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BATON ROUGE, La. — A founding member of the Grammy-winning gospel group the Blind Boys of Alabama has died. Clarence Fountain was 88.
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The Blind Boys of Alabama (or simply Blind Boys of Alabama) are a five-time Grammy Award-winning gospel group who first sang together in 1939. The Blind Boys have toured for seven decades, and created an extensive discography. In 2016 the on-stage configuration of the group consisted of eight people: four blind singers—Jimmy Carter (the sole remaining original member), Ben Moore, Eric “Ricky” McKinnie, Paul Beasley - guitarist and musical director Joey Williams, and a keyboardist, a bass guitarist, and a drummer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_Boys_of_Alabama
 
Gerard Marenghi (January 24, 1920 – 2018), known as Jerry Maren, was an American actor who was the last surviving Munchkin of the 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz, in which he portrayed a member of the Lollipop Guild. He became the last known survivor of the Munchkin cast, following the death of fellow Munchkin Ruth Duccini on January 16, 2014. (Maren and Caren Marsh Doll were amongst a few of the last known surviving members of the cast.)[1][2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Maren



Jerry Maren Dead: 'The Wizard Of Oz' Munchkin Actor Dies, Aged 98
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/en...-jerry-maren-dead_uk_5b17a4c5e4b0599bc6de834f
 
Grammy-Winner Tejano Star Jimmy Gonzalez Dies in San Antonio -



Mazz is a Tejano band originally from Brownsville, Texas.[1] The band was known for their idiosyncratic and innovative form of Tejano cumbia which made them distinguishable among their counterparts.[2][3] Mazz became one of the most popular Tejano music bands during the genre's 1990s golden age. Mazz won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Tejano Album in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and in 2009, the most wins for a Tejano musician.[2] They landed their first major recording contract with EMI Latin in the early 1990s, before switching to Freddie Records in 1999.[2] Joe Lopez and Jimmy Gonzalez formed Mazz in 1978 before disbanding and creating smaller bands throughout their careers.[2] Gonzalez was known for blending a variety of genres into his basic Tejano sound, a formula he continued to use up until his final release, Porque Todavía te Quiero (2018).[2] Gonzalez was pronounced dead in San Antonio, Texas on June 6, 2018, after suffering from low blood sugar as a result of his diabetes.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazz

 
Rasool Bux Palijo (Urdu: رسول بخش پلیجو‎; 21 February 1930 – 7 June 2018) was a Pakistani leftist, marxistleader, scholar and writer. He was a leading human-rights lawyer and the leader of Awami Tahreek. Palijo was the founder and chairman of Awami Tahreek (People's Movement), a progressive and leftist party.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasul_Bux_Palejo

A prolific writer and scholar, Palejo served as a Supreme Court lawyer.[3] He was jailed under political charges for more than 11 years especially during the Movement for Restoration of Democracy (MRD) in Pakistan. Most of his prisoner life, he was kept on Kot Lakhpat jail, Punjab during the 1980. He declared as "Prisoner of Conscience" by Amnesty International in 1981.[4]
 
Per Axel Ahlmark (15 January 1939 – 8 June 2018[1]) was a Swedish politician and writer. He was the leader of the Liberal People's Party from 1975 to 1978, and Minister for Employment and Deputy Prime Minister in the Swedish government from 1976 to 1978. He also served as a member of the Swedish parliament from 1967 to 1978.

Ahlmark was first married to the journalist Lillemor Melsted in 1965.[2] From 1978 to 1981 he was married to the actress Bibi Andersson.[11]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Ahlmark
 
Anthony Bourdain: I really liked Tony, he was an amazing TV presenter who did some very thoughtful programs in places rarely visited, eating and drinking and showing viewers an alternative world, introduced us to some very different people and at other times showed us a different side of well known people.

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Maria Esther Andion Bueno (11 October 1939 – 8 June 2018) was a professional tennis player from Brazil. During her 11-year career in the 1950s and 1960s (plus a two-year comeback in 1976–77), she won 19 Major titles (seven in women's singles, 11 in women's doubles, and one in mixed doubles), making her the most successful South American female tennis player in history. Bueno was the year-end number-one ranked female player in 1959 and 1960 and was known for her graceful style of play.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Bueno


http://www.legacy.com/news/celebrit.../maria-bueno-1939-2018-brazilian-tennis-great
 
Dorothy Cotton (January 5, 1930 – June 10, 2018) was an American civil rights activist, who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States[1] and a member of the inner-circle of one of its main organizations, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). As the SCLC's Educational Director, she was arguably the highest ranked female member of the organization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Cotton


Dorothy Cotton was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina. She and her three sisters were raised by her father after her mother died when she was 3 years old, according to her biography. She attended Shaw University in Raleigh before earning a bachelor's degree in English and Library Science at Virginia State College in 1955. She earned master's degree in Speech Therapy from Boston University in 1960.
http://www.tributes.com/obituary/show/Dorothy-Cotton-106170202
 
Stanislav Sergeyevich Govorukhin PAR (Russian: Станислав Серге́евич Говорухин; 29 March 1936[1] - 14 June 2018[2]) was one of the most popular Soviet and Russian film directors since the 1960s. His films, often featuring detective or adventure plots, are commonly dominated by strong male characters who seek to revenge criminal acts but have to eschew commonly accepted social norms in order to succeed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Govorukhin
 
Alfredo Pasillas (July 16, 1966 – June 13, 2018) was a luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler, best known for his work in the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) under the ring name Arkangel de la Muerte. He is often referred to as just Arkangel, and previously worked under the ring name Mister Cid until 1991. His name means "Archangel of Death" in Spanish.
Pasillas was scheduled to wrestle on a CMLL show on June 12, 2018, but had informed the bookers that he was not feeling well and was replaced by El Hijo del Signo on the show. The following morning, June 13, he was found dead by his wife. It was reported that Pasillas died from cardiac arrest.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkangel_de_la_Muerte
 
Daša Drndić (10 August 1946, Zagreb – 5 June 2018, Rijeka) was a Croatian writer. She studied English language and literature at the University of Belgrade.[1]
The author of a number of books, Drndić is best known for her award-winning novel Sonnenschein (2007) which has been translated in many languages. It appeared in English translation under the title Trieste; the translator was Ellen Elias-Bursać. It was nominated for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. An earlier novel, Leica Format, was translated by Celia Hawkesworth. [2]. In 2017, her penultimate novel, Belladonna, was published in English by New Directions Publishing (also translated by Hawkesworth).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daša_Drndić

Daša was born in Zagreb, when Croatia was part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, into a middle-class family of intellectuals. Her mother, Timea, was a psychiatrist and her father, Ljubo, who had been a wartime partisan, later became a diplomat, serving as ambassador to Sweden and Sudan. He raised his family in both Serbia and Croatia. Daša studied philology at the University of Belgrade, before winning a Fulbright scholarship to the US, and taking a master’s in theatre and communications at Southern Illinois University.
 
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