With the 49ers, Clark played on two Super Bowl championship teams. He caught the winning touchdown pass thrown by quarterback Joe Montana in the NFC Championship Game in January 1982 against the Dallas Cowboys. Clark played college football at Clemson University before being drafted by the 49ers in the 10th round of the 1979 NFL Draft. He served as the general manager of the 49ers in 1998 and in the same capacity with the Cleveland Browns from 1998 to 2002.
Clark was born in Kinston, North Carolina. He studied at Clemson University. Clark lived in Santa Cruz, California with his wife Kelly for a long time until moving to Whitefish, Montana.
On March 19, 2017, Clark announced that he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Clark died on June 4, 2018 from the disease in Whitefish, aged 61.
Joni Sledge
Joan Elise Sledge (September 13, 1956 – March 10, 2017), better known as Joni Sledge, was an American singer–songwriter and producer. Sledge was best known as a founding member of the American family vocal group Sister Sledge. Sledge performed the song "Then Came You" with the Spinners on the television music show "The Midnight Special" in 1975.
In addition to singing, Sledge was also a songwriter and producer. She wrote and produced the song "Brother, Brother Stop" for a Sister Sledge greatest hits album in 1996. Sledge's production of their album "African Eyes" which was released in 1997 was nominated for a best–production Grammy.
Sledge was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She studied at Temple University. She had one son Thaddeus Sledge.
Sledge was found dead by a friend at her home on March 11, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona at the age of 60. Her death was originally considered due to unknown circumstances as she didn't have any known illnesses, according to close family sources. On March 14, 2017, Sledge's cause of death was ruled "natural causes".
Klaib Al-Fawwaz
Klaib Saud Al-Fawwaz (15 October 1950 – 8 January 2017) was a Jordanian diplomat and senator. He served as State Minister for Cabinet Affairs from 2011 through 2012 and Secretary General of the Eslah Political Party from 2012 until his death in 2017.
Al-Fawwaz was born in Sabha, Jordan. He studied at the University of Jordan.
Al-Fawwaz served in Jordan's diplomatic missions around the world for over 30 years. He worked at the Jordanian embassy in New Delhi from 1979 through 1983, the Permanent Mission of Jordan to the United Nations in New York from 1984 through 1988 and the embassies in Baghdad from 1991 through 1995 and Uzbekistan from 1997 through 1999.
Al-Fawwaz also served as Jordan's Consul General to Dubai and Northern Emirates from 1999 through 2003, after which he became a senator serving from 2003 through 2005.
Al-Fawwaz died on 8 January 2017 in Amman, Jordan from a heart attack, aged 66.
Pascal Smet
Pascal Smet (born July 7, 1967 in Beveren) is a Belgian politician. He is a member of sp.a.
Smet studied law at the University of Antwerp.
He was a minister of the Brussels-Capital Region and of Flanders. He has also been an alderman of the city of Brussels since 2006.
Smet is openly gay.
Li Li-Hua
Li Li-Hua (also known as Li Hua Li, Li Lihua and Teresa Li ; 17 July 1924 – 19 March 2017) was a Chinese Hong-Kong actress, better known as an actress from the Shaw Brothers Studio.
In 1957, Li married Hong Kong actor and director Yan Jun (嚴俊). He died in 1980.
Li Lihua was born on July 17, 1924 in Shanghai.
Her first movie was "3 Smiles" (三笑) which was released in two parts in 1940. Her final movie was "New Dream of the Red Chamber" (新紅樓夢) in 1978 after which she retired and moved to the United States. She acted in over one hundred twenty movies during her 38 year career. In 1969 she was awarded the Golden Horse Best Actress award for "Storm over the Yangtze River" (揚子江風雲).
Li died in Hong Kong on 19 March 2017, aged 92.
