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An alphabetical listing of names beginning with the letter A which have been in RECENT DEATHS since we started that feature. Names remain in RECENT DEATHS for two months, based on date of death.
After two months, they are moved here in the DEATHS ARCHIVES. For a listing of people who have died less than two months ago, visit RECENT DEATHS.

Herbert E. Abrams - August 29, 2003 (82) [Cancer] Portrait painter
Bill Adair - June 17, 2002 (89) Former major league coach and manager
Hobbs Adams - September 24, 2002 (99) Former football and baseball player at USC and former head football coach at Kansas State
John G. Adams - June 26, 2003 (91) Attorney
Ray Adams - August 19, 2003 (62) [Lung cancer] Missouri state representative
Giovanni Agnelli - January 24, 2003 (81) [Prostate cancer] Former chairman and chief executive officer of Fiat
Diane Geppi-Aikens - June 29, 2003 (40) [Brain tumor] Loyola College women's lacrosse team coach
Russell Barnett Aitken - August 10, 2002 (92) Artist, writer, explorer, champion skeet shooter and philanthropist
Frankie Albert - September 4, 2002 (82) Former head coach of the San Francisco 49ers
Pedro Alcazar - June 24, 2002 (26) Professional boxer
Alvin Alcorn - July 10, 2003 (90) Jazz musician
James H. Alesia - July 24, 2003 (69) U.S. district judge and former assistant U.S. attorney
Carl Allen - May 24, 2004 (74) [Struck his head in a fall at his house] Harness racing breder, trainer and racer
Ivan Allen Jr. - July 2, 2003 (92) Former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
John M. Allen - July 31, 2002 (75) Former assistant managing editor of Reader's Digest
Salvator Altchek - September 10, 2002 (92) Physician
Harold Altman - July 28, 2003 (79) Artist and former Penn State University professor
Saul Amarel - December 18, 2002 (74) [Cancer] Artificial intelligence pioneer and founder of the Rutgers University science department
Rod Amateau - June 29, 2003 (79) [Cerebral Hemorrhage] Movie and television director
Stephen E. Ambrose - October 13, 2002 (66) Historian and writer
Idi Amin - August 16, 2003 (80) Former dictator of Uganda
Don "Ox" Anderson - January 18, 2003 (71) [Heart failure] Professional wrestler
Edmund Anderson - June 29, 2002 (89) Radio program producer and composer
Jean Bowman Anderson - June 24, 2002 (93) Economist
Michael Anderson - February 1, 2003 (43) [Breakup of the space shuttle Columbia] Astronaut
Paul O. Anderson - September 9, 2003 (87) [Injuries from a fall] Former editor of The Tacoma News Tribune, in Tacoma, Washington
William E. Anderson - July 8, 2003 (77) Former reporter and assistant city editor for the Indianapolis Star and former news director at radio station WXLW in Indianapolis, Indiana
Elizabeth Bullock Andrews - December 3, 2002 (92) Former member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama
John Angelides - November 8, 2002 (65) Former news director of KMOX radio in St. Louis, Missouri
Walter H. Annenberg - October 1, 2002 (94) Billionaire, founder of TV Guide, former U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, and philanthropist
Ralph Appezzato - September 16, 2002 (67) Mayor of Alameda, California
Royce Applegate - January 1, 2003 (63) [Smoke inhalation from a fire in his house] Actor
Howell Appling Jr. - October 16, 2002 (83) Former Oregon Secretary of State
George W. Archer - August 11, 2002 (102) Former publisher of The Palm Beach Post-Times
Roone Arledge - December 5, 2002 (71) [Cancer] Former president of ABC Sports and former president of ABC News
Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong - July 30, 2003 (94) [Complications from a heart attack] Musician
Mary Crew Armstrong - July 12, 2002 (88) Former Olympic gold medal runner
Leslie G. Arries Jr. - December 1, 2002 (77) [Brain cancer] Former president and chief executive of WIVB-TV in Buffalo, New York. Also helped develop, syndicate and produce the Mike Douglas Show and the Merv Griffin Show.
Harold Ashby - June 13, 2003 (78) Musician
Ted Ashley - August 24, 2002 (80) Former chairman and chief executive officer of Warner Brothers
Alfred L. "Roy" Atherton Jr. - October 30, 2002 (80) Former United States ambassador to Egypt
John Aubuchon - July 23, 2003 (57) [Lung cancer] Maryland Public Television reporter and former president of the National Press Club
Sid Avery - July 1, 2002 (83) Photographer
George Axelrod - June 21, 2003 (81) [Heart failure] Playwright