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Alan White (21 December 1946 – 5 August 2020), known as Chip White, was an American jazz drummer who has performed and/or recorded with a variety of artists, including Carmen McRae, Jaki Byard, the Jazzmobile CETA Big Band, Candido, John Abercrombie, Frank Wess, and many others.
Overall US newspapers earn $500 million per year from paid obituaries. [6] Legacy.com attaches a publicly accessible guestbook to most of the obituaries it hosts, [7] which enables anyone with an Internet connection to pay tribute to someone whose obituary appears in one of Legacy.com's affiliate newspapers or is self-published on Legacy.com ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Ruby Glover (December 6, 1929 – October 20, 2007) [1] was a jazz vocalist who was given the title "Godmother of Jazz" in 1993 by Baltimore mayor Kurt Schmoke.As a professor at Sojourner-Douglass College, she influenced many young students of her Baltimore community one among the many tributes to her honor was being heralded as "one of the greatest champions of jazz Baltimore has ever known". [1]
Buchi Emecheta OBE (born Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta [florens oɲebut͡ʃi emet͡ʃeta]; 21 July 1944 – 25 January 2017) was a Nigerian writer [1] who was the author of novels, plays, autobiography, and children's books.
Erika Nicole Anderson (December 15, 1989 – September 20, 2023) [1] was an American mechanical engineer who worked as a strategist and reliability engineer at ExxonMobil [2] She was a nationally known advocate for women of color in engineering and was recognized as an IF/THEN Ambassador for the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Al Anderson (born 1950), guitarist and songwriter, who played with Bob Marley and The Wailers [12]; Chuck Burgi (born 1952, class of 1970), drummer [13]; Evan Stephens Hall (born 1989), musician best known as the frontman of the indie rock band Pinegrove [14]
Wallace Bean Potts was born in Birmingham, Alabama, soon after the end of World War II, into a family of English descent. As the South recovered from the war effort, he was raised in middle-class comfort by his parents, Wallace and Ruth Potts of Montgomery, and was educated in local primary schools and at Shades Valley High School.