Important People Who Died Recently

[noirua]

Claude Lanzmann (French: [lanzman]; 27 November 1925 – 5 July 2018) was a French filmmaker known for the Holocaust documentary film Shoah (1985).

Lanzmann disagreed, sometimes angrily, with attempts to understand the why of Hitler, stating that the evil of Hitler cannot or should not be explained and that to do so is immoral and an obscenity.[11]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Lanzmann

PARIS — French Director Claude Lanzmann, whose 9½-hour masterpiece “Shoah” bore unflinching witness to the Holocaust through the testimonies of Jewish victims, German executioners and Polish bystanders, has died at the age of 92.
https://nypost.com/2018/07/05/frenc...26.242777598.1530953389-1616443526.1530953389

Shoah is a 1985 French documentary film about the Holocaust,[a] directed by Claude Lanzmann. Over nine hours long and 11 years in the making, the film presents Lanzmann's interviews with survivors, witnesses and perpetrators during visits to German Holocaust sites across Poland, including extermination camps.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoah_(film)

A Shoah foundation is an organization that exists to further the remembrance of the Shoah (Holocaust) of World War II. There are currently two major foundations that are internationally active.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoah_foundation

Mémorial de la Shoah is the holocaust museum in Paris, France.[1] The memorial is in the district of Le Marais, in the third and fourth arrondissement, which had a large Jewish population at the beginning of WWII.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mémorial_de_la_Shoah

 

[noirua]

Kimishige "Kimi" Ishizaka (石坂 公成 Ishizaka Kimishige, 3 December 1925, Tokyo – July 6, 2018) is a Japanese scientist who discovered the antibody class IgE in 1966.[1] His work was regarded as a major breakthrough in the understanding of allergy. He was awarded the 1973 Gairdner Foundation International Award and the 2000 Japan Prize for his work in immunology.[2][3] He was elected a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1983. Pupils include Tadamitsu Kishimoto, who worked with him at Johns Hopkins. He conducted much of his scientific work together with his wife, Teruko (Terry).[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimishige_Ishizaka

Ishizaka received numerous awards for his work in allergy and immunology. In 1972 he received the Passano Foundation Award, and in 1973 the German Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize. 1973 saw him winning the prestigious Gairdner Foundation International Award, the Takeda Medical Awardand the first Scientific Achievement Award of the International Association of Allergology. In 1974 he received the Asahi Cultural Award, the Emperor's Award by the Japan Academy, and the Japanese Order of Culture.[2]

 

[noirua]

It is not for me to say what is right or wrong, good or bad, and whether that good or bad should be included as important. Sometimes including bad at least publicises in some small way that, that which is important is not always good - noirua
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Gudrun Burwitz, Ever-Loyal Daughter of Himmler, Is Dead at 88
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/06/obituaries/gudrun-burwitz-ever-loyal-daughter-of-himmler-is-dead-at-88.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/obituaries&action=click&contentCollection=obituaries&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront

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Gudrun Margarete Elfriede Emma Anna Burwitz (née Himmler, 8 August 1929 – 24 May 2018) was the daughter of Margarete Himmler and Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS, leading member of the Nazi Party(NSDAP), and chief architect of the Final Solution.[1] After the Allied victory, she was arrested and made to testify at the Nuremberg trials. Never renouncing Nazi ideology, she consistently fought to defend her father’s reputation and became closely involved in Neo-Nazi groups that give support to ex-members of the SS. She married Wulf Dieter Burwitz, an official of the extremist NPD.

She married the journalist and author Wulf Dieter Burwitz, who would become a party official in the Bavarian section of the far-right NPD,[3] and had two children. She was affiliated with Stille Hilfe ("Silent Aid"), an organization formed to aid former SS members, which assisted Klaus Barbie ("the Butcher of Lyon") of the Lyon Gestapo and Martin Sommer, otherwise known as the "Hangman of Buchenwald", and she reportedly continued to support a Protestant old people's home in Pullach, near Munich.[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudrun_Burwitz

 

[noirua]

Hans Günter Winkler (24 July 1926 – 9 July 2018) was a German show jumping rider.

He is the only show jumper to date to have won five Olympic gold medals and seven total Olympic medals, and the only equestrian in any discipline to compete and win medals in six different Olympic Games. In the 1950s and 1960s Winkler was one of Germany's most popular athletes.

