Helmuth Duckadam, retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He was dubbed "the Hero of Seville" due to his display in the 1986 European Cup Final, won by his main club Steaua Bucureşti, where he saved all four penalties against Barcelona in the penalty shootout, for the first time in football history

Helmuth Robert Duckadam (born 1 April 1959) is a Romanian retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper and the current president of FC FCSB.
He was dubbed "the Hero of Seville" due to his display in the 1986 European Cup Final, won by his main club Steaua Bucureşti, where he saved all four penalties against Barcelona in the penalty shootout, for the first time in football history. He represented three other teams in a 14-year senior career.
Duckadam regularly appears as a studio guest on Digi Sport's "Fotbal Club" programme.

Born in Semlac, Arad County of Banat Swabian descent, Duckadam started playing in his regional leagues, before moving to FC UTA Arad in 1978 to become professional. He earned two full caps for Romania in 1982 and, subsequently, was signed by country giants FC Steaua Bucureşti.
capital side to two consecutive Liga I titles, was also between the posts for the 1986 European Cup final against FC Barcelona, which was played in Seville, on 7 May 1986. He saved four consecutive penalty shots in the shootout, from José Ramón Alexanko, Ángel Pedraza, Pichi Alonso and Marcos, being the first one to do so in an official European competition. Steaua won the shootout 2–0 and Europe's most important club trophy for the first time, and much of the credit for the surprise victory was given to him; he scored one goal for his main club, through a penalty kick against AFC Progresul Bucureşti in the domestic cup.^[1]


In 1986, Duckadam suffered a rare blood disorder only few weeks after the Seville performance,^[2] and would only resume his career three years later, finishing it with lowly Vagonul Arad in the second division. According to a personal interview given in 1999, he had become a major with the Romanian Border Police (Poliția de Frontieră) in his hometown; additionally, he opened a football school in the city, named after himself.^[3]
 
On 25 March 2008, Duckadam was decorated by the President of Romania, Traian Băsescu, with Ordinul "Meritul Sportiv" – ("The Sportive Merit" Order – class II), for his part in winning the 1986 European Cup. Two years later, on 11 August, he was named Steaua's president.

Valeriu Sepi, artist vizual, fost membru al formației Phoenix

Născut în 1945, în 1 noiembrie, la Reşiţa, Valeriu Sepi şi-a petrecut copilăria la Valcani, o localitate de lângă graniţa cu Iugoslavia. Este nepotul lui Graţian Sepi (II), celebru fotbalist la echipa Ripensia Timişoara şi  fost căpitan al „naţionalei” de fotbal. Valeriu însuşi a fost polisportiv, pasionat de atletism, canotaj şi box.

După ce a absolvit Politehnica din Reşiţa, şi-a îndreptat atenţia înspre arta plastică la Timişoara, unde i-a avut profesori şi mentori pe Leon Vreme, Peter Jecza sau Deliu Petroiu.

În 1968 se alătură lui Nicu Covaci şi Josef Kappl în „Phoenix” concepând afişe pentru albumele formaţiei şi cântând la percuţie pe instrumente construite de el: capre sau tobe din piele de viţel. De aici s-a ales cu supranumele de „căprarul de la Phoenix”.

În domeniul artelor vizuale, Valeriu Sepi a abordat cu succes pictura, desenul, sculptura sau designul. Aproape 25 de ani a locuit la Singapore.

Personalitatea şi talentul său i-au adus notorietate nu doar în Europa, ci şi în Asia, America de Sud sau Australia, lucrările sale aflându-se în muzee, galerii, colecţii particulare sau localuri din România, Germania, Singapore, Brazilia, Australia, Indonezia, Malaezia, Thailanda și Nepal.


EXHIBITIONS
1971 Fine Art Museum in Timisoara
1975-1985 Annual exhibitions organized in Timisoara, Lugoj, Bucuresti
1986 personal exhibition in Heidelberg, Germany in my own gallery
1987 Group exhibition in Aachen and Heidelberg / Germany
1992-1994 mural paintings in Harry’s Bar, Salvatore Pasta Fresco, G. P. Bastian, Susy Wong Bar, South Bridge Road / Singapore
1994 personal exhibition in Swee Guan gallery / Singapore
1998 personal exhibition The four elements at Art Forum Gallery
1998 Culture Color Conexions, itinerant group exhibition at: Takashimaia, Kuala Lumpur, Perth
1998 group exhibition at Oberoi Hotel, Bali, Indonezia
2000 group exhibition Various Artists – New Works, Taksu gallery, KL
2000 personal exhibition in Sun Jin Gallery / Singapore
2000 group exhibition at Arang, Taksu gallery, KL
2001 mural painting commissioned by Changi Chapel Museum, Singapore
2002 mural painting „The Last Battle” in the memory of Malaysian army, commissioned by Bukit Chandu Museum, Singapore
2003 personal exhibition at Niteroi Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazilia
2005 personal exhibition at TCC Singapore
2005 mural painting and ambient design at Orchard Tower, Singapore
2005 personal exhibition at Sabana Cor, Johor, Malaiezia
2006 personal exhibition Resurrection, Helios Gallery, Timișoara / Romania
2009 personal exhibition, Helios gallery, Timișoara / Romania
2013 mural painting commissioned by Chuck Wagon / Singapore
2014 personal exhibition at Garana Jazz Festival / Romania
2014 personal exhibition at Helios Gallery – Timisoara / Romania
2014 personal exhibition at “Book Sign” bookstore – Resita / Romania

