Deaths for the week ending 25 April 2015:
Monday, 20 April 2015
Doug Buffone, NFL football player (Chicago Bears), of natural causes, 70.
Bob St. Clair, NFL football player (San Francisco 49ers), of complications from a broken hip, 84.
Tuesday, 21 April 2015
M. H. Abrams, literary editor (The Norton Anthology of English Literature), 102.
Steve Byrnes, auto racing announcer ("NASCAR on Fox"), of head and neck cancer, 56.
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
Lois Lilenstein, actress (Lois in "Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant Show"), of cancer, 78.
Thursday, 23 April 2015
Jim Steffen, , .
Richard Corliss, film critic (Time), of a stroke, 71.
Friday, 24 April 2015
Sawyer Sweeten, actor (Geoffrey Barone on "Everybody Loves Raymond"), of suicide by gunshot, 19. He was the brother of actress Madilyn Sweeten and twin brother of actor Sullivan Sweeten.
Sid Tepper, songwriter ("Red Roses for a Blue Lady"), of natural causes, 96.
Saturday, 25 April 2015
Jim Fanning, major-league player (Chicago Cubs) and executive (Montreal Expos), of a heart attack, 87.
Don Mankiewicz, TV screenwriter ("Ironside"), of congestive heart failure, 93.