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 persons 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.
- Ken Kumai, 76, Japanese film director. [1] (French)
- Robert Comer, 50, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. [2]
- Peter Hayes, 54, Australian lawyer. [3]
- Bruno Mattei, 75, Italian film director. [4] (Italian)
- Murari Prasad Mishra, 79, Indian writer and politician who served as Minister for Cooperatives in Orissa. [5]
- Sakorn Yang-keawsot, 85, Thai puppeteer, lung problem. [6]
- Bobby Ash, 82, British-born host of The Uncle Bobby Show, heart attack. [7]
- Driss Benzekri, 57, Moroccan human rights activist, complications of stomach cancer. [8]
- Ishwarbhai Chavda, 96, Indian former Member of Parliament from Gujarat. [9]
- William Colson, 66, American businessman who built the world's biggest retirement home network, cancer. [10]
- Christian Delacampagne, 57, French philosopher and writer, cancer. [11] (French)
- Slim de Grey, 88, Australian comedian and actor. [12]
- Dame Jean Herbison, 83 or 84, New Zealand academic, first NZ female chancellor (University of Canterbury, 1979–1984). [13]
- Baruch Kimmerling, 67, Israeli sociologist and historian known for his studies of Zionism and Israeli society, cancer. [14]
- Bruce Lauritsen, 64, American businessman, CEO of Flexsteel Industries (1993–2006), pancreatic cancer. [15]
- Valentina Leontyeva, 84, Russian who was one of the first television presenters in the Soviet Union. [16] (Russian)
- Stanley Miller, 77, American chemist and biologist best known for the Miller-Urey experiment into the origins of life, heart failure. [17]
- Guram Sharadze, 66, Georgian philologist and politician, shot. [18]
- Norman Von Nida, 93, Australian golf champion. [19]
- Ben Weisman, 85, American musician and songwriter who wrote nearly 60 songs for Elvis Presley, stroke. [20]
- Bernard Blaut, 67, Polish football player who won two titles with Legia Warsaw. [21] (Polish)
- Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, 99, first President of Somalia. [22]
- Miroslav Deronjić, 52, Bosnian Serb politician and convicted war criminal, natural causes. [23]
- Jack Findlay, 72, Australian Grand Prix motorcycle racer. [24]
- Eva Forest, 79, Catalonian writer and fighter for human rights, [25] [26]
- Marian Radke-Yarrow, 89, American researcher in child psychology, leukemia. [27]
- Scott Thorkelson, 49, Canadian member of the House of Commons (1988 - 1993), heart attack. [28]
- Hans Wollschläger, 72, German author and translator. [29] (German)
- Carl Wright, 75, American dancer, comedian and actor, cancer. [30]
- Roy De Forest, 77, American artist and professor at University of California, Davis. [31]
- Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, 74, French physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1991. [32]
- Robert Lapidus, 78, American businessman, founder of Bob's Stores. [33]
- Shawn McCaughey, 31, Canadian Forces Snowbirds aerobatic team pilot, air crash. [34]
- Saud Memon, 44, Pakistani businessman implicated in the murder of Daniel Pearl, tuberculosis and meningitis. [35]
- António Simões Monteiro, Portuguese Amnesty Internacional president and founder. [36] (Portuguese)
- Les Schwab, 89, American tire tycoon. [37]
- Mika Špiljak, 90, Chairman of the Collective Presidency of Yugoslavia (1983–1984). [38] [39] (Croatian)
- Yoyoy Villame, 69, Filipino musician and comedian, heart attack. [40]
- Lloyd Alexander, 83, American fantasy author, including The Chronicles of Prydain, cancer. [41]
- Petro Balabuyev, 76, Ukrainian aircraft designer, including world's largest aeroplane, the An-225. [42]
- John Gonzaga, 74, American football player with the San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions and Denver Broncos. [43]
- Kawika Kapahulehua, 76, American captain of the Hokulea's first voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti. [44]
- Anton Rašla, 95, Slovak prosecutor of WWII President Jozef Tiso, last National Council member during Slovak Uprising. [45] (Slovak)
- Toki Shiozawa, 79, Japanese actress, stomach cancer. [46]
- Pete Wambach, 90, American radio presenter (This is Pennsylvania, 1968–1985). [47]
- Eugen Weber, 82, Romanian-born American historian, pancreatic cancer. [48]
- Wiktor Zin, 82, Polish architect and graphic artist. [49] (Polish)
- DeAndre Adams, 20, American basketball player (Winthrop University), car accident. [50]
- Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin, 91, American creole accordionist. [51]
- Dame Mary Douglas, 86, British social anthropologist. [52]
- Gohar Gasparyan, 83, Armenian soprano opera singer. [53]
- Allan Hird, 88, Australian footballer (1940–1945) and President of Essendon (1969–1975), Victorian DG of Education. [54]
- Peter Marner, 71, British cricketer, youngest player to represent Lancashire. [55]
