Sir William Hawthorne, British aerospace engineer, died at 98.

Sir William Rede Hawthorne CBE, FRS, FREng, FIMECHE, FRAES,) was a British professor of engineering who worked on the development of the jet engine.

(22 May 1913 – 16 September 2011

Life

Hawthorne was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, the son of a civil engineer from Belfast. He was educated at Westminster School, London, then read mathematics and engineering at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1934 with a double first. He spent two years as a graduate apprentice with Babcock and Wilcox Ltd, then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA, where his research on laminar and turbulent flames earned him a ScD two years later. In 1939 he married Barbara Runkle (d. 1992, granddaughter of MIT's second President John Daniel Runkle), and they had one son and two daughters.
After MIT, he returned to Babcock and Wilcox. In 1940, he joined the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough. He was seconded from there to Power Jets Ltd at Lutterworth, where he worked with Frank Whittle on combustion chamber development for the jet engine. Building on his work on the mixing of fuel and air in flames at MIT, he derived the mixture for fast combustion; the chambers produced by his team were used in the first British jet aircraft.
In 1941, he returned to Farnborough as head of the newly formed Gas Turbine Division and in 1944 he was sent for a time to Washington to work with the British Air Commission. In 1945, he became Deputy Director of Engine Research in the British Ministry of Supply before returning to America a year later as an Associate Professor of Engineering at MIT. He was appointed George Westinghouse Professor of Mechanical Engineering there at the age of 35, and in 1951 returned to Cambridge, UK as the first Hopkinson and Imperial Chemical Industries Professor of Applied Thermodynamics (1951–1980). Hawthorne's most outstanding work at Cambridge was in the understanding of loss mechanisms in turbomachinery, and during his time as Head of Department he and Professor John Horlock (later Vice-Chancellor of the Open University) established the Turbomachinery Laboratory.
The oil shortage following the Suez Crisis and Hawthorne's interest in energy matters led to his invention and development of Dracone flexible barges for transporting oil, fresh water, or other liquids. (The name Dracone is allegedly a reference to Frank Herbert's Dragon in the Sea science fiction novel which featured this kind of tanker.^[1]) Hawthorne was active on many committees and advisory bodies concerned with energy matters, in particular the Advisory Council on Energy Conservation, of which he was chairman from its inception in 1974.
Hawthorne was elected to the fellowship of the Royal Society in 1955, and was knighted in 1970. He became Head of the Department of Engineering in Cambridge in 1968 and was appointed Master of Churchill College, Cambridge in the same year (1968–1983).
President of the Pentacle Club from 1970–1990, Hawthorne was well known for performing magic, and is remembered to this day by the kitchen staff at Churchill College as 'the man who made cheese rolls come out from behind his ears'.

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Dave Gavitt, American basketball coach, founder of the Big East Conference, died at 73.

David "Dave" Gavitt was a American college basketball coach and athletic director at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island. He was also well known as the first commissioner of the Big East Conference and as part of the committee which created the 1992 Olympic Basketball "Dream Team."

(October 26, 1937, Westerly, Rhode Island – September 16, 2011^[1]) 

Coaching career

Gavitt graduated from Dartmouth College in 1959, where he was a member of the 1959-1960 varsity basketball team, the last Dartmouth basketball team to win the Ivy League championship. He spent two years as an assistant basketball coach at Worcester Academy before becoming an assistant coach at Providence under the legendary Joe Mullaney in 1962. He left in 1966 to become and then head coach at his alma mater before taking over for Mullaney at Providence in 1969.
Under his ten-year tenure, the Friars advanced to the postseason eight straight years (1971–78; five NCAA appearances, 1972-'74, '77-'78, and three NIT appearances, 1971, '75, 76). In 1973, Gavitt's team made it to the Final Four for the first time in school history. He also served as director of athletics at PC from 1971 to 1982, and was at that position when the school's women's athletics programs were started as a result of Title IX.

