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.

December 2007

29

• Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar, 74, Yemenese politician, Parliamentary speaker since 1993, cancer. [1]
• Phil O'Donnell, 35, Scottish footballer with one international cap, seizure.[2]
• Elmir Kuduzovic, 26, Bosnian contestant on Veliki Brat 2007, car accident. [3]
• Zorica Lazic, 24, Serbian contestant on Veliki Brat 2007, car accident. [4]
• Stevan Zecevic, 23, Serbian contestant on Veliki Brat 2007, car accident. [5]

28

• Terry Armour, 46, American entertainment columnist (Chicago Tribune), co-host of Stan and Terry Show on WCKG. [6] [7]
• Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, 25, Iranian basketball player, road accident. [8]
• John Hayes, 80, New Zealand test cricketer. [9]
• Serigne Saliou Mbacke, 92, Senegalese religious leader, fifth caliph of the Mouride Islamic movement. [10]
• Zacarias Santana, 83, Brazilian journalist, heart failure. [11] (Portuguese)
• Tab Thacker, 45, American NCAA wrestling champion and actor (Police Academy, City Heat), complications from diabetes. [12]

27

• Ben Bamfuchile, 47, Zambian coach of the Namibia national football team, illness. [13]
• Benazir Bhutto, 54, Pakistani Opposition Leader and former Prime Minister (1988–1990, 1993–1996), assassinated. [14]
• Steven Florio, 58, American businessman, former CEO of Condé Nast; heart attack. [15]
• Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 85, Polish film director. [16] (Polish)
• Jaan Kross, 87, Estonian writer. [17] (Estonian)
• Toni Menzinger, 102, German politician. [18] (German)
• Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza, 94, Brazilian pretender to the title Emperor of Brazil. [19] (Portuguese)

26

• Raúl Bernao, 66, Argentine footballer, hepatitis. [20]
• James DeAngelis, 97, American football player, natural causes. [21]
• Jim Castiglia, 89, American football and baseball player, natural causes. [22]
• Joe Dolan, 68, Irish singer and entertainer, brain haemorrhage. [23] [24]
• John A. Garraty, 87, American biographer, heart failure. [25]
• Voitto Liukkonen, 67, Finnish sports commentator. [26] (Finnish)
• Nina Menshikova, 79, Russian actress. [27] (Russian)
• Stu Nahan, 81, American sportscaster, lymphoma. [28]

25

• Jim Beauchamp, 68, American Major League Baseball player and coach. [29]
• Tommy Harmer, 79, British footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, Watford and Chelsea). [30]
• Patricia Kirkwood, 86, British actress. [31]
• Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, 60, British genealogist and journalist. [32] [33] [34]
• Mighty King Kong, 34, Kenyan reggae musician. [35]
• Hans Otte, 81, German avant-garde composer and pianist. [36]
• Osvaldo Reyes, 89, Chilean painter, stroke. [37] (Spanish)
• G. P. Sippy, 93, Indian film producer and director. [38]
• Tatiana, 4, Siberian tiger at San Francisco Zoo, mauled a visitor to death, shot. [39]

24

• Jim Angel, 67, Australian radio newsreader, stroke. [40]
• Cláudio Camunguelo, 60, Brazilian composer and singer, diabetes. [41] (Portuguese)
• Reinhard Hess, 62, German ski jumping coach, pancreatic cancer. [42]
• Harold Leavitt, 85, American academic and management expert, pulmonary fibrosis. [43]
• Andreas Matzbacher, 25, Austrian cyclist, car accident. [44]
• Thomas Morgan, 56, American journalist, complications of AIDS. [45]
• Maurice Vaneau, 81, Belgian stage choreographer, bronchopneumonia. [46] (Portuguese)

