Greg Theakston

Comics historian, archivist, and publisher. Via Bleeding Cool.

Jacqui Saburido

Drunk-driving victim whose graphic injuries illustrated her activism. Via CNN.

Ventseslav Konstantinov

Writer, editor, and translator. Via Impressio.

Stanislaw Jedryka

Film director and screenwriter. Via tvn24.pl.

Frederick Mead

Actor and playwright. Via the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

Russell L. Lewis Jr.

Chief historian of the Chicago History Museum. Via the Chicago Sun-Times.

Hannelore Elsner

Actress and star of film and television. Via the Hollywood Reporter.

Dave Samuels

Vibraphonist, marimbist, and steelpan player best known for his work with Spyro Gyra. Via Rolling Stone India.

Irina Tsyvina

Actress. Via the Teller Report.

Ralph Vaccaro

Scientist; the world's oldest active curler (99). Via Cape News.

Heather Harper

Mezzo-soprano who retrained as a soprano; heard as a soloist at the premiere of Britten's 'War Requiem'; associated prominently with many Britten opera roles. Via the Guardian.

Martin Bottcher

Prolific film composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz guitarist. Best known for his extensive scoring of "Winnetou" (German-made Westerns) films. Via BR Klassik.


Winnetou Suite - Martin Böttcher / Arr: Guido Rennert from Harmonie Municipale de Dudelange on Vimeo.

Mya-Lecia Naylor

Actress. Via the Guardian.

Amar Pal

Folk singer, playback singer, and music director. Via Newsmen.

Amelita Vargas

Actress, singer, and dancer. AKA Amelia Vargas, The Queen of the Mambo. Via Periodico Cubano.

Mark Medoff

Tony- and Obie-winning playwright and screenwriter; best known for 'Children of a Lesser God' and 'When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?' Via the Las Cruces Sun News.

Fay McKenzie

Actress and singer who debuted on film more than 100 years ago. At the age of 10 weeks, she appeared as Gloria Swanson's baby in "Station Content" (1918). She continued in silent and sound film, appearing as Gene Autry's leading lady in five films. She worked extensively on stage and radio as well. AKA Fay Shannon. Via the Hollywood Reporter.

David Winters

Dancer and choreographer, producer and director, actor and singer; best remembered as A-Rab in the film adaptation of 'West Side Story.' Via the Times Square Chronicles.

Heidi Hetzer

Intrepid motorist who in 2014, at the age of 76, circumnavigated the globe in a vintage 1931-1932 Hudson Greater Eight luxury sedan. Via Autoblog.

Terry Rawlings

Film editor best known for his work with Ridley Scott ('Alien,' 'Blade Runner,' 'Legend'); also cut such films as 'Chariots of Fire,' 'Yentl,' and 'GoldenEye.' Via the Hollywood Reporter. 

Ica Putrih

Comedian. Via 24hr.com.

Doreen Spooner

Pioneering Fleet Street press photographer who documented Swinging London of the 1960s. Via the Daily Mirror.

Zora Dirnbach

Journalist, writer, screenwriter, and playwright. Via vecernji60.hr.

Ruth-Margret Putz

Coloratura soprano. AKA Margret Doerkes. Via the Telegraph.

Edward Allen Feilbert

Playwright best known for his adaptations of French farces. Via the Hollywood Reporter.

Phil Solomon

Avant-garde filmmaker and educator. Via Westword.

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian

Artist. Via the Art Newspaper.

Eddie Tigner

Pianist, singer, and songwriter. Via Making a Scene.

Trisha Graybill

Actress. Via legacy.com.

David Hamburg

Psychiatrist who worked to prevent war, poverty, disease, and hunger. Via the Frederick News-Post.

Jay Chevalier

Singer and songwriter who was namd Louisiana's first State Troubador; his "Come Back to Louisiana" was named the official Katrina Recovery song. AKA Joe. J. Chevalier. Via KALB.

Claire Boiko

Children's writer who was also an inveterate and determined game show contestant. With her husband Bernard, appeared on 28 different game shows between 1956 and 1993. Via legacy.com.

Gustavo Arias Murueta

Artist and poet. Via El Economista.

David Mooney

Actor best known for his performance in the title role of the bizarre 1973 film "The Baby." AKA David Manzy. Via Mangum Funeral Home.

Pieter Verhoeff

Film and television director ('The Mark of the Beast').   Via De Telegraf.

Teddi Sherman

Actress and screenwriter; her parents divorced when she was 2 years old and she lived in a convent until she was 16. Wrote extensively for early television. Via the Malibu Times.

John McEnery

Actor. He was a performer I kept seeing time and again; his intelligence and energy were always captivating. He was Mercutio in Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet," and played Kerensky memorably in "Nicholas and Alexandra." His real love was the stage, and he appears to great comic effect in a number of roles in the immense ensemble "Nicholas Nickleby" of 1980. Via the Guardian.

Josine Ianco-Starrels

Art curator and museum director. Via the L.A. Times.

Hansjorg Auer, David Lama, Jess Roskelley

Auer (left), Lama (center), Roskelley (right)

Mountaineers killed in avalanche during ascent of east face of Howse Peak in Banff National Park, Canada. Via Fox 2 Now.

Jerry Antes

Actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer; he spent 66 years in show business working on film, on TV, and on stages across the country. Via legacy.com.

Sally O'Neill, Ana Paula Hernandez, Ana Velasquez, Daniel Tuc

Sally O'Neill left; Ana Hernandez right

Human rights workers and their driver, killed in car crash during trip on behalf of the Fund for Global Human Rights. Via the New York Times.

Ryszard Kaja

Artist known for his poster work; graphic and theatrical designer. Via Wyborcza.pl.

Jorg Demus

Pianist. Via br-klassik.de.

Francisca Aguirre

Poet and writer. Via El Pais.

Ferenc Bacs

Actor. Via westernboothill.blogspot.com.