Deaths in 2007: Difference between revisions

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.

• Shitsu Nakano, 113, Japan's oldest person and fourth-oldest person in the world, natural causes. [1]
• Leona Helmsley, 87, American hotel operator and real estate investor. [2]

• Michael Deaver, 69, American Deputy White House Chief of Staff (1981–1985), pancreatic cancer. [3]
• Viktor Prokopenko, 62, Ukrainian footballer and coach (FC Shakhtar Donetsk), thrombus. [4]

• John Belk, 87, American Democratic politician, mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina (1969–1977). [5]
• Jos Brink, 65, Dutch television host, actor, minister of religion and writer, colorectal cancer. [6]
• Bill Deedes, 94, British journalist, editor of The Daily Telegraph (1974–1986) and Conservative politician. [7]
• Will Edwards, 69, British Labour politician, MP for Merioneth (1966–1974). [8]
• Carolyn Goodman, 91, American psychologist and civil rights activist. [9]
• Tanja Liedtke, 29, German choreographer appointed as Sydney Dance Company artistic director, road accident.[10]
• Erzsébet Spéter, 92, Hungarian patron of the arts, founder of the Erzsébet Prize. [11] (Hungarian)

• John Blewett III, 33, American NASCAR driver, racing crash. [12]
• Jeroen Boere, 39, Dutch football player (West Ham, West Brom, Crystal Palace, Portsmouth, Southend). [13]
• Clive Exton, 77, British television and film writer. [14]
• Roland Mathias, 91, British poet and literary critic. [15]
• Vito Pallavicini, 83, Italian lyricist. [16] (Italian)
• Max Roach, 83, American jazz drummer. [17] [18]
• Dewey Robertson, 68, Canadian professional wrestler ("The Missing Link"), cancer. [19]

• Rudi Berger, 55, German tennis official, cancer. [20]
• Richard Bradshaw, 63, British conductor, Canadian Opera Company general director (1998–2007), heart attack. [21]
• Steven Campbell, 53, British painter, ruptured appendix. [22]
• Chet Collier, 80, American broadcaster who helped build CNBC, MSNBC and Fox News. [23]
• Geoffrey Orbell, 98, New Zealand bush walker who rediscovered the Takahē in 1948. [24]
• Sam Pollock, 81, Canadian former general manager of Montreal Canadiens, Hockey Hall of Famer. [25]
• Liam Rector, 58, American poet, Folger Shakespeare Library program director, suicide by shotgun. [26] [27]
• Joel Silveira, 88, Brazilian journalist and writer, prostate cancer. [28] (Portuguese)
• John Wallowitch, 81, American singer and songwriter, bone cancer. [29]

• John Biffen, 76, British Tory member of the House of Lords, MP (1961–1997), septicaemia. [30]
• Tikhon Khrennikov, 94, Russian composer. [31]
• Emory King, 76, Belizean historian, author and journalist, cancer. [32]
• John C. Lanham, 82, American former chief justice of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. [33]
• Diane Lewis, 54, American reporter (The Boston Globe), cancer. [34]
• Kotozakura Masakatsu, 66, Japanese yokozuna, complications of diabetes. [35]
• Zhang Ziliang, 66, Chinese screenwriter, cerebral haemorrhage. [36] (Chinese)

• Brian "Crush" Adams, 43, American professional wrestler. [37]
• Brooke Astor, 105, American philanthropist, pneumonia. [38][39]
• Bill Farr, 97, American pioneer of Colorado-Big Thompson project. [40]
• Yone Minagawa, 114, Japanese woman, recognized as world's oldest person alive, old age. [41] [42]
• Clifton Neita, 92, Jamaican editor of the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper (1954–1979). [43]
• Phil Rizzuto, 89, American baseball player, Hall of Fame inductee and sports broadcaster, pneumonia. [44] [45]

• Ralph Asher Alpher, 86, American physicist and college professor, respiratory failure. [46] [47]
• Richard Blackstone, 85, American politician, Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut (1969–1979). [48]
• Ronald N. Bracewell, 86, Australian physicist and radio astronomer, heart failure. [49]
• Richard Catledge, American pilot who founded the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, complications from pneumonia. [50]
• Christian Elder, 38, American sports car and Busch Series driver. [51]
• Merv Griffin, 82, American talk show host, real estate tycoon, creator of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, prostate cancer. [52]
• Asa Hilliard, 73, American educationalist, historian and psychologist, malaria. [53]
• Ron McGregor, 83, New Zealand rugby league international player and administrator. [54]
• Elizabeth Murray, 66, American artist, lung cancer. [55]
• Alwyn Rice Jones, 73, British Archbishop of Wales (1991–1999). [56]
• Mike Wieringo, 44, American comic book artist, heart attack. [57]