23

• Dale Baird, 72, American thoroughbred horse trainer, car crash. [47]
• Evelyn Gandy, 87, American Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi (1976–1980). [48]
• Michael Kidd, 92, American film and stage choreographer, cancer. [49]
• Aloísio Lorscheider, 83, Brazilian cardinal, heart failure. [50]
• Hans Mild, 73, Swedish footballer and ice hockey player. [51](Swedish)
• Oscar Peterson, 82, Canadian jazz pianist, kidney failure and complications from a stroke. [52] [53]
• Ferreira Queimado, 94, Portuguese former chairman of S.L. Benfica, after long illness. [54] [55] (Portuguese)
• Kevin Sinclair, 65, New Zealand-born Hong Kong reporter, editor and columnist for the South China Morning Post, cancer. [56]
• Frank Swaelen, 77, Belgian politician, former President of the Senate and Minister of State. [57] [58] (Dutch)

22

• Chrysostomos I, 80, Archbishop of Cyprus (1977–2006). [59]
• Sir Charles Court, 96, Premier of Western Australia (1974–1982). [60]
• Sylvan Fox, 79, American Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, complications from pneumonia. [61]
• Julien Gracq, 97, French writer. [62] (French)
• Leila Backman Shull, 113, American supercentenarian, seventh-oldest living person in the world. [63]
• Lucien Teisseire, 88, French road bicycle racer. [64]
• Takashi Yamamoto, 58, Japanese politician. [65] (Japanese)

21

• Carol Bly, 77, American author and poet, ovarian cancer. [66]
• Ken Hendricks, 66, American contractor and billionaire, fall from roof. [67]
• Hans Imhoff, 85, German businessman, founder of Imhoff Chocolate Museum in Cologne. [68] (German)
• Jack Lamabe, 71, American Major League Baseball pitcher. [69]
• Ken Lee, 75, Chinese-born Australian owner and co-founder of Bing Lee superstores, cancer. [70]
• Saadia Marciano, 57, Israeli Black Panthers leader, member of the Knesset. [71]
• Norton Nascimento, 45, Brazilian actor, heart failure. [72] (Portuguese)
• Herbert Weiss, 59, German gliding champion, air crash. [73]
• Marco Antonio Xicay, 40, Guatemalan politician, shot. [74], [75]

20

• Christian Bourgois, 74, French publisher, editor of Salman Rushdie in France, cancer. [76]
• Tommy Byrne, 87, American baseball player. [77]
• Gar Campbell, 64, American actor and director, cancer. [78]
• Jeanne Carmen, 77, American actress and pin-up girl, lymphoma. [79]
• Arabella Churchill, 58, British founder of Children's World charity, granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill, pancreatic cancer. [80]
• Russell Coffey, 109, American serviceman, one of three known remaining American veterans of World War I. [81]
• Lorne Davis, 77, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens) and scout (Edmonton Oilers). [82]
• Ted Finn, 68, Canadian director of CSIS (1984–1987). [83]
• Peer Hultberg, 72, Danish author and psychoanalyst. [84] (Danish)
• Lydia Mendoza, 91, American Tejano music singer and guitarist. [85]
• Cathal Ryan, 48, Irish co-founder of Ryanair, son of Tony Ryan. [86]
• Kazumi Tanaka, 56, Japanese seiyuu, brother of Ryouichi Tanaka, heart failure. [87]
• Robbie Williams, 45, first Indigenous Australian Brisbane City councillor, former ATSIC commissioner, heart attack. [88] [89]

19

• Frank Capra, Jr., 73, American movie studio executive, son of director Frank Capra, prostate cancer. [90] [91]
• Albert L. O'Neil, 87, American politician, Boston City Council (1971–1999). [92]

18

• Gerald Le Dain, 83, Canadian Supreme Court judge. [93]
• Jack Linkletter, 70, American television host, son of Art Linkletter, lymphoma. [94]
• Bill Strauss, 60, American writer on generations, satirist, and founder of the Capitol Steps, pancreatic cancer. [95]

17

• Don Chevrier, 69, Canadian sportscaster. [96]
• Joel Dorn, 65, American jazz, pop and R&B record producer, heart attack. [97]
• Jim Holstein, 77, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers). [98]
• Tom Murphy, 83, American politician, speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives (1973–2002), complications of a stroke. [99]
• Celestino Piatti, 85, Swiss illustrator. [100] (German)
• Dennis Staples, 60, American comedian and radio announcer at WRQN in Toledo, Ohio, kidney disease. [101]
• Jack Zander, 99, American animator. [102]

