Obituaries

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Jacob Luitjens (18 April 1919 – 14 December 2022) was a Dutch collaborator during World War II. He was nicknamed the terror of Roden, as he was active in and around Roden in the Drenthe Province. He was born in Buitenzorg, Dutch East Indies.


After the war, on 10 September 1948, Luitjens was convicted and sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment. He evaded this punishment by fleeing to Paraguay, aided by Mennonites,[1] using the name "Gerhard Harder". He emigrated to Canada in 1961, where he became an instructor in the Department of Botany at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Students in the department knew him as an almost completely silent "ghost-like" man.
The Frisian Jack Kooistra, also known as 'the Frisian Simon Wiesenthal', managed to track down Luitjens in 1992. Luitjens was stripped of his Canadian citizenship and was deported to the Netherlands. At a court in Assen, he was convicted and sentenced to an imprisonment of 28 months. He served this term until March 1995 in a prison in Groningen. Afterwards, the Canadian government forbade his return to Canada. Luitjens was without a nationality thereafter. Ian Kagedan of B'nai Brith Canada characterized the deportation as part of an ongoing "quest" to bring Nazi war criminals to justice.[2]

Luitjens granted an interview in January 2022, at the age of 102.[3] He died on 14 December 2022, at the age of 103.[4]

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German war historian Manfred Messerschmidt 

Manfred Messerschmidt (1 October 1926 – 19 December 2022) was a German historian who specialised in the history of Nazi Germany and World War II. He was the long-term research director at the Military History Research Office (MGFA) who conceived of and launched the seminal series Germany and the Second World War from the MGFA.
Messerschmidt was one of the most important military historians of Germany after 1945 and is considered to be the founder of modern military history in Germany. He was an expert on the international military law and an author of multiple books on German military history of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Born on 1 October 1926 in Dortmund,[1] Messerschmidt grew up in Nazi Germany. From May 1944 till the end of World War II he served in anti-aircraft auxiliary forces in the engineering corps. Following the war, Messerschmidt studied the University of Münster and the University of Freiburg. He completed his doctorate under the guidance of historian Gerhard Ritter and earned his PhD in 1954. After an occupation in the insurance sector, Messerschmidt studied law and passed the second state exam (a specific German professional law degree qualifiying to be appointed a judge) in 1962. From 1970 to 1988 he was chief historian at the Military History Research Office (MGFA). In 1987 to 1988 he was a member of the Waldheim Commission that investigated the Waldheim Affair, involving the alleged Nazi past of Kurt Waldheim, the newly elected President of Austria. Messerschmidt was the deputy chairman of the German Holocaust Museum Foundation [de].[2]

At the end of 1971, Messerschmidt took over the scientific management of the MGFA. He launched the ten-volume history Germany and the Second World War, which focused on the interdependent relationship between military events and society. The first four volumes were set against the backdrop of the Cold War, and the German debate on rearmament in view of the catastrophic military past. The studies, which were designed and conceived in the Messerschmidt era, continue to set the trend for a society-oriented military history.[2]
Messerschmidt was a recognised expert on the international military law who was called upon to testify in high-profile court cases pertaining to World War II war crimes. He was described as "the doyen of modern German military history" by Der Spiegel.[3]

Messerschmidt died on 19 December 2022, at the age of 96.From Wikipedia.

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Stanley Drucker (February 4, 1929-December 19, 2022) was an American clarinetist.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, of Ukrainian Jewish[1] ancestry, Drucker began clarinet studies at age ten with Leon Russianoff, and remained his student for five years.[2] He attended the High School of Music & Art (now the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, at Lincoln Square). Drucker entered the Curtis Institute of Music at age 15, but left Curtis after one year, recruited to the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. After a year, he worked with the Busch Little Symphony, organized by Adolf Busch. He then became principal clarinetist of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.[citation needed]

In 1948, Drucker won a post in the New York Philharmonic clarinet section. In 1960, he became the orchestra's principal clarinetist,[3] where he remained for the duration of his career. His time with the New York Philharmonic has included nearly 150 solo appearances with the orchestra. He gave the first performances of clarinet concerti by John Corigliano and William Bolcom, both of these commissions for the New York Philharmonic.[4] Drucker has appeared on two recordings of the Corigliano Clarinet Concerto, a studio recording conducted by Zubin Mehta and a live recording of the 1977 premiere performance conducted by Leonard Bernstein.[5]

