Joseph Joestar (ジョセフ・ジョースター, Josefu Jōsutā), born on 27 September 1920, is a main character from the manga and anime "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure". First introduced in "Battle Tendency" with his friend, Caesar Zeppeli, he appears in the later parts "Stardust Crusaders" and "Diamond is Unbreakable". After "Stardust Crusaders", Joseph's grandson, Jotaro Kujo, is the JoJo with the most major appearances in the series. From his birth he can use a special power called the "Ripple" (Hamon in the original Japanese), which is based on life energy. In Jojo's Bizarre adventure people also can have special powers that are called a "Stand". Joseph has a stand which is called Hermit Purple. It is called that because it represents the 9th tarot card: The Hermit. This stand can take spirit photos, be used as a grappling hook, and conduct the Ripple like an electric current. It appears as a lot of purple vines covered in thorns.
Bayer
Bayer AG is a German pharmaceutical company. It is headquartered in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The company was founded in 1863 by Friedrich Bayer and are best known for their first produced drug Aspirin.
Walter Becker
Walter Carl Becker (February 20, 1950 – September 3, 2017) was an American musician, songwriter, and record producer. He was best known as the co-founder, guitarist, bassist and co-songwriter of Steely Dan.
Becker and Donald Fagen reformed Steely Dan in 1993 and had remained active, most notably including their 2000 "Two Against Nature" album, which won four Grammy Awards. Becker also released two solo albums, 1994's "11 Tracks of Whack" and 2008's "Circus Money".
Becker died on September 3, 2017 after suffering from an unknown illness in Maui, Hawaii at the age of 67.
Hausgauen
Hausgauen is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.
Hecken, Haut-Rhin
Hecken is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.
Damon Keith
Damon Jerome Keith (July 4, 1922 – April 28, 2019) was an American judge. He was a Senior Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He served as Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from 1977 until his retirement in 1995. He was nominated by President Jimmy Carter.
Keith was born in Detroit, Michigan. He studied at Wayne State University, at Howard University and at West Virginia State University. Keith married Rachel Boone in 1953. They had three daughters. Boone died in 2007.
Keith died on April 28, 2019 at his home in Detroit, at the age of 96. The cause was problems from leukemia and heart disease.
Joan Colom
Joan Colom i Altemir (April 1921 – 3 September 2017) was a Spanish photographer. He was born in Barcelona.
Colom was known for his portraits of Barcelona's underworld and working class, especially in the infamous neighbourhood of Raval. Colom was a self-taught photographer, and produced his best-known pictures while working during the week as an accountant.
In 1957 he became a member of the Agrupació Fotogràfica de Catalunya (AFC), and co-founded in 1960 the artist's group "El Mussol" ("The Owl").
Colom died in Barcelona on 3 September 2017 at the age of 96.
Hégenheim
Hégenheim is a commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France. It is on the border to Switzerland.
John Ashbery
John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror".
Ashbery died on September 3, 2017 at his home in Hudson, New York of natural causes at the age of 90. He was survived by his husband David Kermani.
Richard Sui On Chang
Richard Sui On Chang (November 30, 1941–August 30, 2017) was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii from 1997 to 2006. He was ordained to the diaconate on March 5, 1966, and to the priesthood on September 4, 1966.
Chang was consecrated Bishop of Hawaii on March 30, 1997 and died in Honolulu on August 30, 2017 from pneumonia at the age of 75.
Horacio White
Horacio White (April 2, 1927 – August 26, 2017) was an Argentine swimmer. He was born in Buenos Aires. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in the 100 m freestyle and 4×200 m freestyle relay, reaching the final in the latter and coming 6th.
White died in Buenos Aires on August 26, 2017 at the age of 90.
Michael J. C. Gordon
Michael John Caldwell "Mike" Gordon FRS (28 February 1948 – 22 August 2017) was a British computer scientist. He was born in Ripon, Yorkshire.
Gordon led the development of the HOL theorem prover. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1994, and in 2008 a two-day research meeting on "Tools and Techniques for Verification of System Infrastructure" was held there in honour of his 60th birthday.
Gordon died in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire on 22 August 2017 at the age of 69.
M. R. Srinivasan
Malur Ramasamy Srinivasan (born 5 January 1930), is an Indian nuclear scientist and mechanical engineer. He played a key role in the development of India's nuclear power programme and the development of the PHWR. He received the Padma Vibhushan Award. He was born in Bangalore, India.
Viktor Cherepkov
Viktor Ivanovich Cherepkov (; April 16, 1942 – September 2, 2017) was a Russian politician. He was a Deputy of the State Duma of the third and fourth convocation. He was mayor of Vladivostok (1993–1994; 1996–1998). He was a Captain 1st rank in retirement.
Cherepkov died on September 2, 2017 of lung cancer in Moscow, Russia at the age of 75.
Dave Hlubek
David Lawrence "Dave" Hlubek [ ] (August 28, 1951 – September 3, 2017) was an American musician and singer. He was the lead guitarist and founding member of the Southern rock band Molly Hatchet. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida. His best known song was "Flirtin with Disaster".
Hlubek died of a heart attack on September 3, 2017, at the age of 66.
Catalan Company
The Grand Catalan Company (), officially the "Magna Societas Catalanorum", and widely known as the Catalan Company, was a free company of mercenaries founded by Roger de Flor in the early 14th century.
De Flor recruited soldiers left unemployed with the Peace of Caltabellotta in 1302 by the Crown of Aragon, who opposed the French dynasty of Anjou.
In 1303 de Flor offered the services of his Company to the Byzantine emperor Andronicus II Palaeologus and his son the Basileus Michael IX Palaeologus. The Orthodox Byzantine Empire was under threat by the Turks, who were invading Anatolia and established the mighty Sultanate of Rum, whose name expressed succeeding to the '[Eastern] Roman' empire.
Roger de Flor's offer was accepted by both Byzantium and by the Crown of Aragon, rulers in Sicily and southern Italy, who were quite eager to rid themselves of unemployed and unruly soldiers. Roger de Flor departed with 39 galleys and transports carrying around 1,500 knights and 4,000 Almogavars, special foot soldiers employed mainly serving the kingdom's interests in the Mediterranean Sea, especially from Catalonia, Valencia and Aragon.
Roger de Flor arrived in Constantinople with the help of king Frederick III of Sicily in 1303, and married the niece of Andronicus, daughter of the Tsar of Bulgaria, and was named Megas Doux ('Great Dux', i.e. head of the fleet). Roger de Flor campaigned with his Company in Anatolia, defeating the Turks but also engaging in widespread violence and looting of the Byzantine inhabitants. By this point, the Catalans, were considered by the Byzantines to be little better than brigands and freebooters.
This put him at odds with the Byzantine Emperor, and the indiscipline of the Almogavars marked the end of Roger de Flor. On 30 April 1305, he was slain along with 300 cavalry and 1,000 infantry by the Alans, another group of foreign mercenaries at the service of the Emperor.