Perry Deane Young was born on March 27, 1941, and died on January 1, 2019.
He was a journalist, author, playwright, historian, and professional gardener.
Young was the author of Two of the Missing, the story entails about fellow journalists Sean Flynn and Dana Stone, who disappeared during the Vietnam War and whose fates remain unknown, and the co-author of The David Kopay Story, a biography of 1970's professional football player David Kopay, who revealed in 1975 that he was gay.
He knew about his sexuality difference from an early stage, writing candidly about it in Two of the Missing, and has written or co-written books with gay-related themes, including The David Kopay Story and Lesbians and Gays and Sports.
Young resided in the basement of a non-profit counseling and support group in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, working around the building in lieu of rent, from 1993 until his death.
Perry Deane Young passed away at 77 years old.
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Saturday 5 January 2019
Friday 4 January 2019
Dagfinn Bakke, Norwegian artist, Died at 85
Dagfinn Bakke was born on August 16, 1933 and died on January 1, 2019.
He was a Norwegian painter, illustrator and graphical artist.
Bakke was born in Lødingen, and settled in Svolvær.
Since 1952, Bakke worked as the illustrator for the magazine Magasinet For Alle, and from 1956 to 1992 for the newspaper Lofotposten. Bakke was the illustrator of several books.
Bakke was represented at the National Gallery of Norway and other art galleries.
Dagfinn Bakke passed away at 85 years old.
He was a Norwegian painter, illustrator and graphical artist.
Bakke was born in Lødingen, and settled in Svolvær.
Since 1952, Bakke worked as the illustrator for the magazine Magasinet For Alle, and from 1956 to 1992 for the newspaper Lofotposten. Bakke was the illustrator of several books.
Bakke was represented at the National Gallery of Norway and other art galleries.
Dagfinn Bakke passed away at 85 years old.
Christine de Rivoyre, French journalist and writer, Died at 97
Christine Berthe Claude Denis de Rivoyre was born on November 26, 1921, and died on January 4, 2019.
She was a French journalist and writer.
She was the daughter of Francois Denis de Rivoyre and Madeleine Ballande, she was born in Tarbes.
De Rivoyre was educated in Catholic schools and then received a degree in literature from the Sorbonne.
De Rivoyre when on with her studies at the University of Syracuse.
Christine de Rivoyre wrote articles for Le Monde and then became literary editor for Marie Claire.
De Rivoyre's first novel L'Alouette au miroir, published in 1955, received the Prix des Quatre Jurys.
A few of her novels have been made into films: La Mandarine (1957); 1971 film, Les Sultans (1964); 1968 film, and Le Petit matin (1968); 1971 film - novel received the Prix Interallié.
She received the Prix Pierre de Régnier in 1979 and the Grand Prix de Littérature Paul Morand in 1894 from the Académie française for her work.
De Rivoyre was named an Officier in the French Legion of Honour.
Christine de Rivoyre passed away at 97 years old.
She was a French journalist and writer.
She was the daughter of Francois Denis de Rivoyre and Madeleine Ballande, she was born in Tarbes.
De Rivoyre was educated in Catholic schools and then received a degree in literature from the Sorbonne.
De Rivoyre when on with her studies at the University of Syracuse.
Christine de Rivoyre wrote articles for Le Monde and then became literary editor for Marie Claire.
De Rivoyre's first novel L'Alouette au miroir, published in 1955, received the Prix des Quatre Jurys.
A few of her novels have been made into films: La Mandarine (1957); 1971 film, Les Sultans (1964); 1968 film, and Le Petit matin (1968); 1971 film - novel received the Prix Interallié.
She received the Prix Pierre de Régnier in 1979 and the Grand Prix de Littérature Paul Morand in 1894 from the Académie française for her work.
De Rivoyre was named an Officier in the French Legion of Honour.
Christine de Rivoyre passed away at 97 years old.
Thursday 3 January 2019
Dibyendu Palit, Indian writer, Died at 79
Dibyendu Palit was born on March 5, 1939 and died on January 3, 2019.
He was a Bengali writer of poems, novels, and short stories.
