Deaths in 2007 : ← January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December → The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2007. [edit] July 2007 - Michelangelo Antonioni, 94, Italian film director (L'avventura, Blowup, Zabriskie Point). [5]
- Teoctist Arăpaşu, 92, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, heart attack. [6]
- Ingmar Bergman, 89, Swedish stage and film director (The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Fanny and Alexander).[7]
- Kazi Lhendup Dorjee, 103, Indian first Chief Minister of Sikkim (SNC, 1974–1978), heart attack.[8]
- Thomas McGraw, 54, British mobster, heart attack. [9]
- Ali-Akbar Meshkini, 86, Iranian Chairman of the Assembly of Experts, respiratory and kidney complications. [10]
- Makoto Oda, 75, Japanese writer and anti-war activist, cancer. [11]
- Shim Sung-Min, 29, South Korean Taliban hostage, shot. [12]
- Richard Stott, 63, British newspaper editor and author, pancreatic cancer. [13]
- Bill Walsh, 75, American three-time Super Bowl-winning football coach of the San Francisco 49ers, leukemia. [14]
- Eric Wishnie, 44, American former television producer for NBC News, fall from building. [15] [16]
- Ian Anstruther, 85, British diplomat, baronet, writer and literary patron. [17]
- Jack Cole, 87, American publisher (Cole Directory), cancer. [18]
- James David, 79, American football player (Detroit Lions), after long illness. [19]
- Art Davis, 73, American jazz double-bassist, heart attack. [20]
- Phil Drabble, 93, British television presenter (One Man and His Dog). [21]
- Mike Reid, 67, British comedian and actor (EastEnders), heart attack. [22]
- Bill Robinson, 64, American baseball player (Braves, Yankees, Phillies and Pirates) and coach. [23] [24]
- Michel Serrault, 79, French actor (La Cage aux Folles), cancer. [25]
- Tom Snyder, 71, American talk show host and journalist, complications of leukemia. [26]
- Marvin Zindler, 85, American reporter, pancreatic cancer. [27]
- Gabriel Cisneros, 66, Spanish politician (PP), co-author of the 1978 Constitution, complications from stroke. [32] (Spanish)
- Lucky Grills, 79, Australian comedian and actor (Bluey). [33]
- Fannie Hillsmith, 96, American Cubist painter. [34]
- James Oyebola, 46, British heavyweight boxer, shot. [35] [36]
- Alan Pottasch, 79, American advertising executive for Pepsi, developed Pepsi Generation ad campaign. [37]
- William J. Tuttle, 95, American Academy Award-winning make-up artist. [38]
- Lars Forssell, 79, Swedish author and member of the Swedish Academy. [39]
- John Normington, 70, British theatre and television actor, pancreatic cancer. [40]
- Skip Prosser, 56, American college basketball coach for Wake Forest University, heart attack. [41]
- Shambo, 6, British Hindu sacred bull, lethal injection due to bovine tuberculosis. [42]
- Alberto Villamizar, 62, Colombian politician (NL) and diplomat, complications of lung surgery. [43]
- Bae Hyung-kyu, 42, South Korean pastor, Taliban hostage, shot. [44]
- Danny Bergara, 64, Uruguayan football manager of Stockport County and Brunei, stroke. [45] [46]
- Raymond Bristow, 98, British priest, longest-serving Anglican minister. [47]
- Jake, 12, American search and rescue dog for September 11, 2001 attacks and Hurricane Katrina, cancer. [48]
- Bernd Jakubowski, 54, German footballer (East Germany), after short illness. [49] (German)
- Jesse Marunde, 27, American strongman, heart attack. [50]
- Albert Ellis, 93, American pioneer in cognitive-behavioral therapy, kidney and heart failure. [51]
- Abdullah Mehsud, 31, Pakistani Taliban commander, suicide by hand grenade. [52]
