Osamu Matsubara, Japanese businessman, chairman of Books Kinokuniya, died from heart failure he was 94.

Osamu Matsubara  was a Japanese businessman, business executive, and former chairman and CEO of Books Kinokuniya died from heart failure he was 94..^[1]

^{(松原 治 Matsubara Osamu?, c. 1917 – January 3, 2012)}

Matsubara was President of Kinokuniya Company Ltd., the parent company of Books Kinokuniya, from October 1980 to November 2002.^[2] In November 2002, he became the Chief Executive Office and board chairman for Kinokuniya Company Ltd.^[2] Outside of Japan, Matsubara oversaw the 2007 relocation of Books Kinokuniya's New York City location from Rockefeller Center to a new, 23,800 sq. feet, three floor store across from Bryant Park.^[1]
Osamu Matsubara died from heart failure on January 3, 2012, at the age of 94.^[3]



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John David Lewis, American political scientist, died he was 56.

John David Lewiswas a political scientist, historian and Objectivist scholar who held the post of visiting associate professor in the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program at Duke University from 2008 to 2012, as well as Associate Professor of Business at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill died he was 56..^[1]

(March 17, 1955 – January 3, 2012) 

Lewis was also an Anthem Fellow for Objectivist Scholarship.^[2] Lewis received his PhD in classical studies at Cambridge University in 2001, with the dissertation, Solon’s Polis as Kosmos: Intellectual, Moral and Political Integration in Archaic Athens. He taught at the University of London from 2000-2001. From 2001 to 2008, he was a professor in the History and Political Science Department at Ashland University,^[3] where contention surrounding his promotion to tenured professor drew national attention.^[4] Lewis was a member of the American Political Science Association, the Association of Ancient Historians, the Society for Military History, the American Philological Association, and the Cambridge Philological Society.^[3] Lewis published three books, was a contributing editor to The Objective Standard and contributed to Capitalism Magazine and contributed to multiple publications including Journal of Business Ethics, Social Philosophy and Policy, Polis, Dike, and Bryn Mawr Classical Review.^[5] Lewis frequently spoke at Objectivist conferences and Tea Party events. He also spoke on the morality of free markets in medicine, arguing that innovators ought to be freed from unnecessary regulation.^[6] Lewis died on January 3, 2012 after a long battle with cancer.^[7][6] He was 56.

Books

• Nothing Less than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History (Princeton University, March, 2010)
• Solon the Thinker: Political Thought in Archaic Athens (Duckworth Press, 2006) (pb. edn. 2008)
• Early Greek Lawgivers (Bristol Classical Press, August, 2007)

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Selorm Kuadey, Ukrainian-born English rugby union player (Sale Sharks), died he was 24.

Selorm Kuadey was a professional rugby union player who played for Sale Sharks as well as the England national under-20 rugby union team  died he was 24..

(5 May 1987 – 3 January 2012) 

Kuadey graduated with a 1st class honours degree in human biology and infectious diseases at the University of Salford. Before joining Sale he had played for Lancashire at U15 and U16 and the North U18s.
Although he played for England Under-19s and England Under-20s, Ukraine-born Kuadey was never a first-team regular for Sale and injuries ended his chances of making progress in a rugby career. He was forced to retire after two very long term injuries in 2010, aged just 22, and had started a career outside rugby.
Sale Sharks announced his death, which was believed to be suicide, on 16 January 2012.^[2][3]


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Fong Fei Fei, Taiwanese singer and actress, died from lung cancer he was 60.

