 15 consecutive titles between 1927 and 1946. The record in the modern era, usually dated from 1969 of a knock-out tournament format, rather than a challenge format, is held by Stephen Hendry, who won the title 7 times between 1990 and 1999.
Judd Trump
Judd Trump (born 20 August 1989) is an English snooker player from Bristol who is the current World Champion and the world number one. One of 11 players to win all Triple Crown events at least once, he has won 17 ranking titles.
After winning the English Under-13 and Under-15 events and reaching the World Under-21 semi-finals, Trump turned professional in 2005, aged 16. He won his first ranking title at the 2011 China Open, beating Selby 10–8 in the final. The following month, he reached the final of the 2011 World Championship, but lost 15–18 to John Higgins. He wis first Triple Crown event later that year when he won the 2011 UK Championship, defeating Mark Allen 10–8 in the final.
During the 2018–19 snooker season, he won his first Masters title, defeating Ronnie O'Sullivan 10–4 in the final, and completed his Triple Crown by winning his first World Snooker Championship, defeating Higgins 18–9. He also became the first snooker player to win over £1 million in prize money in a single season.
Teresa Aquino-Oreta
Maria Teresa Aquino-Oreta (born Maria Teresa Aquino Aquino) (June 28, 1944 – May 14, 2020), better known as Tessie Aquino-Oreta, was a Filipino Liberal politician. She was born in Concepcion, Tarlac. She was a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 1987 to 1998 and Senator from 1988 to 2004.
Aquino-Oreta died on May 14, 2020 in Manila at the age of 75.
Henryk Jaskuła
Henryk Jaskuła (22 October 1923 – 14 May 2020) was a Polish yachtsman, sailing captain, and electrical engineer. He was the first Pole to perform a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe. Jaskuła became the third man to circumnavigate the globe non-stop and single-handed on 20 May 1980. He was born in Radziszów, Poland.
Jaskuła died on 14 May 2020 in Przemyśl, Poland at the age of 96.
Khalid Mahmood (cleric)
Allama Khalid Mahmud (17 October 1925 – 14 May 2020) was a Pakistani Sunni Islamic scholar. He was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. He created the Islamic Academy in Manchester. He was best known for his works related to Finality of the Prophethood. He was born in Lahore.
Mahmood died of problems caused by a fractured hip at a hospital in Manchester on 14 May 2020, aged 94.
Bob Watson
Robert José Watson (April 10, 1946May 14, 2020) was an American professional baseball player and sports executive. He was born in Los Angeles, California.
Watson was a first baseman and left fielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Astros, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves from 1966 to 1984. Watson was a two-time All-Star during his playing career.
After retiring as a player, Watson coached for the Oakland Athletics and was general manager for the Astros from 1993 through 1995 and the Yankees from 1995 through 1998. The Yankees won the 1996 World Series.
He was MLB's vice president in charge of discipline and vice president of rules and on-field operations until 2010.
Watson was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney disease in 2016. He died on May 14, 2020 from the disease in Houston at the age of 74.
Claes Borgström
Claes Gustaf Borgström (21 July 1944 – 15 May 2020) was a Swedish lawyer and politician. He was Equality Ombudsman ("JämO") from 2000 until 2007. He was a member of the Social Democratic Party and later joined the Left Party. He was born in Stockholm.
Borgström died in Stockholm on 15 May 2020 from COVID-19, aged 75.
Guido Cerniglia
Guido Cerniglia (3 February 1939 – 14 May 2020) was an Italian actor and theatre director. He was born in Palermo, Italy. He was known for his roles in "The Scientific Cardplayer" (1972), "Alla mia cara mamma nel giorno del suo compleanno" (1974) and in "Il giustiziere di mezzogiorno" (1975).
Cerniglia died in Rome on 14 May 2020, aged 81.
Sergio Denis
Héctor Omar Hoffmann Fenzel, better known as Sergio Denis (16 March 1949 – 15 May 2020) was an Argentine pop singer-songwriter, pianist and actor. He was born in Coronel Suárez, Argentina. His best known songs were "Yo nunca supe más de ti", "Cada vez que sale el sol", "Cómo estás, querida", "Te quiero tanto" and "Un poco loco".
He also recorded Spanish versions of songs by Paul McCartney, John Denver, The Mamas & the Papas and Leonard Cohen.
In March 2019, Denis fell while performing at a concert in Buenos Aires. He suffered from cerebral edema and was in a coma. Denis died of a stroke while in a coma on 15 May 2020 in Buenos Aires, aged 71.
Ernie Gonzalez
Ernie Gonzalez (February 19, 1961 – May 15, 2020) was an American professional golfer. He played on the PGA Tour in the 1980s. He won the only title of his career in 1986. He became only the third left-handed golfer to win a Tour event. He was born in San Diego, California.
Gonzalez died on May 15, 2020 in Chicago of Alzheimer's disease-related problems, aged 59.
Bible d'Olivétan
The Bible d'Olivétan ("Olivetan Bible") is a French translation of the Bible, which was published in Neuchâtel in 1535.
The "Bible d'Olivétan" was made by Pierre Robert Olivétan (c.1506—1538) who is believed to be a cousin of John Calvin. Olivétan published his first Bible translation in 1535 in Neuchâtel, a Swiss town.
Mitch Greenlick
Merwyn R. "Mitch" Greenlick (March 12, 1935 – May 15, 2020) was an American Democratic politician. He represented District 33 of the Oregon House of Representatives from 2003 until his death. Greenlick was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was known proposing health care-related laws.
Greenlick died on May 15, 2020 in Portland, Oregon at the age of 85.
Phil May (singer)
Phil May (born Philip Arthur Dennis Kattner, 9 November 1944 – 15 May 2020) was an English singer-songwriter and musician. He became known in the 1960s as the lead singer of Pretty Things. He was one of the band's main lyricists. He was the primary lyricist for the album "S.F. Sorrow".
May died on 15 May 2020, in a hospital in King's Lynn from hip surgery-related problems, aged 75.
Triple Crown (snooker)
The Triple Crown in snooker is winning three tournaments, the World Championship, the UK Championship, and the Masters. These three events together make up the "Triple Crown Series". Each individual tournament is called a Triple Crown event. Players who win all three tournaments are said to have "won the Triple Crown", either over their career, or in one season alone. The Triple Crown dates back to the 1969 World Snooker Championship, when the event changed reverted to a knockout format from the prior "challenge" basis.