Weekly Obituaries Roundup

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Deaths for the week ending 1 October 2016:

Jose Fernandez, major leaguer (Miami Marlins), in a boating accident, 24.

Arnold Palmer, pro golfer, of heart disease, 87.

Kashif Saleem, R&B musician (B. T. Express), apparently of natural causes, 59.

Jean Shepard, country singer ("Slippin' Away"), 82.

Taz Anderson, NFL football player (St. Louis Cardinals), cause not reported, 77.

Richard Bishop, NFL football player (New England Patriots), cause not reported, 66.

Jack Cotton, NBA basketball player (Denver Nuggets), 91.

Herschell Gordon Lewis, horror film director (Blood Feast), 87.

David Hahn, amateur nuclear physicist (The Radioactive Boy Scout), cause not reported, 39.

Gary Glasberg, TV producer ("NCIS"), cause not reported, 50.

Larkin Malloy, actor ("All My Children"), of complications from a heart attack, 62.

Gloria Naylor, novelist (The Women of Brewster Place), cause not reported, 66.

Agnes Nixon, TV producer ("All My Children"), 93.

Shimon Peres, Israeli prime minister (Labor, 1984-86, 1995-96), of a stroke, 93.

Ann Emery, actress (British), 86.

George Barris, photographer (Marilyn Monroe), 94.

Oscar Brand, folk singer and radio host ("Folksong Festival"), of pneumonia, 96.

Rod Temperton, pop songwriter ("Thriller"), of cancer, 66. His death "last week" was reported on 5 October.

Bobby Burnett, AFL football player (Buffalo Bills), of pancreatic cancer, 73.