In 2024, we've experienced the loss of several luminaries in the world of entertainment. These beloved figures—actors, comedians, musicians, singers, and coaches—have touched our lives with their talent, passion, and dedication. They've left an indelible mark on our hearts and shaped the world of entertainment in ways that will continue to inspire and influence generations to come.
Among the incredible actors who bid farewell this year, we mourn the loss of a true chameleon who effortlessly.
In 1996, Anderson settled legal action with Jay Ward Productions since Ward had copyrighted the characters in Ward's name alone. Anderson is now acknowledged as creator of the characters.[3]Ted Key, creator of the comic strip Hazel, had a similar situation with his characters Mr. Peabody and his pet boy Sherman.
Anderson died due to complications of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 90 on October 22, 2010, at a nursing home in Carmel, California.[4] He was the nephew of Terrytoons creator Paul Terry and had two sons, six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Dr. Arthur M. Brazier was an American born activist, author and pastor emeritus of the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago, Illinois.died he was , 89. He was also a bishop, prominent civic leader and founder of The Woodlawn Organization, which was influential in Chicago's civil rights movement in the 1960s and continues its work to this day.[1]
(July 22, 1921 – October 22, 2010)
Career
Brazier was a central figure in driving out gang violence, fighting for affordable housing and revitalizing the surrounding community. He also marched alongside Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to protest segregation.[2] In addition to The Woodlawn Organization, he also founded The Woodlawn Preservation and Investment Corporation as well as The Fund for Community Redevelopment and Revitalization. He has been a national leader in community development. He is the author of Black Self-Determination, Saved by Grace and Grace Alone and Delivery Systems for Model Cities.
A World War II Army Veteran, he left the United States for overseas duty in India and Burma, in 1943, and returned December 24, 1945. He was honorably discharged on December 28, 1945. In July 1947, he met his future wife, Esther Isabelle Holmes, and they were married February 21, 1948.
In 1955, while still being employed by the U. S. Postal Service as a letter carrier, Bishop Brazier enrolled in the Moody Bible Institute evening school to acquire formal systematic biblical training. He pursued these studies continuously for six years and received his graduating certificate in 1961. In 1960 Bishop Brazier was inducted as pastor of Apostolic Church of God. Bishop Brazier also served as diocesan of the Sixth Episcopal District of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World for thirty-one years.
Although Bishop Brazier committed his life to the Christian ministry, he also recognized the need for being actively involved in the civic life of the city.
Bishop Brazier began his community work with the Industrial Areas Foundation under the tutelage of Saul Alinsky and Nicholas Von Hoffman. It was during his work with Saul Alinsky that Bishop Brazier became the founding president of The Woodlawn Organization in 1961. In 1966 Bishop Brazier invited Dr. Martin Luther King to the Apostolic Church of God for its annual Bible Conference; their like passion for civil rights led to the two men protesting, together, against segregated housing and schools in Chicago
In 1969, Bishop Brazier accepted a staff position with the Citizens Crusade Against Poverty, and in 1970, he resigned as President of The Woodlawn Organization.
In addition to his pastoral work, Bishop Brazier joined the staff of the Center for Community Change, a Washington-based institution that gave technical assistance to community organizations in various parts of the country. Bishop Brazier’s office remained in Chicago throughout his work with The Center. After several years of service with The Center, he was elevated to the office of Vice President in charge of Major Projects, and remained in that position until 1986 when he resigned to spend more time with his church, which was experiencing tremendous growth.
As Vice President of the Center, he supervised the Major Projects Unit which gave technical assistance to Community Organizations and Community Development Corporations in the design and implementation of commercial and revitalization programs, and in the packaging and development of major housing projects that received some form of government assistance under Sections 221 (D)(3), 236 and Section 8. The staff developed land use maps and building condition maps that would be used in determining development plans and programs. He assisted in negotiating joint venture relationships between the nonprofit organizations and proven developers. Some of the cities that the staff worked in were: Chicago, Illinois; Evanston, Illinois; Flint, Michigan; Detroit, Michigan; Las Vegas, Nevada; New York City, Los Angeles, California, and others.
