Peretz Kidron, Israeli writer, journalist and translator, died he was 78.

Peretz Kidron was an Israeli writer, journalist, and translator died he was 78..

(29 July 1933 – 6 November 2011) 

Biography

Born in Vienna, son of Sara and Herman Kirchenbaum[Kay] who were devoted Zionists and supporters of the Jewish state. His family escaped to Great Britain in 1938 following the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. After completing his secondary education in Britain he emigrated to Israel, where he lived on and off in Kibbutz Zikim for about 15 years. In Kibbutz Zikim both his children Yochai and Rakefet were born. During this period he was also sent by the Kibbutz to the U.K as a youth leader for the zionist-leftist youth movement H'ashomer H'atzair, to prepare and bring Jewish youth to imigrate to Israel. From the late 1960s he became active in the Israeli peace movement. In 1975 he was a founder member of the Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace and served on the steering committee of the human rights group B'Tselem. In the early 1970s he graduated Tel-Aviv University in English & Translation. In 1976 he co-authored the memoirs of the Palestinian activist Raymonda Tawil, My Home, My Prison. His translations from Hebrew to English include the memoirs of Yitzak Rabin and Ezer Weizman, and a biography of David Ben-Gurion. Rabin's autobiography was censored by Israel's military censor. While translating it Kidron came across the censored paragraphes and made them public. Kidron was a longtime Israel correspondent for the London-based Middle East International. From The 1980s Kidron handled international contacts for the peace group Yesh Gvul. He compiled and edited a collection of writings of those who refuse to serve in the Israeli army, Refusenik! Israel's Soldiers of Conscience.^[1]


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Hal Kanter, American screenwriter, director and producer (Julia),died from complications with pneumonia he was 92.

Hal Kanter was a writer, producer and director, principally for comedy actors such as Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, and Elvis Presley (in Loving You and Blue Hawaii), for both feature films and television died from complications with pneumonia he was 92.. Kanter helped Tennessee Williams turn the play by Williams into the film version of The Rose Tattoo. Since 1991, he was regularly credited as a writer for the Academy Award broadcasts. Hal Kanter was the Executive Producer of th groundbreaking series "Julia" which ran from September 17, 1968 to March 23, 1971. 

(December 18, 1918; Savannah, Georgia – November 6, 2011; Encino, California^[1])

Kanter died at his home in Encino, California on November 6, 2011, aged 92.


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Hickstead , Dutch-born Canadian show jumping horse, Olympic champion (2008), died from a ruptured aorta he was 15.

Hickstead  was a stallion ridden by Canadian Eric Lamaze. With rider Lamaze, he was an Olympic gold and silver medalist in show jumping. Hickstead was owned by Torrey Pines and Ashland Stables Inc died from a ruptured aorta he was 15..^[1]

^{(March 2, 1996 – November 6, 2011)}

A Dutch Warmblood, Hickstead was 16 hands high and bay in color. He was born in the Netherlands (bred by Jan van Schijndel in Maren-Kessel) in 1996, by HAMLET.^[2] During his career, he won more than $4 million CDN.^[3]

Career

In 2006, Hickstead was a member of the winning Nations Cup Team in Florida. He also placed third in the Aachen Grand Prix and won the Duke Energy Cup at Spruce Meadows.

Eric Lamaze and Hickstead, winners of the 2006 Kubota Big Ben Memorial Grand Prix (Nepean National Equestrian Park, Ottawa, Canada).

In 2007 Hickstead and Eric Lamaze won the coveted $1Million CN International at the Spruce Meadows "Masters" Tournament in Calgary, Alberta (Canada). During that event, he also won a record four ATCO Power Queen Elizabeth II Cup titles.
At the 2007 Pan Am Games, Hickstead and Eric Lamaze won team silver and individual bronze medals.^[4]
In 2008, Hickstead and Eric Lamaze won Individual Gold and Team Silver for Canada at the Beijing Olympic Games.^[5] This was the first individual gold medal won in equestrian, and second overall gold won by Canada in Olympic history, the other being a team medal coming from the 1968 Olympics.^[6]
In 2010 Hickstead earned the title 'Best Horse in the World' at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games(WEG) in Lexington, Kentucky. After completing the extremely rare feat of logging four clear rounds with four different riders in the Rolex Top Four Final, Hickstead was named Best Horse of the discipline.^[7] Under the unique format of the Top Four Final, riders with the four highest scores throughout the competition exchange horses.
Hickstead and Lamaze were also the 2010 champions of the Rolex Grand Prix at the prestigious CHIO Aachen: World Equestrian Festival in Germany. In a competition where the top three combinations completed both rounds and the jump-off without faults, Hickstead raced to victory - finishing the jump-off in a time that was twenty four one hundredths of a second faster than that of the second place 'Carlina', ridden by Pius Schwizer of Switzerland.^[8]
In 2011 Eric Lamaze and Hickstead won the $1 million CN International for a second time.^[9][10] The pair was second in the 2011 FEI World Cup Jumping Final in Leipzig, Germany.
On November 6, 2011, at a competition in Verona, Italy, Hickstead collapsed shortly after finishing a round and died of an aortic rupture.^[11] At the time, he was paired with Lamaze, the number one rider in the world.^[12] Eric Lamaze had praised this horse in 2006:

