Kenneth Whitlock, a star Sewickley athlete who became the first black Marine from Allegheny County and then spent three decades as a school administrator in Virginia, died Tuesday. (Today)

Ben Gazzara, an intense actor whose long career included playing Brick in the original "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" on Broadway, roles in influential films by John Cassavetes and work with several generations of top Hollywood directors, died Friday in New York City. He was 81. (Today)

Thomas J. Murrin, who rose to the top ranks of Westinghouse Electric Corp. and went on to lead the business school of Duquesne University, died Monday at his home in McCandless with his wife, Dee, and their eight children at his side. He was 82. (Yesterday)

As a top television comedy director who won an Emmy directing "The Dick Van Dyke Show" in the early 1960s, John Rich was faced with a tough choice in 1970. (Yesterday)

Angelo Dundee, the renowned trainer who guided Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard to boxing glory, died Wednesday in Clearwater, Fla. He was 90. His death was announced by his son-in-law, James Coughlin, who said Mr. Dundee had recently been treated for blood clots. (Yesterday)