Thursday, 3 January 2019

Daryl Dragon, American musician and songwriter, Died at 76

Daryl Frank Dragon was born on August 27, 1942, and died on January 2, 2019.

He was a popular American performer and musician.

He was known as Captain from the pop melodic team Captain and Tennille with his then-spouse, Toni Tennille.

He was naturally introduced to a melodic family and is the child of Eloise (Rawitzer) and director, writer, and arranger Carmen Dragon, and the senior sibling of Dennis Dragon, an individual from the 1960s pop combo The Dragons and the 1980s surf band the Surf Punks.

Dragon back up parent was an on-screen character and entertainer Danny Thomas.

His most known picture and stage name originated from his time as a console player with The Beach Boys from 1967 to 1972.

Shoreline Boys lead artist Mike Love gave him the epithet "Chief Keyboard", and it stuck. He began wearing a nautical skipper's cap to oblige the name.

Whilst Captain in Captain and Tennille, Dragon was habitually quiet and a man of not very many words, playing a thwart to his active, vivacious spouse, Toni Tennille.

Daryl Dragon passed away at 76 years old.

Paulien van Deutekom, Dutch speed skater, Died at 37

Paulien van Deutekom was born on February 4, 1981 and died on January 2, 2019.

She was a Dutch boss speed skater.

She had practical experience in the center long separations, more than 1000 and 1500 meters.

In November 2005 Van Deutekom shocked when she skated among the best at the Speed Skating World Cup capability competition at a few separations and subsequently qualified herself to take an interest in those World Cups.

Amid her first historically speaking World Cup meeting in the Olympic Oval in Calgary she skated another Dutch record more than 1500 meters, skating 1:55.43, overwhelming the record from Annamarie Thomas.

After seven days, Ireen Wüst would skate 1:54,93 which implied Van Deutekom had lost her record as of now.

Afterward, in December 2005 she took an interest at the 2005 Dutch Single Distance Championships, which was additionally the scene for Olympic Qualification.

At the 1500 meters separate she completed in second position and fit the bill for the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Deutekom additionally had shots more than 1000 meters, anyway just completed in fourth position and did not straightforwardly qualify.


A skate-off among her and Barbara de Loor settled on the choice in De Loor's support. She likewise was chosen to be a piece of the interest group.

At the Olympics itself Van Deutekom completed as thirteenth more than 1500 meters, while the interest group was disposed of at a beginning time.

On the European Championships Allround in January 2008 she turned out to be second after her partner Ireen Wüst.

During February 2008 Van Deutekom won the World Allround Speed Skating Championships in Berlin.

In March 2008, she completed second at the World Single Distance Championships in Nagano on the 1500 meters and the 3000 meters.

In March 2012, she declared after the 1500 meter occasion at the World Cup in Heerenveen that she was finishing her skating career.

Van Deutekom passed away at 37 years old subsequent to being determined to have lung disease a large portion of a year sooner.

Ramakant Achrekar, Indian cricket coach, Died at 87

Ramakant Vitthal Achrekar was born in 1932 and died on 2019.

He was an Indian cricket coach from Mumbai.

Achrekar was most famous for instructing youthful cricketers at Shivaji Park in Dadar, Mumbai, most prominently Sachin Tendulkar.

Achrekar had additionally been a selector for the Mumbai cricket group.

Achrekar established Kamath Memorial Cricket Club at Shivaji Park.

Achrekar had instructed and supported various cricketers, which incorporates any semblance of Sachin Tendulkar, Ajit Agarkar, Chandrakant Pandit, Vinod Kambli and Pravin Amre.

Achrekar had dedicated himself in instructing, to inspire the Indian cricket benchmarks.

The club is right now kept running by his little girl Kalpana Murkar and child in-law Deepak Murkar.

Ramakant Achrekar passed away at 87 years of age.

Ludwig W. Adamec, Austrian historian, Died at 94

Ludwig W. Adamec was born on March 10, 1924, in Vienna and died on January 3, 2019.

He was a prominent researcher on the Middle East and Afghanistan.

Adamec is Professor Emeritus in the School of Middle East and North African Studies at the University of Arizona.

He has composed and altered various books, including the republication of the grand Historical and political gazetteer of Afghanistan, which had initially been arranged however was unpublished by the administration in British India.

During 1986-87 Ludwig headed the Afghanistan Branch at Voice of America.

Ludwig W. Adamec passed away at 94 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.

Michael Yeung, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Died at 73


Michael Yeung Ming-Cheung was born on December 1, 1945, in Shanghai and died on January 3, 2019.

He was the 8th Roman Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong. Yeung was consecrated on August 30, 2014.

Yeung finishes his primary and secondary schooling and began working for an import-export company.

During 1972 he entered the major seminary and studied theology and philosophy, he was 26 years old.

Michael Yeung was ordained a priest for the diocese of Hong Kong on 10 June 1978.

Following his ordination, Yeung took a variety of pastoral and administrative roles.

Michael Yeung passed away at 73 years old, at Canossa Hospital, due to liver failure brought on by cirrhosis.

Wednesday, 2 January 2019

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.