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    Summer Olympic Deaths/Dead Medallists

    The British athlete who ran the 1500m in 1964 died in June https://runningtales.substack.com/p/bill-mckim-the-olympic-runner-who
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    Death Anniversary Thread

    Bernard of Clairvaux was born in the castle of Fontaine-lès-Dijon and died in Ville-sous-la-Ferté 870 years ago aged 62, he was a French abbot, canonized in 1174 and proclaimed Doctor of the Church. He was primarily responsible for reforming the Order of Cistercians, which he entered shortly after his mother's death. He was the founder of the Abbey of Clairvaux (Clairvaux), in the Diocese of Langres.
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    The Happy Birthday Thread

    Riccardo Ferri was born in Crema 60 years ago, the Italian footballer played in the 1984 Olympics and 1990 Cup, played for Internazionale and Sampdoria, where he retired at the age of 33 with the record for the most goals-against in the history of the Italian First Division ( 8, along with Franco Baresi) Finazzi was born in São João da Boa Vista 50 years ago, the Brazilian footballer is well known in Brazil as he had 52 passages for teams and defended 36 different teams, including Corinthians, São Paulo, Goiás, Fortaleza,Sochaux (FRA) and Athlético PR Paulo André was born 40 years ago in Campinas, the footballer was world champion for Corinthians in 2012, had a spell at Le Mans (FRA), and also played for Athlético PR Andrew Garfield was born in Los Angeles 40 years ago, and is an actor known for playing Spiderman, in 2010 for supporting roles in the films The Social Network, in which he played the Brazilian Eduardo Saverin received BAFTA, Golden Globe, Satellite and Screen Actors Guild nominations , and in Never Let Me Go, which earned him nominations for the British Independent Film, London Film Critics' Circle awards, among others, and wins at the Hollywood Film Festival and at the Saturno Awards. received Oscar, BAFTA, Critics Choice, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Actor and won the AACTA, Critics Choice for Best Actor in an Action Film and Satellite for Best Actor in a Motion Picture. His next work was in Breathe (2017), Under the Silver Lake (2018) and Tick, Tick... Boom!, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical and was again nominated for Critics Choice , Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award for Best Actor.
  4. 8/20/23 77 Britney Spears - Toxic 64 Gorillaz - Dare 57 Stereophonics - Dakota 56 James Blunt - You’re Beautiful 49 Sugababes - Push the Button -6 44 Natasha Bedingfield - These Words 43 Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor 39 Madonna - Hung Up 38 Tony Christie ft Peter Kay — (Is This The Way To) Amarillo 35 Usher ft. Lil’ Jon & Ludacris - Yeah! 25 Mario Winans ft. Enya & P. Diddy - i Don’t Wanna Know 24 U2 - Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own 20 Oasis - Lyla  17 The Shapeshifters - Lola’s Theme 15 Britney Spears - Everytime 14 LMC vs U2 - Take Me to the Clouds Above 13 Nizlopi — JCB Song 12 Oasis - The Importance of Being Idle +4
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    The Happy Birthday Thread

    It's true, I could have put it, I also watched it and had a lot of fun with this program, I don't know why I stopped putting it in your works, thanks for remembering
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    Businesspeople, Investors, CEO's

    Roberto Colaninno was born in Mantua 80 years ago, he died today and was chairman and managing director of Piaggio, owner of Aprilia. remembered in Italy for his leadership at Telecom and for the rebirth of Piaggio. Colaninno's professional career began at the auto parts manufacturer Fiamm, when he partnered with Carlo De Benedetti, a giant Italian businessman. Together they founded the finance company Sogefi, which acquired Fiamm from its British owner and turned it into one of Europe's most successful automotive parts suppliers. Later, De Benedetti invited Colaninno to take over the leadership of his struggling company, Olivetti. Colaninno ditched the company's loss-making computer unit and focused on the telephony business, which he used as a vehicle to launch the takeover bid for Telecom Italia. In 2002, Colaninno bought Immsi and the following year, he bought the Piaggio group. Over the years the company has grown and currently has several brands, such as Vespa and Aprilia. Already in 2008, he got involved with CAI (Compagnia Aerea Italiana), called to save Alitalia. Roberto Colaninno, presidente da proprietária da Aprilia, morre aos 80 anos na Itália - Notícia de MotoGP - Grande Prêmio (grandepremio.com.br)
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    Death Anniversary Thread

