Don Kidd (October 10, 1937 – August 27, 2020) was an American politician. He was a Republican member of the New Mexico State Senate from 1993 to 2005. He was born in Crowell, Texas.
Kidd died on August 27, 2020 at his home in Carlsbad, New Mexico from pancreatic cancer at the age of 82.
Cristian Castro
Christian Sáinz Valdés Castro (born 8 December 1974), known professionally as Cristian Castro or Cristian, is a Mexican pop singer and actor.
He is the son of actors Veronica Castro and Manuel "El Loco" Valdés.
He is known for his slight tenor vocal singing. Castro is known as one of the most well known Hispanic pop singers of the last three decades.
Juan Gabriel described Castro as "the man with the most faculties to sing in Mexico".
H. Vasanthakumar
Harikrishnan Vasanthakumar (14 April 195028 August 2020) was an Indian businessman and politician. He was the founder and chairman of Vasanth & Co. He was also the founder and managing director of the Tamil satellite TV channel Vasanth TV.
He was elected as the member of parliament to the 17th Lok Sabha from Kanyakumari constituency in the 2019 Indian general election. He was also elected as member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from Nanguneri constituency in the 2006 and 2016 elections.
He was born in Travancore-Cochin, Tamil Nadu. Tamilisai Soundararajan, the Governor of Telangana, is his niece.
Vasanthakumar died on 28 August 2020 at a hospital in Chennai, Tamil Nadu from COVID-19, aged 70.
Don Bacon (microbiologist)
Donald Frederick Bacon (6 April 1926 – 28 August 2020) was a New Zealand microbiologist. In 1966, he was appointed the inaugural professor of microbiology at Massey University, where he remained until his retirement in 1989. Bacon was born in Gisborne, New Zealand. He was known for his works relating to the genetics of "E. coli" and associated bacteriophages. He retired in 1989.
Bacon died in Palmerston North, New Zealand on 28 August 2020 at the age of 94.
Get on Up (movie)
Get on Up is a 2014 American biographical musical drama movie about the life of singer James Brown and directed by Tate Taylor and written by Jez and John-Henry Butterworth.
The movie stars Chadwick Boseman as Brown, Nelsan Ellis as Bobby Byrd, Dan Aykroyd as Ben Bart, Viola Davis as Susie Brown, Craig Robinson as Maceo Parker, and Octavia Spencer as Aunt Honey.
The movie was released on August 1, 2014, received positive reviews.
Randall Kenan
Randall Kenan (March 12, 1963 – August 28, 2020) was an American author. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.
His works focused around what it means to be black and gay in the southern United States. Some of Kenan's most notable works include the collection of short stories "Let the Dead Bury Their Dead", named a New York Times Notable Book in 1992, "A Visitation of Spirits," and "The Fire This Time".
Kenan was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and the John Dos Passos Prize.
Kenan died on August 28, 2020 at the age of 57.
Rahat Khan
Rahat Khan (19 December 1940 – 28 August 2020) was a Bangladeshi journalist and novelist. He wrote more than 32 novels. He was an editor for "The Daily Ittefaq".
He won Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1973 and Ekushey Padak in 1996 by the Government of Bangladesh.
Khan died on 28 August 2020 in Dhaka at the age of 79.
Assar Lindbeck
Carl Assar Eugén Lindbeck (26 January 1930 – 28 August 2020) was a Swedish professor of economics at Stockholm University and at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN). Lindbeck was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Lindbeck's work focused in research on unemployment (e.g. the insider-outsider theory of employment), the welfare state (including the effect of changing social norms), and China's reformed economy.
Lindbeck died on 28 August 2020 in Stockholm, aged 90.
Antoinette Spaak
Antoinette Spaak (27 June 1928 – 28 August 2020) was a Belgian politician. She was active in the Democratic Front of Francophones ("Front Démocratique des Francophones", FDF). She was president of the party between 1977 to 1982. She was born in Brussels.
She died at her home in Brussels, Belgium on 28 August 2020, aged 92.
Bill Paterson
William Tulloch Paterson (born 3 June 1945) is a Scottish actor and commentator.
He has appeared in many movies and television projects including "Comfort and Joy" (1984), "Truly, Madly, Deeply" (1990), "Wives and Daughters" (1999), "Sea of Souls" (2004–2007), "Amazing Grace" (2006), "Miss Potter" (2006), and PBS's "Little Dorrit" (2008).
Michael B. Jordan
Michael Bakari Jordan (; born February 9, 1987) is an American actor and producer. He is known for his movie roles as shooting victim Oscar Grant in the drama "Fruitvale Station" (2013), boxer Adonis "Donnie" Creed in the "Rocky" sequel movie "Creed" (2015), and Erik Killmonger in "Black Panther" (2018).
Donna Murphy
Donna Murphy (born March 7, 1959) is an American actress and singer. She is known for her work in musical theater.
She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical twice for her role as Fosca in "Passion" (1994–95) and as Anna Leonowens" in The King and I" (1996–97).
Kikoriki
Kikoriki, known in the United States as GoGoRiki and in Russia as Smeshariki (), is a Russian animated television series made up of 209 episodes of 6 minutes and 30 seconds each, aimed at children of 3 to 8 years.
The first episode premiered in Russia on May 17, 2004.
The series is aired in 60 countries, is translated to 15 languages.
Eileen Davidson
Eileen Marie Davidson (born June 15, 1959) is an American actress, author, television personality and former model. Davidson is best known for her roles in soap operas as Kristen DiMera on NBC's "Days of Our Lives", as well as Ashley Abbott on CBS's "The Young and the Restless" and "The Bold and the Beautiful".
Artesia, California
Artesia is a city in southeast Los Angeles County, California.
Ceres, California
Ceres is a city in Stanislaus County, California. The population was 45,417 at the 2010 U.S. Census.
Black Panther (Marvel Comics)
Black Panther is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Jack Kirby, first appearing in "Fantastic Four" #52 (cover-dated July 1966) in the Silver Age of Comic Books.
Black Panther's real name is T'Challa. He is the king and protector of the fictional African nation of Wakanda.
Black Panther is the first superhero of African descent in mainstream American comics.
Chadwick Boseman played the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies "" (2016), "Black Panther" (2018), "" (2018), and "" (2019).
In 2011, Black Panther was ranked 51st overall on IGN's "Top 100 Comic Books Heroes" list.
2020 Jolo bombings
The 2020 Jolo bombings occurred on August 24, 2020, when suicide bombers of Abu Sayyaf jihadists attacked Jolo, Sulu, Philippines, killing 14 people and wounding 75 others.
The first attack happened as army personnel were assisting in carrying out COVID-19 humanitarian efforts. The second, a suicide bombing, was carried out near the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral.
Jolo, Sulu
Jolo is a city which is the capital of the Sulu province of the Philippines. In 2015, 125,564 people lived there. That same year, 40% of people living there were poor.
Islamist bombers attacked Jolo in 2019 and 2020.
Sulu
Sulu (; Tausūg: "Wilāya sin Lupa' Sūg"; ) is a province of the Philippines in the Sulu Archipelago and part of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
Its capital is Jolo on the island of the same name.
Ric Drasin
Richard Alan "Ric" Drasin (July 12, 1944 – August 30, 2020) was an American bodybuilder, personal trainer, actor, stuntman, author, and former professional wrestler. He wrestled professionally for 36 years between 1965 and 2001.
He was also known for designing both the original Gold's Gym logo — a cartoon sketch of a bald weightlifter, and the World Gym gorilla logo.