Deaths for the week ending 5 September 2015:
Sunday, 30 August 2015
Brad Anderson, cartoonist (Marmaduke), 91.
Wes Craven, horror film director (A Nightmare on Elm Street), of brain cancer, 76.
Marvin Mandel, governor of Maryland (D, 1969-77), 95.
Oliver Sacks, neurologist and author (Awakenings), of cancer, 82.
Monday, 31 August 2015
Joy Beverley, singer (The Beverley Sisters), of a stroke, 91.
Tom Scott, NFL football player (Philadelphia Eagles), 85.
Wednesday, 2 September 2015
Dean Jones, actor (That Darn Cat!), of Parkinson's disease, 84.
Thursday, 3 September 2015
Judy Carne, actress ("Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"), of pneumonia, 76.
Friday, 4 September 2015
Jean Darling, actress (Our Gang), 93.
Saturday, 5 September 2015
Sergio Ciani, aka Alan Steel, bodybuilder and actor (Hercules Against the Moon Men), of natural causes, 79.
Gene Elston, baseball announceer (Houston Astros), after a long illness, 93.
Dennis "Denny" Greene, nostalgia singer (Sha Na Na), of natural causes, 66.