Arnold Green, Estonian politician, President of the Estonian Olympic Committee (1989–1997), .died he was 91

Arnold Green was an Estonian politician and president of the Estonian Olympic Committee from 1989 to 1997, leader of the Estonian Olympic team for the Games in Albertville, Barcelona, Lillehammer and Atlanta and former President of the Estonian Wrestling League and the Estonian Skiing League died he was 91.

(August 20, 1920 – November 4, 2011^[1]) 

Biography

Born to an Estonian family in Riga, Latvia, in 1920, Green served in the Soviet Army in World War II, emerging as a Soviet politician of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic in the post-war years. From 1962 to 1990 he was the minister of foreign affairs of the Estonian SSR. Green participated in the organization of the 1980 Olympic Games sailing regatta in Tallinn.
In 2001 he was awarded the Olympic Order by the IOC.^[2]

Honours and awards

• Five Orders of the Red Banner of Labour
• Order of the Badge of Honour
• Order of Friendship of Peoples
• Order of the Patriotic War 1st class
• Order of the Red Star
• Medal "For Courage"

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Bob Forsch, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals), died from an aneurysm he was 61.

Robert Herbert Forsch  was an American right-handed starting pitcher who spent most of his sixteen years in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the St. Louis Cardinals (1974–1988) before finishing his playing career with the Houston Astros (1988–1989) died from an aneurysm he was 61..

(January 13, 1950 – November 3, 2011)

 He was a member of the 1982 World Series Champions and National League (NL) pennant winners in 1985 and 1987.
A twenty-game winner in 1977, he is third amongst all Cardinals pitcher in victories with 163. He is also the only player in team history to pitch more than one no-hitter, achieving it twice in 1978 and 1983. Along with Ken Forsch, they are the only brothers to have each performed the feat in the majors.

Early years

Forsch graduated from Hiram Johnson High School in Sacramento, California, and attended Sacramento City College. He was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 26th round of the 1968 Major League Baseball Draft as a third baseman, eight rounds after his brother was selected by the Houston Astros. He compiled a .223 batting average with four home runs before he was converted to a pitcher with the Cards' low A affiliate, the Lewiston Broncs, in 1970. Forsch went 41-37 with a 3.96 earned run average over four and a half seasons pitching in their farm system.

Career

Forsch was called up to St. Louis midway through the 1974 season. Making his major league debut in the first game of a doubleheader at Riverfront Stadium, he lost a pitchers' duel with Tom Carroll and the Cincinnati Reds.^[1] He shut out the Atlanta Braves in his second start to earn his first major league victory,^[2] but perhaps his most memorable pitching performance of the season came on September 30 against the Montreal Expos. In the second to last game of the Cardinals' season, needing a win to remain tied with the Pittsburgh Pirates atop the National League East, Forsch carried a no-hitter into the seventh inning. He ended up with a complete game three-hitter for his fourth consecutive win.^[3]
Forsch was a twenty game winner in 1977. He pitched his first career no-hitter on April 16, 1978 against the Philadelphia Phillies^[4] with the help of a questionable ruling by official scorer Neal Russo of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on a Ken Reitz error off the bat of Gary Maddox.^[5] Regardless, his record stood at 3-0 with a 0.71 ERA following the game, however, things began to unravel for Forsch shortly afterwards. After a May 11 three hit shutout against the Los Angeles Dodgers improved his record to 6-2,^[6] Forsch went 5-15 with a 4.07 ERA the rest of the way to end the season at 11-17.
After nine seasons in the majors, Forsch made it to the postseason for the first time in his career in 1982. He also earned his first career save on May 15 against the Atlanta Braves.^[7] He got the game one start in the 1982 National League Championship Series, and held the Atlanta Braves to three hits while striking out six.^[8] He also went 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored. He lost both of his World Series starts against the Milwaukee Brewers, however, the Cardinals still won the series in seven games.^[9]
After going 15-9 with a 3.48 ERA in 1982, his record fell to 10-12 with a 4.28 ERA the following season as the defending World Champions dipped to 79-83 and fourth place in the NL East. One of the few bright spots for his club came on September 26, 1983, when Forsch pitched his second career no-hitter, this time against the Montreal Expos.^[10] He became, at the time, just the 25th pitcher to throw more than one career no-hitter, and the only Cardinals pitcher to accomplish the feat.^[11] His career nearly came to an end when he required back surgery during the 1984 season to relieve pressure on a nerve on his lower back, however, after sitting out three months, he was able to return to the mound.^[12]
Forsch's final win of the 1985 season was a 4-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs on October 4 to clinch a first place tie with the New York Mets, as they and the Mets battled for first place in the NL East all season. The Cards ended up winning the division by three games, and defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1985 National League Championship Series. With the Kansas City Royals representing the American League in the World Series, 1985 was the first time two teams from the same state faced off in a World Series since 1974, and the first time two teams from Missouri faced each other since the 1944 World Series. The Royals beat the Cardinals in seven games for the franchise's first World Series title.^[13] Forsch went 0-1 with a 8.53 ERA in his second postseason.
Forsch made headlines during the 1987 National League Championship Series, which pitted the Cards against the San Francisco Giants. The Giants led the series after Game 2, owing in part to the batting prowess of outfielder Jeffrey Leonard, who scored nine runs and five RBIs during the series. The Cardinal fans were enraged with Leonard's "one-flap down" routine of running the bases, and his "Cadillac" home run trot. While pitching to Leonard in the fifth inning, Forsch famously hit Leonard in the back with a fastball. This created a stir in the St. Louis press, which began calling Leonard "both flaps down". Forsch unconvincingly commented, "Just trying to come inside"^[14]
Forsch was 9-4 with a 3.73 ERA in 1988 when he was traded just before the waiver trade deadline to the Houston Astros, who were making a playoff push in the National League West.^[15] Forsch pitched poorly for the Astros, going 1-4 with a 6.51 ERA. Forsch re-signed with the Astros for 1989, and went 4-5 with a 5.32 ERA splitting his time as a starter and relief pitcher in his final season before retiring.

