Weekly Obituaries Roundup
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Deaths for the week ending 3 September 2005:
Sunday, 28 August 2005
Charles C. Gates Jr., manufacturer (Gates Rubber Co.), 84.
Monday, 29 August 2005
James Scheuer, U.S. Congressman (D-NY, 1965-93), of heart disease and kidney failure, 85.
Jude Wanniski, economist (The Way the World Works), of a heart attack, 69.
Wednesday, 31 August 2005
Michael Sheard, actor (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade), of cancer, 65.
Thursday, 1 September 2005
R. L. Burnside, blues musician, cause not reported, 78.
Friday, 2 September 2005
Barry Cowsill, singer (The Cowsills), drowned in floods caused by Hurricane Katrina, 51. Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans on 29 August. Cowsill survived the storm and was alive for a few days afterward, but he subsequently drowned. His body was recovered on 28 December.
Bob Denver, actor (Gilligan on "Gilligan's Island"), of cancer, 70.
Saturday, 3 September 2005
William H. Rehnquist, U.S. Supreme Court justice (1972-86) and chief justice (1986-2005), of thyroid cancer, 80.