OTHER ARTISTICAL ACTIVITIES

Mural decoration – Youth Center in Timisoara, together with the sculptor Peter Jecza
Mosaic at the West University in Timisoara with the artists Leon Vreme, Adalbert Luca, Sulea Gorj
1967-1986 Posters and cover design for rock and jazz bands
Scenography for the Resita Theater / Romania
Actor in Țiganiada Play written by Victor Cârcu at West University Theater, Timisoara, Romania
2099 Scenography for The Clouds by Aristofan, director: Sabin Popescu
Fine art and pedagogical activities in Nepal
1972-1973 International Politic Theatre Festival, The Mirrors play, Zagreb / Serbia
Acting in various movies with the Phoenix Band (The foreign Agent, Immortals …)
Documentary movie on my life and work Valeriu Sepi – Alone but with myself, director Florin Mândruleanu

Pedro Almodóvar, a Spanish filmmaker, director, screenwriter, producer, and former actor. He has won two Academy Awards, five British Academy Film Awards, six European Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, nine Goya Awards and four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival

Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (born 25 September 1949)^[1] is a Spanish filmmaker, director, screenwriter, producer, and former actor.
He came to prominence as a director and screenwriter during La Movida Madrileña, a cultural renaissance that followed after the end of Francoist Spain. His first few films characterised the sense of sexual and political freedom of the period. In 1986, he established his own film production company, El Deseo, with his younger brother Agustín Almodóvar, responsible for producing all of his films since Law of Desire (1987).
Almodóvar achieved international recognition for his black comedy-drama film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and went on to more succesromantic comedy film Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990), the melodrama High Heels (1991) and the romantic drama thriller Live Flesh (1997). His subsequent two films won an Academy Award each: All About My Mother (1999) received the award for Best Foreign Language Film while Talk to Her (2002) earned him the award for Best Original Screenplay. Almodóvar followed this with the drama Volver (2006), the romantic thriller Broken Embraces (2009), the psychological thriller The Skin I Live In (2011) and the dramas Julieta (2016) and Pain and Glory (2019), all of which were in competition for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
His films are marked by his employment of certain actors and creative personnel, complex narratives, melodrama, pop culture, popular songs, irreverent humour, strong colours, and glossy décor. Desire, passion, family, and identity are among Almodóvar's most prevalent themes.
Acclaimed as one of the most internationally successful Spanish filmmakers, Almodóvar and his films have gained worldwide interest and developed a cult following. He has won two Academy Awards, five British Academy Film Awards, six European Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, nine Goya Awards and four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1997, Almodóvar received the French Legion of Honour, followed by the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts by the Spanish Ministry of Culture in 1999.
He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001^[1] and received an honorary doctoral degree in 2009 from Harvard University^[2] in addition to an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Oxford in 2016^[3] for his contribution to the arts. In 2013, he received an honorary European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award.^[4] In January 2017 he was named as President of the Jury for the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.^[5] In 2019, he was awarded the Honorary Golden Lion at the 76th Venice International Film Festival.

George Lucas, an American filmmaker and entrepreneur. Lucas is known for creating the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises

George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur. Lucas is known for creating the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and founding Lucasfilm, LucasArts and Industrial Light & Magic. He was the chairman and CEO of Lucasfilm before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012.^[3]
After graduating from the University of Southern California in 1967, Lucas co-founded American Zoetrope with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. Lucas wrote and directed THX 1138 (1971), based on his earlier student short Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB, which was a critical success but a financial failure. His next work as a writer-director was the film American Graffiti (1973), inspired by his youth in early 1960s Modesto, California, and produced through the newly founded Lucasfilm. The film was critically and commercially successful, and received five Academy Award nominations including Best Picture.
Lucas' next film, the epic space opera Star Wars (1977), had a troubled production but was a surprise hit, becoming the highest-grossing film at the time, winning six Academy Awards and sparking a cultural phenomenon. Lucas produced and cowrote the sequels The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983). With director Steven Spielberg, he created the Indiana Jones films Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Temple of Doom (1984), and The Last Crusade (1989). He also produced and wrote a variety of films through Lucasfilm in the 1980s and 1990s and during this same period Lucas' LucasArts developed high-impact video games, including Maniac Mansion (1987), The Secret of Monkey Island (1990) and Grim Fandango (1998) alongside many video games based on the Star Wars universe.
In 1997, Lucas rereleased the Star Wars trilogy as part of a Special Edition, featuring several alterations; home media versions with further changes were released in 2004 and 2011. He returned to directing with the Star Wars prequel trilogy, comprising The Phantom Menace (1999), Attack of the Clones (2002), and Revenge of the Sith (2005). He later collaborated on served as executive producer for the war film Red Tails (2012) and wrote the CGI film Strange Magic (2015).
Lucas is one of the American film industry's most financially successful filmmakers and has been nominated for four Academy Awards. His films are among the 100 highest-grossing movies at the North American box office, adjusted for ticket-price inflation.^[4] Lucas is considered a significant figure in the New Hollywood era.

