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 […]

Henry Edward Kendall (1970 - 1885)

Architect.  His father was an architect as well with the same name. Together they laid out the Esplanade and Tunnel, Kemp Town, Brighton, Sussex 1828 to 1830. He and his father also helped to found the Institute of British Architects. Henry built the house for Sir Thomas Longman, the publisher, in 1863. Among Henry’s other […]

Henry Edward Kendall, Sr (1776 - 1970)

Architect, won a competition for the buildings at Kensal Green Cemetery.

Walt Kelly (1913 - 1973)

Walt Kelly began a series of comic books based on fairy tales and nursery rhymes along with annuals celebrating Christmas and Easter for Dell Comics. Kelly seems to have written or co-written much of the material he drew for the comics; his unique touches are easily discernible. He also produced a series of stories based […]

James Edward Kelly (1855 - 1933)

Artist, Illustrator.  Best known for the portrait statue of General John Buford on the Gettysburg Battlefield, James Edward Kelly’s work reflected his passion for historic accuracy.  His exceptional talents in the visual arts became evident at an early age, and the American Civil War, the defining event of his childhood, was to be a lifelong […]

George Keller (1842 - 1935)

George Keller was born on December 15, 1842 in Cork in Ireland to Thomas Keller (1804-1880) and Susan Pratt (1805-1888). Keller emigrated with his family to New York City as a child. Irish immigrants were at the time considered inferior, and during his early years Keller endured a considerable measure of hardship and discrimination. Lacking […]

Patrick Keely (1816 - 1896)

The Church of Sts. Peter and Paul was considered an epoch in Catholic building in America. The much-praised work (demolished in 1957) established Patrick Keely as a competent architect and builder at a time when a number of new Roman Catholic churches were being planned “but a relative scarcity of competent architects of the Roman […]

Charles Keck (1875 - 1951)

Sculptor. Best known for his work of Monument to George Washington, U.S.S. Marine tablets for U.S. Government, Lewis & Clark Monument, and Booker T. Washington (bio by: Laurie)

Bil Keane (1922 - 2011)

Cartoonist. Born William Aloysius Keane, Bil Keane is best known for his newspaper comic “The Family Circus” which began in 1960 and continues in syndication. He taught himself to draw while attending high school by mimicking the style of cartoons published in “The New Yorker.” His very first cartoon was published on the amateur page […]

Togai Kawakami (1970 - 1970)

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

Gyokudo Kawai (1873 - 1957)

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

Gordon Bernie Kaufmann (1888 - 1949)

Architect.  Kaufmann, who was born in England and studied at the London Polytechnic Institute, arrived in Los Angeles, California in 1914 and became known for his work and design of structures in the Mediterranean Revival style which was popular at the time.  From 1921 to 1925, he was part of the architectural firm of Johnson, […]

Shunsho Katsukawa (1970 - 1970)

Painter. Also known as “Katsumiyagawa,” and simply, “Shunsho.” He is best known for portraits of Kabuki actors, sumo wrestlers, and beautiful women in a very long, narrow format. He taught several prominent painters, including Shunei Shunko, Shunjo, Shundo, Shuncho, Shunzan, Hokusai, and Harunobu.  (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Yousuf Karsh (1908 - 2002)

Artits. Noted Portrait Photographer. A native of Mardin, Armenia-in-Turkey, he became one of Canada’s best-known portrait photographers of famous personalities. After moving to Ottawa, Ontario, in 1924 with an uncle, he was sent to be schooled in Sherbrooke, Quebec. After school he went to Boston, Massachusetts, and became an apprentice to John Garo, but returned […]

Ewert “EWK” Karlsson (1918 - 2004)

Acclaimed Swedish Drawer. He received international recognition for his political and engaged drawings. For decades he was frequently published in Sweden´s leading tabloid, Aftonbladet, and the weekly paper Land. He has also illustrated many books and were an acknowledged portrayist. Three times he was apponited World Champion of his genre. (bio by: Peter Robsahm)