Jang Hyo-Jo, South Korean baseball player (Samsung Lions, Lotte Giants), died from liver cancer he was 55.

Jang Hyo-Jo was a South Korean outfielder in the Korean professional baseball league who played for the Samsung Lions and Lotte Giants died from liver cancer he was 55.. Jang batted and threw left-handed.

(July 6, 1956 – September 7, 2011)

He was born in Daegu, Jang is widely regarded as one of the best KBO hitters for average of all time. He still holds several records as of 2011, including the highest career batting average (.331) and most career batting titles with 4.

Playing career

Jang played college baseball at Hanyang University in Seoul. Upon graduation from Hanyang University in February 1979, he joined the POSCO baseball club in the Korean amateur league. In September 1982, Jang competed in the 1982 Amateur World Series as a member of the South Korean national baseball team and helped his team to win its first world championship as a starting right fielder. After the competition, Jang announced his interest to join the KBO Draft, and he was eventually drafted by the Samsung Lions in the third round of the 1983 KBO Draft.
In his first pro season (1983), Jang won the batting title with a .369 batting average, being the first KBO player to win the batting title as a rookie. He posted career-highs in home runs (18) and stolen bases (25) as well. However, he lost the Rookie of the Year award to Park Jong-Hoon of the OB Bears, which has been considered one of the most controversial KBO elections of all time.
In 1985, Jang won his second batting title with a .373 batting average and led the Lions to its first KBO championship. He became his third batting champion with .329 in 1986 and won his fourth title with a career-best .387 batting average in 1987.
After the 1988 season, Jang was traded with Kim Si-Jin to the Lotte Giants for Choi Dong-Won and Kim Yong-Chul.^[1]
In 1991, Jang was runner-up in batting average with .347 and first in on-base percentage with .452. In 1992, his last pro season, Jang earned his first Korean Series ring but he dipped down to batting a career-low .265, with 0 home runs and 25 runs batted in. After the 1992 season with the Giants, Jang announced his retirement.
In a ten-season career, Jang batted .331 with 78 home runs and 437 RBI in 961 games and ended with a .430 on-base percentage. He had 1009 career hits in 3050 at-bats. Jang also topped the KBO in on-base percentage in six seasons and won five straight Golden Gloves from 1983 to 1987 for defensive excellence.^[2]

Coaching career

Following his playing career, Jang coached for the Lotte Giants in 1994 and the Samsung Lions in 2000.
Jang was named manager of the Lions' second tier team in 2010.

Death

Jang died of liver cancer at a hospital in Busan on September 7, 2011.^[2]


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Eddie Marshall, American jazz drummer, died he was 73.

Edwin "Eddie" Marshall was an American jazz drummer died he was 73..

(April 13, 1938 – September 7, 2011) 

Biography

Marshall was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He played in his father's swing group and in R&B bands while in high school. He moved to New York City in 1956, developing his percussion style under the influence of Max Roach and Art Blakey. Two years later he played in the quartet of Charlie Mariano and with Toshiko Akiyoshi; after two years' service in the Army, he returned to play with Akiyoshi again in 1965. He worked with Mike Nock for a year in the house band of the New York nightclub The Dom, and also worked with Stan Getz and Sam Rivers, and accompanied Dionne Warwick on tours.
In 1967 he was a member of The Fourth Way, a fusion group which included Nock, Michael White, and Ron McClure. This group toured the San Francisco Bay Area through the early 1970s; after this Marshall played with Jon Hendricks and The Pointer Sisters.
Marshall was a member of the group Almanac with Bennie Maupin (flute, tenor saxophone), Cecil McBee (bass) and Mike Nock (piano). They released one album in 1977.
In the 1980s he worked in the project Bebop & Beyond, who recorded tribute albums to Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk.
Marshall underwent heart surgery in 1984, temporary sidelining his career, but he continued to perform on the recorder. He then taught at the San Francisco School of the Arts, and issued his second release as a leader in 1999. In the 2000s he worked on the San Francisco Arts Commission.
Marshall died of a heart attack on Wednesday, September 7, 2011.
Marshall is survived by his wife, Sue Trupin of San Francisco, CA, and his five sons: Andre and Alcide Marshall of Oakland, CA, Jeru Marshall of Baytown, TX, David Marshall of Boston, MA, and Andre Charles of San Francisco, CA. He was also blessed with five grandsons: Andre and Khari Marshall of Oakland, CA, Gage and Trexton Marshall of Baytown, TX, and Zabrien Rodriquez of Baytown, TX.

Discography

As leader

• Dance of the Sun (Timeless Records, 1977)
• Holy Mischief (1999)

As sideman

With Toshiko Akiyoshi

• Long Yellow Road (Asahi Sonorama, 1961)

With John Handy

• Where Go the Boats (Warner Bros., 1978)

With Bobby Hutcherson

• Waiting (Blue Note, 1976)
• The View from the Inside (Blue Note, 1976)
• Highway One (Columbia, 1978)
• Conception: The Gift of Love (Columbia, 1979)

With Ahmad Jamal

• Genetic Walk (20th Century, 1975)

With John Klemmer

• Waterfalls (Impulse!, 1972)
• Magic and Movement (Impulse!, 1974)

With Art Pepper

• San Francisco Samba (Contemporary, 1977)

With Archie Shepp

• California Meeting: Live on Broadway (Soul Note, 1985)

With Kenny Burrell

• Sky Street (1975, Fantasy Records)

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Gabriel Valdés, Chilean politician and diplomat, President of the Senate of Chile (1990–1996), Foreign Minister (1964–1970), died he was 92.

Gabriel Valdés Subercaseaux  was a Chilean politician, lawyer and diploma  died he was 92.. 

