John Hoyland, English abstract painter, died from complications following heart surgery he was , 76

John Hoyland was a London-based British artist. He was one of the country's leading abstract painters.

(12 October 1934 – 31 July 2011)

Life

Hoyland was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, and educated at Leighton Park School, before going onto study at Sheffield School of Art, Psalter Lane, and the Royal Academy Schools.^[2] He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1991 and was appointed Professor of the Royal Academy Schools in 1999.^[2] The National Portrait Gallery holds portraits of the artist in its collection.^[5]

Work

Hoyland's first solo exhibition was held at the Marlborough New London Gallery in 1964 and he had a solo show at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1967.^[2] In the 1960s, Hoyland's work was characterised by simple shapes, high-key colour and a flat picture surface. In the 1970s his paintings became more textured.^[4] He exhibited at the Waddington Galleries, London throughout the 1970s and 1980s. During the 1960s and 1970s, he showed his paintings in New York City with the Robert Elkon Gallery and the André Emmerich Gallery. His paintings are closely aligned with Post-Painterly Abstraction, Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction.^[6]
Retrospectives of his paintings have been held at the Serpentine Gallery (1979), the Royal Academy (1999) and Tate St Ives (2006).^[2][4][7] He won the 1982 John Moores Painting Prize.^[8]
His works are held in many public and private collections including the Tate.^[9] In September 2010, Hoyland and five other British artists including Howard Hodgkin, John Walker, Ian Stephenson, Patrick Caulfield and R.B. Kitaj were included in an exhibition entitled The Independent Eye: Contemporary British Art From the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie, at the Yale Center for British Art.^[10][11]

Books

• Hoyland, John (1988). Hans Hofmann, late paintings. Tate Gallery. ISBN 978-0946590889.

 

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Abdul Fatah Younis, Libyan rebel leader and government official, former Interior Minister, died from a shot he was , 67.

Abdul Fatah Younis Al-Obeidi , sometimes transliterated Fattah Younis or Fattah Younes or Fatah Younes, was a senior military officer in Libya died from a shot he was , 67. He held the rank of Major General^[2] and the post of Minister of Interior, but resigned on 22 February 2011 to defect to the rebel side in what was to become the Libyan civil war.^[3] He was considered a key supporter of Muammar Gaddafi^[4] or even No. 2 in the Libyan government.^[5]
In resigning, he urged that the Libyan army should "join the people and respond to their legitimate demands".^[3] In an interview with John Simpson on 25 February, he said he believed Gaddafi would fight to the death, or commit suicide.^[5]
On 29 July 2011, Younis was reported dead by Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC).^[6] NTC's oil minister Ali Tarhouni said Younis was killed by members of an anti-Gaddafi militia^.

(1944 – 28 July 2011)

Career

Younis was previously minister for public security, and attended a key meeting with the British ambassador to Egypt in 1992 where he apologised for Libya's involvement in the killing of Yvonne Fletcher, and offered to extradite her killers; he also admitted Libyan support of the IRA and offered compensation for their victims.^[8]
He had arrived in Benghazi commanding a special forces unit whose mission was to help relieve the besieged Katiba compound, which had sheltered the remaining loyalist forces in the city since 18 February, and which was undergoing almost continuous attack. He claimed to have ordered his soldiers not to shoot at protesters, and negotiated an arrangement whereby the loyalists were permitted to retreat from the building and the city.^[5]
Following confirmation that Younis had indeed defected to the side of the rebels, he was declared commander-in-chief of its armed forces. In March, a military spokesperson announced that Khalifa Haftar had replaced Younis as commander of the military; however, the National Transitional Council denied this.^[9] By April, Younis held the role of commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, with Omar El-Hariri serving as Younis's Chief of Staff, while Haftar took the third most senior position as the commander of ground forces with the rank of lieutenant general.^[10][11]

