Paul Ryan Rudd, American actor (Beacon Hill, The Betsy), died from pancreatic cancer he was , 70

Paul Ryan Rudd  was an American actor, director, and a professor, he died from pancreatic cancer he was , 70.^[2] He appeared as the title character in a 1976 production of Shakespeare's Henry V, opposite Meryl Streep as his love interest. Though best known for his live theatre performances, such as those on Broadway and the New York Shakespeare Festival, he also appeared in the 1978 film The Betsy and on television in the 1975 short-lived series Beacon Hill as Brian Mallory, the scheming Irish chauffeur.^[1]

(born Paul Kenneth Rudd; May 15, 1940 – August 12, 2010[1])

 Biography

Early life

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 15, 1940.^[3] He attended Boston Latin School and later Assumption Preparatory School,^[4] graduating in 1958.^[5] He obtained a degree in psychology from Fairfield University.^[1]
Originally named Paul Kenneth Rudd, he adopted Ryan as his middle name from his mother’s maiden name, whose name had become Kathryn Rudd after marriage. He studied for the Roman Catholic priesthood but parted with mutual consent from his seminary. At some point, he married Joan Mannion, who he later divorced.^[1]

Acting career

Rudd worked in entertainment from 1967 through 1986, variously as actor or as director, both on and off-Broadway.^[4] He landed his first significant Broadway role in 1974 as Ken, the lobotomized motorcyclist, in The National Health by Peter Nichols.^[1] His name was in the credits of the 1975 revival of The Glass Menagerie as the Gentleman Caller. In 1976, he starred as Billy, the tortured young soldier, in David Rabe's Streamers in the original theatre cast. That year, he also played the title role of Henry V with the New York Shakespeare Festival opposite of Meryl Streep as Katherine, who he marries in the play.^[1] He played in Theodore Mann's Romeo and Juliet^[6] in the part of Romeo, with Pamela Payton-Wright as Juliet in 1977.^[1]
In 1975, he played Brian Mallory in the short-lived television series Beacon Hill.^[1] In 1977, he portrayed John F. Kennedy in the NBC TV movie Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye. He went on to appear in The Betsy, the 1978 film based on the Harold Robbins novel.^[1]


Rudd married his second wife, Martha Bannerman, in 1983. They eventually had three children: Graeme, Kathryn and Eliza. During this time, Rudd held guest roles in several television shows, including Hart to Hart, Moonlighting, Knots Landing and Murder, She Wrote.^[1][7] In 1986, Rudd retired early from acting to raise his children,^[4] moving his family from Los Angeles to Greenwich, Connecticut.^[7]

Later years

Later in life, Rudd taught^[2] at local middle schools and high schools – on the subjects of theater, especially Shakespeare, and poetry.^[4] He was part of the theatre faculty at Sarah Lawrence College^[8] from 1999 to 2006.^[7]
Rudd came briefly out of retirement for a 2000 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, playing the double role of Oberon and Theseus–perhaps inspired by a production of the same play he saw at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre while visiting London.^[7]
Starting in 2004, Rudd was also a teaching faculty member and associate director of the MFA drama program at the New School for Drama until his death.^[7]
He died in his home in Greenwich, Connecticut at the age of 70 from pancreatic cancer.^[9]


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David Hull, American philosopher, died from pancreatic cancer he was , 75

David Lee Hull ^[1] was a philosopher with a particular interest in the philosophy of biology. In addition to his academic prominence, he was well-known as a gay man who fought for the rights of other gay and lesbian philosophers.^[2]

(15 June 1935 – 11 August 2010)

Hull was one of the first graduates of the History and Philosophy of Science department at Indiana University. After earning his PhD from IU he taught at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee for 20 years before moving to Northwestern, where he taught for another 20 years. Hull was a former president of the Philosophy of Science Association and the Society for Systematic Biology. He was particularly well known for his argument that species are not sets or collections but rather spatially and temporally extended individuals (also called the individuality thesis or "species-as-individuals" thesis).
Hull also proposed an elaborate discussion of science as an evolutionary process in his 1988 book, which also offered a historical account of the "taxonomy wars" of the 1960s and 1970s between three competing schools of taxonomy: phenetics, evolutionary systematics, and cladistics. In Hull's view, science evolves like organisms and populations do, with a demic population structure, subject to selection for ideas based on "conceptual inclusive credit." Either novelty or citation of work gives credit, and the professional careers of scientists share in credit by using successful research. This is a "hidden hand" account of scientific progress.
He was Dressler Professor in the Humanities Emeritus at Northwestern University.

