The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2017. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Previous months". Names under each date are reported in alphabetical order by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are reported here also if notable.
José María Gil-Robles
José María Gil-Robles y Gil-Delgado (born 17 June 1935) is a Spanish politician. He was formerly a member of the European Parliament in the European People's Party group. He was President of the European Parliament from 1997 to 1999.
From 2009 to 2014, he was president of the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe.
Trimbach
Trimbach can mean:
Pontarlier
Pontarlier is a French commune in the Doubs department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, in eastern France near the border with Switzerland. It is a subprefecture in the department and is also the capital of the "arrrondissement" of Pontarlier.
Pontarlier is the third "commune" of the department by its population, after Besançon and Montbéliard.
The city of Pontarlier is in the west of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, in the southwestern part of the Doubs department.
The "commune" of Pontarlier has an area of . The city is on a plateau and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .
The Doubs river flows through the city.
The city of Pontarlier is surrounded by the "communes":
The Köppen climate classification type for Pontarlier is an "Oceanic climate" (also known as Maritime Temperate climate) and of the subtype Cfb.
The inhabitants of Pontarlier are known, in French, as "Pontissaliens" (women: "Pontissaliennes").
With a population of 17,413, Pontarlier has a population density of inhabitants/km.
Evolution of the population in Pontarlier
Pontarlier is a subprefecture of the Doubs department, the capital of the "arrondissement" of Pontarlier and the administrative centre () of the canton Pontarlier formed by 10 "communes", including Pontarlier, with 26,699 inhabitants .
It is part of the intercommunality "Le Grand Pontarlier" ().
Pontarlier is twinned with:
Some interesting places in Montbéliard are:
Lionel Jospin
Lionel Jospin (; born 12 July 1937) is a French politician. He served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002.
Jospin was the Socialist Party candidate for President of France in the elections of 1995 and 2002. He was narrowly defeated in the final runoff election by Jacques Chirac in 1995. He ran for President again in 2002, and was eliminated in the first round due to finishing behind both Chirac and the far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen.
After his loss in the 2002 presidential election, he immediately announced his retirement from politics.
Midnight Sun (song)
"Midnight Sun" is a recorded by American country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released in March 24, 2008 as the third and final single from third compilation album "The Ultimate Hits".
It debuted at number 20 on GAC's Top 20 Countdown for the week of April 11, 2008.
Isaías Pimentel
Isaías "Iyo" S. Pimentel (16 February 1933 — 26 June 2017) was a Venezuelan international tennis player. He was born on the Dutch island of Curaçao. Pimentel was three times Curaçaoan champion. He competed in the Davis Cup, representing Venezuela, a number of times, from 1957 to 1966.
Pimentel died on 26 June 2017 in Willemstad, Curaçao at the age of 84.
Macky Sall
Macky Sall (born 11 December 1961) is a Senegalese politician. He has been President of Senegal since April 2012.
Under President Abdoulaye Wade, Sall was Prime Minister of Senegal from April 2004 to June 2007 and President of the National Assembly of Senegal from June 2007 to November 2008. He was the Mayor of Fatick from 2002 to 2008 and from 2009 to 2012.
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Janusz Ryszard Korwin-Mikke (often referred to by his initials JKM; born 27 October 1942) is a Polish politician, writer, and the founder of the right-wing libertarian and Eurosceptic political party "Wolność". In 2019, he was elected as a member of the Sejm.
He was a Member of the European Parliament from 2014 to 2018. He was the leader of the Congress of the New Right (KNP), which was formed in 2011 from Liberty and Lawfulness, which he led from its formation in 2009, and the Real Politics Union (UPR – "Unia Polityki Realnej"), which he led from 1990 to 1997 and from 1999 to 2003.
Korwin-Mikke is the chairman of the KORWiN party (along with Przemysław Wipler, Polish MP, and Robert Iwaszkiewicz, MEP), which was formed by part of the Congress of the New Right.
David Graham
David Graham (born 11 July 1925) is an English character actor and voice artist. Graham is known for his voice work for the series "Doctor Who" and "Thunderbirds" during the 1960s. He is also known for appearing as the villain in the one minute Apple Inc. advertisement "1984".
Graham was born in London, he trained as an actor in New York City following service in the Royal Air Force as a radar mechanic, and has since worked mainly in British television.
Women in the United States Senate
There have been 50 women in the United States Senate since it started in 1789.
Rebecca Felton was the first. She was in the Senate for one day in 1922. Hattie Caraway was the first woman elected to the Senate in 1932.
Fourteen of the women Senators were not elected. They were appointed. Seven of them were appointed to replace their dead husbands.
In 2017 there are 21 women senators out of 100. That is the largest number of women in the Senate at the same time.
Perkins
Perkins may mean:
Box truck
A box truck, also known as a box van, cube truck, cube van, is a truck or van with a cuboid-shaped box on the back.
Flatbed truck
A flatbed truck (or flatbed lorry in British English) is a truck which can be either articulated or rigid. The back is a flat, level 'bed' with no sides or roof.
Smaller flatbed trucks are rigid. The back has low sides which can be hinges. The sides can be hinged up when goods are on the back and hinged down when unloading goods.
Karunamaya Goswami
Karunamoy Goswami(11 March 1942 – 30 June 2017) was a Bangladeshi musicologist. In 2012, he was awarded Ekushey Padak by the Government of Bangladesh for his work to fine arts in the country. He got a Ph.D. at the University of Dhaka in 1988.
Goswami died on 30 June 2017 in Dhaka, at the age of 75.
Pentagon Shopping Centre
The Pentagon Shopping Centre (known locally as 'The Pentagon') is a shopping centre in Chatham, Kent. The shopping centre is next to the Waterfront bus station which replaced the Pentagon bus station in 2011.
The shopping centre was built in the 1970s. It has 2 floors with over 70 shops. There are also places to eat and a bowling alley.
The shopping centre has a lot of stores such as:
1st Bowl (Bowling Alley), Poundland, Ann Summers, BB's Coffee & Muffins, Boots, Card Factory, DW Sports, New Look, Sainsburys, Superdrug and Wilko.
Garbage truck
Garbage truck also known as dustcart, rubbish truck, dustbin lorry, bin lorry is a truck made to collect waste and then take it to a waste site such as a landfill. Garbage trucks can collect waste from the front, side or back of the truck.
Garbage trucks are usually considered noisy and dirty due to the size and the fact that they carry garbage, also known as rubbish, waste, trash, junk.LDV Pilot
LDV Pilot was a van and minibus made by LDV Limited from 1993 to 2006. It was related to the LDV Convoy. In 2006 the Pilot was replaced by the LDV Maxus.
LDV Maxus
LDV Maxus was a van and minibus made by LDV Limited and Daewoo from 2004 to 2009. The Maxus replaced the LDV Convoy and the LDV Pilot.
The LDV Maxus is called: Fargo Fora in Turkey, LDV V80 in Australia, Maxus LD100 in Russia and Weststar LDV Maxus in Malaysia.
In 2011, the Chinese company Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation launched a new vehicle called Maxus V80 which is identical to the LDV Maxus The LDV Maxus model was relaunched by SAIC as the V80 in June 2011.
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