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Desmond Mason

**Desmond Mason** is a retired basketball player. He was born on October 11, 1977 in Waxahachie, Texas. He went to Oklahoma State University. In 2000 and 2001 he was named All Rookie award in second place.

## Other websites

- Basketball-Reference
Ernesto Sabato

**Ernesto Sabato** (June 24, 1911 – April 30, 2011) was an Argentine writer, painter and physicist. He won some of the most important prizes for writing in Spanish and was influential in the literary world of Latin America. He was also famous for investigating war crimes in Argentina. Sabato was a member of the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons. This tried to find out what had happened to the 30,000 people who went missing during time of military rule from 1976 to 1983.

He was born in Rojas, Buenos Aires Province on 24 June 1911. He was the tenth of eleven sons from an average family. His parents were Francesco Sabato and Giovanna Maria Ferrari, a pair of Italian inmigrants from Calabria. He began to study at the National University of La Plata in 1929, where he studied physics and mathematics. He became a member of a communist youth group and went to the International Lenin School in Moscow to study for two years. He was very concerned about the rise of Stalinism, and went back to Argentina as soon as he could. He went back to the university and completed his PhD in physics. In 1939 he went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but after going back to Argentina in 1940, he decided that he wanted to be a writer.

His first magazine article was published in 1941, and for the next year he wrote book reviews and translated books into Spanish. His first book, a collection of essays on the morality of science and technology, was published in 1945. His first novel, a thriller, was published in 1948, and has been translated into ten languages. His third novel, _Abaddón el exterminador_ (_The Angel of Darkness_), was named in France as the best foreign book of 1976.

Sabato died in Santos Lugares, on 30 April, 2011, from bronchitis.

## Related pages

- List of scientists from South America

## Infobox (writer)

- **name**: Ernesto Sabato
- **image**: ErnestoSabato001.JPG
- **imagesize**: 200px
- **alt**: Black and white photograph of Sabato sitting in a chair in 1972
- **caption**: Sabato
- **birth place**: Rojas, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
- **death place**: Santos Lugares, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
- **occupation**: Novelist and essayist
 Retired physicist
 Painting, Painter
- **language**: Spanish language, Spanish
- **nationality**: Argentina, Argentine
- **citizenship**: Argentina, Argentine
- **education**: Ph.D in Physics
- **alma mater**: Universidad Nacional de La Plata
- **period**: 1941–2004
- **genre**: Novel, essay
- **notableworks**: _El Túnel_
 _On Heroes and Tombs, Sobre héroes y tumbas_
 _Abaddón el exterminador_
- **spouse**: Matilde Kusminsky Richter (1936–1998)
- **children**: Jorge Federico Sabato
 Mario Sabato
- **awards**: Legion of Honour
 Prix Médicis
 Miguel de Cervantes Prize
- **signature**: Firma-sabato.jpg
- **signature alt**: "E. Sabato"
Poly Styrene

**Poly Styrene** (3 July 1957 – 25 April 2011), was a British musician. She was best known as the singer in the early punk rock band X-Ray Spex.

## Early life

She was born in 1957 in Bromley, Kent, and raised in Brixton, London. Her mother raised her alone. Her father was a Somali aristocrat. She ran away from home as a teenager and lived in empty houses. She saw the Sex Pistols perform on her birthday in 1975. That gave her the idea to start her own punk band X-Ray Spex. She was an unusual music start because she wore braces, was mixed race, and dressed differently.

## Personal life

Poly Styrene's real name was Marianne Joan Elliott-Said. She lived in St Leonards, East Sussex. She joined the Hare Krishna movement in 1983.

In 1991, Poly Styrene was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. She had breast cancer which metastasised to her spine. She died of breast cancer on 25 April 2011 at the age of 53.

### Albums

- _Translucence_ (United Artists, 1980)
- _Flower Aeroplane_ (2004)
- _Generation Indigo_ (Future Noise Music, 2011)

### EPs

- _Gods & Goddesses_ (Awesome, 1986)

### Singles

- "Silly Billy"/"What A Way"—as Mari Elliot (GTO, 1976)
- "Talk In Toytown"/"Sub Tropical" (United Artists, 1980)
- "City Of Christmas Ghosts"—Goldblade featuring Poly Styrene (Damaged Goods, 2008)
- "Black Christmas" (2010)
- "Virtual Boyfriend" (2011)
- "Ghoulish" (2011)

## Other websites

- Poly Styrene's official website
- Poly's Punky Party

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **img**: Poly Styrene cropped.png
- **name**: Poly Styrene
- **background**: solo_singer
- **birth name**: Marianne Joan Elliott-Said
- **birth date**: 3 July 1957
- **birth place**: Bromley, Kent, England
- **death place**: Sussex, England
- **genre**: Punk rock, Punk, Rock music, rock, New Wave music, New Wave, dub music, dub
- **occupation**: Singer, Vocalist, songwriter
- **years active**: 1976–2011
- **label**: Universal Music Group, Universal, EMI/Virgin, Future Noise Music
- **associated acts**: X-Ray Spex
Phoebe Snow

**Phoebe Snow** (July 17, 1950 - April 26, 2011) was an American singer. One of her most popular songs was "Poetry Man", from her album _Phoebe Snow_. She also sang the theme song for the television series _A Different World_.

In December 1975, Snow gave birth to a daughter, Valerie, who had hydrocephalus (too much liquid around the brain). Snow cared for her until Valerie died in 2007.

Snow suffered a brain hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) in January 2010, from which she never recovered. Complications from the hemorrhage caused her death.