Death

On 24 July, he was reported by Al Bawaba media to have been killed under "mysterious circumstances" on the first day of the Fourth Battle of Brega. Al Bawaba media did not specify where they got such information.^[12] He denied this report in a radio interview the next day.^[2]
On 28 July, Younis was placed under arrest to face questioning in Benghazi, the de facto capital of Libya under the NTC, on suspicion that his family had contacts with the Gaddafi regime.^[13] The NTC said that he was summoned from the Brega front to answer questions regarding the misuse of military assets, but he never made it to the meeting.
Later that day, Younis was killed under unclear circumstances. His body and those of two other officers was found dumped on the outskirts of Benghazi. They had been shot, and the bodies burnt afterwards.^[6][14] NTC head Mustafa Abdul-Jalil said Younis was killed by pro-Gaddafi assailants, and the head of the group responsible had been arrested.^[6] The Libyan government gave another version of the event, saying that Younis had been killed by the rebels because they thought he was a double agent.^[15]
At his funeral, Younis was hailed as a hero of the revolution by his nephew. However, as he was laid to rest, his son broke down and yelled: We want Muammar to come back! We want the green flag back!. This claim was later denied by NTC.^[16]

Perpetrators

A member of the rebel special forces and close aide to Younis said that he was killed by another group of rebels known as the 17 February Martyrs' Brigade as a revenge attack for incidents that occurred when Younis was interior minister.^[16] Finance Minister Ali Tarhouni, a high-profile member of the National Transitional Council in Benghazi, said that the suspect arrested in connection with the murder was a rebel militia leader, who confessed that his subordinates shot and killed Younis, instead of bringing him to Benghazi for questioning as ordered. Tarhouni added that it was not the militia leader but his lieutenants that did it.^[17]
According to the NTC, Younis was "summoned from the front by a committee of four judges with the knowledge of the NTC's executive committee, the rebels' de facto government." However, the NTC said that it didn't know "why this arrest (warrant) was issued", "who was present at the meeting when the decision was made", or "on what basis the decision was made." According to military spokesman Colonel Ahmed Omar Bani, the judges who summoned Younis "did not have the authority do so" and "the defence minister had written a letter recalling the arrest warrant."^[18]
A rebel official, who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity, said Younis was brought back to the Benghazi area on 27 July, and held at a military compound until 28 July, when he was summoned to the Defense Ministry for questioning. When they left the compound, two men from the security team escorting the detainees opened fire on Younis from their car with automatic weapons, said the officer, who was at the compound and saw the shooting. He said the two men were members of the 17 February Martyrs' Brigade and shouted that Younis was a traitor who killed their father in Derna, an eastern city. "The men's leader was shouting, 'Don't do it!' but they shot Younis and his two aides, and took their bodies in their car and drove away," the officer said.^[19] The NTC has confirmed that Younis was shot after he was released following questioning.^[18]
Tarhouni said it was not members of the 17 February Martyrs' Brigade but of another brigade, the Obaida Ibn Jarrah Brigade, who had killed Younis. Rebels say the Obaida Ibn Jarrah Brigade was composed mainly of former prisoners of Gaddafi's notorious Abu Salim prison in the capital Tripoli, who had always distrusted Younis. The brigade is named after one of the companions of Islam's Prophet Mohammed, and according to Reuters, the group is likely to have Islamist leanings. One rebel commander said Islamists whom Younis had targeted as interior minister may have killed him in retaliation.^[20]
Gaddafi's government claimed that a rebel militant group aligned with al Qaeda killed Younis.^[20]

Prosecution

On 28 November, NTC chief military prosecutor Yussef Al-Aseifr announced that former NTC deputy prime minister Ali Abd-al-Aziz al-Isawi had been named chief suspect in the killing of Younis. Isawi denied involvement in the killing, saying he "never signed any decision relating to Abdel Fattah Younes."^[21]

 

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Hilary Evans, British picture librarian and author died he was , 82.

Hilary Evans and Mary Evans

Hilary Agard Evans  was a British pictorial archivist, author, and researcher into UFOs and other paranormal phenomena  died he was , 82. .