Chinu Modi
Chinu Modi (Gujarati: ચિનુ મોદી), also known by his pen name, Irshad (Gujarati: ઈર્શાદ) (30 September 1939 – 19 March 2017) was a Gujarati language poet, novelist, short story writer and critic from Gujarat, India.
He taught many institutions and established himself as a poet and author. He was a recipient of several awards including Sahitya Akademi Award, Vali Gujarati Award and Narsinh Mehta Award.
Modi died on 19 March 2017 from multiple organ failure after suffering a heart attack in Ahmedabad, India, aged 77.
Robert B. Silvers
Robert Benjamin Silvers (December 31, 1929 – March 20, 2017) was an American editor and essayist. He served as editor of "The New York Review of Books" from 1963 to 2017. Silvers was co-editor of the "Review" with Barbara Epstein for over 40 years until her death in 2006 and was the sole editor of the magazine after that until his own death.
Among other honors, he was a Chevalier of the French Légion d’honneur and a member of the French Ordre National du Mérite.
Silvers also edited or co-edited several essay anthologies, including "Writing in America" (1960); "A Middle East Reader: Selected Essays on the Middle East" (1991); "The First Anthology: Thirty Years of the New York Review" (1993); "Hidden Histories of Science" (1995); "India: A Mosaic" (2000); "Doing It: Five Performing Arts" (2001); "The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin" (2001); "Striking Terror" (2002); "The Company They Kept" (vol. 1, 2006; vol. 2, 2011); "The Consequences to Come: American Power After Bush" (2008); and "The New York Review Abroad: Fifty Years of International Reportage" (2013).
Silvers died on March 20, 2017 at his home in New York City from complications of pneumonia, aged 87.
Sybrand van Haersma Buma
Sybrand van Haersma Buma, often just called "Sybrand Buma", (born July 30, 1965 in Workum) is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). He has been mayor of Leeuwarden since August 2019.
He was a member of the Second Chamber from 2002, and also parliamentary leader from 2010 till 2019.
He studied law at the University of Groningen, and worked at the Council of State and as an assistant to the CDA parliamentary group before entering into politics.
He is a Protestant. Furthermore, he is a descendant of the patrician Frisian family of Buma and partly of Jewish descent (his maternal grandmother was Jewish).
Sybrand van Haersma Buma is the son of former mayor Bernhard van Haersma Buma (passed away in 2020).
Alexander Pechtold
Alexander Pechtold (born December 16, 1965) is a former Dutch politician of Democrats 66 (D66). He was party chair from 2002 to 2005, and political leader from 2006 to 2018 (succeeded by Sigrid Kaag).
He was a member of the House of Representatives and also parliamentary leader from 2006 to 2018. Previously he was a minister in the Second Balkenende cabinet, mayor of Wageningen, and an alderman of Leiden.
Pechtold studied art history and archaeology at Leiden University, and worked as an auctioneer before entering into politics. Nowadays he is leading the central office for driving certificates.
Pechtold was born in Delft and grew up in Rhoon. He is non-religious and divorced.
ARD-Infonacht
ARD-Infonacht (German for "ARD-Newsnight") is Germany's only overnight all-news radio show. It broadcasts daily from NDR Info in Hamburg between 22:00 and 6:00. It started broadcasting on 1 April 2011 on MDR. It is carried by several all-news stations: B5 Aktuell, hr-Info, SWR Aktuell, Inforadio, MDR Aktuell, WDR5 and Antenne Saar.
The program's format consists of traffic and weather reports every 30 minutes and round-the-clock news from ARD worldwide correspondents.
The actual transfer time of each station is different, including:
Emile Roemer
Emile Gerardus Maria Roemer (born August 24, 1962 in Boxmeer) is a Dutch politician of the Socialist Party (SP). He was political and parliamentary leader from March 5, 2010 until December 13, 2017. His successor is Lilian Marijnissen.
He was a member of the Second Chamber from 2006 to 2018. Previously he was an alderman of Boxmeer, and a member of the party board.