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Deaths In September 2019
The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2019. 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. September 2019 1 *George Abe, 82, Japanese manga artist (''Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin''), pneumonia. *Kenneth Baugh, 78, Jamaican politician, Parliament of Jamaica, MP and Leader of the Opposition (Jamaica), Leader of the Opposition (2005). *Alison Cheek, 92, Australian-born American Episcopal priest. *Charles W. Daniels, 76, American judge, justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court (2007–2018). *Jacob Gelt Dekker, 71, Dutch businessman, writer and philanthropist, lymphoma. *Radomil Eliška, 88, Czech conductor. *Albert Fritz (cyclist), Albert Fritz, 72, German racing cyclist. *Alberto Goldman, 81, Brazilian politician, Chamber of De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Abe
, known by his pen name , was a Japanese author and former yakuza. Outside Japan he is best known for writing the manga series '' Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin'' in collaboration with artist Masasumi Kakizaki. As a teenager Abe became a member of the Ando-gumi yakuza family, and was later recruited by the Koganei-ikka. In 1986, after leaving the yakuza life, he wrote a novel about his time in Fuchū Prison titled , which became a bestseller and was adapted into a film. Abe died on September 2, 2019, from pneumonia Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli. Symptoms typically include some combination of productive or dry cough, chest pain, fever, and difficulty breathing. The severit ..., aged 82. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Abe, George 1937 births 2019 deaths Deaths from pneumonia in Japan Manga writers People from Tokyo Japanese writers Yakuza members ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astrid Hanzalek
Astrid Hanzalek (January 6, 1928 – September 1, 2019) was an American politician who served in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1971 to 1981. She died of a stroke on September 1, 2019, in Suffield, Connecticut Suffield is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. It was once within the boundaries of Massachusetts. The town is located in the Connecticut River Valley with the town of Enfield neighboring to the east. As of the 2020 census, ... at age 91. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Hanzalek, Astrid 1928 births 2019 deaths Politicians from New York City Women state legislators in Connecticut Republican Party members of the Connecticut House of Representatives 21st-century American women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levyraati
''Levyraati'' ("Record Panel") was a Finnish television show which ran from the 1961–1992 originally on YLE and starting from 1992 on MTV3. It was based on the British ''Juke Box Jury''. The show was originally hosted by Jaakko Jahnukainen and for a brief period by Vesa Nuotio (in 1980). However, the show was most famously hosted by Jukka Virtanen from 1980 till 1997 when the show went on a five-year hiatus. For its 2002–2003 run it was hosted by Raakel Lignell and later by Ruben Stiller. The show has been on unspecified hiatus since 2005. In the program Finnish celebrities (mostly musicians) would rate recordings and, in later years, music videos with a score from 1 to 10. With four guests in the panel the maximum score was 40 and the winning song or video would be performed during the ending credits. One of the panel members was a frequent guest placed among three weekly guests. Today ''Levyraati'' has also become a popular game practiced amongst friends and family w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jukka Virtanen (director)
Jukka Jalmari Virtanen (25 July 1933 – 1 September 2019) was a Finnish entertainer and author. He worked as both a film and television director, actor and host. He was also an accomplished songwriter. Starting originally as a newspaper columnist, Virtanen began his television career in the 1950s and his film career in the 1960s. He won the Rose d'Or in 1965 for the entertainment program Lumilinna (The Cold Old Days). He starred in and directed many films written by Spede Pasanen, including '' Millipilleri'', '' Pähkähullu Suomi'' and '' Noin 7 Veljestä'', as well as playing bit parts in the Uuno Turhapuro franchise. He was also the long-standing host of the TV show Levyraati (1980–1997) as well as Runoraati. Additionally, he was a songwriter for a number of prolific Finnish musical artists such as Ilkka Lipsanen. Film career Virtanen started his directorial career in the 1960s and directed a high number of TV movies for YLE. His first theatrical feature was Millipi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Edward Smith
Jean Edward Smith (October 13, 1932 – September 1, 2019) was a biographer and the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University. He was also professor emeritus at the University of Toronto after having served as professor of political economy there for thirty-five years. Smith was also on the faculty of the Master of American History and Government program at Ashland University. The winner of the 2008 Francis Parkman Prize and the 2002 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, Smith was called "today’s foremost biographer of formidable figures in American history." Education and military service A graduate of McKinley High School in Washington, D.C., Smith received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1954. While attending Princeton, Smith was mentored under law professor and political scientist William M. Beaney. Serving in the military from 1954 to 1961, he rose to the rank of Captain (RA) US Army (Artillery). Smith served in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joana Sainz García
Joana Sainz Garcia (1989 – September 1, 2019) was a Spanish singer, dancer, and songwriter from Madrid, Spain. She was killed in a stage explosion on September 1, 2019. Biography Garcia was raised in Santander, a port city on Spain's north coast in the Cantabria region. She later moved to Suances, also in Cantabria. "The first time I saw her, when she came, I realized her virtues. She was a girl with a lot of energy, with a lot of desire. From the beginning, I saw her a dancer,” Garcia's teacher, Marta Rojo, told ''El Español''. Rojo remembered that Garcia started formal dance training in 2010. Sainz was the principal dancer and chief choreographer of Spain's Super Hollywood Orchestra. The group were known for their exciting performances which used many special effects, including fireworks. Joana Sainz died on September 1, 2019 while performing in front of an audience of 1000 people, at a four-day music festival at Las Berlanas. A pyrotechnic Pyrotechnics is the sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Probst Solomon
