Deaths for the week ending 22 July 2006:
Sunday, 16 July 2006
Mickey Spillane, author (Mike Hammer series), 88.
Ted Stone, Protestant evangelist, of cardiovascular disease, 72.
Monday, 17 July 2006
Galen Fiss, NFL football player (Cleveland Browns), of cardiac arrest, 75.
Sam Myers, blues musician (The Rockets), of throat cancer, 70.
Tuesday, 18 July 2006
Raul Cortez, actor (Brazilian), of stomach cancer, 73.
Wednesday, 19 July 2006
Sam Neely, singer/songwriter ("Loving You Just Crossed My Mind"), following a collapse, 57.
Jack Warden, actor (Heaven Can Wait), after a long illness, 85.
Friday, 21 July 2006
Mako, actor (Pearl Harbor), of cancer of the esophagus, 72.
Ta Mok, Cambodian political-military figure (Khmer Rouge), after an illness, 80.
Saturday, 22 July 2006
Jessie Mae Hemphill, blues musician, of complications from an infection, 71.
Thomas Manton, U.S. Congressman (D, 1985-99), after a long illness, 73.
James E. West, mayor of Spokane, Washington (2003-05), of complications from cancer surgery, 55.
Weekly Obituaries Roundup