Catherine Hettinger, a chemical engineer, was first credited by some news stories to have been the inventor of the fidget spinner, including by media outlets such as "The Guardian", "The New York Times" and the "New York Post". Hettinger filed a patent application for a "spinning toy" in 1993.
Mr. Football Award (Kentucky)
The Mr. Kentucky Football Award is an award given to the best high school football player in the state of Kentucky and in the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA). The award is given out based on the recommendations of sports writers and broadcasters from all across the state. Many of the past winners have gone on to play football in college and become professional football players.
"Professional teams listed are teams known."
Mary Tsoni
Mary Tsoni (; 1987 – 8 May 2017) was a Greek actress and singer. She was best known for her roles in the movies "Evil" (2005), "Dogtooth" (2009) and "" (2009). For her role in "Dogtooth", she won the award for Best Actress at the Sarajevo Film Festival, She was born in Athens. Her career began in 2005.
Tsoni was found dead in her apartment in Exarcheia, Athens on 8 May 2017, aged 30.
Ted Hibberd
Thomas Edward "Ted" Hibberd (April 22, 1926 – May 10, 2017) is a Canadian ice hockey player. He was a member of the Ottawa RCAF Flyers. He won the gold medal in ice hockey for Canada at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz.
In 2001 Hibberd was honoured by the Canadian Forces when it was announced that the 1948 RCAF Flyers were selected as Canada’s greatest military athletes of the 20th century.
Hibberd died at his home in Ottawa, Ontario on May 10, 2017 at the age of 91.
Yu So-chow
Yu So Chow (; 9 July 1930 – 12 May 2017) was a Chinese actress. She was born in Beijing. She was the daughter of late Master Yu Jim Yuen who ran the "China Drama Academy", a Peking Opera School in Hong Kong, and teacher of many well-known actors.
She started her acting career in 1948 and made over 240 movies in the wuxia, kung fu, action, detective and Cantonese opera genres. Her movies were successful at the box-office and she was one of the most popular superstars of the 1960 in Asia and Hong Kong. Her best known role was as Tik Siu-ching in "The Flying Fox" (1964).
Yu died in San Francisco, California on 12 May 2017 from pneumonia at the age of 86.
Amotz Zahavi
Amotz Zahavi () (January 1, 1928 – May 12, 2017) was an Israeli evolutionary biologist, a Professor in the Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv University, and one of the founders of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (known as the "SPNI"). His main work was about the evolution of signals, particularly those signals that are indicative of fitness, and their selection for "honesty". He was born in Petah Tikva, Israel.
Zahavi died in Tel Aviv, Israel on May 12, 2017, aged 89.
Doug Somers
Doug Somers (real name Douglas Duane Somerson; September 22, 1951 – May 16, 2017) was an American professional wrestler. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was known by his ring name "Pretty Boy" Doug Somers. He worked in the American Wrestling Association (AWA) in the mid-1980s as part of a tag team with "Playboy" Buddy Rose, managed by Sherri Martel.
Somers died on May 16, 2017 at the age of 65.
Karl-Otto Apel
Karl-Otto Apel (; 15 March 1922 – 15 May 2017) was a German philosopher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Frankfurt am Main. He developed a distinctive philosophical approach which he called "transcendental pragmatics" ("Transzendentalpragmatik"). He was known for his works "" and "Theory of Communicative Action".
Apel was made a Member of the Academia Europaea in 1989 and a Full Member of the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea in 1993. In 2001, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Apel died on 15 May 2017 in Niedernhausen at the age of 95.
Javier Valdez Cárdenas
Javier Valdez Cárdenas (April 14, 1967 – May 15, 2017) was a Mexican journalist and founder of "Ríodoce", a newspaper based in Sinaloa. He received several international awards for his writings on drug trafficking and organized crime in the Mexican Drug War.
On May 15, 2017, Valdez Cárdenas was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen around noon, blocks away from the "Ríodoce" offices in Culiacán, Sinaloa. He was 50 years old.
Neil Rolde
Neil Rolde (July 25, 1931 – May 15, 2017) was an American historian, author, philanthropist and politician from Maine.
Rolde was born and grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts. He studied at Phillips Academy in Andover. He earned a BA in English Literature at Yale University and a masters in journalism at Columbia University.
In 1990, Rolde won the Democratic Party's nomination but lost to the incumbent Republican Senator Bill Cohen.
Rolde died of natural causes at his home in York, Maine on May 15, 2016 at the age of 85.
Oleg Vidov
Oleg Borisovich Vidov (; June 11, 1943 – May 15, 2017) was a Soviet-American actor, movie director and producer. He appeared in 50 movies from 1961 until his retirement in 2014. He was born in Filimonki, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. He was known for his roles in "Red Heat", "Wild Orchid", and in "The Immortals".
Vidov died on May 15, 2017 from complications of pancreatic cancer at his home in Westlake Village, California at the age of 73.
Leonard Lopate
Leonard Lopate (born September 23, 1940) is an American talk show host. He is the former of the public radio talk show "The Leonard Lopate Show", broadcast on WNYC. He first broadcasted on WKCR, the college radio station of Columbia University—where his brother Phillip was a student—then later at WBAI, before ultimately moving to WNYC.
Lopate's talk show aired on WNYC from noon to 2 pm every weekday. Segments of the show are available as podcasts found on iTunes and on the station's website. He was fired in December 2017 after a sexual harassment investigation.
William Cohen
William Sebastian Cohen (born August 28, 1940) is an American politician and author from the U.S. state of Maine. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Cohen was a member of the city council of Bangor, Maine from 1969 to 1972, and also was mayor of this city from 1971 to 1972.
He served as both a member of the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate from Maine, and as Secretary of Defense (1997–2001) under Democratic President Bill Clinton.
BBC News hired Cohen as a world affairs analyst in May 2016. Cohen appears in this capacity on "BBC World News America" and other broadcasts. He also serves as an Advisory Board member for the Partnership for a Secure America. Cohen is also a member of the ReFormers Caucus of Issue One.
William Cohen is partly of Jewish descent (his father was Jewish).
On February 14, 1996, Cohen and Janet Langhart were married. Langhart is a former model, Boston television personality, and BET correspondent. Janet Langhart was known as the "First Lady of the Pentagon" during Cohen's tenure as Secretary.
Cohen served as Best Man in then-Senate Naval Liaison John McCain's second wedding (Gary Hart was a groomsman). McCain later became his Senate colleague.
On the afternoon of June 10, 2009, Cohen was present at the United States Holocaust Museum, waiting for his wife Janet Langhart, for the world premiere of her one-act play, "Anne and Emmett". The play imagines a conversation between Anne Frank and Emmett Till. While Cohen waited, an elderly man with a long gun attacked the facility, fatally shooting a security guard before being wounded himself by the other guards. Cohen and his wife were not injured during the attack.
During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Cohen joined many Republicans in breaking with party ranks to oppose the candidacy of Republican nominee Donald Trump. He endorsed Democratic nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Tien-mu
Tien-mu in Chinese mythology is the goddess of lightning. It is also called Lei Gong or LeiGong.
Bon Appétit (song)