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Walter Bonatti, Italian mountain climber, died he was 81.

Walter Bonatti was an Italian mountain climber. He is noted for a solo climb of a new route on the south-west pillar of the Aiguille du Dru in August 1955 and the first solo winter ascent of the Matterhorn north face in 1965.

(22 June 1930 – Rome, 13 September 2011)

Life and career

Bonatti on Gasherbrum IV summit, 1958

Bonatti was born in Bergamo. Famed for his climbing panache, he pioneered little known and technically difficult climbs in the Alps, Himalayas and Patagonia. At the age of 21, Bonatti in 1951 made the first ascent of the Grand Capucin, an extraordinary red granite pinnacle in the Mont Blanc massif,
from 20 to 23 July. This was the climb that brought him to public
notice. Aged 18, he had made the fourth ascent of the formidable North Face of the Grandes Jorasses
with very poor equipment over a period of two days. Among his notable
climbs were a solo climb of a new route on the south-west pillar of the Aiguille du Dru in August 1955,^[1] the first ever ascent of Gasherbrum IV in 1958^[2] and the first solo winter ascent of the Matterhorn north face in 1965. Bonatti was awarded the French Legion d’Honneur for saving the lives of two fellow-climbers in a disaster in the Alps. He authored a number of books about climbing and mountaineering. Bonatti died of pancreatic cancer^[3] in Rome on 13 September 2011 at the age of 81.^[4]

K2 controversy

Bonatti was at the center of a climbing controversy about the first ascent of K2 by Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni. Along with Hunza
climber Amir Mahdi, he carried oxygen cylinders to Lacedelli and
Compagnoni at Camp IX for the summit attempt. Bonatti was later accused
by Compagnoni of using some of the oxygen, causing the climbers to run
out of oxygen on summit day. Using this supplemental oxygen would have
been impossible for Bonatti, as he had neither mask nor regulator.
Bonatti would cite two summit photos to support his response that
Compagnoni had lied about running out of oxygen in route to the summit.
Although Bonatti’s account of the bivouac is supported by Lacedelli in K2: The Price of Conquest
(2004), Lacedelli contends that the oxygen had in fact run out.
However, he attributes this not to Bonatti’s alleged use of the oxygen,
but to the physical exertion of the climb causing the summit climbers to
use more oxygen than expected.^{[citation needed]}
Another aspect of the controversy was the Bonatti-Mahdi forced
bivouac of July 30, 1954. Compagnoni’s decision to place the final camp
(IX) at a higher location than previously agreed caused the problem.
When Bonatti and Mahdi climbed up to deliver oxygen to Compagnoni and
Lacedelli for their summit attempt, Mahdi’s condition had deteriorated.
Unable to descend with Mahdi, Bonatti needed the shelter of Camp IX’s
tent. The tent was placed high up, over a dangerous traverse to the left
– not at the agreed location. Unable to traverse safely to the tent,
Bonatti and Mahdi endured a forced bivouac in the open at 8100 meters;
it cost Mahdi his fingers and toes. Compagnoni gave the reasonable
explanation that his decision to move the tent was to avoid an
overhanging serac.^{[citation needed]}
However, it is argued that he also had an ulterior motive: to avoid
Walter Bonatti. Bonatti was in the best physical condition of all the
climbers and the natural choice to make the summit attempt. If he had
joined the summit team, he would likely have done so without the use of
supplemental oxygen. If he had succeeded, any summit by Compagnoni would
have been eclipsed. Although the Bonatti-Mahdi forced bivouac was not
anticipated, Compagnoni intended to discourage Bonatti from reaching the
tent. At 6:10 pm the next evening, Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli
reached the summit of K2, using the supplemental oxygen Bonatti and
Mahdi had brought them. Ardito Desio,
in his final report, mentioned the forced bivouac only in passing.
Mahdi’s frostbite was an embarrassment to the expedition. The Italian
government provided Mahdi with a small pension for his contribution and
sacrifice on the first ascent of K2. Bonatti never reconciled with
Compagnoni, owing to Compagnoni’s allegedly false accusation that
Bonatti used the oxygen intended for the summit attempt. He wanted to
climb K2 “solo, alpine style, and without oxygen”.^[5] He might well have succeeded. Two decades later, Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler astonished the mountaineering world by climbing Mount Everest without bottled oxygen.^{[citation needed]}

Mountaineering achievements

The north face of the Grandes Jorasses (1949)
The east face of Grand Capucin (1951)
The north faces of Tre Cime di Lavaredo in winter (1953)
The southwest pillar of the Aiguille du Dru (The Bonatti pillar) (1955)
Grand Pilier d’Angle (with Tito Gobbi) (1957)
Gasherbrum IV: First Ever Ascent (1958)
The Red Pillar of Brouillard (1959)
Rondoy North – Patagonia (1961)
The north face of the Grandes Jorasses in winter (1963)
The north face of the Matterhorn: solo and in winter (1965)

Books

The Mountaineering Books of Walter Bonatti

Le Mie Montagne (My Mountains), Walter Bonatti, Bologna: Zanichelli, 1961
I Giorni Grandi (The Great Days), Walter Bonatti, Verona: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1971
Magia del Monte Bianco (Magic of Mont Blanc), Walter Bonatti, Como: Massimo Baldini Editore, 1984
Processo al K2 (Trial on K2), Walter Bonatti, Como: Massimo Baldini Editore, 1985
La Mia Patagonia (My Patagonia), Walter Bonatti, Como: Massimo Baldini Editore, 1986
Un Modo di Essere (A way of Living), Walter Bonatti, Milan: dall’Oglio Editore, 1989
K2-Storia di un Caso (K2 – The Story of a Court Case), Walter Bonatti, Bergamo: Ferrari Editrice, 1995
Montagne di Una Vita (Mountains of a Life), Walter Bonatti, Milan: Baldini & Castoldi, 1995
K2-Storia di un Caso (K2 – The Story of a Court Case), Walter Bonatti, 2d ed. Milan: Baldini & Castoldi, 1996
In terre lontane, Walter Bonatti, Baldini & Castoldi, Milano, 1998 [1st ed 1997]
The Mountains of my Life, Walter Bonatti, Modern Library, 2001. ISBN 0-375-75640-X
K2. La verità. 1954-2004, Walter Bonatti, 2005, Baldini Castoldi Dalai editore. ISBN 88-8490-845-0.
K2. Lies and Treachery, Robert Marshall, 2009, Carreg Ltd. UK. ISBN 978-0-9538631-7-4.

Other

On the Heights. Hart-Davis, 1964. ISBN B0000CMDRK
Magic of Mont Blanc. Gollancz, 1985. ISBN 0-575-03560-9
K2 (Italian). Baldini e Castoldi, 1998. ISBN 88-8089-072-7

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Wade Mainer, American bluegrass musician, died at heart failure he was 104

Wade Mainer was an American singer and banjoist died at heart failure he was 104..

(April 21, 1907 – September 12, 2011)

With his band, the Sons of the Mountaineers, he is credited with bridging the gap between old-time mountain music and Bluegrass and is sometimes called the “Grandfather of Bluegrass.” In addition, he innovated a two-finger banjo fingerpicking style, which was a precursor to modern three-finger bluegrass styles.
Originally from North Carolina,
Mainer’s main influences came from the mountain music of his family. In
a career that began in 1934 and spanned almost six decades, Mainer
transitioned from being a member of his brother’s band into the founder
of his own ensemble, the Sons of the Mountaineers, with whom he
performed until 1953, when he became more deeply involved with his
Christianity and left the music industry. After working at a General
Motors factory and attending gospel
revivals, Mainer was convinced that he should restart his career as a
Christian gospel musician and began to tour with his wife in this
capacity. He continued to release albums until 1993.

Personal life

Mainer was born near Weaverville, North Carolina, on a mountain farm in Buncombe County on April 21, 1907.^[2] His family was poor during his childhood and they lived in a log cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Mainer credited his father who was, in Mainer’s words, “a good singer –
real stout voice”, as of one of his influences. During his career as a
musical artist, Mainer would perform many of the old songs that he had
heard from his father.^[3]
Mainer grew up listening to traditional mountain music and was largely influenced by his brother-in-law Roscoe Banks.^[2] He first learned to play the banjo at square dances, where he would pick up instruments left by performers and practice on them.^[4] After moving to Concord, North Carolina and working in a series of jobs at cotton mills, he became a part of his brother J.E.’s band, known as J. E. Mainer’s Mountaineers. His entry into the band in 1934 marked the beginning of a nearly six-decade career in music.^[2]
J.E. played the fiddle while Wade performed on the banjo for the string
band, and they played at fiddlers’ conventions and other gatherings.^[3]
Mainer married Julia Brown in 1937, shortly after forming his own band. Brown was a singer and guitarist popularly know at the time as Hillbilly Lilly. She had performed from 1935 until 1937 at WSJS Radio in Winston Salem. Brown is considered to be a pioneering female musical artist and later joined Mainer during his performances.^[4]

Musical career

Mainer’s first recordings came in 1934 and are compiled on Ragged But Right: 30′s Country Bands. Mainer performed with The Mountaineers on tracks such as Maple on the Hill, Seven and a Half and Johnson’s Old Grey Mule. Also included on the compilation are Mainer’s later collaboration Short Life and It’s Trouble with Zeke Morris, his solo effort Riding on That Train 45 and a sample song Mitchell Blues from his band the Sons of the Mountaineers.^[5]
Throughout his career, he was noted for his unique and innovative
two-finger banjo fingerpicking style, which some view as a precursor to
three finger bluegrass banjo styles.^[2] Mainer took jobs at local radio stations to increase the visibility of his relative’s ensemble, recording classics such as Take Me in the Lifeboat. During this time, he appeared on many regional stations including WBT in Charlotte, WPTF in Raleigh, WNOX in Knoxville and WPAQ in Mount Airy.^[4]
Mainer performed in a series of live radio shows with The Mountaineers, sponsored by Crazy Water Crystals laxatives. In 1934, J.W. Fincher, the head of the company, observed their popularity at the first gig, the Crazy Water Crystal Barn Dance, a radio program out of Charlotte. Under the name J. E. Mainer’s Crazy Mountaineers, they toured the American South on live radio shows and recorded fourteen songs for Bluebird Records. Maple on the Hill, which according to the National Endowment for the Arts was their biggest hit, had originally been composed in the 1890s by Gussie L. Davis.^[3]
Mainer was in his brother J.E.’s band for two years, until he left
for more traditional work, which at the time was far more profitable
than his musical career. Making only five dollars a week under
sponsorship, Mainer found that he could earn up to three times as much
working at a yarn mill, which he described as being “gold” for the era.^[4] After leaving his brother’s group in 1936, he began to perform duet
work with Zeke Morris, who was a fellow band mate from The
Mountaineers. After a time working on this project, Mainer left to form
the short-lived “Smilin’ Rangers” which later became “Sons of the
Pioneers”. Zeke Morris then got together with his brother Wiley to form The Morris Brothers.^[2]

