Deaths in August 2007

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

31

• Gay Brewer, 75, American professional golfer, lung cancer. [1]
• Willie Cunningham, 77, British football player. [2]
• Kees Klop, 59, Dutch professor of political ethics and former chairman of the NCRV. [3] (Dutch)
• Karloff Lagarde, 79, Mexican lucha libre professional wrestler. [4]
• Doug Maxwell, 80, Canadian curling innovator, cancer. [5]
• Sulev Vahtre, 81, Estonian historian. [6] (Estonian)

30

• Ramrao Adik, 77, Indian former Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra. [7]
• Banarsi Das Gupta, 89, Indian former Chief Minister of Haryana. [8]
• Augustine Harris, 89, British Bishop Emeritus of Middlesbrough, former Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool. [9]
• Michael Jackson, 65, British writer and beer expert (The Beer Hunter), heart attack. [10]
• Nancy Littlefield, 77, American film producer, cancer. [11]
• K. P. H. Notoprojo, 103, Indonesian gamelan performer. [12] (Indonesian)
• Ong Hok Ham, 74, Indonesian historian. [13]
• Charles Vanik, 94, American politician, U.S. Representative from Ohio (1955-1981). [14]
• José Luis de Villalonga, 87, Spanish aristocrat, author and actor (Breakfast at Tiffany's). [15]

29

• Sir James Fletcher, 92, New Zealand industrialist (Fletcher Challenge). [16]
• Richard Jewell, 44, American security guard wrongly accused of the Atlanta Olympics bombing, diabetes. [17]
• Pierre Messmer, 91, French Prime Minister (1972-1974), Free French fighter, French Academician. [18]
• Chaswe Nsofwa, 28, Zambian footballer, heart attack. [19]
• Alfred Peet, 87, American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea. [20]

28

• Anacleto Angelini, 93, Chilean businessman, South America's richest man, emphysema. [21]
• David Garcia, 63, American journalist, White House correspondent (ABC), complications of a liver condition. [22]
• Arthur Jones, 80, American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines. [23]
• Hilly Kristal, 75, American club owner (CBGB), complications of lung cancer. [24]
• Smain Lamari, 67, Algerian head of intelligence services, after long illness. [25] [26]
• Paul MacCready, 81, American aviation pioneer and inventor. [27] [28]
• Nikola Nobilo, 94, Croatian-born New Zealand winemaker. [29]
• Antonio Puerta, 22, Spanish footballer (Sevilla FC), ARVD. [30]
• Francisco Umbral, 72, Spanish writer, pneumonia. [31]
• Miyoshi Umeki, 78, Japanese-born Academy Award-winning actress (Sayonara), also on Courtship of Eddie's Father, cancer. [32]

27

• Driss Basri, 69, Moroccan Interior Minister (1979–1999). [33]
• Galina Dzhugashvili, 68, Russian granddaughter of Joseph Stalin, cancer. [34]
• Eduardo Malapit, 74, American who was first mayor of Filipino American ancestry. [35] [36] [37]
• Emma Penella, 77, Spanish actress (El Verdugo, Aqui no hay quien viva), renal and heart failure. [38] (Spanish)
• Doug Riley, 62, Canadian musician ("Doctor Music"), heart failure. [39]
• Hans Ruesch, 94, Swiss racing driver, author and activist against animal testing. [40]
• Gad Yaacobi, 72, Israeli former Minister and Labor Party Knesset member, heart failure. [41]

26

• Oliver Byrne, 63, Irish, CEO of soccer club Shelbourne F.C., after short illness. [42]
• Chuck Comiskey, 81, American Chicago White Sox executive in the 1950s, grandson of team founder Charles Comiskey. [43]
• Roy McLean, 77, South African cricketer, after long illness. [44] [45]
• Judah Nadich, 95, American rabbi and chaplain, heart attack. [46]
• Edward Seidensticker, 86, American scholar and translator of Japanese literature, complications from a fall. [47]
• Gaston Thorn, 78, Luxembourg Prime Minister (1974-1979), President of the European Commission (1981-1985). [48]

