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Deaths In January 2018
The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2018. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: * Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference. January 2018 1 * Gert Brauer, 62, German footballer ( Carl Zeiss Jena). *Humberto Coutinho, 71, Brazilian physician and politician, President of the Legislative Assembly of Maranhão (since 2015), Mayor of Caxias (2005–2013), intestinal cancer. * Peter Evans, 88, British musicologist. *Philip Jacobson, 79, English journalist, meningitis. * Milt Jamin, 78, American voice actor ('' Grand Theft Auto IV'', '' The Big O'', '' The Transformers''). *Jahn Otto Johansen, 83, Norwegian journalist. *Robert Mann, 97, American violinist and composer, founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet. * Régis Manon, 52, Gabonese footballer ( Tours FC, F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gert Brauer
Gert Brauer (; 7 September 1955 – January 2018) was a German footballer. Club career He played 270 Oberliga matches in East Germany. International career Three of his four international matches for East Germany where part of the UEFA Euro 1980 qualifying The qualifying round for UEFA Euro 1980 consisted of 31 teams divided into seven groups; three of five teams and four of four teams. The qualifying round (drawn in Rome on 30 November 1977) was played at various times between May 1978 and Februa .... Trivia Brauer died in January 2018. External links * * * References 1955 births 2018 deaths German footballers East German footballers East Germany international footballers FC Carl Zeiss Jena players Association football defenders People from Greiz (district) {{Germany-footy-defender-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dušan Mitošević
Dušan Mitošević (17 December 1949 – 1 January 2018) was a Serbian football player and manager. Playing career Mitošević was a reputable striker during his playing career. He played for FK Radnički Niš in the Yugoslav First League during the 1975–80 and transferred to Nîmes Olympique, France where he played in 1980–81 season. He returned to FK Radnički Niš for the next two years 1981–83 to participate in the European Competitions where the club reached the third Round and the semi Finals in the UEFA Cup. His goals during these years made him top scorer in clubs’ history. The next season, he was transferred to the Greek side Iraklis Thessaloniki, where he finished his career. Coaching career Iraklis Thessaloniki Mitošević after eight years of coaching in amateur leagues and as assistant coach in FK Rad, took over Iraklis Thessaloniki, as the first significant assignment in 1994. Mitošević attacking mentality aided the club to achieve a Uefa Cup Qualifica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Next Generation
Next Generation or Next-Generation may refer to: Publications and literature * ''Next Generation'' (magazine), video game magazine that was made by the now defunct Imagine Media publishing company * Next Generation poets (2004), list of young and middle-aged figures from British poetry Technology Next generation often means a new state of the art: * AMD Next Generation Microarchitecture (other), AMD products * Next Generation Air Transportation System, the Federal Aviation Administration's massive overhaul of the national airspace system * Next Generation Internet (other), various projects intended to drastically increase the speed of the Internet * Next Generation Networking, emerging computer network architectures and technologies * Next-generation lithography, lithography technology slated to replace photolithography beyond the 32 nm node * Next-Generation Secure Computing Base, software architecture designed by Microsoft * NextGen Healthcare Info ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Giants
''Little Giants'' is a 1994 American family film, family sports film, sports comedy film directed by Duwayne Dunham. The film stars Rick Moranis and Ed O'Neill as Danny and Kevin O'Shea, two brothers living in a small Ohio town who coach rival Pop Warner Little Scholars, Pee-Wee Football teams. The film was produced by Amblin Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. under the Warner Bros. Family Entertainment label. Plot Danny O'Shea has always lived in the shadow of his older brother, Kevin, a Heisman Trophy winner and local football hero. They live in their hometown of Urbana, Ohio. Kevin coaches the local "Pee-Wee Cowboys" football team. Despite being the best player, Danny's tomboy daughter, Becky, nicknamed Icebox, is cut during try outs solely because she is a girl. Also cut are her less-talented friends, Rashid Hanon (who can't catch anything), Tad Simpson (who is a poor runner), and Rudy Zolteck (who's overweight and quite flatulence, flatule ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Under Fire
''Grace Under Fire'' is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 29, 1993, to February 17, 1998. The show starred Brett Butler as a single mother learning how to cope with raising her three children alone after finally divorcing her abusive husband. The series was created by Chuck Lorre and produced by Carsey-Werner Productions. Premise ''Grace Under Fire'', produced by Carsey-Werner, was part of a wave of shows in the late 1980s and 1990s that were built around a comedian (and in some cases, closely based on his or her comedy routine). Many of Carsey-Werner's shows were based on nontraditional, non-nuclear families. ''Grace Under Fire'' followed a similar formula, set in the small fictitious town of Victory, Missouri; Butler starred as Grace Kelly, a divorced single mother and recovering alcoholic. The show begins after the main character divorces her abusive alcoholic husband of eight years in an attempt to start life anew and prevent her children from making t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Paul Steuer
Jon Paul Steuer (March 27, 1984 – January 1, 2018) was an American actor and musician, best known for being the first actor to play Alexander Rozhenko in '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' and for being the first actor to regularly portray Quentin Kelly on the ABC show ''Grace Under Fire''. He was also well known for playing Johnny "Viper" Vennaro in the 1994 children's comedy film ''Little Giants''. After spending several years as a musician, Steuer entered the culinary industry and owned his own restaurant in Portland, Oregon. Life and career Acting Steuer was three years old and living in San Diego, California, when he began asking his mother, a former member of the United States Ski Team, about becoming an actor. Within a year, he was attending children's modeling shows at local shopping malls. His break came when another did not appear for one of these shows; Steuer leapt onto the stage and offered his services. A talent agent, impressed with the boy's hubris and performan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mauro Staccioli
