Jimmy Adamson, British football player and coach, died he was 82.

James "Jimmy" Adamson  was an English professional footballer and football manager. He was born in Ashington, Northumberland  died he was 82..^[1] He made 476 appearances for Burnley ranking him sixth in their all-time appearance list.^[1]

^{(4 April 1929 – 8 November 2011)}

Career

Playing

Adamson, a right-half, joined Burnley in January 1947 after playing non-league football in his native Ashington and working as a miner. His early career was interrupted by National Service, which he completed with the Royal Air Force, meaning his debut had to wait until February 1951, when Burnley played away to Bolton Wanderers. He played once for the England B team, but never made the full England side.
He was an ever-present as Burnley won the 1959-60 Football League Championship and captained the side to the 1962 FA Cup Final which they lost against Tottenham Hotspur. He was also named Footballer of the Year in 1962.^[1]
Adamson formed a midfield partnership with inside-forward Jimmy McIlroy, around which much of Burnley's creative play was centred.

Coaching and managerial

He retired in 1964, having played 426 league games, and joined the Burnley coaching staff. He had previously coached the England team in the 1962 World Cup in Chile and was the Football Association's preferred choice of manager ahead of Alf Ramsey but declined the offer. ^[1]
In February 1970, when Burnley manager Harry Potts was made general manager, Adamson stepped up to become team manager. Burnley were relegated at the end his first full season in charge, but returned to the top-flight in 1973, winning the Second Division title.^[1]
Burnley were relegated again in 1976, although Adamson had already left that January. In May 1976 he was appointed as manager of Dutch side Sparta Rotterdam, but left the following month. In November 1976 he was made manager of Sunderland, but was unable to prevent them from relegation from the First Division.^[1]
He left Sunderland in November 1978, taking over from Jock Stein as manager of Leeds United. His time at Leeds is well remembered for the huge roars of "Adamson Out" with which the crowd greeted his later appearances.^{[citation needed]} He left Leeds in October 1980.^[1] He took no further part in professional football and spent the rest of his life in Burnley.^[2]
Adamson died on 8 November 2011, aged 82.^[1] He was predeceased by his wife, May, and daughters, Julie and Jayne. He is survived by three granddaughters and two grandsons. ^[2]


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Andrea True, American adult film star and disco singer, died from heart failure she was 68.

Andrea True ^[2] was an American adult film star and singer from the disco era died from heart failure she was 68..^[3] In addition to her given name, she had multiple stage names, including Inger Kissin, Singe Low, Sandra Lips,^[1] Andrea Travis, and Catherine Warren.
She is best known for the 1976 disco tune, "More, More, More", which peaked at #4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and #5 on the UK Singles Chart.^[4][5]

^{(July 26, 1943 – November 7, 2011)}

Early life

Andrea Marie Truden was born in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.^[2] She attended Saint Cecilia Academy, an all-girl Catholic school in Nashville.^[6]

