Willem Brakman
Willem Pieter Jacobus Brakman( 1922 – 2008) was a Dutch writer who made his literary debut with the novel" Een winterreis" in 1961.
Brakman received the P. C. Hooft Award in 1980.
He was born on June 13th, 1922 in The Hague, Netherlands, and died on May 8th, 2008 in the same country.
Venery
Venery has two unrelated meanings, both from Latin:
Godwin Davy
Godwin Davy( born 15 December 1979) is an Anguillan international footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
He made his international debut in a World Cup qualifying match against El Salvador, resulting in a lopsided match, losing 12- 0 in February 2008, and also played in the 4 – 0 loss to the same country in the return match in March 2008.
2001–02 UEFA Champions League second group stage
Eight winners and eight runners- up from the first group stage were drawn into four groups of four teams, each containing two group winners and two runners- up.
Teams from the same country or from the same first round group could not be drawn together.
The top two teams in each group advanced to the quarter- finals.
Christophe Himmer
Christophe Himmer( born 22 January 1976) is a retired French footballer who played as a midfielder.
Ming Luhulima
Ming Luhulima aka Lou Lima was a well known Netherlands based recording artist originally from the Maluku Islands which were part of the Dutch East Indies.
He made multiple recordings during his career.
One of the artists he was closely associated with was Rudi Wairata.
Not only did Luhulima come from the same country as Wairata, he also recorded music in the same genre.
He was also a member of the Amboina Serenaders and the Mena Moeria Minstrels.
He also led the Krontjong Ensemble Pantja Warna.
Gösta Rooth
Gösta Rooth( born 17 December 1918 in Stockholm, died 21 February 2008) was a Swedish physician and a pioneer of perinatal medicine.
He graduated as a physician at Lund University in 1945 and obtained his PhD, also at Lund, in 1949.
He became reader at Lund University in 1958.
In 1973, he became Professor of perinatal medicine at Uppsala University Hospital, as the first person to hold a chair in that discipline in Europe.
He early took an interest in respiratory physiology.
He began to study the fetal respiration in 1950, and is noted particularly for his work on the interaction of maternal and fetal acid – base balance and fetal metabolism during labor.
He was an honorary member of the Finnish and Italian Societies of Perinatal Medicine.
He received the Maternity Prize of the European Society of Perinatal Medicine in 1980.
He was a co-founder and chairman of the European Society for Perinatal Medicine.
The journal" Perinatology Neonatology" featured a painting of him on a 1984 cover as" the face of perinatal medicine."
In 2003, he received an honorary doctorate at the University of Zurich for his" pioneering research into fetal oxygenation and his commitment to the critical evaluation and propagation of methods for detecting and preventing hypoxia in the fetus and neonate."
He was a son of the prominent economist and managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Ivar Rooth.
He was married to the ethnologist Anna Birgitta Rooth, and they had three children.
Cynthia Akanga
Cynthia Akanga is a Togolese- French dancer, choreographer, artistic director and director of live shows.
In 1998 she appeared in the musical" Notre- Dame de Paris".
Since 18 April 2014 she has appeared on the second season of the show" The Best", broadcast on TF1, presented by Estelle Denis and Christophe Beaugrand.
Hootenanny Singers
The Hootenanny Singers were a popular folk group from Sweden, founded in 1961.
The group included Björn Ulvaeus, who later was a member of ABBA.
Other bandmembers were Johan Karlberg, Tony Rooth and Hansi Schwarz.
The group was named" The Northern Lights" for an American- released LP in 1966.
In 1964, they debuted on the Swedish TV programme" Hylands Hörna" with locally famous Swedish poet Dan Andersson's" Jag väntar vid min mila"( translated as" I'm Waiting at the Charcoal Kiln").
The song" Gabrielle" became an international hit song in 1964, translated and performed by the group in Swedish, German, Finnish, Italian, Dutch, and English.
However, they extracted the tune from the Russian song" May There Always Be Sunshine" by Arkady Ostrovsky, who was never credited.
They were famous for the amount of touring of the Swedish outdoor concert venues and had numerous hit singles on the Svensktoppen chart.
Their biggest hit was" Omkring tiggarn från Luossa", which broke the record by spending 52 weeks on Svensktoppen between 26 November 1972 and 18 November 1973.
Johan Karlberg dropped out of the band in the late 1960s to take over his father's business.
Karlberg died in 1992.
Hansi Schwarz was also the leader of the Västervik folk ballad festival for many years.
Schwarz died in 2013.
To date, Tonny Rooth and Björn Ulvaeus are the two surviving members of the original line- up of the band.
Some of the tracks on the 1969 album" På tre man hand" were released as solo singles by Björn Ulvaeus.
Amatorski
Amatorski is a Belgian post- rock band consisting of Inne Eysermans, Sebastiaan Van den Branden and Christophe Claeys.

Question: Are Gösta Rooth and Christophe Himmer both from the same country?
Answer: no