Claude Gingras was born on July 1, 1931, and died on December 30, 2018.
He was a French Canadian journalist and musical critic.
He was a local of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Gingras was the most youthful of five kin.
Gingras was acquainted with music by his mom, who was a musician, and put into the St Charles Borromeo Seminary.
Gingras contemplated sociologies at the Université de Montréal and started composing for Sherbrooke's La Tribune in 1952.
In the wake of teaming up, Gingras started working for La Presse, where he composed a segment on melodic analysis.
Gingras began scrutinizing just musical drama and established however later extended to pop, assortment, and artful dance.
He would stay at La Presse for over 60 years.
Claude Gingras secured the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Métropolitain, the McGill Chamber Orchestra, and I Musici de Montréal.
Gingras was viewed as a merciless commentator.
Claude Gingras retired from La Presse on 28 December 2015.
Claude Gingras passed away at 87 years old.
Monday, 31 December 2018
Karel Engel, Czech Olympic wrestler, Died at 78
Karel Engel was born on May 28, 1940, and died on December 31, 2018.
He was a Czech wrestler.
Engel competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Karel Engel passed away at 78 years old.
He was a Czech wrestler.
Engel competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Karel Engel passed away at 78 years old.
Cameron M. Alexander, American Baptist minister, Died at 86
Cameron M. Alexander was born on February 12, 1932, and died on December 30, 2018.
He was an American Baptist minister.
Alexander led 12,000-member Antioch Baptist Church North and community leader in the English Avenue neighborhood (also known as part of "The Bluff") in Atlanta.
Kennedy Street in English Avenue was renamed Cameron M. Alexander Blvd in October 2010, in his honor.
Cameron passed away at 86 years old.
He was an American Baptist minister.
Alexander led 12,000-member Antioch Baptist Church North and community leader in the English Avenue neighborhood (also known as part of "The Bluff") in Atlanta.
Kennedy Street in English Avenue was renamed Cameron M. Alexander Blvd in October 2010, in his honor.
Cameron passed away at 86 years old.
Elazar Mordechai Koenig, Israeli Orthodox rabbi, Died at 73
Elazar Mordechai Koenig was born in 1945, in Jerusalem and died on December 31, 2018.
He was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and the spiritual leader of the Breslov Hasidic community in Safed, Israel.
He was born to Rabbi Gedaliah Aharon Koenig and his wife Esther Yehudit Koenig.
Koenig's father was a leading disciple of Breslov elder Rabbi Abraham Sternhartz, who immigrated to Jerusalem from Uman, Ukraine in 1936.
He was an alumnus of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem.
Koenig studied kabbalah with his father as well as with several leading Sephardic masters, including Rabbi Mordechai Sharabi.
Elazar Mordechai Koenig passed away at 73 years old.
He was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and the spiritual leader of the Breslov Hasidic community in Safed, Israel.
He was born to Rabbi Gedaliah Aharon Koenig and his wife Esther Yehudit Koenig.
Koenig's father was a leading disciple of Breslov elder Rabbi Abraham Sternhartz, who immigrated to Jerusalem from Uman, Ukraine in 1936.
He was an alumnus of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem.
Koenig studied kabbalah with his father as well as with several leading Sephardic masters, including Rabbi Mordechai Sharabi.
Elazar Mordechai Koenig passed away at 73 years old.
Warren MacKenzie, American potter, Died at 94
Warren MacKenzie was born on February 16, 1924, and died on December 31, 2018.
He was an American potter.
MacKenzie experienced childhood in Wilmette, Illinois the second most seasoned of five kids including his siblings, Fred and Gordon and sisters, Marge (Peppy) and Marilyn.
MacKenzie's secondary school days were spent at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois.
He and his first spouse, Alix, contemplated with Bernard Leach from 1949 to 1952.
MacKenzie's basic, wheel-tossed useful earthenware is vigorously affected by the oriental tasteful of Shoji Hamada and Korean pottery.
MacKenzie is credited with bringing the Japanese Mingei style of ceramics to Minnesota, affectionately alluded to as the "Mingei-sota style."MacKenzie was outstanding as an educator.
Since 1952 he had instructed at the University of Minnesota, where he was a Regents' teacher emeritus.
His understudies have included Randy Johnston, Dick Cooter, Mike Norman, Jeff Oestreich, Wayne Branum, Mark Pharis, Barbara Diduk, Paul Dresang, Shirley Johnson, Michael Brady, Sandy Simon, and E.A. (Mike) Mikkelsen.
His second spouse of 30 years, Nancy MacKenzie, kicked the bucket in October 2014, at 80 years old.
Nancy was a practiced material craftsman utilizing discovered items from nature and the reuse receptacle.
For a long time, they were the essence of expressions of the human experience network of St. Croix River Valley.
He keeps on living in the home they shared outside Stillwater, Minnesota, where he kept on keeping up his studio until his demise on December 31, 2018. Warren
MacKenzie passed away at 94 years old.
He was an American potter.
MacKenzie experienced childhood in Wilmette, Illinois the second most seasoned of five kids including his siblings, Fred and Gordon and sisters, Marge (Peppy) and Marilyn.
MacKenzie's secondary school days were spent at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois.
He and his first spouse, Alix, contemplated with Bernard Leach from 1949 to 1952.
MacKenzie's basic, wheel-tossed useful earthenware is vigorously affected by the oriental tasteful of Shoji Hamada and Korean pottery.
MacKenzie is credited with bringing the Japanese Mingei style of ceramics to Minnesota, affectionately alluded to as the "Mingei-sota style."MacKenzie was outstanding as an educator.
Since 1952 he had instructed at the University of Minnesota, where he was a Regents' teacher emeritus.
His understudies have included Randy Johnston, Dick Cooter, Mike Norman, Jeff Oestreich, Wayne Branum, Mark Pharis, Barbara Diduk, Paul Dresang, Shirley Johnson, Michael Brady, Sandy Simon, and E.A. (Mike) Mikkelsen.
His second spouse of 30 years, Nancy MacKenzie, kicked the bucket in October 2014, at 80 years old.
Nancy was a practiced material craftsman utilizing discovered items from nature and the reuse receptacle.
For a long time, they were the essence of expressions of the human experience network of St. Croix River Valley.
He keeps on living in the home they shared outside Stillwater, Minnesota, where he kept on keeping up his studio until his demise on December 31, 2018. Warren
MacKenzie passed away at 94 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.
Ray Sawyer, American singer, Died at 81
Ray Sawyer was born on February 1, 1937, Chickasaw, Alabama, United States and died on December 31, 2018.
He was an American singer.
He was best known as a vocalist with the 1970s rock band, Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show.
In spite of the fact that principally a sponsorship vocalist and incidental percussionist on congas or maracas, he sang lead on their hit melody "The Cover of Rolling Stone" and was a conspicuous nearness in the band because of the eyepatch and cowhand cap he wore.
Ray Sawyer was also the uncle of the vocalist of Wild Fire, Zack Sawyer.
Sawyer lost his right eye in a 1967 automobile accident.
Ray Sawyer passed away at 81 years old.
He was an American singer.
He was best known as a vocalist with the 1970s rock band, Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show.
In spite of the fact that principally a sponsorship vocalist and incidental percussionist on congas or maracas, he sang lead on their hit melody "The Cover of Rolling Stone" and was a conspicuous nearness in the band because of the eyepatch and cowhand cap he wore.
Ray Sawyer was also the uncle of the vocalist of Wild Fire, Zack Sawyer.
Sawyer lost his right eye in a 1967 automobile accident.
Ray Sawyer passed away at 81 years old.
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