Thursday, March 6, 2014

Sherwin B. Nuland

Surgeon and writer; author of "How We Die" -- via the New York Times.

Shoji Yasui

Actor -- via IMDb. Best remembered for his remarkable work as the protagonist Mizushima in Kon Ichikawa's "The Burmese Harp."

Christine Buchegger

Actress -- via Tiroler Tageszeitung.



Stanley Grinstein



Arts patron -- via the L.A. Times.

Van Harris

Comedian -- via northjersey.com.

Geoff Edwards

Game-show host and broadcaster -- via Fox News.

Altan Gunbay

Actor and singer -- via todayszaman.com.

Gail Gerber

Actress -- via Variety.

Mark Freidkin

Poet, writer, translator, and singer -- via newsru.com.

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Justin Kaplan

Biographer -- via the New York Times.

Bill Adler

Editor, writer, publisher, and promoter -- via the New York Times.

Ryhor Baradulin

Poet -- via belsat.eu.


Molly Bobak

War artist -- via the Calgary Herald.

Lawrence O'Dwyer

Actor, playwright, and director -- via dallasnews.com.

Norman Yonemoto

Norman is on the left -- his brother and collaborator Bruce is on the right.
Video/installation artist -- via the L.A. Times.

Karl Anton Rickenbacher

Conductor -- via pizzicto.lu.

Gib Singleton

Sculptor -- via the Santa Fe New Mexican.

C.R. Simha aka Channapatna Ramaswami Simha

Actor, director, and playwright -- via the Times of India.

Robert Guthrie

Artist -- via the New Orleans Advocate.


Monday, March 3, 2014

Tim Kehoe

Writer and toymaker -- via the Minneapolis tar-Tribune.

Vicente Ximenes

Human-rights activist -- via the Albuquerque Journal.

Frank Reed

Vocalist with the Chi-Lites -- via blackamericaweb.com.

Angele Arsenault

Singer, songwriter, and musician -- via the Toronto Globe and Mail.

Philip Smart

Music producer -- via the Jamaica Observer.

Jerome Willis

Actor -- via the Guardian.

Irving Milchberg aka Ignac Milchberg

Child who smuggled weapons to the Warsaw Ghetto -- via the New York Times.

http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn511633


Edward F. Vassallo

Actor and producer -- via legacy.com.

Trebor Tichenor

Musician and scholar; world-class expert on Scott Joplin -- via the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Anna Reynolds

Mezzo-soprano -- via pizzicto.lu.

George (Craig) "Porky" Chedwick

Radio DJ -- via WTAE. One of the greats from the golden era, he was the daddio of the radio and the platter-pushin' poppa!







Arduíno Colassanti

Actor -- via El Diario de Pernambuco. He starred in the extremely dark Brazilian comedy "How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman."




Frank Sardo Avianca

Singer -- via the Somers Daily Voice.






Phyllis Krasilovsky

Children's writer -- via NPR.

Lee Lorch

Activist who desegregated Stuyvesant Village -- via the New York Times.

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Natalie Kotsch

Founder of the International Surfing Museum -- via the L.A. Times.

Aaron Allston

Game designer and sci-fi writer -- via locusmag.com.

Michio Mado

Poet -- via asahi.com.

Hugo Brandt Corstius

Writer -- via volkskrant.nl.

Rabi Mustapha

Actress -- via Premium Times.

Alain Resnais

Director -- via the Guardian. He directed some of the most significant ("Night and Fog," "Hiroshima Mon Amour") and infuriating ("Last Year at Marienbad") films of the last half of the 20th century.

Nuit et Brouillard (1955) from KICK TO KILL on Vimeo.



Saturday, March 1, 2014

Tim Wilson

Comedian and musician -- via the Kansas City Star.



Jophrey Brown

Former MLB player -- via legacy.com.

Penny DeHaven

Singer and actress -- via musicrow.com.

Ian Cutter Sala

Art director -- via popcrush.com.

Sorel Etrog

Artist -- via the Toronto Star.

Sarah Jones

Camera assistant -- via Variety. Killed on set due to bad safety protocols!