    Sérgio Vieira de Mello was born in Rio de Janeiro and died 20 years ago in Baghdad, he was a Brazilian philosopher and diplomat, a United Nations (UN) employee for 34 years and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights since 2002.together with 21 other people was the victim of a bomb attack against the local UN headquarters. The extremist organization Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for what happened and said that Mello was the main target of the attack. he was considered by many to be Kofi Annan's virtual successor at the United Nations General Secretariat Carlos Roberto Reina was born in Comayagüela, and died in Tegucigalpa 20 years ago at the age of 77, He was president of Honduras from January 27, 1994 to January 27, 1998, committed suicide with a gunshot at the age of 77, His brother revealed that Reina was suffering from health problems related to the gallbladder and pancreas Abdul Rahim Hatef died at the age of 87 10 years ago, the Afghan from Kandahar died in Alphen aan den Rijn and was Vice President during the last years of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Before the fall of Kabul, he was the interim President of Afghanistan for two weeks in April 1992, due to the overthrow of President Mohammad Najibullah
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    The Happy Birthday Thread

    Debra Paget is an actress born in Denver 90 years ago, made the movie Love me Tender, with Elvis Presley Billy J. Kramer was born in Liverpool 80 years ago. The height of his popularity was in the 1960s when, managed by Brian Epstein, he had access to unpublished compositions by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Nanni Moretti, the Italian director of Brunico turns 70, he won the Golden Palm at Cannes in 2001 for the film La stanza del figlio John Stamos was born 60 years ago in Cypress, California, the actor starred in ER, Glee, Two and a Half Men, among other series and movies. Marcos Palmeira was born in Rio de Janeiro 60 years ago, the actor participated in several soap operas and films, including playing the main character in Villa-Lobos - Uma Vida de Paixão. Joey Tempest was born in Upplands Väsby, and 60 years old, the Swede is the vocalist and co-founder of the Swedish hard rock band Europe, with whom he recorded eleven studio albums. Marco Materazzi was born 50 years ago in Lecce, played for Everton (ENG), had a good spell at Internazionale, played for the team for ten years and won several titles, especially the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League. Already for the Italian national team, he became famous worldwide when he received a headbutt in the chest from the French star Zinédine Zidane, in the final of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway, born in Kristiansand, Vest-Agder 50 years ago, is the wife of Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway. Mike Conway was born 40 years ago in Bromley, was British Formula 3 champion in 2006 and is the overall winner of the 2021 24 Hours of Le Mans alongside Kamui Kobayashi and Pechito López for the Toyota Gazoo Racing team Missy Higgins was born in Melbourne 40 years ago, she is a very successful singer in her country.
  9. 19/08/2023 79 Britney Spears - Toxic 61 Gorillaz - Dare 55 Stereophonics - Dakota 53 James Blunt - You’re Beautiful 49 Madonna - Hung Up 45 Sugababes - Push the Button -3 45 Natasha Bedingfield - These Words 45 Tony Christie ft Peter Kay — (Is This The Way To) Amarillo 39 Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor 36 U2 - Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own 30 Usher ft. Lil’ Jon & Ludacris - Yeah! 25 Mario Winans ft. Enya & P. Diddy - i Don’t Wanna Know 25 Britney Spears - Everytime 23 The Shapeshifters - Lola’s Theme 18 Oasis - Lyla 16 Nizlopi — JCB Fc Song  16 Oasis - The Importance of Being Idle  14 LMC vs U2 - Take Me to the Clouds Above 14 The Pussycat Dolls - Stickwitu +4 06 Nelly ft. Tim McGraw - Over and Over -3
  10. There was an unexpected death in my family yesterday, today was the wake and burial, all I needed was to read this from someone I never criticized and only criticizes me, ok that's fine
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    Summer Olympic Deaths/Dead Medallists

    Gabriella Kotsis, Hungarian volleyball coach, died aged 95 on August 17. Along with Lang Ping, she was one of only two volleyball coaches to lead teams at multiple Olympics. Kotsis coached Hungary at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, and the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. In 2010, Kotsis was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame.Born and died in Budapest https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/2400068
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    Death Anniversary Thread

