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DAME CICELY SAUNDERS, 87, who launched the modern system of hospice care, died Thursday in the London hospice she founded in 1967. Queen Elizabeth II named her a dame of the British Empire in 1980 for her work in the hospice movement.
PAUL DUKE, 76, who for 20 years was the moderator of the public television program Washington Week in Review, died Monday in Fredericksburg, Va. He was already a Washington journalist when he took over in 1974 as host of the program.
DR. ALAIN BOMBARD, 80, who crossed the Atlantic in a dinghy to prove that shipwrecked sailors could survive off the sea's bounty, died Tuesday in Toulon, France. In 1952, he completed a 65-day solo voyage across the Atlantic on a single-sail inflatable raft to prove that it was possible to live off fresh-caught, uncooked fish.
DR. CLARENCE DENNIS, 96, who performed the first open-heart surgery that included the use of a heart-lung machine in 1951, died July 11 in St. Paul, Minn. Within hours after that first operation using the machine, the patient died.
JOE HARNELL, 80, who won a Grammy Award for his 1962 dance arrangement Fly Me to the Moon Bossa Nova, died Thursday in Sherman Oaks, Calif.