Jonas Mekas was born on December 24, 1922, in Semeniškiai, Panevėžys, and died on January 23, 2019.
He was a Lithuanian American filmmaker, poet, and artist.
Mekas has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde
cinema". His work has been exhibited in museums and festivals worldwide.
One of Mekas last exhibitions, "Notes from Downtown," took place at
James Fuentes Gallery in the summer of 2018 on the Lower East Side.
Jonas Mekas died at his home in New York at 96 years old.
Friday, 25 January 2019
Jim McKean, Canadian baseball umpire, Died at 73
He was an umpire in Major League Baseball (MLB).
McKean worked in the American League (AL) from 1973 to 1999, and in both significant classes in 2000 and 2001.
McKean umpired in the World Series in 1979, 1985 and 1995.
McKean likewise directed in five American League Championship Series (1977, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1998) and three All-Star recreations (1980, 1982, 1993), calling balls and strikes for the last diversion, just as the 1981, 1995 and 1999 American League Division Series.
He wore uniform number 8 after the AL embraced uniform numbers in 1980.
After his retirement from dynamic umpiring, McKean turned into a MLB umpire director and after that entered TV as an umpiring advisor for ESPN.
JIm McKean passed away at 73 years old.
Nils Hasselmo, Swedish-American academic administrator, Died at 87
Nils Hasselmo was born on July 2, 1931, in Köla parish in Värmland County, Sweden and died on January 23, 2019.
He was a Swedish teacher and later on the thirteenth president of the University of Minnesota, serving from 1988 to 1997.
Nils went on to serve as the president of the Association of American Universities from 1998 to 2006.
Hasselmo finished a Ph.D. in linguistics from Harvard University in 1961.
Hasselmo passed away at 87 years old.
He was a Swedish teacher and later on the thirteenth president of the University of Minnesota, serving from 1988 to 1997.
Nils went on to serve as the president of the Association of American Universities from 1998 to 2006.
Hasselmo finished a Ph.D. in linguistics from Harvard University in 1961.
Hasselmo passed away at 87 years old.
Ayşen Gruda, Turkish actress and comedian, Died at 74
She was a Turkish actress and comedian.
Gruda's paternal family is of Albanian origin.
Ayben, her sisters and Ayten would also go on to become actors.
She showed up in a few musicals, for example, "Mum Söndü", "Deve Kuşu Kabare", "Hababam Sınıfı Müzikali", "Yedi Kocalı Hürmüz".
Gruda's job in the outline Her Domates Güzeli Nahide Şerbet on TV, picked up her the moniker "Domates Güzeli".
Gruda showed up in more than 100 movies including works of art, for example, Tosun Paşa, Süt Kardeşler, Gülen Gözler, Şabanoğlu Şaban, Hababam Sınıfı, and Neşeli Günler.
Ayşen Gruda passed away at 74 years old due to pancreatic cancer in Istanbul.
Jack Thomas Brinkley, American politician, Died at 88
He was an American politician, educator and lawyer.
Following his graduating from Young Harris College in 1949, Brinkley became a school teacher for several years before serving as a pilot in the United States Air Force from 1951-1956.
After his military administration, Brinkley entered the University of Georgia School of Law in Athens, graduated with a Juris Doctor qualification in 1959, and turned into a rehearsing legal counselor in Columbus, Georgia.
His political vocation comprised of one term in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1965– 1966 and eight back to back terms in the U.S. Place of Representatives starting in 1967 and finishing in 1983 when he decided not to keep running for re-appointment.
Brinkley was a segregationist who casted a ballot against the Civil Rights Act of 1968.
Brinkley additionally casted a ballot against expanding the Federal Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Following his retirement, he moved to Columbus, Georgia.
Jack Thomas Brinkley passed away at 88 years old.
Diana Athill, British literary editor & novelist, Died at 101
Diana Athill was born on December 21, 1917 and died on January 24, 2019.
She was a British literary editor, novelist and memoirist.
She worked with some of the greatest writers of the 20th century at the London-based publishing company Andre Deutsch Ltd.
