J. Reilly Lewis

Conductor, choral director, and keyboardist -- via the Washington Post.

Akihiro Komori

Composer -- via Anime News Network.

Lucia Ragni

Actress -- via L'Echo de Sud.

Jung Jin

Actor -- via Soompi.

Hans'che Weiss

Guitarist -- via Junge Welt.

Ruben Quevedo

Former MLB pitcher -- via the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

Leonard Hill

TV producer -- via Variety. He racked up 50 producing credits over 36 years.

Tanju Gursu

Actor, director, and screenwriter -- via Hurriyet.

Amber Gurung

Composer, songwriter, and lyricist -- via My Republica (Nepal). Wrote Nepal's national anthem, "Sayaun Thunga Phool Ka."

Ayaz Jani

Poet -- via the Express Tribune.

Gordie Howe

Hockey great -- via CNN. AKA Mr. Hockey.

Dennis McCullough

Doctor; geriatrician whose advocacy of palliative care changed end-of-life thinking in America -- via the New York Times. His compassionate "slow medicine" is replacing what he termed "death by intensive care."

Mariana Malfatti

Actress -- via La Repubblica. A regular in many giallo and Italian horror films of the 1970s.

Marita Lindquist

Writer -- via Svenska.

Tunga

Artist -- via The Art Newspaper.

Theresa Poh Lin Chan

Writer -- via the Straits Times.


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Juana la del Revuelo

Flamenco singer and dancer -- via El Pais.

Rolf Schweizer

Composer and choirmaster -- via ekiba.de.

Hector Zumbado

Humorist, writer, journalist -- via Cafe Fuerte.

Erkin Vohidov

Poet, playwright, and translator -- via Gazeta.

Walter Ferguson

Illustrator -- via the Society of Animal Artists. Illustrated six "How and Why Wonder" books, a favorite of my childhood.

Willis Pyle

Key early animator -- via the Hollywood Reporter. A former University of Colorado student, he worked on films such as "Pinnochio," "Fantasia," "Bambi," "Gerald McBoing-Boing," and "Mr. Magoo."

Annie Castledine

Director -- via the Guardian.

Malcom Devine

Actor -- via legacy.com.

Aileen Ward

Biographer and scholar -- via the New York Times.

William Wright

Biographer, writer, and editor -- via the New York Times.

David Lamb

Journalist and writer -- via the New York Times. Loved his "Stolen Season," on minor league baseball.

Bobby Curtola

Singer -- via the CBC.

Sulabha Deshpande

Actress -- via the Indian Express.

Antti Hyry

Writer -- via Vastersbottens-Kuriren.

Nyembezi Kunene

Actor, director, and playwright -- via Times Live (Zaire).

Balu Anand

Actor and director -- via the Times of India.

Theresa Saldana

Actress -- via the L.A. Times. Best known for her work in films such as "Raging Bull" and TV shows such as "The Commish."

Peter Shaffer

Tony- and Oscar-winning playwright and screenwriter -- via the Guardian. Crafted two great plays of the 20th century -- "Eqqus" and "Amadeus," and many other good works that are underestimated, such as "The Royal Hunt of the Sun,""Lettice and Lovage," and "Black Comedy."

Zabihullah Tamanna and David Gilkey

Journalists -- via NPR. Killed in ambush covering Afghan conflict.

Joel Hastings

Pianist -- via Slipped Disc.

Paulette Laurent

Singer and actress -- via the Williamsburg Yorktown Daily. AKA Raymonde Henrietta Paulette Moyce.

Pam Buttery

"Ancillary 'cult character'" on the cult "Uncle Floyd Show" -- via Derek Tague. AKA Baby Bonzo.

Harry Falk

TV director -- via legacy.com.

Phyllis Curtin

Soprano -- via the Berkshire Eagle. A muse of Carlisle Floyd, she originated the title role of Susannah, and Catherine in "Wuthering Heights."A renowned recitalist as well, and teachrr at Tanglewood for decades.

Lee Pfund

Former MLB pitcher -- via the Chicago Daily Herald.

Jeremy Steig

Flutist -- via the New York Times.

Freddie Wadling

Singer, actor, songwriter, and composer -- via Expressen.

Greg Mevill-Smith

Actor -- via Times Live (South Africa).

Brenda Naylor

Sculptor -- via the Telegraph.

Corry Brokken

Singer and jurist -- via the Times of Israel. First an award-winning popular singer of the 1950s and 1960s, she quit, became a lawyer and then a judge. Then she returned to performance at the end of her life. You think you have problems? Her mother was Jewish and her father was a Nazi, quite literally.