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An alphabetical listing of names beginning with the letter W 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.

Barbara Wace - January 16, 2003 (95) Former Associated Press reporter
Mike Wachtel - May 25, 2002 (48) Oshkosh B'Gosh executive vice president
Jim Wacker - August 26, 2003 (66) [Cancer] Former football couch at TCU, Minnesota and North Dakota State
David Waibel - September 2, 2003 (39) Former member of the Allman Brothers Band and former member of Firehouse
Eliot Wald - July 12, 2003 (57) [Liver cancer] Former writer for Saturday Night Live, movie and television producer and former newspaper columnist
Mal Waldron - December 2, 2002 (77) [Cancer] Jazz pianist
Monroe E. Wall - July 6, 2002 (85) Chemist
Patrick Wall - July 5, 2003 (68) Attorney
John Wallach - July 10, 2002 (59) Journalist and founder of Seeds of Peace
Fritz Walter - June 17, 2002 (81) Former German soccer player
Raymond Walters - August 30, 2003 (91) Former columnist for the New York Times Book Review and historian
John F. Walvoord - December 21, 2002 (92) Religious writer
Benjamin Ward - June 10, 2002 (75) Former New York City police commissioner
Jim Warfield - July 16, 2002 (60) Cleveland Indians trainer
William Warfield - August 25, 2002 (82) Singer and pianist
Maurice J. Warnock - January 25, 2003 (100) Former president, chief executive and chairman of Armstrong World Industries
Frank Warren - December 14, 2002 (43) [Heart attack] Former football player for the New Orleans Saints
Earl Washington - July 17, 2003 (77) Former boxing manager and co-founder of Jody Builders Eco-Contractors
Larry Wasser - June 1, 2003 (56) [Heart attack] Executive director of the Florida Holocaust Museum
Lew Wasserman - June 3, 2002 (89) Former chairman and chief executive of MCA Incorporated
Harry Watson - November 19, 2002 (79) Former National Hockey League player for the Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Blackhawks
Glenn E. Watts - August 30, 2002 (82) Former president of the Communications Workers of America
Everette Webb - July 2, 2002 (80) Co-designer of the Boeing 747
William Franklin Webb Jr. - September 3, 2003 (78) Former Leesburg (Virginia) town councilman and former member of the Leesburg (Virginia) Planning Commission
Charlie Webber - January 17, 2003 (58) [Cancer] Former member of the band Swingin' Medallions
Mike Webster - September 24, 2002 (50) Former football player with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Kansas City Chiefs
Sam Weinstein - June 4, 2003 (88) Bowling broadcaster
Peter Weiss - September 6, 2003 (60) [Complications of heart surgery] Columnist and editor of The Jersey Journal, in Jersey City, New Jersey
John Weitz - October 3, 2002 (79) Fashion designer, historian and writer
James Welch - August 4, 2003 (62) [Heart attack] Writer
George Weller - December 19, 2002 (95) Former reporter for The New York Times and Chicago Daily News
Don Wells - October 3, 2002 (79) Former sportscaster
Paul Wellstone - October 25, 2002 (58) United States Senator from Minnesota
Mary Wesley - December 30, 2002 (90) Writer of novels
Edward P. "Ned" West - August 30, 2003 (91) Former director of sports publicity at Florida State, former sports editor of the Tallahassee Democrat and former sports information director at Georgia Tech
Keith Westmoreland - June 19, 2002 (55) Tennessee state representative
Billy Westmorland - September 30, 2002 (65) Professional fisherman and former host of syndicated television fishing shows
Wes Westrum - May 28, 2002 (79) Former major league baseball player and manager
Philip Whalen - June 26, 2002 (78) Poet
John J. Whitacre - November 18, 2002 (50) Former chief executive of Nordstrom's
Barry White - July 4, 2003 (58) [Kidney failure] Singer
Nancy White - May 25, 2002 (85) Former editor of Harper's Bazaar
Nolan White - October 20, 2002 (71) Race car driver
Paul W. White - August 23, 2002 (91) Former chief justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court
Timothy White - June 27, 2002 (50) Editor in Chief of Billboard magazine
James Tillotson Whitehead - August 15, 2003 (67) [Ruptured aorta] Poet
Robert Whitehead - June 15, 2002 (86) Producer of Broadway shows
Davina Whitehouse - December 25, 2002 (90) Actress
Martin M. Wick - June 15, 2002 (82) President of Wicks Organs
Ray Wietecha - December 14, 2002 (740 [Aneurysm] Former football player for the New York Giants
Delbert "Del" Quentin Wilber - July 18, 2002 (83) Former major league baseball player, scout and coach
Hoyt Wilhelm - August 23, 2002 (79) Former major league baseball pitcher
Wallace Wilkinson - July 5, 2002 (60) Former governor of Kentucky
David Williams - August 14, 2002 (30) Lead singer for the rock band Drowning Pool
Hiram Williams - January 5, 2003 (85) Writer and artist
Paul Williams - September 14, 2002 (87) Bandleader
Ted Williams - July 5, 2002 (83) Former Boston Red Sox player
James Gaston Williamson - June 30, 2002 (88) Attorney
Wesley Willis - August 21, 2003 (40) Musician and songwriter
John S. Wilson - August 27, 2002 (89) Former New York Times music critic
Kemmons Wilson - February 12, 2003 (90) Founder of Holiday Inn
Siggi Wilzig - January 7, 2003 (76) [Multiple myeloma] Former president and chief executive of Wilshire Oil Company of Texas, and former president and chairman of the Trust Company of New Jersey
Verne Winchell - November 26, 2002 (87) Founder of Winchell's Donut Houses and former chairman of Denny's Restaurants
Jessica Grace Wing - July 19, 2003 (31) [Colon cancer] Filmmaker and composer
Donald Winn - August 14, 2003 (66) [Pancreatic cancer] Congressional liaison for the Federal Reserve Board
James H. "Jim" Winter - September 5, 2003 (79) Owner and publisher of the Bowie News, in Bowie, Texas
Shirley Witherspoon - June 12, 2003 (61) [Heart failure] Singer
Maia Wojciechowska - June 13, 2002 (74) Writer of children's books
Mamo Wolde - May 26, 2002 (68) Olympic gold medal marathon runner
Ron Woodgeard - September 9, 2002 (56) Editorial page editor of The Macon Telegraph
Alex Woodley - May 22, 2004 (71) [Heart attack] Former head of the Philadelphia Pioneer Club and coach of several Olympic gold medal sprinters
James B. Woods - August 1, 2002 (89) Former copy editor for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
William Woolfolk - July 20, 2003 (86) Comic book writer and television show writer
Eddie Worth - November 10, 2002 (93) Former Associated Press photographer
Brian Wright - July 29, 2003 (42) [AIDS] Figure skating choreographer
Eugene Allen "Gene" Wright - September 3, 2002 (89) Federal appeals judge
Thomas H. Wyman - January 8, 2003 (73) Former president, chief executive officer and chairman of CBS