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Phoebe Snow
- **birth name**: Phoebe Ann Laub
- **birth date**: July 17, 1950
- **birth place**: New York City, New York
- **death place**: Edison, New Jersey
- **nationality**: American
- **other names**: Phoebe Laub
- **occupation**: singer
Vann Nath

**Vann Nath** (1946 – September 5, 2011) was a Cambodian artist, writer and human rights activist.

He was born in Battambang Province in northwestern Cambodia. By age 14 or 15, he was working at factory jobs for very small amounts of money. Nath was a monk from the age of 17 to 21. His sister died, and Vann Nath stopped being a monk. He began to help support the family. He entered a painting school in 1965. He was able to make money by painting after two years of study.

Natt was arrested January 7, 1978 by the Khmer Rouge He wote and painted pictures of his experiences in the Tuol Sleng prison, also known as S-21. He wrote his life story in the 1988 book, _A Cambodian Prison Portrait: One Year in the Khmer Rouge's S-21 Prison_. It is the only written story by a survivor of the prison. Nath survived because he was a great artist. Comrade Duch did not kill him, so that Natt could make paintings and sculptures of Pol Pot. He played an important role in helping to revive the arts in Cambodia after decades of war and genocide.

During 2001 and 2002, Vann Nath worked with Cambodian movie director Rithy Panh to make a documentary called _S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine_. Panh brought together former prisoners and guards from the former Tuol Sleng prison. Vann Nath spoke stringly and asked his former torturers questions.

Vann Nath had many health problems in his life, but he continued to paint and write about life during the time of Pol Pot. He died in 2011 in Phnom Penh. He was 66.

## Other websites

- Vann Nath
- Vann Nath - Paint Propaganda or Die - The Art History Archive
- Vann Nath, The Economist, Sep 17th 2011
Vittorio Arrigoni

**Vittorio Arrigoni** (; 4 February 1975 – 5 April 2011) was an Italian reporter, writer, pacifist and activist. was an Italian journalist and peace activist who had gone to live in the Gaza Strip. He was very critical of Israel, but also Islamist groups that wanted an extreme Islamic state.

An Islamic terrorist group kidnapped Arrigoni and said they would kill him unless the Hamas government released their leader from prison. They showed Arrigoni with his eyes covered, on a YouTube video, with the text "The Italian hostage entered our land only to spread corruption." The police went to a building in Gaza where they found Arrigoni's body. He had been beaten and strangled.
Thor Vilhjalmsson

**Thor Vilhjalmsson** (12 August 1925 – 2 March 2011) was an Icelandic writer. His first novel, _Maðurinn er alltaf einn (Man is Always Alone)_ was published in 1950. In 1988 he won the Nordic Council Literary Prize for his novel _Grámosinn glóir (Justice Undone)_.

Vilhjalmsson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1925. He studied at the University of Iceland in 1944-1946, at the University of Nottingham in 1946-1947 and at the Sorbonne in Paris from 1947-1952. He worked as a librarian at the National Library of Iceland in 1953 and at the National Theatre 1955-1957. He was involved in many art groups and events including the Reykjavik Writers Festival, the Writer's Union of Iceland, the Federation of Icelandic Artists, the Reykjavík Arts Festival, the Reykjavík Film Festival and the Reykjavík Judo-Society.
Party Rock Anthem

**"Party Rock Anthem"** is a hit song by the American duo LMFAO with English singer Lauren Bennett. The song is the first single off their second and final studio album _Sorry for Party Rocking_, released in 2011. The song was ranked number one in many countries.

## Infobox (song)

- **name**: Party Rock Anthem
- **type**: single
- **artist**: LMFAO featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock
- **album**: Sorry for Party Rocking
- **recorded**: Late 2009–2010
- **genre**: * Hip house
* electropop
* dance-pop
* electro music, electro
* electroclash
* Pop music, pop
* synth-pop
* Electronic dance music, EDM
- **length**: * 4:23 (main/album version)
* 3:52 (radio edit 1)
* 3:27 (radio edit 2)
- **label**: * will.i.am Music Group, will.i.am
* Cherrytree Records, Cherrytree
* Interscope Records, Interscope
* Panther
- **writer**: * GoonRock, David Listenbee
* Redfoo, Stefan Gordy
* Sky Blu (rapper), Skyler Gordy
* Peter Schroeder
- **producer**: * GoonRock
* Redfoo
- **chronology**: LMFAO
- **prev title**: Gettin' Over You
- **prev year**: 2010
- **next title**: Champagne Showers
- **next year**: 2011
Cy Twombly

**Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly, Jr.** (April 25, 1928 – July 5, 2011)  was an American artist. He used the nickname "Cy", after his father and the star baseball pitcher Cy Young.

Twombly was known for his large-scale, freely scribbled, calligraphic-style graffiti paintings, on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors. He exhibited his paintings worldwide. Twombly's paintings blur the line between drawing and painting. Many of his best-known paintings of the late 1960s are reminiscent of a school blackboard on which someone has practiced cursive "e"s. Twombly had at this point discarded painting figurative, representational subject-matter, citing the line or smudge – each mark with its own history – as its proper subject.

Later, many of his paintings and works on paper moved into "romantic symbolism", and their titles can be interpreted visually through shapes and forms and words. Twombly often quoted the poet Stéphane Mallarmé, as well as many classical myths and allegories in his works. Examples of this are his _Apollo and The Artist_ and a series of eight drawings consisting solely of inscriptions of the word "VIRGIL". In a 1994 retrospective, curator Kirk Varnedoe described Twombly's work as “influential among artists, discomfiting to many critics and truculently difficult not just for a broad public, but for sophisticated initiates of postwar art as well". After acquiring Twombly's _Three Studies from the Temeraire_ (1998–99), the Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales said "sometimes people need a little bit of help in recognising a great work of art that might be a bit unfamiliar". He is said to have influenced younger artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Francesco Clemente, and Julian Schnabel.

