Alicia Alonso

Ballerina. Via the New York Times.

Leah Bracknell

Actress. Via the Guardian.

Roland Janson

Actor. Via the Teller Report.

Lorand Gaspar

Poet. Via rphfm.org.

Gunnar Torvund

Sculptor. Via Vest-Telemark blad.

Bill Macy

Actor; best known as Walter on TV's 'Maude'. Via Monsters and Critics.

Elijah Cummings

Lawmaker. Via the New York Times.

Bobby Del Greco

Former MLB player. Via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Hossein Dehlavi

Composer. Via the Tehran Times.

Jackie Hernandez

Former MLB player. Via triblive.com.

Ryszard Zaorski

Actor. Via tvp.info.

Patricio Bisso

Actor, cartoonist, costumer, and musician. Via Grupo La Provincia.

Cacho Castana

Singer. AKA  Humberto Vicente Castagna. Via Clarin.

Tamara Buciuceanu

Actress. Via Romania Insider.

Charles Jencks

Architectural historian, garden designer, and writer. Via the Guardian.

Dallas Harms

Singer. Via the Toronto Globe & Mail.

Julie Gibson

Singer and actress. Via the Hollywood Reporter.

Dorothea Buck

Memoirist. Via waz.de.

Sam Bobrick

TV writer and producer; creator of "Saved by the Bell"; playwright. Via Entertainment Weekly.

Baby Saroja

Child actress known as the "Shirley Temple of India". AKA Saroj Ramamrutham. Via The Hindu.

Walter Da Pozzo

Actor. Via spetttacolo.eu.

Kate Braverman

Writer. Via the L.A. Times.

Patrick Ward

Actor. Via TV Tonight.

Mikheil Kobakhidze

Filmmaker. Via sputnik-georgia.ru.

Raymond Fairchild

Banjo player. Via Bluegrass Today.

Bruce LeFavour

Chef. Via the New York Times.

Harold Bloom

Scholar and critic, autodidact and contrarian. He inspired me to do much reading and thinking, that can't be bad. Mostly importantly, he demonstrated to me that you can write clearly and compellingly about culture and reach a popular audience.  Via the New York Times.

George Chambers

Bassist with the Chambers Brothers ('Time Has Come Today'). Via Variety.

Steve Cash

Singer, songwriter, and harmonica player; co-founder of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils. Via Ozarks First.

Milcho Leviev

Pianist. Via the Sofia Globe.

Ivy Bethune

Actress. Via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

John Giorno

Poet and performance artist; creator of Dial-a-Poem (still going strong at 641-793-8122); snoozing star of Warhol's "Sleep." Via the New York Times.

Stephen Moore

Actor; remembered as the original voice of Marvin the robot in the original "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" radio series. Via the Guardian. 

Ettore Spalletti

Artist. Via ARTNews.

Janusz Kondratiuk

Director and screenwriter. Via The First News.

Makoto Wada

Illustrator, essayist, and director. Via asahi.com.

Lee Botts

Environmentalist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker. Via the Chicago Tribune.

Esmeralda Barros

Actress. Via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

Vinnie Bell

Session guitarist and inventor; creator of the first electric 12-string guitar, and the electric sitar, among other things. AKA Vincent Gambella. Via Facebook; I know, I know, but for some reason there is a well-written obituary there.

Reg Watson

TV writer and producer; creator of popular Australian soap opera "Neighbors." Via CNN.

Masaichi Kaneda

Japanese baseball's pitching "Emperor." Via the New York Times. 

Joe Heller

Just a regular guy who earned an affectionate and very funny obituary. You can find the original and complete obit here. Via the New York Times.

Ram Mohan

Animator known as the "Father of Indian animation." Via Animation Magazine.

Carlo Croccolo

Actor. Via Il Repubblica.

Alexi Leonov

Cosmonaut; first human to walk in space. Via the New York Times.

Douglas Moore

Minister and activist. Via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Kadri Gopalnath

Saxophonist. Via India Today.

Trinidad Morgades Besari

Writer. Via Ahora EG.

Ion Moraru

Writer and dissident. Via jurnal.md.

Richard Gregson

Film writer and producer. Via Instagram.

Jose Ortiz

Barber. Via Journal Sentinel.