Weekly Obituaries Roundup

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Deaths for the week ending 8 March 2008:

Jeff Healey, rock guitarist ("Angel Eyes"), of cancer, 41.

Douglas L. Lockridge, college football player (University of Alabama), cause not reported, 79.

Giuseppe Di Stefano, operatig tenor (Italian), of complications from a head injury suffered in a 2004 attack, 86.

Norman "Hurricane" Smith, recording artist engineer/producer, also recorded the hit "Oh Babe What Would You Say?", 85.

Gary Gygax, game creator (Dungeons & Dragons), after a long illness, 69.

Leonard Rosenman, film score composer (Barry Lyndon), of a heart attack, 83.

Don Curtis, pro wrestler, following a stroke, 80.

Peter Poreku Dery, Roman Catholic cardinal (Ghana), 89.

Richard J. Durrell, magazine publisher (People), of lung cancer, 82.

Francis Pym, British member of Parliament and Thatcher's cabinet, after a long illness, 86.

Carol Barnes, TV newscaster (British), following a stroke, 63.