## Other websites

- Cy Twombly: Comprehensive collection of more than 200 images of artist's works with biography, articles and exhibition information.
- From VOGUE to NEST: 032c activates the secret history of CY TWOMBLY by HORST P. HORST in 032, Issue #19, Summer 2010.
- NY Times ArtsBeat, Cy Twombly, _Idiosyncratic Painter dies at 83_

## Infobox (artist)

- **name**: Cy Twombly
- **caption**: A Distemper (paint), distemper and chalk painting by Cy Twombly
- **birth name**: Edwin Parker Twombly, Jr.
- **birth place**: Lexington, Virginia, United States
- **death place**: Rome, Italy
- **nationality**: United States, American
- **field**: Painting, sculpture, calligraphy
- **training**: School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Washington and Lee University
Art Students League of New York
Black Mountain College
Owsley Stanley

**Owsley Stanley** (born **Augustus Owsley Stanley III**, January 19, 1935 – March 13, 2011) also known as **Bear,** was an important person in the rise of the San Francisco Bay counter-culture. During the Beat-era years of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters scenes, he was also important in the explosion of 1960's psychedelia culture.

A brilliant and eclectic crafts-person he was best known under the name of "Owsley" - a magician like figure who "cooked" LSD. Under the professional name of _Bear_ he is known around the world as the music producer, engineer and artist to psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead.

Bear was the road manager for The Grateful Dead. He met the band when Kesey had them come to an Owsley Acid test party to try a new batch of LSD. Bear's technical interests helped the band's interest in electronic, acoustic and mystical properties of sound. He became their sound engineer. He was one of the first to mix sound live, and in stereo, and achieved a high sound quality. He often recorded live tapes behind his mixing board. They developed their own high-fidelity audio components and sound-systems for their performances. The bands tours evolved around a gigantic "Wall of Sound", with stacks of Stanley-designed equipment. His expert changes meant fans of the Grateful Dead could enjoy the full sonic range of the concert even in the outdoors.

His abilities helped The Dead to experiment further afield, playing in dramatic and remote places. Their need for support to tour with big shows, and their need for special equipment, meant that companies formed to supply them. These needs were the starting point for both Marin County's high-end music-instrument makers Alembic Inc and concert-sound manufacturer Meyer Sound. And his drug making helped to get the band started.

Stanley was one of the first people to manufacture mass quantities of LSD. His LSD is still known for its quality and purity. Between 1965 and 1967, Stanley produced more than 1.25 million doses of LSD. This amount of quality LSD was responsible for the wide popularity of the drug, and the development of an anti-authoritarian, anti-war counter-culture. From the 'Sunset Strip Riots' in Los Angeles, to the Summer of Love in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury  was described as "the biggest LSD party in history.". The name "Owsley" was linked to cheap LSD of good quality.

Stanley died in an car accident in Queensland, Australia on March 13, 2011.

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Owsley Stanley
- **image**: Red Rocks Amphitheater with deadheads waiting to start taken 8-11-1987.jpg
- **image size**: 240px
- **caption**: The set up for a Grateful Dead concert
- **birth name**: Augustus Owsley Stanley III
- **birth place**: Kentucky
- **death place**: Queensland, Australia
- **death cause**: Automobile accident
- **nationality**: American
- **citizenship**: Naturalised Australian
- **other names**: Bear
- **known for**: Lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD, Wall of Sound (Grateful Dead), Wall of sound
- **occupation**: Music producer
- **relations**: Augustus O. Stanley
Miss Independent

**"Miss Independent"** is a 2003 song by the singer-songwriter Kelly Clarkson, released from her album _Thankful_. It was the second single overall at the time of its release by Clarkson, and her second Top Ten hit in Billboard Hot 100. _Miss Independent_ was nominated with Best Female Pop Vocal Performance; however, the song lost the award to the Christina Aguilera song _Beautiful_.
Bruce Cowan

**David Bruce Cowan**, AM (15 January 1926—7 April 2011) was an Australian politician and Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of Tom Lewis and Sir Eric Willis. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 14 years from 6 November 1965 until his resignation on 29 August 1980 and then for 13 years in the Australian House of Representatives for Lyne for the Country Party of Australia and its successors, the National Country and then National Parties.

He was the father-in-law of the current Premier of New South Wales, Barry O'Farrell.

Cowan died on 7 April 2011, a week after O'Farrell was elected Premier of New South Wales.

## Infobox (mp)

- **honorific-prefix**: The Honourable
- **name**: Bruce Cowan
- **honorific-suffix**: Order of Australia, AM
- **office**: List of New South Wales government agencies#State Development, Regional Development, Small Business and Rural Affairs, Minister for Agriculture
- **term start**: 17 December 1975
- **term end**: 14 May 1976
- **premier**: Tom Lewis (Australian politician), Tom Lewis
Eric Willis, Sir Eric Willis
- **predecessor**: Geoff Crawford
- **successor**: Don Day
- **constituency mp1**: Electoral district of Oxley (New South Wales), Oxley
- **parliament1**: New South Wales
- **predecessor1**: Les Jordan
- **successor1**: Peter Maurice King, Peter King
- **term start1**: 6 November 1965
- **term end1**: 29 August 1980
- **constituency mp2**: Division of Lyne, Lyne
- **parliament2**: Australian
- **predecessor2**: Philip Lucock
- **successor2**: Mark Vaile
- **term start2**: 18 October 1980
- **term end2**: 8 February 1993
- **birth place**: Taree, New South Wales
- **death place**: Taree, New South Wales
- **nationality**: Australian
- **party**: National Party of Australia
- **occupation**: Farmer
Anne Francis

**Anne Francis** (September 16, 1930 - January 2, 2011) was an American actress. She was best known for starring in the 1956 science fiction movie _Forbidden Planet_. In the 1960s, she starred in her own television series, _Honey West_. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work in that series.

