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Koro Tainui Wētere CBE (22 June 1935 – 23 June 2018) was a New Zealand politician. He was an MP from 1969 to 1996, representing the Labour Party.[1] He served as Minister of Māori Affairs in the Fourth Labour Government (1984–1990).[2]
He was a member of the Ngāti Maniapoto tribe.
Wētere became Minister of Māori Affairs when the Labour Party won the 1984 elections.
Wētere was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1996 New Year Honours, for services to the Māori people.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koro_Wētere
 
Diana Hanbury King, a Leading Teacher in Overcoming Dyslexia, Dies at 90
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/obituaries/diana-king-a-leading-teacher-in-overcoming-dyslexia-dies-at-90.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/obituaries&action=click&contentCollection=obituaries&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=sectionfront


Under the aegis of mentor Helene Durbrow, Diana began her nearly seventy-year career in the field of dyslexia at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., where Anna Gillingham visited regularly to supervise teachers. Prior to that, she had spent time in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) on her uncle’s farm, Kildonan; both her uncle and his daughters had what she later realized was dyslexia. Her first teaching job--at Ruzawi--came about by pure chance while she lived there, and thus began a lifelong passion.
https://www.kildonan.org/support-kildonan/diana-hanbury-king
 
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Daisy Craig Kadibil dead at 95 – Last of Rabbit-Proof Fence girls whose trek home was made into famous film passes away
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6408498/daisy-kadibil-dead-95-last-rabbit-proof-fence-sisters/

Daisy Kadibil, who has died aged 95, was eight when she was forcibly removed from her Aboriginal mother by the Australian authorities and sent, with her half-sister Molly, 12, and their cousin Gracie, 9, to a bleak government institution to be trained as domestic servants; the story of their escape, and their 1,200-mile trek home, inspired Phillip Noyce’s acclaimed yet harrowing film Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), starring Kenneth Branagh.


Rabbit-Proof Fence is a 2002 Australian drama film directed by Phillip Noyce based on the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara. It is loosely based on a true story concerning the author's mother Molly, as well as two other mixed-race Aboriginal girls, who ran away from the Moore River Native Settlement, north of Perth, Western Australia, to return to their Aboriginal families, after being placed there in 1931. The film follows the Aboriginal girls as they walk for nine weeks along 1,500 miles (2,400 km) of the Australian rabbit-proof fence to return to their community at Jigalong, while being pursued by white law enforcement authorities and an Aboriginal tracker.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-Proof_Fence_(film)
 
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Mr. Tully was the New York State commissioner of taxation and finance from 1975 to 1982. He presided during New York City’s fiscal crisis, becoming, in effect, the custodian of the city’s sales tax revenue. That money had been pledged to pay the debt of the Municipal Assistance Corporation, an agency created to borrow funds on behalf of New York City after major banks had refused to give it any more loans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/...ef-dies-at-87.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytobits
 
Kim Jong-pil, Political Kingmaker in South Korea, Dies at 92
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/...le&region=Footer&contentCollection=Obituaries

Kim Jong-pil (Korean pronunciation: [kimdʑoŋpʰil]; January 7, 1926 – June 23, 2018) was a South Korean politician and founder of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (the KCIA, now the National Intelligence Service), who served as Prime Minister twice, from 1971–1975 president Park Chung-hee (1961-1979) and from 1998–2000 during president Kim Dae-jung (1998-2002).
He participated in the May 16 coup led by Major General Park Chung-hee in 1961 and served in several high-profile offices, including Chairman of the ruling Democratic Republican Party during Park's presidency eighteen years until assassination in 1979.
In 1963, he founded the Democratic Republican Party (South Korea) (민주공화당). In 1971 he first served as Prime Minister of South Korea 1971 to 1975. He assumed the same position from 1998 to 2000.
He served as Korea Scout Association President until June 6, 1969. In 1967 he received the highest distinction of the Scout Association of Japan, the Golden Pheasant Award.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-pil
 
Kira Heorhiyivna Muratova (Ukrainian: Кіра Георгіївна Мура́това; née Korotkova, 5 November 1934 – 6 June 2018[1][2]) was a Ukrainian award-winning film director, screenwriter and actress, known for her unusual directorial style. Her films underwent a great deal of censorship in the Soviet Union.

