Matti Yrjänä Joensuu, Finnish crime fiction writer, died he was 63.

Matti Yrjänä Joensuu ^[1][2] was a Finnish writer of crime fiction.^[3] He has been awarded the State's Literature Prize (1982), Vuoden johtolanka prize (1985, 1994, 2004), and he has been nominated for two Finlandias died he was 63..^[4] He received the Martin Beck Award in 1987.

(31 October 1948, Helsinki, Finland – 4 December 2011, Valkeakoski, Finland)

Joensuu has written several novels about the personal life and work of policeman Timo Harjunpää. He is a very credible and pleasant man, who treats the criminals as humanely as his own family, which consists of Timo, his wife Elisa and three children (Valpuri, Pipsa and Pauliina).
Harjunpää has also been shown on TV. Joensuu's work has been translated into English, Bulgarian, Dutch, Italian, Norwegian, French, Swedish, German, Slovak, Danish, Hungarian, Russian and Estonian.

Works

• Harjunpää and the Stone Murders (Victor Gollancz 1986), translated by Raili Taylor (Harjunpää ja poliisin poika, 1983)
• The Priest of Evil (Arcadia 2006), translated by David Hackston (Harjunpää ja pahan pappi, 2003)
• To Steal Her Love (Arcadia 2008), translated by David Hackston (Harjunpää ja rakkauden nälkä, 1993)
• La stanza di ferro (Elliot edizioni, 2013), traduzione di Rosario Fina

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Patricia C. Dunn, American businesswoman, Chairman of Hewlett-Packard (2005–2006), died from ovarian cancer she was 58.

Patricia "Pat" Dunn ,^[1][2] also known as Patricia Cecile Dunn-Jahnke, was the non-executive chairman of the board of Hewlett-Packard (HP) from February 2005 until September 22, 2006, when she resigned her position died from ovarian cancer she was 58..
On October 4, 2006, Bill Lockyer, the California attorney general, charged Dunn with four felonies for her role in the HP spying scandal. Some members of the press reported that Dunn had been scapegoated.^{[citation needed]} On March 14, 2007, California Superior Court judge Ray Cunningham dropped criminal charges against her in the "interest of justice".

(March 27, 1953 – December 4, 2011)

Early life

Born in Burbank, California, Dunn grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada, where both of her parents were involved in the casino industry. Her father was the entertainment manager for the Dunes and Tropicana hotel-casinos, and her mother was a model and showgirl. When Dunn was only eleven, her father died. Her mother subsequently moved the family to California.^[3]

Education

Dunn entered the University of Oregon in 1970, but later had to drop out to support her mother by working as a housecleaner. She resumed college and graduated from UC Berkeley, where she graduated in 1975 with a B.A. in Journalism.

Career

After college, Dunn began working as a temporary secretary at Wells Fargo & Co., where she eventually became CEO at Barclays Global Investors, the company that acquired the asset management division of Wells Fargo. She later joined the HP Board of Directors. She received the Financial Women's Association of San Francisco "Financial Woman of the Year" award in 2001.
She eventually succeeded Carly Fiorina as chairman of the board. Dunn was non-executive Vice Chairman of Barclays Global Investors since 2002, resigning on October 6, 2006, the day after her criminal indictment (see below). Additionally, she was Director and Executive Committee member of Larkin Street Youth Services in San Francisco, on the board of the Conference Board's Global Corporate Governance Research Center, and an advisory board member of UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.^[4]

Controversy

Dunn was at the center of a controversy regarding her effort to investigate board-level leaks to reporters in 2005-2006.^[5]
HP hired companies which, while investigating the leaks, obtained the personal telephone records of HP board members and reporters who covered HP through a practice called pretexting.^[6] It is illegal under California law to use deceit and trickery to obtain private records of individuals.^{[citation needed]}
On September 12, 2006, HP announced that Mark Hurd, a former CEO, would replace her as Chairman after the HP board meeting on January 18, 2007, but that Dunn would continue as an HP board member after January 18, 2007, a position she had held since 1998. Even so, on September 22, 2006, in a press conference, Dunn resigned, effective immediately, from both her position as chairman and from the board of directors of HP. In an official statement, Dunn noted "I accepted the responsibility to identify the sources of those leaks, but I did not propose the specific methods of the investigation ... Unfortunately, the people HP relied upon to conduct this type of investigation let me and the company down. I continue to have the best interests of HP at heart and thus I have accepted the board’s request to resign."^[7] Hurd replaced her as Chairman.
On October 4, 2006, Dunn and four others were charged by California attorney general Bill Lockyer with four felony counts: fraudulent use of wire, radio or television transmissions; taking, copying, and using computer data without authorization; identity theft; and conspiracy. Lockyer had issued arrest warrants for all five of those so charged.^[8] Dunn was scheduled to have been arraigned on November 17, 2006. On March 14, 2007, the judge in the case dropped all criminal charges against her in the "interests of justice". The dropping of the criminal charges by Judge Cunningham came after Dunn refused to take a plea of one misdemeanor in exchange for four felonies before the preliminary hearing. Bill Lockyer, the man who had been criticised for bringing the case against Dunn in the first place, defended his bringing of the case in a letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal. HP General Counsel Ann Baskins resigned on September 28, 2006. Baskins, who advised Dunn about "tightening control over Board members", was not indicted by Lockyer.^{[citation needed]}