Sons of the Mountaineers

Mainer named this new band Sons of the Mountaineers. Its initial lineup included Jay Hugh Hall and Clyde Moody as guitarists with Steve Ledford as a fiddler.
Among the musicians who would join the group later were Jack and Curly
Shelton, Tiny Dodson, Red Rector and Fred Smith. The band got its start
performing on the radio and recording songs for Bluebird Records and
their first hit, entitled “Sparkling Blue Eyes” was recorded in 1939.^[2] From 1935 through 1941, Mainer recorded over 165 songs for the record label RCA Victor in various lineups, ranking him among one of the most prolifically recorded country music artists of that period.^[3]
The Sons of the Mountaineers briefly stopped playing during World War II because Mainer could not afford to squander the valuable gasoline required for the journey to the radio stations.^[2] One notable exception, however, came in 1942, when they were invited to the White House by Eleanor Roosevelt.^[6] There in Washington D.C., they played several tunes, including “Down in the Willow Garden“, a song personally requested by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.^[4] During this time, they also appeared in a version of The Chisholm Trail in New York.
At wars’ end, the band was reorganized and once again began to play at
stations across North Carolina. Recordings at this time were sporadic,
due to the declining popularity of the genre. In 1953, after having
renewed his commitment to Christianity, Mainer left the group and exited the industry for a time.^[2]^[7]

Later life

In 1953, Mainer and his wife settled in Flint, Michigan, where he found work at a General Motors
factory. Although renouncing both the music industry and his trademark
instrument, the banjo, he and Julia did continue to sing at gospel revival meetings. In the early 1960s, Molly O’Day
convinced him that he could use the banjo in gospel recordings, which
spurred a series of religiously-theme banjo albums beginning in 1961. He
also began to record and tour with his wife.^[2]
Mainer retired from General Motors in 1973.^[8] Mainer has been credited with bridging the gap between old-time mountain music and Bluegrass and musicians such as Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley and Doc Watson have all cited Mainer as a source of influence. He has also been called the “Grandfather of Bluegrass.”^[4] His influence was not limited to the United States. Pete Smith, of the British newspaper The Advertiser,
in a report for Mainer’s 100th birthday, cited Mainer as “one of the
most influential figures in the development of modern bluegrass,” noting
his picking style and his efforts in bringing bluegrass closer to the
mainstream. In addition, Smith also credits him for making the banjo, an
instrument previously described as “satanic,” acceptable for spiritually-themed music.^[9]
Mainer continued to live with his wife in Flint, where he celebrated
his centenary in 2007 and performed at a concert for his 101st birthday
in 2008.^[6]^[10] Mainer died of congestive heart failure on September 12, 2011. He was 104.

Awards and honours

In 1987, president Ronald Reagan bestowed upon him a National Heritage Fellowship for his contributions to American music.^[2] In 1996 he received the Michigan Heritage Award and the Michigan
Country Music Association and Services’ Lifetime Achievement Award. In
1998 both he and his wife were inducted into the Michigan Country Music
Hall of Fame, while Mainer received North Carolina’s Surry Arts Council
Lifetime Achievement.^[4]

Original discography

Wade Mainer/Zeke Morris

Matrix	Title	Record #	Recording date
99133	“Come Back To Your Dobie Shack”	Bluebird 6551	February 14, 1936
99134	“Just As the Sun Went Down”	Bluebird 6383	February 14, 1936
99135	“What Would You Give In Exchange”	Bluebird 8073	February 14, 1936
99136	“Bring Me a Leaf From the Sea”	Bluebird 6347	February 14, 1936
99137	“Brown Eyes”	Bluebird 6347	February 14, 1936
99138	“Maple On the Hill – Part 2″	Bluebird 6293	February 15, 1936
99139	“Going To Georgia”	Bluebird 6423	February 15, 1936
99140	“Nobody’s Darling But Mine”	Bluebird 6423	February 15, 1936
99141	“Mother Came to Get Her Boy Back From Jail”	Bluebird 6383	February 15, 1936
99142	“Where the Red, Red Roses Grow”	Bluebird 6293	February 15, 1936
102612	“My Cradle Days”	Bluebird 6489	June 15, 1936
102613	“Gathering Flowers From the Hillside”	Bluebird 6489	June 15, 1936
102614	“My Mother Is Waiting”	Bluebird 6551	June 15, 1936
102615	“If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again”	Bluebird 6460	June 15, 1936
102616	“Nobody’s Darling On Earth”	Bluebird 6460	June 15, 1936
102617	“Shake Hands With Your Mother”	Bluebird 6596	June 15, 1936
2530	“They Said My Lord Was A Devil”	Bluebird 6653	October 12, 1936
2531	“Won’t Somebody Pal With Me”	Bluebird 6704	October 12, 1936
2532	“Hop Along Peter”	Bluebird 6752	October 12, 1936
2533	“Just One Way To the Pearly Gates”	Bluebird 6784	October 12, 1936
2534	“Dear Daddy, You’re Gone	Bluebird 6752	October 12, 1936
2535	“Been Foolin’ Me, Baby”	Bluebird 6704	October 12, 1936
2536	“I’ll Be a Friend of Jesus”	Bluebird 6784	October 12, 1936
2537	“Cowboy’s Pony In Heaven”	Bluebird 6653	October 12, 1936
7051	“Little Birdie”	Bluebird 6840	February 16, 1937
7052	“I’ve Always Been a Rambler”	Bluebird 6890	February 16, 1937
7053	“I’m Starting Life A New With You”	Bluebird 6840	February 16, 1937
7054	“Little Rosebuds”	Bluebird 6993	February 16, 1937
7055	“Train Carry My Gal Back Home”	Bluebird 6890	February 16, 1937
7056	“In the Land Beyond the Blue”	Bluebird 6936	February 16, 1937
7057	“A Change All Around”	Bluebird 6993	February 16, 1937
7058	“Short Life and It’s Trouble”	Bluebird 6936	February 16, 1937
11812	“The Dying Boy’s Prayer”	Bluebird 7165	August 2, 1937
11813	“Free Again”	Bluebird 7114	August 2, 1937
11814	“Answer To Two Little Rosebuds”	Bluebird 7114	August 2, 1937
11815	“I’m Not Turning Backward”	Bluebird 7165	August 2, 1937
11820	“Riding On That Train 45″	Bluebird 7298	August 2, 1937
11821	“Little Maggie”	Bluebird 7201	August 2, 1937
11822	“Little Pal”	Bluebird 7201	August 2, 1937
11823	“Down In the Willow”	Bluebird 7298/Victor 27497	August 2, 1937

Wade Mainer’s Smilin’ Rangers

Matrix	Title	Record #	Recording date
11825	“Ramshackle Shack”	Bluebird 7274	August 2, 1937
11826	“Memory Lane”	Bluebird 7274	August 2, 1937
11827	“Wild Bill Jones”	Bluebird 7249	August 2, 1937
11828	“I Want To Be Loved”	Bluebird 7249	August 2, 1937
11816	“What Are You Goin’ To Do Brother”	Bluebird 7384	August 3, 1937
11817	“Companions Draw Nigh”	Bluebird 7384	August 3, 1937
11818	“Mountain Sweetheart”	Bluebird 7587	August 3, 1937
11819	“Don’t Forget Me, Little Darling”	Bluebird 7587	August 3, 1937

Wade Mainer and his Sons of the Mountaineers

Matrix	Title	Record #	Recording date
18763	“Lonely Tomb”	Bluebird 7424	January 27, 1938
18764	“Pale Moonlight”	Bluebird 7483	January 27, 1938
18765	“All My Friends”	Bluebird 7424	January 27, 1938
18766	“Since I Met My Mother-In-Law”	Bluebird 7742	January 27, 1938
18767	“Don’t Get Too Deep In Love”	Bluebird 7483	January 27, 1938
18768	“Don’t Leave Me Alone”	Bluebird 7561	January 27, 1938
18769	“I Won’t Be Worried”	Bluebird 7561	January 27, 1938
18770	“Where Romance Calls”	Bluebird 7753	January 27, 1938
18771	“Another Alabama Camp Meetin’”	Bluebird 7753	January 27, 1938
18772	“Mitchell Blues”	Bluebird 7845	January 27, 1938
26981	“Father Along”	Bluebird 8023	September 26, 1938
26982	“Dear Loving Mother and Dad”	Bluebird 8152	September 26, 1938
26983	“Can’t Tell About These Women”	Bluebird 7965	September 26, 1938
26984	“That Kind”	Bluebird 7861	September 26, 1938
26985	“If I Had Listened To Mother”	Bluebird 8137	September 26, 1938
26986	“She Is Spreading Her Wings For A Journey”	Bluebird 8023	September 26, 1938
26987	“The Same Old You and Me”	Bluebird 7924	September 26, 1938
26988	“Life’s Evenin’ Sun”	Bluebird 8007	September 26, 1938
26998	“You’re Awfully Mean To Me”	Bluebird 7861	September 26, 1938
26999	“Home In the Sky”	Bluebird 8007	September 26, 1938
27700	“A Little Love”	Bluebird 7924	September 26, 1938
27701	“North Carolina Moon”	Bluebird 8628	September 26, 1938
27702	“More Good Women Gone Wrong”	Bluebird 7965	September 26, 1938
32625	“Sparkling Blue Eyes”	Bluebird 8042	February 4, 1939
32626	“We Will Miss Him”	Bluebird 8042	February 4, 1939
32627	“I Left My Home In the Mountains”	Bluebird 8091	February 4, 1939
32628	“I Met Her At A Ball One Night”	Bluebird 8091	February 4, 1939
32629	“You May Forsake Me”	Bluebird 8120	February 4, 1939
32630	“Look On and Cry”	Bluebird 8120	February 4, 1939
32631	“One Little Kiss”	Bluebird 8145	February 4, 1939
32632	“Mama, Don’t Make Me Go To Bed”	Bluebird 8145	February 4, 1939
32633	“Crying Holy”	Bluebird 8203	February 4, 1939
32634	“Heaven Bells Are Ringing”	Bluebird 8203	February 4, 1939
41200	“Sparkling Blue Eyes No.2″	Bluebird 8249	August 21, 1939
41201	“The Poor Drunkard’s Dream”	Bluebird 8273	August 21, 1939
41202	“Were You There”	Bluebird 8273	August 21, 1939
41203	“The Gospel Cannon Ball”	Bluebird 8249	August 21, 1939
41204	“The Great and Final Judgement”	Bluebird 8288	August 21, 1939
41205	“What a Wonderful Savior Is He”	Bluebird 8288	August 21, 1939
41206	“Why Not Make Heaven Your Home”	Bluebird 8340	August 21, 1939
41207	“Mansions In the Sky”	Bluebird 8340	August 21, 1939
41208	“Not a Word of That Be Said”	Bluebird 8359	August 21, 1939
41209	“Drifting Through an Unfriendly World”	Bluebird 8359	August 21, 1939
71014	“Shake My Mother’s Hands For Me”	Bluebird 8848	September 29, 1941
71015	“Anywhere Is Home”	Bluebird 8965	September 29, 1941
71016	“I Can Tell You the Time”	Bluebird 8965	September 29, 1941
71017	“He Gave His Life”	Bluebird 8887	September 29, 1941
71018	“Ramblin’ Boy	Bluebird 8990	September 29, 1941
71019	“The Precious Jewel”	Bluebird 8887	September 29, 1941
71020	“Old Ruben”	Bluebird 8990	September 29, 1941
71021	“Precious Memories”	Bluebird 8848	September 29, 1941

