Guido van Rossum (; born 31 January 1956) is a Dutch programmer. He is best known for making the Python programming language.
Ilkka Hanski
Ilkka Aulis Hanski (14 February 1953 – 10 May 2016) was a Finnish scientist. He worked in the field of ecology at the University of Helsinki. He is known for his research of metapopulation ecology.
Hanski died of a long-illness on 10 May 2016 at a hospital in Helsinki, aged 63.
Louis van Gasteren
Louis Alphonse van Gasteren (20 November 1922 – 10 May 2016) was a Dutch movie director, movie producer, and artist. He was born in Amsterdam. He was known for his movies "" (1983) and "De prijs van overleven" (2003). He won two Golden Calf Awards. His career began in the 1950s. At the time of his death, he was the oldest active filmmaker in the Netherlands.
Van Gasteren died in Amsterdam on 10 May 2016, aged 93.
Philippe Beaussant
Philippe Beaussant (6 May 1930 – 8 May 2016) was a French musicologist and novelist. He was expert on French baroque music. He was born in Bordeaux, France.
He was the founder of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles. He was the artistic adviser of 1987 to 1996. He has also been a producer of musical programs for Radio France since 1974. He was known for writing the biography of Jean-Baptiste Lully, "Lully ou le musicien du soleil" (Éditions Gallimard, 1992).
Beaussant won the 1993 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for his novel "Héloïse".
He was elected to seat 36 of the Académie française on 15 November 2007. He died in Paris on 8 May 2016, aged 86.
Motiur Rahman Nizami
Motiur Rahman Nizami (Bengali: মতিউর রহমান নিজামী; 31 March 1943 – 11 May 2016) was a Bangladeshi politician, preacher and the former leader of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. He was the Member of Parliament of Pabna constituency from 1991 to 1996 and again from 2001 to 2006. He also served as the Bangladeshi Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Industry. He is the third minister of Bangladesh to be hanged.
On 29 October 2014 he was sentenced to death for war crimes in 1971 liberation war of Bangladesh by the International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh. It has been though that he was the supreme commander of the militia group Al-Badr during the Bangladesh Liberation War.
He was hanged at Dhaka Central Jail on 11 May 2016, aged 73.
Adrien Maurice de Noailles, Duke of Noailles
Adrien Maurice de Noailles, (3rd) Duke of Noailles (29 September 1678 – 24 June 1766) was a French aristocrat and soldier. He also acted as the Foreign Minister of France in 1744. As a result of his efforts in war he was created a 1702, a Grandee of Spain in 1711, and a Knight of the Order of Saint-Esprit in 1724. As well as a Marshal of France in 1734 by Louis XV.
Son of Anne Jules de Noailles, Duke of Noailles on his father's death in 1708. He married Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, the niece and heiress of Louis XIV's wife Madame de Maintenon, with whom he had 4 daughters and 2 sons.
Gilles Lamontagne
Joseph-Georges-Gilles-Claude Lamontagne (; April 17, 1919 – June 14, 2016) was a Canadian retired politician. He served as the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec from March 28, 1984 through August 9, 1990. Before, he served as Mayor of Quebec City from December 1, 1965 through December 1, 1977. He retired in 1990.
Lamontagne was born in Montreal. He fought during World War II. Lamontagne fought as a bomber pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He ended his air force service in the rank of flight lieutenant in 1945. In 1949, he married Mary Schaefer. They would remain married until her death in 2006. They had four children.
In 1990, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2000, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec and in 2005, a member of l'Ordre des Grands Québécois. He is an honorary member of the Royal Military College of Canada.
Lamontagne died on June 14, 2016 in Quebec City, aged 97.
Kanyakumari
Kanyakumari is the town in Tamil Nadu of India where two seas and an ocean joins together. It is the southern tip of India. This town along with the some areas which was now occupied by the Indian Ocean was known as "Kumarikkandam"[குமரிக்கண்டம்], . This is a place that was predicted by Tamilians as the place where the first man and Tamil language originated. The coastal town Kanyakumari has the Thiruvalluvar statue.
Petrykivka painting
Petrykivka painting is a traditional Ukrainian decorative painting. It originates from the Petrykivka village in Dnipropetrovsk oblast of Ukraine.
In 2013 it was included to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Pesse
Pesse is a village located in the Dutch province of Drenthe in the Netherlands. The Pesse canoe is known as the world's oldest boat is located in Pesse.
John Stabb
Jonathan Dukes "John" Schroeder (July 12, 1961 – May 7, 2016) was an American rock musician. He was born in Washington, D.C.. He was raised in Rockville, Maryland. He was best known as the founding member of Government Issue.
On May 7, 2016, Stabb died of stomach cancer at age 54.
Nico de Bree
Nico de Bree (16 September 1944 – 6 May 2016) was a Dutch footballer. He played as a goalkeeper. De Bree started his professional career at local club Elinkwijk. He moved to N.E.C. in 1966.
After playing 204 matches for the Nijmegen club, he moved to play in Belgium and won the 1975 league title with RWDM. He won the 1978 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup with Anderlecht. He also played for Winterslag and Beerschot.
He died of cancer in Vienna on 6 May 2016, aged 71.
Gene Gutowski
Gene Gutowski, born as Witold Bardach, (July 26, 1925 in Lwów, Poland, now Ukraine – May 10, 2016 Warsaw) was a Polish-born American movie producer. He produced many of Roman Polanski's movies. He was known for producing "The Pianist", "The Fearless Vampire Killers", "Cul-de-sac".
Gutowski died of pneumonia in Warsaw, Poland on May 10, 2016, aged 90.
Acetylcholinesterase
Acetylcholinesterase is an enzyme found in nerve synapses, including nerve-to-muscle junctions. Its function is to end transmission across a synapse.
It breaks up neurotransmitters like acetylcholine, and allows us to extend our muscles after contraction.
John Warr
John James Warr (16 July 1927 – 9 May 2016) was an English cricketer. He was a successful county player for Middlesex County Cricket Club. He played two Test matches for England. With his Test bowling average remains the worst of any retired English player. Warr was known for his sense of humour and made many humorous after dinner speeches. He was born in Ealing, Middlesex, England,
Warr died on 9 May 2016, aged 88.
John Young (baseball)
John Thomas Young (February 9, 1949 – May 8, 2016) was an American professional baseball player. He also scouted and worked in the front office. Young played in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers in 1971. He founded Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI), a youth baseball program aimed at increasing participation among African Americans in baseball. He was born in Los Angeles, California.
Young died in Los Angeles, California from diabetes on May 8, 2016, aged 67.
Karl Maramorosch
Karl Maramorosch (January 16, 1915 – May 9, 2016) was an Austrian-born American virologist, entomologist and plant pathologist. He was born in Vienna, and of Jewish descent.
He got his Ph.D. at Columbia University.
He made research on viruses, mycoplasmas, rickettsiae and other micro-organisms and their transmission to plants through insect in many parts of the world.
He was the co-author of a textbook on techniques in virology. He was the author of numerous papers on the biology and ecology of plant viruses, their hosts and vectors. He received the Wolf Prize in Agriculture in 1980 for his work to the study of crop pathogens.
Maramorosch died in Ithaca, New York on May 9, 2016, aged 101.
John Bradshaw (author)