Francis was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2007. She died of pancreatic cancer in 2011.

## Personal life

Francis was married twice and had two daughters.

### Movies

- _Portrait of Jennie_ (uncredited)
- _Blackboard Jungle_
- _Forbidden Planet_
- _Funny Girl_

### Television

- _Rawhide_, episode "Incident of the Shambling Man"
- _Route 66_, 2 episodes
- _Dr. Kildare_, episode "A Million Dollar Property"
- _Alfred Hitchcock Presents_, 2 episodes
- _The Twilight Zone_ (original series), 2 episodes
- _Death Valley Days_, episode "The Last Stagecoach Robbery"
- _Ben Casey_, 2 episodes
- _The Man from U.N.C.L.E._, 2 episodes
- _Burke's Law_, 2 episodes as "Honey West"
- _Honey West_, as the title character
- _The Fugitive_, episode "The One That Got Away"
- _Mission: Impossible_, episode "The Double Circle"
- _My Three Sons_, 3 episodes
- _Gunsmoke_, episode "Sarah"
- _Columbo_, 2 episodes
- _Ironside_, 2 episodes
- _Hawaii Five-O_, episode "When Does a War End?"
- _Dallas_, 4 episodes
- _The Golden Girls_, episode "Till Death Do We Volley"
- _Murder, She Wrote_, 3 episodes

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Anne Francis
- **image**: Anne Francis-publicity.JPG
- **birth name**: Ann Marvak
- **birth date**: September 16, 1930
- **birth place**: Ossining, New York, United States
- **death place**: Santa Barbara, California, United States
- **death cause**: Pancreatic cancer
- **nationality**: American
- **occupation**: Actress
Dorothea Puente

**Dorothea Puente** (9 January, 1929 — 27 March, 2011) was an American murderer. She was sent to prison for killing three people at her home in Sacramento, California. Puente ran a boarding house where old people, people with a disability or mental illness were able to live. A social worker thought something was wrong after a mentally disabled person disappeared from her home. When the police searched the house they found seven bodies buried in the yard. Another two bodies were found in a trash can down lane 241 according to the new information Sacramento River. She killed people with drugs and stole their money. She had taken more than $87,000 from people she had murdered.

Puente had a hard life; her father was an alcoholic and her mother a prostitute. She was placed in an orphanage as a young child where she was sexually abused. She married at 16 years of age and had three children. At 19, she was sent to prison for fraud. She was sent to prison for using drugs to steal from old people. Puente said all the victims died from natural causes. She did not tell anyone they had died because she had only been let out of prison on the condition that she did not look after old people.

The jury found her guilty of three murders. She died from natural causes while still a prisoner at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla.
Paul Baran

**Paul Baran** (1926–2011) was an American engineer. He was one of the first people to work in developing computer networks. He invented packet switching networks. Later, he started several companies that made important parts of the Internet and other modern digital communication.

Paul Baran was born in Grodno, Poland (which is now in  Belarus) on April 29, 1926. His family moved to the United States in 1928.  He graduated from Drexel University in 1949 with a degree in electrical engineering. He did technical work on the first commercial computers in the United States. He got a Masters degree in engineering from UCLA. His thesis was on character recognition.

In 1959, Baran joined RAND Corporation. He designed a "survivable" communications system that could keep working across long distances even if hit by nuclear weapons. Baran proved that by dividing communication into short packages, the packages could be easily rerouted when a part of the network was lost. Special computers (called "routers") would steer the packages around the network toward their final destinations. This later became the basic design of the internet.

In 1968, Baran was a founder of the Institute for the Future, and then involved in other networking technologies developed in Silicon Valley. He founded a number of high technology companies.

Baran died in Palo Alto, California at the age of 84 on March 26, 2011, from lung cancer.

## Awards and honors

- IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal (1990)
- Marconi Prize (1991)
- Nippon Electronics Corporation C&C Prize (1996)
- Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science (2001)
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003)
- National Inventors Hall of Fame (2007)
- National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2007)
- UCLA Engineering Alumnus of the Year (2009)

## Other websites

- A paper in which Baran talks about working at RAND, how he became interested in survivable communications, the evolution of his plan for distributed networks, the objections he received, and the writing and distribution of his eleven-volume work, _On Distributed Communications_. Baran discusses his work with the group at ARPA who later developed ARPANET.
- This describes Paul Baran's development of packet switching and its application to wireless computing.
- A copy of Baran's keynote address at the Countdown to Technology 2000 Winter Conference that includes a photo.

## Infobox (scientist)

- **name**: Paul Baran
- **birth place**: Grodno, Poland
- **death place**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **citizenship**: United States
- **workplaces**: RAND Corporation
- **alma mater**: UCLA, Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia
- **known for**: Packet Switching
- **awards**: IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, National Medal of Technology and Innovation,  National Inventors Hall of Fame
- **spouse**: Evelyn Murphy Baran, PhD
Tom Gehrels

**Tom Gehrels** (1925 – 2011), was an American astronomer, Professor Planetary Sciences, and Astronomer at the University of Arizona, Tucson. With co-workers, he discovered over 4,000 asteroids, including Apollo asteroids, Amor asteroids, as well as dozens of Trojan asteroids. Gehrels also discovered a number of comets. In an interview, Gehrels was asked what he would do if an asteroid hit the Earth. He said, "Go out there and have a look, of course."

In the 1970s, Gehrels was in charge of the Imaging Photopolarimeter experiment on the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 satellites which explored the planets, Jupiter and Saturn.

