Deaths for the week ending 8 August 2015:
Sunday, 2 August 2015
Jack Spring, major leaguer (Los Angeles Angels), of Parkinson's disease, 82.
Monday, 3 August 2015
Melvin Farr, NFL football player (Detroit Lions), cause not reported, 70.
Coleen Gray, actress (The Killing), of natural causes, 92.
Christopher Hyndman, talk show host ("Steven and Chris"), cause not reported, 49.
Tuesday, 4 August 2015
John Rudometkin, NBA basketball player (New York Knicks), of chronic lung disease, 75.
Billy Sherrill, country music producer (Charlie Rich), after a brief illness, 78.
Wednesday, 5 August 2015
Herbert Wise, TV director ("I, Claudius"), 90.
Thursday, 6 August 2015
Ray Hill, NFL football player (Miami Dolphins), of colon cancer, 39.
Mark Sheeler, actor (From Hell It Came), of complications from a stroke, 92.
Louise Suggs, pro golfer/LPGA founder, of natural causes, 91.
Friday, 7 August 2015
Terrence Evans, actor (Texas Chainsaw Massacre), 81.
Saturday, 8 August 2015
Jack Jackson, NHL hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks), 90.
Tony Lara, boat captain and reality TV personality ("The Deadliest Catch"), of a heart attack, 50.
Gus Mortson, NHL hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs), 90.
Sean "Ruck" Price, rapper, cause not reported, 43.
Susan Sheridan, voice actress (Trillian in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"), after a long illness, 68.