Nurcholish Madjid
Dr. Nurcholish Madjid( March 17, 1939 – August 29, 2005), in his homeland affectionately known as Cak Nur, was a prominent Indonesian Muslim intellectual.
Early in his academic career, Nurcholish was a leader in various student organizations.
He soon became well known as a proponent for modernization within Islam.
Throughout his career he continued to argue that for Islam to be victorious in the global struggle of ideas, it needs to embrace the concepts of tolerance, democracy and pluralism.
Born in Jombang, East Java, Madjid received his early education in religious institutions in Indonesia, so called" pesantren".
He later received his doctorate in Islamic Studies from the University of Chicago in the United States where he studied under the noted Pakistani- American scholar, Fazlur Rahman.
In 2003 he participated in Indonesia's national elections as a candidate for the presidency.
He served as Rector of Paramadina University in Jakarta from 1998 up until his death.
Madjid was married and had two children.
In the 1970s, Cak Nur coined the slogan:' Islam Yes, Islamic Party No', which became very popular.
The slogan helped combat the view that it was sinful for Muslims to vote against Islamic parties.
The two most successful Muslim parties in Indonesia's 2004 general elections, the moderate National Awakening and United Development Parties, received 10.6% and 8.1% of the vote, respectively.
Leif Erikson
Leif Erikson, Leiv Eiriksson or Leif Ericson was a Norse explorer from Iceland.
He was the first known European to have set foot on continental North America( excluding Greenland), before Christopher Columbus.
According to the Sagas of Icelanders, he established a Norse settlement at Vinland, tentatively identified with the Norse L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of Newfoundland in modern-day Canada.
Later archaeological evidence suggests that Vinland may have been the areas around the Gulf of St. Lawrence and that the L'Anse aux Meadows site was a ship repair station.
Leif was the son of Erik the Red, the founder of the first Norse settlement in Greenland and of Thjodhild( Þjóðhildur), both of Norwegian origin.
His place of birth is not known, but he is assumed to have been born in Iceland, which had recently been colonized by Norsemen mainly from Norway.
He grew up in the family estate" Brattahlíð" in the Eastern Settlement in Greenland.
Leif had two known sons: Thorgils, born to noblewoman Thorgunna in the Hebrides; and Thorkell, who succeeded him as chieftain of the Greenland settlement.
David Scotus
David Scotus was a Gaelic chronicler who died in 1139.
Johnny Bell (Canadian football)
John Neil Bell (October 4, 1921 – August 17, 1998) was a Canadian football player who played for the Regina/Saskatchewan Roughriders from 1946 to 1952.
He played junior football for the Parkdale Lions.
In 1998, he was inducted into the Roughriders' Plaza of Honour.
He died earlier that year of a heart condition, aged 76.
Publius Licinius Egnatius Marinianus
Publius Licinius Egnatius Marinianus( c. 249-268) was the third and youngest son of Roman Emperor Gallienus and" Augusta" Cornelia Salonina.
Gallienus appointed him together with Paternus as Consul in early 268.
His two older brothers, Valerianus and Saloninus, had died earlier, and thus he was the successor to the throne.
Marinianus, along with his uncle Valerianus Minor, perished during the autumn of 268 in a purge of Gallienus' partisans.
Sir Thomas Rivers, 2nd Baronet
Sir Thomas Rivers, 2nd Baronet( died 1657) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1656.
Rivers was the son of James Rivers and his wife Charity Shirley, daughter of Sir John Shirley of Isfield Sussex.
He succeeded his grandfather Sir John Rivers, 1st Baronet to the baronetcy in around 1651, his father having died earlier.
In 1656, Rivers was elected Member of Parliament for Sussex in the First Protectorate Parliament.
Rivers died unmarried in around 1657.
K-rupt
Carlton Williams Bongo Juma( 15 November 1979 – 29 November 2003), born in Nairobi and better known by his stage name K-Rupt, was a Kenyan rapper who had national success in the two years leading up to his murder in 2003.
He collaborated with artists such as Fizzle Dogg, Bigpin, and E- Sir, who died earlier the same year.
He also did concerts with fellow hip hop musician Nameless and was signed to the record label Ogopa Deejays.
K-Rupt ’s hit singles in Kenya included “ Changamshwa, ” “ Tukawake, ” and “ Chacha. ”
His single “ Dada Njoo ” was on the charts at the time of his death.
The song “ Bamba ” with fellow rappers the late E- Sir and Bigpin became a hit.
It had been recorded before his stint as a stand- by presenter at Nation FM.
Hélène Grenier
Hélène Grenier was a Canadian librarian born in 1900 who died in 1992.
Leif Pettersen
Leif Pettersen( December 23, 1950 – July 30, 2008) was a receiver who played eight seasons in the Canadian Football League for the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Hamilton Tiger- Cats.
He was born in Toronto, Ontario.
After playing college football at Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio, Pettersen was drafted by the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1974 and played in the CFL for eight seasons.
In 1976, Pettersen's Roughriders lost one of the most memorable Grey Cups when Ottawa's Tony Gabriel caught a long touchdown pass in the last minute to give the( Ottawa) Rough Riders the win.
However, even in a losing cause, that game was still a career highlight as Pettersen caught seven passes that day and received the game ball from then CFL Commissioner Jake Gaudaur.
Three years later, as a member of the Hamilton Tiger- Cats in 1979, Leif won the Lew Hayman Trophy.
After retiring, he spent eighteen years as an analyst for the CFL on CTV and Friday Night Football.
Pettersen joined TSN as a game analyst in 1987, when the network began televising CFL games( and after CTV ceased CFL coverage).
Pettersen also worked at RBC Sports Professionals& Private Client Group as Director of Business Development, managing banking and investments for athletes, coaches and sports executives.
He was the president of a chemical manufacturing firm in Etobicoke as well.
Pettersen was a founding Governor of the Etobicoke Sports Hall of Fame and was appointed as a Governor of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2006.
In 1992, he was considered for the position of commissioner of the Canadian Football League, but his asking price was too high.
Pettersen died on the evening of July 30, 2008, at the age of 57 of a heart attack in Toronto.
Budhy Munawar Rachman
Budhy Munawar- Rachman( born 1963) is an Indonesian progressive Islamic scholar.
He is a lecturer of Islamic studies at and an editor of Islamic journal" Ulummul Qur'an".
He is influenced highly by the renowned Indonesian Islamic scholar Nurcholish Madjid and considered as the successor of Madjid's strand of progressive Islamic thoughts, namely Islamic neo-modernism.

Question: Who died earlier, Nurcholish Madjid or Leif Pettersen?