Palit's first story Chandapatan was published in 1955 in the Sunday edition of Anandabazar Patrika.
During 2005, Shyamanand Jalan coordinated the film Eashwar Mime Co., an the adjustment of Dibyendu Palit's story, Mukhabhinoy, by noted writer Vijay Tendulkar.
The film is story of a voyaging pantomime organization moving items and an essayist's perspectives upon its adventure, it has two leads Ashish Vidyarthi assuming the job emulate organization's proprietor while Pawan Malhotra did the job of the author.
In spite of the fact that it didn't get a business discharge it was screened at Durban International Film Festival, the 3 Continents Festival and the Kolkata Film Festival.
Dibyendu Palit passed away at 79 years old in Kolkata.
He was a Bengali writer of poems, novels, and short stories.
Palit's first story Chandapatan was published in 1955 in the Sunday edition of Anandabazar Patrika.
During 2005, Shyamanand Jalan coordinated the film Eashwar Mime Co., an the adjustment of Dibyendu Palit's story, Mukhabhinoy, by noted writer Vijay Tendulkar.
The film is story of a voyaging pantomime organization moving items and an essayist's perspectives upon its adventure, it has two leads Ashish Vidyarthi assuming the job emulate organization's proprietor while Pawan Malhotra did the job of the author.
In spite of the fact that it didn't get a business discharge it was screened at Durban International Film Festival, the 3 Continents Festival and the Kolkata Film Festival.
Dibyendu Palit passed away at 79 years old in Kolkata.
Jerry Magee, American sports writer, Died at 90
Jerry Magee was born on April 28, 1928, in Chicago, Illinois and died on January 2, 2019.
He was an American newspaper columnist.
He served as a sports writer in San Diego for 52 years.
Magee retired from the San Diego Union-Tribune in 2008.
Magee began his career more than five decades earlier at the then-San Diego Union and also wrote for Pro Football Weekly.
During 1950, Magee graduated from the University of Nebraska.
The Omaha World-Herald was his first job newspaper job was as a copyboy.
Jerry Magee passed away at 90 years old.
He was an American newspaper columnist.
He served as a sports writer in San Diego for 52 years.
Magee retired from the San Diego Union-Tribune in 2008.
Magee began his career more than five decades earlier at the then-San Diego Union and also wrote for Pro Football Weekly.
During 1950, Magee graduated from the University of Nebraska.
The Omaha World-Herald was his first job newspaper job was as a copyboy.
Jerry Magee passed away at 90 years old.
Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari, Indian judge and independence activist, Died at 91
Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari (Dr.C.S.Dharmadhikari) was born on November 20, 1927, in Raipur, Madhya Pradesh, India and died on January 3, 2018, in Nagpur.
He was an Indian independence movement activist, a lawyer, a judge, and an author. Dharmadhikari was acting chief justice of Bombay High Court.
He was awarded Padma Bhushan in 2003.
Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari authored many books in the Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati languages.
Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari passed away at 91 years old.
He was an Indian independence movement activist, a lawyer, a judge, and an author. Dharmadhikari was acting chief justice of Bombay High Court.
He was awarded Padma Bhushan in 2003.
Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari authored many books in the Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati languages.
Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari passed away at 91 years old.
Wednesday 2 January 2019
Ringo Lam, Hong Kong film director, Died at 63
He was a Hong Kong film director, producer, and screenwriter.
He at first went to an acting school.
During the wake of discovering he favored making movies to acting, Ringo Lam went to Canada to think about the film.
Ringo Lam returned and started shooting satire films, in 1983.
Following the business achievement of his film Aces Go Places IV, he was permitted to build up his own film.
He coordinated City on Fire in 1987, which drove him to win his first Hong Kong Film Award, and has been broadly referenced as the essential motivation for Quentin Tarantino's first film, Reservoir Dogs.
He lined up City on Fire with other comparable movies that common a dull perspective of Hong Kong society.
A large number of these movies featured Chow Yun Fat.
