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.

June 2007

24

• Vladimir Fedyaev, President of PBC CSKA Sofia, [1]
• Emil Cohen, 33, Chairman of PBC CSKA Sofia, [2]
• Rod Beck, 38, Major League Baseball pitcher. [3]
• Byron Baer, 77, American legislator for New Jersey (1971–2005). [4]
• Derek Dougan, 69, Northern Irish footballer (Wolves, Northern Ireland). [5]

23

• Hans Sennholz, 75, Austrian economist. [6]

22

• Lenar Gilmullin, 22, Russian footballer (FC Rubin Kazan), motorcycle accident. [7] (Russian)
• William L. Hungate, 84, American judge, U.S. Representative (1964–1977), complications of surgery. [8]
• Erik Parlevliet, 43, Dutch field hockey player, after long illness. [9] (Dutch)
• Guy Vander Jagt, 75, United States Representative from Michigan (1966–1993), pancreatic cancer. [10]

21

• Georg Danzer, 60, Austrian singer, lung cancer. [11] (German)
• Bob Evans, 89, American founder of Bob Evans Restaurants, pneumonia. [12]
• Peter M. Liba, 67, Canadian Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (1999–2004). [13]
• Jean Paul Mather, 92, American educator, President of University of Massachusetts (1954–1960). [14]
• Mbuyu Mibanga, Congolese legislator, deputy of the National Assembly, plane crash. [15]
• Marshall Shulman, 91, American Sovietologist who founded the Averell Harriman Institute at Columbia University. [16]

20

• Nazik Al-Malaika, 84, Iraqi poet, old age. [17]
• Rudy Autio, 80, American sculptor, leukemia. [18]
• Donna King Conkling, 88, American singer, member of The King Sisters. [19]
• Mamadou Konte, 65, Senegalese music producer, founder of the Africa Fete music festival and record label. [20]
• Jim Shoulders, 79, American Pro Rodeo Hall of Famer, heart ailment. [21]
• Bart Tromp, 62, Dutch political scientist and columnist, professor of International Relations at University of Amsterdam. [22] (Dutch)

19

• Antonio Aguilar, 88, Mexican actor, pneumonia. [23]
• El Fary, 69, Spanish singer, lung cancer. [24]
• Terry Hoeppner, 59, American football coach for Indiana University, brain tumor. [25]
• Piara Khabra, 82, British Labour MP for Ealing, Southall (1992–2007). [26]
• Ze'ev Schiff, 74, Israeli military journalist, heart disease. [27]
• Klausjürgen Wussow, 78, German actor (Schwarzwaldklinik), after long illness. [28] (German)

18

• Vilma Espín, 77, Cuban wife of acting President Raúl Castro, president of Cuban Women's Federation. [29]
• Pablo Estramín, 47, Uruguayan singer and composer, cancer. [30] (Spanish)
• Kenneth Franklin, 84, American astronomer at the Hayden Planetarium. [31]
• Efrain Guigui, 81, American conductor, Vermont Symphony Orchestra (1974-1989), cancer. [32]
• Tung Hua Lin, 96, Chinese engineer, designed China's first twin-engine aircraft, heart failure. [33]
• Bernard Manning, 76, British comedian, kidney failure. [34]
• Hank Medress, 68, American singer (The Tokens), producer of The Chiffons and Tony Orlando and Dawn, lung cancer. [35]
• Georges Thurston, 55, Canadian author and composer known as "Boule Noire" (Afro), colorectal cancer. [36]
• Cheeves Walling, 91, American organic chemist, editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. [37]

17

• Jamal Abdul Karim al-Dabban, 68, Iraqi Sunni religious leader, heart attack. [38]
• Elias Blake, 77, American educator, President of Clark College. [39]
• Ben Brocklehurst, 85, British cricketer and publisher. [40]
• Angelo Felici, 87, Italian Catholic Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei. [41]
• Gianfranco Ferrè, 62, Italian fashion designer, brain haemorrhage. [42]
• Ed Friendly, 85, American television producer (Little House on the Prairie, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), cancer. [43]
• Emanuele Narducci, 57, Italian Latinist. [44] (Italian)
• Jay Newman, 59, Canadian philosopher, cancer. [45]
• Abilio Jose Osorio Soares, 60, Indonesia's last governor of East Timor. [46]
• Joseph Thompson, 56, American blogger, brain tumor. [47]

