The RATP (Régie autonome des transports Parisiens) is responsible for operating part of the public transport network in the Greater Paris area. In 2010, it transported around 3 billion passengers.
Mohamed Barakat
Mohamed Barakat (; born 20 November 1976) is a retired Egyptian football player. Barakat played as a right winger or attacking midfielder for Al-Ahly in Egypt. He also played with the Egyptian National Team.
Barakat was famous for his runs from midfield and his box-to-box kind of play, and that made him important in defence and attack. He is called "The Mercurial" () by his fans. 2005 and 2006 were the best years of his career. He helped his club Al-Ahly to win the CAF Champions League 2005 and CAF Champions League 2006. He also won African Cup of Nations 2006 with Egypt. In 2006, he started to get injuries.
Ahmed Hassan
Ahmed Hassan (; born 2 May 1975 in Maghagha, Egypt) is a retired Egyptian football player. He used to play as an attacking midfielder. He also played on the right wing for Egyptian national team. He played more international games than any other footballer in history. He appeared in 184 international matches for "Egypt". He is considered one of the best players in the history of Africa.
Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital
The Hôpital universitaire Pitié-Salpêtrière () is a well-known hospital in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. It is one of Europe's largest hospitals. It has a long history of treating patients with mental illnesses. Many famous people, worked there. Examples are Sigmund Freud, Georges-Gilles de la Tourette, and Jean-Martin Charcot.
Ahmed El Sakka
Ahmed Mohamed Salah El-din Abdel-aziz El-Sakka () (born March 1, 1973) is an Egyptian action actor.
Amr Waked
Amr Waked (Egyptian Arabic: عمرو واكد; born April 12, 1973) is an Egyptian film and television actor. He is also a stage actor. Many people know him internationally because of his role in the 2005 film "Syriana". He had some other notable roles. Another one of his roles is a Yemeni Sheikh called Muhammad in "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen."
Cubana de Aviación Flight 972
Cubana de Aviación Flight 972 (CU972/CUB972) was a scheduled domestic flight from Havana to Holguín, Cuba, on May 18, 2018. The Boeing 737-200 flying the route crashed shortly after takeoff, bursting into flames near Santiago de las Vegas, from Havana city centre. Of those onboard, 108 died and 3 survived with critical injuries. and one of them died hours later at the hospital.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel stated that a special commission had been formed to find the cause of the crash.
Amir Ganiel
Amir Ganiel (January 6, 1963 – May 14, 2018) was an Israeli swimming champion and record holder in swimming. He was part of the in the World Championships in Berlin for the national team. He worked in long distance. He was called one of the greatest Israeli swimmers.
He became a surgeon after his swimming career.
Ganiel was born and died in Jerusalem.
François Bréda
François Bréda (; 20 February 1956 – 16 May 2018) was a Romanian essayist, poet, literary critic, literary historian, translator and theatrologist.
In 1991 he was founding member of György Bretter Literary Circle, a society with great literary traditions that had ceased to exist in 1983 and being revived after the 1989 revolution in Romania.
Bréda died on 16 May 2018 at the age of 62.
Gérard Jouannest
Gérard Jouannest (2 May 1933 – 16 May 2018) was a French pianist and composer. Jouannest began his career as a pianist in music halls.
Jouannest composed more than 250 songs over the course of his life. For example, he composed songs for Jacques Brel like "Ne Me Quitte Pas", "Ces Gens-Là", "Bruxelles", "Mathilde" and "Les Vieux". He also composed songs for younger artists like Miossec, Benjamin Biolay and Abd al Malik.
Jouannest married Juliette Gréco. They were introduced by Jacques Brel in the 1960s. Jouannest supported Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the 2012 presidential election.
Jouannest died on 16 May 2018 in Ramatuelle, Var at the age of 85.
Eloísa Mafalda
Mafalda Theotto (September 18, 1924 – May 16, 2018), known professionally as Eloísa Mafalda, was a Brazilian actress. She was born in Jundiaí, Brazil.
Throughout her career, she starred in "O Ébrio" (1965), "Pigmalião 70" (1970), "A Próxima Atração" (1971), "Gabriela, Cravo e Canela" (1975), "Saramandaia" (1976), "O Astro" (1977), "Locomotivas" (1977), "Pecado Rasgado" (1978), "Água Viva" (1980), "Brilhante" (1981), "Champagne" (1983), "Roque Santeiro" (1985), "O Sexo dos Anjos" (1989), "Você Decide" (1995 and 1999), "Pedra sobre Pedra" (1992), "Mulheres de Areia" (1993), "Por Amor" (1997), "Meu Bem Querer" (1998), "Porto dos Milagres" (2001) and "O Beijo do Vampiro" (2002).
Mafalda died on May 16, 2018 in Petrópolis, Brazil of respiratory failure at the age of 93.
Diana E. Murphy
Diana E. Murphy (January 4, 1934 – May 16, 2018) was an American judge. She was born in Faribault, Minnesota. She was a member of the Democratic Party.
Murphy served as United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit after being nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1994 and gained Senior Judge status in 2016 until her retirement in 2018. She was also a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota after being nominated by President Jimmy Carter.
In 1993 she was reportedly considered for the post of Attorney General of the United States, which later went to Janet Reno.
Murphy died in her home in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 16, 2018, shortly after announcing her full retirement from the bench, of congestive heart failure, aged 84.
Nicole Fontaine
Nicole Fontaine (16 January 1942 – 17 May 2018) was a French politician and lawyer. She was born in Grainville-Ymauville, France. Fontaine was a member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. She was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement. Fontaine was the President of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2002, and was then replaced by Pat Cox.
Fontaine died on 17 May 2018 in Paris at the age of 76.
Klaus Hänsch
Klaus Hänsch (born 15 December 1938) is a German Politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament representing the SPD from 17 July 1979 until 13 July 2009, and sat with the Party of European Socialists group.
Boyan Petrov
Boyan Petrov (, 7 February 1973 – ) was a Bulgarian zoologist and mountaineer. He worked at the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia.
He had climbed 10 out of 14 eight-thousanders, all without supplementary oxygen. This made him the Bulgarian altitude climber with the highest number of successful ascents of peaks over 8000 meters. He was the first Bulgarian to climb four of those mountains - Gasherbrum I (2009), Kangchenjunga (2014), K2 (2014) and Manaslu (2015).
Petrov was declared missing on Shishapangma on 5 May 2018. The search for him was discontinued on 16 May. According to climbers, he may have fallen into a crevasse on the way to the top.
Mehdi Tabatabaei
Seyyed Mehdi Tabatabaei Shirazi (, March 21, 1936 — May 17, 2018) was an Iranian Shia cleric and conservative politician. He served as member of the Parliament of Iran from 2004 to 2008, representing the districts of Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr. He represented Mashhad and Kalat from 1984 to 1988. He was born in Rafsanjan, Iran.
Tabatabaei was a critic of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Tabatabaei died in Tehran on May 17, 2018 of lung disease at the age of 82.
John Carrick
Sir John Leslie Carrick (4 September 1918 – 18 May 2018) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sydney. Carrick served as a Senator for New South Wales from 1971 to 1987, representing the Liberal Party. He was a minister for the duration of the Fraser Government, holding several different portfolios.
Carrick died on 18 May 2018 at the age of 99 in Melbourne.
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