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lunes, 24 de enero de 2011

Necrológicas 2011


Lista de gente que nos dejó en el 2011. Se ira actualizando periódicamente.

ABRIL

Chris Hondros (March 14, 1970 – April 20, 2011) was a Pulitzer Prize-nominated war photographer.
He was born in New York City to immigrant Greek and German parents who were child refugees after World War II. From his base in New York, Hondros worked in most of the world's major conflict zones since the late 1990s, including Kosovo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Kashmir, the West Bank, Iraq, and Liberia. His work appeared as the covers of magazines such as Newsweek and the Economist, and on the front pages of The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.

Timothy (Tim) Hetherington (1970 – April 20, 2011) was a British photojournalist.[1][2] He was best known for his documentary film Restrepo, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2011.

William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr. (December 9, 1919 – April 14, 2011)[2] was a Nobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemist working in nuclear magnetic resonance, theoretical chemistry, boron chemistry, and biochemistry.

Sidney Lumet (play /luːˈmɛt/ loo-MET; June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011) was an American director, producer and screenwriter with over 50 films to his name. He was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Director for 12 Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976) and The Verdict (1982).

Baruch Samuel "Barry" Blumberg (July 28, 1925 – April 5, 2011), was an American doctor and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with Daniel Carleton Gajdusek), and the President of the American Philosophical Society from 2005 until his death.

MARZO



David Everett Rumelhart (June 12, 1942 – March 13, 2011)[1] is an American psychologist who made many contributions to the formal analysis of human cognition, working primarily within the frameworks of mathematical psychology, symbolic artificial intelligence, and parallel distributed processing. He also admired formal linguistic approaches to cognition, and explored the possibility of formulating a formal grammar to capture the structure of stories.

David Viñas (July 28, 1927 – March 10, 2011)[1] was an Argentine dramatist, critic, and novelist.

Simon van der Meer (24 November 1925 – 4 March 2011) was a Dutch particle physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Carlo Rubbia for contributions to the CERN project which led to the discovery of the W and Z particles, two of the most fundamental constituents of matter.[1]

Clement Shahbaz Bhatti (9 September 1968 – 2 March 2011)[1] was a Pakistani politician and elected member of the National Assembly from 2008.[2] He was the first Federal Minister for Minorities[1] from 2008 until his assassination on 2 March 2011 in Islamabad.[3] Bhatti, a Roman Catholic, was an outspoken critic of Pakistan's blasphemy laws and the only Christian in the Cabinet.[4] Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for his killing and called him a blasphemer of Muhammad.


FEBRERO



Harvey A. Dorfman (1935 – February 28, 2011) was an American mental skills coach who worked in education and psychology as a teacher, counselor, coach, and consultant. In 1999, Dorfman became a full-time consultant teaching the skills of sport psychology.


Robert William Gary Moore (4 April 1952[1] – 6 February 2011), better known simply as Gary Moore, was a musician from Belfast, Northern Ireland, best recognized as a blues rock guitarist and singer.

ENERO

John Barry Prendergast, OBE (3 November 1933 – 30 January 2011) was an Oscar winning English film score composer. He was best known for composing 11 James Bond soundtracks and was hugely influential on the 007 series' style.

Milton Byron Babbitt (May 10, 1916 – January 29, 2011) was an American composer. He was particularly noted for his serial and electronic music.

Daniel Bell (May 10, 1919 – January 25, 2011)[1] was a sociologist and a professor emeritus at Harvard University, best known for his seminal contributions to the study of post-industrialism. He has been described as "one of the leading American intellectuals of the postwar era."[2]

 
Dr. Ernest Armstrong McCulloch, OC, O.Ont, FRSC (21 April 1926 – 20 January 2011)[1] was a University of Toronto cellular biologist, best known for demonstrating – with James Till – the existence of stem cells.


María Elena Walsh (1 February 1930 – 10 January 2011) was an Argentine poet, novelist, musician and writer mainly known for her songs and books for children. She was named Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires in 1985.

Bill Zeller (1983 - 2011) was an American computer programmer who was best known for creating the MyTunes application until his suicide in 2011. After his death, his suicide note[1] began circulating widely, bringing the long-term ill effects of child abuse into public discussion.


Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE (pronounced /ˈpɒsəlθweɪt/; 7 February 1946 – 2 January 2011),[1][2] was an English stage, film and television actor.


