Hugh McIlvanney, Scottish sports writer, Died at 84

Hugh McIlvanney was born on February 2, 1934 and died on January 24, 2019.

He was a Scottish journalist and sports writer.

McIlvanneyhad long stints with the British Sunday newspapers The Observer (30 years until 1993) and later 23 years with the Sunday Times (1993 to 2016).

In 1996, McIlvanney was awarded the OBE, was given the Lifetime Achievement Award 2004 by The Scottish Press Awards, and is the only sports writer to be voted Journalist of the Year.

During 2005, McIlvanney was included in the Press Gazette Hall of Fame.

After nearly six decades in the profession, he retired in March 2016.

His brother was the novelist and crime fiction writer William McIlvanney.

He had one son, Conn, and a daughter, Elizabeth.

Hugh McIlvanney passed away at 82 years old.

Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal, Died at 89

Fernando Sebastián Aguilar was born on December 14, 1929, in Calatayud, Province of Zaragoza and died on January 24, 2019.

He was a Spanish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and the Archbishop Emeritus of Pamplona y Tudela.

Pope Francis ordained  him a cardinal in a consistory of February 22, 2014.

Fernando Sebastián Aguilar passsed away at 89 years old in Málaga, having suffered a severe stroke just a couple of days prior.

Sebastián Aguilar passed away at 89 years old.

Krishna Sobti, Indian author, Died at 93

Krishna Sobti was born on  February 18, 1925 and died on January 25, 2019.
She  was a Hindi fiction writer and essayist.

She  won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1980 for her novel Zindaginama and in 1996, was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the highest award of the Akademi.

Sobti earned the Jnanpith Award for her contribution to Indian literature, in 2017.

She was best known for her 1966 novel Mitro Marajani, a proud depiction of a wedded lady's sexuality.

Sobti was likewise the beneficiary of the first Katha Chudamani Award, in 1999, for Lifetime Literary Achievement, aside from winning the Shiromani Award in 1981, Hindi Academy Award in 1982, Shalaka Award of the Hindi Academy Delhi and in 2008, her novel Samay Sargam was chosen for Vyas Samman, initiated by the K. K. Birla Foundation.

Considered the grande woman of Hindi writing, Krishna Sobti was conceived in Gujrat, Punjab, presently in Pakistan; she likewise composes under the name Hashmat and has distributed Hum Hashmat, a gathering of pen pictures of scholars and companions.

Sobti's different books are Daar Se Bichchuri, Surajmukhi Andhere Ke, Yaaron Ke Yaar, Zindaginama. A portion of her outstanding short stories are Nafisa, Sikka Badal gaya, Badalom ke ghere.

Sobti Eka Sohabata incorporates her major chosen works.

Some of her works are presently accessible in English and Urdu.

During 2005, Dil-o-Danish, converted into The Heart Has Its Reasons in English by Reema Anand and Meenakshi Swami of Katha Books, won the Crossword Award in the Indian Language Fiction
Translation classification.

Krishna Sobti passed away at 93 years old.

Meshulam Riklis, Israeli businessman, Died at 95

Meshulam Riklis was born on December 2, 1923,  in Istanbul and died on January 25, 2019.
He was an Israeli businessman.

He experienced childhood in Tel Aviv before going to the United States in 1947 with his first spouse,

Judith Stern, with whom he has three youngsters: Simona (Mona), Marcia, and Ira.

Riklis examined arithmetic at Ohio State University, graduating in 1950.

Riklis's first huge activity was as a lesser stock investigator for the Minneapolis venture firm Piper Jaffray.

Subsequent to separating from his first spouse, the 53-year-old Riklis was hitched to the then 23-year-old Pia Zadora on September 18, 1977.

They had two youngsters, Kady and Kristofer. He then financed the film Butterfly, featuring Zadora.

Her acting in the film was ridiculed by entertainers and expert commentators, winning her the Razzie Award for Worst Actress, yet she likewise won the Golden Globe Award as New Star of the Year after an all around pitched press junket paid for by Riklis, additionally facilitated at his own Riviera Hotel.

Meshulam Riklis and Zadora then purchased and destroyed one of Beverly Hills' best known tourist spots, Pickfair Manor, the previous home of quiet film legends Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, to manufacture a bigger home on the site.

They lived there until the point that they separated in 1993.

During 2010, at 86 years old, Riklis wedded his third spouse, Tali Sinai, who was very nearly 40 years his junior.

During 2012, his girl, guidance reporter Simona Riklis Ackerman passed on.

Meshulam Riklis passed away at 95 years old.

Koos Andriessen, Dutch politician and economist, Died at 90

Jacobus Eye "Koos" Andriessen was born on July 25, 1928 and died on January 2019.

He was a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).

He joined the Social Economic Council in 1959, giving up that position when he was appointed Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs in 1963.

Koos Andriessen passed away at 90 years old.

Alexandra Svetlitskaya, Footballer, Died at 47

Alexandra Svetlitskaya was born on August 20, 1971 and died on January 23, 2019.

She  was a Russian football midfielder.

She  represented Russia in the 1999 and 2003 World Cups.

vetlitskaya scored an equalizer against England in the 2001 European Championship.

Alexandra Svetlitskaya passed away at 47 years old.

Erik Olin Wright, American Marxist sociologist, Died at 71

Erik Olin Wright was born on February 9, 1947, in Berkeley, California and died on January 23, 2019.

He  was an American analytical Marxist sociologist, specializing in social stratification, and in egalitarian alternative futures to capitalism.

He was known for diverging from classical Marxism in his breakdown of the working class into subgroups of diversely held power and therefore varying degrees of class consciousness.

Wright introduced novel concepts to adapt to this change of perspective including deep democracy and interstitial revolution.

He started making contributions to the intellectual community in the mid-1970s, along with a whole generation of young academics who were radicalized by the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement.

Wright was elected President of the American Sociological Association, in 2012.

Erik Olin Wright passed away at 71 years old, due acute myeloid leukemia.