In January 2008, the New York Philharmonic announced Drucker's retirement from the orchestra at the close of the 2008–2009 season, for a total of 61 years with the orchestra and 49 years as its principal clarinet.[6] His final solo appearance with the orchestra was in June 2009, in performances of the clarinet concerto of Aaron Copland.[7]

Drucker was highly regarded for his musicianship and his longevity of service with the New York Philharmonic, totaling 10,200 concerts,[2] such as expressed by Gustavo Dudamel in November 2007:

"He's a legend. The history of the orchestra is in him."[8]

On Thursday, June 4, 2009, Drucker was awarded a Guinness World Record for longest career as a clarinetist after his performance of Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto with the orchestra. Guinness thus logged his Philharmonic career at "62 years, 7 months and 1 day as of June 4, 2009".[9]

In 2010, Stanley Drucker received an honorary doctorate in music from the University of Florida.[citation needed]

Drucker was married to Naomi Drucker, former principal clarinetist of the North Carolina Symphony and current adjunct assistant professor of music at Hofstra University. They have two children, Leon, who is the double bassist for The Stray Cats under the stage name of "Lee Rocker", and Rosanne, an alternative-country singer–songwriter. Drucker had the distinction of being one of the few living orchestral musicians whose biography appears in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.[citation needed]

He died in Vista, California on December 19, 2022. [10]

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Franco Harris, the star of one of the weirdest plays of a pivotal game in an NFL season   

He will be best known for that play more than anything else in his distinguished career.  He had a long career as a football player; he was a successful businessman; he was one of Pennsylvania's electors for Barack Obama in 2008.

The play:

The teams played to a scoreless tie at the half, with Oakland's longest gain coming on an 11-yard completion from Daryle Lamonica to Fred Biletnikoff. Pittsburgh, meanwhile, came fairly close to a scoring chance, but passed up on a field-goal attempt from the Oakland 31-yard line. Instead, John Fuqua was stopped by Jack Tatum on a fourth-and-2 run to turn possession over to the Raiders.[9] (Interestingly, it would be another collision by these two players that led to the "Immaculate Reception" late in the fourth quarter). On its first possession of the second half, however, Pittsburgh opted for a field goal, with Roy Gerela's successful 18-yard attempt accounting for the first score of the game.[10]
Later in the third quarter, Lamonica was intercepted for the second time in the game –  both times by a Steelers linebacker (Andy Russell in the first quarter, Jack Ham in the third).[10] Lamonica's latest turnover prompted Raiders head coach John Madden to put Kenny Stabler into the game at quarterback.[9]
After an interception thrown by Terry Bradshaw in Oakland territory  –  the Steelers' only turnover of the game  –  Stabler turned the ball back over to Pittsburgh, when he fumbled the ball inside the Oakland 25-yard line. This led to another field goal by Gerela to extend the Steelers' lead to 6–0.[9]
Stabler would, however, successfully lead Oakland down the field, when he capped a fourth-quarter drive with a 30-yard touchdown run. The ensuing extra point by George Blanda gave Oakland a 7–6 lead with 1:17 left, setting up the dramatic ending to the game.[10]
Events of the play[edit]

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Diagram of the Immaculate Reception

Trailing the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_Raiders]Oakland Raiders 7–6, the Pittsburgh Steelers faced fourth-and-10 on their own 40-yard line with 22 seconds remaining in the game and no time-outs. Head coach Chuck Noll called a pass play, 66 Circle Option, intended for receiver Barry Pearson,[11] a rookie who was playing in his first NFL game.
Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw (1 in diagram), under great pressure from Raiders linemen Tony Cline and Horace Jones, threw the ball to the Raiders' 35-yard line, toward halfback John "Frenchy" Fuqua. Raiders safety Jack Tatum collided with Fuqua just as the ball arrived (2). Tatum's hit knocked Fuqua to the ground and sent the ball sailing backward several yards, end over end.

