He died in Cairo on 21 December 2013, at the age of 90.
Amr Moussa
Amr Moussa (, , Amr Muhammad Moussa; born 3 October 1936) is an Egyptian politician and diplomat. He was the Secretary-General of the Arab League from 1 June 2001 to 1 June 2011.
Moussa worked in the government of Egypt as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1991 to 2001. On 8 September 2013, he was elected president of the committee of 50 that will amend the Egyptian constitution.
Kingdom of Egypt
The Kingdom of Egypt ( "", "the Egyptian Kingdom") was the "de jure" independent Egyptian state created under the Muhammad Ali Dynasty in 1922.
The kingdom was created after the Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence by the United Kingdom. Until the Anglo-Egyptian treaty of 1936, the Kingdom was only somewhat independent, since the British had control of foreign relations, communications, the military and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
Between 1936 and 1952, the British continued to have military presence and political advisers, at a reduced level.
The kingdom was known for corruption. This led to the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 by the Free Officers Movement. In 1953 the monarchy was formally abolished and the Republic of Egypt was established.
The legal status of Sudan was only resolved in 1954, when Egypt and Britain agreed that it should be granted independence in 1956.
Ahmed Aboul Gheit
Ahmed Aboul Gheit (, also: Abu al-Ghayt, Abu El Gheyt, etc.) (born 12 June 1942) is an Egyptian diplomat. He is the 8th and current Secretary-General of the Arab League since July 2016.
Aboul-Gheit was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt from 11 July 2004 to 6 March 2011. He was Egypt's Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
Ronnie Moore (speedway rider)
Ronald Leslie Moore (8 March 1933 – 18 August 2018) was an Australian-born New Zealand international speedway rider. He won the Individual World Speedway Championship twice, in 1954 and 1959.
Moore was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 18 August 2018 from lung cancer at age 85.
Barry Briggs
Barry Briggs MBE (born 30 December 1934) is a former Speedway rider. He was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. He won the World Individual Championship title four times – in 1957, 1958, 1964 and 1966. He appeared in a record 17 consecutive World Individual finals (1954–70).
Briggs retired from British league racing in 1972 after an accident, but returned in 1974, then announcing in 1975 that this would be his last season yet retired in 1976.
In 1973 Briggs was awarded an MBE for his services to sport and in 1990 he was added into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame.
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Ed Sullivan Show was an American television variety show that ran on CBS from June 20, 1948, to June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan.
It was replaced in September 1971 by the "CBS Sunday Night Movie".
In 2002, "The Ed Sullivan Show" was ranked #15 on "TV Guide"s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
Rotten borough
A rotten borough, was a type of parliamentary borough in the UK, before the Reform Act 1832.
It had a very small electorate and could be used by its "owner" or patron to get a seat in Parliament in the House of Commons without any opposition. The same terms were used for similar boroughs in the 18th-century Parliament of Ireland.
Old Sarum in Wiltshire (pictured) was the most notorious pocket borough. It was owned by the Pitt family from the mid-17th century until 1802. One of its Members of Parliament was Prime Minister William Pitt the Elder. In 1802 the Pitt family sold it for £60,000, much more than the land itself was worth.
An even more striking example was Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk, who controlled eleven boroughs. The Reform Act of 1832 put an end to this sort of thing.
Jack Costanzo
Jack Costanzo (September 24, 1919 – August 18, 2018) was an American percussionist, dancer, composer, bandleader and actor. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. Costanzo was known for his works with Marlon Brando, Rita Moreno and for his appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show". Costanzo formed his own band in the 1950s which recorded and toured internationally.
Costanzo died of complications from an aneurysm at his home in Lakeside, California on August 18, 2018, aged 98.
Lakeside, California
Lakeside is a census designated place (CDP) in San Diego County, California. The population was 20,648 at the 2010 census, up from 19,560 as of the 2000 census. It is located near San Diego, California.
Peter Tapsell (British politician)
Sir Peter Hannay Bailey Tapsell (1 February 1930 – 18 August 2018) was a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Louth and Horncastle. He was born in Hove, Sussex, England.
Tapsell was in the House of Commons from 1966 until 2015 and was also an MP from 1959 to 1964. He was Father of the House between 2010 and 2015.
Tapsell died on 18 August 2018, age 88.
Bazlur Rahman Badal
Bazlur Rahman Badal (1921/1922 – 19 August 2018) was a Bangladeshi dancer. He was awarded Shilpakala Padak in 2014 and Independence Day Award in 2017. He was known for his dances inspired from the poem "Bidrohi" of Kazi Nazrul Islam.
Badal died on 19 August 2018 in Rajshahi, Bangladesh of pneumonia complicated from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the age of 95.
Pope Symmachus
Pope Symmachus was pope from 498 to 514 and succeeded by Pope Hormisdas. Symmachus is Born in Sardinia, Vandal Kingdom. His birth date is unknown. He died in 514 and he is Saint of the Catholic Church. His Feast day is on July 19.
Rafael Calventi
Rafael Calventi Gaviño (18 March 1932 - 19 August 2018) was a Dominican architect and diplomat. He was born in La Vega, Dominica. In 1996 he joined the Dominican diplomatic corps and was the ambassador to Italy, Mexico, Argentina and Germany.
Calventi was deputy Director of the Office of the National District of Urban Planning and Design Chief of the Directorate of Buildings in the Ministry of Public Works and Communications of the Dominican Republic (SEOPEC).
Calventi was the first director of the Dominican School of Architecture, between 1966 and 1968. There he was a professor of Architectural Composition and Theory of Architecture. He was also one of the founders of the Technological Institute of Santo Domingo (INTEC) in the 1972.
Calventi died in Berlin on 19 August 2018 from a heart attack, aged 86.
Seymour Hersh
Seymour Myron "Sy" Hersh (born April 8, 1937) is an American journalist and political writer. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He is a longtime contributor to "The New Yorker" and has also written for the "London Review of Books" since 2013.
He won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. During the 1970s, Hersh covered Watergate for "The New York Times". In 2004, he received the George Orwell Award.
Filippo Grandi
Filippo Grandi (born 1957) is an Italian diplomat. Between 2010 and 2014, he was Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
On November 11, 2015, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced his plans to appoint Grandi as the next United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to take office in 2016.
Jean-Pierre Hocké
Jean-Pierre Hocké (born 31 March 1938) is a Swiss International Red Cross staff member and United Nations official. He was born in Lausanne. He was the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1986 to 1989. He was nominated by Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. Prior to that function he was Director of Operations of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).