Deaths_in_2011

viernes, 16 de julio de 2010

Curso de Filosofía de Shelly Kagan (Yale)


Shelly Kagan is the Clark Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and the former Henry R. Luce Professor of Social Thought and Ethics. Originally a native of Skokie, Illinois, he received his B.A. from Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. from Princeton University under the supervision of Thomas Nagel in 1982. He taught at the University of Pittsburgh and at the University of Illinois at Chicago before arriving at Yale.



Otras clases.

The nature of death
The badness of death
Fear of death
Arguments for the existence of the soul 
Plato´s Phaedro
Other bad aspects of death
Free will and near death experiences
Personal identity
11 Personal identity II
Objections to personality theory
Rationality of suicide
 
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lunes, 17 de mayo de 2010

"Le Grand Macabre" de György Ligeti



Versión de La Fura dels Baus

Más info

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martes, 30 de marzo de 2010

The Onion: Gorila aprende que va a morir.



Aviso: Por si aún no se dieron cuenta, esta noticia es en realidad un fake elaborado por The Onion

Otras "noticias" de The Onion





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sábado, 20 de febrero de 2010

Requiem

El Réquiem (en latín, «descanso») o Misa de requiem —conocido también en latín con el nombre de Missa pro defunctis o Missa defunctorum— es un servicio litúrgico de la Iglesia Católica. Esta misa es un ruego por las almas de los difuntos y tiene lugar justo antes del entierro o en las ceremonias de conmemoración o recuerdo. El arte vale mas allá de la ideologiaa que lo produjo.

Réquiem es también el nombre de numerosas composiciones musicales utilizadas para realzar esos servicios litúrgicos dedicados a la memoria de los muertos y a su recuerdo y también en piezas de concierto. En su origen, estas composiciones musicales de réquiem eran cantadas realmente durante el servicio fúnebre con cantos.

Secciones del requiem: Introito - Kyrie eleison - Gradual - Tracto - Dies irae - Ofertorio - Santo - Agnus Dei - Comunnio - Libera me - In paradisum - Pie Jesu


Gabriel Faure 1877-79




W. A. Mozart




Samuel Barber


Krzysztof Penderecki 1990-93




Pergolesi


John Rutter 1985




Giuseppe Verdi 1874-75


Alfred Schnittke 1972-75


György Ligeti 1963-65


Johannes Ockeghem


Antonin Dvorak 1890


Cristóbal de Morales 1544


Orlando de Lasso 1580






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lunes, 18 de enero de 2010

Necrológicas 2010

Listado de gente que nos dejó en el 2010.

DICIEMBRE

Denis Dutton (9 February 1944 – 28 December 2010) was an academic, web entrepreneur and libertarian media commentator/activist. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He was also a co-founder and co-editor of the websites Arts & Letters Daily, ClimateDebateDaily.com and cybereditions.com.

NOVIEMBRE 
Leslie William Nielsen, OC (February 11, 1926 – November 28, 2010)[1] was a Canadian American actor and comedian. Nielsen appeared in over one hundred films and 1,500 television programs over the span of his career, portraying over 220 characters.


David Fraser Nolan (November 23, 1943 – November 21, 2010[1]) was an American activist and politician. He was one of the founders of the Libertarian Party of the United States, having hosted the meeting in 1971 at which the Party was founded.


Ernst von Glasersfeld (March 8, 1917 – November 12, 2010) was a philosopher, and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia, Research Associate at the Scientific Reasoning Research Institute, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He was a member of the Board of Trustees, American Society of Cybernetics, from which he received the McCulloch Memorial Award in 1991. He was a member of the Scientific Board, Instituto Piaget, Lisbon.


Henryk Mikołaj Górecki  (December 6, 1933 – November 12, 2010)[1][2] was a composer of contemporary classical music. His Webernian-influenced serialist works of the 1950s and 1960s were characterized by adherence to dissonant modernism and drew influence from Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen,[5] Krzysztof Penderecki and Kazimierz Serocki.[6] He continued in this direction throughout the 1960s, but by the mid 1970s had changed to a less complex sacred minimalist sound, exemplified by the transitional Symphony No. 2 and the hugely popular Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs). This later style developed through several other distinct phases, from such works as his 1979 Beatus Vir,[7] to the choral 1981 hymn Miserere, the 1993 Kleines Requiem für eine Polka[8] and his requiem Good Night.[9]



Agostino De Laurentiis (8 August 1919 – 10 November 2010), usually credited as Dino De Laurentiis, was an Italian film producer.