Gehrels edited a number of space science textbooks. One of his sons, Neil Gehrels, was also an astronomer.

Gehrels was part of the Dutch Resistance in World War II. In 1994, he argued that German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun had been involved in Nazi concentration camps during that war.

## Books

- _Physical Studies of Minor Planets_, edited by Tom Gehrels (1971), NASA SP-267
- _Planets Stars and Nebulae Studied With Photopolarimetry_, edited by Tom Gehrels (1974),
- _Jupiter: Studies of the Interior, Atmosphere, Magnetosphere, and Satellites_, edited by Tom Gehrels and Mildred Shapley Matthews (1976),
- _Protostars & Planets: Studies of Star Formation and of the Origin of the Solar System_, edited by Tom Gehrels and Mildred Shapley Matthews (1978),
- _Asteroids_, edited by Tom Gehrels and Mildred Shapley Matthews (1979),
- _Saturn_, edited by Tom Gehrels and Mildred Shapley Matthews (1984),
- _Asteroids II_, edited by Richard P. Binzel, Tom Gehrels, and Mildred Shapely Matthews (1989),
- _Hazards Due to Comets and Asteroids_, edited by Tom Gehrels, Mildred Shapley Matthews, and A. M. Schumann (1994),
- _On the Glassy Sea, in Search of a Worldview_, Tom Gehrels (2007, first published in 1988),
- _Survival Through Evolution: From Multiverse to Modern Society_, Tom Gehrels (2007),

## Other websites

- Gehrels  - university page
- Obituary  from University of Arizona

## Infobox (scientist)

- **name**: Tom Gehrels
- **image**: Tom Gehrels.jpg
- **caption**: Tom Gehrels (1974)
- **birth place**: Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands, the Netherlands
- **death place**: Tucson, Arizona, United States
- **citizenship**: United States
- **workplaces**: University of Arizona
- **alma mater**: Leiden University, University of Chicago
- **known for**: Asteroids
- **awards**: Harold Masursky Award
Diane Cilento

**Diane Cilento** (2 April 1932 – 6 October 2011) was an Australian actress and author.

## Early life

She was born on 2 April 1932 in Brisbane, Queensland. Her parents were medical practitioners Sir Raphael Cilento and Phyllis, Lady Cilento. At an early age, she decided to be an actress. She graduated from Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London and moved to England in the early 1950s. Cliento began to have roles in British movies. She went on to win international acclaim as an actress during the 1950s and 1960s.

## Personal life

She was married three times and had two children. She was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for _Tom Jones_. In 2001, she was awarded the Centenary Medal, for "distinguished service to the arts, especially theatre".

### Death

She died of cancer on 6 October 2011.

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Diane Cilento
- **image**: Diane Cilento, 1954.jpg
- **caption**: Diane Cilento, photographed in 1954
- **birth place**: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- **death place**: Cairns, Queensland, Australia
- **occupation**: Actress, author
- **yearsactive**: 1950–2011
- **spouse**: Andrea Volpe
(m. 1955–1962; divorced)
Sean Connery
(m. 1962–1974; divorced)
Anthony Shaffer (writer), Anthony Shaffer
(m. 1985–2001; his death)
- **children**: Giovanna Volpe
Jason Connery
- **parents**: Raphael Cilento
Phyllis Cilento
Charles Napier

**Charles L. Napier** (April 12, 1936 – October 5, 2011) was an American actor.

Napier was born on April 12, 1936, near Scottsville, Kentucky, Napier moved to Hollywood after graduating from Western Kentucky University with a degree in art.

His first acting position in Hollywood was on an episode of _Mission: Impossible_. Napier later acted as military figures villains, such as playing Marshal Murdock in the movie _Rambo: First Blood Part II_.

Napier died on October 5, 2011, in a hospital in Bakersfield, California from thrombosis, aged 75.
Elisabeth Sladen

**Elisabeth Claira Heath Sladen** (1 February 1946 – 19 April 2011) was an English actress. She was best known for portraying the role of Sarah Jane Smith in the BBC sci-fi series _Doctor Who_ (1973–1976, 1983, 2006, 2008, 2010). From 2007 to 2011, Sladen portrayed Sarah Jane in the CBBC spin-off series _The Sarah Jane Adventures_. She died in Southall, west London on 19 April 2011 from cancer.

## Early life

Born on 1 February 1946 in Liverpool, Sladen attended the Elliott-Clarke Drama school.

## Infobox (person)

- **image**: File:Elisabeth Sladen crop.png
- **caption**: Elisabeth Sladen in 2003
- **birth name**: Elisabeth Claira Heath Sladen
- **birth place**: Liverpool, Lancashire, England
- **death place**: London, Southall, London, England
- **occupation**: Actress
- **years active**: 1964–2011
- **known for**: _Doctor Who_
 _The Sarah Jane Adventures_
- **children**: 1
Jordan Lake

**B. Everett Jordan Lake** is a lake in Chatham County, North Carolina. It was made by building a dam on the Haw River. Its area is about .

## Infobox (lake)

- **lake name**: B. Everett Jordan Lake
- **image lake**: Jordan Lake.jpg
- **agency**: United States Army Corps of Engineers
- **location**: Chatham County, North Carolina, Chatham / Durham County, North Carolina, Durham counties, North Carolina, North Carolina, USA
- **lake type**: Reservoir
- **inflow**: Haw River, New Hope Creek, Morgan Creek, and Little Creek
- **outflow**: Haw River
- **basin countries**: United States
- **area**:
 flood control pool
- **frozen**: never
U + Ur Hand

**"U + Ur Hand"** was a highly controversial song by the American singer Pink. It was released in 2006. Its lyrics represent men that would flirt at her in nightclubs. The single caused major controversy in the United States due to racy lyrics. Some radio stations declined to play the single because of its controversial subject matter.
Melody Thornton

**Melody Thornton** (born September 28, 1984) is an American R&B singer-songwriter, vocalist, dancer, model, showgirl and television personality. She became famous because she was in the singing group the Pussycat Dolls. She was the youngest member of the group.

