Deaths reported during the week ending 3 February 2024:
Friday, January 26
Jimy Williams, major-league baseball player and manager (Boston Red Sox), 80.
Monday, 29 January
Blaine Lacher, NHL hockey player (Boston Bruins), cause not reported, 53.
Tuesday, 30 January
Hinton Battle, actor (Dreamgirls), cause not reported, 67.
Jean Carnahan, U.S. Senator (D-MO, 2001-02), in hospice, 90.
Chita Rivera, stage actress (West Side Story), after a brief illness, 91.
Wednesday, 31 January
Terry Beasley, NFL football player (San Francisco 49ers), apparently of
suicide, 73.
N. Scott Momaday, novelist (House Made of Dawn), 89.
Thursday, 1 February
Mike Martin, college baseball coach (Florida State University), of
complications from dementia, 79.
Carl Weathers, actor (Rocky), of natural causes, 76.
Friday, 2 February
Rich Caster, NFL football player (New York Jets), of complications from
Parkinson's disease, 75.
Wayne Kramer, punk rock guitarist (MC5), of pancreatic cancer, 75.
Don Murray, actor (Sid Fairgate on "Knot's Landing"), 94.
Jim Rowinski, NBA basketball player (Detroit Pistons), cause not reported, 63.
Compiled by David Carson
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