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Deaths for the week ending 6 July 2002:

Sunday, 30 June 2002

Pete Gray, major leaguer (St. Louis Browns), 87.

Tuesday, 2 July 2002

Ray Brown, jazz bassist, cause not reported, 75.

James S. Kemper, insurer (Kemper Insurance Co.), 88.

Wednesday, 3 July 2002

Earl Francis, major leaguer (Pittsburgh Pirates), after a long illness, 66.

Thursday, 4 July 2002

Benjamin Davis Jr., U.S. air force Tuskegee Airmen, 89.

Mark McGarrity, aka Bartholomew Gill, author (Peter McGarr), after a fall, 58.

Winnifred Van Tongerloo, survivor of the Titanic sinking, 98.

Friday, 5 July 2002

Katy Jurado, actress (High Noon), of heart and lung ailments, 78.

Wallace Wilkinson, governor of Kentucky (D, 1987-91), of a stroke, 60.

Ted Williams, major leaguer (Boston Red Sox), of cardiac arrest, 83.

Saturday, 6 July 2002

John Frankenheimer, film director (The Manchurian Candidate), of a stroke following spine surgery, 72.

William B. Ruger, firearms manufacturer (Sturm, Ruger & Co.), 86.