Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) is a community based non-profit health-organization in Palestine. It was established in 1979 by a group of Palestinian doctors and health professionals. Its main objective is to improve the overall physical, mental, and social well being of all Palestinians, irrespective of their racial, political, social, economic status.
Laura Hillman
Laura Hillman (born Hannelore Wolff; October 16, 1923 – June 4, 2020) was a German-born American survivor of Holocaust concentration camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau. She was also a "Schindlerjude", who survived the Holocaust with the help of Oskar Schindler.
In 2005, she published a young adult book about her experiences during the Holocaust which is titled "i will plant you a lilac tree – a memoir of a Schindler's list survivor." She was born in Aurich, Ostfriesland, Germany.
Hillman died on June 4, 2020 in Rossmoor, California at the age of 96.
Rossmoor, California
Rossmoor is a planned census-designated place located in Orange County, California. As of the 2010 census, the CDP had a total population of 10,244, down from 10,298 at the 2000 census.
Noel Johnson (basketball)
Noel Dawn Johnson (December 1, 1972 – June 9, 2020) was an American basketball player and the head coach of the Midwestern State Mustangs women's basketball team. She played for the national championship Texas Tech Lady Raiders in 1993. She was born in Shamrock, Texas. She also coached Midwestern State Mustangs from 2009 to 2020.
Johnson died on June 9, 2020 from ovarian cancer, aged 47.
Shamrock, Texas
Shamrock is a city in Wheeler County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 1,910.
Peter E. Toschek
Peter E. Toschek (18 April 1933 – 25 June 2020) was a German experimental physicist. He researched nuclear physics, quantum optics, and laser physics. He was known as an important scientist of laser spectroscopy. He was a professor at Hamburg University. Toschek was born in Hindenburg, Saxony-Anhalt.
Toschek died on 25 June 2020 in Hindenburg, aged 87.
Pierre-Antoine-Jean Bach
Pierre-Antoine-Jean Bach (29 July 1932 – 26 June 2020) was a French-born Laotian Roman Catholic bishop. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1959. He was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Savannakhet. Laos, from 1971 to 1975.
Bach died on 26 June 2020, aged 87.
Tom Finn (singer)
Thomas Joseph Finn (November 21, 1948 – June 27, 2020) was an American pop jazz singer-songwriter, guitarist and DJ. He was a founding member of the 1960s baroque pop group The Left Banke.
Finn died on June 27, 2020 at the age of 71.
David Stronach
David Bruce Stronach ( – ) was a British archeologist of ancient Iran and Iraq. He was an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was recipient of the 2004 Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Gold Medal for "Distinguished Archaeological Achievement". Stronach was an expert on the city of Pasargadae.
Stronach died on June 27, 2020 at the age of 89.
Kim Bridgford
Kim Bridgford (August 9, 1959 – June 28, 2020) was an American poet, writer, critic, and academic.
In her poetry, she wrote mainly in traditional forms, particularly sonnets. She was the director of Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference, created in 2014 and first held in May 2015. She directed the West Chester University Poetry Conference from 2010 through 2014. She was born in Coal Valley, Illinois. Bridgford started teaching at Fairfield University in Connecticut in 1989.
Bridgford died from cancer on June 28, 2020, at the age of 60, at a hospice care center in Bettendorf, Iowa.
John Kneebone
John Thomas Kneebone (1935 – 28 June 2020) was a New Zealand farming leader. He was elected as president of Federated Farmers in 1974. He was appointed to the Waitangi Tribunal in 1989. He was the inspiration behind the National Agricultural Fieldays in 1969.
In the 1988 New Year Honours, Kneebone was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, for public services and services to agriculture.
He died in Cambridge on 28 June 2020, aged 84.
Ingrid Roscoe
Dame Ingrid Mary Roscoe, DCVO, FSA (27 May 1944 – 28 June 2020) was an English writer on art. Roscoe was Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire from 2004 until 2018. Roscoe was editor-in-chief and co-author of "A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660–1851", published in November 2009.
Roscoe died on 28 June 2020, aged 76.
Workum
Workum (, ) is a city located in the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân in Friesland, Netherlands. It received city rights in 1374. It is one of the eleven cities of Friesland. It had a population of 4,435 in January 2017.
Museology
Museology or museum studies is the study of museums. It studies the history of museums and their role in society, as well as the activities they engage in. They also study other things about museums including curating, preservation, public programming, and education.
Bernhard van Haersma Buma
Bernhardus “Bernhard” van Haersma Buma (23 March 1932 – 26 June 2020) was a Dutch politician and writer. He was a member of the Christian Historical Union (CHU) and later on of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). He was mayor of Workum and Sneek. He was born in Stavoren, Netherlands.
Buma died from a heart attack on 26 June 2020 at a hospital in Leeuwarden, Netherlands at the age of 88.
Bernhard van Haersma Buma is the father of CDA politician Sybrand van Haersma Buma.
Madeleine Juneau
Madeleine Juneau (10 November 1945 – 26 June 2020) was a Canadian museologist and teacher. She was a member of the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal. She was awarded the Prix Gérard-Morisset in 2013. She was born in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Quebec.
Juneau died in Verdun, France on 26 June 2020, aged 74.
Rosemarie Müller-Streisand
Rosemarie Müller-Streisand (11 August 1923 – 26 June 2020) was a German church historian, theologian and teacher. In 1963 she became a professor and in 1969 she was a main person of church history at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She retired in 1983.
Müller-Streisand died in Berlin on 26 June 2020, aged 96.
Ernesto Marcel
Ernesto Marcel (23 May 1948 – 29 June 2020) was a Panamanian professional boxer. He competed from 1966 to 1974. He held the WBA featherweight title from 1972 to 1974 and challenged for the WBC featherweight title in 1971. Marcel was born in Colón, Panama.
Marcel died on 29 June 2020 in Panama City, aged 72.
Benny Mardones
Ruben Armand "Benny" Mardones (November 9, 1946 – June 29, 2020) was an American pop singer-songwriter. He was known for his hit single "Into the Night," which hit the Top 20 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart twice, in 1980 (#11) and again in 1989 (#20). He was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
Mardones died on June 29, 2020 at his home in Menifee, California from Parkinson's disease-related problems, aged 73.
Menifee, California
Menifee is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, and part of the Los Angeles Combined Statistical Area.
Romoland, California
Romoland is a census-designated place (CDP) in Riverside County, California, United States. The population was 1,684 at the 2010 census.
Svend Aage Rask
Svend Aage Rask (14 July 1935 – 29 June 2020) was a Danish footballer. During his club career he played for Boldklubben 1909. He earned 1 cap for the Denmark national football team. He was in the finals squad for the 1964 European Nations' Cup.
Rask died on 29 June 2020, aged 84.
Stay As You Are
Stay As You Are (), also known as Stay the Way You Are, is a 1978 Italian Spanish erotic drama movie directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Nastassja Kinski, Francisco Rabal, Mónica Randall, Ania Pieroni, Barbara De Rossi, José María Caffarel, Massimo Bonetti. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures.
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