Williams died from throat cancer in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, aged 69.
Hans Albert
Hans Albert (born February 8, 1921) is a German philosopher. He was born in Cologne. He lives in Heidelberg.
His fields of research are Social Sciences and General Studies of Methods. He is a critical rationalist, giving special attention to rational heuristics (problem solving).
Danielle Darrieux
Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux (1 May 1917 – 17 October 2017) was a French actress and singer. She has appeared in more than 110 movies since 1931. She is one of France's great movie stars and her eighty year career.
Darrieux was born in Bordeaux, France. She died on 17 October 2017 in Bois-le-Roi, France from complications of a fall, aged 100 year old. For her long service to the motion picture industry, in 1985 Danielle was given an Honorary César Award.
Mandy Patinkin
Mandel Bruce "Mandy" Patinkin (born November 30, 1952) is an American actor and tenor singer. He is known for his roles in "Alien Nation" (1988), "Yentl" (1983), and "Dick Tracy".
Aino-Maija Tikkanen
Aino-Maija Tikkanen (2 November 1927 – 3 March 2014) was a Finnish actress. She appeared in 15 movies between 1954 and 2010. She was born in Turku.
Tikkanen died on 3 March 2014 in Helsinki. She was 86 years old.
Yvette Chauviré
Yvette Chauviré (22 April 1917 – 19 October 2016) was a French prima ballerina and actress. She was born in Paris. Her dancing career was from 1937 to 1972. She was the étoile of the Paris Opera Ballet, and later its director. She was the holder of the Légion d'Honneur.
She died at her home in Paris on 19 October 2016, aged 99.
Wendell H. Ford
Wendell Hampton Ford (September 8, 1924 – January 22, 2015) was an American politician. He served for twenty-four years in the U.S. Senate and was the 53rd Governor of Kentucky. He was the first person to be successively elected lieutenant governor, governor, and U.S. senator in Kentucky history.
Ford died in Owensboro, Kentucky from lung cancer, aged 90.
Dale Bumpers
Dale Leon Bumpers (August 12, 1925 – January 1, 2016) was an American politician. He served as the 38th Governor of Arkansas from 1971 to 1975. Bumpers served in the United States Senate from 1975 until his retirement in January 1999.
After his retirement from the Senate, Bumpers, a self-declared close friend of President Clinton, acted as defense attorney during Clinton's impeachment trial. He gave an impassioned closing argument during the Senate trial.
Bumpers died on January 1, 2016 at his home in Little Rock, Arkansas from complications from a fall at the age of 90. Bumpers was suffering from Alzheimer's disease at the time of his death.
Lakhdar Brahimi
Lakhdar Brahimi ( ; ; born 1 January 1934) is an Algerian diplomat and politician. He is the United Nations envoy and advisor. Since August 2012, he was the United Nations and Arab League Special Envoy to Syria.
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Fernando Henrique Cardoso (; born June 18, 1931), also known by his initials FHC () is a Brazilian politician. He was the 34th President of Brazil. He served for two terms from January 1, 1995 to December 31, 2002.
Shimabara Rebellion
Shimabara Rebellion, was an uprising in southwestern Japan. It lasted from December 17, 1637 until April 15, 1638, during the Edo period. It largely involved peasants, most of them Catholic Christians.
Vladimir Zinchenko
Vladimir Petrovich Zinchenko (; 10 August 1931 – 6 February 2014) was a Russian psychologist, academician, educator and writer. He got a Ph.D. in 1957. He was also an editor-in-chief of the journal of "Cultural-Historical Psychology". He was born in Kharkiv, Soviet Union (now Ukraine).
Zinchenko died on 6 February 2014 in Moscow, Russia. He was 82 years old.
Thomas Kurzhals
Thomas Kurzhals (13 December 1953 – 2 January 2014) was a German keyboardist, composer and musician. He was best known as a member of the rock bands Stern-Combo Meißen and Karat. He was born in Ronneburg, Thuringia, East Germany.
