Weekly Obituaries Roundup

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Deaths for the week ending 2 January 2016:

Dave Henderson, major leaguer (Oakland Athletics), of a heart attack, 57.

Ellsworth Kelly, artist, 92.

Meadowlark Lemon, basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters), 83.

Craig Strickland, country singer (Backroad Anthem), of hypothermia following a boating accident, 29.

Haskell Wexler, cinematographer (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), 93.

Stevie Wright, pop singer (Australian), of pneumonia, 68.

John Bradbury, ska drummer (The Specials), cause not reported, 62.

Lemmy Kilmister, heavy metal musician (Motorhead), of cancer, 70.

Sean Whitesell, actor ("Oz") and producer ("Cold Case"), of cancer, 52.

Frank Malzone, major leaguer (Boston Red Sox), of natural causes, 85.

Ed Mayer, major leaguer (Chicago Cubs), 84.

Doug Atkins, NFL football player (Chicago Bears), of natural causes, 85.

Howard Davis Jr., boxer (1976 Olympics), of cancer, 59.

Natalie Cole, pop/R&B singer ("Pink Cadillac"), of complications from lung disease, 65.

Beth Howland, actress (Vera on "Alice"), cause not reported, 74.

Marvin Panch, auto racer (Daytona 500), of natural causes, 89.

Vern Rapp, major-league manager (St. Louis Cardinals), 87.

Wayne Rogers, actor (Cpt. "Trapper" John McIntyre on "M*A*S*H"), of pneumonia, 82.

Dale Bumpers, U.S. Senator (D-AK, 1975-99), 90.

Gilbert Kaplan, financial publisher and conductor, of cancer, 74. He was the brother of the late composer Joseph Brooks.

Mike Oxley, U.S. Congressman (R-OH, 1973-2007), of lung cancer, 71.

Vilmos Zsigmond, cinematographer (Close Encounters of the Third Kind), 85.