Hélène Grenier
Hélène Grenier was a Canadian librarian born in 1900 who died in 1992.
Armando Rodríguez Ruidíaz
Armando Rodríguez Ruidíaz( born 1951) is a Cuban composer, guitarist, professor and bagpiper.
Erskine Tate
Erskine Tate( January 14, 1895, Memphis, Tennessee, – December 17, 1978, Chicago) was an American jazz violinist and bandleader.
Tate moved to Chicago in 1912 and was an early figure on the Chicago jazz scene, playing with his band, the Vendome Orchestra, at the Vendome Theater, which was located at 31st and State Street.
The Vendome was a movie house, and Tate's band played during silent films.
The band included Louis Armstrong( trumpet), Freddie Keppard( cornet), Buster Bailey( saxophone), Jimmy Bertrand( drums), Ed Atkins( trombone), and Teddy Weatherford( piano), as well as Stump Evans, Bob Shoffner, Punch Miller, Omer Simeon, Preston Jackson, Fats Waller, and Teddy Wilson.
In the mid-1930s, Tate retired from active performance and became a music teacher.
Crickett Smith
William Crickett Smith( February 8, 1881- 1947) was an American jazz cornetist and trumpeter.
Little is known of Smith's early life, though he was born in Emporia, Kansas, the son of Tennessee Exodusters.
He performed in vaudeville before making early recordings with James Reese Europe's group, the Clef Club Society Orchestra, in 1913- 1914.
He then recorded with Ford Dabney in 1917- 1919 before moving to Europe and playing with Louis Mitchell's Jazz Kings from 1919- 1924, a group that recorded for Pathe Records.
He became the leader of Mitchell's group in 1923.
He toured France and Spain with his own bands from 1925 to 1933, then worked with Herb Flemming, Leon Abbey, and Teddy Weatherford thereafter.
He recorded again in southeast Asia with a group called the Symphonians.
Around 1943 he returned to New York, where he died late in 1947.
Teddy Weatherford
Teddy Weatherford( October 11, 1903 − April 25, 1945) was an American jazz pianist and an accomplished stride pianist.
Weatherford was born in Pocahontas, Virginia and was raised in neighboring Bluefield, West Virginia.
From 1915 through 1920, he lived in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he learned to play jazz piano.
He then moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he worked with such bands as that of Erskine Tate through the 1920s and with such jazz notables as Louis Armstrong and Johnny Dodds and impressed the young Earl Hines.
Weatherford then traveled, first to Amsterdam, then around Asia playing professionally.
In the early 1930s, he led a band at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Bombay( now Mumbai), India.
He joined Crickett Smith's band in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Weatherford took over leadership of Smith's band in Ceylon( now Sri Lanka) in 1937.
During World War II, he led a band in Calcutta, where he made radio broadcasts for the U. S. Armed Forces Radio Service.
Performers with Weatherford's band included Bridget Althea Moe, Jimmy Witherspoon, Roy Butler and Gery Scott.
Teddy Weatherford died of cholera in Calcutta, aged 41.
Armando Rodríguez (journalist)
Armando Rodríguez, born Armando Rodríguez Carreón and also known as" El Choco",( 1968?
– 13 November 2008), was a Mexican journalist who covered the crime beat for El Diario de Juárez in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico and was murdered at his residence.
He was known for his investigative journalism and reporting on crime, including the Juárez murders, and his death was acknowledged by the Board of the Investigative Reporters& Editors in an official statement that condemned his murder.
Armandinho (fado guitarist)
Armando Augusto Freire, known as Armandinho or Armando Freire( 11 October 1891- 21 December 1946) was a Portuguese fado guitarist and composer.
American travel writer Lawton Mackall in a 1931 book" Portugal For Two" was the first foreign writer to give an account of Armandinho's performances, but by this time Armandinho was already legendary in Portugal.
He was known for playing on the 12- string Portuguese guitar, and considered as one of the heirs of the fado tradition of Petrolino( Luís Carlos da Silva, who recorded just once in 1904).
Armando Rodríguez-González
Armando Rodríguez- González( born Jorge Gustavo Armando Rodríguez-González on April 23, 1889 in Miraflores, Boyeros, Havana, Cuba- 1965 in Havana, Cuba) was a Cuban composer and musician.
He was the son of Jose de Jesus Rodriguez- Ferrer and Maria Andrea Gonzalez- Ramos( 1874 – 1949).
His uncle, Antonio Rodriguez- Ferrer, was the composer of the musical introductory notes to the Cuban national anthem.
On July 4, 1913 he married Isolina Caridad Fontanills- de Ugarte( 1882 – 1966) one of the first females to have graduated from a Cuban school in nursing.
They had two daughters, Maria del Carmen( 1915 – 1943) and Lucia Josefina Rodriguez- Fontanills( 1919 – 1988), in additioned he raised his orphaned niece, Amelia Rogelia Penichet- Rodriguez( 1916).
His grandson, Clemente G. Gomez- Rodriguez is a writer and well- known attorney.
One great- grandson, Alfonso Fraga- Gomez, married the daughter of Raúl Castro and another great- grandson, Alonso R. del Portillo, worked for eight years for Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
Rodriguez- Gonzalez played numerous musical instruments and played in various bands and orchestras during his long career.
He also composed many pieces of music, such as" Aurora" and" Por Que Te Fuiste".
His family at one point owed what is now known as Reparto de Miraflores Viejo( neighborhood of Old Miraflores) and he lived his entire life at Calle Primera# 40, esquina J, in Miraflores( original house torn down in 1950s).
He died of cancer in 1965.
Johnny Bell (Canadian football)
John Neil Bell (October 4, 1921 – August 17, 1998) was a Canadian football player who played for the Regina/Saskatchewan Roughriders from 1946 to 1952.
He played junior football for the Parkdale Lions.
In 1998, he was inducted into the Roughriders' Plaza of Honour.
He died earlier that year of a heart condition, aged 76.
K-rupt
Carlton Williams Bongo Juma( 15 November 1979 – 29 November 2003), born in Nairobi and better known by his stage name K-Rupt, was a Kenyan rapper who had national success in the two years leading up to his murder in 2003.
He collaborated with artists such as Fizzle Dogg, Bigpin, and E- Sir, who died earlier the same year.
He also did concerts with fellow hip hop musician Nameless and was signed to the record label Ogopa Deejays.
K-Rupt ’s hit singles in Kenya included “ Changamshwa, ” “ Tukawake, ” and “ Chacha. ”
His single “ Dada Njoo ” was on the charts at the time of his death.
The song “ Bamba ” with fellow rappers the late E- Sir and Bigpin became a hit.
It had been recorded before his stint as a stand- by presenter at Nation FM.

Question: Who died earlier, Teddy Weatherford or Armando Rodríguez (Journalist)?
Answer: Teddy Weatherford