She had the second most important singing role, next to the lead singer Nicole Scherzinger. She was noticed for her melismatic vocal runs. In 2010, Thornton left the group to work on her solo career.

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Melody Thornton
- **img**: Melody Thornton LF.jpg
- **background**: solo_singer
- **alias**: Mel
Baby Doll
Melody
- **origin**: Phoenix, Arizona,
United States
- **occupation**: Singer, songwriter, dancer, Model (person), model, television personality, showgirl/vedette
- **label**: A&M Records, A&M <small>(2004–2010)</small>
- **genre**: Contemporary R&B, R&B, hip hop music, hip hop
- **associated acts**: Pussycat Dolls
Jessica Sutta

**Jessica Lynn Sutta** (born May 15, 1982) is an American dancer, showgirl, singer, recording artist, model, and actress. She is best known as a member of the American pop girl group and dance ensemble, the Pussycat Dolls. She left the group in January 2010 to embark her solo career. She is currently finishing up her first solo album. It is expected to be released in 2012. She is currently signed to Hollywood Records.

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Jessica Sutta
- **img**: Jessica_Sutta_2009.jpg
- **caption**: Jessica Sutta attending "Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Susan G. Komen's 8th Annual Fashion For The Cure" event - Hollywood, CA on Sept. 24, 2009
- **background**: solo_singer
- **birth name**: Jessica Lynn Sutta
- **birth place**: Miami, Florida, United States, U.S.
- **genre**: Pop music, Pop, Dance music, dance, House music, house
- **occupation**: Singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, model, spokesmodel, showgirl/vedette
- **years active**: 2002–present
- **label**: A&M Records, A&M <small>(2004–2010)</small>
Hollywood Records <small>(2011-present)</small>, Vandit
- **associated acts**: Pussycat Dolls, Paul van Dyk, Dave Audé, Eva Simons
- **url**: [http://www.jessicasuttaonline.com/ www.jessicasuttaonline.com]
Ashley Roberts

**Ashley Maria Roberts** (born September 14, 1981) is an American dancer, showgirl,  model, actress, and television personality, best known as a former member of the modern burlesque group the Pussycat Dolls. She left the Pussycat Dolls in 2010, to pursue a solo career in acting.

## Related pages

- Pussycat Dolls

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Ashley  Roberts
- **img**: Ashley Roberts 2006-12-10.jpg
- **img capt**: Roberts performing in 2006
- **background**: solo_singer
- **birth name**: Ashley Maria Roberts
- **birth place**: Phoenix, Arizona, United States, U.S.
- **genre**: Pop music, Pop, Contemporary R&B, R&B
- **occupation**: Singer, dancer, actress, model, television personality, showgirl/vedette
- **years active**: 1984–present
- **label**: A&M Records, A&M <small>(2004-2010)</small>
- **associated acts**: Pussycat Dolls
Kimberly Wyatt
Jessica Sutta
Kimberly Wyatt

**Kimberly Kaye Wyatt** (born February 4, 1982) is an American showgirl, singer-songwriter, dancer, model, actress and choreographer. She is probably best known for being in the Pussycat Dolls. She joined the Pussycat Dolls in 2003. In 2010, she said that she left the group, and made a new band called Her Majesty & The Wolves.

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Kimberly Wyatt
- **img**: Kimberly Wyatt 2006.jpg
- **img capt**: Wyatt on the Doll Domination Tour
- **background**: solo_singer
- **birth name**: Kimberly Kaye Wyatt
- **birth place**: Warrensburg, Missouri, U.S.
- **genre**: Pop, R&B, electronica, dance
- **occupation**: Showgirl/vedette, singer, songwriter, dancer, model, actress, choreographer
- **years active**: 1992–present
- **label**: A&M Records, A&M <small>(2004–2010)</small>
Chime Entertainment <small>(2010-present)</small>
- **associated acts**: Pussycat Dolls, Her Majesty & The Wolves, Taio Cruz, Aggro Santos
- **url**: [http://beautifulmovements.dipdive.com beautifulmovements.dipdive.com]
Gil Scott-Heron

**Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron** (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011) was an American poet, musician, and author. He is best known for his work in spoken-word soul music in the 1960s and 1970s and his work with Brian Jackson.

Scott-Heron is most famous for his poem and song, _The Revolution Will Not Be Televised_.  This piece helped develop the black protest movement and influenced the rap genre.

In 2010, he released an album titled _I'm New Here_.

Scott-Heron became HIV-positive.

## Related pages

- List of poets from North America

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Gil Scott-Heron
- **img**: Gil Scott-Heron in Sweden.jpg
- **img alt**: Gil Scott-Heron
- **img capt**: Gil Scott-Heron performing in Sweden, 2011
- **background**: solo_singer
- **birth name**: Gilbert Scott-Heron
- **birth date**: April 1, 1949
- **birth place**: Chicago, Illinois, United States, U.S.
- **death date**: May 27, 2011 (aged 62)
- **death place**: New York City, U.S.
- **instrument**: Vocals, electric piano, guitar
- **genre**: soul music, Soul, jazz, blues, proto-rap
- **occupation**: Poet, singer, songwriter, author
- **years active**: 1969–2011
- **url**: http://gilscottheron.net
Basse-Terre

**Basse-Terre** is the capital of France's Caribbean département d'outre-mer of Guadeloupe.

## Sister city

Basse-Terre is twinned with:
- Pondicherry, India
Manfred Gerlach

**Manfred Gerlach** (8 May 1928—17 October 2011) was the last President of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), and the only non-communist to be president.