16

• Robin Beard, 67, American Representative from Tennessee (1973–1983), brain tumor. [48]
• Norman Hackerman, 95, American former president of the University of Texas at Austin and Rice University, heart disease. [49]
• Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, 76, Iranian religious leader. [50]
• Harold O'Connor, 86, American baseball player with the Boston Braves, accident. [51]
• Rennie Stewart, 89, British military officer known for his role in preserving HMS Unicorn. [52]
• Thommie Walsh, 57, American dancer (A Chorus Line) and Tony Award-winning choreographer, lymphoma. [53]
• Lola Wasserstein, 89, American mother of playwright Wendy Wasserstein who inspired some of her daughter's characters. [54]

15

• Richard Bell, 61, Canadian keyboardist for Janis Joplin and The Band, cancer. [55]
• Claudia Cohen, 56, American socialite and journalist, ovarian cancer. [56]
• Hugo Corro, 53, Argentine WBA and WBC middleweight boxing champion (1978–1979). [57]
• Marcel-Jacques Dubois, 87, French-born priest and professor of Philosophy, won Israel Prize. [58]
• John Harding, 54, British coach of Barnet F.C., heart attack. [59]
• Sherri Martel, 49, American professional wrestler and valet. [60]
• Francisco Seruca Salgado, 62, Portuguese journalist for RTP, founder of the Socialist Party. [61] (Portuguese)
• Haydn Sherley, 83, New Zealand radio presenter (In a Mellow Tone). [62]
• Alex Thomson, 78, British Academy Award-nominated cinematographer (Excalibur). [63]
• Larry Whiteside, 69, American baseball journalist. [64]

14

• Ruth Graham, 87, American wife of evangelist Billy Graham. [65]
• William LeMessurier, 81, American structural engineer, complications from surgery following a fall. [66]
• Robin Olds, 84, American fighter pilot in the United States Air Force, heart failure. [67]
• Humberto Reynoso, 74, Argentinian professional wrestler. [68]
• Jacques Simonet, 43, Belgian politician and mayor of Anderlecht, heart attack. [69] (Flemish)
• Peter Ucko, 68, British archaeologist, complications of diabetes. [70]
• Kurt Waldheim, 88, Austrian President (1986–1992), UN Sec-General (1972–1981), WWII Wehrmacht officer, heart failure. [71] [72]

13

• Fentress Bracewell, 85, American lawyer, founder of Bracewell & Giuliani legal firm, Alzheimer's disease. [73]
• Kai Davidson, 44, British musician and manager (The Proclaimers). [74].
• Jessie Davis, 26, American murder victim. [75]
• Randolph Dial, 62, American convicted murderer, spent 11 years on the run with warden's wife, cancer. [76]
• Walid Eido, 65, Lebanese politician, bomb. [77]
• Ramchandra Gandhi, 70, Indian philosopher and author. [78]
• Sir David Hatch, 68, British managing director of BBC Radio, comic actor (I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again). [79]
• Oskar Morawetz, 90, Canadian classical composer. [80]
• Néstor Rossi, 82, Argentinean footballer, played in 1958 FIFA World Cup. [81]
• Jacek Skubikowski, 53, Polish singer, composer, guitar player, TV and theatrical presenter, throat cancer. [82] (Polish)

12

• Donald D. Clancy, 85, American Mayor of Cincinnati (1957–1960), US Representative from Ohio (1961–1977), Parkinson's disease. [83]
• Colin Fletcher, 85, American writer on hiking, complications of old age and injuries from a 2001 car accident. [84]
• Tito Gómez, 59, Puerto Rican salsa singer, former member of Ray Barretto and Sonora Ponceña bands, heart attack. [85]
• Don Herbert, 89, American TV host ("Mr. Wizard"), bone cancer. [86]
• Sir Wally Herbert, 72, British polar explorer. [87]
• Mac Morgan, 89, American bass-baritone opera singer, complications of appendicectomy. [88]
• Jim Norton, 68, American football player (Houston Oilers, 1960–1969). [89]
• Guy de Rothschild, 98, French banker and member of the Rothschild family. [90]
• Frank Scarrabelotti, 109, Australia's oldest living man. [91]
• Robert Schwartz, 84, American Defense official captured during PFLP 1970 aircraft hijacking, heart failure. [92]
• Ingolf Håkon Teigene, 58, Norwegian TV host and news anchor, heart failure. [93] (Norwegian)
• Samuel Isaac Weissman, 94, American chemist known for his work on the Manhattan Project. [94]

11

• Bobby Beaton, 94, Canadian ice hockey player, professional boxer and boxing referee. [95]
• Eamonn Coleman, 59, Northern Irish Gaelic football coach (Derry GAA), Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [96]
• Vern Hoscheit, 85, American Major League Baseball bullpen coach. [97]
• Cole Kugel, 105, American who was the nation's oldest licensed pilot. [98]
• Roger Landry, 60, American legislator, Maine House of Representatives (2003-2004). [99]
• Ray Mears, 80, American basketball coach of the University of Tennessee Volunteers (1963–1977). [100]
• Mala Powers, 75, American film actress, leukemia.[101]
• German Vega, 75, Puerto Rican musician, founding member of Los Hispanos. [102]
• Julie Thoma Wright, 49, American businesswoman, founder and co-owner of Wright auction house, colorectal cancer. [103]

