Henry Sy, Retailer & investor, Died at 94

Henry Tan Chi Sieng Sy Sr. was born on October 15, 1924, in Fujian, China and died on January 19, 2019.

 

He was a Chinese-Filipino business magnate and philanthropist,

 

He was known as the "father of modern Philippine retail".

 

Sy moved with his family to the Philippines at age 12. While his family came back to China, he remained behind and established ShoeMart, a little Manilla shoe store, in 1958. 

 

Throughout the decades he formed ShoeMart into SM Investments, one of the biggest aggregates in the Philippines, incorporating 77 SM shopping centers in the Philippines and China, 62 retail establishments, 56 general stores and more than 200 supermarkets. 

 

SM likewise claims Banco de Oro, the second biggest bank in the Philippines, and land property. 

For eleven straight years until his passing, Sy was named by Forbes as the most extravagant individual in the Philippines.

At the time of his death on January 19, 2019, his estimated net worth amounted to US$19 billion, making him the 53rd richest person in the world.

Henry Sy passed away at 94 years old.

Muriel Pavlow, Actress, Died at 97

Muriel Lilian Pavlow was born on June 27, 1921 and died on January 19, 2019.

She was an English actress.

 

Muriel's mom was French and her dad was Russian.

 

She began to function as a kid performer with John Gielgud and the Shakespeare Memorial Theater in Stratford-upon-Avon. 

Amid December 1937, at sixteen, Pavlow assumed the job of Gretel in a BBC Television generation of Hansel and Gretel. 

She was hitched to the performer Derek Farr from 1947 until his demise in 1986. 

They met in 1941 amid the shooting of Quiet Wedding and again at the arrangement of The Shop at Sly Corner in 1947. 

They kept on performing together in front of an audience and in movies.

They had no kids. 

She was accepted into the on-screen characters' consideration home and philanthropy Denville Hall and was dynamic on its administration advisory group.

Muriel Lilian Pavlow passed away at 97 years old.

Jaswinder Singh Sandhu, Indian politician, Died at 63

Jaswinder Singh Sandhu died on January 19, 2019.

He was a member of the Haryana Legislative Assembly from the INLD representing the Pehowa Vidhan sabha Constituency in Haryana.

Jaswinder Singh Sandhu passed away at 63 years old due to cancer.

Barthélémy Kotchy, Ivorian writer and politician, Died at 84

Barthélémy Kotchy or Barthélémy Kotchy-N'Guessan was born in 1934 and died on January 19, 2019.

He was an Ivorian writer and politician.

 

He was one of the founders of the Ivorian Popular Front and he is the president of ASCAD from 2008.

Kotchy  died in Abidjan passed away 84 years old.

Liang Jing Kui, Chinese physical chemist, Died at 87

Liang Jingkui was  born on April 28, 1931,  in Fuzhou, Fujian,and died on January 19, 2019.

He was also known as Jing-Kui Liang.

 

He was a Chinese physical chemist and professor at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

Jingkui was appointed the President of the CAS Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter from 1983 to 1987, and was elected an academician of the CAS in 1993. 

Jingkui was awarded the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize in Technological Sciences in 1999 for his contributions to crystallography, solid-state physics, and materials science.

Liang Jingkui passed away at 87 years old, in Beijing .

Nathan Glazer, American sociologist, Died at 95

Nathan Glazer was born on February 25, 1923, in New York City and died on January 19, 2019.
He was an American sociologist.

Glazer educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and for quite a few years at Harvard University. 

Glazer was a co-proofreader of the now-dead arrangement diary The Public Interest. 

Glazer was referred to for books, for example, Beyond the Melting Pot, which manage race and ethnicity, Glazer was incredulous of a portion of the Great Society projects of the mid-1960s.

 

Glazer was frequently viewed as neoconservative in his reasoning on local strategy, however remained a Democrat. 

Nathan Glazer depicted himself as "impassive" to the neoconservative mark with which he is most related and commented that it was a handle not based on his personal preference.

Nathan Glazer died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts at 95 years old.

Gert Frank, Danish cyclist, Died at 62

Gert Frank was born on March 15, 1956 and died on January 19, 2019.

 

He was a cyclist and Olympic medalist from Denmark.

 

He was transcendently a track cyclist and won 20 indoor six-day track races, including the 1981 Six Days of Ghent race with Patrick Sercu.

Frank likewise won the European Madison Championships in 1981 and 1983 (with Hans Henrik Ørsted) and in 1985 (with René Pijnen). 

Furthermore he won the European Derny title in 1984.

Gert Frank passed away at 62 years old.