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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 the deceased died, not the date the death 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.
- Bowie Kuhn, 80, American Major League Baseball commissioner (1969-1984). [1]
- Lucie Aubrac, 94, French member of the Resistance during World War II. [2]
- Tommy Cavanagh, 78, British football player and manager of Burnley F.C.. [3]
- Zygmunt Kęstowicz, 86, Polish actor. [4] (Polish)
- Fitzgerald "Mighty Terror" Henry, 86, Trinidadian calypso musician. [5]
- Gareth Hunt, 65, British actor, pancreatic cancer. [6]
- Jorge Díaz, 77, Argentine-born Chilean playwright. [7] (Spanish)
- Wendy Russell Reves, 90, American philanthropist. [8]
- Arnold Skaaland, 82, American professional wrestler. [9]
- Nicole Stéphane, 83, French actress (Le Silence de la mer). [10] (French)
- Arnold Drake, 83, American comic book writer (Doom Patrol), pneumonia and septic shock. [11]
- Preah Maha Ghosananda, 77, Cambodian Buddhist Sangharaja and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. [12]
- Antonio Ortiz Mena, 99, Mexican Treasury Secretary (1958–1970), IDB President (1971–1987), complications from a fall. [13] (Spanish)
- Isidoro Vejo Rodríguez, 92, Uruguayan Minister of Public Works (1963–1967). [14] (Spanish)
- Yeap Ghim Guan, 66, Malaysian lawyer and politician, founding member of the DAP, complications from a stroke. [15]
- Gilbert Aldana, 29, American mixed martial artist, Ultimate Fighting Championship veteran, drowning. [16] [17]
- Cecil Anstey OAM, 96, Australian state cricketer and hockey Olympian, co-founder of QLD junior cricket, first QUT Registrar. [18] [19]
- Betty Hutton, 86, American singer/actress (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek), complications from colon cancer. [20]
- Anil Suchit, 39, Trinidadian chutney singer, lung disorder. [21]
- Bud Allin, 62, American golfer, winner of five PGA Tour events, cancer. [22]
- Ricardo Espalter, 82, Uruguayan actor and comedian, renal failure. [23] (Spanish)
- Richard Jeni, 49, American comedian, apparent suicide by gunshot. [24]
- Ernie Ladd, 68, American NFL player and wrestler, cancer. [25]
- Ben Pappas, 29, Australian skateboarder and murder suspect, apparent suicide. [26] [27]
- Martha B. Sosman, 56, American Justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, respiratory failure. [28]
- Rosy Afsari, 60, Bangladeshi film actress, kidney failure. [29]
- Otto Wolff von Amerongen, 88, German business leader. [30]
- Brad Delp, 55, American lead singer of 1970s AOR band Boston, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.[31] [32] [33]
- Ron Evans, 67, Australian chairman of the AFL Commission, former Essendon chairman and player, abdominal cancer. [34]
- Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, 71, American politician, first black woman to serve in the Senate of North Carolina. [35]
- Gerardo Mello Mourão, 90, Brazilian writer (A Invenção do Mar, O País dos Mourões), multiple organ failure. [36] (Portuguese)
- Juan Carlos Portantiero, 73, Argentine sociologist, renal failure. [37] [38] (Spanish).
