LaDell Andersen (October 25, 1929 – December 29, 2019) was an American college and professional basketball coach. He was born in Malad City, Idaho. He coached for Utah State Aggies, Utah Stars and for BYU Cougars. He played for Utah State University.
Andersen died on December 29, 2019 in St. George, Utah at the age of 90.
Washington County, Utah
Washington County is a county in the southwestern corner of Utah, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 138,115. Its county seat and largest city is St. George. It was named after the first President of the United States, George Washington.
Günter Lamprecht
Günter Lamprecht (born 21 January 1930) is a German actor. He is known for his leading role in the Fassbinder miniseries "Berlin Alexanderplatz" (1980) and as a ship captain in the epic war movie "Das Boot" (1981).
Jan Fedder
Jan Fedder (14 January 1955 – 30 December 2019) was a German actor. He was born in Hamburg, Germany. He was best known for his role as police officer Dirk Matthies in the German television show "Großstadtrevier". He was also known for his role as the crude Petty Officer Pilgrim in Wolfgang Petersen's "Das Boot".
Fedder was diagnosed with oral cancer in 2012. He died on 30 December 2019 in Hamburg of the disease, aged 64.
Syd Mead
Sydney Jay Mead (July 18, 1933 – December 30, 2019) was an American industrial designer and neofuturistic concept artist. He was known for his designs for science-fiction movies such as "Blade Runner", "Alien" and "Tron". Mead was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Mead died of lymphoma in Pasadena, California on December 30, 2019 at the age of 86.
Nils Petter Sundgren
Nils Henrik Christian Sundgren, known as Nils Petter Sundgren, (24 February 1929 – 30 December 2019) was a Swedish movie critic and television presenter. He worked for "Filmkrönikan" broadcast on SVT. Sundgren was born in Bromma, Sweden.
Sundgren died on 30 December 2019 in Stockholm at the age of 90.
A V Swamy
Alajangi Viswanath Swamy (18 July 1928 – 31 December 2019) was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha the Upper house of Indian Parliament from Odisha as an Independent candidate. From 2012 through 2018 he was in the parliament. Swamy was born in Nabarangpur, Odisha.
Swamy died at his home of cardiac arrest on 31 December 2019 in Bhubaneswar, Odisha at the age of 91.
Christopher Tolkien
Christopher John Reuel Tolkien (21 November 1924 – 15 January 2020) was an English editor, essayist and educator. He was the third son of the author J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973). He was the editor of much of his father's posthumously published work. He drew the original maps for his father's "The Lord of the Rings", which he signed C.J.R.T. He was born in Leeds, England.
He published "The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise". Tolkien was a lecturer and tutor in English Language at New College, Oxford, from 1964 to 1975.
Tolkien died on 15 January 2020 in Draguignan, Var, France, at the age of 95.
George Alagiah
George Maxwell Alagiah ( born 22 November 1955) is a British newsreader, journalist and television news presenter. He was born in Colombo, Ceylon.
Since December 2007, he has been the presenter of the "BBC News at Six" and has also been the main presenter of "GMT" on BBC World News since February 2010. He is also the main presenter for the "BBC Ten O'Clock News" since 2000.
In April 2014, Alagiah was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. In March 2018, he said his cancer was terminal.
The Two Popes
The Two Popes is a British-Italian-American 2019 biographical drama movie directed by Fernando Meirelles and written by Anthony McCarten. It was adapted from McCarten's 2017 play "The Pope". It stars Anthony Hopkins as Pope Benedict XVI and Jonathan Pryce as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio (later Pope Francis).
The movie had a limited theatrical release in the United States on November 27, 2019 and in the United Kingdom on November 29, 2019, and started digital streaming on December 20, 2019, by Netflix.
1917 (movie)
1917 is an American-British 2019 epic war movie directed and produced by Sam Mendes, who wrote the screenplay with Krysty Wilson-Cairns. The movie stars George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman, with Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, Richard Madden, Claire Duburcq, Colin Firth, and Benedict Cumberbatch in supporting roles. The movie is inspired by a story told to Mendes by his paternal grandfather, Alfred Mendes, about his time serving in World War I. Taking place soon after the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line and Operation Alberich, the movie is about two young British soldiers who were given a mission to deliver a message calling off a doomed offensive attack. This message is especially important to one of the soldiers because his brother will be part of the attack.
The project was officially announced in June 2018, with MacKay and Chapman signing on in October and the rest of the cast the following March. Filming took place from April to June 2019 in the UK, with cinematographer Roger Deakins and editor Lee Smith using long takes to have the entire movie appear as two continuous shots.
"1917" premiered in the UK on 4 December 2019 and was released theatrically in the United States on 25 December by Universal Pictures and in the United Kingdom on 10 January 2020 by Entertainment One. The movie received widespread critical praise and was a box office success, grossing $384 million worldwide.
Among its numerous accolades it received ten nominations at the 92nd Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director, and three wins, for Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, and Best Sound Mixing. It was the last movie to win the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing before the category was combined with Best Sound Editing as a single award for Best Sound. The movie also won Best Picture at the 77th Golden Globe Awards, 73rd BAFTA Film Awards, and PGA Awards, while Mendes won Best Director at the Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and DGA Awards. The movie was also chosen by both the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute as one of the top ten movies of 2019.
Harry Kupfer
Harry Kupfer (12 August 1935 — 30 December 2019) was a German opera director and academic. He was born in Berlin.
Kupfer was a long-time director at the Komische Oper Berlin. He worked at major opera houses and at festivals internationally. He was trained by Walter Felsenstein. He has worked in the tradition of realistic directing.
At the Bayreuth Festival, he staged Wagner's "Der fliegende Holländer" in 1978, and "Der Ring des Nibelungen" in 1988. At the Salzburg Festival, he directed the premiere of Penderecki's "Die schwarze Maske" in 1986, and "Der Rosenkavalier" by Richard Strauss in 2014.
He also worked for Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar and Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler".
Kupfer died on 30 December 2019 in Berlin at the age of 84.
Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (; 23 November 1933 – 29 March 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor. "The Guardian" called him Poland's greatest living composer in 2012. He was born in Dębica, Poland. His best known works are "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima", Symphony No. 3, his "St. Luke Passion", "Polish Requiem", "Anaklasis" and "Utrenja".
Penderecki has won many awards, including the Commander's Cross in 1964, the Prix Italia in 1967 and 1968, the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 1964, four Grammy Awards in 1987, 1998 (twice), and 2017, Wolf Prize in Arts in 1987.
Penderecki died on 29 March 2020 of a long-illness in Krakow, Poland at the age of 86.
Decatur, Mississippi
Decatur is a town in Newton County, Mississippi. The population was 1,841 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Newton County.
Olive and the Rhyme Rescue Crew
Olive and the Rhyme Rescue Crew is an Canadian interactive animated children's television series which aired from 2008 to 2011.Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli