Weekly Obituaries Roundup

This feature lists every death announced in our weekly e-mail roundup
from 2001 to the present.

Enter a date in the format mm/dd/yyyy

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Deaths for the week ending 13 April 2024:

Deaths reported after 13 April will be added on Monday, 22 April.

Jerry Grote, major leaguer (New York Mets), of respiratory failure, 81.

Clarence "Frogman" Henry, blues singer ("I Don't Know Why But I Do"), complications from back surgery, 87.

Bill Gunter, U.S. Congressman (D-FL, 1973-75), 89.

Peter Higgs, theoretical physicist, after a brief illness, 94.

Victor Riley, NFL football player (Kansas City Chiefs), cause not reported, 49.

Eric Sievers, NFL football player (San Diego Chargers), of cancer, 66.

O. J. Simpson, NFL football player (Buffalo Bills) and acquitted murder defendant, of prostate cancer, 76.

Fritz Peterson, major leaguer (New York Yankees), with Alzheimer's disease, 82.

Robert MacNeil, TV news anchor ("The MacNeil/Lehrer Report"), 93.

Ron Thompson, pop singer and actor (Detective Nopke on "Baretta"), 83.