Rosel Zech,German actress (Veronika Voss, Aimée & Jaguar), died from cancer she was 69.

Rosalie Helga Lina Zech known as Rosel Zech, was a German theater and film actress, especially with the "Autorenkino" ("Author's Cinema") movement, which began in the 1970s died from cancer she was 69..

(7 July 1942 – 31 August 2011)

 Theater

Rosel Zech was born in Berlin; her father was a inland waterway boatman and her mother a dressmaker; they were unmarried.^[2] She was raised in Hoya, Germany. Her performing led her, at the age of 20, to Lower Bavaria, where in 1962 her first theatrical engagement was in the South Bavarian City Theater (now the Lower Bavarian State Theatre) in Landshut.
This was followed by other roles at various other theaters, such as in 1964 at the Städtebundtheater in Biel and at the summer theater in Winterthur. Two years later she played at the Schauspielhaus Wuppertal. From 1970 to 1972, she appeared on stage at the Staatstheater Stuttgart then at the Schauspielhaus Bochum.
During the season 1978-1979 Rosel Zech was active in Hamburg at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus and then returned to her native city of Berlin, where she acted on the Volksbühne. In 1981 she was hired by the Bayerischen Staatsschauspiel in Munich. Four years later she was seen again at the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. 2009 she worked with in the Luisenburg Festival in the play Mother Courage as Anna Fierlinger.

Film and Television

She made her 1970 television debut in The Pot. In 1973 she appeared in a small role in The Tenderness of Wolves with Kurt Raab and Margit Carstensen. On the set she met Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who produced the film.^[2] She and Fassbinder began an extended collaboration. The same year, Peter Zadek cast the actress in his film version of Kleiner Mann – was nun? ("Little man - what now?" with Heinrich Giskes and Hannelore Hoger.
Other films and TV movies followed, among which were a film version of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, and Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. In the children's film The Crocodiles from 1977, she played Mrs. Wolferman, the mother of one of "crocodiles'". She appeared in Peter Fleischmann's 1979 science fiction film Die Hamburger Krankheit.
In 1981, she was cast by Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the film Lola (1981) in a supporting role as the wife of Mario Adorf. Fassbinder immediately chose her for his next project, Veronika Voss, and cast her in the lead. This second Fassbinder film was inspired by the life of the UFA actress Sybille Schmitz, and Rosel Zech's convincing portrayal of the morphine-addicted actress turned Zech into a star overnight. The film was awarded in 1982 in the Berlin International Film Festival with a Golden Bear. In the following years, Zech focused mainly on work in television and appeared in numerous television series and television films, as well as in regular theater productions in Berlin, where she lived during her last years.^{[citation needed]}

Death

She died of bone cancer in Berlin on 31 August 2011, aged 69.^[2] Following a cancer diagnosis in the summer of 2011, Zech had not been able to resume her regular role as a nun in the German TV series Um Himmels Willen (For Heaven's Sake).

Awards

• 1968: Förderpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
• 1976: Schauspielerin des Jahres der Zeitschrift Theater heute für Hedda Gabler
• 1982: Goldener Bär der Berlinale für Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss
• 1983: Deutscher Darstellerpreis für Mascha
• 1990: Kainz-Medaille der Stadt Wien für Eines langen Tages Reise in die Nacht
• 1991: 1. Preis des World Film Festival in Montreal für Salmonberries
• 1992: Bayerischer Filmpreis (Beste Darstellerin) für Salmonberries
• 1999: Bayerischer Verdienstorden
• 2001: Merkur-Theaterpreis der Zeitung Münchner Merkur für Afterplay

