Joseph Marie Albert "Joep" Lange (25 September 1954 – 17 July 2014) was a Dutch medical doctor and researcher. He mainly worked in HIV therapy. He served as the President of the International AIDS Society (IAS) from 2002 to 2004. He was also the Founding Chairman of PharmAccess Foundation until his death in 2014. The IAS has 16,000 members from 196 countries.
Lange was born in Nieuwenhagen, Limburg. He studied at the University of Amsterdam in Amsterdam.
Lange, his wife and other IAS members were on board the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 when it was shot down on 17 July 2014, killing all people on board. He was 59. The flight was meant to go from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia but was shot down near Hrabove, Ukraine. He and his wife were among the 193 Dutch citizens killed. He and the IAS members were planning to go to Melbourne, Australia for the 20th International AIDS Conference, starting on 19 July.
Dietmar Schönherr
Dietmar Otto Schönherr (17 May 1926 – 18 July 2014) was an Austrian actor and entertainer. He made 120 movie appearances between 1944 and 2014. He was best known for playing the role of Major Cliff Allister McLane in the German science fiction series "Raumpatrouille".
Schönherr was born as Dietmar Otto von Schönleiten in Innsbruck. He was married to the Danish actress Vivi Bach from 1965 until her death in 2013.
Schönherr died on 18 July 2014 in Ibiza, Spain, aged 88.
AIK Bandy
AIK Bandy is a bandy club in Solna in Sweden. Established in 1905, the club won the Swedish national men's bandy championship in the years of 1909, 1914 and 1931.
Hammarby IF BF
Hammarby IF BF is a bandy club in Stockholm in Sweden. Established in 1905, the club won the Swedish national men's bandy championship in the years of 2010 and 2013.
Villa Lidköping BK
Villa Lidköping BK is a bandy club in Lidköping in Sweden. Established in 1934 as Villa BK, the club is named after nearby country estate Villa Giacomina. The club lost the Swedish national men's bandy championship final in the years of 1975, 1983, 2012 and 2016.
The club won its first World Cup title in October 2018. The women's team won the Swedish national championship for first time during the 2020–2021 season.
Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson
Anders Jacobsson,'born 1963 and Sören Olsson, born 1964 are two Swedish cousins who are writers of children's literature and young literature. They are mostly known for works like the Sune and Bert books, but also but also Tuva-Lisa and Emanuel. They have also written scripts for several TV series.
Willem Witteveen
Willem Johannes Witteveen (5 May 1952 – 17 July 2014) was a Dutch legal scholar, politician and political writer. He was a member of the Senate for the Labour Party from 1999 to 2007 and from 2013 until his death.
Witteveen was born in Rotterdam, South Holland. His father was Johan Witteveen and he was also the great-grandson of social-democratic politician Floor Wibaut. He studied law at Leiden University. He was married and had two children.
Witteveen and his family were on board the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 when it was shot down on 17 July 2014, killing all people on board. He was 62. The flight was meant to go from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia but was shot down near Hrabove, Ukraine. Witteveen, his wife and daughter were among the 193 Dutch citizens killed. His son, Freek, was not on board.
Witteveen was a Sufi.
João Ubaldo Ribeiro
João Ubaldo Osório Pimental Ribeiro (23 January 1941 – 18 July 2014) was a Brazilian writer. His best known novel was "An Invincible Memory" which was a success in the English-speaking world. Several of his books and short stories have been made into movies and TV series in Brazil.
Ribeiro was born in Itaparica, Bahia. He had been married three times and had four children.
Ribeiro died from a pulmonary embolism on 18 July 2014 in Rio de Janeiro, aged 73.
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights is a treaty of international human rights law. It was adopted by the Organization of African Unity (today, African Union) on 27 July 1981. The preamble confirms the authority of the charter of the United Nations. It also confirms the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The charter itself condemns apartheid, colonialism, neocolonialism and Zionism as violations of human rights. Unlike the European Convention on Human Rights, the charter confirms economic, social and cultural rights. These include the right to work, and civil rights. It also confirms the rights to self-determination, economic development, natural resources and to a good environment.
Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats (UK)
The Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats (UK) party is actually the deputy leader of the of the Liberal Democrats parliamentary group in the House of Commons.
Otto Piene
Otto Piene (18 April 1928 – 17 July 2014) was a German artist.
In 1957, Piene and Heinz Mack founded the group ZERO. For the closing of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Piene created the sky work "Olympic Rainbow", made up of five differently colored helium-filled polythene tubes.
Piene died in Berlin after presenting an art exhibit there. He was 86 years old.
Korean Air Lines Flight 007
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (also known as KAL007 and KE007) was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from New York City to Seoul via Anchorage. On September 1, 1983, the airliner serving the flight was shot down by a Soviet Su-15 interceptor near Moneron Island, west of Sakhalin Island, in the Sea of Japan.
The interceptor's pilot was Major Gennadi Osipovich. All 269 passengers and crew aboard were killed, including Lawrence McDonald, representative from Georgia in the United States House of Representatives. The aircraft was en route from Anchorage to Seoul when it flew through prohibited Soviet airspace around the time of a U.S. reconnaissance mission.
Former president Richard Nixon was to have been seated next to Larry McDonald on KAL 007 but decided not to go, according to the New York Post and TASS.
The shooting of Korean Air Lines was one of the most tense moments of the Cold War. In the aftermath of the shooting, President Ronald Reagan made a presidential announcement saying that what the Soviet did was bad. Reagan was angry of what happened and changed his mind of making peace with the Soviets.
President Reagan announced on September 16, 1983, that the Global Positioning System (GPS) would be made available for civilian use.
Kalix BF
Kalix BF is a bandy club in Kalix in Sweden, founded on 2 May 1990. The club has been playing in Swedish bandy, top division Elitserien, in the 2011–12 season and then again in the 2013–14 season.
Supporters of the club often refer to it as "KB". The club was founded as "Kalix Nyborg BK", by merging the bandy sections of the clubs Nyborgs SK, who later has restarted a bandy section of its own, and IFK Kalix. The name "Kalix BF" was adopted on 20 June 2001.
Tuva-Lisa Johansson
Tuva-Lisa is a series of children's/youth novels by Swedish writers Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson, about 12 years old Swedish girl "Tuva-Lisa Johansson", soon 13. Her parents work with theater, and she has written theater stageplays on her own, and wants to become an actress. Her friend is Jessica.
Among the stageplays written by her are "Ett vemodigt tillstånd av tråkighet", depicting an old man reflecting on his life as a vegitables-dealer.
Emanuel Hjort
Emanuel Hjort is a Swedish fictional character, created by Swedish writers Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson for a youth book series. Upon the 2000 release, the old Bert Diaries seriues had been completed with "Berts bokslut" in 1999.
Emanuel is 16 years old in the first book, and thinks even more of girls than Sune and Bert. Emanuel is also interested in photographing. His mother is named Elisabeth, and his father Roger. His 23 years old big sister Emma is living in Denmark.
A Prairie Home Companion (movie)