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Aïcha Ech-Chenna

Moroccon social worker and women's right activist, aged 81.


Joe Bussard, record collector and American roots music historian.


Coolio
a rapper even I had heard from

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@ponderable said
Coolio
a rapper even I had heard from


Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise


@torunn said
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPO76Jlnz6c

Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise
Stolen from Stevie Wonder, who was not amused.

Ah well, at least Weird Al can sleep safe, now.


Nobody mentioned

Sacheen Littlefeather

as yet. She was notable indeed. (And unfairly treated anyway)


Loretta Lynn, country singer of love and hardship, dies aged 90
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/oct/04/loretta-lynn-country-singer-of-love-and-hardship-dies-aged-90


@rookie54 said
Loretta Lynn, country singer of love and hardship, dies aged 90
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/oct/04/loretta-lynn-country-singer-of-love-and-hardship-dies-aged-90
Loretta Lynn, Fell in love with her as a teenager, then found out later it was only lust, but she had a beautiful Western voice, among the great western singers of my era!

-VR


RIP, Loretta Lynn. She was awesome. A movie about Loretta called "A Coalminer's Daughter" was great. (1980)

Loretta will be missed.


Wolfgang Kohhaase,

famous German author and director ( actually there are some films given also in the English wikipedia page, so they might be seen internationally, I only know them In German)


LOS ANGELES (AP) — Judy Tenuta, a brash standup who cheekily styled herself as the “Goddess of Love” and toured with George Carlin as she built her career in the 1980s golden age of comedy, died Thursday. She was 72.


Bruno Latour, 75

Well known(?) French philosopher


https://www.kxan.com/news/national-news/angela-lansbury-of-murder-she-wrote-and-more-dies-at-96-reports/

Angela Lansbury, of ‘Murder, She Wrote’ and more, dies at 96


@rookie54 said
https://www.kxan.com/news/national-news/angela-lansbury-of-murder-she-wrote-and-more-dies-at-96-reports/

Angela Lansbury, of ‘Murder, She Wrote’ and more, dies at 96
Yes, this was sad to hear about.

-VR


RIP Ronnie Cuber, baritone sax player

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