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An alphabetical listing of names beginning with the letter D 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.

Dave Dalby - August 30, 2002 (51) Former Oakland Raiders football player
John L. "Jack" Dales - January 16, 2003 (95) [Cerebral hemorrage] Former executive secretary of the Screen Actors Guild
Rich Dangel - December 3, 2002 (60) [Aneurysm] Former member of the rock band the Wailers
William D'Angelo - June 8, 2002 (70) Television producer
Jean Houston Baldwin Daniel - December 14, 2002 (86) Former first lady of Texas
Jack Daniels - September 4, 2003 (79) [Alzheimer's disease] Former member of the New Mexico state House of Representatives
Ed Darby - August 9, 2003 (82) [Heart failure] Former financial editor for the Chicago Sun-Times
Justin Dart Jr. - June 22, 2002 (71) Disabilities advocate
Raymond F. Dasmann - November 5, 2002 (83) Biologist, ecologist and writer
Willie Davenport - June 17, 2002 (59) Former Olympic track gold medalist
Paul L. David - November 7, 2002 (79) Founder of Camelot Music
Russ David - January 21, 2003 (89) [Stroke] Orchestra leader, pianist and songwriter
Benjamin Davis Jr. - July 4, 2002 (89) First black general in the U.S. Air Force
James Davis - July 23, 2003 (41) [Murdered] New York City councilman
Raymond G. Davis - September 3, 2003 (88) [Heart attack] Retired Marine general
Robert Davis - August 3, 2003 (61) Former reporter for the Chicago Tribune
Stanley Davis - January 23, 2003 (94) Former mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan and former Michigan state representative
Ken Dayton - July 19, 2003 (80) [Refractory anemia] Former chief executive of Dayton Hudson
Winston J. "Buddy" Dean - July 16, 2003 (78) [Stroke] Former television host in Baltimore, Maryland and former radio disc jockey and owner of radio stations in Arkansas
Jean de Beaumont - June 12, 2002 (98) Former vice president of the International Olympic Committee
Robert H. Dedman Sr. - August 20, 2002 (76) Founder and chairman of ClubCorp International Inc. and billionaire philanthropist
Mildred "Millie" Deegan - July 21, 2002 (82) Former player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Ada Urquhart DeBold Deemer - July 7, 2003 (86) Helped begin what became the National Kidney Foundation
John Dellenback - December 7, 2002 (84) [Viral pneumonia] Former Oregon congressman and former director of the Peace Corps
Martin Deutsch - June 26, 2002 (76) Started Head Start Program
Martin Deutsch - August 16, 2002 (85) Former MIT physicist and discoverer of positronium
Charles Devens - August 13, 2003 (93) Former pitcher for the New York Yankees
Brad Dexter - December 12, 2002 (85) [Emphysema] Actor
Irene Diamond - January 21, 2003 (92) Philanthropist
Derrek Dickey - June 25, 2002 (51) Basketball broadcaster and former NBA basketball player
W. H. "Sonny" Dillahunty - August 2, 2003 (75) [Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease] Former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas
Irving Dilliard - October 9, 2002 (97) Former editorial page editor of the St. Louis Post Dispatch
C. Douglas Dillon - January 10, 2003 (93) Former U.S. treasury secretary, former undersecretary of state for economic affairs and former U.S. ambassador to France
Brian Dionne - September 6, 2003 (51) [Liver cancer] AIDS advocate and former director of development for the New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
Dietrich "Dee" Dirks - August 12, 2003 (101) Founder of television station KTIV and radio stations KMNS and KWSL in Sioux City, Iowa
Glenn Dobbs - November 12, 2002 (82) Former football player and coach at the University of Tulsa
Larry Dobkin - October 28, 2002 (83) Actor
Larry Doby - June 18, 2003 (79) First black baseball player in the American League
Harriet Doerr - November 24, 2002 (92) Writer
Adelina Domingues - August 21, 2002 (114) Oldest person in the United States at the time of her death
Robert M. Donaldson Jr. - July 8, 2003 (75) Physician. Former deputy dean at the Yale School of Medicine
Lonnie Donegan - November 3, 2002 (71) Musician
Robert J. Donovan - August 8, 2003 (90) [Stroke] Newspaper reporter and book author
John P. Doogan - July 22, 2003 (81) [Pneumonia] Former chancellor of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle, Washington
Robert Dorfman - June 24, 2002 (85) Economist
Tom Dowd - October 27, 2002 (77) Music producer, engineer and physicist
Catherine Downing - September 4, 2003 (40) [Car crash] Features editor for The Anniston Star, in Anniston, Alabama
Cynthia Ann Doyon - August 5, 2003 (48) [Suicide] Host and producer of The Swing Years and Beyond on radio station KUOW-FM in Seattle, Washington
Amram Ducovny - August 23, 2003 (75) [Heart disease] Writer
Gus Dudgeon - July 21, 2002 (59) Music producer
Guilford Dudley, Jr - June 13, 2002 (94) Former United States ambassador to Denmark
Thomas Duffin - July 29, 2003 (68) [Liver disease] Former labor relations director for Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc.
William Dufty - June 29, 2002 (86) Writer
Bill Duke - August 30, 2003 (58) [Throat cancer] Former principal of Carmel High School in Indianapolis, Indiana
Donald Duncan Jr. - June 12, 2003 (75) [Car wreck] Founder of Playmaxx, Inc.
Richard H. "Dick" Dunkel - September 18, 2002 (69) Former executive editor of The Daytona Beach News-Journal
Dean Dunlavey - June 28, 2003 (77) [Complications from a fall] Attorney
Steve Durbano - November 16, 2002 (50) Former National Hockey League player with St. Louis, Kansas City, Pittsburgh and Colorado
Barbara Durham - December 30, 2002 (60) [Neuro-degenertative disorder] Former chief justice of the Washington state Supreme Court
Joseph T. Durkin - May 31, 2003 (100) Historian and writer
Jack Cottrell Dutton - June 15, 2002 (92) Former mayor of Anaheim, California