Other discography

Studio albums

1961: Soulful Sacred Songs
1971: Sacred Songs of Mother and Home
1973: The Songs of Wade Mainer
1976: From the Maple to the Hill
1980: Old Time Songs
1984: Old Time Banjo Tunes
1987: In the Land of Melody
1989: How Sweet to Walk
1990: String Band Music
1993: Old Time Gospel Favorites
1993: Carolina Mule^[7]

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Ralph Lomma, American mini golf entrepreneur, died he was 87.

Ralph John Lomma is often credited, along with his brother, Al, with popularizing miniature golf in the mid 1950s through their design and manufacture of now famous obstacles such as castles, clown heads and windmills died he was 87..^[2]^[3] Lomma Enterprises, which Ralph Lomma founded, is still in business today.

(March 13, 1924 – September 12, 2011)

History

In 1959, he engineered the development of Elk Mountain, Pennsylvania into a ski resort and in 1961, Lomma founded the Village of Four Seasons, Pennsylvania.
Lomma Enterprises is the world’s largest supplier for the pint-size
sport, with courses in all 50 states and five continents. Lomma claimed
that one course was built in a federal penitentiary and another aboard
an aircraft carrier, nearly 6,000 miniature golf courses in all.
In the 1980s, Lomma was appointed by Ronald Reagan to the Coast Guard Commission and sat on the board of directors of Allied Artists film company, at that time involved with the production of The Wild Geese, starring Richard Harris, and Cabaret starring Liza Minnelli.
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Mohammed Ghani Hikmat, Iraqi sculptor, died from kidney failure he was 82

Mohammad Ghani Hikmat, was an Iraqi sculptor and artist credited with creating some of Baghdad‘s highest profile sculptures and monuments died from kidney failure he was 82..

(1929 – September 12, 2011)

His best known works include the Victory Arch and two statues of Queen Scheherazade and King Shahryar, located on Aby Nuwas Street.^[1] Hikmat also spearheaded the recovery of art looted from the National Museum of Iraq in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and fall of Saddam Hussein.^[1]
Hikmut was born in 1929 in Baghdad’s Kadumiya neighborhood.^[1]
He graduated from the Fine Arts Institute in Baghdad in 1953, before
completing his studies in 1957 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Italy.^[1] Hikmut joined the Baghdad Group for Modern Art in 1953 and the Al-Zawiya Group (meaning The Corner) in 1967.
Mohammed Ghani Hikmat died in Amman, Jordan, where he was receiving medical treatment, on September 12, 2011, at the age of 82.^[1]
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Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player, died from injuries sustained in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster he was 26

Alexander Saidgereyevich Galimov was a Russian professional ice hockey player died from injuries sustained in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster he was 26.. At the time of his death, he was a member of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) ^[1] whose team plane crashed on September 7, 2011.

( May 2, 1985 – September 12, 2011)

Playing career

Alexander Galimov was born in 1985 in Yaroslavl, then the Soviet Union. He began his professional career in 2004 with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. The 6-foot, 196-pounder, played 341 RSL/KHL games, scoring 64 goals and 126 points, while racking up 280 penalty minutes.
Galimov was a member of the silver-medal winning Russian U20 team at the 2005 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. He also played for the Russia men’s national ice hockey team on the 2009–10 and 2010–11 Euro Hockey Tours.

Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash

On September 7, 2011, a Yakovlev Yak-42 passenger aircraft, carrying nearly the entire Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team including Galimov, crashed just outside Yaroslavl, Russia. The team was traveling to Minsk
to play their opening game of the season, with its coaching staff and
prospects. Galimov was the only player from the team’s roster to survive
the initial impact. A crew member, Alexander Sizov, also survived.
Galimov suffered burns to over 90 percent of his body.^[6]
The medical team in Yaroslavl managed to stabilize him, and on the
following day, September 8, he was transported to the Vishnevsky
Institute of Surgery of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, where
he was placed in a medically induced coma, and on artificial ventilation.^[7]
On September 12, 2011, Galimov died from the burns he had sustained in the crash.^[8]^[9] Lokomotiv Yaroslavl marketing manager
Yevgeni Chuev said it was likely that another memorial, this time
specifically for Galimov, would be held on September 13, 2011.^[10]

Career statistics

			Regular season					Playoffs
Season	Team	League	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
2004–05	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	RSL	41	1	1	2	37	9	0	0	0	0
2005–06	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	RSL	35	5	3	8	46	11	3	0	3	2
2006–07	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	RSL	54	16	13	29	50	7	1	1	2	10
2007–08	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	RSL	51	9	9	18	45	10	0	0	0	14
2008–09	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	KHL	55	7	6	13	28	19	2	2	4	8
2009–10	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	KHL	52	13	12	25	46	16	8	6	14	33
2010–11	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	KHL	53	13	18	31	31	18	9	5	14	10
RSL/KHL totals			341	64	62	126	283	90	23	14	37	77

Medal record
Competitor for Russia
Men’s ice hockey
World Junior Championships
Silver	2005 USA

International

Year	Team	Event	Place		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
2005	Russia	WJC			6	1	2	3	0
Junior totals					6	1	2	3	0

Andy Whitfield, Welsh-born Australian actor (Spartacus: Blood and Sand), died from non-Hodgkin lymphoma he was 39.

Andy Whitfield was a Welsh-Australian actor and model died from non-Hodgkin lymphoma he was 39. He was best known for his leading role in the Starz television series Spartacus: Blood and Sand during 2010.^[2]

(died 11 September 2011)

Whitfield was born in Amlwch, Wales. He studied engineering at the University of Sheffield, England and worked in Lidcombe, New South Wales, Australia as an engineer before settling in Sydney in 1999.^[3]^[4] He appeared in several Australian television series, such as Opening Up, All Saints, The Strip, Packed to the Rafters, and McLeod’s Daughters.
Whitfield gained his first prominent role in the Australian supernatural film Gabriel.^[5] He also starred in the 2010 television series Spartacus: Blood and Sand, which was filmed in New Zealand.^[5] He portrays a version of the historical Spartacus,
although in this retelling he is a conscripted soldier condemned to
death who defeats all four of his executioners and is thereby recycled
as a gladiator. The actual Spartacus, like this fictional version, was destined to lead a rebellion against the Romans (the Third Servile War).^[6] Whitfield also appeared in the Australian thriller The Clinic starring opposite Tabrett Bethell (of Legend of the Seeker fame) which was shot in Deniliquin.^[7]
In August 2010, Whitfield teamed up with Freddie Wong and created a 2-minute YouTube video named “Time Crisis”, based on the game Time Crisis.^{[citation needed]} Whitfield made a brief, uncredited voice-only appearance in the prequel mini-series Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, which premiered on 21 January 2011.^[8]

Illness and death

In March 2010, Whitfield was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and began undergoing treatment immediately in New Zealand.^[9] This delayed production of season two of Spartacus: Vengeance.^[9] While waiting for Whitfield’s treatment and expected recovery, the network produced a six-part prequel, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena,
with only a brief uncredited voiceover from the actor. Although
declared cancer-free only two months later, he suffered a recurrence of
the disease later in the year and was ultimately compelled to abandon
the role.^[10]^[11]^[12] Starz recast Australian actor Liam McIntyre as Whitfield’s successor.^[13]
Whitfield died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in Sydney, Australia, on 11
September 2011, at the age of 39, 18 months after his initial cancer
diagnosis.^[1]^[14]

Filmography

Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	All Saints	Matthew Parkes	“Opening Up” (season 2, episode 7)
2008	The Strip	Charlie Palmer	(season 1, episode 2) (season 1, episode 7)
	Packed to the Rafters	Nick Leigh	“All in the Planning” (season 1, episode 10)
	McLeod’s Daughters	Brett Samuels	“Nowhere to Hide” (season 8, episode 4)
2010	Spartacus: Blood and Sand	Spartacus	Lead role
2011	Spartacus: Gods of the Arena	Spartacus (voice / uncredited)	“The Bitter End” (season 1, episode 6)
Film
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Gabriel	Gabriel	Lead role
2010	The Clinic	Cameron Marshall

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Walter Righter, American clergyman, bishop in the Episcopal Church, after long illness, died he was 87

Walter Cameron Righterwas a bishop in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America died he was 87.. He served the Diocese of Iowa from 1972 to 1988. He then served as assistant bishop for the Diocese of Newark from 1989 to 1991.

