Michael Gough, British actor (Sleepy Hollow, Batman), died after a short illness he was , 94.

Michael Gough  was an English character actor who appeared in over 150 films died after a short illness he was , 94.. He is perhaps best known to international audiences for his roles in the Hammer Horror films from 1958, and for his recurring role as Alfred Pennyworth in all four movies of the Burton/Schumacher Batman franchise, beginning with Batman (1989).

(23 November 1916 – 17 March 2011)

Early life and career

Michael Gough was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya (now Malaysia), the son of British parents Frances Atkins (née Bailie) and Francis Berkeley Gough.^[3][4][5] Gough was educated in Rye Hill school, Tunbridge Wells, and Durham School, he moved onto Wye Agricultural College which he left to go to the Old Vic.^[6][7] During World War II Gough was a conscientious objector, like his friend Frith Banbury, although he was obliged to serve in the Non-Combatant Corps^[8] and was a member of No. 6 Company, NCC, in Liverpool.^[9] Gough made his film debut in 1948 in Blanche Fury, and since appeared extensively on British television. In 1955, he portrayed one of the two murderers who kill the Duke of Clarence (John Gielgud) as well as the two little princes in Laurence Olivier's Richard III.
Gough became known for appearances in horror films including Dracula (1958), Horrors of the Black Museum (1959), The Phantom of the Opera (1962), The Corpse (Velvet House, 1970) and Norman J. Warren's stockbroker-satanism debut Satan's Slave (1976).
Gough guest-starred on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, as the villain in the serial The Celestial Toymaker (1966) and also as Councillor Hedin in Arc of Infinity (1983). He also played the automation-obsessed, wheelchair-using Dr. Armstrong in "The Cybernauts", one of the best remembered episodes of The Avengers (1965). In the Ian Curteis television play Suez 1956 (1979) he played Prime Minister Anthony Eden. He also appeared in The Citadel (1983) as Sir Jenner Halliday, and in 1985's Out of Africa as Lord Delamere.

Later roles

His later roles included Alfred Pennyworth for director Tim Burton, including Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992). He also reprised his role as Alfred in the 1994 BBC radio adaptation of Batman: Knightfall and in Joel Schumacher Batman films, Batman Forever (1995) and Batman & Robin (1997). Gough was one of two actors to have appeared in the four Batman films; the other actor was Pat Hingle (as Commissioner Gordon). Gough worked for Burton again in 1999's Sleepy Hollow and 2005's Corpse Bride. He also briefly reprised his Alfred role in six 2001 television commercials for the OnStar automobile tracking system, informing Batman of the system's installation in the Batmobile. As a favor to Burton, Gough came out of retirement once more to appear in Burton's Alice in Wonderland.^[10]

Awards and nominations

He won Broadway's 1979 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role – Play) for Bedroom Farce. He was also nominated in the same category in 1988 for Breaking the Code.
He won a BAFTA TV Award in 1957 and was nominated for a BAFTA Film Award in 1972 for his work in The Go-Between.
He was nominated for a Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play in 1979 for Bedroom Farce and again in 1988 for Breaking the Code.

Personal life

Gough was married four times—one of his ex-wives is Anne Elizabeth Leon (born 1925). They married in 1950, their daughter Emma Frances was born in 1953 and they divorced in 1964.^[5] Another ex-wife is Doctor Who actor Anneke Wills, who played the Doctor's companion Polly. Wills had encountered him at various times during her life—firstly during a theatre trip with her mother in 1952—but they first met formally, on the set of Candidate for Murder and the attraction was instant. Gough adopted Wills's daughter Polly, and in 1965 their son Jasper was born.

