Pat Passlof, American painter, cancer, died she was 83.

Pat Passlof was an American abstract expressionist painter died she was 83.

born August 5, 1928 in Brunswick, Georgia, and died November 13, 2011 in New York City, New York

After studying with Willem de Kooning at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, Passlof received a bachelor’s degree from The Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She moved to New York in the late 1940s, where she took private instruction from de Kooning and other artists. Passlof was married to painter Milton Resnick, who died in 2004.^[1]
Passlof succumbed to cancer on November 13, 2011 in New York City, New York. She was 83.


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Masao Nakayama, Micronesian politician and diplomat, died he was 70.

Masao Nakayama (Japanese: 中山利生)^[1]was a politician and diplomat of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) died he was 70..

(1941 – November 13, 2011) 

Born in Chuuk to a Japanese father and a Chuukese mother from Onoun, Nakayama was the younger brother of FSM's first president, Tosiwo Nakayama.^[2][3] In 1968, Nakayama was elected a member of the Truk District Legislature. In 1969, he was elected to the Congress of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. After Micronesian independence, Nakayama was the Chief of International Affairs in the Foreign Affairs Department of the FSM from 1980 to 1989.^[2]
From 1989 to 1997, Nakayama was the ambassador of FSM to Japan. At the same time, he was concurrently the non-resident ambassador of FSM to China, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea and Singapore. In 1998, Nakayama was appointed the Permanent Representative of FSM to the United Nations in New York City.
Nakayama was married to Serlyn Nakayama, with seven children.
He died at the age of 70 in a Nevada hospital days after a stroke.^[4]

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Guido Falaschi, Argentine racing driver, racing accident. died he was 22.

Guido Martín Falaschi ^[1] was an Argentine racecar driver.
He died in a crash in the Autódromo Juan Manuel Fangio in Balcarce died he was 22.

(1 October 1989 – 13 November 2011)


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Bobsam Elejiko, Nigerian footballer, traumatic aortic rupture, died he was 30.

Bobsam 'Bob' Elejiko  was a Nigerian footballer. He played as a central defender for several domestic teams between 2000 and 2011 before his death on the field during a football match died he was 30..

(18 August 1981 – 13 November 2011)

Football career

During his career, spent almost exclusively in Belgium, Elejiko represented FSV Wacker 90 Nordhausen, K.V. Turnhout, K.V.C. Westerlo, Royal Antwerp FC, S.C. Beira-Mar, K.M.S.K. Deinze, K.V. Red Star Waasland and K. Merksem S.C..
In 2008 he had trials with FC Carl Zeiss Jena,^[1] Crewe Alexandra, Gillingham and RBC Roosendaal, but did not gain a contract with any club.

Death

Elejiko collapsed while playing a fifth-tier match with his team K. Merksem S.C. against F.C. Kaart, a team from Merksem, Antwerp, on 13 November 2011.^[2] Despite resuscitation attempts pitch side, Elejiko was pronounced dead and the match was abandoned. The cause was later determined to be a traumatic rupture of the aorta.^[3]


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Anders John Aune, Norwegian politician, died he was 87.

Anders John Aune ^[1] was a Norwegian politician died he was 87..

(1 May 1923 – 13 November 2011)

Originally a member of the Labour Party, Aune was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Finnmark in 1969, but was not re-elected in 1973. He was a member of Vadsø municipality council from 1951 to 1963, serving as deputy mayor in 1951–1952 and mayor in 1953–1955 and 1955–1959. His career in politics was scheduled to end with the post of County Governor of Finnmark, which he held from 1974 to 1989 (having formerly been the acting County Governor from 1963 to 1965).^[1]
However, in 1989 Aune stood for election for another party, a new party led by himself and called Future for Finnmark (Framtid for Finnmark). He was elected to the national parliament for this regional protest party, but again sat only one term.^[1]
Outside of politics, he had graduated from the University of Oslo as cand.jur. in 1948 and worked as a civil servant. In 1985 he was proclaimed Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav, and also received the Order of the White Rose.^[1]
During the German occupation of Norway he took part in the Norwegian resistance. He was arrested in November 1943, sent from Stavern to Stettin in December 1943, then sent to Sennheim the same month and to Buchenwald one year later, where he remained until the war's end.^[2]


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Ilya Zhitomirskiy, Russian-born American Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Diaspora social network site, died from apparent suicide he was 22.

Ilya Zhitomirskiy was a Russian-American software developer and entrepreneur. Zhitomirskiy was a co-founder and developer of the Diaspora social network and the Diaspora free software that powers it died from apparent suicide he was 22..

(12 October 1989 – 12 November 2011)

Early life, education, and Diaspora

Zhitomirskiy was born on 12 October 1989, in Moscow, Soviet Union, to Alexei and Inna Zhitomirskiy. Both his father and paternal grandfather are mathematicians. In 2000, his family emigrated to the United States, eventually settling outside Philadelphia, where he graduated from Lower Merion High School in 2007. Zhitomirskiy first attended Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Acton, Massachusetts. He then studied mathematics, economics and computer science at Tulane University, University of Maryland, and New York University.
At NYU, he studied computer science at The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, where he met the three friends with whom he founded DIASPORA*, a social networking service,^[2] in 2010.^[3][4] The project was conceived after the founders had attended a lecture by Columbia Law School professor and free software activist Eben Moglen in February 2010 about the threat to privacy posed by commercial Internet services. According to Moglen, Zhitomirskiy was "immensely talented" and "the most idealistic of the group... He had a choice between graduate school and this project, and he chose to do the project because he wanted to do something with his time that would make freedom".^[1]

