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A. K. Faezul Huq
A. K. Faezul Huq () (March 15, 1945 - July 19, 2007) was a Bangladeshi politician, lawyer, and columnist. Huq served as a member of parliament on three occasions, and held various ministerial portfolios including Public Works, Urban Development, Jute, and Textiles since the independence of Bangladesh. He was first elected member of Pakistan National Assembly (MNA) from Banaripara Upazila-Swarupkathi-Nazirpur Upazila constituency on Awami League nomination in 1970. Huq received the International President's Distinction Award for his work.
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Abbé Pierre
L'Abbé Pierre, GOQ (born Henri Marie Joseph Grouès; 5 August 1912–22 January 2007) was a French Catholic priest, member of the Resistance during World War II, and deputy of the Popular Republican Movement (MRP). He founded in 1949 the Emmaus movement, which has the goal of helping poor and homeless people and refugees. Abbé means abbot in French, and is also used as a courtesy title given to Catholic priests in French-speaking countries. He was one of the most popular figures in France, but had his name removed from such polls after some time.
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Abdul Rahman Arif
Hajj Abdul Rahman Mohammed Arif Aljumaily (Arabic عبد الرحمن محمد عارف الجميلي) (1916 – August 24, 2007) was president of Iraq from April 16, 1966 to July 16, 1968.
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Abdullah Qureshi
Abdullah Qureshi (1935–9 December 2007) was an activist in the Labour Party of Pakistan who was killed in a suicide bomb attack in the Swat Valley.
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Ace Vergel
Ace Vergel, born Ace York Aguilar (January 22, 1952 – December 15, 2007), was a Filipino actor dubbed "The Original Bad Boy of Philippine Movies". He was the son of the late Alicia Vergel and César Ramírez, and the brother of Beverly Vergel.
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Adrian Cristobal
Adrian E. Cristobal (February 20, 1932 — December 22, 2007) was a Filipino writer who frequently touched on political and historical themes. Perhaps best known to the public for his "Breakfast Table" newspaper column, he was also a Palanca Award-winning playwright, fictionist and essayist. He likewise held several positions in government during the administration of President Ferdinand E. Marcos.
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Aigars Kalvitis
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AJ Carothers
AJ Carothers (sometimes seen as "A.J. Carothers") (October 22, 1931 - April 9, 2007) was an American playwright and television writer, best known for his work with Walt Disney, who was a very close friend. So much so in fact that Carothers gave a eulogy at Disney's funeral. Disney's daughter later spoke at Mr. Carothers' funeral. Carothers describes reaction to Disney's death at the studio in a video included at the Walt Disney Family Museum (San Francisco).
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Akbar Radi
Abar Radi () who was born in the city of Rasht in 1939 completed his studies at the University of Tehran in social sciences. He published his first story Rain in 1959.
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Al Gore
Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election.
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Al Oerter
Alfred Adolf Oerter, Jr. (September 19, 1936 – October 1, 2007) was an American athlete, and a four time Olympic Champion in the discus throw.
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Alan Ball, Jr.
Alan James Ball, Jr., MBE (12 May 1945 – 25 April 2007) was an English professional footballer and football club manager. He was the youngest member of England's 1966 World Cup winning team and was made Man of the Match in the final following his performance. He played for various clubs, scoring more than 180 league goals in a career spanning 22 years.
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Alan Coren
Alan Coren (27 June 1938 – 18 October 2007) was an English humorist, writer and satirist who was well known as a regular panellist on the BBC radio quiz The News Quiz and a team captain on BBC television's Call My Bluff. Coren was also a journalist, and for nine years was the editor of Punch magazine.
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Alan MacDiarmid
Alan Graham MacDiarmid ONZ (April 14, 1927 – February 7, 2007) was a chemist, and one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000.
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein (; ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a theoretical physicist, philosopher and author who is widely regarded as one of the most influential and best known scientists and intellectuals of all time. A German-Swiss Nobel laureate, he is often regarded as the father of modern physics. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".
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Aldemaro Romero
Aldemaro Romero (March 12, 1928 – September 15, 2007) was a Venezuelan pianist, composer, arranger and orchestral conductor. He was born in Valencia, Carabobo State.
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Alejandro Finisterre
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Aleksandr Dedyushko
Aleksandr Viktorovich Dedyushko (May 20, 1962 – November 3, 2007) was a Russian television actor, best known for war dramas and the Russian version of "Dancing with the Stars".
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Aleksandr Tatarskiy
Aleksander Mihailovich Tatarskiy (, December 11, 1950, Kiev, Soviet Union – July 22, 2007, Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet/Russian animation film director, script writer and producer, animator and an artist. Honoured arts worker of Russia, laureate of the State Premio of Russian Federation in the field of "literature and arts", laureate of Nika Award.
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Alice Coltrane
Alice Coltrane (née McLeod) (August 27, 1937 – January 12, 2007) was an American jazz pianist, organist, harpist, composer, and the wife of John Coltrane.
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All Saints' Day
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Andranik Margaryan
Andranik Margaryan (, alternative spelling: Andranik Margarian) (12 June 1951 – 25 March 2007) served as the Prime Minister of Armenia from 12 May 2000, when the President appointed him, until his death on 25 March 2007 . He was a member of the Republican Party of Armenia. He succeeded the Sargsyan brothers: Vazgen Sargsyan, who was murdered during the Armenian parliament shooting on 27 October 1999 and Aram Sargsyan, whom the President appointed a week later, but fired on 2 May 2000.
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Andrew Glyn
Andrew Glyn, (30 June 1943 – 22 December 2007) was a United Kingdom-based economist, University Lecturer in Economics at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Economics in Corpus Christi College. A Marxist economist, his research interests focussed on issues of unemployment and inequality.
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Andrew Imbrie
Andrew Welsh Imbrie (April 6, 1921 – December 5, 2007) was an American composer of contemporary classical music.
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Angus Tait
Sir Angus Tait, KNZM, OBE (22 July 1919 to 7 August 2007) was a New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman.
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Anna Nicole Smith
Anna Nicole Smith (November 28, 1967 – February 8, 2007) was an American model, sex symbol, actress and television personality. She first gained popularity in Playboy, becoming the 1993 Playmate of the Year. She modeled for clothing companies, including Guess jeans and Lane Bryant. She also starred in her own reality TV show, The Anna Nicole Show.
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Antoine Ghanem
Antoine Ghanem (Arabic: أنطوان غانم) (August 10, 1943 – September 19, 2007) was a Lebanese politician and an MP in the Lebanese Parliament. He was also a member of the Kataeb party and the March 14 Coalition. He was killed on September 19, 2007 in a car bomb explosion in the Sin al-Fil suburb of Beirut. His death came just two days after he returned from abroad where he had sought refuge from such political violence.
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Antonie Iorgovan
Antonie Iorgovan (August 9, 1948 – October 4, 2007), was a Romanian jurist, professor and politician. He was a member of the Romanian Senate in the period 1990-92 and 2000–07, representing the Social Democratic Party. Between 1992 and 1996, he was also a judge on the Constitutional Court of Romania.
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Antonio Aguilar
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Antonio Puerta
Antonio José Puerta Pérez (26 November 1984 – 28 August 2007) was a Spanish footballer, who played solely for Sevilla FC.
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Art Buchwald
Arthur Buchwald (October 20, 1925 – January 17, 2007) was an American humorist best known for his long-running column that he wrote in The Washington Post, which in turn was carried as a syndicated column in many other newspapers. His column focused on political satire and commentary. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Outstanding Commentary in 1982 and in 1986 was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
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Arthur Kornberg
Arthur Kornberg (March 3, 1918 – October 26, 2007) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for his discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)" together with Dr. Severo Ochoa of New York University. He was also awarded the Paul-Lewis Laboratories Award in Enzyme Chemistry from the American Chemical Society in 1951, L.H.D. degree from Yeshiva University in 1962, as well as National Medal of Science in 1979.
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Arthur Milton
Clement Arthur Milton (10 March 1928 — 25 April 2007) was an English cricketer and footballer. He played County cricket for Gloucestershire from 1948 to 1974, playing six Test matches for the English cricket team in 1958 and 1959. He also played domestic football for Arsenal between 1951 and 1955, and then for a brief period for Bristol City. He played one match for the England national football team in 1951, against Austria at Wembley. He was the last survivor of the 12 people to have played at the highest international level for both England's football and cricket teams.
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Ashleigh Aston Moore
Ashleigh Aston Moore (September 30, 1981 – December 10, 2007) was a Canadian child actress, who played Chrissy in the 1995 film Now and Then.
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Augie Auer
August H. "Augie" Auer Jr (10 June 1940 – 10 June 2007) was an atmospheric scientist and meteorologist in New Zealand.
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Augustus F. Hawkins
Augustus Freeman "Gus" Hawkins (August 31, 1907 – November 10, 2007) was a prominent African American Democratic Party politician and a figure in the history of Civil Rights and organized labor. He served as the first African American from California in the United States Congress, where he sponsored the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act. Hawkins was very fair-skinned and was often confused for a person of European white ancestry.
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Avraham Shapira
:This article is about the rabbi. For the politician, see Avraham Yosef Shapira.
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Awad Hamed al-Bandar
Awad Hamad al-Bandar (; aka: Awad Hamad Bandar Alsa'doon) (January 2, 1945 - January 15, 2007) was an Iraqi chief judge under Saddam Hussein's presidency. He was the head of the Revolutionary Court which issued death sentences against 143 Dujail residents, in the aftermath of the failed assassination attempt on the president on July 8, 1982 (a year before the U.S. assumed diplomatic ties with Hussein to help thwart their common enemy: Iran). At the Al-Dujail trial the Iraqi Special Tribunal tried al-Bandar for crimes against humanity for issuing the death sentences. On November 5, 2006, al-Bandar was sentenced to death by hanging along with co-defendants Hussein and Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, who was beheaded as a result of the hanging.
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Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-moon ( hanja:潘基文; born 13 June 1944) is the eighth and current Secretary-General of the United Nations, after succeeding Kofi Annan in 2007. Before becoming Secretary-General, Ban was a career diplomat in South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the United Nations. He entered diplomatic service the year he graduated from university, accepting his first post in New Delhi, India. In the foreign ministry he established a reputation for modesty and competence.
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Barbara West
Barbara Joyce Dainton (née West; 24 May 1911 – 16 October 2007) was the second-to-last remaining survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912 after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage.
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beatification
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Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto (; lang-ur|, ; 21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), a centre-left political party in Pakistan. Bhutto was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, having twice been Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996). She was Pakistan's first and to date only female prime minister. She was the eldest child of former Pakistani prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Nusrat Bhutto, and was the wife of current Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari.
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Benedict Kiely
Benedict "Ben" Kiely (15 August 1919 – 9 February 2007) was an Irish author and broadcaster from Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland.
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Benny Vansteelant
Benny Vansteelant (November 19, 1976 – September 14, 2007) was a Belgian duathlete. He was the icon of his sport for the last decade. He was born in Torhout.
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Betty Hutton
Betty Hutton (February 26, 1921 – March 12, 2007) was an American stage, film, and television actress, comedienne and singer.
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Beverly Sills
Beverly Sills (May 25, 1929 – July 2, 2007) was an American operatic soprano between the 1950s and 1970s.
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Bo Yibo
Bo Yibo () (February 17, 1908 – January 15, 2007) was a Chinese politician and one of the Eight Immortals of the Communist Party of China.
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Bob Clark
Benjamin "Bob" Clark (August 5, 1939 – April 4, 2007) was an American actor, director, screenwriter and producer best known for directing and writing the script with Jean Shepherd to the 1983 Christmas film A Christmas Story. His earliest success was the 1982 hit film ''Porky's and he also wrote and directed its sequel . He is also known for kick-starting the slasher genre by directing the original Black Christmas''.
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Bob Denard
Colonel Bob Denard (April 7, 1929 – October 13, 2007), born Gilbert Bourgeaud, was a French soldier and mercenary. He was known for having done various jobs in Françafrique (a term referring to France's sphere of influence in the former colonies and shady actions carried out there) for Jacques Foccart, in charge of French president Charles de Gaulle's policy in Africa. Having fought in Algeria during the Algerian War, he then took part in the Katanga secession in the 1960s and fought in many African countries including Congo, Angola, Zimbabwe and Gabon. Between 1975 and 1995, he participated in four coups in the Comoro Islands. It is widely believed that his adventures had the implicit support of the French state, even after the 1981 election of the French Socialist Party candidate, François Mitterrand, despite moderate changes in France's policy in Africa . He was the father of eight children and had been married seven times (polygamously), after converting to Islam. He is considered as the inspiration for Frederick Forsyth's novel The Dogs of War.
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Bob Woolmer
Robert Andrew Woolmer (14 May 1948 – 18 March 2007) was an international cricketer, professional cricket coach and also a professional commentator. He played in 19 Test matches and 6 One Day Internationals for England and later coached South Africa, Warwickshire and Pakistan.
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Boots Randolph
Homer Louis "Boots" Randolph III (June 3, 1927 – July 3, 2007) was an American musician best known for his 1963 saxophone hit, "Yakety Sax" (Benny Hill's signature tune). Randolph was a major part of the "Nashville Sound" for most of his professional career.
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Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.
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Brant Parker
Brant Parker (August 26, 1920 – April 15, 2007) was an American cartoonist. He co-created and drew The Wizard of Id comic strip until passing the job on to his son, Jeff Parker, in 1997. Cartoonist Johnny Hart, his co-creator, continued writing the strip until his own death on April 7, 2007.
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Brett Somers
Brett Somers (July 11, 1924 – September 15, 2007) was a Canadian-born American actress, singer, and comedienne. She was best known as a panelist on the 1970s game show, Match Game and for her recurring role as Blanche Madison opposite her real life husband Jack Klugman on The Odd Couple.
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Brooke Astor
Roberta Brooke Astor (née Russell, previously Kuser and Marshall) (March 30, 1902 – August 13, 2007) was an American philanthropist and socialite who was the chairwoman of the Vincent Astor Foundation, which had been established by her third husband, Vincent Astor, son of John Jacob Astor IV and great-great grandson of America's first multi-millionaire, John Jacob Astor. She was also a novelist and wrote two volumes of memoirs.
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Calvert DeForest
Calvert Grant DeForest (July 23, 1921 – March 19, 2007), also known by his character Larry "Bud" Melman, was an American actor and comedian, best known for his appearances on Late Night with David Letterman and the Late Show with David Letterman.
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Candido Portinari
Candido Portinari (Brodowski, December 29, 1903 - Rio de Janeiro, February 6, 1962) was one of the most important Brazilian painters and also a prominent and influential practitioner of the neo-realism style in painting.
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Carlo Ponti
Carlo Ponti (11 December 1912 – 10 January 2007) was an Italian film producer with over 140 production credits, and the husband of Italian movie star Sophia Loren.
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Chad Varah
Reverend Prebendary Edward Chad Varah, CH, CBE (12 November 1911 – 8 November 2007) was a British Anglican priest. He is best remembered as the founder of The Samaritans, established in 1953 as the world's first crisis hotline organisation, offering non-religious telephone support to those contemplating suicide.
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Charles Vanik
Charles Albert Vanik (April 7, 1913 - August 30, 2007) was a Democratic politician from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives.
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Charlie Norwood
Charles Whitlow Norwood, Jr., D.D.S. (July 27, 1941 – February 13, 2007) was an American politician and dentist, serving as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 until his death. At the time of his death, Norwood was the Representative of the 10th District of Georgia.
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Charlie Parlato
Charles Parlato (February 16, 1919 – September 8, 2007) was an American musician who performed with the Lawrence Welk orchestra. His instrument was the trumpet.
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Charmaine Dragun
Charmaine Dragun () (21 March 1978 – 2 November 2007) was an Australian broadcast journalist and presenter. She was, with Tim Webster, the regular co-anchor of Ten News Perth's 5pm bulletin, which was broadcast from the TEN-10 Sydney studios at Pyrmont. Dragun had also filled in on Ten's national Morning News & Weekend News bulletins and presented Ten Late News on Fridays.
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Chaswe Nsofwa
Chaswe Nsofwa (22 October 1978 – 29 August 2007) was a Zambian international football striker. He died during a training match in Beersheba, Israel.
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Chip Reese
David Edward Reese (March 28, 1951 – December 4, 2007), more commonly known as Chip Reese, was an American professional poker player and gambler from Centerville, Ohio. He is widely regarded to have been the greatest cash game poker player who ever lived.
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Chris Benoit
Christopher Michael "Chris" Benoit () (May 21, 1967 – c. June 24, 2007) was a Canadian professional wrestler. He worked for several major promotions, including Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), and held a total of thirty-two championships during his professional wrestling career. Benoit is recognized by WWE as a record-tying five-time WCW/WWE United States Champion, having held the championship twice in WCW, and three times in WWE. He is also recognized by the organization as a two-time world champion: a one-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion and one-time World Heavyweight Champion, with both reigns represented by the Big Gold Belt. This renders Benoit one of three men to have held the belt in both WCW and WWE, alongside Booker T and Bill Goldberg.
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Claude Pompidou
Claude Jacqueline Pompidou (13 November 1912 – 3 July 2007) was the wife of President of France Georges Pompidou. She was a philanthropist and a patron of modern art, especially through the Centre Georges Pompidou.
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Colin McRae
Colin Steele McRae, MBE (5 August 1968 – 15 September 2007) was a Scottish rally driver born in Lanark.
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Colin St John Wilson
Sir Colin Alexander St John ("Sandy") Wilson, FRIBA, RA, (14 March 1922 – 14 May 2007) was a British architect, lecturer and author. He spent over 30 years progressing the project to build a new British Library in London, originally planned to be built in Bloomsbury and now completed near Kings Cross.
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Constantine Andreou
Constantine Andreou (Also: Costas Andreou, Kostas Andreou; ; ), (March 24, 1917 – October 8, 2007) was a painter and sculptor of Greek origin with a highly successful career that spanned six decades. Andreou has been praised by many as an eminent figure in international art of the 20th century.
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Craig L. Thomas
Craig Lyle Thomas (February 17, 1933 – June 4, 2007) was an American politician who served over twelve years as a Republican United States senator from Wyoming. In the Senate, Thomas was considered an expert on agriculture and rural development. He had served in key positions in several state agencies, including a long tenure as Vice President of the Wyoming Farm Bureau from 1965 to 1974. Thomas resided in Casper for twenty-eight years. In 1984, he was elected from Casper to the Wyoming House of Representatives, in which he served until 1989.
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Dabbs Greer
Robert William "Dabbs" Greer (April 2, 1917 — April 28, 2007) was an American actor who performed many diverse supporting roles in film and television for some fifty years. His southern voice fitted well in shows featuring rustic characters, such as Westerns. However, he is probably best remembered as Reverend Alden in Little House on the Prairie.
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Dan Fogelberg
Daniel Grayling Fogelberg (August 13, 1951 – December 16, 2007) was an American singer-songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist, whose music was inspired by sources as diverse as folk, pop, rock, classical, jazz, and bluegrass music.
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Dan Keating
Dan Keating (2 January 1902 – 2 October 2007) was a life-long Irish republican and patron of Republican Sinn Féin. At the time of death he was Ireland's oldest man and the last surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence.
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Danielle Lloyd
Danielle Lloyd (born 16 December 1983) is an English glamour model. The former Miss England 2004 and Miss Great Britain 2006 first rose to prominence when she was stripped of her Miss Great Britain 2006 title after posing for nude pictures featured in the December 2006 edition of Playboy magazine and her alleged affair with one of the pageant's judges, her then-boyfriend, footballer Teddy Sheringham.
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Darlene Conley
Darlene Conley (July 18, 1934 – January 14, 2007) was an American actress.
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Darryl Stingley
Darryl Floyd Stingley (September 18, 1951April 5, 2007) was an American professional football wide receiver whose career was cut short by an injury. He played his entire career with the New England Patriots of the National Football League. He died from heart disease and pneumonia complicated by quadriplegia.
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Dave Carpender
Dave Carpender (born 23 January 1950, Berkeley, California, died 26 September 2007) was the guitarist with The Greg Kihn Band from 1976 to 1983. They had a #2 US/#63 UK hit in 1983 with 'Jeopardy' and a #15 US hit in 1981 with 'The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em)'.
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David Halberstam
David Halberstam (April 10, 1934 – April 23, 2007) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author known for his early work on the Vietnam War, his work on politics, history, the Civil Rights Movement, business, media, American culture, and his later sports journalism.
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David Hatch
:For the rugby league footballer of the same name, see David Hatch (rugby league)
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Dean Eyre
Dean Jack Eyre (1914 – 19 May 2007) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.
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Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr, CBE (30 September 192116 October 2007) was a Scottish stage, television and film actress. She won the Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago performance as Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy, a role which she originated on Broadway, a Golden Globe Award for the motion picture, The King and I, and she was also the recipient of honorary Academy, BAFTA and Cannes Film Festival awards.
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Delbert Mann
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Dennis Johnson
Dennis Wayne Johnson (September 18, 1954 – February 22, 2007) nicknamed "DJ", was an American professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Seattle SuperSonics, Phoenix Suns and Boston Celtics and coach of the Los Angeles Clippers. He was an alumnus of Dominguez High School, Los Angeles Harbor College and Pepperdine University.
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Denny Doherty
Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty (November 29, 1940 – January 19, 2007) was a Canadian singer and songwriter. He was most widely known as a founding member of the 1960s musical group The Mamas & the Papas.
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Derek Dougan
Alexander Derek Dougan (20 January 1938 – 24 June 2007) was a Northern Irish professional footballer. Dougan played for several clubs, but had his longest association with Wolverhampton Wanderers.
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Dick Motz
Richard Charles Motz (12 January 1940 - 29 April 2007) was a New Zealand cricketer. A right-arm fast bowler and hard-hitting lower order batsman, Motz played 32 Test matches for the New Zealand cricket team between 1961 and 1969.
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Dick Wilson
Dick Wilson, born Riccardo DiGuglielmo (30 July 1916 – 19 November 2007), was a British-born American character actor who played the role of finicky grocery store manager Mr. (George) Whipple in over 500 Charmin toilet paper television commercials (1965–1989, 1999).
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Dilip Sardesai
Dilip Narayan Sardesai (August 8, 1940, Margao, Goa - July 2, 2007, Mumbai) was a former Indian Test cricketer. He was the only Goan-born cricketer to play for India, and was often regarded as India's best batsman against spin bowling.
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Don Herbert
Donald Jeffrey Herbert (born Donald Jeffrey Herbert Kemske; July 10, 1917 – June 12, 2007), better known as Mr. Wizard, was an American television personality. He hosted two television shows about science aimed at children.
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Don Ho
Don Ho, born Donald Tai Loy Ho (Chinese: ; Cantonese: Ho4 Daai6 Loi4), (August 13, 1930 – April 14, 2007) was a Hawaiian and traditional pop musician, singer and entertainer.
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Don Selwyn
Don C. Selwyn (circa 1936 – 13 April 2007) was a Maori actor and film director from New Zealand. He was a founding member of the New Zealand Maori Theatre Trust and directed the 2002 film The Merchant of Venice, the first Maori language feature film with English subtitles.
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Doris Lessing
Doris May Lessing CH (née Tayler; born 22 October 1919) is a British writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook.
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Dulce Saguisag
Dulce Quintans-Saguisag (September 5, 1943 – November 8, 2007) was a Filipino politician and former Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development under the administration of former President Joseph Estrada. Saguisag was one of Estrada's eleven cabinet members who withdrew support for Estrada on January 19, 2001, following accusations of massive corruption by the president. Estrada was ousted from office the next day, which is now known in the Philippines as EDSA II.
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Ed Yost
Paul Edward Yost (June 30, 1919 – May 27, 2007) was the American inventor of the modern hot air balloon and is referred to as the "Father of the Modern Day Hot-Air Balloon." He worked for a high altitude research division of General Mills when he helped establish Raven Industries in 1956.
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Ehud Olmert
Ehud Olmert (, , born 30 September 1945) is an Israeli political figure, and former Prime Minister of Israel having served from 2006 to 2009. Olmert was the mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003. In 2003 he was elected to the Knesset and became a minister and Acting Prime Minister in the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. On 4 January 2006, after Sharon suffered a severe hemorrhagic stroke, Olmert began exercising the powers of the office of Prime Minister. Olmert led Kadima to a victory in the March 2006 elections (just two months after Sharon had suffered his stroke) and continued on as Acting Prime Minister. On 14 April, two weeks after the election, Sharon was declared permanently incapacitated, allowing Olmert to legally become Interim Prime Minister. Less than a month later, on 4 May, Olmert and his new, post-election government were approved by the Knesset, thus Olmert officially became Prime Minister of Israel.
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El Fary
José Luis Cantero Rada (August 20, 1937 - June 19, 2007), known professionally as El Fary, was a Spanish singer and actor.
