Deaths for the week ending 4 June 2011:
Sunday, 29 May 2011
Bill Clements, governor of Texas (R, 1987-91), 94.
Monday, 30 May 2011
Clarice Taylor, actress (Grandmother Huxtable on "The Cosby Show"), of congestive heart failure, 93.
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Pauline Betz Addie, tennis player, of Parkinson's disease, 91.
Andy Robustelli, NFL football player (New York Giants), 85.
Thursday, 2 June 2011
Josephine Hart, author (Damage), of peritoneal cancer, 69.
Walter Peterson, governor of New Hampshire (R, 1969-73), of lung cancer, 88.
Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, activist (Black Panthers), of a heart attack, 63.
Friday, 3 June 2011
James Arness, actor (Marshall Dillon on "Gunsmoke"), 88. He was the brother of actor Peter Graves.
Harry Bernstein, writer (The Invisible Wall), 101.
Andrew Gold, pop singer ("Lonely Boy"), of a heart attack, 59.
John Henry Johnson, NFL football player (San Francisco 49ers), of pulmonary thrombosis, 83.
Jack Kevorkian, assisted suicide practicioner, of pulmonary thrombosis, 83.
Saturday, 4 June 2011
Lilian Jackson Braun, author (The Cat Who), 97.
Lawrence Eagleburger, U.S. secretary of state (1992-93), 80.