The Big East, USA Basketball and beyond

In 1979, Gavitt, along with several other college athletics administrators, helped to form the Big East Conference as a means to better compete with the major schools in the country. He became the conference's first commissioner, from 1979 to 1990.^[2] Under his direction, the Big East steadily expanded and was an almost immediate success, as several schools became basketball powerhouses (culminating in the 1985 Final Four, in which three schools from the conference - Georgetown, Saint John's, and eventual champion Villanova - were present).
During his tenure, six of the conference's schools (Georgetown, Villanova, Saint John's, Providence, Seton Hall and Syracuse) participated in the Final Four, and all nine teams made it to the NCAA tournament at least once. His contributions, in fact, are memorialized in the Dave Gavitt Trophy, given to the winner of the Big East's men's basketball tournament, which he was responsible for not only creating, but its annual use of Madison Square Garden. Also, from 1982 to 1984, he was chairman of the NCAA Division I Basketball Committee. It was under his guidance that the tournament expanded to sixty-four teams, in order to provide better opportunity for small conference teams to participate. He was also responsible for the playing of Final Four games in larger venues such as domed stadiums, and the first full contract with a television network to provide universal coverage of the tournament, further adding to the tournament's popularity and prestige.
Gavitt has also been involved in Olympic basketball. In 1980, he was selected as the head coach of the Olympic basketball team, only to lose out on the opportunity due to the boycott of the Moscow games by the United States. He would also go on to serve on the Olympic governing body, including a presidency from 1988 to 1992. It was during his tenure that he developed the concept of the "Dream Team," an Olympic basketball team composed of the NBA's best.
Besides these responsibilities, Gavitt was CEO of the Boston Celtics from 1990 to 1994, President of the NCAA Foundation from 1995 to 1997, and Chairman of the Board of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame until 2003. He is a member of the Providence College Athletic Hall of Fame (1984), National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Hall of Fame (2000), and the International Scholar-Athlete Hall of Fame (2000). Gavitt was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame on September 8, 2006. He became the third former member of the Friar athletic program (after John Thompson and Lenny Wilkens), and the first native of Rhode Island to be enshrined. The court at the Dunkin' Donuts Center, Friar's home court, in Providence, Rhode Island is named after him.


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Norma Eberhardt, American actress (Live Fast, Die Young, The Return of Dracula), died from a stroke at 82.

Norma Eberhardt was an American actress who began her career as a fashion model. Her film credits included Live Fast, Die Young and The Return of Dracula, both released in 1958.^[1][2]

(July 8, 1929 – September 16, 2011)

Early life and career

Eberhardt was born and raised in Oakhurst, New Jersey.^[1][2] She was discovered by fashion photographer as a teenager while attending an Easter Parade on the Asbury Park boardwalk with her mother.^[1][3] Reportedly, the photographer was struck by her two different colored eyes, one brown eye and one blue eye.^[1][2] The photographer, who was based in nearby New York City, assumed that Eberhardt was over the age of 18.^[1] However, when she commuted to his office on her seventeenth birthday, the photographer realized that he needed her mother to co-sign her modeling contract. He personally drove her back home to obtain her mother's permission and signature for the contract. Eberhardt soon signed with the John Robert Powers Agency, appearing in advertising campaigns on billboards.^[1]

Acting

Eberhardt's billboard campaigns soon led to radio, television and film roles. She moved to Los Angeles and was under contract with a studio by 1951.^[1] She rented out a room at the The Studio Club For Women in Hollywood, where she became roommates with actress Mary Murphy. (Eberhardt and Murphy would later co-star in the 1958 film, Live Fast, Die Young).^[1] Both actresses dated actor James Dean.^[1] Eberhardt, Murphy and Dean were all cast in small roles in the 1952 comedy, Sailor Beware, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.^[1] Sailor Beware marked Eberhardt's film debut, as well as Dean's second film role.^[1] Eberhardt also dated Jerry Lewis during this time.^[1]
Her second film role was in 1952's Jumping Jacks, which also starred Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin.^[1] She next portrayed an agoraphobic character locked up in a reform school for rich-girl delinquents in the 1953 film, Problem Girls, starring Susan Morrow.^[1]
Eberhardt is best known for two starring film roles during 1958. She co-starred with Francis Lederer in the 1958 horror film, The Return of Dracula. That same year, she co-starred with her real-life former roommate, Mary Murphy, in the crime drama, Live Fast, Die Young. Eberhardt and Murphy played two sisters who run away from home to pursue a life of crime as jewelry thieves who become affiliated with the mafia.^[1] The film, which was marketed with the tagline, "A sin-steeped story of the rise of the Beat Generation," struck a chord with its core audience and has become a cult classic.^[1] In an interview, Eberhardt mused on the film's cult popularity by speculating, "The film tapped into what kids were feeling — that society sucked and they were rebelling against it."^[1]
In 2007, Eberhardt's image from Live Fast, Die Young appeared on T-shirts worn by Slash, the former guitarist for Guns N' Roses and member of the supergroup, Velvet Revolver. Eberhardt was described as "highly amused" when she discovered that her likeness appeared on Slash's wardrobe.^[1]
Eberhardt switched to television, including guest roles on Dragnet in 1959 and the CBS sitcom, Hogan's Heroes, in 1969.^[1][2]

