Campbell Christie, Scottish trade unionist, died he was 74.

Campbell Christie CBE ^[1] was the General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress from 1986 to 1998.^[2][3]

(23 August 1937 – 28 October 2011)

The son of a Galloway quarryman, he joined the civil service at the age of 17, rising through the ranks of the Civil Service Clerical Association. He became a leader of the "Sauchiehall Street Mafia", a left-wing association credited with helping radicalise the civil service unions in the 1960s.^[4]
Away from politics, Christie was chairman of Falkirk F.C. during the 2000s.^[5] During his tenure, Falkirk were promoted to the Scottish Premier League and developed the Falkirk Stadium.^[6] He stepped down in 2009, making the announcement after Falkirk played in the 2009 Scottish Cup Final.^[2]
Christie died at Strathcarron Hospice, Denny, Falkirk, aged 74, on 28 October 2011, after a short illness.


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Robert Pritzker, American billionaire industrialist, Parkinson's disease he was 85.

Robert Alan Pritzker  was a member of the wealthy Pritzker family.

(June 30, 1926 – October 27, 2011)

Biography

His parents were Fanny (née Doppelt) and A. N. Pritzker, and his brothers were Jay and Donald. Robert Pritzker received a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1946 and an honorary doctorate in 1984. He taught night courses at IIT and began serving on the Board of Trustees in 1962, and served as a University Regent until the time of his death. Pritzker started The Marmon Group, an international association of autonomous manufacturing and service companies. Marmon's assets constitute half of the Pritzker family fortune.^{[citation needed]} Robert's success can be partially attributed to his unique business structure, in which employees are trusted to make more key decisions, independent of the central office, than in other typical manufacturing settings. This independence allows for more creativity, and increases speed and productivity.^{[citation needed]}
In 2002, Robert Pritzker retired from his position of President of The Marmon Group and assumed the role of President of Colson Associates, Inc., a holding company of caster, plastics moldling, hardware and medical companies, including Acumed, OsteoMed, and Precision Edge Surgical Products Company, among others.^[1]
One of his 5 children is former child actress Liesel Pritzker.


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Allen Mandelbaum, American professor of Italian literature, poet and translator, died he was 85.

Allen Mandelbaum  was an American professor of Italian literature, poet, and translator. He was the W. R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Humanities at Wake Forest University. He was born in Albany, New York in 1926.^[1] His translation of the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri appeared between 1980 and 1984; they were published by the University of California Press and supported by the notable Dante scholar Irma Brandeis. He subsequently acted as general editor of the California Lectura Dantis, a collection of essays on the Comedy; two volumes, on the Inferno and Purgatorio, have been published.

(May 4, 1926 – October 27, 2011)

Mandelbaum received the 1973 National Book Award in category Translation for Virgil's Aeneid.^[2] He is also the recipient of the Order of Merit from the Republic of Italy, the Premio Mondello, the Premio Leonardo, the Premio Biella, the Premio Lerici-Pea, the Premio Montale at the Montale Centenary in Rome, and the Circe-Sabaudia Award.
In 2000, Mandelbaum traveled to Florence, Italy, for the 735th anniversary of Dante's birth, and was awarded the Gold Medal of Honor of the City of Florence, in honor of his translation of the Divine Comedy. In 2003, he was awarded The Presidential Prize for Translation from the President of Italy, and received Italy's highest award, the Presidential Cross of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity. He died in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 2011.^[3]

Work

Verse

• Journeyman
• Leaves of Absence
• Chelmaxioms
• A Lied of Letterpress
• The Savantasse of Montparnasse
• The Aeneid of Virgil (rev. 1971). New York: Bantam. 1981. ISBN 0-553-21041-6.
• Homer's Odyssey. New York: Bantam. 1991. ISBN 978-0-553-21399-7.

Further information: English translations of Homer#Mandelbaum

• Ovid's Metamorphoses
• The Selected Writings of Salvatore Quasimodo
• The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Inferno (1980). New York: Bantam. 1982. ISBN 0-553-21339-3.
• The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Purgatorio (1982). New York: Bantam. 1984. ISBN 0-553-21344-X.
• The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Paradiso (1984). New York: Bantam. 1986. ISBN 0-553-21204-4.
• Selected poems of Giuseppe Ungaretti. Ithaca: Cornell UP. 1975. ISBN 0-8014-0850-4.

Edited work

• Mandelbaum, Allen; Anthony Oldcorn, Charles Ross (1998). Lectura Dantis: Inferno. A Canto-by-Canto Commentary. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-21270-1.
• Mandelbaum, Allen; Anthony Oldcorn, Charles Ross (2008). Lectura Dantis: Purgatorio. A Canto-by-Canto Commentary. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-25056-7.