During 1996, he made his first American film, Maximum Risk featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Lam would keep taking a shot at film creations in both Hong Kong and two increasingly American preparations with Jean-Claude Van Damme until 2003.
His last directorial exertion was guiding 33% of the portmanteau movie Triangle alongside Tsui Hark and Johnnie To.
During 2014, it was declared that Lam was taking a shot at another component film.
Ringo Lam Ling-Tung passed away at 63 years old.
Kader Khan, Afghan-born Indian-Canadian actor, Died at 81
Kader Khan was born on October 22, 1937 and died on December 31, 2018.
He was an Afghan-born Indian-Canadian film actor, screenwriter, comedian, and director.
As an on-screen character, he showed up in more than 300 movies after his introduction film in the 1973 film Daag, featuring Rajesh Khanna, in which he went about as an arraigning lawyer.
Kader Khan was additionally a productive screenwriter for Bollywood films in the period 1970s to 1999 and composed exchanges for 200 movies.
Khan moved on from Ismail Yusuf College associated to Bombay University. Before entering the film business in the mid 1970s, he instructed at M. H. Saboo Siddik College of Engineering, Mumbai as a teacher of Civil Engineering.
He resided in Mumbai, until moving to Toronto because of wellbeing reasons. Kader Khan had three children: Sarfaraz Khan, Shahnawaz Khan, and a third child Quddus in Canada. Kader Khan's child Sarfaraz Khan has additionally acted in a few movies.
Khan was identified with the group of Zarine Khan, who additionally works in the film business as a performing artist and model.
It was accounted for that Khan took the citizenship of Canada.
Kader Khan passed away at 81 years old.
He was an Afghan-born Indian-Canadian film actor, screenwriter, comedian, and director.
As an on-screen character, he showed up in more than 300 movies after his introduction film in the 1973 film Daag, featuring Rajesh Khanna, in which he went about as an arraigning lawyer.
Kader Khan was additionally a productive screenwriter for Bollywood films in the period 1970s to 1999 and composed exchanges for 200 movies.
Khan moved on from Ismail Yusuf College associated to Bombay University. Before entering the film business in the mid 1970s, he instructed at M. H. Saboo Siddik College of Engineering, Mumbai as a teacher of Civil Engineering.
He resided in Mumbai, until moving to Toronto because of wellbeing reasons. Kader Khan had three children: Sarfaraz Khan, Shahnawaz Khan, and a third child Quddus in Canada. Kader Khan's child Sarfaraz Khan has additionally acted in a few movies.
Khan was identified with the group of Zarine Khan, who additionally works in the film business as a performing artist and model.
It was accounted for that Khan took the citizenship of Canada.
Kader Khan passed away at 81 years old.
Tuesday 1 January 2019
David Cavanagh, British music writer and journalist, Dead
David Cavanagh died on December 29, 2018.
He was a British writer and music journalist.
David Cavanagh was a writer for Sounds, Select, Q, Uncut and Mojo.
Cavanagh's books included a history of Creation Records, My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry for the Prize and Good Night and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Life, about John Peel.
David Cavanagh was at one time an editor of Select.
He was raised in Northern Ireland.
David Cavanagh passed away in December 2018.
He was a British writer and music journalist.
David Cavanagh was a writer for Sounds, Select, Q, Uncut and Mojo.
Cavanagh's books included a history of Creation Records, My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry for the Prize and Good Night and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Life, about John Peel.
David Cavanagh was at one time an editor of Select.
He was raised in Northern Ireland.
David Cavanagh passed away in December 2018.
Héctor Timerman, Argentine journalist and politician, Died at 65
He was an Argentine journalist, politician, human rights activist and diplomat.
Timerman served as his country's Minister of Foreign Relations from 2010 to 2015, during the presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
His parents were Risha (née Mindlin) and Jacobo Timerman.
He was of Lithuanian Jewish descent.
Héctor Timerman passed away at 65 years old.
Monday 31 December 2018
Edgar Hilsenrath, German writer, Died at 92
Edgar Hilsenrath was born on April 2, 1926, in Leipzig and died on December 30, 2018. He was a German-Jewish writer living in Berlin.
