Deaths in 2007 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2007. [edit] April 2007 - Edward F. Boyd, 92, American marketing executive at Pepsi who shunned racial stereotypes in advertising. [1]
- Tom Cartwright, 71, British test cricketer for England, complications of heart attack. [2]
- Grégory Lemarchal, 23, French singer, winner of Star Academy France, cystic fibrosis. [3]
- Bernard Marszałek, 31, Polish offshore powerboat racer, 2003 World Champion, 2004 Euro Championship runner-up, asthma. [4]
- Kevin Mitchell, 36, American football player for San Francisco 49ers (Super Bowl XXIX) and Washington Redskins, heart attack. [5]
- Tom Poston, 85, American actor (Newhart). [6]
- Claude Saunders, 95, Canadian rower and oldest national Olympic competitor. [7]
- Gordon Scott, 79, American actor who portrayed Tarzan in six films (1955–1960), complications of surgery. [8]
- Zola Taylor, 69, American singer, member of The Platters (1954–1964), complications of pneumonia. [9]
- Milt Bocek, 94, American baseball player. [10]
- Octavio Frias, 94, Brazilian publishing magnate, kidney failure. [11]
- Josh Hancock, 29, American baseball relief pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, car accident. [12]
- Donald P. Lay, 80, American judge of the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1966–2006). [13]
- Dick Motz, 67, New Zealand Test cricketer. [14]
- Joseph Nérette, 83, President of Haïti (1991–1992), lung cancer. [15] (French)
- Arve Opsahl, 85, Norwegian actor, heart failure. [16]
- Ivica Račan, 63, Croatian prime minister (2000–2003), cancer. [17]
- Lee Roberson, 97, American founder of Tennessee Temple University. [18]
- Lloyd Crouse, 88, Canadian politician, Progressive Conservative MP (1957–1988), Lt.Governor of Nova Scotia (1989–1994). [19]
- Luigi Filippo D'Amico, 82, Italian film director. [20] (Italian)
- Dabbs Greer, 90, American actor. [21]
- René Mailhot, 64, Canadian journalist for Radio-Canada, pneumonia. [22] (French)
- Tommy Newsom, 78, American musician from The Tonight Show, cancer. [23]
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, 94, German physicist and philosopher. [24]
- Bertha Wilson, 83, Canadian who was the first female Supreme Court judge, Alzheimer's disease. [25]
- Karel Dillen, 81, Belgian politician, founder of the Flemish Interest party. [26]
- Bill Forester, 74, American NFL football player. [27]
- Kirill Lavrov, 81, Russian actor, after long illness. [28]
- Mstislav Rostropovich, 80, Russian cellist and conductor, intestinal cancer. [29]
- Robert E. Webber, 73, American scholar and author on Christian worship renewal, pancreatic cancer. [30]
- Florea Dumitrache, 58, Romanian football player, digestive hemorrhage. [31] (Romanian)
- Wolfgang Gewalt, 78, German zoologist, director of the Duisburg Zoo (1966–1993). [32] (German)
- Lindsey Hughes, 57, British professor of Russian History at University College London, cancer. [33]
- Henry LeTang, 91, American choreographer. [34]
- Jack Valenti, 85, American president of the Motion Picture Association of America (1966–2004), complications of stroke. [35]
- Alan Ball, 61, British footballer, youngest member of England's 1966 World Cup-winning team, heart attack. [36] [37]
- Barbara Blida, 57, Polish politician, suicide by gunshot. [38]
- Polly Hill, 100, American horticulturist, founder of Polly Hill Arboretum. [39]
- Les Jackson, 86, British cricketer, fast-medium bowler for Derbyshire and England. [40]
- Arthur Milton, 79, British sportsman, last person to play both football and cricket for England, heart attack. [41].