25

• Benjamin Aaron, 91, American labor law expert and member of Presidential commissions, cerebral hemorrhage. [49]
• Raymond Barre, 83, French economist, Prime Minister of France (1976-1981), Mayor of Lyon (1995–2001). [50]
• Edward Brandt, 74, American doctor and public health official, directed initial response to AIDS, lung cancer. [51]
• Eduardo Prado Coelho, 63, Portuguese writer and political and cultural critic. [52] (Portuguese)
• Richard Cook, 50, British jazz writer, cancer. [53]
• Édouard Gagnon, 89, Canadian Roman Catholic Cardinal. [54]
• Ray Jones, 18, British footballer (QPR), car accident. [55]
• Alberto de Lacerda, 78, Portuguese poet, BBC radio presenter, founded Portucale magazine. [56] (Portuguese)

24

• Abdul Rahman Arif, 91, Iraqi politician, President of Iraq (1966–1968). [57]
• Mark Birley, 77, British nightclub owner (Annabel's), stroke. [58]
• Andrée Boucher, 70, Canadian politician, mayor of Sainte-Foy (1985–2001) and Quebec City (2005–2007), heart attack. [59]
• William E. McAnulty, Jr., 59, American lawyer, first African American Kentucky Supreme Court Justice, lung cancer. [60]
• Aaron Russo, 64, American movie producer (Trading Places, The Rose), cancer. [61]

23

• Aimé Avignon, 110, France's oldest living man. [62] (French)
• Cuesta Benberry, 83, American historian known for her studies of quilting, congestive heart failure. [63]
• William John McKeag, 79, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (1970–1976). [64]
• Martti Pokela, 83, Finnish folk musician. [65]
• Robert Symonds, 80, American actor (Dynasty, The Exorcist), prostate cancer. [66]
• Dušan Třeštík, 74, Czech historian. [67] (Czech)
• Philip Wilkinson, 80, British banker. [68]

22

• Butch van Breda Kolff, 84, American basketball coach (Princeton, Lakers, Pistons, Jazz). [69]
• Jacek Chmielnik, 54, Polish actor, accidental electrocution. [70] (Polish).
• Rhys Jones, 11, British murder victim, shot. [71]
• Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet, 80, British aristocrat. [72]
• Grace Paley, 84, American writer and political activist, breast cancer. [73]

21

• Caroline Aigle, 32, first French female fighter pilot, cancer. [74]
• Rose Bampton, 99, American opera singer. [75]
• Frank Bowe, 60, American disability rights activist, author and teacher, cancer. [76]
• Čabulītis, c72, American alligator considered to be Europe's oldest. [77] (Latvian)
• Siobhan Dowd, 47, British writer and PEN activist, breast cancer. [78]
• Elizabeth Hoisington, 88, American Army general, heart failure. [79]
• Howe Yoon Chong, 84, Singaporean politician. [80]
• Qurratulain Hyder, 81, Indian novelist. [81]
• Haley Paige, 26, Mexican-born pornographic actress. [82]
• Hana Ponická, 85, Slovak writer and dissident. [83] (French)
• Adam Watson, 93, British diplomat and academic. [84]

20

• Berthold Grünfeld, 75, Norwegian psychiatrist. [85] (Norwegian)
• Wild Bill Hagy, 68, American Baltimore Orioles cheerleader of the 1970s and 1980s. [86].
• Larry Hartsell, 65, American martial arts instructor, student of Bruce Lee. [87]
• Leona Helmsley, 87, American hotelier, heart failure. [88]
• Chas Poynter, 68, New Zealand politician, mayor of Wanganui (1986–2004), lung disease. [89]

19

• Daniel Brewster, 83, American Senator (Democrat) from Maryland (1963–1969), liver cancer. [90]
• Roch La Salle, 78, Canadian Progressive Conservative politician, Quebec cabinet minister (1968–1988). [91]
• Shitsu Nakano, 113, Japan's oldest person and fourth-oldest-validated person in the world, natural causes. [92]