Emilio Eduardo Massera (born October 19, 1925, Paraná, Entre Ríos - November 8, 2010, Buenos Aires) was an Argentine military officer, and part of the 1976 coup d'état. In 1981, he was found to be a member of P2[1] (also known as Propaganda Due, a clandestine Masonic lodge involved in Italy's strategy of tension).




Michael Seifert (March 16, 1924 – November 6, 2010) was an SS guard in Italy during World War II.

He was an ethnic German[1] born in Landau (present-day Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine). Dubbed the "Beast of Bolzano", he was convicted in absentia in 2000 by a military tribunal in Verona, Italy, on nine counts of murder, committed while he was an SS guard at the Bolzano Transit Camp, northern Italy.


OCTUBRE 


Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch (July 29, 1927 – October 30, 2010[1]) was a Dutch author. He wrote more than 30 novels, plays, essays, poems and philosophical reflections.
 
Néstor Carlos Kirchner (25 February 1950 – 27 October 2010) was an Argentine politician who served as the 54th President of Argentina from 25 May 2003 until 10 December 2007.



Benoît B. Mandelbrot(20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Franco-American mathematician. Born in Poland, he moved to France with his family when he was a child. Mandelbrot spent much of his life living and working in the United States, acquiring dual French and American citizenship.

Linda Norgrove, a Scottish aid worker, and three Afghan colleagues were kidnapped by members of the Taliban in Kunar Province in eastern Afghanistan on 26 September 2010. Norgrove was killed during a U.S. military pre-dawn rescue attempt on a Taliban mountain hideout on 8 October 2010.

Maurice Félix Charles Allais (31 May 1911 – 9 October 2010) was a French economist, and was the 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics "for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources."

Philippa Ruth Foot (born October 3, 1920 died October 3 2010) was a British philosopher, most notable for her works in ethics. She is one of the founders of contemporary virtue ethics.


SEPTIEMBRE 



Georges Charpak (August 1, 1924 – September 29, 2010) was a French physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate in 1992.


Romina Yankelevich De Giaccomi (5 September 1974 – 28 September 2010[1][2][3])



James William "Jimi" Heselden[1] OBE (1948 – 26 September 2010)[2] was a British entrepreneur. In 2010 he bought Segway Inc., maker of the Segway personal transport system.[3] Heselden was killed in 2010 from injuries apparently sustained from riding a Segway over a cliff.


Teresa Lewis (April 26, 1969 – September 23, 2010)[6] was an American murderer and, prior to her execution, the only woman on death row in Virginia.


Víctor Julio Suárez Rojas, alias Jorge Briceño Suárez o "Mono Jojoy" (n. Cabrera, Cundinamarca; 5 de febrero de 1953 - † La Macarena, Meta; 22 de septiembre de 2010) fue un guerrillero colombiano, comandante en jefe de las operaciones militares y miembro del Secretariado de las FARC,[7] grupo calificado por la Unión Europea, Estados Unidos, OEA, ONU, y otros países como terrorista.


Jorge González (January 31, 1966 – September 22, 2010)[5][6] was an Argentinian basketball player and professional wrestler. He was best known for his appearances in World Championship Wrestling under the ring name El Gigante between 1989 and 1992 and in the World Wrestling Federation under the ring name Giant González in 1993.


Don Partridge (27 October 1941 – 21 September 2010)[1][2] was an English singer and songwriter, known as the "king of the buskers".[3] He performed from the early 1960s as a busker and one-man band, and achieved unexpected commercial success in the UK in the late 1960s with the songs "Rosie" and "Blue Eyes".


Robert J. White (1925 – 16 September 2010) was an American surgeon, best known for his head transplants on monkeys.


Professor Mohammed Arkoun (Arabic: محمد أركون‎) (February 1, 1928 – September 14, 2010) was considered at the time of his death to have been one of the most influential scholars in Islamic studies contributing to contemporary islamic reform.[1]. In a career of more than 30 years, he had been a critic of the tensions embedded in his field of study, advocating Islamic modernism and humanism.


Frederick Jelinek (born as Bedřich Jelínek; 18 November 1932 – 14 September 2010) was a researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing. Jelinek's early career produced fundamental contributions to information theory and coding. He later became a pioneer in applying statistical modeling to speech recognition and natural language processing. He and his colleagues were the first to apply hidden Markov models to these tasks and also the first to build statistical models for machine translation. His special interest was language modeling, and much of his recent work had to do with moving beyond n-gram models to take advantage of long distance and syntactic regularities.