10

• August H. Auer, Jr., 67, American-born New Zealand atmospheric scientist and meteorologist, heart attack. [104]
• George Burrarrawanga, 50, Australian singer with the Warumpi Band. [105] [106]
• Dorothy Goodwin, 92, American professor emeritus at University of Connecticut, former member of Connecticut General Assembly. [107]
• Charley Harper, 84, American wildlife artist, pneumonia. [108]
• Jim Killingsworth, 83, American basketball coach at Texas Christian University (1979–1987), complications of a stroke. [109]
• John Ostashek, 71, Canadian Yukon Party Leader (1992–1999) and Yukon Government Leader (1992–1996), cancer. [110] [111]
• Rabbi Shimon Gershon Rosenberg, 58, Israeli religious leader and philosopher, cancer. [112]
• William Graydon Tanner, 77, American Director-Treasurer of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma (1986–1996). [113]
• Parviz Varjavand, 73, Iranian archaeologist, heart failure. [114]

9

• Frankie Abernathy, 25, American cast member of The Real World: San Diego, cystic fibrosis. [115]
• Rudolf Arnheim, 102, German-born American author, psychologist, and theorist of film and visual art. [116]
• Lorne Carr, 96, Canadian NHL hockey player for the New York Rangers and Toronto Maple Leafs. [117] [118]
• Harry Ewing, Baron Ewing of Kirkford, 76, British Labour politician, cancer. [119]
• Achieng Oneko, 87, Kenyan freedom fighter and politician, heart attack. [120]
• Ousmane Sembène, 84, Senegalese film director, producer and writer, after long illness. [121]
• Juanita Swedenburg, 82, American winemaker, congestive heart failure. [122]
• Roy Torcaso, 96, American notary public, won landmark decision for refusing to swear religious oath, prostate cancer. [123]
• Martin Weber, 102, American graphic designer, designed posterization. [124]
• Elias Wen, 110, Chinese-born Protopresbyter (senior clergy) of the Russian Orthodox Church. [125]

8

• Tucker Collins, 54, American pathologist and vascular researcher, brain tumor. [126]
• Hideo Kanze, 79, Japanese Noh actor and director, intestinal cancer. [127]
• Nellie Lutcher, 94, American jazz singer and pianist, pneumonia. [128]
• Aden Abdulle Osman, 99, first President of Somalia (1960–1967). [129]
• Adrian Pintea, 52, Romanian actor, cirrhosis. [130] (Romanian)
• Marc Ramsbotham, 34, British Isle of Man TT motorcycle racer, race crash. [131]
• Lynne Randell, 57, Australian singer best known for "Ciao Baby", apparent suicide. [132] [133]
• Richard Rorty, 75, American philosopher, pancreatic cancer. [134]
• Israel Shenker, 82, American journalist and author. [135]

7

• Roger Armstrong, 89, American comic artist and writer from 1941 to 1989 for Western Publishing and others. [136]
• Gilbert Gude, 84, United States Representative from Maryland (1967–1977), heart failure. [137]
• Michael Hamburger, 83, British poet, translator, critic. [138]
• Robert Tracy, 52, American dance writer, complications of infection with HIV. [139]

6

• Warren Bradley, 73, British footballer who played for Manchester United and England. [140]
• Tony De Santis, 93, American owner of Drury Lane Theatre, cancer. [141]
• Augen Mar Divannasyos, 55, Indian bishop in the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, car accident. [142]
• Larry Hamlin, 58, American theater producer, founder of the National Black Theater Festival. [143]
• William C. Mercer, 88, American former President and Chairman of New England Telephone, heart failure. [144]
• Luke Sela, 64, Papua New Guinean journalist, editor of the PNG Post Courier (1978–2000). [145]
• Zakia Zaki, 35, Afghan director of Radio Peace, shot. [146]

5

• Sam Baker, 76, American football player, complications of diabetes. [147]
• João Canedo, 62, Portuguese radio presenter for TSF. [148] (Portuguese)
• Giovanni Antonio Carta, 107, one of the last eight surviving veterans of World War I from Italy. [149]
• Gert-Jan Dröge, 64, Dutch TV personality, lung cancer. [150] (Dutch)
• Diana Mason, 84, New Zealand doctor and anti-abortion activist, cancer. [151]
• Povel Ramel, 85, Swedish artist, singer, pianist, comedian, actor, author. [152]
• Edwin Traisman, 91, American food scientist who developed McDonald's french fries and helped develop Cheez Whiz, heart attack. [153]
• Jean Vollum, 80, American philanthropist and widow of Tektronix founder Howard Vollum, congestive heart failure. [154]

