Eric David Harris (April 9, 1981 – April 20, 1999) and Dylan Bennet Klebold (September 11, 1981 – April 20, 1999) were an American mass murder duo. On April 20, 1999, the pair killed 13 and wounded 24 others at the high school they both attended in Columbine, Colorado. Both Harris and Klebold also killed themselves in school's library. The event became known as the Columbine High School massacre. The school shooting and attempted bombing has gained a lot of notoriety. Harris and Klebold have been described as cultural icons and had a large impact on popular culture. The duo have been referenced in many different types of media.
Harris was born in Wichita, Kansas. His father was a U.S. Air Force transport pilot. He moved with his family to Littleton, Colorado in 1993. Klebold was born in Lakewood, Colorado. The pair met in middle school and became close friends. Both have been said to have different personalities and be targets of bullying. Harris was described as being more outgoing and charismatic. Klebold has been described as being more quiet and shy.
Harris and Klebold both worked at a local pizza chain. In 1998, they broke into a van and stole equipment. They were charged with mischief, breaking and entering, trespassing and theft. At the time of the massacre, Harris was 18 and Klebold was 17.
Aharon Razin
Aharon Razin (Hebrew: אהרון רזין) (April 6, 1935 – May 27, 2019) is an Israeli biochemist. He was born in Tel Aviv. He won the Israel Prize in 2004 and the Wolf Prize in Medicine in 2008.
Razin's works focused on the metabolism of nucleic acids and the biochemical faults in patients with gout.
Razin died on May 27, 2019 in Jerusalem at the age of 84.
John Pinto
John Pinto (December 15, 1924 – May 24, 2019) was an American Democratic politician. He was a member of the New Mexico Senate from 1977 until his death in 2019. He was the longest-serving member in the Senate. Pinto represented the 3rd District.
Pinto was born in Lupton, Arizona, in the Navajo Nation. He was in the United States Marine Corps during World War II and was a Navajo code talker. Pinto died in Gallup, New Mexico, on May 24, 2019 at the age of 94.
Lupton, Arizona
Lupton () is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Apache County, Arizona, United States. Lupton is near Interstate 40 at the New Mexico border. It is southwest of Gallup, New Mexico. As of the 2010 census, the Lupton CDP had a population of 25.
Edmund Morris (writer)
Arthur Edmund Morris (May 27, 1940 – May 24, 2019) was a Kenyan-born British-American writer. He was born in Nairobi, Kenya. Morris was best known for his biographies of United States Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.
Morris's first book, "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt", was the first volume of what would eventually become a trilogy on the life of the 26th president and won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and the 1980 National Book Award for biography.
In 1981, Ronald Reagan became President of the United States and was impressed by a reading of "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt". In 1985, Reagan made Morris his official biographer. In 1999, Morris published "".
He was a travel journalist and wrote for "The New Yorker", "The New York Times", and "Harper's Magazine".
Morris died on May 24, 2019 in Kent, Connecticut from a stroke at the age of 78.
Khoo Kay Kim
Khoo Kay Kim (; 28 March 1937 – 28 May 2019) was a Malaysian historian. He was born in Kampar, Perak to a family of Chinese heritage. He was an emeritus professor in the history department of the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. He was one of the co-authors of "Rukunegara". In January 2011, Khoo was named Chancellor of KDU University College.
Khoo died of respiratory failure on 28 May 2019 in Petaling Jaya, Selangor. He was 82.
Aurèle Joliat
Aurèle Émile "Mighty Atom, Little Giant" Joliat (August 29, 1901 – June 2, 1986) was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens.
Nana Sahib
Nana Sahib (19 May 1824 – 24 September 1859), born as Dhondu Pant, was an Indian Peshwa of the Maratha empire. An aristocrat and fighter, he led the rebellion in Cawnpore (Kanpur) during the 1857 uprising.
Nana rajguru, a teacher of Nana Sahib, who teach them youdh kala and strategy of political activities. As the adopted son of the exiled Maratha Peshwa Baji Rao II, Nana Sahib believed that he was entitled to a pension from the English East India Company, but the underlying contractual issues are rather murky. He later disappeared, after his forces were defeated by a British force that recaptured Cawnpore. He was led to the Nepal Hills where he died on 24 September 1859.
Nana Sahib won the confidence of Charles Hillersdon, the Collector of Kanpur. It was planned that Nana Sahib would assemble a force of 1,500 soldiers to support the British, in case the rebellion spread to Cawnpore.
On 6 June 1857, at the time of the rebellion by forces of the East India Company at Cawnpore, the British contingent had taken refuge at an entrenchment in the northern part of the town. Amid the prevailing chaos in Cawnpore, Nana and his forces entered the British magazine situated in the northern part of the town. However, once he entered the magazine, Nana Sahib announced that he was a participant in the rebellion against the Company, and intended to be a vassal of Bahadur Shah II.
After taking possession of the Company treasury, Nana advanced up the Grand Trunk Road stating that he wanted to restore the Maratha confederacy under the Peshwa tradition, and decided to capture Cawnpore. On his way, Nana met the rebel Company soldiers at Kalyanpur. The soldiers were on their way to Delhi, to meet Bahadur Shah II. Nana wanted them to go back to Cawnpore, and help him defeat the British. The soldiers were reluctant at first, but decided to join Nana when he promised to double their pay and reward them with gold, if they were to destroy the British entrenchment.
Apolo Nsibambi
Apolo Robin Nsibambi (25 October 1940 – 28 May 2019) was a Ugandan academic and politician. He served as the 8th Prime Minister of Uganda from 5 April 1999 until 24 May 2011. He was a member of the National Resistance Movement. Before becoming Prime Minister, he served as Minister of Public Service (1996–1998) and Minister of Education and Sports (1998–1999). He was also the chancellor of Makerere University from 2003 to 2007.
Nsibambi died on 28 May 2019 of cancer at the age of 78.
Tony Horwitz
Anthony Lander Horwitz (June 9, 1958 – May 27, 2019) was an American journalist and author. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995. His books include "One for the Road: a Hitchhiker's Outback" (1987), "Baghdad Without a Map" (1991), "Confederates in the Attic" (1998), "Blue Latitudes" (also known as "Into the Blue") (2002), "A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World" (2008) and "Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War" (2011). In 1994, he won the James Aronson Award. In 1995, he won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for stories about conditions of low-income workers in the US, published in "The Wall Street Journal". He also wrote for "The New Yorker" and "The New York Times".
Horwitz was born in Washington, D.C. to a Jewish family. He married Australian writer Geraldine Brooks in 1984. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2006 for her novel, "March" (2005). The couple had two children.
Horwitz died on May 27, 2019 in Washington, D.C., at the age of 60.
Nicolae Pescaru
Nicolae Pescaru (27 March 1943 – 25 May 2019) was a Romanian football player and manager. He played as a midfielder.