Winkler won five gold medals in jumping (in addition to the four individual medals with the German team) between 1956 and 1976, and a silver medal and a bronze medal.[6] He is one of the most successful German Olympic athletes, third only to Isabell Werth and Reiner Klimke for gold medals produced in German equestrian competition. He was athlete of the year in 1955 and 1956.[7][8] Winkler retired from jumping on 13 July 1986 with the conclusion of the Aachen tournament.[3] Winkler worked as a trainer for the German Olympic teams, along with Paul Schockemöhle and Herbert Mayer, leading them to success in Seoul in 1988.[2] He consulted companies who wanted to sponsor equestrian sport, organized tournaments, and worked for the development of young riders.[8]

In May 2000, Winkler was the first recipient of the award Goldene Sportpyramide of the Stiftung Deutsche Sporthilfe (de).[3][10] On 12 June 2008, he received the Federal Cross of Merit in Warendorf from Ingo Wolf (de), minister of interior and sport in North Rhine-Westphalia. He also received the media prize Bambi Award.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Günter_Winkler

Hans Günter Winkler on Halla winning the Olympic Gold in Stockholm 1956


Hans Günter Winkler Gala CHIO 2016

 

[Wysiwyg]

It is not for me to say what is right or wrong, good or bad, and whether that good or bad should be included as important. Sometimes including bad at least publicises in some small way that, that which is important is not always good - noirua
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Gudrun Burwitz, Ever-Loyal Daughter of Himmler, Is Dead at 88

That's okay if you don't want to denounce the holocaust and it's perpetrators. There were millions who died fighting it along with the victims and millions who denounce it. Another piece of Nazi ideological trash died and that is good.

 

[noirua]

Ralph Paige, a nationally prominent advocate for black farmers who fought to save their land and to win them financial compensation for what they contended were years of government discrimination, died on June 28 in Atlanta. He was 74.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/06/obituaries/ralph-paige-who-fought-for-black-farmers-dies-at-74.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/obituaries&action=click&contentCollection=obituaries&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=sectionfront

• The farm and civil rights movements have lost a giant. Ralph Paige, who led the Federation of Southern Cooperatives from 1969-2015, fought and worked tirelessly his whole life for social and economic justice in the South, especially for Black and rural farmers and landowners. Ralph built cooperatives, bringing people together to build power, and he exemplified the spirit of cooperatives in everything he did.

 

[tech/a]

Greggy a good friend of mine
Died today at 5.30
Throat cancer got him in the end
Until we meet again buddy

 

[noirua]

Abbas Amir-Entezam (Persian: عباس امیرانتظام‎, 18 August 1932 – 12 July 2018) was the spokesman and deputy prime minister in the Interim Cabinet of Mehdi Bazargan in 1979. In 1981 he was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of spying for the U.S., a charge critics suggest was a cover for retaliation against his early opposition to theocratic government in Iran. He was "the longest-held political prisoner in the Islamic Republic of Iran".[1] According to Fariba Amini, as of 2006 he had "been in jail for 17 years and in and out of jail for the last ten years, altogether for 27 years."[2]

In December 1979 Bazargan asked Entezam, who had been serving as ambassador to Sweden, to come back quickly to Tehran.[2] Upon returning to Tehran, he was arrested[2] because of allegations based on some documents retrieved from U.S. embassy takeover, and imprisoned for a life term. He was released in 1998, but in less than 3 months,[8] he was arrested again because of an interview with Tous daily newspaper, one of the reformist newspapers of the time.

In smuggled letters, Entezam has related that on three separate occasions, he had been taken blindfolded to the execution chamber - once being kept "there two full days while the Imam contemplated his death warrant." He has spent 555 days in solitary confinement, and in cells so "overcrowded that inmates took turns sleeping on the floor - each person rationed to thee hours of sleep every 24 hours." He suffered permanent ear damage, skin disease, and spinal deformities."[9] He has attacked the regime saying

Islam is a religion of care, compassion, and forgiveness. This regime makes it a religion of destruction, death, and torture.[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbas_Amir-Entezam

ABBAS AMIR-ENTEZAM: A SONG OF PATIENCE AND RESILIENCE
https://tavaana.org/en/content/abbas-amir-entezam-song-patience-and-resilience

Celebrating Nosratollah Amini's life held on June 28, 2008

 

[noirua]

Laura Soveral was born on March 23, 1933 in Benguela, Angola, Portugal as Maria Laura de Soveral Rodrigues. She was an actress, known for Tabu (2012), Angústia para o Jantar(1975) and Alice (2005). See full bio »
Laura Soveral (23 March 1933 in Benguela, Angola-12 July 2018) was a Portuguese actress. She has performed in more than seventy films since 1966.[1]

• Children: Maria do Soveral Caetano, Rui Manuel da Silva, Paula do Soveral Ribeiro da Silva, Mário Gastão do Soveral Ribeiro da Silva

Faleceu a atriz Laura Soveral, aos 85 anos
https://24.sapo.pt/atualidade/artigos/faleceu-a-atriz-laura-soveral

 

[noirua]

Standards among important people dying has dropped off of late. Last time it happened a gorilla was included and now a horse.