Steelers fullback Franco Harris, after initially blocking on the play, had run downfield in case Bradshaw needed another eligible receiver. After Bradshaw threw the pass towards Fuqua, Harris recounted the advice of his college football coach Joe Paterno, who always told his players "Go to the ball."[12] Harris, in the vicinity of the deflected pass, scooped up the sailing ball just before it hit the ground (3). Harris ran past Raiders linebacker Gerald Irons, while linebacker Phil Villapiano, who had been covering Harris, was blocked by Steelers tight end John McMakin (4). Harris used a stiff arm to ward off Raiders defensive back Jimmy Warren (5), and went in for a touchdown. The touchdown gave the Steelers a 13–7 lead when Roy Gerela added the ensuing extra point.

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Dieter Henrich (5 January 1927 – 17 December 2022) was a German philosopher. A contemporary thinker in the tradition of German idealism, Henrich is considered "one of the most respected and frequently cited philosophers in Germany today," whose "extensive and highly innovative studies of German Idealism and his systematic analyses of subjectivity have significantly impacted on advanced German philosophical and theological debates."[2]

Henrich was born in Marburg,[3] on 5 January 1927,[4] the son of Hans Harry Henrich, who worked in survey service, and his wife Frieda nèe Blum. He grew up as a single child after three siblings died young. His father died when the boy was 11 years old.[4] Henrich achieved the Abitur from the humanistic Gymnasium Philippinum [de] in Marburg in 1946.[4]

Henrich studied philosophy, history and sociology between 1946 and 1950 at Marburg, Frankfurt and Heidelberg.[4] He completed his PhD dissertation at Heidelberg in 1950 under the supervision of Hans-Georg Gadamer.[5] The thesis was Die Einheit der Wissenschaftslehre Max Webers (The unity of Max Weber's epistemology). He wrote his habilitazion in 1956, titled Selbstbewusstsein und Sittlichkeit.[4] Henrich was professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin from 1960 to 1965, at the University of Heidelberg from 1965 to 1981, and at the University of Munich from 1981 to 1994, instructing generations of philosophers in standards of interpreting classical texts.[3] He was also a visiting professor to universities in the United States, such as Harvard and Columbia.[6]

Dieter Henrich's 1973 lecture course on German Idealism introduced to American audiences contemporary currents in German philosophy. His lectures were since then published as Between Kant and Hegel that showed the continuity between German idealism and contemporary philosophical attitudes.[6] Henrich introduced the idea that I-thoughts (what he also called "the epistemic self-relation" [Das wissende Selbstverhältnis]) imply a belief in the existence of a world of objects.[2]
He introduced the term Fichte's original insight[7] (Fichtes ursprüngliche Einsicht) to describe Johann Gottlieb Fichte's idea that the self must already have some prior acquaintance with itself, independent of the act of self-reflection. Henrich noted that Fichte saw the transcendental subject as a primordial selfhood[8] and identified its activity as prior to self-reflection. He also introduced the term Kantian fallacy to describe Immanuel Kant's attempt to ground the self in pure self-reflection, positing the moment of self-reflection as the original source of self-consciousness[9] (see also pre-reflective self-consciousness). His thinking was focused on the mystery of self-consciousness. He pointed out that the evidence of self-consciousness was not really self-evident, but rather obscure, possibly the manifestation of a reason concealed in the clarity of self-consciousness and eluding thought (".. die offenkundige Manifestation eines Grundes, der sich in der Klarheit des Selbstbewußtseins gleichsam verbirgt und dem Denken entzieht").[10]

Henrich died on 17 December at age 95.[3][5][10][11]

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Werner Leich (31 January 1927 – 17 December 2022) was a German Protestant theologian and pastor. From 1978 to 1992, he was the Landesbischof of the Lutheran Church in Thuringia, for the longer time during the era of the German Democratic Republic. He led the state's church firmly to independence from the regime.

