Weekly Obituaries Roundup

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Deaths for the week ending 23 July 2005:

Geraldine Fitzgerald, actress (Wuthering Heights), 91.

Edward Heath, U.K. prime minister (Conservative, 1970-74), 89.

Gavin Lambert, writer (Natalie Wood: A Life in Seven Takes), 80.

Dick Sipek, major leaguer (Chicago Cubs), 82.

Paul Duke, political panel moderator ("Washington Week in Review"), of leukemia, 78.

John Herald, folk musician, of suicide (no details reported), 65.

Jim Parker, NFL football player (Baltimore Colts), cause not reported, 71.

William Westmoreland, U.S. army general, of natural causes, 91.

James N. Aparo, comic book illustrator (DC Comics), after a brief illness, 72.

Edward Bunker, crime novelist (No Beast So Fierce), following surgery for complications from diabetes, 71.

Hastings Keith, U.S. Congressman (R-MA, 1958-73), of pneumonia, 89.

James Doohan, actor (Montgomery "Scotty" Scott on "Star Trek"), 85.

Lord Alfred Hayes, pro wrestler and announcer, cause not reported, 77.

Long John Baldry, British blues musician, of a chest infection, 64.

Roland Luedtke, Nebraska political figure, of Alzheimer's disease, 81.

Jerry Marcus, cartoonist ("Trudy"), after a long illness, 81.

Eugene Record, pop singer (The Chi-Lites), of cancer, 64.

Myron Floren, accordionist ("The Lawrence Welk Show"), of cancer, 85.

Ray Oldham, NFL football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), of a heart attack, 54.