Saïd Amara (11 March 1933 – 2 August 2020) was an Algerian football player and manager. He was born in Saïda. He played club football for MC Saïda, USM Bel-Abbès, Strasbourg, Béziers and Bordeaux. He also earned five caps for the Algerian national team between 1963 and 1964.
Bernard Cleary
Bernard Cleary (May 8, 1937 – July 27, 2020) was a Canadian politician. He was born in in Mashteuiatsh, Quebec.
Cleary was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2004 Canadian federal election. He was the "Bloc Québécois" member of parliament for the riding of Louis-Saint-Laurent.
In 2006, he was defeated by Josée Verner from the Conservative Party of Canada.
He was the first person of Aboriginal descent to be elected in Quebec.
Bruno Dettori
Bruno Dettori (22 December 1941 – 2 August 2020) was an Italian politician. He was born in Sassari, Italy.
He began his political career in 1990 becoming a city councilor in Sassari under the Christian Democrats. He was elected senator at the end of the 2001 general election on 13 May 2001. From 18 May 2006 to 7 May 2008 he was part of the second Prodi government as Secretary for the Environment.
Dettori died on 2 August 2020, aged 78.
Keith Pontin
Keith Pontin (14 June 1956 – 2 August 2020) was a Welsh professional footballer who played as a central defender.
Pontin began his career with Cardiff City. He made nearly 200 league appearances and earning two caps for the Welsh national team. He later played for Merthyr Tydfil and Barry Town.
At the age of 59, Pontin was diagnosed with dementia.
Pontin died on 2 August 2020, aged 64.
Bobby Prescott
George Bertrand "Bobby" Prescott (March 27, 1931 – August 2, 2020) was a Panamanian professional baseball player. He was an outfielder, first baseman and third baseman. He had a 19-year career, from 1952–1970, in North American minor league baseball and a brief trial with the Kansas City Athletics of the Major Leagues.
Leon Fleisher
Leon Fleisher (July 23, 1928 – August 2, 2020) was an American pianist and conductor. He was one of the most renowned pianists and pedagogues in the world. He was born in San Francisco, California.
He taught at Peabody Conservatory of Music, the Curtis Institute of Music, and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. He co-founded and co-directed the Theater Chamber Players in 1968–2003, which was the first resident chamber ensemble of the Smithsonian Institution and of The Kennedy Center.
Fleisher died on August 2, 2020 from cancer under hospice care in Baltimore, Maryland, aged 92.
Katherine B. Hoffman
Katherine "Kitty" Marie Blood Hoffman (August 1, 1914 – July 18, 2020) was an American chemist and academic administrator. When she retired from Florida State University, the chemistry department named a laboratory building in her honor. It was dedicated to her again in 2018. Hoffman was awarded an honorary doctorate by Florida State University in 2007.
Hoffman died in Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare on 18 July 2020, aged 105 of COVID-19.
Wilmington insurrection of 1898
The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, also known as the Wilmington massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington coup of 1898, happened in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Thursday, November 10, 1898.
It is seen as a turning point in post-Reconstruction North Carolina politics. It caused more intense racial segregation of African Americans throughout the South. It made it harder for African-Americans to vote.
The event was caused after many white supremacists took over the Wilmington city government which was controlled by both white and black men and killed the black alderman. After the event, no black politician was in charge in Wilmington.
It has been called a race riot caused by blacks by white newspapers at the time. However, over time, with more facts publicized, the event has come to be seen as a "coup d'état", the violent overthrow of a duly elected government, by a group of white supremacists. It is seen as the only coup in American history.
The "coup" happens with 2,000 white men. They destroyed the property and businesses of black citizens built up since the Civil War, including the only black newspaper in the city, and killed about 60 to more than 300 people.
Rachel Dolezal
Rachel Anne Dolezal (born November 12, 1977), also known as Nkechi Amare Diallo, is a self-proclaimed black American woman who was assigned white at birth.
She is a former college instructor and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter president.
Billy Porter
Billy Porter (born September 21, 1969) is an American actor and singer.
Porter won the 2013 Best Actor in a Musical for his role as Lola in "Kinky Boots" at the 67th Tony Awards.
In 2014 Porter won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for "Kinky Boots". He currently stars in the television series "Pose" for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and won the 2019 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
In 2021, he confirmed he had been living with HIV for 14 years.
Viktor Saneyev
Viktor Danilovich Saneyev (Georgia (country) ვიქტორ სანაევი born 3 October 1945) is a retired Georgian triple jumper. He competed internationally for the USSR and won four Olympic medals; three golds (1968, 1972 and 1976) and one silver (1980). He was born in Sukhumi, Georgian SSR.
Narumi Ohsawa
Narumi Ohsawa (大澤奈留美, sometimes written as Narumi Osawa) is a Japanese professional Go player at Nihon Ki-in. She was born at Saitama, Saitama in 1976.
Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers
Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers is also called JASRAC in short. Its official name in Japan is 一般社団法人日本音楽著作権協会.
JASRAC was made in 1939. It is the only organization in Japan to manage and protect copyrights in Japan.
JASRAC can only manage copyrights inside Japan. As for outside Japan (for overseas), foreign organizations such as ASCAP, Muserk manage copyrights of origins of Japan instead, according to a separete agreement with these organizations. 129 foreign organizations have relation with JASRAC.
When people in Japan uses music, videos and books for business useage, originally produced in outside Japan must pay proper money for their copyrights. For this purpose or business, JASRAC manage copyrights in turn by legal agreements with organizations overseas such as PRS for Music, ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, HARRY FOX AGENCY and Muserk.
Numerical information on music business is made public every year. In 2019, JASRAC collected national money of 117,691,182,223 yen in total from April 1 to March 31. On the other hand, JASRAC gave 117,056,695,494 yen to members such as songwriters in total during the same period.
Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara
Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara (10 March 1933 – 1 August 2020) was a self-taught Palestinian artist. He was born in Al-Dawayima, near Al Khalil (Hebron), in Palestine.
Mosallam was known for recreating scenes from daily life in his lost Palestinian home. Mosallam also created documentation of the recent Palestinian struggle and liberation movements in the form of painted reliefs.
Mosallam Zarara died on 1 August 2020 in Amman, Jordan at the age of 87.
Edina Müller
Edina Müller (born 28 June 1983) is a German wheelchair basketball player. She won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and silver medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
She played several major tournaments like 2011 European Championship, 2012 Paralympic Games, and 2014 World Championships.
Sa. Kandasamy
Sa. Kandasamy (23 July 1940 – 31 July 2020) was an Indian novelist and filmmaker. He was born in Tamil Nadu. His 1968 novel "Chayavanam" was listed by the National Book Trust as a masterpiece in modern Indian Literature.
In 1998, Kandasamy was honored with the Sahitya Academy award for his novel "Vicharanai Commission".
Kandasamy died on 31 July 2020 from a heart attack, aged 80.
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