Private life

Dunn had survived breast cancer and melanoma, but had been diagnosed with advanced (Stage IV) ovarian cancer in January 2004. Chemotherapy treatment led to remission until August 2006, when she underwent surgery to remove liver metastases.^[9]
Dunn was married to William Jahnke, a former head of Wells Fargo Investment Advisors. The couple owned a winery in Australia, a home in Hawaii and property in Orinda, California. Jahnke reported that his wife had died from ovarian cancer at her home in Orinda on December 4, 2011, aged 58. She is survived by her husband, three adult children, ten grandchildren, a brother and a sister.^[10] William Jahnke described his late wife as "tenacious", outliving the three-year life expectancy for her type of ovarian cancer by almost five years.^[11]


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Marion Dougherty , American casting director (Full Metal Jacket, Batman, Midnight Cowboy), died she was 88.

Marion Caroline Dougherty was an American casting director died she was 88..

(February 9, 1923 – December 4, 2011) 

Dougherty was known for casting such films as Slaughterhouse-Five, Midnight Cowboy, The Panic in Needle Park, The Sting, The Anderson Tapes, Pretty Baby, A Little Romance, The World According to Garp, Batman, Gorillas in the Mist, Anna Karenina (1997 film), and Full Metal Jacket.^[1]


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Mary Ellen Avery, American pediatrician, died she was 84.

Mary Ellen Avery was an American pediatrician died she was 84..^[1] In the 1950s, Dr. Avery's pioneering research efforts helped lead to the discovery of the main cause of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in premature babies: her identification of surfactant led to the development of replacement therapy for premature infants and has been credited with saving over 830,000 lives.^[2] In 1991 President George Bush conferred the National Medal of Science on Dr. Avery for her work on RDS.^[3]

^{(May 6, 1927 – December 4, 2011)}

Biography

Mary Ellen Avery was born May 6, 1927, in Camden, New Jersey. Her father owned a manufacturing company in Philadelphia and her mother was vice-principal of a high school.^[3] An early inspiration was pediatrician Emily Bacon, who lived in Avery's neighborhood. She greatly admired Dr. Bacon, who took Avery to see her first premature baby. "She kindly reached out to me in many ways, and I saw her life as more exciting and meaningful than most of the women I knew," Avery has recalled.
Graduating summa cum laude from Wheaton College in 1948 with a degree in chemistry, Mary Ellen Avery went on to earn a medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she was one of four women in a class of ninety, in 1952.^[3] Soon after graduating, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and it was during her recuperation that she became fascinated with how the lungs work.^[3] Rest and medication would cure her, but she went about the regime her own way. Once she realized she was exhibiting no symptoms, she decided to go to Europe with a friend. "I packed one suitcase of medication and another suitcase of clothes, and spent three months in Europe on a regime that I programmed for myself," Avery said. "It consisted of 12 hours in bed every night, and in the daytime mostly walking around and looking at exhibits and enjoying myself, but not anything strenuous."
Dr. Avery returned to Johns Hopkins for her internship and residency, then moved to Boston in 1957 for a research fellowship in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. At Harvard, she made a major discovery while comparing the lungs of infants who had died of RDS to those of healthy animals. "It's all because they had something they would have not needed before birth because they weren't using their lungs for ventilation before birth. But after birth, without it, they could not live more than a day or two. And therefore I found what was missing." What she had found was a foamy substance that she deduced must play a critical role. Dr. Avery's observation formed the basis of a breakthrough paper published in the American Journal of Diseases of Children in 1959. By 1995 there were 1,460 infant deaths a year in the U.S. from RDS, down from almost 10,000 a year twenty-five years earlier.
In 1960, Dr. Avery became an assistant professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University and pediatrician in charge of newborn nurseries. She went on to serve as professor and chair of the department of pediatrics at McGill University in Montreal. In 1974, she joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School as professor of pediatrics. She was the first woman to head a clinical department at Harvard Medical School.^[3] That same year she was the first woman named physician-in-chief at Children's Hospital Boston, where she remained until 1985.
In 1990-91, she was the President of the American Pediatric Society. She has been involved in child healthcare delivery worldwide, as an active member of UNICEF.
Dr. Mary Ellen Avery died on December 4, 2011, at the age of 84.^[1][3]

Awards and honors

• 1968 E. Mead Johnson Award for pediatric research
• 1973 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences^[4]
• 1984 Trudeau Medal from the American Lung Association
• 1991 National Medal of Science, in recognition of contributions to understanding and treating respiratory distress syndrome. The award cited Dr. Avery as one of the founders of neonatal intensive care and "a major advocate of improving access to care of all premature and sick infants."
• 1994 Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2003, elected president of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2005 John Howland Award

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Heinrich Sonne, German Waffen-SS member, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, died he was 94.