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Elly Beinhorn
Elly Beinhorn-Rosemeyer (30 May 1907 – 28 November 2007) was a German pilot.
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Emma Lehmer
Emma Markovna Lehmer (née Trotskaia) (November 6, 1906 – May 7, 2007) was a mathematician known for her work on reciprocity laws in algebraic number theory. She preferred to deal with complex number fields and integers, rather than the more abstract aspects of the theory.
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Enzo Biagi
Enzo Biagi (August 9, 1920 – November 6, 2007) was an Italian journalist and writer.
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Eric Maskin
Eric Stark Maskin (born December 12, 1950) is an American economist and Nobel laureate recognized with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory." He is the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, and a visiting lecturer with the rank of Professor at Princeton University.
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Erik Parlevliet
Erik Robert Parlevliet (June 8, 1964, Zevenaar, Gelderland — June 22, 2007, Rosmalen) was a Dutch field hockey player, who earned a total number of 155 caps, scoring 47 goals.
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Ernest Gallo
Ernest Gallo (March 18, 1909 – March 6, 2007) was the American co-founder of the E & J Gallo Winery. He was ranked 297th on the 2006 Forbes 400 list of billionaires.
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Ernesto Alonso
Ernesto Ramirez Alonso (February 28, 1917 – August 7, 2007) was a Mexican producer, director, cinematographer and actor. He was nicknamed "Señor Telenovela" ("Mr. Soap Opera") because most of his work centered around telenovelas known around the world.
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Ernie Ladd
Ernest "Ernie" Ladd (November 28, 1938 – March 10, 2007), nicknamed "The Big Cat" was an American collegiate and professional football player and a professional wrestler.
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Ettore Sottsass
Ettore Sottsass (14 September 1917 – 31 December 2007) was an Italian architect and designer of the late 20th century. His body of designs included furniture, jewellery, glass, lighting and office machine design.
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Evel Knievel
Evel Knievel (;) (October 17, 1938 – November 30, 2007), born Robert Craig Knievel, was an American motorcycle daredevil and entertainer famous in the United States and elsewhere between the late 1960s and early 1980s. Knievel's nationally televised motorcycle jumps, including his 1974 attempt to jump Snake River Canyon at Twin Falls, Idaho, represent four of the twenty most-watched ''ABC's Wide World of Sports events to date. His achievements and failures, including his record 37 broken bones, earned him several entries in the Guinness Book of World Records''.
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Francisco Umbral
Francisco "Paco" Umbral (born Francisco Pérez Martínez) (May 11, 1932 - August 28, 2007) was a Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist.
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Frank Bateson
Frank Bateson, OBE, (October 31, 1909 - April 16, 2007) was a New Zealand astronomer who specialized in the study of variable stars.
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Frankie Laine
Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio (Chicago, March 30, 1913 – San Diego, February 6, 2007), was a successful American singer, songwriter and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005. Often billed as America's Number One Song Stylist, his other nicknames include Mr. Rhythm, Old Leather Lungs, and Mr. Steel Tonsils. His hits included "That's My Desire", "That Lucky Old Sun", "Mule Train", "Cry of the Wild Goose", "Jezebel", "High Noon", "I Believe", "Hey Joe!", "The Kid's Last Fight", "Cool Water", "Moonlight Gambler", "Love is a Golden Ring", "Rawhide", and "Lord, You Gave Me a Mountain".
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Gareth Hunt
Alan Leonard Hunt (7 February 1942 – 14 March 2007) was an English actor, known as Gareth Hunt, best remembered for playing the footman Frederick Norton in Upstairs, Downstairs and Mike Gambit in The New Avengers.
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Garry Kasparov
Garry Kimovich Kasparov (, ; born Garry Kimovich Weinstein, 13 April 1963) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, writer, and political activist, whom many consider the greatest chess player of all time.
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Gaston Thorn
Gaston Egmond Thorn (3 September 1928 26 August 2007) was a Luxembourg politician who served in a number of high-profile positions, both domestically and internationally. Amongst the posts that he held were Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1974–79), President of the United Nations General Assembly (1975), and the seventh President of the Euopean Commission (1981–85).
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Gay Brewer
Gay Robert Brewer, Jr. (March 19, 1932 – August 31, 2007) was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and won the 1967 Masters Tournament.
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Georges Pompidou
Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou (; 5 July 1911 2 April 1974) was a French politician. He was Prime Minister of France from 1962 to 1968, holding the longest tenure in this position, and later President of the French Republic from 1969 until his death in 1974.
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Gerhard Ertl
Gerhard Ertl (born 10 October 1936) is a German physicist and a Professor emeritus at the Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin, Germany. He won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Gian Carlo Menotti
Gian Carlo Menotti (July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He wrote the classic Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors among about two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste. He won the Pulitzer Prize for two of them: The Consul (1950) and The Saint of Bleecker Street (1955). He founded the noted Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of the Two Worlds) in 1958 and its American counterpart, Spoleto Festival USA, in 1977. In 1986 he commenced a Melbourne Spoleto Festival in Australia, but he withdrew after three years.
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Gianfranco Ferrè
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Gordon Scott
Gordon Scott (August 3, 1926 - April 30, 2007) was an American actor known for his portrayal of Tarzan in five films (and one compilation of three made-as-a-pilot television episodes) from 1955 to 1960.
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Grégory Lemarchal
Grégory Jean-Paul Lemarchal (May 13, 1983 – April 30, 2007) was a French singer who rose to fame by winning the fourth series of the reality TV programme Star Academy France, broadcast on the TF1 television network.
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Hallgeir Brenden
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Hans Filbinger
Hans Karl Filbinger (15 September 1913 – 1 April 2007) was a conservative German politician and a leading member of the Christian Democratic Union in the 1960s and 1970s, serving as the first chairman of the CDU Baden-Württemberg and vice chairman of the federal CDU. He was Minister President of Baden-Württemberg from 1966 to 1978 and as such also chaired the Bundesrat in 1973/74. He had to resign as minister president and party chairman after allegations about his role as a navy lawyer and judge in the Second World War. While the CDU Baden-Württemberg elected him honorary chairman—a position he held until his death—, he remained a controversial figure. He also founded the conservative think tank Studienzentrum Weikersheim, which he chaired until 1997.
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Heinz Barth
Heinz Barth (15 October 1920, Gransee, Brandenburg, Germany – 6 August 2007, Gransee, Brandenburg, Germany) was an
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Helmut Senekowitsch
Helmut Senekowitsch (senekovitʃ) (22 October 1933 – 9 September 2007) was an Austrian football player and later a football manager.
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Henri Troyat
Henri Troyat (1 November 1911 – 2 March 2007) was a French author, biographer, historian and novelist of Armenian descent.
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Henry Hyde
Henry John Hyde (April 18, 1924 – November 29, 2007), an American politician, was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 2007, representing the 6th District of Illinois, an area of Chicago's northwestern suburbs which included O'Hare International Airport. He chaired the Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2001, and the House International Relations Committee from 2001 to 2007.
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Hilda Braid
Hilda Braid (3 March 1929 – 6 November 2007) was an English actress who had a long career on British television and became well known in her later years for playing Victoria "Nana" Moon in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders.
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Holden Roberto
Holden Álvaro Roberto (January 12, 1923 – August 2, 2007) founded and led the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) from 1962 to 1999. His memoirs are unfinished.
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Hrant Dink
Hrant Dink ( (Western variant) or Հրանտ Դինք (Eastern variant), ) (September 15, 1954 – January 19, 2007) was a Turkish-Armenian editor, journalist and columnist.
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Hsu Wei Lun
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Hu Jintao
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Huang Ju
Huang Ju () (28 September 1938 – 2 June 2007) was the Executive Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China. He joined the Communist Party of China in March 1966. He was ranked 6th out of 9, and was one of the least popular and most partisan members of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Party. Huang, considered "one of China's most mysterious politicians", was a powerful member of the Shanghai clique.
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Hughie Thomasson
Hugh Edward Thomasson, Jr. (August 13, 1952 - September 9, 2007) was an American guitarist and singer best known as a founding member of Outlaws and as a guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Hy Zaret
Hy Zaret (August 21, 1907 – July 2, 2007) was an American Tin Pan Alley lyricist and composer best known as the co-author of the 1955 hit "Unchained Melody", one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century.
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Ian Middleton
Ian Middleton (1928 - October 24, 2007) was a New Zealand novelist, who made a made a particular mark with his books set in post-Second World War Japan. Born in New Plymouth, he was the younger brother of noted New Zealand short story writer O. E. Middleton.
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Ian Richardson
Ian William Richardson CBE (7 April 19349 February 2007) was a Scottish actor best known for his portrayal of the Machiavellian Tory politician Francis Urquhart in the BBC's House of Cards trilogy. He was also a leading Shakespearean stage actor.
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Ian Smith
Ian Douglas Smith GCLM ID (8 April 1919 – 20 November 2007) served as the Prime Minister of the British self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia from 13 April 1964 to 11 November 1965. Smith unilaterally declared independence from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965 and he served as the first Prime Minister of Rhodesia from that date to 1 June 1979 during white minority rule. The country failed to gain international recognition and United Nations economic sanctions were instituted.
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Iccho Itoh
, born , was the mayor of the Japanese city of Nagasaki; he first took office in 1995. He was a graduate from Waseda University, and majored in political science.
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Igor Moiseyev
Igor Alexandrovich Moiseyev () ( – November 2, 2007) has been widely acclaimed as the greatest 20th-century choreographer of character dance, a dance style similar to folk dance but with more professionalism and theatrics.
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Ike Turner
Isaac Wister (Ike) Turner (November 5, 1931 – December 12, 2007) was an American musician, bandleader, talent scout, and record producer. Considered to be one of the fathers of rock and roll, his first recording, "Rocket 88" by "Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats," in 1951, is considered by some to be the "first rock and roll song" ever. However, he is best known for his work with his then wife Tina Turner as one half of the Ike & Tina Turner revue. Spanning a career that lasted half a century, Ike's repertoire included blues, soul, rock, and funk. Alongside his former wife, he was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 and in 2001 was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Turner won two Grammy Awards. On August 5, 2010, Ike Turner got recognition in his Mississippi hometown nearly three years after his death. Clarksdale, officials and music fans gathered to unveil two markers honoring Turner and his musical legacy. The unveilings coincided with the 23rd annual Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival, dedicated this year to "Rocket 88," the 1951 Turner tune often cited as the first rock 'n' roll song.
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Imre Friedmann
E. Imre Friedmann (1921-June 11, 2007) was a biologist, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Biology at Florida State University and the NASA Ames Research Center, and Director, Polar Desert Research Center. He studied endolithic microbial communities and astrobiology. After escaping the Holocaust, Friedmann received his Ph.D. in botany from the University of Vienna, Austria in 1951, and he died on June 11, 2007.
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Ingmar Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (; 14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. His influential body of work dealt with bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope. Described by Woody Allen as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera", he is recognized as one of the most accomplished and influential film directors of all time. However, despite critical acclaim, his films rarely earned large grosses or gained wide audiences, perhaps because their dialogues were spoken for the most part in Swedish and the films were shown in most places with subtitles in a format many audiences found difficult to follow. Similarly, Bergman's films were almost always about families, relationships, and the eternal verities; very little "action" ever took place over the course of his films. Yet Bergman explored the landscape of human emotions as no director had ever dared attempt.
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Ira Levin
Ira Levin (August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007) was an American author, dramatist and songwriter.
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Ivica Račan
Ivica Račan (24 February 1944 – 29 April 2007) was a Croatian politician who led the Social Democratic Party between 1989, through two name changes, up to 2007, a few weeks before his death. He was also the last leader and democratic transformer of the League of Communists of Croatia.
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Iwao Takamoto
Iwao Takamoto (April 29, 1925 – January 8, 2007) was a Japanese-American animator, television producer, and film director. He was most famous as being a production and character designer for Hanna-Barbera Productions shows such as Scooby-Doo.
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Izumi Sakai
, born was a J-pop singer, song writer, and member of the group Zard.
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Jaan Kross
Jaan Kross (19 February 1920 – 27 December 2007) was an Estonian writer.
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Jacques Simonet
Jacques Simonet (21 December 1963
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Jade Goody
Jade Cerisa Lorraine Goody (5 June 1981 – 22 March 2009) was an English celebrity. She came into the public spotlight while appearing on the third series of the Channel 4 reality TV programme Big Brother in 2002, an appearance which led to her own television programmes and the launch of her own products after her eviction.
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James Oyebola
James Oyebola (10 June 1961 - 27 July 2007) was an English heavyweight boxer who won a bronze medal at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in the super heavyweight division. Oyebola was the British heavyweight champion from 1994 to 1996 .
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Jan Herman Linge
Jan Herman Linge (January 28, 1922 in Oslo, Norway – June 25, 2007) was a Norwegian engineer and boat designer. He was the son of Martin Linge, known for his war effort in Kompani Linge.
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Jan Wolkers
Jan Hendrik Wolkers (Oegstgeest, October 26, 1925 – Texel, October 19, 2007) was a Dutch author, sculptor and painter.
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Jane Tomlinson
Jane Emily Tomlinson, CBE (née Goward; 21 February 1964 – 3 September 2007) was an amateur English athlete who became well known in the United Kingdom for raising £1.85 million for charity by completing a series of athletic challenges, despite suffering from terminal cancer.
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Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard (27 July 1929 – 6 March 2007) () was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism.
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Jean Stablinski
Jean Stablewski, known as Jean Stablinski (born 21 May 1932, Thun-Saint-Amand, France, d. 22 July 2007) was a French professional cyclist from a family of Polish immigrants. He rode from 1952 to 1968, winning 105 races as a professional. He won the national road championship four times - 1960, 1962, 1963 and 1964 - the world road championship in 1962, the first Amstel Gold Race, in 1966 and Vuelta a España in 1958.
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Jean-Marie Lustiger
Aaron Jean-Marie Lustiger (; 17 September 1926 – 5 August 2007) was a French cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Paris from 1981 until his resignation in 2005 and was made a cardinal in 1983.
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Jean-Pierre Vernant
Jean-Pierre Vernant (January 4, 1914 – January 9, 2007) was a French historian and anthropologist, specialist in ancient Greece. Influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vernant developed a structuralist approach to Greek myth, tragedy, and society which would itself be influential among classical scholars. He was an honorary professor at the Collège de France.
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Jennifer Dunn
Jennifer Blackburn Dunn (July 29, 1941 – September 5, 2007) was a prominent Republican member of the United States House of Representatives 1993–2005, representing .
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Jerry Falwell
Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. (August 11, 1933 – May 15, 2007) was a Christian evangelical fundamentalist Baptist pastor, televangelist, and a conservative commentator from the US. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia. He founded Lynchburg Christian Academy (now Liberty Christian Academy) in 1967, Liberty University in 1971, and cofounded the Moral Majority in 1979.
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Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Jerzy Kawalerowicz (January 19, 1922 – December 27, 2007) was a Polish film director. He is of Armenian and Ukrainian Jewish descent.
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Jim Cronin
James "Jim" Michael Cronin MBE (15 November 1951–17 March 2007) was the founder in 1987 of Monkey World in Dorset, England, a sanctuary for abused and neglected primates. He was widely acknowledged as an international expert in the rescue and rehabilitation of abused primates, and in the enforcement of international treaties aimed at protecting them from illegal trade and experimentation.
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Jo Ann Davis
Jo Ann Davis (June 29, 1950 – October 6, 2007) was a Representative in the U.S. Congress. A member of the Republican Party from the United States Commonwealth of Virginia, she represented the state's from 2001 until her death in 2007. She was the second woman—after Leslie L. Byrne—and first Republican woman elected to Congress from Virginia.
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Jo O'Meara
'''Joanne Valda O'Meara''' (born 29 April 1979) is an English singer-songwriter, television personality and actress. Formerly one of the lead singers of pop group S Club, she launched a solo single after the group's split in 2003, which cut short the production of a proposed album following an appearance on Celebrity Big Brother.
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Joe Dolan
Joseph "Joe" Francis Robert Dolan (16 October 1939 – 26 December 2007) was an Irish entertainer, recorder and singer of easy listening songs.
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Joe Nuxhall
Joseph Henry Nuxhall (; July 30, 1928 – November 15, 2007) was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, mostly for the Cincinnati Reds. Immediately after retiring as a player, he became a radio broadcaster for the Reds from 1967 through 2004, and continued part-time up until his death in 2007. Nuxhall held the team's record for career games pitched (484) from 1965 to 1975, and still holds the team mark for left-handers.
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Joe Zawinul
Josef Erich Zawinul (July 7, 1932 – September 11, 2007) was an Austrian-American jazz keyboardist and composer.
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Joey Sadler
Bernard Sydney Sadler better known as Joey Sadler (July 14, 1914 – 26 June 2007) played rugby union for the All Blacks at scrum half in 1935-36.
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John Compton
Sir John George Melvin Compton, KBE (April 29, 1925 – September 7, 2007) was the first, fifth and eighth Prime Minister of Saint Lucia in 1979, from 1982 to 1996, and from 2006 until his death. Compton, who previously led Saint Lucia under British rule from 1964 to 1979, was the country's first leader when it became independent in February 1979. He led the conservative United Workers Party (UWP) from 1964 until 1996, and again from 2005 to 2007.
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John Inman
Frederick John Inman (28 June 1935 – 8 March 2007) was an English actor who was best known for his role as Mr. Humphries in Are You Being Served?, a British sitcom in the 1970s and 1980s. Inman was also well known in the United Kingdom as a pantomime dame.
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Johnny Frigo
Johnny Frigo (December 27, 1916 – July 4, 2007) was an American jazz violinist and bassist.
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Johnny Hart
Johnny Hart (February 18, 1931 – April 7, 2007) was an American cartoonist noted as the creator of the comic strip B.C. and co-creator of the strip The Wizard of Id. Hart was recognized with several awards, including five from the National Cartoonists Society, and the Swedish Adamson Award. In his later years, he sparked controversy by incorporating overtly Christian themes and messages into the strips.
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Juan "Pachín" Vicéns
Juan "Pachín" Vicéns Sastre (September 7, 1934 – February 18, 2007) was a Puerto Rican basketball player. Vicéns was famous for his performance with the Ponce Lions and with the Puerto Rican National Basketball Team.
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Juan Valdivieso
Juan Valdivieso Padilla (born in Lima, May 6, 1910 – died May 2, 2007) was a Peruvian football goalkeeper and manager.
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Julia Carson
Julia May Carson (July 8, 1938 – December 15, 2007), born Julia May Porter, was a member of the United States House of Representatives for from 1997 until her death in 2007 (numbered as the 10th District from 1997 to 2003). Carson was the first woman and first African American to represent the 7th District. She was also the second African American woman elected to Congress from Indiana, after Katie Hall.
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June Callwood
June Rose Callwood, CC, O.Ont. (June 2, 1924 – April 14, 2007) was a Canadian journalist, author and social activist. She was born in Chatham, Ontario and grew up in nearby Belle River.
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Jupp Derwall
Josef "Jupp" Derwall (10 March 1927, Würselen, Rhine Province - 26 June 2007, St. Ingbert, Saarland) was a German football (soccer) player and coach. Derwall was manager of the Germany national football team between 1978 and 1984, winning the 1980 European Football Championship and reaching the final of the 1982 World Cup. His hairdo provided the basis for his nickname "Chieftain Silver Curl" (Häuptling Silberlocke).
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Justin Tuveri
Justin Tuveri (May 13, 1898 – October 5, 2007) was, at age 109, one of the last Italian veterans of the First World War and a French citizen at the time of his death.
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Júlio Redecker
Júlio César Redecker (July 12, 1956 – São Paulo, July 17, 2007) was a Brazilian politician and a member of the current opposition party, PSDB. Redecker was the leader of the minority in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies. Redecker died in the TAM Airlines Flight 3054 crash. He was married and had three children.
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Katy French
Katy Ellen French (31 October 1983 – 6 December 2007) was an Irish socialite, model, writer, television personality and charity worker. According to the BBC, "in the space of less than two years, she had become one of Ireland's best-known models and socialites." She collapsed at a friend's house on 2 December 2007 and died on 6 December. A post mortem examination determined that she had suffered brain damage, and that traces of cocaine were found in her body.
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Kazuhisa Inao
was a Japanese professional baseball pitcher. In 1957, he won 20 consecutive games. In 1958 Japan Series, he pitched six games and won 4 consecutive games after his team lost 3 games. He even made a home run in fifth game of Japan Series. He was the Pacific League's Most Valuable Player in 1957 and 1958. He had 42 wins in 1961. Fans called his great success "God, Buddha, Inao".
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Ken Danby
Ken Danby, CM, O.Ont (March 6, 1940 – September 23, 2007) was a Canadian painter in the realist style.
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Ken Hendricks
Kenneth A. Hendricks (September 8, 1941 – December 21, 2007) was a businessman who grew a shingle supply company into a $2.6 billion fortune and a spot on the Forbes 400. Primarily associated with Beloit, Wisconsin, Hendricks lived in nearby Afton.
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Ken McGregor
Kenneth Bruce McGregor (2 June 1929 – 1 December 2007) was a former tennis player from Australia who won the Men's Singles title at the Australian Championships (now known as the Australian Open) in 1952. He and his longtime doubles partner, Frank Sedgman, are generally considered to be one of the greatest men's doubles teams of all time. In 1951 and 1952, they won seven consecutive Grand Slam doubles titles – a feat that has never been matched. McGregor was also a member of three Australian Davis Cup winning teams in 1950-1952. At the end of 1952, Jack Kramer induced both Sedgman and McGregor to turn professional.
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Kenji Nagai
was a Japanese photojournalist who took many assignments to conflict zones and dangerous areas around the world. He was shot dead in Burma during the 2007 Burmese anti-government protests.
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Kevin Crease
Kevin John Crease (8 May 1936 - 12 April 2007) was a South Australian television presenter and newsreader. He was most noted for presenting South Australian edition of the Nine Network's National Nine News with Rob Kelvin between 1987 and 2007.
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Kevin DuBrow
Kevin Mark DuBrow (October 29, 1955 – November 25, 2007) was an American rock singer best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Quiet Riot from 1973 until his death in 2007. On December 10, 2007, media reported that DuBrow had been pronounced dead on the afternoon of November 25, 2007, and that the cause of death was cocaine overdose.
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Khun Sa
Khun Sa (, ; also known as Chang Chi-fu ; , Chan Jangtrakul; 17 February 1933 – 26 October 2007) was a Burmese warlord. He was also dubbed the "Opium King" due to his opium trading in the so-called Golden Triangle. He was also the leader of the Shan United Army and the Mong Tai Army.
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Kiichi Miyazawa
was a Japanese politician and the 78th Prime Minister from November 5, 1991 to August 9, 1993.
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Kofi Annan
Kofi Atta Annan (born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006. Annan and the United Nations were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for his founding the Global AIDS and Health Fund to support developing countries in their struggle to care for their people.
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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., (; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century. He wrote such works as Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), ''Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of Champions'' (1973) blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction. He was known for his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association.
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Kurt Waldheim
Kurt Josef Waldheim (; 21 December 1918 – 14 June 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and politician. Waldheim was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and the ninth President of Austria, from 1986 to 1992. While running for President in Austria in 1985, his service as an intelligence officer in the Wehrmacht during World War II raised international controversy.
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Lady Bird Johnson
Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor Johnson (December 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was First Lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969 during the presidency of her husband Lyndon B. Johnson. Throughout her life, she was an advocate for beautification of the nation's cities and highways and conservation of natural resources and made that her major initiative as First Lady. After leaving the White House in 1969 and her husband's death in 1973, Lady Bird became an entrepreneur, creating the $150 million LBJ Holdings Company, and was a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honors.
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Laraine Day
Laraine Day (October 13, 1920 – November 10, 2007) was an American actress and a former MGM contract star.
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Larry Staverman
Larry Joseph Staverman (October 11, 1936 – July 12, 2007) was an American professional basketball player and coach. A 6' 7" forward from Villa Madonna College (now known as Thomas More College), Staverman was drafted in the 9th round of the 1958 NBA Draft by the Cincinnati Royals. He had a five-year career as a player in the NBA, with the Royals, the Chicago Zephyrs/Baltimore Bullets, and the Detroit Pistons.
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Laurie Baker
Laurence Wilfred "Laurie" Baker (March 2, 1917 – April 1, 2007) was an award-winning British-born Indian architect, renowned for his initiatives in cost-effective energy-efficient architecture and for his unique space utilisation and simple but beautiful aesthetic sensibility. In time he made a name for himself both in sustainable architecture as well as in organic architecture.
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Lee Hazlewood
Lee Hazlewood (July 9, 1929 – August 4, 2007), born Barton Lee Hazlewood was an American country and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late fifties and singer Nancy Sinatra in the sixties.