Career stats

Forsch was one of the better hitting pitchers of his era. He hit twelve career home runs, batted over .300 in 1975, won the inaugural Silver Slugger Award for NL pitchers in 1980 and a second Silver Slugger award in 1987. Forsch's no-hitters were the only two ever thrown at Busch Memorial Stadium.^[16] His 163 career wins with the Cardinals is the franchise's third highest total.

Death

Forsch was a Minor League pitching coach for the Reds' Rookie League affiliate, the Billings Mustangs from 2009 until his death. He also wrote a book titled Bob Forsch's Tales from the Cardinals Dugout, with Tom Wheatley.^[17]
Forsch died suddenly from an thoracic aortic aneurysm on November 3, 2011.^[18] Less than a week before his death, he threw out the ceremonial first pitch before Game seven of the 2011 World Series at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.^[19][20]


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Timothy Raison, British politician, Member of Parliament for Aylesbury (1970–1992), died he was 82.

Sir Timothy Hugh Francis Raison was a British Conservative politician who began his career as a journalist, first working on Picture Post (of which his father, Maxwell Raison, was managing editor), then New Scientist died he was 82..

(3 November 1929 – 3 November 2011)

Whilst at New Scientist he also edited Crossbow, journal of the Bow Group (a left of centre group within the Conservative Party). In 1960 he received The Nansen Refugee Award, which is given annually by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in recognition of outstanding service to the cause of refugees. He edited the social science magazine New Society from 1962 until 1968 and was MP for Aylesbury from 1970 until his retirement in 1992. He served as a junior Education and Science Minister (1973–1974), a Home Office minister (1979–1983), and Minister for Overseas Development (1983–1986).^[1]

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Morris Philipson, American book publisher and novelist, died he was 85.

Morris Harris Philipson  was an American novelist and book publisher died he was 85. Philipson was the longest-serving director in the history of the University of Chicago Press, which position he held from 1967 to 2000.^[1]

