Peter Stephen Paul Brook, CH, CBE (born 21 March 1925) is an English theatre and movie director. He has been based in France since the early 1970s. He has won multiple Tony and Emmy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, the Praemium Imperiale, and the Prix Italia. He has been called "our greatest living theatre director".
Ata Kandó
Ata Kandó, born as "Etelka Görög", (17 September 1913 – 14 September 2017) was a Hungarian-Dutch photographer of Jewish descent. She was born in Budapest, Hungary.
Beginning her photography practice in the 1930s with children's photography, Kandó later worked as a fashion photographer, photographed refugees and travelled to the Amazon to photograph landscapes and indigenous people. In the 1930s she stayed two times in Paris. During the war she lived in Hungary, but after the war she returned to Paris.She moved to the Netherlands in 1954.
In 1959, she won a silver medal in Munich for fashion photography and then in 1991, received the Pro Cultura Hungarica Medal. This was followed in 1998 with the Imre Nagy Prize and that same year, she and her husband received the Righteous Among the Nations, awarded by Israel for saving Jews during the Holocaust.
In 1999 she was awarded the Hungarian Photographers Association Lifetime Achievement Award.
Kandó died at the age of 103 in Bergen, Netherlands on 14 September 2017.
Bruce Glover
Bruce Herbert Glover (born November 2, 1932) is an American character actor. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He is of English and Swedish descent. He is best known for his role of the assassin Mr. Wint in the James Bond movie "Diamonds Are Forever". He is the father of actor Crispin Glover.
Giuseppina Projetto
Giuseppina Projetto-Frau (30 May 1902 – 6 July 2018) was an Italian supercentenarian. She was the oldest living person in Italy since the death of Marie Josephine Gaudette on 13 July 2017. Projetto was the oldest living person born in Italy since the death of Emma Morano on 15 April 2017, as Gaudette was born in the United States.
Projetto was born in La Maddalena. In 1946, she married Giuseppe Frau, a widower with three children. Projetto lived in Tuscany with her daughter-in-law and grandchildren. Projetto died on 6 July 2018 at the age of 116.
Marie Josephine Gaudette
Marie-Josephine Clarice Gaudette (25 March 1902 – 13 July 2017) was an American-born Italian supercentenarian. She was the oldest living person in Italy from the death of Emma Morano, who was the oldest living person in the world and the oldest Italian person ever on 15 April 2017 until her own death three months later.
Gaudette was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States, and was the oldest living person born in the United States from the death of Susannah Mushatt Jones on 12 May 2016 and the oldest emigrant from the U.S. ever.
A nun known as Mother Cecilia, she lived in the Italian convent from 1958 until her death and was considered "the world's oldest nun". She lived in Canada and France before settling in Italy. Gaudette died on 13 July 2017, aged 115 years, 110 days.
Rhys Hoskins
Rhys Dean Hoskins (born March 17, 1993) is an American professional baseball first baseman and left fielder for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2017. Before playing for the Phillies, he played college baseball for the Sacramento State Hornets.
He is the fastest player in history—in terms of games played—to hit the following number of career home runs: 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17.
Independence Day Award
The Independence Day Award is the highest state award given by the government of Bangladesh. It is also termed Independence Award, Swadhinata Padak, and Swadhinata Puroskar. The award was introduced in 1977 and since then it has been given to Bangladeshi citizens or organizations in recognition of substantial contribution to one of many fields, including the War of Liberation, the Language Movement, education, literature, journalism, public service, science and technology, medical science, social science, song, games and sports, fine arts, rural development, and other areas.
Each awardee receives a gold medal, a certificate of honour, and a sum of cash. The amount of the cash reward was originally taka 20 thousand, but later in 2004, it was increased to taka one lac (.10 million in Bangladeshi currency).
Laax
Laax () is a municipality in the district of Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
Ladir
Ladir is a former municipality in the district Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Ladir, Castrisch, Ilanz, Luven, Pitasch, Riein, Ruschein, Schnaus, Sevgein, Duvin, Pigniu, Rueun and Siat merged into the new municipality of Ilanz/Glion.
Ilanz/Glion
Ilanz/Glion is a new municipality of the district Surselva in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Castrisch, Ilanz, Ladir, Luven, Pitasch, Riein, Ruschein, Schnaus, Sevgein, Duvin, Pigniu, Rueun and Siat merged into the new municipality of Ilanz/Glion.
Riein
Riein is a former municipality of the district of Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Riein, Castrisch, Ilanz, Luven, Pitasch, Ladir, Ruschein, Schnaus, Sevgein, Duvin, Pigniu, Rueun and Siat merged into the new municipality of Ilanz/Glion.
Luven
Luven is a former municipality of the district of Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It is part of the new municipality of Ilanz/Glion.
Ruschein
Ruschein is a former municipality in the district of Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It is part of the new municipality of Ilanz/Glion.
Schluein
Schluein is a municipality of the district Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
Amazonas Department
Department of Amazonas (, ) is a department in the southern Colombia. The capital is Leticia. The name comes from the Amazon River that drains much in the department and the rainforest that covers a large part of the department.
Antioquia Department
The Department of Antioquia is one of the 32 departments of Colombia. It is located in the central northwestern part of Colombia with a narrow section that borders the Caribbean Sea. The capital is Medellín.
Sucre Department
Sucre is a department in the Caribbean Region of Colombia. The capital is Sincelejo.
La Sierra, Cauca
La Sierra is a municipality in the Cauca Department, Colombia.
Almaguer, Cauca
Almaguer is a municipality in the Cauca Department, Colombia.
Basil Gogos
Basil Gogos (March 12, 1929 – September 13, 2017) was an Egyptian-born American illustrator. He was born in Alexandria, Egypt. He was best known for his portraits of movie monsters which appeared on the covers of "Famous Monsters of Filmland" magazine in the 1960s and 1970s.
Gogos died in Manhattan, New York of a heart attack on September 13, 2017 at the age of 88.
Savognin
Savognin is a former municipality of the district of Albula in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2016 the former municipalities of Savognin, Bivio, Cunter, Marmorera, Mulegns, Riom-Parsonz, Salouf, Sur and Tinizong-Rona merged into the new municipality of Surses.
Arjan Singh
Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh, DFC (15 April 1919 – 16 September 2017) was an Indian Air Force Officer. He served as Chief of the Air Staff from 1964 to 1969. He was born in Lyallpur, Punjab, British India ().
After retiring from the IAF, he served as a diplomat, politician and advisor to the Indian government. In 2002, he became the first and only officer of the Indian Air Force to be promoted to five-star rank as Marshal of the Indian Air Force, equal to the army rank of Field Marshal.
In 1971 (after his retirement) Singh was appointed as the Indian Ambassador to Switzerland. He concurrently served as the Ambassador to the Vatican. He was also appointed as the High Commissioner to Kenya in 1974.