Weekly Obituaries Roundup
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Deaths for the week ending 19 January 2002:
Sunday, 13 January 2002
Ted Demme, film director (Blow), apparently of a heart attack, 38.
Paul Fannin, U.S. senator (R-AZ, 1965-77), 94.
Monday, 14 January 2002
Michael Young, British social activist (The Rise of Meritocracy), of cancer, 86.
Tuesday, 15 January 2002
Michael Bilandic, mayor of Chicago (1976-79), of heart problems, 78.
Wednesday, 16 January 2002
Carl "Bobo" Olson, boxer (middleweight champion), 73.
Ron Taylor, actor (Bleeding Gums Murphy on "The Simpsons"), of a heart attack, 48.
Thursday, 17 January 2002
Camilo Jose Cela, writer (The Family of Pascual Duarte), of heart disease, 85.
C. B. Robinson, Tennessee state legislator (1976-94), 90.
Friday, 18 January 2002
Alex Hannum, NBA basketball coach (St. Louis Hawks), 78.
Sol J. Rogers, optometrist (Texas State Optical), of Parkinson's disease, 87.
Saturday, 19 January 2002
Edvaldo Izidio Neto, aka Vava, soccer player (Brazil), of heart failure, 67.
John Whitehead, college football coach (Lehigh University), of heart complications, 77.