Career

True moved to New York City as a teenager, to seek fame as a mainstream film star. While she did manage to get some minor roles in mainstream movies from time to time, including The Way We Were, the fame she sought was fleeting. When some friends asked her to join them in a pornographic movie, she went along with the idea, initially thinking of this opportunity as the best way for her to gain more experience with films and acting. She performed in pornographic films in Scandinavia in the 1960s, and by the end of the decade, began appearing in American adult films. Eventually, she appeared in more than 60 hardcore porn films throughout the 1970s and early to mid-1980s, and distinguished herself as one of the more recognizable porn stars in the early New York adult film industry.^[6]
During her heyday as a porn actress, around 1975, True was hired by a real estate business in Jamaica to appear in their commercials. During her stay in Jamaica, a political crisis gripped the island, and no one was allowed to leave with any money. Not wanting to lose the pay she had earned from the real estate ads, True asked her friend, record producer Gregg Diamond, to travel to the island and produce a track for her, which she would finance locally using that money. Diamond arrived with a composition in hand, to which True added her vocals. The result of their collaboration was "More, More, More." Ultimately remixed by recording engineer Tom Moulton, "More, More, More" became a favorite in discos and nightclubs. It ultimately reached No. 4 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and a full album with the same title soon followed. The single also reached the charts in the United Kingdom (where it peaked at No. 5),^[5] Germany (where it reached No. 9)^[3] and Italy (where it reached No. 11).^[7]
By the time of her singing career, True admitted she was burned out and tired of porn, saying, "I'd rather be a waitress or a typist than make another adult film," and also, "Don't think of me as a porn star anymore, think of me as a recording star. I just want to record and perform." In early 1977, True released the single "N.Y. You Got Me Dancing," from her follow-up album, White Witch. The single became True's second biggest hit, reaching No. 27 on Billboard's pop chart. In 1978, she had a second hit in the UK with "What's Your Name, What's Your Number," which peaked at No.34 in the UK.^[5] Both albums included studio musicians with a new band assembled for the tour, the second line-up, which included future Kiss guitarist Bruce Kulick. In 1980, she released her third and final album, War Machine, a more hard rock-oriented album; released only in Europe, but it flopped.
After her third album failed, True briefly attempted returning to porn, but at nearly 40, she was too old for a comeback. She also could not return to music because a goiter that developed on her vocal cords required surgery, essentially ending her singing ability.^[8] She then lived in Los Angeles for some time and subsequently moved to New York. During the early 1990s, Andrea lived in an apartment on Manhattan's east side, and was known for cooking gourmet meals for her friends. Finally, by the turn of the century she had begun a new low-profile career, living in Boynton Beach, Florida working as a psychic reader as well as a counselor for drug and substance abusers.
True continued receiving royalties from her music, and "More More More" remained a popular song on TV and movies. True received a renewed burst of publicity when the Canadian group Len sampled the instrumental break from "More, More, More" in their own hit single, "Steal My Sunshine." Subsequently, True appeared on several VH1 specials including 100 Greatest Dance Songs in 2000 ("More, More, More" was the No. 45 greatest dance song), Where Are They Now and 100 Greatest One-hit Wonders (both in 2002), in which she said she wants to be remembered as a person who "gave people pleasure" — then emphasized the words — "with my music." She also made an appearance in the 2005 documentary movie Inside Deep Throat.^[9]

Death

True died on November 7, 2011, at a hospital in Kingston, New York, located near her home of Woodstock, New York. She was 68 years old. A longtime friend, Louise Marsello Landham, said the cause was heart failure. In line with her wishes, True was cremated.^[2][10] She left behind no immediate family.



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Takanosato Toshihide, Japanese sumo wrestler, died he was 59.

Takanosato Toshihide was a sumo wrestler from Namioka, Aomori, died he was 59.. He was the sport's 59th Yokozuna from 1983 to 1986 and won four top division tournament championships. After retirement he established Naruto stable which he ran from 1989 until his death.

(Toshihide Takaya, September 29, 1952 – November 7, 2011)

Early career

Takanosato played football and judo before turning to sumo. He was from the same area of Japan as Wakanohana Kanji II and the two entered professional sumo together in July 1968, joining Futagoyama stable. Takanosato reached the top makuuchi division in May 1975 but had some indifferent results and fell back to the jūryō division on several occasions. A late developer, he did not reach the san'yaku ranks until 1979, by which time Wakanohana was already a yokozuna. In 1980 he was runner-up in two consecutive tournaments, but he did so from the maegashira ranks. Nicknamed "Popeye" because of his brawny physique,^[1] by 1981 he was a san'yaku regular, and in January 1982 he produced his third runner-up performance, this time at sekiwake rank, and earned promotion to ōzeki. Following his promotion he announced that he had been suffering from diabetes for many years, and had devised a special diet to keep the illness under control.^[2] He won his first top division championship in September 1982 with a perfect 15-0 record. He was runner-up in the tournaments of March and May 1983, and then took his second championship in July. Following this tournament was promoted to yokozuna.