(1929 – 27 July 2011)

Biography

Evans was born in Shrewsbury, United Kingdom.^[1] and educated at St George’s School at Harpenden. After National Service in Palestine he went up to King’s College, Cambridge, to read English, followed by a Master’s at Birmingham University. He then spent some time as a private tutor before joining Mather & Crowther advertising agency as a copywriter in 1953.
In 1964 he and his wife Mary Evans (1936-2010) founded the Mary Evans Picture Library,^[3] an archive of historical illustrations.^[4] In 1981 he co-founded the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena.^[5][6]
Evans was an exponent of the Psychosocial Hypothesis of UFOs as culturally shaped visionary experiences.^[7]

Books published                        

• Intrusions: Society and the Paranormal. London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.
• The Evidence for UFOs. Wellingborough, Northampton, England: Aquarian Press, 1983.
• Visions, Apparitions, Alien Visitors. Wellingborough, Northampton, England: Aquarian Press, 1984.
• Gods, Spirits, Cosmic Guardians. Wellingborough, Northampton: Aquarian Press, 1987.
• Alternate States of Consciousness: Unself, Other-self, and Superself. Wellingborough, Northampton: Aquarian Press, 1989.
• Frontiers of Reality, Aquarian Press, 1989
• Evans, Hilary, and John Spencer, eds. Phenomena: Forty Years of Flying Saucers. New York: Avon Books, 1989.
• Evans, Hilary, and Dennis Stacy, eds. UFO 1947-1997: Fifty Years of Flying Saucers. London: John Brown, 1997.
• Evans, Hilary, and Robert Bartholomew, eds. Outbreak! The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behaviour. San Antonio, Texas: Anomalist Books, 2009.

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Charles Gittens, American Secret Service agent, first black appointed to that position died he was , 82.

Charles LeRoy Gittens was an American United States Secret Service agent. Gittens joined the Secret Service in 1956, becoming the agency's first African American agent died he was , 82..





(August 31, 1928 – July 27, 2011)

Gittens was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 31, 1928, as one of his family's seven children.^[1][2] His father was a contractor who had immigrated to the United States from Barbados.^[3] He left his highs chool before graduation in order to enlist in the United States Army.^[1][2] He was promoted to lieutenant within the Army and was stationed in Japan during the Korean War.^[2] Gittens earned his GED while serving in the Army.^[2] Following the end of the war, Gittens earned a bachelor's degree from present-day North Carolina Central University.^[1] He became bilingual in both English and Spanish.
Gittens taught at a school in North Carolina for one year. He was encouraged to take the civil service exam, which resulted in his recruitment into the United States Secret Service.^[2] He began his career at the agency's office in Charlotte, North Carolina.^[1] He then became an investigator at the Secret Service's field office in New York City, where he served for ten years.^[3] He was assigned to a "special detail" Secret Service unit, which investigated bank fraud and counterfeiting.^[1][2] Gittens was then transferred to the Secret Service's field office in Puerto Rico, where he guarded New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller during his 1969 to the Caribbean and Latin America.^[3]
Gittens was promoted to the head of the Secret Service's field office in Washington, D.C. in 1971.^[2][3] He retired from the agency in 1979.^[1]
He then joined the United States Department of Justice, where he led investigations of Nazi war criminals who were residing in the United States at the Department's Office of Special Investigations.^[1][2]
Charles Gittens died of complications from a heart attack at the Collington Episcopal Life Care Community, an assisted living facility in Mitchellville, Maryland, on July 27, 2011, at the age of 82.^[1][2] He had moved to the facility from Fort Washington, Maryland, in 2010.^[2] His first wife, Ruthie, with whom he had one daughter, died in 1991.^[3] He and his second wife, Maureen, divorced.^[3]

 

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Hideki Irabu, Japanese baseball player (Chiba Lotte Marines, New York Yankees, Montreal Expos), suicide by hanging died at the age of 42.

Hideki Irabu was a Japanese professional baseball player of Okinawan and American mixed ancestry. He played professionally in both Japan and the United States.