Fong Fei Fei was a Taiwanese singer and actress often referred to as the "Queen of Hats" because of her signature headwear choices  died from lung cancer he was 60..^[1]

(鳳飛飛; often hyphenated as Fong Fei-Fei; August 20, 1953 – January 3, 2012)

 She owned more than 600 hats in her entire lifetime. She once said in an interview that the first time she wore a hat onstage, the response from the audience was tremendous. Since then, she started to wear hats for all her performances, and she mentioned that the hats she wore meant a lot to her. She won Taiwan’s Golden Bell Awards in 1983 and 1984 and had many fans throughout Asia.
Fong Fei Fei was born as Lin Chiu-luan and grew up in Dasi, Taoyuan County, Taiwan. However, she spent the last ten years of her life living in Hong Kong.
Fong released more than 80 albums and sold out numerous concerts throughout her career. She also starred in various Chinese films and television variety shows.^[2]
On January 3, 2012, Fong died at the age of 58 from lung cancer, but the news was only reported on February 13, 2012, by her attorney per her request to keep her illness and death out of the press until all of her funeral arrangements were settled. Her remains are stored at Fo Guang Shan Bao Ta Temple.^[3][4][5]


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Robert L. Carter, American civil rights activist (Sweatt v. Painter) and judge, died from complications from a stroke he was 94.

Robert Lee Carter was an American civil rights activist and a United States District Judge died from complications from a stroke he was 94..


(March 11, 1917 – January 3, 2012)

Personal history and early life

Carter was born on March 11, 1917, in Caryville, Florida.^[1] While an infant, his mother moved north to Newark, New Jersey and later East Orange, where he was raised and attended Barringer High School in Newark and then graduated at age 16 from East Orange High School after having skipped two grades.^[2] He earned his undergraduate degree in political science from Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) and his law degree from Howard University School of Law in 1940, both on scholarship. Carter earned his LLM from Columbia Law School in 1941, after writing an influential master's thesis that would later define the NAACP's legal strategy on the right to freedom of association under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. He then joined the United States Army Air Corps a few months before the United States entered World War II.^[1]

Career as a leading civil rights advocate

On behalf of Fordham Law School, dean William Treanor bestowed upon civil rights pioneer Judge Robert L. Carter a rare, honorary juris doctor. November 2004

In 1944, upon completion of his wartime service in the United States Army Air Corps, Carter went to work at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and in 1948 became a legal assistant to Thurgood Marshall.^[1] In 1945, he became an assistant special counsel at the LDF. Carter was a lead attorney on Sweatt v. Painter^[1] and presented part of the oral argument to the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education. He also worked on many important civil rights cases, including Sipuel v. Board of Regents of Univ. of Okla..
In 1956, Carter succeeded Thurgood Marshall as the general counsel of the NAACP. Over the course of his tenure, Carter argued or co-argued and won twenty-one of twenty-two cases in the United States Supreme Court.
Among the most important cases Carter worked on after Brown was NAACP v. Alabama (1958), in which the Supreme Court held that the NAACP could not be required to make its membership lists public. This removed a tool of intimidation employed by some southern states after Brown was decided, and put into practice the insights into the First Amendment that Carter had gleaned when still a student at Columbia Law School.
In 1968, Carter resigned from the NAACP, along with his entire legal staff, in protest of the firing of NAACP employee Lewis Steele for a critical article he published in The New York Times Magazine. In his autobiography, Carter writes that the NAACP board's decision to fire Steele over the article was aimed at him, as "an effort to exert control over the general counsel's office and bring [Carter] in line."
In recognition of his civil rights achievements, Fordham University School of Law gave Carter an honorary juris doctor degree in November 2004.
In 2004, he was awarded the NAACP's Spingarn Medal.^[3]

Judicial career

On June 15, 1972, Carter was nominated by President Richard M. Nixon to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York vacated by Thomas F. Croake.^[1] Carter was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 21, 1972, and received his commission on July 25, 1972. He assumed senior status on December 31, 1986, serving in that capacity until his death.

Activism and civic leadership

Carter was a co-founder of the National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL). He has served as a member of innumerable committees of the bar and the court, and has been associated with a very wide array of educational institutions, organizations, and foundations. He has written extensively about discrimination in the United States, particularly school segregation, and of his longtime friends and colleagues, Thurgood Marshall and Charles Hamilton Houston.
Carter was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.^[4]
He died of complications of a stroke in 2012.^[1]

Literary contributions

In addition to writing numerous law review articles and essays on civil rights, Judge Carter published a well-received memoir of his struggles as a civil rights advocate.