16

• Mobin Abdurajak, Filipino militant Islamist leader, shot. [103]
• Dan Fogelberg, 56, American singer-songwriter ("Same Old Lang Syne"), prostate cancer. [104]
• Harald Genzmer, 98, German composer of classical music. [105] (German)
• Ismail Gulgee, 81, Pakistani painter, homicide by strangulation. [106]
• Jerry Taylor, 73, American reporter (The Boston Globe), bile duct cancer. [107]
• Serge Vinçon, 58, French politician. [108] (French)

15

• John Berg, 58, American actor, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. [109]
• Jean Bottéro, 93, French historian. [110] (French)
• St. Clair Bourne, 64, American documentary filmmaker (Half Past Autumn), pulmonary embolism. [111]
• Julia Carson, 69, American member of the House of Representatives from Indiana since 1997, lung cancer. [112]
• Andrzeja Górska, 91, Polish nun, abbess of the Grey Ursulines. [113] (Polish)
• Ryan Gracie, 33, Brazilian martial artist. [114]
• Tadayuki Inoue, 72, Japanese professional baseball player (Nishitetsu Lions) and umpire, heart attack. [115] (Japanese)
• Clem Jones, 89, Australian Lord Mayor of Brisbane (1961–1975), pneumonia. [116] [117]
• Douglas Kneeland, 78, American reporter (New York Times) and editor (Chicago Tribune), lung cancer. [118]
• Diane Middlebrook, 68, American biographer and poet, cancer. [119]
• Ikuo Shimano, 63, Japanese professional baseball player and coach, stomach cancer. [120] (Japanese)
• Tejeshwar Singh, 60, Indian publisher, newsreader and theatre activist, cardiac arrest. [121]
• Ace Vergel, 55, Filipino actor, cardiac arrest. [122]
• Jonathan Witchell, 33, British BBC reporter for Radio Kent. [123]

14

• Issam al-Zaim, 67, Syrian economist, heart attack. [124]
• Yu Hanai, 75, Japanese professional baseball player (Nishitetsu Lions), sepsis. [125] (Japanese)
• Hank Kaplan, 88, American boxing historian, cancer. [126]
• Clarence Marshall, 82, American Major League Baseball pitcher (New York Yankees). [127]
• Frank Morgan, 73, American saxophonist. [128]
• Hryhoriy Nestor, 116?, Ukrainian who claimed to be the oldest person in the world. [129]
• Ali Shafeya, 22, Iraqi journalist, shot. [130]

13

• Carlo Felice Cillario, 92, Italian opera conductor, former artistic director of Opera Australia. [131]
• Philippe Clay, 80, French singer and actor. [132]
• Fuat Deniz, 40, Swedish-Assyrian sociologist, homicide by stabbing. [133]
• Laura Huxley, 96, American musician and author, widow of Aldous Huxley, cancer. [134]
• Cast King, 81, American country singer, cancer. [135]
• Alain Payet, 60, French adult film director. [136] (French)
• Robert Russin, 93, American sculptor. [137]
• Julia Tharnish, 110, American supercentenarian, Nebraska's oldest person. [138]
• Floyd Red Crow Westerman, 71, American musician, actor (Dances With Wolves) and Native American activist, leukemia. [139]

12

• Basuki, 51, Indonesian comedian. [140]
• Ted Corbitt, 88, American ultramarathon runner, respiratory complications. [141]
• Shawn Eckardt, 40, American bodyguard and businessman, conspired to assault Nancy Kerrigan, natural causes. [142]
• Josep Guinovart, 80, Spanish artist. [143] (Spanish)
• François al-Hajj, 54, Lebanese Army general, roadside bomb. [144] [145]
• Hans Hansen, 81, German journalist. [146] (German)
• Helmut Sadlowski, 78, German footballer. [147] (German)
• Alfons Maria Stickler, 97, Austrian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. [148] (German)
• Ike Turner, 76, American R&B musician and record producer, ex-husband of Tina Turner, emphysema. [149]
• Lee Vincent, 91, American bassist and radio personality (WILK), heart failure. [150]
• Yuli Mikhailovich Vorontsov, 78, Russian diplomat, former ambassador to the United Nations and United States. [151]

