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.

Bernard Tchoullouyan, French judoka, Died at 65

Bernard Tchoullouyan was born on April 12, 1953 and died on January 7, 2019.

He was a French judoka.

Tchoullouyan was the winner of a world title in 1981 and an Olympic bronze medal in 1980.

Tchoullouyan passed away at 65 years old.

John Joubert, South African-born British composer, Died at 91

John Pierre Herman Joubert was born on March 20, 1927, and died on January 7, 2019.

He was a British composer of South African descent, distinctly of choral works. He resided in Moseley, a suburb of Birmingham, England, for over 50 years.

Serving at the music academic at the universities of Hull and Birmingham for 36 years.

In 1986 Joubert took early retirement to concentrate on composing and remained active into his 80s.

Joubert was most likely best known for his choral music, particularly the carols Torches and There is No Rose of Such Virtue and the anthem O Lorde, the Maker of Al Thing, Joubert composed over 160 works including two elaborate musical compositions, four concertos and seven operas.

John Joubert passed away at 91 years old.

Jayantilal Bhanusali, Indian politician, Died at 54

Jayantilal Parshottam Bhanusali died in January 2019.

He was a Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Abadasa electorate in Gujarat from December 2007 to December 2012.

Jayantilal Bhanusali was an individual from the twelfth administrative get together. Bhanusali was shot dead by unidentified aggressors on board a train, Sayajinagari Express among Kataria and Surajbari stations on 8 January 2019.

Jayantilal Bhanusali passed away at 86 years of age.

Edwin Erickson, American politician, Died at 80

Edwin B. "Ted" Erickson was born in 1938 and died on January 7, 2019.

He was an American politician.

Edwin Erickson was a Republican member of the Pennsylvania Senate, representing the 26th District from 2001 to 2015.

The district had most of Delaware County and parts of Chester County.

Edwin Erickson passed away at 80 years old.

Antal Bolvári, Hungarian water polo player, Died at 86

Antal Bolvári was born on May 6, 1932, in Kaposvár and died on January 8, 2019.

He was a Hungarian water polo player.

 In 1952, Antal Bolvári competed Summer Olympics and in the 1956 Summer Olympics.

He was a member of the Hungarian team that won the gold medal in the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki.

Bolvári competed in six matches and scored one goal.

At the Melbourne Olympics four years after the fact, he was again an individual from the Hungarian group that won the gold decoration.

Bolvári played in four matches and scored two objectives, incorporating one in the notorious Blood in the Water coordinate against the USSR in the title round, held fourteen days after the Soviets had squashed the 1956 Hungarian uprising.

Bolvári was one of a few Hungarian competitors who abandoned toward the West in the repercussions of the Melbourne amusements.

Bolvári later came back to Hungary, where he kept on playing and, later, mentor at the club and national dimensions. He kicked the bucket in Budapest, because of what his family depicted as "a since quite a while ago, undisclosed disease.

Antal Bolvári passed away at 86 years old.

Sergei Khodakov, Russian paralympic athlete, Died at 52

Sergei Khodakov was born on March 11, 1966 and died on January 8, 2019.

He was a paralympic athlete from Russia entering mainly in category F12 throwing events.

Sergei Khodakov was part of the Unified team that travelled to Barcelona for the 1992 Summer Paralympics after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

There Sergei Khodakov was the winner of the silver medals in both the javelin and shot as well as winning the B2 discus gold medal.

After four years Sergei travelled with the Russian team to the United States for the 1996 Summer Paralympics where he defended his discus title but could only manage a bronze in the shot and fifth in the javelin.

Khodakov took part in a third and final games in Sydney in 2000 where he competed in the shot and discus once again but could not add any further medals.

Sergei Khodakov passed away at 52 years old.