Filmography

1970: Der Pott (Fernsehfilm) 1973: Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe 1973: Kleiner Mann, was nun? (Fernsehfilm) 1974: Mädchen in Uniform (Fernsehfilm) 1974: Eiszeit 1975: Die Möwe (Fernsehfilm) 1975: Die Geisel (Fernsehfilm) 1977: Die Vorstadtkrokodile (Fernsehfilm) 1978: Hedda Gabler (Fernsehfilm) 1978: Verführungen (Fernsehfilm) 1979: Die Hamburger Krankheit (Fernsehfilm) 1980: Der Menschenfeind (Fernsehfilm) 1980: Mosch (Fernsehfilm) 1981: Die Jahre vergehen (Fernseh-Zweiteiler) 1981: Der Nächste bitte (Fernsehfilm) 1981: Lola 1981: Heute spielen wir den boß / Wo geht's denn hier zum Film?, mit Peer Raben 1981–83: Die Knapp-Familie (Fernsehserie) 1982: Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss 1982: Die Geschwister Oppermann (Fernseh-Zweiteiler) 1983: Klawitter (Fernsehfilm) 1983: Mascha (Fernsehfilm) 1984: Ein fliehendes Pferd (Fernsehfilm) 1984: Julia (Fernsehfilm) 1984: Der Mord danach (Fernsehserie Tatort) 1985: Innige Liebe (Fernsehfilm) 1986: Blutgoldspur (Fernsehserie Der Alte) 1986: Vermischte Nachrichten, mit Sabine Wegner 1987: Herz mit Löffel 1987: Die Bombe (Fernsehfilm) 1987: Verwischte Spuren (Fernsehserie Der Alte) 1987: Mord ist Mord (Fernsehserie Der Alte) 1987: Nebel im Fjord (Fernsehfilm) 1988: Hemingway (Fernsehserie) 1989: Fabrik der Offiziere (Fernsehserie) 1989: Die Bertinis (Fernsehserie) 1989: Ausgestiegen (Fernsehserie Der Alte) 1990: Bei mir liegen Sie richtig 1991: Salmonberries, mit K. D. Lang 1993: Mr. Bluesman, mit Rufus Beck 1993: Nach acht langen Jahren (Fernsehserie Derrick) 1993: Der rote Vogel (Fernsehserie), mit Lola Müthel 1994: Das Baby der schwangeren Toten (Fernsehfilm)

1994: Gespenster (Fernsehserie Polizeiruf 110) 1995: Schade um Papa (Fernsehserie), mit Erika Mottl 1995: Dicke Freunde (Fernsehfilm), mit Gerd Udo Feller und Nino Korda 1995: Hades 1995: Neben der Zeit (Fernsehfilm) 1996: Die indische Ärztin (Fernsehreihe Ärzte) 1996: Die Geliebte (Fernsehserie) 1997: Lea Katz – Die Kriminalpsychologin: Das wilde Kind (Fernsehfilm), mit Ralf Schermuly und Alexandra Wilcke 1997: Terror im Namen der Liebe (Fernsehfilm) 1997: Die letzte Rettung (Fernsehfilm), mit Michael Degen 1998: Der Schlüssel 1998: Der zweite Mann (Fernsehserie Tatort) 1998: Todesbote (Fernsehserie Tatort) 1999: Aimée und Jaguar 1999: Blackout (Fernsehserie Siska) 1999: Im Angesicht des Todes (Fernsehserie Der Alte) 1999: Morgen gehört der Himmel dir (Fernsehfilm) 1999: Abgebrüht (Fernsehserie Ein Fall für zwei) 2000: Oh, du Fröhliche (Fernsehfilm), mit Dorothee Hartinger und Florian Böhm 2001: Ein unmöglicher Mann (Fernsehserie) mit Stephan Kampwirth und Christian Buse 2001: Große Liebe wider Willen (Fernsehfilm) 2001: Das Schneeparadies (Fernsehfilm), mit Anne Brendler, Andreas Brucker und Klaus Wildbolz 2002: Die Frau ohne Namen (Fernsehserie Im Visier der Zielfahnder) 2002: Väter 2002: Zwei Affären und eine Hochzeit (Fernsehfilm), mit Katja Flint und Ivonne Schönherr 2003: Anatomie 2 2003: Veras Waffen (Fernsehserie Tatort) 2003: Der Auftrag - Mordfall in der Heimat (Fernsehfilm) 2003: Plötzlich wieder 16 (Fernsehfilm) 2003: Yesterday (Fernsehserie Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall) 2004: Mörderspiele (Fernsehserie Tatort) 2004: Kammerflimmern 2004: Tod im Morgengrauen (Fernsehserie Der Alte) 2003-: Um Himmels Willen (Fernsehserie) 2005: Segel der Liebe (Fernsehserie Rosamunde Pilcher) 2005: Fieber (Fernsehserie K3 - Kripo Hamburg) 2005: In Liebe eine Eins (Fernsehfilm) 2006: Papa und Mama (Fernsehserie) 2006: Mr. Nanny - Ein Mann für Mama (Fernsehfilm) 2006: Die Tote im Bootshaus (Fernsehserie Agathe kann's nicht lassen) 2007: Das Traumschiff 2007: Ein sauberer Mord (Fernsehserie Einsatz in Hamburg) 2009: Die Rebellin, Regie: Ute Wieland 2009: Der Schwarzwaldhof (Fernsehserie)

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Alla Bayanova, Russian singer, People's Artist of Russia, died from cancer she was 97.

