Mark Farren (1982 - 2016)

Mark Farren began his football career with a largely unsuccessful period, throughout which he was dogged by injury, in the youth setup at Tranmere Rovers. Following this and a spell at Huddersfield Town, he returned to his home county to play for Finn Harps. After only one substitute League appearance in the 2000–01 League of […]

Joe Alaskey (1952 - 2016)

Joe Alaskey was occasionally seen onscreen impersonating Jackie Gleason, with whom he shared a physical resemblance. In the 1980s, Gleason personally chose Alaskey to re-record selected dialogue from the “lost episodes” of The Honeymooners found in Gleason’s private collection. After Gleason died, he watched the project get shelved. In 1985, Alaskey provided various voices for […]

Bob Elliott (1923 - 2016)

Bob Elliott was born in Winchester, Massachusetts, the son of Gail Marguarite (née Brackett), a needleworker, and Fred Russell Elliott, who worked in insurance. On radio, he appeared in programs with his long-time partner Ray Goulding. These were in different series and time slots over decades, beginning in the late 1940s at Boston’s WHDH radio […]

Thomas Tigue (1945 - 2016)

Thomas M. Tigue (August 24, 1945 – February 1, 2016) was an American politician, a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He is a 1964 graduate of St. John’s High School and earned a degree in government from King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1968. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps in the […]

Kitty Kallen (1921 - 2016)

Kitty Kallen (May 25, 1921 – January 7, 2016) was an American popular singer whose career spanned from the 1930s to the 1960s,to include the Swing era of the Big Band years, the post-WWII pop scene and the early years of rock ‘n roll. She performed with some of the most popular big bands of […]

Bill Plager (1945 - 2016)

William Ronald “Bill” Plager (July 6, 1945 – January 3, 2016) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. Before playing in the NHL, Bill Plager played for the Peterborough Petes in Peterborough, Ontario, where he met his wife Donna Hickey. Plager started his National Hockey League career with the Minnesota North Stars in 1967. He also played […]

Stephen Bosworth (1939 - 2016)

Stephen Bosworth was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1939. He graduated with a B.A. in international relations (1961) and an honorary doctorate (1986) from Dartmouth College. He was also a graduate student at George Washington University. He has two brothers, Brian Bosworth (head of the corporation FutureWorks) and Barry Bosworth (involved in advertisement). Prior to […]

John Hunter (1931 - 2016)

John Hunter Jr. (July 13, 1931 – January 4, 2016), known by the stage name Long John Hunter, was an American Texas blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He released seven albums in his own name, and in his later years found critical acknowledgement outside of his homeland. Hunter’s best known tracks are […]

Matt Hobden (1993 - 2016)

As a youngster, Matt Hobden played for Glynde & Beddingham Cricket Club; in 2009, he was part of the team that won the National Village Cricket Knockout Final at Lord’s. In 2012, Hobden started playing for Preston Nomads Cricket Team, and was part of the team that won the 2012 Sussex Premier League. Hobden’s last […]

Mike Oxley (1944 - 2016)

Mike Oxley was born in Findlay, Ohio and received a bachelor of arts degree from Miami University in 1966 and a law degree from Ohio State University in 1969. He was a member of the Alpha chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity at Miami. From 1969 to 1972, Oxley worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation […]

Donny Everett (1997 - 2016)

Donny Everett (April 16, 1997 – June 2, 2016) was an American baseball pitcher. He attended Vanderbilt University, where he played college baseball for the Vanderbilt Commodores. He was considered one of the top prospects for the 2015 Major League Baseball draft. Everett drowned during his freshman season at Vanderbilt. Donny Everett attended Clarksville High School […]

Bobby Curtola (1943 - 2016)

Bobby Curtola began performing at age 15 with a band called Bobby and the Bobcats, singing at high school assemblies. Over the subsequent years, the singer had many songs on the Canadian music charts beginning with “Hand In Hand With You” in 1960. He was backed by the Corvettes, a group who changed their name […]

Phyllis Curtin (1921 - 2016)

Born Phyllis Smith in Clarksburg, West Virginia, Phyllis Curtin studied singing with Olga Averino at Wellesley College where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science. She pursued graduate studies in vocal performance under Boris Goldovsky at the New England Conservatory. In 1946 she made her professional opera debut with Goldovsky’s opera company, the New […]

Jerome Bruner (1915 - 2016)

Jerome Bruner was born on October 1, 1915 in New York City, to Herman and Rose Bruner, who emigrated from Poland. He received a bachelor’s degree in psychology, in 1937 from Duke University, and went on to earn a master’s degree in psychology in 1939 and then a doctorate in psychology in 1941 from Harvard […]

Suzanne Corkin (1937 - 2016)

