Pedrossian died on 22 August 2017 in Campo Grande, Brazil of heart failure at the age of 89.
Josef Musil
Josef Musil (3 July 1932 – 26 August 2017) was a Czech volleyball player. He won two Olympic medals, one bronze and a silver medal, in 1964 and 1968. He also won five world and three European championships medals in 1952–1967. He was born in Kostelní Lhota, Okres Nymburk, Czechoslovakia.
Musil died on 26 August 2017 in Prague, Czech Republic of a heart attack at the age of 85.
Ebrahim Yazdi
Ebrahim Yazdi (26 September 1931 – 27 August 2017) was an Iranian politician and diplomat. He served as deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs in the interim government of Mehdi Bazargan, until his resignation in November 1979, in protest at the Iran hostage crisis. From 1995 until 2017, he headed the Freedom Movement of Iran.
Yazdi was arrested in December 1997 for "desecrating religious sanctities" and freed on 26 December on bail. On 17 June 2009, during the 2009 Iranian election protests, it was reported that Yazdi was arrested while undergoing tests at the Tehran hospital according to the Freedom Movement of Iran website. On 22 June, he was released back to the hospital for a medical procedure. On 28 December 2009, Yazdi was arrested again in the wake of renewed protests.
Yazdi and several others were arrested on 1 October 2010 in Isfahan for participating in an "illegal Friday prayer." All others were freed within days. He was released in April 2011.
Yazdi died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 85 in Izmir, Turkey on 27 August 2017.
Vance Trimble
Vance Harrison Trimble (July 6, 1913 – June 16, 2021) was an American journalist and writer. He was born in Harrison, Arkansas. He won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.
Trimble was known for his national reporting about nepotism and payroll abuse in the U.S. Congress. In his life, Trimble has worked in the newspaper business for over fifty years. Trimble was inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 1974. He has published numerous books since his retirement.
Trimble turned 100 in July 2013. He lived in Wewoka, Oklahoma. Trimble died on June 16, 2021 at the age of 107.
Divo
Ivan Andres "Divo" Ramirez is a Canadian hip hop recording artist based in Toronto. Divo has released several albums featuring D. O., Classified, Dan-e-o, Eternia, D-Sisive and DL Incognito. In 2016, Divo's fourth album "Transatlantic Soul" won East Coast Rap Album of the Year at the Canadian Urban Television Hip Hop Awards.
Divo was born in Guatemala in 1980 and later moved with his family to Canada. In 1999, Divo released his debut hip hop music album, "Sparks of Friction". His second album, released in 2003 was titled "The Evolution Theory", followed by "This Iz Bizness" in 2004. In 2015, Divo released his fourth album, "Transatlantic Soul" which won East Coast Rap Album of the Year at the 2016 Canadian Urban Television Hip Hop Awards. "Transatlantic Soul" was shown in the Pan Am Path music compilation during the Pan American Games, 2015.
Divo is also known for creating his own album artwork for "Transatlantic Soul" and Classified's Boy-Cott-In the Industry and Hitch Hikin Music.
Elena Anaya
Elena Anaya Gutiérrez (born July 17, 1975) is a Spanish actress.
Her career dates back to 1995. She starred alongside Antonio Banderas in Pedro Almodóvar's "The Skin I Live In", for which she won the Goya award for Best Actress. She is also known for her roles in "Habitación en Roma" "(Room in Rome)" and "Wonder Woman" as Doctor Poison.
Anaya is a lesbian. In November 2016, it was announced that Anaya was expecting her first child with her partner, Tina Afugu Cordero, a costume designer. In February 2017, Anaya gave birth to their son.
Doctor Poison
Doctor Poison is the name of two fictional characters, supervillains who appear in DC Comics publications and related media. Both villains were members of the super-villain team Villainy Inc. and have appeared as major recurring enemies for Wonder Woman.
The Princess Maru incarnation of Doctor Poison first appeared in "Sensation Comics" #2 and was created by William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peter. The second Doctor Poison first appeared in "Wonder Woman" Vol. 2 #151 and was created by Eric Luke and Matthew Clark.
The original Princess Maru incarnation of the character made her first movie appearance in "Wonder Woman", played by Spanish actress Elena Anaya.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (born 18 June 1989) is a Gabonish football player. He plays for Arsenal F.C. and Gabon national team.
Afridun Amu
Afridun Amu was the first Afghan athlete to internationally represent Afghanistan in surfing. He participated in the International Surfing Association World Surfing Games in Biarritz, France in May 2017. Amu also won the first official Afghan surfing championship (man) in 2015 in Ericeira, Portugal. He is the reining Afghan surf champion.
Amu was born in Kabul, Afghanistan on June 23, 1987. He spent his childhood in Moscow, Russia, where his father worked as a diplomate. His family moved to Germany as political refugees in 1992. He graduated in law, cultural science and design thinking. He works as an expert in Constitutional law at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law and is a lecturer on Design thinking at the Hasso Plattner Institute.
Kven language
The Kven language is a Finnic language spoken in northern Norway by the Kven people.
In 2005 the language was officially given minority status in Norway. This was for political and historical reasons. The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages has rules for the signs of a minority language. Linguistically, however, it is seen as a mutually intelligible dialect of the Finnish language. Because of this it is grouped together with the Peräpohjola dialects, such as Meänkieli, spoken in Torne Valley in Sweden.
Kven people
Kvens (Kven language/Finnish: "kveeni", Norwegian: "kvener", Northern Sami: "kveanat") or Kven people are a Finnic ethnic minority in Norway. They are descendants from Finnish peasants and fishermen who moved from the northern parts of Finland and Sweden to Northern Norway in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In 1996, the government of Norway officially said that Kvens were a minority group. In 2005, Norway officially made Kven language a minority language.
Jamie Dimon
James Dimon (; born March 13, 1956) is an American business executive. He is chairman, president and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase, largest of the Big Four American banks. He served on the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Dimon was named to "Time" magazine's 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2011 lists of the world's 100 most influential people. He was also named to "Institutional Investor"s Best CEOs list in the All-America Executive Team Survey from 2008 through 2011.
Dimon was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014. In March 2020, Dimon had “emergency heart surgery.”
Lenke Lorán
Lenke Lorán (1 May 1927 – 27 August 2017) was a Hungarian actress. She was born in Győr, Hungary. Her career began in 1935.
Lorán played mostly comedies, but he also had memorable shots in more serious characters. Her best known roles were in "Nyári játék", "Entanglement", and in "7-es csatorna".
Between 1945 and 1966, she was a member of the Theater of the Hungarian People's Army and the Petőfi Theater. Between 1966 and 1998, she played on the Amusement Stage. Between 1998 and 2011, she was a member of the Microscope Stage. She retired in 2014.
Lorán died of heart failure on 27 August 2017 in Budapest, Hungary at the age of 90.
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