(October 23, 1923 – September 11, 2011)

Early life and Ministry

Righter was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served with the field artillery in the United States Army in World War II where he saw action in the Battle of the Bulge.^[2] He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1948 and a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree from Berkeley Divinity School in 1951. Righter married Nancy Tolbert^[2] and together they raised four children.^[3] He was ordained a deacon on April 7, 1951 and a priest on October 6 of the same year.^[4] The Rev. Righter served parishes in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania and Georgetown, Pennsylvania ^{[disambiguation needed ]} and then the Church of the Good Shepherd in Nashua, New Hampshire. While in Nashua he also served as the Ecumenical Relations Chairman for the Diocese of New Hampshire and on the Standing Committee on Structure of the National Convention.^[5]

Diocese of Iowa

Rev. Righter was elected the seventh Bishop of Iowa October 8, 1971 at a Special Convention held at St. Paul’s Church in Des Moines. He was consecrated a bishop by the Most Rev. John Elbridge Hines, and the Rt. Rev.s Charles F. Hall and Gordon V. Smith on January 12, 1972. The consecration was an ecumenical service held at St. Ambrose Cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Des Moines and the service used came from the Services for Trial Use. He was the 671st bishop consecrated in the United States, and served as the Bishop of Iowa for 16 years.
When Bishop Righter came to Iowa there were 21,618 baptized people in
33 parishes, 36 organized missions and two unorganized missions. There
were 70 clergy serving the diocese. The numbers of people in the church,
like other mainline Protestant Churches, started to decline after that
time.^[5]
Because of the decline Righter conceived of a program called the Second
Mile, which he proposed to the Diocesan Convention in 1976. It was a
five year plan for renewal and evangelization in the church. The
culmination of the program in 1981 was a visit by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie.
The Diocese of Iowa developed relationships with Companion Dioceses
during Bishop Righter’s episcopate. In 1975 it initiated an informal
relationship with the Diocese of the Central Philippines but the connection lapsed. In 1983 Righter appointed a Companion Diocese Committee and it developed a relationship with the Diocese of Brechin in Scotland. In 1990 another link was developed between the Dioceses of Iowa and Brechin with the Diocese of Swaziland in Africa.
Bishop Righter ordained the first woman in Iowa, the Rev. S. Suzanne Peterson, as a deacon on December 18, 1976 at St. Paul’s Church in Des Moines. The Rev. Anne Wagner Baker was received in 1978 from the Diocese of Missouri to serve as assistant rector at Trinity Church in Iowa City and chaplain at the area hospitals.^[6]
In the later years of his episcopate in Iowa the diocese started a
program called Responding in Ministry and Mission, which provided funds
for social justice projects in Africa and across the diocese. Bishop
Righter retired as the diocesan bishop on December 31, 1988.

Diocese of Newark

Following his retirement Righter served as the assistant bishop to the Rt. Rev. John Shelby Spong of the Diocese of Newark from 1989-1991. While he was serving in New Jersey he ordained Barry Stopfel a deacon in 1990. Rev. Stopfel was openly gay
and living with his partner. Bishop Righter had also signed a statement
saying he supported the ordination of noncelibate homosexuals.^[7]
This was a change of opinion for Bishop Righter. Shortly after becoming
a bishop he wrote that homosexuality was an illness that could be cured
and voted against the ordination of homosexuals in 1979.^[3]
Ten bishops brought a presentment, or a formal accusation, against
Bishop Righter accusing him of violating a doctrine of the church and
his own ordination vows. The presentment was supported by a quarter of
the church’s 300 bishops.^[7] On February 27, 1996 a hearing was held at the Cathedral Church of St. John in Wilmington, Delaware. It was presided over by the Rt. Rev. Edward Jones of Indianapolis and eight other bishops.^[7]
In an 7-1 decision on May 15, 1996 the court dismissed the charges
against Bishop Righter stating that the Episcopal Church “has no
doctrine prohibiting the ordination of homosexuals,” and that Bishop
Righter did not contradict the “core doctrine” of the church.^[4]^[8] In 1998 Righter wrote a reflection on the trial and his life in a book titled A Pilgrim’s Way.

Later life and Death

Bishop Righter and his wife Nancy retired to Allstead, New Hampshire before moving to Export, Pennsylvania. He was invited by the rector of Calvary Church in Shadyside to celebrate weekday Eucharist and to be listed as part of the parish clergy. Bishop Robert Duncan of the conservative Diocese of Pittsburgh objected.^[3]
After the diocese split from the Episcopal Church in 2008 Righter
applied for canonical residency and was immediately welcomed. He was in
poor health in the months before his death from heart and lung ailments.
His funeral was held at Calvary Church and his interment was in the
parish’s columbarium.^[3]
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Yuli Ofer, Romanian-born Israeli businessman and entrepreneur, died he was 87

Judah “Yuli” Ofer was an Israeli businessman who specialized in the field of real estate and industry, and one of the wealthiest people in Israel died he was 87.. A member of the Ofer family, the annual Forbes magazine’s list of The World’s Billionaires estimated in 2011 his fortune, together with that of his elder brother Sammy, to be $10.3 billion, ranked him in 2011 as the 79th in wealthiest people in the world, and the wealthiest man in Israel.

(1924– 11 September 2011)

Life and career

Born 1924^[1] in Romania. The Ofer family immigrated to Mandate Palestine while Yuli was six months old. The family lived in Haifa. Yuli Ofer served in the Israeli Defense Forces in infantry and ended his relatively long military career at the rank of major. Afterwards he began his business career in Haifa, were he supplied equipment for ships and along with his brother Sammy they both established the Ofer Brothers Group. In 1956 he and Sammy established the shipping company “Mediterranean routes”.^{[citation needed]}
During the 1960s and 1970s the Ofer Brothers Group became an
international shipping company as Yuli Ofer became in charge of
conducting the company’s operations in Israel and Sammy Ofer became in
charge of conducting the company’s international operations. In the
1980s the Ofer Brothers Group began getting into the Tanker industry in Hong Kong and Singapore. With time they also established a subsidiary company which focused on Cruise ships named “Royal Caribbean“. In 1994 the Ofer Brothers were among the purchasers of the controlling interest in the Mizrahi Bank, and in 1999 the family purchased the Israel’s largest holding company Israel Corporation and in addition acquired several properties from the Israeli government among them the Oil Refineries in Haifa, Israel Chemicals and Zim.^{[citation needed]}
Yuli Ofer founded the “Melisron” company which specializes in real estate and owned several shopping malls in Israel: Ramat Aviv Mall, Renanim Mall, Kiryon Mall and 20 other shopping centers.
In 2002, the Ofer brothers separated their assets: Sammy Ofer’s
assets in real estate and in the Mizrahi bank was transferred to his
brother Yuli, and in exchange Yuli’s assets in the Israel Corporation holding company were transferred to Sammy.

Death

Yuli Ofer died on September 11, 2011, aged 87 at his home in Herzliya; with his elder brother Sammy having died three months prior.

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Arthur Evans, American gay rights activist and author, aortic aneurysm, died he was 68.

Arthur Scott Evans was an early gay rights advocate and author, most well known for his 1978 book Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture died he was 68..

(October 12, 1942– September 11, 2011)

Early life

When Evans graduated from public high school in 1960, he received a four-year scholarship from the Glatfelter Paper Company in York to study chemistry at Brown University. While at Brown, Evans and several friends founded the Brown Freethinkers Society, describing themselves as “militant atheists” seeking to combat the harmful effects of organized religion.
The society picketed the weekly chapel services at Brown, then
required of all students, and urged students to stand in silent protest
against compulsory prayer. National news services picked up the story,
which appeared in a local York newspaper.
As a result, the paper company informed Evans that his scholarship was cancelled. Evans contacted Joseph Lewis,
the elderly millionaire who headed the national Freethinkers Society.
Lewis threatened the paper company with a highly publicized lawsuit if
the scholarship were revoked. The company relented, the scholarship
continued, and Evans changed his major from chemistry to political
science.

Move to New York City

Evans withdrew from Brown and moved to Greenwich Village, which he later described it as the best move he ever made in his life.
In 1963, Evans discovered gay life in Greenwich Village, and in 1964 became lovers with Arthur Bell who later became a columnist for The Village Voice. In 1966, Evans was admitted to City College of New York, which accepted all his credits from Brown University.
Evans participated in his first sit-in on May 13, 1966, when students
occupied the administration building of City College in protest against
the college’s involvement in Selective Service. A picture of the students, including Evans, appeared the next day on the front page of The New York Times.
In 1967, after graduating with a BA degree from City College, Evans was admitted into the doctoral program in philosophy at Columbia University, specializing in ancient Greek philosophy. His doctoral advisor was Paul Oskar Kristeller, one of the world’s leading authority on Renaissance humanist philosophy. Kristeller had studied under Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger in Germany but fled to the US after his parents were killed in the Holocaust.
Evans participated in many anti-war protests during these years,
including the celebrated upheaval at Columbia in the spring of 1968. He
also participated in the protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. While at Columbia, Evans joined the Student Homophile League, founded by Nino Romano and Stephen Donaldson,
although Evans himself was still closeted. On December 21, 1969, Evans,
Marty Robinson, and several others met to found the early gay rights
group Gay Activists Alliance.^[3]
In November 1970, Robinson and Evans, along with Dick Leitsch of the Mattachine Society, appeared on The Dick Cavett Show,
making them among the first openly gay activists to be prominently
featured on a national TV program. In 1971, Evans and Bell separated.
Bell died from complications of diabetes in 1984.

Move to Washington

By the end of 1971, Evans had become alienated from urban life and
the academic world. With a second lover, Jacob Schraeter, he left New
York in April 1972 to seek a new, countercultural existence in the
countryside.
Evans, Schraeter, and a third gay man formed a group called the
“Weird Sisters Partnership”. They bought a 40-acre spread of land on a
mountain in Washington State, which they named New Sodom. Evans and Schraeter lived there in tents during summers.
During winter months in Seattle,
Evans continued research that he had begun in New York on the
underlying historical origins of the counterculture, particularly in
regard to sex. In 1973, he began publishing some of his findings in the
gay journal Out and later in Fag Rag. He also wrote a column on the political strategy of zapping for The Advocate, the gay newspaper.

