Fermo Mino Martinazzoli, Italian politician, after long illness, died he was 79.

Fermo Mino Martinazzoli was an Italian lawyer, politician and former Minister died he was 79.. He was the last secretary of the Christian Democracy (Democrazia Cristiana, DC) party and the first secretary of the Italian People's Party (Partito Popolare) founded in 1994.

( 3 November 1931 – Brescia, 4 September 2011) 

Career

Martinazzoli studied at Collegio Borromeo in Pavia, where he received a law degree. He then became a lawyer.
In the years 1960–1970s he assumed official roles in Brescia's DC, and became president of the province (1970–1972). He was also elected in the Italian Senate, after which he became Minister of Justice in 1983, a position he held for three years. In 1986–1989 he was president of DC's deputies. In 1989–1990 he was Minister of Defence, but resigned (together with other ministers of DC's left wing) after the approval of a law which strengthened Silvio Berlusconi's monopoly over private TV channels in Italy.
In 1992, when Democrazia Cristiana was being wiped out by the Tangentopoli bribery scandal, Martinazzoli, generally respected as an honest and competent man, was elected national secretary. Despite his efforts, the political crisis which followed the corruption scandals forced him to dissolve DC in 1994. Martinazzoli then founded a new party, based on similar ideals, known as People's Party" (1994–2002) (Partito Popolare Italiano, or PPI), whose name recalled that of the ancestor of DC, which was founded in the early 20th century by Luigi Sturzo.
In the new majoritarian system, Martinazzoli's party placed itself in the center, between the left (which included the heirs of the Italian Communist Party) and the new Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia, which had allied with the northern regionalist party, Lega Nord, and the post-fascist Alleanza Nazionale. His will not to ally with any of them caused numerous politicians (such as Pierferdinando Casini and Clemente Mastella) to leave PPI and form the Centro Cristiano Democratico, which supported Berlusconi. At the 1994 elections, Martinazzoli formed a center alliance known as Pact for Italy, including PPI and other democratic centre forces. However, the result of the election was disappointing, with PPI obtaining 11%, some one third of DC's consensus before its dissolution. In the same year, he accepted to run as mayor of Brescia for the new centre-left formation L'Ulivo, winning the final ballot and acting as mayor until 1998. In 2000 he lost the competition with Roberto Formigoni for the presidency of Lombardy.
After PPI was dissolved in 2002, Martinazzoli migrated to Mastella's UDEUR (2004), being appointed as its president. He resigned in 2005.



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Jag Mundhra, Indian film director (Bawandar), died he was 62.

Jagmohan "Jag" Mundhra was an Indian filmmaker best known for his early career as an American exploitation film writer-director and his later career as maker of such issue-oriented films as Bawandar and Provoked.
(29 October 1948 – 4 September 2011)

Early life

Mundhra was born at Nagpur,^[2] and grew up in a Marwari locality in Calcutta, in a conservative family where films were frowned upon. He nevertheless nurtured a secret ambition to become a filmmaker. His childhood as of other Indians of his generation, was a tough one, counting pennies for the tram that rode to the other, affluent side of the city, and withstanding his family's strict traditions.^[3][4]
Says Mundhra, “The family was very conservative and my grand mother was very strict and we were allowed to see maybe a couple of films a year and that too of the Har Har Mahadev variety. As a child I never saw myself as a young Marwari boy but a lot beyond that. In those days, the word global citizen was not there, but inside I felt like one".

Life at IIT Bombay

A key influence on Mundhra was his admission to the highly competitive and prestigious IIT Bombay [1]. In his words, "I had studied in a Hindi medium school up to 9th grade and always admired people who spoke English fluently. IIT taught me a lot of humility. In my wing, there were students who were from different states, and as far as English went, this person from Bihar who couldn’t speak English to save his life outshone everyone else with his brilliance. I did well, but realized very early on while in IIT that engineering was not for me. I would be very unhappy if I was to live my life being an engineer, but I stuck it out because I didn’t want to let my parents down".^[3] He then went for his MS in Electrical Engineering, in Michigan. However, he switched to marketing after one semester.
Mundhra wrote his marketing thesis on motion pictures. He did a comparative study of marketing practices in Hollywood and Bollywood. The study led him to visit the Bombay film industry and meet people. After finishing his Ph.D., he taught for a year at California State University. His stay in California brought him closer to Hollywood. In 1979 he resigned and decided to become a full time filmmaker.^{[citation needed]}