Ștefan Dobay, a Romanian football legend who played as a striker and manager. He appeared at the 1934 and 1938 World Cups as a forward and scoring a goal in each tournament

Ștefan Dobay (n. 26 septembrie 1909,^[1] Dumbrăvița[*], Dumbrăvița, Timiș, România – d. 7 aprilie 1994, Târgu Mureș, România), poreclit „Calul”, s-a născut la data de 26 septembrie 1909 în comuna timișeană Dumbrăvița. Acesta a fost ucenic la fabrica de argint, la fabrica de cărămidă și, ulterior, funcționar la arhivele municipiului Timișoara, începând fotbalul la vârsta de 10 ani în competițiile organizate pe străzi.

După o primă perioadă petrecută la Banatul Timișoara, club alături de care a devenit campion regional în 1927, Dobay ajunge la Ripensia în 1930, la numai 21 de ani. Timp de zece ani a apărat cu glorie culorile clubului, câștigând de patru ori titlul național și de două ori Cupa României alături de Ripensia. Alături de aceste trofee se mai adaugă și patru titluri de golgheter obținute în 1933, 1934, 1935 și 1937.

Alergarea sa în galop, de unde și-a dobândit porecla mai sus amintită, și șuturile trimise cu o forță teribilă, l-au transformat pe Dobay într-un adevărat coșmar pentru adversari. S-a consacrat pe postul de extremă stânga, post pe care a evoluat și în echipa națională, cu care a participat la două turnee finale ale Campionatului Mondial, în 1934 și 1938 și la cinci ediții ale Cupei Balcanice.
Legenda șuturilor sale năprasnice pornește de la o faptă reală, petrecută la un meci de Divizia A dintre Juventus București si „Ripi”, cum era alintată trupa fanion a Banatului. Cibi Braun, însuși căpitanul echipei Juventus, povestește această întâmplare care a avut loc în sezonul 1935-1936 la București, în fața unui stadion arhiplin. „În minutul 8, Ghiță Ciolac l-a deschis splendid pe Dobay, iar Calul a pornit-o în galop! Apoi, după ce a scăpat și de Nicky Petrescu, de la vreo 10 metri și-a expediat ghiuleaua spre poarta lui Enderffi. Ei bine, dragii mei, șutul acela n-a fost șut, ci un adevărat trăsnet! Mingea a spart plasa porții și a ieșit afară. Pot să vă spun cu mâna pe inimă că toată viața mea n-am întâlnit lovitură atât de puternică. Balonul a trecut ca ghiuleaua din tun și pe oricine l-ar fi întâlnit în cale cred că l-ar fi doborât la pământ. Tribunele au început să aplaude cu frenezie.”
Într-un interviu cu marele cronicar sportiv Ioan Chirilă, „Calul”, aflat la pensie, în 1966, rememorează o parte din calitățile sale de fotbalist.

„Eu porneam ca din praștie fără să mă uit înapoi – știam că Șubi (Schwartz) face vreo două fente ca să simuleze o pasă în partea opusă și mă trezeam deodată cu mingea în față, dar o minge atât de perfectă, pe fuleu! Odată mingea primită, coboram în viteză spre poartă. Prea tehnic n-am fost niciodată. Nu mă pricepeam la finețuri. Eu știam una și bună: arunci mingea pe lângă, și ocolești adversarul la economie, pe tangentă, apoi izbește, tot în viteză. Ionică Bogdan a fost un mare dribleur, dacă aș fi vrut să-l imit aș fi fost un surogat. ˝Ștefan dragă, tu ești făcut să pui ștampile. Subi scrie cererea, tu pui ștampila și dai drumul la gol.”

„Am muncit mult pentru șut. Încă de mic. Am început-o cu zidul. Pe zid desenam cercuri cu creta roșie. Trăgeam în toate cercurile din toate pozițiile, de pe loc și din mișcare, apoi din viteză; am micșorat cercurile și am mărit distanța, apoi cu adversar (Chiroiu) și cu portar (Pavlovici). Cel care dă gol e omul care aduce ploaia!”

