Weekly Obituaries Roundup

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Deaths for the week ending 17 December 2005:

Walt Cudzik, AFL/NFL football player (Boston Patriots), cause not reported, 73.

Robert F. Newmeyer, film producer (The Santa Clause), of a heart attack, 49.

Stanley "Tookie" Williams, California gang leader (the Crips), executed by lethal injection, 51.

Rodney Whitaker, aka Trevanian, author (The Eiger Sanction), of a lung disease, 74.

Stan Leonard, pro golfer, of heart failure, 90.

Ak Miller, drag racer, of a heart attack, 84.

James E. Ostendarp, NFL football player (New York Giants), 82.

William Proxmire, U.S. senator (D-WI, 1957-89), of Alzheimer's disease, 90.

Darrell Russell, NFL football player (Oakland Raiders), in an automobile accident, 29.

John Spencer, actor (Leo McGarry on "The West Wing"), of a heart attack, 58.

Enzo Stuarti, operatic tenor, 86.

Jack Anderson, news columnist ("Washington Merry-Go-Round"), of Parkinson's disease, 83.