Duncan Weldon, English theatre producer, Died at 77

Duncan Weldon was born on March 19, 1941, and died on January 30, 2019. He was a British theatre producer.

During 2002, Weldon won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.

Duncan Weldon passed away at 77 years old.

Peter Magowan, American businessman, Died at 76

Peter Alden Magowan was born on April 5, 1942, in New York City and died on January 27, 2019.

He was an American businessman.

He was the overseeing general accomplice of the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball from 1993 through 2008.

Magowan filled in as the CEO of Safeway Inc. from 1979 through 1993.

Magowan's maternal granddad was Charles Merrill (1885– 1956), prime supporter of Merrill Lynch and instrumental in the development of Safeway.

His dad, Robert Anderson Magowan, was director and CEO of Safeway; Magowan's mom, Doris Merrill Magowan (1914– 2001), was a philanthropist.

He was the nephew of writer James Merrill (1926– 1995).

He was a local of New York City and was a New York Giants fan preceding the group moving to San Francisco.

Magowan graduated secondary school from Groton School, had a four year certification from Stanford University and a graduate degree from the University of Oxford.

Magowan likewise posted alumni work at Johns Hopkins University.

Following graduation from Stanford, Magowan joined Safeway as a land arbitrator in Washington D.C. Magowan likewise filled in as a District Manager in Houston, a Retail Operations Manager in Phoenix and a Division Manager in Tulsa.

From 1976 to 1978 he was accountable for the Company's global activities.

Magowan was chosen a Director of Safeway in 1978 after the passing of his dad.

In 1979, Magowan was chosen as director and (CEO) of Safeway.

Safeway's poor execution prompted it being the objective of corporate pillagers, bringing about obtaining by KKR going about as a white knight, however he remained on as CEO until 1993, when he surrendered to give all his opportunity to the Giants. He was additionally a chief of Caterpillar, Inc., DaimlerChrysler, and Spring Group, PLC.

He had kicked the bucket in hospice.

Peter Alden Magowan passed away at 76 years old.

Meshulam Riklis, Israeli businessman, Died at 95

Meshulam Riklis was born on December 2, 1923,  in Istanbul and died on January 25, 2019.
He was an Israeli businessman.

He experienced childhood in Tel Aviv before going to the United States in 1947 with his first spouse,

Judith Stern, with whom he has three youngsters: Simona (Mona), Marcia, and Ira.

Riklis examined arithmetic at Ohio State University, graduating in 1950.

Riklis's first huge activity was as a lesser stock investigator for the Minneapolis venture firm Piper Jaffray.

Subsequent to separating from his first spouse, the 53-year-old Riklis was hitched to the then 23-year-old Pia Zadora on September 18, 1977.

They had two youngsters, Kady and Kristofer. He then financed the film Butterfly, featuring Zadora.

Her acting in the film was ridiculed by entertainers and expert commentators, winning her the Razzie Award for Worst Actress, yet she likewise won the Golden Globe Award as New Star of the Year after an all around pitched press junket paid for by Riklis, additionally facilitated at his own Riviera Hotel.

Meshulam Riklis and Zadora then purchased and destroyed one of Beverly Hills' best known tourist spots, Pickfair Manor, the previous home of quiet film legends Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, to manufacture a bigger home on the site.

They lived there until the point that they separated in 1993.

During 2010, at 86 years old, Riklis wedded his third spouse, Tali Sinai, who was very nearly 40 years his junior.

During 2012, his girl, guidance reporter Simona Riklis Ackerman passed on.

Meshulam Riklis passed away at 95 years old.

Henry Sy, Retailer & investor, Died at 94

Henry Tan Chi Sieng Sy Sr. was born on October 15, 1924, in Fujian, China and died on January 19, 2019.

 

He was a Chinese-Filipino business magnate and philanthropist,

 

He was known as the "father of modern Philippine retail".

 

Sy moved with his family to the Philippines at age 12. While his family came back to China, he remained behind and established ShoeMart, a little Manilla shoe store, in 1958. 

 

Throughout the decades he formed ShoeMart into SM Investments, one of the biggest aggregates in the Philippines, incorporating 77 SM shopping centers in the Philippines and China, 62 retail establishments, 56 general stores and more than 200 supermarkets. 

 

SM likewise claims Banco de Oro, the second biggest bank in the Philippines, and land property. 

For eleven straight years until his passing, Sy was named by Forbes as the most extravagant individual in the Philippines.

At the time of his death on January 19, 2019, his estimated net worth amounted to US$19 billion, making him the 53rd richest person in the world.

Henry Sy passed away at 94 years old.

Gerard Basset, French-born British sommelier, Died at 61

Gerard Francis Claude Basset was born on March 7, 1957 and died on January 16, 2019.