După ce și-a încheiat cariera de fotbalist, Dobay a urmat și cariera de antrenor. A început la Constanța, la echipele CFR și Dezrobirea, continuând la Locomotiva Tg Mureș, Flacăra Moreni, Dinamo București, CCA, ASM Lugoj, UTA și CFR Cluj. Dobay a fost și antrenor de lot național, cele mai bune rezultate ca tehnician obținându-le cu CCA, prin câștigarea Cupei României (1955) și obținerea titlului național (1956).
Din motive de sănătate, Dobay se pensionează în 1960, suferind de artroză coxofemurală, boală în urma căruia a fost nevoit să suporte numeroase intervenții chirurgicale. Ultimii ani din viață îi trăiește la Târgu Mureș, unde se stinge din viață pe 7 aprilie 1994, la venerabila vârstă de 84 de ani.

Hermano "Nano" da Silva Ramos, a former racing driver of dual French-Brazilian nationality. Da Silva Ramos participated in seven Formula One World Championship Grands Prix

Hermano^[1] João "Nano" da Silva Ramos (born 7 December 1925) is a former racing driver of dual French-Brazilian nationality.^[2] He had a French mother and a Brazilian father.^[3]


Da Silva Ramos was born in Paris, France. He first ventured into motor racing, driving an MG TC, in March 1947, when at the age of 21, he competed in the Interlagos Grand Prix in Brazil.^[3] During 1953 he began racing an Aston Martin DB2/4 in sports car races in France. In 1954 at Montlhéry, he crossed the line in second place in the Paris Cup but was winner of the Coupe de Montlehery. In the same year, he also participated in the Le Mans 24 hour race, with Jean-Paul Colas as his co-driver, being forced to retire after 14 hours following a rear axle failure. Also in 1954, he ran out of fuel whilst leading the Tour de France Auto and retired with a damaged engine in the Rally of Morocco. Later in the year in the Salon Cup, in which he also had to retire, he drove a Gordini Type 18.^[3] In 1955 he (with co-driver Lucas) were disqualified for speeding in the Monte Carlo Rally, eventually classified 46th and 4th in class, won the Coupe de Montlhery again, won the Rally Sable-Solesmes and was 5th in the GT class of the Mille Miglia with co-driver Vidille.^[4]
Da Silva Ramos participated in seven Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 19 June 1955 and scoring a total of two championship points.


“Nano” , as he is affectionately called, is good company, rarely without a smile, and has a way of standing back and observing things that went on around him. Indeed he was on the sidelines of the “Behra Affair” that eventually saw Jean Behra booted out of the Ferrari team only to die two weeks later in a sports car accident at the Avus track in a Porsche.
Nano’s first race was back in Brazil with an old MG but then he moved to France and in the early 1950s he visited Le Mans as a spectator. He was intrigued by the Aston Martins and ordered a DB2 Coupe.
When we went to collect the car in Paris he met Mike Sparken, a French-born enthusiast who the same Aston as Nano was about to buy so Mike ordered ordered an identical car.
Ironically both of them were eventually to drive and race Ferraris. At that time a number of racing drivers in Paris used to visit “Jimmy’s Club” and early one morning, about 5.00 am, da Silva Ramos and English racing drivers Peter Collins and Lance Macklin decided to have a race round the famous Arc de Triomphe in the middle of Paris. Not only that, they decided to race round it clockwise which is the wrong way round and were lucky not to meet any traffic. As Nano explained “We were lucky, the streets of Paris were quiet and there were no police around!”
French racing car constructor Amedee Gordini saw da Silva Ramos race his street Aston Martin and was impressed and offered him a Gordini sports car and later grand prix drive but this came to an end in 1957. Nano’s best friend was the Marquis de Portago and when he was killed in the Mille Miglia that year Nano decided to quit racing. A year later, however, thanks to his French racing friend Jean Estager, who owned and raced Ferrari 250GT TdF s/n 0749GT, he came back into racing.
In the 1957 Tour de France Estager had shared the car with grand prix driver Harry Schell who comprehensively damaged it when he hit a little Citroen 2CV that had strayed on to a closed special stage. Now repaired, Estager sold 0749GT to da Silva Ramos who took the former owner with him on the 1958 Tour de France. They finished third overall behind winners Olivier Gendebien/Lucien Bianchi ( TdF 1033GT) and Maurice Trintignant/ Francois Picard (TdF 0901GT).

Nano continued to race the Ferrari but in 1959 was invited by Enzo Ferrari to join Ferrari’s sports car squad which led to him being selected to share a TR59 at Le Mans that year with Jean Behra.

Behra was already grumpy because he thought he was team leader at Ferrari . In fact, Enzo Ferrari had not specifically named a team leader but left the drivers to fight it out between themselves. Everything started to come to a head at Le Mans where the relatively calm team manager Romolo Tavoni was driven to distraction by Behra.
First of all, Behra insisted he did not want to be paired with da Silva Ramos and wanted Dan Gurney to race with him; Tavoni aquiesed placing da Silva Ramos with Cliff Allison and assigning Gurney to the Behra car. But that was not enough, for during first practice da Silva Ramos was quickest of the Ferrari’s.