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Emmanuel de Bethune, Belgian politician, Mayor of Kortrijk (1987–1989, 1995–2000), died after a long illness he was 82.

Baron Emmanuel Pierre Marie Ghislain de Bethune was a Belgian politician. He was the Mayor of Kortrijk from 1987 to 1989 and again from 1995 to 2000.^[1]

(18 July 1930 – 4 November 2011) 

 He went onto found the Bethune Foundation, a foundation used to preserve the library collections of the Bethune family.
Bethune died on 4 November 2011, aged 81.^[2] He is survived by his four children including his daughter, the current Belgian Senate President, Sabine de Bethune.

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Jiří Gruša, Czech dissident, diplomat and writer, died he was 72.

Jiří Gruša  was a Czech poet, novelist, translator, diplomat and politician.^[2]

(10 November 1938, Pardubice – 28 October 2011, Hannover^[1] )

Biography

Gruša was born in Pardubice, Bohemia (Czech Republic), and later moved to Prague.^[2] He graduated from the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague. He worked for periodicals Tvář, Sešity and Nové knihy.
He started coming under the scrutiny of the communist regime of then Czechoslovakia in 1969 because of his writings.^[3] He was banned from publishing and had to work in a construction cooperative. He took part in distribution of samizdat literature. He was arrested in 1974 for "the crime of initiating disorder" after distributing nineteen copies of his first novel, Dotazník (The Questionnaire) and voicing his intention to have it published in Switzerland.^[4] After world-wide protest, he was released after two months.^[4] He later became a signer of the human rights document, Charter 77.^[2] In 1981 his citizenship was revoked,^[4] and between 1982 and 1990 he lived in the Federal Republic of Germany.^[3]
In 1990 conditions in Czechoslovakia became more favorable and he returned to work for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1991–1997, he served as an ambassador to Germany. Later, he joined the minority government of Václav Klaus as a Minister of Education. The government lost support of the opposition parties and President Václav Havel orchestrated establishment of a new caretaker government. Even though Gruša was a non-party minister, he was replaced by Jan Sokol. He served as an ambassador to Austria until 2004.^[5] From 2005 to 2009 he was Director of the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. From 2004 to 2009 he was the President of International PEN.^[5]
Gruša participated in standardisation of the term "Tschechien" as the official name of the Czech Republic in German language. See Name of the Czech Republic for overview.
Gruša died at the age of 72 on 28 October 2011 during a heart operation in Germany. Václav Havel wrote (before his own death a month and a half later on December 18) that Gruša was "one of a few close people whom I deeply respected and who have left this world recently."^[6]

Awards and honors

• 2007: Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France^[2]
• 2006: New Culture of New Europe Award^[2]
• 2002: Jaroslav Seifert Prize^[2]

Works

English translated

• Franz Kafka of Prague, Trans. Eric Mossbacker.
• The Questionnaire, Trans. Peter Kussi.

Czech language

• Umění stárnout [The Art of Aging]
• Gebrauchsanweisung fur Tschechien und Prag [Instruction Manual for the Czech Republic and Prague]
• Grusas Wacht am Rhein aneb Putovni ghetto [The Watch on the Rhein]

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Ricky Adams, American baseball player (California Angels), died from cancer he was 52.

Ricky Lee Adams  was a professional baseball player who played three seasons for the California Angels and San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball.

(January 21, 1959 – October 28, 2011)

Career

On June 7, 1977 he was drafted by the Houston Astros in the first round, as the 14th pick, of the 1977 amateur draft. They released him April 4, 1980. On May 2, 1980 he signed as a free agent with the California Angels. On October 15, 1984 he was granted free agency, and on December 25, 1984 he signed with the San Francisco Giants.

Death

Adams died on October 28, 2011 in Rancho Cucamonga, California after a long battle with cancer.^[1]

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Ron Holmes, American football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Denver Broncos), died he was 48.

Ronald "Ron" Holmes  was a professional American football defensive end who played eight seasons for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Denver Broncos in the National Football League.

(August 26, 1963 – October 27, 2011)

A standout defensive end at the University of Washington, Holmes won the Pac-10 Morris Trophy and was named an All-America defensive end in 1984. Holmes was drafted in the first round by Tampa Bay and spent four years there before moving on to Denver in 1989 and playing four seasons for the Broncos.^[1]
Holmes started in Super Bowl XXIV. He was considered to have Pro Bowl talent, but his development was slowed by injuries.^[2] Holmes died on October 27, 2011.^[3] He was 48.


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