Deaths for the week ending 3 January 2015:
Sunday, 28 December 2014
Chris Dyko, NFL football player (Chicago Bears), hit by an automobile while bicycle riding, 48.
Frankie Randall, lounge singer, of lung cancer, 76.
Monday, 29 December 2014
Howard Schultz, reality TV producer ("Extreme Makeover"), cause not reported, 61.
Bob Usher, major leaguer (Cincinnati Reds), 89.
Tuesday, 30 December 2014
Beau Kazer, actor (Brock Reynolds on "The Young and the Restless"), cause not reported, 63.
Luise Rainer, actress (The Great Ziegfeld), of pneumonia, 104.
Wednesday, 31 December 2014
Edward Herrmann, actor (Richard Gilmore on "Gilmore Girls"), of brain cancer, 71.
Thursday, 1 January 2015
Mario Cuomo, governor of New York (1983-94), of heart failure, 82. He was the father of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and broadcast journalist Chris Cuomo.
Donna Douglas, actress (Elly May Clampett on "The Beverly Hillbillies"), of pancreatic cancer, 81.
Bill Keating, NFL football player (Denver Broncos), of cancer, 70.
Friday, 2 January 2015
Little Jimmy Dickens, country/novelty singer ("May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose"), of cardiac arrest, 94.
Saturday, 3 January 2015
Edward Brooke, U.S. Senator (R-MA, 1967-79), of natural causes, 95.
Bryan Caldwell, NFL football player (Houston Oilers), of Hodgkin's lymphoma, 54.
Allie Sherman, NFL football player (Philadelphia Eagles) and coach (New York Giants), 91.