Hilsenrath main works are Night, The Nazi and the Barber, and The Story of the Last Thought.
During 1938 his mom got away with her two youngsters to Siret (Sereth), in Romanian Bukovina, where they delighted in a break from oppression.
At the time that he ought to have gotten a passageway card to advanced education, he and his mom were interned in the ghetto of Cernăuţi.
Edgar Hilsenrath started to expound on the Holocaust after his freedom when he moved to Paris. He got numerous prizes for his works.
For his novel The Story of the Last Thought on the Armenian Genocide, he got the State Award in Literature of the Republic of Armenia from its leader.
Edgar Hilsenrath passed away at 92 years old.
Hilsenrath main works are Night, The Nazi and the Barber, and The Story of the Last Thought.
During 1938 his mom got away with her two youngsters to Siret (Sereth), in Romanian Bukovina, where they delighted in a break from oppression.
At the time that he ought to have gotten a passageway card to advanced education, he and his mom were interned in the ghetto of Cernăuţi.
Edgar Hilsenrath started to expound on the Holocaust after his freedom when he moved to Paris. He got numerous prizes for his works.
For his novel The Story of the Last Thought on the Armenian Genocide, he got the State Award in Literature of the Republic of Armenia from its leader.
Edgar Hilsenrath passed away at 92 years old.
Simon Britto Rodrigues, Indian politician, Died at 64
He was an Indian politician and writer.
Rodrigues was an Anglo-Indian part in the Kerala Legislative Assembly amid the term of Left Democratic Front government from 2006 to 2011.
Rodrigues was a functioning individual from Students' Federation of India (SFI), Rodrigues is a previous understudy of St. Albert's College, Ernakulam, Government Law College, Ernakulam, Government Law College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Law Academy Law College, Thiruvananthapuram, Lalit Narayan Mithila University. in his school days amid the '80s.
In 1983, he turned into the Kerala state VP of SFI and in a vicious conflict between understudy associations, he got his lower body deadened.
He wrote two or three books: Agragami and Maharandram. Agragami won a Sakti grant and a Patyam Gopalan grant.
Rodrigues was a state illustrative of Kerala Grandhasala Sangam.
Simon Britto Rodrigues passed away at 64 years old.
Wednesday 26 December 2018
Nirendranath Chakravarty, Indian poet and writer, Died at 94
Nirendranath Chakraborty was born on October 19, 1924, and died on December 25, 2018.
He was a well known contemporary Bengali poet.
Chakravarty was the winner of the Sahitya Academy Award in 1974 for the book of poems Ulanga Raja (The Naked King).
During 2007, the University of Calcutta awarded him an honorary Doctor of Science degree.
Nirendranath Chakravarty also wrote few detective novels of Bhaduri Moshai.
Nirendranath Chakravarty passed away at 94 years old.
He was a well known contemporary Bengali poet.
Chakravarty was the winner of the Sahitya Academy Award in 1974 for the book of poems Ulanga Raja (The Naked King).
During 2007, the University of Calcutta awarded him an honorary Doctor of Science degree.
Nirendranath Chakravarty also wrote few detective novels of Bhaduri Moshai.
Nirendranath Chakravarty passed away at 94 years old.
Friday 21 December 2018
Tom Leonard, Scottish poet, Died at 74
Tom Leonard was born on August 22, 1944, in Glasgow and died on December 21, 2018.
He was a Scottish poet, writer and critic.
Leonard was popularly known for his poems written in the Glaswegian dialect of Scots, particularly his Six Glasgow Poems and The Six O'Clock News.
Leonard's work frequently dealt with the relationship between language, class and culture.
In 1969, his Six Glasgow Poems has been called 'epoch-making' was published.
His poems were iniatially published as an insert in Glasgow University Magazine.
During 2009, he released Outside the Narrative, a collection of his poetry from 1965 to 2009. Tom Leonard passed away at 74 years old.
Tom Leonard passed at 74 years old.
He was a Scottish poet, writer and critic.
Leonard was popularly known for his poems written in the Glaswegian dialect of Scots, particularly his Six Glasgow Poems and The Six O'Clock News.