Kurzhals died from liver cirrhosis on 2 January 2014 in Glauchau, Saxony. He was 60 years old.
Dominique Baudis
Dominique Baudis (; 14 April 1947 – 10 April 2014) was a French ombudsman, journalist and politician. He was the Mayor of Toulouse, Haute-Garonne from March 1983 until January 2001. He was also a member of DL and later of the leading centre-right Union for a Popular Movement. He was born in Paris.
Baudis died from cancer on 10 April 2014 in Paris. He was 66 years old.
West Malling
West Malling is a small market town in Tonbridge and Malling, Kent, England. Its postcode is ME19.
There are many historical sites in West Malling that make it a popular place to visit. There are many shops. There is a population of between 3,000 and 5,000 people. St Mary's church is at the top of the High Street.
Kaleph Jõulu
Kaleph Jõulu (15 November 1927 – 22 January 2014) was an Estonian educator, writer and folklore collector. He was best known for his book "Maailma 33333 rahvatarkust" (2013). He won the Rahvaluule kogumispreemia (Folklore Prize) four times (1994, 1996, 1997, 2007). He was born in Rapla, Rapla County.
Jõulu died on 22 January 2014 in Viljandi, Viljandi County. He was 86 years old.
Nigel Evans
Nigel Martin Evans (born 10 November 1957) is a British politician. He was born in Swansea, Wales. He has been the Member of Parliament for Ribble Valley since 1992. He was a Conservative until 2013. Since then he has been an Independent. He was First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means from 2010 to 2013.
Evans lives in Pendleton, Lancashire. He is openly gay. In 2014 at Preston Crown Court, he was acquitted of nine sex crimes, including a rape.
Karin Dreijer Andersson
Karin Elisabeth Dreijer Andersson (born 7 April 1975), also known by her stage name Fever Ray, is the lead singer of The Knife.
Andersson was born in Nacka, Sweden. She started playing the guitar when she was 10.
Andersson is married to Kent Peter Kristian Andersson and has two children.
Władysław Filipowiak
Władysław Filipowiak (29 April 1926 – 31 March 2014) was a Polish professor, writer, and archaeologist. He was a former director of the National Museum in Szczecin.
He was the author of over 200 publications in the field of early medieval archeology. In the past year has been an Honorary Citizen of the Commune Wolin. Filipowiak was born in Kaczycach, Poland.
Filipowiak died on 31 March 2014 in Szczecin, Poland from natural causes, aged 87.
Owen Chadwick
William Owen Chadwick, OM, KBE, FBA, FRSE (20 May 1916 – 17 July 2015) was a British professor, writer and prominent historian of Christianity. He was also a rugby union player.
Chadwick was born in Bromley, Kent, England. He died at the age of 99 on 17 July 2015.
Albert Brooks
Albert Lawrence Brooks (born Albert Lawrence Einstein; July 22, 1947) is an American actor, voice actor, writer, comedian, and director. He was known for his roles in "Modern Romance" (1981), "Lost in America" (1985), "Defending Your Life" (1991), "Finding Nemo" (2004), "The Simpsons Movie" (2007), and "Drive" (2011).
Brooks was born in Beverly Hills, California.
Carlo Maria Martini
Carlo Maria Martini, S.J., (15 February 1927 – 31 August 2012) was an Italian Jesuit and cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Milan from 1980 to 2002.
Martini was born in Orbassano, Kingdom of Italy. He died in Gallarate, Italy on 31 August 2012 from Parkinson's disease, aged 85.
Jean Giraud
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012) was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer. He was known for his comic "Blueberry". His pseudonym was Mœbius or Gir.
Giraud was born in Nogent-sur-Marne. He died on 10 March 2014 in Paris from lymphoma, aged 73.
Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska-Włodek, Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska (2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish poet, essayist, and translator. She was the recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.