4

• Loganathan Arumugam, 54, Malaysian musician (Alleycats), lung cancer. [155]
• Roberto Barbosa, Portuguese photographer and professor at IADE and Ar.Co. [156] (Portuguese)
• Clete Boyer, 70, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves) and coach, stroke. [157]
• Tom Burns, 75, Australian politician, former Queensland opposition leader, Deputy Premier and ALP national president. [158]
• Jim Clark, 84, American sheriff of Dallas County, Alabama who opposed voting rights in Selma, stroke and heart condition. [159]
• Don Doyle, 82, American lawyer and lawmaker, served in the Iowa legislature for 30 years, prostate cancer. [160]
• Ray Erlenborn, 92, American child actor and sound effect technician. [161]
• Bill France, Jr., 74, American CEO of NASCAR (1972–2003), cancer. [162] [163]
• Hedley Mortlock, 66, New Zealand journalist, editor of NZ Truth (1987–1997), cancer. [164]
• Sotiris Moustakas, 67, Greek Cypriot actor, cancer. [165]
• Freddie Scott, 74, American singer ("Hey Girl"), heart attack. [166] [167]
• Craig L. Thomas, 74, American Senator from Wyoming since 1995, leukemia. [168]

3

• Juan Antonio "Arguru" Argüelles, Spanish musician and programmer, founder of DiscoDSP, car accident. [169]
• Richard Attipoe, Togolese Minister for Sport, helicopter crash. [170]
• Iván Darvas, 82, Hungarian Kossuth Prize-winning actor. [171] (Hungarian)
• Nelson Levy, 58, Tahitian founding head of Air Tahiti Nui, leading figure in French Polynesian tourism, heart attack. [172][173]
• Leonard Nathan, 82, American poet, National Book Award nominee, UC Berkeley professor of Rhetoric, Alzheimer's disease. [174]
• Pamman, 87, Indian novelist in Malayalam, heart condition. [175]

2

• Sandy Barr, 69, American wrestler, heart attack. [176]
• Marion Francis Forst, 96, oldest Roman Catholic bishop in the United States. [177]
• Steve Gilliard, 42, American blogger, heart and kidney failure. [178]
• Kentaro Haneda, 58, Japanese pianist, composer and arranger, liver cancer. [179]
• Wolfgang Hilbig, 65, German author. [180]
• Huang Ju, 68, Chinese Vice Premier, Politburo Standing Committee member, former Mayor of Shanghai. [181] [182]
• Charles Maynes, 68, American Assistant Secretary of State (1977–1980), editor of Foreign Policy for 18 years. [183]
• Martin Meyerson, 84, American academic, President of Penn (1971-1982) and Chancellor of UC Berkeley. [184]
• John Moriarty, 69, Irish poet and philosopher, cancer. [185]
• John Pike, 23, American drummer for rock band Ra Ra Riot, drowned. [186]
• Kelsey Smith, 18, American kidnapping and murder victim. [187]

1

• Warren M. Anderson, 91, American legislator, Temporary President and Majority Leader of the NY Senate (1973–1989). [188]
• Jan Beneš, 71, Czech writer, translator, publicist and screenwriter, suicide. [189] [190] (Czech)
• Kasma Booty, 75, Malaysian actress, pneumonia. [191]
• Sir John Gilmour, 94, British Conservative MP for East Fife (1961-1979) and Lord Lieutenant of Fife (1980-1987). [192]
• Ernest Hofstetter, 95, Swiss pioneer climber of Mount Everest. [193]
• Karl Evald Johansson, 58, Norwegian actor, screenwriter and artist, cancer. [194] (Norwegian)
• Charlie Johnson, 58, American basketball player, cancer. [195]
• Charles Kinkead, 93 Jamaican photojournalist, stroke. [196]
• Pamela Low, 79, American flavorist who created the coating for Cap'n Crunch. [197]
• Marly de Oliveira, 69, Brazilian poet ("O Mar de Permeio"), multiple organ failure. [198]
• R. K. Patil, 99, Indian politician and Minister in Provincial Government, natural causes. [199]
• Arn Shein, 78, American sports writer. [200]
• Dave Smalley, 72, American coach of US Naval Academy men's and women's basketball teams, complications of cancer. [201]
• Helen Stetter, 113, American who was world's fourth-oldest living person and Nebraska's oldest person. [202]
• Tony Thompson, 31, American lead vocalist of the R&B group Hi-Five, apparent drug overdose. [203]

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.

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