Altofonte (Sicilian: Parcu) is a "comune" (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Palermo in the Italian region Sicily, located about southwest of Palermo.
Milena Jelinek
Milena Jelinek (Czech: Milena Jelínková, née Tobolová) (1935 – April 16, 2020) was a Czech-American screenwriter, playwright and teacher. She wrote the screenplay for the movie "Forgotten Light", which was awarded three Czech Lions in 1997. She was an important person during the Czech New Wave. She was married to the late Frederick Jelinek. Jelinek was born in Prague.
Jelinek died on April 16, 2020 of COVID-19 in New York City, aged 84.
Sicilian Mafia
The Sicilian Mafia, also known as simply the Mafia and also know by its members as Cosa Nostra (), is an Italian, Mafia-terrorist-type, organized crime syndicate. It began in Sicily.
The basic group is known as a "family", "clan", or "cosca". Each family claims sovereignty over a territory, usually a town or village or a neighbourhood of a larger city.
Its members call themselves "men of honour", although the public often calls them as "mafiosi". The Mafia often did protection racketeering, "fixed" problems between criminals, and the organizing and oversight of illegal agreements and transactions.
Visteon Dockable Entertainment
The Visteon Dockable Entertainment device was a Game Boy Advance-type device resembling a car DVD player.
Frederick Jelinek
Frederick Jelinek (18 November 1932 – 14 September 2010) was a Czech-American researcher. His works focused in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing. He was well known for his quote, "Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up".
Jelinek taught for 10 years at Cornell University before being offered a job at IBM Research. In 1961, he married Czech screenwriter Milena Jelinek. After IBM, he went to head the Center for Language and Speech Processing at Johns Hopkins University for 17 years.
Jelinek died of a heart attack in Baltimore, Maryland on 14 September 2010 at the age of 77.
Meghan Ory
Meghan Ory (born August 20, 1982) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role as Red Riding Hood/Ruby on the ABC fantasy series "Once Upon a Time". She also starred in the CBS drama "Intelligence" as Riley Neal.
Israel Gelfand
Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand, or Izrail M. Gelfand (, ; – 5 October 2009) was a famous Soviet mathematician. He worked on many branches of mathematics, including group theory and other areas related to differential equations.
He received many awards, including the Order of Lenin and the first Wolf Prize, he was also a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society and professor at Moscow State University, and worked at Rutgers University after immigrating to the United States shortly before his 76th birthday.
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (; ; 10 December 1804 – 18 February 1851) was a German mathematician who contributed to elliptic functions, differential equations, determinants, and number theory. He was the first Jewish mathematician to be appointed professor at a German university.
Mario Donatone
Mario Giacinto Donatone (9 June 1933 – 14 April 2020) was an Italian actor. He was born in Tripoli, Libya to Italian parents. He was known for his role as Mosca in "The Godfather Part III". He also starred in "Phenomena" and "".
Donatone died in Rome on 14 April 2020 at the age of 86.
John Wick (movie)
John Wick (also known as John Wick: Chapter 1) is a 2014 American neo-noir action movie directed by Chad Stahelski, in his directorial debut, and written by Derek Kolstad. It stars Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Adrianne Palicki, Bridget Moynahan, Dean Winters, Ian McShane, John Leguizamo, and Willem Dafoe. It is the first movie in the "John Wick" movie series.
The movie had strong positive reviews. Many critics called it one of Reeves' best performances and one of the best action movies of 2014. It made $86 million worldwide.
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum is a 2019 American neo-noir action thriller movie. It stars Keanu Reeves as the main character. It is the third movie in the "John Wick" movie series. The movie is directed by Chad Stahelski and written by Derek Kolstad, Shay Hatten, Chris Collins, and Marc Abrams.
It also stars Halle Berry, Laurence Fishburne, Mark Dacascos, Asia Kate Dillon, Lance Reddick, Anjelica Huston, and Ian McShane.
"Parabellum" was released in the United States on May 17, 2019, by Lionsgate. It has made $326 million worldwide, becoming the highest-money making movie of the franchise in just 10 days. It has strong positive reviews.
Ernst-Georg Schwill
Ernst-Georg Schwill (30 March 1939 – 9 April 2020) was a German actor. He was born in Berlin. Schwill was best known for his roles as Max in "Alarm in the Circus" (1954), Strups in "A Berlin Romance" (1966) and as Gustav in the 1968 miniseries "The Shield and the Sword".
Schwill died of a heart attack on 9 April 2020 in Berlin, aged 81.
Danièle Hoffman-Rispal
Danièle Hoffman-Rispal (22 June 1951 – 2020) was a French politician of Jewish descent. She was a member of the National Assembly of France from 2002 to 2012. She represented the city of Paris. Hoffman-Rispal was a member of the Socialist Party.
Hoffman-Rispal died either late 15 April or early 16 April 2020 in Paris at the age of 68.
Elastic limit
The elastic limit is the maximum amount an object can stretch if the object stretches at all.
Ksenia Tripolitova
Ksenia Arturovna Tripolitova (7 May 1915 – 9 April 2020) was a Russian-born French ballet dancer. She was born in Vilna, Russian Empire. She began studying in the studio of Lyubov Yegorova. She was known for touring with her husband Nikolai Tripolitov during the 1930s and 1940s. In the 1960s, she began a solo career. Tripolitova was known for performing during World War II when Nazis were fighting in France.
In 1949 she performed in Switzerland. At the end of the 1950s, she and her husband formed a vocal and dance ensemble "Troika". In the years 1954-1955 she worked in the opera theater in Tunis . In 1957 she performed together with the Ural Cossack choir in Spain.
Tripolitova turned 100 in April 2015. She died in Paris on 9 April 2020, aged 104.
Albert Almoznino
Albert Almoznino (; March 3, 1923 – April 7, 2020) was a Moroccan-born Israeli hand shadow artist. His career began in 1958. He became well known in the 1960s, when he performed his hand shadow skills at Radio City Music Hall in New York, Paris Olympia and during the "The Ed Sullivan Show". Almoznino was born in Mogador (Essaouira), Morocco.
Almoznino died on April 7, 2020 at the age of 97.
Santiago Lanzuela
Santiago Lanzuela Marina (27 September 1948 – 16 April 2020) was a Spanish politician. He was born in Teruel, Spain. He was the President of the Government of Aragon from 1995 to 1999. He was a member of the Aragonese Party.
Lanzuela died of COVID-19 in Madrid on 16 April 2020, aged 71.
Keiji Fujiwara
in "Hunter x Hunter", Shiro Fujimoto in "Ao no Exorcist" and Esidisi in "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency".
In the live action, he was mostly known for dubbing actor Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man/Tony Stark.
Fujiwara died, aged 55 of cancer on April 12, 2020.
President of Suriname
The President of the Republic of Suriname () is, in accordance with the Constitution of 1987, the head of state and head of government of Suriname, and commander-in-chief of the Suriname National Army (SNL).
Hendrick Chin A Sen
Hendrick Rudolf "Henk" Chin A Sen (; 18 January 1934 – 11 August 1999) was a Surinamese politician who was the President of Suriname from 15 August 1980 until 4 February 1982.
Fred Ramdat Misier
Lachmipersad Frederik "Fred" Ramdat Misier (28 October 1926 – 25 July 2004) was the 3rd President of Suriname from 1982 to 1988.
Ramsewak Shankar