Suzanne Corkin (May 18, 1937 – May 24, 2016) was a Professor of Neuroscience, Emeritus, in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, and was head of the Corkin Lab. She was born Suzanne Janet Hammond in Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Lester and Mabelle Dowling Hammond. Her research focused on the study of patients […]

Cassandra Butts (1965 - 2016)

During her time as Deputy White House Counsel, Cassandra Butts focused most on judicial nominations. Records later showed that in the days after Associate Justice David Souter announced his retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court, Butts was in frequent contact with President Obama’s eventual nominee to replace Souter, Sonia Sotomayor. Butts also had been rumored in […]

Rick MacLeish (1950 - 2016)

Rick MacLeish played junior ice hockey with the Peterborough Petes from 1967 to 1970. The Boston Bruins selected him fourth overall in the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft. After spending the first half of his first professional season with the Oklahoma City Blazers, MacLeish was involved in a three-way deal which sent him; Bruce Gamble, Dan […]

Tom Lysiak (1953 - 2016)

Tom Lysiak joined the Flames for the 1973–74 NHL season, just the second year for the franchise, and scored a team-high 64 points. He helped the team to its first playoff berth and finished second in the voting for the Calder Memorial Trophy (top rookie). Lysiak led the Flames in scoring in each of his five […]

Carla Lane (1928 - 2016)

In the 1960s, Carla Lane wrote short stories and radio scripts. Her first successes came in collaboration with Myra Taylor, whom she had met at a writers’ workshop in Liverpool. Lane and Taylor would often meet at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool city centre to write. She said that she used a pseudonym, “Carla Lane”, […]

Jan Crouch (1938 - 2016)

Jan Crouch was the daughter of Reverend and Mrs. Edgar W. Bethany, and grew up in Columbus, Georgia. Her father served as a pastor in the Assemblies of God denomination, and was the founding president of Southeastern University (Florida). While attending Evangel College in Springfield, Missouri, Crouch met Paul F. Crouch. They married in 1957, […]

Muhammad Ali (1942 - 2016)

Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali died Friday at age 74, according to a statement from the family. He was hospitalized in the Phoenix area with respiratory problems earlier this week, and his children had flown in from around the country. A funeral will be held Wednesday in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. The city plans a […]

Leland “Bud” Kilpatrick (1915 - 1993)

Fashion and Costume Designer.  Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as a teenager he started working with his mother as a custom clothing designer.  He moved to California in 1955 because he was attracted by the casual, well made fashions there and landed a job working for 20th Century Fox in the costume department. During the 1960s […]

Yousai Kikuchi (1970 - 1970)

Japanese-style painter. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Petr Kien (1919 - 1944)

Artist, Author. His visual and literary works reflected his experiences in the concentration camp at Theresienstadt (Terezin), where he was imprisoned as a Jew during World War II. Kien’s watercolor drawings, created in secret on stolen paper,  vividly depict the brutality of daily life in a camp the Nazis portrayed to the world as a […]

Fernand Khnopff (1858 - 1921)

Belgian symbolist painter, greatly influenced by the French writers Flaubert and Baudelaire.

Dat-So-La-Lee Louisa Keyser (1970 - 1925)

American Indian Artist.  Dat-So-La-Le was Native American Washoe born about 1835 in Navada. Her birth name was Dabuda, meaning “young willow”. Little is know about her early life, except that she worked as a laundress. About age 45, she began weaving baskets exclusively from willow. Her baskets were globular in shape with a pattern she […]

Ted Key (1912 - 2008)

Cartoonist, Writer. He is best known for creating the character “Hazel”, which was regularly featured in the Saturday Evening Post and became a popular television series during the 1960s starring Shirley Booth. Born in Fresno, he attended the University of California at Berkeley and later began his career writing for such publications as “Cosmopolitan”, “Ladies’ […]

Hank Ketcham (1920 - 2001)

Hank Ketcham started in the business as an animator for Walter Lantz and eventually Walt Disney, where he worked on Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi and several Donald Duck shorts. During World War II, Ketcham was a photographic specialist with the US Navy Reserve. He also created the character Mr. Hook for the Navy during World War […]

Rockwell Kent (1882 - 1971)

Artist, Author, And Political activist. Rockwell Kent had a long and varied career. Born in New York, he studied architecture at Columbia University (1900-03) and art at the New York School of Art (1903-04) During his lifetime, he worked as an architectural draftsman, illustrator, printmaker, painter, lobsterman, ship’s carpenter, and dairy farmer. He was involved […]

John Frederick Kensett (1816 - 1872)

Artist. He learned engraving from his father, and for a while earned his living as an engraver of bank notes. He did serious study of landscape painting in Europe between 1840 and 1847, when he returned to New York and established his studio. He traveled often to the American west and to Europe. He shared […]