Sir Peter Siddell, New Zealand artist, died from a brain tumour he was 76.

Sir Peter Graham Siddell KNZM QSO  was a noted New Zealand artist.

(1935–2011)

Siddell was born in Auckland and educated at Mt Albert Grammar School and the Auckland College of Education. In 1960 he married artist Sylvia Siddell, with whom he lived in Auckland. They had two daughters, now adults. Siddell had painted full-time since 1972, when he held his first solo show. Following this, he took part in many exhibitions in both public and commercial galleries.
Siddell's realist paintings are identified mainly with depictions of the environs of Auckland. While his works appear to be records of actual places, his paintings have a subjective component, and might be better described as magic realism than truly realistic. The cityscapes and townscapes in Siddell's paintings are rendered empty, but with the unnerving suggestion of events occurring outside the picture area. In this sense, his work can be compared to the metaphysical works of Giorgio de Chirico.
Siddell's work is held in the permanent collections of all New Zealand major public art galleries, as well as many private, corporate and institutional collections. He received a QSO in the 1990 New year's honours list, and a DCNZM in 2008.^[1]
In 2008, Siddell was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour.^[2]
In February 2011, a comprehensive survey of his art career was published by Random House New Zealand, "The Art of Peter Siddell."
Siddell died on October 24, 2011.^[3]
Siddell is only the second New Zealand artist to be knighted: the first was Sir Toss Woollaston

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Oscar Stanley Dawson, Indian admiral, Chief of the Naval Staff (1982–1984), died from a brain haemorrhage he was 87.

Oscar Stanley Dawson  was an Indian Navy admiral who served as the 12th Chief of the Naval Staff from 1 March 1982 to 30 November 1984.^[1] From 1983 until his retirement, he also served as the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee of the Indian Armed Forces. Other major commands he held included that as Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Southern Naval Command and as Flag Officer Commanding, Eastern Fleet (FOCEF). Dawson was also the Director of Naval Operations during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971.

(13 November 1923 – 23 October 2011)

After retirement, Admiral Dawson served as the Indian High Commissioner to New Zealand. He also campaigned for a number of environmental causes and worked on the rehabilitation of the handicapped. Admiral Dawson died of cerebral haemorrhage at the Command Hospital, Bangalore in October 2011.^[2][3]

Early life

Dawson was born in Rangoon, Burma, on 13 November 1923 to E. S. and Oliva Dawson. His parents hailed from Tamil Nadu in India. He received his high school education in Rangoon. During the Japanese occupation of Burma in March 1942, his family was evacuated back to India.

Naval career

Upon his return to India, Dawson initially continued with college studies, but left to enlist in the Royal Indian Navy Volunteer Reserve. He received his commission on 7 January 1943.
He received training as a specialist in navigation and direction in the United Kingdom. During World War II, he participated in the Arakan Campaign 1944-1945 and served on escort convoys in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea.^[4] Following the independence of India, he was absorbed into the Indian Navy.
Among his early assignments, Dawson served as the Naval Aide-de-Camp to the first President of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, during 1953-54. Following his graduation from the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington in 1957, he served as the Navigating Officer of INS Vikrant (R11). Later he served as the Fleet Navigating Officer. Among the commands he held at sea, included those as the commanding officer of INS Talwar (1959) and INS Nilgiri (F33). His appointments on shore included that as the Commandant, Navigation and Direction School; Director, Tactical School and Chief Staff Officer, Cochin Area.
Dawson was the Director of Naval Operations (DNO) at Naval Headquarters (NHQ) during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971. Some of the Indian Navy's most famous operational successes, including Operation Trident, Operation Python and the naval blockade of East Pakistan were accomplished during his tenure as DNO. Dawson was awarded the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal (AVSM) for his services and leadership during the conflict.
He graduated from the National Defence College, New Delhi in 1973. He served as the Flag Officer Commanding, Eastern Fleet (FOCEF) between February 1978 and March 1979. He later served as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief (FOC-IN-C), Southern Naval Command. In 1981, he was awarded the Param Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM) for his distinguished service to the Indian Navy.
Dawson was promoted to Admiral and succeeded Admiral Ronald Lynsdale Pereira as the 12th Chief of the Naval Staff, taking command on 1 March 1982. Among his most significant contributions in office was the planning and vision for Project Seabird.^[5]
Admiral Dawson retired from service on 30 November 1984,^[6][7] having spent 19 of his 41 year naval career at sea.

