Leo Paquette, American chemist, Died at 84

Leo Armand Paquette was bornon July 15, 1934 and died on  January 21, 2019.
He was an American organic chemist.

His guardians were Armand and Clarice with roots in Quebec (extraordinary granddad Edmund was conceived in Contrecoeur, Quebec) and he got his B.S. degree from Holy Cross College in 1956 and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959.

 Subsequent to filling in as a Research Associate at the Upjohn Company from 1959 to 1963, he joined the workforce of The Ohio State University.

He was elevated to full teacher in 1969 and was named Distinguished University Professor in 1987.

As an individual from the National Academy of Sciences since 1984, Paquette has served on warning councils for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), and has been an individual from the article sheets of productions, for example, the Journal of Organic Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Organic Syntheses, Organic Reactions, and as the establishing editorial manager of the Electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (e-EROS).

Leo Armand Paquette passed away at 84 years old.

Charles Vandenhove, Belgian architect, Died at 91

Charles, Knight Vandenhove was born on July 3, 1927, in Teuven  and died on January 22, 2019, Liège.

Vandenhove was one of the leading Belgian architects of the 20th century.

Vandenhove's company Charles Vandenhove et associés is based in Liège, Belgium.

Vandenhove's was mostly known for his work in Belgium, the Netherlands and Paris ranging from the 1950s to the 2010s.

Charles Vandenhove passed away at 91 years old.

Jonas Mekas, Lithuanian-born American film director, Died at 96

Jonas Mekas was born on December 24, 1922,  in Semeniškiai, Panevėžys,  and died on January 23, 2019.

He was a Lithuanian American filmmaker, poet, and artist.

Mekas has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema". His work has been exhibited in museums and festivals worldwide.

One of Mekas last exhibitions, "Notes from Downtown," took place at James Fuentes Gallery in the summer of 2018 on the Lower East Side.

Jonas Mekas died at his home in New York at 96 years old.

Nils Hasselmo, Swedish-American academic administrator, Died at 87

Nils Hasselmo was born on July 2, 1931, in Köla parish in Värmland County, Sweden and died on January 23, 2019.

He  was a Swedish teacher and later on the thirteenth president of the University of Minnesota, serving from 1988 to 1997.

Nils went on to serve as the president of the Association of American Universities from 1998 to 2006.

Hasselmo finished a Ph.D. in linguistics from Harvard University in 1961.

Hasselmo passed away at 87 years old.

Ian Shirley, New Zealand social policy academic, Died at 78

Ian Francis Shirley died on January 20, 2019

 

He was New Zealand's first professor of public policy and an advocate for social justice.

 

He founded the Institute of Public Policy at Auckland University of Technology.

 

He was appointed as a lecturer in the Social Work Unit at Massey University in 1977, and promoted to senior lecturer in 1980.

He retired from Auckland University of Technology in 2016, and was accorded the titile of professor emeritus.

Ian Francis Shirley passed away at 78 years old.

Gilles Paquet, Canadian economist, Died at 82

Gilles Paquet was born on July 19, 1936 and died on January 18, 2019.

He was a Canadian economist.

 

He was appointed the President of the Royal Society of Canada from 2003 to 2005.

 

Paquet was Professor Emeritus at the School of Management and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre on Governance of the University of Ottawa until his death.

He was active as a journalist on the radio and television network of Radio-Canada from the 1970s onwards, working as an editorial writer for some 5 years in the print media in the 1990s, and as commentator on national affairs on TVOntario from 1995 to 2006. 

Gilles Paquet passed away at 82 years old.

Charles Kettles, American colonel, Died at 89

Charles S. Kettles was born on January 9, 1930. in Ypsilanti, Michigan and died on January 21, 2019.

He was a United States Army lieutenant colonel and a Medal of Honor recipient.

Charles S. Kettles examined building at Michigan State Normal College (presently Eastern Michigan University). 

Kettles was drafted into the United States Army at 21 years old.

After he finished his fundamental preparing at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky, Kettles went to Officer Candidate School at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and earned his bonus as a defensive layer officer in the United States Army Reserve on February 28, 1953. 

He finished his four year college education at Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Texas, and earned his graduate degree at Eastern Michigan University, College of Technology, in business development.

Charles S. Kettles passed away at 89 years old.

Andrew Fairlie, Scottish chef, Died at 55

Andrew Fairlie was born in November 1963, and died on January 22, 2019, he was a Scottish chef.