Basset was the proprietor of Hotel TerraVina, a New Forest Hotel close Southampton in Hampshire, United Kingdom.

Basset was at present the main individual on the planet to hold the joined titles of Master of Wine, Master Sommelier, Wine MBA, OIV MSc in Wine Management and World's Best Sommelier.

Basset went to the Lycée Albert Camus in Firminy, France. In the wake of preparing in Lyon, he moved to England to begin his profession as a sommelier, rapidly getting to be Head Sommelier at Chewton Glen, the Michelin-featured inn in Hampshire.

He distributed his first book in 2000 that concentrated on wine sampling intended for wine understudies called The Wine Experience altered by Kyle Cathie.

He was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honors for administrations to the neighborliness business, and chose as the Decanter 2013 Man of the Year.

Gerard Francis Claude Basset passed away at 61 years old.

Vishnu Hari Dalmia, Indian industrialist, Died at 94

Vishnu Hari Dalmia was born on May 6, 1924, and died on January 16, 2019.

He was a noted Indian industrialist and a prominent member of Vishwa Hindu Parishad.

Vishnu Hari Dalmia was a scion of Dalmia Group of industries and the eldest son of Jaidayal Dalmia.

Dalmia was one of the senior members of Vishwa Hindu Parishad, served as the various post in the organization as president, international president and currently patron and in the advisory board of VHP.

Dalmia played important role in Ram Janmabhoomi movement and is one of the co-accused in Babri Masjid demolition case.

His Bros is control by Vishnu Hari Dalmia's sons, Sanjay Dalmia and Anurag Dalmia, Dalmia Bharat Group that is managed by Gautam Dalmia and Puneet Dalmia, Orissa Cement, Renaissance Group and their subsidiaries.

Vishnu Hari Dalmia died at his Golf Link Residence in Delhi.

Vishnu Hari Dalmia passed away at 94 years old.

Lenin Rajendran, Indian film director, Died at 67

Lenin Rajendran was born in Trivandrum, Kerala, India and died on January 14, 2019.

He was an Indian film director and screenwriter.

He worked in Malayalam cinema. Rajendran served as the Kerala State Film Development Corporation from 2016 to January 2019.

When he started out his film-making career, he was an assistant to director P. A. Backer, Rajendran made his directorial debut with Venal (1982).

Rajendran's first film on to his last one, Edavappathy (2016), Rajendran has been consistent with the quality of his films, not surrendering to market forces even while using the form and stars of popular cinema.

Rajendran's other films are Prem Nazirine Kanmanilla (1983), Puravrutham (1988), and Vachanam (1989).

Lenin Rajendran passed away at 67 years old due to liver ailments at Appolo Hospital Chennai.

Patrick Malrieu, French business executive, Breton activist & historian, Died at 73

Patrick Malrieu was born on March 31, 1945 and died on  January10,  2019.

He was a French industrial executive and a Breton music historian.

 

He attended high school in Paris, and went to École Estienne for college.

Patrick Malrieu worked for the Brodard & Taupin printing office, and was soon promoted to technical director.

Following 10 years, he left for Oberthur Fiduciaire, where he would spend only one year. After that, he became head of printing for Ouest-France's Publihebdos SAS.

Patrick Malrieu became president of printing press Auger-Mauger in 1999, and worked there until 2004. He would then retire from the printing industry. 

From 2011 until his death, Patrick Malrieu was the president of Institut Culturel de Bretagne.

 

He was inducted into the Order of the Ermine in 1999.

Patrick Malrieu passed away at 73 years old.

Meera Sanyal, Indian banker, Died at 57

Meera Sanyal (née Hiranandani) was born on October on 1961 and died on January 11, 2019.

She was a CEO and chairperson of the Royal Bank of Scotland in India. 

Meera was the daughter of a highly decorated Naval officer, Vice Admiral Gulab Mohanlal Hiranandani.

Meera Sanyal was involved in banking for over 3 decades before stepping down from RBS to stand as the Aam Aadmi Party candidate in South Mumbai in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, which she lost.

Earlier,  Sanyal contested as an independent candidate in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections from the Mumbai South constituency.

Sanyal was appointed as a non-executive Director on the board of Pradan, an Indian NGO that works to empower women through entrepreneurship and on the international board of Right to Play, a global organisation that has helped over 1 million children through the transformative power of play.

Sanyal  was also on the boards of Jaihind College and the Indian Liberal Group.

Sanyal was a member of various national committees at the CII and FICCI.

Sanyal was the former Chairperson of the Indian Advisory Board of AIESEC, the world's largest student organisation. 

Meera Sanyal passed away at 57 years old due to cancer.

George Brady, Czech-Canadian Holocaust survivor and businessman, Died at 90

George Brady was born as Jiří Brady was on February 9, 1928, and died on January 12, 2019.

