American football offensive guard William P. Fralic Jr. was born on October 31, 1962, in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania and died on December 14, 2018. He was a professional American football offensive guard for the Atlanta Falcons and Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL) from 1985 to 1993. Fralic played college football at the ..
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Israeli journalist and sports administrator was born on Noah Klieger July 31, 1926 and died on December 13, 2018. Noah Klieger is a Holocaust survivor from concentration camps Auschwitz and Ravensbruck, covered trials of Nazi criminals after the end of World War II, and later worked as a sports journalist in Israel. Klieger also was ..
Former President of the Workers’ Party in Ireland Seán Garland was born on March 7, 1934, at Belvedere Place, off Mountjoy Square in Dublinand died on December 13, 2018, joined the Irish Republican Army in 1953. For a short period he joined the British Army as an IRA agent and collected intelligence on Gough Barracks ..
Malayalam film director Ajayan, also known as Thoppil Ajayan, was born on April 8, 1950, in Vallikunnam, Alappuzha and died on December 13, 2018, was of note for his only feature film Perumthachan (The Master Carpenter). His noted film gained positive reviews from industry critics worldwide. For this, he was the winner of the Indira ..
Canadian Inuit artist Elisapee Ishulutaq was born in 1925 and died on December 9, 2018. She was a self-taught Inuit artist, focusing on mainly drawing and printmaking. She took part in the efforts of print and tapestry making in Pangnirtung and was a co-founder of the Uqqurmiut Centre for Arts & Crafts, which is both ..
Canadian sculptor and caricaturist Raoul Hunter was born on June 18, 1926, in Saint-Cyrille-de-Lessard, l’Islet, Quebec, Canada and died on ecember 10, 2018. He studied at the School of fine arts of Quebec city and at the École Nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris. Hunter served as a caricaturist for Quebec City’s Le Soleil from ..
Māori rugby union player, school principal, and civil servant Edward Te Rangihiwinui “Hiwi” Tauroa was born in 1927, in Okaiawa, near Hawera in Taranaki and died on December 11, 2018. He was of Ngāpuhi descent, was born the son of a Methodist minister. Hiwi Tauroa’s parents moved around a lot, which led to him starting ..
American documentary film producer and director Bill Siegel was born on December 24, 1962, and died on December 11, 2018. Bill Siegel worked on many documentaries, including Emmy Award-winning The Trials of Muhammad Ali and the Academy Award-nominated The Weather Underground in 2003 Bill Siegel once worked for Kartemquin Films, which announced his unanticipated death ..
Namibian politician Petrus Iilonga was born on January 8, 1947, in Etilyasa Ongandjera, Omusati Region died on December 11, 2018. He was also a trade union leader and political prisoner. Petrus Iilonga member of the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO), Iilonga served as Deputy Minister in various Ministries. Iilonga was Deputy Minister of Defense ..
Italian vocalist Angelo Conti died December 11, 2018. Angelo Conti was a member of Banda Bassotti, which is an Italian ska-punk band formed in 1987 in Rome, Italy. Their songs are generally political in nature, focusing on Communist and anti-Fascist issues. Most of there songs are about Ireland and Latin America, as well. The band ..