Later life

Admiral Dawson served as the Indian High Commissioner to New Zealand between August 1985 and September 1987.
Upon his return, Admiral Dawson settled in Bangalore and actively supported a number of environmental causes. He led the campaign to clean Ulsoor lake in the city. He was instrumental in the campaign to discontinue the use of leaded petrol in the 1990s.
Since 2005, he served as the President of the charitable organization, Anga Karunya Kendra, focused on supporting rehabilitation of the handicapped. The organization primarily supports patients suffering from polio, muscular dystrophy and cerebral palsy, as well as victims of accidents. A major focus of the organization is on rehabilitation using prostheses.^[7]

Death

Admiral Dawson died of cerebral hemorrhage on 23 October 2011, aged 87. He never married and was survived by his sister, Thelma.^[2]


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Winston Griffiths, Jamaican footballer, died he was 33.

Winston Griffiths  was a Jamaican soccer player.

(12 September 1978 – 23 October 2011)

College

After leaving Jamaica's Glenmuir High, Griffiths played college soccer at the University of Rhode Island from 1998 to 1999, leading the team to the Atlantic-10 Conference regular season and tournament championships in 1999. He finished his career at URI with 42 points.

Professional

Nicknamed Fanna, Griffiths began his professional career with the Connecticut Wolves of the USL First Division. He returned to his native Jamaica to play for Galaxy FC, but his team was relegated from the Jamaican National Premier League. When the season ended he had an unsuccessful trial with Bolton Wanderers.
In 2002, Griffiths was drafted by Dallas Burn of the Major League Soccer team, but was sent to the MetroStars in a trade for D.J. Countess before the season started. Later in the season, he was traded to Los Angeles Galaxy, and then went to the New England Revolution. With the Revs, Griffiths reached the 2002 MLS Cup final, but lost to his old club, the Los Angeles Galaxy.
In 2003 he signed with the Portmore United and play there until he was signed by the Vancouver Whitecaps in 2004. With the Caps he scored two goals and five assists helping the Whitecaps reach the USL1 Western Conference Finals.
In 2005 Griffiths was signed by Arnett Gardens of the Jamaican National Premier League, but later he was loaned to Toronto Lynx where he would score one goal in three games.^[1] Midway through the season Lynx head coach Hubert Busby Jr. was released from his contract, and Griffiths returned to Arnett Gardens.
On 12 July 2007, Griffiths was signed by Toronto Supra of the Canadian Soccer League, making his debut on July 15 against the Canadian Lions, and scoring a hat-trick to give Supra the 5–2 victory. He returned to Jamaica in late 2007 to play for Sporting Central in the Jamaican National Premier League.

International career

Griffiths made his debut for Jamaica in 1998 against Guatemala, and made his last international was in 2002 against Barbados, having played 28 times and scored twice for the Reggae Boyz.

Death

On Sunday October 23, 2011, Griffiths was found in odd circumstances and later died in May Pen hospital, he was 33.^[2]


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Herbert A. Hauptman, American Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1985), died he was 94.

Herbert Aaron Hauptman ^[2] was an American mathematician and Nobel laureate.^[3] He pioneered and developed a mathematical method that has changed the whole field of chemistry and opened a new era in research in determination of molecular structures of crystallized materials. Today, Hauptman's direct methods, which he has continued to improve and refine, are routinely used to solve complicated structures. It was the application of this mathematical method to a wide variety of chemical structures that led the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to name Hauptman and Jerome Karle recipients of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

(February 14, 1917 – October 23, 2011)

Life

He was born in New York City, the oldest child of Israel Hauptman and Leah Rosenfeld. He was married to Edith Citrynell since November 10, 1940, with two daughters, Barbara (1947) and Carol (1950).
He was interested in science and mathematics from an early age which he pursued at Townsend Harris High School, graduated from the City College of New York (1937) and obtained an M.A. degree in mathematics from Columbia University in 1939.
After the war he started a collaboration with Jerome Karle at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. and at the same time enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the University of Maryland, College Park. This combination of mathematics and physical chemistry expertise enabled them to tackle head-on the phase problem of X-ray crystallography. By 1955 he had received his Ph.D. in mathematics, and they had laid the foundations of the direct methods in X-ray crystallography. Their 1953 monograph, "Solution of the Phase Problem I. The Centrosymmetric Crystal", contained the main ideas, the most important of which was the introduction of probabilistic methods through a development of the Sayre equation.
In 1970 he joined the crystallographic group of the Medical Foundation of Buffalo of which he was Research Director in 1972. During the early years of this period he formulated the neighborhood principle and extension concept. These theories were further developed during the following decades.

