Thursday, September 10, 2015

Joaquin Andujar

Former MLB pitcher -- via ESPN.

Jacques Israelievitch

Violinist -- via zoomerradio.ca.



Colin Faver

DJ -- via the Telegraph.



Rainer Kirsch

Writer -- via WDR.

Max Kruse

Writer -- via Der Spiegel.

Warren B. Murphy

Frederick "Dennis" Greene

Roland Rees

Stage director -- via the Guardian.


Giuseppe Petitto

June Winters

Singer and actress -- via Playbill. She was in the legendary Olesen and Johnson vaudeville revue "Hellzapoppin" from 1938 through 1941; she late become the storyteller "Lady  in Blue" on records and radio.





Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Don Griffin

Singer, guitarist, songwriter, and record producer -- via Soul Tracks. Replace Marv Tarplin in the Miracles; can be heard  on "Love Machine."



John Gibbens

Poet and musician -- via the Telegraph.

Gino Hollander

Artist -- via the Aspen Times.



Margie O'Dair

Actress, singer, and radio personality -- via the New Orleans Times-Picayune.


Kathe Recheis

Writer -- via Die Presse.

Judy Carne

Actress -- via the BBC. AKA Joyce Audrey Botterill.

Takuma Nakahira

Photographer -- via EFE.

Stan Kane

Actor, singer, and painter -- via obitsforlife.com.

Brianna Lee Pruett

Mauro Vestri

Actor -- via Corriere.

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Alan Steel

Actor -- via Spettacoli e Cultura. AKA Sergio Chiani. Star of many of the peplum (word-and-sandal) epics of Italy in the 1950s and 1960s.




Sylvie Joly

Actress and comedian -- via Le Monde.






Robyn Beeche

Photographer -- via the Telegraph.

Joy Golden

Ad exec and copywiter par excellence -- via the New York Times.


Alberta Wright

Restaurateur -- via the New York Times.


Jean Darling

Actress, singer, writer, and journalist -- via Broadway World. AKA Dorothy Jean LaVake. One of the Our Gang child actors from the silent era, she was also the first Carrie Pipperridge in "Carousel."






Bob Munson

Electrical engineer and farmer -- via the Daily Camera.



Steve Haun

Keyboardist and composer -- via legacy.com.

Rhoda Lerman

Novelist -- via the New York Times.


Graham Brazier

Singer and songwriter -- via the New Zealand Herald.



Monday, September 7, 2015

Martin Milner

Actor -- via Variety. Best  remembered as Office Pete Molloy in TV cop show "Adam-12," and Tod Stiles in the earlier "Route 66." His 50-year career in film, TV, stage, and radio began in 1947 with "Life with Father." He turned a memorable performance as Steve Dallas in "The Sweet Smell of Success."



Friday, September 4, 2015

Rico Rodriguez

The father of ska and reggae trombone; member of the Specials -- via the Guardian. AKA Emmanuel Rodriguez, Rico, Reco, El Reco. His discography is insane; he made hundreds of recordings, starting in NINETEEN FIFTY EIGHT. His sound is unmistakeable, a model: throbbing and warm, but married to a crisp and bouncy tempo. Like any other master, when he swings it feels just right, like it was meant to be. Try his masterwork, 1977's "Man from Wareika."











Helen Pomerance Johnson

Boudjemaa El Ankis

Performer of chaabi music -- via Huffington Post Maghreb. AKA Mohammed Boudjemaa.








Paul Quinn

Actor and director -- via Variety.

Manos Nathan

Artist --via Radio New Zealand.

Vivian Eng

Dancer on many Broadway  productions -- via the New York Post.


Tessa Ransford

Poet, editor, translator, and archivist -- via the Herald (Scotland).




Simo Salminen

Comic actor -- via mtv.fi. Also former Clown Water-Jump Champion of Finland.

Bouteldja Belkacem

Songwriter, lyricist, singer, and composer -- via Le Figaro. A champion of modern rai music.








George Cleve

Conductor -- via the San Jose Mercury News.




Ken Barnes