- Geoffrey Nuttall, 95, British historian and Nonconformist minister. [53]
- Charles Whiting, 80, British author and military historian. [54]
- William Young, 107, British airman, last known remaining World War I veteran of the Royal Flying Corps. [55]
- Nicola Zaccaria, 84, Greek operatic bass, Alzheimer's disease. [56]
- Sir Tom Davis, 90, Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (1978–1987). [57]
- Otis Davis, 86, American Major League Baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers. [58]
- Ernst Otto Fischer, 88, German Nobel-Prize-winning chemist. [59] (German)
- Tor Kamata, 70, American professional wrestler (Stampede Wrestling), heart disease. [60]
- Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., 87, American scientist, editor of Science magazine (1985–1995), stroke. [61]
- Benjamin Libet, 91, American pioneering scientist in the field of human consciousness. [62]
- Ron Miller, 74, American songwriter ("Touch Me in the Morning", "For Once in My Life"), cardiac arrest. [63]
- Gyani Nand, 64, Fijian politician (FLP, 2001–2006), Minister for Agriculture (2006). [64]
- Joan O'Hara, 76, Irish actress, heart disease. [65]
- Mary Anne Scoles, 110, oldest verified Canadian and Manitoban. [66]
- Mirsha Serrano, 28, Mexican footballer for Tecos UAG, car accident. [67]
- George Tabori, 93, Hungarian-born British theater director. [68]
- Mohammed Zahir Shah, 92, last king of Afghanistan. [69]
- John Harrison Burnett, 85, British academic, Principal of Edinburgh University (1979–1987). [70]
- Carmelo Camet, 102, Argentine 1928 Olympic bronze medalist in fencing and oldest living former Olympian. [71]
- Mike Coolbaugh, 35, American baseball first base coach for the Tulsa Drillers, head injury. [72]
- Jarrod Cunningham, 38, New Zealand rugby union footballer for London Irish, motor neurone disease. [73]
- Norma Gabler, 84, American textbook campaigner, Parkinson's disease. [74]
- Walter Jona, 81, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1964–1985). [75]
- László Kovács, 74, Hungarian-born cinematographer (Easy Rider). [76]
- André Milongo, 71, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (1991–1992). [77]
- Ulrich Mühe, 54, German actor (The Lives of Others), stomach cancer. [78]
- Jean Stablinski, 75, French cyclist. [79]
- Rollie Stiles, 100, American oldest living former Major League Baseball player. [80]
- Gerhard Thielcke, 76, German conservationist, BUND co-founder, head injury. [81] (German)
- Don Arden, 81, British rock manager, father of Sharon Osbourne. [82]
- Jack Fearey, 84, American arts administrator founded Bumbershoot festival. [83]
- Jesús de Polanco, 77, Spanish media entrepreneur and publisher (El País), complications of arthritic disease. [84]
- Sherwin Wine, 79, American rabbi, founder of Birmingham Temple and Humanistic Judaism movement, car accident. [85]
- Ollie Bridewell, 21, British motorcycle racer, crash during race practice for BSB. [86] [87]
- Golde Flami, 89, Argentine actress. [88] (Spanish)
- Tammy Faye Messner, 65, American evangelist, metastatic colon cancer. [89]
- David Preece, 44, British footballer (Luton Town), after short illness. [90]
- Kai Siegbahn, 89, Swedish physicist at Uppsala University, won Nobel Prize in Physics in 1981. [91]
- Pete Wilson, 62, American broadcaster, heart attack. [92] [93]
- Ivor Emmanuel, 79, British singer and actor (Zulu), stroke. [94]
- Roberto Fontanarrosa, 62, Argentine cartoonist and writer, ALS. [95] (Spanish)
- Howard Judd, 71, American women's health researcher, congestive heart failure. [96][97]
- Shirley Slesinger Lasswell, 84, American marketing pioneer, sued Disney over Winnie the Pooh royalties, respiratory failure. [98]