He was a Holocaust survivor of both Theresienstadt (Terezin) and Auschwitz (Oswiecim, Poland).

He was a Canadian businessman and was awarded the Order of Ontario, in 2008, and the Cxech State Medal in 2016.

He was the son of Markéta and Karel Brady, and brother of Hana Brady.

During 1942, his mother and father had been separated from their children and sent to prisons and Nazi concentration camps.

George was sent to Theresienstadt a ghetto-camp not far from Prague with one sibling, he was lucky to escape, after sharing a small space with over 40 other young boys including Petr Ginz, Yehuda Bacon and Kurt Kotouc. 

His sister Hana Brady was given a gas chamber execution.

He escaped during a death march to Germany during January 1945, the same month Auschwitz was liberated.

George Brady passed away in Toronto, Canada, at 90 years old.

John Mendelsohn, American pharmacologist, Died at 82

John Mendelsohn was born on August 31, 1936 and died on January 7, 2019.

He was a president of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

Mendelsohn was an internationally recognized leader in cancer research.

He served as MD Anderson president from 1996 to 2011.

When Ronald DePinho became president, John Mendelsohn stepped down September 1, 2011.

He remained on the faculty as co-director of the new Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Institute for Personalized Cancer Therapy.

Also, Mendelsohn served as a senior fellow in health and technology at the Baker Institute.

He was not a full-time president of MD Anderson.

After that John Mendelsohn showed less interest in his expertise in laboratory research and clinical trials to leading an institution that employs about 18,000 people and serves 100,000 patients yearly, with a budget of more than $3.3 billion.

John Mendelsohn passed away at 82 years old.

Blake Willard Nordstrom, American businessman, Died at 58

Blake Willard Nordstrom was born on October 4, 1960 in Seattle and died on January 2, 2019 in Seattle.

Blake was an American businessman and banker.

The great-grandson of John W. Nordstrom, Blake served as sole President of the Nordstrom department store chain from 2000 to 2014 and then co-President with his brothers, Peter and Erik Nordstrom, from 2015 until his death in 2019.

He was also a former director of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

A graduate of the University of Washington, Blake married Molly A. Lewis in 1988 with whom he had two children.

Blake Willard Nordstrom passed away on January 2, 2019 at age 58.

Stanley Weston, American licensing agent & inventor of the actionfigure, Died at 84

Stanley Weston was born on April 1, 1933, in New York City and died on May 1, 2017.

He was an American inventor and licensing agent who created the G.I. Joe toy line in 1963, as well as the very concept of the action figure.

Stanley later sold the rights to his invention, which he called "outfitted action figures", to Hasbro just $100,000 dollars.

Then later, he created his own company, Leisure Concepts, which represented and licensed products based on the likeness of Farah Faucet, Star Wars, and Nintendo.

In the 1980s, he oversaw the creation of the ThunderCats animated series (1985–1989), which spawned the successful ThunderCats toyline.

Stanley Weston passed away at 84 years old.

Parvathamma Rajkumar, Indian film producer, Died at 77

Parvathamma Rajkumar was born on December 6, 1939, and died on May 31, 2017.

She was an Indian film producer and distributor.

Parvathamma was the wife of Veteran Kannada actor Rajkumar.

Rajkumar produced successful films featuring Rajkumar and their sons Shiv Rajkumar, Puneeth Rajkumar and Raghavendra Rajkumar under the production house named "Poornima Enterprises".

Other actresses who had found fame in her productions include Malashri, Prema, Rakshita, Sudha Rani and Ramya.

Rajkumar was awarded with a doctorate from Bangalore University.

One of the awards Rajkumar has received are the Phalke Academy award, Kannada Rajyotsava, and a lifetime achievement award from the Government of Karnataka.

After attending hospital for treatment of weakness she was admitted to intensive care when she found it diffcult to breath, she died due to an heart attack.

Parvathamma Rajkumar passed away at 77 years old.

Sandy Pearlman, American record producer and band manager, Died at 72

Samuel C. "Sandy" Pearlman was born on August 8, 1943, and died on July 26, 2016.

He was an American music producer, artist manager, professor, poet, songwriter, and record company executive.

Samuel was best known for founding, writing for, producing, or co-producing many LPs by Blue Öyster Cult, as well as producing important albums by The Clash, The Dictators, Pavlov's Dog, Space Team Electra, and Dream Syndicate; he was also the founding Vice President of eMusic.com.

Sandy was the Schulich Distinguished Professor Chair at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Montreal, and from August 2014 held a Marshall McLuhan Centenary Fellowship at the Coach House Institute (CHI) of the University of Toronto Faculty of Information as part of the CHI's McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology.

Sandy Pearlman passed away at 72 years old.