Death

Michael Gough died on 17 March 2011 in London^{[citation needed]} at the age of 94 after a short illness. He was survived by his fourth wife, Henrietta, daughter Emma and sons Simon (who is married to actress Sharon Gurney, the daughter of the late Upstairs Downstairs actress Rachel Gurney) and Jasper.^[11] Michael Keaton, his co-star in the first two Batman films, said that Gough was sweet and charming and wrote, "To Mick – my butler, my confidant, my friend, my Alfred. I love you. God bless. Michael (Mr Wayne) Keaton."^[12]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1948	Anna Karenina	Nicholai
1948	Blanche Fury	Laurence Fury
1948	Saraband for Dead Lovers	Prince Charles
1949	The Small Back Room	Capt. Dick Stuart
1951	Blackmailed	Maurice Edwards
1951	The Man in the White Suit	Michael Corland
1953	Twice Upon a Time	Mr. Lloyd
1953	The Sword and the Rose	Duke of Buckingham
1953	Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue	Duke of Montrose
1955	Richard III	Dighton, the first murderer
1956	Reach for the Sky	Flying Instructor Pearson
1957	Ill Met by Moonlight	Andoni Zoidakis
1958	Dracula	Arthur Holmwood
1958	The Horse's Mouth	Abel
1959	Model for Murder	Kingsley Beauchamp
1959	Horrors of the Black Museum	Edmond Bancroft
1961	What a Carve Up!	Fisk, the butler
1961	Konga	Dr. Charles Decker
1962	The Phantom of the Opera	Ambrose D'Arcy
1963	Black Zoo	Michael Conrad
1965	Dr. Terror's House of Horrors	Eric Landor	Segment four: "Disembodied Hand"
1965	The Skull	Auctioneer
1966	Alice in Wonderland	March Hare
1966	Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker	Celestial Toymaker
1967	Berserk!	Albert Dorando
1968	Curse of the Crimson Altar	Elder
1969	Women in Love	Tom Brangwen
1969	A Walk with Love and Death	Mad Monk
1970	Julius Caesar	Metellus Cimber
1970	Trog	Sam Murdock
1970	The Go-Between	Mr. Maudsley
1970	The Corpse	Walter Eastwood	Also known as Velvet House and Crucible of Horror
1972	Henry VIII and His Six Wives	Norfolk
1972	Savage Messiah	M. Gaudier
1973	Horror Hospital	Dr. Christian Storm
1973	The Legend of Hell House	Emeric Belasco	Uncredited
1976	Satan's Slave	Uncle Alexander Yorke
1978	The Boys from Brazil	Mr. Harrington
1981	Venom	David Ball
1982	Smiley's People	Mikhel
1983	Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity	Councillor Hedin
1983	The Dresser	Frank Carrington
1984	Oxford Blues	Doctor Ambrose
1984	Top Secret!	Dr. Paul Flammond
1984	A Christmas Carol	Mr. Poole
1985	Out of Africa	Baron Delamere
1986	Caravaggio	Cardinal Del Monte
1987	Inspector Morse: The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn	Philip Ogleby
1987	The Fourth Protocol	Sir Bernard Hemmings
1988	The Serpent and the Rainbow	Schoonbacher
1989	Strapless	Douglas Brodie
1989	Batman	Alfred Pennyworth
1989	Batman: The Lazarus Syndrome	Alfred Pennyworth	Voice
1991	Let Him Have It	Lord Goddard
1992	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Russia 1910	Leo Tolstoy
1992	Batman Returns	Alfred Pennyworth
1993	The Age of Innocence	Henry van der Luyden
1993	The Hour of the Pig	Magistrate Boniface
1993	Wittgenstein	Bertrand Russell
1995	Batman Forever	Alfred Pennyworth
1997	Batman & Robin	Alfred Pennyworth
1998	St. Ives	Comte de Saint-Yves
1999	The Cherry Orchard	Feers
1999	Sleepy Hollow	Notary Hardenbrook
2005	Corpse Bride	Elder Gutknecht	Voice
2010	Alice in Wonderland	Uilleam	Voice; Final role

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Ferlin Husky, American country music singer, died from heart failure he was , 85.

