T. M. Jacob, Indian politician, member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly, died he was 61.

T. M. Jacob was the leader of the Kerala Congress (Jacob), a splinter faction of the Kerala Congress. He was born on September 16, 1950, to T S Mathew and Annamma. Jacob was the Food & Civil Supplies Minister^[1] in the UDF government, which was elected into power in Kerala in 2011 died he was 61..

(September 16, 1950 – October 30, 2011)

T. M. Jacob was first elected to the Kerala Legislative Assembly as an MLA from Piravom constituency in Ernakulam district in 1977, and remained a member for a period of over thirty years, representing Piravom and Kothamangalam constituencies.^[2] Jacob has served as the Education Minister in the Government of Kerala under K. Karunakaran in the 1980's^[3], and as the Irrigation and Water Supply Minister in the UDF Government under A. K. Antony which was elected into power in 2001.^[4] He first became a minister in the K. Karunakaran cabinet which held office from 1982–1987^[5] and then subsequently from 1991–1995^[6] . He was a Christian, belonging to the Syriac Orthodox Church. He died on October 30, 2011 in a private hospital in Kochi.^[7] He is survived by his mother, brother, his wife and two children.^[2]


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Greg Halman, Dutch baseball player (Seattle Mariners), died from being stabbed he was 24.

Gregory Anthony "Greg" Halman  was a Dutch professional baseball outfielder  died from being stabbed he was 24.. He played with the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball during the 2010 and 2011 seasons. He also played internationally with the Dutch national team, playing in the 2009 World Baseball Classic.

(August 26, 1987 – November 21, 2011)

Halman made his debut at sixteen years of age at the Dutch major league team of Corendon Kinheim in Haarlem in 2003. Like his father, Eddy, and his younger brother, Jason, Greg played on the Dutch national baseball team. His sister, Naomi, is a college basketball player in the United States.
Halman played for the Netherlands in the 2009 World Baseball Classic^[1][2]

Seattle Mariners

Halman was signed as a non-drafted free agent by the Seattle Mariners on June 26, 2004. He participated in the 2004 Mariners Arizona Instructional League playing for the Peoria Javelinas. He began his professional career in 2005 by playing 26 games with the rookie-level Arizona League Mariners. He played all three outfield positions. He recorded a season-high three RBIs on July 9 against the Arizona League Royals. He went 4 for 5 with a run and first career home run on July 10 against the Arizona League Giants. Halman hit .438 against lefties, compared to .219 against right-handed pitchers. He participated in the 2005 Arizona Instructional League.
In 2006, he hit .259 with 5 home runs and 15 RBI in 28 games for the Low-A Everett AquaSox. He finished 3rd on the team with 10 stolen bases. He hit safely in 21 of 28 games. He recorded a season-high 12-game hit streak, batting .309 from June 21 to July 4. He had eight multi-hit games, including a season-high three hits on July 19. He was placed on the disabled list on July 22 through the remainder of the season with a fractured right hand.
In 2007, Halman showed his power potential by hitting 20 home runs combined for Everett and Single-A Wisconsin. He was named to the Short-Season A and Northwest League All-Star teams and was also named the Short-Season A Player of the Year.^[3] For 2008, he was promoted to High-A High Desert to start the season. After batting .268 with 19 home runs and 53 RBI in 67 games, he was promoted in 2009 to Double-A West Tennessee^[4] where he hit 10 more home runs. He ended the season with 29 total home runs and 31 stolen bases, which led him to be named the Mariners' Minor League Player of the Year.^[5]
On September 22, 2010, Halman was called up by the Seattle Mariners along with four other players following the conclusion of the Tacoma Rainiers season.^[6]
On June 3, 2011, Halman was called up to replace struggling outfielder Michael Saunders, who was optioned to Triple-A Tacoma.^[7] Halman hit his first home run in the big leagues on June 15 in a 3–1 victory over the Los Angeles Angels.

Personal life

Halman spoke four languages, Dutch, English, Spanish, and Papiamento. He grew up speaking Dutch and English and learned Spanish in 2005, his first year in the United States.^[8] He graduated from Mendel College in North Holland in June 2004.