He was patron of the eponymous Restaurant Andrew Fairlie, an independent business within the Gleneagles Hotel and Resort, in Auchterarder, Perthshire.

Restaurant Andrew Fairlie is the only two Michelin star restaurant in Scotland and one of only fifteen in the UK.

Andrew was born in Perth, Scotland, and grew up in the city's Letham area.

At fifteen he began his training in Perth under Chef Keith Podmore, having become interested in food after starting a job at a hotel polishing glasses.

At twenty Andrew was awarded the first Roux Scholarship, giving him the chance to train with French chef Michel Guérard at Les Pres d’Eugenie in Les Landes.

This, and Fairlie’s time at the Hôtel de Crillon in Paris, profoundly influenced his culinary approach.

After returning to the UK, he held a number of high-profile positions, before returning home to Scotland.

At One Devonshire Gardens - where he was appointed head chef in 1994, he won his first Michelin Star, the only one in Glasgow at the time.

Andrew opened his own restaurant at the Gleneagles Hotel in 2001 and received a Michelin star within eight months.

At Gleneagles he invented his signature dish, a locally sourced lobster smoked over whisky barrel chips.

He also began growing rare fruits and vegetables for use in his dishes. In 2005 Fairlie catered for the 31st G8 summit and is said to have impressed French president Jacques Chirac.

The restaurant was awarded a second Michelin star in 2006.

On 6 November 2018, Andrew Fairlie announced he would step down from his Gleneagles restaurant after revealing he had a terminal brain tumour, and would hand over to his head chef and business partner in February 2019. 

Andrew's father, Jim announced his son's death on 22 January 2019.

Fairlie married his partner Kate, with whom he has two daughters, after receiving his terminal diagnosis.

Andrew Fairlie passed away at the age of 55 on January 22, 2019 due to brain cancer.

Roman Kudlyk, Ukrainian poet & literary critic, Died at 77

Roman Mykhailovych Kudlyk was born on May 4, 1941 in Jaroslaw, Poland and died on January 21, 2019. He was a Ukrainian poet and writing critic.

Roman was born in a family of a serviceman. In 1945 he moved to Drohobych.

In 1958, Roman obtained his general education in Drohobych. In 1959 he enrolled in Lviv University and graduated in 1964.

He then obtained work as an electrician at the local oil refinery, newspaper and a magazine called October.

He also worked at the Lvivian TV-studio as the head of the literal department of the Lviv regional concert hall.

Roman writing was first published in 1957 by newspapers and magazines and then later in the collective volumes Apple bloom (Yablunevy tsvit, 1961) and Godspeed (Schaslyvoi dorohy, 1962).

He had been a member of the National Society of Writers (Ukraine) since 1965.

Roman was the author of the lyrics to Volodymyr Ivasiuk's songs, I am your wing («Я — твоє крило», 1972), «Нам спокій, друже, тільки сниться» (1978), «Освідчення».

His writings have been put to music in the songs of Ihor Bilozir («Спогади літньої ночі», «Лебеді весни»), and Bohdan Yanivsky.

Roman wrote a libretto to several opera works of Bohdan Yanivsky, Oles Ballad «Олеська балада» (after the roman of Roman Ivanchuk Cherlene vyno «Черлене вино»), Princess Frog «Царівна Жаба», Golden chatter «Золотий гомін» (by Pavlo Tychyna), and musicals Fox Mykyta «Лис Микита», Ring of Temptation «Перстень спокуси».

He then received the Lviv regional award of Oleksandr Havryliuk and in 1997 the Literal award of Vasyl Mysyk for the series of poems Night time grape-picking.

Roman was the head of the magazine Dzvin and lived in Lviv, where he died at age 77 on January 21, 2019.

Henri, Count of Paris, French noble, Died at 85

Prince Henri d'Orléans, The Count of Paris, Duke of France was born on June 14, 1933 and died on January 21, 2019.

He was head of the House of Orléans as the Orléanist pretender to the defunct French throne as Henry VII.

A descendant in the male-line of France's "Citizen-King" Louis-Philippe I d'Orléans he ruled from 1830 to 1848.

He was also recognized as the legitimate claimant to the throne by those French royalists, called Unionists, who regard him as the rightful heir of Prince Henri de Bourbon, Count of Chambord, the last patrilineal descendant of King Louis XV. Henri was a retired military officer as well as an author and painter.

Prince Henri was the first son of Henri, Count of Paris (1908 to 1999), and his wife, Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, and was born in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre,

Belgium because an 1886 law had exiled the heirs of France's formerly reigning dynasties.

