November 30, 2014

2014Qayyum Chowdhury, Bangladeshi painter and academic (born 1932)^[†]

Qayyum Chowdhury was a Bangladeshi painter. Along with Zainul Abedin, Quamrul Hassan and Safiuddin Ahmed, he is considered as a first generation artist of Bangladesh. He was awarded the Ekushey Padak in 1984 and the Independence Day Award in 2014 by the Government of Bangladesh.

2014Jarbom Gamlin, Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (born 1961)^[†]

Jarbom Gamlin was an Indian politician and a leader of the Indian National Congress political party in Arunachal Pradesh and briefly served as the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh.

2014Martin Litton, American rafter and environmentalist (born 1917)^[†]

Clyde Martin Litton was a Grand Canyon river runner and a longtime conservationist, best known as a staunch opponent of the construction of Glen Canyon Dam and other dams on the Colorado River.

2014Anthony Dryden Marshall, American CIA officer and diplomat (born 1924)^[†]

Anthony Dryden Marshall was an American theatrical producer and C.I.A. intelligence officer and ambassador. After being convicted of financially exploiting his mother Brooke Astor, Marshall was sentenced to prison, and stayed there for only eight weeks in 2013 before receiving medical parole. He died on November 30, 2014, at the age of 90.

2014Go Seigen, Chinese-Japanese Go player (born 1914)^[†]

Wu Chuan, courtesy name Wu Ching-yuan, better known by the Japanese pronunciation of his courtesy name, Go Seigen , was a Han Chinese master of the game of Go. He is considered by many players to have been the greatest Go player in the 20th century.

2014Kent Haruf, American novelist (born 1943)^[†]

Alan Kent Haruf was an American writer. Born and raised in Colorado, Haruf attended Nebraska Wesleyan University and also received a master's degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Nevertheless, Haruf struggled to find success as a writer. He spent years teaching English at the high school and college level, in addition to stints as a janitor, construction worker, and farmhand. Haruf's first works accepted for publication came at age 41, in 1984, and he ultimately published six novels and a number of short stories. All of his works were set on the High Plains of Colorado, mostly in the fictional town of Holt. Although his first two novels, released in 1984 and 1990, received critical praise, commercial success eluded Haruf until the publication of Plainsong in 1999, which gained wide recognition and bestseller status. He followed it up with two sequels, Eventide (2005) and Benediction (2013).