Death

On November 21, 2011, Greg Halman was stabbed to death in Rotterdam. He was 24 years old. His brother, Jason Halman, was arrested for the killing.^[9]
On August 16, 2012, Dutch authorities released Jason Halman from custody, after prosecutors agreed with defense counsel that Jason, at the time of the stabbing, had been suffering from a psychosis that had been induced in part by his use of marijuana.^[10] Jason agreed to be under the supervision of a probation officer and that he would undergo mental health treatment.^[11] A Dutch court then formally acquitted Jason on August 30, 2012, on the ground of temporary insanity.^[12] The court also allowed Jason to go free, stating that psychiatric and psychological assessments of him had found that there was "only a remote chance of any reoccurrence" and that it was "well possible that the psychosis [had] been a singular event."^[13]
Greg was buried in a small grove near the sea. The spot was chosen because the plot reminded his family of a baseball diamond.^[14]



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Eli Hurvitz, Israeli industrialist, died he was 79.

Eli Hurvitz was an Israeli industrialist. He was the Chairman of the Board and former CEO of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries at the time of his death  died he was 79..

(Hebrew: אליהו "אלי" הורביץ‎, born 1932, died 21 November 2011)

Biography

Eliyahu (Eli) Hurvitz was born in Jerusalem, in the British Mandate of Palestine, in 1932. In 1934, his family moved to Tel Aviv. In May 1948, he and his classmates were drafted by the Israel Defense Forces to fight in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. In early 1949 he resumed his studies for five months and completed his matriculation (Bagrut) exams. After graduation, he joined kibbutz Tel Katzir, where he met Dalia Solomon. In June 1953 they married, and they left the kibbutz in October.^[1]
Hurwitz studied economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He joined Assia Chemical Labs Ltd., a small firm of which Dalia's father was a managing partner, as a dishwasher in the laboratory.^[2][3] After his graduation from Hebrew University in 1957 he began doing office work at Assia and moved to executive ranks. In 1964, Assia merged with Zori and in 1969 acquired a controlling interest in Teva. In 1976, the three firms merged into Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. with Hurvitz as the CEO.^[1] He resigned as CEO in 2002 and handed over the position to Israel Makov, and from then on until his death in 2011 had been the firm's Chairman of the Board.^[4][5]
Hurvitz served as chairman of the Israel Export Institute from 1974 to 1978.^[1] In 1981 he was made president of the Israel Manufacturers Association, a position he held until 1986. From 1985 to 1986 he headed Shimon Peres' economic plan to fight the inflation, for which he was awarded the Industry Prize. In 1986 he was appointed chairman of the board of Bank Leumi. In 1987, he resigned after his name was associated with Israel's bank stock crisis of 1983.^[2]
Hurvitz was chairman of the Jerusalem Development Authority from 1989 to 1992; a member of the Advisory Committee of the Bank of Israel from 1991 to 1995; director of Koor Industries Ltd. from 1997 to 2004; and director of Magal Security System Ltd. from 1992 to 1994. He also served as chairman of the Executive Committee of the Weizmann Institute of Science from 1989 to 1995. He has been a member of the board of governors of Tel Aviv University since 2001, a director of Vishay Technologies since 1997, and chair of the Israel Democracy Institute since 2002.^[1]
In March 1996 he was indicted on charges of a $18 million tax evasion in corporate taxes as head of a Teva subsidiary, Promedico.^[6] In 1998 he was convicted by the Jerusalem district court,^[7] but was acquitted by the Supreme Court of Israel in 2000.^[8]

Awards and honours

Hurvitz received honorary doctorates from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in 1990, the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1994, Ben-Gurion University in 2002 and Tel Aviv University in 2004.
In 2002, he received the Israel Prize, for lifetime achievement and special contribution to society and the State.^[9][10]
In 2005, Hurvitz was named Business Leader of the Decade by Dun & Bradstreet.
From 2002 to 2005 he served as a member of the International Council of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.^[1] In 2006, Forbes estimated his wealth at $500 million and listed him as the 30th-richest Israeli.^[11]
In 2005, he was voted the 85th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.^[12] In 2008, he was voted the third-most respected manager in the Israeli market.^[5]
In 2011, he received the honorary award of the Ariel University Center of Samaria. Horowitz received the award for his many years of promoting high-tech industry, economy and society in Israel.


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George Gallup, Jr., American pollster, died from liver cancer he was 81.