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Leela Majumdar
Leela Majumdar ( Lila Mojumdar), (February 26, 1908 – April 5, 2007) was a Bengali writer.
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Len Thompson
Len Thompson (27 August 1947 – 18 September 2007) was an Australian rules footballer, who played for most of his career at Collingwood.
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Leona Helmsley
Leona Mindy Roberts Helmsley (July 4, 1920 – August 20, 2007) was a billionaire New York City hotel operator and real estate investor. She was a flamboyant personality and had a reputation for tyrannical behavior that earned her the nickname "Queen of Mean." Following allegations by unpaid contractors that work done on her home had been charged to her company, she was investigated and convicted of federal income tax evasion and other crimes in 1989. Although having initially received a sentence of 16 years, Helmsley was required to serve only 19 months in prison and two months under house arrest. Helmsley's fate was sealed when a former housekeeper testified during the trial that she had heard Helmsley say: "We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes...," a saying that became notorious and was identified with her for the rest of her life.
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Les Shannon
Leslie "Les" Shannon (12 March 1926 – 2 December 2007) was an English football player and manager.
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Leslie Waller
Leslie Elson Waller (April 1, 1923—March 29, 2007), author, the son of Ukrainian immigrants, was born in Chicago, Illinois. He suffered from amblyopia and poliomyelitis as a child, but graduated from Hyde Park High School by the age of 16. He was interested in writing from an early age, and became a police reporter before he went to Wilson Junior College.
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Lim Goh Tong
Tan Sri Dato Seri (Dr.) Lim Goh Tong () (1918 – 23 October 2007) was a prominent wealthy Malaysian Chinese businessman. He was renowned for his vision and courage in transforming Genting Highlands from an unexplored hilltop into one of the world's most successful casino resorts. He was once the richest man in Malaysia, Asia with net worth US$4.2billion
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Lloyd Alexander
Lloyd Chudley Alexander (January 30, 1924 – May 17, 2007) was a widely influential American author of more than forty books, mostly fantasy novels for children and adolescents, as well as several adult books. His most famous contribution to the field of children's literature is the fantasy series The Chronicles of Prydain. The concluding book of the series, The High King, was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1969. Alexander's other books have also won multiple National Book Awards. He was also one of the creators of children's literary magazine Cricket.
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Lois Maxwell
Lois Maxwell (14 February 1927 – 29 September 2007) was a Canadian actress.
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Lois Wyse
Lois Wyse (October 30, 1926 - July 6, 2007) was an American advertising executive, author and columnist. At the time of her death, Wyse was credited with writing more than 60 books on diverse topics such as business, love and family.
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Luciano Pavarotti
Luciano Pavarotti, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (12 October 1935 – 6 September 2007) was an Italian operatic tenor, who also crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most commercially successful tenors of all time. He was one of "The Three Tenors" and became well-known for his televised concerts and media appearances. Pavarotti was also noted for his charity work on behalf of refugees and the Red Cross, amongst others.
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Lucie Aubrac
Lucie Samuel born Lucie Bernard (b. June 29, 1912 in Mâcon; d. March 14, 2007 in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France), and better known as Lucie Aubrac, was a French history teacher and member of the French Resistance during World War II.
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Lucky Dube
Lucky Philip Dube (pronounced doo-beh) (August 3, 1964 – October 18, 2007) was a South African reggae musician. He recorded 22 albums in Zulu, English and Afrikaans in a 25-year period and was South Africa's biggest selling reggae artist. Dube was murdered in the Johannesburg suburb of Rosettenville on the evening of 18 October 2007.
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Luigi Comencini
Luigi Comencini (8 June 1916, Salò – 6 April 2007) was an Italian film director. Together with Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli, he was considered among the masters of the ''commedia all'italiana'' genre.
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Luis Herrera Campins
Luis Antonio Herrera Campins (May 4, 1925 – November 9, 2007) was President of Venezuela from 1979 to 1984. He was elected to one five-year term in 1978. He was a member of the COPEI party.
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Luther Ingram
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Ma Lik
Ma Lik, GBS, JP (b. 23 February 1952, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China — d. 8 August 2007), was a Legislative Councillor, and was the Chairman of the Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), a pro-Beijing political party in Hong Kong.
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Madeleine L'Engle
'''Madeleine L'Engle' (November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007) was an American writer best known for her Young Adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time''. Her works reflect both her Christian faith and her strong interest in modern science.
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Mahlon Clark
Mahlon Clark (March 7, 1923–September 20, 2007) was an American musician who was a member of the Lawrence Welk orchestra from 1962 to 1968. His primary instrument was the clarinet.
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Mahmoud Abbas
Mahmoud Abbas ( Maḥmūd ʿAbbās; born 26 March 1935), also known by the kunya Abu Mazen (), has been the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) since 11 November 2004 and became President of the Palestinian National Authority on 15 January 2005 on the Fatah (فتح Fataḥ) ticket.
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Manjural Islam Rana
Manjural Islam Rana (4 May 1984–16 March 2007), also known as Qazi Manjural Islam, was a Bangladeshi cricketer who played six Tests and 25 One Day Internationals for Bangladesh. Born in Khulna, Rana was a slow left arm orthodox bowler. He was one of Bangladesh's school of left arm bowlers.
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Marais Viljoen
Marais Viljoen (2 December 1915 - 4 January 2007) was the last ceremonial State President of South Africa from 4 June 1979 until 3 September 1984.
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Maria Cioncan
Maria Cioncan (June 19, 1977 – January 21, 2007) was a middle distance runner from Romania, best known for winning a bronze medal in the 1500 metres event at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Born in Maieru, she set personal bests in both 800 and 1500 metres during the games. Her 2005 season was abbreviated, and the only notable competition was the SPAR European Cup in Firenze, Italy where she won the 800 (2:00.88) and placed second in the 1500 (4:07.39). Cioncan's last competition on the top international level was the 2006 World Indoor Championships, where she failed to progress past the first heat of the 800m. Earlier that indoor season she ran an indoor personal best of 2:01.70.
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Marie Curie
Marie Skłodowska Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a physicist and chemist of Polish upbringing and subsequent French citizenship. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity and the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes—in physics and chemistry. She was also the first female professor at the University of Paris.
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Mario Capecchi
Mario Renato Capecchi (born 6 October 1937) is an Italian-born American molecular geneticist and a co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a method for introducing homologous recombination in mice employing embryonic stem cells, with Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and Biology at the University of Utah School of Medicine, which he joined in 1973.
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Marion Jones
athlete
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Mark Weil
Mark Yakovlevich Weil () (January 25, 1952 – September 7, 2007) was a Soviet and Uzbekistan-born theatre director, and founder and art director of the Ilkhom Theatre in Tashkent. His parents, Ukrainian Jews, had arrived in Uzbekistan in the late 1930s. His father was a soldier, and his mother had studied at the Theatre Institute, Kiev.
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Marquise Hill
Marquise Hill (August 7, 1982 – May 28, 2007) was an American football defensive end for the New England Patriots of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Patriots in the second round of the 2004 NFL Draft. He played college football at LSU.
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Martin Evans
Sir Martin John Evans (b. 1 January 1941, Stroud, Gloucestershire) is a British scientist who, with Matthew Kaufman, was the first to culture mice embryonic stem cells and cultivate them in a laboratory in 1981. He is also known, along with Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies, for his work in the development of the knockout mouse and the related technology of gene targeting, a method of using embryonic stem cells to create specific gene modifications in mice. In 2007, the three shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in recognition of their discovery and contribution to the efforts to develop new treatments for illnesses in humans.
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Maurice Papon
Maurice Papon (; September 3, 1910 – February 17, 2007) was a French civil servant, industrial leader and Gaullist politician, who was convicted for crimes against humanity for his participation in the deportation of over 1600 Jews during World War II when he was secretary general for police of the Prefecture of Bordeaux.
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Max McGee
William Max McGee (July 16, 1932 - October 20, 2007) was a professional football wide receiver who played for the Green Bay Packers from 1954-67. He served as the team's punter during a few years of his career. McGee may be best known for his performance during the first Super Bowl game. Prior to his NFL career, he played college football at Tulane for the Green Wave. He was selected by the Packers in the fifth round of the 1954 NFL Draft. He played his high school football in White Oak, Texas. McGee was the first player in High School football history ever to rush for over 3,000 yards in a single season. He rushed for 3,048 his senior year as a White Oak Roughneck in 1949; it would take another 20 years before a High School player would throw the ball for over 3,000 yards in a single season. [http://www.maxpreps.com/FanPages/Content/Article.mxp/ArticleID-568b43ed-082c-4f20-b675-beac0a6cb177] McGee died October 20, 2007 as a result from falling off a roof.
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Max McNab
Maxwell Douglas McNab (June 21, 1924 – September 2, 2007) was a Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and NHL general manager. He was born in Watson, Saskatchewan.
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Max Roach
Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.
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Melville Shavelson
Melville Shavelson (April 1, 1917 – August 8, 2007) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author. He was President of the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAw) from 1969 to 1971, 1979 to 1981, and 1985 to 1987. He came to Hollywood in 1938 as one of comedian Bob Hope's joke writers, a job he held for the next five years. He is responsible for the screenplays of such Hope films as The Princess and the Pirate (1944), ''Where There's Life (1947), The Great Lover (1949), and Sorrowful Jones'' (1949), which also starred Lucille Ball.
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Michael Brecker
Michael Leonard Brecker (March 29, 1949 – January 13, 2007) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as "a quiet, gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane," he has been awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer and was inducted into Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame in 2007.
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Michael Deaver
Michael Keith Deaver (April 11, 1938 – August 18, 2007) was a member of President Ronald Reagan's White House staff serving as White House Deputy Chief of Staff under James Baker III and Donald Regan from January 1981 until May 1985.
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Michael Fu Tieshan
Bishop Michael Fu Tieshan (Simplified Chinese: 傅铁山, Traditional Chinese: 傅鐵山; November 3, 1931 - April 20, 2007) of Beijing was the top leader of the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association.
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Mike Awesome
Michael Lee Alfonso (January 24, 1965 – February 17, 2007), better known by his ring name Mike Awesome, was an American professional wrestler best known in America for his work in Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, and in World Wrestling Entertainment and also in Japan for his work with Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling under the name The Gladiator. Throughout his wrestling career, Awesome became a 6-time world champion
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Mike Wieringo
Michael Lance "Mike" Wieringo (June 24, 1963 – August 12, 2007), who sometimes signed his work under the name 'Ringo, was an American comic book artist best known for his work on DC Comics' The Flash and Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four.
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Mikhail Fradkov
Mikhail Yefimovich Fradkov (; born September 1, 1950) is a Russian politician and statesman who was the Prime Minister of Russia from March 2004 to September 2007. Fradkov currently is the head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service.
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Milan Jelić
Dr. Milan Jelić (Cyrillic: Милан Јелић) (26 March 1956 – 30 September 2007) was a Serb politician in Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 9 November 2006 until his death from a heart attack, he was President of Republika Srpska.
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Miyoshi Umeki
was a naturalized American actress and standards singer. She was best known for her roles as Katsumi, the wife of Joe Kelly (Red Buttons), in the 1957 film Sayonara, as Mei Li in the 1958 Broadway musical and 1961 film Flower Drum Song, and as Mrs. Livingston, the housekeeper of Bill Bixby's and Brandon Cruz's characters, in the TV series ''The Courtship of Eddie's Father''. She was a shin Issei or post-1945 immigrant from Japan. She was a Tony Award- and Golden Globe-nominated actress and was the first person (and as of 2010 the only) of East Asian descent to win an Academy Award for acting.
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Mohammed Zahir Shah
Mohammed Zahir Shah (15 October 1914 – 23 July 2007) was the last King (Shah) of Afghanistan, reigning for four decades, from 1933 until he was ousted by a coup in 1973. Following his return from exile he was given the title 'Father of the Nation' in 2002 which he held until his death.
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Momofuku Ando
, ORS, (March 5, 1910 – January 5, 2007) was the Taiwanese-Japanese businessman who founded Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd. He is famed as the inventor of instant noodles and cup noodles.
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Muhammad Osman Said
Muhammad Osman Said () (b. 1922 - 2007) was Prime Minister of Libya from 17 October 1960 to 19 March 1963.[http://www.terra.es/personal2/monolith/libya.htm]
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Natasja Saad
Natasja Saad (October 31, 1974 - June 24, 2007), also known as Lil T, Little T and Natasja, was a Danish rapper and reggae singer whose vocals on a popular reggae fusion remix of "Calabria" gained her worldwide fame and a number one spot on Billboards Hot Dance Airplay chart six months after her death in a car accident.
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Ned Sherrin
Edward George "Ned" Sherrin CBE (18 February 1931 – 1 October 2007) was an English broadcaster, author and stage director. He qualified as a barrister and then worked in independent television before joining the BBC. He appeared in a variety of radio and television satirical shows and theatre shows, some of which he also directed.
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Nicolae Dobrin
Nicolae Dobrin, nicknamed Gâscanul, "the Gander" or Prinţul din Trivale, "the Prince of Trivale" (August 26, 1947 – October 26, 2007) was a Romanian football player. Dobrin is considered by many to be the best Romanian player of the 1960s and 1970s and one of the most talented players ever to play the game. Nicolae Dobrin Stadium in Piteşti is named after him.
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Nigel Dempster
Nigel Richard Patton Dempster (1 November 1941 in Calcutta, India — 12 July 2007 in Ham, Surrey) was a British journalist, author, broadcaster and diarist. Best known for his celebrity gossip columns in newspapers, his work appeared in the Daily Express and Daily Mail and also in Private Eye magazine. At his death, the editor of the Daily Mail Paul Dacre was reported as saying: "His scoops were the stuff of legend and his zest for life inexhaustible".
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Nikola Nobilo
Nikola "Nick" Nobilo (1913 – August 28, 2007) was a New Zealand winemaker and founder of Nobilo Wines. Nobilo was originally from Croatia.
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Nils Liedholm
Nils Liedholm (8 October 1922 – 5 November 2007) was a Swedish football midfielder and coach. Il Barone, as he is affectionately known, was renowned for being part of Sweden's "Gre-No-Li" trio of strikers along with Gunnar Gren and Gunnar Nordahl at A.C. Milan and the Swedish national team. As a coach, he was in charge of several teams in Italy, managing for nearly four decades. At the end of the 20th century Liedholm was voted the best Swedish player of the millennium by the readers of Swedens largest newspaper Aftonbladet.
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Norifumi Abe
Norifumi "Norick" Abe 阿部典史 (Abe Norifumi#if:
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Norman Mailer
Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and film director.
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Norval Morrisseau
Norval Morrisseau, CM (March 14, 1932 – December 4, 2007), also known as Copper Thunderbird, was an Aboriginal Canadian artist. Known as the "Picasso of the North", Morrisseau created works depicting the legends of his people, the cultural and political tensions between native Canadian and European traditions, his existential struggles, and his deep spirituality and mysticism. His style is characterized by thick black outlines and bright colors. He founded the Woodlands School of Canadian art and was a prominent member of the “Indian Group of Seven”.
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Oliver Hill
Oliver White Hill, Sr. (May 1, 1907 – August 5, 2007) was a civil rights attorney from Richmond, Virginia. His work against racial discrimination helped end the doctrine of "separate but equal." He also helped win landmark legal decisions involving equality in pay for black teachers, access to school buses, voting rights, jury selection, and employment protection. He retired in 1998 after practicing law for almost 60 years. Among his numerous awards is the Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded by President Bill Clinton in 1999.
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Oliver Smithies
Oliver Smithies (born June 23, 1925) is a British-born American geneticist and Nobel laureate, credited with the invention of gel electrophoresis in 1955, and the simultaneous discovery, with Mario Capecchi and Martin Evans, of the technique of homologous recombination of transgenic DNA with genomic DNA, a much more reliable method of altering animal genomes than previously used, and the technique behind gene targeting and knockout mice.
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Oscar Peterson
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, CC, CQ, OOnt, (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends, and was a member of jazz royalty. He released over 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, and received other numerous awards and honours over the course of his career. He is considered to have been one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time, who played thousands of live concerts to audiences worldwide in a career lasting more than 65 years.
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Ottomar Pinto
Ottomar de Sousa Pinto (January 19, 1931 – December 11, 2007) was a Brazilian politician, who was Governor of the state of Roraima from November 2004 until his death in December 2007. He was a member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party.
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Pablo Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso (; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor who lived most of his adult life in France. He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist ''Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and Guernica'' (1937), his portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
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Pat Fordice
Patricia Owens "Pat" Fordice (November 27, 1935 – July 12, 2007) was the First Lady of Mississippi from 1992 until 1999 as the wife of Governor Kirk Fordice. They later divorced, after 44 years of marriage on December 9 1999.
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Paul Gillmor
Paul Eugene Gillmor (February 1, 1939 – c. September 5, 2007) was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the U.S. Representative from the 5th congressional district of Ohio from 1989 until his death.
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Paul Tibbets
Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. (February 23, 1915 – November 1, 2007) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force, best known for being the pilot of the Enola Gay, the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in the history of warfare. The bomb, code-named Little Boy, was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. He was interviewed for documentary films about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including The World at War (1974), Men Who Brought the Dawn (1995) and Hiroshima (2005).
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Pedro Knight
Pedro Knight Caraballo (September 30, 1921 – February 3, 2007) was an accomplished Cuban-American musician who was better known for being the husband of legendary singer Celia Cruz.
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Percy Sonn
Percival Henry Frederick Sonn (25 September 1949 - 27 May 2007) was a South African lawyer and cricket administrator. Sonn became the sixth president of the International Cricket Council, the most senior role at cricket's world governing body, in July 2006. He was the first ICC president from Africa, serving until his early death.
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Pervez Musharraf
General (ret) Pervez Musharraf (lang-ur|) (born 11 August 1943), NI(M), Tamgha-e-Basalat award, is a Pakistani politician and military figure who served as the tenth President of Pakistan (2001–2008) and the Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army (1998–2007).
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Petar Stambolić
Petar Stambolić (July 12, 1912 – September 21, 2007) was a Yugoslav communist politician who served as the President of the Federal Executive Council (prime minister) of Yugoslavia from 1963 to 1967 and President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia from 1982 until 1983.
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Petr Eben
Petr Eben (22 January 1929 – 24 October 2007) was a composer from the Czech Republic.
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Phil Rizzuto
Philip Francis Rizzuto (September 25, 1917 – August 13, 2007), nicknamed "The Scooter", was an Italian American shortstop in Major League Baseball. He spent his entire career from 1941 to 1956 with the New York Yankees, and is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie (15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity, and Nobel laureate. In 1903 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Maria Skłodowska-Curie, and Henri Becquerel, "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel".
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Pierre Messmer
Pierre Joseph Auguste Messmer (; 20 March 1916 29 August 2007) was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Minister of Armies under Charles de Gaulle from 1960 to 1969 — the longest serving since Étienne François, duc de Choiseul under Louis XV — and then as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1972 to 1974. A member of the French Foreign Legion, he was considered as one of the historical Gaullists, and died aged 91 in the military hospital of the Val-de-Grâce. He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1999 .
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Pimp C
Chad Lamont Butler (December 29, 1973 — December 4, 2007), better known by his stage name Pimp C, was an American rapper, singer, and producer. He was one half of the influential hip hop group UGK, along with Bun B.
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Porter Wagoner
Porter Wayne Wagoner (August 12, 1927 – October 28, 2007) was a popular American country music singer known for his flashy Nudie and Manuel suits and blond pompadour. He introduced a young Dolly Parton on his long-running television show, and they were a well-known duet team throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. Known as Mr. Grand Ole Opry, Wagoner charted 81 singles from 1954–1983; and is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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Queen Elizabeth II
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Qurratulain Hyder
Qurrat-ul-Ain Haider (lang-ur|; January 20, 1928, – August 21, 2007) was an influential Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic, and a journalist. One of the most outstanding literary names in Urdu literature, she is most known for her magnum opus, Aag Ka Darya (River of Fire), a novel first published in Urdu in 1959, that stretches from 4th century BC to post partition of India. Popularly known as "Ainee Apa" among her friends and admirers, she was the daughter of the famous writer Sajjad Haidar Yildarim, (1880–1943). Her mother Nazar Zahra (who wrote at first as Bint-i-Nazrul Baqar and later as Nazar Sajjad Hyder) (1894–1967) was also a writer and protegee of Muhammadi Begam and her husband Syed Mumtaz Ali, who published her first novel.
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Ralph de Toledano
Ralph de Toledano (born Tangiers, Morocco, August 14, 1916 – died Bethesda, Maryland, February 3, 2007) was a major figure in the conservative movement in the United States throughout the second half of the 20th century.
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Ramon Zamora
Ramon Zamora (June 27, 1935 — August 26, 2007) was a Filipino film actor best known for his leading roles in local martial arts films and action movies of the 1970s. He was popularly dubbed as the "Bruce Lee of the Philippines".
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Raúl Castro
Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz (born 3 June 1931) is the President of the Cuban Council of State and the President (As Premier) of the Council of Ministers of Cuba. The younger brother of Fidel Castro, he is also Second Secretary of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces (Army, Navy, and Air Force).
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Rex Humbard
Alpha Rex Emmanuel Humbard (August 13, 1919 – September 21, 2007) was a well-known American television evangelist whose Cathedral of Tomorrow show was shown on over 600 stations at the peak of its popularity.
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Richard Bradshaw
Richard James Bradshaw, O.Ont (April 16, 1944 – August 15, 2007) was a British opera conductor and the General Director of the Canadian Opera Company (COC) in Toronto.
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Richard Jeni
Richard John Colangelo (April 14, 1957 – March 10, 2007), better known by the stage name of Richard Jeni, was an American stand-up comedian and actor.
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Richard Jewell
Richard A. Jewell (December 17, 1962 – August 29, 2007) was an American security guard who became known in connection with the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Jewell, working as a private security guard for Piedmont College, discovered a pipe bomb, alerted police, and helped to evacuate the area before it exploded, saving many people from injury or potential death. Initially hailed by the media as a hero, Jewell later was considered a suspect.
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Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson (born Robert Edward Wilson, January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007), the American author of 33 influential books, became, at various times, a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, futurist, polymath, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic. Recognized as an Episkopos, Pope, and a Saint of Discordianism, Wilson helped publicize the group through his writings, interviews, and strolls.
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Robert Cade
James Robert Cade (September 26, 1927 – November 27, 2007) was an American physician, university professor, research scientist and inventor. Cade, a native of Texas, earned his undergraduate and medical degrees, and became a professor of medicine and nephrology at the University of Florida located in Gainesville, Florida. Although Cade engaged in many areas of medical research, he is widely remembered as the leader of the research team that formulated the sports drink Gatorade.
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Robert Goulet
Robert Gerard Goulet (November 26, 1933 – October 30, 2007) was a Canadian/ American entertainer. He rose to international stardom in 1960 as Lancelot in Lerner and Loewe's hit Broadway musical Camelot. His long career as a singer and actor encompassed theatre, radio, television and film.
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Robert Jordan
Robert Jordan was the pen name of James Oliver Rigney, Jr. (October 17, 1948 – September 16, 2007), under which he was best known as the author of the bestselling The Wheel of Time fantasy series. He also wrote under the names '''Reagan O'Neal and Jackson O'Reilly'''.
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Robert Mugabe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe (, ; born 21 February 1924) is the second and current President of Zimbabwe. One of the leaders of the liberation movement against white-minority rule, he was elected into power as the head of government since 1980, as Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987, and as the first executive head of state since 1987.
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Robert O. Anderson
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Roger Bonham Smith
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Roger Myerson
Roger Bruce Myerson (born March 29, 1951) is an American economist and Nobel laureate recognized with Leonid Hurwicz and Eric Maskin for "having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory." A professor at the University of Chicago, he has made contributions as an economist, as an applied mathematician, and as a political scientist.
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975).
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Ronald Speirs
Lieutenant Colonel Ronald C. Speirs (April 20, 1920 - April 11, 2007) was a United States Army officer who served in the U.S. 101st Airborne Division during World War II. He was initially a platoon leader in Company "D" ("Dog" Company) of the 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Speirs was reassigned to command "E" or "Easy" Company in Bastogne at the end of the Battle of the Bulge. Speirs also served in Korea where he commanded a rifle company, and later became the American Governor for Spandau Prison in Berlin. He achieved the rank of Captain while serving in the European Theater during World War II and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel. Speirs was portrayed in the television miniseries Band of Brothers by Matthew Settle.
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Ronnie Hazlehurst
Ronald Hazlehurst (13 March 1928 – 1 October 2007) was an English composer and conductor who, having joined the BBC in 1961, became its Light Entertainment Musical Director.