- Johnny Perkins, 54, American National Football League player for the New York Giants, complications following heart surgery. [42]
- Bobby "Boris" Pickett, 69, American one-hit wonder singer ("Monster Mash"), leukemia. [43]
- Warren Avis, 91, American founder of Avis Rent A Car System and real estate developer. [44]
- Ida R. Hoos, 94, American sociologist and critic of systems analysis, pneumonia. [45]
- Roy Jenson, 80, Canadian actor, cancer. [46]
- Jim Moran, 88, American automotive dealer and philanthropist. [47]
- James Richards, 58, American veterinarian and feline expert, motorcycle accident while avoiding a cat. [48]
- Kate Walsh, 60, Irish Progressive Democrat senator. [49]
- Robert M. Warner, 79, American archivist who led the National Archives and Records Administration, heart attack. [50]
- Walter Bareiss, 87, German-American art collector, heart failure. [51]
- Paul Erdman, 74, American economist, banker, and writer. [52]
- David Halberstam, 73, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, car accident. [53]
- Axel Madsen, 77, American biographer, pancreatic cancer. [54]
- Michael Smuin, 68, American ballet dancer, choreographer and director, heart attack. [55]
- Boris Yeltsin, 76, first President of the Russian Federation (1991–1999), heart failure. [56] [57]
- Sir Raymond Hoffenberg, 84, South African-born endocrinologist, President of RCP (1983-1989) and Chair of the BHF. [58]
- Karl Holzamer, 100, German founder and director-general of TV channel ZDF. [59]
- Juanita Millender-McDonald, 68, American Democratic Representative (Calif.), Chair of House Administration Committee, cancer. [60]
- Conchita Montenegro, 94, Spanish actress. [61]
- Anne Pitoniak, 85, American character actress, cancer. [62]
- Boscoe Holder, 85, Trinidadian dancer, choreographer and painter. [63]
- James Hamupanda Kauluma, 75, Namibian bishop and freedom fighter, prostate cancer. [64].
- Lobby Loyde, 65, Australian rock guitarist (Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs), lung cancer.[65]
- Parry O'Brien, 75, American shot put champion at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics, heart attack. [66]
- Art Saaf, 85, American comic book artist (Sheena, Queen of the Jungle), Parkinson's disease. [67]
- Bruce Van Sickle, 90, American federal judge (1971–2002), Alzheimer's disease. [68]
- Yehuda Meir Abramowicz, 92, Israeli General Secretary of Agudat Israel (1972–1981). [69]
- Audrey Fagan, 44, Irish-born Australian Federal Police assistant commissioner, suspected suicide by hanging. [70] [71]
- Fred Fish, 54, American computer programmer known for GNU Debugger. [72]
- Michael Fu Tieshan, 75, Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association bishop of Beijing, cancer. [73]
- Andrew Hill, 75, American jazz pianist and composer, lung cancer. [74]
- Jan Kociniak, 69, Polish actor. [75] (Polish)
- William Phillips, 60, American engineer, Johnson Space Center shooting gunman, suicide by gunshot. [76]
- Robert Rosenthal, 89, American distinguished World War II pilot and lawyer, multiple myeloma. [77]
- Ken Albers, 82, American singer (The Four Freshmen). [78]
- Anthony Brooks, 85, British agent who led French Resistance saboteurs after the Normandy Invasion, stomach cancer. [79]
- Jean-Pierre Cassel, 74, French actor, cancer. [80]
- Marie Hicks, 83, American civil rights activist, complications from Parkinson's disease. [81]
- Worth McDougald, 82, American journalism educator, Director of the Peabody Awards (1963–1991), heart failure. [82]
- Bohdan Paczyński, 67, Polish astrophysicist, brain tumor. [83]
- Helen Walton, 87, American widow of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, natural causes. [84]
- George D. Webster, 61, American football player. [85]
- Josy Gyr-Steiner, 57, Swiss politician. [86] (German)
- Iccho Itoh, 61, Japanese mayor of Nagasaki, homicide by shooting. [87] [88]
- Andrej Kvašňák, 70, Slovak footballer, lung cancer. [89]
- Alvin Roth, 92, American contract bridge champion. [90]
- Donald Stephens, 79, American long-serving mayor of Rosemont, Illinois, founder of Hummel figurine museum, stomach cancer. [91]
- Tony Suarez, 51, American soccer player (Carolina Lightnin', Cleveland Force), 1981 Rookie of the Year. [92] [93]
- Dick Vosburgh, 77, American-born comedy writer and lyricist, cancer. [94]
- Nair Bello, 75, Brazilian actress, heart failure. [95] [96] (Portuguese)
- James B. Davis, 90, American founder of The Dixie Hummingbirds, heart failure. [97]
- Steven Derounian, 89, Bulgarian-born American Republican Representative from New York state (1953–1965). [98]
- Len Fitzgerald, 76, Australian footballer, cancer. [99] [100]
- Kitty Carlisle Hart, 96, American actress (A Night at the Opera), TV personality (To Tell the Truth) and singer, heart failure. [101]