“

He's a great horse and a very good competitor. He's got a great personality, and he's a fun horse to ride because I know him so well. He's feisty, he knows why he is out there, and he knows that knocking down a rail is not good! Some horses just don't get it.[13]

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Mel Hancock, American politician, U.S. Representative from Missouri (1989–1997), died he was 82.

Melton D. "Mel" Hancock was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri's 7th congressional district died he was 82..

(September 14, 1929 – November 6, 2011)

Hancock was born in Cape Fair, Stone County, Missouri and in 1936 started school in Carthage, Missouri. From 1936 to 1941 he attended school in Springfield, Missouri. During World War II from 1941 to 1945, he attended school in Amarillo, Texas, Topeka, Kansas and Sioux City, Iowa. From 1945 to 1947, he attended high school in Springfield, Missouri, graduating in 1947. He received his B.S. from Southwest Missouri State (now Missouri State University) in 1951. He enlisted in the United States Air Force in August, 1951. In basic training he was awarded the American Spirit Honor Medal. He attended the United States Air Force Officer Candidate School and earned the rank of second lieutenant in March, 1953. Hancock was relieved from active duty in 1953, but continued to serve in the United States Air Force Inactive Reserve until 1965 and was discharged at the rank of first lieutenant.
Hancock worked full and part-time from 1947 to 1951 for International Harvester Company during college and from 1953 to 1959, when he resigned and returned to Springfield, Missouri to enter the insurance business, where he worked from 1959 to 1969. In 1969, he co-founded Federal Protection, Inc., a bank security equipment leasing company.
In 1977 he founded The Taxpayer Survival Association, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to educating the public on the principle of constitutional tax limitation. Hancock was the originator, catalyst, and primary organizer and author of an omnibus state and local tax limitation amendment to the Missouri Constitution passed by the voters of Missouri in 1980. Placed on the ballot by an initiative petition process led by Hancock, what is commonly referred to as "The Hancock Amendment", consisted of new sections 16 to 24 of Article 10 of the Missouri Constitution. In general, subject to certain definitions, exceptions and enforcement processes outlined in the Hancock Amendment, the Hancock Amendment limited total state revenues and expenses in Missouri to a percentage of personal income of persons in Missouri, required the state of Missouri to continue to fund expenditures of local political subdivisions required by state law, and required new local tax, licenses or fees to be approved by the voters of such political subdivisions. The Hancock Amendment was one of the first state tax limitation amendments in the United States and is still effective today.
Advocating Constitutional Tax and Spending Amendment he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for United States Senator in 1982, challenging incumbent Republican John Danforth, and a candidate for nomination as Lieutenant Governor of Missouri in 1984, losing out to Democrat Harriet Woods.
In 1988, Hancock was elected as a Republican to the 101st and to the three succeeding Congresses, serving between January 3, 1989 and January 3, 1997. He was not a candidate for re-election to the 105th Congress and resided in Springfield with his wife Alma "Sug" McDaniel, whom he married on November 17, 1951, until his death on November 6, 2011.^[1]
They had three children: two sons, one born in 1955 and one born in 1958, and one daughter born in 1969.


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Philip Gould, Baron Gould of Brookwood, British advertising executive and political adviser, died from cancer he was 61.

Philip Gould, Baron Gould of Brookwood was a British political consultant, and former advertising executive, closely linked to the Labour Party died from cancer she was 89. Appointed by Director of Communications Peter Mandelson, he was strategy and polling adviser to the Labour Party^[3] in the general elections of 1987, 1992, 1997, 2001 and 2005. Involved in 'modernising' the party's image, Gould was particularly connected with Tony Blair and New Labour.