He was the founding chairman of the Board of the Woodlawn Preservation and Investment Corporation (WPIC), a community-based group organized for the improvement of the Woodlawn community; and the founding chairman of The Fund for Community Redevelopment and Revitalization. This group of community and institutional leaders came together to pool their resources to undertake efforts over the next five to ten years to rebuild two communities: namely, East Woodlawn and North Kenwood-Oakland. The purpose was to rebuild both the human infrastructure opportunities and the physical conditions for residents of the communities. The plan was to develop and implement a process in which both communities agree to specific goals and strategies that can be implemented. This effort was made to develop, in both communities, a mixed income environment and, where possible, a racially integrated environment. To assist in the effort, The Fund received a grant support from the MacArthur Foundation.
By the appointment of Mayor Richard Daley, Bishop Brazier sat on the Board of the Public Building Commission of Chicago for twenty years before resigning this past September due to his failing health. He also chaired the Executive Committee of the New Communities Program/Woodlawn, an affiliate of the Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC), and the Woodlawn Children’s Promise Community (WCPC).
Ministry
His church claims an active membership of more than 20,000 and is housed in a large modern complex on the South Side of Chicago. He was a member of the Public Buildings Commission of Chicago and has lectured at leading universities, including the University of Chicago, Northwestern. Harvard and Antioch College. He is married to Isabelle Brazier and they have four children Lola, Byron, Janice, and Rosalyn.
Up until October 2007 his church was a member of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World (PAW), headquartered in Indiana. He has parted ways with that church because of a major doctrinal disagreement. Brazier believes in Eternal Security, a doctrine which is rejected by the PAW.
Retirement and death
On April 30, 2008, Bishop Brazier announced his retirement, effective June 1, 2008. On the date of his retirement, Bishop Brazier took the pulpit for the last time in order to preach two sermons to a standing-room-only congregation, an event which caused a major disruption to the Woodlawn neighborhood. The two sanctuaries of the church, on Dorchester and Kenwood streets, were filled to capacity with over ten thousand congregants and reporters watching the services via closed circuit television.
On October 22, 2010, Brazier died at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, after a five-year battle with prostate cancer .[3]
Eio Sakata was a professional 9-dan Japanese professional Goplayer died from an aortic aneurysm. he was 90.
(坂田 栄男,Sakata Eio?, February 15, 1920 - October 22, 2010)
Biography
Sakata became a professional Go player in 1935. His first title match was the Hon'inbō in 1951 when he challenged Hashimoto Utaro. At the time, Hon'inbō started the Kansai Ki-in, so Sakata was under pressure to win the title back for the Nihon Ki-in. Sakata started out well, winning three of the first four games, but Hashimoto fought back and won the final four games, and so kept the Hon'inbō title. Afterwards, Sakata went on to win a couple of small titles which were the start of a meteoric run of major wins in which he won almost all of the titles in Japan except the Hon'inbō. In 1961 he was once again the challenger for the Hon'inbō. His opponent, Takagawa Kaku, had held the title for nine years straight. Sakata won the Hon'inbō and then, in 1963, captured the Meijin, making Sakata the first player to simultaneously hold both titles (which at the time were the biggest titles in Japan). Sakata's strongest year was 1964, when he won 30 games and lost only two and held seven major titles: Meijin, Honinbo, Nihon Ki-in Championship, Asahi Pro Best Ten, Oza, Nihon Kiin#1, and NHK Cup.
Sakata's professional career waned in 1965. Sakata's challenger for the 1965 Meijin was Rin Kaiho, who at the time was just 23 years old. Sakata was the overwhelming favorite, but Rin won the title. Sakata challenged two years in a row but could not win the Meijin back. Rin then went on to take the Hon'inbō from Sakata. Although Sakata suffered defeats for these top titles, he went on to win many other titles, including the Judan and Oza.
Sakata wrote many books in Japanese; several have been translated into English, including Modern Joseki and Fuseki, The Middle Game of Go, Tesuji and Anti-Suji of Go and Killer of Go.
