Leon Ware

Great soul songwriter, producer, and vocalist -- via The Vinyl Factory.

John Gay

Writer for screen and TV -- via the Hollywood Reporter. Quite a good writer ,especially adept at adapting from literary sources. Among his works, "Run Silent Run Deep," "Separate Tables," "The Courtship of Eddie's Father," "The Hallelujah Trail," "No Way to Treat a Lady," and "Sometimes a Great Notion."

Neville Parry

Projectionist -- via the East Anglian Daily Times.


A Life Illuminated Neville Parry: Cinema Projectionist (Taster Reel) from Jon Saward on Vimeo.

James Stevenson

Illustrator -- via the New York Times.

Leroy "Roy" Waldo Fitzell Jr.

Dancer and choreographer -- via Metcalf Mortuary.

Frank Delaney

Masterful non-academic analyst and explicator of James Joyce's 'Ulysses' -- via the New York Times.

Ivor Noel Hume

Archaeologist and writer; "father of historical archaeology" -- via the New York Times.

Huang Feili

Musician and conductor -- via the South China Morning Post.

Harry MacPherson

Former MLB pitcher -- via legaacy.com.

Joy Hruby

Actress -- via TV Tonight.

Nick Dupree

Disability rights activist and writer -- via Media dis&dat.

Nancy Willard

Writer -- via the Poughkeepsie Journal.

Richard McMillan

Actor -- via CTV News.


Richard McMillan on Acting | British vs  Canadian vs  American from Theatre Museum Canada on Vimeo.

Trevor Habberstad

Stuntman -- via KHTS.

David Yorko

Guitarist for Johnny and the Hurricanes ('Red River Rock') -- via the Toledo Blade.

Mildred Dresselhaus

Solid-state physicist and nanotechnologist -- via Physics World. AKA 'The Queen of Carbon.' Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her scientific contributions in 2014.

Hans Rosling

Statistician and sword-swallower -- via The Economist.

Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

Conductor and long-time music director of the Minnesota Symphony -- via the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

Dave Vucenich

Bassist -- via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Salma Siddiqui

Writer -- via Newsdog.

Seijun Suzuki

Iconoclastic film director -- via the Guardian. AKA Seitaro Suzuki. One of several overlooked Japanese genre directors of the 1960s and '70s, Suzuki is be,st known for his yakuza (gangster) films such as Branded to Kill, Fighting Elegy, Youth of the Beast, Tokyo Drifter, and 50 others. He marked his films with drop-dead poker-faced coolness, gritty and nasty, sporting ragged and unconventional cinematography, a black outlook on life, and increasingly surreal scenarios. Branded actually got him blacklisted as a director for a decade. In time, critical attention from American independents such as Jarmusch and Tarentino and Asian filmmakers such as Kitano, Kar-wai, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and Miike restored his reputation. Later, his Taisho trilogy won him new acclaim. Did extensive acting later in his career as well.

Larry Coryell

Masterful guitarist known as the "godfather of fusion" -- via NPR.

Jorgen Kieler

Danish doctor who served in the Resistance, publishing an underground newspaper and saving hundreds of Jews from the Nazis during World War II -- via Berlingske.

Danuta Szaflarska

Actress deemed the best of the 20th century in her country -- via Radio Poland.

Kim Ji-young

Actress -- via soompi.

Josefina Leiner

Actress -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

Pasquale Squitieri

Director and screenwriter -- via Corriere della Serra.

Gerald Hirschfeld

Cinematographer -- via Deadline. His crisp, precise work can be enjoyed in films such as "Fail-Safe," "Young Frankenstein," and "Cotton Comes to Harlem."

Jose Sole

Actor, director, and theatrical leader -- via El Mexicano.

Maurice Vander

Pianist --via Le Figaro.

Pericoma Okoye

Singer and songwriter -- via elombah.com.

Richard Schickel

Film critic, film historian, and documentarian -- via the L.A. Times.

Warren Frost

Actor -- via Variety.

Borge Hellstrom

Writer; half of the crime-writing team of Roslund/Hellstrom  -- via Aftonbladet.

Ved Prakash Sharma

Novelist -- via the Times of India.

Witold Adamek

Filmmaker -- via TVN24.

Odd Tandberg

Artist -- via Aftenposten.

Alan Aldridge

Artist, illustrator, and graphic designer -- via Best Classic Bands.

Tiberio Gaspar

Composer -- via O Globo.

Dmitris Mytaras

Artist -- via Newsday.

Jannis Kounellis

Artist -- via Artnet News.

E. Clinton Bamberger

Lawyer whose work prompted the Brady rule, which mandates the release of exculpatory evidence for defendants -- via the New York Times.

Clyde Stubblefield

Master drummer; best known for his work with James Brown -- via the New York Times. A definer of funk beat, he is the most sampled drummer in history.