Naturalism (19 October 1988 – 13 July 2018) was a New Zealand-bred Australian-trained Thoroughbredracehorse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalism_(horse)

Naturalism dies aged 29
https://www.bloodstock.com.au/news/story.php?id=28953#Ow1DpMlKSs9VsOqZ.97

Naturalism splits The Phantom and The Phantom Chance in the 1993 Caulfield Stakes

[The AJC Derby trophy Naturalism won in 1992]

[Naturalism enjoying life at Meringo Stud in September 2016]

 

[noirua]

Nancy Barbato Sinatra, 101, an Idol’s First Wife and Lasting Confidante, Dies
Nancy Barbato Sinatra, the first wife of singer Frank Sinatra and the mother of his three children remained a comforting source of stability — and home-cooked meals — for the tempestuous entertainer for decades, she died on July 13.

Frank Sinatra had met Nancy Barbato in Long Branch, New Jersey in the late 1930s, where he spent most of the summer working as a lifeguard.[464] He agreed to marry her after an incident at "The Rustic Cabin" which led to his arrest.[aj] Sinatra had numerous extramarital affairs,[468] and gossip magazines published details of affairs with women including Marilyn Maxwell, Lana Turner, and Joi Lansing.[469][ak]

 

[noirua]

Raymond Emery (September 28, 1982 – July 15, 2018) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltenderwho played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for 11 seasons. Emery was chosen 99th overall by the Ottawa Senators in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft.
During the 2006–07 season, he led the Ottawa Senators to the Stanley Cup Finals. It was the Senators' first appearance in the finals since 1927.[1]
His teammates and fans often referred to him as "Razor" or "Sugar Ray" for his aggressive playing style.[2][3] He won a Stanley Cupchampionship with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2013.

Emery received numerous awards and accolades. In April 2013, he won the William M. Jennings Trophyalong with teammate Corey Crawford, awarded to the goaltender or goaltenders who give up the fewest goals in the season.
Emery finished the 2012-13 season with a 1.94 goals against average and a 0.922 save percentage. His 17 wins included 12 straight to start the year, the best such streak in NHL history.
Emery was a two-time Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy[4] finalist for his dedication and perseverance.

On July 15, 2018, Emery went swimming with several friends at the Royal Hamilton Yacht Club in Hamilton, Ontario. He went for a dive and did not resurface. His body was found later in the day by Hamilton Police.[82]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Emery
Emery's body was recovered just before 3 p.m. Sunday. Hamilton Police said a cause of death would be confirmed after a post-mortem.


Emery battled avascular necrosis, the same serious hip ailment that ended two-sport star Bo Jackson's career and came back to play. He and fellow Blackhawks netminder Corey Crawford combined to win the William Jennings Trophy for allowing the league's fewest goals during the lockout-shortened 2013 season and finished seventh in Vezina Trophy voting.

 

[noirua]

Robert Keating, Judge Who Backed Jail Alternatives, Dies at 76
Prostitutes, graffiti vandals and other minor offenders were offered alternative sentences, including clearing litter and painting over defaced property, coupled with mental health and sexual abuse counseling and monitored drug treatment.

The goal was not only to reduce crime (by one count, an offender who completed a drug-treatment program was 71 percent less likely to be rearrested) but also to instill confidence within the community that the criminal justice system could function fairly and efficiently.

Similar courts were soon established elsewhere in the city and in, among other places, Britain, South Africa and Australia.

He pressed prosecutors and the courts for tougher enforcement of gun laws and speedier trials. He was named administrative judge for the Criminal Court in 1984.

In 2002 he was named to lead the New York State Judicial Institute, a training and research partnership among the governor, the legislature, the court system and Pace University.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/obituaries/robert-keating-judge-who-backed-jail-alternatives-dies-at-76.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/obituaries&action=click&contentCollection=obituaries&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=sectionfront

 

[noirua]

Denis Yuryevich Ten (Денис Юрьевич Тен; 13 June 1993 — 19 July 2018) was a Kazakh figure skater. [1]He was the 2014 Olympic bronze medalist, a two-time World medalist (silver in 2013, bronze in 2015), the 2015 Four Continents champion, the 2017 Winter Universiade champion, and a five-time national champion of Kazakhstan.

