Vladimir Voevodsky
Vladimir Alexandrovich Voevodsky (; , 4 June 1966 – 30 September 2017) was a Russian-American mathematician. He was born in Moscow.
His work in developing a homotopy theory for algebraic varieties and formulating motivic cohomology led to the award of a Fields Medal in 2002. He was also known for the proof of the Milnor conjecture and motivic Bloch-Kato conjectures and for the univalent foundations of mathematics and homotopy type theory.
Voevodsky died on September 30, 2017 at his home in Princeton, New Jersey of an aortic aneurysm at the age of 51.
Terry Downes
Terry Downes, BEM (9 May 1936 – 6 October 2017) was a British middleweight boxer, and occasional movie actor. He was nicknamed the "Paddington Express" for his aggressive fighting style. As of 2008, Downes was Britain’s oldest surviving former world champion. He held the world middleweight title for ten months from 1961-62. He was born in London.
One of his best known roles was in Roman Polanski's 1967 movie "The Fearless Vampire Killers", in which he played "Koukol", a hunchbacked servant. His other movie credits included appearances in "A Study in Terror" (1965), "Five Ashore in Singapore" (1967), "The Golden Lady" (1979), "If You Go Down in the Woods Today" (1981), and the Derek Jarman movie "Caravaggio" (1986).
Downes died on 6 October 2017 in London, aged 81.
Toon Geurts
Antonius "Toon" Geurts (29 February 1932 – 6 October 2017) was a Dutch sprint canoer. He was most successful in the K-2 1000 m event, in which he finished in seventh, second and fourth place at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics, respectively. He won silver at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He was born in Veldhoven, the Netherlands.
Geurts died in The Hague, the Netherlands on 6 October 2017 at the age of 85.
Ralphie May
Ralph Oliver "Ralphie" May (February 17, 1972 – October 6, 2017) was an American stand-up comedian and actor. He was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, but raised in Clarksville, Arkansas. His jokes were mainly about observational comedy, wit, word play, satire, sexuality, race, religion, family life and obesity.
May was influenced by Sam Kinison, Lenny Bruce, Buddy Hackett, and Richard Pryor. In 2003, May was chosen to participate in the first season of "Last Comic Standing". He finished in second place in the competition. After that, he appeared in comedy shows like "The Wayne Brady Show" and "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno". In 2005, he was the only white comedian on "The Big Black Comedy Show", which also featured Mo'Nique, Rodman, and Vince Morris.
May was married to Lahna Turner from 2005 until they separated in 2015. They had two children.
May died of a pneumonia-related heart attack at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 6, 2017 at the age of 45.
John Herrnstein
John Ellett Herrnstein (March 31, 1938 – October 3, 2017) was an American baseball and football player. He played Major League Baseball from 1962 to 1966 for the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, and Atlanta Braves. He also played college baseball and football at the University of Michigan from 1956 to 1959. He was born in Hampton, Virginia.
Herrnstein died at his home in Chillicothe, Ohio on October 3, 2017 of complications from leukemia, at the age of 79.
Jon Huntsman Sr.
Jon Meade Huntsman Sr. (June 21, 1937 – February 2, 2018) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was the founder and executive chairman of Huntsman Corporation, a global manufacturer and marketer of specialty chemicals. Huntsman plastics are used in a wide variety of familiar objects, including (formerly) McDonald's clamshell burger containers.
From 1971 to 1972, he was the White House Staff Secretary during the Richard Nixon presidency.
Huntsman Sr. died of prostate cancer in Salt Lake City, Utah on February 2, 2018 at the age of 80.
Rainer Weiss
Rainer "Rai" Weiss (; ; born September 29, 1932) is a German-born American physicist of partly Jewish descent (his father was Jewish).
He is known for his works in gravitational physics and astrophysics. He is a professor of physics emeritus at MIT. He is best known for inventing the laser interferometric technique which is the basic operation of LIGO.
Weiss was Chair of the COBE Science Working Group.
In 2017, Weiss was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Kip Thorne and Barry Barish, "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".
Barry Barish
Barry Clark Barish (born January 27, 1936) is an American experimental physicist and Nobel Laureate. He is a Linde Professor of Physics, emeritus at California Institute of Technology. He is a leading expert on gravitational waves, and is of Jewish descent.
In 2017, Barish was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with Rainer Weiss and Kip Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".
Kip Thorne
Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. He is known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics.
In 2017, Thorne was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".
Daisaku Ikeda
AKMU
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Lydie Polfer
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Polfer was Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, an MEP, and a member of the Chamber of Deputies.
She was mayor of Luxembourg City from 1982 to 1999, and has been again since 2013.
Her father Camille Polfer was also mayor of Luxembourg City.
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Camille Polfer
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He was mayor of Luxembourg City from 1980 to 1981, and was succeeded by his daughter Lydie Polfer due to his poor health.
Kruth
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Bronisław Chromy
Bronisław Chromy (June 3, 1925 – October 4, 2017) was a Polish sculptor, painter, and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Chromy was a member of the Polish Academy of Learning. He was born at Leńcze near Lanckorona.
Chromy died in Kraków, Poland on October 4, 2017 at the age of 92.
Konstantin Sarsania
Konstantin Sergeyevich Sarsania (; 11 June 1968, Moscow – 7 October 2017, Moscow) was a Russian professional football coach and a former player and agent.
At the time of his death he worked as director of sports for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg.
He made his debut as a player in the Soviet Second League in 1988 for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow.
Darsi Ferrer Ramírez
Darsi Ferrer Ramírez (2 November 1969 – 6 October 2017), was a Cuban doctor, journalist, director of Juan Bruno Zayas Health and Human Rights Center, and a dissident. He put in jail by President Fidel Castro.