Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Dobie Gray

Singer and songwriter -- via his website. His two monster hits: "The 'In' Crowd" and "Drift Away."

Irving Elman

Playwright, writer and producer for film and television -- via Variety.

Zdenek Miler

Animator; creator of Krtek the Mole -- via the New York Times.

Judith Grossman Maro

Freedom fighter and writer -- via the Independent.

Vittorio De Seta

Film director -- via MUBI.

Phyllis Campbell aka "Mama Jazz"

Radio host -- via the Middletown Journal.

Hubert Sumlin

Blues guitarist and singer -- via Billboard. An iconic performer known primarily for his work with Howlin' Wolf.


Bill "Tappy" "Uncle Bill" Tapia

Ukulele master and guitarist -- via MSNBC.


Tommy Hill aka John Wilson aka Tommy Butta

Rapper -- via newsworks.org.

Keef Hartley

Drummer and bandleader -- via the Lancashire Evening Post.

J Blackfoot aka John Colbert

Soul singer -- via the Guardian.

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.