Deaths for the week ending 13 May 2006:
Monday, 8 May 2006
John Kimbrough, college football player (Texas A&M) and actor (Sundown Jim), of pneumonia, 87.
Ian MacMillan, photographer (The Beatles' Abbey Road album cover), of lung cancer, 67.
Tuesday, 9 May 2006
Frank Boos, antiques expert ("Antiques Roadshow"), of complications from vascular disease, 70.
Wednesday, 10 May 2006
Val Guest, science fiction filmmaker (The Quartermass Experiment), 94.
Floyd Patterson, heavyweight boxer, of prostate cancer, 71.
A. M. "Abe" Rosenthal, news editor (New York Times), of complications from a stroke, 84.
Thursday, 11 May 2006
Frank Thomas Jr., actor (Tom Corbett on "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"), following a stroke, 85.
Friday, 12 May 2006
Gillespie V. "Sonny" Montgomery, U.S. Congressman (D-MS, 1967-97), after a long illness, 85.
Saturday, 13 May 2006
Ryan Francis, college basketball player (University of Southern California), shot (homicide), 19.
Johnnie Wilder Jr., R&B singer (Heatwave), cause not reported, 56.
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