In 2006, shortly before his 99th birthday, Niemeyer married for the second time, to his longtime secretary, Vera Lucia Cabreira at his apartment, a month after he had fractured his hip in a fall. His first wife Annita died in 2004, at 93, after 76 years of marriage. Oscar Niemeyer, was a Brazilian architect considered to be ...

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, and bandleader. As a self-taught composer and performer, his diverse musical influences led him to create music that was sometimes difficult to categorize. During Zappa's lifetime, he was a highly productive and prolific artist with a controversial critical standing. He was a strident critic of mainstream education and organized religion, ...