Move to San Francisco

In 1974, Evans and Schraeter moved into an apartment at the corner of
Haight and Ashbury Streets in San Francisco, in which Evans remained
until he died. Schraeter returned to New York in 1981 and died from AIDS
in 1989.
In the fall of the 1975, Evans formed a new pagan-inspired spiritual
group in San Francisco, the Faery Circle. The Circle combined
countercultural consciousness, gay sensibility, and ceremonial
playfulness.
In early 1976 he gave a series of public lectures based on his
research on the historical origins of the gay counterculture; these
“Faeries” lectures took place at 32 Page Street, an early San Francisco
gay community center. In 1978 he published this material in his
groundbreaking book Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture. The book offered evidence that many of the people accused of “witchcraft” and “heresy” in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance were actually persecuted because of their sexuality and ancient pagan practices.
Evans also was active in Bay Area Gay Liberation (BAGL) and the San Francisco Gay Democratic Club, which later became the vehicle through which Harvey Milk rose to political prominence.
In the late 1970s, Evans became upset at the pattern of butch conformity that was then overtaking gay men in the Castro neighborhood. Adopting the nom de plume “The Red Queen”, he distributed a series of controversial satirical leaflets on the subject. In a leaflet titled Afraid You’re Not Butch Enough? (1978) he skewered those who pursued hypermasculine bodies and wardrobes as “zombies” and “clones”, presaging the “Castro clone” moniker.

Later writings and activism

In 1984 Evans directed a production at the Valencia Rose Cabaret in San Francisco of his own new translation, from ancient Greek, of the Euripides play The Bacchae.
The hero of Euripides’ play is the Greek god Dionysos, the patron of
homosexuality. In 1988, this translation, with Evans’ commentary on the
historical significance of the play, was published by St. Martin’s Press as The God of Ecstasy: Sex-Roles and the Madness of Dionysos.
As AIDS began to spread in 1980s, Evans became active in several groups that later became ACT UP/SF. Evans was HIV-negative. With his close friend, the late Hank Wilson,
Evans was arrested while demonstrating against pharmaceutical companies
making AIDS drugs, accusing the companies of price-gouging.
In 1988, Evans began work on a nine-year project on philosophy. Thanks to a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission, it was published in 1997 as Critique of Patriarchal Reason and included artwork by San Francisco artist Frank Pietronigro. The book is an overview of Western philosophy from ancient times to the present, showing how misogyny and homophobia have influenced the supposedly objective fields of formal logic, higher mathematics, and physical science.
Evans’ former advisor at Columbia University, Dr. Kristeller, called
the work “a major contribution to the study of philosophy and its
history.”
In his later years, Evans devoted much time to improving neighborhood safety in the Haight-Ashbury district. As part of that effort he wrote a series of scathing reports, “What I Saw at the Supes Today”, which he distributed free on the Internet.

Death

Diagnosed in October 2010 with an aortic aneurysm, Evans died in his Haight-Ashbury apartment of a massive heart attack on September 11, 2011.
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Cliff Brittle, English sports administrator, Chairman of the Rugby Football Union (1996–1998), died he was 69.

Benjamin Clifford “Cliff” Brittle was an English business man and former rugby union player who was the chairman of the Rugby Football Union from 1996 to 1998 died he was 69..

(1952 – 11 September 2011)

Rugby career

Brittle first played rugby as a student while at Longton High School, and as a senior played for Old Longtonians, Stoke on Trent and most notably for Sale.^[1]
He also played county rugby for Staffordshire.In 1996 he took the post
of Chairman of the Rugby Football Union, the year after the game of
rugby union adopted professionalism. In his role of Chairman, Brittle
appointed Fran Cotton as vice-chairman who in turn recommended Clive Woodward as England head coach.^[2]
Brittle’s time in office was turbulent; he resisted attempts by club
owners and the media to overpay players in a rushed attempt to cash in
on the professional era. This caused Brittle to be vilified by sections
of the media, and in 1998 Cotton resigned when Brittle was excluded from
talks between the English clubs and the RFU.^[3]
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Christian Bakkerud, Danish racing driver, died from injuries sustained in a car accident he was 26.

Christian Bakkerud was a Danish racing driver, who competed in the 2007 and 2008 GP2 Series seasons, albeit hindered by a recurrent back injury died from injuries sustained in a car accident he was 26.. Prior to GP2 he competed in British Formula Three and Formula BMW.

(November 3, 1984 – September 11, 2011)

Formula BMW

Bakkerud competed in Formula BMW from 2002 to 2004, joining the British version of the series in the latter year after two seasons in Germany.

Formula Three

Bakkerud competed in British Formula Three
in 2005 and 2006. Having finished seventh in the championship in 2005,
he improved to sixth place in 2006, and also scored his first series win
for Carlin at Mugello in 2006 – arguably his career highlight. During
this time he also competed in the Macau Grand Prix and the Ultimate Masters of Formula Three race.

GP2 Series

Bakkerud driving for Super Nova in the 2008 GP2 Asia Series season.

Bakkerud took part in the 2007 GP2 Series season for the DPR team,^[1] paired with Spaniard Andy Soucek.
The season was disappointing, as Bakkerud failed to score any points.
He also suffered back injuries, trapping nerves whilst racing on two
separate occasions.^[2]
He moved to the Super Nova team for the 2008 GP2 Asia Series, reinforcing his unlucky reputation by retiring from all but three of the races.^[3] He remained for the 2008 GP2 Series proper, he suffered a recurrence of his back injury after a collision with Ben Hanley in the first race.^[4] He was replaced by Soucek whilst he recovered,^[5] and made his return to the cockpit at Monaco, after missing the championship round at Istanbul. He crashed at the start of the sprint race at Monaco, briefly going airborne after hitting Kamui Kobayashi. He did not suffer a recurrence of his back injury despite a heavy landing.^[6]
However, the injury flared up once more following a testing session,
and he withdrew from the rest of the season on medical grounds. He was
replaced by Soucek.^[7]

DTM

Christian Bakkerud on the Hockenheimring 2009

In 2009, Bakkerud raced in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters in a two-year-old Audi A4 for Futurecom-TME.

Le Mans

Bakkerud also made his Le Mans début in 2009, driving an Audi R10 TDI privately entered by Colin Kolles‘s team. Paired with Christijan Albers and Giorgio Mondini, he finished ninth overall and in class. He returned to the event in 2010 with the same team and car, but on this occasion he, Albers and Oliver Jarvis failed to finish.

Retirement

Bakkerud retired from driving following the 2010 Le Mans race. In the
year prior to his death, he worked as an import manager at a shipping
company.^[8]

Death

On September 10, 2011, Bakkerud was involved in a car crash at the Tibbet’s Corner roundabout at Putney Heath, near Wimbledon Common. He died a day later, in St George’s Hospital, from his injuries. He was driving an Audi RS6 at the time of the accident; a police investigation is ongoing.^[8]^[9] Travelling south on the A219 on Tibbet’s Ride from Putney Hill,
the car appeared to fail to negotiate a left turn into the large
roundabout itself and instead travelled onwards and hit a thick,
1.5-metre (4.9 ft) high concrete barrier on the inside of the dual lane
roundabout. The car then flipped over the barrier, fell down a steep
3-metre (9.8 ft) grass incline before smashing through the steel fence
separating the bridleway and pedestrian/cyclist underpass routes. Crash
investigators used yellow spray paint to mark skid and impact points on
the road and where the car flipped over the barrier. The straight skid
marks showed his car crossed from nearside to inside lane, as the road
veered left at the roundabout entry, before it made a glancing blow on a
heavy steel crash barrier prior to the barrier impact some six metres later.^{[citation needed]}
Within a week a large number of flower bouquets were left at the
location where the car came to rest. Police had also erected a yellow
sign appealing for witnesses, which stated the accident occurred at
about 6am on September 10.
Formula One team HRT, led by Colin Kolles, added a tribute to Bakkerud to the livery of their cars during the 2011 Singapore Grand Prix weekend.^[10] McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton also paid tribute to Bakkerud by wearing a helmet featuring his initials.

Racing record

Complete GP2 Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	DC	Points
2007	David Price Racing	BHR FEA 13	BHR SPR Ret	ESP FEA 12	ESP SPR Ret	MON FEA Ret	FRA FEA Ret	FRA SPR 12	GBR FEA Ret	GBR SPR 21	EUR FEA Ret	EUR SPR 18	HUN FEA Ret	HUN SPR DNS	TUR FEA DNQ	TUR SPR DNQ	ITA FEA	ITA SPR	BEL FEA 12	BEL SPR Ret	VAL FEA Ret	VAL SPR Ret	32nd	0
2008	Super Nova Racing	ESP FEA Ret	ESP SPR	TUR FEA	TUR SPR	MON FEA 10	MON SPR Ret	FRA FEA	FRA SPR	GBR FEA	GBR SPR	GER FEA	GER SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	EUR FEA	EUR SPR	BEL FEA	BEL SPR	ITA FEA	ITA SPR		27th	0

Complete GP2 Asia Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	DC	Points
2008	Super Nova Racing	UAE1 FEA Ret	UAE1 SPR 11	IND FEA Ret	IND SPR 14	MAL FEA Ret	MAL SPR Ret	BHR FEA Ret	BHR SPR Ret	UAE2 FEA Ret	UAE2 SPR 9	27th	0

Complete DTM results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Pos	Points
2009	Audi	HOC1 14	LAU 14	NOR 15	LAU DSQ	OSC	NÜR 13	BRH 16	CAT 17	DIJ Ret	HOC2 12	19th	0

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Class	No	Tyres	Car	Team	Co-Drivers	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2009	LMP1	15	M	Audi R10 TDI Audi TDI 5.5L Turbo V12 (Diesel)	Kolles	Christijan Albers Giorgio Mondini	360	9th	9th
2010	LMP1	15	M	Audi R10 TDI Audi TDI 5.5L Turbo V12 (Diesel)	Kolles	Oliver Jarvis Christijan Albers	331	DNF	DNF

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Douglas Allen, Baron Croham, British civil servant, Head of the Home Civil Service (1974–1977), died he was 93.

Douglas Albert Vivian Allen, Baron Croham was a British politician and civil servant died he was 93..