Yokozuna

Takanosato was almost thirty one years old when he reached sumo's highest rank, and the 91 tournaments it took him to reach yokozuna from his professional debut is the second slowest in sumo history, behind only Mienoumi. Most yokozuna struggle to perform well in the tournament immediately following their promotion, but Takanosato won it with a perfect record—the first yokozuna to do so since Futabayama in the 1930s.^[2] Although his yokozuna career was relatively short, he had a great rivalry with fellow yokozuna Chiyonofuji. In the four tournaments from July 1983 to January 1984, the two wrestlers came into the final day with the same score. This is a unique occurrence in sumo.^[2] It was Takanosato who won three out of the four tournament-deciding bouts,^[2] and he was one of the few wrestlers to have a winning record against Chiyonofuji. He was often able to keep his rival from getting his favoured left hand grip on his mawashi, and he defeated Chiyonofuji eight times in a row from July 1981 to September 1982. In all Takanosato emerged victorious from 18 of their 31 encounters.
Takanosato's fourth tournament championship in January 1984 proved to be his last, and thereafter his yokozuna career was disappointing. He missed most of 1985 through injury, only managing to complete one tournament. He announced his retirement in January 1986 at the age of 33.

Retirement from sumo

Takanosato took the name Naruto upon joining the Sumo Association as an oyakata, or elder, and in 1989 opened his own stable, Naruto, which has produced several top division wrestlers. The first was Rikio (now a professional wrestler) in 1996 and he was followed by Wakanosato in 1998, Takanowaka in 1999, Kisenosato in 2004, and Takayasu and Takanoyama in 2011. Naruto also worked as a shinpan or judge of tournament bouts and for NHK as a sumo commentator.

Death

In October 2011 the Sumo Association launched an investigation into allegations made by the tabloid Shukan Shincho that Naruto had beaten a former junior member of his stable with a block of wood and had injected Takanoyama with insulin so that the barely 100 kg wrestler would increase his appetite and put on weight.^[3] Both Naruto and Takanoyama were summoned for questioning by chairman Hanaregoma.^[3] Just days later, on November 7, 2011, Naruto died of respiratory failure in Fukuoka at the age of 59.^[4]

Fighting style

Takanosato's most common winning kimarite or technique was overwhelmingly yorikiri or force out, which accounted for about 45 percent of his victories at sekitori level.^[5] He preferred a migi-yotsu grip (the same as Chiyonofuji), with his left hand outside and right hand inside his opponent's arms. He also regularly won by uwatenage (overarm throw) and tsuridashi (lift out), the latter a technique seldom seen today due to the increasing weight of wrestlers.


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Alejandro Rodriguez, American psychiatrist and academic, died he was 93.

Alejandro Rodriguez  was a Venezuelan-American pediatrician and psychiatrist, known for his pioneering work in child psychiatry died he was 93.. He was the director of the division of child psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and conducted pivotal studies on autism and other developmental disorders in children.

(February 1918 – January 20, 2012)

Early life

Alejandro Rodriguez was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1918, to a businessman and a homemaker, where he spent his entire youth. After his graduation from the St. Ignacio School in Caracas, he entered the Universidad de Venezuela, where he earned his medical degree in 1939.
In 1942, he received a private scholarship for pediatrics training at Johns Hopkins. Upon his pediatrics residency, Rodriguez returned to Venezuela for 13 years to practice pediatrics.^[1]

Years at Johns Hopkins

Rodriguez then returned to the United States in 1956 to study psychiatry at Stanford. He stayed there for a year, then returned to Johns Hopkins to complete his child psychiatry traing, where he was later employed under Leo Kanner in child psychiatry while Kanner was Division Chief in the 1950s during the early days of child psychiatry. Kanner mentored both Rodriguez and Dr. Leon Eisenberg, who became Johns Hopkins Division Chief after the retirement of Kanner, who is credited with discovering the syndrome of autism in 1935^[2] and by many is considered to be "the founding parent of child psychiatry", since he coined the term autism in 1935 and authored the first child psychiatry textbook. In 1959, while Eisenberg, following Kanner, was Division Chief of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins and Rodriguez reported to him, they co-authored - with Maria Rodriguez, Alejandro's wife, a famous paper describing school phobia syndrome as a variant of separation anxiety.^[3]
When Leon Eisenberg resigned in 1968 to leave for Boston to become Chief of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Rodriguez became the director of the Division of Child Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, a position he kept until he retired in 1978. Rodriguez authored Handbook of Child Abuse and Neglect in 1977.^[4] Rodriguez continued seeing patients until age 85, according to his son, Dr. Ignacio R. Rodriguez, a Hopkins-trained neurologist practicing in Silver Spring, Maryland.^[5]