• Franz Antel, 94, Austrian film director. [58] (German)
• McDonald Gallion, 94, American politician, Attorney General of Alabama (1959–1963, 1967–1971). [59]
• Joe Jimenez, 81, American professional golfer, won 1978 Senior PGA Championship, renal failure brought on by lung cancer. [60]
• Bronko Lubich, 81, American professional wrestler and referee for the NWA, WCCW and USWA. [61]
• Roberto Maidana, 79, Argentine journalist, pneumonia. [62] (Spanish)
• Herb Pomeroy, 77, American jazz trumpeter (Charlie Parker, Frank Sinatra), cancer. [63]
• Sukadji Ranuwihardjo, 76, Indonesian President of Gadjah Mada University (1973–1981). [64]
• Madilu System, 57, Congolese musician. [65]
• Bruce Woolmer, 59, American magazine editor Art & Auction, complications of diabetes. [66]
• Lluís Maria Xirinacs, 75, Catalan political activist and priest, apparent suicide. [67]
• Zhang Shuhong, 50, Chinese company co-owner involved in Fisher-Price toy recall, suicide by hanging. [68] [69]

• Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, 82, American civil rights campaigner, member of Tuskegee Airmen, brain injuries following a fall. [70]
• Sonny Day, 64, New Zealand Maori blues singer (The Sharks, The Sundowners), emphysema. [71]
• James E. Faust, 87, American second counselor in the First Presidency of The LDS Church. [72]
• Germán Pedro Ibáñez, 79, Cuban guitarist and director of the Septeto Habanero. [73] (Spanish)
• Irene Kirkaldy, 90, United States civil rights campaigner, complications of Alzheimers disease. [74]
• Jean Rédelé, 85, French creator of the Alpine automobile brand. [75] (French)
• Mario Rivera, 68, Dominican Latin jazz saxophonist, performed with Machito, Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez orchestras, bone cancer. [76]
• Tony Wilson, 57, British owner of Factory Records, radio and TV presenter, journalist, cancer. [77] [78]

• Murray Abbott, 57, New Zealand judge, Christchurch District Court. [79]
• Richmond Flowers Sr., 88, American Attorney General of Alabama (1963–1967). [80]
• Timothy Garden, Baron Garden, 63, British Air Marshal and Liberal Democrat peer, cancer. [81]
• Jean Hogan Hickey, 84, American champion ballroom dancer and Broadway performer, colon cancer. [82]
• Joe O'Donnell, 85, American presidential photographer, photographed effects of Hiroshima bombing, stroke.[83]
• Ulrich Plenzdorf, 72, German author. [84]
• Warren Stute, 85, American horse trainer. [85]

• Nicolau Casaus, 94, Spanish vicepresident of Futbol Club Barcelona. [86] (Spanish)
• Joybubbles, 58, American phone phreak. [87]
• Ma Lik, 55, Hong Kong Legislative Council member and chair of the DAB, colon cancer. [88]
• Arne Myrdal, 71, Norwegian anti-immigration activist and white supremacist. [89] (Norwegian)
• Melville Shavelson, 90, American film director and screenwriter. [90]
• Julius Wess, 73, Austrian physicist. [91]

• Ernesto Alonso, 90, Mexican television producer and actor, pneumonia. [92] (Spanish)
• Hal Fishman, 75, American television news anchor since 1960, KTLA Prime News anchor since 1975, cancer. [93] [94]
• Gato Del Sol, 28, American racehorse, won 1982 Kentucky Derby, euthanized. [95]
• Russell Johnson, 83, American acoustics designer for Jazz at Lincoln Center. [96]
• Hank Morgenweck, 78, American baseball umpire, cancer. [97]
• Miklós Páncsics, 63, Hungarian football player (Ferencvárosi TC). [98]
• Wolfgang Sievers, 93, Australian photographer. [99]
• Sir Angus Tait, 88, New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman. [100]
• William F. Walker, 69, American president of Auburn University (2001–2004), complications of cancer. [101]

