2019 deaths

Dan_Cordtz

Dan Cordtz (May 1, 1927 – May 4, 2019) was an American economics correspondent for ABC News from 1974 to 1989. He also worked for The Wall Street Journal and Financial World.Cordtz died from cancer in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on May 4, 2019, at the age of 92.

William_Y._Chang

William Yukon Chang (Chinese: 鄭玉安) was a Chinese-American newspaper publisher and community leader who advocated for the Chinese American communities in New York City. He was the founder of the Chinese-American Times newspaper, that operated from 1955 to 1972.

Kjell_Grandhagen

Kjell Grandhagen (7 October 1954 – 3 May 2019) was a Norwegian military officer. He was born in Oslo.
He served as head of the Norwegian Military Academy from 1996 to 1999. From 2002 to 2003 he headed the 6th Division, with the rank of major general. From 2006 he served at the Ministry of Defence, as assistant military secretary with the rank of lieutenant general. In 2009 he was appointed head of the Norwegian Intelligence Service. He died
from multiple myeloma

Eva_Dahr

Eva Frederikke Dahr (30 October 1958 – 12 May 2019) was a Norwegian film director, playwright, and film producer. She studied at Volda University College and the Bela Balaz studio in Budapest, Hungary.Dahr was a prolific director of short films. She was the conceptual director of the TV drama Himmelblå (2008–10) and also directed the film The Orange Girl, a 2009 adaptation of the 2003 Jostein Gaarder novel Appelsinpiken. Together with her sister, actress Juni Dahr, she made two short films, Dolce Vita (1989) and Troll (1991).The director won many Norwegian and international awards, including an Amanda Award and a Gullstolen at the Kortfilmfestivalen i Grimstad, for the short film En mann (1997).
Dahr died in 2019 at age 60, following a long illness.

Carl_Bertelsen

Carl Bertelsen (15 November 1937 – 11 June 2019) was a Danish footballer.
During his club career he played for Haderslev FK, Esbjerg fB, Morton, Dundee, Kilmarnock and OB. He earned 20 caps for the Denmark national football team, and was in the finals squad for the 1964 European Nations' Cup.

Eva_Seeberg

Eva Seeberg (28 April 1931 – 12 January 2019) was a Norwegian journalist, novelist and screenwriter. She was born in Oslo. She made her literary debut in 1949 with Undring. Unge skisser. Her novels from the 1960s and 1970s include Det er meg han har vært hos from 1952, Aldri mer alene from 1955, and Tid til ømhet from 1968. She wrote several short story collections, including Lykken bor på Bislett from 1987.Films based on her novels, short stories or scripts include Bedre enn sitt rykte and Hjem går vi ikke from 1955, Kvinnens plass from 1956, Vaxdockan from 1962, Det är hos mig han har varit from 1963, and Hjelp – vi får leilighet! from 1965.

Gordon_Willden

Gordon B. Willden (November 18, 1929 – September 9, 2019) was a Canadian politician from the province of New Brunswick. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in 1991 and defeated for re-election when he switched seats in 1995.
He represented the electoral district of Riverview as part member of the New Brunswick Confederation of Regions Party.

Ingvald_Godal

Ingvald Godal (26 October 1934 – 28 January 2019) was a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party and later the Conservative Party. For the former party he was a State Secretary as well as mayor of Vinje; for the latter party he served four terms in the Norwegian Parliament. He was also involved in various organizations, most latterly the Norwegian Support Committee for Chechnya.

Stanley_Gordon_Sturges

Stanley Gordon Sturges (October 14, 1929 – July 12, 2019) was an American physician and missionary. He and his wife, Raylene Sturges, were the first Seventh-day Adventist medical missionaries to Nepal in 1957. They founded the Scheer Memorial Hospital in Banepa, which is the only Western hospital in Kavre District and serves half a million people. In 1961, the US Junior Chamber of Commerce named Sturges one of Ten Outstanding Young Americans.Sturges came from a strong tradition of medical missionary work in his family, and his goal was to minister to the needs of the sick and needy disregarding their social or economic position. It was illegal to openly speak and preach Christianity in Nepal at the time, so patients would come into contact with Sturges’ religion through the hospital.