Heinrich Sonne was a highly decorated Hauptsturmführer der Reserve in the Waffen-SS during World War II died he was 94.. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. Sonne was born in Riga, Latvia to German parents.

(23 February 1917 – 3 December 2011)

World War II

Sonne served in the 1st SS Infantry Brigade as commander of the Krad-Schützen (motorcycle company). The 1 SS Infantry Brigade (mot) was a unit of the German Waffen SS formed from former concentration camp guards for service in the Soviet Union behind the main front line during the Second World War. They conducted anti-partisan operations in the rear of the advancing German army, and also filled gaps in the front line when called upon in emergencies. Heinrich Sonne won his Knight's Cross for his actions on the front line in the fighting around Smolensk during September 1943. Later, when the 1st SS Infantry Brigade was disbanded in early January 1944, the remaining soldiers, including Heinrich Sonne, were used to form a cadre for the 18th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Horst Wessel.

Post War

Sonne was one of the very few former Waffen-SS soldiers allowed to join the Bundeswehr. This can be attributed to an unblemished military service record. He served from 1956 to 1973 in the Bundeswehr, eventually reaching the rank of Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel).

Awards and decorations

• Iron Cross (1939)
  • 2nd Class (7 January 1943)
  • 1st Class (9 June 1943)
• Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 10 December 1943 as SS-Obersturmführer of the reserves and chief of the Krad-Schützen-Kompanie/1. SS-Infanterie-Brigade (mot.) ^[1]

References

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Rafael Rodríguez Barrera, Mexican politician, Governor of Campeche (1973–1979), President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (1992–1993), died he was 74.

Rafael Rodríguez Barrera was a Mexican politician, lawyer and ambassador  died he was 74.. He held office as the Governor of the Mexican state of Campeche from 1973 until 1979.

(February 1, 1937 – December 3, 2011)

Rodríguez also served as the President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) from 1992 to 1993.^[1]
Rodríguez Barrera began his career as a lawyer. He became Mayor, also called Municipal President, of Campeche, Campeche.^[1] Rodríguez Barrera was elected Governor of Campeche, holding the state's gubernatorial office from September 16, 1973, until September 15, 1979.
Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid appointed Rodríguez Barrera as Secretary of Agrarian Reform. in 1986.^[1] Rodríguez Barrera succeeded outgoing Secretary Luis Martínez Villicaña, who left the Cabinet upon his election as Governor of Michoacan.^[1][2] Rodríguez Barrera remained Secretary until November 30, 1988, when President Miguel de la Madrid left office.^[1]
Rodriguez Barrera was briefly appointed President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party in April 1992, holding the presidency of the political party until March 1993.^[1] He was then appointed the Mexican Ambassador to Israel, based in Tel Aviv, serving from April 14, 1993, to 1995.
He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico from 2000 to 2003, where he acted as the internal coordinator for the PRI party in the chamber.^[1] In 2005 and 2006, Rodríguez Barrera was named to the PRI party committee charged with selecting a presidential candidate for the 2006 presidential election.^[1]
Rodríguez Barrera died from a heart attack at his home in Mexico City on December 3, 2011, at the age of 74.^[3] His death was announced by PRI President Cristina Díaz through her Twitter account.^[1][2][4]


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Larry Rickles, American Emmy Award-winning producer (Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project), died from pneumonia he was 41.

Larry and Don Rickles

Larry Rickles was an American screenwriter, film and television producer  died from pneumonia he was 41.. Rickles won an Emmy Award in 2008 for his work on Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project, a documentary about his father, actor and comedian, Don Rickles.^[1][2][3]

^{(May 12, 1970 – December 3, 2011)}

Rickles was born on May 12, 1970, in Los Angeles, California, the only son of Don Rickles and his wife, Barbara.^[1]
Rickles began his career by working on set at several sitcoms.^[1] He won admission into a Warner Bros. writing workshop in 1996. In 1997, Rickles was hired as a television writer for the long-running CBS comedy series, Murphy Brown.^[1]
Larry Rickles co-produced the 2007 HBO documentary, Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project, about his father.^[1] The documentary won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special in 2008 and Rickles received an Emmy for his work.^[1][2] Rickles' father also won an Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for his appearance in the film.^[1]
Larry Rickles died of complications of pneumonia in Los Angeles on December 3, 2011, at the age of 41.^[1] He was survived by his parents, Don and Barbara, and his sister, Mindy.^[2]

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