Former MLB pitcher -- via NBC. On July 25, 1945, he pitched 19 and 2/3 innings against the A's. He got two weeks off after this unprecedented feat.
Interesting, overlooked, and significant obituaries from around the world, as they happen, emphasizing the positive achievements of those who have died. Member, Society of Professional Obituary Writers.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Barouh V. Berkovits
Bioengineer; worked on the pacemaker and the defibrillator -- via dignitymemorial.com.
Cesare Canevari
Film producer, director, screenwriter, editor, and actor -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com. Responsible for the bizarre spaghetti Western "Matalo!" and many other exploitation films.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Louis D. Nunley
Bass -- via obits.dignitymemorial.com. A key member of both the Anita Kerr Quartet and the Jordanaires, he sang backup or was featured on thousands of Nashville recordings.
Hans Werner Henze
Composer -- via the Guardian. The innovative and prolific Henze was an oxymoron: a successful avant-garde figure. His absurd and horrifying youth (he was gay, and his father was a Nazi) was far more dramatic than any of his many creations in opera, symphonic and chamber music, ballets, and much more.
Friday, October 26, 2012
Bill Dees
Musician and songwriter -- via blog.bcdb.com. Co-wrote "Oh, Pretty Woman" and "It's Over" with Roy Orbison.
Norma Fire
Actress and much more -- via legacy.com. Whoever wrote this excellent, loving, and comprehensive obituary did an exemplary job!She sounds like a wonderful person.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Franck Barcellini
Composer -- via artsjournal.com. Best known for his composition of the theme from Jacques Tati's "Mon Oncle."
Antoni Dobrowolski
Teacher; oldest survivor of Auschwitz -- via the Huffington Post. The Nazis didn't want Poles to get more than four years of elementary education, as they were to be a "slave race." Dobrowwolski defied them.
Stanford Ovshinsky
Prolific inventor -- via the New York Times. Among his creations: the nickel-metal hyride battery, and contributions to the rewritable CD, solar panels, flat screens, and on and on.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
John Clive
Actor and writer -- via the Guardian. Best known for his roles in "The Italian Job," as the voice of John Lennon in "Yellow Submarine," and "A Clockwork Orange."
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