Death

Dr. Alejandro Rodriguez died of heart failure complications at his home in Palm City, Florida, on January 20, 2012. Rodriguez is survived by his second wife, Maria Consuelo Rodriguez, son, Dr. Ignacio R. Rodriguez, a neurologist practicing in Silver Spring, Maryland, and two grandchildren, Carlos and Maria Rodriquez.^[6]


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F. Springer, Dutch writer, died he was 79.

F. Springer was the pseudonym of Carel Jan Schneider, a Dutch foreign service diplomat and writer died he was 79.. 

(15 January 1932 – 7 November 2011)  

Schneider was born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies. He spent World War II in a Japanese internment camp,^[1] and afterward lived and worked in New Guinea, New York, Bangkok, Brussels, Dhaka, Luanda, East Berlin (he was the next-to-last Dutch ambassador there^[1]), and Tehran all of which have served as locations for the novels and stories which he has published.
His laconic style has been compared to that of F. Scott Fitzgerald or Graham Greene,^[1] and he often adopts an ironic perspective on his often tragic subject matter, such as in Teheran, een zwanezang, a love story set against the background of the Iranian Revolution. Especially important in his work is the Netherlands Indies^[2] and the concept of tempo doeloe, the nostalgia associated with life in the former Dutch colonies in the East.^[1]
For Bougainville he received the Ferdinand Bordewijk award in 1982 and was awarded the Constantijn Huygens Prize for his entire work in 1995. He died in The Hague.


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Tomás Segovia, Spanish-born Mexican poet, died from cancer he was 84.

Tomás Segovia ^[1][2] was a Mexican author, translator and poet of Spanish origin died from cancer he was 84.. He was born in Valencia, Spain, and studied in France and Morocco.^[3] He went into exile to Mexico, where he taught at the Colegio de México and other universities.^[3] Segovia founded the publication Presencia (1946),^[4] was director of La Revista Mexicana de Literatura (1958–1963),^[5] formed part of the magazine Plural, and collaborated in Vuelta.^[6]

In honour of the poet, on August 2012, Conaculta (the Mexican Council for National Culture and Arts) announced the $100,000 Tomás Segovia Literary Translation Prize, to be awarded in alternating years for the best translation into Spanish or from Spanish.^[7]

^{(21 May 1927 – 7 November 2011)}

Works

His work as a poet is not separate from his literary criticism and works of translation. Notable books of poetry include La luz provisional (1950), El sol y su eco (1960), Anagnórisis (1967), Figura y secuencias (1979) and Cantata a solas (1985). Prose works include: Contracorrientes (1973), Poética y profética (1986) and Alegatorio.^[3][8][9]
At the time of his death he resided in Madrid, Spain.^[10]

Awards

Segovia won the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize in 1972,^[5] the Juan Rulfo Prize in 2005,^[11] and the Premio García Lorca in 2008.^[2]


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Georgi Movsesyan, Russian composer, died from a heart attack he was 66.

Georgi Viktorovich Movsesyan was a Russian composer of Armenian descent died from a heart attack he was 66..^[1]

^{(Russian: Гео́ргий Ви́кторович Мовсеся́н; 2 August 1945 – 7 November 2011)} 

Biography

Movsesyan was born in Kharkov, Ukraine, into a family of artists. He graduated from the Gnessin State Musical College in 1964.
A People's Artist of Russia (2001), he is mostly known for his songs "Beryoza", "Moi goda", "Olympiada", "Nachalo" performed by Iosif Kobzon, Lev Leshchenko, Anna German, Vakhtang Kikabidze and others. He died in Moscow.


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