Alla Nikolayevna Bayanova  was a Russian singer sometimes compared with Édith Piaf for her simple yet dramatic style of performance died from cancer she was 97..

 (18 May 1914 – 30 August 2011)

Biography

Bayanova was born in Kishinev in the family of an opera singer, who moved to Paris in 1918 after Bessarabia decided to unite with Romania. She debuted on the stage as an assistant to her father in 1923, aged 9. By 1927, she was already performing solo. A major step forward in her career was when she assisted Alexander Vertinsky in his famous show at the Hermitage Restaurant, Montmartre. Two years later, her family moved to Belgrade, while Bayanova went on touring Germany, Greece, Palestine, and Egypt.^{[citation needed]}
In 1931, she got acquainted with Pyotr Leshchenko, a foremost Russian singer of the time, who helped her to join the Pavilion Russe in Bucharest. She married a local aristocrat, George Ypsilanti, and made several recordings of tangos (e.g., Columbia, His Master's Voice). After her divorce from Ypsilanti, she signed a contract with the Polish recording company "Syrena-Electro".
In March 1941 Bayanova was arrested by the Romanian authorities and interned into a concentration camp for having performed in the Russian language. Although released in May 1942, she was kept under surveillance until the end of World War II.
In the 1960s and 1970s, while still living in Romania, Bayanova issued eight LPs. Nicolae Ceauşescu's government, however, pressed her into migrating to the USSR in 1988. Thereupon she settled in Moscow, making occasional appearances on the Russian television.
Bayanova was named People's Artist of Russian Federation and celebrated the 80th anniversary of her stage career in 2003. In 2004 she sang in a concert to celebrate her 90th birthday. Her last work was in collaboration with Marc Almond on several duets.
She died on 30 August 2011, aged 97, of cancer. Upon learning of her death, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stated: “Her life was dedicated to the high purpose of bringing people joy through interaction with true art. Ms Bayanova had a rare, beautiful voice, and her mastery and heartfelt performances of Russian songs gained her recognition around the world.”^[1]



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Faye Blackstone, American rodeo star, died from cancer she was 96.

Faye Blackstone was an American rodeo star, performer and elected member of the Cowgirl Hall of Fame died from cancer she was 96..

(June 3, 1915 – August 30, 2011) 

She is credited with inventing three rodeo maneuvers, the reverse fender drag, the flyaway and the ballerina.^[1]
Blackstone was born Fayetta June Hudson in Diller, Nebraska in 1915.^[1] She self taught herself to perform tricks on horses after watching a woman handle a flailing bronco when she was eight years old.^[1] In 1937, Blackstone married her husband, the Texan rodeo performer Vic Blackstone, in a ceremony held in the center of a rodeo arena in Bladen, Nebraska.^[1] Faye and Vic performed together throughout the United States the 1940s and 1950s.^[1] She performed as far away from Nebraska as Havana, Cuba, and competed alongside well known celebrities, including Gene Autry.^[1]
Vic Blackstone retired during the 1950s, while Faye Blackstone continued to perform until her retirement during the late 1960s.^[1] The couple moved to a home on the outskirts of Parrish, Florida, in Manatee County during the 1951.^[2] They worked and raised cattle at a nearby ranch.^[1]
In 1978, Blackstone and her husband helped McEntire, the daughter of friends, launch her career, by arranging for her to perform at a county fair in Florida.^[1] McEntire recalled the performance as a breakthrough in her career in a 2003 interview with the Bradenton Herald saying, "That was my first big fair by myself. It was huge to me."^{[1] [2]}
Faye Blackstone was elected into the Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 1982, the same year that her husband was inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame.^[2] The Blackstones became the namsakes of Blackstone Park in Palmetto, Florida.^[2]

Death

Faye Blackstone died in Bradenton, Florida, aged 96, from cancer, on August 30, 2011. Her husband died in 1987.^[1]



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Peggy Lloyd, American stage actress, died she was 98.

Peggy Lloyd born Peggy Craven;  was an American stage actress and television director known for her work in the Broadway Theater died she was 98..



