Kerry Walter Sibraa (born 12 October 1937) is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Labor Party. He was a Senator for New South Wales from December 1975 to June 1978, and then again from August 1978 to February 1994. He also served as President of the Senate from 1987 to 1994. After leaving Parliament, Sibraa served as Australian High Commissioner to Zimbabwe from 1994 to 1998.
Sibraa was born in Sydney, New South Wales. He was married to Yvonne Margaret Melvin from 1957 to 1992. They had two children. In 1993, Sibraa married Julie Louise Hatcher.
Austin Lewis (politician)
Austin William Russell Lewis (born 5 December 1932) is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Liberal Party. He served as a Senator for Victoria from 1976 to 1993.
Lewis was born in Richmond, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. He married Wilma Lawrey in 1956. The couple had four children.
Colin Mason
Colin Victor James Mason (born 28 October 1926) is a New Zealand-born Australian journalist, author and politician. He worked as a journalist for "The Sydney Morning Herald" and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Mason's notable books include "Dragon Army" (1968), "A Short History of Asia" (2000) and "The 2030 Spike: Countdown to Global Catastrophe" (2003). As a member of the Australian Democrats, he served as a Senator for New South Wales from 1978 to 1987.
Mason was born in Auckland, New Zealand. In 1950, he moved to Australia. He married Nancy Williamson in 1952. The couple had three children.
Étienne de Gerlache
Étienne-Constantin de Gerlache (1785-1871) was a Belgian politician. He was born in Luxembourg, and died in Paris. Gerlache studied law. When Napoleon was emperor, Gerlache was part of the Supreme Court in Paris. When Belgium and the Netherlands joined, he was part of a court in Liège. During this time, he wrote several articles about law subjects. In 1826, he became a member of the States General of the Netherlands. During that time he became known for his eloquence as the leader of the Catholic opposition. In 1831, he became the first prime minister of Belgium. Because he was a catholic, and all the other members of the government were liberals, this led to many conflicts. In the end, he resigned his post as prime minister. In 1832, he was elected head of the Supreme Court of Belgium. In church matters, he was an ultramontanist.
Ultramontanism
Ultranontanism was a movement within the Roman Catholic Church of the 18th and 19th century. It placed storng emphasis on what the pope had to say. The name in copmonsed of ultra ("beyond"), and refered to the fact that the pope at that time was on the other side of the Alps.
Wylie Gibbs
Wylie Talbot Gibbs (born 26 July 1922) is an Australian politician and surgeon. He is a member of the Liberal Party. He served as a member of the House of Representatives for the Division of Bowman from 1963 to 1969.
Gibbs grew up in Ipswich, Queensland. His brother, Harry, was Chief Justice of Australia from 1981 to 1987. From 1947 until her death in 2015, he was married to Audrey Wald. The couple had eight children.
Bruce George
Bruce Thomas George (1 June 1942 – 24 February 2020) was a British politician. He was a member of the Labour Party. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Walsall South from 1974 to 2010.
George was born in Mountain Ash, Glamorgan, Wales. He married Lisa Toelle in 1992. On 24 February 2020, George died due to Alzheimer's disease in London. He was 77.
James Milne Wilson
Sir James Milne Wilson (29 February 1812 – 29 February 1880) was a Scottish-born Australian politician. He served as Premier of Tasmania from 1869 to 1872. He was also president of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1872 until his death in 1880.
Wilson was born in Banff, Scotland. He married Deborah Hope in 1847. In 1880, he died on his 68th birthday in Hobart, Tasmania. Wilson was born on 29 February, making him a leaping, and died on the same date.
Dawn Lawrie
Alline Dawn Lawrie (born 3 November 1938) is an Australian politician. She served as a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1974 to 1983 for Nightcliff. In the first assembly of the Northern Territory, she and fellow independent Ron Withnall were the only non-Country Liberal Party members. From 1988 to 1990, she served as administrator of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.
Lawrie was born in Melbourne, Victoria. In the 1950s, she moved to Alice Springs, Northern Territory. She moved to Darwin in 1960. Her daughter, Delia Lawrie was the leader of the Labor Party and Opposition in the Northern Territory.
Noel Padgham-Purich
Cecilia Noel Padgham-Purich (born 25 December 1927) is an Australian politician. She was a member of the Country Liberal Party before becoming an independent. She served as a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1977 to 1997. During her time in the assembly, she represented Tiwi (1977–1983), Koolpinyah (1983–1990) and Nelson (1990–1997). She also served as Minister for Housing and Conservation from 1983 to 1984 under Paul Everingham and Ian Tuxworth.
Padgham-Purich was born in Quairading, Western Australia. She has six children, including Kezia Purick.
David MacGibbon
David John MacGibbon (born 13 May 1934) is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Liberal Party. He served as a Senator for Queensland from 1978 to 1999.
MacGibbon was born in Brisbane, Queensland, and grew up in Maryborough. He married Pamela Beak in 1958. The couple had four children.
Kostas Voutsas
Kostas Voutsas (; 31 December 1931 – 26 February 2020) was a Greek actor, director, and writer. He was born in Athens. He made his stage and screen debut in 1953. In 1961 his breakthrough came when the Greek film director Giannis Dalianidis gave him a leading role in his melodrama "O Katiforos". He soon became one of the best and most popular comic in Greece during the 1960s and 1970s. He also starred in like Aristophanes' "The Wasps" and Molière's "Le bourgeois gentilhomme".
He was the voice of Carl Fredricksen in the Disney-Pixar's Greek dub version of "Up".
Voutsas died of a respiratory tract infection on 26 February 2020 at an Athens hospital, aged 88.
Horst Paulmann
Horst Paulmann Kemna (born 22 March 1935) is a German-Chilean billionaire entrepreneur. He is founder and chairman of Cencosud, the largest retail chain in Chile and the third largest in Latin America.
According to "Forbes", his fortune is estimated at US$4.8 billion, and the second richest man in Chile.
Pehr G. Gyllenhammar
Pehr Gustaf Gyllenhammar (born 28 April 1935) is a Swedish businessman. He is mainly known for his 24 years as CEO and chairman of Volvo, between 1970 and 1994. In the early 1980s he took the initiative for the European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT).
Gyllenhammar is now Vice Chairman of Rothschild Europe. Gyllenhammar was made Commander of the "Ordre National du Mérite" in France in 1980 and he was made Commander of the Legion of Honour in France in 1987.
Jack White (music producer)
Jack White (born Horst Nußbaum, 2 September 1940) is a German music composer and producer and former football player. White was born in Cologne, Germany.
Among the songs he produced or co-produced for the international market were Laura Branigan's "Gloria" (1982), "Solitaire" (1983), "How Am I Supposed To Live Without You" (1983), "Self-Control" (1984) and "The Lucky One" (1984), as well as Jermaine Jackson's and Pia Zadora's "When the Rain Begins to Fall" (1984).
Jean Pütz
Jean Pütz (born September 21, 1936) is a German Science journalist and TV host. He was born in Cologne. Pütz originally took an education as an electrician before completing his Abitur. In 1970, he became a regular host on science shows on WDR Fernsehen. He is mainly known for his show "" which ran for nearly 30 years, from 1974 up to 2004, on the channels WDR and NDR Fernsehen.
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