James Earl "Jim" Winner, Jr. (July 1929 – September 14, 2010) was an American entrepreneur and chairman of Winner International who creted The Club, an anti-theft device that is attached and locked on to a car's steering wheel, making it more difficult for car thieves to steal the car. By 1994, sales of the device had reached 14 million units.


Robert Wayne McCollum, Jr. (January 29, 1925 – September 13, 2010) was an American virologist and epidemiologist who made pioneering studies into the nature and spread of polio, hepatitis and mononucleosis while at the Yale School of Medicine, after which he served for nearly a decade as Dean of the Dartmouth Medical School.
Claude Chabrol (French pronunciation: [klod ʃaˈbʁɔl]; 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. 



 Professor 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 vigorous critique of group selection. The work of Williams in this area, along with W. D. Hamilton, John Maynard Smith and others led to the development of a gene-centric view of evolution in the 1960s.

Joaquín Soler Serrano (Murcia, 19 de agosto de 1919 – Barcelona, 7 de septiembre de 2010)[1] fue un locutor de radio y periodista español, especialmente popular durante las décadas de los años 50 a los 80.



Robert George "Bob" Schimmel (January 16, 1950 – September 3, 2010) was an American stand-up comedian whose material was often X-rated and controversial.[1] He was perhaps best known for his comedy albums and his appearances on HBO and The Howard Stern Show.



Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (Hebrew: שמואל נח אייזנשטדט) (September 10, 1923 – September 2, 2010) was an Israeli sociologist. In 1959 he was appointed to a teaching post in the sociology department of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. From 1990 until his death in September of 2010 he had been a professor emeritus.

AGOSTO


Franklin José Brito Rodríguez (5 September 1960[1] – 31 August 2010) was a Venezuelan agricultural producer and biologist. He died due to a hunger strike in protest of what he described as the government's confiscation of part of his farm.


Francisco Antonio Varallo (5 February 1910 – 30 August 2010), nicknamed Pancho, was an Argentine football forward. He played for the Argentine national team from 1930 to 1937, playing the 1930 FIFA World Cup in the process. At his death, Varallo was the last surviving player of the 1930 World Cup.



Lynn Turner (born Julia Lynn Womack; July 13, 1968 – August 30, 2010), was an American convicted murderer. She was convicted on March 24, 2007 for the second of two murders she committed by poisoning her victims with antifreeze.



Satoshi Kon (今 敏 Kon Satoshi?, October 12, 1963 – August 24, 2010) was a Japanese director of anime films. Kon started his career as a manga artist and editor in Young Magazine, and then made his screenwriting debut with "Magnetic Rose", a section of the anthology film Memories. Kon made his directorial debut film, Perfect Blue, in 1997, followed by Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, Paprika and the television series Paranoia Agent.



George David Weiss (April 9, 1921, New York City, New York – August 23, 2010) was an American songwriter and former President of the Songwriters Guild of America.


Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill (1941, Buenos Aires – August 21, 2010), who normally went by just his surname, Fogwill, was an Argentine sociologist, short story writer, and novelist. He is distantly related to the novelist, Charles Langbridge Morgan. Fogwill died on August 21st, 2010 from a pulmonar disfunction caused by his addiction to smoking.

Fernando Fernández (7 February 1940 – 9 August 2010)[1] was a Spanish comic book artist.


Mary Anne Warren (died August 9, 2010) was an American writer and philosophy professor. She was noted for her writings on the issue of abortion. Frequently her essays are required readings in academic courses dealing with the abortion debate and they are frequently cited in major publications like Peter Singer's The Moral of the Story: An Anthology of Ethics Through Literature and Bernard Gert's Bioethics: A Systematic Approach.


José María López Piñero (Mula, Murcia, 14 de junio de 1933 – Valencia, 8 de agosto de 2010) fue un historiador de la ciencia español y un destacado especialista en el campo de la bibliometría médica. Especialista en Historia de la Medicina, fue discípulo de Pedro Laín Entralgo.[1


Tony Robert Judt FBA (2 January 1948 – 6 August 2010)[1] was a British historian, author and university professor.[2] He specialized in European history and was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies at New York University and Director of NYU's Erich Maria Remarque Institute.