Personal life

Eberhardt married Claude Dauphin, a French actor and former member of the French Resistance, in 1955. Dauphin, who began acting in the 1930s, operated an underground radio station in Nazi occupied France during World War II.^[1] The couple divided their married life between residences in Paris, New York City, Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, and Hollywood.^[1][2] Dauphin died in 1978.^[1]
She was a founding member and an honorary trustee of the Township of Ocean Historical Museum in Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey.^[2]
Norma Eberhardt died of a stroke at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City on September 16, 2011, at the age of 82.^[2] She was survived by her 108-year-old father, George Eberhardt, and six brothers and sisters.^[2] Her funeral was held at the Church House of the Presbyterian Church in Shrewsbury, New Jersey.^[2]

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Jordi Dauder, Spanish actor, died at 73.

Jordi Dauder i Guardiola  was a Spanish actor. Dauder was a veteran actor with a prolific career that includes over a hundred films, plays and television series.
He developed to the immense majority of his work in France, where he appeared as actor in productions different from theatre, simultaneously that was taking part in the different political organizations.

(March 5, 1938 – September 16, 2011^[1][2])

Early life and career

Dauder was born in Barcelona, Spain. After graduating in Arts at the University of Barcelona and History at the University of Paris, where he had to emigrate for political reasons. They began taking their first steps into the theater as well as participating in various social movements that would provide the French revolution of May 1968.
Dauder is one of the side of Spanish cinema forever and participated in La flaqueza del Bolchevique (2003), of Martin Cuenca; Amor idiota (2004), of Ventura Pons; and La caja (2007).
In Azaña (2007), of Santiago San Miguel, he played President of the Second Spanish Republic Manuel Azaña. On television, one of his most recent roles he has played in the series for TV3 Nissaga de poder (1996).
Catalan was also an actor, voice-dubbing Gregory Peck or Nick Nolte, among others, as well as a writer, author of the novels and short stories and poetry.
Dauder was awarded the Sant Jordi Award for Best Spanish Actor (1991), the Audience Award for Best Catalan Actor (1997), and the Camino the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor, and Award of the Spanish Actors Union (2009). In 2008, he received the Creu de Sant Jordi.

Death

He died in Madrid on September 16, 2011.^[1][2]

Filmography

• Warsaw bridge (1990)
• The Teranyina (1990), for Antoni Verdaguer
• The Punyalada (1990)
• The febre Gold (1993), for Gonzalo Herralde
• El perquè de tot plegat (1995), for Ventura Pons
• Land and Freedom (1995), for Ken Loach
• Caresses (1997), for Ventura Pons
• Els sense nom (1999), for Jaume Balagueró
• The flaqueza del Bolshevik (2003)
• Amor idiota (2004), for Ventura Pons
• Camino (2008), for Javier Fesser
• Of Love and Other Demons (2010)
• The Monk (2011)

Theatre work

• Medea (1983), for Núria Espert
• El último vals (1992), for Samuel Beckett
• La Celestina (1996), Fernando de Rojas, per dirigir Hermann Bonnin
• El lector por horas (1999) by José Sanchis Sinisterra
• El alcalde de Zalamea (2000), for Sergi Belbel
• Via Gagarin (2003), Jesús Diez, a Teatre Nacional de Catalunya
• Don Gil de las verdes Calzas (2007), for Eduardo Vasco has Teatre Nacional de Catalunya

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Sir Brian Burnett, British Air Chief Marshal, Chairman of the All England Club, died at 98.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian Kenyon Burnett GCB DFC AFC was a senior Royal Air Force officer who became Air Secretary and served as the last Commander-in-Chief of Far East Command.

