Gustav Meier

Conductor -- via the Connecticut Post.

Angela Paton

Actress - via Variety. Best remembered as the kindly B & B owner in "Groundhog Day."

Jane Fawcett

WWII codebreaker -- via the Telegraph. AKA Janet Hughes.

Marco Pannella

Activist and politician -- via the New York Times.

Gyula Kosice

Artist and poet -- via the Buenos Aires Herald. AKA Ferdinand Fallik.


Walk through of Gyula Kosice's Hydrospatial City from Colección Cisneros on Vimeo.

John Searing

Actor, salesman; he who realized his dream of announcing 'The Tonight Show' on June 26, 1986 -- via legacy.com.

Peggy Spencer

Ballroom dancer, choreographer, competition judge, and organizer for the art -- via the BBC. AKA Margaret Ann Hull. Appeared for many years on the popular British TV show "Come Dancing," and choreographed for the later, innovative dance show "Burn the Floor."

Anne Marie Nzie

Singer; the 'golden voice of Cameroon' -- via abcnews.go.

David King

Graphic artist, writer, artist, and photographer; amassed one of the great collections of Soviet paraphernalia in the world -- via the Guardian.

Deva Dassy

Mezzo-soprano -- via Slipped Disc. AKA Marie-Anne Lambert.

Nancy Dow

Actress -- via the New York Daily News.

Vera Henriksen

Novelist, playwright, and writer -- via Dagbladet.

Yang Jiang

Writer, playwright, and translator -- via the Washington Post.

Sang Hugh

Singer -- via Facebook. AKA Keith Morgan.

Federico de Zigno

Writer on film -- via westernboothill.blotspot.com.

Mell Lazarus

Cartoonist -- via the Washington Post.

Beth Howland

Actress best known for her work on the sitcom "Alice" -- via the New York Daily News.

Buck Kartalian

Actor -- via the Hollywood Reporter. Best remembered as Julius, the cigar-chomping cagekeeper in "Planet of the Apes."

Joe Fleishaker

Actor -- via the Hollywood Reporter.

John McLaughlin

Animator best known for crafting the Regal Theatres promo reel -- via Jezebel.

Jeanne Parr

Pioneering female broadcaster -- via People.

Adam Rajhona

Actor -- via 24.hu.

Leonorilda Ochoa

Actress and comedian -- via the Latin Times.

Velimir Bata Zivojinovic

Actor -- via b92.net.

P. Kharsani

Actor -- via DeshGujarat. AKA Pranlal Kharsani.

Mel Whitley

Boat designer best known for creating the Bat Boat -- via Putnam Funeral Home. AKA Warwick Whitley II.

Burt Kwouk

Actor -- via the BBC. He will be remembered forever as Cato Fong, the manservant/assailant of Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau in the long-running film series. And why not?

But first, remember that he was born in Cheshire, but raised in Shangai, and identified as Chinese. He racked up an amazing 144 IMdB credits alone; the prolific performer could do drama, too. In fact, he rose far above the portrayals of ethnic stereotypes he waded through early in his career (two Bond films in one year!). It must have given him great pleasure to skewer that demeaning experience.

He was one of the best comic actors of his time. Merely seeing him in the frame was enough to unleash an onslaught of giggles. He is just a hair too imperturbable, a smidge too much at attention. And when he has to transition immediately into slapstick and/or drag, he did so with complete, straight-faced belief, which sold everything he did. If I had more time today to follow my anal compulsions, I would figure out how many minutes and second he spent onscreen in that role, but his percentage of laughs to screen time is among the highest to date.

Thanks for everything, sir.

Hugh Honour

Art historian -- via the Telegraph. An impeccably written, unfortunately un-bylined obit.

George Wildman

Comics artist -- via News from ME.

Guo Song

Folk singer -- via news.163.com.

Deddy Dores

Musician and music producer -- via the Jakarta Post.

James King

Bluegrass great -- via Wide Open Country. AKA The Bluegrass Storyteller.

Gaston Gerghmans

Actor and comedian -- via De Redactie.

Adolf Born

Artist, writer, animator, and illustrator -- via Business Standard.

Jim Ray Hart

Former MLB player -- via ESPN.

Paul McDowell

Trombonist, singer, actor, artist, and writer -- via the Telegraph. A silly person!

Rosalie Chris Lerman

Holocaust survivor and  awareness activist -- via the News Times.

Nick Menza

Drummer best known for his work with Megadeath -- via Metal Addicts.

Fritz Stern

Historian -- via the New York Times.

Michael Mariotte

Journalist, drummer, and activist -- via the Washington Post.

Patricia Derian

Civil rights activist -- via the Washington Post.

Alexandre Astruc

Film critic and director -- via Huffington Post (France).