Nikolai Karachentsov

Actor -- via Radio Free Europe.

James Lawton

Sportswriter -- via the Express.

Terry Ward

Recipient of a funny, loving obituary -- via A Good Goodbye.

Anatoly Gladilin

Writer -- via Svoboda.

Hip Hop Pantsula

Rapper -- via Nehanda Radio. AKA Jabulani Tsambo.

Tony Joe White

Singer, songwriter, and guitarist ('Polk Salad Annie,' 'Rainy Night in Georgia') -- via

Chahine Yavroyan

Lighting designer -- via The Stage.

Tony Hoagland

Poet -- via the New York Times.

Raymond Fraser

Writer -- via the CBC.

Silvio Palmieri

Composer -- via Ludwig Van Montreal.

Wah Wah Watson

Guitar great; member of the Funk Brothers -- via the Digital Journal. AKA Melvin Raglin.

John Gillespie

Guitarist for Ronnie Dove and the Bell-Tones -- via legacy.com.

John D. Lamond

Director, producer, and screenwriter -- via Inside Film.

Kevin Yon

Voiceover artist -- via woodtv.com.

Hesper Anderson Levenstein

Screenwriter -- via Mark Ballen Mortuary.

Osamu Shimomura

Nobel-winning chemist who survived Nagasaki -- via the New York Times. He isolated a luminescent protein used in medical research; basically, he created a tiny biological flashlight!

Na. Muthuswamy

Playwright -- via The News Minute.

Alojz Rebula

Writer -- via delo.si.

Francois Montmaneix

Poet -- via Libra Memoria.

Koji Tsujitani

Voice actor -- via Crunchyroll.

Dorcas Reilly

Creator of the crunchy green bean casserole -- via the New York Times.

James Karen

Acting great -- via the Hollywood Reporter. AKA Jacob Karnofsky.

Gaetan Gervais

Historian; helped design and first raised the Franco-Ontario flag -- via the CBC.

Keiichiro Kimura

Animator -- via Kotaku.

Nobuo Tanaka

Voice actor -- via comicbook.com.

Jon James McMurray

Rapper -- via CNN. AKA John James. Unfortunately, not a student of physics, he died while attempting to wing-walk and rap at the same time..

Robert Saladrigas

Writer and literary critic -- via ara.cat.

Titi Qadarsih

Singer -- via tempo.co.

Horacio Cardo

Artist and illustrator -- via Clarin.

Pyotr Moryakov

Poet and journalist -- via sib.fm.

Judith Kazantzis

Poet, essayist, and novelist -- via the Guardian.

Wen C. Fong

Art scholar and curator -- via the New York Times.

Mighty Shadow

Singer and musician -- via the Guardian. AKA Winston McGarland Bailey.

Abdrahman Asylbek

Poet -- via Azattyq.

Tawfiq al-Asha

Actor -- via TV Boom.

Joachim Ronnenberg

Nazi fighter; one of the 'heroes of Telemark' -- via the New York Times.

Diane Jergens

Actress -- via emmys.com. AKA Diane Irgens.

David Posner

An exceptional rabbi -- via the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Shirley Toulson

Poet, journalist, writer, and editor; expert on Britain's ancient pathways -- via the Telegraph.

Sergey Bondarenko

Singer -- via Newsbeezer.

Hua Yueh

Actor -- via Jaynestars. AKA Elliot Ngok, Ngok Wah, Leung Lok-wah.

Raul Marrero

Singer, songwriter, and conductor -- via Latina Stereo.

Daniel Honore

Writer -- via Freedom.

Randolph Hokanson

Pianist -- via the Seattle Times.

Leonid Brusin

Actor -- via the Teller Report.

Diana Sowle

Actress best remembered as Charlie Bucket's mother in Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory -- via the BBC.

Roberto Burgos Cantor

Writer -- newsbeezer.com.

Fredric Stone

Actor -- via the Chicago Tribune.

Donald G. Payne

Writer -- via the Sydney Morning Herald. AKA James Vance Marshall, Ian Cameron, Donald Gordon. Several of his works were filmed, most notably Walkabout.

Michael J. Reynolds

Actor -- via Performers.