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Roy McKenzie
Sir Roy Allan McKenzie ONZ KBE (7 November 1922 – 1 September 2007) was a New Zealand horse breeder and racer, and was well known for his philanthropy.
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Rumi
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī (), also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (), and popularly known as Mowlānā () but known to the English-speaking world simply as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century PersianIn Persian poetry, the words "Rumi"(Greek), Turk, Hindu and Zangi (Black) take symbolic meaning and this has led to some confusions for those that are not familiar with Persian poetry.
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Ruth Bell Graham
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Ryan Cox
Ryan Cox (9 April 1979 – 1 August 2007) was a South African professional road racing cyclist. He had been cycling since 1987 but turned professional in 2000. He first joined Amore e Vita but changed, the following year to Team Cologne which was based in Germany. He had been a member of Team Barloworld since 2003. Cox died at Kempton Park Hospital when the main artery in his left leg burst, three weeks after a vascular lesion operation in France for a knotted artery.
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Ryan Larkin
Ryan Larkin (July 31, 1943, Montreal, Quebec – February 14, 2007, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec) was a Canadian animator, artist, and sculptor who rose to fame with the psychedelic 1969 Oscar-nominated short Walking and the acclaimed Street Musique (1972). He was the subject of the Oscar-winning film Ryan.
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Ryan Shay
Ryan Shay (May 4, 1979 – November 3, 2007) was an American professional long-distance runner. He was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and attended the University of Notre Dame. He was married to Alicia Craig, also an American distance runner. Shay is survived by his wife Alicia, parents Joe and Susan, and his seven siblings: Jodie, Casey, Sarah, Amie, and younger brothers Nate (who also was a distance runner at Notre Dame), Elliott and Stephan.
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Ryszard Kapuściński
Ryszard Kapuściński (; March 4, 1932 - January 23, 2007) was a highly regarded Polish journalist and writer whose dispatches in book form brought him a global reputation. Also a photographer and poet, he was born in Pińsknow in Belarusin the Kresy Wschodnie, or eastern borderlands of the second Polish Republic. Much of Kapuściński's work is considered to ascend to the heights of literature. Kapuscinski himself called his work "literary reportage" in a 2001 interview.
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Régine Crespin
Régine Crespin (23 February 1927 – 5 July 2007) was a French singer who had a major international career in opera and on the concert stage between 1950 and 1989. She started her career singing roles in the dramatic soprano and spinto soprano repertoire, drawing particular acclaim singing Wagner and Strauss heroines. She went on to sing a wider repertoire that embraced Italian, French, German, Russian, and English opera from a variety of musical periods. In the early 1970s Crespin began experiencing vocal difficulties for the first time and ultimately began performing roles from the mezzo-soprano repertoire. Throughout her career she was widely admired for the elegance, warmth and subtlety of her singing, especially in the French and German operatic repertories.
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S. P. Thamilselvan
Suppayya Paramu Thamilselvan, commonly known as S. P. Tamilselvan, (sometimes transscribed as "Tamilchelvan"), was the leader of the political wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, an organisation fighting for a separate state for the ethnic Tamil minority in northern Sri Lanka from majority Sinhalese govt. He was chief negotiator and second in command to leader Velupillai Prabhakaran.
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Saint Joseph
Saint Joseph (Hebrew יוֹסֵף, "Yosef"; ), often clarified as Saint Joseph the Carpenter, is an important figure in Christian belief, the husband of Mary, mother of Jesus. According to Christian tradition he was not the biological father of Jesus, but acted as his foster-father and as head of the Holy Family. According to Christian tradition, Jesus was referred to as the son of Joseph during his public life, though in Mark he is referred to as Mary's son (Mark 6:3). Joseph is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran churches.
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Shag Crawford
Henry Charles "Shag" Crawford (August 30, 1916 - July 11, 2007) was an American umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the National League from 1956 to 1975. During his twenty seasons in the National League, Crawford worked more than 3,100 games and as a home plate umpire was notable for getting in a low crouch and resting his hands on the back of the catcher in front of him.
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Sherri Martel
Sherri Schrull (born Sherri Russell, February 8, 1958 – June 15, 2007) was an American professional wrestler and manager, better known by her ring names, Sherri Martel and Sensational Sherri.
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Shilpa Shetty
Shilpa Shetty (Tulu: ; born 8 June 1975) is an Indian film actress and model. Since making her debut in the film Baazigar (1993), she has appeared in nearly 40 Bollywood, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films, her first leading role being in the 1994 Aag. Although she has been through years of decline during her career, Shetty has been willing to reinvent herself quite often. Her performances in Dhadkan (2000) and Rishtey (2002) were appreciated, while her portrayal of an AIDS patient in Phir Milenge (2004) won her many accolades. Her younger sister Shamita Shetty is also a Bollywood film actress. Shilpa is currently judging a reality show "Zara Nachke Dikha" along with two other judges Arshad Warsi and Vaibhavi Merchant aired in Starplus.
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Sidney Sheldon
Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 – January 30, 2007) was an Academy Award-winning American writer. His TV works spanned a 20-year period during which he created The Patty Duke Show (1963–66), I Dream of Jeannie (1965–70) and Hart to Hart (1979–84), but it was not until after he turned 50 and began writing best-selling novels such as Master of the Game (1982), The Other Side of Midnight (1973) and Rage of Angels (1980) that he became most famous.
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Simon Bolivar
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Sir Arthur Marshall
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Soe Win
General Soe Win (; ; 10 May 1947 – October 12, 2007) was the Prime Minister of Burma and Secretary-1 of the State Peace and Development Council from 2004 to 2007. He was known by Burmese dissident groups as "the butcher of Depayin" for his role as mastermind of the 2003 Depayin Massacre, in which 70 National League for Democracy supporters were killed by a government-sponsored mob.
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Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict that devastated Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939. It began after an attempted ''coup d'état by a group of Spanish Army generals against the government of the Second Spanish Republic, then under the leadership of president Manuel Azaña. The nationalist coup was supported by the conservative Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right (Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas, or C.E.D.A), monarchists known as Carlist groups, and the Fascist Falange (Falange Española de las J.O.N.S.''). Following the partially successful coup, Spain was left divided as supporters of the existing Republican government fought the forces of the new Nationalist government for control of the country. The war ended with the victory of the Nationalists, the overthrow of the Republican government, and the founding of an authoritarian state led by General Francisco Franco. In the aftermath of the civil war, all right-wing parties were fused into the state party of the Franco regime.
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Srebrenica massacre
The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide, refers to the July 1995 killing of more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys, as well as the ethnic cleansing of another 25,000–30,000 refugees, in and around the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina, by units of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of General Ratko Mladić during the Bosnian War. A paramilitary unit from Serbia known as the Scorpions, officially part of the Serbian Interior Ministry until 1991, participated in the massacre. It is alleged that foreign volunteers including the Greek Volunteer Guard also participated.
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Sri Chinmoy
Chinmoy Kumar Ghose (August 27, 1931 – October 11, 2007) was an Indian spiritual teacher and philosopher who emigrated to the U.S. in 1964. His teachings emphasize love for God, daily meditation on the heart, service to the world, and religious tolerance (a view that "all faiths" are essentially divine).
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Stan Zemanek
Stan Zemanek (29 May, 1947 – 12 July, 2007) was an Australian radio broadcaster who presented a popular night time show on 2UE Sydney and which was networked across parts of Australia via Southern Cross.
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Stanley Miller
Stanley Lloyd Miller (March 7, 1930 - May 20, 2007) was an American chemist and biologist who is known for his studies into the origin of life, particularly the Miller-Urey experiment which demonstrated that organic compounds can be created by fairly simple physical processes from inorganic substances. The experiment used conditions then thought to provide an approximate representation of those present on the primordial Earth.
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Stephen I of Hungary
Saint Stephen I () () (Esztergom, 967/969/975 – 15 August 1038, Esztergom-Szentkirály or Székesfehérvár, Hungary), born Vajk, was Grand Prince of the Hungarians (997–1000) and the first King of Hungary (1000–1038).
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Stu Nahan
Stu Nahan (June 23, 1926 – December 26, 2007) was an American sportscaster best known for his television broadcasting career in Los Angeles from the 1950s through the 1990s. He is also remembered for his role as a boxing commentator in most of the Rocky films. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 25, 2007. Nahan had battled lymphoma, a form of cancer, since being diagnosed in January 2006.
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Taha Yassin Ramadan
Taha Yasin Ramadan al-Jizrawi (February 22, 1938 – March 20, 2007) () was a prominent Iraqi Kurd, serving as Vice President of Iraq from March 1991 to the fall of Saddam Hussein in April 2003.
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Tamil people
Tamil people (), also called Tamils or Tamilians, are a linguistic and ethnic group native to Tamil Nadu, a state in Southern India and the north-eastern region of Sri Lanka. They speak Tamil (), with a recorded history going back two millennia. Emigrant communities are found across the world, notably Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Canada, and the UK. The Tamils are mostly Hindus with sizable Christian and Muslim populations.
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Teddy Kollek
Theodor "Teddy" Kollek () (May 27, 1911 – January 2, 2007) was mayor of Jerusalem from 1965 to 1993, and founder of the Jerusalem Foundation. Kollek was re-elected five times, in 1969, 1973, 1978, 1983 and 1989. After reluctantly running for a seventh term in 1993 at the age of 82, he lost to Likud candidate and future Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert . During his tenure, Jerusalem developed into a modern city, especially after its reunification in 1967. He was once called "the greatest builder of Jerusalem since Herod."
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Teoctist Arăpaşu
Teoctist (February 7, 1915 – July 30, 2007), born Toader Arăpaşu, was the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church from 1986 to 2007.
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Teresa Brewer
Teresa Brewer (7 May 1931 – 17 October 2007) was an American pop singer whose style incorporated elements of country, jazz, R&B;, musicals and novelty songs. She was one of the most prolific and popular female singers of the 1950s, recording nearly 600 songs. Born Theresa Breuer in Toledo, Ohio, Brewer died of a neuromuscular disease at her home in New Rochelle, N.Y. at the age of 76.
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Terry Hoeppner
Terry Hoeppner (August 19, 1947 – June 19, 2007) was an American college football coach who served as head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers from 2005 to 2006. Shortly after announcing that he would be on medical leave for the 2007 season, he died of brain cancer.
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The Fabulous Moolah
Mary Lillian Ellison (July 22, 1923 – November 2, 2007), better known by her ring name The Fabulous Moolah, was an American female professional wrestler. She began her career working with promoter Billy Wolfe and his wife, wrestler and trainer Mildred Burke, as well as working alongside professional wrestler "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers. She won the NWA World Women's Championship in 1956 and was the most prominent holder of the title for approximately the next thirty years.
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Thomas Eagleton
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Thomas Stoltz Harvey
Thomas Stoltz Harvey (October 10, 1912 – April 5, 2007) was a pathologist who conducted the autopsy on Albert Einstein in 1955. Harvey studied at Yale University as an undergraduate and later as a medical student under Dr. Harry Zimmerman. In his third year of medical school he contracted tuberculosis and was bedridden for the next year in a sanatorium, claiming it to be one of the biggest disappointments of his life. The autopsy was conducted at Princeton Hospital, Princeton NJ, on April 18 at 8:00 am. Einstein's brain weighed 1,230 grams -well within the normal human range- which immediately dispelled the concept that intelligence and brain size were directly related. Dr. Harvey sectioned the preserved brain into 170 pieces in a lab at the University of Pennsylvania, a process that took three full months to complete. Those 170 sections were then sliced in microscopic slivers and mounted onto slides and stained. There were 12 sets of slides created with hundreds of slides in each set. Harvey retained two complete sets for his own research and distributed the rest to handpicked leading pathologists of the time. No permission for the removal and preservation had been given by Einstein or his family, but when the family learned about the study, permission to proceed the study was granted as long as the results were only published in scientific journals and not sensationalised.
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Thomas Torrance
Thomas Forsyth Torrance (30 August 1913 – 2 December 2007) was a 20th century Protestant Christian theologian who served for 27 years as Professor of Christian Dogmatics at New College, Edinburgh in the University of Edinburgh, during which time he was a leader in Protestant Christian theology. While he wrote many books and articles advancing his own study of theology, he also translated several hundred theological writings into English from other languages. Torrance edited the English translation of the thirteen-volume, six-million-word Church Dogmatics (Germ. Die Kirchliche Dogmatik) of celebrated Swiss theologian Karl Barth. Torrance's work has been influential in the paleo-orthodox movement, and he is widely considered to be one of the most important Reformed theologians of his era. His work influenced many Christian theologians, especially some aspects of Alister McGrath's theology.
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Thore Skogman
Thore Skogman (9 March 1931 – 9 December 2007) was a Swedish entertainer.
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Tikhon Khrennikov
Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov () ( – 14 August, 2007) was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, leader of the Union of Soviet Composers, and film actor, who was also known for his political activities. He wrote three symphonies, four piano concertos, two violin concertos, two cello concertos, operas, operettas, ballets, chamber music, incidental music and film music.
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Tom Snyder
Thomas James "Tom" Snyder (May 12, 1936 – July 29, 2007) was an American television personality, news anchor and radio personality best known for his late night talk shows The Tomorrow Show, on the NBC television network in the 1970s and 1980s, and The Late Late Show, on the CBS Television Network in the 1990s.
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Tommy Makem
'''Thomas 'Tommy' Makem''' (November 4, 1932 – August 1, 2007) was an internationally celebrated Irish folk musician, artist, poet and storyteller. He was best known as a member of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. He played the long-necked 5-string banjo, guitar, tin whistle, and bagpipes, and sang in a distinctive baritone. He was sometimes known as "The Bard of Armagh" (taken from a traditional song of the same name) and "The Godfather of Irish Music".
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Tomás Medina Caracas
Tomás Medina Caracas aka Tomás Molina Caracas aka Negro Acacio (March 15, 1965 – September 1, 2007) was a Colombian guerrilla member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) considered by Colombian authorities the man in charge of the illegal drug trade business and the head of the Eastern Bloc's 16th Front of this rebel group. He gained notoriety during the FARC-Government peace process (1999-2002) acting as a negotiator. He was also known for being the associate of Brazilian drug dealer Fernandinho Beiramar and for participating in an illegal arms deal of 10,000 AK-47s for the FARC through the Peruvian government official Vladimiro Montesinos, an adviser of former president of Peru, Alberto Fujimori. Medina Caracas was killed on September 1, 2007 in a Colombian Army military operation in eastern Colombia within the municipality of Cumaribo near the border with Venezuela.
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Tony Ryan
Thomas Anthony "Tony" Ryan (2 February 1936 – 3 October 2007) was an Irish multi-millionaire, philanthropist and businessman.
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Tony Wilson
Anthony Howard Wilson, commonly known as Tony Wilson (20 February 1950 – 10 August 2007), was an English record label owner, radio presenter, TV show host, nightclub manager, impresario and journalist for Granada Television and the BBC.
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Toše Proeski
Toše Proeski (, ), January 25, 1981 – October 16, 2007) was a Macedonian multi-genre singer, songwriter and actor. He was popular across the entire Balkan area and further north, and locally he was considered a top act of the Macedonian music scene. Proeski was known for his strong vocal performances and trademark quote "Ve sakam site" (I Love You All), and was once dubbed "Elvis Presley of the Balkans" by BBC News. He died in a car crash in Croatia on October 16, 2007.
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Trevor Henry
Sir Trevor Ernest Henry (9 May 1902–20 June 2007) was a New Zealand justice and member of the well known Henry family.
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Trond Kirkvaag
Trond Georg Kirkvaag (21 June 1946 – 16 November 2007) was a Norwegian comedian, actor, impressionist, screenwriter, author, director and television host. During his 39 years at the Norwegian TV network, NRK, he produced numerous comedy television series. After his death he was widely hailed by his colleagues as possibly the greatest Norwegian TV-comedian in history. He was the son of NRK journalist Rolf Kirkvaag.
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Ulrich Mühe
Friedrich Hans Ulrich Mühe () (20 June 1953 – 22 July 2007) was a German film, television and theatre actor. He played the role of Hauptmann (Captain) Gerd Wiesler in the Oscar-winning film Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others, 2006), for which he received the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Gold, at Germany's most prestigious film awards, the Deutscher Filmpreis (German Film Awards); and the Best Actor Award at the 2006 European Film Awards.
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Veikko Karvonen
Veikko Leo Karvonen (January 5, 1926 – August 1, 2007) was a Finnish athlete who mainly competed in the marathon. He won the bronze medal in the marathon at the 1956 Summer Olympics. At the 1954 European Championships he won the gold medal in the marathon and the following year won the Boston Marathon.
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Verity Lambert
Verity Ann Lambert, OBE (27 November 1935 – 22 November 2007) was an English television and film producer. She is best known as the founding producer of the science-fiction series Doctor Who, a programme which has become a part of British popular culture, and for her association with Thames Television. Her many credits include Adam Adamant Lives!, The Naked Civil Servant, Rock Follies, Minder,
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Viktor Yushchenko
Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko (Ukrainian: Viktor Andrijovyč Juščenko) (born February 23, 1954) is a former President of Ukraine. He took office on January 23, 2005, following a period of popular unrest known as the Orange Revolution. He failed to secure a runoff spot during the 2010 Ukrainian Presidential Election. He has been praised for his democratic instincts
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Vilma Espín
Vilma Lucila Espín Guillois (April 7, 1930 - June 18, 2007) was a Cuban chemical engineer and revolutionary who was married to Raúl Castro, the current Cuban President and brother to Former Cuban President Fidel Castro. Espín had four children (Deborah - married to Luis Alberto Rodríguez López-Calleja -, Mariela, Nilsa and Alejandro Castro Espín) and seven grandchildren. Her daughter, Mariela Castro, currently heads the Cuban National Center for Sex Education, and her son, Alejandro Castro Espín, the possible successor as head of the Cuban regime. Espín was often described as "Cuba's First Lady".
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Vladimir Kryuchkov
Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov (Russian: Владимир Александрович Крючков) (29 February 1924 – 23 November 2007) was a former Soviet politician and Communist Party member, having been in the organization from 1944 until he was dismissed in 1991. He was born in Tsaritsyn, which is now Volgograd
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Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (; born 7 October 1952) served as the second President of the Russian Federation and is the current Prime Minister of Russia, as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. He became acting President on 31 December 1999, when president Boris Yeltsin resigned in a surprising move, and then Putin won the 2000 presidential election. In 2004 he was re-elected for a second term lasting until 7 May 2008.
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Vojislav Nikčević
Prof. Dr. Vojislav Nikčević (Montenegrin: Војислав Никчевић) (18 January 1935 in Stubici, Nikšić, Kingdom of Yugoslavia - 2 July 2007 in Belgrade, Republic of Serbia) was a linguist a professor at the Philological Faculty of Nikšić, University of Montenegro. He was educated at the University of Zagreb in Zagreb, Croatia.
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Wahab Akbar
Wahab Akbar (April 16, 1960 – November 13, 2007) was a Filipino politician who served three terms as governor of Basilan. Later elected as congressman for the lone district of Basilan in the House of Representatives, Akbar was one of 4 people killed in a bomb attack at the Batasang Pambansa which police publicly suspected was directed at him.
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Wally Parks
Wallace Gordon ("Wally") Parks (January 23, 1913 – September 28, 2007) was instrumental in establishing drag racing as a legitimate amateur and professional motorsport. He was the Founder, President, and the Chairman of the Board of the National Hot Rod Association, known by the acronym NHRA. Parks was also an accomplished automobile writer and hobbyist, and co-founder and first editor of the magazine Hot Rod in the late 1940s. He was also instrumental in the founding of Motor Trend magazine in 1948. As editor of Hot Rod, he began to promote safety in the organization of drag racing, both in the magazine and by organizing "Safety Safaris," the first of which toured the U.S.A. in 1954, teaching drag race organization and safety at tracks around the country. This was the first concerted effort in getting racers off the streets and into controlled race tracks.
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Wally Schirra
Walter Marty Schirra, Jr. (March 12, 1923 – May 3, 2007) was one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts chosen for the Project Mercury, America's first effort to put humans in space. He was the only person to fly in all of America's first three space programs (Mercury, Gemini and Apollo). He logged a total of 295 hours and 15 minutes in space.
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Whakahuihui Vercoe
The Most Reverend Whakahuihui "Hui" Vercoe PCNZM MBE (4 June 1928 – 13 September 2007) was an Anglican clergyman from New Zealand. He was the Archbishop of New Zealand from 2004 to 2006, the first Māori to hold that office. He was also Bishop of Aotearoa from 1981, the first person to be elected to that position by the congregation rather than being appointed by the church hierarchy. He held both offices until his retirement in 2006. He was also the first person to become a Principal Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit after the rank was introduced in 2000.
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William Hutt (actor)
William Ian DeWitt Hutt, CC, O.Ont, MM (May 2, 1920 – June 27, 2007) was a Canadian actor of stage, television and film. Hutt's distinguished career spanned more than fifty years and won him many accolades and awards. While his base throughout his career remained at the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario, he appeared on the stage in London, New York and across Canada.
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William J. Crowe
Admiral William James Crowe, Jr. (January 2, 1925 – October 18, 2007) was a United States Navy Admiral who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, and as the ambassador to the United Kingdom under President Bill Clinton.
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Xinjiang
Xinjiang (; ; ; Postal map spelling: Sinkiang) is an autonomous region (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region) of the People's Republic of China. It is the largest Chinese administrative division and spans over 1.6 million km2. Xinjiang borders Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, has abundant oil reserves and is China's largest natural gas-producing region.
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Yolanda King
Yolanda Denise King (November 17, 1955 – May 15, 2007) was the first-born child of Coretta Scott King and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Her younger siblings are Martin Luther King, III, Dexter Scott King, and Rev. Dr. Bernice Albertine King.
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Yoyoy Villame
Yoyoy Villame (November 18, 1932 - May 18, 2007) born Roman Tesorio Villame, was a Filipino singer, composer, lyricist, and comedian. Villame was a native of Calape, Bohol and was the father of singer Hannah Villame. He died of cardiac arrest at the Las Piñas Medical Center in Metro Manila on May 18, 2007.
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Yvonne De Carlo
Yvonne De Carlo (September 1, 1922 – January 8, 2007) was a Canadian-born American film and television actress, dancer and singer. She began her film career by starring in small film roles for Columbia Studios, Paramount Pictures, Universal International.
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Zard
was a Japanese pop group. Originally a group of five members, with lead vocalist Izumi Sakai as group leader. However, Sakai was the only member who stayed on in the group while others joined and left regularly. As such, Zard and Sakai may be referred to interchangeably. Zard's work was sold under the record label B-Gram Records, Inc. Their most popular and successful songs are , , and "My Friend" (1996).
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Zheng Xiaoyu
Zheng Xiaoyu (Chinese: 郑筱萸; Pinyin: Zhèng Xiǎoyú; December 21, 1944 - July 10, 2007) was director of the State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China. He was sentenced to death in the first instance trial at Beijing No.1 Intermediate Court on May 29, 2007. He was executed on July 10, 2007 for corruption and possibly tainted products in Mainland China.
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Ève Curie
Ève Denise Curie Labouisse (December 6, 1904 – October 22, 2007) was a French-American writer, journalist and pianist of Polish descent. Ève Curie was the younger daughter of Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie. Her sister was Irène Joliot-Curie and her brother-in-law Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Ève was the only member of her family who did not choose a career as a scientist and did not win a Nobel Prize, though her husband did. She worked as a journalist and authored her mother's biography Madame Curie and a book of war reportage, Journey Among Warriors. From the 1960s she committed herself to work for UNICEF, providing help to children and mothers in developing countries.
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Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic (, ), is the second largest country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires. It is the eighth-largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations, though Mexico, Colombia and Spain are more populous.
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Australia
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Bali
Bali is an Indonesian island located in the westernmost end of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east. It is one of the country's 33 provinces with the provincial capital at Denpasar towards the south of the island.
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Bangladesh
Bangladesh (; , '), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh (Bengali: গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ ') is a country in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma (Myanmar) to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south. Together with the Indian state of West Bengal, it makes up the ethno-linguistic region of Bengal. The name Bangladesh means "Country of Bengal" in the official Bengali language.
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Basilan
Basilan (Officially: Province of Basilan; Fil. - Lalawigan ng Basilan; Chavacano - Provincia de Basilan) is an island province of the Philippines mostly located within the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), except its capital, Isabela City, which is administered as part of the Zamboanga Peninsula Region. Basilan is located just off the southern coast of Zamboanga Peninsula. Basilan is the biggest and northernmost among the major islands of the Sulu Archipelago.
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Belize
Belize () (formerly British Honduras), is a democratic constitutional monarchy, and the northernmost Central American nation. Belize has a diverse society, comprising many cultures and languages. Although Kriol and Spanish are spoken among the population, Belize is the only country in Central America where English is the official language. Belize is bordered by Mexico to its north, by Guatemala to its south and west, and by the Caribbean Sea to the east.
