Sunday, June 22, 2014

Edward Munatsireyi Pswarayi

Doctor and liberation fighter -- via allafrica.com.

Gerd Zacher

Composer and organist -- via Neue Zurcher Zeitung.

Majed Sultan

Artist -- via the Bahrain News Agency.


Keshav Malik

Poet and critic -- via The Asian Age.


Robert Peters

Patsy Byrne

Gerry Conlon

Ryuzo Hayashi

Actor -- via Kyodo News.

Elio Carmichael Jiménez

Artist best known for this murals -- via El Sol de Leon.

Jurij Gustinčič

Journalist -- via slovenia.si.

JayAre aka Cahron Childs

Rapper -- via Rolling Stone. Best known as part of Cali Swag District and "Tech Me to Dougie" --




Friday, June 20, 2014

Tom Rounds

Creator of the rock festival, music-video pioneer, and co-creator of "American Top 40" -- via Rolling Stone. The KRFC Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival took place on Mount Tamalpais on June 10-11, 1967 -- beating Monterey Pop by one week to be the first rock festival ever, and the birthplace of the Summer of Love and hippie culture.


Pier Niccolò “Bambi” Fossati

Billy McCool

Former MLB pitcher -- via legacy.com.


Gene Slott

Impresario and idea man -- via the Tampa Bay Times.

Maciej Lukaszczyk

Pianist -- via the Echo Online.

Sam Kelly

Actor -- via the BBC.





Jim Keays

Kefee aka Kefee Obareki Don-Momoh aka The Branama Queen

Singer -- via the BBC.

Mark Ballinger


Former MLB pitcher -- via Buxton Bass Okeechobee Funeral Home.

Roger Mayne

Photographer -- via the Guardian. Best kn own for his work documenting the life of the now-vanished Southam Street, made famous by "Absolute Beginners."




Thursday, June 19, 2014

Carla Laemmle

Actress -- via the Hollywood Reporter. Hollywood veteran who appeared in both the silent "Phantom of the Opera" and the Lugosi "Dracula."








John Hartley Williams

Poet -- via the Guardian.

Kim Heung-sou

Artist -- via koogle.tv.


Gilles Segal

Actor and playwright -- via Le Figaro. Best remembered as Giulio the Human Fly in "Topkapi."


Veronica Lazar

Actress -- via blitzquotidiano.it. Worked with Bertolucci, Antonioni, Fulci, and Argento, among others.

Gerry Goffin

Hall of Fame lyricist -- via the Rolling Stone. With composer Carole King, wrote classic songs, including "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," "One Fine Day," "Take Good Care of My Baby," "Chains," "The Loco-Motion," "Don't Say Nothin' Bad," "Pleasant Valley Sunday," and "A Natural Woman": with others, wrote the words for such songs as "Who Put the Bomp," "Do You Know Where You're Going To," and "Saving All My Love for You."
















Kevin Elyot

Playwright, screenwriter, and actor -- via the Guardian. Best known for his work "My Night with Meg."


Ivo Vinco

Bass -- via gramilano.com.



Lee Hyla

Composer -- via the New York Times.





Victor Khoo

Entertainer, radio host, and ventriloquist -- via Yahoo News Singapore.

Roger Ackling

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Daniel Keyes

Joy Laurey

Puppeteer -- via the Guardian.


Alan Douglas aka Alan Douglas Rubenstein

Music producer -- via the Guardian. Valued highly for his bold and progressive work in jazz and proto-rap poetry; controversial for his reworkings of late-period, incomplete Jimi Hendrix recordings.

Yvan Labelle

Actor -- via obitsforlife.com.

Clifford Severn Sr,

Cricketer and child actor -- via dreamcricket.com.


Horace Silver aka Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva

Composer and pianist; one of jazz's greatest figures  -- via NPR. He created hard bop, the Jazz Messengers, and so much more . . . (confirmed his death as he was mistakenly reported as dying on Dec. 17 of last year).Can't name a favorite album, as I have loved every one I've ever spun.










Karen DeCrow

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

Just a lovely conductor -- via the Telegraph.





David Nadien

Eric Hill

Don Normark

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Elodie Lauten aka Genevieve Schecroun

Composer -- via the New York Times.