 Bibliography

• Hull, D. L. (1973) Darwin and His Critics: The Reception of Darwin's Theory of Evolution by the Scientific Community. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; reprinted 1983.
• Hull, D. L. (1974) Philosophy of Biological Science. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall; translated into Portuguese (1975), Japanese (1994).
• Hull, D. L. (1988) Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science Chicago: University of Chicago Press; extract in Darwin: A Norton Critical Edition, 3rd edition, ed. Philip Appleman (2001), pp. 361–363.
• Hull, D. L. (1989) The Metaphysics of Evolution. Stony Brook NY: State University of New York Press.
• Hull, D. L. (1992) "Review of The Scientific Attitude" Current Comments 15 (September 28): 149–154.
• Hull, D. L. (1999) "Evolutionists red in tooth and claw" Nature, 398 (April): 385.
• Hull, D. L. (2000) "Activism, scientists and sociobiology" Nature 407 (6805): 673–674
• Hull, D. L. (2001) "Replicators and interactors" In his Science and Selection. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 13–32.
• Hull, D. L. (2002a) "A career in the glare of public acclaim" Bioscience 52 (September): 837–841.
• Hull, D. L. (2002b) "Explanatory styles in science" American Scientist, September.
• Hull, D. L., R. Langman and S. Glenn (2001) "A general account of selection: biology, immunology and behavior" Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (3): 511–528.
• Hull, D. L. and M. Ruse, eds., (1998) The Philosophy of Biology Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.

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Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith, British politician, MP for Holborn and St Pancras South (1959–1964), East Grinstead (1965–1983) and Wealden (1983–2001) died he was , 86

Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith, DL was a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1959 to 2001, with only a brief interruption in the 1960s died he was , 86.
The son of an electrical engineer, he was always proud of his birth city. He joined the Royal Artillery straight from Charterhouse School in 1942 and after the war was demobilised as a captain.



(Glasgow, 16 April 1924 – 11 August 2010 ^[1])

