Deaths in 2007

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2007. 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.

A typical entry appears in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

October 2007

8

• Constantine Andreou, 90, Brazilian-born Greek-French painter and sculptor awarded the Légion d'honneur and l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
• Josep Gibert, 66, Spanish anthropologist, lymphoma. [1] (Catalan)
• Zdzisław Peszkowski, 89, Polish Roman Catholic priest, advocate for the families of Katyn victims. [2] (Polish)

7

• Norick Abe, 32, Japanese MotoGP racer, traffic accident. [3]
• Luciana Frassati-Gawronska, 105, Polish-Italian writer and anti-Nazi activist, mother of Jas Gawronski. [4] (Italian)
• Joe Waggonner, 89, American member of the US House of Representatives from Louisiana (1961-1979). [5]

6

• Babasaheb Bhosale, 86, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Maharashtra (1982–1983). [6]
• Jo Ann Davis, 57, American member of the US House of Representatives from Virginia since 2001, breast cancer. [7]
• Luca Giacometti, 44, Italian guitarist (Modena City Ramblers), car accident. [8] (Italian)
• Laza Ristovski, 51, Serbian keyboardist (Smak, Bijelo dugme), multiple sclerosis. [9] (Croatian)
• Elsa Tauser, 111, Germany's oldest person, natural causes [10] (German)

5

• John Atchison, 53, American federal prosecutor and alleged child sex offender, suicide. [11]
• Alexandra Boulat, 45, French photojournalist, aneurism. [12]
• Walter Kempowski, 78, German author and archivist, intestinal cancer. [13]
• Władysław Kopaliński, 99, Polish lexicographer. [14] (Polish)
• Vladimir Kuzin, 77, Russian 1956 Winter Olympics gold medallist, long illness. [15] (Russian)
• Matilde Salvador i Segarra, 89, Spanish composer, stroke. [16] (Spanish)
• Irmgard von Stephani, 112, Germany's oldest person [17]
• Justin Tuveri, 109, Italian-French World War I veteran, [18] (Italian)

4

• Bob Burdick, 70, American NASCAR driver. [19]
• Chen Chi-Li, 64, Taiwanese triad member, former leader of the United Bamboo Gang, pancreatic cancer. [20]
• Lorenzo D'Auria, 33, Italian member of SISMI kidnapped in Afghanistan, shot. [21]
• Antonie Iorgovan, 59, Romanian politician, lead author of the Constitution of Romania, heart attack. [22]
• Don Nottebart, 71, American Major League Baseball player, stroke. [23]

3

• Henry Keezing, 77, American newspaper editor, after brief illness. [24]
• Herbert Muschamp, 59, American architecture critic for The New York Times, lung cancer. [25]
• Pablo Palazuelo, 90, Spanish artist. [26] (Spanish)
• Tony Ryan, 71, Irish entrepreneur and joint founder of Ryanair, after long illness. [27]
• Rogelio Salmona, 78, Colombian architect, Alvar Aalto Medal and Prince Claus Award winner, cancer. [28]
• M. N. Vijayan, 77, Indian academic, writer and journalist. [29]

2

• Gianni Danzi, 67, Italian Archbishop of the Territorial Prelature of Loreto. [30]
• Elfi von Dassanowsky, 83, Austrian opera singer, actress and film producer. [31]
• Šime Đodan, 79, Croatian parliamentarian, defence minister (1991). [32]
• Gary Franklin, 79, American film critic, KABC-TV. [33]
• Richard H. Goldwater, 67, American president and co-publisher of Archie Comics, cancer. [34]
• George Grizzard, 79, American actor, lung cancer. [35]
• Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, 94, former Princess of Greece, last surviving great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. [36]
• Dan Keating, 105, Irish republican activist, last surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence. [37]
• J. Edward Lundy, 92, American automobile executive (Ford Motor Co.). [38]
• Tawn Mastrey, 53, American radio disc jockey (KNAC), hepatitis C. [39]
• James Michaels, 86, American editor of Forbes (1961–1999), pneumonia. [40]
• José Antonio Ríos Granados, 48, Mexican politician, PAN mayor of Tultitlán (2000–2003), air crash. [41] (Spanish)

1

• Israel Kugler, 90, American labor leader and professor, pneumonia.[42]
• Chien Yi-Fei, 60, Taiwanese basketball coach, nasopharyngeal cancer. [43]
• Bruce Hay, 57, British rugby player for Britain and Scotland, brain tumour. [44]
• Ronnie Hazlehurst, 79, British composer and jazz musician, stroke. [45]
• Harry Lee, 75, American politician, Sheriff of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, leukemia. [46]
• Chris Mainwaring, 41, Australian footballer (West Coast Eagles), television and radio sports journalist. [47]
• Al Oerter, 71, American athlete and Olympic gold medallist in discus 1956, 1960, 1964 and 1968, heart failure. [48]
• Tetsuo Okamoto, 75, Brazilian swimmer and Brazil's first Olympic swimming medallist (1952), respiratory failure. [49]
• Pedro Saul Perez, 54, Dominican advocate for the rights of Dominican immigrants in Puerto Rico, heart attack. [50]
• Ned Sherrin, 76, British broadcaster and theatre producer, throat cancer. [51]
• Ralph W. Sturges, 88, American Mohegan tribal chief. [52]

September 2007

See Deaths in September 2007.

August 2007

See Deaths in August 2007.

July 2007

See Deaths in July 2007.

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.

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For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2006, Deaths in 2005, Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, ...