Died 2014

His novel was a cult classic.

Giger’s works, often showing macabre scenes of humans and machines fused into hellish hybrids, influenced a generation of movie directors and inspired an enduring fashion for “biomechanical” tattoos.

His movie breakthrough came in 1980 thriller “The Long Good Friday,” playing an East End gangster hoping to profit from redevelopment of London’s docks.

His flamboyant and melancholy fictional works – among them “Chronicle of a Death Foretold,” ”Love in the Time of Cholera” and “Autumn of the Patriarch” – outsold everything published in …

Winchester was a protege of the Band’s Robbie Robertson, who produced and played guitar on Winchester’s self-titled debut album.

Rooney was Hollywood’s top box-office draw in the late 1930s to early 1940s.

Actor James Rebhorn wrote his own heartfelt obituary.

He was better known as “Oderus Urungus.”

While the Stooges weren’t a commercial success, they went on to become one of the significant bands in punk music.