Rouhollah Dadashi Iranian powerlifter and bodybuilder, was stabbed and died he was , 30.

Rouhollah Dadashi was an Iranian Powerlifter, Bodybuilder and Strongman, competing for Iran in international strongman competitions was stabbed and died he was , 30. 

(January 24, 1982 - July 16, 2011)


He participated five times in Iran's Strongest Man competition,^[8] reaching the final round each time, and becoming the champion twice (2009 and 2010). ^[9]
Dadashi was stabbed and killed on 16 July 2011, 11:45 p.m in a fight which started as an argument with another driver and his passengers.^[10][11] On 17 July 2011, two of the killers were arrested by the police in the city of Karaj. The third and main murderer was arrested the next day while trying to escape the city.
Thousands of people attended Dadashi's burial ceremony. He was buried in Imamzadeh Mohammad in Karaj on 18 July 2011.^[12]

 

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Cesare Mazzolari, Italian-born South Sudanese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Rumbek (since 1998) died he was , 74.

Cesare Mazzolari (or: Caesar Mazzolari,) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rumbek, in the newly-independent Republic of South Sudan died he was , 74..

(9 February 1937–16 July 2011)

Bishop Mazzolari was born Feb. 9, 1937 in Brescia, Italy. He joined the Comboni Missionaries, and on 17 March 1962 was ordained a priest in San Diego, USA. His mission brought him to Cincinnati, in the United States, where he worked among African American and Mexican American miners.
In 1981, in response to the invitation of Bishop Joseph Gasi, he was appointed by his Comboni Congregation to the Diocese of Tombura-Yambio then the south-central Archdiocese of Juba, Southern Sudan. He was then aged 44. In that diocese, he worked in Nzara parish as curate and he was a sought-after Spiritual Director at St. Joseph’s Minor Seminary at Rimenze, Yambio. From there, he went to Juba to serve as Comboni Provincial of Southern Sudan for six years.
In 1990, he was appointed Apostolic Administrator of the war-torn Diocese of Rumbek (Southern Sudan). He zealously set to work, re-opening missions and negotiating humanitarian assistance and the freedom of very young slaves. That same year, he helped free 150 child slaves.
He rebuilt the Diocese of Rumbek almost from scrap, as the two Southern Sudanese Secession Wars (1955-1973 and 1083-2005) had devastated the country and the Government of Khartoum had expelled all foreign missionaries from the country in the 1960ies. In 1991, he reopened the mission of Yirol, the first of many, some of which subsequently had to be abandoned during the protracted Second Sudanese Civil War. In 1994 he was captured and held hostage for 24 hours by guerrillas of the SPLA (Sudan People's Liberation Army), the separatist armed group fighting against the Khartoum government. On 6 January 1999 he was ordained a bishop by Pope John Paul II. ^[1][2][3]
He took to heart the mandate given to him on that day by the Holy Father, John Paul II, namely, to relieve “a people who have suffered too much for too long” from “the anguish of an unjust war” and “to help them to restore the dignity of their human rights.” And indeed, his years as Bishop of Rumbek reflect his faithfulness to this extraordinary and challenging mission.
Bishop Mazzolari promoted formal and informal education through the establishment of learning institutions. He coordinated the provision of health services. He passionately responded to human need at every level. And to answer the educational, health, pastoral and humanitarian needs of the geographically vast diocese, he went beyond the borders of Sudan to seek help from religious congregations worldwide. Today every continent is represented in the Diocesan personnel of Rumbek Diocese. He also worked tirelessly to promote reconciliation among our people, always optimistic and courageous in the face of often apparently insurmountable obstacles.
On Saturday, July 9, 2011, Bishop Mazzolari joyfully witnessed the birth of the Republic of South Sudan when he presided over the official opening prayer during the Independence Day celebration at Freedom Square in Rumbek. This event was also a culmination of his unique pastoral initiative, Ten Steps to Unity in South Sudan.
Bishop Mazzolari died a week after those events on 16 July 2011, at the age of 74, while concelebrating a Mass; he abruptly gasped for air and clutched at his chest and fell back, leading many to believe his death was from cardiopulmonary disease-related causes. He was widely mourned and appreciated for having seen the region and the country through the war, to the cessation of much of the hostilities, and finally to independence.^[4]

 

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John Crook, British ethnologist died he was , 80.

John Hurrell Crook, BSc, PhD, DSc was a British ethologist who filled a pivotal role in British primatology died he was , 80.