- Bruce Haslingden, 84, Australian Olympic cross-country skier, staphylococcus infection. [102]
- Raymond Kaelbel, 75, French international footballer. [103]
- Chauncey Starr, 95, American electrical engineer, pioneer in the field of nuclear energy. [104]
- Glenn Sutton, 69, American country songwriter and record producer, heart attack. [105]
- Frank Bateson, 97, New Zealand astronomer and writer. [106]
- Seung-Hui Cho, 23, South Korean Virginia Tech mass murderer, suicide by gunshot. [107]
- Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, 49, Canadian instructor of French at Virginia Tech, homicide. [108]
- Tran Bach Dang, 81, Vietnamese journalist and politician. [109]
- Gaetan Duchesne, 44, Canadian NHL player (1981–1995), heart attack. [110]
- Kevin Granata, 45, American associate professor of engineering at Virginia Tech, homicide. [111]
- Robert Jones, 56, British Conservative politician (MP 1983–1997), minister in the government of John Major, liver cancer. [112]
- Maria Lenk, 92, Brazilian Olympic swimmer (1932, 1936), rupture of aortic aneurysm. [113]
- Liviu Librescu, 76, Romanian-born professor of engineering at Virginia Tech, Holocaust survivor, homicide. [114]
- G. V. Loganathan, 50, Indian-born professor of engineering at Virginia Tech, homicide. [115]
- Jack Wiebe, 70, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan (1994–2000), Senator (2000–2004), lung cancer. [116]
- Patricia Buckley, 80, Canadian-born socialite and fundraiser, wife of William F. Buckley, Jr., infection after long illness. [117]
- Heo Se-uk, 54, South Korean protester against U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, septic shock following self-immolation burns. [118]
- Brant Parker, 86, American cartoonist who co-created The Wizard of Id. [119]
- Justine Saunders, 54, Australian actress, cancer. [120] [121]
- Peter Tsiamalili, 54, Papuan first administrator of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville. [122] [123]
- Donald Tuzin, 62, American anthropologist and leading authority on Melanesian culture, pulmonary hypertension. [124]
- Ladislav Adamec, 80, Czech communist politician, Prime Minister of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1988–1989). [125] (Czech)
- Robert Buck, 93, American aviator who set several aviation records in his teens, complications from a fall. [126]
- June Callwood, 82, Canadian journalist and activist, cancer. [127]
- Bobby Cram, 67, British footballer for West Bromwich Albion and Colchester United. [128]
- Don Ho, 76, American Hawaiian musician and entertainer, heart failure. [129]
- Jim Jontz, 55, American congressman from Indiana (1987–1993), colon cancer. [130]
- William Menster, 94, American Catholic priest, first member of the clergy to visit Antarctica. [131]
- René Rémond, 88, French historian and academician. [132] (French)
- Herman Riley, 73, American tenor saxophone jazz performer, heart failure. [133]
- Audrey Santo, 23, American brain-injured girl claimed to have performed miracles, cardio-respiratory failure. [134]
- Jim Thurman, 72, American children's television writer and voice of Sesame Street's "Teeny Little Super Guy," illness. [135]
- Frank Westheimer, 95, American chemist. [136]
- Marie Clay, 81, New Zealand world-renowned reading expert, after short illness. [137]
- Nathan Heffernan, 86, American judge, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court (1983–1995). [138]
- Hans Koning, 85, Dutch-born writer and journalist. [139]
- Joe Lane, 80, Australian bebop jazz singer. [140]
- Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, 88, American poet who wrote about the Dust Bowl. [141]
- Capil Rampersad, 46, Trinidad and Tobago cricketer. [142]
- Joie Ray, 83, American open-wheel and stock car race driver, respiratory failure. [143]
- Don Selwyn, 71, New Zealand actor and director, complications from a kidney infection. [144]
- Marion Yorck von Wartenburg, 102, German World War II resistance fighter. [145] (German)
- Kelsie B. Harder, 84, American name expert, congestive heart failure. [146]
- Len Hill, 65, British cricketer for Glamorgan and footballer for Newport County. [147]
- James Lyons, 46, American film editor, squamous cell carcinoma. [148]
- Pierre Probst, 93, French children's book author and illustrator. [149] (French)
- Little Sonny Warner, 77, American singer who earned a gold record with "There’s Something on Your Mind". [150]
- Roscoe Lee Browne, 81, American Emmy Award-winning actor (The Cosby Show, Soap), cancer. [151]
- Loïc Leferme, 36, French free diver, drowning. [152]
- Warren E. Preece, 85, American editor of Encyclopædia Britannica (1964–1975), heart failure. [153]
- Ronald Speirs, 86, American World War II commanding officer of Easy Company (Band of Brothers). [154]
- Warren Strelow, 73, American ice hockey goaltending coach for 1980 Winter Olympics gold medal team (Miracle on Ice). [155].
