Rich Cunningham
DOB Unknown – September 4, 2009
Rich Cunningham was a respected union organizer and one-time head of his own label, Happy Days Records, which he founded in 1995 while still in college. The punk label, named after the popular ’70s television program whose lead character shared the same name as Cunningham, was the one-time home to such acts as Ink & Dagger and Hot Water Music. In later years, Cunningham formed New Labor, an organization that helped low-income and immigrant workers. He had suffered from colon cancer since 2005, but cause of death was not immediately released. He was 32.