At the French Grand Prix, two weeks later, Behra roundly criticised Ferrari, and the grand prix car he had been given, to one of the French newspapers and this was duly reported back to Enzo Ferrari.
Tavoni received a telephone call in France telling him that Jean Behra must report to Maranello on the Monday after the race and apologise. When Behra and Tavoni arrived in Maranello for the Monday meeting they found Enzo Ferrari had brought along two Italian motoring journalists to witness the apology: Behra refused. At this Enzo Ferrari lifted the telephone and asked his financial director Emelio della Casa to confirm any money that was owed to Behra, to make out a cheque and Behra was fired on the spot.
Meanwhile Behra had built his own grand prix car, the Behra-Porsche that Maria Teresa de Fillipis had raced. Behra then decided to race the car himself in the German Grand Prix at the banked and frighteningly fast Avus circuit. Sadly, in a support race for sports cars, his Porsche Spyder slid up the banking and over the edge; Behra was killed instantly.
As for da Silva Ramos, the Le Mans race in 1959 was also his final race as he was faced with family problems and decided to hang up his helmet for good.  (F1 Grand Prix Drivers Club)

Alexandru Andrieș, cântăreț de blues / jazz / folk, arhitect, scriitor, poet, traducător, pictor și grafician

Alexandru Andrieș (n. 13 octombrie 1954, Brașov) este un cântăreț de blues / jazz / folk, arhitect, scriitor, poet, traducător, pictor și grafician.
Studiile la Institutul de Arhitectură "Ion Mincu" (1980).
Conferențiar Doctor la Institutul de Arhitectură "Ion Mincu".
Debut solistic în 1974 - Club A, scenic în 1979 - Festivalul de jazz & rock Brașov, cu trupa Basorelief. Debut discografic în 1984 la Electrecord (cu albumul "Interioare").
Are la activ peste 3100 concerte până în 2002.

Discografie

• Interioare (1984)
• Interiors (1985)
• Country & Western Greatest Hits III (1986)
• Rock'n Roll (1987)
• Despre distanțe (1988)
• Trei oglinzi (1989)
• Interzis (1990)
• Azi (1991)
• Așteptînd-o pe Maria (1991)
• Pofta vine mîncînd (1992)
• Vecinele mele 1, 2, 3 (1992)
• Cît de departe (1993)
• Nimic nou pe frontul de est (1993)
• Nimic nou pe frontul de est (single 1993)
• Decembrie / Vis cu îngeri (1993)
• Slow Burning Down (1994)
• Alexandru Andrieș (1994)
• Ultima repetiție (1995)
• Hocus Pocus (1995)
• Balaurul verde / Tarom blues (1995)
• La mulți ani 1996 (1995)
• Albumul alb (1996)
• Acasă (1996)
• Tăcerile din piept (1996)
• Ungra (1996)
• În concert (1997)
• Singur, singur, singur, singur... (1997)
• Verde-n față (1998)
• Culori secrete (1998)
• Alb-negru (1999)
• Texterioare (1999)
• Cîntece pentru prințesă (1999)
• Watercolours (1999)
• Vreme rea (2000)
• Bingo România (2000)
• La mulți ani, Bob Dylan (2001)
• Pe viu (2001)
• Fără titlu (2001)
• Muzică de divorț (2001)
• Cîntece de-a gata (2002)
• Blues Expert (2003)
• 50/30/20 (2004)
• 50/30/20 (DVD 2004)
• Comandă specială (2005)
• Tandrețuri (DVD 2005)
• Ediție specială (DVD+CD 2006)
• Nimic nu iese-așa cum vrei (2006)
• Legiunea străină Soundtrack (2007)
• Videoarhiva 1, 2, 3 (DVD 2007)
• Videoarhiva 4, 5 (DVD 2007)
• La Sala Auditorium 04.12.06 (2007)
• Ninge iar... (2007)
• Oficial (2008)
• În sfîrșit la M.I. (DVD 2008)
• Acustic la ACT (DVD 2008)
• Împreună (2008)
• Împreună (DVD 2008)
• Nunta mută Soundtrack (2008)
• Petală (2009)
• Du-mă înapoi (2010)
• Muzică de colecție, Vol. 110 (Jurnalul Național 2010)
• Du-mă înapoi 2 (2010)
• Mia's Children - Concertul (DVD 2010)
• Vechituri (2010)
• Incorekt (2011)
• Incorekt - Live la Excelsior (2011)
• Du-mă înapoi Deluxe (2011)
• JT (2012)
• Excelsior 03.12.2012 (2013)
• Du-mă înapoi 4 (2013)
• Cîntece piraterești (2013)
• Interioare 2014 (2014)
• Interioare 2014 în concert (2015)
• Disc domestic EP (2016)
• Disc domestic (2016)
• Andrieș la Auditorium (2017)

