Deaths in 2007
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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 persons 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, 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.
- Roscoe Lee Browne, 81, American Actor (Soap), cancer[1]
- Loïc Leferme, 36, French free diver, drowning. [2]
- Warren Strelow, 73, American "Miracle on Ice" and NHL goaltending coach, stroke. [3] [4]
- Kurt Vonnegut, 84, American novelist [5]
- Kevin Crease, 70, Australian television newsreader, cancer. [6]
- Florence Finch, 113, British-born New Zealand supercentenarian, world's sixth-oldest person, cardio-respiratory failure. [7]
- Ralph Heywood, 85, American football player. [8]
- György Méhes, 90, Transylvanian-Hungarian writer, Kossuth Prize winner. [9] (Hungarian)
- Egon Bondy, 77, Czech philosopher and poet. [10] [11] (Czech)
- AJ Carothers, 75, American playwright and television writer, cancer. [12]
- Alain Etchegoyen, 55, French philosopher, cancer. [13] (French)
- Mark Langford, 43, British businessman, former head of The Accident Group, car accident. [14]
- Philip Mayne, 107, last surviving British officer of World War I. [15]
- Harry Rasky, 78, Canadian documentary film producer, heart failure. [16]
- Vivica Watkins, 56, Bahamian actress and comedienne, kidney complications. [17]
- Ján Bzdúch, 84, Slovak actor. [18] (Slovak)
- Neville Duke, 84, British fighter pilot & war hero. [19]
- Victor Kneale, 89, former Speaker of the House of Keys of the Isle of Man. [20]
- Sol LeWitt, 78, American artist known for his role in the Conceptualism and Minimalism movements, cancer. [21]
- Marià Gonzalvo, 85, Spanish captain of FC Barcelona and international footballer for Spain. [22]
- Johnny Hart, 76, American cartoonist (B.C., The Wizard of Id). [23]
- Abigail Holman, 45, American politician, State Representative from Maine, skiing accident. [24]
- Brian Miller, 70, British footballer for Burnley and England. [25]
- Emma Bodie Begay, 119?, American Navajo woman who claimed to be the world's oldest person. [26]
- Luigi Comencini, 90, Italian film director. [27]
- Stan Daniels, 72, Canadian writer and producer (Taxi, The Mary Tyler Moore Show), heart failure. [28]
- Colin Graham, 75, British opera, theatre and television director, cardiac arrest. [29]
- Józef Kos, 106, one of the last seven World War I veterans from Germany. [30] (Polish)
- Raymond G. Murphy, 77, American Medal of Honor recipient during the Korean War. [31]
- Amado Ramirez Dillanes, Mexican journalist and news correspondent of Televisa, shot. [32]
- Jimmy Lee Smith, 76, American murderer whose story inspired the book and movie The Onion Field. [33]
- Maria Gripe, 83, Swedish author. [34]
- Leela Majumdar, 99, Indian Bengali language children's author. [35]
- Mark St. John, 51, American guitarist (KISS, White Tiger), brain hemorrhage. [36]
- Darryl Stingley, 55, American football player, bronchial pneumonia. [37]
- Poornachandra Tejaswi, 68, Indian writer and novelist in the Kannada language, cardiac arrest. [38]
- John Winter, 39, American meteorologist for WFLA-TV, suicide by gunshot. [39]
- Jagjit Singh Chauhan, 80, Indian Sikh separatist leader, heart attack. [40]
- Bob Clark, 67, American film director (A Christmas Story, Porky's), car accident. [41]
- Terry Hall, 80, British ventriloquist and children's television presenter. [42]
- Edward Mallory, 76, American television actor (Days of Our Lives). [43]
- Datuk K. Sivalingam, 59, Malaysian politician, heart attack. [44] [45]
- Karen Spärck Jones, 71, British professor emeritus of Computers and Information at the University of Cambridge, cancer. [46]
- Marion Eames, 85, British novelist (The Secret Room). [47]
- Robin Montgomerie-Charrington, 91, British 1952 Grand Prix driver. [48]
- Walter Nicks, 81, American dancer and choreographer. [49]
- Thomas Hal Phillips, 84, American novelist and screenwriter. [50]
- Zoltán Pongrácz, 95, Hungarian composer and conductor. [51] (Hungarian)
- Eddie Robinson, 88, American college football coach at Grambling State University, Alzheimer's disease. [52]
- Neal Shine, 76, American publisher (Detroit Free Press), lymphatic cancer. [53]
- Burt Topper, 78, American screenwriter, film director and film producer, pulmonary failure. [54]
- Nina Wang, 69, Hong Kong businesswoman and Asia's richest woman. [55]
- Jeannie Ferris, 66, Australian Senator, ovarian cancer. [56]
- Henry Lee Giclas, 96, American astronomer. [57]
- Mark Harrison, 82, Canadian editor of the Montreal Gazette (1977–1989), Alzheimer's disease. [58]
- Tadjou Salou, 32, Togolese international footballer, after long illness. [59]
- Livio Vacchini, 74, Swiss architect. [60] (German)
- Laurie Baker, 90, British-born Indian architect. [61]
- John Billings, 89, Australian co-developer of the Billings ovulation method. [62]
- Herb Carneal, 83, American sportscaster, radio broadcaster for Minnesota Twins MLB team, congestive heart failure. [63]
- Driss Chraibi, 80, Moroccan writer. [64]
- Char Fontane, 55, American actress and singer, breast cancer. [65]
- Hans Karl Filbinger, 93, German jurist and right-wing politician. [66] (German)
- Norberto La Porta, 68, Argentine socialist politician, cancer. [67] (Spanish)
- Lou Limmer, 82, American Major League Baseball player for the Philadelphia Athletics. [68]
- Salem Ludwig, 91, American character actor. [69]
- Sally Merchant, 88, Canadian broadcaster and politician, cancer. [70] [71]
- Hannah Nydahl, 61, Danish teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, translator for her husband Lama Ole Nydahl, lung and brain cancer. [72]
- Thomas Rogers, 79, American emeritus professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, car accident. [73]
- Ladislav Rychman, 84, Czech film director. [74]
- George Sewell, 82, British actor. [75]
- Belinda Wright, 78, British ballerina. [76]
See Deaths in March 2007.
External links
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For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, ...