Ten was the first skater from Kazakhstan to stand on the podium at the World Championships, Four Continents Championships, Asian Winter Games, and Olympic Games. At the 2008–09 ISU Junior Grand Prix event in Belarus, he became the first skater from Kazakhstan to win an International Skating Unioncompetition. His other accomplishments include qualifying two spots for his country in the men's event at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics.

Ten was the official ambassador for the Olympic Bidding Committee "Almaty 2022". He was a member of the Astana Presidential Sports Club[2] and the Political Party "Nur Otan". In 2013, he began producing his own ice show, "Denis Ten and Friends". In summer 2014, he announced his co-operation with All That Sports management company established by Yuna Kim.

In July 2015, the media reported on Ten's interest in photography. There is a separate social media page, where he posted he photos he took. Celebrities who have modeled for or collaborated with him include Dinara Baktybayeva, Aissulu Azimbayeva, Aliya Telebarisova (Kazakhstani actresses), Sabina Altynbekova, and Serik Sapiyev.[11]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Ten

 

[SirRumpole]

Evan Whitton, award winning corruption busting journalist has died aged 90.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Whitton

 

[noirua]

Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, a champion of interfaith dialogue as a top Vatican diplomat and the man who announced Pope Francis’s election to the world, died on July 5 in Hartford. He was 75.

But he was best known for his work as the Vatican’s foreign minister, from 1975 to 1983, which gained him a reputation as a tireless behind-the-scenes diplomat. That reputation persuaded Pope Benedict XVI in 2007 to appoint him president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, shortly after the pope gave a speech in which he quoted a 14th-century Byzantine emperor as calling Islam “evil and inhuman,” offending Muslims and spurring protests against the Roman Catholic Church all over the world.

When Cardinal Tauran traveled to Saudi Arabia three months ago to meet King Salman and sign a cooperation accord with the Saudi authorities, he said that people everywhere were threatened “not by the clash of civilizations, but by the clash of forms of ignorance and radicalism.” Over the years, in his speeches to Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists, he reiterated that all men and women of good will should work for dialogue and tolerance.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/obituaries/jean-louis-tauran-top-vatican-diplomat-is-dead-at-75.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/obituaries&action=click&contentCollection=obituaries&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=sectionfront

Jean-Louis Pierre Tauran (French: [ʒɑ̃lwi toʁɑ̃]; 5 April 1943 – 5 July 2018) was a French cardinal of the Catholic Church. When he died, he had been the president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialoguesince 2007 and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church since the end of 2014. He was made a cardinal in 2003 and was the Cardinal Protodeacon from 2011 to 2014. His earlier career included almost thirty years in the diplomatic service of the Holy See and several years as the Vatican's chief archivist and librarian.

In a breakfast meeting with journalists, in March, 2008, Tauran said Rowan Williams, the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, had been "mistaken and naive" for suggesting that some aspects of Sharia law in Britain were unavoidable. He also lamented the fact that relations with Islam so dominated interreligious dialogue, and that all religions needed to be addressed on equal terms with none assigned second-class status.[18]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Tauran

 

[noirua]

Denis Anthony "Denny" Mitchison CMG (6 September 1919 – 2 July 2018) was a British bacteriologist.[1][2]

He published about 250 papers dealing with (1) factors slowing the growth of tubercle bacilli that might account for the lengthy duration of treatment, including the first paper on the effects of anaerobic culture; (2) with Jean Dickinson on post-antibiotic effects to account for the success of intermittent drug dosage; (3) the curious characteristics of attenuated South Indian strains of TB; (4) the response to treatment when the strains were initially resistant to the drugs allowing identification of the action of individual drugs.

After his retirement in 1985, he continued working first at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith and then at St George's, University of London. With Dr Amina Jindani and colleagues in South Africa, he developed the technique of measuring the early bactericidal activity of drugs, which is now standard practice as the initial step in the phase II of clinical development of new drugs. He also introduced the concept of the 8-week phase II study with the proportion of patients obtaining negative sputum culture at 8 weeks, a standard assessment in most such studies. More recently he developed (with Dr Geraint Davies and the South African MRC) a new type of phase II 8-week study using modelling of counts of TB in sputum during treatment. He has done work on several new anti-TB drugs and participated in clinical trials on high dosage rifamycins. He finally stopped regular work at the age of 95. Mitchison died in July 2018 at the age of 98.[3]


Denis "Denny" Mitchison, who has died aged 98, was part of the research team which developed a treatment regime for tuberculosis and proved its effectiveness through clinical trials in London; he later helped to design a ground-breaking care programme in India.