(May 5, 1969 – July 27, 2011)

Early life

Irabu was born on May 5, 1969 in Hirara^[1], Okinawa, then administered by the government of the United States. His father was an American service member whom Hideki never knew. Hideki's mother, Kazue, a native Okinawan, later married a restaurateur, Ichiro Irabu, from Osaka. Irabu raised Hideki as his son in Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture.^[2][3]

Career

Irabu pitched for the Lotte Orions, who later became the Chiba Lotte Marines, of the Pacific League from 1988 to 1996. He was known as a high-speed pitcher and in 1993, he threw a 158 km/h (98 mph) fastball against Kazuhiro Kiyohara of the Seibu Lions. This was the fastest clocked pitch in all of Japanese Professional Baseball (NPB) until 2005, when the record was broken by Marc Kroon of the Yokohama BayStars. It remains the Pacific League record.^[4][5]
Irabu led the Pacific League in wins in 1994 (15) and in ERA in 1995 and 1996 (2.53 and 2.40, respectively). He also led the Pacific League in strikeouts in 1994 and 1995 (239, 239 and 167 respectively).^[6] In 1997, the San Diego Padres purchased his contract from the Chiba Lotte Marines. The criticisms of this sale from other MLB teams, who wished to bid on Irabu, led to the creation of the posting system currently used by Japanese and MLB teams.^[7] Irabu, however, refused to sign with the Padres, saying he would only play with the Yankees. For the negotiating rights to Irabu, the Yankees offered the Padres a choice of one from a list of players including Brian Boehringer, David Weathers, Chris Cumberland, Andy Fox and Matt Luke. The Padres would eventually include him as a player-to-be-named-later in a trade that involved Homer Bush and Irabu going to the New York Yankees in exchange for Rafael Medina, Ruben Rivera and $3 million in cash.^[8] The Yankees signed him to a $12.8 million, four-year contract, and after only eight minor league games, the Yankees put him in their rotation.
Irabu made his highly publicized debut on July 10, 1997, drawing almost twice as many fans that night as they averaged for weeknight games.^[9] He played with the Yankees from 1997 through 1999, winning two World Series rings (1998, 1999) despite only pitching in one postseason game and having no postseason decisions. George Steinbrenner publicly expressed disgust at his weight, at one point calling him a "fat pussy toad" after he failed to cover first base on a ground ball during a spring training game. Steinbrenner refused to let Irabu accompany the team to Los Angeles, but two days later, Steinbrenner apologized and allowed Irabu to join the team.^[10]
1998 was Irabu's best season in MLB, featuring career bests in games started (28), complete games (2), innings pitched (173), wins (13) and ERA (4.06).^[11]
After the 1999 season, he was traded to the Montreal Expos for Ted Lilly, Christian Parker and Jake Westbrook.^[12] He started only 14 games for the Expos in 2000 and 2001, pitching 71⅓ innings with a 6.69 ERA and only 2 wins against 7 losses.^[11] In 2002, he signed as a free agent to pitch for the Texas Rangers as a closer.^[11] At the end of the year, Irabu moved back to Japan to pitch in the Hanshin Tigers' starting rotation for the 2003 season, helping the team win the Central League pennant for the first time since 1985. When Major League Baseball opened its 2004 season in Tokyo, he pitched against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
Over the course of six MLB seasons, Irabu's career totals are 126 games, 514 innings, 34 wins, 35 losses, 16 saves, 405 strikeouts and a 5.15 ERA.^[11] His Japanese totals for eleven seasons are 273 games, 1,286 1/3 innings, 72 wins, 69 losses, 11 saves, 1,282 strikeouts and a 3.55 ERA.
In April 2009, Irabu had come out of retirement and made a contract with Long Beach Armada of the independent Golden Baseball League. He posted a 5–3 record in 10 starts, with an ERA of 3.58. In 65 innings Irabu struck out 66 batters while walking just 19. In August, he announced his intention to return to the Japanese professional leagues,^[13] and began playing for the semi-professional Kōchi Fighting Dogs.^[3]

Personal life

On August 20, 2008, Irabu was arrested on the suspicion of assaulting the manager of a bar in Umeda, Osaka. He was upset that his credit card was not accepted in the bar. At the time of the suspected assault, Irabu had consumed at least 20 glasses of beer. Irabu admitted to the assault, the bartender sustained no injuries, and Irabu paid the bill with another credit card.^[14]
Irabu was arrested for DUI on May 17, 2010, in Redondo Beach, California.^[15] The press release of his arrest states he resided at the time in Rancho Palos Verdes.