Ferlin Eugene Husky  was an early American country music singer who was equally adept at the genres of traditional honky honk, ballads, spoken recitations, and rockabilly pop tunes died from heart failure he was , 85.. He had two dozen Top 20 hits in the Billboard country charts between 1953–1975; his versatility and matinee-idol looks propelling a seven-decade entertainment career.^[1]
In the 1950s and 60s, Husky's hits included "Gone" and "Wings of a Dove", each reaching No. 1 on the country charts. He also created a comic outspoken hayseed character, Simon Crum; and recorded under the stage name Terry Preston from 1948–1953.^[2]
In 2010, Husky was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

(December 3, 1925 – March 17, 2011)

Biography

Husky was born in Cantwell, a community of east Desloge, Missouri. His mother named him Furland, but his name was misspelled on his birth certificate. Husky grew up on a farm near Flat River and attended school in Irondale. He learned guitar from an uncle. After dropping out of high school, Husky moved to St. Louis, where he worked as a truck driver and steel mill

worker while performing in honky tonks at night.^[3]
During World War II, Husky served as a United States Merchant Marine for five years, entertaining troops on transport ships. His Crum character evolved from stories he told at the time about a Missouri neighbor named Simon Crump.^[4] His website states that his ship participated in the D-Day invasion of Cherbourg.
After the war, Husky continued to develop the Crum chracter while working as a disc jockey in Missouri and then Bakersfield, California in the late 1940s. He began using the moniker Terry Preston at the suggestion of Smiley Burnette, who claimed Ferlin Husky would never work on a marquee.^[5] As a honky tonk singer, Husky signed with Capitol Records in 1953 under the guidance of Cliffie Stone, also the manager for Tennessee Ernie Ford. With Capitol Records, he returned to using his given name. A few singles failed before "A Dear John Letter" with Jean Shepard became a No. 1 hit. The followup was called "Forgive Me John".
In 1955, Husky had a solo hit with "I Feel Better All Over (More Than Anywheres Else)"/"Little Tom". As Simon Crum, he signed a separate contract with Capitol Records and began releasing records, the biggest of which was 1959's "Country Music is Here to Stay" (No. 2 for three weeks).
In the late 1950s, Husky had a long string of hits, including the No. 1 "Gone" in 1957 (he first recorded "Gone" as Terry Preston in 1952, but the earlier version lacked the strings and backup singers of the newly-emerging Nashville sound). "Gone" was a crossover success, also reaching No. 4 on the pop music chart. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.^[6] The song's popularity led to a stint as a summer replacement host in 1957 on CBS-TV's Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts.^[7]
He then began an acting career, appearing on Kraft Television Theatre, and portraying himself in the 1957 film Mr. Rock & Roll (his website states he had bit parts in 18 films, including with Zsa Zsa Gabor and Mamie Van Doren). Bob Ferguson's "Wings of a Dove" became his biggest hit in 1960, topping the country charts for ten weeks and attaining No. 12 on the pop chart. Husky was also known for his ability to mimic other popular country singers, including Tennessee Ernie Ford and Kitty Wells.
Although he did not have more chart-toppers, he charted three dozen hits between 1961 and 1972, with the biggest being "Once" (1967) and "Just for You" (1968). In late 1972, after over 20 years with Capitol, Husky signed with ABC Records, where he scored several Top 40 hits into 1975, with the biggest being the Top 20 "Rosie Cries a Lot" (1973). Husky briefly retired in 1977 following heart surgery but resumed touring. He remained a popular concert draw, performing at the Grand Ole Opry and elsewhere. He was married four times and for the last 6 years of his life lived with his long time love, Leona Williams (former wife of Merle Haggard).
Husky suffered from cardiopathy for many years and was hospitalized several times since the late 1970s, including for heart surgery in 2005 and blood clots in his legs in 2007. He was admitted to St. John's Hospital in Springfield, Missouri on April 19, 2009 with congestive heart failure and pneumonia. On July 15, 2009 his spokesman said he was recuperating at home after being released from a Nashville hospital. As recently as 2009, he lived in Vienna, Missouri.
On February 23, 2010, the Country Music Association announced his induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He was heralded for his vocal and comic prowess—and "all around showmanship"—that left a legacy as "one of the best entertainers country music has ever produced".
On January 16, 2011, Husky was honored at West St. Francois County High School in Leadwood, Missouri where local singers and the high school choir sang some of his hits. Husky also donated several items of memorabilia, including his Country Music Hall of Fame award, to the city of Leadwood. They will be permanently stored at the high school.
On March 8, 2011 Husky was hospitalized again after several days of not feeling well. By the weekend he had improved and was preparing to move out of the coronary care unit, but on March 17, Husky died at his daughter's home in Westmoreland, Tennessee of congestive heart failure.^[8]