This law was abrogated in 1950, when Henri was able to repatriate with his parents, but he had already been allowed to visit France by special favour of President Vincent Auriol in 1948.

On 25 August 1940, his grandfather, Jean d'Orléans, Duke of Guise, died.

His father became pretender, and Henri was recognised as dauphin in pretence by Orléanists.

In 1957 his father conferred upon him, as heir apparent, the title Count of Clermont.

Prince Henri studied at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).

Prince Henri d'Orléans, The Count of Paris, Duke of France passed away at age 85 on January 21, 2019.

Bai Hua, Chinese playwright and Poet, Died at 88

Bai Hua was born on  November 20, 1930,  in Xinyang, Henan and died on January 15, 2019.

He was originally named Chen Youhua .

He was a Chinese playwright and poet.

Hua gained his national fame for his plays based on uncompromising historical criticism.

Hua resided in retirement in Shanghai with his wife.

Bai Hua's most recent poetry, following a long silence, was published in 2009.

Bai Hua passed away at 88 years old.

Andy de Groat, American choreographer, Died at 72

Andy Degroat was born in 1947 and died on January 10, 2019.

He was an American choreographer.

He began his career in 1972, where he choreographed the plays Ouverture at that year's Shiraz Arts Festival. 

Degroat also helped to choreograph Le Regard du Deaf and Einstein on the Beach at the 1976 Festival d'Avignon.

Degroat was the creator the Red Notes dancing company in New York City in 1973.

 

Degroat created two ballets titled Red Notes and Fan Dance.

 

He relocated his dance company to France, in 1982.

 

Degroat resided in Paris, Tarbes, and Montauban.

 

His area subject was in spinning and applied it to works such as The Nutcracker, La Bayadère, and Giselle.

Andy Degroat passed away at 72 years old.

Takeshi Umehara, Japanese philosopher, Died at 93

Takeshi Umehara was born on March 20, 1925, in Miyagi Prefecture in Tōhoku and died on January 12, 2019.

He was a graduate from the philosophical faculty of Kyoto University in 1948.

 

Umehara  taught philosophy at Ritsumeikan University and was subsequently appointed president of the Kyoto City University of Arts. 

Umehara was noted for his prolific essays on Japanese culture, in which he has ventured to refound the discipline of Japanese studies along more Japanocentric lines, especially in his book Nihongaku kotohajime (日本学事始) written in 1972 in collaboration with Shunpei Ueyama.

Other than is many works in academic essays on numerous aspects of Japanese culture he has also composed theatrical works on figures as varied as Yamato Takeru and Gilgamesh. 

 

In 2008, he started to publish modernized version of Noh theatre

Takeshi Umehara passed away at 93 years old.

Conxita Julià, Catalan poet, Died at 98

Conxita Julià i Farrés was born on  June 11, 1920 and died on January 9, 2019.

She was also known as Conxita de Carrasco.

Conxita Julià was a Catalan woman noted for her business with Lluís Companys, President of 

Catalonia, in the 1930s, and for her poetry.

Conxita Julià passed away at 98 years old.

Philippe de Lannoy, Belgian nobleman, Died at 96

Count Philippe de Lannoy was born Alix della Faille de Leverghem on August 14, 1922 and died on  January `10, 2019.

He was a Belgian nobleman and Provincial Councillor of Hainaut. 

De Lannoy  was the father of Stéphanie de Lannoy, the wife of Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg, heir apparent to the throne of Luxembourg. 

Philippe  married his wife, the late Countess Alix de Lannoy, in 1965.

Countess Alix de Lannoy passed away 70 years old.

Syed Jahangir, Bangladeshi painter, Died at 83

Syed Jahangir was born on January 2, 1935 and died on December 29, 2018.

He was a Bangladeshi painter. Syed graduated in Fine Arts from Government Art Institute of Arts and Crafts, presently Institute of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka.

Syed painted for over 55 years, including 9000 oils, watercolors and mixed medias.

Through his career, Syed has held 35 solo and 1 group exhibition.

On 22 February 2007, one exhibition of Syed was held in the Chitrak Gallery along with other painters such as Nitun Kundu, Samarjit Chowdhury, Rafiqun Nabi, Mahmudul Haque, Hamiduzzaman Khan and Hashem Khan.

Syed Jahangir pass-away on December 29, 2018 at age 83.

Ellsworth Wareham, American surgeon, Died at 104

Ellsworth Edwin Wareham was born on October 3, 1914, and died on December 15, 2018.

