Piera Degli Esposti was an Italian actress known for performances in films such as Il Divo (2008).
The film The Story of Piera (1983), directed by Marco Ferreri, was based on a book of hers, but she did not star in that film.
RIP Dennis Thomas (1951 – 2021)
Dennis Thomas was one of the co-founders of Kool & the Gang.
It’s not clear to me how many writing credits Thomas has in the band’s oeuvre; but he did co-write “Jungle Boogie” (1973).
RIP David Britton (1945 – 2020)
David Britton was a British author, artist, and publisher best known for co-authoring Lord Horror (1990).
RIP Françoise Arnoul (1931 – 2021)
Françoise Arnoul was a French actress known for her parts in French Cancan, The Devil and the Ten Commandments and Forbidden Fruit; and not so much for her part in Post Coitum, Animal Triste (1997). However, I show you the trailer of that film, because of its title, which I have been able to trace into the 16th century, in the work of Jean Benedict in La somme des péchés et le remède d’iceux (1595).
RIP Jean “Binta” Breeze (1956 – 2021)
Jean “Binta” Breeze was a Jamaican dub poet.
RIP Paul Johnson (1971 – 2021)
Paul Johnson was an American DJ and record producer best known for “Get Get Down” (1999).
“Get Get Down” samples “Me and the Gang” (1978) by Hamilton Bohannon.
RIP Roberto Calasso (1941 – 2021)
Roberto Calasso was an Italian writer and publisher (Adelphi Edizioni).
RIP Jean-François Stévenin (1944 – 2021)
Jean-François Stévenin was a French actor known for many things and not so much for playing Dolmancé in La philosophie dans le boudoir (1991) by Olivier Smolders.
RIP Albert Bandura (1925 – 2021)
Albert Bandura was a Canadian-American psychologist at Stanford University best known for the 1961 Bobo doll experiment in which a child was shown and adult mistreating a doll, after which the child imitated the adult.
The experiment was of some import in the influence of mass media debate.
RIP Henri Vernes (1918 – 2021)
Henri Vernes was a Belgian author best known for creating the comics hero Bob Morane.