Professional career

After his first dramas, Suraag, and the socially-relevant film, Kamla,^[5] Mundhra directed, in the late 1980s and the 1990s, a string of horror and erotic thriller movies for theatrical distribution and direct to video, including The Jigsaw Murders (1988), Halloween Night (1988), Night Eyes (1990), L.A. Goddess (1993), Sexual Malice (1994), Tales of The Kama Sutra : The Perfumed Garden (2000) and Tales of The Kama Sutra 2 : Monsoon (2001).
Beginning with Bawandar (2000), which he directed under the name Jagmohan, Mundhra was back to issue-oriented films. Bawander is about the fight of a poor woman for justice and was based on the story of a Rajasthani woman Bhanwari Devi.^[6] After the film's release Ashok Gehlot, the chief minister of Rajasthan called him and said, "Aapke bawandar ne bada bawander machaya hai." He gave Rs 50,000 and land for Bhanwari Devi and also money for her son's education. To Mundhra, "It's not a movie about rape, but the empowerment of a woman. This character could be fictitious and yet the story would have had the same powerful message".^[3] In his own words, Kamla, Bawander and Provoked are his trology of strong women centric films.^[7]
At the time of his death he was working on a film based on the life of Sonia Gandhi.^[8] Mundhra was also a life member of International Film And Television Club of Asian Academy Of Film & Television.

Death

He died in Mumbai on 4 September 2011, aged 62, from undisclosed causes.^[9][3]

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Lee Roy Selmon, American Hall of Fame football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), died from a stroke he was 56.

Lee Roy Selmon  was a Hall of Fame NFL football defensive lineman.
(October 20, 1954 – September 4, 2011)

Early life

Selmon was the youngest of nine children of Lucious and Jessie Selmon, raised on a farm near Eufaula, Oklahoma. A National Honor Society member at Eufaula High School, he graduated in 1971.

College career

Selmon joined brothers Lucious and Dewey Selmon on the University of Oklahoma defensive line in 1972. He blossomed into a star in 1974, anchoring one of the best defenses in Sooner history. The Sooners were NCAA Division I-A national football champions in 1974 and 1975. Selmon won the Lombardi Award and the Outland Trophy in 1975. OU Head Coach Barry Switzer called him the best player he ever coached, and College Football News placed him as the 39th best college player of all time. He was known as "The Gentle Giant." In the fall of 1999, Selmon was named to the Sports Illustrated NCAA Football All-Century Team.
Selmon was named a consensus All-American in 1974 and 1975 by Newspaper Enterprise Association. His long list of achievements, in addition to the Vince Lombardi Award and the Outland Trophy, includes the National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete, GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-American and Graduate Fellowship Winner National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame.
His brothers Lucious Selmon and Dewey also were All-American defensive linemen for Oklahoma, and played on the same defensive line together in 1973. The trio is still regarded as the most famous set of brothers in OU history.
The 1996 Walter Camp "Alumnus of the Year" was voted to the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame ^[1] in 1992.

Statistics

Season		Tackles		Sacks		TFL
	UT	AT	TT	Sack	YdsL	TFL	Yds
1972	5	6	11	3	16	1	?
1973	37	20	57	9	49	2	?
1974	65	60	125	18	71	1	?
1975	88	44	132	10	48	4	?
Career	195	130	325	40	184	8	?

All statistics courtesy of the official website of the Oklahoma Sooners

Professional career

Tackles
1976	24
1977	110
1978	92
1979	117
1980	97
1981	73
1982	58
1983	71
1984	100
Total	742

Sacks
1976	5.0
1977	13.0
1978	11.0
1979	11.0
1980	9.0
1981	6.5
1982	4.0
1983	11.0
1984	8.0
Total	78.5

In 1976, Selmon was the first player picked in the NFL draft, the first-ever pick for the expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He joined older brother, Dewey, who was a second round pick of the Bucs. In his first year Selmon won the team's Rookie of the Year and MVP awards. Selmon went to six straight Pro Bowls and was named NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 1979. Buccaneer assistant Abe Gibron said, "Selmon has no peers" at defensive end, while former Detroit Lions coach Monte Clark compared him to "a grown man at work among a bunch of boys".^[2] A back injury made the 1984 season his last, and the Bucs retired his number, 63, in 1986. He is a member of the Florida Sports Hall of Fame. In January 2008, Selmon was voted by a panel of former NFL players and coaches to Pro Football Weekly 's All-Time 3-4 defensive team along with Harry Carson, Curley Culp, Randy Gradishar, Howie Long, Lawrence Taylor and Andre Tippett.^[3] He was the first player to be inducted into the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Ring of Honor on November 8, 2009.

After football

Selmon stayed in Tampa, Florida, working as a bank executive and being active in many charities.
From 1993-2001, Selmon served as an assistant athletic director at the University of South Florida under Paul Griffin. When Griffin moved on to take the same position for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, Selmon stepped up and took over the athletic department.
As the USF Athletic Director, Selmon launched the football program, spearheaded the construction of a new athletic facility and led the university's move into Conference USA and then into the Big East Conference. Citing health issues, Selmon resigned as the USF Athletic Director in 2004. He assumed the role as president of the USF Foundation Partnership for Athletics, an athletics fund-raising organization.
The Lee Roy Selmon Expressway is named for him, as is a chain of restaurants.^[4] The chain, Lee Roy Selmon's, was named one of the 10 best sports bars in America in 2009. Its motto is "Play Hard. Eat Well. And Don't Forget to Share."^[1]
He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1995. To date, he is the only Hall of Famer to have earned his credentials primarily in Tampa Bay.