Barbara Probst Solomon (December 3, 1928 – September 1, 2019) was an American author, essayist and journalist. Her published works include two novels, two volumes of memoirs, and a book of collected essays. Solomon was the United States cultural correspondent for Spain's "newspaper-of-record", ''El País'' of Madrid. Solomon was awarded the 25th Francisco Cerecedo Prize by the Association of European Journalists in Spain. The prize, which comes with an award of $36,000, is the most prestigious journalism prize in that country, and Solomon was the first North American to receive it. She accepted the award from the future King of Spain King Felipe VI of Spain, Prince Felipe at a gala in Madrid. In January 2008, Solomon was part of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's "dream team" of 14 international experts in Madrid, a team that included Professors Joseph Stiglitz, Jeremy Rifkin and Nicholas Stern. In 2007 Solomon received the United Nations/Women Together Award which pays tribute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ciaran McKeown
Ciaran McKeown (1943 – 1 September 2019) was a peace activist in Northern Ireland. Early life and education Born in Derry to a Roman Catholic family, the son of a schoolmaster Richard Deutsch, ''Mairead Corrigan, Betty Williams'', pp.69–70 McKeown served as a Dominican novice for eight months in his youth.Judith Stiehm, ''Champions for peace: women winners of the Nobel Peace Prize'', p.70 He attended Queen's University Belfast, where he studied philosophy,Susan Muaddi Darraj, ''Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams: partners for peace in Northern Ireland'', pp.16–17 becoming the first Catholic to be elected president of the university's student council. He was also elected chair of the National Democrats, a ginger group linked with the National Democratic Party. He became president of the Union of Students in Ireland in 1969, based in Dublin, and stood in Dublin South-West at the 1969 Irish general election, taking last place, with only 154 votes. Journalist In 1970, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine MacLean
Katherine Anne MacLean (January 22, 1925 – September 1, 2019) was an American science fiction author best known for her short fiction of the 1950s which examined the impact of technological advances on individuals and society. Profile Damon Knight wrote, "As a science fiction writer she has few peers; her work is not only technically brilliant but has a rare human warmth and richness." Brian Aldiss noted that she could "do the hard stuff magnificently," while Theodore Sturgeon observed that she "generally starts from a base of hard science, or rationalizes psi phenomena with beautifully finished logic." According to ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'', she "was in the vanguard of those sf writers trying to apply to the soft sciences the machinery of the hard sciences". Her stories have been included in anthologies and a few have had radio and television adaptations. Three collections of her stories have been published. It was while she worked as a laboratory technician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orthodox Church In America Diocese Of New England
The Diocese of New England is a diocese of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). Its territory includes parishes, monasteries, and missions located in six states in New England – Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The diocesan chancery is located in Southbridge, Massachusetts. The last bishop of New England was the Right Reverend Nikon (Liolin), who was elected to the position of Bishop of Boston and the Albanian Archdiocese on October 22, 2003. He was installed as Bishop of Boston, New England, and the Albanian Archdiocese during ceremonies taking place from December 16–18, 2005. Archbishop Nikon died on September 1, 2019. On September 10, 2019, the OCA announced that Metropolitan Tikhon (Mollard) will be the locum tenens for the diocese until a successor is found. Deaneries The diocese is grouped geographically into three deaneries, each consisting of a number of parishes. Each deanery is headed by a parish priest, known as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orthodox Church In America Albanian Archdiocese
The Albanian Archdiocese, also known as the Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese in America ( sq, Kryedioqeza Orthodokse Shqiptare në Amerikë), is one of three ethnic dioceses of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). Its territory includes parishes, and missions located in seven states in the United States – California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Establishment The earliest organized Albanian dioceses were set up under the auspices of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in America (now Orthodox Church in America), because the Church of Constantinople would not allow the rise of any Albanian Orthodox Church and officially opposed the use of the Albanian language in churches until 1937 when the Autocephalic Orthodox Church of Albania was recognized by Constantinople. On March 18, 1908, as a result of the Hudson Incident, Fan Noli was ordained as a priest by a Russian bishop in the United States. In March 1908, Noli thus led the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikon Liolin
Archbishop Nikon (secular name Nicholas Liolin; October 9, 1945 – September 1, 2019) was an Albanian bishop who served as the head of the Orthodox Church in America's Albanian Archdiocese and New England diocese. Life of Archbishop Nikon Archbishop Nikon was born in New York City on October 9, 1945, the son of the late Evans J. and Helena P. Liolin. He was raised in a family nurtured in the Orthodox Christian faith and active in the Albanian Archdiocese of the Orthodox Church in America. His father had served as lay chairman and founder in 1947 of the Diocesan Theological Student Fund. For many years, his mother served as choir director at the family's home parish of Saint Nicholas, Jamaica Estates, New York. His brother John, now deceased, served on the parish council of Saint George Church, Trumbull, Connecticut, his brother Billy gave his life serving in the armed forces during the Korean War, while his youngest brother, James, served as lay chairman of the Jamaica Estat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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