Shinobu Hashimoto

Masterful screenwriter; created or co-created many of Kurosawa's greatest screenplays -- via the Hollywood Reporter. Try these credits -- Rashomon, Ikiru, The Seven Samurai, I Live in Fear, Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress, The Bad Sleep Well, Dodes'ka-den, Harakiri.

Edmund Ikeda

Actor -- via legacy.com.

Tad Selzer

Radio host -- via the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. AKA Brother Tad.

Christa Dichgans

Artist -- via Der Tagesspiel.

Radoslav Nenadal

Writer and translator -- via iDNES.cz.

Gary Beach

Tony-winning actor ('The Producers') -- via the Hollywood Reporter.

Adrian Cronauer

Radio host commemorated in Good Morning Vietnam -- via WSLS.

Van McLain

Guitarist -- via the Kansas City Star. AKA Van Allen McElvain.

Jessica Mann

Writer, journalist, and broadcaster -- via the Telegraph.

Nathan Adler

Actor -- via Henderson & Sons Funeral Home.

Ye Lwin

Bassist, guitarist, singer, and peace activist -- via the Democratic Voice of Burma.

Jaime Guardia

Singer and charango player -- via El Comercio.

Marija Kohn

Actress -- via gloria.hr.

Gabriel Caruana

Artist -- via the Times of Malta.

Rita Bhaduri

Actress -- via NDTV.

Hugh Whitemore

Masterful playwright, screenwriter, and TV dramatist -- via the Guardian. Theater: Breaking the Code, Stevie, Pack of Lies. Screen: Stevie, 84 Charing Cross Road. TV: The Gathering Storm.

Cleveland 'Cleve' McCarty

First climber to conceive of and execute the climbing of Colorado's 52 14,000-foot -plus peaks in 52 days, in 1960 -- via The Know.

Cornel Girbea

Actor -- via cancan.ro.

Joseph 'Soso' Lagidze

Actor -- via Georgia Today.

Petr Weigl

Film and theater director -- via Radio Prague.

George Theiss

Singer, songwriter, and bandleader; as head of the Castiles, co-wrote Bruce Springsteen's first recorded songs -- via App.

Christine Nostlinger

Writer -- via the Washington Post.

Les Lieber

Publicist and journalist who revived his love of playing sax (and, of all things, jazz penny whistle), and helped countless others letting amateur jazz players mix with pros, by helming NYC's Jazz at Noon series for 45 years -- via the New York Times.

Frank Giroud

Comics writer -- via Le Progres.

K Rani

Playback singer -- via the New Indian Express.

Stan Dragoti

Director known for two outstanding comedies: Love at First Bite (1979) and Mr. Mom (1983) -- via the Hollywood Reporter. Initially an ad man, he created the legendary "I Love New York" campaign with Charlie Moss.

Yvonne Blake

Oscar-winning costume designer -- via the Hollywood Reporter. Won the Oscar for Nicholas and Alexandra (1971); also did strong work for such films as Superman (1978), Lester's Three and Four Musketeers (1973, 1974), and Jesus Christ Superstar (1973).

Theryl ‘Houseman’ DeClouet

Singer best known for his work with Galactic -- via the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

Abdelkhader Houamel

Artist -- via zerfachaouis.com.

Carlos Federico Abente

Poet -- via telesurtv.net.

Atukwei Okai

Poet -- via Face 2 Face Africa.

Stan 'The Record Man' Lewis

Record-store and music label owner -- via KSLA. The song "Susie Q" was written about his daughter.

Robert Wolders

Actor -- via the Hollywood Reporter.

Vidmante Jasukaityte

Writer -- via Delfi.

Luc Rosenzweig

Journalist -- via Causeur.

Roger Perry

Actor -- via Variety.

Mai Tai Sing

Actress, singer, and dancer -- via the L.A. Times. AKA May Tsang.

Ponty Bone

Accordionist -- via Austin360. AKA Harry DePontaBone.

George Jenson

Visual-effects master and production illustrator -- via Deadline.

Claude Seignolle

Writer -- via ActuaLitte. AKA Starcante, S. Claude, Jean-Robert Dumoulin.