(30 March 1950 – 6 November 2011^[1][2])

Early life and education

Gould grew up in Woking, where his father was a headmaster, but failed his 11-plus and went to a Secondary modern school. Leaving school with only one O-level, he went on to study at East London College, based in Toynbee Hall, where he gained four A-levels. He subsequently won a place at the University of Sussex in 1971 to study politics, graduating in 1974.^[4] Gould then went to the London School of Economics to study for an MSc in the history of political thought, where he was taught by the political scientist Michael Oakeshott. Later he returned to the LSE to teach a course in Politics and Communication.^{[citation needed]}

Career

After a career in advertising, and with the success of his wife Gail Rebuck (later CEO of Random House UK), whom he had met at Sussex, Gould founded his own polling and strategy company, Philip Gould Associates, in 1985. Appointed by Mandelson, Gould recruited the Shadow Communications Agency, a team of communication volunteers, who created Labour's unsuccessful 1987 election campaign. This led to his position of influence within the Labour Party under Neil Kinnock and Tony Blair.^{[citation needed]}
He was the writer of a leaked memo which, in 2000, described the New Labour brand as being contaminated.^[5]
On 7 June 2004 he was made a life peer as Baron Gould of Brookwood, of Brookwood in the County of Surrey.^[6]
Preceding an interview with Andrew Marr on a Sunday morning BBC TV show, 18 September 2011, it was revealed that his treatment for three-times recurring cancer of the oesophagus had been unsuccessful. After being told by his doctor that he only had three months to live, Gould described himself as being in the "death zone":

This time it was clear. I was, you know... I was in a different place, a death zone, where there was such an intensity, such a power. And apparently this is normal. And so, even though obviously I'd, you know, rather not be in this position, it is the most extraordinary time of my life, certainly the most important time of my life.^[7]

Gould then turned his impending death into a campaign as a way of making his departure easier for his wife and daughters as well as helping others by writing and talking about facing up to death.^[8] His efforts resulted in an eight–minute film entitled, "When I Die: Lessons from the Death Zone,"^[9] a documentary of Gould's final weeks of life that was released on the video–sharing website YouTube before the release of his book by the same name.^[10]
Gould died on 6 November 2011 at Royal Marsden Hospital,^[11] a specialist cancer treatment hospital in London, England. It has been stated that proceeds from his 2012 book, "When I Die: Lessons from the Death Zone," will go to the National Oesophago–Gastric Cancer Fund and the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity.^[10] Before he died, Gould stated that he will be cremated and his urn interred at Highgate Cemetery.^{[citation needed]}

Works

• Gould, Philip (1999). The Unfinished Revolution: How the Modernisers Saved the Labour Party Abacus, ISBN 0-349-11177-4
• Gould, Philip (2012). When I Die: Lessons from the Death Zone Little Brown, ISBN 978-1-4087-0398-4

Biography

• Dennis Kavanagh (2012) Philip Gould: An Unfinished Life. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1137281128

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Margaret Field, American actress (The Man from Planet X, Captive Women), mother of Sally Field, died from cancer she was 89.

Margaret Field  was an American film actress^[3] usually billed as Maggie Mahoney died from cancer she was 89..

(May 10, 1922 – November 6, 2011)

Life and career

Field was born in Houston, Texas, the daughter of Joy Beatrice (née Bickeley) and Wallace Miller Morlan.^[4] She was discovered by talent scout Milton Lewis for Paramount Pictures. Following a successful screen test, she was offered an 18-month contract. She then attended Pasadena Junior College, studying voice training and acting. She appeared, often more than once, in television series including Wagon Train, Bonanza, The Virginian, The Range Rider, Yancy Derringer, Perry Mason, To Rome With Love, Lawman, Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, and the 1963 Twilight Zone episode "The New Exhibit," among many others. She also appeared in the science fiction films Captive Women and The Man from Planet X.^[5]
She married Richard Dryden Field, an Army officer, and had two children by him: cinema actress Sally Field and Richard Field.^[6] The Fields divorced in 1950, and Margaret married actor Jock Mahoney, thereafter billed in her acting work as "Maggie Mahoney." She and Mahoney had a daughter, Princess.^[7] Margaret Field and Jock Mahoney divorced in June 1968. When her elder daughter Sally turned 13, Margaret virtually ended her acting career to focus on her family.^[5]
She died, aged 89, on November 6, 2011, which was her daughter Sally Field's 65th birthday.^[8]

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Géza Alföldy, Hungarian historian, died he was 76.

Géza Alföldy  was a Hungarian Ancient historian died he was 76..^[1][2][3]

^{(June 7, 1935 – November 6, 2011)} 

Life

Géza Alföldy was born in Budapest. He studied at the University of Budapest from 1953 to 1958, where he in 1959 received a doctorate. Alföldy worked at the Budapest city museum from 1957 to 1960, and from 1960 to 1965 he was an assistant professor at the Institute for Ancient History at the University of Budapest. In 1965, he emigrated to West Germany, where he initially worked at the Bonn Rhenanian State Museum from 1965 to 1968. During this time, Alföldy earned a habilitation at the University of Bonn in 1966, where he served as a university lecturer and eventually as a full professor. In the same year he became professor of Ancient History at the Ruhr University Bochum. Alföldy was appointed professor for Ancient History at the University of Heidelberg in 1975 and stayed there until his retirement in 2002. After the renewal of his professorship, Alföldy taught as a substitute professor until 2005. He died in Athens, Greece.
In 2003, he acted as historical counsel for the two-part historical film "Imperium: Augustus" starring Peter O'Toole.

