Deaths for the week ending 5 February 2011:
Sunday, 30 January 2011
Milton Babbitt, orchestral composer, of natural causes, 94.
Monday, 31 January 2011
John Barry, film music composer (Goldfinger), of a heart attack, 77.
Michael Tolan, actor (All That Jazz), of heart disease and renal failure, 85.
Doc Williams, country music performer ("My Old Brown Coat and Me"), 96.
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
Roger Strickland, NBA basketball player (Baltimore bullets), of cancer, 70.
Thursday, 3 February 2011
Don Butler, music executive (Gospel Music Association), after a long illness, 80.
Ron Piche, major leaguer (Milwaukee Braves), of cancer, 75.
Maria Schneider, actress (Last Tango in Paris), after a long illness, 58.
Friday, 4 February 2011
Woodie Fryman, major leaguer (Detroit Tigers), cause not reported, 70.
Tura Satana, actress (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!), of heart failure, 76.
Saturday, 5 February 2011
J. Paul Getty III, kidnapping victim, after a long illness, 54. He was the grandson of oil billionaire J. Paul Getty.
Mary Cleere Haran, cabaret singer, hit by an automobile while riding a bike, 58.
Peggy Rea, actress (Rose Burton on "The Waltons"), of complications from congestive heart failure, 89.