    Magnus Decentius died 1670 years ago. Nothing is known of Decentius before 350. Magnentius usurped power from Constans on 18 January 350, and made Decentius a caesar later that year, perhaps in July or August. He was appointed consul in 352 .Decentius, when he learned of Magnentius's defeat by Constantius at the Battle of Mons Seleucus and his subsequent suicide, strangled himself in the besieged city, signaling the end of the civil war. Pope Alexander VI died was born in Xátiva (Spain) and died 520 years ago, he was the 214th pope of the Catholic Church, from August 11, 1492 until the date of his death. , due to the period in which it happened, the two most likely hypotheses are poisoning or malaria. Joana Sofia of Hohenlohe-Langenburg was born in Langenburg, (GER) and died in Stadthagen (GER) 280 years ago at the age of 69, she was a Countess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg by birth and Countess of Schaumbburg-Lippa by her marriage to Frederick Christian of Schaumbburg -Lipa. John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton was born in Ashburton and died 240 years ago in Exmouth. He was first noted in English politics when he wrote a note in 1762 defending the British East India Company's merchants against their Dutch rivals. He was a Member of Parliament from 1768 onwards. His career in the House of Commons is best known for his motion in 1780 on the study of the growing influence of the Crown on the workings of that House and that it should be lessened. He was created Baron Ashburton in 1782.
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    The Happy Birthday Thread

    90 years since Roman Polanski was born in Paris, won the Oscar for Best Director in 2003 for The Pianist, Golden Globe for Best Dramatic Film in 75 for Chinatown, Foreign Film and Director in 1980 for Chinatown, in addition to winning several Cesars, he also won Bafta, Cannes, Venice, and award at the Berlin festival Gianni Rivera was born 80 years ago in Alessandria, he was the best player in the world in 1969, being the first Italian to receive this award, Rivera played most of his career at AC Milan. He represented the Italian national team 60 times and played in four World Cups (1962, 1966, 1970 and 1974), and in 1968 he won the Euro Cup with Azurra and was one of the main players in winning the first Italian Euro Cup, he played in the Olympics in 60 too Luiz Mattar was born 60 years ago in São Paulo. He is the second Brazilian tennis player, after Gustavo Kuerten, with the most ATP titles in his career with 7 conquests, his best ranking in singles was 29, out of 89, and in doubles he was 55 in the world in 91 Georgina Bardach was born in Córdoba 40 years ago. At the 2002 Short Course World Championships in Moscow, she finished third in the women's 400 m medley event. She also received a gold medal at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she won a bronze medal in the 400 m individual medley event, with a time of 4:37.51. Earlier, Bardach also competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, but didn't make it past the qualifiers. Kris Boyd was born in Irvine 40 years ago, he is a footballer that Wikipedia in Portuguese says he is the highest scorer in the Scottish Premier League, but I don't know if this information is up to date, he played for Kilmarnock, Rangers, Middlesbrough, Middlesbrough, Nottigham Forest ,between others Mika was born in Lebanon in Beirut, but lives in England, the singer is 40 years old, has sold more than ten million albums around the world and was nominated for the Grammy Awards in 2008. His hit "Grace Kelly" is one of the most remembered around the world in the 2000s and their first album Life in Cartoon Motion was included in the list of the great Best Selling Albums of 2007. In 2007, Michael topped the list of most downloaded artists by the iTunes store.
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    20/20 +3

    1923 David H. Murdock/ Arquiduquesa Yolande da Áustria 1924 Woody Woodbury/Marianne Bernadotte 1925 Lou Carneseca/Anita Lasker-Wallfisch 1926 W Michael Blumenthal/Betsy Jolas 1927 Thomas Niguchi/Phillys Coates 1928 Lauch Faircloth/Beverly Willis 1929 Peter Dale Scott/Queen Ida 1930 - Adônis (poeta sírio libanês)/Jennifer Johnston 1931 Alfred Brendel/Caterina Valente 1932 Clint Hill/Nonny Hogrogian
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    Time Added

    Miroslav Bošković was born in Belgrade and died at the age of 76 in Danilovgrad (Montenegro), was a footballer who played six times for the national team of Yugoslavia, played for Partizan and Angers (FRA), https://www.dnevnik.rs/sport/fudbal/odlazak-legendarnog-fudbalera-preminuo-miroslav-boskovic-17-08-2023
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    Time Added

