Thursday, December 12, 2013

Jim Hall

Guitarist -- via the New York Times.





Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Paddy O'Byrne

Broadcaster and actor -- via The Witness.

Andy Pierce aka Anders Persson

Singer -- via blabbermouth.net.

Peeter Mudist

Artist -- via PostTimes.ee.


Tom Krause

Bass-baritone -- via yle.fi.

Don Mitchell

Actor -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com. Best remembered for his role as Mark Sanger in TVs "Ironside."

Joana Raspall i Juanola

Writer -- via ara.cat.

Joana Raspall i Juanola. Recull de poemes (1) from Ticotazos Bloc d'aula on Vimeo.


Fernando Argenta

Journalist, musician, and radio host -- via El Pais.

Fred Waters

Photojournalist -- via the Daily Mail.

Gene Clair

Sound engineer extraordinaire -- via livedesignonline.com.


Nobert Kuchinke

Journalist and actor -- via mk.ru.

Avo Paistik

Cartoonist, author, film director, painter and pastor -- via kultur.err.ee.

Sacha Sosno aka Alexandre Joseph Sosnowsky

Sculptor and painter -- via Corse Matin.

Sefi Rivlin

Actor and comedian -- via the Jerusalem Post.

Maurice Cockrill

Painter and poet -- via the Guardian.

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Chet Krule aka Chester Krolewicz

Guitarist -- via ricksmusic.com.

Edward Kleinhammer

Trombonist -- via the Chicago Sun-Times.

Charles "Buddy" Bicknell

Former MLB player -- via legacy.com.

Danny Wells aka Jack Westelman

Actor -- via TV Guide.

Brian Torrey Scott

Writer, playwright, and filmmaker -- via the Brown Daily Herald.

Sister Mary Nerney

Advocate for women in prison -- via the New York Times.

George Werley

Former MLB pitcher -- via legacy.com.

Mary Riggans

Actress -- via The Herald.


Robert Allman

Bass-baritone -- via Limelight Magazine.

Lynne Hazelden

Background artist -- via starwarsaficionado.blogspot.com.

Bill Porter

Door-to-door salesman -- via the New York Times.

Larry Pennell

Actor -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com. Best remembered for his guest role as Dash Riprock on "The Beverly Hillbillies."




Claire Grove

Radio drama producer -- via the Guardian. Most memorably, she staged the ENTIRE "Ulysses" for audio on Bloomsday, 2012.

Colin Wilson

Writer -- via Eyewear (the blog). "Wilson wrote and published around 100 books - he was a jobbing, hack writer, true - and he repeated his main idea endlessly.  But it was a compelling idea, that extreme states of experience make us glimpse eternity, another better world.  He was that rare thing, an optimistic existential thinker.  It seems very strange that England's very own Poe - the critic as creative writer, obsessed with sex, murder, sci-fi, ideas, the uncanny, and religion, should not have been recognised as a nutty but essential figure on the landscape."

Colin Eglin

Anti-apartheid activist -- via the New York Times.

Monday, December 9, 2013

Eleanor Parker

Actress -- via the Hollywood Reporter. She will probably be typed in memory as The Baroness in "The Sound of Music," but for decades before that she was a solid heroine in a slew of films, earning many award nominations for work in films such as "Detective Story," "Caged," "Interrupted Melody," and "The Man with the Golden Arm."

Christopher Evan Welch

Actor -- via the New York Times.

Ahmed Fouad Negm

The "poet of the people" in Egypt -- via CNN.




Tabu Ley Rochereau

Singer, songwriter, and bandleader -- via the New York Times.






Joe Bihari

Blues producer, label owner, and talent scout -- via the L.A. Times.

Michael Kammen

Historian -- via the Washington Post.

Sunday, December 8, 2013

Friday, December 6, 2013

Martin Sharp

Artist -- via the New York Times. Incidentally, he wrote the lyrics for "Tales of Brave Ulysses."


Andre Schiffrin

Publisher -- via the New York Times.

Joseph Richard "Dick" Dodd

Drummer and lead singer for the Standells; their big hit was "Dirty Water" -- via the New York Times.

Peter Kaplan

Editor -- via the New York Times.