18

• Stephen Bicknell, 49, British expert on the pipe organ. [93]
• Michael Deaver, 69, American Deputy White House Chief of Staff (1981–1985), pancreatic cancer. [94]
• Lucien Jarraud, 84, Canadian radio host. [95]
• Jon Lucien, 65, American smooth jazz singer/songwriter, respiratory failure and complications of kidney surgery.[96]
• Magdalen Nabb, 60, British author, stroke.[97]
• Viktor Prokopenko, 62, Ukrainian footballer and coach (FC Shakhtar Donetsk), thrombus. [98]

17

• Edward Avedisian, 71, American artist. [99]
• John Belk, 87, American Democratic politician, mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina (1969–1977). [100]
• Jos Brink, 65, Dutch television host, actor, minister of religion and writer, colorectal cancer. [101]
• Bill Deedes, 94, British journalist, editor of The Daily Telegraph (1974–1986) and Conservative politician. [102]
• Carolyn Goodman, 91, American psychologist and civil rights activist. [103]
• Eddie Griffin, 25, American former Seton Hall, Rockets and Timberwolves basketball player, car accident. [104] [105] [106]
• Max Hodge, 91, American television writer, creator of Mr. Freeze on the 1960s Batman series. [107]
• Victor Klee, 81, American mathematician, complications of intestinal surgery. [108]
• Tanja Liedtke, 29, German choreographer appointed as Sydney Dance Company artistic director, road accident. [109]
• Elmer MacFadyen, 64, Canadian politician, PEI Progressive Conservative cabinet minister (1996–2007), heart attack. [110]
• Alison Plowden, 75, British historian. [111]

16

• Bahaedin Adab, 62, Iranian member of parliament, cancer. [112] (Persian)
• John Blewett III, 33, American NASCAR driver, racing crash. [113]
• Jeroen Boere, 39, Dutch football player (West Ham, West Bromwich Albion, Crystal Palace, Portsmouth, Southend). [114]
• Will Edwards, 69, British Labour politician, MP for Merioneth (1966–1974). [115] [116]
• Clive Exton, 77, British television and film writer, brain cancer. [117]
• Roland Mathias, 91, British poet and literary critic. [118]
• Vito Pallavicini, 83, Italian lyricist/pop composer. [119] (Italian)
• Max Roach, 83, American jazz drummer. [120] [121]
• Dewey Robertson, 68, Canadian professional wrestler ("The Missing Link"), cancer. [122]

15

• Richard Bradshaw, 63, British conductor, Canadian Opera Company general director (1998–2007), heart attack. [123]
• Steven Campbell, 53, British painter, ruptured appendix. [124]
• John Gofman, 88, American nuclear physicist, heart failure. [125]
• Geoffrey Orbell, 98, New Zealand bush walker who rediscovered the Takahē in 1948. [126]
• Sam Pollock, 81, Canadian former general manager of Montreal Canadiens, Hockey Hall of Famer. [127]
• Liam Rector, 58, American poet, Folger Shakespeare Library program director, suicide by shotgun. [128] [129]
• John Wallowitch, 81, American singer and songwriter, bone cancer. [130]

14

• John Biffen, 76, British Tory member of the House of Lords, MP (1961–1997), septicaemia. [131]
• Horace Brearley, 94, British cricketer, father of Mike Brearley. [132]
• Jirair S. Hovnanian, 80, Armenian Iraqi-American home builder. [133]
• Tikhon Khrennikov, 94, Russian Soviet-era cultural functionary, composer and pianist. [134]
• Emory King, 76, Belizean historian, author and journalist, cancer. [135]
• John C. Lanham, 82, American former chief justice of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. [136]
• Diane Lewis, 54, American reporter (The Boston Globe), cancer. [137]
• Kotozakura Masakatsu, 66, Japanese yokozuna, complications of diabetes. [138]
• Eduardo Noriega, 90, Mexican actor, heart attack. [139]
• Sayoko Yamaguchi, 57, Japanese fashion model, pneumonia. [140]