Work

Alföldys's main fields of research are:

• History and epigraphy of the Roman Empire
• Roman social, military and administrative history
• History of the Roman provinces
• Historiography of the Roman imperial era and late antiquity
• Roman prosopography

In the 1990s, Alföldy also concerned himself with the modern history of his native Hungary.
Within the scope of his epigraphical studies, Gezá Alföldy visited many countries (Albania, Algeria, Austria, Britain, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Jordan, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Turkey, Tunisia, and Yugoslavia) in order to research original ancient inscriptions.
Furthermore, Alföldy was a guest professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1972/73), in Rome from 1986 and 2003, in Paris (1991), and Pécs (still in 1993) in Poznań (1992), in Budapest (1993), and also in Barcelona in 1997 and 1998.
Additionally he kept delivering diverse academic lectures within and outside Germany and supervised scores of new academics during their promotion or habilitation phases (more than one dozen alone since 1992).
Alföldy also became co-editor of scores of international academic journals and periodicals, his name was especially associated with the Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien (HABES), which he edits alone since 1986. Alföldy is corresponding member or honorary member of multiple academic societies and academies and also a respected member of the Heidelberg Academy since 1978.
Apart from organizations like the Heidelberg Academy, Alföldy also worked at many other German research institutes: the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the German Archaeological Institute, as well as at Italian, French, and Spanish facilities for research of classical antiquity.

Honours

Honorary doctorates

• Autonomous University of Barcelona, Doctor honoris causa, 1988.
• University of Pécs, Doctor honoris causa, 1992
• Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Doctor et professor honoris causa, 1992
• University of Lyon III, Doctor honoris causa, 1996
• University of Bologna, Doctor honoris causa, 2002
• Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Doctor honoris causa, 2004
• University of Debrecen, Doctor honoris causa, 2005
• Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona Doctor honoris causa, 2008^[3]

Other honours

• Hungarian Archaeology and Art History Society, Kuzsinszky Medal, 1965 (the medal could not be awarded at that time because of Alföldy's emigration out of Hungary; it was awarded in 1992)
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 1986
• Medal of the University Central of Barcelona, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of Tarragona, 1988
• Max Planck Research Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Max Planck Society (obtained together with Silvio Panciera, University of Rome^{[disambiguation needed]}), 1992
• Institut d'Estudis Catalans (Barcelona), Premi Internacional Catalònia de 1997, 1997
• Centro Segoviano, Premios "Tierra de Segovia: sus hijos y sus obras": Premio Andrés Laguna, 1997
• Commemorative insignia of Rome, 1997
• Commemorative insignia of the President of the Hungarian Republic "Nagy Imre" for "prominent work in support of the spirit of the Revolution of 1956", 1997
• Medal of the University of A Coruña – Ferrol, 1998
• Medal of the University of La Rioja, Logroño, 2000
• Medal of the University of Valladolid, 2000
• Creu de San Jordi (Cross of Saint George) of the Catalonian government, 2001
• Verdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit) of the 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2002
• University Medal of the University of Heidelberg, 2006 (for his commitment to international exchange)

Writings

• Bevölkerung und Gesellschaft der römischen Provinz Dalmatien. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1965
• Epigraphische Studien. Rheinland-Verlag, 1968
• Die Hilfstruppen der römischen Provinz Germania inferior. 1968
• Fasti Hispanienses. Senatorische Reichsbeamte und Offiziere in den spanischen Provinzen des römischen Reiches von Augustus bis Diokletian. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1969
• Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter den Antoninen. Prosopographische Untersuchungen zur senatorischen Führungsschicht. Habelt, Bonn 1977
• Sir Ronald Syme, 'Die römische Revolution' und die deutsche Althistorie. 1983
• Römische Sozialgeschichte. 3. Aufl. Steiner, Stuttgart 1984 (Wissenschaftliche Paperbacks. Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte. Band 8)
• Antike Sklaverei. Widersprüche, Sonderformen, Grundstrukturen. 1988
• Der Obelisk auf dem Petersplatz in Rom. Ein historisches Monument der Antike. Heidelberg 1990
• Ungarn 1956. 1998
• Die römische Gesellschaft. Ausgewählte Beiträge. Steiner, Stuttgart 1998
• Die Krise des Römischen Reiches. Steiner, Stuttgart 1998
• Städte, Eliten und Gesellschaften in der Gallia Cisalpina. Epigraphisch-historische Untersuchungen. Steiner, Stuttgart 1999
• Inschriftliche Denkmäler als Medien der Selbstdarstellung in der römischen Welt. (mit Silvio Panciera) Steiner, Stuttgart 2001
• Römische Sozialgeschichte. 4., völlig überarbeitete und aktualisierte Aufl. Steiner, Stuttgart 2011

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