Oscar G. Mayer, retired chairman of the Wisconsin meat processing company that bears his, and his dad and grandpa, name, 95 (Wednesday July 8, in Fitchburg, WI, of old age.)
Robert S. McNamara, architect of the Vietnam War, secretary of defense under presidents Kennedy and Johnson, 93 (Monday July 6, in Washington, D.C., of natural causes.)
At least 184 people (and counting) who were killed (and over one thousand injured) last weekend in violent clashes between police and Muslim Uighur protesters in China's far western Xinjiang region.
George Fullerton, a musician, artist and technician, a close associate of Leo Fender, one of the creators of the Fender guitar, 86 (Saturday July 4 - reported this week, in Fullerton, CA, of congestive heart failure.)
Mollie Sugden, a British actress best known to many as Mrs. Slocombe in the television comedy series "Are You Being Served?", 86 (Wednesday July 1 - reported this week, in London, after a long illness.)
Tom Wilkes, a Grammy Award-winning art director and epitomic rock album cover designer (The Who's "Tommy, " Janis Joplin's "Pearl, "Stones' "Beggars Banquet," Neil Young's "Harvest," Joe Cocker's "Mad Dogs & Englishmen," George Harrison's "Concert for Bangladesh", "All things Must Pass"), 69 (June 28 - reported this week, in Pioneertown, CA, of a heart attack.)
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