Deaths for the week ending 4 July 2009:
Sunday, 28 June 2009
Billy Mays, TV advertising pitchman (OxiClean), of heart disease, 50.
Gale Storm, actress (Margie Albright on "My Little Margie"), after a long illness, 87.
Fred Travalena, comedian and impersonator, of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, 66.
Monday, 29 June 2009
Jan Rubes, opera singer and actor (Witness), 89.
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Harve Presnell, singer/actor (Paint Your Wagon), of pancreatic cancer, 75.
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Karl Malden, actor (Detective Mike Stone on "The Streets of San Francisco"), of natural causes, 97.
Anna Karen Morrow, actress (Mrs. Chernak on "Peyton Place"), 94.
Mollie Sugden, actress (Mrs. Slocombe on "Are You Being Served?"), after a long illness, 86.
Friday, 3 July 2009
John A. Keel, author (The Mothman Prophecies), of congestive heart failure, 79.
Saturday, 4 July 2009
Allen Klein, recording industry executive (The Rolling Stones), with Alzheimer's disease, 77.
Drake Levin, pop guitarist (Paul Revere & the Raiders), of cancer, 62.
Steve McNair, NFL football player (Tennessee Titans), shot (homicide), 36.
Weekly Obituaries Roundup