Deaths for the week ending 3 May 2008:
Sunday, 27 April 2008
Mike Patrick, NFL football player (New England Patriots), cause not reported, 55.
Monday, 28 April 2008
Jack Hanrahan, TV writer ("Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"), of an illness, 75.
Tuesday, 29 April 2008
Julie Ege, actress (On Her Majesty's Secret Service), cause not reported, 64.
Albert Hofmann, chemist (invented the drug LSD), 102.
Thursday, 1 May 2008
Bernard Archard, actor (British), 91.
Buzz Bavasi, baseball executive (California Angels), after a brief illness, 93.
Jim Hager, country singer ("Hee Haw"), of a heart attack, 66. He was the twin brother of country singer John Hager.
Deborah Jeane Palfrey, aka The D. C. Madam, escort service operator, of suicide by haning, 52.
Friday, 2 May 2008
Beverlee McKinsey, actress (Alexandra Spaulding on "The Guiding Light"), of complications from a kidney transplant, 72.
Saturday, 3 May 2008
Ted Key, cartoonist ("Hazel"), 95.
Alan Seiden, college basketball player (St. John's NIT), after a long illness, 71.
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