(August 14, 1913 – August 30, 2011)


Lloyd met her future husband, actor Norman Lloyd, while they were co-starring in the play Crime, which was directed by Elia Kazan.^[1] The couple married on June 29, 1936, and remained together for seventy-five years.^[1] They became known for their joint appearances in the Federal Theatre Project, which was run by the Works Progress Administration, early in their marriage during the 1930s.^[1]
In 1937, Lloyd starred in the Broadway production of Having Wonderful Time with John Garfield.^[1] She also appeared in a Broadway production of Romeo and Juliet, directed by Katharine Cornell.^[1] Lloyd then joined Orson Welles theater company, Mercury Theatre.^[1]
Lloyd became a close associate of director Alfred Hitchcock and directed many of Hitchock's television specials and series episodes.^[1]

Personal life

In 2007, Peggy and Norman Lloyd were featured in the documentary Who Is Norman Lloyd?^[1] She died on August 30, 2011, at the age of 98. She is survived by her 97-year-old husband of 75 years, and their two children.^[1]



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Ayala Zacks Abramov, Israeli art patron, died she was 99.

Ayala Zacks-Abramov was an Israeli-Canadian art collector  died she was 99.. Ayala was widowed three times, and was previously married to the Canadian art collector Samuel Jacob Zacks and to the knesset member Zalman Abramov.

(1912 – 30 August 2011)

Biography

Zacks-Abramov was born in Jerusalem in 1912 as Ayala Ben-Tovim. Her parents, Shmuel Ben-Tovim and Rashe (née: Berman) were married in Jerusalem in 1902. She studied in London and in Paris where she met her first husband, Morris Fleg, who she married in 1938.^[1]
In 1940, during World War II, she joined the French Resistance after Fleg enlisted to the army and was killed during a military operation.
In 1947, she married Samuel Zacks, a Canadian economist and art collector, whom she met during her stay in Switzerland. After marrying, the couple began to collect art items from the 19th century and the 20th century, mainly of French, Canadian and Israeli artists such as Gauguin, Rodin, Picasso, Henri Matisse, Kandinsky and Chagall. They also acquired art by Israeli artists such as Marcel Janco, Mordechai Ardon, Reuven Rubin and Anna Ticho, and art of relatively unknown artists at the time of the purchase such as Ofer Lellouche, Yigal Tumarkin and Joseph Zaritsky.
In 1970, her husband Zacks died. She returned to Israel in 1976 and married Zalman Abramov, who was a lawyer and a Knesset member.^[2] The couple were patrons of the arts, and Abramov continued to support the art world even after her husband's death in 1997.
Zachs-Abramov supported over the years the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Israel Museum and had a hand in their growth. Both the museums have halls named after her. She mentioned theses museums in her will, in which she declared that her art collection would be divided between them.
The Israeli notable painter Joseph Zaritsky painted a well-known figurative portrait of her.
Many of the art works in Zachs-Abramov's possession were donated or loaned through to years to museums in Israel, France and Canada.



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R. B. McDowell, Irish historian, died he was 97.

Robert Brendan McDowell  MA, PhD, Litt.D, LLD, MRIA, FTCD, was an Irish historin died he was 97. He was a Fellow Emeritus and a former Associate Professor of History at Trinity College, Dublin. He was born in Belfast. He was referred to colloquially as "RB" or "McDowell".

(14 September 1913 – 29 August 2011) 

University career

McDowell was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, where he discovered his love of history. Here he met T. W. Moody, later an esteemed colleague in the History department at Trinity. He was first appointed a lecturer in Trinity in 1945, and for 13 years (1956–1969) was the Junior Dean of Students, or "Dean of Discipline", a role that involved disciplining students in the tumultuous 1960s and resulted in many amusing anecdotes. He resided in the college until the age of 94, when he retired to Celbridge.
In 2007, The College Historical Society of which McDowell was a vice-president unveiled a portrait of McDowell, which can be seen in the Graduates' Memorial Building, alongside Douglas Hyde & Theobald Wolfe Tone, amongst others.

Bibliography

McDowell's published work concentrated on the era when Britain and Ireland shared a government, and aspects of the Irish-British relationship.

