Deaths for the week ending 1 February 2003:
Sunday, 26 January 2003
John Browning, pianist, cause not reported, 69.
Hugh Trevor-Roper, historian (The Last Days of Hitler), 89.
Monday, 27 January 2003
Michael "Ol' Mike" Oatman, radio personality (Kansas), of liver cancer, 63.
Ruth Swanson, cookie producer (Archway Cookie Co.), 93.
Tuesday, 28 January 2003
Lester Osterman, Broadway producer (A Moon for the Misbegotten), 88.
John Philip Thompson, retailer (Southland Corp.), of brain cancer, 77.
Wednesday, 29 January 2003
Natalia Dudinskaya, ballerina (Russian), 90.
Anthony Eisley, actor (Tracy Steele on "Hawaiian Eye"), of natural causes, 78.
Thursday, 30 January 2003
Mary Ellis, actress (The Dancing Years), 102.
Friday, 31 January 2003
Betty Barry, Broadway actress (The Grass Is Green), 79.
Thomas King Swayze, college baseball coach (University of Mississippi), 93.
Saturday, 1 February 2003
Michael Anderson, U.S. astronaut, in the Shuttle Columbia explosion, 43.
David Brown, U.S. astronaut, in the Shuttle Columbia explosion, 46.
Kalpana Chawla, U.S. astronaut, in the Shuttle Columbia explosion, 41.
Laurel Clark, U.S. astronaut, in the Shuttle Columbia explosion, 41.
Rick Husband, U.S. astronaut, in the Shuttle Columbia explosion, 45.
Richard Lyng, U.S. secretary of agriculture (1986-89), of Parkinson's disease, 84.
Harry C. McCool, U.S. army airman (WWII Doolittle raid), of prostate cancer, 84.
William McCool, U.S. astronaut, in the Shuttle Columbia explosion, 41.
Richard Nelson, U.S. army airman (Enola Gay), of complications from emphysema, 77.
Ilan Ramon, Israeli astronaut, in the Shuttle Columbia explosion, 48.
Ramon "Mongo" Santamaria, conga percussionist ("Watermelon Man"), 85.
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