Sakata died on October 22, 2010 at the age of 90.[1]
Denis Simpson[2] was a Canadian actor and singer, best known as a host of the TV series Polka Dot Door.died from a brain hemorrhage he was , 59. He was also an original member of the singing group The Nylons.
(November 4, 1950 – October 22, 2010)
Early life and family
SImpson was born Dennis Anthony Leopold Simpson in 1950, in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica. He moved with his family to Scarborough, Ontario, Canada at age 10. His half-sister, born 1964, is actress Gloria Reuben. At York University, where he studied for one year, Simpson focused on music, theatre, and dance.[1]
Career
The original bass vocalist for The Nylons in 1978–79,[3] he left the band to appear in the Broadway musical Indigo before they became commercially successful.
A. Ayyappan was a Malayalam poet in the modernist period died he was , 61. Born in a wealthy goldsmith's family, in Nemom, Thiruvanathapuram, Kerala, he became a non-conformist member of reading Malayali families. He had a very tragic childhood. His father, Arumukham, died when he was only one year old, perhaps due to poison. He lost his mother, Muthammal, when he was 15. Ayyappan was supported by his sister Subbalakshmi and his brother-in-law V. Krishnan.[1]
(27 October 1949 - 21 October 2010)
Life
Ayyappan started writing poetry when he was a student. He became involved in the Communist Party and joined the staff of Janayugam, the party newspaper. Ayyappan is well known for his heart touching poems and his bohemian lifestyle. He can also be considered as the last remaining icon of anarchism in Kerala. He was a close friend of the late filmmaker John Abraham. Ayyappan is also famous as a great lover of sunlight ('veyil' by malayalam language) and a passionate adherent of Communism.
"Though a bohemian in the tradition of P. Kunhiraman Nair, Malayalam's celebrated poet of yesteryear, Ayyappan was amazingly rigorous in his poetic expression. Often, the street was his home, for homes seldom welcomed the poet in. But few writers in these times can claim to have had so vast a circle of loving and adoring friends, a large majority of them young men and women."[2]
Awards
He won the Asan Puraskaram (Asan Poetry Prize),[3] one of the highest literary awards in Malayalam literature, for the year 2010. Ayyappan was also a recipient of Kerala Sahithya Akademi Award in 1999.[2]
Death
His body was found abandoned in the streets of Thampanoor, Thiruvanathapuram on 21 October 2010. Without recognising the poet, police took his body to General Hospital. His body was kept in hospital mortuary without anybody recognizing who he was and later identified by noon on 22 October 2010.[2][4] He was on his way to Chennai to accept the Asan Puraskaram on Saturday, 23 October 2010.[5] According to other news papers like "Gulf News", "Gulf Times", "The Times of India", "Hariyana News"and "Indian Express", he passed away in a local general hospital after being found unconscious at a roadside.
From His Last Poem. അമ്പ് ഏതു നിമിഷവും മുതുകില് തറയ്ക്കാം പ്രാണനും കൊണ്ട് ഓ!ടുകയാണ് വേടന്റെ കൂര കഴിഞ്ഞ് റാന്തല് വിളക്കുകള് ചുറ്റും എന്റെ രുചിയോര്ത്ത് അഞ്ചെട്ടുപേര് കൊതിയോടെ ഒരു മരവും മറ തന്നില്ല ഒരു പാറയുടെ വാതില് തുറന്ന് ഒരു ഗര്ജനം സ്വീകരിച്ചു അവന്റെ വായ്ക്ക് ഞാനിരയായി (അയ്യപ്പന് അവസാനം എഴുതിയ കവിത
He made his primary school in the Industrial School of Don Bosco in Puerto Sauce and one year of the high school in the public lyceum. He abandoned because he started to work as worker in textile factories settled in his hometown. But he completed his studies in a free nocturnal lyceum organized by him and other workers.
Artistic beginnings
In 1967 he migrated to Montevideo and started to act in folk clubs singing his compositions. That year he has the opportunity to release, for the Orfeo label his first phonogram, in which featured guitar with Roberto Cabrera.
This disc integrated by four chamarritas went virtually unnoticed, and two years later in 1969 he recorded his first LP album called "Canto Popular".
