Sir George Williams University alumni

The list Sir George Williams University alumni includes Stuart McLean, Annie Proulx, Mordecai Richler, Don Knight and Valerie Belgrave. The list consists of 78 members.

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Sir George Williams University

Former public university in Quebec, Canada

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Stuart McLean

Canadian writer

Overview: Andrew Stuart McLean, OC (April 19, 1948 – February 15, 2017) was a Canadian radio broadcaster, humorist, monologist, and author, best known as the host of the CBC Radio program The Vinyl Cafe. Often ...

Date of birth: 19 April 1948

Date of death: 15 February 2017

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Radio Personality

Gender: Male

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Bishop's College School alumni 91T

20th-century Canadian male writers 1,044T

21st-century Canadian male writers 821T
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Gennie Nevinson

Australian actress

Overview: Gennie Nevinson is an Australian actress. She is notable for her appearances in Muriel's Wedding. She also appeared as Eva, part of a kidnapping gang in the hard-hitting British police drama The Profe ...

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Australian film actresses 752T
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Mordecai Richler

Canadian writer (1931–2001)

Overview: Mordecai Richler CC (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian writer. His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) and Barney's Version (1997). His 1970 novel St. Urbain's ...

Date of birth: 27 January 1931

Date of death: 3 July 2001

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Screenwriter

Gender: Male

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Jewish Canadian journalists 96T

Burials at Mount Royal Cemetery 123T

People from Le Plateau-Mont-Royal 9T
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Annie Proulx

American novelist

Overview: Edna Ann Proulx (born August 22, 1935) is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E.A ...

Date of birth: 22 August 1935

Age: 89

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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People from Saratoga, Wyoming 8T

Deering High School alumni 21T

Novelists from Vermont 50T
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Don Knight

British actor

Overview: Donald Knight (16 February 1933 – 18 August 1997) was an English-born film, television and stage actor. He worked largely in the United States, and often played tough guys.

Date of birth: 16 February 1933

Date of death: 18 August 1997

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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20th-century British Army personnel 44T

United Church of Christ ministers 48T

Male actors from Manchester 131T
6.

George Astaphan

saint Kitts and Nevis physician

Overview: George Mario "Jamie" Sahely Chehin Astaphan, M.D., B.Sc. (May 22, 1946 – August 18, 2006) was a physician who became infamous for giving steroids to the sprinter Ben Johnson.

Date of birth: 22 May 1946

Date of death: 18 August 2006

Age: 60 (age at death)

Nationality: Kittian and Nevisian

Occupation: Doctor

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Canadian sports physicians 7T

Saint Kitts and Nevis emigrants to Canada 6T

20th-century physicians 1,578T
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John Aimers

Canadian educator

Overview: John Lathrop Aimers (born 1951 in Dublin, Ireland) is the founder and former long-time Dominion Chairman of the Monarchist League of Canada. He is an educator by profession and taught at a succession of ...

Date of birth: 1951

Age: 74

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Educator

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McGill University Faculty of Education alumni 24T

Canadian Anglo-Catholics 13T

Irish Anglo-Catholics 4T
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Lionel Chetwynd

American, Writer

Overview: Lionel Chetwynd (born January 29, 1940) is a British-American screenwriter, director and producer.

Date of birth: 29 January 1940

Age: 85

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Jewish British film people 23T

People from Hackney Central 183T

21st-century American Jews 8,030T
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Valerie Belgrave

Trinidadian artist, author and composer (1946–2016)

Overview: Valerie Belgrave (3 March 1946 – 23 August 2016) was a Trinidadian artist, painter and author, who also composed music.

Date of birth: 3 March 1946

Date of death: 23 August 2016

Age: 70 (age at death)

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Female

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Trinidad and Tobago composers 4T

Trinidad and Tobago women artists 12T

2016 deaths 9,448T
10.

Bob Berry

Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Overview: Robert Victor "Crease" Berry (born November 29, 1943) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey left winger who played eight seasons in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens and Los ...

Date of birth: 29 November 1943

Age: 81

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Ice Hockey

Gender: Male

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Ottawa Senators scouts 21T

Chicago Blackhawks scouts 44T

Los Angeles Kings scouts 27T
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Marvin Rotrand

Canadian politician

Overview: Marvin Rotrand (born 1951) is a Canadian politician, currently sitting as an independent. He currently serves as a member of Montreal City Council, representing the district of Snowdon. Rotrand has served ...