Wareham was conceived in Texas to cultivating guardians and experienced childhood in Alberta, Canada.

 Ellsworth Wareham was a Seventh-day Adventist and a World War II naval force veteran.

He resigned as a cardiothoracic specialist at 74 years old however kept on partner himself with preparing inhabitants at the Loma Linda University until the age of 95, amid which time he drove 60 miles (100 km) to aid tasks.

Wareham was one of the most punctual specialists of open heart medical procedure, not long after the principal such system was performed.

Leonard Bailey, the specialist who transplanted a primate heart into a child at Loma Linda University in 1984, prepared under Wareham as a therapeutic understudy in the late 1960s.

The kid, Baby Fae, was conceived rashly with a hypoplastic left heart disorder and Bailey's medical procedure stood out as truly newsworthy.

Dr. E Wareham helped to establish the Loma Linda University Overseas Heart Surgery Team which ventured to the far corners of the planet performing open heart medical procedures on grown-ups and youngsters in immature nations or those without cardiovascular medical procedure healing centers.

 Wareham was made due by his significant other, Barbara; his youngsters: Martin E. Wareham, M.D.; Robert B. Wareham, Esq.; Julie G. Wareham-Yegge, M.D.; and John Richard Wareham. His most youthful youngster, Brian Scott Wareham, pre-perished him in 2015.

Wareham was additionally made due by eight grandkids, and six extraordinary grandkids.

Dr. Wareham passed away at home In Loma Linda, California on December 15, 2018, with his better half, Barbara, and his little girl, Dr. Julie Wareham-Yegge next to him who depicted him as clear and psychological until his demise.

 Ellsworth Wareham died at 104 years old.

Ron Hynes, 'man of a thousand songs,' dead at 64

Ron Hynes the Legendary singer-songwriter, who documented hope and heartbreak in his native Newfoundland for decades with songs like Sonny's Dream and Atlantic Blue, has died at the age of 64.

Hynes, who had been battling cancer, was rushed to hospital earlier this week. Hynes, known for years as "the man of a thousand songs," was born in December 1950 in St. John's. He was raised in Ferryland.

Hynes released seven solo albums, starting with Discovery in 1972. The record holds the distinction of being the first made up of all original material from a Newfoundland artist. Read more >>>

Dead, Fred Thompson American politician and actor

Fred Thompson was born in Sheffield, Alabama on August 19, 1942, the son of Ruth Inez (née Bradley) and Fletcher Session Thompson (born Lauderdale County, Alabama, August 26, 1919, died Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, May 27, 1990), who was an automobile salesman.

Fred attended public school in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, graduating from Lawrence County High School, where he played high school football. Thereafter, he worked days in the local post office, and nights at the Murray bicycle assembly plant.

Fred Thompson then entered Florence State College (now the University of North Alabama), becoming the first member of his family to go to university.

He later transferred to Memphis State University, now the University of Memphis, where he earned a double degree in philosophy and political science in 1964, as well as scholarships to both Tulane and Vanderbilt University law schools.

Fred Thompson went on to earn his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the Vanderbilt Law School in 1967.

Fred Eckhardt Beer Expert Died

Dead, Fred Eckhardt, conceived 1926 and kicked the bucket August 10, 2015, he was an American brewer, homebrewing advocate and publicist.

He wrote about brewed beverages-beer and sake, and wrote the 1989 book, The Essentials of Beer Style.

He is identified as a “beer writer,” a “beer historian,” and as a “beer critic.”
 He was a local celebrity in Portland, Oregon, which Eckhardt described as “the brewing capital of the world.

Eckhardt was an advocate and publicist for American sake. Drawing on his experience in beer competitions, he created a set of guidelines for sake tasting competitions.

He published a sake newsletter several times each year; and he authored Sake (U.S.A.): A Complete Guide to American Sake, Sake Breweries and Homebrewed Sake.

While the rest of the world may be drinking more sake and the quality of sake has been increasing, sake production has been declining in Japan since the mid-1970s.

The increase in American production for domestic consumption and export has been, in part, affected by the lower cost of rice compared with Japan; but other more difficult-to-analyze factors are important.

At present, sake homebrewing is not allowed under Japanese law. Eckhardt foresees that his book, which spells out how homebrewing might reinvigorate sake consumption in Japan.

His optimism is informed in part by the unanticipated expansion of micro-breweries in Oregon since the state law prohibiting them was repealed in 1985.