• British Conservatism 1832-1914 (Greenwood Press) ISBN 978-0-8371-7708-3
• The Correspondence of Edmund Burke (University of Chicago Press) ISBN 978-0-226-11561-0
• The Irish Administration 1801-1914 (Greenwood Press) ISBN 978-0-8371-8561-3
• Irish Public Opinion 1750-1800 (Greenwood Press, 1975)
• Public Opinion and Government Policy in Ireland 1801-1846 (Greenwood Press, 1975)
• Proceedings of the Dublin Society of the United Irishmen (Irish Manuscripts Commission, Dublin 1998). ISBN 1-874280-16-9
• Grattan A Life (Lilliput Press, 2001) ISBN 978-1-901866-72-8
• Crisis and Decline; the fate of the Southern Unionists (1998)^[4]
• Burke and Ireland essay in The United Irishmen ed. D. Dickson Dublin, 1993.
• Land and Learning; Two Irish Clubs
• Ireland in the Age of Imperialism and Revolution
• Historical Essays 1939-2001
• The Church of Ireland 1869-1969
• Trinity College, Dublin, 1592-1952: An academic history, by R. B. McDowell (Author), David A. Webb (Author), F. S. L. Lyons (Foreword), Cambridge University Press (30 Jul 1982) ISBN 978-0-521-23931-8

Co-authored works:

• Irish Historical Documents, 1172-1922 with Edmund Curtis, Irish Manuscripts Commission, Dublin 1943.
• Mahaffy (Routledge, London 1971) ISBN 0-7100-6880-8; with W.B. Stanford.
• The writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone as co-editor (Oxford 1998) ISBN 978-0-19-822383-2

Books about McDowell

As well as his scholarship, McDowell became celebrated for his eccentric dress, his Ulster diction and his ability to talk knowledgeably at great length. Hundreds of anecdotes by former colleagues and students were published in 2 volumes after his retirement:

• The Junior Dean, RB McDowell - Encounters with a Legend (Lilliput 2003) to celebrate his 90th birthday;
• The Magnificent McDowell - Trinity in the Golden Era (2006). Both books are edited by Anne Leonard, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin.

Autobiography

• McDowell on McDowell, memoirs; Lilliput Press, Dublin (2008).

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Wambui Otieno, Kenyan politician, died she was 75.

Virginia Wambui Otieno was a female Kenyan politician who in July 2003 briefly rose to prominence due to her controversial fight to bury her first husband in one of the most protracted legal cases in Kenya and later, her marriage to stonemason Peter Mbugua died she was 75.. The marriage was controversial since Wambui Otieno was 67 whilst Peter Mbugua was 25. This marriage caused much debate amongst the Kenyan population.^[1]
Wambui Otieno is sister to Kenya's former foreign Minister, Dr Munyua Waiyaki. Wambui Otieno died on August 30th 2011.

Mau Mau freedom fighter

She published an autobiography titled "Mau Mau Daughter: A Life History".
She had had 3 children while working as a Mau Mau freedom fighter. She was arrested for her involvement in mobilizing in the women's wing of the Mau Mau's riots. Towards the end of the State of Emergency, the British colonial state arrested her and sent her to a detention camp on the coast.^[2]
In the years following Mau Mau, Wambui met and married S.M. Otieno, a prominent Luo lawyer. Together they produced one of the most successful law firms in post-colonial Kenya. Her daughter is Gladwell Otieno, former director of TI Kenya (Transparency International) and director of "AFRICOG" African Center of open Gouvernance.
Wambui Otieno was one of the first women to run for elected office.

Legal case

In 1994 she was the subject of a legal case that established modern legal rights of wives in polygamous marriages vs. tribal law.^[3]

Political life

At the 1997 elections she unsuccessfully vied for the Kamukunji Constituency parliamentary seat on NDP ticket.^[4] In 2007, she founded a new political party, Kenya People's Convention Party.^[5] At the 2007 elections, she ran for the Kajiado North Constituency parliamentary seat, but received only a minor share of votes.^[6]

Personal life

Her 2003 marriage to Peter Mbugua was subject of a national controversy. Many of their relatives condemned the marriage. There have been allegations that the death of Mbugua's mother's, which happened only days after the marriage, was caused by a shock she got upon learning of the marriage.^[7]
As of 2008, they were living together with her stonemason husband in Karen, Nairobi.^[7] In February 2011 they held a second wedding ceremony, now at St Andrew’s Church in Nairobi, while the first wedding had been a civil ceremony.^[8]
Wambui had suffered heart failure previously and was relying on a pacemaker, an electronic gadget implanted to function as the heart does Wambui Otieno died on August 30, 2011 in a Nairobi Hospital.^[9]


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