As indicated by writer Mick Brown, "She properties her departure from tradition to her first love, Tony Irvine, a RAF pilot with whom she began to look all starry eyed at 15 years old, and who was honored, she says, 'with an extremely open way to deal with life.'" The disappointment of her association with Irvine (alluded to as Paul in Instead of a Letter), her "extraordinary love", "scourged" numerous years: "My undertakings from that point onward, I kept them paltry in the event that I could. I was terrified of power, since I realized I would have been hurt." Irvine did battle in Egypt, and in the long run quit answering to Athill's letters, at that point two years after the fact asked for to end their engagement.
At age 43, Athill endured a miscarriage.
Diana Athill considered herself a "sucker for abused nonnatives", a tendency she described as an "entertaining crimp" in her maternal sense: "I never especially needed kids, however it turned out in loving faltering ducks.
"One sweetheart, the Egyptian creator Waguih Ghali, a burdensome, submitted suicide in her level.
Her most astounding issue, about which she later composed a book, was "a momentary, and particularly odd" association with Hakim Jamal, an American Black radical who attested he was God and was a cousin of Malcolm X. Jamal's other darling Gale Benson, was killed by Trinidadian Black Power pioneer Michael X. Jamal was slaughtered by others a year later.
Athill's record of these occasions was distributed in 1993 as Make Believe: A True Story.
Diana Athill's longest relationship was with the Jamaican writer Barry Reckord.
The undertaking kept going eight years, yet he shared her level for forty.
Athill portrayed it as a "withdrew" kind of marriage.
Athill moved into a level in a north London living arrangement for the "dynamic old" toward the finish of 2009, saying about this choice: "Nearly without a moment's delay on landing in the home I realized that it was going to suit me. Also, beyond any doubt enough, it does.
An actual existence free of stresses in a cozy little nest...."She turned 100 in December 2017.
Diana Athill passed awat at 101 years old.
She was a British literary editor, novelist and memoirist.
She worked with some of the greatest writers of the 20th century at the London-based publishing company Andre Deutsch Ltd.
As indicated by writer Mick Brown, "She properties her departure from tradition to her first love, Tony Irvine, a RAF pilot with whom she began to look all starry eyed at 15 years old, and who was honored, she says, 'with an extremely open way to deal with life.'" The disappointment of her association with Irvine (alluded to as Paul in Instead of a Letter), her "extraordinary love", "scourged" numerous years: "My undertakings from that point onward, I kept them paltry in the event that I could. I was terrified of power, since I realized I would have been hurt." Irvine did battle in Egypt, and in the long run quit answering to Athill's letters, at that point two years after the fact asked for to end their engagement.
At age 43, Athill endured a miscarriage.
Diana Athill considered herself a "sucker for abused nonnatives", a tendency she described as an "entertaining crimp" in her maternal sense: "I never especially needed kids, however it turned out in loving faltering ducks.
"One sweetheart, the Egyptian creator Waguih Ghali, a burdensome, submitted suicide in her level.
Her most astounding issue, about which she later composed a book, was "a momentary, and particularly odd" association with Hakim Jamal, an American Black radical who attested he was God and was a cousin of Malcolm X. Jamal's other darling Gale Benson, was killed by Trinidadian Black Power pioneer Michael X. Jamal was slaughtered by others a year later.
Athill's record of these occasions was distributed in 1993 as Make Believe: A True Story.
Diana Athill's longest relationship was with the Jamaican writer Barry Reckord.
The undertaking kept going eight years, yet he shared her level for forty.
Athill portrayed it as a "withdrew" kind of marriage.
Athill moved into a level in a north London living arrangement for the "dynamic old" toward the finish of 2009, saying about this choice: "Nearly without a moment's delay on landing in the home I realized that it was going to suit me. Also, beyond any doubt enough, it does.
An actual existence free of stresses in a cozy little nest...."She turned 100 in December 2017.
Diana Athill passed awat at 101 years old.
Kevin Barnett, American comedian & television writer, Died at 83
He was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
Barnett served as the ninth Bishop of Trenton, having previously served as Bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee from 1991 to 1995.
At the time of his death, he was serving as the Bishop Emeritus of
Trenton, having been succeeded upon his retirement for age reasons by
his Coadjutor Bishop, former Catholic University of America President
David M. O'Connell, on Wednesday, December 1,
2010.
John Mortimer Fourette Smith passed away at 83 years old.
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