Marilyn Jean Buck (December 13, 1947 – August 3, 2010) was an American communist revolutionary, convict, and poet who was imprisoned for her participation in the 1979 prison break of Assata Shakur, the 1981 Brinks robbery[1] and the 1983 U.S. Senate bombing. Buck received an 80-year sentence, which she served in Federal prison. She was released on July 15, 2010, less than a month before her death at age 62 from cancer.


Ole Ivar Løvaas, Ph.D. (1927 – 2 August 2010) was[1] a clinical psychologist considered to be one of the fathers of applied behavior analysis therapy for autism through his development of the Lovaas technique and the first to provide evidence that the behavior of autistic children can be modified through teaching.


Xosé Luís de Dios (Orense, 1943 - Tuy, 2 de agosto de 2010[1] ) fue un pintor vanguardista de Galicia, España, que se denominó a sí mismo como "un literato que pinta".

JULIO 

Constante José Aguer, conocido como Constante Aguer fue un cantor, guitarrista, poeta, escritor, periodista y compositor del cancionero guaraní que nació en Buenos Aires, Argentina el 6 de abril de 1918 y falleció en la misma ciudad el 31 de julio de 2010. Escribió la letra del chamamé Kilómetro 11, cuya música es de Tránsito Cocomarola, un tema difundido en todo el mundo que es considerado el himno de la Provincia de Corrientes.

Robert Merritt Chanock (July 8, 1924 – July 30, 2010) was an American pediatrician and virologist who made major contributions to the prevention and treatment of childhood respiratory infections in more than 50 years spent at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

John Callahan (February 5, 1951, Portland, Oregon – July 24, 2010), was a cartoonist, artist, and musician noted for dealing with macabre subjects and physical disabilities.


Wesley C. Skiles (March 6, 1958 – July 21, 2010) was an active cave diving pioneer, explorer, and underwater cinematographer.[1] Skiles lived in High Springs, Florida.


Sir Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras,  ( 17 November 1925 – 14 July 2010) was an Australian conductor. He was an authority on the operas of Janáček and Mozart. The first Australian chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

Harvey Lawrence Pekar (October 8, 1939 – July 12, 2010) pronounced /ˈpiːkɑr/) was an American underground comic book writer best known for his autobiographical American Splendor series. In 2003, the series inspired a critically acclaimed film adaptation of the same name.

Günter Behnisch was a German architect (June 12, 1922 – July 12, 2010) Born in Dresden, Germany); Behnisch was one of the most prominent architects representing deconstructivism.

Olga Guillot (October 9, 1922 – July 12, 2010[1]) was a Cuban singer who was known to be the "queen of bolero".


Robert Neil Butler (January 21, 1927 – July 4, 2010) was a physician, gerontologist, psychiatrist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, who was the first director of the National Institute on Aging. Butler is known for his work on the social needs and the rights of the elderly and for his research on healthy aging and the dementias.

Carl Adam Petri (July 12, 1926 - July 2, 2010) was a German mathematician and computer scientist. 

Aurelio Macchi, (94) de larga trayectoria artística, fue ayudante de José Fioravanti, creador de los monumentos a Pedro de Mendoza (Parque Lezama) y Manuel Belgrano y la Bandera (Rosario) y de Líbero Badii.

JUNIO





Fergus (also Feargus) Gwynplaine MacIntyre (1948-June 25, 2010[1]) was a Scottish-born journalist, novelist, poet and illustrator, who lived in Wales and New York City. MacIntyre's writings include the science-fiction novel The Woman Between the Worlds[2] and his anthology of verse and humor pieces MacIntyre's Improbable Bestiary.


Wu Guanzhong (吳冠中; August 29, 1919 – June 25, 2010)[1] was a contemporary Chinese painter.


Jack A. Tobin, Ph.D. (? - June 19, 2010) was an American anthropologist who devoted much of his life to the people of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Manute Bol (English pronunciation: /məˈnuːt ˈboʊl/; October 16, 1962 – June 19, 2010[1]) was a Sudanese-born basketball player and activist. Until the debut of Gheorghe Mureşan, Bol was the tallest player ever to appear in the National Basketball Association.


Carlos Monsiváis Aceves (May 4, 1938 – June 19, 2010) was a Mexican writer, critic, political activist,[2] and journalist.


Anthony Meredith Quinton, Baron Quinton (March 25, 1925[1] – June 19, 2010[2]) was a British political and moral philosopher, metaphysician, and materialist philosopher of mind.