George Horace Gallup, Jr. was an American pollster, writer and executive at the The Gallup Organization, which had been founded by his father, George Gallup died from liver cancer he was 81..^[1] Gallup expanded the scope of the Gallup Poll to encompass a wider variety of topics, ranging from the outlook of American young people to religious beliefs.^[1]

^{(April 9, 1930 – November 21, 2011)} 

Much of Gallup's writings and research focused on religion and spirituality in the United States.^[1] His works included The Saints Among Us, published in 1992, and The Next American Spirituality, published in 2002.^[1]
Born in Evanston, Illinois, Gallup received a bachelor's degree in religion from Princeton University in 1953.^[1] In 1954, Gallup joined his father's polling company, The Gallup Organization, where he worked until his retirement in 2004.^[1] He and his brother, Alec Gallup, became co-chairmen of the company upon their father's death.^[2]
George Gallup was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2010. He died in Princeton, New Jersey, on November 21, 2011, at the age of 81.^[1]

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Herb Capozzi, Canadian businessman, sport team owner and provincial politician, died from tongue cancer he was 86.

Harold Peter "Herb" Capozzi  was an athlete, businessman, professional sports team manager and political figure in British Columbia died from tongue cancer he was 86.. He represented Vancouver Centre in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1966 to 1972 as a Social Credit member.

(April 24, 1925^[1] – November 21, 2011^[2])

He was born in Kelowna, the son of Pasquale "Cap" Capozzi, an Italian immigrant. Capozzi won a sports scholarship to the University of British Columbia, where he received B.A. and BComm degrees. In 1952, he moved to Calgary, where he worked for Shell Oil.^[3]
Capozzi played with the Calgary Stampeders and Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League. As a racketball player, he won the Canadian Masters championship in 1974 and the Canadian Golden Masters championship in 1981. Capozzi was general manager for the BC Lions from 1957 to 1966^[4] when he was elected to the provincial assembly. The Lions won the Grey Cup in 1964.^[5]
He purchased the Vancouver Canucks hockey team in 1971, helping to keep the team in Canada.^[4]
Capozzi established the Vancouver Whitecaps soccer team in 1974. He served as owner, president, and board chairman for the team. Under his ownership, the team won the North American Soccer League (NASL) Soccer Bowl title in 1979.^[4]
He was a member of the BC Sports Hall of Fame and the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame^[4] and had received the Order of British Columbia in 2008.^[6]
Capozzi was a director responsible for food, entertainment and housing for Expo 86.^[4]
He was a founder of The Keg restaurant chain and was instrumental in bringing McDonald's restaurants to Canada.^[4] He was an owner of Calona Wines and the Capri Hotel (now the Coast Capri Hotel) and Capri Centre Mall. Capozzi was also president of Pasadena Investments, a development company based in Kelowna.^[2]
He died at home in Vancouver^[5] at the age of 86 after suffering from tongue cancer.^[2]


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Albert D. Cohen, Canadian businessman, died he was 97.

Albert Diamond Cohen, OC was a Canadian entrepreneur, community builder, philanthropist, and Officer of the Order of Canada. He was Chairman, Co-President and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Gendis Inc. (www.gendis.ca), a Toronto Stock Exchange listed Canadian real estate and investment company headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba ied he was 97.. At one time, Gendis held a 51% stake in Sony of Canada and owned the SAAN Stores retail chain. He was married to Irena Cohen from 1953 until his death, and they had three children: Anthony, James, and Anna-Lisa. He was the author of several books: The Entrepreneurs: The Story of Gendis Inc...The Triangle of Success: The Gendis/Saan Story...The Story of SAAN...and...I.D.E.A. His latest and last book, published in the fall of 2010, was titled Reminiscences of an Entrepreneur - How Sony came to Canada and then to the World in 1955. His interest and talent for writing stemmed out from his close personal friendship with the late British author Ian Fleming. He died peacefully at the age of 97 years, 10 months, in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

(January 20, 1914 – November 21, 2011) 

Background

Cohen came from a poor immigrant family of eight, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba as the son of Alexander and Rose (Diamond) Cohen, and he served with the Royal Canadian Navy from 1942 to 1945.
Albert's five brothers, John, Harry B. Cohen, Morley Cohen, Samuel N. Cohen, and Joseph H. Cohen set up a small retail store and, by 1939, the family had scraped together enough monies to create General Distributors Ltd., a wholesale import firm.