- Kurt Vonnegut, 84, American novelist and social critic, brain injury from a fall. [156]
- Kevin Crease, 70, Australian television newsreader, cancer. [157]
- Mary Ewen, 128?, Jamaican claimed to be oldest person in the Western hemisphere. [158]
- Florence Finch, 113, British-born New Zealand supercentenarian, world's sixth-oldest person, cardio-respiratory failure. [159]
- Walter Hendl, 90, American conductor, heart and lung disease. [160]
- Ralph Heywood, 85, American football player. [161]
- Awdy Kulyýew, 70, Turkmen exiled politician and Foreign Minister (1990–1992), complications from stomach surgery. [162]
- Salvatore Scarpitta, 88, American sculptor, complications from diabetes. [163]
- Dakota Staton, 76, American jazz vocalist, after long illness. [164] [165]
- Florence Arrowsmith, 102, British marital recordholder. [166]
- Egon Bondy, 77, Czech philosopher and poet. [167]
- AJ Carothers, 75, American playwright and television writer, cancer. [168]
- Alain Etchegoyen, 55, French philosopher, cancer. [169] (French)
- Sir Michael Fox, 85, British judge, Lord Justice of Appeal (1981-1992). [170]
- Dorrit Hoffleit, 100, American research astronomer, brief illness. [171]
- Mark Langford, 42, British businessman, former head of The Accident Group, car accident. [172]
- Philip Mayne, 107, last surviving British officer of World War I. [173]
- Harry Rasky, 78, Canadian documentary film producer, heart failure. [174]
- Natalia Clare, 87, American ballet dancer and instructor, complications of strokes. [175]
- Neville Duke, 84, British fighter pilot during World War II. [176]
- Victor Kneale, 89, Manx Speaker of the House of Keys (1990–1991). [177]
- Sol LeWitt, 78, American artist known for his role in the Conceptualism and Minimalism movements, cancer. [178]
- Bill Mescher, 79, American politician; member of the South Carolina Senate from 1993 until his death, stroke. [179]
- Marià Gonzalvo, 85, Spanish captain of FC Barcelona and international footballer for Spain. [180]
- Johnny Hart, 76, American cartoonist (B.C., The Wizard of Id), stroke. [181]
- Brian Miller, 70, British footballer for Burnley and England. [182]
- Otto Natzler, 99, American ceramics and glazing master, cancer. [183]
- Barry Nelson, 89, American actor, first to play James Bond on screen. [184]
- Emma Bodie Begay, 119?, American Navajo woman who claimed to be the world's oldest person. [185]
- Luigi Comencini, 90, Italian film director. [186]
- Stan Daniels, 72, Canadian writer and producer (Taxi, The Mary Tyler Moore Show), heart failure. [187]
- Colin Graham, 75, British opera, theatre and television director, cardiac arrest. [188]
- George Jenkins, 98, American Academy Award-winning production designer (All the President's Men), heart failure. [189]
- Józef Kos, 106, one of the last six World War I veterans from Germany. [190] (Polish)
- Jill McGown, 59, British mystery writer. [191]
- James McGuinness, 81, British priest, Bishop of Nottingham (1974-2000). [192]
- Raymond G. Murphy, 77, American Medal of Honor recipient during the Korean War. [193]
- Jimmy Lee Smith, 76, American murderer whose story inspired the book and movie The Onion Field. [194]
- Maria Gripe, 83, Swedish author. [195]
- Thomas Stoltz Harvey, 94, American pathologist. [196]
- Leela Majumdar, 99, Indian Bengali language children's author. [197]
- Mark St. John, 51, American guitarist (KISS, White Tiger), brain hemorrhage. [198]