Works

Hauptman has authored over 170 publications, including journal articles, research papers, chapters and books. In 1970, Hauptman joined the crystallographic group of the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (formerly the Medical Foundation of Buffalo) of which he became Research Director in 1972. Until his death, he served as President of the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute as well as Research Professor in the Department of Biophysical Sciences and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University at Buffalo. Prior to coming to Buffalo, he worked as a mathematician and supervisor in various departments at the Naval Research Laboratory from 1947. He received his B.S. from City College of New York, M.S. from Columbia University and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Awards and titles

• Belden Prize in Mathematics, City College of New York, 1936
• Scientific Research Society of America, Pure Science Award, Naval Research Laboratory, 1959
• President, Philosophical Society of Washington, 1969–1970
• President of the Association of Independent Research Institutes, 1979–1980
• Patterson Award in 1984 given by the American Crystallographic Association
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1985 (jointly with Jerome Karle)
• Honorary degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1985
• Honorary degree from CCNY in 1986
• Citizen of the Year Award, Buffalo Evening News, 1986
• Norton Medal, SUNY, 1986
• Schoellkopf Award, American Chemical Society (Western New York Chapter) 1986
• Gold Plate Award, American Academy of Achievement, 1986
• Cooke Award, SUNY, 1987
• Establishment of the Eccles-Hauptman Student Award, SUNY in 1987
• Election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1988
• Humanist Laureate Award from the International Humanist and Ethical Union in 1988
• Honorary degree from the University of Parma, Italy in 1989
• Honorary degree from the D'Youville College, Buffalo, New York in 1989
• Honorary degree from Bar-Ilan University, Israel in 1990
• Honorary degree from Columbia University in 1990
• Honorary degree from Technical University of Lodz, Poland in 1992
• Honorary degree from Queen's University, Kingston, Canada in 1993
• Honorary degree from SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York in 2009

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Florence Parry Heide, American children's author, died she was 92.

Florence Parry Heide was a bestselling American children's writer. Born in Pittsburgh and spending most of her childhood in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, she studied at Wilson College in Chambersburg, PA. After two years, she transferred to UCLA and graduated in 1939. She worked in advertising and public relations in New York City before returning to Pittsburgh during World War II and became publicity director of The Pittsburgh Playhouse. She met her husband, Capt. Donald C. Heide, in October, 1943. They married six weeks later, on November 27, 1943.

(February 27, 1919 – October 23, 2011)

After the war ended, she and her husband moved to Kenosha, Wisconsin. He began a private law practice where he worked until his retirement in 1982. She devoted herself to her children and began her career as a children's author during the 1960s while they were still at home. Her first book, Maximilian, was published in 1967. She has since published more than 100 books for children and youth – from picture books to adolescent novels – and several collections of poetry. She also collaborated with Sylvia Van Clief to write a number of songs. Her best known works are a series of story books about the curious adventures of a boy named Treehorn, which includes the titles The Shrinking of Treehorn (1971), Treehorn's Treasure (1981) and Treehorn’s Wish (1986), all of which Edward Gorey illustrated. She also worked with renowned illustrators Jules Feiffer and Lane Smith and won numerous awards for her work. She was the mother of five children, including authors Judith Heide Gilliland and Roxanne Heide Pierce, with whom she co-wrote several other critically acclaimed books. She had seven grandchildren and a number of great-grandchildren.
Heide was well known in Kenosha for the Fourth of July parade she organized each year: Hundreds of children with their bikes decorated would gather outside her home and ride twice around her block to the beat of a drum. The parade continues each year in her honor. According to her hometown newspaper, The Kenosha News, family members confirmed that Heide died in her sleep overnight on October 23, 2011.^[1]


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Sir Frank Holmes, New Zealand economist and government advisor, died he was 87.

Sir Frank Wakefield Holmes was a New Zealand economist and government advisor. He was knighted in 1975 for services to economics and education.

(8 September 1924^[1] – 23 October 2011)

 He was an economics professor at Victoria University of Wellington, where he remained Emeritus Professor of the Institute of Policy Studies up until his death.
Holmes died on 23 October 2011, aged 87.^[2][3]


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Alan Morgan, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Sherwood (1989–2004), died he was 71.

The Rt Rev Alan Wyndham Morgan OBE was the Suffragan Bishop of Sherwood from 1989 until 2004.

(22 June 1940^[1] – 24 October 2011 ^[2])

He was born on and educated at Gowerton Boys’ Grammar School and St David's College, Lampeter. He was ordained in 1966 and began his ecclesiastical career with curacies in Llangyfelach, Cockett and Coventry.^[3] Following these he was appointed Vicar to St Barnabas, Coventry in 1972 and then in 1978 Bishop's Officer for Social Responsibility within the Diocese of Coventry. Appointed Archdeacon of the city in 1983^[4] he ascended to the Episcopate six years later.
At a national level he was chairman of the General Synod’s Board of Social Responsibility’s Working Party on the Future of the Family, which produced a report called 'Something to Celebrate' in 1995. He was also part of the Coalfields Task Force and went on to continue the work as Chair of the Coalfields Regeneration Trust.^[5]
He retired in 2004^[6] and was appointed OBE the following year.^[7]


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