Sheila Allen,British actress (Love Actually), died she was 78.

Sheila Allen ^[1] was an English actress, who was best known to the wider public for her role on television as Cassie Manson in Bouquet Of Barbed Wire and its sequel Another Bouquet (1976–77). From 1966 to 1978, Allen was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.^[1]

(22 October 1932 – 13 October 2011)

Early life and stage work

Allen was born in Chard, Somerset, to Dorothy Essex (née Potter) and William Allen.^[2]
From the 1950s, Allen appeared in plays by Shakespeare, including for the RSC in both Stratford and London. Her first leading role was that of Katherine ("the shrew") in The Taming of the Shrew for the Arena Company in Birmingham (1954–56). Among many other Shakespearean roles, she played Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Bristol Old Vic Company, a production that moved to London (1957–58), and first appeared with the RSC in 1962. Her later Shakespearean parts included Portia (The Merchant of Venice, Old Vic, London, 1962), Lady Percy (Henry IV, Parts I and II) (RSC, Stratford, 1966), Lady Macduff (Macbeth, RSC, Stratford and London, 1968), Lady Capulet (Romeo and Juliet, RSC, Stratford, 1967), Helen (Troilus and Cressida, RSC, Stratford, 1968), Lady Macbeth (Macbeth, Shaw Theatre, London, 1973) and Goneril (King Lear, Stratford and London, 1974).

Television and film

Allen appeared with Patrick McGoohan in an episode of Danger Man ("Don't Nail Him Yet", 1964), before her guest role in The Prisoner (1967). In the episode "A. B. and C.", the third episode of the series, Allen was Number 14, a scientist who was one of many who failed in "the Village" to elicit from Number 6 (McGoohan) why he had resigned from a certain organisation. She was pressed by Number 2 (Colin Gordon) to use a new wonder drug and archive film to influence her subject's dreams, but he was able to manipulate the process and thereby to cause the downfall of Number 2. When not dressed in her subterranean laboratory in a white coat with her hair tied back, Number 14 was seen with flowing hair, walking around the Village in a cape of many colours.
In Bouquet of Barbed Wire, based on a novel by Andrea Newman and described by Philip Purser as a "kinky saga which was much discussed ... well made and acted",^[3] Allen's character was the wife of Peter Manson (Frank Finlay), who had an unhealthy obsession about his married daughter, Prue (Susan Penhaligon). Among many sexual entanglements, Cassie had an affair with Gavin Sorenson (James Aubrey), her own son-in-law.
She also portrayed the Matron Mary Taylor in the television series Shroud for a Nightingale (1984), based on the P.D. James novel.
Her many film credits include The Prince and the Pauper (1962), Children of the Damned (1963), The Alphabet Murders (1965), and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film) (2005). Allen continued to work into the 21st century, and taught at the Guildford School of Acting.

Death

Allen died in London on 13 October 2011, nine days before her 79th birthday.^[4]


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Winstone Zulu, Zambian AIDS and tuberculosis activist, died he was 47.

Winstone Zulu  was a Zambian HIV and tuberculosis activist. Zulu, who became the first Zambian to publicly acknowledge his HIV status in 1990, was considered one of the world's leading HIV and AIDS activists.^[1][2] At the time, people diagnosed with HIV/AIDS faced widespread discrimination in Zambia.^[1]

(1964 – October 12, 2011)

Zulu was born in Lusaka, Zambia, in 1964.^[3] He was the sixth of his parents' thirteen children.^[3]
In 1990, Zulu made headlines by becoming the first person to announce his HIV status in the country.^[3] He became one of the first Africans to become involved in the AIDS crisis on a worldwide level.^[3]
Zulu was further diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1997.^[3] Zulu lost four of his brothers to tuberculosis during his lifetime due to little access to anti-TB drugs, widely available in other countries.^[2] The deaths of his brothers and his own diagnosis led Zulu to focus his advocacy on behalf of tuberculosis patients and efforts to curb the disease.^[3] He explained in the late 1990s, "TB treatment gives patients more time. If my brothers had survived TB they might have lived long enough to access HIV drugs like me. They shouldn’t have died."^[3]
Zulu noted the link between HIV/AIDS status of patients and a diagnosis with tuberculosis.^[3] From 1997 to 2011, Zulu called for increased financial investments to fight the spread of tuberculosis, as well as TB cases directly related to HIV and AIDS.^[3] Former South African President Nelson Mandela has spoken of Zulu saying, "There have been so few TB survivors who have stepped forward to share their stories. We need more advocates like Winstone to tell the world about TB and the effect it has on so many millions of people."^[3]
Zulu was taken to University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in Lusaka on October 11, 2011. He died from complications of AIDS at the hospital during the early morning hours of October 12, 2011.^[1]