Leich was born in Mühlhausen on 31 January 1927. His father was a jurist and mayor of Schalkau, his mother was a teacher. She died six months after he was born. The boy grew up living with his aunt and his grandmother in Weimar, until his father married again and took him back into the new family in Schalkau. In 1939, his father lost his position as mayor due to arguments with the Nazi party, and was assigned to a minor position in Gotha. The boy was then educated at the Ernestine-Gymnasium there until 1942.[1] In 1942, Leich left the school early to volunteer for the German Luftwaffe, and by 1945 had risen to the rank of Fahnenjunker.[2] After World War II, he first trained to be a metalworker.[2] He returned to his school, gaining the Abitur in 1946. He met his future wife at a ball of a dancing school, Trautel Sickert from Gotha.[3] In 1947 he began studies theology at the University of Marburg with Rudolf Bultmann. He completed his studies at the Heidelberg University from 1950 to 1951,[1] studying with Edmund Schlink.[2]

In 1951, Leich entered his first post as a vicar in Angelroda. A year later, the couple married; they had two children.[1] He became pastor in Wurzbach in 1954.[4] From 1960 he was a member of the Synod of the Lutheran Church in Thuringia,[1] and the synod's vice-president from 1967 to 1978.[4] From 1978 to 1992, he was the bishop of the Lutheran Church in Thuringia, which fell for the longest time in the era of the German Democratic Republic (GDR).[1][5]

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Reopening of the Wartburg, Honecker (2nd from l.) and Leich, 1983

Peace prayer in the Johanniskirche in Gera; priest Joachim Urbig (l.), Leich

In 1983 he reopened the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartburg]Wartburg after restoration together with Erich Honecker.[6] He was also the leading bishop of the united Lutheran churches in the GDR from 1983 to 1986, and president of the conference of Protestant church leaderships (Vorsitzender der Konferenz der evangelischen Kirchenleitungen [de]) in the GDR from 1986 to 1990.[7] For much of his career, Leich had to deal with defending worshipping God in an environment of the anti-religious doctrine of communism. He has said of this, "a lot of times we did hide being Christians". Leich promoted ecumenism.[6] He steered a firm course of independence of state and church. On 3 March 1988, he had a meeting with Honecker, demanding social reforms in the GDR.[2] The Lutheran Church had offered the possibility for critics of the regime and people who wanted to leave the country to make their demands public, but an office for it in Berlin was closed due to congestion.[8] From spring 1989, he no longer used the slogan "Kirche im Sozialismus".[6] He is remembered as a proponent of the Peaceful Revolution.[3]

Leich retired in 1992, and published an autobiography,[1] Wechselnde Horizonte. Mein Leben in vier politischen Systemen. (Changing horizons: My life in four political systems).[4] He took care of his wife until her death in 2021.[3]
Leich died at a hospital in Gotha after a short illness, on 17 December 2022 at the age of 95.[7][6]
Awards[edit]
In 1984 he received the Four Freedom Award for the Freedom of Worship.[9]


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former Secretary-General of OPEC 

Subroto (19 September 1923 – 20 December 2022)[1][2][3] was an Indonesian administrator and economist. He was a doctoral graduate and faculty member of University of Indonesia between 1956 and 1963, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources between 1978 and 1988, and Secretary General of OPEC between 1988 and 1994.[4] Like many Indonesians, Subroto is known by just a single name. Subroto died on 20 December 2022, at the age of 99.[5]


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Kathrynne Ann Whitworth (September 27, 1939 – December 24, 2022) was an American professional golfer. Throughout her playing career she won 88 LPGA Tour tournaments, more than anyone else on the LPGA Tour. In 1981, she became the first woman to reach career earnings of $1 million on the LPGA Tour.[1] She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.

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Active reggae musician and grandson of you-know-who. 


Joseph "Jo Mersa" Marley (March 12, 1991 – December 27, 2022) was a Jamaican reggae artist.[1] He was a son of Stephen Marley and grandson of reggae musician Bob Marley.

