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Raghuvansh Prasad Singh was an Indian politician. In the Lok Sabha, represented the Vaishali constituency of Bihar and was the national vice president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal political party. He resigned from RJD party in September, 2020 and in his final days wrote an emotional letter to Lalu Prasad Yadav mentioning the love and…
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K. Thangavel was an Indian politician who served as member of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from 2011 to 2016. Thangavel was born on 6 October 1951 in Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu. He kept living in Tiruppur. He started his political career as a forefront leader of Centre of Indian Trade Unions in Tiruppur. He led a…
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Saefullah was an Indonesian bureaucrat and teacher. He primarily served in the regional government of Jakarta, reaching the rank of regional secretary in 2014. He had previously served as appointed mayor of Central Jakarta between 2010 and 2014, following a seven-year career in Jakarta’s educational offices. He died on September 16, 2020 due to COVID-19.

Muharram was an Indonesian politician and member of the Prosperous Justice Party. He served as Regent of Berau from 2016 until his death in office in 2020. He was elected in the 2015 Indonesian local elections and took office on 17 February 2016, when he was officially inaugurated by Governor of East Kalimantan Awang Faroek…
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Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam, also referred to as S. P. B. or Balu, was a veteran Indian musician, playback singer, television anchor, music director, actor, dubbing artist, and film producer who worked predominantly in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, and Malayalam films. Balasubrahmanyam has won six National Film Awards for Best Male Playback Singer for his works…
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Mahbubey Alam was a designated senior counsel, and Attorney General of Bangladesh. He was appointed attorney general on 13 January 2009. He was a senior advocate at the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He had served earlier as additional attorney general from 15 November 1998 to 4 October 2001. He died of the coronavirus on September…
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Joseph Williams QSO was a Cook Islands politician and physician who served as Prime Minister of the Cook Islands for four months in 1999. He is credited with having worked to prevent the spread of the tropical disease lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis). He principally resided in Auckland, New Zealand, where he was medical director of the…
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Jiří Menzel was a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography. Some of these films are adapted from works by Czech writers such as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vančura. He died of the coronavirus on September 5, 2020.

Henrietta Longstreet Boggs was an American author, journalist, and activist. She served as First Lady of Costa Rica from 1948 to 1949 in the years immediately following the Costa Rican Civil War. She turned 100 in May 2018. She died of the coronavirus on September 9, 2020.

Frederick Nathaniel “Toots” Hibbert, OJ was a Jamaican singer and songwriter who was the lead vocalist for the reggae and ska band Toots and the Maytals. A reggae pioneer, he performed for six decades and helped establish some of the fundamentals of reggae music. Hibbert’s 1968 song “Do the Reggay” is widely credited as the…
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