Weekly Obituaries Roundup

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Deaths for the week ending 1 November 2008:

Conrad Efraim, aka Special Delivery Jones, pro wrestler, following a stroke, 63.

Karl Kassulke, NFL football player (Minnesota Vikings), of a heart attack, 67.

William Wharton, painter and novelist (Birdy), of a hospital-acquired infection, 82.

Frederick Baron, lawyer (asbestos lawsuits/John Edwards mistress scandal), of multiple myeloma, 61.

Studs Terkel, writer (The Good War), 86.

Jimmy Carl Black, rock drummer (The Mothers of Invention), of lung cancer, 70.

Jacques Piccard, deep-sea explorer, 86.

Jack Reno, country music singer ("Repeat After Me"), of brain cancer, 72.

Tiffany Sloan, model (Playboy), of suicide by drug overdose, 35.