(15 December 1917 – 11 September 2011)

The son of Albert John Allen, Douglas Allen was only one when his father was killed in action during the First World War. Allen was educated at Wallington County Grammar School and at the London School of Economics (LSE), where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in statistics in 1938. During the Second World War, from 1940 to 1945, he served in the Royal Artillery.
Having entered the British Civil Service, Allen worked in the Board of Trade between 1939 and 1947, and in Her Majesty’s Treasury between 1948 to 1958. In 1958, he became a Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Health, a post he held until 1960, when he changed to Her Majesty’s Treasury again. Made a Third Secretary in 1962 and a Permanent Secretary in 1966, he worked for the Department of Economic Affairs from 1964 to 1968. Allen was Permanent Secretary of Her Majesty’s Treasury from 1968 to 1974, and Permanent Secretary of the Civil Service Department and Head of the Home Civil Service from 1974 to 1977.
Allen was chairman of British National Oil Corporation (BNOC) from 1982 to 1986, of Guinness Peat Group from 1982 to 1987, and of Trinity Insurance Ltd from 1987 to 1992. He was president of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) between 1978 to 1992, and of the British Institute of Energy Economics between 1986 to 1994. For the Anglo-German Foundation
he was chairman from 1982 and 1998. Allen was governor of the London
School of Economics between 1977 and 2004 and of the Wallington County
Grammar School between 1993 and 2003. He was member of the First Division Association (FDA) and vice-president of the Anglo-German Association. He was also a member of the Institute of Directors and a companion of the British Institute of Management.
Allen was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was made an Honorary Doctor of Social Science (DSocSc) by the University of Southampton. In 1963, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the Bath (CB), in 1967 a Knight Commander (KCB) and in 1973, a Knight Grand Cross (GCB). On 8 February 1978, he was created a life peer as Baron Croham, of the London Borough of Croydon.
Allen was married to Sybil Eileen Allegro from 1941 until 1994, when his wife died. They had two sons and a daughter.

Offices held

Government offices
Preceded by Sir William Armstrong	Head of the Home Civil Service 1974–1977	Succeeded by Sir Robert Armstrong

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Bernice Lake, Anguillan-born Antiguan jurist, first Eastern Caribbean woman to be appointed Queen’s Counsel, died she was 78

Dame Bernice Lake , died she was 78.

(died September 10, 2011)

was an Anguillan-born jurist and legal scholar whose career spanned more than forty years. In 1985, she became the first woman from the Eastern Caribbean to be appointed Queen’s Counsel.^[1]^[2] Lake was also the first graduate of the University of the West Indies to receive the honor.^[1]^[2]
Lake was born in Anguilla and attended school on St. Kitts, but resided in Antigua for most of her life.^[1]^[3]^[4] She obtained a degree in history and graduated with honors from the University College of the West Indies at Mona in Jamaica, which later became the University of the West Indies.^[3]^[4]
Lake worked as a diplomat for the short-lived West Indies Federation‘s foreign service until the federation collapsed in 1962.^[1] Lake soon launched a second career by entering law school at UCL Faculty of Laws at University College London.^[1]^[3] She campaigned against apartheid in South Africa and other causes as a law student.^[4] Lake earned her Honours Degree in Law in 1967.^[4]
Lake was admitted to the bar in St. Kitts in 1967 soon after obtaining her law degree.^[4] Lake became a prominent jurist, specializing in human rights and constitutional law.^[1] Her chambers, Lake & Kentish, which she opened with attorney Joyce Kentishher niece and was later joined by Kendreth Kentish and George Lake, were located on Antigua.^[1]^[2] Lake was the chief architect of the 1975 Constitution of Anguilla.^[1]^[2]^[4] In 1981, she served as a member of the committee charged with framing the Constitution of Antigua and Barbuda.^[1]^[2] Another member of the Antiguan constitutional committee, Sydney Christian QC, said of Lake’s role in drafting the document, “She was very much in the forefront of the fight for constitutional law and she was always very aggressive in her defence of the Constitution here in Antigua.”^[4]
Lake was a supporter of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ),^[5] which was established in 2001.
In 2004, the government of Antigua and Barbuda bestowed knighthood and the title Dame on Lake for her contributions to contributions to the Antiguan and the Caribbean legal systems,^[4] as well as her outlook on women’s rights, political rights and civil rights.^[1] The University of the West Indies awarded Lake a Honorary Doctorate in Law at its Cave Hill campus graduation in Barbados in 2007.^[1]^[2] In July 2011, the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, Anguilla Bar Association, and the other bar associations of the OECS honored her for her contributions at a joint event.^[4]
Dame Bernice Lake died at Mount St John Medical Centre in Antigua September 10, 2011, at the age of 78 after a brief illness.^[1]^[4]^[5] Her funeral was held at St Peters Parish Church in St. John’s with burial in the churchyard.^[5] Dignitaries in attendance included Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Baldwin Spencer, Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda Dame Louise Lake-Tack, opposition leaders and members of the Caribbean legal community.^[5] The delegation from Anguilla included Minister of Home Affairs Walcott Richardson.^[5]
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Graham Collier, British jazz bassist, died he was 74.

James Graham Collier was an English jazz bassist, bandleader and composer died he was 74..

(21 February 1937 – 10 September 2011)

Life and career

Born in Tynemouth, Northumberland, on leaving school Collier joined the British Army as a musician, spending three years in Hong Kong. He subsequently won a Down Beat magazine scholarship to the Berklee School of Music, Boston, studying with Herb Pomeroy
and was its first British graduate in 1963. On his return to Britain he
founded the first version of an ensemble devoted to his own
compositions, Graham Collier Music, which included Kenny Wheeler, Harry Beckett and John Surman, and in later line-ups Karl Jenkins, Mike Gibbs, Art Themen and many other notable musicians.^[2]
Collier was the first recipient of an Arts Council bursary for jazz,
and was commissioned by festivals, groups and broadcasters across
Europe, North America, Australia and the Far East. He produced 19 albums
and CDs of his music and also worked in a wide range of other media: on
stage plays and musicals, on documentary and fiction film, and on a
variety of radio drama productions.
Collier was also an author and educator, having written seven books
on jazz and given lectures and workshops around the world. As Simon
Purcell noted, “Jazz education in the UK owes an enormous amount to
Graham Collier (alongside Eddie Harvey and Lionel Grigson) without whom our current positions and extent of provision would been considerably harder to achieve.”^[3]In 1987, Collier launched the jazz degree course at London’s Royal Academy of Music
and was its artistic director until he resigned in 1999 to concentrate
on his own music. In 1989, he was among the group of jazz educators who
formed the International Association of Schools of Jazz, whose magazine,
Jazz Changes, he co-edited for seven years. He was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 1987 for his services to jazz.
Latterly, Collier lived on a small island in Greece,^[4]
where he composed, wrote and administered his back catalogue,
travelling to present concerts and workshops around the world. His book,
The Jazz Composer: Moving Music Off the Paper, a philosophical look at jazz and jazz composing, was published by Northway Books in 2005, and his nineteenth CD, directing 14 Jackson Pollocks, mainly recorded in 2004, was released by the jazzcontinuum label.

Works

Discography

Deep Dark Blue Centre. Disconforme. 1967.
Down Another Road. Disconforme. 1969.
Songs For My Father. Disconforme. 1970.
Mosaics. Disconforme. 1971.
Midnight Blue. Disconforme. 1975.
Symphony of Scorpions. Mosaic UK. 1976.
New Conditions. Disconforme. 1976.
The Day of the Dead. Disconforme. 1978.
Something British Made in Hong Kong. Mosaic UK. 1988.
This Third Color. Orchard. 2000.
Darius. Disconforme. 2000.
Portraits. Disconforme. 2000.
Bread and Circuses. Jazzprint. 2003.
Winter Oranges. Jazzprint. 2003.
Charles River Fragments. Jazzprint. 2005.
Workpoints. Cuneiform. 2005.
Hoarded Dreams. Cuneiform. 2007.
directing 14 Jackson Pollocks. jazzcontinuum. 2009.

Books

Jazz – A Students’ and Teachers’ Guide (Hardback and Paperback, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977) Translated into German, Norwegian and Italian.
Inside Jazz (Hardback and Paperback, London: Quartet Books, 1973)
Compositional Devices (Boston, Mass.: Berklee Press Publications, 1975)
Cleo and John (London: Quartet Books, 1976)
Jazz Workshop the Blues, (Universal Edition 1988) ISBN 0-900938-61-7
Interaction – Opening Up the Jazz Ensemble (1998)
The Jazz Composer, moving music off the paper (London: Northway Publications, 2009) ISBN 978-0-9557888-0-2

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Dušan Trbojević, Serbian composer, died he was 86.

Dušan Trbojević was a famous Serbian pianist, composer, musical writer and university professor died he was 86.

(June 13, 1925 – September 9, 2011)

Education

Trbojević was born in Maribor, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He studied composition with Milenko Živković at the Belgrade Music Academy, and piano with Milanka Đaja
at the same institution. He graduated in 1951 (Piano Performance) and
1953 (Composition) and continued his studies of piano with Kendall Taylor at the Royal College of Music and Royal Academy of Music in London (1954–1957). Additionally, he studied in the U.S.A. (1965–1966).

Performing career

Trbojević has performed actively as a soloist, accompanist and conductor throughout Europe,as well as in the U.S.A., China, India, Iran, Egypt, Cuba, Mexico. He gave the first performances of compositions by eminent Serbian composers Vlastimir Peričić, Milutin Radenković, Vasilije Moktanjac, Petar Ozgijan, Žarko Mirković…

Teaching career

Trbojević was Professor of Piano at the University of Arts in Belgrade Faculty of Music, University of Novi Sad Academy of Arts and University of Titograd Academy of Music. His former students include prominent pianists of today: Rita Kinka, Istra Pečvari, Lidija Matić, Nada Kolundžija, Maja Rajković…

Compositions

He has been the author of numerous compositions: Piano Concerto, Piano Sonata, Sonata for Violin and Piano, Suite for Clarinet and Piano, Sonata Rustica for Piano, Two Dances for Piano, choir scores, songs for a voice with piano accompaniment (Mother, The Dubrovnik Epitaph, In the Storm, cycle The Man’s Songs)…

Publications

Trbojević wrote five books about music.

Affiliations

He was the first president of the European Piano Teachers Association (EPTA) and is now honorary president of the EPTA Serbia.
He was also a member and past president of the Association of Musical Artists of Serbia.
He died in Belgrade, Serbia.
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Khairy Shalaby, Egyptian writer, died he was 73.

Khairy Shalaby died he was 73.