- Alanah Woody, 51, American archaeologist, executive director of the Nevada Rock Art Foundation. [99]
- Wayne Downing, 67, American retired army general, meningitis. [100]
- Jerry Hadley, 55, American opera singer, suicide by gunshot. [101]
- Charles Jauncey, Baron Jauncey of Tullichettle, 82, British Law Lord. [102]
- John Kronus, 38, American professional wrestler, four-time ECW tag team champion. [103]
- Gary Lupul, 48, Canadian hockey player. [104]
- Orlando McFarlane, 69, Cuban Major League Baseball player. [105]
- Kenji Miyamoto, 98, Japanese politician, leader of the Japanese Communist Party for 40 years, old age. [106]
- Sekou Sundiata, 58, American poet, musician and performance artist, heart failure. [107]
- Jeremy Blake, 35, American video artist, suicide by drowning. [108]
- Cheng Shifa, 86, Chinese painter, cartoonist and calligrapher. [109]
- Peter Denning, 57, British cricketer (Somerset), cancer. [110]
- Júlio Redecker, 51, Brazilian leader of the Social Democracy Party, plane crash. [111] (Portuguese)
- Paulo Rogério Amoretty Souza, 60, Brazilian chairman of SCI, attorney for Corinthians, plane crash. [112] (Portuguese)
- Teresa Stich-Randall, 79, American opera singer. [113]
- Tom Brooks, 88, Australian cricketer (New South Wales) and international umpire. [114]
- Mikhail Kononov, 67, Russian actor (Guest from the Future, Siberiade, A Railway Station for Two), after long illness. [115]
- Skinny McNabb, 90, American Major League Baseball player for the Detroit Tigers. [116]
- Dmitri Prigov, 66, Russian poet, heart attack. [117]
- Kurt Steyrer, 87, Austrian health minister and Socialist presidential candidate, after short illness. [118]
- Bluma Appel, 86, Canadian philanthropist and patron of the arts, lung cancer. [119]
- Alberto Romão Dias, Portuguese organometallic chemist, professor at the IST. [120] (Portuguese)
- Kelly Johnson, 49, British guitarist (Girlschool), cancer of the spine. [121] [122]
- Kieron Moore, 82, Irish actor (The League of Gentlemen, The Day of the Triffids). [123]
- Schelto Patijn, 70, Dutch politician, mayor of Amsterdam (1994–2001). [124] (Dutch)
- Tsang Tsou Choi, 85, Hong Kong-based graffiti artist whose works were included in the 2003 Venice Biennale, heart disease. [125]
- Edward Boyse, 83, American physician, pneumonia. [126]
- Nan Cross, 79, South African anti-apartheid activist. [127]
- John Ferguson, Sr., 68, Canadian hockey player, general manager, coach and scout, prostate cancer. [128]
- William LeMessurier, 81, American architect, designed Boston City Hall and Citigroup Center, complications from fall. [129]
- Bernard Pagel, British astrophysicist, cancer. [130] [131]
- Marc Behm, 82, American writer. [135] (French)
- Robert Burås, 31, Norwegian guitarist for Madrugada and My Midnight Creeps. [136]
- Mr. Butch, 56, American homeless person and local celebrity in Boston, scooter accident. [137]
- Nigel Dempster, 65, British journalist, progressive supranuclear palsy. [138]
- Pat Fordice, 71, American broadcaster and First Lady of Mississippi (1992–2000), cancer. [139]
- José Iglesias Fernández, 80, Spanish football player (Real Madrid), stroke. [140]
- Forbes Johnston, 35, British football player (Falkirk, Airdrieonians). [141]
- Jim Mitchell, 63, American porn producer (Behind the Green Door), heart attack. [142]
- James Shen, 98, Taiwanese diplomat, last ambassador of Taiwan to the United States. [143]
- Stan Zemanek, 60, Australian radio presenter, brain cancer. [144]
- Glenda Adams, 68, Australian writer, ovarian cancer. [145]
- Shag Crawford, 90, American baseball umpire (1956–1975). [146]
- Bill Flynn, 58, South African actor, heart attack. [147]