Honors

Husky was one of the first country singers to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (for recording) at 6675 Hollywood Blvd.
The street that runs through the city park in Leadwood, Missouri is named for him.^[9]

Discography

Albums

Year	Album	US Country	Label
1956	Songs of the Home and Heart		Capitol
1957	Boulevard of Broken Dreams
1958	Sittin' on a Rainbow
1959	Born to Lose
	Ferlin Husky		King
1960	Easy Livin'
	Ferlin's Favorites		Capitol
	"Gone"
1961	Walkin' and a Hummin'
	Memories of Home
1962	Some of My Favorites
1963	The Unpredictable Simon Crum
	The Heart and Soul of Ferlin Husky
	The Hits of Ferlin Husky
1964	By Request	20
1965	True True Lovin'
1966	Ferlin Husky Sings the Songs of Music City, U.S.A.	20
	I Could Sing All Night	18
1967	What Am I Gonna Do Now?	22
	Christmas All Year Long
1968	Just for You (and the Hush Puppies)	19
	Where No One Stands Alone
	White Fences and Evergreen Trees	44
1969	The Best of Ferlin Husky	42
	That's Why I Love You So Much	24
1970	Your Love Is Heavenly Sunshine	25
	Green Green Grass of Home
	Your Sweet Love Lifted Me	31
1971	One More Time	35
1972	Just Plain Lonely	39
1973	True True Lovin'		ABC
	Sweet Honky Tonk
1974	Freckles and Polliwag Days	44
	Champagne Ladies and Blue Ribbon Babies	43
1975	Foster and Rice Songbook