(27 November 1930 – 15 July 2011)

As Reader in Ethology (animal behaviour) in the Psychology Department, Bristol University, he led a research group studying social and reproductive behaviour in birds and primates throughout the 1970s-80s, turning to the socio-psychological anthropology of Himalayan peoples in the 1990s.^[2] In his later years he was the Teacher of the Western Chan Fellowship.^[3]

Early life

He was educated at Oakmount School, Southampton and Sherborne School, Dorset.
He completed his National Service in Hong Kong, where he first encountered Chinese Zen (Chan) Buddhism.^[4]

Academic career

Crook was a pioneer in the early development of socio-ecology, adding this dimension to ethology which was then dominated by the ideas of Niko Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz. His student paper on the gulls of Southampton Water^[5] while at University College, Southampton, led to his doctoral study at Jesus College, Cambridge^[6] of the weaver birds (Ploceinae) of West Africa, supervised by William Thorpe and Robert Hinde. This was followed by further research in India, the Seychelles Islands and East Africa. His theoretical interpretation subsequently contributed to David Lack’s discussion of the behavioural component in avian population research.^[7] His fieldwork was further supported by laboratory experimentation on the endocrinal basis for the behaviour observed in the field.^[8]
After moving to Bristol University, he collaborated with Professor K.R.L. Hall in establishing a centre for primate studies, extending socio-ecological principles to primates,^[9] supervising doctoral projects and leading field research in Ethiopia on the Gelada Baboon and in Morocco on the Barbary Macaque, subsequently developed by Robin Dunbar and John Deag respectively.
His year^[10] as Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in California introduced him to the new techniques of humanistic psychotherapy. On return to Bristol, his students requested him to demonstrate these methods, leading to the creation of the Bristol Encounter Centre and to his teaching of the subject widely in the UK, especially based on workshops run at his retreat centre in mid Wales.
In 1977 Crook led an expedition to Zanskar in the Ladakh Himalayas, a pilot study focussing on polyandrous marriage.^[11] For several years, he and colleagues led further expeditions studying the geology, agriculture, social and family life and monastic practices in this remote, high-altitude region.^[12] He later returned with James Low, a Tibetologist fluent in the texts and language, to study the lives of Buddhist hermits in the mountains.^[13]
Retiring early, he began practicing Zen Buddhism in intensive retreats taught in New York by Chan Master Sheng Yen of Dharma Drum Monastery, Taiwan, who in 1993 transmitted to him the authority to teach Chinese Zen.^[14] Forming the Western Chan Fellowship with colleagues, Crook developed a programme of retreats adapted to Western Zen practitioners.
Crook published around a hundred scientific papers in ornithology, ethology and evolutionary psychology, and several books focussing on consciousness^[15] and Zen practice.^[16] His last work was World Crisis and Buddhist Humanism (New Age Books, Delhi 2009).
He died on 15 July 2011, shortly after a gathering of many former students and colleagues in Somerset to celebrate his life. Dr Innes Cuthill, Professor of Behavioural Ecology at Bristol University, described him as "a pivotal figure in the rise of British primatology and socio-ecology".^[1]

Honours

• Osman Hill Medal. Primate Society of Great Britain. 1992.
• Fellow. Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University. 1968-69.
• Honour plaque. Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages. 2003.

 

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Cuddly Dudley, British rock and roll singer, died from natural causes he was , 87.

Cuddly Dudley (born Dudley Heslop in Kingston, Jamaica) was an English rock & roll singer, and actor, who came to fame on the Oh Boy! TV series, and is noted for being “Britain's first black rock & roller” died from natural causes he was , 87..

Early career

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, probably in 1929^[2] (although Allmusic^[3] says the 1930s) he started performing when very young with a "native song and dance act" for tourists. In 1947 he went to Britain where he spent a year in the play Sauce Tartare at the Cambridge Theatre in the West End, before singing in clubs for 6 months. He then played in Folies Bergeres at the Hippodrome, London and toured Australia in Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate, before joining Sid Milward's Comedy orchestra, The Nit Wits, supporting Max Bygraves.^[2]
By the mid-1950s Dudley was recording for Oriole Records,^[3] as part of the Charles Ross Orchestra, and adopted the nickname Cuddly Dudley,^[4] playing on his slightly round figure. He toured New Zealand and Switzerland with Charles Ross, then joined Mambo bandleader Perez Prado to tour Italy, before returning to the West End with Plaisirs de Paris at the Prince of Wales Theatre.^[2]
Dudley was influenced by early rock 'n' roll and, being black, with a strong voice, decided to change musical style. His manager, Guy Robinson, promoted him as "Bristol's answer to The Big Bopper"^[4] and he adopted a big grin, flashy suits and snazzy ties. He was also a co-founder of The Dominoes, with pianist Iggy Quail and vocalist Boysie Grant. ^[5]
Although he was little known outside Afro-Caribbean circles, within this community he was as popular as any other rock & roll performer, which led to his manager persuading Jack Good to give him a residency on Good's new TV series Oh Boy!.^[1]

Oh Boy!

