Death Announcements

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Nancy Zieman, known to North American sewists as a sewing expert and vendor of sewing supplies, patterns and DVDs, passed away on November 14. She hosted a popular PBS sewing program and was active online as well as at sewing and quilting shows.

http://www.nancyzieman.com/blog/quilting-2/a-personal-note-from-nancy/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/obituaries/nancy-zieman-host-of-long-running-sewing-show-dies-at-64.html

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Jong-Hyun Kim, of the South Korean pop group Shinee, has passed away. He was 27 years old. There's an investigation into his death as the singer was found unconscious in his residence.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42393242

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Irv Weinstein, known as a television reporter for a Buffalo NY tv station, has passed at the age of 87. He was well known in New York State and Southern Ontario where viewers tuned in for his broadcasts.
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/12/27/irv-weinstein-longtime-buffalo-news-anchor-well-known-to-southern-ontarians-dies-at-87.html

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Fans of the book A Year in Provence and the tv series will be saddened to learn of author Peter Mayles' passing on Thursday.
He was 78 years old.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/obit-peter-mayle-1.4494629

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Bollywood actress known as Sridevi has passed away at the age of 54 in Dubai. She had come out of retirement and made two films, one of which was English Vinglish.

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2018/02/24/sridevi-bollywood-leading-lady-of-the-80s-and-90s-dies-at-age-54.html

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Sonja Bata, who launched the Bata Shoe museum in Toronto (Canada), passed away last week at 91 years of age. She and her late husband Thomas were in the shoe business.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/sonja-bata-was-the-guiding-force-of-the-bata-shoe-enterprise/article38053718/

The museum's acting director Sheila Knox says Bata passed away on Tuesday evening at Toronto Western Hospital, surrounded by friends and family. She was 91.

Bata began collecting footwear in the 1940s, and her fascination with design and history led to a collection of more than 13,000 artifacts chronicling 4,500 years of history

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/sonja-bata-obit-1.4545860

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French designer Herbert Givenchy has passed away at the age of 91. His dressing of Audrey Hepburn for the film, Breakfast at Tiffany's, led to a long association with celebrities and the movie industry.

https://www.thelocal.fr/20180312/french-fashion-designer-hubert-de-givenchy-dies-aged-91

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Wow, this will be a shock to the world, especially the scientific world, but from all accounts his health had been failing over the years. Lately most reconnected with his many appearances on TV shows, in particular The Big Bang Theory.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/stephen-ha ... -1.4575341

Stephen Hawking dead at 76
Best-known theoretical physicist of his time wrote international bestseller A Brief History of Time

The Associated Press Posted: Mar 13, 2018 11:59 PM ET Last Updated: Mar 14, 2018 12:32 AM ET

Stephen Hawking, whose brilliant mind ranged across time and space though his body was paralyzed by disease, has died, a family spokesperson said early Wednesday.

"He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years," his children Lucy, Robert and Tim said in a statement.

The best-known theoretical physicist of his time, Hawking wrote so lucidly of the mysteries of space, time and black holes that his book, A Brief History of Time, became an international bestseller, making him one of science's biggest celebrities since Albert Einstein.

Even though his body was attacked by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, when Hawking was 21, he stunned doctors by living with the normally fatal illness for more than 50 years. A severe attack of pneumonia in 1985 left him breathing through a tube, forcing him to communicate through an electronic voice synthesizer that gave him his distinctive robotic monotone.

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Canadian Peter Munk, long known for his Barrick Gold company and investments elsewhere such as Porto Montenegro (now owned by a Dubai entity), has passed away at age 90.

https://www.thestar.com/business/2018/03/28/barrick-gold-founder-peter-munk-dies-in-toronto-at-age-90.html

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Studio Ghibli co-founder, Isao Takahata, has passed away at age 82. He was involved in several film projects-The Grave of the Fireflies is a tissue movie (you'll need a box).

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/04/06/isao-takahata-co-founder-of-leading-japanese-animator-studio-ghibli-dies-at-82.html

The Tale of Princess Kaguya is like a cautious tale. Full of twists and human emotions--very gripping film.