Obituaries of note

JACK DONOHUE, 70, who coached Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in high school, died Wednesday. Donohue coached Abdul-Jabbar, then known as Lew Alcindor, at Power Memorial Academy in New York and compiled a record of 163-30, including 71 straight wins, from 1959-65.

SIR WILLIAM GUNN, 89, a sheep farmer who took over his family's flock as a teenager and rose to become one of the most powerful men in Australian agriculture, died Thursday, the government said Friday. Gunn persuaded sheep farmers that the only way to save their industry from overseas cartels was to set a minimum price for their wool, a concept known as the floor price. He also helped market Australian wool worldwide.

DR. CHARLES JANEWAY JR., 60, an immunologist whose research at Yale University School of Medicine led to new understanding of the immune system, died April 12. His research focused on innate immunity, or the body's first natural defenses against infection. He also studied T cells and how they react with pathogens to ward off disease.

KATHIE BROWNE McGAVIN, 63, who appeared in television series such as Gunsmoke, Perry Mason and Star Trek, died April 8. Browne McGavin, a breast cancer survivor, died of natural causes, according to a news release from the family.

SANDY CARLSON TARLOW, 59, an advertising executive who was responsible for defining the public face of Polo Ralph Lauren for almost a quarter century, died March 25 in New York.

PAUL BERGER, 82, a rancher who sued the federal government and CNN for invasion of privacy over a televised raid of his property, died April 12. Berger's case against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and CNN ended up before the Supreme Court. In a 2001 ruling, the Supreme Court said individual federal agents were immune from the suit, but the court did not extend that protection to CNN. The news network eventually reached a settlement with the Bergers.

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