Muratova films have been premiering at International Film Festivals in Berlin, Cannes, Moscow, Rome, Venice and others. Next to Aleksandr Sokurov, Muratova is considered to be the most idiosyncratic contemporary Russian-language film director. Muratova's works can be seen as postmodern, employing eclecticism, parody, discontinuous editing, disrupted narration and intense visual and sound stimuli.[6]


It was only during Perestroyka that Muratova received wide public recognition and first awards. In 1988, the International Women's Film Festival Créteil(France) showed a first retrospective of her works. Her film Among Grey Stones was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.[9] In 1990, her film Asthenic Syndrome won the Jury Grand Prix at the Berlinale.[10]
In 1994, she was awarded the Leopard of Honour for her life oeuvre at The Locarno International Film Festival (Switzerland) and in 2000, she was given the Andrzej Wajda Freedom Award.[6] In 1997, her film Three Stories was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival.[11]
Her 2002 film Chekhov's Motifs was entered into the 24th Moscow International Film Festival.[12] Her film The Tuner was shown at the Venice Film Festival in 2004. Her films received the Russian "Nika" prize in 1991, 1995, 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2013. In 2005, a retrospective was shown at the Lincoln Center in New York City. In 2013, a full retrospective of her films was shown at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.[13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kira_Muratova

 
Felicia Langer (9 December 1930 – 21 June 2018) was a German-Israeli attorney and human rights activist known for her defence of Palestinian political prisoners in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. She authored several books alleging human rights violations on the part of Israeli authorities. She lived in Germany from 1990 and acquired German citizenship in 2008. In July 2009, President of Germany Horst Köhler awarded her the Federal Cross of Merit, First class, which is the fifth highest of Germany's federal order of merit's eight ranks.[1] The bestowal triggered a public controversy because of her attitude towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Langer was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, First class, by the President of Germany Horst Köhler following the nomination by the government of Baden-Württemberg, itself based on suggestions by the publicist Evelyn Hecht-Galinski and the city of Tübingen. At the award ceremony, on 16 July 2009 in Stuttgart, the decoration was bestowed by Hubert Wicker, a senior civil servant of Baden-Württemberg’s chancellery.
Langer characterised the criticisms of her distinction on 23 July 2009 as a smear campaign supposed to suppress criticism against Israel and rejected to return the Federal Cross of Merit.[31][32] Several elected officials, including the Mayor of Tübingen Boris Palmer and representatives of the Government of Baden Württemberg, underlined their support for the award.[33]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicia_Langer
 
• Kathy Mabel Baker, probation officer and Samaritan, born 10 June 1947; died 7 June 2018


Samaritans volunteer whose enduring legacy is the Listeners scheme to help prisoners in distress
Kathy rarely spoke about why she did what she did, although she once said: “Enabling people to talk about how they feel is a real gift.” People from all walks of life, and in particular people in custody, will be eternally grateful that she shared that gift.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/21/kathy-baker-obituary
 
Rebecca Parris, a husky-voiced jazz singer known for both her blistering scat runs and her deeply affecting interpretations of ballads, died on June 17 in South Yarmouth, Mass. She was 66.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/obituaries/rebecca-parris-jazz-singer-is-dead-at-66.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/obituaries&action=click&contentCollection=obituaries&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront


Rebecca Parris (December 28, 1951 – June 17, 2018) was an American jazz singer. During her career she appeared with Count Basie, Buddy Rich, Wynton Marsalis, Gary Burton, and Dizzy Gillespie.[1]
She performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Oslo Jazz Festival, and the International Floating Jazz Festival. She won the Boston Music Awards nine times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Parris

Her osteoporosis caused her to lose six inches off her commanding height of six feet and required her to use crutches. But she never stopped performing.
 

Reinhard Hardegen
Reinhard Hardegen, 2016
Born 18 March 1913
Bremen, Germany
Died 9 June 2018 (aged 105)
Bremen, Germany
Allegiance
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Nazi Germany
Service/branch
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Reichsmarine
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Kriegsmarine
Years of service 1934–45
Rank Korvettenkapitän
Unit 3rd U-boat Flotilla
2nd U-boat Flotilla
Commands held U-147 (11 December 1940–4 April 1941)
U-123 (19 May 1941–31 July 1942)
Marine-Infanterie-Regiment 6(February–May 1945)
Battles/wars
World War II

Awards Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
Other work Businessman and Politician
Korvettenkapitän Reinhard Hardegen (18 March 1913 – 9 June 2018)[1][2] was a German U-boatcommander during World War II. The last surviving Ace of the Deep, he was the 24th-most-successful commander of the war, credited with the having sunk 115,656 gross register tons (GRT) (22 ships). After the war, he spent a year and a half in British captivity before starting a successful oil trading business and serving as a member of Bremen's city council (the Bürgerschaft) for over 32 years.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Hardegen
 
Brigadier General Pavel Vranský (29 April 1921 – 24 June 2018) was a Czech airman who served with the Royal Air Force during World War II.[1][2]