^{(June 23, 1926 – November 3, 2011)}

Philipson was a native of New Haven, Connecticut,^[2] and received his B.A. (1949) and M.A. (1952) from the University of Chicago. He received a Ph.D. (1959) in philosophy from Columbia University. He worked for several New York publishers, including Random House, Pantheon Books, Alfred A. Knopf, and Basic Books before coming to the University of Chicago.^[3]
At the University of Chicago Press, Philipson became known for large-scale scholarly projects such as The Lisle Letters (a six-volume collection of 16th-century correspondence by Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle), The Works of Giuseppe Verdi, a four-volume translation of the Chinese classic The Journey to the West, and Jean-Paul Sartre’s five-volume The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857.^[4][5] At Chicago, Philipson also published trade paperback editions of works by many literary figures beginning with Isak Dinesen,^[6] and continuing with R. K. Narayan, Arthur A. Cohen, Paul Scott, Thomas Bernhard, and others. Philipson cultivated strong relationships with French and German publishers, resulting in numerous translations published by the University of Chicago Press, including works by Jacques Derrida, Paul Ricoeur, Yves Bonnefoy, and Claude Levi-Strauss. In 1984, Philipson was awarded the Commandeur de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French ministry of culture.^[7]
In 1982, Philipson became the first director of scholarly press to win PEN American Center’s Publisher Citation.^[8] He also received the Association of American Publishers' Curtis Benjamin Award for Creative Publishing shortly before his retirement.
Philipson was the author of more than fifty articles and reviews^[9] and five novels: Bourgeois Anonymous (Vanguard, 1965; Schocken, 1983), The Wallpaper Fox (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976), A Man in Charge (Simon & Schuster, 1979), Secret Understandings (Simon & Schuster, 1983), and Somebody Else’s Life (Harper & Row, 1987).
Philipson was married for thirty-three years to Susan Philipson, an editor whom he met when they worked at Knopf, and who died in 1994. They had three children.^[10]
Philipson died on November 3, 2011 of a heart attack in Chicago.^[11]


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Ivar Nørgaard, Danish politician, negotiated Denmark's entry to the European Community, died he was 89.

Ivar Nørgaard , also spelled Ivar Noergaard, was a Danish politician, former economics minister and member of the Social Democrats  died he was 89.  Noorgaard led the negotiations for Denmark's ascension into the European Union in 1973.^[1]

^{(July 26, 1922 – November 3, 2011)}

 

Noorgaard served as the head of several ministries within Social Democratic governments during the 1960s and 1970s.^[1] He supported Denamrk's membership into the European Economic Community, the predecessor of the European Union, and headed his country's successful negotiations.^[1] Noorgaard was an opponent of the euro and the eurozone.^[1]
Noorgaard died of a cerebral blood clot on November 3, 2011, at the age of 89. He was survived by his wife, children and grandchildren.^[1]


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Peeter Kreitzberg, Estonian politician, Minister of Culture and Education (1995), died he was 62.

Peeter Kreitzberg  was an Estonian politician, member of parliament and a member of the Social Democratic Party. Kreitzberg served as the Estonian Minister of Culture and Education from April to November 1995 Peeter Kreitzberg, Estonian politician, Minister of Culture and Education (1995), died he was 62..^[1] He also taught at Tallinn University from 1997 to 2011.<sup>[1]

(December 14, 1948 – November 3, 2011)</sup>

Kreitzberg next served as the deputy mayor of Tallinn, the Estonian capital, from 1996 to 1999.^[1] He was elected to the Riigikogu, the nation's unicameral parliament, in 1999.^[1] He remained a member of parliament until his death in 2011.^[1] Kreitzberg served as the deputy chairman of the Riigikogu for two different tenures, from 2001 to 2003 and again from 2003 to 2005.^[1] He was also a candidate for President of Estonia in 2001.^[2]
Peeter Kreitzberg departed Estonia in October 2011 for an official visit to China, which was scheduled to last from October 28 to November 4.^[1] He was accompanied by three other parliamentarians in the delegation — Kalev Kallo, Maret Maripuu and Sven Sester. Kreitzberg died in his Chinese hotel during the official visit on November 3, 2011, at the age of 62.^[1]


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Tamás Eszes, Hungarian politician and paramilitary leader, committed suicide he was 47.

Tamás Eszes  was a Hungarian politician. He was the leader of the far right paramilitary group Véderő committed suicide he was 47..^[2]

^{(18 May 1964[1] – 3 November 2011)}

In April 2011 Eszes attempted to lead a training camp conducted by Véderő. He was arrested and led away by police. Eszes, a karate instructor, claimed the camp was intended to improve the physical condition of Hungarian youths.^[3] The incident highlighted tensions between ethnic Hungarians and the local gypsy minority.^[4]
In the same month Eszes announced that he would contest the mayoral election in Gyöngyöspata, Heves County.^[5] He received 10.5% of the vote.^[6]
Eszes was found dead at his home in Gyöngyöspata on 3 November 2011. He had committed suicide according to the police.^[7]


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