Weekly Obituaries Roundup
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Deaths for the week ending 1 January 2005:
Sunday, 26 December 2004
Reggie White, NFL football player (Green Bay Packers), of cardiopulmonary disease, 43.
Monday, 27 December 2004
Hank "Sugarfoot" Garland, guitarist ("Sugar Foot Rag"), of a staph infection, 74.
Tuesday, 28 December 2004
Jerry Orbach, actor (Det. Lennie Briscoe on "Law and Order"), of prostate cancer, 69.
Wednesday, 29 December 2004
Julius Axelrod, neuroscientist (1970 Nobel Prize), 92.
William Boyett, actor (Sgt. MacDonald on "Adam-12"), of pneumonia and kidney failure, 77.
Ken Burkhart, major-league baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) and umpire, of emphysema, 89.
Peter Davison, poet ("The Breaking of the Day"), of pancreatic cancer, 76.
Gus Niarhos, major leaguer (New York Yankees), after a long illness, 84.
Thursday, 30 December 2004
Bob Ferguson, college football player (Ohio State), of complications from diabetes, 64.
Artie Shaw, clarinetist ("Begin the Beguine"), 94.
Friday, 31 December 2004
Charles "Cutt" Cozart, major leaguer (Boston Braves), 85.
Saturday, 1 January 2005
Shirley Chisholm, U.S. Congresswoman (D-NY, 1969-83), 80.