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Gene Bartow, American college basketball coach (UAB, UCLA), died from stomach cancer he was 81.

B. Gene Bartow was an American men's college basketball coach died from stomach cancer he was 81.. The Browning, Missouri, native coached 36 years at six universities after coaching two high schools in Missouri for six years. In 1972 Bartow coached the Puerto Rico national basketball team in the 1972 Munich Olympic Games.

(August 18, 1930 – January 3, 2012)

High school

Bartow began his coaching at the prep level in Missouri, coaching Shelbina and St. Charles High School basketball squads to a 145–39 win-loss mark in six seasons. His 1957 St. Charles team won the state championship, defeating North Kansas City in the Class L finals by a score of 60–54.

College

Bartow coached at Central Missouri State University from 1961 to 1964, Valparaiso University from 1964 to 1970, and Memphis State University from 1970 until 1974, and he led the Memphis State Tigers to the 1973 NCAA national championship game and consecutive Missouri Valley Conference titles in the 1971–72 and 1972–73 seasons. He coached the US national team in the 1974 FIBA World Championship, winning the bronze medal.^[2]
Bartow signed a five-year contract to replace Harv Schmidt at the University of Illinois in 1974. A last-place team the previous campaign, the Fighting Illini finished tied for ninth in the Big Ten at 8–18 (4–14 in the conference) in 1975, Bartow's only season there.^[3] Despite this, he was the first Illini coach to extensively recruit talented African American high school players from the Chicago area.^[4] He was succeeded by Lou Henson.^[3]
Bartow left his position to succeed John Wooden as the head coach of UCLA. Bartow coached at UCLA from 1975 to 1977, guiding them to a 52–9 record, including a berth in the 1976 Final Four. He coached the 1977 College Player of the Year, Marques Johnson. As of 2008, he is the second winningest coach at UCLA by percentage of wins to losses at .852, putting him behind Gary Cunningham at .862 and above John Wooden at .808.
Bartow left UCLA after the 1977 season to take over the job of creating an athletic program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, more commonly known as UAB. He served as the school's first head basketball coach and athletic director for 18 years. Bartow led UAB to the NIT in the program's second year of existence, and followed that up with seven straight NCAA Tournament appearances, including trips to the Sweet 16 in 1981 and the Elite Eight in 1982.
Bartow retired from coaching in 1996, and in 1997, UAB renamed its basketball venue, Bartow Arena, in his honor. His son Murry, a UAB assistant, became the coach upon Bartow's retirement; Bartow was later president of Hoops, LP, the company that runs the Memphis Grizzlies and the FedEx Forum.^[5]
On April 15, 2009, a UAB spokesman revealed that Bartow had been diagnosed with stomach cancer.^[6] On January 3, 2012, Gene Bartow died at his home in Birmingham after a two-year battle with the disease.^[7]

Honors

In 1989, Bartow was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame, 10 years later, in 1999, Central Missouri State Hall of Fame also elected him to theirs.^[8] Bartow was also voted one of Valparaiso University 150 most influential people in October 2009. [2] Bartow was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in Kansas City on November 22, 2009, along with fellow inductees Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Wayman Tisdale, Jud Heathcote, Walter Byers, Travis Grant and Bill Wall. In 2013, Bartow was selected for induction into the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) Hall of Fame. ^[9]



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Charles W. Bailey, American journalist and novelist (Seven Days in May), died from Parkinson's disease he was 81.

Charles Waldo Bailey II was an American journalist, newspaper editor and novelist  died from Parkinson's disease he was 81..

(April 28, 1929 – January 3, 2012) 

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he graduated from Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1950. He then worked for the Minneapolis Tribune, published in Minneapolis, Minnesota, serving as its editor from 1972 to 1982.^[1] Bailey co-wrote, with Fletcher Knebel, the best-selling political thriller novel Seven Days in May (1962). He died in Englewood, New Jersey.^[2][3]

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