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Catherine E. Coulson began her professional association with director David Lynch when she worked as assistant director on Lynch's legendary feature debut Eraserhead (1977). This is when the two began discussing the idea of a woman who carried a log around with her. Coulson spent much of her career working behind-the-scenes before finally bringing the Log Lady to life on Lynch's cult TV series Twin Peaks (1990). The Log Lady was one of the most puzzling and emblematic of the show's characters, and she has ensured Coulson a permanent place in the hearts of cult TV fans.

Cathriona White was born on 14 September 1985 in Cappawhite, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. She was an actress, known for The Online Gamer (2009), Bunker 731 (2012) and Firefly (2012). She was married to Mark D. Burton. She died on 28 September 2015 in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Zale Kessler was born on 1 October 1938 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015), The Producers (1967) and History of the World: Part I (1981). He died on 28 September 2015 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Howard George was born on 10 January 1946. He was an actor, known for Hill Street Blues (1981), Suddenly Susan (1996) and Death House (1988). He died on 28 September 2015 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Erik Roner was born on 2 November 1976 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Nitro Circus Series (2006), One for the Road (2011) and Light the Wick (2010). He was married to Annika Dahl. He died on 28 September 2015 in Squaw Valley, California, USA.

Nagma was an actress, known for Shoktir Lorai (1998), Ondhokare Rajneeti (2004) and Lattu Koshai (2014). She died on 28 September 2015 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Michael Burgess was born on 22 July 1945 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He was an actor, known for Great Performances (1971), The Campbells (1986) and H.M.S. Pinafore (1981). He died on 28 September 2015 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Jacques Marcotte was born in 1948 in Québec, Canada. He was a writer and actor, known for Une histoire inventée (1990), A Wind from Wyoming (1994) and L'âge de braise (1998). He was married to Angélique. He died on 28 September 2015 in Saint-Mathieu de La Prairie, Québec, Canada.

New Orleans R&B singer Frankie Ford was born on August 4, 1939 in Gretna, Louisiana. He was the adopted son of Vincent and Anna Guzzo. He studied singing and dancing as a boy and made his stage debut at age five in 1945. He performed on the Ted Mack Amateur Hour in New York City in 1952 and won many local, national, and regional vocal competitions while still a child.

Frankie was a singer and piano player for the group the Syncopators during his high school years. He had a good-sized regional hit with the song "Cheatin' Woman" for Ace Records in the late 1950s, but he scored his biggest and most beloved smash with the infectiously buoyant "Sea Cruise," which peaked at #14 on the Billboard pop charts in 1959 ("Sea Cruise" has not only been used in TV commercials for such products as Coors Light Beer, Diet Coke, and Sprite, but has also been featured on the soundtracks to the films My American Cousin (1985), Stewardess School (1986) and Ski Patrol (1990)). Alas, such equally fine follow-up singles as "Danny Boy," "Alimony," and "I Wanna Be Your Man" were only modest successes. In 1962 Frankie was drafted into the US Army and entertained troops in Vietnam, Korea, and America as a member of the Special Services. He appears as himself in the excellent 1978 Alan Freed bio movie American Hot Wax (1978).

Ford continued to tour and perform at various concerts, festivals, and nightclubs on a regular basis throughout for several decades. In addition, he closed the Gretna Heritage Festival every first weekend in October and appeared every year as a headliner at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. He was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2010. Frankie Ford died at age 76 on September 28, 2015 at his home in Gretna, Louisiana.

Peter Oosthoek was born on 3 September 1934 in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands. He was an actor and director, known for Oud geld (1998), An Bloem (1983) and Leven en dood van Quidam Quidam (1999). He died on 28 September 2015 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

Alexander 'Sandy' Faris was born to a Presbyterian minister and his school-mistress wife on 11 June 1921 in County Tyrone. He read music at Clare College, Cambridge, before war service with the Irish Guards and after demobilization resumed his musical studies at the Royal College of Music in London and - via a scholarship - The Juilliard School in New York. He subsequently conducted and arranged for the Royal Ballet, the Carl Rosa Opera Company and, briefly, for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and in the 1980s was the musical director for a television series 'The Gilbert and Sullivan Collection' which presented 11 of their comic operas. To many though his best known contribution is the music for long-running period serial 'Upstairs, Downstairs'. Alexander Faris died on 28 September 2015. He was unmarried.

Sakae Koike was born on 19 October 1928 in Kanagawa, Japan. He was an actor, known for Mirai Sentai Timeranger (2000), Key of Life (2012) and Ballad of Orin (1977). He died on 28 September 2015.

Miroslav Hajn was born on 10 May 1960 in Kolín, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Uncle Cyril (1989), Jonás II. aneb Jak je dulezité míti Melicharovou (1988) and Cerná puncocha (1987). He died on 28 September 2015 in Prague, Czech Republic.