Muzaffer Tema,Turkish actor, died he was 92.

Muzaffer Tema was a renowned Turkish movie actor.

(June 15, 1919 – October 4, 2011)

He was born on June 15, 1919 in Istanbul. Following his education in flute, violin and piano playing at the Istanbul Municipality Conservatory, he served as a musician at the Ankara State Conservatory and the Presidency Philharmonic Orchestra.^[1]
In 1949, Muzaffer debuted in acting in the movie Çığlık. He became popular in the Turkish cinema during the 1950s. To try his luck in Hollywood, he divorced and went in 1956 to the USA, where he played in two movies, A Certain Smile (1958) (Acı Tebessüm) and Twelve to the Moon (1960) (Aya Giden 12 Adam). He became so the first ever Turkish actor to play in a Hollywood movie. After two and half years, he returned home due to his father's illness.^[1][2][3]
He died in the morning of October 4, 2011 at the age of 92 in Çeşme, İzmir Province, where he lived since 1999 with his wife İnci.^[2][3]

Filmography

• Islak Sokak - 1987
• Silaha Yeminliydim - 1987
• Vazife Uğruna - 1986
• Attenti ragazzi... chi rompe paga - 1976
• Bir Araya Gelemeyiz - 1975
• Macera Yolu - 1974
• Avanta Yok - 1974
• Domatesler Ve Silahlar - 1974
• Balıkçı Osman - 1973
• Çocuğumu İstiyorum - 1973
• Yaban - 1973
• Aşk Fırtınası - 1972
• Yılmayan Şeytan - 1972
• Sevgili Hocam - 1972
• Kırık Merdiven - 1972
• İlk Aşk - 1972
• Tövbekar - 1972
• Vurguncular - 1971
• Sevmek Ve Ölmek Zamanı - 1971
• Zagor Kara Bela - 1971
• Kara Korsanın Hazineleri - 1971
• Solan Bir Yaprak Gibi'Q' - 1971
• Sevenler Kavuşurmuş - 1971
• Afacan Küçük Serseri - 1971
• Gençliğin Rüyası - 1971
• Mavi Boncuk Lassi - 1971
• Asrın Kadını - 1971
• Mahşere Kadar - 1971
• Maskeli Şeytan - 1970
• Kara Dutum - 1970
• Dört Kabadayı - 1970
• Yaban Gülü - 1970
• Aşk Hırsızı - 1970
• Şeytan Kayaları - 1970
• Bir Aşk Türküsü - 1969
• Izdırap Şarkısı - 1969
• Uykusuz Geceler - 1969
• Kirli Yüzlü Melek - 1969
• Sabırtaşı - 1969
• Sevdiğim Adam - 1969
• Ana Yüreği - 1969
• Ayrı Dünyalar - 1969
• Ana Mezarı - 1969
• Buruk Acı - 1969
• Damga - 1969
• Seninle Düştüm Dile - 1969
• Bozkırlar Şahini - 1968
• Dünyanın En Güzel Kadını - 1968
• İngiliz Kemal - 1968
• Hicran Gecesi - 1968
• Mafia Ölüm Saçıyor - 1968
• Karanlık Yollar - 1968
• İngiliz Kemalin Oğlu - 1968
• İftira - 1968
• İstanbul Kaldırımları - 1968
• Altın Avcıları - 1968
• Acı İnanç - 1968
• Yakılacak Kitap - 1968
• Son Hatıra - 1968
• Kahveci Güzeli - 1968
• Kezban - 1968
• Ağlayan Kadın - 1967
• Alpaslan'ın Fedaisi Alpago 1967
• Kara Duvaklı Gelin - 1967
• Kelepçeli Melek - 1967
• Killing İstanbul'da - 1967
• Tapılacak Kadın - 1967
• Kader Bağı - 1967
• Ringo Kid - 1967
• Evlat Uğruna - 1967
• Dokuzuncu Hariciye Koğuşu - 1967
• Hacı Murat - 1967
• Düşman Aşıklar - 1967
• Korkunç Yumruk - 1967
• Killing Uçan Adam'a Karşı - 1967
• Kadın Avcılar - 1966
• Allahaısmarladık - 1966
• Allaha Ismarladık - 1966
• Kaderin Cilvesi - 1966
• Milyonerin Kızı - 1966
• Yarın Ağlayacağım - 1966
• Meleklerin İntikamı - 1966
• Kumsalda Üç Kadın - 1966
• Korkunç Arzu - 1966
• O Kadın - 1966
• Posta Güvercini - 1965
• Şehvetin Esiriyiz - 1965
• Güneşe Giden Yol - 1965
• Seven Kadın Unutmaz - 1965
• Hırsız - 1965
• Korkunç İntikam - 1965
• Canım Sana Feda - 1965
• Hayatımın Kadını - 1965
• Dudaktan Kalbe - 1965
• On Korkusuz Kadın - 1965
• Dağ Çiçeği - 1965
• Melek Yüzlü Caniler - 1965
• Kırbaç Yarası - 1965
• Onyedinci Yolcu - 1965
• Fakir Gencin Romanı - 1965
• Oğlum Oğlum - 1965
• Severek Ölenler - 1965
• Kader Kapıyı Çaldı - 1964
• Ankara'ya Üç Bilet - 1964
• Çanakkale Aslanları - 1964
• Baba Hasreti - 1964
• Altın Kelepçe - 1964
• Sekiz Kuruş - 1964
• Aşka Tövbe - 1963
• Gönül Ferman Dinlemez - 1962
• Mağrur Kadın - 1962
• Vahşi Kedi - 1961
• Yumurcak - 1961
• Özleyiş - 1961
• Kırık Kalpler - 1960
• Twelve to the Moon - 1960
• Aşk Rüyası - 1959
• Gönül Kimi Severse - 1959
• A Certain Smile - 1958
• Beş Hasta Var - 1956
• Dişi Yılan - 1956
• Aşk ve Ölüm - 1955
• Kadın Severse - 1955
• Kızımla Beraber Ağladık - 1955
• Ölüm Korkusu - 1955
• Son Baskın - 1954
• Öldüren Sır - 1954
• Aşk Izdırabtır - 1953
• İstanbul Canavarı - 1953
• Hıçkırık - 1953
• Kanun Namına - 1952
• İngiliz Kemal Lawrence'e Karşı - 1952
• Memiş ile İbiş Anaforcular Kralı - 1952
• Onu Ben Öldürdüm - 1952
• Günahını Ödeyen Adam - 1952
• Dudaktan Kalbe - 1951
• İstanbul Kan Ağlarken - 1951
• Seni Unutmadım - 1951
• Parmaksız Salih - 1950
• Fato / Ya İstiklal Ya Ölüm - 1949
• Çığlık - 1949
• Uçuruma Doğru - 1949

