Deaths for the week ending 15 October 2016:
Sunday, 9 October 2016
Aaron Pryor, boxer (light welterweight champion, 1980-85), of heart disease, 60.
Monday, 10 October 2016
Tony Adamowicz, auto racer, of brain cancer, 75.
Lorenzo Freeman, NFL football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), cause not reported, 52.
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Patricia Barry, actress (Sally Gleason on "The Guiding Light"), 93.
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
Robert Bateman, pop songwriter ("Please Mr. Postman"), of a heart attack, 80.
Thomas Mikal Ford, actor (Tommy Strawn on "Martin"), of a stomach aneurysm, 54.
Jack Greenberg, civil rights lawyer (Brown v. Board of Education), 91.
William "Sonny" Sanders, R&B songwriter ("(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher"), of natural causes, 77.
Fulton Walker, NFL football player (Miami Dolphins), of a heart attack, 58.
Thursday, 13 October 2016
Bhumibol Adulyadej, Thai king (1946-2016), after a long illness, 88.
Louis Stettner, photographer, 93.
Friday, 14 October 2016
Kathryn Adams, actress (Saboteur), 96. She was the wife of actor Hugh Beaumont.
Jean Alexander, actress (Hilda Ogden on "Coronation Street"), 90.
Edward Gorman, mystery author ("The Face"), of cancer, 74.
Saturday, 15 October 2016
Dennis Byrd, NFL football player (New York Jets), in an automobile accident, 50.
Quentin Groves, NFL football player (Jacksonville Jaguars), of a heart attack, 32.