13

• Brian "Crush" Adams, 44, American professional wrestler, accidental overdose of pain killers and anti-depressants. [141][142]
• Brooke Astor, 105, American philanthropist, pneumonia. [143][144]
• Ox Miller, 92, American baseball player (Washington Senators). [145]
• Yone Minagawa, 114, Japanese woman, recognized as world's oldest person. [146] [147]
• Clifton Neita, 92, Jamaican editor of the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper (1954–1979). [148]
• Phil Rizzuto, 89, American baseball player, Hall of Fame inductee and sports broadcaster, pneumonia. [149] [150]
• Tim Royes, 42, British music video director, car accident. [151]

12

• Ralph Asher Alpher, 86, American physicist and college professor, respiratory failure. [152] [153]
• Ronald N. Bracewell, 86, Australian physicist and radio astronomer, heart failure. [154]
• Christian Elder, 38, American sports car and Busch Series driver. [155]
• Merv Griffin, 82, American talk show host, real estate tycoon, creator of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, prostate cancer. [156]
• Asa Hilliard, 73, American educationalist, historian and psychologist, malaria. [157]
• Sir Ian McGeoch, 93, British admiral. [158]
• Elizabeth Murray, 66, American artist, lung cancer. [159]
• Alwyn Rice Jones, 73, British Archbishop of Wales (1991–1999). [160]
• Mike Wieringo, 44, American comic book artist, heart attack. [161]

11

• Franz Antel, 94, Austrian film director. [162] (German)
• Michael Frede, 67, German professor of Ancient Philosophy, swimming accident. [163]
• McDonald Gallion, 94, American politician, Attorney General of Alabama (1959–1963, 1967–1971). [164]
• Joe Jimenez, 81, American professional golfer, won 1978 Senior PGA Championship, renal failure brought on by lung cancer. [165]
• Alexander H. Leighton, 99, American-Canadian sociologist and psychiatrist. [166]
• Roberto Maidana, 79, Argentine journalist, pneumonia. [167] (Spanish)
• Herb Pomeroy, 77, American jazz trumpeter (Charlie Parker, Frank Sinatra), cancer. [168]
• Sukadji Ranuwihardjo, 76, Indonesian President of Gadjah Mada University (1973–1981). [169]
• Lluís Maria Xirinacs, 75, Catalan political activist and priest, natural causes. [170] [171] [172] [173] (Spanish)
• Zhang Shuhong, 50, Chinese company co-owner involved in Fisher-Price toy recall, suicide by hanging. [174] [175]

10

• Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, 82, American civil rights campaigner, member of Tuskegee Airmen, brain injuries following a fall. [176]
• James E. Faust, 87, American second counselor in the First Presidency of the LDS Church. [177]
• Irene Kirkaldy, 90, American civil rights campaigner, complications of Alzheimer's disease. [178]
• Jean Rédélé, 85, French creator of the Alpine automobile brand. [179] (French)
• Mario Rivera, 68, Dominican Latin jazz saxophonist with Machito, Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez orchestras, bone cancer. [180]
• Tony Wilson, 57, British owner of Factory Records, radio and TV presenter, journalist, heart attack. [181] [182] [183]

9

• Richmond Flowers Sr., 88, American Attorney General of Alabama (1963–1967). [184]
• Timothy Garden, Baron Garden, 63, British Air Marshal and Liberal Democrat peer, cancer. [185]
• Joe O'Donnell, 85, American presidential photographer, photographed effects of Hiroshima bombing, stroke.[186]
• Ulrich Plenzdorf, 72, German author. [187]

8

• Joybubbles, 58, American phone phreak. [188]
• Ma Lik, 55, Hong Kong Legislative Council member and chair of the DAB, colon cancer. [189]
• Melville Shavelson, 90, American film director and screenwriter. [190]
• Clarence Tex Walker, 61, American rhythm and blues musician, heart attack. [191]
• Julius Wess, 73, Austrian physicist. [192]

