Héctor Zumbado Argueta was born on March 19, 1932, and died on June 6, 2016. He was also known as H. Zumbado, was a Cuban writer, journalist, critic, humorist, and essayist. It was reported that he once said, “humor is a weapon, because it criticizes and exposes at the same time, and does so with ..
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Rolf Schweizer was born on March 14, 1936, and died on June 6, 2016. He was a German composer, choirmaster and church music director. Rolf was based primarily at Pforzheim. He was a member of the contemporary worship music movement and his compositions, several of which appear in the Evangelisches Gesangbuch, were heavily influenced by ..
Ayaz Jani (original name Ayaz Hussain Memon) was born on October 4, 1967, and died on June 6, 2016. He was a poet and journalist in the Sindhi language. Jani had been writing poetry since his school days and gained popularity as a romantic poet. He began his profession as the assistant editor in the ..
Chan Poh Lin was born in 1943, in Singapore and died on June 6, 2016. She was also known as Theresa Poh Lin Chan. She was a writer, teacher, and one-time actor. Theresa Poh Lin Chan was known in her younger years as “the Helen Keller of Southeast Asia”, as a reference to indicate that, ..
Marita Elisabeth Lindquist (née Gustafson) was born on November 10, 1918, in Helsinki and died on June 7, 2016. She was a Finnish author of many children’s books. Marita Lindquist was of the Swedish-speaking population of Finland. Also, she had written song lyrics, illustrated books, and worked as a translator, materials writer, producer, editor, and ..
Amber Gurung died on June 7, 2016. He was a composer, singer and lyricist of Nepali music. Amber was popularly known as the Music composer of Nepal’s national anthem Sayaun Thunga Phool Ka. He has served as Chairman of Nepal Music Center Kathmandu, Nepal (2006–2007). He was a Music Director at Nepal Academy (of Arts ..
Berndt Arvid Freddie Wadling was born on August 2, 1951, in Gothenburg and died on June 2, 2016. He was a Swedish singer, actor and opera writer. He had over 30-year musical career extended from punk to classical ballads. Wadling played bass in a number of bands during the 1970s and early 1980s. The most ..
Antti Hyry was born on October 20, 1931, in Kuivaniemi and died on June 4, 2016. He was a Finnish writer. Hyry was a recipient of the Eino Leino Prize in 2005. Hyry book Uuni (Oven) won the Finlandia Prize, Finland’s premier prize for literature, during 2009. The story is about a man’s reflections as ..
Sabam Siagian he was born on May 4, 1932, in Jakarta, and died on June 3, 2016. He was an Indonesian journalist. Sabam Siagian was appointed the first editor in chief of The Jakarta Post. He had left the Jakarta Post in 1991 upon his appointment as Indonesia’s Ambassador to Australia. He had was succeeded ..
Arve Solstad was born on November 15, 1935, in Orkdal, and died on June 3, 2016 He was a Norwegian newspaper editor. His parents farmer Johan Solstad (1896–1989) and Marit Skauge (1910–2000). Arve Solstad completed his secondary education in Orkdal in 1955, worked one year as editor-in-chief of Akershus Folkeblad before enrolling in studies of ..