In the late 1970s, Petrov served as a military advisor to the Ethiopian Army. He was assigned to assist and rebuild the force during the Ogaden War.
Petrov died on 1 February 2014 in Moscow, Russia from natural causes, aged 97.
Sissel Sellæg
Sissel Sellæg (10 February 1928 – 5 January 2014) was a Norwegian actress.
She was born in Notodden. She started stage acting in 1950 at the Studioteatret. She also worked at Folketeatret from 1951 to 1956, at Den Nationale Scene from 1959 to 1964, and at Oslo Nye Teater from 1967 to 1998.
Sissel Sellæg died on 5 January 2014, aged 85, in Oslo. She was outlived by her husband, actor Per Theodor Haugen and their son, actor Kim Haugen.
Carmen Zapata
Carmen Margarita Zapata (July 15, 1927 – January 5, 2014) was an American actress. She appeared in over one hundred movies and shows, including "", "Married... with Children", "Sister Act", and she was Carmen Castillo in "Santa Barbara".
Zapata died on January 5, 2014 from heart failure in Los Angeles, California. She was 86.
Lena Smedsaas
Lena Smedsaas (20 March 1951 – 6 January 2014) was a Swedish journalist and writer.
Smedsaas was born in Solna Municipality. She started working in journalism in 1973. She was best known for being a political commentator, presenter and editor for "TV4Nyheterna" on TV4.
Lena Smedsaas died from cancer on 6 January 2014, aged 62, in Täby. She was survived by her husband, writer and journalist Claes-Göran Kjellander and their two children.
Manfred Bleskin
Manfred Bleskin (13 December 1949 – 21 January 2014) was a German journalist and television presenter.
Bleskin was born in Tribsees, East Germany. He began working after receiving a doctorate from the Akademie für Gesellschaftswissenschaften. He spoke five languages.
Bleskin died on 21 January 2014, aged 64, in Berlin, Germany.
Gösta Gahm
Gösta Fredrik Gahm (born 7 July 1942) is a Swedish astronomer.
Gahm was born in Stockholm. He is the professor emeritus of astronomy at Stockholm University. Until 2010, he was the chairman of the Swedish Astronomical Society. He is the main initiator of the popular science project Sweden Solar System.
10997 Gahm, a main-belt asteroid discovered on 2 September 1978, is named in honor of Gahm.
George C. Williams
George Christopher Williams (May 12, 1926 – September 8, 2010) was an American evolutionary biologist.
Williams was a professor emeritus of biology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He was best known for his critique of group selection, though later in life he recognized that it did sometimes occur. The work of Williams in this area, with W.D. Hamilton, John Maynard Smith and others, led to the development of a gene-centered view of evolution.
In 1999 Williams shared the Crafoord Prize, with Maynard Smith and Ernst Mayr, for developing the concept of evolutionary biology.
Williams' 1957 paper "Pleiotropy, natural selection, and the evolution of senescence" was influential in 20th century evolutionary biology. It contains three important ideas. In this paper Williams proposed that senescence should be generally synchronized by natural selection.
"if the adverse genic effects appeared earlier in one system than any other, they would be removed by selection from that system more readily than from any other. In other words, natural selection will always be in greatest opposition to the decline of the most senescence-prone system."
This paper also contains the first outline of the idea that natural selection might select for menopause and post-reproductive life in females, although Williams does not explicitly mention grandchildren or the inclusive fitness contribution of grandparenting. By helping grandchildren survive, grandparents promote the survival of an average of one-quarter (1/4) of their own genome.
In his first book, "Adaptation and Natural Selection", Williams advocated a "ground rule or perhaps "doctrine" would be a better term ... that adaptation is a special and onerous concept that should only be used where it is really necessary", and, that, when it is necessary, selection among genes or individuals would in general be the preferable explanation for it. This contributed to the development of a gene-centered view of evolution; Richard Dawkins built on Williams' ideas in this area in the book "The Selfish Gene".
Williams was also well known for his work on the evolution of sex, and was an advocate of evolutionary medicine.
Jóhann Gunnar Sigurðsson
Jóhann Gunnar Sigurðsson (2 February 1882 – 20 May 1906) was an Icelandic poet.
Sigurðsson was a new New Romantic-style writer. He was born in Reykjavík. He studied at the Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík until 1903.
In November 1905, Sigurðsson fell ill and was hospitalized. He died on 20 May 1906, aged 24, in Reykjavík.
Violetta Ferrari
Violetta Ferrari (25 April 1930 – 23 January 2014) was a Hungarian actress.
Ferrari was born in . She began working in 1950. She appeared mostly in stage performances. She left show business in 1983.
Ferrari died on 23 January 2014, aged 85, in Budapest.
Tor Milde
Tor Milde (14 January 1953 – 15 January 2014) was a Norwegian music journalist and writer. He was a judge on the music competition "Idol" in 2005 and 2006.
Milde was born in Oslo. He started working in journalism in 1984. He was best known as a music journalist and critic for "Verdens Gang" ("VG").
Milde died after a short illness on the morning of 15 January 2014, aged 61, at the Ullevål University Hospital in his hometown of Oslo. He was survived by his two sons and his girlfriend, Irja Anthi.
Menachem Zilberman
Menachem Zilberman (6 October 1946 – 13 January 2014) was an Israeli actor, comedian and songwriter.
Zilberman was born in Eilat, Mandatory Palestine (now Israel). He started working in 1965. He most often worked as a stand-up comic.
Zilberman died from a heart attack on 13 January 2014, aged 67, in Los Angeles, California in the United States. He had lived there since 2000. He was survived by his three children.
Mogens E. Pedersen
Mogens Emil Pedersen (9 May 1928 – 5 January 2014) was a Danish journalist and writer.
Pedersen started working in 1949. He was best known as an editor for "Se og Hør".
Pedersen died on 5 January 2014, aged 85, in Gentofte Municipality.
Battle of Lewes
The Battle of Lewes was an important battle in the history of England. It was fought near the town of Lewes, in Sussex, England. The battle took place on 14 May 1264. It was one of two main battles of the conflict known as the Second Barons' War.
The two armies that met in the battle were led by King Henry III of England and a rebel leader, Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester. Henry III's son, Prince Edward, fought on his side. The battle came about because many of the leading noblemen of England were unhappy with the way King Henry was ruling the country. They wanted more involvement in the government. The Barons voted to hold a Parliament regularly so that they could discuss subjects such as taxation. King Henry would not agree to this, and so both sides started to raise armies. When the two sides met at Lewes two days before, Simon de Montfort tried to arrange a truce with the king. King Henry refused and so both sides got ready to fight a battle.