American civil rights activist Rosanell Eaton was born on April 14, 1921, in Louisburg, North Carolina and died on December 8, 2018. At just 21 years old, Rosanell Eaton became one of the first African Americans to vote in her county after completing a literacy test. Rosanell Eaton was responsible for the registration of more ..
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Indian politician C. N. Balakrishnan was born on November 18, 1934, at Puzhakkal close Thrissur and died on December 10, 2018. Balakrishnan was the minister for Co-operation, Khadi and Village Industries, and Pollution Control -Government of Kerala under the Oommen Chandy Ministry. Balakrishnan became the representative in the Wadakkanchery constituency in Kerala after winning in ..
Japanese sailor Yumiko Shige was born on August 4, 1965, and died on December 9, 2018, in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, where he was born. Yumiko Shige won a silver medal in the 470 class at the 1996 Summer Olympics with Alicia Kinoshita. She instructed other sailors in a yacht harbor local to her residence. She ..
Historian of modern India Mushirul Hasan was born on August 15, 1949, and died on December 10, 2018. Mushirul Hasan has written extensively on the Partition of India, communalism, and on the history of Islam in South-Asia. Noted historian Mohibbul Hasan was his father, and the second eldest. He received his M. A. from the ..
South African politician Alex Boraine was born in 1931, in Cape Town and died on December 5, 2018. In 1956, Alex Boraine was ordained as a Methodist minister, he studied at Rhodes University in South Africa, Oxford University in England, and Drew University in the United States. During 1986, Boraine resigned. Along with Frederik van ..
Ivorian academic, politician and short-story writer Zacharie Séry Bailly, or Séry Bailly was born on March 13, 1948, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in Abidjana and died on December 2, 2018. He was the Chairperson of Harris Memel-Fotê-Jean Jaurès Fondation in Abidjan. Séry Bailly was also vice-chairman of the Academy of sciences, arts, cultures of Africa ..
The 41st President of the United States America politician George Herbert Walker Bush was born on June 12, 1924, and died on November 30, 2018. He filled in as the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Before entering the administration, Bush became the 43rd Vice President of the United States from ..
Talented Mexican Chef, writer, businesswoman, and professor Patricia Quintana was born in 1946 and died on November 26, 2018. She was a noble international cook and expert in Mexican gastronomy. She was an expert in Mexican provincial cooking who was conceived in México and concentrated abroad in Canada, Switzerland and France — later coming back ..
American politician, advocate for childhood immunizations, and world peace activist Betsy Lou Bumpers, née Flanagan was born on January 11, 1925, and died on November 23, 2018. She served as the First Lady of Arkansas from 1971 to 1975. Together, Bumpers and Rosalynn Carter headed a successful campaign to ensure that all American school children ..
English Conservative politician Baroness Trumpington Jean Alys Barker, née Campbell-Harris was born on October 23, 1922 and died on November 26, 2018. From a privileged foundation, Trumpington was a socialite for quite a long time before entering governmental issues. He was destined to Major Arthur Campbell-Harris and his American spouse, Doris (née Robson), a beneficiary ..