Deaths for the week ending 27 October 2018:
Sunday, 21 October 2018
John Hill, NFL football player (New Orleans Saints), of pancreatic cancer, 68.
Monday, 22 October 2018
Gilberto Benetton, fashion executive (Benetton Group), cause not reported, 77.
Hank Greenwald, baseball announcer (San Francisco Giants), 83.
Tuesday, 23 October 2018
James Karen, actor (Poltergeist), 94.
Rod Rust, NFL football head coach (New England Patriots), 90.
Wednesday, 24 October 2018
Melvin Ragin, aka Wah Wah Watson, soul guitarist (The Funk Brothers), cause not reported, 67.
Benny Valenzuela, major leaguer (St. Louis Cardinals), 85.
Tony Joe White, blues musician ("Polk Salad Annie"), of natural causes, 75.
Thursday, 25 October 2018
Lindon Crow, NFL football player (Los Angeles Rams), 85.
Saturday, 27 October 2018
Perry Lee Dunn, NFL football player (Atlanta Falcons), cause not reported, 77.
Freddie Hart, country singer ("Easy Loving"), of pneumonia, 91.
Ntozake Shange, playwright (For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide...), of natural causes, 70.