José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛ sɐɾɐˈmaɡu]; (November 16, 1922 – June 18, 2010) was a Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, playwright and journalist. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the human factor.


Ronnie Lee Gardner (January 16, 1961 – June 18, 2010) was a convicted murderer who was executed by firing squad by the state of Utah on June 18, 2010.[3]

Bogdan Bogdanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Богдан Богдановић; 20 August 1922 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, today Serbia − 18 June 2010 in Vienna, Austria) is a Serbian architect, urbanist and essayist.



Anne MacKaye Chapman (1922 – June 12, 2010) was a Franco-American ethnologist. She studied the Mesoamerican civilizations and especially the Tolupan (Jicaque) people of Honduras. She also visited Magallanes and Tierra del Fuego many times, since 1965, to study the Fuegian peoples in depth, especially the Selk’nam and Yahgan.
Al Williamson, (March 21, 1931[1] – June 13, 2010[2]) was an American cartoonist, comic book artist and illustrator specializing in adventure, Western and science-fiction/fantasy.

 Fred Plum (January 10, 1924 – June 11, 2010) was an American neurologist who developed the terms "persistent vegetative state" and "locked-in syndrome" as part of his continuing research on consciousness and comas and care of the comatose.



Arne Nordheim (20 June 1931 - 5 June 2010) was a Norwegian composer who had since 1982 been living in the Norwegian State's honorary residence, Grotten, next to the Royal Palace in Oslo. Nordheim received numerous prizes for his compositions, and was elected an honorary member of the International Society for Contemporary Music in 1997.

MAYO



Rubén Juárez (Ballesteros, (Córdoba), 5 de noviembre de 1947 – Buenos Aires, 31 de mayo de 2010) fue un bandoneonista y cantautor argentino de tangos.


Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. 



Gary Wayne Coleman (February 8, 1968 – May 28, 2010) was an American actor, known for his childhood role as Arnold Jackson in the American sitcom Diff'rent Strokes (1978–1986) and for his small stature as an adult.


Paul Dedrick Gray (April 8, 1972 – May 24, 2010) was an American musician, best known as the bassist of the Grammy Award-winning heavy metal band Slipknot.


Irwin Rosten (1924–May 23, 2010) was an American documentary filmmaker. He is best known for his 1975 film The Incredible Machine.

Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914 – May 22, 2010) was an American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but with interests encompassing micromagic, stage magic, literature (especially the writings of Lewis Carroll), philosophy, scientific skepticism, and religion. He wrote the Mathematical Games column in Scientific American from 1956 to 1981, and published over 70 books.


Luis Sáez (Mazuelo de Muñó, octubre de 1925 - Burgos, 18 de mayo de 2010) fue un pintor español. Ganó el Premio Castilla y León de las Artes en 1991.



Yvonne Loriod (20 January 1924 – 17 May 2010) was a French pianist, teacher, and composer, and the second wife of composer Olivier Messiaen. Her sister was the ondes Martenot player Jeanne Loriod.


Richard Langton Gregory, CBE, MA, D.Sc., FRSE, FRS (24 July 1923 – 17 May 2010) was a British psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Bristol.

Ronnie James Dio (July 10, 1942 – May 16, 2010) was an American heavy metal vocalist and songwriter. He performed with Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell, and his own band Dio. 



Frank Frazetta (February 9, 1928 – May 10, 2010) was an American fantasy and science fiction artist, noted for work in comic books, paperback book covers, paintings, posters, record-album covers and other media.


Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer.

ABRIL




Stanley Greenspan (June 1, 1941 - April 27, 2010) was a clinical professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Science, and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School and a practicing child psychiatrist.


Jan Balabán (29 January 1961 – 23 April 2010) was a Czech writer, journalist, and translator. He was considered an existentialist whose works often dealt with the wretched and desperate aspects of the human condition.

Manuel Fernández Álvarez (Madrid, 7 de abril de 1921 - Salamanca, 19 de abril de 2010) historiador español, considerado como autoridad en la España del siglo XVI.

Edwin Valero, (December 3, 1981 – April 19, 2010), Venezuelan boxer, suicide by hanging.

Jack Herer (June 18, 1939 – April 15, 2010) was an American cannabis activist and the author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes, a book which has been used in efforts to decriminalize cannabis.


Franz Kamin (May 25, 1941 – April 11, 2010) was a prolific American author, composer, and pianist whose works were modelled on topology, General Systems Theory, meditational processes, and chance operations.