Sony and the Cohen Brothers

Cohen Brothers of Canada

By 1950, General Distributors sales amounted to $1 million. In 1952, the company obtained exclusive Canadian rights for Paper Mate pens. Albert negotiated the sale of Papermate in Canada to the Gillette (brand) Company of Boston, Massachusetts in 1955 whereby Gendis continued to distribute the Papermate pen in Canada until 1962 when Gillette fully took over. Then, in 1955, Cohen accomplished the feat of landing the Canadian distribution rights to Sony products. Spotting an ad in a Japanese newspaper seeking a distributor for a new portable transistor radio, Cohen met with Sony co-founder, Akio Morita. On the basis of a handshake deal, Cohen cemented a partnership that would last for decades. The Cohen brothers scattered across Canada in order to manage the national business, each brother establishing himself in a major city: Morley (Montreal), John (Toronto), Joe (Vancouver), Harry (Calgary), and both Sam and Albert setting up headquarters (Winnipeg). Gendis' stake in Sony of Canada was sold back to Sony Corporation of Tokyo, Japan in 1995 for $207,000,000. This was a crowning achievement for Albert, the man who launched Sony's first national export business. In recognition of his forty year association with Sony, Albert received the Sony Lifetime Achievement Award in Tokyo in 2000.

SAAN, Metropolitan, real estate, and the Cohen Brothers

The six brothers expanded into real estate and retailing. Over the years, they established several hundred SAAN Stores as well as Metropolitan and Greenberg junior department stores in all provinces of Canada. The explosive growth of the SAAN Stores chain was guided by Samuel N. Cohen while Metropolitan's expansion was overseen by Morley Cohen. By 1983, the company was a diversified Canadian conglomerate, renamed Gendis. SAAN Stores was eventually sold in 2004 to a Toronto based investor group and sold again in 2008 to Genuity Capital, owner of The Bargain! Shop discount chain.
At one point, it is said the Cohen brothers owned downtown real estate in almost every major Canadian city. Albert began to accumulate real estate in downtown Winnipeg starting in the early 1960s and Gendis finally sold its city block of property to Manitoba Hydro in 2003 for $16.2 million to allow for construction of the new Manitoba Hydro headquarters which officially opened in September 2009.

Oil & gas, and the Cohen Brothers

Under Albert's guidance, the six brothers participated in various joint ventures and/or owned several minority interests in oil & gas exploration, development, and distribution. The companies included Tripet Resources; Chauvco Resources; Pioneer Natural Resources; Fort Chicago Energy Partners L.P.; and Tundra Oil & Gas. Fort Chicago Energy Partners was renamed Veresen Inc. in 2011.

Gendis today

Through a variety of investment companies, the Cohen family is the largest shareholder of Gendis Inc., as well as major shareholders of Veresen Inc., (TSX-listed), and privately held OSUM Oilsands Corporation, both of Calgary, Alberta. James Cohen (Albert's youngest son) is the President and CEO of Gendis Inc., President of Gendis Realty, and served as interim President and Chief Operating Officer of SAAN Stores in 2004 during the sale of the retail chain. Today the company is focused on investments in three areas: real estate, energy and the agribusiness sector.

Philanthropy

Cohen was considered to be one of the major community builders/philanthropists in Winnipeg. He has been a large contributor to the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Manitoba Opera, and various Winnipeg hospitals.
Several of his notable accomplishments include:

• Founding Member, Canada-Japan Business Committee
• Former President, Manitoba Theatre Centre (1968–1969, 1970–1971, 1976–1981)
• Former President, Winnipeg Clinic Research Institute (1975–1980)
• Former President, Dr. Paul Thorlakson Research Foundation (1978–1980)
• Past Commissioner, Metric Board, Ottawa (1978)

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Syd Cain, British film production designer (From Russia with Love, Lolita), died he was 93.

Sidney B. "Syd" Cainwas a British production designer who worked on more than 30 films, including four in the James Bond series in the 1960s and 1970s died he was 93..

(16 April 1918 – 21 November 2011) 

Cain was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire. He survived a plane crash in Rhodesia during World War II, which broke his back, and also later survived being struck by lightning. For From Russia with Love, Cain designed a $150,000 set for a chess match which repeated the "chess pawn" motif throughout the room.^[1] He worked on a number of James Bond movies creating numerous gadgets.^[2]
Cain's name appears in documents in several films on which he worked. In Our Man in Havana where he was assistant art director his name features on the blueprints of a vacuum cleaner. Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy features an in joke of a racing form featuring the horse Jon Finch is to bet on is owned by a "Mrs S. Cain".^{[citation needed]}
In his later years Cain resided at Charterhouse in London. He died in the nearby University College Hospital on 21 November 2011, aged 93.^[3]

Selected filmography

• Lolita 1962
• Road to Hong Kong 1962
• Dr. No 1962 uncredited Art Director on Jamaica locations
• Hot Enough for June (1964)
• From Russia with Love (1963)
• Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
• Frenzy (1972)
• Live and Let Die (1973)
• Aces High (1976)
• Shout at the Devil (1976)
• The Wild Geese (1978)
• The Sea Wolves (1980)

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