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Brazil
Brazil (; , ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (, ), is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population. It is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas and the largest lusophone country in the world.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom. It originated with the overseas colonies and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. At its height it was the largest empire in history and, for over a century, was the foremost global power. By 1922 the British Empire held sway over about 458 million people, one-quarter of the world's population at the time, and covered more than 13 million square miles (34 million km2), almost a quarter of the Earth's total land area. As a result, its political, linguistic and cultural legacy is widespread. At the peak of its power, it was often said that "the sun never sets on the British Empire" because its span across the globe ensured that the sun was always shining on at least one of its numerous territories.
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Bronze Night
The Bronze Night ( or '), also known as the April Unrest (') and April Events () refer to the riots and controversy surrounding the 2007 relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, the Soviet World War II memorial in Tallinn, Estonia.
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Canada
Canada () is a country in North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area. Canada's common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the longest in the world.
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Catalonia
Catalonia ( ; , , ) is one of the Kingdom of Spain's seventeen autonomous communities, the administrative divisions that represent the country's historical nationalities and regions. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona. Its capital city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an official population of 7,504,881. It borders France and Andorra to the north, Aragon to the west, the Valencian Community to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the east (580 km coastline). The official languages are Spanish, Catalan and Aranese.
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Chile
Chile (, in English often pronounced //,), officially the Republic of Chile ( ), is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. With Ecuador, it is one of two countries in South America which do not border Brazil. The Pacific coastline of Chile is 6,435 kilometres (4000 mi). Chilean territory includes the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández, Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas and Easter Island. Chile also claims about of Antarctica, although all claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty.
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Colombia
Colombia (), officially the Republic of Colombia (, ), is a constitutional republic in northwestern South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the northwest by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean. Colombia also shares maritime borders with Venezuela, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. With a population of over 45 million people, Colombia has the 29th largest population in the world and the second largest in South America, after Brazil. Colombia has the fourth largest Spanish-speaking population in the world after Mexico, the United States, and Spain.
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Czech Republic
The Czech Republic ( ; , , short form Česko ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west and northwest, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east. The Czech Republic has been a member of NATO since 1999 and of the European Union since 2004. The Czech Republic is also a member of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). As an OSCE participating State, the Czech Republic’s international commitments are subject to monitoring under the mandate of the U.S. Helsinki Commission. From 1 January 2009 to 30 June 2009, the Czech Republic held the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
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Dubai
Dubai ( ; ) is one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi. Dubai and Abu Dhabi are the only two emirates to have veto power over critical matters of national importance in the country's legislature.
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Ecuador
Ecuador (), officially the Republic of Ecuador (, ), literally, "Republic of the equator") is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border with Brazil. The country also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about west of the mainland.
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Finland
Finland (pronounced ), officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden on the west, Norway on the north and Russia on the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.
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Gaza Strip
The Gaza Strip ( , ) lies on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The Strip borders Egypt on the southwest and Israel on the south, east and north. It is about long, and between 6 and 12 kilometers (4–7.5 mi) wide, with a total area of . The territory takes its name from Gaza, its main city.
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Germany
Germany (), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (, ), is a country in Western Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The territory of Germany covers 357.021 km2 and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state of the European Union, and home to the third-largest number of international migrants worldwide.
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Greece
Greece (; , Elláda, ; , Hellás, ), also known as Hellas and officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, Ellīnikī́ Dīmokratía, ), is a country in southeastern Europe. Situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula, Greece has land borders with Albania, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of mainland Greece, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the tenth longest coastline in the world at in length, featuring a vast number of islands (approximately 1400, of which 227 are inhabited), including Crete, the Dodecanese, the Cyclades, and the Ionian Islands among others. Eighty percent of Greece consists of mountains, of which Mount Olympus is the highest at .
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Hungary
Hungary ( ), officially the Republic of Hungary (Magyar Köztársaság ), is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin in Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia. Its capital is Budapest. Hungary is a member of the European Union, NATO, the OECD, the Visegrád Group, and is a Schengen state. The official language is Hungarian, the most widely spoken non-Indo-European language in Europe, being part of the Finno-Ugric family.
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India
India (), officially the Republic of India ( ; see also official names of India), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.18 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Mainland India is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east; and it is bordered by Pakistan to the west; Bhutan, the People's Republic of China and Nepal to the north; and Bangladesh and Burma to the east. In the Indian Ocean, mainland India and the Lakshadweep Islands are in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, while India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share maritime border with Thailand and the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the Andaman Sea. India has a coastline of .
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Indonesia
Indonesia ( or ), officially the Republic of Indonesia (), is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia comprises 17,508 islands. With a population of around 238 million people, it is the world's fourth most populous country, and has the world's largest population of Muslims. Indonesia is a republic, with an elected legislature and president. The nation's capital city is Jakarta. The country shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Malaysia. Other neighboring countries include Singapore, Philippines, Australia, and the Indian territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Indonesia is a founding member of ASEAN and a member of the G-20 major economies.
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Iran
Iran ( ), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran is a country in Central Eurasia and Western Asia. The name Iran has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was also known to the western world as Persia. Both Persia and Iran are used interchangeably in cultural contexts; however, Iran is the name used officially in political contexts.
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Iraq
Iraq ( or , Arabic: ), officially the Republic of Iraq (Arabic:
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Israel
Israel (, ''Yisrā'el; , Isrā'īl), officially the State of Israel (Hebrew: , Medīnat Yisrā'el; , Dawlat Isrā'īl''), is a parliamentary republic in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan and the West Bank in the east, Egypt and Gaza on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area. Israel is the world's only predominantly Jewish state, and is defined as A Jewish and Democratic State by the Israeli government.
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Italy
Italy (; ), officially the Italian Republic (), is a country located in south-central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia along the Alps. To the south it consists of the entirety of the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia — the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea — and many other smaller islands. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within Italy, whilst Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. The territory of Italy covers some and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 60.4 million inhabitants, it is the sixth most populous country in Europe, and the twenty-third most populous in the world.
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Jamaica
Jamaica () is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harboring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Its indigenous Arawakan-speaking Taíno inhabitants named the island Xaymaca, meaning the "Land of Wood and Water", or the "Land of Springs".
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Jericho
Jericho ( ); is a city located near the Jordan River in the West Bank of the Palestinian Territories. It is the capital of the Jericho Governorate, and has a population of over 20,000 Palestinians. Situated well below sea level on an east-west route north of the Dead Sea, Jericho is the lowest permanently inhabited site on earth. It is also believed to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities of the world.
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Kahtaniya
Kahataniya (Kurdish Gıruzer, Arabic القحطانية, also spelled Giruzer, Kar Izir) is Kurdish town about 100 km (62 miles) from Mosul. It was one of two villages targeted in the 2007 Qahtaniya bombings against the local Kurdish Ezidi community.
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Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan (also spelled Kazakstan, , Qazaqstan, قازاقستان, pronounced ; ), officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a country located in Central Asia and partially in East Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of 2,727,300 km² is greater than Western Europe. It is neighbored clockwise from the north by Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and also borders on a significant part of the Caspian Sea. The capital was moved in 1997 from Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city, to Astana.
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Kenya
The Republic of Kenya (pronounced ) is a country in East Africa. Lying along the Indian Ocean to its southeast and at the equator, Kenya is bordered by Somalia to the northeast, Ethiopia to the north, Sudan to the northwest, Uganda to the west and Tanzania to the south. Lake Victoria is to the southwest and is shared between Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Kenya has numerous wildlife reserves, containing thousands of animal species. The capital city is Nairobi. Kenya's area is 580,000 km2 with a population of nearly 39 million which is diverse: more than 40 different ethnic groups are present. The country is named after Mount Kenya, a significant landmark and second among Africa's highest mountain peaks.
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Kosovo
Kosovo (; ) is a disputed territory in the Balkans. The partially-recognised Republic of Kosovo (Albanian: Republika e Kosovës; Serbian: Република Косово, Republika Kosovo), a self-declared independent state, has de facto control over most of the territory, with North Kosovo being the largest Kosovo Serb enclave. Serbia does not recognise the unilateral secession of Kosovo and considers it a United Nations-governed entity within its sovereign territory, the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (Serbian: Аутономна Покрајина Косово и Метохија, Autonomna Pokrajina Kosovo i Metohija), according to the 2006 Constitution of Serbia.
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Latvia
Latvia (; ), officially the Republic of Latvia () is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia (343 km), to the south by Lithuania (588 km), to the east by the Russian Federation (276 km), and to the southeast by Belarus (141 km). Across the Baltic Sea to the west lies Sweden. The territory of Latvia covers and it has a temperate seasonal climate.
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Lebanon
Lebanon ( or ; ; ), officially the Republic of Lebanon (Arabic: ; French: ), is a country on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered by Syria to the north and east, and Israel to the south. Lebanon's location at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian hinterland has dictated its rich history, and shaped a cultural identity of religious and ethnic diversity.
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Lithuania
Lithuania (, U.S. usually ; ), officially the Republic of Lithuania () is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to the southwest.
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London
London () is the capital of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who called it Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
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Malaysia
Malaysia (pronounced or ) is a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia. It consists of thirteen states and three federal territories and has a total landmass of . The country is separated by the South China Sea into two regions, Peninsular Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo (also known as West and East Malaysia respectively). Malaysia shares land borders with Thailand, Indonesia, and Brunei and has maritime boundaries with Singapore, Vietnam, and the Philippines. The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government. The population as of 2009 stood at over 28 million.
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Malta
Malta , officially the Republic of Malta (), is a southern European country and consists of an archipelago situated centrally in the Mediterranean, 93 km south of Sicily and 288 km east of Tunisia, with the Strait of Gibraltar 1,826 km to the west and Alexandria 1,510 km to the east.
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Mexico
Mexico, (pronounced ; ), officially known as the United Mexican States (), is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Covering almost 2 million square kilometres (over 760,000 sq mi), Mexico is the fifth-largest country in the Americas by total area and the 14th largest independent nation in the world. With an estimated population of 111 million, it is the 11th most populous country and the most populous Hispanophone country on Earth. Mexico is a federation comprising thirty-one states and a Federal District, the capital city.
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Monterrey
Monterrey () (also known as "Sultana del Norte" (Sultan of the North), is the capital city of the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León. It has the second largest metropolitan area according to area in Mexico, after Mexico City, and is the country's third most populous city after Mexico City and Guadalajara.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, ) is an Executive Branch agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's civilian space program and aeronautics and aerospace research. Since February 2006, NASA's self-described mission statement is to "pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research."
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Nigeria
Nigeria (), officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising thirty-six states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. The three largest and most influential ethnic groups in Nigeria are the Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. In terms of religion Nigeria is roughly split half and half between Muslims and Christians with a very small minority who practice traditional religion.
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North Korea
North Korea, officially the '''Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK'''; Chosongul: 조선민주주의인민공화국), is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea. The Amnok River and the Tumen River form the border between North Korea and the People's Republic of China. A section of the Tumen River in the extreme northeast is the border with Russia.
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North Pole
The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is, subject to the caveats explained below, defined as the point in the northern hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets the Earth's surface. It should not be confused with the North Magnetic Pole.
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Norway
Norway (; Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk)), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.8 million. It is one of the most sparsely populated countries in Europe. The majority of the country shares a border to the east with Sweden; its northernmost region is bordered by Finland to the south and Russia to the east; and Denmark lies south of its southern tip across the Skagerrak Strait. The capital city of Norway is Oslo. Norway's extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea, is home to its famous fjords.
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Nusa Dua
Nusa Dua is known as an enclave of large international 5-star resorts in south-eastern Bali. It is located 40 kilometres from Denpasar, the provincial capital of Bali, and administered under Kuta South District. Nusa Dua means two islands.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.
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Philippines
The Philippines ( ), officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (), is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam. The Sulu Sea to the southwest lies between the country and the island of Borneo, and to the south the Celebes Sea separates it from other islands of Indonesia. It is bounded on the east by the Philippine Sea. Its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire and its tropical climate make the Philippines prone to earthquakes and typhoons but have also endowed the country with natural resources and made it one of the richest areas of biodiversity in the world. An archipelago comprising 7,107 islands, the Philippines is categorized broadly into three main geographical divisions: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Its capital city is Manila.
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Poland
Poland (), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north. The total area of Poland is , making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe. Poland has a population of over 38 million people, which makes it the 34th most populous country in the world and the sixth most populous member of the European Union, being its most populous Slavic member.
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Portugal
Portugal (, ), officially the Portuguese Republic (; ), is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east. The Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira are also part of Portugal.
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Quezon City
Quezon City () is the former capital (1948–1976) and the most populous city in the Philippines. Located on the island of Luzon, Quezon City (popularly known to Filipinos as simply QC) is one of the cities and municipalities that make up Metro Manila, the National Capital Region. The city was named after Manuel L. Quezon, the former president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines who founded the city and developed it to replace Manila as the country's capital. Quezon City is not located in and should not be confused with Quezon province, which was also named after the president.
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Rawalpindi
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Richard Jewell
Richard A. Jewell (December 17, 1962 – August 29, 2007) was an American security guard who became known in connection with the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Jewell, working as a private security guard for Piedmont College, discovered a pipe bomb, alerted police, and helped to evacuate the area before it exploded, saving many people from injury or potential death. Initially hailed by the media as a hero, Jewell later was considered a suspect.
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Romania
Romania ( ; dated: Rumania; ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, north of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea. Romania shares a border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova to the northeast, and Bulgaria to the south.
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Russia
Russia (; ), also officially known as the Russian Federation (), is a state in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both via Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the People's Republic of China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It also has maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the United States by the Bering Strait. At , Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than a ninth of the Earth's land area. Russia is also the ninth most populous nation with 142 million people. It extends across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe, spanning 9 time zones and incorporating a wide range of environments and landforms. Russia has the world's largest reserves of mineral and energy resources. It has the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's fresh water.
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Serbia
Serbia (pronounced: ), officially the Republic of Serbia (), is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central- and Southeastern Europe, covering the southern lowlands of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans. Serbia borders Hungary to the north; Romania and Bulgaria to the east; the Republic of Macedonia to the south; and Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the west; its border with Albania is disputed. Serbia's capital city, Belgrade, is among the most populous in Southeastern Europe.
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Slovakia
The Slovak Republic (short form: Slovakia ; Slovak:, long form ) is a state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is a landlocked country bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south. The largest city is the capital, Bratislava, and the second largest is Košice. Slovakia is a member state of the European Union, NATO, United Nations, OECD and WTO among others. The official language is Slovak, a member of the Slavic language family.
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Slovenia
Slovenia ( ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (, ), is a country in Central Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy on the west, the Adriatic Sea on the southwest, Croatia on the south and east, Hungary on the northeast, and Austria on the north. The capital and largest city of Slovenia is Ljubljana.
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Somaliland
Somaliland (, Arḍ aṣ-Ṣūmāl) is an unrecognized state located in the Horn of Africa. It is regarded internationally as being an autonomous region of Somalia. The government of Somaliland, however, regards itself as the successor state to British Somaliland which was independent for a few days in 1960 as the State of Somaliland.
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South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa, with a coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To the north lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe; to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland; while Lesotho is an independent country wholly surrounded by South African territory.
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South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK, , ) and sometimes referred to simply as Korea, is a state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, and North Korea to the north. Its capital is Seoul. South Korea lies in a temperate climate region with a predominantly mountainous terrain. Its territory covers a total area of 99,392 square kilometers and has a population of .
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The '''People's Democratic Republic of Yemen — also referred to as Democratic Yemen, South Yemen-South Arabia, or Yemen (Aden)''' — was a socialist republic in the present-day southern and eastern Provinces of Yemen. It united with the Yemen Arab Republic, commonly known as North Yemen, on May 22, 1990 to form the current Republic of Yemen.
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Sudan (), officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in northeastern Africa. It is the largest country in Africa and the Arab world, and tenth largest in the world by area. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east,Kenya and Uganda to the southeast, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west and Libya to the northwest. The world's longest river, the Nile, divides the country between east and west sides.
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Sydney
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Thailand ( or ; Ratcha Anachak Thai, ), formerly Siam (, ), is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and the southern extremity of Burma. Its maritime boundaries include Vietnam in the Gulf of Thailand to the southeast and Indonesia and India in the Andaman Sea to the southwest.
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Ukraine ( ; , transliterated: , ), with its area of 603,628 km2, is the second largest country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by the Russian Federation to the east and northeast, Belarus to the northwest, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, Romania and Moldova to the southwest, and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast respectively.
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a country and sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island nation, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border with another sovereign state, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. Great Britain is linked to continental Europe by the Channel Tunnel.
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The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Utah
Utah ( or ) is a western state of the United States. It was the 45th state admitted to the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,784,572 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the sixth most urbanized in the U.S. The name "Utah" is derived from the name of the Ute tribe and means "people of the mountains" in the Ute language. Utah is bordered by Arizona on the south, Colorado on the east, Wyoming on the northeast, Idaho on the north and Nevada on the west. It also touches a corner of New Mexico.
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Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish: República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south. Its roughly northern coastline includes numerous islands in the Caribbean Sea, and in the north east borders the northern Atlantic Ocean. Caribbean islands such as Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Curaçao, Aruba and the Leeward Antilles lie near the Venezuelan coast. Venezuela's territory covers around with an estimated population of 26,414,816. Venezuela is considered a country with extremely high biodiversity, with habitats ranging from the Andes mountains in the west to the Amazon Basin rainforest in the south, via extensive llanos plains and Caribbean coast in the center and the Orinoco River Delta in the east.
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West Bank
The West Bank (, , , ''HaGadah HaMa'aravit'') is a landlocked territory and is the eastern part of the Palestinian territories; on the west bank of the Jordan River in the Middle East. To the west, north, and south, the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel. To the east, across the Jordan River, lies the country of Jordan. The West Bank also contains a significant coastline along the western bank of the Dead Sea. Since 1967, most of the West Bank has been under Israeli military occupation as what it calls the Judea and Samaria Area. A smaller part of the West Bank is administered by the Israeli civilian authorities as part of Jerusalem District.
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Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. Australia's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.2 million inhabitants (10% of the national total), 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state.
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Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe ( ; officially the Republic of Zimbabwe and formerly Southern Rhodesia, the Republic of Rhodesia, and Zimbabwe Rhodesia) is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the continent of Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three official languages: English, Shona (a Bantu language), and Ndebele (also a Bantu language).
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United State Of Pop-The Billboard Top 25 Of 2007
Dj Earworm Mashup Of The Top 25 Songs of 2007 Irreplacable-Beyonce Umbrella-Rihanna with Jay-z The Sweet Escape-Gwen Stefani with Akon Big Girls Don't Cry-Fergie Buy UA Drink-T-Pain With Young Joc Before He Cheats-Carrie Underwood Hey There Delilah-Plain White T's I Wanna Love You-Akon with Snoop Dogg Say It Right-Nelly Furtado Glamorus-Fergie with Ludacris Don't Matter-Akon Girlfriend-Avril Lavigne Makes Me Wonder-Maroon 5 Party Like A Rockstar-Shop Boyz Smack That Akon With Eminem This Is Why I'm Hot-Mims It's Not Over Daughtry The Way I Are-Timbaland with Keri Hilson Fergalicious-Fergie Crank Dat Soulja Boy-Soulja Boy Tell Em Give It To Me-Timbaland with Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado What Goes Around Comes Around-Justin Timberlake Cupid's Chokehold-Gym Class Heroes With Patrick Stump How To Save A Life The Fray Home Daughtry
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Enur feat. Natasja - Calabria 2007
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- Duration: 4:04
- Published: 05 Oct 2007
- Uploaded: 02 Dec 2011
- Author: UltraRecords
This is the video for the massive smash "Calabria 2007" from Enur feat. Natasja! Rate it if you love it!
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Food Battle 2007
BLOOPERS: smosh.com Anthony and Ian fight to the death to prove which of their favorite foods is superior... again! Can celery stand up against pink-frosted sprinkled donut, or will it wilt under pressure? smosh.com http myspace.com
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What is that? (Τι είναι αυτό;) 2007
Father and son are sitting on a bench. Suddenly a sparrow lands across them. Cast Father: Nikos Zoiopoulos Son: Panagiotis Bougiouris Directed by: Constantin Pilavios Written by: Nikos & Constantin Pilavios Director of photgraphy: Zoe Manta Music by: Christos Triantafillou Sound by: Teo Babouris Mixed by: Kostas Varibobiotis Produced by: MovieTeller films
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![[HD] Steve Jobs - 2007 iPhone Presentation ( Part 1 of 2 )](http://web.archive.org./web/20120124114821im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/6uW-E496FXg/0.jpg "[HD] Steve Jobs - 2007 iPhone Presentation ( Part 1 of 2 )")
[HD] Steve Jobs - 2007 iPhone Presentation ( Part 1 of 2 )
The iPhone was introduced at the Macworld Conference & Expo 2007 with a keynote address from San Francisco's Moscone West. Wikipedia - Steve Jobs: en.wikipedia.org PlayList: www.youtube.com Steve Jobs - 2007 iPhone Presentation ( Part 2 of 2 ): www.youtube.com Steve Jobs - 2005 Stanford Commencement Speech: www.youtube.com
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Sensation 2007 Megamix
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- Duration: 32:05
- Published: 21 Mar 2009
- Uploaded: 29 Nov 2011
- Author: sensationvideo
Sensation 2007 Megamix
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Calabria 2007 - Enur feat. Natasja & MIMS
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- Duration: 4:03
- Published: 15 Nov 2007
- Uploaded: 02 Dec 2011
- Author: UltraRecords
This is the OFFICIAL new release of this already HOT track now with MIMS doing his thing on it! MIMS who is fresh of his number one single 'This Is Why I'm Hot' puts his vocal on top of 'Calabria 2007', which on it's own is blowing up at radio being played by all the major stations. Bringing these two forces together on one track creates an unstoppable combination and one that you need to hear to believe.
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Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina answers a question
Miss Teen USA 2007 - Ms. South Carolina answers a question
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Dragster backhoe at Rocky Mountain Nationals 2007
See the new high definition version of this video here: www.youtube.com A dragster backhoe that does the quarter mile in just over 17 seconds and hits 82 miles per hour Saturday July 7,2007 at the Rocky Mountain Nationals, Edmonton Canada.
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Foot 2007 (Rémi GAILLARD)
Dangerously funny videos created and produced by Rémi GAILLARD. The show continue on www.nimportequi.com
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Sony Rolly in Motion - Uncut Demonstration 2007 : DigInfo
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- Duration: 3:15
- Published: 27 Sep 2007
- Uploaded: 01 Dec 2011
- Author: Diginfonews
DigInfo TV - diginfo.tv SUBSCRIBE for more Japanese technology videos! See the future now! Robots! Tech! Phones! Games! 3D!
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HUGE MANITOBA TORNADO! June 23, 2007 -
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- Duration: 5:26
- Published: 24 Jun 2007
- Uploaded: 01 Dec 2011
- Author: TornadoVideosdotnet
**For the complete story, read INTO THE STORM** www.tornadovideos.net TornadoVideos.net storm chasers Reed Timmer and Dave Holder captured this huge, violent wedge tornado in southwest Manitoba on June 23, 2007. We were blasted by mud and flying corn stalks as the tornado crossed the road less than 200 yards away!
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Arctic Monkeys - 'Fluorescent Adolescent' (2007)
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- Duration: 3:16
- Published: 06 Jun 2007
- Uploaded: 02 Dec 2011
- Author: DominoRecords
Great new video from Sheffield's finest! Enjoy the clowns!
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Oktapodi (2007) - Oscar 2009 Animated Short Film
How adorable are these octopi? In Oktapodi, these two cuties help each other escape the clutches of a tyrannical restaurant cook. But, even once theyre out of the kitchen, their battle to stay together is not over.
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Bad weather 21-2-2007
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- Duration: 1:21
- Published: 06 Mar 2007
- Uploaded: 02 Dec 2011
- Author: thyztwizta
A clip of working in winter conditions on the North Sea. Fyi, the vessel is the Calamity Jane, an offshore support vessel. Loa : 141 m or 463 ft.
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Red Bull BC ONE 2007 - Finals Highlight!
