Deaths for the week ending 19 April 2008:
Sunday, 13 April 2008
Wally Klein, NFL football player (Washington Redskins), of heart failure, 43.
Monday, 14 April 2008
Tommy Holmes, major leaguer (Boston Braves), 91.
Ollie Johnston, animator (Bambi), of natural causes, 95.
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Hazel Court, horror film actress (The Raven), 82.
Floyd Simmons, actor (South Pacific), 84.
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
Edward Lorenz, meterologist and chaos theory scientist (described "the butterfly effect"), of cancer, 90.
Thursday, 17 April 2008
Louis Allen, NFL football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), 83.
Nicolette Goulet, actress (Meredith Reade on "The Guiding Light"), of breast cancer, 51. She was the daughter of singer Robert Goulet.
Gwyneth Dunwoody, British member of Parliament and Thatcher's cabinet (Labour, 1974-2008), after a brief illness, 77.
Danny Federici, rock keyboardist (Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band), from melanoma, 58.
Friday, 18 April 2008
Kay Linaker, actress (The Girl from Mandalay), 94.
Saturday, 19 April 2008
Lawrence Hertzog, TV writer/producer ("Nowhere Man"), of cancer, 56.
John Marzano, major leaguer (Seattle Mariners), from a fall downstairs while intoxicated, 45.
Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, Roman Catholic cardinal (Colombia), after a long illness, 72.
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