Earl Coles

For Choi Hyoung-woo · 1d ago

42. didn't know him but that's too young.

For Nobuhiko Kobayashi (小林信彦) · 1d ago

Just read one of his essays last week, translated piece on old Tokyo comedy. 93 years old. Didn't expect this news today.

For Cleo Bryan · 7d ago

Lost my own grandmother the same way not long ago, reading this hit harder than I expected. Military wife, Kansas farm girl, four kids. That kind of steady is rare.

For Tomasz Fogiel · 9d ago

My mom called from Minnesota to tell me, she still has the local paper article from when I lived out there. Caught him as Mordcha in Fiddler on the Roof at the Gdynia theatre a few years back, didn't understand half the jokes but the whole room was laughing. Sorry to hear it.

For Ray Kolle · 13d ago

85 years old. Didn't know the name until today but grew up on reruns of shows he worked on. Hoping his family is doing alright through this.

For Thérèse Brenet · 29d ago

told my mom and she just went quiet for a second, said she used to play one of her pieces in college. i only knew the name from a youtube clip of Sidérales that showed up in my feed once. 90 years old. that's a full life

For Sergei Tchepikov · 17 Sept 2026

my dad called me the second he saw this, said he watched Chepikov win that Lillehammer sprint live in 94 and never forgot it. I only knew the name from an old biathlon clip that gets passed around every winter olympics. 59 is no age.

For Patricio Guzmán · 15 Sept 2026

He showed that a camera could be a kind of witnessing, a way to say this happened and it matters. That stayed with me.

For Amelinha Teles · 15 Sept 2026

Her books on feminism and human rights were teaching tools that changed how we talk about both things in Brazil.

For Giorgos Mazonakis · 9 Sept 2026

Heard the news this morning. 54 is too young. His music played in so many Greek clubs over thirty years. The laiko world just got quieter.

For Guus Kouwenhoven · 8 Sept 2026

He built something, that much is clear, even if the foundation was crooked. Business leaves marks on the world whether we like it or not.

For Nuno Cardoso · 7 Sept 2026

An engineer who later said he'd done too much, too fast. Honest about his own ambitions and their cost. That kind of reflection is rare in public life.

For Harold P. Freeman · 13 Aug 2026

Read about his work in Harlem and it stayed with me. Poverty deciding who lives or dies, and he said no. He meant it.

For Gene Wilder · 27 Sept 2025

A genuine artist who cared about the work itself, not the fame machine. We need more like him.

For Shelley Duvall · 5 Aug 2025

She left LA after the earthquake and went home to Blanco. That took courage. She spent her later years closer to family and nature, away from all the noise. There's something beautiful in that choice.

To Kimberly Roberts’s tribute on Eddie Osbourne’s page · 23d ago

my uncle was the same way, that company meant a lot to people out there

To Linda Dunn’s tribute on Mario Vargas Llosa’s page · 13 Sept 2025

Yes. And he never stopped asking hard questions.