Alex Cassie

WWII vet who aided "The Great Escape" -- via the New York Times.

K.D. Wentworth

Writer -- via Tulsa World.

Robert Broyles

Character actor and acting teacher -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

John O'Neil

Baseball player -- via Buffalo, NY news.

Teddy Charles aka Theodore Charles Cohen

Vibraphonist and composer and sea captain -- via the New York Times.

"Obituaries as an educational tool"

Some good observations by Cory Franklin in the pages of the Chicago Tribune --

Bill "Moose" Skowron

Stellar first baseman -- via the New York Daily News. An eight-time All-Star and a member of five World Series-winning teams -- he hit 211 homers during the course of his career.

Paul Bogart aka Paul Bogoff

Emmy-winning television and film director -- via the New York Times. A master of live television and the situation comedy; also directed one of my favorite filmed performances of all time, Hal Holbrook's "Mark Twain Tonight!"

Dom Valentino

Sportscaster -- via the New York Times.

Anne Drew

Filmmaker -- via IndieWire.

Herbert Maurice William 'Bert' Weedon

Guitarist -- via the BBC.

Jack Ashley aka Lord Ashley

Politician who actually did good things! -- via the Independent.

Jane Taylor

Bassoonist and mainstay of the Dorian Wind Quintet -- via the New York Times.

Lou Goldstein

Comedian, tummler, social director, and master of Simon Says -- via the New York Times.

Micah True aka Caballo Blanco aka Michael Randall Hickman

Pioneer of ultrarunning -- via the Telegraph.

Thomas Langhoff

Theater director -- via the Independent.

Al Veigel

Former MLB pitcher -- via Legacy.com.

Howard Mansfield III: "When no one comes to mourn"

Great story by Melanie Creamer about one man who had no mourners, no obituary and no headstone -- via the Portland Press-Herald.

Grant Tilly

Actor -- via stuff.co.nz.

Barry Cahill

Actor -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

Ritchie Teeter

Rock drummer -- via Dangerous Minds. He played most notably with The Dictators and Twisted Sister.

Karyn Kay

Teacher, writer and filmmaker -- via CBS News.

David Holtzman

Gay activist -- via vancouverdesi.com.

Lili Chookasian

Contralto -- via the New York Times.

Maria-Pia Casilio

Actress -- via La Repubblica.

Virginia Spencer Carr

Biographer of McCullers, Bowles and Williams -- via the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer.

Yolanda Merida aka Yolanda Noemí Alpuche Morales

Actress -- via television.com.

Hal McKusick

Jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and fluist -- via the Sag Harbor News.