Celdrán died on 28 January 2021 in Badajoz at the age of 80.
Kathleen Ann Goonan
Kathleen Ann Goonan (May 14, 1952 – January 28, 2021) was an American science fiction writer.
Many of her books have been nominated for the Nebula Award. Her first novel "Queen City Jazz" was a "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year. Her novel "In War Times" was chosen by the American Library Association as Best Science Fiction Novel in 2008. Goonan was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Goonan died on January 28, 2021 from bone cancer, aged 68.
Wang Shouguan
Wang Shouguan (; 15 January 1923 – 28 January 2021) was a Chinese astronomer. He was President of the . He was known as one of the founders of modern astrophysics and radio astronomy in China. He was a delegate to the National People's Congress from 1977 to 1994. In 1980, he became a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Wang was born in Fuzhou, China.
Wang died on 28 January 2021 in Beijing, aged 98.
Fuzhou
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Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik
Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik (October 21, 1921 – January 31, 2021) (), also known as Reb Dovid or Rav Dovid; was a Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva of one of the branches of the Brisk yeshivas from 1959 until his death. He was born in Brest, Belarus.
Soloveitchik died on January 31, 2021 from COVID-19 in Jerusalem, aged 99.
Beatriz Barba
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Barba died on 29 January 2021, aged 92.
Mexican Academy of Sciences
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John Chaney (basketball, born 1932)
John Chaney (January 21, 1932 – January 29, 2021) was an American college basketball coach. He was best known for his coaching at Temple University from 1982 through 2006. He was honored into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001 and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006. Chaney was born in Jacksonville, Florida.
Chaney died on January 29, 2021, at the age of 89 after a short-illness.
Temple University
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On May 12, 1888, it was renamed the Temple College of Philadelphia. In 1907, it became a research university.
Yvon Douis
Yvon Douis (16 May 1935 – 28 January 2021) was a French international footballer. He played as a striker. Douis was born in Les Andelys, France. During his career he played for Lille OSC, Le Havre AC, AS Monaco and AS Cannes. He made twenty appearances for the France national football team between 1957 and 1965.
Douis died of COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in France in Nice, aged 85.
Grady Gaines
Grady Gaines (May 14, 1934 – January 29, 2021) was an American electric and jazz blues tenor saxophonist. He performed and recorded with Little Richard in the 1950s. He played with other musicians such as Dee Clark, Little Willie John, Sam Cooke, James Brown, Jackie Wilson, and Joe Tex. He released three albums.
Gaines died on January 29, 2021 in Houston at the age of 86.
Aminul Islam (musician)
Aminul Islam is a Bangladeshi movie editor and musician.
In his career, he was awarded 4 times Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Editing for the movies "Aghat" (1986), "Opekkha" (1987), "Goriber Bou" (1990), and "Ajante" (1996).
National Film Awards
Roy Gaines
Roy James Gaines (born August 12, 1934) is an American Texas blues and electric blues guitarist and singer-songwriter. He wrote and recorded the song "A Hell of a Night" in 1982. He is the younger brother of the blues musician Grady Gaines.
Waskom, Texas
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Hilton Valentine
Hilton Stewart Paterson Valentine (21 May 194329 January 2021) was an English musician and songwriter. He was the original guitarist in The Animals. He was born in North Shields, Northumberland. In 1994, he was added into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Valentine died on 29 January 2021 in Connecticut, aged 77.
József Csatári
József Csatári (17 December 1943 – 30 January 2021) was a Hungarian wrestler. He was born in Budapest. He was Olympic bronze medalist in Freestyle wrestling in 1968 and in 1972. He won a silver medal at the 1970 World Wrestling Championships.
Csatári died on 30 January 2021 at the age of 77.
Wilhelm Knabe
Wilhelm Knabe (8 October 1923 – 30 January 2021) was a German ecologist and politician. He was a co-founder of the Green Party in Germany. Knabe was a Member of the Bundestag from 1987 until 1990. He was vice mayor of the city of Mülheim from 1994 to 1999. Knabe was born in Arnsdorf, Saxony.
Knabe died on 30 January 2021, aged 97.
Alfreda Markowska
Alfreda Noncia Markowska (May 10, 1926 – January 30, 2021) was from Poland and belonged to the Romani people activist and Holocaust survivor. During World War II, she saved about fifty Jewish and Roma children from death in the Holocaust and the Porajmos genocide. She was born in Stanisławów, Poland.
In October 2006, Alfreda Markowska was awarded the Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta for saving Jewish and Roma children during World War II. Then-President of Poland Lech Kaczyński thanked her for her "heroism and uncommon bravery, for exceptional merit in saving human lives".
Markowska died on 30 January 2021, at the age of 94.
Pantelei Sandulache
Pantelei Sandulache (1956 – 30 January 2021) was a Moldovan politician. He was a Member of Parliament between 1990 and 1994.
Sandulache died on 30 January 2021, aged 64.
Turki bin Nasser Al Saud
Turki bin Nasser Al Saud (14 April 1948 – 30 January 2021) was a Saudi prince, businessman and military officer. He was the head of the presidency of meteorology and environment in Saudi Arabia and a member of House of Saud. He was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Prince Turki began to serve as deputy commander at the Royal Saudi Air Force in 1996 and became a commander with the rank of general at the Force.
In November 2017, Saud was arrested in a corruption.
Turki bin Nasser died on 30 January 2021 in Riyadh, aged 72.
Alla Yoshpe
Alla Yakovlevna Ioshpe (Yoshpe) (; 13 June 1937 – 30 January 2021) was a Soviet-Russian pop singer. She was honored with a People's Artist of the Russian Federation in 2002. She was born in Moscow. In 1960, at a university event, she met Stakhan Rakhimov. They formed a pop duo.
Yoshpe died on 30 January 2021 in Moscow, aged 83.
Stahan Rakhimov
Stahan Mamadzhanovich Rakhimov (, ; born in December 17, 1937) is a Soviet Uzbek and Russian singer. He was honored with the People's Artist of Russia in 2002. He was born in Andijan, Uzbekistan. He is known for forming a pop duo with singer Alla Yoshpe.
Michel Murr
Michel Murr (, 29 September 1932 – 31 January 2021) was a Lebanese politician and businessman. He was born in Metn, Greater Lebanon. From 1990 to 2000, Murr was the Ministry of Interior and Municipalitie during the Elias Hrawi and Émile Lahoud presidencies.
Murr died in Beirut from COVID-19 on 31 January 2021, aged 88.
Elias Hrawi
Elias Hrawi (, 4 September 1926 – 7 July 2006) was a Lebanese politician. He was the President of Lebanon from 1989 to 1998.
Hrawi died of cancer at the American University Hospital in Beirut on 7 July 2006, aged 79.
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