Zemřel Pavel Vranský, veterán bojů u Tobruku a letec RAF
https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/domaci/2518996-zemrel-pavel-vransky-veteran-boju-u-tobruku-a-letec-raf

The war hero, who came from a Jewish family in Ostrava, joined the RAF in 1942 and served with the 311 Squadron, which was a Czechoslovak-manned bomber squadron. Prior to that he had fought in Syria and at Tobruk.
Major Pavel Vranský (1921 - 2018) - Photo gallery
http://www.pametnaroda.cz/witness/photo/id/677
 
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Historian who exposed Beaufort County's unparalleled role in American history dies
Her work dismantled the prevailing view that the Reconstruction era following the Civil War was a tragic failure filled with corruption that logically concluded with a Jim Crow system of segregation between whites and a so-called inferior race.

During a recent visit to Beaufort, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and historian Eric Foner, who is considered the nation's leading expert on Reconstruction, said nobody has told the story better than Rose.

"Think about how Beaufort County and the Town of Hilton Head Island are now making financial investments in Mitchelville," he said of the site of a planned village for freedmen on Hilton Head. "For many years, it might not have been looked at, but now it is. It is a way we can honor her, and reflect on her. It's another way we can recapture what happened here in terms of today's dialogue."

https://www.islandpacket.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/david-lauderdale/article213919374.html

Willie Lee Rose, Historian of Reconstruction, Dies at 91
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/obituaries/willie-lee-rose-historian-of-reconstruction-dies-at-91.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/obituaries&action=click&contentCollection=obituaries&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront
 
Irena Szewińska, née Kirszenstein (Polish pronunciation: [iˈrɛna ʂɛˈviɲska]; 24 May 1946 – 29 June 2018) was a Polish sprinter who was one of the world's foremost athletes for nearly two decades, in multiple events.[2][3][4][5][6][7] She is the only athlete in history, male or female, to have held the world record in the 100m, the 200m and the 400m.[8]

Between 1964 and 1980 she participated in five Olympic Games, winning seven medals, three of them gold. She also broke six world records and is the only athlete (male or female) to have held a world record in the 100 m, 200 m and the 400 m events. She also won 10 medals in European Championships. Between 1965 and 1979 she gathered 26 national titles and set 38 records in the 100–400 m sprint and long jump.[14]

At her first Olympics in Tokyo in 1964, she took a Silver medal in the Long Jump and 200 metres, and ran the second leg of the Gold medal winning 4 X 100 metre relay team.
In 1966, at the European Athletics Championships she won Gold in the long jump, 200 metres and 4 x 100 metre relay; and took a Silver in the 100 metre sprint.

In the 1974 season, she became the first woman to break the 50-second barrier for 400 metres, and she set a new world record of 22.21 s for 200 metres. At the European Championships in the Rome she won the sprint double of 100 metres and 200 metres, beating the favoured GDR sprinter Renate Stecher; and ran the anchor leg on the 4 x 100 metre relay team which took the bronze. She was ranked number 1 in the world in the 100, 200 and 400 m events in 1974.

She was ranked number 1 in the world 7 times in the 200 metres; 4 times in the 400 metres, and 2 times in the 100 metres; as well as 3 times in the long jump. Over-all, she was ranked 15 years in the top ten at 200 metres, also 4 times number 2, twice at number 3, which just leaves 2 years outside the top 3; (from 1964 to 1977 she was ranked in the top 3 – 200 metre runners in the world) a remarkable achievement. She was ranked 12 times in the 100 metres, 8 times in the long jump and 6 times in the 400 metres (which she took up in 1974).

She was a member of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, and the IAAF Hall of Fame.[18][19]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Szewińska

 
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Fuat Sezgin (24 October 1924 – 30 June 2018) was a Turkish orientalist who specialized in the history of Arabic-Islamic science. He was professor emeritus of the History of Natural Science at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany and the founder and honorary director of the Institute of the History of the Arab Islamic Sciences there.[1] He also created museums in Frankfurt and Istanbul with replicas of historical Arabic-Islamic scientific instruments, tools and maps.[2] His best known publication is the 13-volume Geschichte des Arabischen Schrifttums, a standard reference in the field.[3]

Fuat Sezgin is the author and editor of numerous publications. His 13-volume work Geschichte des Arabischen Schrifttums (1967-2000) is the cornerstone reference on the history of science and technology in the Islamic world. The 5-volume Natural Sciences of Islam documents the items in the Frankfurt museum. Since 1984 he has edited the Journal for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science.

Sezgin received several awards, including the King Faisal International Prize of Islamic Studies in 1978[5] and Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was a member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences,[7] the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco and academies of Arabic Language in Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad.

