Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Don Yoder

Folklorist -- via Lancaster Online. Helped found the first folk festival in the country in 1951, and helped found the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.


John "Bud" Thomas

Roger Smalley

Composer, pianist, and conductor -- via Classical Music.

Roseanne Murray

Actress -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.


Jack Ferry

Actor -- via Obits for Life.


Monday, August 17, 2015

Bob Johnston

Music producer; songwriter -- via Rolling Stone. Produced some of the great albums -- "Johnny Cash Live at Folsom Prison," "Highway 61 Revisited," "Sounds of Silence," "Blonde on Blonde," and worked with Leonard Cohen, Flatt and Scruggs, and Michael Murphey, to name a few.







Harold Ousley

Saxophonist -- via Broadway World.

Pierre Jansen

Composer -- via Le Monde.

Nigel Mackenzie

Stephen Lewis

John Scott

Renato Ladeira

Anne Strieber

Writer, editor, and broadcaster -- via legacy.com.


Edward Thomas

Police officer -- via the New York Times.

Sunday, August 16, 2015

Donald Haywoode

Tyra Vaughn

Actress -- via westernboothill.blgospot.com.

Richard Devylder

Disability activist -- via the L.A. Times.

Enid Pulver Rudd

Playwright and TV writer, actress -- via Yates Funeral  Home.


Johnny Moore Tiger, Jr.

Artist -- via the Muskogee Phoenix.


Julian Bond

Civil rights leader; legislator, writer, commentator, poet, and teacher -- via the New York Times. The only civil rights leader ever to host an episode of "Saturday Night Live."



Jerome Miller



Justice-system reformer -- via the New York Times. He shut down Massachusetts's deeply dysfunctional youth reformatories.


Peggy Evans

Actress -- via the Telegraph.


Rexdale W. Henry

Medicine man and activist -- via Indian Country Today Media Network.


Eric Wrixon

Friday, August 14, 2015

Don Kent

Music scholar, collector, researcher, label owner, and writer -- via  Crowe Mortuary. AKA Mr. Mamalish. One of the "Blues Mafia" in New York in the 1960s, he was an expert in blues and bluegrass, amassing an enviable collection and churning out very good liner notes and other forms of musical scholarship.



Kiripi Katembo

Photographer, artist, and filmmaker -- via Hyperallergic. AKA Kiripi Katembo Siku.






Brian Breye


Museum creator  and curator -- via the L.A. Times.

Marilyn Jean Miller

Illustrator -- via the Weston Forum. AKA Marilyn Hormel.

Emily Valleau

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Herbert Wise

Director for theater and TV -- via the Telegraph.AKA Herbert Weisz.  Best known for work on series and TV films such as "I, Claudius," "Breaking the Code," "The Norman Conquests," and "Elizabeth R."









Eddie Cusic

Bluesman -- via the Delta Democrat-Times.





Serge Collot

Violist -- via France Musique.

Maarten Tiggeler

Artist and guitarist -- via tezelplaza.nl.


Fernando Fusco

Comic book artist -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.


Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Ann McGovern

Writer for children -- via the New York Times.




Jack Gold

Director for film and TV -- via the Guardian. A supremely underestimated talent, he made many great, overlooked films such as "The Naked Civil Servant," "Man Friday," "Escape from Sobibor," and "The National Health." He was particularly effective working with Nicol Williamson -- he directed him in three of his best film performances: "The Reckoning," "The Bofors Gun," and the BBC-TV "Macbeth" (Gold tackled "Merchant of Venice" for that series as well.) He was not perfect ("The Medusa Touch," anyone?), but very much deserves a look at his body of work.












Jonathan Ollivier

Dancer -- via the Guardian.

Jennifer Rae Beck

Actress -- via Broadway World.

Leon Stevens

Actor -- via legacy.com.