7

• Ernesto Alonso, 90, Mexican television producer and actor, pneumonia. [193] (Spanish)
• Hal Fishman, 75, American television news anchor since 1960, KTLA Prime News anchor since 1975, cancer. [194] [195]
• Gato Del Sol, 28, American racehorse, won 1982 Kentucky Derby, euthanized. [196]
• Hank Morgenweck, 78, American baseball umpire, cancer. [197]
• Wolfgang Sievers, 93, Australian photographer. [198]
• Sir Angus Tait, 88, New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman. [199]

6

• Heinz Barth, 86, German SS officer, Nazi war criminal, cancer. [200] [201]
• Moe Fishman, 92, American representative of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, pancreatic cancer. [202]
• Ah Jook Ku, 97, American journalist and writer, first Asian American Associated Press reporter. [203]
• Elie de Rothschild, 90, French banker, member of Rothschild dynasty, heart attack. [204]
• Paul Rutherford, 67, British trombonist. [205]
• Atle Selberg, 90, Norwegian-born mathematician, heart failure. [206]

5

• Henri Amouroux, 87, French journalist and historian. [207] (French)
• Stanley Myron Handelman, 77, American comedian, heart attack. [208] [209]
• Oliver Hill, 100, American lawyer, lead attorney on the Brown v. Board of Education case. [210]
• Jean-Marie Lustiger, 80, French Jewish-born Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Paris, cancer. [211]
• Amos Manor, 89, Israeli head of Shin Bet (1953–1963). [212]
• Janine Niépce, 86, French photojournalist. [213] (French)
• Florian Pittiş, 63, Romanian actor and folk singer, prostate cancer. [214] (Romanian)

4

• Lee Hazlewood, 78, American country music singer and songwriter ("These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"), renal cancer. [215]
• Raul Hilberg, 81, Austrian Jewish Holocaust historian, lung cancer. [216]
• Frank Mancuso, 89, American major league baseball player, Houston City Councillor. [217]
• Santos Padilla Ferrer, 50, Puerto Rican mayor of Cabo Rojo, heart attack. [218]

3

• Jose Miguel Battle, Sr., 77, Cuban founder and nominal leader of the "Cuban Mafia". [219].
• Ron Brown, 67, British Labour Party Member of Parliament (1979–1992), liver failure. [220]
• James T. Callahan, 76, American actor (Charles in Charge), cancer. [221].
• John Gardner, 80, British thriller writer and James Bond continuation novelist, suspected heart failure. [222]
• Nasho Kamungeremu, 34, Zimbabwean golfer, heart attack. [223]

2

• Kafeel Ahmed, 28, Indian terrorist involved in the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack, third degree burns. [224]
• Haitham al-Badri, Iraqi al Qaeda emir of Salahuddin province and Golden Dome bomber, airstrike. [225]
• Chauncey Bailey, 58, American journalist, editor of The Oakland Post, shot. [226]
• Ed Brown, 78, American football quarterback Chicago Bears, Pittsburgh Steelers, prostate cancer. [227]
• Franco Dalla Valle, 62, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Juína. [228] (Portuguese)
• Evan Enwerem, 71, Nigerian Senate President (1999). [229]
• Peter Eriksson, 48, Swedish neuroscientist. [230] (Swedish)
• Holden Roberto, 84, Angolan founder and leader of the FNLA (1962–1999), after long illness. [231]
• Frank Rosenfelt, 85, American executive at MGM. [232]

1

• Sergei Antonov, 59, Bulgarian accused of involvement in attempt by Mehmet Ali Ağca to kill Pope John Paul II. [233]
• Ryan Cox, 28, South African professional road racing cyclist, ruptured artery following vascular surgery. [234]
• Robert Hughes, 95, Australian composer. [235]
• Veikko Karvonen, 81, Finnish athlete, bronze medalist in the 1956 Summer Olympics marathon. [236]
• Tommy Makem, 74, Irish folk musician (The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem), lung cancer. [237]
• Pete Naktenis, 93, American baseball player. [238]
• Philip S. Paludan, 69, American history professor, authority on Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War. [239]
• Norman Adrian Wiggins, 83, American third president of Campbell University. [240]