Wednesday 2 January 2019

Ed Corney, American bodybuilder, Died at 85

Ed Corney was born on November 9, 1933, and died on January 1, 2019.

He was an American professional bodybuilder.

He was the winner of the IFBB Mr. America, IFBB Universe, IFBB Masters Olympia 60+ (twice) and is an individual from the IFBB Hall of Fame.

During 1950, Corney enrolled in the United States Coast Guard and in the wake of serving in New York City, moved out to California.

It was there that he met jock Millard Williamson, who urged him to start weight preparing.

At 160 pounds and at 33 years old, Corney entered and won his first challenge in 1967, the Mr. Fremont, held in Northern California.

His successes the next year included Mr. Heart of California, Mr. Northern California and Mr. Brilliant West.

Corney still works out energetically right up 'til the present time.

Been hitched multiple times, as of now unmarried.

He kept on climbing the lifting weights stepping stool with noteworthy successes at the 1970 Iron Man, the 1971 AAU Mr. California, the 1971 IFBB Mr. USA, the 1972 IFBB Mr. America and the 1972 IFBB Mr. Universe that was held in Baghdad, Iraq.

Corney accomplished much more extensive open acknowledgment because of his appearance in both the book and film adaptations of Pumping Iron.

He was imagined on the front of the book and on the publications for the motion picture.

Corney came back to the competition, in 1994.

Ed Corney won the 60+ division of the Masters Olympia in both 1994 and 1995, set eleventh in general in 1996 and took second in the 60+ division in 1997.

Ed Corney likewise contended in 1998 in the main Masters' occasion to be held at the Arnold Schwarzenegger Classic.

Corney stayed extremely dynamic in the game up until his passing. In 1999, Ed Corney endured a heart assault while experiencing shoulder substitution medical procedure.

A blood diminishing medicine that was given to him to treat the heart assault made him endure two strokes.

After a brief period in a trance-like a state and some time utilizing a wheelchair, Corney battled his way back to wellbeing.

Ed Corney passed away at 85 years old.

Joan Guinjoan, Spanish composer and pianist, Died at 87

Joan Guinjoan i Gispert was born on November 28, 1931, in Riudoms and died on January 1, 2019.

He was a Spanish composer and pianist of Catalan origin.

Guinjoan learned at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona.

In 1954, he moved to Paris and proceeded with his examinations at the École normale de musique.

Guinjoan likewise gotten guidance from Cristòfor Taltabull.

After in excess of 250 piano presentations, he deserted his vocation as a musician during the 1960s. Guinjoan at that point gave himself to creation.

In 1962, he joined the Schola Cantorum de Paris. Guinjoan came back to Barcelona the next year.

In 1999 he got the Creu de Sant Jordi, a refinement granted by the Generalitat de Catalunya, at that point in 2001, Guinjoan got the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts granted by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports.

Joan Guinjoan passed away at 87 years old.

María Teresa Uribe, Colombian sociologist, Died at 78

María Teresa Uribe de Hincapié was born on February 9, 1940, in Pereira, Risaralda and died on January 1, 2019.

She was a Colombian sociologist, specializing in research into conflict and violence.

She examined human science at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín, Colombia and later finished a graduate degree in urban arranging at the National University of Colombia.

Amid 1973, after her graduation, she accepting a situation as an instructor at the University of Antioquia.

Amid that time, she met Carlos Gaviria Diaz; he acquainted her with the recently developing field of political theory, which started to impact her sociological work.

From 1991, she chipped away at her exploration extends in the college's Institute of Political Studies.

She resigned from the college in 2005; in 2007 she was welcome to take an interest in the nation's first Historical Memory venture, anyway she was just ready to be required for a half year because of weakness.

She was welcome to add to various national and neighborhood political discussions on her vocation, for example, roundtable arrangements with the nineteenth of April guerilla development, and chats with Medellín state army, went for de-activating the paramilitary.

Guillermo Hincapié Orozco was her husband, was a former mayor of Medellín.

Her husband pre-deceased her by six days.

María Teresa Uribe passed away at 78 years old.

Geoffrey Langlands, British army officer and educator, Died at 101

Geoffrey Douglas Langlands was born on October 21, 1917, in Hull, England and died on January 2, 2019.

He was a British Major, a teacher, and educator.

He resided in Pakistan since the partition of the British Indian Empire in 1947.

Geoffrey Langlands served in the British Indian Army and Pakistani Army as part of his service tenure.

His father was employed in an Anglo-American company and a mother who was a classical folk dance instructor.

Langlands'  father passed away October 27, 1918, due to the 1918 flu pandemic that killed millions worldwide.

Following the death of her husband, Mrs. Langlands moved with the children to her parents' home in Bristol.

During 1930, Langlands' mother died from cancer after which Langlands and his siblings lived under the care of their grandfather.

The following year on 24 December, Langlands grandfather died leaving children with no other relatives.

Langlands' older brother received a scholarship to an orphan school in Bristol, and a family friend helped secure positions for the other children.

Geoffrey Langlands passed away at 101 years old.

Agneta Eckemyr, Swedish actress, Died at 68

Agneta Marie-Anne Eckemyr was born on July 2, 1950, and died on December 2018.

She was a Swedish actress, model and clothing designer.

She was conceived in Karlsborg in the region of Västra Götaland.

She began displaying at a youthful age, and moved to New York City in the United States when she was 20 years of age.

Eckemyr was captured by Life Magazine showing up inverse the five semi-finalist performing artists for the job of James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Shortly in the wake of showing up in the 1974 Disney family movie generation The Island at the Top of the World, Eckemyr showed up on the title page and inside the October 1975 version of Playboy magazine, as a Playboy Playmate. Eckemyr's accomplishment in the US prompted offers of prominent jobs in Sweden, and in 1975 she showed up in Lejonet och jungfrun (The Lion and the Virgin) with Sven-Bertil Taube and coordinated by Lars-Magnus Lindgren.

After retirement from being an on-screen character, she turned her gifts to apparel structure.

 Eckemyr's last plans were highlighted at Älskling (Swedish for Darling), on Columbus Avenue, in Manhattan, New York City; a square from where she lived in a flat sitting above Central Park.

Agneta Eckemyr passed away at 68 years old.

Tuesday 1 January 2019

David Cavanagh, British music writer and journalist, Dead

David Cavanagh died on December 29, 2018.

He was a British writer and music journalist.

David Cavanagh was a writer for Sounds, Select, Q, Uncut and Mojo.

Cavanagh's books included a history of Creation Records, My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry for the Prize and Good Night and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Life, about John Peel.

David Cavanagh was at one time an editor of Select.

He was raised in Northern Ireland.

David Cavanagh passed away in December 2018.

Mrinal Sen, Indian film director, Died at 95

Mrinal Sen was born on May 14, 1923, and died on December 30, 2018, in Bhawanipore, Kolkata.

 He was an Indian film director.

Alongside his counterparts Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak, Sen was frequently viewed as one of the best envoys of Bengali parallel film on the worldwide stage.

Like crafted by Ray and Ghatak, his film was known for its imaginative portrayal of social reality.

In spite of the fact that the three executives shared a solid competition, they were passionate admirers of one another's work, and in this manner, they diagrammed the autonomous direction of the parallel film, as a contrast to the standard passage of Hindi film in India.

He was a vigorous adherent of Marxist theory.

Mrinal Sen passed away at 95 years old due to a heart attack.