Deaths for the week ending 4 July 2015:
Sunday, 28 June 2015
Pete Athas, NFL football player (New York Giants), of lymphoma, 67.
Jack Carter, comedian ("The Ed Sullivan Show"), of respiratory failure, 93.
Wally Stanowski, NHL hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs), 96.
Monday, 29 June 2015
Willie Daniel, NFL football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), after a long illness, 77.
Jackson Vroman, NBA basketball player (Phoenix Suns), of accidental drowning, 34.
Tuesday, 30 June 2015
M. L. Brackett, NFL football player (Chicago Bears), 81.
Leonard Starr, cartoonist (Little Orphan Annie), 89.
Wednesday, 1 July 2015
Val Doonican, easy listening singer (Irish), of natural causes, 88.
Nicholas Winton, rescuer of children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, 106.
Thursday, 2 July 2015
Roy C. Bennett, pop songwriter ("Red Roses for a Blue Lady"), of natural causes, 96.
Charlie Sanders, NFL football player (Detroit Lions), of cancer, 68.
Friday, 3 July 2015
Diana Douglas, actress (Planes, Trains, and Automobiles), of cancer, 92. She was the wife of actor Kirk Douglas and mother of actor Michael Douglas.
Amanda Peterson, actress (Can't Buy Me Love), of an accidental drug overdose, 43.