Carmela Rey

Singer and actress -- via Excelsior.

Paul Danblon

Composer, artistic leader, and journalist -- via RTE Tele Liege.

Janet Blachford

Writer -- via the Montreal Gazette.

Victor Milan

Writer -- via Tor.com.

Azmil Mustapha

Actor -- via The Star.

Tito Francona

Former MLB player -- via ESPN.

Antoni Krause

Director and screenwriter -- via Radio Poland.

Lerone Bennett Jr.

Scholar and writer -- via the Philadelphia Tribune.

Harikumaran Thampi

Actor -- via the New Indian Express.

Klassje van der Waal

Bassist -- via Gerderlander.

Nini Theilade

Dancer and choreographer -- via the Hollywood Reporter. She was a protege of the great and influential early 20th century director and impresario Max Reinhardt. She danced in all the capitals of the world before World War II. Leonide Massine made dances for her as she starred at the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. She appears in Reinhardt's 1935 film adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in 1935 -- the same film that gave Olivia de Havilland her big break.

Michael White

Prolific and honored writer -- via Perth Now. AKA Tom West, Sam Fisher.

Scott Boyer

Songwriter and musician -- via the Florence Times-Daily.

June Rose

Writer and biographer -- via the Guardian.

Jef Geys

Artist in many mediums -- via the Brussels Times.

Raphael 'Lefty' Lumenti

Former MLB pitcher -- via Consigli Ruggiero Funeral Home.

Tom Rapp

Singer and songwriter; leader of Pearls Before Swine -- via A Head Full of Wishes.

Francoise Xenakis

Journalist and novelist -- via Le Figaro.

Laszlo Melis

Composer -- via Slipped Disc.

Bill Crider

Writer -- via crimespree magazine.

Marty Allen

Comedian -- via Variety. AKA Morton Alpern.

Parbati Ghose

Actress and director -- via the Odisha Sun Times.

Daryle Singletary

Country singer -- via Variety.

Bernard Koura

Artist -- via Ouest France.


Bernard Koura from Conseil départemental de l'Orne on Vimeo.

Tina Louise Bomberry

Actress -- via the Hollywood Reporter.

Vic Damone

Singer -- via Deadline. AKA Vito Rocco Farinola. A popular crooner of the 1950s who worked in the shadow of Sinatra. He made a few films, but was really most comfortable and at his best at just singing.

J.F.C. Harrison

Historian and writer -- via legacy.com.

Daniel Kojta

Artist and adventurer -- via the Daily Telegraph.


Walking all over my friends from Daniel Kojta on Vimeo.

Michiko Ishimure

Writer -- via the Japan Times.

Tom Bellin

Bassist -- via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Jan Maxwell

Actress -- via Broadway World.

Kenneth Haigh

Actor -- via the Times of London. He wa sthe original angry young man," playing Jimmy Porter in the inaugural production of Osborne's Look Back in Anger.

Marie Gruber

Actress -- via Die Welt.

Tamio Kawachi

Actor -- via sponichi.

Nina Dova

Singer, guitarist, and actress -- via legacy.com.

Qazi Wajid

Actor -- via the Washington Post

Zamigar Agakisiyeva

Actress -- via femida.az.

"Sunshine" Sonny Payne

Peabody-winning radio host and blues historian who hosted "King Biscuit Time" on KFFA from 1951 to the present -- via the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. AKA John William Payne.

Craig MacGregor

Bassist -- via Loudwire.

Nebojsa Glogovac

Actor -- via Balkan Insight.

Advent Bangun

Actor, martial artist, and priest -- via the Jakarta Post.

Nelson Cooke

Cellist -- via Slipped Disc.

Asma Jahangir

Human rights activist -- via the Guardian.

Wesla Whitfield

Singer -- via the New York Times. Wonderful phrasing!

Reg E. Cathey

Emmy-winning actor -- via CNN.

Johann Johannson

Composer noted for his scores for film, stage, and television -- via the BBC.

Wally Moon

Former All-Star MLB player -- via MLB. Known for his "Moon shots" that cleared the high screen to left in Dodgers Stadium. AKA Wallace Moon.

Ambalavaner Sivanandan

Novelist, activist, and political thinker -- via the Times of India.

Liliana Bodoc

Writer -- via Prensa Latina.