11

• Allan Berube, 61, American gay historian and writer, complications from stomach ulcers. [152]
• José Luis Calva, 38, Mexican writer, serial killer and cannibal, apparent suicide. [153]
• Freddie Fields, 84, American Hollywood agent, producer and studio executive, lung cancer. [154]
• Pat Hannigan, 71, Canadian NHL ice hockey player. [155]
• Christie Hennessy, 62, Irish singer and songwriter, cancer. [156]
• Nicholas Kao Se Tseien, 110, Chinese supercentenarian, world's oldest Catholic priest. [157]
• Karl Ludwig, Archduke of Austria, 89, Austrian son of Emperor Charles I of Austria. [158] [159] (German).
• Ottomar Pinto, 76 , Brazilian politician, Governor of Roraima (2004–2007), heart attack. [160]
• Tatsuzo Shimaoka, 88, Japanese potter, living national treasure, acute liver failure. [161]
• Terry Yates, 57, American biologist, discovered source of hantavirus, brain cancer. [162]

10

• Emil Brenkus, 94, American jazz bassist, prostate cancer. [163]
• George Morris, 76, American football player (Georgia Tech, San Francisco 49ers), apparent heart attack. [164]
• Aqsa Parvez, 16, Canadian allegedly killed for refusing to wear hijab, strangled. [165]
• Jerry Ricks, 67, American blues guitarist. [166]
• Gordon Samuels, 84, Australian Governor of New South Wales (1996–2001). [167] [168]
• Yuji Takeuchi, 36, Japanese media personality, rectal cancer. [169] (Japanese) [170]

9

• Wayne Howard, 58, American comic book artist (Charlton Comics), heart attack. [171]
• Jim Langley, 79, British footballer for England, Fulham, and QPR, heart attack. [172]
• Matthew J. Murray, 24, American spree killer, suicide by gunshot. [173]
• Ryszard Reiff, 84, Polish politician and publicist. [174] (Polish)
• Elspeth Rostow, 90, American academic, University of Texas dean, widow of Walt Whitman Rostow, heart attack. [175]
• Kurt Schmied, 81, Austrian footballer, former member of the national team. [176] (German)
• Thore Skogman, 76, Swedish musician, stroke. [177] (Swedish)
• Rafael Sperafico, 26, Brazilian racing driver, race crash. [178]
• J. Fife Symington Jr., 97, American diplomat to Trinidad and Tobago, complications of old age. [179]
• Gordon Zahn, 84, American Catholic peace activist, co-founder of Pax Christi USA, complications of Alzheimer's disease. [180]

8

• Ioan Fiscuteanu, 70, Romanian actor, colon cancer. [181]
• Gerardo García Pimentel, 24, Mexican crime reporter, homicide by gunshot. [182]
• Roger King, 63, American television producer, CEO of CBS Television Distribution, stroke. [183]
• Al Scaduto, 79, American cartoonist (They'll Do It Every Time). [184]

7

• Fuad Hassan, 78, Indonesian Minister of Education (1985–1993), cancer. [185]
• John Hollowbread, 73, British football goalkeeper (Tottenham Hotspur, Southampton). [186]
• Lynette Knackstedt, 37, American guitarist (Skankin' Pickle). [187]

