Monday, 21 January 2019

Pedro Manfredini, Argentine footballer, Died at 83

Pedro Waldemar Manfredini was born on September 7, 1935 and died on January 21, 2019. He was an Argentine professional footballer, who played as a forward.

Pedro began his career in Argentine club Racing Club de Avellaneda in 1957, winning the 1958 Argentine Primera División, and finishing the season as the joint-fourth highest goalscorer, and as his club's top scorer, with 19 goals.

After two seasons in Argentina, Pedro subsequently moved to Italian Serie A side A.S. Roma in 1959, where he played for seven seasons.

Pedro won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup with the club in 1961 (the predecessor to the UEFA Cup), finishing as the top scorer of the tournament, with 12 goals.

During the 1962 to 1963 season, he was the Serie A top scorer (tied with Harald Nielsen with 19 goals), and he once again finished as the top scorer of the 1962 to 1963, Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, scoring 6 goals throughout the tournament, as Roma reached the semi-finals, losing out to the eventual champions Valencia.

Pedro also won the Coppa Italia with Roma during the 1963 to 1964 season, finishing the tournament as top scorer yet again, with 4 goals. In total, he played 130 games for A.S. Roma and scored 76 times.

He later spent a season with Brescia and then Venezia before retiring from his International career.

Pedro was capped three times for Argentina, scoring two goals.

He took part in the first ever edition of the Copa América in 1959, on home soil, making his debut in the competition, and appearing three times.

Pedro scored two goals in a 6–1 win against Chile in the opening match of the tournament, which was also his international debut, helping his country to lift the South American Championship title.

Pedro Waldemar Manfredini passed away at the age of 83 years old.

François Perrot, French actor, Died at 94

François Perrot was born on February 26, 1924, and died on January 20, 2019.

He was a French film actor.

Perrot has been appearing in more than one hundred films since 1954, include the Women Couldn't Care Less.

François Perrot passed away at 94 years old.

Masazo Nonaka, Japanese supercentenarian, Died at 113

Masazō Nonaka was born on July 25, 1905, and died on January 20, 2019.

He was recorded as the oldest person ever born in Hokkaido Prefecture.

He was, at the time of his death at age 113 years, 179 days, Japan's oldest living man since Masamitsu Yoshida's death on October 29, 2016 and the world's oldest living man since Spaniard Francisco Núñez Olivera's death on 30 January 2018.

He was married to Hatsuno Nonaka in 1931 and had five children (of whom two were living as of April 2018).

He ran the family onsen, which opened in 1905, and spent most of his time in a wheelchair, credits his longevity to eating sweets and relaxing in the hot springs.

He died of natural causes at 1:30am on January 20, 2019, and was succeeded as the oldest living man in Germany.

Masazo Nonaka passed away at 113 years old.

Dumisani Kumalo, South African politician and diplomat, Died at 71

Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo was born on September 16, 1947, and died on January 20, 2019.

He was a South African diplomat.

Kumalo as the Permanent Representative of South Africa to the United Nations.

Amid 1977 Kumalo was constrained into an outcast for his enemy of politically-sanctioned racial segregation exercises and looked for shelter in the United States, where he proceeded with his political movement.

As Project Director at the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) and its sister association The Africa Fund from 1979 to 1997 Kumalo assumed a key job in the preparation of U.S. sanctions against politically-sanctioned racial segregation, constructing the divestment development which prompted 28 states, 24 districts and in excess of 90 urban communities and 155 schools and colleges stripping from U.S. banks and organizations which worked with the South African government.

 Kumalo visited pretty much every state in the association, affirming before state lawmaking bodies and city committees and talking in networks and at incalculable schools and colleges.

 Before going into outcast he filled in as a political journalist for the Golden City Post, DRUM, and the Johannesburg Sunday Times.

After the finish of politically-sanctioned racial segregation, Kumalo came back to South Africa and was delegated Director of the United States Desk in the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1997.

He was in this way designated as South Africa's Permanent Representative to the United Nations; Kumalo introduced his accreditations as Permanent Representative on April 21, 1999.

Kumalo addressed the United Nations General Assembly on April 13, 2004, empowering support of the part countries of the United Nations, on the matter of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme.

He was on the Advisory Committee of the African Activist Archive Project of the African Studies Center at Michigan State University.

 Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo passed away at 71 years old.

Mauro Cichero, Italian-born Venezuelan footballer, Died at 67

Mauro Cichero was born on October 16, 1951, and January 21, 2018.

He was a Venezuelan footballer.

Cichero took part in the men's tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Cichero passed away at 67 years old.

Giuseppe Minardi, Italian racing cyclist, Died at 90

Giuseppe Minardi was born on March 18, 1928 and died on January 21, 2019.

He was an Italian former racing cyclist.

Minardi won the 1952 edition of the Giro di Lombardia.

The Italian cyclist Giuseppe Minardi passed away at the age of 90 on January 21, 2019.

Khandaker Abdul Baten, Bangladesh Awami League politician, Died at 72

Khandaker Abdul Baten was born on May 17, 1946 and died on January 21, 2019.

He was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the former Member of Parliament from Tangail-6.

Khandaker completed his education to undergraduate level earning a B.A. with honors.

He was a member of the Mukti Bahini during the Bangladesh Liberation war in 1971.

Khandaker was a politician of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal who joined Bangladesh Awami League in 1992, taking with him his followers.

Some of the local Bangladesh Awami League politicians expressed disappointment when he joined.

Khandaker lost the Tangail-6 (Nagarpur-Delduar) constituency election to Gautam Chakroborty, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate, in 1996 and 2001.

Inter Party feud led Bangladesh Awami League politicians to contest the polls as an independent candidate costing Khandaker important votes.

Khandaker was elected to Parliament in the 2008 Bangladesh general election.

He served in the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture Ministry.

Khandaker Abdul Baten passed away at the age of 72 on January 21, 2019.