Marley spent his early years in Jamaica, where he attended Saints Peter and Paul Preparatory School, before moving to Florida to attend Palmetto High School and Miami Dade College (where he studied studio engineering).[2]

Marley died on December 27, 2022, from an asthma attack, at the age of 31.[3]

Marley debuted in 2014 releasing, through iTunes and Spotify, an EP "Comfortable". He also appeared on a Grammy-winning album Strictly Roots by Morgan Heritage.[4]

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Pelé
the Babe Ruth or Gordie Howe of soccer



Edson Arantes do Nascimento (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈɛdsõ(w) aˈɾɐ̃tʃiz du nasiˈmẽtu]; 23 October 1940 – 29 December 2022), known mononymously as Pelé (Portuguese pronunciation: [peˈlɛ]), was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward. Regarded as one of the greatest players of all time and labelled "the greatest" by FIFA,[1] he was among the most successful and popular sports figures of the 20th century. In 1999, he was named Athlete of the Century by the International Olympic Committee and was included in the Time list of the 100 most important people of the 20th century. In 2000, Pelé was voted World Player of the Century by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) and was one of the two joint winners of the FIFA Player of the Century. His 1,279 goals in 1,363 games, which includes friendlies, is recognised as a Guinness World Record.[2]


Pelé began playing for Santos at age 15 and the Brazil national team at 16. During his international career, he won three FIFA World Cups: 1958, 1962 and 1970, the only player to do so. He was nicknamed O Rei (The King) following the 1958 tournament. Pelé is the joint-top goalscorer for Brazil with 77 goals in 92 games. At the club level, he was Santos' all-time top goalscorer with 643 goals in 659 games.[3] In a golden era for Santos, he led the club to the 1962 and 1963 Copa Libertadores, and to the 1962 and 1963 Intercontinental Cup. Credited with connecting the phrase "The Beautiful Game" with football, Pelé's "electrifying play and penchant for spectacular goals" made him a star around the world, and his teams toured internationally to take full advantage of his popularity.[4] During his playing days, Pelé was for a period the best-paid athlete in the world. After retiring in 1977, Pelé was a worldwide ambassador for football and made many acting and commercial ventures. In 2010, he was named the honorary president of the New York Cosmos.

Averaging almost a goal per game throughout his career, Pelé was adept at striking the ball with either foot in addition to anticipating his opponents' movements on the field. While predominantly a striker, he could also drop deep and take on a playmaking role, providing assists with his vision and passing ability, and he would also use his dribbling skills to go past opponents. In Brazil, he was hailed as a national hero for his accomplishments in football and for his outspoken support of policies that improve the social conditions of the poor. His emergence at the 1958 World Cup, where he became the first black global sporting star, was a source of inspiration.[5] Throughout his career and in his retirement, Pelé received numerous individual and team awards for his performance in the field, his record-breaking achievements, and his legacy in the sport.

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Pele is such a legend it is hard to believe he was real. And I didn't know he was of dying age. He is synonymous with his sport.

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Greatest three pro athletes of the 20th century? They changed their games.

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Barbara Jill Walters (September 25, 1929 – December 30, 2022) was an American broadcast journalist and television personality.[1][2] Known for her interviewing ability and popularity with viewers, Walters appeared as a host of numerous television programs, including Today, The View, 20/20, and the ABC Evening News. Walters was a working journalist from 1951 until her retirement in 2015.[3][4][5]
Walters began her career on The Today Show in the early 1960s as a writer and segment producer of women's interest stories. Her popularity with viewers resulted in Walters receiving more airtime, and in 1974, she became co-host of the program, the first woman to hold such a title on an American news program.[6][7][8] In 1976, she continued to be a pioneer for women in broadcasting by becoming the first female co-anchor of a network evening news program, alongside Harry Reasoner on the ABC Evening News. From 1979 to 2004, Walters worked as a producer and co-host on the ABC newsmagazine 20/20. She also became known for an annual special aired on ABC, Barbara Walters' 10 Most Fascinating People. Walters interviewed every sitting U.S. president and first lady from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama.[9] She also interviewed both Donald Trump and Joe Biden, though not as presidents.
Walters created, produced, and co-hosted the ABC daytime talk show The View, on which she appeared from 1997 until her retirement in 2014.[10] Thereafter, she continued to host a number of special reports for 20/20 as well as documentary series for Investigation Discovery. Her final on-air appearance for ABC News was in 2015.[11][12][13][14][15]
Walters was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1989, and in 2007 received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2000, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

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Former Pope Benedict XVI.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_White_(musician) (born Frederick Eugene Adams; January 13, 1955 – January 1, 2023) was an American drummer. He was one of the early members of Earth, Wind & Fire. He previously played drums on Donny Hathaway's Live album.[1]


Earth, Wind & Fire consisting of Fred White along with half-brother Maurice White, brother Verdine White, and other members were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.[2][3]
White died on January 1, 2023, at the age of 67.[4]

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Ronnie Walter Cunningham (March 16, 1932 – January 3, 2023) was an American astronaut, fighter pilot, physicist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author of the 1977 book The All-American Boys. NASA's third civilian astronaut (after Neil Armstrong and Elliot See), he was a lunar module pilot on the Apollo 7 mission in 1968. Cunningham was the last surviving crew member of Apollo 7.

