Deaths in 2007

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2007. Links to other years follow.

Names are listed under the date of death, not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name. Only people meeting the Wikipedia notability guidelines are listed and with a reference to a reliable source. A typical entry appears in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.
• Causes of death such as "old age" and "natural causes" are not cited unless stated in the reference.
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July 2007

10

• Emma Carroll, 112, American who was oldest Iowan and oldest person to ride in a hot-air balloon. [1]
• Abdul Rashid Ghazi, Pakistani cleric at the Red Mosque in Islamabad, shot. [2]
• Ted Hartwell, 73, American curator of photography at Minneapolis Institute of Arts, heart attack. [3]
• Bruce Kennedy, 54, American plastic surgeon, husband of NASCAR official Lesa Kennedy, plane crash. [4]
• Doug Marlette, 57, American Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, car accident. [5]
• Zheng Xiaoyu, 62, Chinese official, former head of the State Food and Drug Administration, executed. [6]

9

• John Baker, 71, Australian general, Chief of the Australian Defence Force (1995–1998). [7]
• Bill Butler, 77, American soldier, Army ranger, member of Indiana Hall of Heroes. [8]
• John Fogarty, 78, Australian rugby union winger, played two tests for the Wallabies. [9]
• John Hill, 84, American lawyer and politician, Texas Attorney General, Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice, heart condition.[10]
• Charles Lane, 102, American character actor (It's a Wonderful Life, I Love Lucy). [11]
• Tom Meyer, 65, American legislator, Michigan House of Representatives. [12]
• John Wilson, 84, Irish politician, Tánaiste (1990–1993). [13]

8

• Alemão, 23, Brazilian football player (Palmeiras), car accident. [14] [15]
• Haroon-ul-Islam, Pakistan Army Lieutenant-Colonel, shot. [16]
• Maseru Koaho, South African sports reporter and TV anchor, car accident. [17]
• Jack Odell, 87, British engineer and co-founder of Matchbox Toys. [18]
• Kajo Schommer, 67, German politician and Saxony Secretary of Economy (1990–2002), cancer. [19] (German)
• Chandra Shekhar, 80, Indian Prime Minister (1990–1991) and Member of Lok Sabha, multiple myeloma. [20] [21]
• John Szarkowski, 81, American photography curator, complications of a stroke. [22]

7

• Anne McLaren, 80, British geneticist and leading figure in developmental biology, car accident. [23]
• Donald Michie, 83, British researcher in artificial intelligence, car accident. [24]
• Charles Tisdale, 80, American newspaper publisher (Jackson Advocate), collapsed while having dialysis. [25]

6

• Ralph Bernstein, 85, American journalist (Associated Press), cancer. [26]
• Marguerite Vogt, 94, American polio and cancer researcher. [27]
• Eileen Wearne, 95, Australian athlete at the 1932 Summer Olympics and Australia's oldest surviving Olympian. [28]
• Kathleen Woodiwiss, 68, American romance writer, cancer. [29]
• Lois Wyse, 80, American advertising executive, author and columnist, stomach cancer. [30]

5

• Régine Crespin, 80, French operatic soprano, liver cancer. [31]
• Kerwin Mathews, 81, American actor. [32]
• George Melly, 80, British jazz and blues musician, lung cancer. [33]
• Mike Portelly, 55, British underwater film maker, cancer. [34]
• Wrede Smith, 85, American businessman (American Pop Corn). [35]

4

• Barış Akarsu, 28, Turkish rock musician, car accident. [36] (Turkish)
• Liane Bahler, 25, German cyclist, car accident. [37] (Dutch)
• José Roberto Espinosa, 59, Mexican footballer, coach and journalist, pneumonia and cancer. [38] [39] (Spanish)
• Johnny Frigo, 90, American jazz violinist and bass player, cancer. [40]
• Kuo Tai-cheng, 46, Taiwanese former chairman of Foxconn, brother of Terry Gou, leukemia. [41]
• Harold Martin, 83, American Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter. [42]
• Signe McMichael, 86, Canadian patron of the arts. [43]
• Bill Pinkney, 81, American singer who was the last original member of The Drifters, probable heart attack. [44] [45]
• Osvaldo Romo, 70, Chilean security agent jailed for human rights abuses during Pinochet regime, heart and respiratory problems. [46]

3

• Beppie Noyes, 87, American author, stroke. [47]
• Claude Pompidou, 94, French widow of former Prime Minister and President Georges Pompidou. [48]
• Boots Randolph, 80, American saxophonist ("Yakety Sax"), cerebral hemorrhage. [49]
• Henrique Viana, 71, Portuguese actor, cancer. [50] (Portuguese)
• John White, 70, American politician, member of Mississippi Senate for 18 years, complications of diabetes. [51]

2

• Philip Booth, 81, American poet and educator, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [52]
• James Capozzola, 44, American blogger, brain hemorrhage. [53]
• Robert S. Cooper, 75, American official, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and Director of DARPA, prostate cancer. [54]
• Brahim Déby, 27, Chadian son of the national President and former presidential advisor, chemical asphyxiation. [55]
• Howell Estes, 92, United States Air Force general during the Vietnam War, heart ailment. [56]
• Ray Goins, 71, American bluegrass musician. [57]
• John Hogness, 85, American educator and doctor, President of the University of Washington, heart failure. [58]
• Robert Keeton, 88, American District Court judge, professor at Harvard Law School, complications from pulmonary embolism. [59]
• Peter Lyman, 66, American information researcher, brain cancer. [60]
• Pete Mead, 83, American middleweight boxer. [61]
• Dilip Sardesai, 66, Indian cricketer, multiple organ failure. [62]
• Luigi Scarabello, 91, Italian footballer, gold medalist at the 1936 Summer Olympics. [63] (Italian)
• Beverly Sills, 78, American opera singer, lung cancer. [64]
• Jimmy Walker, 63, American basketball player (Detroit Pistons, Houston Rockets, Kansas City Kings), lung cancer. [65]
• Al Williams, 60, American basketball player, liver cancer. [66]
• Kevin Woodcock, 64, British cartoonist. [67]
• Hy Zaret, 99, American lyricist ("Unchained Melody"). [68]

1

• Count Gottfried von Bismarck, 44, German aristocrat, businessman and socialite, suspected heroin overdose. [69]
• Joseph Cimino, 73, American doctor, New York City Commissioner of Health (1972–1974), prostate cancer. [70]
• Joerg Kalt, 40, Austrian cinematographer, suicide. [71]
• Colleen McCrory, 57, Canadian environmental activist, brain cancer. [72]
• David Ritcheson, 18, American hate crime victim, suicide by jumping from a ship. [73]

June 2007

See Deaths in June 2007.

May 2007

See Deaths in May 2007.

April 2007

See Deaths in April 2007.

March 2007

See Deaths in March 2007.

February 2007

See Deaths in February 2007.

January 2007

See Deaths in January 2007.

External links

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