• Heinz Barth, 86, German SS officer, Nazi war criminal, cancer. [102] [103]
• Willie Booker, 65, American basketball coach at Florida A&M (1984–1993). [104]
• Thomas Farrow, 82, American FBI agent, ended hijack at Baltimore airport, heart failure. [105]
• Moe Fishman, 92, American representative of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, pancreatic cancer. [106]
• Irving Huie, 78, American transport engineer. [107]
• Ah Jook Ku, 97, American journalist and writer. [108]
• Bill McCarroll, 62, British General Secretary of Northern Cricket Union of Ireland, President of Northern Ireland Schools FA. [109]
• Elie de Rothschild, 90, French banker, member of Rothschild dynasty, heart attack. [110]
• Paul Rutherford, 67, British trombonist. [111]
• Atle Selberg, 90, Norwegian-born mathematician. [112]

• Joaquim Saraiva Abrantes, 82, Portuguese Roman Catholic Prior of the municipality of São José (Lisbon). [113] (Portuguese)
• Henri Amouroux, 87, French journalist and historian. [114] (French)
• Stanley Handelman, 77, American comedian, heart attack. [115]
• Oliver Hill, 100, American lawyer, lead attorney on the Brown v. Board of Education case. [116]
• Ernest Loveless, 84, American judge, Maryland seventh judicial circuit (1960–1992). [117]
• Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, 80, French Jewish-born Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Paris, cancer. [118]
• Amos Manor, 89, Israeli head of Shin Bet (1953–1963). [119]
• David Osier, 62, American journalist, cancer. [120]
• Florian Pittiş, 63, Romanian actor and folk singer, prostate cancer. [121] (Romanian)
• António "Vini Vini" Venâncio, 48, Angolan singer, diabetes and tuberculosis. [122]

• Lee Hazlewood, 78, American country music singer and songwriter ("These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"), renal cancer. [123]
• Raul Hilberg, 81, Austrian Jewish Holocaust historian, lung cancer. [124]
• Frank Mancuso, 89, American major league baseball player, Houston City Councillor. [125]
• Santos Padilla Ferrer, 50, Puerto Rican mayor of Cabo Rojo, heart attack. [126]

• Jose Miguel Battle, Sr., 77, Cuban founder and nominal leader of the "Cuban Mafia". [127].
• Ron Brown, 67, British Labour Party Member of Parliament (1979–1992), liver failure. [128]
• James T. Callahan, 76, American actor (Charles in Charge), cancer. [129].
• John Gardner, 80, British thriller writer and James Bond continuation novelist, suspected heart failure. [130]
• Nasho Kamungeremu, 34, Zimbabwean golfer, heart attack. [131]
• Graeme Moodie, 82, British professor, author and political scientist. [132]

• Kafeel Ahmed, 28, Indian terrorist involved in the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack, third degree burns. [133]
• Haitham al-Badri, Iraqi al Qaeda emir of Salahuddin province and Golden Dome bomber, airstrike. [134]
• Chauncey Bailey, 58, American journalist, editor of The Oakland Post, shot. [135]
• Ed Brown, 78, American football quarterback Chicago Bears, Pittsburgh Steelers, prostate cancer. [136]
• Franco Dalla Valle, 62, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Juína. [137] (Portuguese)
• Evan Enwerem, 71, Nigerian Senate President (1999). [138]
• Peter Eriksson, 48, Swedish neuroscientist. [139] (Swedish)
• Holden Roberto, 84, Angolan founder and leader of the FNLA (1962–1999), after long illness. [140]
• Frank Rosenfelt, 85, American executive at MGM. [141]
• Revis Sisney, 94, American newspaper reporter and editor Kansas City Star. [142]

• Yuu Aku, 70, Japanese songwriter, urethral cancer. [143] (Japanese)
• Sergei Antonov, 59, Bulgarian accused of involvement in attempt by Mehmet Ali Ağca to kill Pope John Paul II. [144]
• Philip Bowditch, 86, American Apollo project scientist. [145]
• Ryan Cox, 28, South African professional road racing cyclist, ruptured artery following vascular surgery. [146]
• Hugo Guerra, 25, Portuguese professional fencer, hit by train. [147] (Portuguese)
• Veikko Karvonen, 81, Finnish athlete, bronze medalist in the 1956 Summer Olympics marathon. [148]
• Tommy Makem, 74, Irish folk musician (The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem), lung cancer. [149]
• Dillwyn Miles, 91, British historian, Herald Bard of the Gorsedd (1966-1996). [150]
• Pete Naktenis, 93, American baseball player. [151]
• Walter Oppenheimer, 92, American businessman, heart condition. [152]
• Philip S. Paludan, 69, American history professor, authority on Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War. [153]
• Safi, Iraqi al Qaeda emir of Mosul, shot. [154]
• Norman Adrian Wiggins, 83, American third president of Campbell University. [155]

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