6

• Wolfgang Aßbrock, 55, German politician, member of the CDU and Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. [188] (German)
• George Bednar, 65, American NFL player and Harvey Wallbanger cocktail promoter. [189]
• Mike Donkin, 56, British reporter and journalist (BBC News), cancer. [190]
• Katy French, 24, Irish model, suspected overdose. [191] [192]
• Jacques Hébert, 84, Canadian Senator (1983–1998). [193]
• John Hill, 95, British politician, Conservative MP for South Norfolk (1955-1974). [194]
• Ken Southworth, 89, American cartoon animator (Hanna-Barbera, Walt Disney Animation Studios), stroke.[195]
• András Szöllősy, 86, Hungarian composer. [196]

5

• M. V. Dhond, 93, Indian literary and art critic. [197] (Marathi)
• Robin Gloag, 64, British co-founder of Stagecoach Group, car accident. [198]
• Arnold Hardy, 85, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, complications from hip surgery. [199]
• Andrew Imbrie, 86, American composer. [200]
• Dan Iosif, 57, Romanian revolutionary, lung cancer. [201]
• Jillian Kesner-Graver, 58, American actress (Happy Days), Orson Welles historian, staph infection. [202]
• Alois Kracher, 48, Austrian winemaker, pancreatic cancer. [203]
• George Paraskevaides, 91, Cypriot businessman (Joannou & Paraskevaides) and philanthropist. [204]
• Karlheinz Stockhausen, 79, German composer. [205]
• Tony Tenser, 87, British film producer. [206]
• Rene Villanueva, 53, Filipino playwright and author, seizure. [207]
• John Winter, 83, Australian athlete, 1948 Olympics high jump gold medalist. [208]

4

• Chad "Pimp C" Butler, 33, American rap artist (UGK). [209]
• Jake Gaudaur, 87, Canadian Commissioner of the CFL (1968–1984), cancer. [210] [211]
• Jay H. Gordon, 77, American politician, Vermont Auditor of Accounts (1965–1969), smoke inhalation. [212] [213]
• Norval Morrisseau, 75, Canadian Ojibwe artist, founder of the Woodlands Style, Parkinson's disease. [214]
• David "Chip" Reese, 56, American professional poker player, heart attack. [215]
• Herman Rose, 98, American painter, cancer. [216]
• Carlos Valdes, 81, Cuban conga player, respiratory failure. [217]

3

• Art Arfons, 81, American jet-car driver and drag racer, three-time world land speed record holder. [218]
• John Belgrave, 67, New Zealand public servant, Chief Ombudsman (2003–2007), cancer. [219]
• Jaime Fuster, 66, Puerto Rican politician and jurist, Resident Commissioner (1985–1992), heart attack. [220] (Spanish)
• Susumu Katsumata, 63, Japanese mangaka and illustrator, melanoma. [221] (Japanese)
• James Kemsley, 59, Australian cartoonist (Ginger Meggs), motor neurone disease. [222]
• Liliana Macellari, 78, Italian translator and literary agent, widow of Anthony Burgess. [223]

2

• Jennifer Alexander, 35, Canadian-born American ballet dancer, car accident. [224]
• Robert O. Anderson, 90, American founder and former CEO of ARCO. [225]
• Sergio Gómez, 34, Mexican singer (K-Paz de la Sierra), apparent torture-homicide. [226]
• Elizabeth Hardwick, 91, American co-founder of The New York Review of Books. [227]
• Eleonora Rossi Drago, 82, Italian actress, cerebral haemorrhage. [228] (Italian)
• Les Shannon, 81, British footballer and manager. [229]
• Thomas Torrance, 94, British theologian. [230]

1

• Rassim al-Jumaili, 69, Iraqi actor and comedian, kidney failure. [231]
• Jennifer Davidson, 38, American senior vice president of programming and scheduling for Cartoon Network. [232]
• Elisabeth Eybers, 92, South African-born poet. [233] (Afrikaans)
• Tony Fall, 67, British rally driver and Opel Motorsport Team director, heart attack. [234]
• Ken McGregor, 78, Australian tennis champion, stomach cancer. [235]
• Danny Newman, 88, American publicist for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, pulmonary fibrosis. [236]
• Anton Rodgers, 74, British actor. [237]

November 2007

See Deaths in November 2007.

October 2007

See Deaths in October 2007.

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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