- Terry Ryan, 60, American writer (The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio), cancer. [56]
- Harry Shuford, 92, American football player (Southern Methodist University), captain of 1936 Rose Bowl team. [57]
- Paul Sullivan, American who was first Alabama Crimson Tide basketball player drafted by the NBA. [58]
- Lauren Terrazzano, 39, American Newsday columnist who chronicled her battle with cancer, lung cancer. [59] [60]
- Giorgio Cavaglieri, 95, Italian-born American architect who founded New York City's urban preservation movement. [61]
- Orlando Consalvi, 87, American tailor who made Colonel Sanders' suits. [62]
- Jerry Falwell, 73, American pastor, television evangelist and founder of the Moral Majority, cardiac arrhythmia. [63] [64]
- Karen Hess, 88, American culinary historian and author, stroke. [65]
- Ruben Johnson, 77, American banker convicted of fraud and Democratic Party fundraiser, pardoned by Bill Clinton, leukemia. [66]
- Yolanda King, 51, American activist, actress, daughter of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. [67]
- Orlando Bobo, 33, American football player with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the CFL, heart and liver failure. [68]
- General Sir Edward Jones, 70, British Army general, Black Rod (1996–2001), heart attack. [69]
- Nancy McDonald, 72, American Representative for El Paso in the Texas House (1984–1995), ovarian cancer. [70]
- Aaron McMillan, 30, Australian classical pianist, bone cancer. [71]
- Jean Saubert, 65, American dual medalist in slalom at the 1964 Winter Olympics, breast cancer. [72]
- Alexander Tassev, 45, Bulgarian chairman of football team Lokomotiv-Plovdiv, shot. [73] [74]
- Sir Colin St John Wilson, 85, British architect who designed the British Library. [75]
- Chen Xiaoxu, 41, Chinese actress (Lin Daiyu in Dream of the Red Mansion), breast cancer. [76]
- Mendel Jackson Davis, 64, American Democratic Representative from South Carolina (1971–1981), emphysema. [77]
- Pierre Duprey, 84, French Bishop of the Roman Curia. [78]
- Gomer Hodge, 63, American Major League Baseball player for the Cleveland Indians (1971), Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [79]
- Les Hollingsworth, 71, American lawyer who served on the Arkansas Supreme Court, complications of pancreatic cancer. [80]
- George Kiseda, 80, American sports writer, dementia. [81] [82]
- George Tatnell, 68, Australian motor racing speedcar and sprintcar champion, pancreatic cancer. [83]
- Kate Webb, 64, New Zealand foreign correspondent, bowel cancer. [84]
- Mullah Dadullah, 41, Afghan Taliban military commander, shot. [85]
- Dong Guangqing, 90, Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association bishop of Wuhan. [86]
- Kai Johansen, 67, Danish soccer player for Greenock Morton F.C. and Glasgow Rangers, cancer. [87]
- Edy Vasquez, 23, Honduran soccer player, car accident. [88]
- Norman Frank, 82, American producer and political strategist. [89]
- Bernard Gordon, 88, American screenwriter named on the Hollywood blacklist, cancer. [90]
- Dayna Ho-Henry, 51, American daughter of famed Hawaiian singer Don Ho. [91]
- Stanley Holden, 79, British ballet dancer, complications from heart problems and colon cancer. [92] [93]
- Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe, 71, Nigerian highlife musician. [94]
- Malietoa Tanumafili II, 94, Samoan head of state. [95]
- Dennis Kuhn, 65, American architect known for his work in preserving heritage buildings in New York City, heart attack. [96]
- John Lattimer, 92, American urologist who developed a cure for renal tuberculosis. [97]
- Sir Oliver Millar, 84, British Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures (1972–1988) and Director of the Royal Collection (1987–1988). [98]
- Kelton Miller, 69, American member of the Vermont House (1970–1972), publisher of the Bennington Banner (1977–1995). [99]
- Robert Oelman, 97, American chief executive of NCR Corporation (1962–1973), co-founder of Wright State University. [100]
- Charley Ane, 76, American football player with the Detroit Lions, pneumonia. [101]
- Alfred Chandler, 88, American economic historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. [102]
- Gino Pariani, 79, American soccer player (1950 World Cup), bone cancer. [103]
- Herval Rossano, 72, Brazilian television director. [104] (Portuguese)
- Aníbal Sampayo, 80, Uruguayan singer and composer. [105]
- Dwight Wilson, 106, second-to-last surviving Canadian World War I veteran. [106]
- Philip Workman, 53, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. [107]
- Dimitar Yankov, Bulgarian Nesebar municipal council chairman, shot. [108]
- Philip Craig, 74, American mystery writer. [109]
- Abdullah al Faisal, 85, Saudi prince, writer and businessman, after long illness. [110]
- David Farquhar, 79, New Zealand composer, after long illness. [111]
