Weekly Obituaries Roundup

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Deaths for the week ending 20 December 2008:

Mike "Mad Dog" Bell, pro wrestler, accidental inhalation of aerosol propellant, 37.

Nick Wilhite, major leaguer (Los Angeles Dodgers), of cancer, 67.

Sam Bottoms, actor (Apocalypse Now), of brain cancer, 53.

Sammy Baugh, NFL football player (Washington Redskins), 94.

Dave Smith, major leaguer (Houston Astros), of a heart attack, 53.

Majel Barrett, actress (Nurse Christine Chapel on "Star Trek"), of leukemia, 76. She was the wife of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry.

Ronald Lee "Pete" Case, NFL football player (New York Giants), after a long illness, 67.

Page Cavanaugh, jazz musician ("She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor"), of kidney failure, 86.

Jack Douglas, actor (British), 81.

W. Mark Felt, aka "Deep Throat", political informant (Watergate scandal), of congestive heart failure, 95.

Paul Weyrich, conservative political activist (Heritage Foundation), after a long illness, 66.

Dock Ellis, major leaguer (Pittsburgh Pirates), of a liver disease, 63.

Matt Kofler, NFL football player (Buffalo Bills), after a long illness, 49.

Olga Lepeshinskaya, ballerina (Russian), 92.

Adrian Mitchell, poet ("Human Beings"), apparently of a heart attack, 76.

Robert Mulligan, film director (To Kill a Mockingbird), of heart disease, 83.