Monday, 21 January 2019

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.

Shivakumara Swami, Indian Lingayat spiritual leader & educationist, Died at 111

Shivakumara Swami (born Shivanna) was born on April 1, 1907 and died on January 21, 2019.

He was an Indian spiritual leader, humanitarian and educationist.

Shivakumara was a Lingayat religious figure and head of the Siddaganga Matha in Karnataka.

He also founded the Sri Siddaganga Education Society.

Shivakumara was described as the most esteemed adherent of Lingayatism.

He was also referred to as Nadedaaduva Devaru (walking God) in the state.

Shivakumara was one of the oldest people living in India.

He has been awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award in 2015 by the Government of India.

Shivakumara Swami Indian Lingayat spiritual leader and educationist passed away at the age of 111 due to a lung infection.

Roman Kudlyk, Ukrainian poet & literary critic, Died at 77

Roman Mykhailovych Kudlyk was born on May 4, 1941 in Jaroslaw, Poland and died on January 21, 2019. He was a Ukrainian poet and writing critic.

Roman was born in a family of a serviceman. In 1945 he moved to Drohobych.

In 1958, Roman obtained his general education in Drohobych. In 1959 he enrolled in Lviv University and graduated in 1964.

He then obtained work as an electrician at the local oil refinery, newspaper and a magazine called October.

He also worked at the Lvivian TV-studio as the head of the literal department of the Lviv regional concert hall.

Roman writing was first published in 1957 by newspapers and magazines and then later in the collective volumes Apple bloom (Yablunevy tsvit, 1961) and Godspeed (Schaslyvoi dorohy, 1962).

He had been a member of the National Society of Writers (Ukraine) since 1965.

Roman was the author of the lyrics to Volodymyr Ivasiuk's songs, I am your wing («Я — твоє крило», 1972), «Нам спокій, друже, тільки сниться» (1978), «Освідчення».

His writings have been put to music in the songs of Ihor Bilozir («Спогади літньої ночі», «Лебеді весни»), and Bohdan Yanivsky.

Roman wrote a libretto to several opera works of Bohdan Yanivsky, Oles Ballad «Олеська балада» (after the roman of Roman Ivanchuk Cherlene vyno «Черлене вино»), Princess Frog «Царівна Жаба», Golden chatter «Золотий гомін» (by Pavlo Tychyna), and musicals Fox Mykyta «Лис Микита», Ring of Temptation «Перстень спокуси».

He then received the Lviv regional award of Oleksandr Havryliuk and in 1997 the Literal award of Vasyl Mysyk for the series of poems Night time grape-picking.

Roman was the head of the magazine Dzvin and lived in Lviv, where he died at age 77 on January 21, 2019.