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Martin White, Irish hurler, died he was 102.

Mr.White on the left

Martin White was an Irish hurler who played as a centre-forward for the Kilkenny senior team.^[1]
White made his first appearance for the team during the 1931 championship and became a regular member of the team until his retirement following the conclusion of the 1938 championship. During that time he won three All-Ireland winner's medals and three Leinster winner's medals.
At club level White enjoyed lengthy careers with Tullaroan in Kilkenny and with Blackrock in Cork. He won three county club championship winners' medals with the former.
Until his death White held the distinction of being the oldest living senior All-Ireland medal winners.^[2]\

(31 July 1909 – 12 October 2011)

Biography

White was born in Lacken near Tullaroan, County Kilkenny, in 1909. One of a family of fourteen he was educated locally at Bonnettstown national school before later attending St. James's CBS and St. Kieran's College, a famous hurling nursery for young talent. Following his secondary education White began working for Clover Meats in Waterford in 1929. After ten years as a butcher in the city he later moved to Cork. White moved to Dublin in 1948 where he became a baker.^[3]
White married his wife Peg Ryan in 1947; the couple had seven children. He died at Glasnevin, Dublin, aged 102, in 2011.^[4]

Playing career

Club

White played his club hurling with the famous Tullaroan club and enjoyed much success. As a sixteen year-old he played hurling with the club's junior team until he was promoted to senior status in 1929. In his second season on the club's senior team, Tullaroan qualified for the final of the county senior championship, with Urlingford providing the opposition. That game was a huge triumph for Tullaroan and White collected a coveted county winners' medal following a 4-4 to 0-3 trouncing. After surrendering their title in 1931, Tullaroan were back in the county club championship decider again in 1933. Carrickshock were the opponents on that occasion and a high-scoring game developed. Eleven goals were scored in total, with White ending up on the winning side by 6-5 to 5-4. It was his second county winners' medal.^{[citation needed]}
In 1934, Tullaroan set out to successfully defend their title. All went to plan as White's side reached the county final once again. For the second year in succession, Carrickshock provided the opposition, however, the result remained the same. White added a third county medal to his collection following a 6-6 to 1-5 trouncing. Tullaroan failed to make it three-in-a-row, however, White lined out in his fourth county championship decider in 1936. Mooncoin were the opponents and little separated the two sides. At the long whistle White's side were just about defeated by 4-2 to 4-1.^[5]
After moving to Cork White joined the famous Blackrock club. He enjoyed little success here, as "the Rockies" were going through an uncharacteristic dry-spell.^{[citation needed]}