In 1968, Sezgin found four previously unknown books of Diophantus' Arithmetica at the shrine of Imam Rezā in the holy Islamic city of Mashad in northeastern Iran.

On 24 September 2012, Melih Gökçek, Mayor of Municipality of Metropolitan Ankara, announced that a square in Ankara was named in honor of Fuat Sezgin. A relief of him created by artist Aslan Başpınar at the square was revealed the same day in the presence of Fuat Sezgin and his spouse Ursula by the mayor.[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuat_Sezgin
 
Constance Adams (16 July 1964 – 25 June 2018) was an American architect who worked in the space program.

Among other projects, Adams was involved in developing the Lockheed-Martin design of an inflatable module for the International Space Station.[4] The module, known as TransHab ("transit habitat"), was designed to provide living quarters for astronauts aboard the space station, including a common room, gymnasium, shower, etc. Budget considerations and delays, as well as politics, meant that the module failed to develop beyond the design stage.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Adams

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/obituaries/constance-adams-architect-of-space-habitats-is-dead-at-53.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/obituaries&action=click&contentCollection=obituaries&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront
 
Arvid Carlsson (25 January 1923 — 29 June 2018[2][3]) was a Swedish neuropharmacologist who is best known for his work with the neurotransmitter dopamine and its effects in Parkinson's disease. For his work on dopamine, Carlsson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000, along with co-recipients Eric Kandel and Paul Greengard.[4][5]

While working at Astra AB, Carlsson and his colleagues were able to derive the first marketed selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, zimelidine, from brompheniramine.[4] Zimelidine preceded both Fluoxetine (Prozac) and Fluvoxamine as the first SSRI, but was later withdrawn from the market due to rare cases of Guillain–Barré syndrome.[8]

Carlsson was opposed to the fluoridation of drinking water.[9][10][11] He was a vocal opponent of homeopathy and worked to prevent homeopathic preparations from being classified as medication in Sweden.[2]

Carlsson was still an active researcher and speaker when he was over 90 years old, and together with his daughter Lena, he worked[12] on OSU6162, a dopamine stabilizer alleviating symptoms of post-stroke fatigue.[13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvid_Carlsson


When Dr. Carlsson started his research in the 1950s, dopamine, a chemical in the brain, was thought to have little significance. Dr. Carlsson discovered that it was, in fact, an important neurotransmitter — a brain chemical that passes signals from one neuron to the next.

He then found that dopamine was concentrated in the basil ganglia, the portion of the brain that controls movement. He showed that rabbits lost their ability to move after they were given a drug that lowered their dopamine stores; their mobility was restored after they received L-dopa, a drug that is converted into dopamine in the brain.

He then found that dopamine was concentrated in the basil ganglia, the portion of the brain that controls movement. He showed that rabbits lost their ability to move after they were given a drug that lowered their dopamine stores; their mobility was restored after they received L-dopa, a drug that is converted into dopamine in the brain.

All Parkinson’s disease drugs used today work by increasing dopamine signaling in the brain. More than 50 years after Dr. Carlsson’s discovery, L-dopa remains the mainstay treatment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/01/...95.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
 
Rajmata Krishna Kumari (10 February 1926[1][2] – 3 July 2018) was the last reigning Maharani of Marwar-Jodhpur (1947–1949), a state of Rathores.[3]After the death of her husband Maharaja Hanuwant Singh, she was Regent for son, Maharaja Gaj Singh II.

She was also known as HH Maharani Krishna Kumari Ba Sahiba of Dhrangadhra. She had opened a Girls' school in jodhpur, Rajamata Krishna Kumari Girls' Public school ,which is amongst the best girls' school of India. She died on July 3 2018, in Jodhpur, aged 92.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna_Kumari_(regent)
 
Shoko Asahara (麻原 彰晃 Asahara Shōkō, March 2, 1955 – July 6, 2018), born Chizuo Matsumoto (松本 智津夫 Matsumoto Chizuo) was the founder of the Japanese doomsday cult group Aum Shinrikyo. Asahara was convicted for being the mastermind behind the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway and several other crimes, for which he was sentenced to death in 2004. In June 2012, his execution was postponed due to further arrests of Aum Shinrikyo members.[1] He was executed by hanging on July 6, 2018.[2][3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoko_Asahara
 
Eugene Pitt, Doo-Wop Singer With Staying Power, Dies at 80
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/obituaries/eugene-pitt-doo-wop-singer-with-staying-power-dies-at-80.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/obituaries&action=click&contentCollection=obituaries&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront
Eugene Sampson Pitt (November 6, 1937 – June 29, 2018) was an American musician and the founding member of The Jive Five. He formed a group with some school friends in 1954 called the Genies, in which he was the lead singer. There were no recordings from this group.


 
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