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Yvette Horner was born on September 22, 1922 in Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées, France. She was married to René Droesch. She died on June 11, 2018 in Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, France.


 
Ken Wood (died 16 June 2018) [1]was a three-time Olympic Australian swimming coach, who has coached many Olympic and World Championship medal-winning swimmers over his 40-plus year career. He was the head coach at the Redcliffe Leagues Swimming Club at Redcliffe, Queensland, on the northern edge of Brisbane.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Wood_(coach)

Legendary Australian Coach Ken Wood Passes Away
https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/legendary-australian-coach-ken-wood-passes-away/

In total, Woods swimmers earned over 85 National Champions, 152 Age Group National Championships, 61 international gold medals, and broke 15 individual World Records and 110 Australian Records. Wood coached on 28 Australian Teams, including at the 1984 Olympic Games. He put swimmers on at least 4 consecutive Australian Olympic Teams from 2000-2012.
https://swimswam.com/ken-wood-coach-of-multiple-world-record-breakers-dies-in-australia/
 
George Neves Leighton (born George Neves Leitão; October 22, 1912 – June 6, 2018) was an American jurist.
Leighton was elected as a judge with the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, serving from 1964–69. He was appointed as a judge with the First District Appellate Court of Illinois, serving from 1969-76. Leighton was the first African American to hold this position in the State of Illinois.[3][13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_N._Leighton

Leighton became a Life Member in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1964. He had served the Chicago branch of the NAACP for several years as president and general counsel.
  • In 2005 the United States Postal Service located at 695 Pleasant Street in his hometown of New Bedford, Massachusetts, was renamed as the "Honorable Judge George N. Leighton Post Office Building" in his honor.
  • When Mr. Leighton moved to Chicago in the 1940s, he and other African-Americans could not join local bar associations or rent space at most downtown office buildings. But by the end of his six-decade career he was one of the most accomplished lawyers in the city’s history.
 
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Matthew Tyler Murphy (December 29, 1929 – June 15, 2018[1]),[2] known as Matt "Guitar" Murphy, was an American blues guitarist. He was associated with the bands The Blues Brothers and Howlin' Wolf.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Murphy_(blues_guitarist)

Matt “Guitar” Murphy, blues sideman who played with the Blues Brothers and legends like Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, died Friday, June 15, 2018, according to multiple news sources. He was 88.
http://www.legacy.com/news/celebrit...tar-murphy-1929-2018-blues-brothers-guitarist
 
Samuel Frederick "Ted" Dabney Jr. (May 2, 1937 – May 26, 2018) was an American electrical engineer, and the co-founder, alongside Nolan Bushnell, of Atari, Inc. He is recognized as developing the basics of video circuitry principles that were used for Computer Space and later Pong, one of the first and most successful arcade games.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Dabney
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Joseph Li Mingshu (Chinese: 李明述; December 1924 – 15 June 2018) was a Chinese clandestine Roman Catholic bishop.
Bishop Li was born in village Lijia, Shandong in the Roman Catholic family in December 1924. He joined the theological seminary after a school and a minor seminary education and was ordained a priest on April 11, 1949. He worked as a teacher in the schools and theologian seminaries. From 1994 he served as an Administrator of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Qingdao and later was clandestinely consecrated as a diocesan bishop of the same diocese on August 13, 2000. He served as bishop here until his death. Bishop Li was recognised by the Chinese government but never joined the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association.[1][2]
Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Li_Mingshu
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Zhao Nanqi (Chinese: 趙南起; Korean: 조남기; Cho Nam-gi; 20 April 1927 – 17 June 2018) was a Chinese general and politician. Born in Japanese-ruled Korea (in today's South Korea), he moved with his family to Jilin, China as a child. He distinguished himself as a logistics officer of the People's Volunteer Army during the Korean War. After the war, he served in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Jilin Military District and as Vice Governor of Jilin province. He later served in top leadership positions in the PLA as Director of the General Logistics Department (1987–1992), member of the Central Military Commission, and President of the PLA Academy of Military Science (1992–1995). He attained the rank of general in 1988. From 1998 to 2003 he served as a Vice Chairperson of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Nanqi


http://www.chinavitae.com/biography/Zhao_Nanqi
 
 
Hanabiko "Koko" (July 4, 1971 – June 19, 2018) was a female western lowland gorilla who is known for having learned a large number of hand signs from a modified version of American Sign Language (ASL).
Her instructor and caregiver, animal psychologist Francine "Penny" Patterson, reported that Koko was able to understand more than 1,000 signs of what Patterson calls "Gorilla Sign Language" (GSL).[2] In contrast to other experiments attempting to teach sign language to non-human primates, Patterson simultaneously exposed Koko to spoken English from an early age. Reports state that Koko understood approximately 2,000 words of spoken English, in addition to the signs.[3] Koko's life and learning process has been described by Patterson and some of her collaborators in a number of books, peer reviewed articles, and on a website.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koko_(gorilla)


Koko The Gorilla Dies; Redrew The Lines Of Animal-Human Communication
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/21/6221...twitter.com&utm_medium=social&t=1529591938679
 
Interesting. Of all the "Important People" that have died and have been mentioned here, I think Koko The Gorilla is the only one I knew of.
 
Commodore Sir Laurence Whistler Street, AC, KCMG, KStJ, QC (3 July 1926 – 21 June 2018) was an Australian jurist; formerly the fourteenth and second youngest Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales.[1] He was the third consecutive generation of his family to have served New South Wales in these offices; the only such case in Australian history.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Street
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The Honourable Commodore
Sir Laurence Whistler Street
AC, KCMG, KStJ, QC
14th Chief Justice of New South Wales
In office
28 June 1974 – 1 November 1988
Appointed by Elizabeth II
Preceded by Sir John Kerr
Succeeded by Murray Gleeson
Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales
In office
1 July 1974 – 24 July 1989
Preceded by Sir Leslie Herron
Succeeded by Murray Gleeson
Personal details
Born 3 July 1926
Sydney, New South Wales
Died 21 June 2018 (aged 91)
Nationality Australian
Mother Lady Jessie Street
Father Sir Kenneth Whistler Street
Relatives Street family
Alma mater Sydney Law School
Military service
Allegiance Commonwealth of Australia
Service/branch Royal Australian Navy
Royal Australian Naval Reserve
Rank Commodore
Battles/wars World War II
 
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Frances Walker-Slocum’s Brilliance and Advocacy: Bringing Black Classical Composers to the Forefront of Oberlin Conservatory
Frances Walker-Slocum, who overcame childhood burns that left her arm impaired to become a pioneering classical pianist and the first black female tenured professor at Oberlin College and Conservatory, died on June 9 in Oberlin, Ohio. She was 94.
Http://americanfeminisms.org/frances-walker-slocums-brilliance-and-advocacy-bringing-black-classical-composers-to-the-forefront-of-oberlin-conservatory/
 
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