Spencer died on August 4, 2020 at the age of 56.
Eric Bentley
Eric Russell Bentley (September 14, 1916 – August 5, 2020) was a British-born American theater critic, playwright, singer, editor, and translator. In 1998, he was added into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. He was born in Bolton, Lancashire. Beginning in 1953, he taught at Columbia University and was a theatre critic for "The New Republic". He was sued by Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller because he gave them negative reviews on their plays.
Bentley was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1969.
Bentley died at his home in New York City on August 5, 2020, at the age of 103.
Sadia Dehlvi
Sadia Dehlvi (1957 – 5 August 2020) was an Indian activist, writer and columnist. She worked with the daily newspaper, the "Hindustan Times", and published in "Frontline" and Urdu, Hindi and English newspapers and magazines. She criticised radical versions of Islam and called for a united understanding of Islam.
Dehlvi died on 5 August 2020 at a hospital in New Delhi from breast cancer, aged 63.
Pete Hamill
Pete Hamill (; June 24, 1935 – August 5, 2020) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist, editor and educator. He won the Grammy Award for Best Album Notes in 1976.
He was known as "the author of columns that [looked] to [catch] the flavors of New York City's politics and sports and the particular pathos of its crime."
Hamill was a columnist and editor for the "New York Post" and "The New York Daily News". Hamill, along with fellow columnist Jimmy Breslin, were thought to be New York City's two best known street columnists of their time.
He was a friend of Robert F. Kennedy. Hamill pushed Kennedy to run for President of the United States, then worked for the campaign and covered it as a journalist. He was one of four men who disarmed Sirhan Sirhan of his gun in the aftermath of the Robert F. Kennedy assassination.
Hamill died at a hospital on August 5, 2020 from problems caused by a fractured hip, at age 85.
Agathonas Iakovidis
Agathonas Iakovidis (; 2 January 1955 – 5 August 2020) was a Greek folk singer and musician. He represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 with Koza Mostra and the song "Alcohol Is Free". He was born in Langadas, Thessaloniki. His career began in 1971.
On 5 August 2020, Iakovidis died from a heart attack at his Athens home, aged 65.
National Park Service ranger
National Park Service rangers are uniformed employees whose jobs are to protect and preserve areas in the National Park System by the United States Congress and the President of the United States.
While all employees of the agency work on the National Park Service mission of preserving the natural and cultural resources, the term "park ranger" is traditionally used to describe all National Park Service employees who wear the uniform.
Toni Erdmann
Toni Erdmann is a 2016 German-Austrian comedy-drama movie directed, written and co-produced by Maren Ade. It stars Peter Simonischek and Sandra Hüller.
The movie was named the best movie of 2016 by "Sight & Sound".
It won five awards at the 29th European Film Awards. It also won the European Parliament LUX Prize.
It was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, but lost to Iran's "The Salesman".
Maren Ade
Maren Ade (; born 12 December 1976) is a German movie director, screenwriter and producer. She teaches screenwriting at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg. She is known for directing and writing the Academy Award-nominated movie "Toni Erdmann".
Sandra Hüller
Sandra Hüller (born 30 April 1978) is a German actress. She is known for her roles Anneliese Michel in Hans-Christian Schmid's drama "Requiem," and as the starring role in Maren Ade's comedy "Toni Erdmann".
Film Academy Baden-Württemberg
The Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (German: "Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg") is a movie school in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, founded in 1991. It is funded by the government, making it a public university.
Doris Buffett
Doris Eleanor Buffett (February 12, 1928 – August 4, 2020) was an American philanthropist. She was also known as the 'retail' philanthropist. She was the founder of "The Sunshine Lady Foundation", "The Learning By Giving Foundation", and "The Letters Foundation" who she co-founded alongside her younger brother, billionaire Warren Buffett.
She was also the daughter of U.S. politician and stockbroker Howard Homan Buffett. She planned to give all of her money away before her death. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska.
Buffett was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2018. She died on August 4, 2020 at her home in Rockport, Maine at the age of 92.
Daisy Coleman
Catherine Daisy Coleman (March 30, 1997 – August 4, 2020) was an American women's rights activist. Her experience of sexual assault at the age of 14 was featured in the 2016 documentary movie "Audrie & Daisy".
Coleman co-founded the nonprofit organization, SafeBAE aimed at preventing sexual assault in schools.
In January 2012, Matthew Barnett, 17, was arrested for the rape and sexual assault of Coleman, a 14-year-old girl. However, the case was dropped by the county prosecutor. Many believe it was dropped because Barnett's grandfather was state representative Rex Barnett.
Coleman died by suicide on August 4, 2020 at the age of 23.
Audrie &amp; Daisy
Audrie & Daisy is an American 2016 documentary movie about three cases of rape of teenage American girls, in 2011 and 2012.
The documentary shares the stories of two American high school students, Audrie Pott and Daisy Coleman. At the time of the sexual assaults, Pott was 15 and Coleman was 14 years old. After the assaults, the victims and their families were abused and cyberbullied.
Audrie Pott died by suicide in 2012, ten days after the sexual assault.
On August 4, 2020, Daisy Coleman also died by suicide after years of fighting depression and trauma. She was 23 years of age.
"Audrie & Daisy" had its world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2016. The movie was bought by Netflix for streaming, and was released on September 23, 2016.
Suicide of Audrie Pott
Audrie Taylor Pott (May 27, 1997 – September 12, 2012) was a 15-year-old student at Saratoga High School in Saratoga, California, who died by suicide. She had been sexually assaulted at a party eight days earlier by three 16-year-old boys she knew and nude pictures of her were posted online. She was also bullied.
On September 3, 2020 while at a party, Pott was dragged sexually assaulted after she passed out because she was drunk. Markers were also used to draw and write on her body, and photographs were taken and shared on social network.
On September 12, 2012, she killed herself by hanging.
On September 30, 2014, California Governor Jerry Brown signed Audrie's Law, "a bill that increases penalties and decreases privacy protections for teens convicted of sex acts on someone who is passed out from drugs or alcohol".
Rex Barnett
Rex Barnett (born October 22, 1938) is an American politician. He was an officer of the Missouri State Highway Patrol for 32 years in Troop H. He was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1994 to 2002, he was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives. He was born in Laredo, Missouri.
In 2012, Barnett's grandson, Matthew Barnett, was arrested for the rape of the then fourteen-year-old Daisy Coleman. However prosecutors declined to pursue charges and the records were sealed. Many people believed the case was closed because of Barnett's connection.
Martelli's cat
Martelli's cat ("Felis lunensis") is a small wild cat in the Felinae subfamily. It used to live in Europe. It is extinct now. That means there are no Martelli's cats alive now.
Martelli's cat first lived about 12 million years ago. This was during the Pliocene era. It was bigger than most wildcats. It hunted birds and small mammals.