The Star is a movie from 1952. It was directed by Stuart Heisler. It stars Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden and Natalie Wood. Davis got a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for this movie.
Claudio Báez
Claudio Báez (23 March 1948 – 19 November 2017) was a Mexican television actor. He was born in Guadalajara Jalisco, Mexico. He was known for the television series "Mundo de fieras" (2006), "A Shelter for Love" (2012) and "El privilegio de amar" (1998).
Báez died on 19 November 2017 at the age of 69.
Waiuku
Waiuku is a country town in the Auckland Region in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located at the southern end of the Waiuku River. It is 40 kilometres southwest of Auckland city centre, and 12 kilometres north of the mouth of the Waikato River.
Adalberto Giazotto
Adalberto Giazotto (1 February 1940 – 16 November 2017) was an Italian physicist. He was born in Genoa, Italy. He helped design the Virgo interferometer, which first detected gravitational waves in 2017.
Giazotto won the Caterina Tomassoni e Felice Pietro Chisesi Prize, a Matteucci Medal, and shared the Enrico Fermi Prize with Barry Barish in 2016.
Giazotto died in Rome, Italy of a heart attack on 16 November 2017 at the age of 77.
Meissner effect
The Meissner effect is when a magnetic field is pushed out of a superconductor when it becomes superconducting. If you were to put a superconductor in the field of a big magnet and you looked just inside the superconductor, you would see that the magnetic field was much smaller than it was outside. The deeper in you looked, the closer it would be to zero. This is one of the ways that superconductors are not the same as perfect conductors, which do let magnetic fields pass through them.
The effect was discovered by Walter Meissner and Robert Ochsenfeld in 1933. They saw that because the magnetic field cannot go through the superconductor, the field right outside the superconductor becomes stronger.
One example of the Meissner effect is a magnet levitating above a superconducting plate cooled by liquid nitrogen. In order to stop the magnetic field from going into the superconductor, the superconductor acts like a magnet pointing the opposite direction. This repels the real magnet and stops it from coming any closer.
Gillian Rolton
Gillian Rolton (3 May 1956 – 18 November 2017) was an Australian Olympic equestrian champion. She competed in two Olympic Games, the 1992 Barcelona Games and 1996 Atlanta Games, winning a gold medal in team eventing both times on her horse, Peppermint Grove. She was only one of four Australians to win multiple equestrian Olympic gold medals. She was born in Adelaide, South Australia.
Rolton was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in the 1993 Australia Day honours "for service to sport as a gold medallist in the equestrian three-day event at the Olympic Games".
Rolton died of endometrial cancer in Adelaide on 18 November 2017 at the age of 61.
Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme
Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme GCON (October 21, 1932 – November 19, 2017) was a Nigerian politician. He was the first elected Vice-President of Nigeria, in office from 1979 to 1983. Ekwueme served during the Shehu Shagari administration. He was born in the Anambra State. He was a member of the National Party of Nigeria.
Ekwueme died of complications from a fall at a hospital in London on November 19, 2017 at the age of 85.
Milan Moguš
Milan Moguš () (April 27, 1927 – November 19, 2017) was a Croatian linguist and academician. He was born in Senj, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes . He studied at the University of Zagreb. He served as the Chairman of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts from January 1, 2004 through November 11, 2010.
Moguš died on November 19, 2017 in Zagreb of coronary artery disease, aged 90.
Warren &quot;Pete&quot; Moore
Warren "Pete" Moore (November 19, 1939 – November 19, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter and record producer. He was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was known as the bass singer for Motown group The Miracles from 1955 onwards.
Moore was one of the group's original members. He was also a 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee, and a BMI and ASCAP award-winning songwriter, and was the vocal arranger on all of the group's hits.
Moore died on his 78th birthday in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 19, 2017.
Jana Novotná
Jana Novotná (; 2 October 1968 – 19 November 2017) was a professional Czech tennis player.
Novotna was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia . She played a serve and volley game among women during her career. She won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998 and was runner-up in three previous Grand Slam tournaments. She won a silver medal in doubles at the 1988 Summer Olympics. She won the silver medal in doubles and the bronze medal in singles at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Novotná also won 12 Grand Slam women's doubles titles and four mixed doubles titles. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2 in 1997, and achieved the No. 1 ranking in doubles. Novotná retired from the professional tour in 1999.
Novotná died of cancer in Brno on 19 November 2017 at the age of 49. She was in a relationship with Polish tennis player Iwona Kuczynska until her death.
Terry Glenn
Terry Tyree Glenn (July 23, 1974 – November 20, 2017) was an American college and professional football player. He was born in Columbus, Ohio. He was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons. He played college football for Ohio State University. He was drafted by the New England Patriots seventh overall in 1996, and also played for the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys.
Glenn died in a car crash in Irving, Texas on November 20, 2017 at the age of 43.
Janusz Wójcik
Janusz Marek Wójcik (November 18, 1953 – November 20, 2017) was a Polish politician and former football player and coach. He was born in Warsaw. From 2005 to 2007, he was a member of the Sejm. He was a member of the Samoobrona.
Wójcik played in several clubs at home and abroad, including Agrykola, Gwardia, Ursus and Hutnik Warszawa, Ravalpandi (Pakistan) and the Toronto Falcons (Canada). He trained the Polish national football team. On 21 April 2008 he was appointed as Widzew Lodz manager.
In 2010 Wójcik was hired as manager for Omani club, Al-Nahda.
Wójcik died on November 20, 2017 in Warsaw at the age of 64.
Robert Clotworthy
Robert Bruce Clotworthy (born October 24, 1955) is an American actor. He is best known as the narrator for the History Channel series "Ancient Aliens" and his role as the voice of Jim Raynor in the "StarCraft" video game series.
Bob Clotworthy
Robert Lynn "Bob" Clotworthy (May 8, 1931 – June 1, 2018) was an American diver. He competed in the 3 m springboard at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and won a bronze and a gold medal. He also won two medals at the 1955 Pan American Games. In 1980 he was added into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
Clotworthy died on June 1, 2018 in Salt Lake City, Utah at the age of 87.
Víctor Hipólito Martínez
Víctor Hipólito Martínez (November 21, 1924 – November 20, 2017) was an Argentine lawyer and politician. He was best known for his position as Vice President of Argentina during the Raúl Alfonsín administration serving from 1983 to 1989. He was born in Córdoba, Argentina.
Martínez died on November 20, 2017 at a clinic in Villa Allende, Córdoba, Argentina of complications from pneumonia at the age of 92.
Kamala (wrestler)
James Harris (May 28, 1950 – August 9, 2020) was an American retired professional wrestler and author. For most of his career, Harris wrestled under the ring name Kamala, using a "wild savage" gimmick. He was born in Senatobia, Mississippi.
On November 7, 2011, Harris had his left leg amputated below the knee due to complications of high blood pressure and diabetes, a condition he has had since 1992, but not accepting dialysis treatment, forcing him to retire on 2010.