Sunday, June 27, 2010

Jean-Leonard Rugambage


Rwandan journalist murdered -- via the BBC

Sergio Vega el Shaka


Mexican musician murdered -- via helium.com


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John Willis


Theatre World founder -- via broadwayworld.com

Walt LaRue


Cowboy, stunt man, actor, artist -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com

Stuart Brent


Chicago bookseller was a champion of writers and the printed word -- via the Chicago Sun-Times

Benny Powell


Great trombonist -- via NPR

Lorn Brown


Sports broadcaster -- via the Las Cruces Sun-News

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Marie-Luise Jahn


Physician was part of the anti-Nazi group "the White Rose" -- via sueddeutsche.com

Ben Sonnenberg


Founder and publisher of Grand Street -- via the New York Times. He did what he damn pleased.

Robert Dunlap aka Ballarat Bob


One of the last of the old-time prospectors -- via the L.A. Times

Spencer G. Shaw


Librarian advocated literacy efforts for children -- via the Seattle Times

William Allen Kruse


Fishing captain was evidently suicide as result of Gulf oil spill -- via al.com

Paul Wilcox


Broadcaster was host of "Polka Varieties" for 27 years -- via Cleveland.com

Martha Benton


Advocate for public housing residents -- via the Baltimore Sun

Chuck Hedges


Jazz clarinetist -- via groups.google.com/group/alt.obituaries and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Wendell Logan


Composer -- via the New York Times

Mary Jane Coleman


Film festival director championed independent film -- via the Greeneville Sun

Fred Anderson


Great saxophonist -- via the New York Times

Frank Giering


Solid German actor -- via Reuters. He may be best remembered for his role as a psychotic killer in Haneke's original version of "Funny Games."

Pennant Roberts


English TV director -- via Doctor Who News

Tracy Wright


Canadian actress -- via the Toronto Globe and Mail

Rosemary Gillespie aka Waratah Rose


Australian human rights activist -- via World News Australia

Ursula Thiess


German-born actress was widow of Robert Taylor -- via the Beatrice Daily Sun

Kalmen Opperman


Master clarinetist -- via the New York Times

Joe Deal


Landscape photographer showed us a screwed-up American West -- via the New York Times

Deborah Jo White aka Jo Jo Billingsley


Former Lynryd Skynyrd back-up singer -- via the Cullman Times. She had a prophetic dream about the 1977 plane crash that devastated the band -- she later became a Christian minister and singer.

Edith Shain


Woman who claimed to be part of iconic V-J Day photo -- via the L.A. Times

Alan Plater


English playwright and novelist best known for his literary adaptations -- via the Times of London

Pete Quaife


Original bassist with the Kinks -- via the Guardian

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Walter Rodriguez


Actor, director and playwright -- via the Puerto Rico Daily Sun

Tam White


Scottish blues singer and actor -- via the BBC

Irwin Barker


Canadian comedian -- via the CBC

John Ferrugio


Pan Am in-flight director was the hero of Flight 93 in September, 1970, helping to evacuate all 170 passengers and crew before terrorists exploded their hijacked plane -- via the Boston Globe

Monday, June 21, 2010

Larry Jon Wilson


Singer, songwriter and musician you've probably not heard of. Why? Because he wouldn't compromise. Via the Tennessean

Chris Sievey


Very interesting comic, musician and writer best known for his papier-mache-headed persona, Frank Sidebottom -- via the BBC

Daisy D'Ora


German silent film star and noted beauty later became diplomat's wife, started home for children -- via Mittelbayerische