Deaths reported during the week ending 8 January 2022:
Sunday, 2 January 2022
Larry Biitner, major leaguer (Chicago Cubs), of cancer, 75.
Jay Weaver, Christian rock bassist (Big Daddy Weave), of coronavirus disease,
42.
Monday, 3 January 2022
Odell Barry, AFL football player (Denver Broncos), of heart disease, 80.
Tuesday, 4 January 2022
Ross Browner, NFL football player (Cincinnati Bengals), of coronavirus
disease, 67.
Joan Copeland, actress (Andrea Whiting on "Search for Tomorrow"), 99. She was
the younger sister of the late playwright Arthur Miller.
Jim Corsi, major leaguer (Boston Red Sox), of liver and colon cancer, 60.
Tommy Matchick, major leaguer (Detroit Tigers), cause not reported, 78.
Wednesday, 5 January 2022
Ralph Neely, NFL football player (Dallas Cowboys), cause not reported, 78.
Greg Robinson, college football coach (Syracuse University), with dementia,
70.
Thursday, 6 January 2022
Peter Bogdanovich, film director (The Last Picture Show), of complications
from Parkinson's disease, 82.
Sidney Poitier, actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), 94.
Calvin Simon, funk musician (Parliament-Funkadelic), cause not reported, 79.
Friday, 7 January 2022
Dee Booher, aka Matilda the Hun, pro wrestler (Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling),
after a long illness, 73.
Saturday, 8 January 2022
Marilyn Bergman, easy listening songwriter ("The Way We Were"), of
respiratory failure, 93.
Michael Lang, concert promoter (Woodstock), of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, 77.
Compiled by David Carson
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