Volume

• Almanah Anticipația 1984 (1983)
• Almanah Anticipația 1985 (1984)
• Așteptând-o pe Maria (1991)
• La mulți ani Dylan (1991)
• Singur acasă (1992)
• Petala (Editura Vellant, 2009)
• Desen și arhitectură (Editura Vellant, 2009)
• Cu mătușa prin România (Editura Vellant, 2012)

Ruslan Chagaev, an Uzbek former professional boxer who competed from 1997 to 2016. He is a two-time WBA heavyweight champion, having held the full world title from 2007 to 2009, and the Regular title from 2014 to 2016

Ruslan Shamilevich Chagaev (born 19 October 1978) is an Uzbek former professional boxer who competed from 1997 to 2016. He is a two-time WBA heavyweight champion, having held the full world title from 2007 to 2009, and the Regular title from 2014 to 2016. To date, Chagaev remains the only Asian boxer in the history of the sport to hold a heavyweight world title by any of the four major sanctioning bodies.
In 2007 he defeated then-unbeaten Nikolai Valuev to win the WBA heavyweight title for the first time, and would make two successful defences. Due to injuries and being unable to grant Valuev a rematch in 2009, the WBA stripped Chagaev of the title. He went on to suffer his first professional loss in the same year to unified heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko.
Chagaev won the WBA (Regular) heavyweight title for a second time by defeating Fres Oquendo in 2014. He made one successful defence, but lost the title to Lucas Browne in 2016. However, after Browne failed a drug test, the WBA reinstated Chagaev as champion, but he was once again stripped of the title in July after failing to pay sanctioning fees. On 28 July 2016 he announced his retirement from boxing due to ongoing eye injuries.^[1]
As an amateur, Chagaev won gold medals at the 2001 World Championships and 1999 Asian Championships, in the heavyweight and super-heavyweight divisions respectively.
It was announced on 28 July 2016 by manager Timur Dugashev that Chagaev announced his retirement from boxing at the age of 37 due to problems with his eyes. Dugashev stated: "Ruslan informed us that he would no longer fight. The reason is the state of his eyes. Health is the most important thing."^[55]
There was reports in October 2016 that Chagaev was offered a farewell fight to close his career, potentially a rematch with Lucas Browne. Chagaev chose to stay retired due to health issues.

Clint Hill, former US Secret Service agent who was in the presidential motorcade during the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He is the last surviving passenger of the presidential limousine

Clinton J. Hill (born 1932) is a former United States Secret Service agent who was in the presidential motorcade during the assassination of John F. Kennedy. After Kennedy was shot, Hill ran from the car immediately behind the presidential limousine and leapt onto the back of it, holding on while the car raced to Parkland Memorial Hospital. This action was documented in the famous Zapruder film. Hill is the last surviving passenger of the presidential limousine which arrived at Parkland.
Hill, a native of Washburn, ND, attended Concordia College (Moorhead) in Moorhead, MN where he played football, studied history, and was a 1954 graduate. After college he was assigned to the Denver office of Secret Service in 1958. After John F. Kennedy was elected President of the United States, Hill was assigned to protect the First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy. Hill became a nationally-known figure upon the assassination of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
Hill remained assigned to Mrs. Kennedy and the children until after the 1964 presidential election. He then was assigned to President Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House. In 1967, when Johnson was still in office, he became the Special Agent in Charge (SAIC) of Presidential protection. When Richard Nixon came into office, he moved over to SAIC of protection of Vice President Spiro Agnew. Finally, Hill was assigned to headquarters as the Assistant Director of the Secret Service for all protection. He retired in 1975.

President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, during a motorcade through the city while en route to a luncheon at the Dallas Trade Mart. The President and Mrs. Kennedy were riding in an open limousine containing three rows of seats. The Kennedys were in the rear seat of the car, and the Governor of Texas, John Connally, and his wife, Nellie Connally, were in the middle row. Secret Service agent William Greer was driving and the president's bodyguard, Roy Kellerman, was also in the front seat.

Hill was riding in the car that was immediately behind the presidential limousine. As soon as the shooting began, Hill jumped out and began running to overtake the moving car in front of him with the plan to climb on from the rear bumper and crawl over the trunk to the back seat where the President and First Lady were located.
Hill grabbed a small handrail on the left rear of the trunk that was normally used by bodyguards to stabilize themselves while standing on small platforms on the rear bumper. According to the Warren Commission's findings there were no bodyguards stationed on the bumper that day because

...the President had frequently stated that he did not want agents to ride on these steps during a motorcade except when necessary. He had repeated this wish only a few days before, during his visit to Tampa, FL. .

The notion that the President's instructions in Tampa jeopardized his security in Dallas has since been denied by Hill and other agents. Regardless of Kennedy's statement photos taken of the motorcade along earlier segments of the route show Hill riding on the step at the back of the car.
As an alternate explanation fellow agent Gerald Blaine cites the location of the shooting:

We were going into a freeway, and that's where you take the speeds up to 60 and 70 miles an hour. So we would not have had any agents there anyway.