Death

On the evening of 12 November 2011, Zhitomirskiy was found dead in his San Francisco home by police responding to calls about a suspected suicide.^[5][6] An autopsy report from the Medical Examiner's office formally ruled the death a suicide in April 2012. He died from an intentional inhalation of helium gas. While press reports questioned whether the pressure of working on Diaspora had led to his suicide, Diaspora co-founder Maxwell Salzberg disagreed. Salzberg stated, "Yes, I agree that being a startup founder is stressful. But it wasn’t the stress of work that killed Ilya. He had his own issues. He was sick." Zhitomirskiy’s mother, Inna Zhitomirskiy, did not comment on reports of his history of mental illness, but she did say on his participation in Diaspora, "I strongly believe that if Ilya did not start this project and stayed in school, he would be well and alive today."^[7][8]
The Village Voice said that Zhitomirskiy was "often described as the most idealistic and privacy-conscious member of the group" and declared his death "a devastating setback" for Diaspora.^[9]


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Evelyn Lauder, Austrian-born American philanthropist (The Breast Cancer Research Foundation), creator of pink ribbon symbol, died from complications from ovarian cancer she was 75.

Evelyn Lauder (née Hausner; )^[1] was an American businesswoman, socialite and philanthropist who has been credited as one of the creators and popularizers of the pink ribbon as a symbol for awareness of breast cancer  died from complications from ovarian cancer she was 75..^[2]

^{August 12, 1936 – November 12, 2011}

Early life

She was born Evelyn Hausner in Vienna, Austria in 1936 to a Jewish family.^[3] Lauder’s family fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938, using their household silver to get visas to Belgium. They then moved on to England where her mother was sent to an internment camp on the Isle of Man and Evelyn was placed in a nursery. The family arrived in New York City in 1940.^[4][5] Lauder would later recall that she was asleep when the ship bringing them to the United States arrived in New York Harbor and her mother woke her up to see the Statue of Liberty.^[6] During the war years her father worked as a diamond cutter; then the family opened the first of what became a chain of five dress shops in Manhattan.^[7]
She graduated from Hunter College High School in 1954. She then attended Hunter College, part of the City University of New York, where she studied Psychology and Anthropology and also where she met her future husband, Leonard Lauder, then a trainee naval officer, on a blind date.^[7] She graduated from Hunter College in 1958. ^[8] The couple were married on July 5, 1959.^[8] After the marriage, she worked for several years as a public school teacher in Harlem before leaving to work with her husband at the company founded in 1946 by her mother-in-law, Estée Lauder, which at the time sold six products: a red lipstick, creams, lotions, and Youth Dew fragrance in a bath oil.^[9][7]

Career

Lauder was the Senior Corporate Vice President of the Estée Lauder Companies and a member of the board of overseers at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.^[10] A 1995 profile in The New York Times called her "an immaculately turned-out, awesomely organized woman" who had started to fill the public role that had been filled by her mother-in-law, Estée Lauder.^[9]
Lauder, an executive at Estée Lauder, created the Clinique brand name and developed its product line.^[11] She worked as the training director for Clinique and was the first person to wear the trademark white lab coat, now worn by Clinique salespeople at cosmetic departments worldwide.^[11]

Breast cancer activist

Lauder personally raised much of the $13.6 million that went to create the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, which opened in October 1992 and focuses on the treatment and diagnosis of breast cancer. She helped raise an additional $5 million to create an endowment to be used to fund clinical research there.^[9]
Self magazine's first annual issue for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month came after an April 1991 lunch at the 21 Club, at which Lauder discussed ideas for articles about breast cancer with her friend Alexandra Penney, who was then serving as editor of Self.^[12]
Together with Penney, Lauder established The Breast Cancer Research Foundation and formalized the pink ribbon as a symbol for breast cancer awareness as part of Self magazine's second annual Breast Cancer Awareness Month issue in 1992. Penney's inspiration to improve on the success of the magazine's first annual issue was to create a ribbon that would be placed in Estee Lauder's New York City stores. Lauder made the commitment to have the ribbons placed on the company's cosmetics counters across the United States.^[10][13]
By 1993, Lauder had overseen the creation of a new shade called Pink Ribbon that was part of her personal and corporate effort to raise breast cancer awareness. Her husband paid for the cost of registering The Breast Cancer Research Foundation in all 50 states. By the start of 1995, some $900,000 had been raised for the foundation, including $120,000 from the sale of Pink Ribbon lipstick and blusher and $190,000 from the sale of the Clinique Berry Kiss pink lipstick.^[9]
By October 2008, the Estée Lauder Companies estimated that the firm's Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign had raised $335 million towards research and distributed 80 million pink ribbons.^[14]

Personal life

She was married to Leonard Lauder, former Chairman of the Estée Lauder Companies, from 1959 until her death. They had two sons:

• William P. Lauder, Executive Chairman of the Estée Lauder Companies; and^[15]
• Gary M. Lauder, Managing Director of Lauder Partners LLC.^[15] He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and received an M.B.A. degree from Stanford University. In 1994, Gary married Laura Heller, daughter of Marlyn G. McClaskey and William A. Heller of California. Rabbi Peter Rubenstein performed the ceremony at the Central Synagogue.^[16] Laura serves as General Partner of Lauder Partners.^[15] They have two children: Josh and Ellie.^[17]

Death

Evelyn Lauder died at home in Manhattan from complications of nongenetic ovarian cancer.^[18] She was a longtime resident of Palm Beach, Florida.^[11] A private funeral service was held at the Central Synagogue in New York City.


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