Lupando Mwape, Zambian politician, Vice-President

Lupando Mwape died on January 21, 2019.

He was a Zambian politician.

Lupando served as Vice-President of Zambia from 2004 to 2006 under President Levy Mwanawasa, who indicated that, had Mwape not been defeated in the 2006 parliamentary election, he would almost certainly have been re-appointed as Vice-President.

Lupando was succeeded by Rupiah Banda, who became president on Mwanawasa's death in 2008.

Henri, Count of Paris, French noble, Died at 85

Prince Henri d'Orléans, The Count of Paris, Duke of France was born on June 14, 1933 and died on January 21, 2019.

He was head of the House of Orléans as the Orléanist pretender to the defunct French throne as Henry VII.

A descendant in the male-line of France's "Citizen-King" Louis-Philippe I d'Orléans he ruled from 1830 to 1848.

He was also recognized as the legitimate claimant to the throne by those French royalists, called Unionists, who regard him as the rightful heir of Prince Henri de Bourbon, Count of Chambord, the last patrilineal descendant of King Louis XV. Henri was a retired military officer as well as an author and painter.

Prince Henri was the first son of Henri, Count of Paris (1908 to 1999), and his wife, Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, and was born in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre,

Belgium because an 1886 law had exiled the heirs of France's formerly reigning dynasties.

This law was abrogated in 1950, when Henri was able to repatriate with his parents, but he had already been allowed to visit France by special favour of President Vincent Auriol in 1948.

On 25 August 1940, his grandfather, Jean d'Orléans, Duke of Guise, died.

His father became pretender, and Henri was recognised as dauphin in pretence by Orléanists.

In 1957 his father conferred upon him, as heir apparent, the title Count of Clermont.

Prince Henri studied at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).

Prince Henri d'Orléans, The Count of Paris, Duke of France passed away at age 85 on January 21, 2019.

Ivan Vutsov, Bulgarian football player, Died at 79

Ivan Vutsov was born on December 14, 1939 and died on January 18, 2019.

He was a Bulgarian footballer born in Gabrovo, Bulgaria.

He played in three matches at the 1966 FIFA World Cup and for Levski Sofia.

Vutsov was likewise a VP of the Bulgarian Football Union and administrator of the Bulgarian national group, Hajduk Split and PFC Levski Sofia where wound up celebrated for having 18 diversions in the European club rivalries amid his rule.

A standout amongst the most noticeable players he found was Alen Bokšić, while overseeing Hajduk Split.

Vutsov likewise held different managerial positions at the Bulgarian Football Union.

Vutsov's child, Velislav Vutsov, was likewise a previous footballer.

Ivan Vutsov passed away at 79 years old.

Vicente Álvarez Areces, Spanish politician, Died at 75

Vicente Alberto Álvarez Areces was born on August 4, 1943, and died on January 17, 2019.

He was also known as Tini Areces.

He was an Asturian politician.

Álvarez Areces was the 6th President of the Principality of Asturias in Spain, and he was a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party political party.

Álvarez Areces also served as a member of the Committee of the Regions, working as a vice-president of the Party of European Socialists Group.

He was born in Gijón, and prior to his becoming President of Asturias in 1999, he had served as mayor of Gijón between 1987 and 1999.

Álvarez Areces passed away at 75 years old.

Pierre Alard, French Olympic discus thrower, Died at 81

Pierre Alard was born on September 17, 1937 and died on January 13, 2019.

He was a French athlete.

Alard took part in the men's discus throw at the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Pierre Alard passed away at 81 years old.

Francine du Plessix Gray, Polish-born American author and critic, Died at 88

Francine du Plessix Gray was born on September 25, 1930, in Warsaw, Poland, and died on January 13, 2019.

She was an American Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer and literary critic.

She spent her early years in Paris, where a milieu of mixed cultures and a multilingual family (French father and Russian mother) influenced her.

Her father, then a sub-lieutenant in the Free French Air Force died in 1940, shot down near Gibraltar.

Her mother, Tatiana Iacovleff du Plessix, (1906–1991) had come to France as a refugee from Bolshevik Russia, and ended an engagement to Vladimir Mayakovsky in 1928, before marrying du Plessix.

During her widowhood, she once again became a refugee, escaping occupied France via Lisbon to New York in 1940 or 1941 with Francine and Alexander Liberman (1912–1999).

In 1942, she married Liberman, another White Russian émigré, whom she had known in Paris as a child.

(During his love affair with Liberman's mother, her uncle, Alexandre Yacovleff, had recruited Tatiana to keep the boy occupied.)

He was a noted artist and later a longtime editorial director of Vogue magazine and then of Condé Nast Publications. On 23 April 1957, she married the painter Cleve Gray and until his death they lived together in Connecticut.

The couple had two sons.

Francine du Plessix Gray died on January 13, 2019 in Manhattan.

Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres González, Argentinian-born Uruguayan Roman Catholic prelate, Died at 97

Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres González was born on April 16, 1921 and died on January 13, 2019.

He was a Uruguayan Prelate of Roman Catholic Church.

He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and was ordained a priest on July 15, 1945.

He was appointed bishop of The Diocese of Melo on January 2, 1962 and consecrated on March 19, 1962.

He retired from the Melo Diocese on April 23, 1996.

Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres González passed away at 97 years old.

Gonzalo Ramiro del Castillo Crespo, Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Died at 82

Gonzalo Ramiro de Jesús María del Castillo Crespo was born on September 20, 1936, in Bolivia and died on January 14, 2019.

He was a Bolivian Roman Catholic bishop.

He was ordained to the priesthood in 1964.

Castillo Crespo served as titular bishop of Themisonium and as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of La Paz, Bolivia, from 1983 to 2000 and as bishop of the Military Ordinariate of Bolivia from 2000 to 2012.

Gonzalo Ramiro del Castillo Crespo passed away at 82 years old.