Weekly Obituaries Roundup

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Deaths for the week ending 28 March 2009:

Jade Goody, TV personality (British "Big Brother"), of cervical cancer, 27.

Howard "Butch" Komives, NBA basketball player (New York Knicks), after a long illness, 67.

Steve Doll, pro wrestler (pro wrestler), of a blood clot, 44.

Raul Macias, pro boxer (bantamweight), of cancer, 74.

Lloyd Ruby, auto racer (Indianapolis 500), 81.

Uriel Jones, studio drummer (The Funk Brothers), of complications from a heart attack, 74.

George Kell, major leaguer (Detroit Tigers), of natural causes, 86.

Johnny "Super Sub" Blanchard, major leaguer (New York Yankees), of a heart attack, 76.

John Hope Franklin, historian (From Slavery to Freedom), 94.

Dan Seals, pop singer (England Dan and John Ford Coley), of complications from lymphoma, 61.

Gus Cifelli, NFL football player (Detroit Lions), of natural causes, 84.

Larry Glick, talk radio host (Boston, Massachusetts), of complications from open heart surgery, 87.

Jack Dreyfus, investment executive (Dreyfus Corp.), after a long illness, 95.

Irving R. Levine, TV news correspondent (NBC), of complications from prostate cancer, 86.

Earle Brucker Jr., major leaguer (Philadelphia Athletics) and racetrack owner, 83.

Maurice Jarre, film soundtrack composer (Dr. Zhivago), of cancer, 84.