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- Duration: 2:18
- Published: 05 Oct 2007
- Uploaded: 02 Dec 2011
- Author: redbullusa
Ronnie takes the title at the BC One Finals in Johannesburg, South Africa. Highlights from the final battle and other moments from the event. More clips to come! Get more info at redbullbcone.com
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Atonement (2007) - Official Trailer
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- Duration: 2:31
- Published: 17 Mar 2011
- Uploaded: 02 Dec 2011
- Author: thecultbox
Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit. Based on the British romance novel by Ian McEwan. Released on 2007 Starring: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Saoirse Ronan, Brenda Blethyn
http://wn.com/Atonement_2007__Official_Trailer
Florence Foresti - NRJ music awards 2007
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- Duration: 6:00
- Published: 20 Jan 2007
- Uploaded: 29 Nov 2011
- Author: wahidyourdaddy
blog.exclusifchaussures.fr Florence Foresti au NRJ music awards 2007 Beyonce , Shakira, les Pussycat Dolls et Justin Timberlake
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Daft Punk Alive 2007 - Face to Face / Short Circuit
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- Duration: 4:54
- Published: 25 Jan 2008
- Uploaded: 01 Dec 2011
- Author: kewl1337geek
Daft Punk's Face to Face / Short Circuit performance from their Alive 2007 show in Bercy, Paris - June 14th, 2007. A recording of the whole event is available via Daft Punk's accordingly named, second ever released live album which first saw the light of day on November 19th, 2007. If you like this song, please go ahead and buy it :) Here's a link to the iTunes Music Store for your convenience - it's DRM-free: phobos.apple.com
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Driving Sports TV - 2007 Mazda MX-5 Miata PRHT vs. Original
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- Duration: 6:02
- Published: 26 Jun 2007
- Uploaded: 25 Nov 2011
- Author: drivingsports
Driving Sports TV matches the new Miata MX-5 retractable hard top versus the original removable lid at the DSTV proving grounds.
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Bound For Glory 2007: LAX vs. Triple X
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- Duration: 15:07
- Published: 03 Jul 2009
- Uploaded: 01 Dec 2011
- Author: TNAwrestling
Featuring TNA's innovative Ultimate X Match
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SI Swimsuit 2007 Raica
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- Duration: 1:02
- Published: 16 May 2007
- Uploaded: 02 Dec 2011
- Author: SIswimsuit
SI Swimsuit model Raica Oliveira tells you everything you want to know about her.
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Bercy / Daft Punk Alive 2007 / Around the World - HBFS
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- Duration: 5:45
- Published: 28 Dec 2007
- Uploaded: 01 Dec 2011
- Author: mbernier001
For Hi-Qual, visit : www.theworldisdaft.com DVD Daft Punk Alive 2007 / Around the World - HBFS Music by Daft Punk from Alive 2007 Album (EMI) Final Cut by MaTt.B Videos : cedarbo, FaSol40, dafrd, samleskateur, beniouz01, disqueprimeur, pgxrennes, romain-rock, cerberuswg, mariejo10
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2007 (MMVII) was a common year that started on a Monday (dominical letter G) in the Gregorian calendar. It was the 2007th year of the Common Era or Anno Domini designation, the 7th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century, and the 8th of the 2000s decade.
Scotland's Year of Highland Culture.
Scouting Centenary, celebrating 100 years of the Scout Movement.
UNESCO has recognized fifteen anniversaries for 2007.
January 1
* Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union.
* South Korea's Ban Ki-moon becomes the new United Nations Secretary-General, replacing Kofi Annan.
January 3 – China conducts an anti-terror raid in Xinjiang.
January 8 – Russian oil supplies to Poland, Germany, and Ukraine are cut as the Russia-Belarus energy dispute escalates; they are restored 3 days later.
January 12 – Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught), the brightest comet in more than 40 years, makes perihelion.
January 13 – The Greek ship ''Server'' breaks in half off the Norwegian coast, releasing over 200 tons of crude oil.
January 14 – The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement adopts the Red Crystal as a non-religious emblem for use in its overseas operations.
January 17 – Protests occur in India and the United Kingdom against the British series of ''Celebrity Big Brother'', after Jade Goody, Danielle Lloyd and Jo O'Meara were allegedly racially abusive towards Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty.
January 19 – Israel releases $100 million in frozen assets to President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority, in order to bolster the president's position.
February 2
* Chinese President Hu Jintao signs a series of economic deals with Sudan.
* Martti Ahtisaari unveils a United Nations plan for the final status of Kosovo; Serbian leaders denounce the proposal.
* The IPCC publishes its fourth assessment report, having concluded that global climate change is "very likely" to have a predominantly human cause.
February 13 – North Korea agrees to shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon by April 14 as a first step towards complete denuclearization, receiving in return energy aid equivalent to 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil.
February 26 – The International Court of Justice finds Serbia guilty of failing to prevent genocide in the Srebrenica massacre, but clears it of direct responsibility and complicity in the case.
February 27 – The Chinese Correction: World stock markets plummet after China and Europe release less-than-expected growth reports.
February 28 – The New Horizons space probe makes a gravitational slingshot against Jupiter, which changes its trajectory towards Pluto.
March 1 – The International Polar Year, a $1.5 billion research program to study both the North Pole and South Pole, is launched in Paris.
March 8 – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert admits that Israel had planned an attack on Lebanon in the event of kidnapped soldiers on the border, months before Hezbollah carried out its kidnapping.
March 23 – Naval forces of Iran's Revolutionary Guard seize Royal Navy personnel in disputed Iran-Iraq waters.
March 27 – Prime Minister of Latvia Aigars Kalvitis and Prime minister of Russia Mikhail Fradkov finally sign a border treaty between Latvia and Russia.
April 3 – ''Second Orange Revolution'': Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dissolves the Ukrainian Parliament, following defections that increased the majority of his opponents.
April 4 – Iran announces it will release the British sailors and marines that they captured on March 23.
April 14 – Retired chess champion Garry Kasparov is detained in Moscow for participating in a banned march.
April 24 – Gliese 581 c, a potentially habitable Earth-like extrasolar planet, is discovered in the constellation Libra.
April 26 – Russians riot in Tallinn, Estonia, about moving the Bronze Soldier; 2 nights of rioting leave 1 dead.
May 3 - British toddler Madeleine McCann disappears from an apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal
May 16 – The United Nations General Assembly, recognizing that genuine multilingualism promotes unity in diversity and international understanding, proclaims 2008 the International Year of Languages.
May 17 – The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and the Moscow Patriarchate re-unite after 80 years of schism.
May 20 – Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum of Dubai makes the largest single charitable donation in modern history, committing €7.41 billion to an educational foundation in the Middle East.
June 5 – NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second fly-by of Venus en route to Mercury.
June 28 – In the aftermath of Greece's worst heatwave in a century, at least 11 people are reported dead from heatstroke, approximately 200 wildfires break out nationwide, and the country's electricity grid nearly collapses due to record breaking demand.
July 2 – Venus and Saturn are in conjunction, separation 46 arcsecs.
July 7 – Live Earth Concerts are held throughout 9 major cities around the world.
July 17 – TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054 overruns the runway of Congonhas-São Paulo International Airport and crashes, killing all 186 and others on the ground.
July 21 – The final book of the Harry Potter series, ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'', is released and sells over 11 million copies in the first 24 hours, becoming the fastest selling book in history.
July 27– The Simpsons Movie releases in theaters
August 4 – The Phoenix spacecraft launches toward the Martian north pole.
August 6 – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrives in the historic Palestinian town of Jericho, becoming the first Prime Minister of Israel to visit the West Bank or Gaza Strip in more than 7 years. Olmert meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
August 14 – Multiple suicide bombings kill 572 people in Qahtaniya, northern Iraq.
August 15 – An 8.0 earthquake strikes Peru, killing 512 people, injuring more than 1,500, and causing tsunami warnings in the Pacific Ocean.
August 17 – Vladimir Putin issues a statement, revealing that Russia is to resume the flight exercises of its strategic bombers in remote areas. The flights were suspended in 1991 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
September 2–September 9 – The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit hosts its 19th annual city meeting in Sydney.
September 6 – ''Operation Orchard'': Israeli airplanes strike a suspected nuclear site in Syria.
September 14 – The SELENE spacecraft launches. JAXA has called the mission, "the largest lunar mission since the Apollo program."
September 16 – One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 crashes in Phuket, Thailand, killing 89 passengers and crew.
September 20 – The 2007 Universal Forum of Cultures opens in Monterrey, Mexico.
September 24 – India national cricket team won the inaugural 2007 ICC World Twenty20 Cup, beating Pakistan national cricket team in the final.
October 4 – Spanish authorities arrest 22 people associated with the banned Batasuna party, which campaigns for Basque independence, but also has ties to the terrorist group ETA.
October 8 – Track and field star Marion Jones surrenders her 5 Olympic medals she won in the 2000 Sydney Games, after admitting to doping.
October 14 – Al-habileen/lahij: Four citizens are killed on the 44th anniversary of the revolution against British colonial rule in South Yemen.
October 24 – In the space of a few hours, Comet Holmes develops a coma and flares up to half a million times its former brightness, becoming visible to the naked eye. Its coma later becomes larger in volume than the Sun, making it the second comet to do so in 2007 after Comet McNaught.
October 28 – The Vatican beatifies 498 Spanish victims of religious persecution from before and during the Spanish Civil War.
October 31 – The World Economic Forum releases The Global Competitiveness Report 2007-2008.
November 3 – President Pervez Musharraf declares a state of emergency in Pakistan.
November 5 – The Writers Guild of America goes on a strike that lasts until February 12, 2008.
November 6 – A suicide bomber kills at least 50 people in Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan, including 6 members of the National Assembly.
November 13 – An explosion hits the south wing of the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Quezon City, north of Manila, killing 4 people, including Basilan Congressman Wahab Akbar, and wounding 6 others.
November 14 – High Speed 1 from London to the Channel Tunnel is opened to passengers.
November 16 – Approximately 10,000 people are believed to have died after Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh.
November 18 – The Zasyadko mine disaster in eastern Ukraine claims the lives of 101 miners.
December 3 – 14 – The United Nations Climate Change Conference is held at Nusa Dua in Bali, Indonesia.
December 7 – Uranus' orbit is positioned such that the sun shines directly above its equator (i.e. an equinox).
December 8 – The 2007 Africa-EU Summit takes place as European Union and African Union leaders gather in Lisbon, Portugal, for their first joint summit in 7 years. The British and Czech prime ministers boycott the event due to the presence of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
December 10 – The United Nations deadline for a negotiated settlement on the future of Kosovo passes without an international agreement.
December 19 – Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, is announced as Time magazine's 2007 Person of the Year.
December 20 – The Pablo Picasso painting ''Portrait of Suzanne Bloch'', together with Candido Portinari's ''O Lavrador de Café'', is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art.
December 21 – The Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the Schengen border-free zone.
December 24 – The Nepalese government announces that the country's 240-year-old monarchy will be abolished in 2008 and a new republic will be declared.
December 27 – Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated, and at least 20 others are killed by a bomb blast at an election rally in Rawalpindi.
December 31 – Over 200 people are killed in Kenya, due to riots over the results of the December 27 presidential election.
April 10 – HRH Princess Ariane of the Netherlands, daughter of Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Máxima.
April 21 – HRH Princess Isabella of Denmark, daughter of Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark and his wife, Crown Princess Mary.
April 29 – HRH Infanta Sofía of Spain, daughter of Felipe, Prince of Asturias and his wife, Letizia, Princess of Asturias.
17 December, James, Viscount Severn son of the Queen's youngest son, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Sophie, Countess of Wessex
January 2 – Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)
January 4 – Marais Viljoen, State President of South Africa (b. 1915)
January 5 – Momofuku Ando, Japanese inventor (b. 1910)
January 8
* Iwao Takamoto, Japanese animator (b. 1925)
* Yvonne De Carlo, American actress (b. 1922)
January 9 – Jean-Pierre Vernant, French historian and anthropologist (b. 1914)
January 10 – Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (b. 1912)
January 11 – Robert Anton Wilson, American author and conspiracy researcher (b. 1932)
January 12 – Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (b. 1937)
January 13 – Michael Brecker, American jazz musician (b. 1949)
January 14 – Darlene Conley, American actress (b. 1934)
January 15
* Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Iraqi politician (b. 1951)
* Awad Hamed al-Bandar, Iraqi judge (b. 1945)
* Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (b. 1908)
January 17 – Art Buchwald, American humorist (b. 1925)
January 19
* Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist (b. 1954)
* Denny Doherty, Canadian musician (The Mamas & the Papas) (b. 1940)
* Bam Bam Bigelow, American wrestler (b. 1961)
January 21 – Maria Cioncan, Romanian athlete (b. 1977)
January 22 – Abbé Pierre, French priest and founder of Emmaus (b. 1912)
January 23 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist and author (b. 1932)
January 28 – Hsu Wei Lun, Taiwanese actress (b. 1978)
January 30 – Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
January 31 – Kirka Babitzin, Finnish singer (b. 1950)
February 1 – Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer and librettist (b. 1911)
February 3
* Ralph de Toledano, Moroccan-born American political columnist and author (b. 1916)
* Pedro Knight, Cuban-born musician (b. 1921)
February 6 – Frankie Laine, American singer (b. 1913)
February 7
* Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
* Helen Duncan, New Zealand politician (b. 1941)
February 8 – Anna Nicole Smith, American model and television personality (b. 1967)
February 9
* Benedict Kiely, Irish author and broadcaster (b. 1919)
* Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b. 1934)
* Alejandro Finisterre, Spanish poet, editor, and inventor of table football (b. 1919)
February 11 – Reginald Hugh Hickling, British lawyer, colonial civil servant, law academic and author (b. 1920)
February 12 – Peggy Gilbert, American saxophonist (b. 1905)
February 13
* Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (b. 1923)
* Charles Norwood, American politician (b. 1941)
* Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (b. 1974)
February 14 – Ryan Larkin, Canadian animator, artist, and sculptor (b. 1943)
February 15 – Robert Adler, Austrian-born inventor (b. 1913)
February 17
* Maurice Papon, French Vichy government official (b. 1910)
* Dermot O'Reilly, Irish-born musician (Ryan's Fancy) (b. 1942)
* Mike Awesome, American professional wrestler (b. 1965)
February 18 – Juan "Pachín" Vicéns, Puerto Rican basketball player (b. 1933)
February 22
* Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author, painter, and art collector (b. 1918)
* Fons Rademakers, Dutch film director (b. 1920)
* Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1954)
February 24 – Bruce Bennett, American actor (b. 1906)
February 28
* Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., American historian and political commentator (b. 1917)
* Charles Forte, English hotelier (b. 1908)
March 2
* Henri Troyat, French writer (b. 1911)
* Madi Phala, South African artist (b. 1955)
March 3 – Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (b. 1913)
March 4
* Natalie Bodanya, American soprano (b. 1908)
* Thomas Eagleton, American politician (b. 1929)
* Bob Hattoy, American activist (b. 1950)
* Tadeusz Nalepa, Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist (b. 1934)
* Ian Wooldridge, British sports journalist (b. 1932)
* Jorge Kolle Cueto, Bolivian politician
March 6
* Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher and sociologist (b. 1929)
* Allen Coage, American professional wrestler (b. 1943)
* Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (b. 1909)
March 8 – John Inman, English actor (b. 1935)
March 9
* Brad Delp, American singer (Boston) (b. 1951)
* Thomas B. Mason, U.S. Attorney (b. 1919)
March 10
* Ernie Ladd, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938)
* Richard Jeni, American comedian (b. 1957)
March 11 – Betty Hutton, American actress (b. 1921)
March 12 – Antonio Ortiz Mena, Mexican politician and economist (b. 1907)
March 13 – Arnold Skaaland, American wrestler (b. 1925)
March 14
* Lucie Aubrac, French World War II Resistance fighter (b. 1912)
* Gareth Hunt, English actor (b. 1943)
March 16
* Manjural Islam, Bangladeshi cricketer (b. 1984)
* Sir Arthur Marshall, British aviation engineer (b. 1903)
March 17
* Jim Cronin, British businessman (b. 1952)
* Roger Bennett, American gospel musician (b. 1952)
March 18 – Bob Woolmer, English cricketer and coach (b. 1948)
March 19
* Calvert DeForest, American actor and comedian (b. 1921)
* Luther Ingram, American singer (b. 1937)
March 20 – Taha Yassin Ramadan, Vice President of Iraq (b. 1938)
March 23 – Eric Medlen, American race car driver (b. 1973)
March 25 – Andranik Margaryan, 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (b. 1951)
March 29 – Leslie Waller, American novelist (b. 1923)
April 1
* Laurie Baker, English architect (b. 1917)
* Driss Chraibi, Moroccan writer (b. 1926)
* Hans Filbinger, German jurist and politician (b. 1913)
April 2 – Henry Lee Giclas, American astronomer (b. 1910)
April 3 – Eddie Robinson, American football coach (b. 1919)
April 4 – Bob Clark, American film director (b. 1939)
April 5
* Thomas Stoltz Harvey Pathologist who conducted Albert Einstein's autopsy (b. 1912)
* Leela Majumdar, Bengali children's author (b. 1908)
* Darryl Stingley, American football player (b. 1951)
* Poornachandra Tejaswi, Indian writer and novelist (b. 1938)
April 6 – Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (b. 1916)
April 7
* Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
* Barry Nelson, American actor (b. 1920)
April 9 – AJ Carothers, American writer (b. 1931)
April 10 – Kevin Crease Australian news presenter and entertainer (b. 1936)
April 11
* Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor (b. 1925)
* Ronald Speirs, United States Army officer (b. 1920)
* Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist and playwright (b. 1922)
April 13 – Don Selwyn, Māori actor and film director (b. circa 1936)
April 14
* June Callwood, Canadian journalist (b. 1924)
* Don Ho, American musician (b. 1930)
April 15 – Brant Parker, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
April 16 – Frank Bateson, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1909)
April 17 – Kitty Carlisle Hart, American singer, actress & talk show panelist (b. 1910)
April 18 – Iccho Itoh, Mayor of Nagasaki, Japan (b. 1945)
April 20 – Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (b. 1931)
April 22 – Juanita Millender-McDonald, American politician (b. 1938)
April 23
* David Halberstam, American author and journalist (b. 1934)
* Boris Yeltsin, first President of the Russian Federation (b. 1931)
April 25
* Alan Ball, English footballer (b. 1945)
* Arthur Milton, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1928)
* Bobby Pickett, American singer (b. 1938)
April 26
* Jack Valenti, American film executive, creator of MPAA film rating system (b. 1921)
* Conchita Montenegro, Spanish model and actress (b. 1912)
April 27 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927)
April 28
* Dabbs Greer, American actor (b. 1917)
* Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (b. 1912)
April 29
* Ivica Račan, 7th Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1944)
* Dick Motz, New Zealand cricket player (b. 1940)
April 30
* Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (b. 1983)
* Tom Poston, American actor (b. 1921)
* Gordon Scott, American actor (b. 1926)
May 2 – Juan Valdivieso, Peruvian footballer (b. 1910)
May 3
* Wally Schirra, American astronaut (b. 1923)
* Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician (b. 1932)
May 5
* Theodore Maiman, American physicist (b. 1927)
* Gusti Wolf, Austrian actress (b. 1912)
May 6 – Lesley Blanch, English writer and fashion editor (b. 1904)
May 7 – Emma Lehmer, Russian-born mathematician (b. 1906)
May 11 – Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan head of state (b. 1913)
May 12 – Mullah Dadullah Akhund, Afghani Taliban military leader
May 14 – Colin St John Wilson, English architect (b. 1922)
May 15
* Jerry Falwell, American evangelist (b. 1933)
* Yolanda King, American actress and activist, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1955)
May 17 – Lloyd Alexander, American author (b. 1924)
May 18
* Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and Nobel Prize for Physics laureate (b. 1932)
* Yoyoy Villame, Filipino singer (b. 1938)
May 19 – Dean Eyre, New Zealand politician (b. 1914)
May 20 – Stanley Miller, American chemist and biologist (b. 1930)
May 25 – Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor (b. 1931)
May 27
* Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (b. 1967)
* Percy Sonn, South African lawyer and cricket executive (b. 1949)
* Ed Yost, American inventor of the modern hot air balloon (b. 1919)
May 28
* Marquise Hill, American football player (b. 1982)
* David Lane, American white nationalist (b. 1938)
June 2 – Huang Ju, Chinese politician (b. 1938)
June 4 – Craig L. Thomas, American politician (b. 1933)
June 8 – Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, first President of Somalia (b. 1908)
June 10 – Augie Auer, meteorologist (b. 1940)
June 11
* Imre Friedmann, American scientist (b. 1921)
* Mala Powers, American film actress (b. 1931)
June 12 – Don Herbert, American television personality, ''Mr. Wizard'' (b. 1917)
June 13 – David Hatch, BBC Radio producer and comedian (b. 1939)
June 14
* Ruth Bell Graham, Wife of Billy Graham (b. 1920)
* Jacques Simonet, Belgian politician (b. 1963)
June 14 – Kurt Waldheim, Austrian politician and diplomat, former United Nations Secretary-General (b. 1918)
June 15 – Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
June 17 – Gianfranco Ferrè, Italian designer (b. 1944)
June 18
* Bernard Manning, English comedian (b. 1930)
* Vilma Espín, Cuban wife of Raúl Castro (b. 1930)
June 19
* El Fary, Spanish singer (b. 1937)
* Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (b. 1947)
* Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1919)
June 20 – Trevor Henry, New Zealand Justice (b. 1902)
June 22 – Erik Parlevliet, Dutch field hockey player b. (1964)
June 24
* Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1938)
* Natasja Saad, Afro Danish rapper and reggae singer (b. 1974)
* Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1967)
June 26
* Jupp Derwall, German footballer and coach (b. 1927)
* Joey Sadler, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1914)
* Liz Claiborne, Belgian-American fashion designer (b. 1929)
June 27 – William Hutt, Canadian stage and film actor (b. 1920)
June 28 – Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)
June 30 – Jan Herman Linge, Norwegian engineer and boat designer (b. 1922)
July 1 – Gottfried von Bismarck, German aristocrat and socialite (b. 1962)
July 2
* Vojislav Nikčević, Montenegrin professor and linguist (b. 1935)
* Beverly Sills, American soprano (b. 1929)
* Dilip Sardesai, Indian cricketer (b. 1940)
* Hy Zaret, American lyricist and composer (b. 1907)
July 3
* Claude Pompidou, wife of President of France Georges Pompidou (b. 1912)
* Boots Randolph, American saxophone player (b. 1927)
July 4
* Johnny Frigo, American jazz violinist and bassist (b.1916)
* Bill Pinkney, American singer (b. 1925)
July 5
* George Melly, English singer (b. 1926)
* Régine Crespin, French soprano (b. 1927)
July 6
* Lois Wyse, American advertising executive, author, and columnist (b. 1926)
* Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, U.S.American novelist (b. 1939)
July 10
* Zheng Xiaoyu, Chinese bureaucrat (b. 1944)
* Corbin Harney, an elder and spiritual leader of the Newe (Western Shoshone) people (b. 1920)
July 11
* Lady Bird Johnson, former First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
* Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd Colombian President (b. 1913)
* Ed Mirvish, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1914)
* Shag Crawford, American umpire in Major League Baseball (b. 1916)
* Richard Franklin, Australian film director (b. 1948)
July 12
* Nigel Dempster, British journalist, author, broadcaster and diarist (b.1941)
* Pat Fordice, First Lady of Mississippi from 1992 until 2000 (b. 1935)
* Jim Mitchell, pioneer in the pornographic film industry (b. 1945)
* Larry Staverman, American professional basketball player and coach (b. 1936)
* Stan Zemanek, Australian radio broadcaster (b. 1947)
July 14 – John Ferguson, Canadian professional hockey player, coach and executive (b. 1938)
July 17 – Júlio Redecker, Brazilian politician (b. 1956)
July 18 – Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (b. 1908)
July 19 – A. K. Faezul Huq, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (b. 1945)
July 22
* László Kovács, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1933)
* Ulrich Mühe, German actor (b. 1953)
* Peter Lennox-Kerr, British Journalist (b. 1926)
* Jean Stablinski, French cyclist of Polish origin (b. 1932)
* Aleksandr Tatarskiy, Russian animation film director (b. 1950)
July 23
* Benjamin Libet, American pioneering scientist in the field of human consciousness (b. 1916)
* Mohammed Zahir Shah, last King of Afghanistan (b. 1914)
July 24 – Albert Ellis, American psychologist (b. 1913)
July 27 – James Oyebola, British heavyweight boxer (b. 1961)
July 29
* Mike Reid, British comedian and actor (b. 1940)