Leonard's work frequently dealt with the relationship between language, class and culture.
In 1969, his Six Glasgow Poems has been called 'epoch-making' was published.
His poems were iniatially published as an insert in Glasgow University Magazine.
During 2009, he released Outside the Narrative, a collection of his poetry from 1965 to 2009. Tom Leonard passed away at 74 years old.
Tom Leonard passed at 74 years old.
Tuesday 18 July 2017
George A. Romero, American-Canadian film director & screenwriter, Died at 77
George Andrew Romero was born on February 4, 1940 and died on July 16, 2017.
He was an American-Canadian filmmaker, writer and editor.
He best known for his series of gruesome and satirical horror films about an imagined zombie apocalypse, beginning with Night of the Living Dead (1968), which is often considered a progenitor of the fictional zombie of modern culture.
His other films in the series include Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Day of the Dead (1985).
Besides the Dead series, his works include The Crazies (1973), Martin (1978), Creepshow (1982), Monkey Shines (1988) and The Dark Half (1993).
He was often noted as an influential pioneer of the horror film genre, and has been called an "icon" and the "Father of the Zombie Film.
George A. Romero passed away at 77 years old.
He was an American-Canadian filmmaker, writer and editor.
He best known for his series of gruesome and satirical horror films about an imagined zombie apocalypse, beginning with Night of the Living Dead (1968), which is often considered a progenitor of the fictional zombie of modern culture.
His other films in the series include Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Day of the Dead (1985).
Besides the Dead series, his works include The Crazies (1973), Martin (1978), Creepshow (1982), Monkey Shines (1988) and The Dark Half (1993).
He was often noted as an influential pioneer of the horror film genre, and has been called an "icon" and the "Father of the Zombie Film.
George A. Romero passed away at 77 years old.
Saturday 12 December 2015
Jon Gadsby, writer and comedian, Died at 62
Jonathan Ernest "Jon" Gadsby was born on November 1, 1953, and died on December 12, 2015 from cancer.
He was a New Zealand television comedian and writer, most well-known for his role in the comedy series McPhail and Gadsby co-starring alongside David McPhail.
Jonathan was born in Derbyshire, England and went to school in Invercargill when his family moved to New Zealand.
He studied law at the University of Otago, he worked at Radio Dunedin.
Jonathan entered television with David McPhail in the comedy A Week of It, before the pair went on to the successful and long-running political satire McPhail and Gadsby.
Jonathan Gadsby appeared in numerous television programmes, several films, and wrote more than 20 books, mainly for children.
He wrote for The New Zealand Herald, Metro and The Listener, and performed corporate speaking.
Jonathan was the former editor of Christchurch magazine Avenues.
In 2008, Jonathan received a conviction for drink-driving, after being stopped at a checkpoint in December 2006.
In 2011, Jonathan was convicted of his fourth drink-driving charge, having been stopped with a breath alcohol reading 2.5 times in excess of the legal limit.
Jonathan passed away on December 12, 2015 after a battle with cancer.
He was a New Zealand television comedian and writer, most well-known for his role in the comedy series McPhail and Gadsby co-starring alongside David McPhail.
Jonathan was born in Derbyshire, England and went to school in Invercargill when his family moved to New Zealand.
He studied law at the University of Otago, he worked at Radio Dunedin.
Jonathan entered television with David McPhail in the comedy A Week of It, before the pair went on to the successful and long-running political satire McPhail and Gadsby.
Jonathan Gadsby appeared in numerous television programmes, several films, and wrote more than 20 books, mainly for children.
He wrote for The New Zealand Herald, Metro and The Listener, and performed corporate speaking.
Jonathan was the former editor of Christchurch magazine Avenues.
In 2008, Jonathan received a conviction for drink-driving, after being stopped at a checkpoint in December 2006.
In 2011, Jonathan was convicted of his fourth drink-driving charge, having been stopped with a breath alcohol reading 2.5 times in excess of the legal limit.
Jonathan passed away on December 12, 2015 after a battle with cancer.
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