He was a tour musician for the well-known Irish band The Cranberries during their reunion tour (2009–11). DeMarchi was also known for his role as the keyboardist who played the signature keyboard notes for the popular 1990 No. 1 Billboard hit song "More Than Words Can Say" by the band Alias.
DeMarchi died on 15 May 2020 of cancer at the age of 57.
United Left (Spain)
United Left ( , IU) is a political coalition that was created in 1986, bringing together several left-wing political organizations.
IU was founded as an electoral coalition of seven parties, but the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) is the only remaining member of the IU at the national level. It is currently part of Unidas Podemos.
Tough Guys
Tough Guys is a 1986 American action comedy movie directed by Jeff Kanew and starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Eli Wallach, Dana Carvey, Charles Durning, Darlanne Fluegel. It was distributed by Touchstone Pictures.
José Cutileiro
José Cutileiro (20 November 1934 – 17 May 2020) was a Portuguese diplomat and writer. Cutileiro was born in Évora, Portugal.
He was a representative to the Council of Europe. He was the Secretary General of the Western European Union (WEU) from 1994 to 1999. He was an envoy to the UN Commissioner for Human Rights in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia. He was on the faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Cutileiro died on 17 May 2020 at a hospital in Brussels, Belgium at the age of 85.
Du Wei (diplomat)
Du Wei (; 2 October 1962 – 17 May 2020) was a Chinese diplomat. He was Ambassador to Ukraine from 2016 until 2019 and Ambassador to Israel from February 2020 until May 2020. Du was born in China's Shandong province.
Du was found dead in his Herziliya, Israel apartment on 17 May 2020, aged 57. His death is not being treated as suspicious but is being investigated.
His death came in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, and only a few days after Du published an op-ed in the "Jerusalem Post" protesting American Vice President Mike Pence's visit to Israel attempting to persuade the Israeli government to limit its relationship with China.
Monique Mercure
Marie Lise Monique Émond (14 November 1930 – 17 May 2020), better known as Monique Mercure, was a Canadian actress. In 1977, Mercure won a Cannes Film Festival Award and a Canadian Film Award for her role in the movie "J.A. Martin Photographer". She also starred as Fadela in the 1991 movie "Naked Lunch".
Mercure died in hospice care in Montreal on 17 May 2020 from throat cancer, aged 89.
The Life of Agustín Lara
The Life of Agustín Lara () is a 1959 Mexican musical movie directed by Alejandro Galindo and starring Pilar Pellicer, Germán Robles, Lorena Velázquez, Ofelia Montesco, Tito Junco, Antonio Prieto, Sara Montes, Fanny Schiller. It was distributed by Promex.
Valérie Plante
Valérie Plante (born June 14, 1974) is a Canadian politician. She is the 45th and current Mayor of Montreal since 2017. She was first elected to Montreal City Council in 2013. Plante became leader of the Projet Montréal party in December 2016.
Plante was born in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. She studied at Université de Montréal.
Gérald Tremblay
Gérald Tremblay (born September 20, 1942) is a Canadian politician and businessman. He was Mayor of Montreal from 2002 until his resignation in 2012. He also was president of the Montreal Metropolitan Community.
Tremblay resigned as Mayor on November 5, 2012 after people accused him of corruption.
Kennedy Stewart (Canadian politician)
Edward Charles Kennedy Stewart (born November 8, 1966) is a Canadian politician and academic. He was the 40th and current mayor of Vancouver since 2018. He was the member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Burnaby—Douglas (2011–2015) and Burnaby South (2015–2018). He was in the House of Commons as a member of the New Democratic Party (NDP) caucus.
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Gabbie Hanna
Gabrielle Jeannette Hanna (born February 7, 1991) is an American Internet personality, singer-songwriter, author, and actress. She was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania.
Hanna started her career on Vine, under the name The Gabbie Show, then started a YouTube channel with the same name a year later; both were nominated for awards. She won a Streamy Award for storyteller in 2018. She made her debut single "Out Loud" (2017).
Roger Vivier
Roger Vivier (November 13 1907– 3 October 1998) was a French fashion designer who specialized in shoes.
Born on November 13, 1903 in Paris, France and died on October 2, 1998 in Toulouse, France. His best-known creation was the stiletto heel.
Orphan at the age of nine, Vivier studied sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and his compositions show a concern for form and texture characteristic of a sculptor. His best-known creation is the stiletto heel, which he shares in the creation authorship with Charles Jourdan.
In 1937, he opened his first store on rue Royale in Paris and worked for Elsa Schiaparelli. After several years in New York, he designed shoes for the Christian Dior collections, then collaborated with Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Balmain, Nina Ricci, Guy Laroche.
In 1970, hippie fashion inspired her waders that Brigitte Bardot and young women in miniskirts adopted. In 1985, he opened a boutique on Madison Avenue, in New York, and another in Japan in 1991.
In 1997, he even became artistic director of Myrys. Over the years, he has created custom models for such famous personalities as Josephine Baker, Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Deneuve, and the Beatles.
Vine (service)
Vine () was an American short-form video hosting service where users shared six-second-long, looping video clip's. It was founded in June 2012. Twitter bought it in October 2012, before its launch on January 24, 2013.
Videos were published through Vine's social network, and could be shared on other platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. The Vine app could be used to browse videos, along with groups of videos by theme, and "trending" videos. Vine competed with other social-media services such as Instagram and Mobli.
By December 2015, Vine had 200 million active users. On October 27, 2016, Twitter announced it would disable uploads, but viewing and download would continue to work.
On January 20, 2017, Twitter launched an Internet archive of all Vine videos, allowing people to watch previously uploaded videos. The archive was discontinued in 2019.
Lucky Peterson
Lucky Peterson (born Judge Kenneth Peterson; December 13, 1964 – May 17, 2020) was an American singer-songwriter and musician. He played contemporary blues, fusing soul, R&B, gospel and rock and roll. He played guitar and keyboards. Peterson was born in Buffalo, New York. His best known albums were "You Can Always Turn Around", "Live at the 55 Arts Club Berlin" and "Deep Down".
Peterson died on May 17, 2020 at a hospital in Dallas, Texas at the age of 55.
Chloe Bennet
Chloe Wang (; born April 18, 1992), known professionally as Chloe Bennet, is an American actress and singer. She is known for her role as Daisy Johnson on the television series "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." (2013–2020). She was born in Chicago.
Yuri Zisser
Yuri Zisser (, June 28, 1960 – May 17, 2020) was a Ukrainian-born Belarusian web businessman and blogger. He was the founder and owner of TUT.BY. the most visited Belarusian web portal. Zisser was born in Lviv, Ukraine. In 1987 he moved to Minsk, Belarus. In 1992, created the company "Nadezhnye programmy" (). He was born in Lviv, Ukraine.
Zisser died of stomach cancer on May 17, 2020 in Minsk at the age of 59.
An Adventuress
An Adventuress is a 1920 American drama movie directed by Fred J. Balshofer and starring Rudolph Valentino, Julian Eltinge, Virginia Rappe, Leo White. It was distributed by Republic Distributing Corporation.
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