Weekly Obituaries Roundup

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Deaths for the week ending 12 May 2007:

Alvin Batiste, clarinetist, of a heart attack, 74.

Theodore H. Maiman, physicist (invented the laser), of systemic mastosis, 79.

Bernard Weatherill, Speaker of the British House of Commons (Conservative, 1983-92), 86.

Diego "Chico" Corrales, boxer, in a motorcycle accident, 29.

Nicholas Worth, actor (Swamp Thing), of heart failure, 69.

Charley Ane, NFL football player (Detroit Lions), of pneumonia after a long illness, 76.

Chuck Riley, voice-over announcer, of a kidney problem, 67.