Singles

Year	Single	Chart Positions			Album
		US Country	US	CAN Country
1953	"A Dear John Letter" (w/ Jean Shepard)	1	4		singles only
	"Forgive Me John" (w/ Jean Shepard)	4	24
1955	"I Feel Better All Over (More Than Anywhere's Else)"	6
	"Little Tom"	7
	"Cuzz Yore So Sweet" (as Simon Crum)	5			The Unpredictable Simon Crum
	"I'll Baby Sit with You" (w/ His Hush Puppies)	14			single only
1957	"Gone"	1	4		"Gone"
	"A Fallen Star"	8	47
	"Prize Possession"	12
1958	"I Will"	23
	"Country Music Is Here to Stay" (as Simon Crum)	2			The Unpredictable Simon Crum
1959	"My Reason for Living"	14			"Gone"
	"Draggin' the River"	11			singles only
	"Black Sheep"	21
1960	"Wings of a Dove"	1	12
1961	"Willow Tree"	23
1962	"The Waltz You Saved for Me"	13	94		Some of My Favorites
	"Somebody Save Me"	16			singles only
	"Stand Up"	28
	"It Was You"	21
1964	"Timber I'm Falling"	13			By Request
1965	"True True Lovin'"	46			True True Lovin'
	"Money Greases the Wheels"	48			Ferlin Husky Sings the Songs of Music City, U.S.A.
1966	"I Could Sing All Night"	27			I Could Sing All Night
	"I Hear Little Rock Calling"	17
1967	"Once"	4
	"What Am I Gonna Do Now"	37			What Am I Gonna Do Now?
	"You Pushed Me Too Far"	14			Just for You
1968	"Just for You"	4
	"I Promised You the World"	26		13	single only
	"White Fences and Evergreen Trees"	25		18	White Fences and Evergreen Trees
1969	"Flat River, MO"	33
	"That's Why I Love You So Much"	16		11	That's Why I Love You So Much
	"Every Step of the Way"	21		23	Your Love Is Heavenly Sunshine
1970	"Heavenly Sunshine"	11		6
	"Your Sweet Love Lifted Me"	45			One More Time
1971	"Sweet Misery"	14		23
	"One More Time"	28		31
	"Open Up the Book (And Take a Look)"	45			single only
1972	"Just Plain Lonely"	39			Just Plain Lonely
	"How Could You Be Anything But Love"	53			single only
1973	"True True Lovin'" (re-recording)	35		29	True True Lovin'
	"Between Me and Blue"	46		75	Sweet Honky Tonk
	"Baby's Blue"	75
	"Rosie Cries a Lot"	17		33
1974	"Freckles and Polliwog Days"	26		36	Freckles and Polliwog Days
	"A Room for a Boy...Never Used"	60
1975	"Champagne Ladies and Blue Ribbon Babies"	34			Champagne Ladies and Blue Ribbon Babies
	"Burning"	37
	"An Old Memory (Got in My Eye)"	90			Foster and Rice Songbook
	"She's Not Yours Anymore"	74

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J.B. Steane, British music critic died he was , 83

John Barry Steane  was an English music critic, musicologist, literary scholar and teacher, with a particular interest in singing and the human voice died he was , 83. His 36-year career as a schoolmaster overlapped with his career as a music critic and author of books on Elizabethan drama, and opera and concert singers.
Among Steane's works are critical studies of Christopher Marlowe and Tennyson, and a series of books on music, concentrating on singing and singers. He contributed to a range of musical journals, including Gramophone and The Musical Times, and wrote articles for the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

(12 April 1928 – 17 March 2011)

Life and career

Early years

Steane was born in Coventry, the son of William John Steane and his wife, Winifred.^[1] He was educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry. ^[2] While there, he became a member of the Coventry Cathedral choir. When the cathedral was destroyed by bombing in 1940, Steane moved to the neighbouring Holy Trinity Church. After leaving school and before going up to the University of Cambridge, he undertook his national service, where among those he met was Sergeant Edward Greenfield, who became a lifelong friend and later a colleague of Steane in music criticism.^[2]
From 1948 to 1952 Steane attended Jesus College, Cambridge, where he studied English under A. P. Rossiter from 1948 to 1952. Among the other influences on him at Cambridge was the controversial scholar F. R. Leavis.^[2] After graduating he joined the staff of Merchant Taylors' school Northwood, Middlesex, where he became a housemaster and head of English.^[2] An obituarist wrote in 2011 that Steane influenced many aspects of the school's life, including not only English, but also sport, music and drama, and "the breadth of his intellect and the warmth of his personality made him an inspirational guide for generations of students".^[2]

English literature

In 1964, the Cambridge University Press published Steane's first book, Marlowe: A Critical Study, giving a short (23 page) biographical study of the Elizabethan playwright, Christopher Marlowe, together with a comprehensive (350 page) study of his works. Reviewing the book, The Times said of Steane, "He possesses the authority which derives from intimate knowledge … creative criticism of the highest quality."^[3] The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) wrote, "He has turned an acute and sensitive mind upon Christopher Marlowe and both the author and ourselves should be thankful to him."^[4] For the same publisher, Steane edited and introduced Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday in an edition published in 1965,^[5] and Ben Jonson's The Alchemist, in 1967.^[1]
Steane's literary interests were not confined to the Elizabethans; in 1966 he wrote a volume on Tennyson for a new series, "Literature in Perspective", to which his fellow contributors included Margaret Drabble, Norman Sherry and Fred Inglis; the TLS thought Steane's book "brilliant, informative and admirably written", and much the best of the four.^[6] In 1969 he edited, and wrote the introduction to, the Penguin edition of Marlowe's plays.^[7] In 1972 he published his last contribution to English literary scholarship, an edition of Thomas Nashe's, The Unfortunate Traveller and other works.^[1]