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Hanan Porat, Israeli rabbi, educator and politician, died from cancer he was 67.

Hanan Porat  (on the left) in the Knesset, 1988

Hanan Porat born Hanan Spitzer was an Israeli rabbi, educator and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Tehiya, the National Religious Party, Tkuma and the National Union between 1981 and 1984 and 1988 and 1999.

(12 December 1943 – 4 October 2011) 

Biography

Porat was born in Kfar Pines in 1943, during the Mandate era. In 1944, his family moved to Kfar Etzion. In early 1948, during the Arab riots of 1948, Kfar Etzion was besieged and the children were evacuated to Jerusalem. Porat's father also moved there to arrange convoys.^[1] After the Kfar Etzion massacre, his family settled in Kfar Pines.^[2] Porat studied at the Bnei Akiva yeshiva high school, Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh and the Mercaz HaRav talmudic college, and was ordained as a rabbi. He worked as a religious teacher at several yeshivas.^[2]
He served in the Paratroopers Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces during the Six-Day War and was among the troops that captured the Temple Mount. He later said that the Israeli victory should have become a national holiday.^[3] After the Six-Day War he helped re-establish the Gush Etzion settlement bloc in the West Bank. He convinced Prime Minister Levi Eshkol to grant permission to settle in Gush Etzion.^[4] He was badly wounded in the Yom Kippur War of 1973 on the bank of the Suez canal. He recovered and was amongst the founders of Gush Emunim movement, which founded over 100 Israeli settlements.^[2] In 1975 he led the founding of Elon Moreh, the first Israeli settlement in the West Bank, in Sebastia.^[5]
In the 1981 elections he was voted into the Knesset on the Tehiya list. He resigned on 7 March 1984, towards the end of the Knesset term, and was replaced by Zvi Shiloah. After the evacuation of Yamit in 1982, he announced his intention to build new settlements in parts of the Land of Israel still not in Israeli hands.^[6] In 1995, he convinced Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin not to hand over Rachel's Tomb to the Palestinian Authority. He tried to repeat that in 2008.^[7] Prior to Israel's disengagement from Gaza, he instructed youngsters in Neve Dekalim in Gush Katif to disrupt evacuation forces.^[8]
In 1988 he returned to the Knesset, this time as a member of the National Religious Party. He was re-elected in 1992 and 1996. In 1996 he was appointed the NRP's parliamentary group chairman, but on 4 March 1999 he and Zvi Hendel left the party to establish a new faction, initially named Emunim, later renamed Tkuma.
Prior to the 1999 elections Tkuma formed an alliance with other small right-wing parties named the National Union. Porat was placed third on the Union's list,^[9] and was re-elected again. However, he resigned from the Knesset on 20 October that year, and was replaced by Hendel.^[2]
Porat died on 4 October 2011, aged 67, of cancer. He was survived by his wife, 10 children and 20 grandchildren.