On 10 April 2010, a Tupolev Tu-154M aircraft of the Polish 36th Special Aviation Regiment crashed near Smolensk-North air base, just north of Smolensk, Russia, killing the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and other Polish officials.



Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren (22 January 1946 – 8 April 2010) was an English performer, impresario, self-publicist and former manager of the Sex Pistols and the New York Dolls.

Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin (November 16, 1919 – April 6, 2010) was a Russian statesman and a former Soviet diplomat and politician. He was Soviet Ambassador to the United States, serving from 1962 to 1986 and most notably during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Henry Edward "Ed" Roberts (September 13, 1941 – April 1, 2010) was an American engineer, entrepreneur and medical doctor who designed the first commercially successful personal computer in 1975. He is most often known as "the father of the personal computer".

MARZO

Mitchell Herbert "Herb" Ellis (August 4, 1921 – March 28, 2010) was an American jazz guitarist.

Lady Susana Walton (Susana Valeria Rosa Maria Gil Passo) (Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 30, 1926 – Ischia, Italy, March 21, 2010) wife of composer Sir William Walton, writer and creator of the gardens of La Mortella



William Alexander "Alex" Chilton (December 28, 1950 – March 17, 2010) was an American songwriter, guitarist, singer and producer best known for his work with the pop-music bands the Box Tops and Big Star.

 
Peter Aurness (March 18, 1926 – March 14, 2010), known professionally as Peter Graves, was an American film and television actor.

Miguel Delibes Setién (17 October 1920 – 12 March 2010) was a Spanish novelist and member of the Real Academia Española. Delibes studied law and economics and from 1945 was a professor of commercial law at the University of Valladolid, also working as a journalist.


Mark Linkous (September 9, 1962 – March 6, 2010) was an American singer, songwriter and musician, best-known as leader of Sparklehorse. He was also known for his collaborations with such notable artists as Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Daniel Johnston, Radiohead, Nina Persson, David Lynch, and Danger Mouse

Ruth Kligman (January 25, 1930 – March 1, 2010) is most commonly known as the muse of several important American artists of the mid 20th century (Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning). She was born in Newark, New Jersey.

FEBRERO


Feb 26 - Séverin Blanchet, 66, French filmmaker, terrorist attack.


Orlando Zapata Tamayo (May 15, 1967 – February 23, 2010) was a Cuban mason, plumber, and political activist who died after fasting for more than 80 days.


Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. (n. 2 de diciembre de 1924 - 20 de febrero de 2010) Militar y político estadounidense. General retirado de cuatro estrellas, fue Jefe de Gabinete de la Casa Blanca (1973-1974), y Secretario de Estado (1981-1982).


Ariel Ramírez (n. Santa Fe, 4 de septiembre de 1921 – Buenos Aires, 18 de febrero de 2010), fue un músico, pianista, concertista, compositor y director argentino de un vastísimo trabajo musical. Presidente de SADAIC (Sociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores de Música).


Walter Fredrick "Fred" Morrison (January 23, 1920 – February 9, 2010) was best known as the inventor of the Frisbee.


Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, CBE (20 September 1927 – 6 February 2010), known in his early career as Johnny Dankworth, was an English jazz composer, saxophonist and clarinetist. He was the husband of jazz singer Cleo Laine.

Futa Helu (June 6, 1934 — February 2, 2010) was a Tongan philosopher, historian, and educator whose influence was felt throughout the Pacific. He studied philosophy under the Australian empiricist John Anderson and in 1963 launched an educational institute named ʻAtenisi (Tongan for Athens, to pay homage to the ancient Greek philosophers, Herakleitos in particular).



ENERO 

A los 75 años, tras una larga lucha contra el cáncer, falleció el periodista y escritor Tomás Eloy Martínez. (Tucumán, 1934 - 31 de enero de 2010) Fue columnista de los diarios La Nación, The New York Times y El País de España. También escribió libretos de cine y televisión, y fue crítico cinematográfico, además de integrar el equipo de dirección del semanario Primera Plana. También dirigió la Opinión Cultural y la revista Panorama. Además, formó parte del equipo creador del diario Página 12.

 Eduardo Fernando Catalano (December 19, 1917 – January 28, 2010) born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was an Argentine architect.


Film editor Karen Schmeer, who collaborated with Errol Morris‘ on the Oscar-winning documentary The Fog of War, died Friday (Jan. 22) after being struck by a car fleeing from a Manhattan drugstore robbery.


