Thursday, March 20, 2014

Vernita Gray

Activist -- via the Chicago Tribune.

Al Harewood

Drummer -- via jazztimes.com.




Jorge Arvizu aka El Tata

Comedian and voiceover actor -- via the Latin Times.


Celmira Luzardo

Actress -- via Fox News Latino.

Joe Lala

Drummer and actor -- via ultimateclassicrock.com.



Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Oswald Morris

Oscar-winning cinematographer -- via the L.A. Times. He won for "Fiddler on the Roof," but was adept at both black-and-white and color cinematography. He worked with John Huston eight times, from "Moulin Rouge" through "Beat the Devil" through "Moby Dick," culminating in "The Man Who Would Be King." Also did "The Guns of Navarone," "Lolita," "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold," "Sleuth," "The Odessa File" . . . suffice it to say he could work with directors of every temperament.


Terry "Bud" Bulling

Former MLB player -- via legacy.com.


Joe Mudele


Bassist -- via the Telegraph.

Clarissa Dickson Wright aka Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson Wright

Cook and co-host of "Two Fat Ladies" -- via the New York Times.

Ann Murray Paige

Journalist and writer -- via the Portland Press Herald.

Med Flory

Sax man -- via the L.A. Times.



Huseyn Darya

Rapper -- via apa.az.

Cees Veerman

Guitarist and performer -- via elsevier.nl.

Otakar Brousek

Actor -- via Radio Prague.

George Donaldson

Singer -- via Broadway World.

Valentin Fortunov

Writer -- via cross.bg.

Saturday, March 15, 2014

David Brenner

Comedian -- via the Las Vegas Review-Journal.



Friday, March 14, 2014

Cao Shunli

Dissident; murdered by the Chinese government by being denied medical treatment in detention -- via GMA Network.


Tony "Wedgie" Benn

Left-wing political figure -- via the New York Times. "A faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for; there is all the difference in the world."


Marilyn Butler

Literary scholar -- via the Guardian.


Ray Still

Oboist -- via the Chicago Tribune.


Joel Brinkley

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist -- via the Washington Post.