* Tom Snyder, American talk show host (b. 1936)
July 30
* Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (b. 1912)
* Teoctist Arăpaşu, Ex-Romanian Orthodox Church Patriarch (b. 1915)
* Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director (b. 1918)
* Bill Walsh, American football coach (b. 1931)
August 1
* Tommy Makem, Irish folk musician (b. 1932)
* Ryan Cox, South African professional road racing cyclist (b. 1979)
* Veikko Karvonen, Finnish athlete (b. 1926)
August 2 – Holden Roberto, Angolan nationalist leader (b. 1923)
August 3
* James T. Callahan, American actor (b. 1930)
* John Gardner, British author (b. 1926)
August 4 – Lee Hazlewood, American country singer, songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
August 5
* Oliver Hill, American lawyer (b. 1907)
* Jean-Marie Lustiger, French Cardinal Archbishop of Paris (b. 1926)
August 6 – Heinz Barth, German war criminal (b. 1920)
August 7
* Ernesto Alonso, Mexican soap opera actor, director and producer, best known as ''Señor Telenovela'' (b. 1917)
* Angus Tait, New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman (b. 1919)
August 8
* Ma Lik, Chinese politician (b. 1952)
* Melville Shavelson, American film director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
August 9 – Joe O'Donnell, American documentary photographer and photojournalist (b. 1922)
August 10
* Tony Wilson, English broadcaster, nightclub manager, and record label owner (b.1950)
* James Faust, an Apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1920)
August 12
* Merv Griffin, American TV personality (b. 1925)
* Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (b. 1963)
August 13
* Brooke Astor, American socialite and philanthropist (b. 1902)
* Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and announcer (b. 1917)
* Brian Adams, American professional wrestler (b. 1964)
August 14 – Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer (b. 1913)
August 15
* Richard Bradshaw, British opera conductor (b. 1944)
* John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist and advocate (b. 1918)
* Sam Pollock, Canadian sports executive (b. 1925)
August 16 – Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer, and composer (b. 1924)
August 17 – Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (b. 1982)
August 18 – Michael Deaver, American political adviser (b. 1938)
August 20 – Leona Helmsley, American hotel operator and real estate investor (b. 1920)
August 21
* Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American brigadier general (b. 1918)
* Qurratulain Hyder, Indian novelist (b. 1926)
August 24 – Abdul Rahman Arif, 3rd President of Iraq (b. 1916)
August 25
* Raymond Barre, French politician and economist (b. 1924)
* Ray Jones, English footballer (b. 1988)
August 26
* Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger politician (b. 1928)
* Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor (b. 1935)
August 28
* Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984)
* Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (b. 1935)
* Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese actress (b. 1929)
* Nikola Nobilo, New Zealand winemaker (b. 1913)
August 29
* Richard Jewell, American falsely accused of bombing the Centennial Olympic Park (b. 1962)
* Pierre Messmer, French politician (b. 1916)
* Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian footballer (b. 1978)
* James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (b. 1914)
August 30
* Michael Jackson, English writer (b. 1942)
* Charles Vanik, American politician (b. 1918)
August 31 – Gay Brewer, American golfer (b. 1932)
September 1
* Tomás Medina Caracas, Colombian rebel leader (b. 1965)
* Roy McKenzie, New Zealand philanthropist (b. 1922)
September 2 – Max McNab, Canadian hockey player and hockey executive (b. 1924)
September 3
* Jane Tomlinson, British charity fund raiser (b. 1964)
* Syd Jackson, Māori activist and trade unionist (b. 1939)
September 5
* Jennifer Dunn, American politician (b. 1941)
* Paul Gillmor, American politician (b. 1939)
September 6
* Madeleine L'Engle, American author (b. 1918)
* Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935)
September 7
* John Compton, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (b. 1925)
* Mark Weil, Uzbek theater director (b. 1952)
September 8 – Charlie Parlato, American musician (b. 1919)
September 9
* Helmut Senekowitsch, Austrian footballer and coach (b. 1933)
* Hughie Thomasson, American musician (b. 1952)
September 10
* Anita Roddick, English entrepreneur (b. 1942)
* Jane Wyman, American actress, former wife of Ronald Reagan (b. 1917)
September 11
* Ian Porterfield, Scottish footballer (b. 1946)
* Joe Zawinul, Austrian musician (b. 1932)
September 13 – Whakahuihui Vercoe, New Zealand clergyman (b. 1928)
September 14 – Benny Vansteelant, Belgian duathlete (b. 1976)
September 15
* Colin McRae, Scottish world rally champion (b. 1968)
* Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (b. 1928)
* Brett Somers, American actress (b. 1924)
September 16 – Robert Jordan, American author (b. 1948)
September 18 – Len Thompson, Australian footballer (b. 1947)
September 19 – Antoine Ghanem, Lebanese politician (b. 1943)
September 20 – Mahlon Clark, American musician (b. 1923)
September 21
* Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian athlete (b. 1929)
* Alice Ghostley, American actress (b. 1926)
* Rex Humbard, American evangelist (b. 1919)
* Petar Stambolić, Serbian politician (b. 1912)
September 22 – Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (b. 1923)
September 23 – Ken Danby, Canadian artist (b. 1940)
September 26 – Dave Carpender, American guitarist with The Greg Kihn Band (b. 1950)
September 27
* Bill Perry, South African footballer, scored winning goal in the 1953 FA Cup Final (b. 1930)
* Avraham Shapira, Israeli chief rabbi (b. 1914)
* Kenji Nagai, Japanese journalist (b. 1957)
September 28 – Wally Parks, American founder of the National Hot Rod Association (b. 1913)
September 29 – Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)
September 30 – Milan Jelić, Bosnian-Serb politician (b. 1956)
October 1
* Ronnie Hazlehurst, English composer (b. 1928)
* Al Oerter, American athlete (b. 1936)
* Ned Sherrin, English broadcaster and theatre director (b. 1931)
October 2 – Dan Keating, Irish republican (b. 1902)
October 3 – Tony Ryan, Irish businessman (b. 1936)
October 4
* Qassem Al-Nasser, Jordanian General (b. 1925)
* Antonie Iorgovan, Romanian jurist, professor, and politician (b. 1948)
October 5 – Justin Tuveri, Italian veteran of World War I (b. 1898)
October 6 – Jo Ann Davis, American politician (b. 1950)
October 7
* Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle road racer (b. 1975)
* Luciana Frassati Gawronska, Italian author (b. 1902)
October 8 – Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (b. 1917)
October 11 – Sri Chinmoy, Indian philosopher (b. 1931)
October 12
* Soe Win, Burmese politician (b. 1948)
* Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (b. 1934)
October 13 – Bob Denard, French mercenary (b. 1929)
October 16
* Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (b. 1921)
* Rosalio José Castillo Lara, Venezuelan cardinal (b. 1922)
* Toše Proeski, Macedonian singer (b. 1981)
* Barbara West, 2nd to last living survivor of the Titanic sinking (b. 1911)
October 17
* Joey Bishop, American entertainer (b. 1918)
* Teresa Brewer, American singer (b. 1931)
October 18
* Alan Coren, English columnist (b. 1939)
* William J. Crowe, American military commander and ambassador (b. 1925)
* Lucky Dube, South African musician (b. 1964)
October 19 – Jan Wolkers, Dutch author, sculptor and painter (b. 1925)
October 20 – Max McGee, American football player (b. 1932)
October 22 – Ève Curie, French author, daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie (b. 1904)
October 23 – Lim Goh Tong, Malaysian Chinese businessman (b. 1918)
October 24
* Petr Eben, Czech composer (b. 1929)
* Ian Middleton, New Zealand novelist (b. 1928)
October 26
* Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer (b. 1947)
* Friedman Paul Erhardt, German-American television chef (b. 1943)
* Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist (b. 1918)
* Khun Sa, Burmese warlord (b. 1934)
October 28 – Porter Wagoner, American country singer (b. 1927)
October 30 – Robert Goulet, American entertainer (b. 1933)
November 1 – Paul Tibbets, American general, pilot of the Enola Gay (b. 1915)
November 2
* Charmaine Dragun, Australian news anchor (b. 1978)
* S. P. Thamilselvan, Sri Lankan Tamil political leader (b. 1967)
* Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (b. 1906)
* The Fabulous Moolah, American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
November 3
* Martin Meehan, Irish republican (b. 1945)
* Aleksandr Dedyushko (b. 1962)
* Ryan Shay, American runner (b. 1979)
November 5 – Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer and coach (b. 1922)
November 6
*Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist (b. 1920)
* Hank Thompson, American country singer (b. 1925)
November 7 – Hilda Braid, English actress (b. 1929)
November 8
* Chad Varah, English Anglican priest, founder of the Samaritans (b. 1911)
* Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician (b. 1943)
November 9 – Luis Herrera Campins, 56th President of Venezuela (b. 1925)
November 10
* Laraine Day, American actress (b. 1920)
* Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician and civil rights lawmaker (b. 1907)
* Norman Mailer, American writer (b. 1923)
November 11 – Delbert Mann, American film and television director (b. 1920)
November 12 – Ira Levin, American novelist (b. 1929)
November 13
* John Doherty, English footballer (b. 1935)
* Kazuhisa Inao, Japanese baseball player (b. 1937)
* Wahab Akbar, Filipino politician (b. 1960)
November 15 – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and announcer (b. 1928)
November 16 – Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian comedian and author (b. 1946)
November 19 – Dick Wilson, American actor (b. 1916)
November 20 – Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia (b. 1919)
November 21
* Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, and playwright (b. 1921)
* Tom Johnson, Canadian sports executive and hockey player (b. 1928)
November 22 – Verity Lambert, English producer (b. 1935)
November 23 – Vladimir Kryuchkov, Russian Soviet-era bureaucrat (b. 1924)
November 24 – Casey Calvert, American musician (Hawthorne Heights) (b. 1981)
November 25 – Kevin DuBrow, American musician (Quiet Riot) (b. 1955)
November 27
* Sean Taylor, American football player (b. 1983)
* Robert Cade, American physician and inventor of the beverage Gatorade (b. 1927)
November 28 – Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (b. 1907)
November 29
* Henry Hyde, American politician (b. 1924)
* Roger Bonham Smith, American businessman (b. 1925)
November 30 – Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil (b. 1938)
December 1 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (b. 1929)
December 2
* Robert O. Anderson, American businessman (b. 1917)
* Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic and novelist (b. 1916)
* Les Shannon, English footballer and manager (b. 1926)
* Thomas Torrance, Scottish Protestant theologian (b. 1913)
December 4
* Pimp C, American rapper (b. 1973)
* Norval Morrisseau, Canadian artist (b. 1932)
* Chip Reese, American professional gambler (b. 1951)
December 5
* Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (b. 1928)
* Andrew Imbrie, American composer (b. 1921)
December 6 – Katy French, Irish model (b. 1983)
December 9
* Thore Skogman, Swedish entertainer (b. 1931)
* Abdullah Qureshi, Pakistani activist (b. 1935)
December 10 – Ashleigh Aston Moore, American actress (b. 1981)
December 11
* Nicholas Kao Se Tseien, Chinese Catholic priest (b. 1897)
* Ottomar Pinto, Brazilian politician (b. 1931)
December 12 – Ike Turner, American musician (b. 1931)
December 15
* Julia Carson, American politician (b. 1938)
* Ace Vergel, Filipino actor (b. 1952)
December 16 – Dan Fogelberg, American singer and songwriter (b. 1951)
December 18 – Bill Strauss, American satirist, author and historian (b. 1947)
December 20 – Arabella Spencer-Churchill, English philanthropist (b. 1949)
December 21
* Ken Hendricks, American entrepreneur (b. 1941)
* Carol Bly, Teacher, award-winning American author of short stories, essays, and nonfiction (b. 1930)
December 22
* Chrysostomos I, Archbishop of Cyprus (b. 1927)
* Julien Gracq, French writer (b. 1910)
* Andrew Glyn, English economist (b. 1943)
* Adrian Cristobal, Filipino writer (b. 1932)
December 23
* Michael Kidd, American choreographer (b. 1915)
* Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist and composer (b. 1925)
December 24 – Akbar Radi, Iranian dramatist and playwright (b. 1939)
December 26
* Joe Dolan, Irish singer (b. 1939)
* Stu Nahan, American sportscaster (b. 1926)
December 27
* Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician (assassinated; b. 1953)
* Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (b. 1920)
* Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Polish film director (b. 1922)
* Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza, a claimant to the Brazilian throne (b. 1913)
December 28 – Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, Iranian basketball player (b. 1982)
December 29
* Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar, Yemeni political and tribal leader (b. 1933)
* Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer (b. 1972)
December 31
* Muhammad Osman Said, Former Libyan prime minister (b. 1922).
* Ettore Sottsass, Italian architect (b. 1917)
Chemistry – Gerhard Ertl
Economics – Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin, and Roger Myerson
Literature – Doris Lessing
Peace – Albert Gore, Jr, and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Physics – Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg
Physiology or Medicine – Mario Capecchi, Oliver Smithies, and Sir Martin Evans
January 1 – New Year's Day.
January 7 – Christmas in Eastern Christianity.
January 26 – Australia Day, India's Republic Day.
February 6 – Waitangi Day in New Zealand.
February 12 – Independence Day in Chile.
February 19 – Presidents' Day in the United States.
February 20 – Mardi Gras Day.
February 21 – Western Christianity: Ash Wednesday and start of Lent.
March 1 – Saint David's Day
March 17 – Saint Patrick's Day.
March 19 – Feast of Saint Joseph in Christianity. In Judaism, start of the month of Nisan.
March 21 – Norouz, Iranian and Bahá'í New Year.
April 1 – April Fools' Day.
April 2 – In Judaism, 14/15 Nisan. Passover Seder.
April 6 – Good Friday in the Western Christian and Eastern Orthodox calendars.
April 8 – Easter (Western Christianity and Eastern Orthodoxy).
April 10 – End of Passover or Feast of Unleavened Bread.
April 18 – Zimbabwe's Independence day.
April 22 – Earth Day.
April 23
* Saint George's Day.
* Israeli Independence Day (Iyar 5) in the Hebrew calendar.
April 25
* ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand.
* Liberation of Italy Day.
April 27 – Arbor Day in the USA.
April 30 – Koninginnedag (''Queen's Day'', in Dutch) – National Holiday in the Netherlands.
May 1 – Beltane, a cross-quarter day. Also Labor Day in most of the world, but not in the USA and Canada. May Day.
May 5
* May Day in the United Kingdom.
* Cinco de Mayo, celebrating the Battle of Puebla between Mexico and France.
May 18 – Somaliland's (disputed) Independence day from Somalia.
May 21 – Victoria Day in Canada.
May 23 – Shavuot or Pentecost in the Jewish religion.
May 28 – Memorial Day in the USA.
June 1 – Foundation Day Western Australia, Australia.
June 2 – Republic Day in Italy.
June 7 – Independence Day in Norway.
June 12 – Independence Day in the Philippines.
June 14 – Flag Day in the USA.
June 17 – Iceland's Independence Day.
June 26 – Somaliland's Independence from the UK.
July 1 – Canada Day.
July 4 – Independence Day in the USA.
July 5 – Independence Day in Venezuela.
July 9 – Independence Day in Argentina.
July 14 – Bastille Day in France.
July 20 – Independence Day in Colombia.
July 24 – Birthday of Simon Bolivar (observed in Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador). Pioneer Day observed in Utah.
July 28 – Independence Day in Peru.
August 1 – Lammas, "Loaf Mass," a Cross-quarter day, Swiss National Day.
August 6 – Independence Day in Jamaica.
August 9 – National Day in Singapore.
August 14 – Pakistan Independence Day.
August 15 – India Independence Day.
August 17 – Indonesia Independence Day.
August 20 – St. Stephen's day, the main national holiday in Hungary.
August 28 – India Raksha Bhandhan.
August 31 – National Day in Malaysia.
September 3 – Labour Day in Canada and the USA.
September 7 – Independence Day in Brazil.
September 11 – National Day in Catalonia.
September 12–September 14 – Rosh Hashana begins at sunset: New Year 5768 in the Hebrew Calendar.
September 13 – Ramadan begins for the religion of Islam.
September 16 – Mexico Independence Day.
September 18 – Chile Independence Day.
September 21
* Yom Kippur or ''Yom ha-kippurim'', the Day of Atonement in the Jewish faith.
* Malta Independence Day.
September 22 – Belize Independence Day.
September 23 – Saudi Arabian National Day.
September 27 – Sukot or Feast of Tabernacles in Judaism.
October 1 – Independence Day in Nigeria.
October 2 – Gandhi Jayanti in India.
October 8
* Thanksgiving in Canada. Columbus Day in the USA.
* Battle of Angamos Day in Peru.
October 12 – Columbus Day in Central and South America.
October 23 – Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Anniversary in Hungary.
October 31 – All Hallows' Eve, Halloween.
November 1 – All Saints' Day. Samhain, a cross-quarter day. Neopagan New Year's Day.
November 5 – Guy Fawkes Night in Commonwealth countries.
November 9 – Diwali festival in India.
November 11
* Remembrance Day in most Commonwealth countries, Veterans' Day in the USA.
* Independence Day in Poland.
November 22 – Thanksgiving in the USA.
November 30 – Saint Andrew's Day.
December 1 – National Day in Romania.
December 6 – Independence Day in Finland.
December 11 – Independence Day in South Africa.
December 16 – Independence Day in Kazakhstan.
December 19 – Eid ul-Adha in Muslim countries.
December 22 – Winter Solstice.
December 23 – Festivus.
December 25 – Christmas in Western Christianity.
December 26 – Boxing Day in most Commonwealth countries.
December 31 – New Year's Eve.
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| name | Smosh |
|---|---|
| author | Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla |
| years | 2005-present |
| website | smosh.com }} |
Smosh is a web-based comedy duo consisting of Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla. Anthony Padilla first began posting flash movies on Newgrounds in early 2003, under the name Smosh. He was later joined by his friend Ian Hecox. Soon afterward they began to post videos on YouTube in the autumn of 2005 and became one of the most popular channels on that site, with more than 3 million subscribers as of August 2011. Until 2008, Smosh was the most-subscribed-to-YouTube account.
Four Smosh-related channels exist on YouTube. The base "Smosh" channel, where both Ian and Anthony post their skits and other videos, has new videos every Friday. From "IanH" (used at first for vlogs and other non-scripted videos), the pair upload their side series "Ian is Bored" on Mondays and "Lunchtime with Smosh" on Thursdays, while their associate performer Mari does "Smosh Pit Weekly" videos on Saturday. A third channel, called "AskCharlie", is based on the popular Smosh character Charlie the Drunk Guinea Pig. It uploads videos every Wednesday. Their final channel, "AnthonyPadilla", has been inactive since February 2011; it was formerly where Anthony made vlog-like videos on his own.
History
Formation and ''Pokémon Theme Music Video'': 2005–2009
Smosh began when Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla made several videos together, lip syncing to theme songs such as Mortal Kombat, Power Rangers, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. At first, these videos were not intended to be posted online, but after they sent them to their friends, they started a YouTube channel.One of Smosh's earliest videos, "Pokémon Theme Music Video," was released in November 2005. It followed the same style as their other earlier videos, featuring the duo lip-synching the original English theme song for the Pokémon anime. However, the video instantly became much more popular than any of their other videos; over the course of its lifetime, it gained 24.7 million views, becoming the most-viewed video on all of YouTube at that time. It held that title for about six months, but was removed by YouTube after the website received a notice from Shogakukan Productions Co., Ltd., claiming copyright infringement.
The success of their ''Pokémon'' video and other videos led Smosh to be featured in the "Person of the Year: You" issue of ''Time Magazine'', published December 13, 2006. It also inspired them to expand their style beyond basic lip-synching videos, and eventually to start creating videos of various genres, such as mini-skits and sketch comedies.
2010 era
In January 2010, Smosh launched the "Smosh Pit" feature, a blog that consists of various pieces of pop-culture trivia. In addition, 2010 saw the channel launch 3 different Smosh-based web series: "Ian is Bored," which is a collection of comedic videos by Ian Hecox; "Ask Charlie" (which is an interactive series where people ask Charlie, from their January 2010 "Charlie the Drunk Guinea Pig" video, random questions); and "Lunchtime with Smosh," a Comedy series featuring Smosh getting and eating food from various places.Also in early 2010, Smosh created the "iShut Up App" for Android phones as part of a Google sponsorship; it eventually made its way to the iTunes app store.
In November 2010, Anthony and Ian guest-appeared in the 35 minute film Agents of Secret Stuff, by Nigahiga.
As of August 2011, Smosh is the third most-subscribed channel on YouTube.
Anthony and Ian made a cameo in episode 3 of the popular machinima series Red vs Blue season 9.
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| name | Steve Jobs |
|---|---|
| birth name | Steven Paul Jobs |
| birth date | February 24, 1955 |
| birth place | |
| death date | October 05, 2011 |
| death place | |
| occupation | Chairman, Apple Inc. |
| Boards | The Walt Disney Company, Apple, Inc. |
| alma mater | Reed College (one semester in 1972) |
| networth | $8.3 billion (2011) |
| religion | Buddhism |
| spouse | Laurene Powell Jobs(m. 1991–2011; his death) |
| children | 4 |
| signature | Firma de Steve Jobs.svg |
| relatives | Mona Simpson (sister) |
| website | }} |
In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula, and others, designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Macintosh. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. Apple's subsequent 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he served as its CEO from 1997 until 2011.
In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd which was spun off as Pixar Animation Studios. He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1 percent until its acquisition by The Walt Disney company in 2006. Consequently Jobs became Disney's largest individual shareholder at 7 percent and a member of Disney's Board of Directors.
On August 24, 2011, Jobs announced his resignation from his role as Apple's CEO. In his letter of resignation, Jobs strongly recommended that the Apple executive succession plan be followed and Tim Cook be named as his successor. Per his request, Jobs was appointed chairman of Apple's board of directors. On October 5, 2011, Apple announced that Jobs had died. He was 56 years old. His aim, to develop products that are both functional and elegant, had earned him a devoted following.
Early years
Jobs was born in San Francisco and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs (née Hagopian) of Mountain View, California. Paul and Clara later adopted a daughter, Patti. Jobs' biological parents – Abdulfattah John Jandali, a Syrian immigrant to the U.S. who later became a political science professor, and Joanne Schieble (later Simpson), an American graduate student who went on to become a speech language pathologist – eventually married. Together, they gave birth to and raised Jobs' biological sister, novelist Mona Simpson.
Jobs attended Cupertino Junior High and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California. He frequented after-school lectures at the Hewlett-Packard Company in Palo Alto, California and was later hired there, working with Steve Wozniak as a summer employee. Following high school graduation in 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Although he dropped out after only one semester, he continued auditing classes at Reed, while sleeping on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke bottles for food money, and getting weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple. Jobs later said, "If I had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts."
In autumn 1974, Jobs returned to California and began attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club with Wozniak. He took a job as a technician at Atari, a manufacturer of popular video games, with the primary intent of saving money for a spiritual retreat to India.
Jobs then traveled to India to visit the Neem Karoli Baba at his Kainchi Ashram with a Reed College friend (and, later, the first Apple employee), Daniel Kottke, in search of spiritual enlightenment. He came back a Buddhist with his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian clothing. During this time, Jobs experimented with psychedelics, calling his LSD experiences "one of the two or three most important things [he had] done in [his] life". He later said that people around him who did not share his countercultural roots could not fully relate to his thinking.
Jobs returned to his previous job at Atari and was given the task of creating a circuit board for the game ''Breakout''. According to Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, Atari had offered $100 for each chip that was eliminated in the machine. Jobs had little interest or knowledge in circuit board design and made a deal with Wozniak to split the bonus evenly between them if Wozniak could minimize the number of chips. Much to the amazement of Atari, Wozniak reduced the number of chips by 50, a design so tight that it was impossible to reproduce on an assembly line. At the time, Jobs told Wozniak that Atari had only given them $700 (instead of the actual $5,000) and that Wozniak's share was thus $350.
Career
Beginnings of Apple Computer
In 1976, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, with later funding from a then-semi-retired Intel product-marketing manager and engineer A.C. "Mike" Markkula Jr., founded Apple. Prior to co-founding Apple, Wozniak was an electronics hacker. Jobs and Wozniak had been friends for several years, having met in 1971, when their mutual friend, Bill Fernandez, introduced 21-year-old Wozniak to 16-year-old Jobs. Steve Jobs managed to interest Wozniak in assembling a computer and selling it. As Apple continued to expand, the company began looking for an experienced executive to help manage its expansion.
In 1978, Apple recruited Mike Scott from National Semiconductor to serve as CEO for what turned out to be several turbulent years. In 1983, Steve Jobs lured John Sculley away from Pepsi-Cola to serve as Apple's CEO, asking, "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?" The following year, Apple aired a Super Bowl television commercial titled "1984". At Apple's annual shareholders meeting on January 24, 1984, an emotional Jobs introduced the Macintosh to a wildly enthusiastic audience; Andy Hertzfeld described the scene as "pandemonium". The Macintosh became the first commercially successful small computer with a graphical user interface. The development of the Mac was started by Jef Raskin, and eventually taken over by Jobs.