    Edgar Marín Born in Pueblo Nuevo and died aged 80 on Aug/16, the footballer won 12 Primera División de Costa Rica titles with Deportivo Saprissa during the 1960s and 1970s. He won six consecutive titles from 1972 to 1977, played also for the Oakland Clippers and Kansas City Spurs, and played for the national team of his country https://www.teletica.com/deportivo-saprissa/fallece-edgar-marin-leyenda-del-futbol-nacional_340683
  17. 8/18/2023 73 Britney Spears - Toxic 61 Gorillaz - Dare 50 Stereophonics - Dakota 48 Madonna - Hung Up 47 James Blunt - You’re Beautiful 45 Natasha Bedingfield - These Words 44 Sugababes - Push the Button 43 Tony Christie ft Peter Kay — (Is This The Way To) Amarillo 39 Usher ft. Lil’ Jon & Ludacris - Yeah! 36 U2 - Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own 35 Britney Spears - Everytime 34 Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor 25 Mario Winans ft. Enya & P. Diddy - I Don’t Wanna Know 25 The Shapeshifters - Lola’s Theme 25 The Pussycat Dolls - Stickwitu 19 Nizlipi — JCB Song 16 Oasis - The Importance of Being Idle +4 15 Nelly ft. Tim McGraw - Over and Over 15 LMC vs U2 - Take Me to the Clouds Above 14 Oasis - Lyla 11 Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock 6 The Streets - Dry Your Eyes -3 6 2Pac ft. Elton John - Ghetto Gospel -3
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    American Football Players

    Gary Barnes was born in Fairfax, Alabama and died in Clemson, South Carolina at age 83. He played wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys, Chicago Bears and Atlanta. Falcons . He played college football for the Clemson Tigers, he died of Parkinson's disease https://clemsontigers.com/clemson-hall-of-fame-football-player-gary-barnes-passes/
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    Death Anniversary Thread

    Eustace IV, Count of Bologna was born in Suffolke mortey 870 years ago, he was the eldest son of King Stephen of England and Matilda I, Countess of Bologna. He became the heir to the English throne when his father took it shortly after the death of Henry I in 1135. Reinier de Graaf, born in Schoonhoven (NED) and died 350 years ago in Delft (NED), was a Dutch physician, physiologist and anatomist who made important discoveries in reproductive biology. He specialized in iatrochemistry and iatrogenesis, and was the first to develop a syringe to inject dye into human reproductive organs so that he could understand their structure and function. De Graaf may have been the first to understand the reproductive function of the fallopian tube, he described hydrosalpinx, linking its development to female infertility. De Graaf also invented a practical syringe, described in his third treatise.
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    The Happy Birthday Thread

