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Deaths for the week ending 24 August 2002:

Sunday, 18 August 2002

Dick O'Connell, baseball executive (Boston Red Sox), 87.

Dean Riesner, screenwriter (Dirty Harry), 83.

Thursday, 22 August 2002

Allen R. Myerson, business editor (New York Times), of a fall from a skyscraper (presumed suicide), 47.

Friday, 23 August 2002

Emily Genauer, art critic, 91.

Marnie Rose, TV and real-life physician ("Houston Medical"), of brain cancer, 28.

Wayne Simmons, NFL football player (Green Bay Packers), in an automobile accident, 32.

Hoyt Wilhelm, major leaguer (Chicago White Sox), of heart failure, 79.

Saturday, 24 August 2002

Ted Ashley, film producer (Warner Brothers), of leukemia, 80.

Walter Johns Sr., sports columnist (Sports Sputterings), 91.