Death

Irabu was found dead in his home near Los Angeles on July 27, 2011, in an apparent suicide. He was reported to have hanged himself.^[16] He left behind his wife and two children.^[17] Irabu, who an autopsy showed was inebriated at the time of his death, was reportedly despondent because of his wife and children leaving him.^[18]

 

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Jerome Liebling, American photographer, filmmaker, and he died when he was and academic (Hampshire College) died he was , 87

Jerome Liebling  was an American photographer, filmmaker, and teacher died he was , 87.
He studied photography under Walter Rosenblum and Paul Strand, and joined New York's famed Photo League. In the same period, he became involved with motion-picture production and worked as a documentary filmmaker.

(April 16, 1924 – July 27, 2011)

While a professor of film and photography at the University of Minnesota, Liebling began a longtime collaborative relationship with filmmaker Allen Downs; together they produced several award-winning documentaries, including Pow Wow, The Tree Is Dead, and The Old Men.
Liebling received numerous awards and grants, including two Guggenheim Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Arts Photographic Survey Grant, and a fellowship from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts. His photographs are in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Fogg Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.
Liebling was a professor emeritus of Hampshire College. He was the younger brother of David Liebling and Stan Liebling, and he is the father of five children, including Minnesota politician Tina Liebling and film director/producer Rachel Liebling.

 

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Agota Kristof, Hungarian-born French novelist, died at the age of 75.

Ágota Kristóf  was a Hungarian writer, who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook (1986). She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008.^[2]

(October 30, 1935 -July 27, 2011)

Biography

Kristof was born in Csikvánd, Hungary on October 30, 1935 and died July 27, 2011. At the age of 21 she had to leave her country when the Hungarian anti-communist revolution was suppressed by the Soviet military. She, her husband (who used to be her history teacher at school) and their 4 month-old daughter escaped to Neuchâtel in Switzerland. After 5 years of loneliness and exile, she quit her work in a factory and left her husband. She started studying French and began to write novels in that language.

Works

Agota Kristof's first steps as a writer were in the realm of poetry and theater (John et Joe, Un rat qui passe), which is a facet of her works that did not have as great an impact as her trilogy. In 1986 Kristof’s first novel, The Notebook appeared. It was the beginning of a moving trilogy. The sequel titled The Proof came 2 years later. The third part was published in 1991 under the title The Third Lie. The most important themes of this trilogy are war and destruction, love and loneliness, promiscuous, desperate, and attention-seeking sexual encounters, desire and loss, truth and fiction.
Agota Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook. This novel was translated in more than 30 languages.
In 1995 she published a new novel, Yesterday.
Agota Kristof also wrote a book called L'analphabète (in English The Illiterate) and published in 2004. This is an autobiographical text. It explores her love of reading as a young child, and we travel with her to boarding school, and over the border to Austria, and then to Switzerland. Forced to leave her country due to the failure of the anti-communist rebellion, she hopes for a better life in Zurich.
Her latest work is a collection of short stories entitled C'est égal that was published in 2005 in Paris. The majority of her works were published by Editions du Seuil in Paris.
She has two new short stories published at Mini Zoe collection entitled "Ou es-tu Mathias" and "Line, le temps". The names Mathias and Line are from her previous novels.
She died on 27 July 2011 in her Neuchâtel home.

Influence

The video game Mother 3 was influenced by The Notebook's major themes. Main characters Lucas and Claus are named after the book's narrators. The game's designer, Shigesato Itoi, a published author in his own right, compared the novel favorably to an RPG.^[3]
Brucio nel vento (I burn in the Wind, 2002) is a film based on the novel Hier (Yesterday), directed by Silvio Soldini.^[4] Le Continent K. (1998) and Agota Kristof, 9 ans plus tard ... (2006) are two short documentaries about Agota Kristof directed by Eric Bergkraut.^[5]

Bibliography

• 1986: Le grand cahier / The Notebook
• 1988: La preuve / The Proof
• 1991: Le troisième mensonge / The Third Lie
• 1998: L'Heure grise et autres pièces
• 1995: Hier / Yesterday
• 2004: L'analphabète
• 2005: C'est égal
• 2005: Où es-tu Mathias?
• 2007: Le Monstre et autres pièces

English translations

• The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels, Grove Press (June 23, 1997). ISBN 978-0-8021-3506-3
• Yesterday, Random House of Canada (1997). ISBN 978-0-09-926807-9

 

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