Deaths for the week ending 9 April 2016:
Sunday, 3 April 2016
Erik Bauersfeld, voice actor (Return of the Jedi), 93.
Clarence Clifton Young, U.S. Congressman (R-NV, 1953-57), 93.
Monday, 4 April 2016
Archie Dees, NBA basketball player (Detroit Pistons), 80.
Carlo Mastrangelo, doo-wop singer (The Belmonts), cause not reported, 77.
George L. Radosevich, NFL football player (Baltimore Colts), 88.
Mike Sandlock, major leaguer (Brooklyn Dodgers), 100.
Dorothy Schwartz, a capella singer (The Chordettes), 89.
Tuesday, 5 April 2016
E. M. Nathanson, novelist (The Dirty Dozen), of heart failure, 87.
Barbara Turner, screenwriter (Georgia), cause not reported, 79. She was the mother of actress Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Frank Wainright, NFL football player (New Orleans Saints), cause not reported, 48.
Wednesday, 6 April 2016
Dennis Davis, rock drummer (David Bowie), of cancer, age not reported.
Merle Haggard, country singer ("Okie from Muskogee"), of pneumonia, 79.
Leon Haywood, R&B singer/songwriter ("I Want'a Do Something Freaky to You"), cause not reported, 74.
Darrell Hogan, NFL football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), 89.
Thursday, 7 April 2016
Frank E. Denholm, U.S. Congressman (D-SD, 1971-75), 92.
Blackjack Mulligan, r.n. Robert Windham, pro wrestler, cause not reported, 73.
Friday, 8 April 2016
Dick Alban, NFL football player (Washington Redskins), 87.
Doug France, NFL football player (Los Angeles Rams), cause not reported, 62.
William Hamilton, cartoonist (The New Yorker), in an automobile accident, 76.
Saturday, 9 April 2016
Arthur Anderson, voice actor (Lucky the Leprechaun), 93.
Will Smith, NFL football player (New Orleans Saints), shot (homicide), 34.