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The mayor of Mississauga is the head of Mississauga City Council and chief executive officer of the municipal government. The mayor is elected alongside city council every four years on the fourth Monday of October; there are no term limits. While in office, mayors are styled His/Her Worship.

Åke Fredrik Hellman was a Swedish-speaking Finnish still life and portrait artist and art professor. He worked as art teacher at the University of Helsinki. In 1963, he received the order of the Lion of Finland.

Xenophon Stratigos was a Greek military officer. He played a major role in the Balkan Wars of 1912–13 and the Asia Minor Campaign of the Greco-Turkish War in 1921–22, serving also as de facto Chief of the Hellenic Army General Staff in 1916–17 and in 1921. He retired from the army in September 1921 and served as Minister for Transport in 1922. Condemned to life imprisonment at the Trial of the Six, he was later pardoned and left for Switzerland, where he lived until his death.

Australian rugby league footballer (born 1996)

NZ international rugby league footballer

Brazilian-American baseball player (born 1987)

American mixed martial artist (born 1987)

Canadian professional wrestler (born 1986)

Australian soccer player and coach (born 1982)

Palace Day

Christian nun and martyr

Saint Bernulf or Bernold of Utrecht was Bishop of Utrecht (1026/27–1054).

English Roman Catholic saint

Venerated as martyrs

Saint Kragon was a robber converted to Christianity. He was a reformed robber and bandit. He died as a martyr in Alexandria and was buried at Pineban. His feast day is July 19. He is referenced in Les Martyrs d'Égypte by Hippolyte Delehaye.

Roman consecrated virgin (c.327–379)

Head of the Catholic Church from 498 to 514

Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar