Deaths for the week ending 27 December 2014:
Sunday, 21 December 2014
Billie Whitelaw, actress (The Omen), 82.
Monday, 22 December 2014
Christine Cavanaugh, cartoon voice actress (Babe), cause not reported, 51.
Joe Cocker, pop singer ("With a Little Help From My Friends"), of lung cancer, 70.
Nate Fox, college basketball player (University of Maine), shot (homicide), 37.
Jeremy Lloyd, TV screenwriter ("Are You Being Served?"), of pneumonia, 84.
Joseph Sargent, film and TV director (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three), of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 89.
Wednesday, 24 December 2014
Buddy DeFranco, jazz clarinetist, 91.
Bob "Showboat" Hall, basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters), of cancer, 87.
Barry Williams, aka Harry Street, serial killer (England), of a heart attack, 70.
Thursday, 25 December 2014
Alberta Adams, blues singer, 97.
Bernard Kay, actor (British), 86.
David Ryall, actor (British), cause not reported, 79.
Friday, 26 December 2014
James Edwards, governor of South Carolina (R, 1975-79), 87.
Saturday, 27 December 2014
Bridget Turner, actress (British), cause not reported, 75.