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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)

Valiulla Makhmutovich Yakupov was a prominent Muslim cleric in Tatarstan, Russia, and the deputy to the Muslim province's chief mufti. He was also known as a strong critic of radical Islamist organisations which advocate Salafism, a radical form of Islam. According to news agency Interfax, Yakupov founded Russia's first Islamic literary publishing house. Yakupov was killed by suspected radical Islamists in 2012.

The lieutenant governor of Connecticut is the second highest executive officer of the government of the U.S. State of Connecticut. The lieutenant governor acts as President of the State Senate, presiding over the Senate and casting votes in the event of a tie. They are elected to serve four-year terms and run on the same ticket as the governor as running mate with no term limits. They are the first in the gubernatorial line of succession of Connecticut and serve as acting governor in the absence of the governor and as governor for the remainder of the term in the event the governor dies, resigns, or is removed from office.

Ukrainian linguist and politician (1964–2024)

Australian athlete and administrator (1933–2024)

American lawyer and politician (1950–2024)

Welsh professional snooker player (1932–2024)

American political scientist and anthropologist (1936–2024)

American composer and lyricist, singer, pianist

Brazilian theologian, philosopher, and psychoanalyst