Jerome David "J. D." Salinger (January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010) was an American author, best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, as well as his reclusive nature. His last original published work was in 1965; he gave his last interview in 1980.

 

 Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010) was an American historian and Professor of Political Science at Boston University from 1964 to 1988. Zinn was active in the civil rights, civil liberties and anti-war movements in the United States, and wrote extensively on all three subjects.



Andrew E. Lange (July 23, 1957 – January 22, 2010) was an astrophysicist and Goldberger Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. Lange came to Caltech in 1993 and was most recently the chair of the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy. Caltech's president Jean-Lou Chameau called him "a truly great physicist and astronomer who had made seminal discoveries in observational cosmology"




Jacques Martin (25 September 1921 – 21 January 2010) was a French writer and artist of comics. He was one of the classic artists of Le Journal de Tintin magazine, alongside Edgar P. Jacobs and Hergé, of whom he was a longtime collaborator. He is best known for his series Alix.



Asim Butt (26 March 1978 – 15 January 2010) was a Pakistani painter and sculptor, with an interest in graffiti and print making. He was a member of the Stuckist art movement.Asim Butt died on 15 January 2010, a news report stating that he had committed suicide by hanging himself in his residence.

 Bobby Charles, 71, American songwriter


Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr. (May 1, 1980 – January 13, 2010), better known by the stage name Jay Reatard, was an American garage punk musician from Memphis, Tennessee. 


Daniel Bensaïd (25 March 1946 – 12 January 2010) was a philosopher and a leader of the Trotskyist movement in France. He became a leading figure in the student revolt of 1968, while studying at the University of Paris X: Nanterre.

Francisco (Franz) Benkö (Benkő, Benko) (24 June 1910 – 11 January 2010) was a German–Argentine chess master and problemist.


Miep Gies (February 15, 1909 – January 11, 2010) was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis during World War II. She discovered and preserved Anne Frank's diary after the Franks were arrested.


Éric Rohmer (4 April 1920 – 11 January 2010) was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and teacher. A key figure in the post-war New Wave cinema, he was a former editor of influential French film journal Cahiers du cinéma.

Mano Solo (24 April 1963 – 10 January 2010), born Emmanuel Cabut, was a French singer. He was born in Châlons-sur-Marne on 24 April 1963 to the illustrator Cabu and Isabelle Monin, co-founder of the ecology-related magazine, La Gueule ouverte.

Kenneth Noland (Asheville, 10 de abril de 1924 - 5 de enero de 2010) fue un pintor abstracto estadounidense, uno de los más importantes cultivadores del estilo color field. También, en los años cincuenta practicó el expresionismo abstracto y en los sesenta el minimalismo.

Roberto Sánchez (August 19, 1945 – January 4, 2010), better known by his artist names Sandro/Sandro de América ("Sandro of America" in Spanish), Gitano (gypsy), and the Argentine Elvis, was an Argentine singer and actor.

Ludwig Wilding (19 May 1927 – 4 January 2010) was a German artist whose work is associated with Op art and Kinetic art. Wilding was born in Grundstadt, Germany. He studied at the University of Mainz Art School.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi (山口 彊, Yamaguchi Tsutomu) (16 March 1916 – 4 January 2010), was a Japanese national who survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings during the Second World War. Although more than one hundred people are known to have been affected by both bombings, he is the only man to have been officially recognised by the government of Japan as surviving both explosions.

Tibet, the pseudonym of Gilbert Gascard (29 October 1931 – 3 January 2010), was a French comics artist and writer in the Franco-Belgian comics genre. Since his debut in 1947, Tibet is known for work produced for the comics magazine Tintin, most notably the long-running series Ric Hochet and Chick Bill.

Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt (Temuco, Chile, 26 de agosto de 1925 - Oldenburgo, Alemania, 3 de enero de 2010) fue un compositor musical chileno.

John Keith Irwin (May 21, 1929 – January 3, 2010) was an American sociologist who was known internationally as an expert on the American prison system. He published dozens of scholarly articles and seven books on the topic.


1 de enero: Billy Arjan Singh, escritor y naturalista indio (n. 1917)

Lhasa de Sela (September 27, 1972 – January 1, 2010), also known by the mononym Lhasa, was an American-born singer-songwriter who was raised in Mexico and the United States and divided her adult life between Canada and France.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2010

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