Not only were there a lot of musicians dying, but also a lot of other interesting people.
VO PHLEN, 89-- Prolific Vietnamese author who preserved his country's wartime after landing in America as a refugee, producing the exhaustive collection "Van Hoc Mien Nam, Tong Quan," an overview of South Vietnamese literature from 1954 to 1975. Died Sept. 29.
MARK SINGER, 67-- Architect whose dramatic use of concrete, rock, glass and exposed steel marked a sharp contrast from the traditional wooden cottages in the Laguna Beach, California, community. Died Sept. 17.
DANIEL THOMPSON, 94-- Inventor of a commercially viable bagel-making machine who became a key figure behind what some have called "the industrialization of the bagel." Died Sept. 3.
LEON VALSMAN, 64-- Prankster who came to the University of Wisconsin at Madison in the 1970s to study in "the graduate school of fun" and ended up masterminding such famous stunts as 1,000 flamingos on Bascom Hill and a Statue of Liberty head on frozen Lake Mendota. Died Sept. 29.
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