Death

Selmon suffered a massive stroke on September 2, 2011, which left him hospitalized in extremely critical^[5] condition.^[6][7] His restaurant initially released a statement announcing his death; however, this was later confirmed to be false.^[5] In fact, at one point his condition was said to be improving.^[8]
On September 4, 2011, Selmon died at the age of 56 from complications of the stroke.^[9] Visitation was scheduled for the following Thursday at the Exciting Central Tampa Baptist Church. The funeral was held the next day at Idlewild Baptist Church. Former teammates, the current Buccaneer team, the USF football team, other members of the NFL, and the general public attended. The USF football team wore a #63 decal on their helmets for the 2011 season, as did the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Both teams conducted a ceremony to honor Selmon the weekend following his death.^[10]


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Dana Wilson, New Zealand rugby league player, died from a car accident he was 28.

Jonathan "Dana" Wilson  was a professional rugby league player who represented the Cook Islands died from a car accident he was 28..
(22 May 1983 – 4 September 2011)

Playing career

Wilson played lower grades for Manly for a season before moving to England in 2005. He played for Oldham Bears, Leigh and Halifax before joining Swinton in 2009.^[3] He scored the match-winning try for Leigh in the 2006 Northern Rail Cup final against Hull Kingston Rovers.^[4]
He was a key member of Swinton Lions' promotion-winning team in Championship 1 in 2011.^[3]

Representative career

Wilson represented New Zealand Under‑16's and Under‑18's before switching his allegiance to the Cook Islands, where his mother was born (his dad was born in Samoa).
Wilson played in the Pacific Cup, toured Fiji and played for the Cook Islands in the 2006 World Cup qualifiers.^[3][4]

Personal life

Wilson lived in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, England, with his wife Kirsten and their three children.^[5]

Death

Wilson was killed in a car accident on Forshaw Lane, Burtonwood, Cheshire, England, on 4 September 2011.^[5]


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Andrzej Maria Deskur, Polish Roman Catholic cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications (1973–1984), died he was 87.

Andrzej Maria Deskur  was President emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications and a Cardinal of the Catholic Church  died he was 87.


(February 29, 1924 – September 3, 2011)

Biography

Deskur was born in Sancygniów near Kielce, Poland, to a family of French origin. He received a doctorate in law in 1945 from the Jagiellonian University (study underground). He was the secretary general of the very important post-war Polish student organization called "Bratniak". He entered the seminary in Kraków and was ordained a priest on 20 August 1950. He obtained a doctorate in theology from the University of Freiburg and, after two years of pastoral activity and study in France and Switzerland, in September 1952, he was called to Rome to work in the Secretariat of State. During this period he served as undersecretary of the Pontifical Commission for Cinematography, Radio and Television (1954–1964), secretary of the Preparatory Secretariat for the Press and Entertainment during Vatican II (1960–1962), peritus for the assembly of the Council (1962–1965) and was a member of the Conciliar Commissions for Bishops, for the Clergy, for the Laity, and for the Press and Entertainment.^[1]
In 1973 he was named president of the Pontifical Commission (now Council) for Social Communications.^[1] He was appointed titular bishop of Tene on 17 June 1974 and received episcopal ordination the following June 30. On 15 February 1980, John Paul II named him Archbishop and president emeritus of the Pontifical Commission.
Deskur was raised to the Cardinalate on May 25, 1985, becoming Cardinal-Deacon of San Cesareo in Palatio, that had belonged to Pope John Paul II himself until his elevation to the Papacy. After ten years as a Cardinal-Deacon he exercised his right and his titular church was elevated and he became Cardinal-Priest. Cardinal Deskur lost the right to participate in the conclave when he turned 80 years old in 2004.
Deskur contributed to numerous congresses and meetings for professionals of the press, radio, television and cinema, visiting about 70 countries on five continents. Among other endeavours, he was one of the promoters of the radio station "Radio Veritas" for countries in Asia and Oceania.
The challenge of promoting Christianity in the field of social communications did not impede Cardinal Deskur from dedicating himself also to pastoral activity. During all his years in Rome he performed his priestly and episcopal ministry in numerous parishes. For many years he devoted himself to the office of spiritual director at the pre-seminary St. Pius V.
He was President of the Pontifical Academy of the Immaculate Conception.
Curial membership:

• Causes of Saints, Divine Worship and Sacraments (congregations)
• Health Care Workers (council)
• Vatican City State (commission)

Deskur died on 3 September 2011, aged 87.^[2]


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Don Fambrough, American football player and head coach (University of Kansas), died from injuries from a fall he was 88.

