Monday, December 5, 2011

Alexandru Tocilescu

Theatre director -- via the Washington Post.

Skip George

Native American historian and spiritual leader - via the North Kitsap Herald.

Bev Smith

Pantomime actor -- via BBC News.

Francois Lesage

Master embroiderer for haute couture -- via the New York Times.

Christa Wolf

Writer -- via the New York Times.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Judy Lewis

Actress and psychologist -- via the New York Times. The secret love child of Loretta Young and Clark Gable.

Helen Forrester aka June Bhatia

Memoirist -- via the Telegraph.

Sister Valsa John

Nun -- via the The Hindu.

Tom Roady

Percussionist -- via Greenville Online.

Don DeVito

Record producer -- via the New York Times.

Dev Anand

Bollywood star -- via NDTV.

Friday, December 2, 2011

Alan Sues

Comedian and actor -- via the New York Times. Best known for his membership in the cast of TV's "Laugh-In."

Bill McKinney

Actor -- via E Online. Best known for playing villains and crazy guys in such movies as "Deliverance," "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot," "The Outlaw Josey Wales," and numerous Clint Eastwood films.

Noel Cunningham

Chef and restaurateur -- via the Denver Post.

Marion Holmes DeFore

Vocalist -- via the New York Daily News.

Vasily Alekseyev

Champion weightlifter -- via the New York Times.

Sid Smith

Local "character" -- via the Austin Statesman.

Richard Morant

Actor -- via the Telegraph.

Barry Llewellyn aka Barrington Llewellyn aka Bebo

Singer and songwriter; co-founder of the vital Jamaica rocksteady/reggae group the Heptones -- via the Guardian.


Art Hillery

Jazz pianist -- via ejazznews.com.

Walter Doniger

Screenwriter and director -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Coco Robicheaux aka Curtis Arceneaux

Bluesman -- via the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

Yukio Nishimoto

Hall of Fame (Japan) baseball player and manager -- via the Daily Yomiuri. Known as the "Great Tragic Leader" due to his never winning the Japan Series; however, he won eight Pacific League pennants.

Leonid Borodin

Novelist, journalist and dissident -- via russkiymir.ru.

Stephen Robertson

Comedian, actor and lawyer -- via breakingnews.heraldscotland.com.

Ustad Sultan Khan

Musician and singer -- via The Statesman.


Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Patrice O'Neal

Comedian -- via the New York Daily News. An incredibly funny guy!


Ron Lyle

Heavyweight boxer -- via the Denver Post.

Louis McKee

Poet -- via neastphilly.com.

Hans Reichel

Experimental guitarist, inventor, designer, composer -- via coilhouse.net.

Hassan Abdullah aka Stanley Barber

Jazzman -- via pressofatlanticcity.com.

Karel Hubacek

Architect -- via Yahoo News.