Borje Salming, 71, the Corridor of Fame defenseman who starred for the Toronto Maple Leafs over 16 NHL seasons and was a trailblazer for Europeans who later made their mark on this planet’s high professional hockey league, has died, in line with a press release from the Maple Leafs on Thursday. He had Lou Gehrig’s illness. Toronto signed Salming as a free agent earlier than the 1973-74 season. A local of Kiruna, Sweden, Salming went on to play 1,099 regular-season video games with the Leafs, establishing crew data for assists (620) and targets (148), factors (768) and playoff factors (49) by a defenseman. In 1996, he grew to become the primary Swedish participant inducted into the Hockey Corridor of Fame.

Jason David Frank, 49, an actor and MMA fighter finest identified for his function within the “Energy Rangers” franchise, died Nov. 20. TMZ reported Frank died by suicide in Texas, citing sources with direct data. Frank performed Tommy Oliver (the Inexperienced Ranger and White Ranger) on the unique “Mighty Morphin Energy Rangers” tv collection from 1993 to 1996, a preferred youngsters’ present that includes six teenage superheroes with martial arts expertise.

Jay M. Pasachoff, 79, an astronomer at Williams Faculty who spent greater than 50 years touring the world to watch photo voltaic eclipses and, with 74 sightings, in all probability witnessed extra of them than another human in historical past, died Nov. 20 at his residence in Williamstown, Massachusetts. The trigger was lung most cancers, in line with his spouse, Naomi Pasachoff.

Danny Kalb, 80, a guitarist whose Sixties band the Blues Mission introduced New York Metropolis drive and experimentation to blues-rock, died Nov. 19 at a nursing residence in Brooklyn. Kalb was recognized with most cancers about three years in the past. The Blues Mission was something however purist. Together with blues requirements, it jammed its manner via Chuck Berry songs, folk-club favorites and materials by band members that touched on pop, folk-rock, soul and jazz. “We’re not reviving the blues,” Danny Kalb mentioned in 1966. “We’re seeking to interpret what’s occurring as we speak.”

Robert Clary, 96, a French-born survivor of Nazi focus camps throughout World Battle II who performed a feisty prisoner of conflict within the inconceivable Sixties sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes,” died Nov. 16 of pure causes within the Los Angeles space, his niece Brenda Hancock mentioned Thursday. “He by no means let these horrors defeat him,” Hancock mentioned of Clary’s wartime expertise as a youth. “He by no means allow them to take the enjoyment out of his life. He tried to unfold that pleasure to others via his singing and his dancing and his portray.”

Ruth Hayler, 74, longtime programmer for Seattle film homes and the Seattle Worldwide Movie Competition, died Nov. 7, a day after celebrating her 74th birthday with pals. The reason for demise, her sister Barbara Hayler mentioned, was atherosclerosis. Hayler, a film lover with an encyclopedic reminiscence and eclectic style — she significantly beloved literary movies, however could possibly be discovered on the Egyptian having fun with edgy midnight fare — Hayler helped form Seattle’s wealthy urge for food for artwork home and worldwide cinema.

“I wager Seattle is aware of Kurosawa due to Ruth,” her longtime buddy Dale Nash mentioned, remembering the movie collection that Hayler would guide on the native Seven Gables chain. These had been pre-DVD days, when “she was displaying belongings you couldn’t simply go to Scarecrow and hire”: Kurosawa, 70mm movies, Shakespeare collection, traditional Warner Bros. films. At SIFF, the place she was concerned with each version of the annual pageant from its beginnings in 1976, “she had a really particular eye for worldwide movies that will entice audiences,” Inventive Director Beth Barrett mentioned. “She was simply so sensible about audiences.”

Joseph Baque, 100, an area pianist and foster mother or father to greater than 70 youngsters, died Nov. 6. He booked his first gig at 13 and by no means stopped enjoying. Throughout his musical profession he performed with high jazz artists like Louis Armstrong and Stan Getz. He additionally made appearances at Carnegie Corridor, on the Tonight Present, the Morning Present and the Merv Griffin Present. And all through his life, he taught tons of of scholars. In 2017, Baque was given the “Award for Excellence within the Arts” from Olympia’s Washington Middle for the Performing Arts.

Edward C. Prescott, 81, whose work explaining the financial shocks of the Nineteen Seventies catalyzed new methods of occupied with fiscal and financial coverage, a breakthrough that earned him a Nobel economics prize, died Nov. 6 at a care facility in Paradise Valley, Arizona. His son, Ned Prescott, mentioned the trigger was most cancers.