Weekly Obituaries Roundup

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Deaths for the week ending 4 August 2012:

Maeve Binchy, writer (Light a Penny Candle), after a brief illness, 72.

Gore Vidal, novelist (Lincoln), of pneumonia, 86.

Joe Walsh, college baseball coach (Harvard), apparently of a heart attack, 58.

Don Erickson, major leaguer (Philadelphia Phillies), after a long illness, 80.

Jimmy Jones, pop songwriter ("Handy Man"), 82.

Joan Stein, theater producer ("Picasso at the Lapin Agile"), of cancer, 59.

Stuart Swanlund, rock guitarist (Marshall Tucker Band), after an illness, 54.