Pludra wrote narratives and novels for children and teenagers. His books in total sold more than five million times, which made him one of the most successful authors of East Germany. Some of his books have been made into movies.
Pludra died in Potsdam, Germany, aged 88.
Fernando Zunzunegui
Fernando Zunzunegui Rodríguez (5 October 1943 – 28 August 2014) was a Spanish footballer. He played as a defender. He was born in Vigo, Spain.
He played for Celta from 1962 through 1963. Then he played for Turista from 1963 through 1965. Then he played for Celta from 1965 through 1973. Then he played for Real Madrid from 1973 through 1976.
Zunzunegui died in Madrid, Spain, aged 70.
Jean-François Beltramini
Jean-François Beltramini (5 February 1948 – 27 August 2014) was a French footballer. He played as a striker. He played professionally between 1969 and 1985. He played clubs such as Paris Saint-Germain, Stade de Reims, Paris and FC Rouen.
Beltramini was born in Les Clayes-sous-Bois, Yvelines. He was of Italian ancestry.
Beltramini died after a long illness on 27 August 2014 in Rouen, aged 66.
Peter Bacon Hales
Peter Bacon Hales (November 13, 1950 – August 26, 2014) was an American historian, photographer, writer, and musician. His works were in American spaces and landscapes, the history of photography, and contemporary art. His wrote six books including "Silver Cities: The Photography of American Urbanization, 1839–1915", and "Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project". He was a University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) faculty member for 32 years, including four years as chair of his department (art history). He retired in 2012.
Hales was born in Pasadena, California. He graduated from Haverford College in 1972. He was married to Maureen Pskowski.
Hales died in a road accident on August 26, 2014 near his home in Stone Ridge, New York. He was 63. He was killed when a car driver hit his bicycle .
Elfriede Brüning
Elfriede Brüning (8 November 1910 – 5 August 2014), also known as Elke Klent, was a German communist journalist and novelist. She worked for newspapers such as the "Berliner Tageblatt", the "Berliner Börsen-Courier" and the "Vossische Zeitung".
Brüning was born in Berlin. In 1930, she joined the Communist Party of Germany. Before World War II, she was arrested in 1935 for communism-related activities, before being released in 1937. In 1937, she married Joachim Barckhausen, a writer and editor. Their daughter, Christiane, born in 1942, also became a writer. After the German reunification, she became a member of Die Linke (). Brüning turned 100 in November 2010.
Brüning died from natural causes on 5 August 2014 in Berlin, aged 103.
Lars Mortimer
Lars Mortimer (22 March 1946 – 25 August 2014) was a Swedish cartoonist and comics artist. He was the creator and writer of the comic strip "Hälge". He made the comic strip from September 1991 until his death in August 2014. From 2001, "Hälge" got a section in a newspaper and was released monthly. He also created the comic strip "Bobo", published between 1973 and 1990.
Mortimer was born in Sundsvall, Västernorrland County. He was of British ancestry. He had two children.
Mortimer died after a short illness on 25 August 2014 in Alfta, Hälsingland. He was 68.
Bill Kerr
William Henry "Bill" Kerr (10 June 1922 – 28 August 2014) was an Australian stage, television and movie actor and comedian. He first worked as a child actor for a short time during the early 1930s. He later returned to acting in the 1950s. He found great success while in Britain. He appeared on radio in BBC's "Hancock's Half Hour" between 1951 and 1958. He became known as "the boy from Wagga Wagga". He used his famous catchphrase was "I'm only here for four minutes..." while in the UK. He also appeared in television series such as "Doctor Who" and "The Young Doctors". He played uncle Jack in the 1981 movie "Gallipoli". He was nominated for many AACTA Awards.
Kerr was born in Cape Town, South Africa to Australian parents. He moved with his family to Australia and grew up in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. He served in the army during World War II. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1947. He was first married to Virginia from 1955 until their divorce. They had two children. He got married a second time to Sandra in 1983. They remained married until Kerr's death. They also had two children.
Kerr died on 28 August 2014 at his home in Perth, Western Australia. He was 92.
Douglas Carswell
John Douglas Wilson Carswell (born 3 May 1971) is a British politician. He is a Eurosceptic and a libertarian. Carsewell was elected to Parliament at the 2005 general election. On 28 August 2014 left the Conservative Party to be a member of UKIP.
Following his resignation from the Conservatives, he ran for his seat Clacton-on-Sea as a UKIP candidate. He was elected UKIP's first MP in the House of Commons in the by-election held on 9 October 2014.
In March 2017, Carswell said that he was quitting UKIP to be an independent MP. In April 2017 he said he would not stand in the 2017 general election.
Star Wars Rebels
Star Wars Rebels is an American 3D CGii animated series produced by Lucasfilm and Lucasfilm Animation. It is set 14 years after "" and 5 years before "". The visual style of "Star Wars Rebels" is heavily inspired by the original "Star Wars" trilogy concept art by Ralph McQuarrie. The series premiered on October 3, 2014 on Disney Channel, with a movie special, titled "Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion".
Adapted from books turned in to short one minute to promote the series and made available online.
Lucasfilm and Disney have confirmed a second season.
"Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion" premiered on October 3, 2014 on Disney Channels worldwide.
The series began airing in the United Kingdom and Ireland on October 16, 2014. In Australia, premiered on October 17, 2014. The series started airing in South Africa on October 18, 2014 and in Canada on October 19, 2014.
"Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion" was made to DVD on retailers that came including character shorts, plush toy and prievew of season one.
The one hour special garnered 2.743 million viewers in the United States, the second most on the network that night. Worldwide, it delivered a total of 6.5 million viewers.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 78, based on 4 reviews indicating "generally favorable reviews".
IGN and Variety in particular had strong praise for the pilot movie, "Spark of Rebellion", but their only real criticism was the appearance of the Wookiees in the film, being cited as not all that impressive compared to the rest of the animation.
Lucasfilm
Lucasfilm is an American movie and television production company. It is based in the Letterman Digital Arts Center in San Francisco, California. It is best known for the "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" movie franchises. It does live action and animation. In 2013, Disney announced that they would buy Lucasfilm Limited for one billion dollars. Lucasfilm became a subsidiary of Disney.
Lucasfilm was created in 1971 by George Lucas (creator of the "Star Wars" Franchise). It had a Lucasfilm Animation division for animation products. Lucasfilm Ltd. had done services of products in Live Action movies and Animated television series and movies.
Freelan Oscar Stanley
Freelan Oscar Stanley (1849 – 1940), was an American educator, inventor and manufacturer. He left teaching to join his twin brother Francis Edgar Stanley in the photographic dry plate business. After selling the business, the two brothers invented and manufactured the Stanley Steamer car. They were pioneers in the use of steam engines to power cars.