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Ralph Hodgin, American baseball player (Boston Bees, Chicago White Sox), died he was 96.

Elmer Ralph Hodgin was an outfielder/third baseman who played in Major League Baseball between 1939 and 1948. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed. He was born in Greensboro, North Carolina.

 (February 10, 1915 – October 4, 2011)

Listed at 5' 10", 170 lb., Hodgin reached the majors in 1939 with the Boston Bees, spending part of the season with them before serving three years during World War II. After being discharged, he joined the Chicago White Sox in 1943 and hit a career-high .314 as a rookie. Great things were expected from him, but he never repeated the feat. Then, in 1947 he suffered a concussion after he was hit on the skull by a pitch from future Hall of Fame pitcher Hal Newhouser. After that he lost his aggressiveness at the plate, hitting .266 in 114 games for the Sox in 1948, his last major league season.
In a six-season career, Hodgin was a .285 hitter (481-for-1,689) with four home runs and 188 RBI in 530 games, including 198 runs, 79 doubles, 24 triples, and seven stolen bases. A hard-to-strike-out hitter, he posted a solid 1.54 BB/K (97-to-63). He died on October 4, 2011, in Burlington, North Carolina.



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Kenneth H. Dahlberg,American businessman and World War II fighter ace, died from natural causes he was 94.

Kenneth Harry Dahlberg  was an American businessman and highly decorated World War II fighter ace.^[1]

(June 30, 1917 – October 4, 2011)

Early life

Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Dahlberg grew up on a farm near the village of Wilson, Wisconsin, in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, and attended classes in a one-room schoolhouse for 11 years.^[2] During his senior year he moved back to Saint Paul to live with an aunt, in order to graduate from an accredited high school (Harding High School). After graduation in 1935, he worked in the hotel business, starting as a dishwasher and working his way up to food and beverage manager for a hotel chain.^[3]

World War II

He was drafted into the army in 1941 and originally desired to become a cook.^{[citation needed]} He eventually became an aviation cadet in the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), where one of his instructors was future Senator Barry Goldwater.^[4] After training, Dahlberg flew the P-47 Thunderbolt and P-51 Mustang with the USAAF 353rd Fighter Squadron, 354th Fighter Group Ninth Air Force in Europe. As a fighter ace, Dahlberg was credited with 14½ aerial victories.^[5] He received numerous awards and decorations, including the Distinguished Service Cross for leading a flight of 16 P-47 Thunderbolts (354th) against an attack of 70 German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters on December 19, 1944. Dahlberg shot down four enemy planes that day. Dahlberg was shot down three times, the last on February 14, 1945 near Bitburg, and became a Prisoner of War for the final three months of the war.^[5] Martin Dardis was one of five GIs who rescued Dahlberg as a POW after the Battle of the Bulge. It wasn't until 1991 that Dardis and the other four GIs were honored with Silver Stars for their heroism in rescuing Dahlberg.
Continuing his military service after the war, Dahlberg served with the Minnesota Air National Guard until 1951.

Business career

Fully expecting to return to the hotel business after the war^{[citation needed]}, Dahlberg wound up working for Telex, a company that made hearing aids.^[3] In 1948, Dahlberg founded Dahlberg Electronics, a subsidiary of which is the Miracle-Ear hearing aids manufacturer. His company is credited with the first use of the newly invented transistor in a consumer product.^{[citation needed]}By 1959, Miracle-Ear had evolved into a subsidiary of Dahlberg, Inc. with USD 100 million in annual revenues. A national advertising campaign that Dahlberg, Inc ran from 1988 until mid-1993 was subject to charges of false advertising by the Federal Trade Commission, which were settled in 1995 when the company agreed to pay a $2.75 million civil penalty.^[6] In the summer of 1993^[6] Dahlberg sold his company to Bausch & Lomb for $139 million.^[3]
In 1995, Dahlberg started the venture capital firm Carefree Capital, whose investments include the Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant chain.^[3] As of 2010, Dahlberg lived in Carefree, Arizona and still piloted a Cessna Citation jet.^[5]

Watergate

During the Watergate investigation by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, chronicled in All the President's Men, Bernstein traveled to Miami to see Martin Dardis, the head investigator for Dade County District Attorney Richard E. Gerstein. Since most of the Watergate burglars were from Miami, the district attorney's office had launched an investigation. Dardis showed Bernstein a photostatic copy of a cashier's check for $25,000 that had been deposited into the bank account of a real estate firm owned by Bernard Barker, one of the Watergate burglars. The check was drawn on a Boca Raton, Florida, bank and was made out to Kenneth H. Dahlberg. Bernstein telephoned this information to Woodward who was back at the Post in Washington, D.C.
Woodward located Dahlberg's telephone number from information and called him^[7] at home. At first, Dahlberg did not believe Woodward was actually a reporter. He later called Woodward back and explained that his neighbor, Virginia Piper, had been recently kidnapped^[8] and it was an upsetting experience. Dahlberg told Woodward he had the check made out to himself while he was in Florida on business and did not want to carry that much cash around. Dahlberg could not explain how the check got into Barker's bank account but said it was either given to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President or to Maurice Stans.
Dahlberg was the midwest finance chairman for the Committee to Re-elect the President during President Richard M. Nixon's 1972 campaign. In 1968, Dahlberg was the finance chairman for Clark MacGregor's unsuccessful Senate campaign in Minnesota. MacGregor was later appointed the head of the Committee to Re-elect the President in 1972 after former attorney general John Mitchell had resigned. It was later learned the $25,000 came from Dwayne Andreas, chief executive officer of Archer Daniels Midland, as an anonymous donation to the Nixon campaign.Woodward later commented that finding Dahlberg's check was a turning point in their Watergate investigation because it led to the discovery of how the Watergate burglars were financed through a money-laundering scheme.^[9]
Kenneth H. Dahlberg was never charged with any wrongdoing as a result of the Watergate scandal.^[5]

Honors

In 1967, Dahlberg was notified by the Department of Defense that he had earned the Distinguished Service Cross in 1945, but he had never collected it because he was in a prisoner of war camp. In addition Dahlberg also earned two Purple Hearts, the Silver Star, the Distinguished Flying Cross with cluster, the Bronze Star Medal, and 15 Air Medals.^{[citation needed]}
In 1970, President Richard Nixon appointed Dahlberg to the board of visitors of the U.S. Air Force Academy. He also served as a trustee to Hamline University.
In the 1990s, Kenneth Dahlberg was inducted into the Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame at the Norsk Høstfest in Minot, North Dakota. Kenneth Dahlberg was inducted into the Minnesota Aviation Hall of Fame in 1997.^[10]
In July 2007, he was featured in the aviation series Dogfights on The History Channel, in the final segment of the episode on the P-47 Thunderbolt. And, in 2009, Dahlberg was inducted into the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame.^[11] He died October 4, 2011.^[12]



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Vittorio Curtoni, Italian science fiction writer and translator, died he was 61.

Vittorio Curtoni was an Italian science fiction writer and translator.

(28 July 1949 – 4 October 2011) 

Biography

Curtoni was born at San Pietro in Cerro, in the province of Piacenza, and entered the Italian science fiction world at a very young age. In 1970 he was co-editor of Galassia, a series publishing science fiction novels and anthologies, together with Gianni Montanari. Later he edited the magazine Robot, published by Armenia, from April 1976 to October 1978.
Curtoni frequently translated English language novels for Urania and other Italian science fiction series. He also wrote numerous short stories, some of which collected in Ciao Futuro, published in Urania in 2001.
Before his death, caused by a sudden hearth attack, Curtoni was editing a new incarnation of Robot, published by Delos Books, and collaborating with the on-line and magazine Delos and with the Piacenza newspaper Libertà.

