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Deaths for the week ending 23 October 2004:

Sunday, 17 October 2004

Roy Boone, major leaguer (Detroit Tigers), after a long illness, 81.

Julius Harris, actor (Live and Let Die), of heart failure, 81.

Sam Lender, baker (Lender's Bagels), of heart failure, 84.

Tuesday, 19 October 2004

Ken Iverson, computer programmer (APL), 83.

Wednesday, 20 October 2004

Joseph Dorsey Jr., boxer, of cancer, 69.

Anthony Hecht, poet ("The Hard Hours"), of lymphoma, 81.

Chuck Hiller, major leaguer (New York Mets), after a long illness, 70.

Lynda Lee-Potter, news columnist (British), of a brain tumor, 69.

Saturday, 23 October 2004

Joseph Jacobs, construction engineer (Jacobs Engineering Group), 88.

Robert Merrill, operatic baritone, 87.

George Silk, photojournalist (Life), 87.