Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Gottfried John

Actor -- via Deutsche Welle. A frequent collaborator with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, he was also seen in the Bond film "GoldenEye."




Walt Shotwell

Journalist and writer -- via the Des Moines Register.

Michael Katz

History professor -- via philly.com.

David Bala

Actor -- via insing.com.

Lars-Erik "Brasse" Brannstrom

Actor -- svd.se.

Steven Sotloff

Journalist -- via the Telegraph. Reportedly beheaded by jihadist group ISIS.

WEEKLY READER: Roundup of stories on death, dying, mourning, and more

TOP STORIES

“10 reasons why I want to talk about death” from Elaine Voci in the Indianapolis Star

Mourning Michael Brown, from Stacia Brown

Caleb Wilde in Confessions of a Funeral Director makes some predictions about the future of the funeral industry

DEATH





Sierra Leone funeral is catalyst for 14 Ebola infections – via Donald G. McNeil, Jr. at the New York Times

Death over Dinner’s Michael Hebb talks to the Tennessean’s Alex Tolbert


MOURNING

Police violence victim Michael Brown’s funeral – reported by Monica Davey in the New York Times

Grief and change, by Eliza Berman in Slate


FUNERALS

Hearse horse dies in harness – via arbroath.blogspot.com.

A rundown on funeral costs from Michael Camacho in the Pacific Daily News

Portrait of a funeral home’s staff beautician – by Tom Eblen in the Lexington Herald-Leader


Charles Bowden

Journalist -- via Forbes. A pretty amazing writer, with the guts to go into Ciudad Juarez and write extensively about the evil going on there.








Stephen Lee

Actor -- via People.

Joe Bethancourt

Musician -- via the Arizona Republic.







Petr Sporcl

Actor -- via Zpravy.

Masakane Yonekura

Monday, September 1, 2014

Bipan Chandra

Historian -- via the Indian Express.

Bryce Dion

Sound supervisor -- via the Guardian. Killed while filming an episode of "Cops" in Omaha.

Maria Lassnig

Artist -- via the Guardian.

Uziah "Sticky" Thompson

Percussionist on many reggae classics -- via the Jamaica Observer.






Arthur H. White

Helped found Reading is Fundamental -- via the New York Times.

Stu Gilliam

Lida Moser

Photographer -- via the Washington Post.


Bill Kerr

Actor -- via the BBC.



Renato Mori

Actor and voice talent -- via Yahoo Cinema Italia.

Aldo Donati

Singer and composer -- via Spettacoli e Cultura.

Sunday, August 31, 2014

Victoria Mallory

Actress and singer -- via Broadway World.





Tim "Rawbiz" Williams

Jim Petrie

Peter Hales

Art history professor -- via the University of Illinois at Chicago.


Benno Pludra

Children's writer -- via mdr.de.

Glenn Cornick

Original bassist for Jethro Tull -- via Rolling Stone.

Valeri Petrov

Poet and translator -- via ABC News.

Peret

Singer and guitarist; "king of the Catalan rumba" -- via Billboard. AKA Pedro Pubill Calaf



Lars Mortimer

Cartoonist -- via Vasterbottens-Kuriren.

Jan Groth

Singer -- via eurovoix.com.

Friday, August 29, 2014

Rosetta Hightower Green

Lead singer with the Orlons -- via Facebook. Among their hits: "Don't Hang Up," "South Street," and "The Wah Watusi."









Yehezkel Braun

Composer -- via Slipped Disc.







Walter Mazzone

Dive master and underwater expert -- via the New York Times.

Mervyn Susser

Epidemiologist -- via the New York Times.

Ahmed Seif al-Islam

Human rights lawyer -- via the New York Times.

Enrique Zileri

Publisher who defied dictators -- via the New York Times.

George Barrett

Civil rights lawyer -- via the Tennessean.

William Greaves

Filmmaker and journalist -- via the New York Times. Best known for his creation of TV's "Black Journal," and the unique film project "Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One."








Jason Curley

Bassist -- via the Sydney Morning Herald.



Inga Juuso

Jindrich Pokorny

Translator, editor, and writer -- via Radio Prague.

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Birgitta Stenberg

Writer -- via dn.se.

Verna Vels

Writer -- via channel24.co.za.

U R Ananthamurthy

Writer -- via Indian Express. AKA Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy

Earl Calloway

Lois Mai Chan

Librarian -- via the University of Kentucky.