    Gene Kranz was born 90 years ago in Toledo, Ohio, a former American pilot, aerospace engineer and flight director, best known for working at NASA from 1960 until his retirement in 1994. Kranz is recognized for his role in the development of the doctrine of flight direction for the United States Space Program and for his role in the Apollo Program, most notably the Apollo 11 landing and the Apollo 13 rescue László Bodor was born in Budapest 90 years ago, he played in the fifa world cup in 1962 Herta Müller was born 70 years ago in Niţchidorf, Timiş district, Romania, she won the 2009 nobel prize for literature Joseph Kamga was born 70 years ago and played in the 1982 FIFA World Cup Yevgeniy Yarovenko was born 60 years ago in Karata, former USSR, now Kazakhstan, in 1988 he won gold in the Olympics as a player for the Soviet football team Jan Heintze was born 60 years ago in Tårnby, and played in the 1998 and 2002 FIFA World Cups and played for PSV (NED) and Bayer Leverkusen (GER) Daniel Köllerer is a former Austrian tennis player born in Wels 40 years ago, he was banned in 2011, his best ranking was in 2009 (55), Known within the circuit, as Crazy Dani, due to the attempt to make an extremely mental game, contrary to referees and playing against the crowd, away from home or in favor of the crowd, in Austrian tournaments, so there was a tense atmosphere in their games. , and for simulating aggression in the match against Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas. Dustin Pedroia was born 40 years ago in Woodland, United States, the baseball player played for the Boston Red Sox and was the MVP and Gold Glove in 2008 of the American league Ederson was born in Osasco 30 years ago, the Brazilian goalkeeper for Manchester City played in the 2018 and 2022 cups Rodrigo Caio was born in Dracena 30 years ago, the Brazilian soccer player was Olympic champion in 2016 Sarah Sjöström was born at age 30, the Swede from Salem is an Olympic champion swimmer and world record holder in the 100 meter butterfly In 2016 she went beyond gold in the above modality, silver in the 200 m freestyle and bronze in the 100 m freestyle Uzbek judoka Diyorbek Urozboev was born 30 years ago and won bronze at the 2016 Olympic Games under 60 kg and at the 2017 World Cup he repeated the bronze medal Tyrell Malacia was born in Rotterdam 20 years ago, the footballer played in the 2022 cup and plays for Manchester United Ismail Jakobs was born in Cologne (GER) 20 years ago and plays football for the Senegal national team (played the 2022 cup), currently plays for Monaco (FRA)
  21. august 17th at 10:14h 69 Britney Spears - Toxic 57 Gorillaz - Dare 49 Stereophonics - Dakota 47 Madonna - Hung Up 44 James Blunt - You’re Beautiful 41 U2 - Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own -2 39 Natasha Bedingfield - These Words 39 Tony Christie ft Peter Kay — (Is This The Way To) Amarillo 37 Usher ft. Lil’ Jon & Ludacris - Yeah! 35 Sugababes - Push the Button 34 Britney Spears - Everytime -6 32 Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor 31 The Shapeshifters - Lola’s Theme 25 Mario Winans ft. Enya & P. Diddy - I Don’t Wanna Know 24 The Pussycat Dolls - Stickwitu 18 Usher - Burn  17 Nizlopi — JCB Song 16 Oasis - Lyla 16 Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock 15 Nelly ft. Tim McGraw - Over and Over 15 LMC vs U2 - Take Me to the Clouds Above 15 2Pac ft. Elton John - Ghetto Gospel 14 The Streets - Dry Your Eyes 14 McFly - Five Colours in Her Hair 12 Oasis - The Importance of Being Idle  9 Jennifer Lopez - Get Right 8 U2 - Vertigo +4 6 Robbie Williams - Radio -4
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    The 11th Death of 2023

    Shane MacGowan
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    Death Anniversary Thread

    Idi Amin was born in Koboko (UGA), and died 20 years ago in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) he held the office of President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. He is considered one of the most brutal dictators and despots in history Haroldo de Campos was born in São Paulo and died 20 years ago in the same city, he was a Brazilian baroque poet and translator, winner of several national literature awards
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    The Happy Birthday Thread

    Jose Augusto is 70 years old, the singer born in Rio de Janeiro, one of the biggest record holders of songs in soap operas, elected the best Brazilian singer in 1991, He performed in more than 30 countries: Europe, Africa, and Americas; Only Brazilian to win the Spanish Olé award for selling 250,000 records Kalusha Bwalya was born in Mufulira, the best-known player in his country, he was part of the Zambian national team that, at the Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, surprised Italy by Stefano Tacconi, Andrea Carnevale and Roberto Baggio by 4-0, he played also by PSV, America-MEX, Necaxa MEX, Leon (MEX), Veracruz (MEX) Aloísio Pires Alves was born in Pelotas 60 years ago, the third player with the most appearances in the history of FC Porto, he was the first black player to wear the club's captain's armband, in the Catalan victory by 3-2 against Racing Santander at Camp Nou, in a match valid for the round of 16 of the King's Cup in the 1988-1989 season, he was the most used player in the 'penta' cycle, in the 90s Played for the Portuguese club for 11 seasons, until 2001 Sandrine Soubeyrand was born 50 years ago in Saint-Agrève, was part of the squad of the French Women's Football Team, in the 2012 Olympics, as captain, and participated in the 2011 World Cup Milan Rapaić was born 50 years ago in Nova Gradiška, he was a member of the Croatia national football team in Euro 2004 and in the 2002 World Cup. Rapaic scored the winning goal against Italy in the 2002 World Cup Dante López was born in Asunción 40 years ago, and played in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Diego Llorente turns 30,born in Madrid, played for Real Madrid, and currently plays for Roma (ITA), on loan from Leeds United
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