Date of birth: 1951

Age: 74

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Politician

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21st-century Canadian politicians 2,722T

People from Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce 27T

Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce 68T
12.

Harvey Oberfeld

Canadian journalist

Overview: Harvey Oberfeld (born March 4, 1945) is a Canadian journalist. Now retired, he maintains a personal blog featuring personal anecdotes and opinion pieces about current events.

Date of birth: 4 March 1945

Age: 80

Occupation: Journalist

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Journalists from Montreal 133T

Canadian newspaper reporters and correspondents 40T

Anglophone Quebec people 1,647T
13.

Michel Choquette

French Canadian humorist

Overview: Michel Choquette (born March 14, 1938) is a Canadian humorist who has written for print, for television and for film, and a comedian who has performed for television.

Date of birth: 4 March 1938

Age: 87

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Comedian

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Comedians from Montreal 48T

The Harvard Lampoon alumni 189T

Writers from Montreal 741T
14.

Gérard Charles Édouard Thériault

Canadian general (1932–1998)

Overview: General Gérard Charles Édouard Thériault, CMM, CD (June 5, 1932 in Gaspé, Quebec, Canada – October 13, 1998 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) was Chief of the Defence Staff between 1983 and 1986.

Date of birth: 5 June 1932

Date of death: 13 October 1998

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Military

Gender: Male

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Canadian military personnel from Quebec 48T

Commanders of the Order of Military Merit (Canada) 111T

Military chiefs of staff 22T
15.

Peter Shurman

Canadian politician

Overview: Peter Shurman (born November 18, 1947) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2007 to 2013 who represented the riding ...

Date of birth: 18 November 1947

Age: 77

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Politician

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21st-century Canadian politicians 2,722T

Politicians from Montreal 477T

Politicians from Toronto 433T
16.

Terry Copp

Canadian military historian

Overview: Terry Copp (born 1938) is a Canadian military historian and Professor Emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University and is co-founder and Director of the Laurier Centre for Military and Strategic Disarmament ...

Date of birth: 1938

Age: 87

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Male

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Canadian male non-fiction writers 791T

Canadian male writers 423T

Writers from Montreal 741T
17.

Donald K. Tarlton

Canadian record producer

Overview: Donald K. Tarlton, CM (born 12 May 1943) is a Canadian record producer and promoter. He promoted numerous concerts and Canadian musicians under the name Donald K. Donald.

Date of birth: 12 May 1943

Age: 82

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Business

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Aquarius Records (Canada) 2T

Businesspeople from Montreal 278T

Anglophone Quebec people 1,647T
18.

Mykola Plaviuk

Ukrainian-Canadian activist; President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1989-1992)

Overview: Mykola Vasyliovych Plaviuk (Ukrainian: Микола Васильович Плав'юк; June 5, 1925 – March 10, 2012) was a Ukrainian social and political activist in emigration, who served as the last President of the Uk ...

Date of birth: 5 June 1925

Date of death: 10 March 2012

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: Ukrainian

Occupation: Politician

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Recipients of the Shevchenko Medal 13T

People from Stanisławów Voivodeship 16T

Presidents of the Ukrainian People's Republic 6T
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Nahum Rabinovich

Israeli rabbi

Overview: Rabbi Nahum Eliezer Rabinovitch (Hebrew: נחום אליעזר רבינוביץ'‎; born 1928, died May 6th 2020) was an Israeli Orthodox rabbi and posek, and head of Yeshivat Birkat Moshe in Ma'ale Adumim. He was ...

Date of birth: 1928

Date of death: 6 May 2020

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: Israeli

Occupation: Religion

Gender: Male

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2020 deaths 11,737T

Academics of the London School of Jewish Studies 10T

Maimonides scholars 5T
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Lawrence Bergman

Canadian politician

Overview: Lawrence S. Bergman (born December 6, 1940) is a Canadian politician in Quebec, Canada. He was a minister of the government of Quebec from 2003 to 2007, the Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the ...

Date of birth: 6 December 1940

Age: 84

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Politician

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21st-century Canadian politicians 2,722T

Politicians from Montreal 477T

Jewish Canadian politicians 173T