Hill grabbed the handrail less than two seconds after the fatal shot to the President. The driver then accelerated, causing the car to slip away from Hill, who was in the midst of trying to leap on to it. He succeeded in regaining his footing and jumped on to the back of the quickly accelerating vehicle.

As he got on, he saw Mrs. Kennedy, apparently in shock, crawling onto the flat rear trunk of the moving limousine (he later told the Warren Commission that he thought Mrs. Kennedy was reaching for a piece of the President's skull which had been blown off). Agent Hill crawled to her and guided the First Lady back into her seat. Once back in the car, Hill placed his body above the President and Mrs. Kennedy. Meanwhile, in the folding jump seats directly in front of them, Mrs. Connally had pulled her wounded husband, Governor John Connally, to a prone position on her lap.
Agent Kellerman, in the front seat of the car, gave orders over the car's two-way radio to the lead vehicle in the procession "To the nearest hospital, quick!" Hill was shouting as loudly as he could "To the hospital, to the hospital!" Enroute to the hospital, Hill flashed a "thumbs-down" signal and shook his head from side to side at the agents in the followup car, signaling the graveness of the President's condition.

Nicu Covaci, un compozitor, cântăreț, chitarist, pictor și grafician român, cunoscut ca fondator și lider al formației Phoenix

Singurul copil al unei croitorese (Tamara) originară din Basarabia și al unui tată bănățean de lângă granița cu Serbia, Covaci a crescut fără tată până la vârsta de cca. 11 ani, deoarece acesta a fost deținut politic la primul Canal Dunăre-Marea Neagră timp de aproximativ 10 ani.

A început de mic copil să ia lecții particulare de pian, acordeon și limbă franceză, germană și engleză. Mai târziu, după ce a învățat singur să cânte la muzicuță, a luat și lecții de chitară.

A urmat secția germană a școlii primare, secția română a școlii generale, liceul de arte plastice și Institutul de Arte Plastice din Timișoara.

Nicu Covaci a părăsit România în 26 octombrie 1976,^[1], stabilindu-se mai întâi în Olanda, apoi în Germania și în final în Spania.

În 2012, Covaci locuia în Moraira, Spania.^[2]
 
Covaci este și un iubitor al motocicletelor și al sportului, practicând, printre altele, atletismul, canotajul, karate, boxul, înotul și scufundatul sportiv.^[3]

 
Pe 23 noiembrie 2019 este lansată cartea „Nicolae Covaci – Pictorul”. Aceasta prezintă în premieră peste 100 de fotografii cu lucrări de pictură și sculptură realizate de-a lungul timpului de liderul Phoenix.

Albumul este structurat în zece secțiuni și are 116 pagini.

Pe lângă comentariile scrise ale lui Covaci, cartea include și 12 coduri QR, care conectează paginile volumului tipărit cu mediul online, fiind astfel prima carte hibridă (smart-book) din domeniul artelor plastice, publicată în România și, probabil, în lume.

Richard Attwood, a British motor racing driver, from England. During his career he raced for the BRM, Lotus and Cooper Formula One teams. He competed in 17 World Championship Grands Prix

Richard James David "Dickie" Attwood (born 4 April 1940, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire) is a British motor racing driver, from England. During his career he raced for the BRM, Lotus and Cooper Formula One teams. He competed in 17 World Championship Grands Prix, achieved one podium and scored a total of 11 championship points. He was also a successful sports car racing driver and won the 1970 24 Hours of Le Mans race, driving a Porsche 917, the first of Porsche's record 19 victories at the famous race.
Attwood's performances in Formula Two prompted Alfred Owen, the proprietor of BRM, to offer him an opportunity in his works Formula One team. His first outing for the team was in the non-Championship News of the World Trophy race, at Goodwood, in which he took the BRM P57 to fourth place, the first non-Lotus finisher and the only car to end on the same lap as Colin Chapman's fleet winners. Attwood's second Formula One outing was in the 1964 British Grand Prix, driving BRM's experimental four wheel drive P67 model. Having been the project's test driver Attwood did manage to qualify the overweight car, albeit in last place on the grid. However, as the car was principally intended as a rolling test bed, BRM decided to withdraw the P67 prior to the race itself.


In 1966 Attwood competed in Australia and New Zealand as a part of BRM's Tasman Series squad. His Tasman performances were very promising, including a win at Levin, but despite this – perhaps due to his underwhelming 1965 Formula One performances and growing success in sports cars – Attwood sat out the majority of the 1966 and 1967 Formula One seasons. His only appearance came as a substitute for works-Cooper driver Pedro Rodríguez at the 1967 Canadian Grand Prix, bringing the Cooper-Maserati home in 10th place. During 1966 he maintained his run of form in Formula Two, taking victory in the Rome Grand Prix and a second place at Pau in 1966, but concentrated firmly on sports cars in 1967.


