Thursday, August 20, 2015

Doudou N’Diaye Rose

Doris Hines

Singer -- via MPR.

Hamida Salim

Writer -- via the New Indian Express.

Walter Scott

Tony Gleaton

Photographer -- via the New York Times.


Betty Beeby

Artist and illustrator -- via the Traverse City Record-Eagle. Designed and illustrated the beautiful second edition of Owen Barfield's "The Silver Trumpet" in 1968.


Kitty McGeever

Actress and comedian -- via the Telegraph.AKA Catherine Jane Mitchell.

Alex "Happy" Howden

Comedian and actor -- via the Edinburgh News.


Hans Kristiansen

Max Greger

Bandleader and saxophonist -- via Deutsche Welle.

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