While Jobs was a persuasive and charismatic director for Apple, some of his employees from that time had described him as an erratic and temperamental manager. An industry-wide sales slump towards the end of 1984 caused a deterioration in Jobs's working relationship with Sculley, and at the end of May 1985 – following an internal power struggle and an announcement of significant layoffs because of disappointing sales at the time – Sculley relieved Jobs of his duties as head of the Macintosh division. He later claimed that being fired from Apple was the best thing that could happen to him; "The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life."
NeXT Computer
Around the same time, Jobs founded another computer company, NeXT Computer. Like the Apple Lisa, the NeXT workstation was technologically advanced; however, it was largely dismissed by industry as cost-prohibitive. Among those who could afford it, however, the NeXT workstation garnered a strong following because of its technical strengths, chief among them its object-oriented software development system. Jobs marketed NeXT products to the scientific and academic fields because of the innovative, experimental new technologies it incorporated (such as the Mach kernel, the digital signal processor chip, and the built-in Ethernet port).The NeXTcube was described by Jobs as an "interpersonal" computer, which he believed was the next step after "personal" computing. That is, if computers could allow people to communicate and collaborate together in an easy way, it would solve many of the problems that "personal" computing had come up against.
During a time when e-mail for most people was plain text, Jobs loved to demo the NeXT's e-mail system, NeXTMail, as an example of his "interpersonal" philosophy. NeXTMail was one of the first to support universally visible, clickable embedded graphics and audio within e-mail.
Jobs ran NeXT with an obsession for aesthetic perfection, as evidenced by such things as the NeXTcube's magnesium case. This put considerable strain on NeXT's hardware division, and in 1993, after having sold only 50,000 machines, NeXT transitioned fully to software development with the release of NeXTSTEP/Intel.
Pixar and Disney
In 1986, Jobs bought The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucasfilm's computer graphics division for the price of $10 million, $5 million of which was given to the company as capital.The new company, which was originally based at Lucasfilm's Kerner Studios in San Rafael, California, but has since relocated to Emeryville, California, was initially intended to be a high-end graphics hardware developer. After years of unprofitability selling the Pixar Image Computer, it contracted with Disney to produce a number of computer-animated feature films, which Disney would co-finance and distribute.
The first film produced by the partnership, ''Toy Story'', brought fame and critical acclaim to the studio when it was released in 1995. Over the next 15 years, under Pixar's creative chief John Lasseter, the company would produce the box-office hits ''A Bug's Life'' (1998), ''Toy Story 2'' (1999), ''Monsters, Inc.'' (2001), ''Finding Nemo'' (2003), ''The Incredibles'' (2004), ''Cars'' (2006), ''Ratatouille'' (2007), ''WALL-E'' (2008), ''Up'' (2009) and ''Toy Story 3'' (2010). ''Finding Nemo'', ''The Incredibles'', ''Ratatouille'', ''WALL-E'', ''Up'' and ''Toy Story 3'' each received the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, an award introduced in 2001.
In the years 2003 and 2004, as Pixar's contract with Disney was running out, Jobs and Disney chief executive Michael Eisner tried but failed to negotiate a new partnership, and in early 2004 Jobs announced that Pixar would seek a new partner to distribute its films once its contract with Disney expired.
In October 2005, Bob Iger replaced Eisner at Disney, and Iger quickly worked to patch up relations with Jobs and Pixar. On January 24, 2006, Jobs and Iger announced that Disney had agreed to purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion. Once the deal closed, Jobs became The Walt Disney Company's largest single shareholder with approximately 7% of the company's stock. Jobs's holdings in Disney far exceed those of Eisner, who holds 1.7%, and of Disney family member Roy E. Disney, who until his 2009 death held about 1% of the company's stock and whose criticisms of Eisner – especially that he soured Disney's relationship with Pixar – accelerated Eisner's ousting. Jobs joined the company's board of directors upon completion of the merger. Jobs also helped oversee Disney and Pixar's combined animation businesses with a seat on a special six person steering committee.
Return to Apple
In 1996, Apple announced that it would buy NeXT for $429 million. The deal was finalized in late 1996, bringing Jobs back to the company he had co-founded. Jobs became ''de facto'' chief after then-CEO Gil Amelio was ousted in July. He was formally named interim chief executive in September 1997. In March 1998, to concentrate Apple's efforts on returning to profitability, Jobs terminated a number of projects, such as Newton, Cyberdog, and OpenDoc. In the coming months, many employees developed a fear of encountering Jobs while riding in the elevator, "afraid that they might not have a job when the doors opened. The reality was that Jobs' summary executions were rare, but a handful of victims was enough to terrorize a whole company." Jobs also changed the licensing program for Macintosh clones, making it too costly for the manufacturers to continue making machines.
With the purchase of NeXT, much of the company's technology found its way into Apple products, most notably NeXTSTEP, which evolved into Mac OS X. Under Jobs's guidance the company increased sales significantly with the introduction of the iMac and other new products; since then, appealing designs and powerful branding have worked well for Apple. At the 2000 Macworld Expo, Jobs officially dropped the "interim" modifier from his title at Apple and became permanent CEO. Jobs quipped at the time that he would be using the title 'iCEO.'
The company subsequently branched out, introducing and improving upon other digital appliances. With the introduction of the iPod portable music player, iTunes digital music software, and the iTunes Store, the company made forays into consumer electronics and music distribution. On June 29, 2007, Apple entered the cellular phone business with the introduction of the iPhone, a multi-touch display cell phone, which also included the features of an iPod and, with its own mobile browser, revolutionized the mobile browsing scene. While stimulating innovation, Jobs also reminded his employees that "real artists ship", by which he meant that delivering working products on time is as important as innovation and attractive design.
Jobs was both admired and criticized for his consummate skill at persuasion and salesmanship, which has been dubbed the "reality distortion field" and was particularly evident during his keynote speeches (colloquially known as "Stevenotes") at Macworld Expos and at Apple's own Worldwide Developers Conferences.
In 2005, Jobs responded to criticism of Apple's poor recycling programs for e-waste in the U.S. by lashing out at environmental and other advocates at Apple's Annual Meeting in Cupertino in April. However, a few weeks later, Apple announced it would take back iPods for free at its retail stores. The Computer TakeBack Campaign responded by flying a banner from a plane over the Stanford University graduation at which Jobs was the commencement speaker. The banner read "Steve — Don't be a mini-player recycle all e-waste". In 2006, he further expanded Apple's recycling programs to any U.S. customer who buys a new Mac. This program includes shipping and "environmentally friendly disposal" of their old systems.
Resignation
In August 2011, Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple, but remained at the company as chairman of the company's board. Hours after the announcement, Apple Inc. (AAPL) shares dropped 5% in after-hour trading. The relatively small drop, when considering the importance of Jobs to Apple, was associated with the fact that Jobs' health had been in the news for several years, and he was on medical leave since January 2011. It was believed, according to ''Forbes'', that the impact would be felt in a negative way beyond Apple, including at The Walt Disney Company where Jobs served as director. In after-hour trading on the day of the announcement, Walt Disney Co. (DIS) shares dropped 1.5%.
Business life
Wealth
Even though Jobs earned only $1 a year as CEO of Apple, he held 5.426 million Apple shares, as well as 138 million shares in Disney (which he had received in exchange for Disney's acquisition of Pixar). ''Forbes'' estimated his net wealth at $8.3 billion in 2010, making him the 42nd wealthiest American.
Stock options backdating issue
In 2001, Steve Jobs was granted stock options in the amount of 7.5 million shares of Apple with an exercise price of $18.30, which allegedly should have been $21.10, thereby incurring taxable income of $20,000,000 that he did not report as income. This indicated backdating. Apple overstated its earnings by that same amount. If found liable, Jobs might have faced a number of criminal charges and civil penalties. Apple claimed that the options were originally granted at a special board meeting. Furthermore, the investigation is focusing on false dating of the options resulting in a retroactive $20 million increase in the exercise price. The case is the subject of active criminal and civil government investigations, though an independent internal Apple investigation completed on December 29, 2006, found that Jobs was unaware of these issues and that the options granted to him were returned without being exercised in 2003. On July 1, 2008, a $7 billion class action suit was filed against several members of the Apple Board of Directors for revenue lost due to the alleged securities fraud.
Management style
Much was made of Jobs' aggressive and demanding personality. ''Fortune'' wrote that he was "considered one of Silicon Valley's leading egomaniacs". Commentaries on his temperamental style can be found in Mike Moritz's ''The Little Kingdom'', one of the few authorized biographies of Jobs; ''The Second Coming of Steve Jobs,'' by Alan Deutschman; and ''iCon: Steve Jobs'', by Jeffrey S. Young & William L. Simon. In 1993, Jobs made Fortune's list of America's Toughest Bosses in regard to his leadership of NeXT. Cofounder Dan'l Lewin was quoted in Fortune as saying of that period, "The highs were unbelievable . . . [b]ut the lows were unimaginable," to which Jobs's office replied that his personality had changed since then.Jef Raskin, a former colleague, once said that Jobs "would have made an excellent king of France," alluding to Jobs' compelling and larger-than-life persona.
Jobs always aspired to position Apple and its products at the forefront of the information technology industry by foreseeing and setting trends, at least in innovation and style. He summed up that self-concept at the end of his keynote speech at the Macworld Conference and Expo in January 2007 by quoting ice hockey legend Wayne Gretzky:
Floyd Norman said that at Pixar, Jobs was a "mature, mellow individual" and never interfered with the creative process of the filmmakers.
In 2005, Steve Jobs banned all books published by John Wiley & Sons from Apple Stores in response to their publishing an unauthorized biography, ''iCon: Steve Jobs''. In its 2010 annual earnings report, Wiley said it had "closed a deal ... to make its titles available for the iPad."
Inventions
Jobs is listed as either primary inventor or co-inventor in 338 US patents or patent applications related to a range of technologies from actual computer and portable devices to user interfaces (including touch-based), speakers, keyboards, power adapters, staircases, clasps, sleeves, lanyards and packages.
Philanthropy
After Bloomberg accidentally published Jobs' obituary in 2008, Arik Hesseldahl of BusinessWeek magazine noted that "Jobs isn't widely known for his association with philanthropic causes", compared to Bill Gates' efforts. After resuming control of Apple in 1997, Jobs eliminated all corporate philanthropy programs.
Personal life
Jobs married Laurene Powell, on March 18, 1991. Presiding over the wedding was the Zen Buddhist monk Kobun Chino Otogawa. The couple have a son and two daughters. Jobs also has a daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs (born 1978), from his relationship with Bay Area painter Chrisann Brennan. She briefly raised their daughter on welfare when Jobs denied paternity by claiming he was sterile; he later acknowledged Lisa as his daughter.In the unauthorized biography, ''The Second Coming of Steve Jobs,'' author Alan Deutschman reports that Jobs once dated Joan Baez. Deutschman quotes Elizabeth Holmes, a friend of Jobs from his time at Reed College, as saying she "believed that Steve became the lover of Joan Baez in large measure because Baez had been the lover of Bob Dylan." In another unauthorized biography, ''iCon: Steve Jobs'' by Jeffrey S. Young & William L. Simon, the authors suggest that Jobs might have married Baez, but her age at the time (41) meant it was unlikely the couple could have children.
Jobs was also a fan of The Beatles. He referred to them on multiple occasions at Keynotes and also was interviewed on a showing of a Paul McCartney concert. When asked about his business model on ''60 Minutes'', he replied:
In 1982, Jobs bought an apartment in The San Remo, an apartment building in New York City with a politically progressive reputation, where Demi Moore, Steven Spielberg, Steve Martin, and Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, daughter of Rita Hayworth, also had apartments. With the help of I.M. Pei, Jobs spent years renovating his apartment in the top two floors of the building's north tower, only to sell it almost two decades later to U2 singer Bono. Jobs had never moved in.
In 1984, Jobs purchased a , 14-bedroom Spanish Colonial mansion, designed by George Washington Smith, in Woodside, California (also known as Jackling House). Although it reportedly remained in an almost unfurnished state, Jobs lived in the mansion for almost ten years. According to reports, he kept an old BMW motorcycle in the living room, and let Bill Clinton use it in 1998. From the early 1990s, Jobs lived in a house in the Old Palo Alto neighborhood of Palo Alto. President Clinton dined with Jobs and 14 Silicon Valley CEOs there on August 7, 1996 on a meal catered by Greens Restaurant. Clinton returned the favor and Jobs, who was a Democratic donor, slept in the Lincoln bedroom of the White House.
Jobs allowed Jackling House to fall into a state of disrepair, planning to demolish the house and build a smaller home on the property; but he met with complaints from local preservationists over his plans. In June 2004, the Woodside Town Council gave Jobs approval to demolish the mansion, on the condition that he advertise the property for a year to see if someone would move it to another location and restore it. A number of people expressed interest, including several with experience in restoring old property, but no agreements to that effect were reached. Later that same year, a local preservationist group began seeking legal action to prevent demolition. In January 2007 Jobs was denied the right to demolish the property, by a court decision. The court decision was overturned on appeal in March 2010 and the mansion was demolished beginning February 2011.
Jobs usually wore a black long-sleeved mock turtleneck made by St. Croix, Levi's 501 blue jeans, and New Balance 991 sneakers. He was a pescetarian, one whose diet includes fish but no other meat.
His car was a silver 2008 Mercedes SL 55 AMG, which does not display its license plates.
Jobs had a public war of words with Dell Computer CEO Michael Dell, starting when Jobs first criticized Dell for making "un-innovative beige boxes". On October 6, 1997, in a Gartner Symposium, when Michael Dell was asked what he would do if he owned then-troubled Apple Computer, he said "I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders." In 2006, Steve Jobs sent an email to all employees when Apple's market capitalization rose above Dell's. The email read:
Illness and death
In mid-2004, Jobs announced to his employees that he had been diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his pancreas. The prognosis for pancreatic cancer is usually very poor; Jobs, however, stated that he had a rare, far less aggressive type known as islet cell neuroendocrine tumor. After initially resisting the idea of conventional medical intervention and embarking on a special diet to thwart the disease, Jobs underwent a pancreaticoduodenectomy (or "Whipple procedure") in July 2004 that appeared to successfully remove the tumor. Jobs apparently did not require nor receive chemotherapy or radiation therapy. During Jobs' absence, Timothy D. Cook, head of worldwide sales and operations at Apple, ran the company.
In early August 2006, Jobs delivered the keynote for Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference. His "thin, almost gaunt" appearance and unusually "listless" delivery, together with his choice to delegate significant portions of his keynote to other presenters, inspired a flurry of media and Internet speculation about his health. In contrast, according to an ''Ars Technica'' journal report, WWDC attendees who saw Jobs in person said he "looked fine". Following the keynote, an Apple spokesperson said that "Steve's health is robust."
Two years later, similar concerns followed Jobs' 2008 WWDC keynote address. Apple officials stated Jobs was victim to a "common bug" and was taking antibiotics, while others surmised his cachectic appearance was due to the Whipple procedure. During a July conference call discussing Apple earnings, participants responded to repeated questions about Steve Jobs' health by insisting that it was a "private matter". Others, however, voiced the opinion that shareholders had a right to know more, given Jobs' hands-on approach to running his company. The ''New York Times'' published an article based on an off-the-record phone conversation with Jobs, noting that "while his health issues have amounted to a good deal more than 'a common bug,' they weren't life-threatening and he doesn't have a recurrence of cancer."
On August 28, 2008, Bloomberg mistakenly published a 2500-word obituary of Jobs in its corporate news service, containing blank spaces for his age and cause of death. (News carriers customarily stockpile up-to-date obituaries to facilitate news delivery in the event of a well-known figure's untimely death.) Although the error was promptly rectified, many news carriers and blogs reported on it, intensifying rumors concerning Jobs' health. Jobs responded at Apple's September 2008 ''Let's Rock'' keynote by quoting Mark Twain: "Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." At a subsequent media event, Jobs concluded his presentation with a slide reading "110/70", referring to his blood pressure, stating he would not address further questions about his health.
On December 16, 2008, Apple announced that marketing vice-president Phil Schiller would deliver the company's final keynote address at the Macworld Conference and Expo 2009, again reviving questions about Jobs' health. In a statement given on January 5, 2009 on Apple.com, Jobs said that he had been suffering from a "hormone imbalance" for several months. On January 14, 2009, in an internal Apple memo, Jobs wrote that in the previous week he had "learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought" and announced a six-month leave of absence until the end of June 2009 to allow him to better focus on his health. Tim Cook, who had previously acted as CEO in Jobs' 2004 absence, became acting CEO of Apple, with Jobs still involved with "major strategic decisions."
In April 2009, Jobs underwent a liver transplant at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis, Tennessee. Jobs' prognosis was "excellent".
On January 17, 2011, a year and a half after Jobs returned from his liver transplant, Apple announced that he had been granted a medical leave of absence. Jobs announced his leave in a letter to employees, stating his decision was made "so he could focus on his health". As during his 2009 medical leave, Apple announced that Tim Cook would run day-to-day operations and that Jobs would continue to be involved in major strategic decisions at the company. Despite the leave, he made appearances at the iPad 2 launch event (March 2), the WWDC keynote introducing iCloud (June 6), and before the Cupertino city council (June 7).
Jobs announced his resignation from his role as Apple's CEO on August 24, 2011. In his resignation letter, Jobs wrote that he could "no longer meet [his] duties and expectations as Apple's CEO".
On October 5, 2011, his family, in a statement, said Jobs "died peacefully today surrounded by his family . . ."
Apple released a separate statement saying that Jobs had died. The statement read "We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve. His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts."
Also on October 5, 2011, Apple's corporate website greeted visitors with a simple page showing Jobs's name and lifespan next to his greyscale portrait. Clicking on Jobs's image led to an obituary that read "Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple." An email address was also posted for the public to share their memories, condolences, and thoughts.
Jobs is survived by his wife, Laurene, to whom he was married for 20 years, their three children, and a fourth child, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, from a previous relationship.
Statements on Jobs' death
Statements reacting to Jobs' death were released by notable people in the US, including U.S. President Barack Obama, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Walt Disney Company's Bob Iger, and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Wired collected reactions and posted them in tribute on their homepage.Excerpts from President Barack Obama's statement:
Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it. By building one of the planet’s most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity. By making computers personal and putting the internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun. And by turning his talents to storytelling, he has brought joy to millions of children and grownups alike. Steve was fond of saying that he lived every day like it was his last. Because he did, he transformed our lives, redefined entire industries, and achieved one of the rarest feats in human history: he changed the way each of us sees the world.
Bill Gates released a statement saying:
I'm truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs' death. Melinda and I extend our sincere condolences to his family and friends, and to everyone Steve has touched through his work. Steve and I first met nearly 30 years ago, and have been colleagues, competitors and friends over the course of more than half our lives. The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come. For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely.
Walt Disney Company president Bob Iger said in regards to Jobs:
Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined. Steve was such an "original," with a thoroughly creative, imaginative mind that defined an era. Despite all he accomplished, it feels like he was just getting started. With his passing the world has lost a rare original, Disney has lost a member of our family, and I have lost a great friend. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife Laurene and his children during this difficult time.
Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page:
Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend. Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world. I will miss you.
American director Steven Spielberg said: "Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips."
Microsoft Co-founder Paul Allen said: "We've lost a unique tech pioneer and auteur who knew how to make amazingly great products. Steve fought a long battle against tough odds in a very brave way. He kept doing amazing things in the face of all that adversity. As someone who has had his own medical challenges, I couldn't help but be encouraged by how he persevered."
Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak said : "People sometimes have goals in life. Steve Jobs exceeded every goal he set himself."
Honors
Jobs was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Ronald Reagan in 1984 with Steve Wozniak (among the first people to ever receive the honor), and a Jefferson Award for Public Service in the category "Greatest Public Service by an Individual 35 Years or Under" (a.k.a. the ''Samuel S. Beard Award'') in 1987. On November 27, 2007, Jobs was named the most powerful person in business by ''Fortune Magazine''. On December 5, 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Jobs into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts.In August 2009, Jobs was selected as the most admired entrepreneur among teenagers in a survey by Junior Achievement. On November 5, 2009, Jobs was named the CEO of the decade by ''Fortune Magazine''. In September 2011, Jobs was ranked No.17 on Forbes: The World's Most Powerful People. In December 2010, the ''Financial Times'' named Jobs its person of the year for 2010, ending its essay by stating, "In his autobiography, John Sculley, the former PepsiCo executive who once ran Apple, said this of the ambitions of the man he had pushed out: 'Apple was supposed to become a wonderful consumer products company. This was a lunatic plan. High-tech could not be designed and sold as a consumer product.' How wrong can you be".
In popular culture
Due to his youth, great wealth, and charisma, after Apple's founding Jobs became a symbol of his company and industry. When ''Time'' named the computer as the 1982 "Machine of the Year", it published a long profile of him as "the most famous maestro of the micro". In 2011 Jobs was voted Best Business Entrepreneur On Earth. Jobs was prominently featured in four productions about the history of the personal computing industry:After his resignation as Apple's CEO, Jobs was characterized as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of his time.
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Rémi Gaillard (born 7 February 1975, in Montpellier (Hérault), France) is a French humorist.
Gaillard's Dailymotion channel
He gained attention in the French media after performing a well-documented series of pranks, including a famous appearance disguised as a Lorient football player in the 2002 Coupe de France final match, during which he took part in the winner's celebrations and was even greeted by the then president of the French Republic Jacques Chirac. He is also an amateur football player and has posted videos of his unique skills.
Gaillard has appeared in several sport events, TV game shows and political rallies.
Concept
Rémi Gaillard became famous for his videos where he displays an "outrageous" style of humour. His videos are mostly posted on his YouTube channel. In most, Gaillard plays pranks on other people and TV shows.Gaillard's motto is ''C'est en faisant n'importe quoi qu'on devient n'importe qui'' ('It's by doing non-sense that we become someone.').
Most of Gaillard's videos are shot by his friend Grégory Lafargue.
Sketches
The majority of Gaillard's sketches are of the hidden camera type, in which the antagonist performs an unexpected or surprising action to elicit humorous responses from the bewildered witnesses. Gaillard often disguises himself for these sketches. During some pranks, Gaillard is accompanied by a crowd of friends, giving the action a flashmob-like nature. Some other videos may feature acrobatics like aiming footballs at distant goal-like objects, or more still aim to antagonize police forces he interacts with during his sketches.Rémi shot his first sketch in 1999 with a friend in Montpellier. In 2001, he created an internet website, nimportequi.com.
He gained notoriety in 2002 at the finals of the Coupe de France. Disguised as an FC Lorient player, he celebrated the team's victory with the players, shook the hand of the then French President Jacques Chirac and signed autographs, without anyone realizing that he was not a player on the team.
Some of his most famous sketches are parodies of The Rocky Balboa movies, Mario Kart and his football videos.
In 2007, he gained the attention of journalists from Le Monde and was invited on a few talk shows..
On his official site, Gaillard claims over 1.1 billion views on his videos on the web.
Gaillard also appeared in Orangina, Pepsi, Durex and LG commercials.
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Gaillard's
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Florence Foresti (born November 8, 1973 in Vénissieux, Rhône) is a French comedian and actress.
Background
Following her high school studies in literature, theatre and dramatic expression at Saint-Just de Lyon, Florence Foresti entered a school for cinematography at Lyon. After her studies, she appeared in the French television show Thalassa.At 20, Florence enrolled in a course in classical theatre at Lyon, which she quit after just two days. She had a few other jobs, including working for EDF in Lyon, before finally becoming a computer graphics artist. But she didn't give up on her artistic ambitions, and in 1998 made her début at the café-théâtre ''Le nOmbril du mOnde'' ("The navel of the world"), as part of an all woman trio ''Les Taupes Models'' (a pun between French "Model Moles" and English "Top Models") with Céline Ianucci and Cécile Giroud, while simultaneously working as a computer graphics artist. The trio was noticed while touring and Anne Roumanoff proposed to make the act the first part of her show. Florence Foresti's career was launched.
In 2001 her first one woman show, ''Manquerait plus qu'elle soit drôle'' ("The only thing missing is that she be funny") won the Jury prize at the Antibes festival. Her style bears comparison with that of Muriel Robin and Sylvie Joly, as well as with some of the 'attitude' and voices of Dieudonné M'bala M'bala and Élie Semoun. She appeared in the Stéphane Bern programme ''20h 10 pétantes'', and then on Laurent Ruquier's ''On a tout essayé'', playing zany characters.
In 2009 she staged her show ''MotherFucker.'' She explained the Anglo-Saxon directness of the title in an interview with ''Paris Match'': "I asked myself, can one remain a woman, while still being a full-time mother? This question affected me so much that I dubbed my show ''MotherFucker''. And it's a nod to Madonna, my idol. After the birth of her daughter, Lourdes, she appeared in a T-shirt with the word ''Mother'' on the front, ''Fucker'' on the back. It's so clever, this way of playing with her image, her private life and her playing with words. I stole this."
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