- John Henry, 68, British toxicologist, haemorrhage. [112]
- Alan Lowenstein, 93, American lawyer and community leader, founder of Lowenstein Sandler law firm, pneumonia. [113]
- Isabella Blow, 48, British fashion journalist and stylist, suicide by poisoning. [114] [115] [116]
- Diego Corrales, 29, American super featherweight and lightweight boxing champion, motorcycle accident. [117]
- George Dawson, 45, British DUP politician in Northern Ireland Assembly, cancer. [118] [119]
- Donald Ginsberg, 73, American physicist, melanoma. [120]
- Tomasi Kulimoetoke II, 88, King of Wallis ('Uvea). [121]
- Raffi Lavie, 70, Israeli artist, pancreatic cancer. [122]
- Emma Lehmer, 100, Russian-born American mathematician. [123]
- Sonny Myers, 83, American wrestler. [124]
- Octavian Paler, 81, Romanian writer and journalist, heart attack. [125]
- Redza Piyadasa, 67, Malaysian artist, liver complications arising from dengue fever. [126]
- Tom Pocock, 81, British historian who specialised in Horatio Nelson and his times, cancer. [127]
- Mac Sumner, 67, American politician, state representative from Oregon, lung cancer [128]
- Nicholas Worth, 69, American character actor, heart failure. [129]
- Yahweh ben Yahweh, 71, American leader of the Nation of Yahweh cult and convicted felon, prostate cancer. [130] [131]
- Alvin Batiste, 74, American jazz musician, heart attack. [132]
- Sue Becker, 79, Australian radio personality, cancer. [133]
- Carey Bell, 70, American blues harmonica player, heart failure. [134]
- Lesley Blanch, 102, British writer and fashion editor. [135]
- Enéas Carneiro, 68, Brazilian politician, leukemia. [136]
- Curtis Harrington, 80, American film director. [137]
- Kazuo Kitamura, 80, Japanese actor, pneumonia. [138]
- Đorđe Novković, 63, Croatian songwriter. [139][140] (Croatian)
- Nikolaus Schad, 82, German cardiologist and professor, son of Christian Schad. [141] (German)
- Petro Sydorenko, 80, Ukrainian-born artist. [142]
- Lord Weatherill, 86, Speaker of the British House of Commons (1983–1992), after short illness. [143]
- Prince Abdul-Majid bin Abdul-Aziz, c.64, Saudi politician, governor of Mecca. [144]
- José Aponte de la Torre, 65, Puerto Rican mayor, respiratory complications. [145] (Spanish)
- Tom Hutchinson, 65, American football wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns 1964 NFL champions. [146]
- Theodore Maiman, 79, American physicist who built the first laser. [147]
- Edwin H. Simmons, 85, American Marine Corps historian. [148]
- Gusti Wolf, 95, Austrian actress. [149] (German)
- Marián Zednikovič, 55, Slovak actor, cancer. [150] (Slovak)
- Doris Bodmer, 76, German-born Swiss national champion skater, American skating coach, multiple myeloma. [151]
- Russell W. Kruse, 85, American auctioneer, stroke. [152]
- Jeremias Nguenha, Mozambican political musician who sang in Shangaan. [153] (Portuguese)
- Omar Anronio Pérez Barreto, 31, Puerto Rican professional wrestler ("Mephisto Lephanto"), heart attack. [154]
- Karl Schlögl, 82, Austrian chemist. [155] (German)
- Mamadou Zare, 45, Ivorian soccer player and coach. [156]
- Alex Agase, 85, Iranian-born American football coach. [157]
- J. Robert Bradley, 87, American gospel singer, diabetes. [158]
- Alexander Brown, 56, American soul singer (The Persuaders). [159]
- Leonard Eron, 87, American psychologist, congestive heart failure. [160]
- Abdul Sabur Farid Kuhestani, 54/55, Afghan legislator and Prime Minister (1992), assassination by gunshot. [161]
- Jim O'Connell, 48, Canadian TV journalist (Business News Network), colon cancer. [162]
- Wally Schirra, 84, American Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronaut, heart attack. [163]
- Nicos Symeonides, 68, Cypriot Defense Minister. [164]
- Rose Tombe, Sudanese celebrity goat, asphyxiation. [165]
- Knock Yokoyama, 75, Japanese comedian and politician, throat cancer. [166]
- Phillip Carter, 44, British businessman, honorary VP of Chelsea FC, helicopter crash. [167] [168] [169]
- Mario Cubbino, 77, Italian cartoonist. [170] (Italian)
- Brad McGann, 43, New Zealand film director (In My Father's Den), cancer. [171]
- David Rosenzweig, 67, American writer and editor for the Los Angeles Times, pneumonia. [172]
- Henare Te Ua, 74, New Zealand Maori radio broadcaster, emphysema and lung cancer. [173]
- Tim Eyermann, 60, American Grammy-nominated musician (East Coast Offering), complications from lung cancer. [174]
- Emgee Pretorius, 83, South African actor, heart attack. [175]
- Joses Sanga, Solomon Islands Public Service Minister, heart attack. [176]
- Mathilde Octavie Tafna, 112, oldest living person of a French possession. [177]
- Eugenia Zdębska, 77, Polish cardiac surgeon. [178] (Polish)
See Deaths in April 2007.
See Deaths in March 2007.
External links
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