Born in Leipzig in 1928, Gerlach was arrested at school in 1944 for starting an anti-fascist youth group. After World War Two he joined the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). This was one of the small political parties that the communist government allowed to exist. He studied law at the Walter Ulbricht German Academy of State Sciences and Law. During the 1950s he became General Secretary of the LDP and the mayor of Leipzig. From 1967 to 1990 he was on the Council of State, and its vice-chairman. He became chairman of the LDP in 1967 until it merged with two other parties in 1990, to take part in the first free elections in East Germany.

When Egon Krenz resigned as chaiman of the Council of State on 6 December, 1989, Gerlach became acting chairman ( as head of state he was effectively the President. After the 1990 elections, the new government reorganized, and removed the Council of State, and Gerlach resigned on 5 April 1990. He died in Berlin in 2011 after a long illness.

## Infobox (_president)

- **name**: **Manfred Gerlach**
- **image**: Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1986-0617-034, Prof. Dr. Manfred Gerlach.jpg
- **nationality**: Germany, German
- **order**: Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany
- **term start**: 1967
- **term end**: 1990
- **predecessor**: Rainer Ortleb
- **birth place**: Leipzig, Germany
- **death place**: Berlin, Germany
- **party**: Liberal Democratic Party of Germany
- **profession**: Lawyer
- **order2**: Leaders of East Germany, Chairman of the Council of State of the German Democratic Republic
- **term start2**: 1989
- **term end2**: 1990
- **predecessor2**: Egon Krenz
Jeff Conaway

**Jeffrey Charles William Michael "Jeff" Conaway** (October 5, 1950 – May 27, 2011) was an American actor. He appeared in the movie _Grease_ and the television series _Taxi_ and _Babylon 5_. He was born in Manhattan and grew up in Queens. He worked as a model, child actor, and musician. Conaway had problems with drug addiction and died of problems from taking too many pain medications.

## Infobox (person)

- **image**: JeffConawayOct10.jpg
- **name**: Jeff Conaway
- **caption**: Jeff Conaway in 1998
- **birth name**: Jeffrey Charles William Michael Conaway
- **birth place**: New York, NY, USA
- **death place**: Encino, California, Encino, California, USA
- **occupation**: actor
- **yearsactive**: 1960–2011
- **spouse**: Rona Newton-John
(m. 1980–1985)
Keri Young
(m. 1990–2011)
Don Kirshner

**Don Kirshner** (April 17, 1934 – January 17, 2011) was an American song publisher and rock producer. He managed successful pop groups such as The Monkees, Kansas, and The Archies. Kirshner was born and raised in the Bronx. He studied at the Bronx High School of Science. One of his classmates there was Bobby Darin.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s Kirshner and his partner Al Nevins had a successful music publishing company called Aldon Music. They managed songwriters from the "Brill Building", including Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil and Jack Keller. He also had three record labels: Chairman, Calendar, and Kirshner Records.

ABC Television asked Kirshner to produce a new music TV program call "In Concert". He left after one year to produce his own show called _Don Kirshner's Rock Concert_. This show featured live rock music performances and was very successful.

He died of heart failure in Boca Raton, Florida on January 17, 2011. He was 76 years old.

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Don Kirshner
- **image**: Dionne Warwick, Don Kirschner, Helen Reddy Olivia Newton-John 1974.JPG
- **imagesize**: 300px
- **caption**: Dionne Warwick, Don Kirschner, Helen Reddy and Olivia Newton-John in 1974
- **birth name**: Donald Kirshner
- **birth place**: Bronx, New York, U.S.A.
- **death place**: Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.A.
- **occupation**: Songwriter, publisher, music producer, manager
- **years active**: 1950s – 2011
- **spouse**: Sheila Grod Kirshner (1959–2011)
- **children**: 2
Dan Peek

**Daniel Milton "Dan" Peek** (November 1, 1950  July 24, 2011) was an American musician. Born in Panama City, Florida, Peek moved to England in 1963. While attending London Central High School, Peek met Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley. They formed the band America, who had eight songs reach the Mainstream Top 40 between 1971 and 1975. Peek left the band in 1977 to work in Contemporary Christian music. He died on July 24, 2011 in Farmington, Missouri.

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Daniel Milton Peek
- **img**: Dan Peek on TopPop 1972.png
- **img capt**: Dan Peek in 1972
- **background**: solo_singer
- **birth place**: Panama City, Florida
- **death place**: Farmington, Missouri
- **instrument**: Vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, harmonica
- **genre**: Folk rock, soft rock, country rock,  contemporary Christian music, contemporary Christian
- **label**: Warner Bros. Records, Warner Bros. (as part of America), Lamb & Lion Records, Lamb & Lion
- **associated acts**: America (band), America
John Dye

**John Carroll Dye** (January 31, 1963 – January 10, 2011) was an American actor. He was born in Amory, Mississippi. He attended Mississippi State University and the University of Memphis. In 1994, Dye played the part of Andrew, the angel of death, in the television series _Touched by an Angel_. The show ran for nine seasons before ending in April 2003. In 2000, he starred in the television movie _Once Upon a Christmas_. In 2001, he appeared in the sequel _Twice Upon a Christmas_.

Dye died on January 10, 2011, in San Francisco, California, from heart failure.

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: John Dye
- **image caption**: John Dye
- **birth name**: John Carroll Dye
- **birth place**: Amory, Mississippi, U.S.
- **death place**: San Francisco, California, U.S.
- **occupation**: Actor
- **years active**: 1984–2007
Park Gyu-ri

**Park Gyu-ri** (born on May 21, 1988 in Seoul) is a South Korean singer. She is often known by the mononym **Gyuri**. She was a member of the girl group Kara, which was formed by DSP Entertainment in 2007. As the leader of the group, she is reported to have come up with its name.