Foreword by the poet Idea Vilariño, and with instrumental support of Yamandú Palacios and Roberto Cabrera, this disc had a remarkable success in Uruguay and Latin America. On it, it is included some of the most emblematic songs of this artist, like "Chiquillada", "La sencillita" y "A mi gente".
Exile
In the 1970s he reached fame in all Latin América through the song Chiquillada, that was also performed by Leonardo Favio and Jorge Cafrune.
Between 1970 and 1973 he lived in Buenos Aires, and then the Uruguayan dictatorship made him emigrate, passing for countries like México, France and Spain. There he was expelled by the franquism, and later he was definitely established in Holland.
Latest years
He came back to Uruguay in 1984 but in 1992 he settled again in Holland, although he kept a music band in Montevideo.
Death
In the dawn of 21 October 2010 he died in his house of Villa Argentina (Canelones Department) of a cardiac arrest.[1].
Forster was born in Munich, Germany,[1][2] the granddaughter of a wealthy German newspaper proprietor. Forster's mother, Nora, was known in the music industry, as she was a friend of Jimi Hendrix and dated Chris Spedding for three years. Ari noted that Jon Anderson, the singer of the group Yes, was her godfather.[3] Nora would later date and marry the Sex Pistols' lead singer, John Lydon. Their home was known to be something of a punk domain, where Nora would take in poor musicians. The constant presence of punk music led to Ari Up experimenting in it herself, learning guitar skills from The Clash's Joe Strummer.[4]
Ari Up was only fourteen when she formed The Slits with drummer Palmolive in 1976. By the late seventies, they were touring as the opening act for The Clash.[3] Ari Up's love of reggae led The Slits into a "jungly", dub style. She was the most flamboyant member of the group. Her wild hair and crazy stage outfits became her trademarks. She can be seen briefly in The Clashmovie, Rude Boy, with the band backstage. Her 1977 performances with The Slits are featured in The Punk Rock Movie, a 1992 release of various punk group club performances, principally at The Roxy.
After The Slits split in 1981, she moved with her husband and twin children to jungle regions of Indonesia and Belize, living among indigenous people in those areas. Later, they moved to Jamaica, eventually settling in Kingston.[5] She continued to make music, first with the New Age Steppers, then solo as Baby Ari, Madussa, and Ari Up.
Despite growing up in England, Ari Up possessed an unusual accent, a cross between German, English and Jamaican.[6] Her first full length solo album entitled Dread More Dan Dead was released in 2005.
Later life and death
In 2006 Ari Up reformed The Slits with original bass player Tessa Pollitt. They released an EP and later toured in Europe, North America, Australia, and Japan. She occasionally played solo concerts in New York, and toured the UK with her backing band 'The True Warriors'.
She also recorded with the Jammyland All Stars, Brave New Girl, Dubistry, and the German techno-dancehall outfit, Terranova.
Ari Up appeared on Lee "Scratch" Perry's 2008 album, Repentance,[7] and performed a duet on a cover version of The Yardbirds' song "Mister You're a Better Man Than I" on Mark Stewart's 2008 album, Edit. In July 2009, she performed with Perry and Austrian dub band Dubblestandart in Brooklyn, New York just prior to the Central Park SummerStage festival.[8] One of Ari's last recordings done in May 2010 in New York was on a track with Lee Scratch Perry recorded by Subatomic Sound System and released in August 2010 on 7" vinyl called "Hello, Hell is Very Low" b/w "Bed Athletes". The Slits' final work, the video for the song "Lazy Slam" from Trapped Animal, was released posthumously in accordance with Ari Up's wishes.[9]
Ari Up died aged 48 from cancer in Los Angeles on 20 October 2010.[1] Her death that morning was initially announced on John Lydon's homepage.[10][11]
In 1996, Anderson settled legal action with Jay Ward Productions since Ward had copyrighted the characters in Ward's name alone. Anderson is now acknowledged as creator of the characters.[3] Ted Key, creator of the comic strip Hazel, had a similar situation with his characters Mr. Peabody and his pet boy Sherman.
