Weekly Obituaries Roundup

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Deaths for the week ending 2 August 2014:

George Freese, major leaguer (Pittsburgh Pirates), 87.

Wallace "Wah Wah" Jones, college football and basketball player (University of Kentucky), 88.

Francesco Marchisano, Roman Catholic cardinal (The Vatican), 85.

James Shigeta, actor (Flower Drum Song), of pulmonary failure, 85.

Ed Sprinkle, NFL football player (Chicago Bears), of natural causes, 90.

Dick Wagner, rock guitarist (Alice Cooper), of respiratory failure, 71.

Michael Johns, pop singer ("American Idol"), of a blood clot, 35.

Pete van Wieren, baseball announcer (Atlanta Braves), of lymphoma, 69.