Sunday, April 26, 2015

Jim Fanning

Former MLB catcher and manager -- via the Montreal Gazette. Led the Blue Jays to their only playoff appearance, in 1981.

Sandy Whitelaw

Moira Gemmill

Design director -- via the Guardian.


Bernard Stollman

Founder of ESP-Disk Records -- via Pitchfork. He recorded a large amount of music and spoken-word performance that otherwise might have been lost. This includes Albery Ayler's classic "Spiritual Unity," and work by Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Pharaoh Sanders, the Fugs, Timothy Leary, and William S. Burroughs. CAVEAT:  It appears that Stollman never paid any of this artists.






Lois Lilienstein

Gennadi Vengerov

Actor -- via dni.ru. AKA Gennadi Aronovitch Markmann.

Nagare Hagiwara

Actor -- via the Japanese Times. AKA Mitsuo Hagiwara.

Yoichi Funado

Writer -- via Mainichi. AKA Kenji Harada.

Dick Balharry

Sixto Valencio Burgos

Cartoonist -- via Vox Populi.

Friday, April 24, 2015

M.H. Abrams

Teacher, scholar, writer, and editor -- via the New York Times. A profound analyzer of literature, he edited the first seven editions of the Norton Anthology of English Literature.



Claire Gordon

Actress -- via IMDb. Best known for her roles in films such as "Konga" and "Beat Girl."




Brian Couzens

Margaret Harrison

Peace activist -- via the Telegraph.


Peter Howell

Actor -- via Ian McKellen.

Richard Corliss

Film critic and writer -- via indiewire.

Abdel Rahman el-Abnudi

Poet -- via the Egyptian Independent.

Claudio Cunha

Actor and director -- via O Globo.

Ibrahim Yusri

Actor -- via albawaba.


Pat Dowell

Keith Shackleton

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Ann Price

Restaurateur; founder and proprietor of the famous Ann's Snack Bar in Atlanta -- via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. AKA Miss Ann. A hamburger-creating genius, including the emblematic Ghetto Burger.





Dickie Owen

Actor -- via rorkesdriftvc.com. Best known for playing Corporal Schiess in "Zulu" and the Mummy in "The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb."

Betty Lucas

Actress -- via the Sydney Morning Herald.


James Venture

Mary Doyle Keefe

The model for Rosie the Riveter -- via the Guardian.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

David T. Wilkinson

Guitarist and videographer -- via Stetson's Funeral Home. Had a local hit with the Boston group the Reveliers, "Hangin' Five."

Brian "Buzz" Leming

Willis Anderson

Writer, radio host; expert on old-time rock 'n' roll, baseball, and beer -- via legacy.com. Author of the prescient 1973 "The Beer Book" and coiner of the neologism "brewiana" (antique beer-related memorabilia).


Wally Lester

Rosalind Dallas

Graphic designer for the BBC -- via the independent.

Alice Techova

Economic historian -- via the Guardian.

Raymond Carr

Historian -- via the Telegraph.

Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov

Film director, screenwriter, and producer -- via the Hollywood Reporter. Best known for his award-winning film, "Kosh ba kosh."

Sandra Mackey

Journalist and writer -- via CNN.

Ross Gallichotte

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

William Price Fox

Writer -- via The State.

Frederic Morton

Writer -- via the L.A. Times. AKA Fritz Mandelbaum.

Robert V. Hine

Historian, novelist, and memoirist -- via the L.A. Times. His book "Second Sight" tells his story of regaining his eyesight after 15 years.


Charlene Weir

Writer -- via legacy.com.



Kathryn Blair Swarthout

Writer -- via legacy.com. Columnist, with husband, wrote juvenile novels.


Betty Willis

Graphic designer; created the iconic "Welcome to fabulous Las Vegas Nevada" sign -- via the New York Daily News. Erected in 1959, it is a prime example of Googie-era degisn, and is now on the National Register of Historic Places. (She also created the less well-known Blue Angel Motel statue.)





Richard Anthony

Singer -- via The Univers News. AKA Ricardo Anthony Btesh. Best known for his French covers of American hits, he was a Gallic pop star of the likes of Johnny Halliday.






Sidney Abbott

Feminist, activist, and writer -- via Southold Local.

Agnes Warren

Pianist -- via Michigan Live. Born in 1907.

Dianne Wilkins

Actress and singer -- via coladaily.com.

Monday, April 20, 2015

Mario Pirani

Journalist and writer -- via La Stampa. AKA Mario Pirani Coen.

Viktor Korshunov

Actor -- via newstwenty4seven.com.

Richie D'Horsie

Comedian -- via Coconuts Manila. AKA Ricardo Reyes.

Ramsey Moore

Comedian, actor, and writer -- via the Palm Beach Daily News.