Mauro Staccioli (11 February 1937 – 1 January 2018) was an Italian sculptor. Career After studying at the Art Institute in Volterra, Staccioli started teaching and in 1968 joined the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan. At the end of the 1960s, Staccioli decided to dedicate himself to sculpture. His idea is to meet people where they live which leads him to create sculptures for urban places. His sculptures are “marks”, traces of a passage; he wants to affect the people who are usually found in a place and prompt them to experience that place in a different way. His sculptures always have a strong relationship with the place where he works. Since the beginning of the 1970s, he has chosen urban environment and, with sculpture, tries to give answers to social questions. His linguistic choice is characterized by the coherence, the essential shapes and by the perfect adherence to the setting where he realize his “sculpture-intervention”. He proceeds in a very rigorous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennessee Attorney General
The Tennessee Attorney General (officially, Attorney General and Reporter) is a position within the Government of Tennessee, Tennessee state government. The Attorney General is the chief law enforcement officer and lawyer for Tennessee. The current office holder is Jonathan Skrmetti, who was appointed by the Tennessee Supreme Court for an eight-year term in 2022 to fill that position. His service officially began with his swearing in by Governor of Tennessee, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee (Tennessee politician), Bill Lee, for whom he had previously served as chief legal counsel, on September 1, 2022. Appointment by judiciary Unlike any other State (U.S.), state, the Tennessee Attorney General is an officer of the judicial branch, not the executive branch. Article VI Section 5 of the Constitution of Tennessee, Tennessee Constitution provides for the appointment of the Attorney General by the justices of the Supreme Court for a term of 8 years. In most other states, the office of atto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton P
Milton may refer to: Names * Milton (surname), a surname (and list of people with that surname) ** John Milton (1608–1674), English poet * Milton (given name) ** Milton Friedman (1912–2006), Nobel laureate in Economics, author of '' Free to Choose'' Places Australia * Milton, New South Wales * Milton, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane ** Milton Courts, a tennis centre ** Milton House, Milton, a heritage-listed house ** Milton railway station, Brisbane ** Milton Reach, a reach of the Brisbane River ** Milton Road, an arterial road in Brisbane Canada * Milton, Newfoundland and Labrador * Milton, Nova Scotia in the Region of Queens Municipality * Milton, Ontario ** Milton line, a commuter train line ** Milton GO Station * Milton (electoral district), Ontario ** Milton (provincial electoral district), Ontario * Beaverton, Ontario a community in Durham Region and renamed as Beaverton in 1835 * Rural Municipality of Milton No. 292, Saskatchewan New Zealand * Milton, New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Olivencia
Manuel Olivencia Ruiz (25 July 1929 – 1 January 2018) was a Spanish lawyer with a career as a professor, economist, and diplomat. He worked at the University of Seville and organized Seville Expo '92. Early life Olivencia was born in Ronda, Province of Málaga, on 25 July 1929 and grew up in Ceuta. Olivencia's father was also a lawyer. His brother was Francisco Olivencia. Olivencia graduated cum laude from the University of Bologna in 1953. Career Olivencia decided from a young age to practice law, though he prioritized teaching. He became an associate professor of commercial law at the Complutense University of Madrid. In 1960 he became a professor of commercial law at the University of Seville; one of his students was Felipe González. There, he was dean of the school of law from 1968 to 1971 and dean of the school of economics from 1971 to 1975. He was Undersecretary of Education and Science during the first Transition government, advisor to the Bank of Spain, and a member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebrahim Nafae
Ebrahim Nafae ( ar, ابراهيم نافع) (12 January 1934 – 1 January 2018) was an Egyptian journalist. He was editor of the Egyptian newspaper ''Al-Ahram'' from 1979 to 2005 and chair of the General Union of Arab Journalists from 1996 to 2012. Biography Born in Suez, he received a bachelor's degree from Ain Shams University in 1956 before beginning his career as a Reuters reporter. He then became an editor at Egyptian Radio and an economy editor of the state-owned ''Al Gomhuria''. Nafae worked at ''Al-Ahram'' as head of the economy section and deputy editor-in-chief. He was editor-in-chief of ''Al-Ahram'' from 1979 to 2005, and he was later appointed CEO of the newspaper. ''Haaretz'' wrote that Nafae "faithfully transmitted" the policies of Egyptian Presidents Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak and that as president of the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate, he "shaped Egypt's propaganda policy and defined the borders of self-censorship by the press." Nafae was replaced by Salah E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mick Murphy (hurler, Born 1918)
Michael Murphy (1918 – 1 January 2018) was an Irish Hurling, hurler whose National Hurling League, league and All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, championship career with the Tipperary GAA, Tipperary and Clare GAA, Clare lasted from 1943 until 1949. Born in Kilmaley, County Clare, Murphy first played competitive hurling in his youth. He first appeared on the Kilmaley GAA, Kilmaley team in the mid-1930s before winning a county intermediate championship medal in 1938. Murphy's prowess lead to him being selected for the Clarecastle GAA, Clarecastle senior team at a time when the club was allowed to select players from neighbouring areas. As a member of the Clarecastle team he ended up on the losing side in three Clare Senior Hurling Championship, senior championship finals between 1936 and 1939. A move to Thurles in 1940 saw Murphy join the Thurles Sarsfields GAA, Thurles Sarsfields team and go on to win three successive Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship, county senior c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