(January 31, 1938 – 9 September 2011)

was an Egyptian novelist
and writer. He wrote some 70 books, including twenty novels, critical
studies, historical tales, plays and short story collections.^[3]^[1] Khairy is widely regarded as having written novels “of the Egyptian street.”^[2]
Adam Talib, who translated The Hashish Waiter, said of Shalaby’s prose:

“The most enjoyable—and the most difficult—thing about Khairy’s
prose is the way he mixes language levels (registers) within a single
sentence or paragraph. Khairy doesn’t go in for the prophetic or
philosophical or pompous-sounding stuff…and he really seems to be having
a lot of fun when he writes. I guess what I’m trying to say is that
Khairy doesn’t spend a lot of time looking up from the story. He doesn’t
look over his shoulder like some writers and he doesn’t spend too much
energy worrying about what ‘the critics’ will say. I haven’t asked him
but I’m fairly certain he’s never spent a second thinking about how this
might sound when it’s translated. …. In many ways, Arabic novels are
still having a conversation with the culture at large—they’re very
engaged—and it’s reflected in this style of novel. Khairy Shalaby is an
important artist and also a very good critic, but he doesn’t go in for
that sort of thing. Like Yusuf al-Qa’eed, Khairy tries to show that
novels don’t have to be explicitly intellectual, or about intellectuals,
to handle important political and social questions in a very
sophisticated way.”^[2]

Honors

Shalaby’s The Lodging House won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2003.^[1] The Lodging House was listed by the Arab Writers Union as one of the “top 105” books of the last century. Istasia was longlisted for the 2010 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

Works

English translated

The Hashish Waiter
The Lodging House
The Time-Travels of the Man Who Sold Pickles and Sweets

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Laurie Hughes, English football player (Liverpool), died he was 87

Lawrence (Laurie) Hughes was an England former international football player who played for Liverpool died he was 87..

(2 March 1924 – 9 September 2011)

Life and playing career

Born in Waterloo, Liverpool, Lancashire, England,
Hughes was a strong, uncompromising Centre Half, who could also play
wing half; he had the knack of being able to read the game-stopping
moves before they caused too many problems.
Hughes signed for Liverpool in 1943 from Tranmere where he was a
trainee; however, it wasn’t until 5 January 1946 that he made his debut
in a 2–0 FA Cup 3rd round 1st leg victory at Sealand Road, Chester, his one and only goal didn’t come until 8 December 1951 in a league game at Anfield against Preston, Hughes’ 88th-minute strike saving a point in the 2–2 draw.
During the first post-war season of 1946–47 Hughes made 30 appearances from 42 games helping the Reds win the First Division Championship, Liverpool’s first title in 24 years.
1950 proved to be a rollercoaster of a season for Hughes, on a high due to reaching the FA Cup final at Wembley only to lose to Arsenal 2–0. He then was selected to represent England at the World Cup in Brazil ^[1]
getting all of his 3 caps in the process and becoming Liverpool’s first
representative at the worlds premier football tournament,
unfortunately, one of the appearances was the embarrassing 1–0 defeat to
the USA. His debut came on 25 June 1950 in Rio De Janeiro, Chile were the opponents who were beaten 2-0 with the goals coming from Stan Mortensen and Wilf Mannion.
Hughes and Liverpool’s fortunes changed during the fifties when the
Reds fell from the top tier, they managed to fend off relegation during
the 1952–53 season but couldn’t prevent the drop a season later.
Hughes stayed on at Liverpool and had a decent season in the 1956/57
missing just one match. Hughes played his last game against Charlton
on 28 September 1957 aged 33, however, Hughes remained loyal to the
club he loved and didn’t retire for another 3 years, finally doing so in
May 1960.
Hughes died at home on 9 September 2011 aged 87.^[2]

Career details

Liverpool F.C. (1943–1960) – 326 appearances, 1 goal; Football
league championship (level 1) winners medal (1947); FA Cup runners up
medal (1950)

England (1950) – 3 caps – All at the World Cup of 1950

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Vo Chi Cong, Vietnamese politician, President (1987–1992), died he was 99.

Võ Chí Công was a Vietnamese Communist politician, and the President of Vietnam between 1987 and 1992 died he was 99..

(7 August 1912 – 8 September 2011)

Early life and political activities

Võ Chí Công was born as Võ Toàn in Quảng Nam, French Indochina in 1912. He first became politically active in 1930, when he joined with Phan Bội Châu and Phan Chu Trinh, two early Vietnamese nationalists who opposed the French colonial regime. He joined the Communist Party of Indochina in 1935,^[2] and fought with the Vietnamese resistance against the Vichy French during World War II. He was arrested for his resistance activities in 1942.^{[citation needed]}

Vietcong founding member

After the war, Công faded into obscurity for a time, before becoming a founding member and Deputy Chairman of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (Vietcong) in 1961. He later became Deputy Secretary of the Central Office for South Vietnam (COSVN), and was a key figure in the South Vietnamese communist party during the Vietnam War. After the reunification of Vietnam in 1976, Công was awarded a seat on the national Politburo.^{[citation needed]}

Cabinet career and presidency

As a Politburo member, Công served in various cabinet posts,
including Minister of Fisheries (1976-77), Minister of Agriculture
(1977-78), and Deputy Prime Minister (1976-82), before becoming the Chairman of the Council of State of Vietnam (the contemporary equivalent of the President of Vietnam) in 1987. After his presidential term ended in 1992, Công became an advisor to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, until this advisory position was abolished in 1997.

Death

Võ Chí Công died in Hồ Chí Minh City on 8 September 2011, aged 99. The Vietnamese government granted him a televised state funeral in recognition of his long political career.^[3]

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Sir Hilary Synnott,British diplomat, died he was 66.

Sir Hilary Nicholas Hugh Synnott was a British diplomat who was Regional Coordinator of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Southern Iraq from 2003 to 2004, before retiring in 2005 died he was 66.. He published a book about his time there called ‘Bad Days In Basra‘.

(20 March 1945 – 8 September 2011)

Education

Hilary Sinnott attended Peterhouse, Cambridge University where he was awarded an MA. From 1962 to 1973, he was a Royal Navy officer serving as a submariner.

Diplomatic career

In 1973, Synnott joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as Second Secretary. He was posted as First Secretary to UKDEL OECD Paris in 1975 and was transferred to Bonn in 1978. He returned to the FCO in 1981. In November 1985, Synnott was appointed Counsellor, Consul-General and Head of Chancery in Amman.^[4] He was Deputy High Commissioner to India
from 1993 to 1996. At the FCO, he served as Director for South and
South East Asian Affairs from 1996 until 1998. He was appointed British High Commissioner to Pakistan from 2000 until 2003. In his final posting to Iraq, Sir Hilary replaced the Danish Ambassador Ole Wøhlers Olsen who had complained at the lack of support given to his reconstruction efforts.^[5]

Post retirement

On 9 December 2009, Synnott gave evidence to The Iraq Inquiry in which he was critical of the Coalition Provisional Authority.^[6]

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Jesse Jefferson, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Toronto Blue Jays), died from prostate cancer he was 62.

Jesse Harrison Jefferson was a Major League Baseball pitcher best remembered as an inaugural member of the expansion Toronto Blue Jays died from prostate cancer he was 62…

(March 3, 1949 – September 8, 2011)

Baltimore Orioles

Jefferson was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 1968 Major League Baseball Draft out of Carver High School in Midlothian, Virginia. He went 40–50 with a 3.71 earned run average over six seasons in the Orioles’ farm system when he debuted with the club in 1973. He pitched a ten inning complete game in his major league debut on June 23. In the second game of a doubleheader with the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park, he was pitching a five hit shutout until the ninth inning with two outs when Rico Petrocelli hit a solo home run to tie the score. The Orioles responded with a run in the top of the tenth to earn Jefferson the win.^[1]
Jefferson’s rookie season was his only winning season, as he went 6–5 with a 4.11 ERA as a spot starter and middle inning relief pitcher. The Orioles captured the American League East crown, and manager Earl Weaver had Jefferson slated to be his long reliever in the post season,^[2] but he did not make an appearance in the 1973 American League Championship Series with the Oakland Athletics. Jefferson moved into the bullpen in 1974, making just two spot starts, both against the Red Sox.

Chicago White Sox

On June 15, 1975 the last place Chicago White Sox made a flurry of deals. They acquired left hander Dave Hamilton and minor league prospect Chet Lemon from the Oakland A’s for Stan Bahnsen and Skip Pitlock, and acquired Jefferson from the Orioles for Tony Muser.^[3] With the Chisox, Jefferson was moved back into the starting rotation, compiling a 5–9 record with a 5.10 ERA. He split the 1976 between starts and the bullpen before he was lost to the Toronto Blue Jays in the 1976 Major League Baseball expansion draft.

Toronto Blue Jays

Jefferson set many career highs with the Blue Jays in 1977. His 33 starts and 217 innings pitched were by far his best. Despite setting a Blue Jay franchise record with nine walks in a game against Baltimore on June 18,^[4] Jefferson’s strikeout-to-walk ratio was also a career best 1.37 as he struck out 114 batters versus 83 walks.
Perhaps the most memorable outing of Jefferson’s career came on May 16, 1980 against eventual 22–game winner Mike Norris
and the Oakland A’s. Jefferson held the A’s to just four hits over
eleven innings while striking out ten. Norris was equally brilliant, but
the Jays managed to squeak out a run in the bottom of the eleventh to
earn Jefferson the win.^[5]
Things went south quickly for Jefferson after that performance as he
lost his next five decisions. He made his final appearance for Toronto
on September 1, facing five batters and retiring just one while giving
up three earned runs, allowing an inherited runner to score and committing an error. He was placed on waivers with a 4–13 record and 5.47 ERA.
He was selected off waivers by the Pittsburgh Pirates on September 11,^[6] and made just one appearance for the club, beating the Chicago Cubs.^[7]
Following the season, he signed as a free agent with the California Angels.He started the 1981
season in the Angels’ starting rotation, but after going 0–4 with a
4.68 ERA in his first five starts, was moved into the bullpen. He
pitched far better in relief, going 2–0 with a 1.04 ERA in 21
appearances. He spent Spring training 1982 with the Orioles, but did not make the club.

