Deaths for the week ending 11 January 2003:
Sunday, 5 January 2003
Roy Jenkins, British political figure (Social Democrat party), 82.
Jean Kerr, author (Please Don't Eat the Dasies), apparently of pneumonia, 80.
Monday, 6 January 2003
Vic Bottari, college football player (University of California, Berkeley), of natural causes, 86.
Eugene Littman, baseball executive (Pittsburgh Pirates), 87.
Tuesday, 7 January 2003
Sarah McClendon, White House reporter, 92.
Mario "Motts" Tonelli, NFL football player (St. Louis Cardinals), of an infection, 86.
Wednesday, 8 January 2003
Ron Goodwin, film score composer (Where Eagles Dare), 77.
Billy Van, comedian ("Hilareous House of Frightenstein"), of cancer, 68.
Thomas Wyman, television executive (CBS), following abdominal surgery, 73.
Thursday, 9 January 2003
Basil Hayden, college basketball player (University of Kentucky), 103.
Will McDonough, sportswriter (Boston Globe), 67.
Friday, 10 January 2003
C. Douglas Dillon, U.S. secretary of the treasury (Kennedy & Johnson admins.), of an infection, 93.
Saturday, 11 January 2003
Anthony Havelock-Allan, film producer (British), 98.
Durwood Merrill, major-league baseball umpire (1977-99), of complications from a heart attack, 64.
Larry Rozadilla, boxing referee, of cancer, 72.
Richard Simmons, actor ("Sgt. Preston of the Yukon"), after a long illness, 89.
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