At Lincoln College, Oxford, he read PPE. Contemporaries remember him as Oxford’s best-dressed socialist, though he always insisted he never joined the Labour Party. In his final year he and Robin Day took part in a debating tour of United States run by the English-Speaking Union. From Oxford he joined the British Information Services, serving in San Francisco, where he met his wife, Jeanne, an American doctor whom he married in 1951.
He was later a presenter of the BBC political programme Tonight in the late 1950s.
Shortly before the 1959 general election, Cliff Michelmore, Tonight’s presenter, had a hernia operation and Johnson-Smith was promoted to co-host the show for six weeks. His profile was thus at its highest when the election was called, and on 8 October 1959 he ousted the Labour member for Holborn and St Pancras South Lena Jeger, by 656 votes.
He successfully promoted a Bill authorising councils to operate a meals-on-wheels service for the elderly and was soon on the fast track, within six months becoming PPS to ministers at the Board of Trade; in 1962 he moved to the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance.
His parliamentary career was interrupted in October 1964 when Lena Jeger, as Labour came to power, had her revenge by 2,756 votes. He briefly returned to television, freelancing for the BBC and Rediffusion’s religious programmes.
However, he returned to the House of Commons the following year at a by-election in the safe Conservative seat of East Grinstead. When that constituency was abolished for the 1983 election, he was returned for the new Wealden constituency, and held that seat until he retired at the 2001 general election.
Sir Alec Douglas-Home quickly appointed him an Opposition whip, and when Heath became leader that summer he made Johnson-Smith a party vice-chairman.
When Heath came to power in 1970 he kept Johnson-Smith at Central Office. Soon afterwards Iain Macleod died suddenly, the party Chairman Anthony Barber taking his place and Johnson-Smith becoming acting chairman. He was never in the running for the top job, despite his popularity among Conservative ladies, and in April 1971 he instead became Under-Secretary for Defence for the Army.
Johnson-Smith, who was later to launch a successful campaign on behalf of haemophiliacs who had been given infected blood, fought a long battle to curb the Church of Scientology. The Church had its headquarters near East Grinstead and in 1970 he endured a six-week libel case before a jury vindicated his stance.
After the Bloody Sunday killings of January 1972, he mounted an uncompromising defence of the Parachute Regiment: “It is bad enough for our troops to have to run all the perils and be shot at by gunmen without having their pain increased by smears in this House.”
In November 1972 Heath moved him sideways to the Civil Service Department, with the remit of sharpening presentation of government policy. His time there was dominated by the Kenneth Littlejohn affair, which was still rumbling on when Heath called a snap election in February 1974. Johnson Smith fought a skilful media campaign, but could not prevent Heath losing.
When Mrs Thatcher took the leadership, she asked him to oversee media activities at Central Office alongside a fellow television professional, Gordon Reece. After her 1979 election victory he joined the 1922 executive and chaired the party’s backbench media committee.
From 1980 to 1996 he chaired the select committee on Member's Interests, having to field embarrassing questions about the business activities of Mrs Thatcher’s son Mark.
Johnson-Smith specialised increasingly in defence. From 1985 he chaired the military committee of the North Atlantic Assembly, and from 1987 to 1997 he led the British delegation. For six years he chaired the Conservative backbench defence committee.
He was knighted in 1982 and sworn of the Privy Council in 1996.

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Bruno Schleinstein, German actor.has died he was , 78

Bruno Schleinstein was a German film actor, artist, and musician has died he was , 78.

(June 2, 1932 – August 11, 2010) 

Life

Schleinstein was often beaten as a child, and spent much of his youth in mental institutions.^[1] He was a largely self-taught musician, who, over the years developed considerable skill on the piano, accordion, glockenspiel and handbells. He would play in back gardens performing 18th and 19th century style ballads at the weekends, while sustaining himself financially working as a forklift driver at a car plant. Schleinstein said he transmits (German: durchgeben) his songs, rather than singing them.^[1]

Schleinstein was spotted by director Werner Herzog in the documentary Bruno der Schwarze – Es bleibt ein Jäger wohl in sein Horn (1970). Herzog promptly cast Schleinstein (under the name Bruno S.) as his lead actor in The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), though he had no acting experience. Schleinstein also starred in Stroszek (1977), which Herzog wrote especially for him in four days. Stroszek has a number of biographical details from Schleinstein's life, including the use of his own flat as the home of Bruno Stroszek. He also played his own instruments.

Herzog has claimed that Schleinstein was deeply suspicious of the director, and nervous of performing in front of the cameras — so had to be "listened to" for several hours on set in order to build his self-esteem. Schleinstein enjoyed fame in Berlin following the release of these films, but said later that "Everybody threw him away."^[1] Instead, he took up painting and music. Some of his artwork was shown at the 2004 Outsider Art Fair in New York City. He appeared in film again in Jan Ralske's Vergangen, vergessen, vorüber (Long-lost and Lay Me Down) in 1993. Ralske also made a short documentary video about Schleinstein and his art, called Seeing Things. He was the subject of a 2003 documentary "Bruno S. – Estrangement is death", directed by Miron Zownir. Schleinstein also released a CD of his music and songs.

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Sesenne, , Saint Lucian singer died she was 96

Dame Marie Selipha Descartes ,^[1] best known as Sesenne, was a Saint Lucian singer and cultural icon. She was born in La Pointe, Micoud,^[1] the youngest of five children born to a subsistence farmer and his wife.

She spent most of her time as a child with her maternal aunt, known locally as "Ma Chadwick". Her aunt, also her godmother, developed a strong sense of spiritual devotion and a commitment to the Catholic faith in the young Sesenne.

