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An alphabetical listing of names beginning with the letter L 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.

Louis Laberge - July 18, 2002 (78) Canadian labor leader
Bob Lackey - June 4, 2002 (53) Former Marquette University and NBA basketball player
Larry LaMotte - June 8, 2003 (60) [Drowned] Former CNN bureau chief
Ann Landers (real name Esther Lederer) - June 22, 2002 (83) Advice columnist
Gary Lane - June 27, 2003 (60) [Heart attack] Former University of Missouri quarterback and former National Football League official
John Lansdale Jr. - August 22, 2003 (91) Former security and intelligence chief of the Manhattan Project, and former member of the city council for Shaker Heights, Ohio
Walter Lappert - September 1, 2003 (82) Founder of Lappert's Ice Cream
George LaRoche - May 31, 2003 (47) [Colon cancer] Attorney
Glen P. Larson - July 27, 2003 (83) Comedian and musician
Lou Lasagna - August 7, 2003 (80) [Lymphona] Former dean of Tufts University Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences
Tom Lasswell - June 6, 2003 (71) [Heart attack] Actor
Lou Laurie - December 26, 2002 (46) [Fell while working on the roof of his house] Sculptor
Westley Wallace Law - July 28, 2002 (79) Civil rights activist
James H. Lee - July 2, 2002 (79) Movie and television writer
Robert Lee - September 27, 2002 (70) Former Idaho state senator
Ernest Leiser - November 26, 2002 (81) Former producer of the CBS Evening News
Abe Lemons - September 2, 2002 (79) Former college basketball coach
Al Lerner - October 23, 2002 (69) Billionaire, chairman and chief executive of MBNA and owner of the Cleveland Browns
Florence Lessing - September 5, 2002 (86) Dancer
Buddy Lester - October 4, 2002 (86) Comedian and actor
Cliff Lewis - July 25, 2002 (79) Former Cleveland Browns football player
Flora Lewis - June 2, 2002 (79) Newspaper columnist
Harold Lewis - July 19, 2003 (83) Former dean of the Hunter College School of Social Work
Marvin Lewis - August 25, 2003 (75) [emphysema] Retired superior court judge in Ventura County, California
R.W.B. Lewis - June 13, 2002 (84) Writer
Tom Lewis - August 2, 2003 (78) Former member of the United States House of Representatives from Florida
Charles Lichenstein - August 28, 2002 (75) Former U.S. United Nations diplomat
Chester L. Lindsey - August 16, 2003 (76) Architect
John Linsley - September 15, 2002 (77) Physicist
Richard Lippold - August 22, 2002 (87) Sculptor
Diane Lipton - August 15, 2002 (57) Attorney and special education advocate
Vera G. List - October 10, 2002 (94) Philanthropist and art collector
Eugene Litman - January 6, 2003 (87) [Respiratory failure] Part owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and real estate developer
Herbert C. Little - December 7, 2002 (82) Former reporter for the Associated Press
Vince Lloyd - July 3, 2003 (86) [Stomach cancer] Former broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs
Raymond Friday Locke - June 8, 2002 (68) Author and magazine editor
Emil Lockwood - August 2, 2002 (82) Former Michigan state senate majority leader
Horace Lee Logan - October 13, 2002 (86) Creator of the "Louisiana Hayride" country music radio program
Alan Lomax - July 19, 2002 (87) Musicologist
Arthur Lord - September 25, 2002 (60) Former reporter and television news producer for NBC News
J. David Love - August 23, 2002 (89) Geologist and environmentalist
John Lucas - October 19, 2002 (83) Television writer, director and producer
Harriet Lucco - May 20, 2002 (89) Former mathematics teacher in Kirkwood, Missouri at Nipher Jr. High School and Kirkwood High School
Chester Ludgin - August 9, 2003 (78) [Cancer] Former singer with the New York City Opera
Don Luft - June 19, 2002 (72) Former Philadelphia Eagles player and former three sport athlete at Indiana University
Hank Luisetti - December 17, 2002 (86) Former college basketball player at Stanford University
James Luisi - June 7, 2002 (73) Actor
Joseph Luns - July 17, 2002 (90) Former NATO secretary-general and Netherlands foreign minister
Gavin Lyall - January 18, 2003 (70) Writer
Roman Lyashenko - July 5, 2003 (24) [Suicide] Center for the New York Rangers
John Lynker - November 11, 2002 (75) Radio news broadcaster