The band is best known for their hit songs "Summer Girls", "Girl on TV", and "Every Other Time". The band have sold over 4 million records worldwide.
In October 2017, Devin Lima was diagnosed with stage four adrenal cancer and he had one kidney removed.. He died from the disease on November 21, 2018 at the age of 41.
Warrel Dane
Warrel Dane (March 7, 1961 – December 13, 2017) was an American heavy metal singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He was the lead singer for the metal bands Sanctuary and Nevermore. He was a natural baritone, though he was known for his high-pitched vocals with Serpent's Knight and on the first two Sanctuary albums. He was born in Seattle, Washington.
Dane provided the voice of Candynose Twinskins in the musical comedy "Metalocalypse" on Adult Swim.
Dane died of a heart attack on December 13, 2017 in São Paulo, Brazil at the age of 56.
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic irreversible and fatal disease caused by a progressive decline in lung function.<ref name="ATS/ERS"> American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society International Multidisciplinary Consensus Classification of the Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias. This official statement of the American Thoracic Society (ATS), and the European Respiratory Society (ERS) was approved by the ATS board of directors, June 2013 and by the ERS Steering Committee, March 2013. "Am Respir Crit Care Med." 188 (6): 733–748. September 15, 2013. </ref>
The term pulmonary fibrosis means scarring of lung tissue and is the cause of worsening dyspnea (shortness of breath). Fibrosis is usually associated with a poor prognosis.
IPF belongs to a large group of more than 200 lung diseases known as interstitial lung diseases (ILDs), characterized by the involvement of lung interstitium.
IPF usually occurs in adults of between 50 and 70 years of age, particularly those with a history of cigarette smoking, and affects more men than women. Treatment to slow down the progression of the disease may include nintedanib or pirfenidone.
Pulmonary fibrosis
Pulmonary fibrosis (literally "scarring of the lungs") is a respiratory disease in which scars are formed in the lung tissues, leading to serious breathing problems. Scar formation, the addition of extra fibrous connective tissue (the process called fibrosis), leads to thickening of the walls, and causes low oxygen supply in the blood.
As a result patients suffer from shortness of breath.
In some patients the cause of the disease can be diagnosed, but in others the cause is unknown, a condition called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. There is no known cure for the scars and damage in the lung due to pulmonary fibrosis.
Simon Dickie
Simon Charles Dickie (31 March 1951 – 13 December 2017) was a New Zealand rowing cox who won three Olympic medals: two gold and one bronze. He was born in Waverley in Taranaki, New Zealand. For the 1968 Summer Olympics, New Zealand qualified an eight and had a pool of four rowers and a cox as a travelling reserve; Dickie was part of this reserve as their cox.
Dickie was only one of fifteen New Zealanders to have won two or more Olympic gold medals. He later owned an adventure company in Taupo.
Dickie died on 13 December 2017 in Wellington, New Zealand after falling from his balcony at the age of 66.
Riot Games
Riot Games is an American video game developer, publisher, and eSports tournament organizer established in 2006. Their main office is based in West Los Angeles, California.
The company is primarily known for creating the game "League of Legends", which was released in North America and Europe on October 27, 2009.
Ivan Stoyanov
Ivan Stoyanov (; 20 January 1949 – 10 December 2017) was a Bulgarian footballer. He played as a midfielder. At club level, he played for Spartak Sofia and Levski Sofia. He also played for the Bulgaria national team in the 1974 FIFA World Cup. He was born in Sofia.
Stoyanov died on 10 December 2017, at the age of 68.
Alessandro Kokocinski
Alessandro Kokocinski (born Alejandro Kokocinski; 3 April 1948 – 12 December 2017) was an Italian-Argentine painter, sculptor and set designer, of Polish-Russian origin. He was born in the refugee camp at Porto Recanati, Italy. His family survived the Holocaust. He was raised in Buenos Aires.
Kokocinski worked on the Salvador Allende government’s agrarian reform, in partnership with the Catholic University of Santiago de Chile. He settled in Rome and became a pupil of Riccardo Tomassi Ferroni, with whom he shared a studio in Trastevere, together with Carlo Quattrucci.
In 2016, Kokocinski created the set design and lighting design for “Lina Sastri è il mio nome”, a musical theatrical show which opened on 4 October 2016 at the Teatro Quirino, Rome.
Kokocinski died on 12 December 2017 in Tuscania, Italy of lymphoma at the age of 69.
Alma Adamkienė
Alma Adamkienė (née Nutautaitė; February 10, 1928) is a Lithuanian-American philologist, philanthropist and public servant. She was born in Šiauliai, Lithuania. She is the wife of the former President of Lithuania, Valdas Adamkus since being married in 1951.
Adamkienė was First Lady during his two terms (1998–2003 and 2004–2009). She also holds United States citizenship. She immigrated to the United States in 1949. She first worked as a laboratory assistant at a steel factory. Later, she took a position with an insurance company. She also organized and participated in Lithuanian émigré activities.
During the presidential election held in Lithuania in 1997, her husband Valdas Adamkus campaigned for the Presidency and won. After Adamkus became President, Adamkienė became involved in many Lithuanian social programs focusing on the welfare of children.
Neeraj Vora
Neeraj Vora (22 January 1963 – 14 December 2017) was an Indian movie director, screenwriter, actor and producer. He first became known in Bollywood for being a writer of Aamir Khan's movie "Rangeela" (1995). He then went on to direct his own movies, including "Khiladi 420" (2000), "Phir Hera Pheri" (2006) and "Shortkut" (2009). He was born in Bhuj, Gujarat.
In October 2016, Vora went into a coma after having a heart attack and a stroke. He died on 14 December 2017 in Mumbai, at the age of 54.
Lilian Marijnissen
L.M.C. "Lilian" Marijnissen (born 11 July 1985 in Oss) is a Dutch politician of the Socialist Party (SP). She has been political and parliamentary leader since 13 December 2017, succeeding Emile Roemer.
Marijnissen studied political science at Radboud University Nijmegen and the University of Amsterdam.
She was a councillor of Oss from 2003 to 2016, and worked at the Dutch trade union Abvakabo FNV.
Since March 23, 2017 she has been a member of the Second Chamber.
Lilian Marijnissen is the daughter of former SP leader Jan Marijnissen, and former SP alderman of Oss Mari-Anne Marijnissen.
Munier Choudhury
Abu Nayeem Mohammad Munier Choudhury (27 November 1925 - 14 December 1971) was a Bangladeshi playwright, literary critic and political activist. His notable dramas are "Kabar" (The Grave), "Roktakto Prantor" (Bloody Field), Chithi (Letter). He was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award for his contribution in dramas in 1962.
He was killed as an intellectual during the mass killing of Bengali intellectuals in 1971. He was awarded the highest civilian award given by the Government of Bangladesh, Independence Day Award, in 1980 posthumously.
When Choudhury was in prison during 1952-54, he wrote his symbolic drama, "Kabar" (The Grave). This was a translation of Irwin Shaw's drama "Bury the Dead". After release from prison, he continued to write "Roktakto Prantor" (1959; a play about the Third Battle of Panipat), "Chithi" (1966) and "Polashi Barrack O Onyanno" (1969). In 1965, Choudhury redesigned the keyboard of the Bangla typewriter. This typewriter was named after him as "Munier Optima Keyboard". It was designed in collaboration with Remington typewriters of the then East Germany.