Music criticism

Music was a lifelong passion with Steane. During his years at Merchant Taylor's he regularly played the organ for chapel services. An obituary in The Times, noting that choral music, and particularly the music of the Anglican liturgy, remained one of his greatest loves,^[8] observes, "his beautifully observed and straightforwardly expressed views about the art of singing brought him to the attention of the EMI record producer Walter Legge, who suggested to the editors of Gramophone magazine that he would be a useful adornment to its panel of contributors."^[8]
Steane began writing for Gramophone in 1972. In 1974 he took over from Desmond Shawe-Taylor the long-running quarterly feature, "The Gramophone and the Voice", giving a second opinion on vocal issues reviewed in recent issues of the magazine. An editor of the magazine commented that Steane's views were "beautifully judged, invariably generous and always elegantly crafted".^[9] In 1999, the magazine published in book form a collection of these articles from the previous 25 years.^[1]
In 1974 Steane published his book The Grand Tradition: Seventy Years of Singing on Record, 1900-1970 which covered the history of recorded singing. It was enthusiastically received by the critics. The TLS wrote that singers had found in Steane "their Keats or Baudelaire, the poet of the sensations they create." The reviewer praised his ability to characterise a singer with phrases of "poetic refinement", though not eschewing humour, quoting his description of Nellie Melba changing in the course of one song "from Juliet at the ball to a knees-up-mother-Brown pearly-queen".^[10] In The Musical Times, Harold Rosenthal vigorously dissented from some of Steane's opinions, but he too praised his gift for the "apt choice of a word or phrase to sum up a singer's art or voice".^[11] Music & Letters called it "a book for the connoisseur".^[12] American Record Guide called Steane's erudition "formidable" and the book "essential".^[1]
In the 1980s Steane began writing articles and reviews in The Musical Times. Many of his contributions were about famous singers of the past, or reviews of books about them. These included Claudia Muzio, Beniamino Gigli, Lauritz Melchior, Enrico Caruso, and Margaret Burke-Sheridan.^[13] His literary expertise was employed in a piece about the poets whose music Britten chose to set.^[14] Other articles drew on his long and wide experience of opera and song, from Puccini to Hugo Wolf.^[15] He also contributed many reviews and articles to Opera (from 1981), Opera Now (from 1989), and Classic Record Collector.^[1]
Steane contributed numerous entries in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and the New Grove Dictionary of Opera. The online combined edition of Grove at May 2011 listed 359 articles by him, mostly about singers, but with some about other subjects such as the conductor Tullio Serafin and the pianist Graham Johnson.^[16] He wrote the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography articles on Roy Henderson and Nellie Melba.^[17] Steane's Voices, Singers and Critics was published in 1992, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: A Career on Record (with Alan Sanders) in 1995, and his three-volume Singers of the Century appeared between 1996 and 2000.^[1]
Steane retired from Merchant Taylor's in 1988.^[1] In 2008 he was honoured by the Worshipful Company of Musicians, on the occasion of his 80th birthday.^[2] He died at the age of 82. His final contribution to Gramophone, an appreciation of a vintage recording of The Barber of Seville with Maria Callas and Tito Gobbi, was published posthumously in May 2011.^[9]

Bibliography

Author

• Marlowe: A Critical Study, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England), 1964, second edition, 1970.
• Tennyson, Evans Brothers (London), 1966, Arco (New York, NY), 1969.
• The Grand Tradition: Seventy Years of Singing on Record, Scribner (New York, NY), 1974, reprinted, Amadeus Press (Portland, OR), 1993.
• Voices, Singers and Critics, Amadeus Press, 1992.
• Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: A Career on Record (with Alan Sanders and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf), Amadeus Press, 1995.
• Singers of the Century, Amadeus Press, Volume 1, 1996, Volume 2, 1999 , Volume 3, 2000.
• The Gramophone and the Voice: 25 Years of Quarterly Writings from the Pages of Gramophone, Gramophone, 1999.

