Warren Eugene Mitchell Sr. (April 1, 1933 – October 15, 2020) was an American college basketball coach. He was the head coach for the William & Mary Tribe men's basketball team from 1966 to 1972. He was born in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Mitchell died in Midlothian, Virginia on October 15, 2020 from COVID-19 and problems caused by dementia at the age of 87.
SYRIZA
SYRIZA (Greek: ΣΥΡΙΖΑ) is a left-wing party in Greece. The name stands for Synaspismós Rizospastikís Aristerás - Proodeftikí Symmachía (which translates to Coalition of the Radical Left - Progressive Alliance). It started in 2004 as an associaton of different parties. In 2014, it was made a party in its own right. In 2015, it won the most votes, more than its rival Nea Dimokratia. Alexis Tsipras is the head of the party. He was prime minister from 2015 to 2019.
Midlothian, Virginia
Midlothian, Virginia () is an unincorporated area in Chesterfield County, Virginia.
Murder of Samuel Paty
The murder of Samuel Paty was a terrorist attack that took place on 16 October 2020 in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, near Paris. Paty was a French secondary school teacher, and he was killed and then beheaded by an Islamist terrorist, Abdoullakh Abouyedovich Anzorov. Anzorov killed Paty after a "hate campaign" on social media. A student at the school where Paty taught lied about Paty's teaching, and the student's father started the hate campaign.
Paty showed his students "Charlie Hebdo"'s 2012 cartoons showing Muhammad in a class on freedom of speech. A girl who was not in the class lied about what the teacher taught, and her father made a complaint to the police. He also started the internet "hate campaign" against Paty that caused Anzorov to kill Paty. The murder happened during the trial of other terrorists who were part of the "Charlie Hebdo" shooting in 2015.
The killers in the 2015 shooting were against "Charlie Hebdo"'s 2012 cartoons showing Muhammad. After Paty showed these cartoons in a class about freedom of speech, an Islamist imam wrote a "fatwa" ("an opinion on Muslim law") against Paty which called for his punishment. Anzorov killed Paty and put a picture of his head on Twitter. Many of Paty's students saw the picture. Anzorov said that he had "executed" Paty and addressed his words and the picture of Paty's head to Emmanuel Macron, the president of the French Republic. The police shot Anzorov dead a few minutes after the murder.
President Macron said that the event was "a typical Islamist terrorist attack", and that "our compatriot was killed for teaching children freedom of speech".
On 6 October, Samuel Paty was teaching a lesson on dilemmas. The lesson was about the magazine "Charlie Hebdo"'s cartoons of Muhammad and the 2015 "Charlie Hebdo" shooting. (In January 2015, Islamist terrorists attacked the office of the magazine and killed 12 people.) Paty showed the class of 13- and 14-year-olds the cartoons but said that Muslim students, who might be shocked, could close their eyes or leave the room if they wanted.
A 13-year-old girl at Paty's school was often truant and failed to go to her lessons. Because of her absences, the school suspended the girl. She did not want her father, Brahim Chnina, to know about her bad behaviour. On 8 October the girl lied to her father that Paty had ordered Muslim students in his lesson on 6 October to leave the room. She said the teacher then showed the other students "a photograph of the Prophet naked". She said that Paty sent her home for two days because she disagreed with him. The girl was not in the lesson.
Brahim Chnina, the girl's father, was 48 years old and was born in Morocco. When his daughter told him her story, Chnina made an angry video which he put on Facebook. In the video, he demanded that the school fire Paty from his job. Chnina made another angry video in which he accused Paty of "discrimination". Chnina made complaints to the school and to the police. He said Paty was "diffusing a pornographic image". Chnina said that Paty had ordered Muslim students to lift their hands and then leave the room while Paty showed the class the image. Chnina also said there was Islamophobia at the school. He said that other parents should help him force the school to fire Paty. He sent these videos to the organization Collective Against Islamophobia in France () and to his local mosque. Chnina said the same things on radio as well.
Johnny Bush
Johnny Bush (February 17, 1935 – October 16, 2020) was an American country music singer-songwriter, and musician. Bush was best known for his voice and for writing the song "Whiskey River", a top 10 hit.
Bush died at a hospital in San Antonio, Texas, on October 16, 2020 from problems caused by pneumonia, aged 85.
Anthony Chisholm
Anthony Chisholm (April 9, 1943 – October 16, 2020) was an American actor. He was a nominated for a Tony Award for Best Supporting Actor in a play, for his role of Elder Joseph Barlow in August Wilson's "Radio Golf". He also performed on Broadway in August Wilson's "Gem of the Ocean". He was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
Chisholm died on October 16, 2020 in Montclair, New Jersey at the age of 77.
Odore Joseph Gendron
Odore Joseph Gendron (September 13, 1921 – October 16, 2020) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Bishop of Manchester from 1975 to 1990. Gendron was born in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Gendron died in Manchester on October 16, 2020 at the age of 99. At the time of his death he was the oldest living Catholic bishop in the United States.
Gordon Haskell
Gordon Haskell (27 April 1946 – 16 October 2020) was an English musician and singer-songwriter. He was a school friend of King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp, the two first working together in Fripp's mid-1960s teenage group the League of Gentlemen.
Haskell became known as bass player for the British band The Fleur de Lys, and subsequently spent a short period in King Crimson, singing one of the songs on their second album and both singing and playing bass on their third album.
Haskell died on 16 October 2020 at the age of 74.
Joaquín Pardo
Joaquín Pardo (28 February 1946 – 16 October 2020) was a Colombian footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics. He played for the national team.
Pardo died on 16 October 2020 at the age of 74.
Andrzej Pogorzelski
Andrzej Pogorzelski (12 October 1938 – 16 October 2020) was a Polish motorcycle speedway rider and coach. He was born in Leszno, Poland.
Andrzej won 3 bronze medals in the Polish Individual Speedway Championship (1964, 1965, 1966). He also won the Golden Helmet tournament in 1966, in 1964 " (2nd place), " 1965 " (2nd place) " and 1969 " (2nd place), " and was finalist in the Silver Helmet tournament of the season 1962 " (3rd place). "
Pogorzelski died on 16 October 2020, aged 82.
Abdul Aziz Shamsuddin
Abdul Aziz bin Shamsuddin (10 June 1938 – 16 October 2020) was a Malaysian politician. He was Minister of Rural and Regional Development from 27 March 2004 to 18 March 2008. Between 2004 to 2008, he was a member of the Parliament of Malaysia. Shamsuddin was born in Gopeng, Malaysia.
Shamsuddin died on 16 October 2020 in Kuala Lumpur at the age of 82.
Palestinian Legislative Council
The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) is the unicameral legislature of the Palestinian Authority, elected by the Palestinian residents of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
It is made up of 132 members, elected from 16 electoral districts of the Palestinian Authority.
Frederick Azzopardi
Azzopardi died on 17 October 2020 at the age of 71 following an illness.
Aurora Chamorro
Aurora Chamorro (11 June 1954 – 17 October 2020) was a Spanish swimmer. She participated in the 1970 European Aquatics Championships, the 1973 World Aquatics Championships and the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
Chamorro died on 17 October 2020 at the age of 66.
Lucien De Brauwere