After Mike Spence's death during practice for the 1968 Indianapolis 500 race Attwood rejoined the BRM works team, now run by Parnell, as his replacement. Attwood's first race on his return was perhaps his most spectacular, taking fastest lap in the 1968 Monaco Grand Prix, on his way to a strong second-place finish behind Graham Hill's works Lotus. However, results declined through the remainder of the season, and four races from the end Attwood was himself replaced by Bobby Unser.
Always something of a Monaco specialist, it was in the principality that Richard Attwood made his final Formula One start. Colin Chapman brought in the Briton as substitute for the injured Jochen Rindt, driving the Lotus 49B. He finished in a respectable fourth-place. Although this was his last Formula One drive, he did appear at the 1969 German Grand Prix in a Formula Two Brabham for Frank Williams, where he finished sixth overall, and second in the Formula Two class.

Hans Herrmann, a retired Formula One and sports car racing driver from Stuttgart

Hans Herrmann (born 23 February 1928) is a retired Formula One and sports car racing driver from Stuttgart, Germany.
In F1, he participated in 19 World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 2 August 1953. He achieved 1 podium and scored a total of 10 championship points.


In sports car racing, he also scored the first overall win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans for Porsche in 1970, in a Porsche 917.

From 1954 to 1955, he was part of the Mercedes-Benz factory team, as a junior driver behind Juan Manuel Fangio, Karl Kling, Hermann Lang and later Stirling Moss. When the Silver Arrows came back for the 1954 French Grand Prix to score a 1–2 win, Herrmann drove the fastest lap but had to retire. A podium finish at the 1954 Swiss Grand Prix was his best result in that year as he had to use older versions of the Mercedes-Benz W196, or the least reliable car.
In the 1955 Argentine Grand Prix his teammates Kling and Moss had to abandon early due to the extremely hot conditions on the southern hemisphere in January. Herrmann was called in to share his car with them for a 4th-place finish, giving one point each. Fangio won with two laps more. Hans was quick in the 1955 Mille Miglia with the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR, comparably or even faster than Moss, but was less lucky than in 1954, as he had to abandon the race.

A crash in practise for the 1955 Monaco Grand Prix put Herrmann out for the ill-fated 1955 season, even though a comeback in the Targa Florio was intended.

The next years saw Herrmann racing for many marques, in F1 for Cooper, Maserati and BRM. In Berlin's AVUS during the 1959 German Grand Prix the brakes of his BRM failed, he crashed in a spectacular way, being thrown out of the car and sliding along the track with the car somersaulting in the air.
With different versions of the Porsche 718 being used as a sportscar and as a Formula Two car, Herrmann scored some wins for Porsche, mainly both the 1960 12 Hours of Sebring and Targa Florio. When the open wheeled single seater version of the Porsche 718 became eligible for Formula One in 1961 due to the rule changes, the results in F1 were disappointing. Herrmann finished 15th (last) in the 1961 Dutch Grand Prix, which was one of only two races in F1 history to have no retirements. He left Porsche at the beginning of the 1962 season feeling that he as a local from Stuttgart was No Prophet In His Own Land compared to Californian Dan Gurney and 1959 GP-winner Jo Bonnier from Sweden. Gurney scored two F1 wins (one non-championship) with the new Porsche 804, but Porsche retired from F1 anyway at the end of 1962.

In 1966 he returned to Porsche for a comeback in the World Sportscar Championship, as Porsche started a serious effort there. Following several podium finishes with the still underpowered two liter Porsche 906 and later models, he won the 1968 24 Hours of Daytona in a 907 as well as the Sebring 12 Hours again, now together with Swiss Jo Siffert. The overall win of the 1000km Nürburgring always eluded him, even though Herrmann had taken part in each of these races at the Nürburgring since they were introduced in 1953, and had finished second three times in a row from 1968 to 1970, behind teammates Jo Siffert and/or Vic Elford.
Herrmann missed the win in the 1969 24 Hours of Le Mans with a Porsche 908 by only 120 meters [1], but it was he who finally scored the long-awaited first overall victory at the Le Mans 24 Hours for Porsche in 1970. He was assigned to Porsche Salzburg, the Austria-based factory-backed team owned by the Porsche family, which mainly entered cars painted red and white, the Austrian colors. In heavy rain, he and his teammate Richard Attwood survived with their Porsche 917K #23 as the best of only seven finishers.


Half-jokingly, Herrmann had promised to his wife before the Le Mans race that he would retire in case of a win there. Having witnessed fatal accidents of colleagues too many times, e.g. before the 1969 German Grand Prix when his teammate and neighbor Gerhard Mitter died, the 42-year-old announced his retirement on TV, after having driven the winning car in a parade through Stuttgart from the factory to the town hall. To get out of his contract with Porsche Salzburg, Herrmann had to recommend a replacement driver to Luise Piech.

Using his contacts, Herrmann built a successful company for automotive supplies. He was kidnapped once in the 1990s and kept in a car trunk for many hours before escaping.
Herrmann has remained engaged in the racing community through his retirement, demonstrating historical cars at events such as the Solitude-Revival.