(28 March 1914 – 11 August 2010)




Sesenne became a locally renowned singer of traditional Saint Lucian music as a young girl. It was her father who, together with his wife holding the title "La Rose King and Queen", first introduced her to the public. He had plans to start a La Rose group in the Micoud area and needed a lead singer.^{[citation needed]}
Sesenne was around eight years old when chosen lead singer of the new group. Sesenne says of her unique voice at the time: "Everyone was envious of my voice... when I sang I could be heard in Malgretoute."^{[citation needed]} She was also an accomplished dancer of many styles, including the ring, kontwidance, konte, commette, belair and débot
As a young artiste, she was hired by Grace Augustin, entrepreneur of a guest house called The Hotel, and Sesenne became the lead singer of a traditional band which entertained guests with the use of such traditional instruments as the chak-chak, mandolin, quatro, banjo, violin and guitar. Not many people know that Sesenne sang for both La Rose and La Marguerite groups. This may explain one of her most profound lines in one of her well-known songs: "My mother was a rose; my father was a marguerite, I myself, I am the roots of flowers."^{[citation needed]}
She burst onto the regional scene on the stage Expo '67 in Grenada; a precursor to the Caribbean Festival of the Arts, winning the Expo '67 contest with the song "Why".^{[citation needed]}
Sesenne died in August 2010 in Mon Repos, Saint Lucia, a the age of 96.^[1]

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Dana Dawson American actress and singer, died from colorectal cancer she was , 36,

Dana Dawson  was an American actress and singer died from colorectal cancer she was , 36,.
She made her acting debut at the age of 7 in a national tour of Annie. She was an understudy of the character
Mimi, in the national tour of Rent in 2000 and joined the Broadway cast in 2001 as an understudy/swing.^[1]
In an interview in The Patriot-News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) Dawson said that she was given time to become secure in each of the two roles she understudied—Mimi and Joanne—before learning the other.^[2][3]
As a singer, Dawson released her first single in 1988 at the age of 14. The song "Ready To Follow You" was penned by French singer Jacqueline Taïeb and produced in France and reached the Top 20 on the French single chart. Dawson then worked with French producers on her debut album Paris New York And Me which includes her debut single and spawned four other singles which enjoyed success in France in the early 1990s especially "Romantic World" and "Tell Me Bonita" which both peaked at number 4 on the French single chart. Paris, New York and Me was also certified gold in France.

(August 7, 1974 – August 10, 2010)
In 1993, Dawson took a break of two years to give her career more international impact as though she had a lot of success in France, her records were not really available in other countries. So Dawson signed a recording contract with EMI and was now musically based in the UK. Her second album, Black Butterfly, was released in October 1995, and included three singles that made the UK Singles Chart chart: "3 Is Family" reached number 9 in July 1995, "Got to Give Me Love" reached number 27 in October 1995, and "Show Me" reached number 28 in May 1996.^[4] The album was available all over Europe and also in Japan. "3 is Family" was the major hit of the album and Dawson promoted it all over Europe. In 1996, she released the single "How I Wanna Be Loved" but it missed the UK Top 40. It was eventually included on a UK re-issue of the Black Butterfly album.
In 1997, Dawson collaborated on the Dolce & Gabbana single "More, More, More", and provided the vocals on this dance cover version of the Andrea True Connection hit single.
The Disney Channel show Lizzie McGuire featured her 2001 single, "Nice Life" which was only released as a single in France.^[1]
Several multi-track "singles" of Dawson's music have been released in the United Kingdom, including "3 Is Family", "Got to Give Me Love", and "How I Wanna Be Loved".^[5]
Dawson's songs are included on many other albums, including EMI's Music of the Twentieth Century: 1980–1999 and Virgin's Best Dance Album 1995;^[6] she also performed on the Michael W. Smith 1989 Gospel album I 2 Eye.^[7]
Dawson married the New York based jazz saxophonist Jason Curry in July 2007. Dana died on August 10, 2010, from colon cancer.^[8]