## Other websites

- Park Gyu-ri  at Dain Entertainment

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **embed**: yes
- **background**: solo_singer
- **genre**: K-pop
- **instrument**: Vocals
- **associated acts**: Kara (South Korean band), Kara


## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Park Gyu-ri
- **image**: Park Gyu-ri in August 2014 02.jpg
- **caption**: Gyuri
- **native name**: 박규리
- **native name lang**: ko-Hang
- **birth name**: Park Gyu-ri
- **birth place**: Seoul, South Korea
- **agent**: Dain Entertainment (formerly Motion Media)
- **years active**: 1995–present
Kang Jiyoung

**Kang Jiyoung** (born January 18, 1994) is a South Korean singer, former member of the Korean girl group Kara.
Cliff Robertson

**Clifford Parker** "**Cliff**" **Robertson, III** (September 9, 1923 – September 10, 2011) was an American actor with a long movie and television career. Robertson played the role of John F. Kennedy in the 1963 movie _PT 109_. He won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the movie _Charly_. On television, he acted as retired astronaut Buzz Aldrin in the 1976 movie _Return to Earth_. He played a role based on Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms in the 1977 movie based on John Ehrlichman's Watergate novel _The Company_. He played Henry Ford in the 1987 _Ford: The Man and the Machine_. His last well-known role was Uncle Ben in the three Spider-Man movies made between 2002 and 2007.

## Other websites

- Interview in the Archive of American Television
- Warbird Registry entry on MK923

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Cliff Robertson
- **image**: Cliffrobertson (cropped).jpg
- **birth name**: Clifford Parker Robertson III
- **birth date**: September 9, 1923
- **birth place**: La Jolla, California, U.S.
- **death place**: Stony Brook, New York, U.S.
- **education**: La Jolla High School
- **alma mater**: Antioch College
- **occupation**: Actor
- **years active**: 1943–2007
- **spouse**: (divorced); 1 child - daughter Stephanie Robertson (b. 1958)
 (divorced); 1 child - daughter Heather Merriweather Robertson (deceased 2007)
- **website**: [http://www.cliffrobertson.info Official website]
Jagjit Singh

**Jagjit Singh** (8 February 1941 — 10 October 2011) was an Indian singer. He was known as the "Ghazal King". Ghazal is a classical type of song, dating back to ancient Persia. It uses a special rhyming pattern and the words are written using a special pattern of stanzas. The songs are always about love. Singh, and his wife Chitra Singh who is also a ghazal singer, achieved a lot of commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s. He recorded more than 50 albums.

The ghazal is very popular in Pakistan, and Singh was one of the few Indian singers to become a success in that country. His music was described as "...gentle and soothing, and went to your heart."  Ghazal was once a classical, elite type of music and poetry. Singh was able to make ghazal popular by singing in many different languages, singing ghazal in movies and music videos. He used modern technology and was the first ghazal singer to use multi-tracking.

He died in Mumbai, after a stroke in 2011.
Grete Waitz

**Grete Waitz** (1 October 1953 – 19 April 2011) was a Norwegian marathon runner and former world record holder. Waitz won nine New York City Marathons between 1978 and 1988, more than any other runner in history. She won a silver medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. She won a gold medal at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki.

Waitz also won the London Marathon in 1983 and 1986. The win in 1986 was her personal best time of 2:24:54. She won the Stockholm Marathon in 1988 at 2:28:24. (As of 2011 this is the Stockholm course record for women).

In 2000, Waitz was inducted into the United States National Distance Running Hall of Fame. She died from cancer in 2011.

## Audio interview

- TheFinalSprint.com's interview with running pioneer Grete Waitz

## Other websites

- Biography of Grete Waitz
- Grete Waitz talking about her (and Fred Lebow's), last NYC Marathon

## Infobox (sportsperson)

- **embed**: yes
- **sport**: Track and field athletics
- **event**: Marathon


## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Grete Waitz
- **image**: Grete Waitz (NYC Marathon, 2010) 2.jpg
- **caption**: Grete Waitz in 2010
- **nationality**: Norwegian
- **birth place**: Oslo, Norway
- **death place**: Oslo, Norway
- **death cause**: Cancer
Ryan Dunn

**Ryan Matthew Dunn** (June 11, 1977 – June 20, 2011) was an American stunt performer, television personality, actor and comedian. He was best known for being a member of the _Jackass_ and _Viva La Bam_ television programs. He died in car crash in West Goshen Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Police reported that Dunn was the driver. His blood alcohol level was 0.196%. That is more than twice the state's legal limit of 0.08%.

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Ryan Dunn
- **image**: Ryan Dunn crop.jpg
- **caption**: Ryan Dunn
- **birth name**: Ryan Matthew Dunn
- **birth place**: Medina, Ohio, U.S.
- **death place**: West Goshen Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- **nationality**: United States, American
- **other names**: Random Hero
- **known for**: Jackass (TV series), Jackass
- **television**: Jackass,
Proving Ground (TV series), Proving Ground, Viva La Bam (TV series), Viva La Bam
- **yearsactive**: 1999–2011
Knut Steen

**Knut Steen** (19 November 1924 – 22 September 2011) was a Norwegian sculptor. He spent much of his life living between Sandefjord, Norway, and Carrara, Italy. He began sculpting in 1946 and worked with a range of materials including marble, granite, bronze, steel and concrete. In 2011 a small museum was opened in Sandefjord to display some of his work. The collection holds 12 marble sculptures and four works.

## Other websites

- Norwegian website about the museum, including photos of Steen's work