Editor

• Thomas Dekker, The Shoemaker's Holiday, Cambridge University Press, 1965.
• Ben Jonson, The Alchemist, Cambridge University Press, 1967.
• Christopher Marlowe, The Complete Plays, Penguin (Harmondsworth), 1969.
• Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works, Penguin, 1972.

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Carel Boshoff, South African religious and cultural activist, died from cancer he was , 83.

Carel Willem Hendrik Boshoff  was an Afrikaner religious figure and cultural activist  died from cancer he was , 83..
Boshoff was the second child of Willem Sterrenberg Boshoff and Anna Maria "Annie" Boshoff.^[2] Annie was Willem's second wife and together they had 7 children. With his first wife, Willem had six children.^[1] Boshoff was educated at the University of Pretoria to doctorate level in Missionary science and has done missionary work in the old Transvaal Provence. He spoke fluent iSipedi (Northern Sotho) and served as Secretary of Missions for the Dutch Reformed Church.
Boshoff's wife, also named Anna, whom he married in 1954, was the daughter of Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (former prime minister of South Africa, mainly known as the architect of Apartheid).^[3] They had 7 children. She died in 2007. Boshoff was leader of the Voortrekker movement from 1981-89.^[4] Further, he was chairman of the Afrikaner Broederbond from 1980-83. He chaired the Freedom Front in Northern Cape since 1994. In 1988 he founded AVSTIG or Afrikaner Vryheidstigting, although he is mainly known as the founder in 1990 of Orania, an Afrikaner settlement. Intended as the beginning of a volkstaat, Boshoff admitted his disappointment that it has only 810 residents, rather than the 60,000 he had anticipated.^[5] Orania recently got its own currency, the Ora and is famous for its Koeksister monument. Boshoff was the president of the Orania movement ('Orania beweging') until 2007. All the above positions were taken over by his son, Carel Boshoff IV, after Boshoff was disabled by his illness.

(9 November 1927 – 16 March 2011)

Death

Boshoff died aged 83 from cancer at his home on 16 March 2011. ^[6]

Chairmanships

Position	Organisation	Appointed	Concluded
Chair	Orania Bestuurdienste (Pty) Ltd	1990
Executive Chair	Afrikaner Vryheidstigting	1988
Chair	Afrikaanse Gereformeerde Bond	1987
Chair	Die Afrikaner Volkswag (Cultural Organisation)	1984	1999
Chair	Die Afrikaner Broederbond	1979	1983
Founder & Chair	Institute for Missiological Research, UP	1979	1988
Chair	SABRA	1972	1999
Member	Council Rand College of Education	1963	1979
Chair	NG Kerkboekhandel		1988

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Betty Lowman Carey, American rower died she was , 96.

 Betty Lowman Carey  became the first woman to singlehandedly row the Inside Passage of British Columbia in 1937died she was , 96.  At the age of 22, having graduated from the University of Washington, she traveled in a traditional dugout canoe converted to include oars and named in an acronym of her brothers first names (Bill, Jack, Bob, and Jim), Bijaboji. She celebrated her 23rd birthday in Butedale on the east side of Princess Royal Island during her trip.