In October 1963, Cunningham was one of the third group of astronauts selected by NASA. On October 11, 1968, he occupied the Lunar Module Pilot seat for the eleven-day flight of Apollo 7, the first launch of a crewed Apollo mission.[1] The flight carried no Lunar Module and Cunningham was responsible for all spacecraft systems except launch and navigation. The crew kept busy with myriad system tests and successfully completed test firing of the service-module-engine ignition and measuring the accuracy of the spacecraft systems.[5] Following the mission, Cunningham went on to head up the Skylab Branch of the Astronaut Office and left NASA in 1971.[6][1]

Cunningham accumulated more than 4,500 hours of flying time, including more than 3,400 in jet aircraft and 263 hours in space.[1]

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Singer Anita Pointer of The Pointer Sisters dies at age 74
January 1, 2023


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FILE - Anita Pointer of the Pointer Sisters performs at the 3rd annual Alfred Mann Foundation Innovation and Inspiration Gala on Sept. 9, 2006, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Anita Pointer, one of four sibling singers who topped the charts and earned critical acclaim as The Pointer Sisters, died Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022, at the age of 74, her publicist announced. (AP Photo/Phil McCarten, File)
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Anita Pointer, one of four sibling singers who earned pop success and critical acclaim as The Pointer Sisters, died Saturday at the age of 74, her publicist announced.
The Grammy winner passed away while she was with family members, publicist Roger Neal said in a statement. A cause of death was not immediately revealed.
“While we are deeply saddened by the loss of Anita, we are comforted in knowing she is now with her daughter Jada and her sisters June & Bonnie and at peace. She was the one that kept all of us close and together for so long,” her sister Ruth, brothers Aaron and Fritz and granddaughter Roxie McKain Pointer said in the statement.
Anita Pointer’s only daughter, Jada Pointer, died in 2003.
Anita, Ruth, Bonnie and June Pointer, born the daughters of a minister, grew up singing in their father’s church in Oakland, California.
The group’s 1973 self-titled debut album included the breakout hit, “Yes We Can Can.” Known for hit songs including “I’m So Excited,” “Slow Hand,” “Neutron Dance” and “Jump (For My Love),” the singers gained a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994.



The 1983 album “Break Out” went triple platinum and garnered two American Music Awards. The group won three Grammy Awards and had 13 U.S. top 20 hit songs between 1973 and 1985, Neal said.



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Ian Tyson, Canadian folk and country singer, whose best known song, "Four Strong Winds", recorded as a duet with then wife Sylvia Fricker-Tyson, left us on December 29, 2022 at the age of 89. Mr. Tyson had his songs recorded by the likes of Judy Collins, Suzy Boggus (both ladies had hits with his "Someday Soon", which was Mr. Tyson's second best known song, about a woman in love with a man who loves the rodeo more than her. Interestingly, this song would set the tone for the later part of his career during which he specialized in cowboy and western ballads. Another of his classic songs "Summer Wages" completes a trifecta of sorts. Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Bobby Bare along with fellow Canadian Neil Young also recorded his songs.

Born in Victoria, British Columbia in 1933, Mr. Tyson's life was shaped by the rugged terrain of the Canadian west. And that would be the focus of much of his life, and actually was a rancher.

On YouTube you can find many versions of "Four Strong Winds" including a duet by Glen Campbell and Judy Collins. A more detailed account of Mr. Tyson's accomplishments can be found here, for discussion purpose only.

https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/canad...-has-died/

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Ruslan Imranovich Khasbulatov (Russian: Русла́н Имранович Хасбула́тов, Chechen: Хасбола́ти Имра́ни кIант Руслан) (November 22, 1942 – January 3, 2023)[1] was a Russian economist and politician and the former Chairman of Parliament of Russia of Chechen descent who played a central role in the events leading to the 1993 constitutional crisis in the Russian Federation.