Bibliography

• Dove stiamo volando (1972)
• Le frontiere dell'ignoto. Vent'anni di fantascienza italiana (essay, 1977)
• La sindrome lunare e altre storie (short story collection, 1978)
• Retrofuturo (1999)
• Ciao futuro (short story collection, 2001)
• Trappole in libertà (2004)
• Bianco su nero (2011)

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Taha Muhammad Ali, Palestinian poet, died he was 80.

Taha Muhammad Ali (Arabic: طه محمد علي‎)  was a Palestinian poet.

(born 1931 in Saffuriyya, Galilee – October 2, 2011 in Nazareth)

Biography

Taha Muhammad Ali fled to Lebanon with his family when he was seventeen after their village came under heavy bombardment during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The following year, he returned to Nazareth, where he lived till his death. ^[1]In the 1950s and 1960s, he sold souvenirs during the day to Christian pilgrims and studied poetry at night. His formal education ended after fourth grade. He was owner of a small souvenir shop near the Church of the Annunciation which he operated with his sons, Muhammad Ali wrote vividly of his childhood in Saffuriyya and the political upheavals he survived.

Literary career

A collection of his work in English translation (with facing Arabic), So What: New & Selected Poems, 1971–2005, translated by Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, and Gabriel Levin, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2006. A British edition of the same book appeared with Bloodaxe Books. German and French translations are underway. He has given numerous readings with Cole in the US and Europe.^[2] Muhammad Ali is the subject of a biography published by Yale University Press, My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century by Adina Hoffman.^[3] The Palestinian-Israeli novelist Anton Shammas has translated a collection of Taha Muhammad Ali's work into Hebrew.

Poetic style

Muhammad Ali's style has been described in the introduction to his English collection as "forceful" and written "in short lines of varying beats with a minimum of fuss and a rich array of images drawn primarily from his village life."
In a review of So What: New & Selected Poems, he is described as a "beguiling story-teller who maintains a tone of credibility and lucidity without diluting the mysterious or distressing aspects of his tale...By avoiding commonplace response to everyday experience he has written poems that are fragile and graceful and fresh."^[4]

Published work

• So What: New & Selected Poems, 1971–2005. 2006. ISBN 1-55659-245-0.
• Never Mind: Twenty Poems and a Story. 2000. ISBN 965-90125-2-7.
• The Fourth Qasida.
• Fooling the Killers.
• Fire in the Convent Garden.

Anthologies

Poet's Choice. 2006. ISBN 0-15-101356-X.


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Doris Belack, American actress (Law & Order, One Life to Live, Tootsie), died from natural causes she was 85.

Doris Belack was an American character actress of stage, film and television.^[1]

(February 26, 1926 – October 4, 2011)

Biography

Belack was born in 1926 in New York City, the younger daughter of Isaac and Bertha Belack, Jewish immigrants from Russia. She had one sibling, an older sister. In 1955, she performed on the record "Poetry of the Negro" with Sidney Poitier. The record was produced by her husband, Philip Rose.
Belack has been misidentified as the first "Mrs. Fish" to Abe Vigoda's character on Barney Miller. She was actually only a one episode replacement for actress Florence Stanley, who played "Mrs. Fish" ("Bernice Fish"). Before that, Belack was seen mainly in soap operas; she originated the role of Anna Wolek Craig for nearly a decade on One Life to Live. She also appeared in Another World, The Edge of Night and The Doctors. Doris played the memorable part of the formidable soap opera producer in the comedy hit film Tootsie which also starred Dustin Hoffman.
Belack played the lead role in the short-lived television sitcom called Baker's Dozen as "Florence Baker", the no-nonsense captain of an undercover anti-crime unit of the NYPD. The show lasted a month on CBS. She guest starred on an episode of The Golden Girls in 1985 as Dorothy Zbornak's sister Gloria. From 1990 to 2001, she played the tough, sharp-tongued "Judge Margaret Barry", a recurring role on Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Doris also played Maureen McReary in Grand Theft Auto IV and provided the voices of Mrs. Dink and Mrs. Wingo in the Nickelodeon show Doug. Her last television appearance was on a 2003 episode of Sex and the City.

Personal life

Her husband, producer Philip Rose, died on May 31, 2011 (four months before her own death); they had been married for 65 years and had no children.^[2]


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