(10 March 1913 – 16 September 2011) 

Early life and RAF career

Burnett was born on in Hyderabad in India, where his father was principal of Nizam College. He was educated at Charterhouse School,^[1] Heidelberg University and Wadham College in Oxford.
Burnett joined the Reserve of Air Force Officers in 1932 and transferred to the RAF in 1934.^[2] Burnett’s name came to prominence in 1938, when he was the navigator and second pilot of a Wellesley bomber that completed a record-breaking non-stop flight of 7,158 miles from Ismailia in Egypt to Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, for which Burnett was awarded the AFC.
He served in World War II as Commander of No. 51 Whitley Squadron and then as Commander of No. 33 Air Navigation School in Canada before becoming Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters No. 25 Group in 1944.^[2]
After the War he became an Instructor at the RAF Staff College, Bracknell and then joined the UN Military Staff Committee in New York.^[2] He served on the Joint Planning Staff at the Air Ministry from 1949 and became Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters No. 3 Bomber Group from 1951.^[2] He was made Station Commander at the RAF 'V' Bomber Station RAF Gaydon in 1954, Director of Bombing and Reconnaissance Operations at the Air Ministry in 1956 and Air Officer in charge of Administration at Headquarters RAF Bomber Command in 1959.^[2] He went on to be Air Officer Commanding No. 3 Group in 1961, Vice-Chief of the Air Staff in 1964 and Air Secretary in 1967.^[3] His last appointment was as Commander-in-Chief Far East Command in Singapore in 1970 before he retired in 1972.^[2]
Upon his retirement he became Chairman of the All England Lawn Tennis Club^[1], a position he held for ten years until retiring in 1984. His chairmanship was highly influential in shaping the modern history of the club. The year prior to his appointment 81 players of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) had boycotted the Wimbledon Championships, and relations between the players and the club were still strained. Burnett’s calm manner and patient and tactful approach smoothed the way for reconciliation. He is also credited with giving a young John McEnroe a steer in the right direction following numerous reportings of McEnroe to the referee's office. Burnett also felt that the Royal Box should be utilised when members of the Royal family were not in attendance and implemented this rule.


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Roger Belanger,Canadian ice hockey player (Pittsburgh Penguins), died from a heart attack at 45.

Roger Richard Belanger was a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player.

(December 1, 1965 – September 16, 2011)

Playing career

Belanger started his junior career with the London Knights of the OHL in 1982–83, getting 31 points (17 goals and 14 assists) in 68 games. However, however an injury in the playoffs limited him to just one game, in which he had no points. Prior to the 1983–84 season, the Knights dealt Belanger to the Kingston Canadians. His offensive production exploded in Kingston, as he registered 90 points (44 goals and 46 assist in 67 games. The Canadians failed to make the playoffs that season. In the 1984 NHL Entry Draft, the Pittsburgh Penguins chose Belanger with their first round, the 16th choice overall.
Belanger stepped right into the rebuilding Penguins' lineup in the 1984–85 season, and had eight points (three goals and five assists) in 44 games. The Penguins sent him back to the OHL, where his rights were traded to the Hamilton Steelhawks and in three regular season games in Hamilton, Belanger had six points (3G-3A). Belanger helped the Steelhawks in the playoffs with 13 points, including three goals, in 17 games.
In 1985–86, Belanger failed to crack the Penguins' lineup and found himself with the Baltimore Skipjacks of the AHL, as he recorded 17 goals and 38 points in 69 games in what proved to be the last injury-free season of his career. The following year Belanger played in 32 games with Baltimore, getting 20 points (nine goals and 11 assists), then spent time with the Muskegon Lumberjacks of the IHL, where he had a goal and two assists in five games. In 1987–88, Belanger was beset with numerous injuries and played in just five games with the Lumberjacks, getting a goal and three assists, then played two games with the New Haven Nighthawks of the AHL, where he went scoreless.
That proved to be the end of Belanger's playing career, as he retired from hockey in 1988 due to injuries.

Death

Belanger died September 16, 2011, from a heart attack at his home in Welland, Ontario. He was only 45.^[1]

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