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Deaths In December 2013
The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2013. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: *Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference. December 2013 1 *Alfonso Armada, 93, Spanish general, co-leader of 1981 failed coup d'état. *Heinrich Boere, 92, Dutch-German convicted war criminal, member of the Waffen-SS. *Maria Mambo Café, 68, Angolan politician, Minister of Social Affairs (1982–1986), Governor of Cabinda (1990). * Maurice Cockrill, 78, British artist. *Stirling Colgate, 88, American physicist. *Richard Coughlan, 66, English drummer (Caravan), pneumonia. * Sylvester Dias, 76, Sri Lankan cricketer. * Walter E. Ellis, 53, American serial killer, natural causes. * T. R. Fehrenbach, 88, American author and historian. *Verdi Godwin, 87, English footballer. *Lino Grech, 83, Maltese actor, writer and director. * Edward Heffron, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notability (people)
Notability is the property of being worthy of notice, having fame, or being considered to be of a high degree of interest, significance, or distinction. It also refers to the capacity to be such. Persons who are notable due to public responsibility, accomplishments, or, even, mere participation in the celebrity industry are said to have a public profile. The concept arises in the philosophy of aesthetics regarding aesthetic appraisal.Aesthetic Appraisal', Philosophy (1975), 50: 189–204, Evan Simpson There are criticisms of art galleries determining monetary valuation, or valuation so as to determine what or what not to display, being based on notability of the artist, rather than inherent quality of the art work. Notability arises in decisions on coverage questions in journalism. Marketers and newspapers may try to create notability to create celebrity, fame, or notoriety, or to increase sales, as in the yellow press. The privileged class are sometimes called notables, when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Heffron
Edward James "Babe" Heffron (16 May 1923 – 1 December 2013) was a private with E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army during World War II. Heffron was portrayed in the HBO miniseries '' Band of Brothers'' by Robin Laing. Heffron wrote ''Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends: Two WWII Paratroopers from the Original Band of Brothers Tell Their Story'' with fellow veteran William "Wild Bill" Guarnere and journalist Robyn Post in 2007. Youth Edward James Heffron was born in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1923, the third of five children to Joseph (a prison guard) and Anne. The family was Irish Catholic and attended Mass every Sunday and Heffron and his siblings attended Sacred Heart Catholic School. He attended South Philadelphia High School, but had to drop out to earn money during the Great Depression. He went to work at New York Shipbuilding in Camden, New Jersey, sandblasting cruisers in prepara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Flanders
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Flemish Parliament
The Flemish Parliament (Dutch: , formerly called Flemish Council or ''Vlaamse Raad'') constitutes the legislative power in Flanders for matters which fall within the competence of Flanders, both as a geographic region and as a cultural community of Belgium (unlike the French Community and Wallonia, which each have separate legislatures: the Parliament of the French Community and the Parliament of Wallonia). The Flemish Parliament approves decrees, which are Flemish laws, applicable to all persons in the Flemish Region, and to Flemish institutions in Brussels; it appoints and supervises the Flemish Government; and it approves the Flemish budget. The Flemish Parliament meets in the Flemish Parliament building in central Brussels, and its members and staff are housed in the House of the Flemish Representatives. History From 1830 until 1970 Belgium was a unitary state with a single government and a bicameral national parliament. The laws issued by Parliament applied to all Belgia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dany Vandenbossche
Dany Vandenbossche (2 April 1956 – 1 December 2013) was a Belgian politician. As a member of the sp.a, he served from 1999 to 2009 in the Flemish Parliament.Voormalig Vlaams parlementslid Vandenbossche overleden He left politics after his party offered him no electable position in the 2009 elections. In October 2013, he became president of the Louis Paul Boon Society and was also chairman of the . He obtained a master's degree in law and criminology from the |
Alejandro Urdapilleta
Alejandro Urdapilleta (10 March 1954 – 1 December 2013) was an Uruguayan actor. He appeared in more than twenty films from 1989 to 2013. Selected filmography References External links * 1954 births 2013 deaths Uruguayan LGBT actors Uruguayan male film actors 21st-century Uruguayan LGBT people {{Uruguay-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Itumbiara