Inter-county

White first came to prominence on the inter-county scene as a member of the Kilkenny senior inter-county team when he made his debut in 1931. After missing Kilkenny's 4-7 to 4-2 Leinster final defeat of Laois, he was named to start in the subsequent All-Ireland final against arch-rivals Cork. The game itself turned out to be a remarkable contest with both sides ending the game with 1-6 apiece. The replay took place one month later and proved to be just as exciting a contest as the first game.^{[citation needed]}
White, however, was dropped for the replay. In spite of a great display by Lory Meagher a winner couldn’t be found and both sides finished level again at 2-5 apiece. After this game officials pressed for extra time, however, Cork captain Eudie Coughlan rejected this. It was also suggested at a meeting of the GAA's Central Council that both counties be declared joint champions and that half an All-Ireland medal by given to each player. This motion was later defeated. As the All-Ireland saga went to a third meeting White was still confined to the bench. In spite of fielding a younger team, Kilkenny were defeated by Cork on a score line of 5-8 to 3-4.^{[citation needed]}
White missed Kilkenny's successful defence of their provincial crown in 1932, however, he was included at full-forward for the All-Ireland final against Clare. It was both sides first ever meeting in the history of the championship. In a low-scoring but tense game Clare’s Tull Considine scored two goals and was foiled for what would almost certainly have been a third. These goals were negated by Kilkenny’s three goal-scoring heroes Matty Power, Lory Meagher, who scored a remarkable goal from a line ball, and White himself. The final score of 3-3 to 2-3 gave victory to Kilkenny and gave White a coveted All-Ireland medal.^[6]
1933 saw White miss Kilkenny's third consecutive Leinster final triumph, however, in a similar pattern to recent years, he secured a place on the starting fifteen for the subsequent All-Ireland final. Limerick lined out against the Leinster champions on that occasion as just over 45,000 people turned up at Croke Park. Such was the crowd that the gates were locked five minutes before the game began and 5,000 people were locked out. The game was a close one; however, Kilkenny sealed the victory with a great solo-run goal by Johnny Dunne. A 1-7 to 0-6 win gave White his second consecutive All-Ireland medal.
Kilkenny were back in 1935 with White finally collecting a Leinster winners' medal on the field of play following his team's 3-8 to 0-6 defeat of Laois.^[7] Another All-Ireland final appearance beckoned with red-hot favourites Limerick providing the opposition once again. They were the reigning National Hurling League and All-Ireland champions and had played a remarkable thirty-one games without defeat. In spite of rain falling throughout the entire game both sides served up a great game. At the beginning of the second-half Lory Meagher sent over a huge point from midfield giving Kilkenny a lead which they wouldn’t surrender. As a result of this victory White captured a third All-Ireland medal in four years.
By 1936 White had firmly established himself as a key member of the Kilkenny team. That year he was rewarded when he picked up a second Leinster winners' medal following a 4-6 to 2-5 defeat of Laois. Kilkenny later qualified for the All-Ireland final where Limerick provided the opposition for the third time in four years. On this occasion White's side were completely outclassed. Three more Limerick goals followed in the second-half as Kilkenny were well beaten by 5-6 to 1-5. 1937 saw Kilkenny qualify for the Leinster final once again. Westmeath were accounted for on that occasion by a score line of 5-3 to 2-4 as White collected his third Leinster winners' medal.^{[citation needed]}
The subsequent All-Ireland final was played in the unusual surroundings of FitzGerald Stadium in Killarney due to a builders strike at Croke Park. Tipperary were the opponents on that occasion and surprised Kilkenny with a tour de force. Lory Meagher came on as a substitute in the second-half to score his team's only point of the half. Kilkenny collapsed as Tipp recorded a 3-11 to 0-3 victory in one of the most one-sided championship deciders ever. White played for the team again in 1938, however, Kilkenny were defeated in a replay of the provincial final. It was his last game.^{[citation needed]}

Inter-provincial

White also lined out with Leinster in the inter-provincial hurling competition. He won his sole Railway Cup winners' medal as a non-playing substitute in 1936 when his provine defeated Munster by 2-8 to 3-4.^[8]

Honours

Tullaroan

• Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship:
  • Winner (3): 1930, 1933, 1934
  • Runner-up (1): 1936

Kilkenny

• All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship:
  • Winner (3): 1932, 1933, 1935
  • Runner-up (3): 1931, 1936, 1937
• Leinster Senior Hurling Championship:
  • Winner (3): 1935, 1936, 1937
  • Runner-up (2): 1934, 1938

Leinster

• Railway Cup:
  • Winner (1): 1936 (sub)
  • Runner-up (1): 1937

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Dick Thornett, Australian triple international sportsman (water polo, rugby union and rugby league), died from heart disease he was 71.

Richard Norman "Dick" Thornett^[1] was one of five Australians to have represented their country in three sports. He was an Olympic water polo player before becoming a rugby league and rugby union player—a dual code international representative.

(23 September 1940 – 12 October 2011)

Olympian

Thornett also represented Australia at Water polo at age 20 in the 1960 Rome Olympics giving him the truly rare sporting distinction of being a triple international (see also Michael Cleary).

