Weekly Obituaries Roundup

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Deaths for the week ending 31 December 2005:

Roland Galvan, TV weathercaster (Houston), of liver problems, 48.

Birgit Nilsson, operatic soprano (Swedish), 87.

Clint Sampson, NFL football player (Denver Broncos), in an automobile accident, 44.

Charles Socarides, psychiatrist, of heart failure, 83.

Roy Stuart, actor (Cpl. Boyle on "Gomer Pyle USMC"), cause not reported, 70.

Bud Blake, cartoonist ("Tiger"), 87.

John Diebold, businessman and writer (Automation), of cancer of the esophagus, 79.

Vincent Schiavelli, actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), of lung cancer, 57.

John Druze, college football player (Fordham University), of natural causes, 91.

Patrick Cranshaw, actor (Old School), of natural causes, 86.

Richard De Angelis, actor (Col. Forester on "The Wire"), of congestive heart failure, 73.

Chuck Zink, aka "Skipper Chuck", children's TV host (Miami), of complications from a series of strokes, 79.

Candy Barr, stripper, of pneumonia, 70.

Rona Jaffe, writer (The Best of Everything), of cancer, 74.

Ken Mosdell, NHL hockey player (Montreal Canadiens), 83.

Harry "Flash" Clarke, NFL football player (Chicago Bears), of Alzheimer's disease, 89.

Enrico Di Giuseppe, operatic tenor, of cancer, 73.

Bobby Stevens, major leaguer (Philadelphia Phillies), 98.

Neil Strawser, radio news announcer (CBS), of a heart attack, 78.