Yuriko Hoshi

Actress -- via Mainichi. AKA Yuriko Shimizu.

Gerard Jouannest

Pianist and arranger best known as accompanist to greats such as Jacques Brel and Juliette Greco -- via Infoglitz.

Trevor Preston

Innovative writer for film and television -- via the Guardian.

James Engebretson

Musician and composer -- via the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

Hideki Saijo

Singer -- via Japan Today.

Vernon Harper

Medicine man and indigenous rights activist -- via the Toronto Star.

Aisha Abimbola

Actress -- via the Vanguard.

Lucian Pintilie

Director and filmmaker -- via the Washington Post.

Giraddi Govindraj

Critic, poet, and teacher -- via The Hindu.

Jose Lavat

Voiceover artist -- via comicbook.com.

Josh Greenfield

Writer, playwright, and screenwriter -- via Mainichi.

Eli Avivi

Creator and president of the micronation of Achzivland -- via ABC.

Janine Reynaud

Actress -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

Leah Napolin

Playwright -- via the New York Times.


On 'Yentl' with Leah Napolin from Theater J on Vimeo.

Harold Guskin

Acting teacher and director --via the New York Times.

Joseph Campanella

Actor -- via Variety. The remarkable, ever-present performer's stretched from 1952 to 2009. Solid and dependable on stage, screen, and TV, Campanella was also a master of the voiceover, serving in many pitchman and narrative capacities thanks to his commanding yet soothing delivery.

Elena Gremina

Murdered playwright -- via the Daily Beast. Killed, as was her husband and their lawyer earlier, presumably for her anti-Putin play One Hour and Eighteen Minutes, concerning the murder of Putin opponent Sergei Magnitsky.




One Hour Eighteen Minutes by Elena Gremina from Noah Birksted-Breen on Vimeo.

Fred Lee Noa

Roller Derby star -- via the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. AKA The Flyin' Hawaiian." 

Balakumaran

Writer -- via The Hindu.

Dokdin Kanyaman

Director and actor -- via The Nation. AKA Thamrong Kanyaman.

Tom Murphy

Playwright -- via the Guardian.

Zlatko Bourek

Animator, filmmaker, artist, and scholar -- via the Animation World Network.

Peter Byrne

Actor -- via the Guardian.

Bob Woffinden

Investigative journalist -- via the Guardian.

Andreas Findig

Writer -- via phantastiknews.de.

Jonathan Sternberg

Conductor -- via The Violin Channel.

Frank Quilici

Former MLB player -- via KARE.

William Vance

Comics artist -- via the Daily Sun.

Roberto Farias

Filmmaker -- via O Globo.

Gogon

Comedian -- via the Jakarta Post. AKA Gogon Margono. 

Tom Wolfe

Journalist and writer; leading light of the "new journalism" movement -- via the New York Times.

Matt Marks

Composer and musician; an integral part of Alarm Will Sound -- via WPSU.

Beth Chatto

Gardener and writer -- via the Independent.

Rosemarie Schuder

Writer -- via Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk.

Rogelio Blain

Actor -- via Granma.

Jack Sures

Artist -- via the CBC.

Glenn Branca

Outstanding avant-garde composer and guitarist -- via Billboard.

Margot Kidder

Actress and activist -- via the New York Times.

Hamp Swain

Radio host and musician -- via the Macon Telegraph. AKA the King Bee. He gave Little Richard his first job as a vocalist, was the first to play James Brown's first hit, "Please Please Please," and hosted a talent show that gave Otis Redding his start. Quite an influential figure!

Kalasala Babu

Actor -- via The Hindu.

Baadur Tsuladze

Actor and filmmaker -- via 1tv.ge.

Antonio Mercero

Award-winning director in film and TV -- via El Pais.

Charles Thake

Actor -- via the Malta Independent.

Sam Nzima

Photographer -- via the Guardian.

Al Stanek

Former MLB pitcher -- via Mass Live.

Anita Das

Actress -- via the New Indian Express.

Neelu

Actor -- via the New Indian Express. AKA R Neelakantan.

Mikhail Alperin

Pianist -- via Slipped Disc.

Patricia O'Grady

Actress; noted as a remarkable recipient of the benefits of rent control. Her Greenwich Villaage "cold-water flat" (no heat, no hot water) cost her $28.43 per month -- via the New York Post.

Sally Mays

Pianist, educator, and music editor -- via the Guardian.