Dudley appeared on both pilot recordings of Oh Boy! (T1 & T2) as Dudley Heslop, but changed back to Cuddley Dudley, before the main series started.^[6] He was usually backed by the house band, Lord Rockingham's XI and appeared in a total of 21 episodes, the most appearances by any artist, one more than Cliff Richard, whilst The Drifters (who became The Shadows) and Marty Wilde appeared on 17 shows each.^[6] His first recordings as Cuddly Dudley were on the TV spin-off album Oh Boy! (Parlophone 1958), where he sang "Hey Hey Hey Hey" (later covered by The Beatles) and "Lets Rock While the Rocking's Good".^[4] A solo single "Later" b/w "Lots More Love" was released in 1959, and in 1960 he appeared, as himself, in the film Girls of the Latin Quarter, directed by Alfred Travers and starring Jill Ireland, which was filmed in the London branch of the nightclub Latin Quarter. He also deputised for Cliff Richard, appearing at several concerts when Cliff was ill.^[4]

Later career

After the demise of Oh Boy! in May 1959, he began touring with his own all-black band, The Embraceable Four, with whom he supported The Platters on their 1960 UK tour, and released a second single, a cover of Chuck Berry's "Too Pooped To Pop".
In 1961 he became the lead singer with “The Redcaps”, with whom he released a single "Sitting On A Train". Originally known as "Red-E-Lewis And The Redcaps" (named after Gene Vincent's The Blue Caps) original lead singer Reddy Lewis (Edward Stubbs) had left to form the Red Cats, with Jimmy Page on guitar. The Redcaps comprised Mick Green, Vic Cooper, Frank Farley, Johnny Patto and Johnny Spence, and from May–July 1961 Reddy Lewis returned, but Dudley remained lead vocalist.^[7] Farley, Patto and Spence left to become The Pirates backing Johnny Kidd (who had the same manager as Dudley),^[8] when the original Pirates “jumped ship”. Green, The Redcaps other guitarist, joined the Pirates later when Patto left.^[9]
By 1963/64 Dudley had rejoined pianist Iggy Quail and recorded some of the first bluebeat and ska tracks outside Jamaica. Dudley and Quail formed a trio with Clyde Davies (bass), who accompanied comedians such as Tommy Trinder and Bob Monkhouse and had a residency at the Kingfisher Club.^[5] Dudley released several singles on Piccadilly as well as some more for Oriole. He retired from the music business in the mid-1960s. He died on 15 July 2011 aged 87^[10]

Discography

Singles

• "Later" / "Lots More Love" - (1959) - HMV (Pop 586)
• "Too Pooped to Pop" / "Miss In-Between" - (1960) - HMV (POP 725)
• "Sitting in a Train" / "The One That I Like" - (1961) - Ember (S136)
• "Blarney Blues" / "Peace On Earth" - 1964 - Oriole (ICB9)
• "Way of Life" / "When Will You Say You'll Be Mine" - 1964 - Oriole (ICB10)

Compilations

• Oh Boy! (1958) Parlophone - 2 tracks:- "Hey Hey Hey Hey" and "Lets Rock While the Rocking's Good" CD (2009) Highnote (GVC1008)
• That British Sound Vol 10 - CD (2010) No Hit Records BLC 89 - 2 tracks:- "Sitting in a Train" & "Later"
• From Calypso to Disco: The Roots of Black Britain - 1 Track:- "The Ferryboat Ride"
• The Piccadilly Story - (1994) & (2006) - Castle (72386) - 1 Track:- "The Ferryboat Ride"
• British Rock'n'Roll 1955~1960 CD (1986) See For Miles (SEE38) "Later" & "Lots More Love"

 

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Ed Flesh, American art director, inventor of the Wheel of Fortune wheel, died from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease he was , 79.

Edwin Albert Flesh Jr, known as Ed Flesh, was an American art director and designer who worked on a variety of television programs from the 1950s through the 1990s. He is best known for designing the Wheel used in the game show, Wheel of Fortune.^[1] In 1993, Flesh was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for his work on Supermarket Sweep.^[2] His other credits as a television art director include Pyramid, Days of Our Lives, Press Your Luck, Celebrity Sweepstakes, Second Chance, The New Newlywed Game, To Say the Least and Name That Tune.