- Richard Franklin, 58, Australian film director (Roadgames), prostate cancer. [148]
- Ove Grahn, 64, Swedish footballer. [149](Swedish)
- Nana Gualdi, 75, German singer and actress. [150]
- Lady Bird Johnson, 94, First Lady of the United States (1963–1969), natural causes. [151]
- Rod Lauren, 67, American actor, suicide by jumping. [152]
- Alfonso López Michelsen, 94, Colombian President (1974–1978) and Foreign Minister (1968–1970), heart attack. [153]
- Ed Mirvish, 92, Canadian retail pioneer, natural causes. [154]
- Jimmy Skinner, 90, Canadian ice hockey coach (Detroit Red Wings). [155]
- Timothy Sprigge, 75, British idealist philosopher. [156]
- Larry Staverman, 70, American basketball player and first head coach for the Indiana Pacers (1967–1968). [157][158]
- Medha Yodh, 79, Indian dancer and dance teacher. [159]
- Emma Carroll, 112, American who was oldest Iowan and oldest person to ride in a hot-air balloon. [160]
- Tibor Feheregyhazi, 75, Hungarian-Canadian actor and theatre director, prostate cancer. [161]
- Devin Gaines, 22, American graduate, awarded five undergraduate degrees, drowned. [162]
- Abdul Rashid Ghazi, 43, Pakistani cleric at the Red Mosque in Islamabad, shot. [163]
- Corbin Harney, 87, American Western Shoshone leader and environmental activist, complications from cancer. [164]
- Frank Kilroy, 86, American football player, scout and general manager for the New England Patriots. [165]
- Doug Marlette, 57, American Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist (Kudzu), car accident. [166]
- Marjorie Morgan, 92, Canadian author, Alzheimer's disease. [167]
- William Seegers, 106, last German-American veteran of World War I and California's last World War I veteran. [168]
- Zheng Xiaoyu, 62, Chinese official, former head of the State Food and Drug Administration, executed. [169]
- John Baker, 71, Australian general, Chief of the Australian Defence Force (1995–1998). [170]
- John Fogarty, 78, Australian rugby union winger, played two tests for the Wallabies. [171]
- John Hill, 84, American lawyer and politician, Texas Attorney General, Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice, heart condition. [172]
- Jerry Ito, 79, Japanese-American actor, pneumonia. [173]
- Charles Lane, 102, American character actor (It's a Wonderful Life, I Love Lucy), founding member of SAG. [174]
- Ralph Paffenbarger, 84, American doctor who performed an early study on the importance of exercise, heart failure. [175]
- Penny Thomson, 56, British film producer, cancer. [176]
- Peter Tuddenham, 88, British voice actor (Blake's 7). [177]
- John Wilson, 84, Irish politician, Tánaiste (1990–1993). [178]
- Jindřich Feld, 82, Czech composer. [179]
- Haroon-ul-Islam, Pakistan Army Lieutenant-Colonel, shot. [180]
- Itzik Kol, 75, Israeli film producer, pneumonia. [181]
- Chandra Shekhar, 80, Indian Prime Minister (1990–1991) and Member of Lok Sabha, multiple myeloma. [182]
- Jack B. Sowards, 78, American screenwriter (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [183],[184]
- Dame Anne McLaren, 80, British geneticist and leading figure in developmental biology, ex-wife of Donald Michie, car accident. [185]
- Donald Michie, 83, British researcher in artificial intelligence, ex-husband of Dame Anne McLaren, car accident. [186]
- John G. Mitchell, 75, American environment editor and author, National Geographic (1994–2004), heart attack. [187]
- Jack Odell, 87, British engineer and co-founder of Matchbox Toys. [188]
- John Szarkowski, 81, American photography curator, complications of a stroke. [189]
- Marguerite Vogt, 94, American polio and cancer researcher. [190]