Rugby union

A Randwick DRUFC forward, in his two senior seasons in rugby union in 1961 and 1962 Thornett made eleven national representative Tests appearances for the Wallabies. On the Wallabies 1961 tour of South Africa Thornett was in the squad with his brother John Thornett and they played Test matches together. Dick left the amateur code after two years to join his brother Ken Thornett at the Parramatta Eels.

Rugby league

Thornett was a front trower, and joined his brother Ken at the Parramatta Eels in 1963.^[2] He played there until 1971, making 168 appearances for the club, He was a master ball player informing the style-changing ball skills that Arthur Beetson would bring to forward play shortly after Thornett. In a club game against Canterbury in 1968 Thornett matched the then standing club record of four tries in a match.
In 1969 he appeared as a guest player for Auckland in a match against the New Zealand Kiwis to mark the New Zealand Rugby League's diamond jubilee.^[3]
He made national representative appearances for the Kangaroos in Tests against South Africa in 1963, on the 1963–64 Kangaroo tour and in three matches of the 1968 World Cup.
His international rugby league debut in the 1st Test against South Africa in Brisbane on 20 July 1963 saw Thornett become Australia's 28th dual code rugby international, following Michael Cleary and preceding Jim Lisle. Ken Thornett also appeared in that Test match, making the brothers the first to play together in an Australian test side since Bill and Viv Farnsworth in 1912.
Thornett's final two club seasons at Parramatta were affected by a bout of hepatitis and he saw out the final year of his career with a season at Easts.
While playing football, Thornett also served in the New South Wales Police Force and in 2008, rugby league's centennial year in Australia, he was named as a reserve in a NSW Police team of the century.

Sporting brothers

Thornett was born into a family of legendary footballing brothers. John Thornett was a Wallaby captain who played 37 Rugby Union Tests for Australia over a distinguished 13 year career from 1955. Ken Thornett was the leading Australian rugby league fullback in the early sixties. Ken earned 12 Test caps for Australia and played alongside Dick at Parramatta over a 136 game club career.
John and Dick Thornett both played together in Wallabies sides in 1961–62; Dick and Ken Thornett played together in three test matches on the 1963–64 Kangaroo Tour.


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Lewis Mills, American college basketball coach (University of Richmond) and athletic director, died he was 74.

Lewis Benson Mills was the head men's basketball coach at the University of Richmond from 1963 to 1974^[2] and athletic director at Virginia Commonwealth University from 1974 to 1986. In college, Mills was a point guard for the Virginia Tech Hokies and served as captain in his senior year. He was inducted into the Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame in 1991. Mills also served as Athletic Director at Western Kentucky University until his retirement in 1999.

(February 5, 1937 – October 12, 2011) 

NCAA Division I Coaching Record

School	Season	Record	Postseason
Richmond	1973–74	16–12
Richmond	1972–73	8–16
Richmond	1971–72	6–19
Richmond	1970–71	7–21
Richmond	1969–70	9–18
Richmond	1968–69	13–14
Richmond	1967–68	12–13
Richmond	1966–67	11–12
Richmond	1965–66	12–13
Richmond	1964–65	10–16
Richmond	1963–64	6–16
Total	11 Seasons	110–170

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Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, developer of the C programming language and the Unix operating system. [140] (body discovered on this date), died he was 70.

Dennis Ritchie stands over Ken Thompson as he works on the PDP-11 in 1972.

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie ,^[1][2][3][4] was an American computer scientist who "helped shape the digital era."^[1] He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system.^[1] Ritchie and Thompson received the Turing Award from the ACM in 1983, the Hamming Medal from the IEEE in 1990 and the National Medal of Technology from President Clinton in 1999. Ritchie was the head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when he retired in 2007. He was the 'R' in K&R C and commonly known by his username dmr.