Career stats

Seasons	W	L	PCT	ERA	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	K	IP	H	ER	R	HR	BB	WP	HBP	Fld%
9	39	81	.325	4.81	237	144	25	4	1	522	1085.2	1151	580	642	118	520	33	14	.911

Jefferson he was in the top ten in the league in walks allowed three times, top ten in losses twice, top ten in earned runs allowed twice, and second in the league in home runs allowed in 1978. He led the league in errors committed by a pitcher with eight in 1977.
In 2011, Jefferson died of prostate cancer.^[8]

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Mary Fickett, American actress (All My Children), died from complications of Alzheimer’s disease died she was 83

Mary Fickett was an American actress, best known for her roles in the American television dramas, The Edge of Night — as Sally Smith (1961), and as Dr. Katherine Lovell (1967–68) — and as Ruth Parker Brent on All My Children (1970–1996; 1999–2000) died from complications of Alzheimer’s disease died she was 83..

(May 23, 1928 – September 8, 2011)

Early life and career

Fickett was born in Buffalo, New York and raised in Bronxville, a suburb of New York City. She attended Wheaton College in Massachusetts, and made her theatrical debut in 1946 on Cape Cod.^[1] In 1949, she made her Broadway debut appearing in I Know My Love, a comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.^[2] Fickett studied acting at New York City’s Neighborhood Playhouse under Sanford Meisner and started her television career working on “Television Theatre” programs like Kraft Television Theatre in the 1950s. Her first feature film was Man on Fire alongside Bing Crosby in 1957. In 1958, she received a Tony Award nomination as Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Sunrise at Campobello, opposite Ralph Bellamy.
During the 1960s, she was featured in Calendar, a forerunner to CBS’ The Early Show; she appeared alongside host Harry Reasoner.

Personal life

Fickett had two children from her three marriages. Her third and
final marriage was to Allen Fristoe (a daytime TV director) from June
1979 until his death in 2008.

All My Children

In January 1970, the American Broadcasting Company launched its new soap opera All My Children, created by Agnes Nixon. Fickett was an original cast member playing Ruth Parker Brent,
a nurse at the local hospital and wife of alcoholic car salesman Ted
Brent. Her character quickly found an attraction to the widowed Dr. Joe
Martin (Ray MacDonnell).
The pair tried to ignore their attraction until Ruth’s husband was
killed in a car accident. Ruth and Joe married on screen but found their
happiness cut short by the Vietnam War. Agnes Nixon had always intended for her soap to deal with important issues of the day, so to facilitate Richard Hatch exiting the role of Phil Brent his character was drafted into service.^{[citation needed]}
Ruth became an anti-war protester and made some of the first
anti-Vietnam speeches aired on American Daytime Television. This
storyline decision, although troubling to television executives at the
time, won Fickett the first Emmy Award given to a performer in daytime television, in 1973. She received a Daytime Emmy
nomination in 1974 for her performance in a storyline that involved her
son being missing in action. This was another milestone for daytime TV,
as it was the first time a war scene was aired on daytime television.
The audience saw Phil being hit by a bullet and going down, then carried
away by a young Vietnamese boy (played by the adopted son of a friend
of Nixon).^{[citation needed]}
Joe and Ruth were happily married, but found they could not conceive a
child together. To have the child they always wanted they began
proceedings to adopt Tad Gardner, a child that had been abandoned. A
problem arose when Tad’s father, Ray Gardner, arrived in town wanting
money and filed a lawsuit to stop the adoption proceedings. He then
tried to extort money from the Martin family, in exchange for stopping
the lawsuit. Joe refused to do this and kicked him out of his house, but
Ruth called him back saying they could “sort things out”. Fickett’s
second controversial storyline started when Ray showed up in a drunken
rage and raped Ruth. She received her second Daytime Emmy nomination for this storyline in 1976.

Retirement

In the mid-1990s Fickett decided that she wanted to slow down her
schedule and spend more time with her family. She allowed her contract
to expire and expected to go on recurring status, meaning she could
still appear on the program but did not have to meet any contractual
obligations or minimum number of appearances. Negotiations with the
producers of the program broke down and the role of Ruth Martin was
recast with Lee Meriwether
taking on the character in 1996. In 1999, Meriwether was fired and
Fickett rehired on recurring status. She resumed the role of Ruth and
supported several front burner storylines including son Tad’s romance
with Dixie and the breakdown of son Jake (Joe) Martin’s marriage to
Gillian. After another year, Fickett decided to call it quits from the
busy schedule of soap opera acting and retired in December 2000. In
2002, the producers wanted to bring the character of Ruth back, but
Fickett remained in retirement, so Meriwether was rehired and played
Ruth whenever the occasion arose.

Health

In 2007, Fickett moved in with her daughter, Bronwyn Congdon, in Colonial Beach, Virginia, where she remained bedridden.^[3] Fickett died September 8, 2011, aged 83, at her Callao, Virginia home, from complications of Alzheimer’s disease, according to her daughter.^[1]^[2]^[4] ABC dedicated September 21, 2011 episode of All My Children in Fickett’s memory.

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Max Boisot, British academic, died from cancer, he was 67

Max Henri Boisot was Professor of Strategic Management at the ESADE business school in Barcelona, Associate Fellow at Templeton College, University of Oxford, and Senior Associate at the Judge Institute of Management Studies at the University of Cambridge died from cancer, he was 67..

(1943–2011)

He was also a research fellow at the Sol Snider Center, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His book Knowledge Assets was awarded the Ansoff Prize for the best book on strategy in 2000. The I-Space framework which is central to his work is an acknowledged early influence on the development of the Cynefin framework.^[3]
He attended Gordonstoun and later studied architecture at the University of Cambridge and city planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before taking his PhD in technology transfer at Imperial College London.
After working as a manager for construction firm Trafalgar House, in
1972 Boisot co-founded an architectural partnership, Boisot Waters
Cohen, and from 1975 to 1978 acted as a consultant on projects in France
and the Middle East.^[4]from 1983 to 1989, he was Director and Dean of China Europe Management Institute in Beijing China.
Max Boisot died from cancer on 7 September 2011, aged 67.^[5]

Published work

Information and Organization: The Manager as Anthropologist. London: Collins (1987)
(Editor) East-West Collaboration: the Challenge of Governance in Post-Socialist Enterprises, London: Routledge (1993)
Information Space: A Framework for Learning in Organizations Institutions and Cultures, London: Routledge (1995)
Knowledge Assets: Securing Competitive Advantage in the Information Economy, Oxford: Oxford University Press (1998). ISBN 978-0-19-829607-2
Explorations in Information Space: Knowledge, Agents and Organization, co-authored with Ian C. MacMillan and Kyeong Seok Han, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2007). ISBN 978-0-19-925087-5

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Derek Grierson, Scottish footballer, died he was 79.

Derek Dunlop Grierson was a Scottish football player best known for his time with Rangers and Falkirk died he was 79..

(5 October 1931 – 7 September 2011)

Club

Grierson started out at Queen’s Park before then manager Bill Struth brought him to Rangers in 1952. He made his competitive debut in a 5–0 defeat to Hearts on 9 August. He scored his first and second goals for the club a week later in a League Cup match against Aberdeen.
Those goals were to be some of many. In his four seasons at Ibrox he netted 59 times in total. He was Rangers top scorer in his first season after scoring 31 goals. He won the League championship and Scottish Cup that season. Grierson also won a Glasgow Cup in 1953. He is noted as scoring the first ever live goal on Scottish television.
He left Rangers in 1956 and joined Falkirk where he won the Scottish Cup in 1957. He scored 23 league goals for the Bairns but left them in 1960 to join Arbroath. He retired to Newton Mearns, in East Renfrewshire. Derek died on 7 September 2011, aged 79.^[4]
At the Falkirk v Rangers Scottish League Cup third round match,
played on 21 September 2011, Grierson was remembered during a minutes
silence at the beginning of the match, in memory of his contribution to
both clubs during the 1950s

International

He also played at Wembley for Scotland Amateurs and scored in a 2–1
win to clinch the British Championship. He won seven amateur caps. As an
amateur, he was selected for trials for the Great Britain side that was
to take part in the Helsinki Olympic Games of 1952. Manager Walter Winterbottom was duly impressed and Grierson made the squad – one of only three Scots selected.

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Jang Hyo-Jo, South Korean baseball player (Samsung Lions, Lotte Giants), died from liver cancer he was 55

Jang Hyo-Jo was a South Korean outfielder in the Korean professional baseball league who played for the Samsung Lions and Lotte Giants died from liver cancer he was 55.. Jang batted and threw left-handed.

(July 6, 1956 – September 7, 2011)

He was born in Daegu, Jang is widely regarded as one of the best KBO
hitters for average of all time. He still holds several records as of
2011, including the highest career batting average (.331) and most
career batting titles with 4.

Playing career

Jang played college baseball at Hanyang University in Seoul. Upon graduation from Hanyang University in February 1979, he joined the POSCO baseball club in the Korean amateur league. In September 1982, Jang competed in the 1982 Amateur World Series as a member of the South Korean national baseball team and helped his team to win its first world championship as a starting right fielder. After the competition, Jang announced his interest to join the KBO Draft, and he was eventually drafted by the Samsung Lions in the third round of the 1983 KBO Draft.
In his first pro season (1983), Jang won the batting title with a .369 batting average, being the first KBO
player to win the batting title as a rookie. He posted career-highs in
home runs (18) and stolen bases (25) as well. However, he lost the
Rookie of the Year award to Park Jong-Hoon of the OB Bears, which has been considered one of the most controversial KBO elections of all time.
In 1985, Jang won his second batting title with a .373 batting
average and led the Lions to its first KBO championship. He became his
third batting champion with .329 in 1986 and won his fourth title with a
career-best .387 batting average in 1987.
After the 1988 season, Jang was traded with Kim Si-Jin to the Lotte Giants for Choi Dong-Won and Kim Yong-Chul.^[1]
In 1991, Jang was runner-up in batting average with .347 and first in on-base percentage with .452. In 1992, his last pro season, Jang earned his first Korean Series
ring but he dipped down to batting a career-low .265, with 0 home runs
and 25 runs batted in. After the 1992 season with the Giants, Jang
announced his retirement.
In a ten-season career, Jang batted .331 with 78 home runs and 437
RBI in 961 games and ended with a .430 on-base percentage. He had 1009
career hits in 3050 at-bats.
Jang also topped the KBO in on-base percentage in six seasons and won
five straight Golden Gloves from 1983 to 1987 for defensive excellence.^[2]

Coaching career

Following his playing career, Jang coached for the Lotte Giants in 1994 and the Samsung Lions in 2000.
Jang was named manager of the Lions’ second tier team in 2010.

Death

Jang died of liver cancer at a hospital in Busan on September 7, 2011.^[2]

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