(July 31, 1914 – March 16, 2011)

The trip

Bijaboji is a traditional Alaska native dugout canoe, carved from red cedar. In 1931 the United States Coast Guard found the canoe floating in the vicinity of the San Juan Islands, Washington. After no owner claimed it, Lowman’s father, Ray, acquired it, her brothers painted it red, strengthened it with four oak ribs, fitted it with oarlocks, and Ray gave it to Betty on her 18th birthday. Four years later she departed with a friend on June 15, 1937, from the north beach on Guemes Island, Washington, against her father’s wishes, and arrived solo in Ketchikan on August 19, 66 days later.
Her friend, Florence Steele, returned home after a week when her smallpox vaccination resulted in a strong reaction. Lowman continued on alone, in a trip which featured several swampings of the canoe, frequent side trips and tows from friendly boaters, and almost daily contact, and bacon and egg breakfasts, with friendly locals. While a lost Amelia Earhart garnered international coverage during the same weeks, the “co-ed canoeist” generated significant media attention along the British Columbia coast.

Later years

After the adventure, for several years Lowman toured the US giving lectures of the adventure, during which time she met and later married Neil Carey, eventually moving to Sandspit, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, where the couple resides as of 2010. In 1963, Lowman, aged 49, repeated the trip in the opposite direction, rowing Bijaboji from Ketchikan to Anacortes, Washington. From 1999 to 2007, Bijaboji was displayed at the Queen Charlotte Airport, and now is a permanent exhibit at the Anacortes History Museum, Washington. At age 90, Lowman wrote a memoir of her the trip, published in 2004 as Bijaboji: North to Alaska by Oar (ISBN 1-55017-340-5). She died at age 96 on March 16, 2011 in Queen Charlotte City, Haida Gwaii, BC ^[2].

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Tom Dunbar, American baseball player (Texas Rangers) died he was , 51

Thomas Jerome Dunbar was a professional baseball player who played as outfielder in Major League Baseball for three seasons with the Texas Rangers from 1983 until 1985. He was 6'2", 192 pounds, and he threw and batted left-handed died he was , 51. The college he chose to attend was Middle Georgia College.

(November 24, 1959 – March 16, 2011) 

Dunbar was originally drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 11th round, 286th overall, of the 1979 draft. Deciding not to sign that year, he was drafted by the Rangers in the 1st round, 25th overall, of the 1980 draft, after which he signed.
Dunbar played a total of 91 major league games, making his debut on September 7, 1983, at the age of 23. He hit .231 with three home runs and 18 RBI, striking out 32 times and walking 23. In the field, he committed four errors for a .929 fielding percentage, below average for an outfielder. He played his final game on July 13, 1985, though continued to play in the minors until 1991. His most notable game was most likely Mike Witt's perfect game in the 1984 season finale. He went 0 for 3 including a strikeout leading off the bottom of the ninth. He could apparently hit the knuckleball however, going 3 for 7 lifetime against Phil Niekro, one of three Hall of Famers he would face in his career. Rollie Fingers and newly elected Bert Blyleven were the others.
After retirement he worked in the Cincinnati Reds organization as a minor league coach and manager.^[1]
He died at the age of 51 on March 16, 2011, in Aiken, South Carolina, while recuperating from prostate cancer surgery.^[2]

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James Pritchett, American actor (The Doctors) died he was , 88.

James Pritchett  was an American actor, best known for his role as Dr. Matt Powers on the long-running soap opera The Doctors died he was , 88.

(October 27, 1922 – March 16, 2011)

He was born in Lenoir, North Carolina in 1922. He appeared in the serial for its duration, from 1963 to 1982, and was the soap's central cast member.
Before creating his role on "The Doctors," James played the role of Bruce Elliott on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns a not-so-popular character who was having an affair with married vixen, Lisa Hughes (Eileen Fulton). After "The Doctors," Pritchett did a short term role on another CBS soap, Guiding Light.
Pritchett was given an audience with then-President Jimmy Carter in 1978 along with a few other select soap opera actors, such as Eileen Fulton, Susan Lucci, and Dorothy Malone.
Pritchett died on March 16, 2011 at the age of 88 in New York City, New York.

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