(b. September 9, 1941; found dead October 12, 2011)

Early life

Ritchie was born in Bronxville, New York. His father was Alistair E. Ritchie, a longtime Bell Labs scientist and co-author of The Design of Switching Circuits on switching circuit theory. He moved with his family to Summit, New Jersey, as a child, where he graduated from Summit High School.^[5]

Career

Ritchie graduated from Harvard University with degrees in physics and applied mathematics. In 1967, he began working at the Bell Labs Computing Sciences Research Center, and in 1968, he received a PhD from Harvard under the supervision of Patrick C. Fischer, his doctoral dissertation being "Program Structure and Computational Complexity".^[6]

Ken Thompson [L] and Dennis Ritchie [R]

Ritchie was best known as the creator of the C programming language, a key developer of the Unix operating system, and co-author of the book The C Programming Language, and was the 'R' in K&R (a common reference to the book's authors Kernighan and Ritchie). Ritchie worked together with Ken Thompson, the scientist credited with writing the original Unix; one of Ritchie's most important contributions to Unix was its porting to different machines and platforms.^[7]
The C language is widely used today in application, operating system, and embedded system development, and its influence is seen in most modern programming languages. Unix has also been influential, establishing concepts and principles that are now precepts of computing.

Awards

Thompson (left) and Ritchie (center) receiving the National Medal of Technology from President Clinton in 1999

In 1983, Ritchie and Thompson received the Turing Award for their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system. Ritchie's Turing Award lecture was titled "Reflections on Software Research".^[8] In 1990, both Ritchie and Thompson received the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), "for the origination of the UNIX operating system and the C programming language".^[9]
In 1997, both Ritchie and Thompson were made Fellows of the Computer History Museum, "for co-creation of the UNIX operating system, and for development of the C programming language."
On April 21, 1999, Thompson and Ritchie jointly received the National Medal of Technology of 1998 from President Bill Clinton for co-inventing the UNIX operating system and the C programming language which, according to the citation for the medal, "led to enormous advances in computer hardware, software, and networking systems and stimulated growth of an entire industry, thereby enhancing American leadership in the Information Age".^[10][11]
In 2005, the Industrial Research Institute awarded Ritchie with its Achievement Award in recognition of his contribution to science and technology, and to society generally, with his development of the Unix operating system.^[12]
In 2011, Ritchie, along with Thompson, was awarded the Japan Prize for Information and Communications for his work in the development of the Unix operating system.^[13]

Death and legacy

Ritchie engaged in conversation in a chalet in the mountains surrounding Salt Lake City at the 1984 Usenix conference

Ritchie was found dead on October 12, 2011, at the age of 70 at his home in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, where he lived alone.^[1] First news of his death came from his former colleague, Rob Pike.^[2][3] The cause and exact time of death have not been disclosed.^[14] He had been in frail health for several years following treatment for prostate cancer and heart disease.^{[1][2][15][16]} His death came a week after Steve Jobs', but did not receive as much media coverage.^[17][18] Computer historian Paul E. Ceruzzi said after his death: "Ritchie was under the radar. His name was not a household name at all, but... if you had a microscope and could look in a computer, you'd see his work everywhere inside."^[19]
In an interview shortly after Ritchie's death long time colleague Brian Kernighan said Ritchie never expected C to be so significant.^[20] Kernighan reminded readers of how important a role C and UNIX had played in the development of later high-profile projects, like the iPhone.^[21][22]
Other testimonials to his influence followed.^{[23][24][25][26]}
The Fedora 16 Linux distribution, which was released about a month after he died, was dedicated to his memory.^[27] FreeBSD 9.0, released January 12, 2012 was also dedicated in his memory.^[28]


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Vic Miles, 79, American reporter and news anchor, died he was 79.

Victor Miles Levy, Jr. , known professionally as Vic Miles, was an American reporter and news anchor for WCBS-TV from 1971 until his retirement in 1995.

(November 7, 1931 – October 12, 2011)

Educated at City College of New York, he served in the United States Air Force during the Korean War. Prior to his job with WCBS-TV, he had previously worked as a news director and disc jockey for radio station WHOA in Puerto Rico from 1956 to 1966, and a reporter and anchor with KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh from 1966 to 1971.^[1]
Miles' primary responsibilities at WCBS were as a reporter and anchor of the station's weekend news broadcasts, but he was also a substitute anchor on the weekday broadcasts and also was Rolland Smith's co-anchor of the 11 PM newscast for a brief period in the 1970s. He died on October 12, 2011 from unknown causes at the age of 79.


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