Donald Preston "Don" Fambrough was an American football player and coach died from injuries from a fall he was 88.. He was the head coach at the University of Kansas.

(October 19, 1922 – September 3, 2011)

Early life

Fambrough was born on October 19, 1922 in Longview, Texas to Ivey and Willie Whittington Fambrough. He attended Longview High School.

College football/military career

Fambrough played college football at Texas in 1941 and 1942 before serving in the US Army Air Corps during World War II.^[1] After returning home from the war, he and his wife moved to Lawrence, Kansas. While in Lawrence, he chose to play football at the University of Kansas.

Coaching career

His first coaching job was at Kansas as assistant from 1948 to 1953. After that, he served as an assistant at East Texas State and Wichita State. Fambrough eventually found his way back to Kansas as assistant coach under Jack Mitchell from 1958. Following the 1970 season, he got his dream job as the head coach at Kansas before the 1971. He served as the coach of Kansas from 1971 to 1974 and again from 1979 to 1982 and compiled a 37–48–5 record as a head coach.

Later life

Fambrough remained involved in Kansas football leading up to his death, and would occasionally take part in team practices. The school dedicated a bench overlooking Memorial Stadium to him in 2007.^[2] Fambrough is known for his hatred of rival Missoui^[3] and gave an annual anti-Missouri speech to the football team before each Border War game.^[4]

Personal life

He married his wife, Del Few on October 4, 1941. His wife preceded him in death on November 17, 2001. The couple had two children, sons Robert and Preston.

Death

Farmbrough died September 3, 2011 at his home in Lawrence, Kansas from injuries sustained in a fall.^[5] He was survived by two children, four grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs	Coaches#	AP°
Kansas Jayhawks (Big Eight Conference) (1971–1974)
1971	Kansas	4–7	2–5	T–5th
1972	Kansas	5–6	3–4	T–5th
1973	Kansas	7–4–1	4–2–1	T–2nd	L Liberty	15	18
1974	Kansas	4–7	1–6	T–7th
Kansas Jayhawks (Big Eight Conference) (1979–1982)
1979	Kansas	3–8	2–5	T–5th
1980	Kansas	4–5–2	3–3–1	4th
1981	Kansas	8–4	4–3	T–3rd	L Hall of Fame Classic
1982	Kansas	2–7–2	1–5–1	T–6th
Kansas:		37–48–5	20–33–3
Total:		37–48–5
#Rankings from final Coaches' Poll. °Rankings from final AP Poll.

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Fred Fay, American leader in the disability rights movement, died he was 66.

Frederick A. Fay was an early leader in the disability rights movement in the United States died he was 66..

(September 12, 1944 – August 20, 2011) 

 Through a combination of direct advocacy, grassroots organizing among the various disability rights communities, building cross-disability coalitions between disparate disability organizations, and using technology to connect otherwise isolated disability constituencies, Fay worked diligently to raise awareness and pass legislation advancing civil rights and independent living opportunities for people with disabilities across the United States. He won the 1997 Henry B. Betts Award for outstanding achievement in civil rights for Americans with disabilities. Fay was recognized for "flat-out advocacy" over several decades. He helped lead the nationwide efforts by disability advocates to secure passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.^[1]
Jonathan Young, chairman of the National Council on Disability, said, “Fred was one of the great early pioneers in disability advocacy...the depth and breadth of his knowledge and commitment was surpassed only by the life he lived and the legacy he leaves behind."^[2]
Frederick Allan Fay, Ph.D., was born on September 12, 1944, and raised in Washington, DC. At age 16, he sustained a cervical spinal cord injury, and started using a manual wheelchair for mobility. At 17, he launched his disability advocacy career by co-founding "Opening Doors," a counseling and information center.^[3]
Fay attended the University of Illinois, one of the nation's first wheelchair-accessible universities. A few years later, he was a founder of the Boston Center for Independent Living^[4], the Massachusetts Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities, and of the American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities.^[5]
Fay worked for many years at the Tufts New England Medical Center, until syringomyelia made it impossible for him to sit upright. For the past quarter century, Fay has worked from his home in Concord, Massachusetts. In the early years, he used a headset to speak and listen on the phone, plus a personal computer mounted on a stand near his motorized bed. He had an electronic workstation suspended over the bed.
It was from there that Fay launched the Justice for All forum that compiles and distributes disability rights information to his wide network of friends and allies.
One of the continuing visionaries of the disability rights movement, Fay provided ongoing leadership to disability advocates. He was recognized in the movement for his irrepressible enthusiasm and optimism.
Fay made a short video with another disability rights notable, Roland W. Sykes, founder of DIMENET.




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