He was born on 2 May 1942 in Ghent, Belgium. Elected President of the International Olympic Committee in 2001 and served until 2013 when he was made the IOC's Honorary President, a lifetime position, which he held, according to his Wikipedia page, until his death, aged 79 years, on 29 August 2021 in Deinze, Belgium.
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Comte Jacques Jean Marie Rogge
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1908 Olympics
The unveiling was hosted by BBC Director-General Mark Thompson and attended b...
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King's College Hospital
Stood at Portugal Street / Carey Street from 1839 to 1913, when it moved to Denmark Hill, to a site given to it by WFD Smith, of W.H.Smiths.
2 memorials
Boo Armstrong
Born as Rachel Armstrong she grew up in Ealing. As an adult lived in Camden - the photo shows her on her canal boat Moonshine on which she lived in the Cumberland Basin from 1999. The Picture sourc...
1 memorial
L. C. Parkes
Louis Coltman Parkes. A medical doctor. Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea in 1909. Authored a good number of medical books - held by the Wellcome Collection. Obituary in the BMJ 31 October 19...
1 memorial
Royal College of Surgeons
Henry VIII brought two organisations together in 1540 to form the Company of Barber-Surgeons. The surgeons broke away in 1745, bought the property in Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1797 and became the Ro...
2 memorials
Mary Seacole Trust
From the Trust's website: "We want British society to become fairer, more inclusive and more harmonious. We believe that overcoming exclusion and increasing participation by promoting equality of b...
1 memorial
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