- Eileen Wearne, 95, Australian athlete at the 1932 Summer Olympics and Australia's oldest surviving Olympian. [191]
- Kathleen Woodiwiss, 68, American romance writer, cancer. [192]
- Lois Wyse, 80, American advertising executive, author and columnist, stomach cancer. [193]
- Régine Crespin, 80, French operatic soprano, liver cancer. [194]
- Odile Crick, 86, British-born artist, widow of Francis Crick, cancer. [195]
- Kerwin Mathews, 81, American actor. [196]
- George Melly, 80, British jazz and blues musician, lung cancer. [197]
- Sylvan Shemitz, 82, United States lighting designer for Jefferson Memorial, Grand Central Terminal, heart attack. [198]
- Barış Akarsu, 28, Turkish rock musician, car accident. [199] (Turkish)
- Liane Bahler, 25, German cyclist, car accident. [200] (Dutch)
- José Roberto Espinosa, 59, Mexican footballer, coach and journalist, pneumonia and cancer. [201] [202] (Spanish)
- Johnny Frigo, 90, American jazz violinist and bass player, complications from a fall. [203]
- Ken MacAfee, 77, American football player, heart attack. [204]
- Vivienne Nearing, 81, American lawyer involved in quiz show scandals, adrenal cancer. [205]
- Bill Pinkney, 81, American singer who was the last original member of The Drifters, probable heart attack. [206] [207]
- Osvaldo Romo, 70, Chilean security agent jailed for human rights abuses during Pinochet regime, heart and respiratory problems. [208]
- Eleanor Stewart, 94, American film and voice actor, Alzheimer's disease. [209] [210]
- James Street, 13, American voice actor (Strawberry Shortcake), skateboarding accident. [211] [212]
- Henrique Viana, 71, Portuguese actor and singer, cancer. [213] [214] (Portuguese)
- Anne Dreydel, 89, British educationalist, co-founder of the Oxford English Centre. [215]
- Beppie Noyes, 87, American author, stroke. [216]
- Claude Pompidou, 94, French widow of former Prime Minister and President Georges Pompidou. [217]
- Boots Randolph, 80, American saxophonist ("Yakety Sax"), cerebral hemorrhage. [218]
- Philip Booth, 81, American poet and educator, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [219]
- Robert "Buck" Brown, 71, American cartoonist, created Playboy's "Granny" character, stroke. [220]
- Brahim Déby, 27, Chadian son of the national President and former presidential advisor, chemical asphyxiation. [221]
- Howell M. Estes II, 92, United States Air Force general during the Vietnam War, heart ailment. [222]
- Ray Goins, 71, American bluegrass musician. [223]
- Robert Keeton, 88, American District Court judge, professor at Harvard Law School, complications from pulmonary embolism. [224]
- Peter Lyman, 66, American information researcher, brain cancer. [225]
- Pete Mead, 83, American middleweight boxer. [226]
- Dilip Sardesai, 66, Indian cricketer, multiple organ failure. [227]
- Beverly Sills, 78, American opera singer, lung cancer. [228]
- Jimmy Walker, 63, American basketball player (Detroit Pistons, Houston Rockets, Kansas City Kings), lung cancer. [229]
- Al Williams, 60, American basketball player, liver cancer. [230]
- Kevin Woodcock, 64, British cartoonist. [231]
- Hy Zaret, 99, American lyricist ("Unchained Melody"). [232]
- Count Gottfried von Bismarck, 44, German aristocrat, businessman and socialite, suspected heroin overdose. [233]
- Joerg Kalt, 40, Austrian cinematographer, suicide. [234]
- Colleen McCrory, 57, Canadian environmental activist, brain cancer. [235]
- David Ritcheson, 18, American hate crime victim, suicide by jumping. [236]
- Gerhard Skrobek, 85, German sculptor of Hummel figurines, complications of heart surgery. [237]
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