- Ali Sriti, 88, Tunisian oudist. [199] (French)
- Darryl Stingley, 55, American football player, bronchial pneumonia. [200]
- Poornachandra Tejaswi, 68, Indian writer and novelist in the Kannada language, cardiac arrest. [201]
- John Winter, 39, American meteorologist for WFLA-TV, suicide by gunshot. [202]
- Jagjit Singh Chauhan, 80, Indian Sikh separatist leader, heart attack. [203]
- Bob Clark, 67, American film director (A Christmas Story, Porky's), car accident. [204]
- Reginald H. Fuller, 92, British-born biblical scholar and Anglican priest, complications of a broken hip. [205]
- Terry Hall, 80, British ventriloquist and children's television presenter. [206]
- Edward Mallory, 76, American television actor (Days of our Lives). [207]
- Datuk K. Sivalingam, 59, Malaysian politician, heart attack. [208] [209]
- Karen Spärck Jones, 71, British professor emeritus of Computers and Information at the University of Cambridge, cancer. [210]
- Marion Eames, 85, British novelist (The Secret Room). [211]
- Robin Montgomerie-Charrington, 91, British 1952 Grand Prix driver. [212]
- Walter Nicks, 81, American dancer and choreographer. [213]
- Thomas Hal Phillips, 84, American novelist and screenwriter. [214]
- Zoltán Pongrácz, 95, Hungarian composer and conductor. [215] (Hungarian)
- Eddie Robinson, 88, American college football coach at Grambling State University, Alzheimer's disease. [216]
- Burt Topper, 78, American screenwriter, film director and film producer, pulmonary failure. [217]
- Nina Wang, 69, Hong Kong businesswoman and Asia's richest woman. [218]
- William Becker, 85, American co-founder of the Motel 6 chain, heart attack. [219]
- Janet Bloomfield, 53, British campaigner, Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (1993-1996), septic shock. [220].
- Jeannie Ferris, 66, Australian Senator, ovarian cancer. [221]
- Henry Lee Giclas, 96, American astronomer. [222]
- Paul Reed, 97, American comedian and actor (Car 54, Where Are You?), heart failure. [223]
- Tadjou Salou, 32, Togolese international footballer, after long illness. [224]
- Laurie Baker, 90, British-born Indian architect. [225]
- John Billings, 89, Australian co-developer of the Billings ovulation method. [226]
- Herb Carneal, 83, American sportscaster, radio broadcaster for Minnesota Twins MLB team, congestive heart failure. [227]
- Driss Chraibi, 80, Moroccan writer. [228]
- Myrna "Screechy Peach" Crenshaw, 47, American singer & songwriter, breast cancer. [229]
- Joseph Hirsch Dunner, 94, German-born British Orthodox rabbi. [230]
- Hans Karl Filbinger, 93, German jurist and right-wing politician. [231] (German)
- Char Fontane, 55, American actress and singer, daughter of Tony Fontane, breast cancer. [232]
- Lou Limmer, 82, American Major League Baseball player for the Philadelphia Athletics. [233]
- Salem Ludwig, 91, American character actor. [234]
- Sally Merchant, 88, Canadian broadcaster and politician, cancer. [235] [236]
- Hannah Nydahl, 61, Danish teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, translator for her husband Ole Nydahl, lung and brain cancer. [237]
- Ladislav Rychman, 84, Czech film director, heart attack. [238]
- George Sewell, 82, British actor, cancer. [239]
- Elliott Skinner, 82, American scholar and former ambassador, heart failure. [240] [241]
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