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Jeanne Martin was born on 27 March 1927 in Coral Gables, Florida, USA. She was an actress, known for I Love Lucy (1951), The Dean Martin Show (1965) and The Jack Benny Program (1950). She was married to Dean Martin. She died on 24 August 2016 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

James Whiton was born on 27 November 1932 in Troy, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), Murder by Phone (1982) and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964). He died on 24 August 2016 in Troy, New York, USA.

George Kaczender left Hungary in 1956 as a political refugee after studying film and working as an Assistant Director at the Pannonina Film Studios in Budapest. Before coming to Los Angeles in the early 1980s he worked at the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal from 1956-69, where he wrote and directed award-winning documentaries and short dramatic features. In 1968 he wrote and directed the award-winning feature Don't Let the Angels Fall (1969), starring Arthur Hill, that became the first Canadian feature film invited to the main competition at the 1969 Cannes International Film Festival. In 1970 he left the Film Board to work in London with distinguished producer Oscar Lewenstein. The same year he became one of the founding partners of International Cinemedia Center in Montreal.

In the 1970s he directed numerous award-winning educational films for Learning Corporation of America and five theatrical feature films before leaving Canada for Hollywood. Among them were In Praise of Older Women (1978), based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Vizinczey, and Chanel Solitaire (1981), a biography of Coco Chanel shot on location in France.

He has worked with stars such as Robert Mitchum, Richard Harris, Jeanne Moreau, Tom Berenger, Karen Black Brad Pitt and George Clooney. He has also directed numerous movies for network and cable television. His first novel, "An Unreasonable Notion of Desire", was published in 2000 by Xlibris, a subsidiary of Random House.

Between 2002-04 he was Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television, teaching film directing.

Carles Velat was born on 3 November 1946 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He was an actor, known for La saga de los Rius (1976), No me toques el pito que me irrito (1983) and Palabras cruzadas (1974). He was married to Marta Angelat. He died on 24 August 2016 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Carolina Jiménez was born on 14 March 1922 in Spain. She was an actress, known for The Rape of the Sabines (1962), Habitación para tres (1952) and Ronda española (1951). She died on 24 August 2016 in Spain.

Andrea Jaffe was born on 18 February 1950. She is known for Fatal Attraction (1987), Wall Street (1987) and The Accused (1988). She died on 24 August 2016 in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA.

Henning Voscherau was born on 13 August 1941 in Hamburg, Germany. He was married to Annerose. He died on 24 August 2016 in Hamburg, Germany.

Gisela Röder was born on 5 March 1936 in Schwerin, Germany. Gisela is known for Wie heiratet man einen König (1969). Gisela died on 24 August 2016 in Berlin, Germany.

Michel Butor was born on 14 September 1926 in Mons-en-Baroeul, France. He was a writer and actor, known for La modification (1970), L'enchantement (1974) and Trompe-l'oeil (1982). He was married to Marie-Josèph Mas. He died on 24 August 2016 in Contamine-sur-Arve, Haute-Savoie, France.

Natta Holma was born on 7 June 1943 in Helsinki, Finland. She is known for Suomalaisia populaarimusiikin vaikuttajia (1995). She died on 24 August 2016 in Helsinki, Finland.

Juan Bell was born on 29 March 1968 in San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic. He died on 24 August 2016 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Nina Yeremina was born on 2 November 1933 in Moscow, USSR. She died on 24 August 2016.

His father worked as a wheelwright. After graduating from high school in 1938, Scheel trained as a banker. During the Second World War he was drafted into military service from 1939 to 1945. After the end of the war, Scheel worked in several companies and then worked as a self-employed auditor. Scheel, who had already joined the FDP in 1946, sat as a Liberal member of the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament from 1950 to 1953. From 1953 to 1974 he was a member of the German Bundestag, of which he served as vice-president from 1967 to 1969. At the same time, Scheel was also represented in the European Parliament from 1958 to 1961. Scheel took up his first government office in 1961 as Minister for Economic Cooperation under Konrad Adenauer's government. The subsequent Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard confirmed him in this office, which he held until the change of government in 1966.

In 1968, the FDP party conference made Scheel chairman of the party. As such, he gave the Liberals a new profile, which led to an opening towards the SPD and prepared the future government coalition. Under the government of Willy Brandt, Scheel was appointed Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor from 1969 to 1974. The Brandt-Scheel government brought about a rapprochement in foreign policy with the Soviet Union, the GDR and the neighboring Eastern Bloc states. In this context, Foreign Minister Scheel's term of office saw such important diplomatic milestones in the history of the Federal Republic as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty with the Soviet Union and the East and Berlin Treaties. Scheel was the first German foreign minister to visit Israel in 1971. A year later he established diplomatic relations with the PRC. In May 1974, Scheel was elected fourth Federal President of the Federal Republic, succeeding Gustav Heinemann.

Scheel handed over his party and government positions to Hans Dietrich Genscher and served as head of state until 1979. Since Scheel decided not to run again, Karl Carstens succeeded him as the new Federal President. For his "services to the responsible cooperation of the Federal Republic of Germany in the European Communities and his tireless striving for their consolidation and further expansion among the peoples of Europe" Scheel was awarded the Charlemagne Prize in Aachen in 1977. From 1980, Scheel served as chairman of the supervisory board of the federally owned but privately run German development company DEG. In 1982 he also joined the supervisory board of Thyssen AG. In 1986, Scheel published the book "Who Still Hurts by Germany's Division?" From 1992 to 1994, Scheel was also involved in the Berlin-Brandenburg Media Council. He also served as chairman of the board of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg until 1993.

Since then, the statesman had largely withdrawn from public life, although he did not refrain from occasionally making critical comments about the policies of his own and other parties. Privately, he has been married to Barbara Wiese for the third time since 1988 and lives in Munich and later in Berlin. In 2009 the couple moved from Berlin to Bad Krozingen in Baden. In the town hall there he maintained an office rented by the Federal President's Office. On May 26, 2011, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development awarded the "Walter Scheel Prize" for commitment to development cooperation for the first time.

Walter Scheel died on August 24, 2016 at the age of 97 in Bad Krötzingen.