(December 4, 1931 - July 15, 2011)

Flesh was a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was born on December 4, 1931.^[2][1] He received his bachelor's degree from Franklin & Marshall College, located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.^[1] Flesh then enrolled at Yale Drama School, where he studied graduate level scenic design for three years.^[1]
Flesh relocated to New York City after completing his studies at Yale. He worked as a scene designer for off-Broadway productions before being hired as the the "supervisor of scenic design" for NBC.^[1] He transferred from New York to NBC Studios in Burbank, California, where he worked as the head art director for games shows, as well as the soap opera, Days of our Lives.^[1]
Flesh is credited with conceiving and designing the wheel for NBC's Wheel of Fortune.^[1] Flesh designed the wheel to spin "horizontally instead of vertically", a design unlike most previous game show wheels.^[1]
Flesh later designed the sets for The Montel Williams Show and The David Letterman Show, a short-lived daytime show on NBC which aired in 1980.^[1] He also designed the sets for three special editions of The Oprah Winfrey Show, in which Oprah Winfrey interviewed John Travolta, Barbra Streisand and Madonna.^[1]
Ed Flesh died on July 15, 2011, at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, California, at the age of 79.^[1] He was survived by his partner of forty-four years, David Powers.^[1]

 

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Cornell MacNeil, American operatic baritone died he was , 88

 Cornell MacNeil was an American operatic baritone known for his exceptional voice and long career with the Metropolitan Opera, which spanned 642 performances in twenty-six roles died he was , 88. F. Paul Driscoll wrote in Opera News that he "was a great baritone in era of great baritones — Warren, Gobbi, Merrill, Milnes — and in the contemporary press, comparisons to his colleagues were frequent. But MacNeil's performances had singular musical richness, and moral and intellectual complexity that were his alone. MacNeil may have had rivals, but he had no equals."


(September 24, 1922 – July 15, 2011),

Life and career

MacNeil was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Among his teachers were Friedrich Schorr and Richard Marzollo. He debuted with various companies in the United States from 1953 (including the New York City Opera) and at La Scala and the Metropolitan in 1959.^[3] In 1969 he became president of the American Guild of Musical Artists.^[4]
MacNeil's voice was notable for its huge size and volcanic top notes. Despite some vocal decline in the late 1970s, he maintained a high standard throughout his long career. Two of his most notable roles were the title role in Rigoletto, and Iago in Otello. MacNeil was a regular at the Metropolitan Opera.^[5] His debut was on March 21, 1959, as Rigoletto. Rigoletto was also the role he sang the most at the Met, 104 times, including the Met's first telecast of that opera in 1977, in the production by John Dexter.
MacNeil was also well-known for the role of Baron Scarpia in Tosca, a role he sang 92 times at the Met between November 2, 1959 and December 5, 1987, which was his last performance with the Met.

Abridged discography

• Menotti: The Consul (Neway, Powers; Engel, 1950) Decca Records
• Verdi: La traviata: excerpts (Kirsten, Hayward; Cellini, 1958) [live] VAI
• Puccini: La fanciulla del West (Tebaldi, del Monaco, Tozzi; Capuana, 1958) Decca Records
• Verdi: Aïda (Tebaldi, Simionato, Bergonzi; Karajan, 1959) Decca Records
• Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (Tucci, del Monaco; Molinari-Pradelli, 1959) Decca Records
• Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana (Simionato, del Monaco; Serafin, 1960) Decca Records
• Verdi: Un ballo in maschera (Nilsson, Simionato, Bergonzi; Solti, 1960-1) Decca Records
• Verdi: Rigoletto (Sutherland, Cioni, Siepi; Sanzogno, 1961) Decca Records
• Verdi: Luisa Miller (Moffo, Verrett, Bergonzi, Tozzi, Flagello; Cleva, 1965) RCA
• Verdi: Rigoletto (Grist, Gedda; Molinari-Pradelli, 1967) EMI
• Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (Carlyle, Vickers; Bartoletti, 1968) [live] VAI
• Verdi: La traviata (Stratas, Domingo; Levine, 1982) Elektra

Abridged videography

• Verdi: Rigoletto (Cotrubas, Domingo, Díaz; Levine, Dexter, 1977) [live]
• Verdi: Otello (Scotto, Vickers; Levine, Zeffirelli/Melano, 1978) [live]
• Puccini: Tosca (Verrett, Pavarotti, Tajo; Conlon, Gobbi, 1978) [live]
• Weill: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Stratas, Varnay, Cassilly, Plishka; Levine, Dexter, 1979) [live]
• Puccini: Il tabarro (Scotto; Levine, Melano, 1981) [live]
• Verdi: La traviata (Stratas, Domingo; Levine, Zeffirelli, 1982)
• Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini (Scotto, Rom, Domingo; Levine, Faggioni, 1984) [live]
• Puccini: Tosca (Behrens, Domingo; Sinopoli, Zeffirelli, 1985) [live]

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Googie Withers, English actress died she was , 94.