(July 3, 1919 – September 7, 2011)
Valdes served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile under President Eduardo Frei Montalva from 1964 to 1970.^[2] A vocal opponent of the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, which held power from 1975 to 1990, Valdés worked for Chile's transition to democracy.^[2]
Valdes served as President of the Senate of Chile, considered the second most important office in the country after the presidency, from 1990 to 1996.^[2] He retired from the Senate in 2006.^[2]
Gabriel Valdés died from bronchitis on September 7, 2011, at his home in Santiago, Chile, at the age of 92.^[2] He had recently been admitted as a patient at Clínica Alemana for treatment of a long illness.^[2] 


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Hiroe Yuki, Japanese badminton player, died she was 62.

Hiroe Yuki was a Japanese badminton player. She won numerous major international titles from the late 1960s to the late 1970s died she was 62..

(15 November 1948 – 7 September 2011)

  Career

Yuki was among the most notable of a cadre of fine players who helped Japan to win all but one of the six Uber Cup (women's world team) competitions held between 1966 and 1981.^[1] With the possible exception of Etsuko Toganoo she was Japan's most successful ever player at the prestigious All-England Championships winning four singles titles (1969, 1974, 1975, 1977) there, as well as a doubles title (1971) in partnership with her friendly rival Noriko Takagi.^[2]
She overcame an Achilles tendon rupture early in her career to compile her impressive record.^[3] She won the bronze medal at the 1977 IBF World Championships in women's singles.
In 1986, she married Kenji Niinuma, a Japanese popular enka singer, and together they later had two children, a son and a daughter. In 2002, Yuki was inducted into the World Badminton Hall of Fame.



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Vitali Anikeyenko, Ukrainian, died from a plane crash he was 24.

Vitaly Serhiiovych Anikeyenko was a Ukrainian-Russian professional ice hockey player died from a plane crash he was 24.. Born in Kiev, Anikeyenko spent the entirety of his professional hockey career with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League, save for the a loan spell with Metallurg Novokuznetsk during 2007–08. He was a member of the Russian national team that competed in the IIHF World Championship's under 18 and under 20 levels; winning a silver medal for the country in 2007. Anikeyenko was drafted 70th overall in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft by the Ottawa Senators. He died along with most of the Lokomotiv team in a plane crash on the first day of the 2011–12 season.

(January 2, 1987 – September 7, 2011) 

Death

Main article: 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster

On September 7, 2011, Anikeyenko was killed in a plane crash when a Yakovlev Yak-42 passenger aircraft, carrying nearly his entire Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team, crashed at Tunoshna Airport, just outside the city of Yaroslavl, Russia. The team was traveling to Minsk to play their opening game of the season, with its coaching staff and prospects. Lokomotiv officials confirmed that the entire main roster was on the flight, including four players from the junior team.^[2][3][4] The bodies of Ukrainian teammates Anikeyenko and Daniil Sobchenko were repatriated following the crash for burial in Ukraine.^[5] The funeral was held on September 10 at Sovskom cemetery in Kiev.^[6]

Career statistics

				Regular season						Playoffs
Season	Team	League		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
2005–06	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	RSL		26	0	1	1	28		1	0	0	0	0
2006–07	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	RSL		25	1	2	3	16		3	0	0	0	12
2007–08	Metallurg Novokuznezk	RSL		10	1	1	2	10		—	—	—	—	—
2007–08	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	RSL		40	4	9	13	48		16	0	0	0	20
2008–09	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	KHL		40	2	9	11	44		19	0	2	2	10
2009–10	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	KHL		52	7	11	18	50		9	1	0	1	8
2010–11	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	KHL		52	5	14	19	79		3	0	2	2	4
RSL totals				101	6	13	19	102		20	0	0	0	32

International statistics

Year	Team	Event	Place		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
2003	Russia	WJC18			6	0	0	0	4
2005	Russia	WJC18	5th		6	1	1	2	12
2007	Russia	WJC			6	0	1	1	10
Junior Int'l Totals					18	1	2	3	26

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Mikhail Balandin, Russian, died from a plane crash he was 31.

Mikhail Yuriyevich Balandin  was a Russian professional ice hockey player  died from a plane crash he was 31.. Balandin played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) at the time of his death. Balandin had also played for Salavat Yulaev Ufa, HC Lada Togliatti, HC CSKA Moscow, Mytishchi Khimik,^[1] Mytishchi Atlant and UHC Dynamo^[2] in Russia. Balandin won a silver medal with the Russian team at the 2000 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.^[3]

(July 27, 1980 – September 7, 2011)

Death

On September 7, 2011, Balandin was killed, when a Yakovlev Yak-42 passenger aircraft, carrying nearly his entire Lokomotiv team, crashed just outside Yaroslavl, Russia. The team was traveling to Minsk to play their opening game of the season, with its coaching staff and prospects. Lokomotiv officials said "'everyone from the main roster was on the plane plus four players from the youth team.'"^[4][5][6]


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Gennady Churilov, Russian, died from a plane crash he was 24.

Gennady Stanislavovich Churilov was a Russian professional ice hockey player died from a plane crash he was 24.. Churilov played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).^[1]

(May 5, 1987 – September 7, 2011) 

Death

On September 7, 2011, Churilov was killed in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster, when a Yakovlev Yak-42 passenger aircraft, carrying nearly his entire Lokomotiv team, crashed just outside Yaroslavl, Russia. The team was traveling to Minsk to play their opening game of the season, with its coaching staff and prospects. Lokomotiv officials said "'everyone from the main roster was on the plane plus four players from the youth team.'"^[2][3][4]


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