Khasbulatov was born in Tolstoy-Yurt, a village near Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, on November 22, 1942. In February 1944, he was deported to Central Asia during the Chechen deportations.
After studying in Almaty, Khasbulatov moved to Moscow in 1962, where he studied law at the prestigious Moscow State University. After graduating in 1966, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He continued his studies, focusing on the political, social and economic development of capitalist countries, and received several higher degrees between 1970 and 1980. During the 1970s and 1980s, he published a number of books on international economics and trade.

In the late 1980s, Khasbulatov began to work closely with rising maverick in the Communist Party Boris Yeltsin. He was elected to the Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian SFSR in 1990. He followed Yeltsin in the successful resistance to the putsch attempt in 1991. He quit the Communist Party in August 1991, and on October 29, 1991, he was elected speaker of the Supreme Soviet of RSFSR.
Role in the 1993 Constitutional Crisis[edit]
Khasbulatov had been an ally of Yeltsin in this period, and played a key role in leading the resistance to the 1991 coup attempt. However, he and Yeltsin drifted apart following the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991.
After the collapse of the USSR, Khasbulatov consolidated his control over the Russian parliament and became the second most powerful man in Russia after Yeltsin himself. Among other factors, the escalating clash of egos between Khasbulatov and Yeltsin led to the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, in which Khasbulatov (along with Vice-President Alexander Rutskoy) led the Supreme Soviet of Russia in its power struggle with the president, which ended with Yeltsin's violent assault on and subsequent dissolution of the parliament in October 1993.
Khasbulatov was arrested along with the other leaders of the parliament. In 1994, the newly elected Duma pardoned him along with other key leaders of the anti-Yeltsin resistance.

Following the end of his political career, Khasbulatov returned to his earlier profession as a teacher of economics as founder and head of the Department of International Economy at the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics (REA).[2] He continued to comment on political developments in Russia. His death was reported on January 3, 2023. [3]



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruslan_Khasbulatov

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Constantine II (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Βʹ, Konstantínos II; 2 June 1940 – 10 January 2023)[3] was the last King of Greece, from 6 March 1964 until the abolition of the Greek monarchy on 1 June 1973.
Constantine was the only son of King Paul and Queen Frederica of Greece. As his family was forced into exile during the Second World War, he spent the first years of his childhood in Egypt and South Africa. He returned to Greece with his family in 1946 during the Greek Civil War. King George II died in 1947, and Constantine's father became the new king, making Constantine the crown prince.
He acceded as king in 1964 following the death of his father, King Paul. Later that year he married Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark with whom he eventually had five children. Although the accession of the young monarch was initially regarded auspiciously, his reign saw political instability that culminated in the Colonels' Coup of 21 April 1967. The coup left Constantine, as the head of state, little room to manoeuvre since he had no loyal military forces on which to rely. As a result, he reluctantly agreed to inaugurate the junta on the condition that it be made up largely of civilian ministers. On 13 December 1967, Constantine was forced to flee the country, following an unsuccessful countercoup against the junta. He remained (formally) the head of state in exile until the junta abolished the monarchy on 1 June 1973. The 1973 Greek republic referendum on 29 July, ratified the abolition. There were questions concerning the validity of this referendum and whether people were pressured to vote for a republic. Therefore, a fresh referendum was held after the restoration of democracy in 1974. This second referendum was held after the fall of the junta as the 1974 Greek republic referendum on 8 December 1974 and confirmed the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of the Third Hellenic Republic. Constantine, who was not allowed to return to Greece to campaign,[4] accepted the results of the plebiscite.[5] He died in Athens on 10 January 2023, following increased health problems.

Constantine was also a competitive sailor and Olympian, winning a gold medal in the 1960 Rome Olympics in the Dragon class, and later serving on the International Olympic Committee. Along with his fellow crew members of the Nireus sailing vessel, he was named one of the 1960 Greek Athletes of the Year.
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