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Itumbiara ( la, Itumbiaren(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Itumbiara in the Ecclesiastical province of Goiânia in Brazil. History * October 11, 1966: Established as Diocese of Itumbiara from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Goiânia Leadership, in reverse chronological order * Bishops of Itumbiara (Roman rite) ** Bishop Fernando Antônio Brochini, C.S.S. (2014.10.15 - 2003. 06. 25) ** Bishop Antônio Lino da Silva Dinis (1999.02.24 – 2013.12.01) ** Bishop Celso Pereira de Almeida, O.P. (1995.01.25 – 1998.05.06) ** Bishop José Carlos Castanho de Almeida (1987.09.05 – 1994.03.23), appointed Bishop of Araçatuba, São Paulo ** Bishop José Belvino do Nascimento (1981.06.27 – 1987.02.06), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Patos de Minas, Minas Gerais ** Bishop José de Lima José de Lima (February 21, 1924 – June 12, 2013) was a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church. José de Lima was born in Tiros TIROS, or Television Inf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antônio Lino Da Silva Dinis
Antônio Lino da Silva Dinis (22 February 1943 in São Mateus de Oliveira − 1 December 2013 in Goiânia) was a Portuguese-born Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop. Ordained to the priesthood on 15 August 1966, Lino da Silva Dinis was named bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Itumbiara, Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ... on 24 February 1999 and died while still in office on 1 December 2013. References 1943 births 2013 deaths People from Vila Nova de Famalicão 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Brazil Portuguese Roman Catholic priests Roman Catholic bishops of Itumbiara {{Brazil-RC-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Sharp
Martin Ritchie Sharp (21 January 1942 – 1 December 2013) was an Australian artist, cartoonist, songwriter and film-maker. Career Sharp was born in Bellevue Hill, New South Wales in 1942, and educated at Cranbrook private school, where one of his teachers was the artist Justin O'Brien. In 1960, Sharp enrolled at the National Art School at East Sydney. He was one of the editors of '' Oz'', an Australia/UK alternative/ underground satire magazine published from 1963 to 1973 and associated with the international counterculture of that era. Sharp was called Australia's foremost pop artist. He wrote the lyrics of the Cream song "Tales of Brave Ulysses," and created the cover art for Cream's ''Disraeli Gears'' and ''Wheels of Fire'' albums. He designed at least two posters for Australia's premier contemporary circus, Circus Oz, including the 'World-famous'/'Non-Stop Energy' design. Later interests For most of the 1970s and beyond, Sharp's work and life was dominated by tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Schiffrin
André Schiffrin (June 14, 1935 – December 1, 2013)Robert D. McFadde ''New York Times'', December 1, 2013 was a French-American author, publisher and socialist. Life Schiffrin was born in Paris, the son of Jacques Schiffrin, a Russian Jew who emigrated to France and briefly enjoyed success there as publisher of the ''Bibliothèque de la Pléiade'', which he founded, and which was bought by Gallimard, until he was dismissed because of the anti-Jewish laws enforced by the Vichy regime. Jacques Schiffrin and his family had to flee and eventually found refuge in the United States. As the younger Schiffrin recalls in his autobiography, ''A Political Education: Coming of Age in Paris and New York'' (2007), he thus experienced life in two countries as a child of a European Jewish intellectual family. He attended Yale University, where he won the Alpheus Henry Snow Prize, and Clare College, Cambridge, where he studied English on a Mellon Fellowship for two years and edited the student ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Bogotá
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bogotá (Spanish: ''Arquidiócesis Metropolitana de Bogotá''; la, Archidioecesis Metropolitae Bogotensis) is a particular church of the Roman Catholic Church in Colombia. It was established in 1562 as the Diocese of Santa Fe en Nueva Granada, elevated to an archdiocese two years later, and was given its current name in 1891. It serves nearly 3.8 million Catholics in Bogotá and parts of the Cundinamarca Department, and covers a total area of 4,109 km2 (1,552 square miles). The current metropolitan archbishop is Luis José Rueda Aparicio since 2020. The archdiocese is the metropolitan see of the Ecclesiastical Province of Bogotá, which includes six suffragan dioceses: *Engativá *Facatativá *Fontibón * Girardot *Soacha *Zipaquirá The archdiocese's territory covers 14 of the 20 localities (administrative districts) of the city of Bogotá and 11 municipalities in the Cundinamarca Department. Prior to 2003, when three new urban dioceses were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Sabogal Viana
Fernando Sabogal Viana (28 May 1941 − 1 December 2013) was a Colombian people, Colombian Roman Catholic bishop. Ordained to the priesthood on 22 January 1967, Viana was named auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bogotá and was also named titular bishop of ''Muteci'' on 8 March 1996 and died while still in office on 1 December 2013. References 1941 births 2013 deaths People from Tolima Department 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Colombia 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Colombia Roman Catholic bishops of Bogotá {{Colombia-RC-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