 

[noirua]

Burton Richter (March 22, 1931 – July 18, 2018)[3][4] was an American physicist. He led the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) team which co-discovered the J/ψ meson in 1974, alongside the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) team led by Samuel Ting for which they won Nobel Prize for Physics in 1976. This discovery was part of the so-called November Revolution of particle physics. He was the SLAC director from 1984 to 1999.

As a professor at Stanford University, Richter built a particle accelerator called SPEAR (Stanford Positron-Electron Asymmetric Ring) with the help of David Ritson and the support of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. With it he led a team that discovered a new subatomic particle he called a ψ (psi). This discovery was also made by the team led by Samuel Ting at Brookhaven National Laboratory, but he called the particle J. The particle thus became known as the J/ψ meson. Richter and Ting were jointly awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton_Richter

Burton Richter, whose discovery of an unexpected particle revealed a new building block of matter and brought him a share of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics, died on Wednesday at Stanford Hospital in Stanford, California. He was 87.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/obituaries/burton-richter-a-nobel-winner-for-plumbing-matter-dies-at-87.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/obituaries&action=click&contentCollection=obituaries&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront

 

[sptrawler]

Sergio Marchionne, Dies age 66, Saved Chrysler/Fiat from collapse post GFC and CEO of Ferrari.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/25/news/companies/sergio-marchionne-obit/index.html

 

[noirua]

Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga, whose research led to internment reparations, dies at 93
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.91bdf5175fb1

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga (August 5, 1925 – July 18, 2018) was an American political activist who played a major role in the Japanese American redress movement. She was the lead researcher of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, a bipartisan federal committee appointed by Congress in 1980 to review the causes and effects of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II. Herzig-Yoshinaga, who was confined in the Manzanar, California and Jerome and Rohwer, Arkansas concentration camps as a young woman,[1] uncovered government documents that debunked the wartime administration's claims of "military necessity" and helped compile the CWRIC's final report, Personal Justice Denied, which led to the issuance of a formal apology and reparations for former camp inmates. She also contributed pivotal evidence and testimony to the Hirabayashi, Korematsu and Yasui coram nobis cases.

Aiko Louise Yoshinaga was born in Sacramento, California in 1924, the fifth of six children.[2] Her parents, Sanji Yoshinaga and Shigeru Kinuwaki, had immigrated from Kyushu, Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture.[3] In 1933, Yoshinaga's family moved to Los Angeles.[4]

In the 1960s, Herzig-Yoshinaga became involved with Asian Americans for Action, a civil rights organization. In 1978, she married John "Jack" Herzig and moved to Washington, D.C. At the prompting of her friend, Michi Weglyn, Yoshinaga began looking into the records of the government agencies responsible for the internment that had recently been made available to the public in the National Archives.[3] Often putting in fifty- or sixty-hour weeks, she worked to retrieve and catalog thousands of significant documents over the next several years.[5]

Yoshinaga joined the National Council for Japanese American Redress in 1980 (the same year the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians was created) and contributed her archival research to NCJAR's class-action lawsuit seeking reparations from the government. The following year, in 1981, Herzig-Yoshinaga was hired by the CWRIC as its lead researcher, and she soon after unearthed one of the most significant pieces of evidence in the case for redress.[5][6] The wartime military leadership had attempted to destroy its "Final Report on Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast", which explicitly stated that intelligence sources agreed Japanese Americans posed no threat to U.S. security, in 1943; Herzig-Yoshinaga tracked down the single remaining copy of the "Final Report" and shared it with the CWRIC, NCJAR and redress activists.[5] Thanks in large part to the discovery of this document, the convictions of Gordon Hirabayashi, Fred Korematsu, and Minoru Yasui were overturned, and the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 granted an official apology and $20,000 to each camp survivor or their heirs.[6]

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was widowed when Jack Herzig died in 2005.[8] In 2016, Herzig was the subject of a documentary entitled Rebel with a Cause, by Janice D. Tanaka. Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga died in 2018, aged 92 years, in Torrance, California.[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiko_Herzig-Yoshinaga