Brian Rusike

Musician and songwriter -- via Nehanda Radio.

Sonny Knowles

Singer and musician -- via the Irish Times.

H. Peter Stern

Co-founder of Storm King Art Center -- via the New York Times.

Charles Glass

Cartoonist -- via the Daily Cartoonist.

Marian Geisberg

Actor and musician -- via Pravda.

William Goldman

Oscar-winning screenwriter ('Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' 'All the President's Men'), and novelist, playwright, script doctor, journalist, and memoirist -- via Variety. He wrote the masterful, funny fantasy novel The Princess Bride in 1973; in 1987, he adapted his own novel for the screen, creating a beloved classic. In fact, he was a master of adaptation, and his imprint is on screen stories and structure permanently. Here's a short list: Harper, The Hot Rock, The Stepford Wives, Marathon Man (from his novel), A Bridge Too Far, Misery.

Roy Clark

Country musician and singer -- via USA Today.

Morten Grunwald

Actor and director -- via the Teller Report.

Fernando del Paso

Novelist and poet -- via the Washington Post.

Alistair Elliot

Writer and translator -- via the Guardian.

Douglas Wright

Dancer and choreographer -- via Stuff.

Zaibo

Actor -- via CNA Lifestyle. AKA Zainal Ariffin Abd Hamid.

Babs Beverley

Singer; member of the Beverley Sisters -- via the Express.

Lucho Gatica

Singer known as 'the king of bolero' -- via Billboard.

Kenneth Stewart

Interesting person best known as the subject of the 2014 documentary film 'The Trick to Escape a Strait Jacket' -- via the News and Tribune.

Fred Patten

Writer and historian -- via File 770.

Igor Luchenok

Composer -- via naviny.by.

Katherine 'Scottie' Macgregor

Actress -- via Tele-Loisiers.

Sergei Yurtaykin

Actor -- via tech2.org.

James Greene

Actor -- via Broadway World.

Adair Bryant Simon

Actress -- via legacy.com.

Wayne Maunder

Actor -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

Devah Pager

Sociologist and educator -- via the Harvard Crimson.

Jerry Gant

Poet and artist -- via Newark Patch.

Wolfgang Zuckermann

Harpsichord maker, and activist -- via overgrownpath.com.

Leonid Zrelov

Writer -- via trc33.ru.

Kenneth Roy

Journalist, publisher, and writer -- via the Scotsman.

Louise DeSalvo

Scholar and writer -- via the New York Times.

Joel Barcellos

Actor -- via Famous.

Paula Wayne

Actress -- via Broadway.

Roland Mahauden

Director, actor, and writer -- via La Libre.

Ronald A. Negray

Former MLB player -- via legacy.com.

Olga Harmony

Playwright, drama critic, and historian -- via La Jornada.

Juris Jurjevics

Publisher and writer -- via the New York Times.

Sarah Nyendwoha Ntiro

Scholar, teacher, and women's rights activist -- via New Vision.

Ken Narita

Singer -- via Anime News Network.

Amalia Panahova

Actress -- via news.day.az.

Stan Lee

Comic-book writer, editor, and publisher; led Marvel Comics in its glory days, through tough times, and finally its modern rebirth in many mediums -- via the Hollywood Reporter. AKA Stanley Martin Lieber. He co-created such characters as the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, the Hulk, Dr. Strange, Daredevil, Black Panther, the X-Men, Ant-Man, Iron Man, Nick Fury, and Thor. He revolutionized the superhero comic, introducing complex characters, emotional conflicts, and serious issues.

Shirley Hellyar

Actress -- via the BBC.

Frank Rotondo

Bartender extraordinaire -- via the Chicago Sun-Times.

Irvin Williams

Gardener -- via the Washington Post.

Max Croci

Director -- via ANSA.

Bertil Martensson

Writer -- via file770.com.

Douglas Rain

Actor immortalized as the voice of the computer HAL 9000 in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey -- via My Stratford Now.

Pierre Wolfe

Restaurateur -- via the Denver Post. His Quorum on Denver's Capitol Hill was one of the tony places in which to dine for decades; later he ran Tante Louise and the Normandy. He was smooth, charming, worked hard, made great food. In later years he was a broadcaster who covered the regional culinary scene with gusto and class.

Ken Howell

Former MLB pitcher -- via Dodger Insider.

Tetsuo Goto

Voice actor -- via Anime News Network.

Lalan Sarang

Actress -- via the Times of India.

Nikolai Rumantzev

Actor -- via 24smi.org.