Deaths for the week ending 28 April 2007:
Sunday, 22 April 2007
John L. O'Brien, Washington legislator (D, 1939-93), of an illness, 95.
Monday, 23 April 2007
Paul Erdman, author (The Silver Bears), after a long illness, 74.
David Halberstam, writer ("War in a Time of Peace"), in an automobile accident, 73.
Boris Yeltsin, Russian president (1991-99), 76.
Tuesday, 24 April 2007
Warren Avis, car rental executive (Avis), of natural causes, 92.
Wednesday, 25 April 2007
Johnny Perkins, NFL football player (New York Giants), of complications following heart surgery, 54.
Bobby "Boris" Pickett, singer ("Monster Mash"), of leukemia, 69.
Thursday, 26 April 2007
Jack Valenti, film industry executive (Motion Picture Association of America), of complications from a stroke, 85.
Friday, 27 April 2007
Bill Forester, NFL football player (Green Bay Packers), after a long illness, 74.
Jim Frank, radio newscaster (Chicago), of leukemia, 66.
Saturday, 28 April 2007
Dabbs Greer, actor (Rev. Robert Alden on "Little House on the Prairie"), of kidney and heart disease, 90.
Tommy Newsom, bandleader ("The Tonight Show"), of liver cancer, 78.
Weekly Obituaries Roundup