Discography

Albums

• 1991: Paris, New York and Me

1. "Romantic World" (4:44)
2. "Tell Me Bonita" (5:02)
3. "Survival" (3:45)
4. "I'm a Singer" (4:04)
5. "Every Time" (4:44)
6. "Number One in Your Heart" (4:05)
7. "Moving On" (4:13)
8. "That Boy's No Good For You" (5:05)
9. "I Want My Chance (To Know Love)" (4:02)
10. "I Will Go There (With You)" (4:20)
11. "Open Hearts" (3:55)
12. "Petite Chanson d'Amour" (0:40)
13. "Tell Me Bonita" (single mix) (3:58)

• 1995: Black Butterfly (re-released in the UK in 1996 with one bonus track)

1. "Black Butterfly" interlude
2. "3 Is Family"
3. "Got to Give Me Love"
4. "Show Me"
5. "Dignified"
6. "Visions" interlude
7. "You Are My Baby"
8. "So Good Together"
9. "How I Wanna Be Loved"
10. "All of These Things"
11. "Nothing in This World"
12. "Love Me" interlude
13. "Baby Do Right by Me"
14. "Stop Yourself"
15. "Intentions"
16. "Touch Me"
17. "Proverbs" interlude
18. "Sad Sad Songs"
19. "Home" interlude
20. "Salvation"
21. "Angel" interlude

Singles

• 1988: "Ready to Follow You" (France #15)
• 1990: "Romantic World" (France #4)
• 1991: "Tell Me Bonita" (France #4; French Club Play Chart #4)
• 1991: "Open Hearts" (France #24)
• 1992: "Moving On"
• 1995: "3 Is Family" (UK #9)
• 1995: "Got to Give Me Love" (UK #27)
• 1996: "Show Me" (UK #28)
• 1996: "How I Wanna Be Loved" (UK #42)
• 1997: "More, More, More" (with Dolce & Gabbana)
• 2001: "Nice Life"

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Antonio Pettigrew, American athletics coach, 1991 world champion and 2000 Olympic sprinter died he was , 42

Antonio Pettigrew  was an American sprint athlete who specialized in the 400 meters. He was born in Macon, Georgia.
(November 3, 1967 – August 10, 2010)

While attending St. Augustine's College in Raleigh, North Carolina, he was a four-time NCAA Division II champion in the 400 meter race.^[1] He came to prominence at the 1991 World Championships, where he won the 400 m gold medal and a silver medal in the 4 x 400 meters relay. He admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs between 1997 and 2001, and was stripped of his 1999 World Championship and 2000 Olympic relay gold medals.

In 2008, prosecution documents related to the trial of coach Trevor Graham listed Pettigrew as one of Graham's athletes to have used performance-enhancing drugs.^[2] Pettigrew then admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs and testified against Graham at his trial in May 2008.^[3] Although IAAF rules currently do not retrospectively alter results more than eight years after the event, Pettigrew returned the medals he won in that period.^[4][5] The 2000 Sydney Olympics 4 × 400 m relay US team was stripped of their medals after Pettigrew admitted that he had used performance-enhancing drugs.^[6] He received a two-year athletics ban in 2008, although he had already retired from the track.^[4] At the Summer Olympics in Sydney 2000, Pettigrew threw his gold medal winning Adidas spikes into the crowd after winning the 4 x 400m final for the USA.^[7]Pettigrew was found dead in the backseat of his locked car in Chatham County, North Carolina, on August 10, 2010. The reasons of his death are yet unknown.^[8] Evidence of sleeping pills were found by police. Suicide has not been ruled out as a possible cause of death.^[1] Pettigrew was an assistant coach at the University of North Carolina at the time of his death.^[9]

Personal bests

Event	Time (seconds)	Venue	Date
100 meters	10.42	Unknown	1994
200 meters	20.38	Durham, North Carolina, United States	April 9, 1994
300 meters	32.33	Jerez de la Frontera, Spain	September 13, 1989
400 meters	44.27	Houston, Texas, United States	June 17, 1989

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