Michael Showers, American actor (Treme, Breaking Bad, The Vampire Diaries), died by drowning he was 45.

Michael Showers was an American actor who was best known for his role as Captain John Guidry on the television series Treme died by drowning he was 45..

(March 14, 1966 – August 22, 2011)

Death

On August 24, 2011, Showers' body was discovered in the Mississippi River near the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. New Orleans police speculated that Showers had been dead for at least two days when his body was found.^[3] Autopsy results confirmed that Showers' death was caused by drowning.^[4]

Filmography

Film

• Traffic (2000) - Meeting Leader
• Immortally Yours (2007) - Jack Dougherty
• Mad Money (2008) - Detective (Uncredited)
• Soul Men (2008) - Detective in Charge
• I Love You Phillip Morris (2009) - Gary
• Wonderful World (2009) - Marty Rowe
• The Collector (2009) - Deputy Sheriff
• Tekken (2010) - Security Assistant #1
• The Resident (2011) - August ER Doctor
• The Tree of Life (2011) - Mr. Brown
• Love, Wedding, Marriage (2011) - Handsome Toothless Man
• Colombiana (2011) - Cop

Television

• Sordid Lives: The Series (2008) - Homeless Man (1 Episode)
• The Vampire Diaries (2010) - The Man (1 Episode)
• Breaking Bad (2010) - Union Rep (1 Episode)
• Treme (2011) - Captain John Guidry (4 Episodes)

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John Abley, Australian football player, died from cardiac arrest he was 81.

John Abley was an Australian rules footballer who played with Port Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) between 1950 and 1961 died from cardiac arrest he was 81..

(1 October 1930 – 19 August 2011) 

Abley spent some of the 1949 season playing reserves football with Hawthorn and turned his back on a possible career in the seniors when he moved to Adelaide. He could easily have played for Glenelg (as his younger brother Kevin did) instead of Port as after he arrived in Adelaide the area he planned on residing in was part of Glenelg's recruiting zone. Port Adelaide officials, at the suggestion of Bob McLean, hastily arranged alternate accommodation in the hope of acquiring his services and he debuted for them in 1950.
A fullback, Abley first played in that position for Port in a "Challenge match" in Broken Hill at the end of his debut season and after impressing was kept there for the remainder of his career. He was a member of the famed Port team which won six premierships in succession from 1954 to 1959, an Australian record.
He was a regular South Australian interstate representative and played a total of 23 games for his state. On three occasions he was selected as an All-Australian for his performances at the carnivals, in 1956, 1958 and 1961.
In 1959, John was named as a life member of the Port Adelaide Football Club because of his talent, his warmth off the field and being one of only six players to play in all of Port Adelaide's premierships in the 1950s (1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958 and 1959).
In 1998, John was inducted to the South Australian Football Hall of Fame.
In 2001 Abley was named as the fullback in Port Adelaide's official "Greatest Team", taking into account all players to have represented the club since 1870.
Abley died on the 19 August 2011, aged 81, after a short illness.


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Dame Christine Cole Catley, New Zealand journalist, publisher and author, died from lung cancer she was 88.

Dame Christine McKelvie Cole Catley,   was a New Zealand journalist, publisher and author died from lung cancer she was 88. In 2006 she was awarded the Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature. In 2009 the award was redesignated Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (DNZM) after the New Zealand government decided to restore the titles of knights and dames to the honours system. She died 21 August 2011 from lung cancer aged 88.^[1][2]

(19 December 1922 – 21 August 2011)

She started working for the Taranaki Daily News while still at school and then The Press while she attended Canterbury University in Christchurch. She also wrote for the Labour Party's daily paper, The Southern Cross, the New Zealand Listener, Radio New Zealand and Australia's ABC Network. She was a member of the Broadcasting Council, but was removed by prime minister Robert Muldoon of the National Party. She also wrote for The Dominion (as Sam Cree) and for the Sunday Times.
While working as an advertising copywriter she coined the name Kiwi berry for Chinese gooseberries which evolved into kiwifruit.
She was instrumental in setting up memorials for writers Frank Sargeson (the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship) and Michael King.^[3]


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Sir Donald Farquharson, British jurist, died he was 83.

Sir Donald Henry Farquharson (1928 – 21 August 2011) was a British judge, who served as a High Court Judge for eight years and as a judge of the Court of Appeal for six years died he was 83..

(1928 – 21 August 2011)

Farquharson was educated at the Royal Commercial Travellers School before studying at Keble College, Oxford. He was called to the bar as a member of Inner Temple in 1952 and thereafter practised as a barrister. He was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Essex Quarter Sessions in 1970, and took silk in 1972. He was a Recorder of the Crown Court from 1972 until 1981, when he was appointed as a judge of the High Court of Justice, assigned to the Queen's Bench Division.
He received the customary knighthood upon appointment. In 1989, he was promoted to become a Lord Justice of Appeal as a member of the Court of Appeal, and became a member of the Privy Council. He was made an Honorary Fellow of Keble College in the same year.
He was chairman of the Judicial Studies Board from 1992 to 1994. Farquharson retired from the bench in 1995.^[1]



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Brian Harrison, Australian-born British politician and businessman, MP for Maldon (1955–1974), died he was 89.

(Alastair) Brian Clarke Harrison  was a British Conservative politician died he was 89..

