Weekly Obituaries Roundup

Deaths for the week ending 18 January 2003:

Sunday, 12 January 2003

Clarence Du Burns, mayor of Baltimore (1986-87), of kidney failure, 84.

Kinji Fukasaku, film director (Tora! Tora! Tora!), of prostate cancer, 72.

Leopoldo F. Galtieri, dictator of Argentina (1981-82), of pancreatic cancer and heart failure, 76.

Maurice Gibb, pop musician (The Bee Gees), of heart failure caused by an intestinal blockage, 53. He was the brother of singers Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, and the late Andy Gibb.

James H. Hale, news publisher (Kansas City Star), of natural causes, 75.

Paul Pender, pro boxer, of Alzheimer's disease, 72.

Monday, 13 January 2003

Robert MacLeod, college football player (Dartmouth College), of complications from a stroke, 85.

Tuesday, 14 January 2003

Mel Bourne, film production designer (Annie Hall), cause not reported, 79.

Paul Monash, film producer (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), 85.

Al Rush, television executive (MCA Television Group), of lung cancer, 76.

Wednesday, 15 January 2003

Doris Fisher, songwriter ("You Always Hurt the One You Love"), 87.

Vivi-Anne Hulter, figure skater (1936 Olympics), of pneumonia, 91.

Thursday, 16 January 2003

William T. Cloney, director of the Boston Marathon, 91.

Friday, 17 January 2003

Alden Barber, director of the Boy Scouts of America, of a stroke, 83.

Fritzie Burr, actress, of natural causes, 78.

Richard Crenna, actor (Three Rambo films), of pancreatic cancer, 76.

Ed Farhat, aka "The Sheik", pro wrestler, of heart failure, 78.

Saturday, 18 January 2003

Stephen Kates, cellist, of lymphoma, 59.

Gavin Lyall, novelist (Midnight Plus One), after a long illness, 70.