 Georgette Lizette "Googie" Withers CBE, AO was an English theatre, film and television actress died she was , 94.. She was a longtime resident of Australia with her husband, the actor John McCallum, with whom she often appeared.


(12 March 1917 – 15 July 2011)

Biography

An Anglo-Indian, Withers was born in Karachi, then part of British India, to Edgar Withers, a captain in the Royal Navy, and a Dutch-German mother named Zitette.^[3] She acquired the name "Googie" (Little Pigeon) at a young age from her ayah (nanny).^[4] As a child, she learned Urdu.^{[citation needed]} Her father left the Royal Navy to manage a foundry in Birmingham, England, and Googie was sent to a boarding school near Dover.^[3] She began acting at the age of twelve. A student at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, she was a dancer in a West End production when she was offered work as a film extra in Michael Powell's The Girl in the Crowd (1935). She arrived on the set to find one of the major players in the production had been dismissed and was immediately asked to step into the role.
During the 1930s, Withers was constantly in demand in lead roles in minor films and supporting roles in more prestigious productions. Her best known work of the period was as one of Margaret Lockwood's friends in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938). Among her successes of the 1940s was the Powell and Pressburger film One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942), a topical World War II drama in which she played a resistance fighter who helps British airmen return to safety from behind enemy lines. She is remembered for her role as the devious Helen Nosseross in Night and the City (1950), a classic film noir.^{[citation needed]}
While filming The Loves of Joanna Godden (1947), Withers met her co-star, the Australian actor John McCallum. They were married on 24 January the following year, and remained married until McCallum's death in 2010.^[5]
Withers first toured Australia in the stage play Simon and Laura. When McCallum was offered the position running J.C. Williamson Theatres, they moved to Australia in 1959. Withers starred in a number of stage plays, including Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea, Desire of the Moth, The First 400 Years (with Keith Michell), Beekman Place (for which she also designed the set), The Kingfisher, Stardust, Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Wilde's An Ideal Husband for the Melbourne Theatre Company; both productions toured Australia. They appeared together in the UK in The School for Scandal at the Duke of York's Theatre in Londons West End and on the subsequent British Council tour of Europe in 1983–4 and in W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle at the Chichester Festival Theatre.^{[citation needed]}
Withers starred on Broadway with Michael Redgrave in The Complaisant Lover and in London with Alec Guinness in Exit the King. During the 1970s, she appeared as Faye Boswell, the governor of a women's prison, in the television series Within These Walls. Because Within These Walls had been a moderate success in Australia, she was approached by producers to play the role of the Governor of the Wentworth Detention Centre in the later series Prisoner, a job which she declined. The role eventually went to Patsy King.^{[citation needed]}
In 1986, Withers starred in the BBC adaptation of Hotel du Lac, which was followed a year later by another BBC production of Northanger Abbey. In 1990, she appeared in ITV's adaptation of Ending Up. Her last screen performance was as the Australian novelist Katharine Susannah Prichard in the 1996 film Shine, for which she and the other cast members were nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award for "Outstanding performance by a cast".
In 2002, aged 85, Withers appeared with Vanessa Redgrave in Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan in London's West End.
In 2004, Withers came back into the news when a character on the ITV soap Coronation Street, Norris Cole, quipped that "Googie Withers would turn in her grave". Granada Television was forced to apologise a week later when they realised that she was very much alive.^[6]
In October 2007, aged 90 and 89 respectively, Withers and McCallum appeared in an extended interview with Peter Thompson on ABC TV's Talking Heads program.^[4]

Death

Withers died on 15 July 2011 at her Sydney home, aged 94. Her husband John McCallum predeceased her on 3 February 2010.^[7]

Honours

Withers was appointed an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for services to drama, in the 1980 Australia Day Honours List.^[8] In the 2002 Queen's Birthday Honours List (UK), she was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

Family

Withers and McCallum were the parents of three children; actress Joanna McCallum, art director Nicholas and Amanda.^[9]

 

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