(3 October 1921 – 21 August 2011)


Harrison was born in 1921 in Melbourne, Australia. He was the son of the soldier and politician Eric Harrison.^[2] He was educated at Geelong Grammar School and during World War II served in the Australian Army from 1940 and as a volunteer with the Australian Independent Companies (Commandos) in Halmahera and Borneo.^[2]
After the war he was at Trinity College, Cambridge. He rowed for Cambridge in the record-breaking crew in the 1948 Boat Race. Most of the crew rowed for Great Britain in the 1948 Summer Olympics; Harrison did not participate in the Games as Australia did not enter a squad.^[2]
Harrison returned to Australia from 1950 to 1951 and studied immigration and development. He then settled in the UK to become a farmer and estate manager near Colchester.^[2] He became London director of the Commercial Bank of Australia in January 1966. He served as a councillor on Lexden and Winstree Rural District Council in Essex.^{[citation needed]} He was also High Sheriff of Essex in 1979 and a Deputy Lieutenant of the county.^[2]
Harrison was elected in the 1955 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Maldon and served until he stood down in February 1974 general election. ^[1] He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to John Hare^[2] while Hare was Minister of State for the Colonies between 1955 and 1956, Secretary of State for War from 1956 to 1958 and Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1958 to 1960.
Harrison died in Colchester on 21 August 2011 aged 89 following a short illness.^[3]


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Budd Hopkins, American artist and UFO researcher, died from liver cancer he was 80.

Budd Hopkins was an American painter, sculptor, and prominent figure in abduction phenomenon, and related UFO research died from liver cancer he was 80.

 (June 15, 1931 – August 21, 2011 )

Life

Born in 1931 and raised in Wheeling, West Virginia. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1953, that same year moving to New York City, where he lived until his death in 2011.^[3]
Hopkins' art is in the permanent collections in the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, Hirshhorn Museum, and at the Museum of Modern Art; he received grants or endowments from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His articles on art appeared in magazines and journals, and he lectured at many art schools, including Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill.

Interest in UFOs

In 1964, Hopkins and two others reported seeing a UFO in daylight for several minutes^[4]. Fascinated, Hopkins joined the now-defunct UFO research group National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) and began reading many UFO books and articles.
In 1975, Hopkins and Ted Bloecher studied a multiple-witness UFO report, the North Hudson Park UFO sightings, which occurred in New Jersey^[5]. In 1976, the Village Voice printed Hopkins' account of the investigation.
Hopkins began receiving regular letters from other UFO witnesses, including a few cases of what would later be called "missing time" — inexplicable gaps in one's memory, associated with UFO encounters.

Alien abduction

With Bloecher and psychologist Aphrodite Clamar, Hopkins began investigating the missing time experiences, and eventually came to conclude that the missing time cases were due to alien abduction.
By the late 1980s, Hopkins was one of the most prominent people in ufology, earning a level of mainstream attention that was nearly unprecedented for the field. He established the non-profit Intruders Foundation 1989 to publicize his research.
Hopkins wrote several popular books about abductees, notably Missing Time, and was the founder of the Intruders Foundation, a non-profit organization created to document and research alien abductions, and to provide support to abductees.
For roughly the first seven years of his investigation of the abduction phenomenon, Hopkins himself conducted no hypnosis sessions. Rather, he secured the aid of licensed professionals. He noted that three of these therapists (Drs. Robert Naiman, Aphrodite Clamar and Girard Franklin) were quite skeptical of the reality of abduction claims, yet all "uncovered" detailed abduction scenarios from their patients. (Hopkins, 218)
The 1992 made-for-television film Intruders was based on Hopkins' research, and portrayed abduction scenes. Additionally, Hopkin's 1996 book, Witnessed, portrays a classic abduction case that was alleged to have occurred in late 1989 near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. This case is unique in that it is one of the first publicized episodes that involved multiple abductees (who did not previously know each other) that come to know each other in the "real" world through a variety of circumstances connected to their abductions. Additionally, this case involved inter-generational abductions within the same family.

Criticism

Controversy was a persistent feature of Hopkins' career in alien abduction and UFO studies. While few seemed to doubt Hopkin's motives or sincerity, critics charged that Hopkins was out of his element when he used hypnosis, thereby aiding his subjects in confabulation — the blending of fact and fantasy. However, Hopkins insisted such criticism is specious. He wrote, "I have often frequently invited interested therapists, journalists and academics to observe hypnosis sessions. Theoretical psychologist Nicholas Humphrey, who has held teaching positions at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and psychiatrist Donald. F. Klein, director of research at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and professor of psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, are but two of those who have observed my work firsthand. None of these visitors ... have reported anything that suggested I was attempting to lead the subjects." (Hopkins, 238-239)



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John R. Hubbard, American diplomat, President of University of Southern California (1970–1980), United States Ambassador to India (1988–1989), died he was 92.

John Randolph "Jack" Hubbard  was the eighth president of the University of Southern California (USC) between 1970 and 1980  died he was 92.. He succeeded Norman Topping and was succeeded by James Zumberge. He had served as USC vice president and provost in 1969 after spending four years in India as chief education adviser to the U.S. Agency for International Development. After USC, he served as the United States Ambassador to India from 1988 to 1989.

(December 3, 1918 – August 21, 2011)

In 1970, USC became a member of the Association of American Universities. Between 1970 and 1980, USC rose from 33 to 19 in National Science Foundation federal research rankings and applications rose from 4,100 to more than 11,000. Hubbard's Toward Century II campaign, started in 1976, raised more than $306 million. Hubbard continued to teach history during his term as president and afterward, until shortly before his death. Hubbard served on the USC Board of Trustees. USC's Student Services building was renamed John Hubbard Hall in September 2003. Late in life, he taught two undergraduate seminars at USC, entitled "British Empire From the Mid-19th Century" and "The Era of the First World War".^{[citation needed]}
Prior to USC, he was dean and professor at Tulane University, New Orleans; visiting professor at Yale University, and assistant professor at Louisiana State University (at Baton Rouge).
Hubbard earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history from the University of Texas and honorary degrees from Hebrew Union College, Westminster College, College of the Ozarks and USC Law School. Hubbard was a pilot in the United States Navy during World War II, winning four Air Medals.


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