- Alejandro Cruz, 82, Mexican professional wrestler known as "The Black Shadow", pneumonia. [39]
- Cruz Hernández, 128?, Salvadoran claimant to the title of world's oldest person. [40]
- John Inman, 71, British actor (Are You Being Served?), liver disease. [41] [42]
- Curtis Magnuson, 66, American president of Hugo's grocery store chain, after long illness. [43]
- Herman Ridderbos, 98, Dutch theologian. [44] (Dutch)
- Viky Vanita, 59, Greek actress. [45] (Greek)
- John Vukovich, 59, American baseball player and coach, brain tumor complications. [46]
- Eduardo Darnauchans, 53, Uruguayan singer and composer, heart failure. [47] [48] (Spanish)
- Paul deLay, 55, American blues harmonica player, leukemia. [49]
- Frigyes Hidas, 78, Hungarian composer. [50]
- Pino Lancetti, 78, Italian clothing designer. [51]
- Emil Mailho, 97, American baseball player. [52]
- Morgan Mellish, 36, Australian Walkley Award-winning journalist for the Australian Financial Review, plane crash. [53]
- Andy Sidaris, 76, American film director, throat cancer. [54]
- Sándor Szakácsi, 54, Hungarian actor, cancer of the larynx. [55] (Hungarian)
- Carla Thorneycroft, Baroness Thorneycroft, 93, Italian philanthropist. [56]
- Bill Threlfall, 81, British tennis player, coach and commentator. [57]
- Billy Walkabout, 57, Cherokee-American highly decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, pneumonia and renal failure. [58] [59]
- Jean Baudrillard, 77, French postmodernist philosopher and sociologist. [60]
- Moshe Beisky, 86, Israeli Supreme Court judge (1979–1991). [61]
- Lina Buffolente, 82, Italian comic book artist. [62] (Italian)
- Allen Coage, 63, American-born Olympic judo bronze medalist and professional wrestler known as "Bad News Brown". [63] [64]
- José Luis Coll, 75, Spanish humorist, multiple organ failure. [65] (Spanish)
- Shane Cross, 20, Australian skateboarder, motorcycle accident. [66]
- Ernest Gallo, 97, American co-founder of E & J Gallo Winery. [67]
- Pierre Moinot, 86, French novelist elected to Académie française. [68] (French)
- Ray Stern, 74, American professional wrestler, complications from heart surgery. [69]
- John Baugh, 91, American founder of foodservice distributor Sysco. [70]
- Yvan Delporte, 78, Belgian editor-in-chief of Spirou magazine (1956–1968). [71] (French)
- Milan Kiš, 72, Slovak actor, after short illness. [72] (Slovak)
- Ivo Lorscheiter, 79, Brazilian Catholic Bishop and advocate of liberation theology, multiple organ failure. [73] [74]
- Ivan Supek, 91, Croatian scientist, philosopher and writer. [75] (Croatian)
- Natalie Bodanya, 98, American operatic soprano. [76]
- Anita Bowser, 86, American scholar and Indiana State Senator, breast cancer. [77]
- Thomas Eagleton, 77, United States Senator for Missouri (1969–1987), heart and respiratory complications. [78]
- Bob Hattoy, 56, American President of California Fish & Game Commission, AIDS activist, complications from AIDS. [79]
- Sunil Kumar Mahato, 41, Indian parliamentarian, shot. [80]
- Tadeusz Nalepa, 63, Polish blues and rock singer, after long illness. [81] (Polish)
- Robert Prince, 78, American television and film score composer nominated for an Emmy. [82]
- John Taylor, 46, American blues singer/guitarist, leader of Johnny Widebars & The Shovelheads, motorcycle accident. [83]
- Ian Wooldridge, 75, British sports journalist, cancer. [84]
- Osvaldo Cavandoli, 87, Italian cartoonist. [85] (Italian)
- Josep Maria Huertas Claveria, 67, Spanish journalist and historian, cerebral hemorrhage. [86] (Spanish)
- Alfonso Iglesias Soto, 82, Mexican actor and comedian known as "Pompín Iglesias", cardiac arrest. [87] (Spanish)
- Benito Lorenzi, 81, Italian football striker (Italy, Inter Milan). [88]
- Godwin Patrick Olu Obasi, 73, Nigerian Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (1984–2003). [89]
- Gene Oliver, 71, American baseball player in the 1960s, complications from lung surgery. [90]
- Marjabelle Young Stewart, 82, American etiquette authority and author, pneumonia. [91]
- Doris Anderson, 85, Canadian feminist, writer and editor of Chatelaine, pulmonary fibrosis. [92]
- Thomas Kleppe, 87, United States Secretary of Interior (1975–1977) and Representative from North Dakota, Alzheimer's disease. [93]
- Clem Labine, 80, American baseball pitcher (Brooklyn and LA Dodgers), complications of brain surgery. [94] [95]
- Harold Michelson, 87, American production designer twice nominated for an Academy Award. [96]
- Mike Mooney, 37, American football player with Georgia Tech and the 1993 San Diego Chargers. [97]
- Ivan Safronov, 51, Russian defence correspondent for Kommersant, fall from building. [98]
- João Alfacinha da Silva, 58, Portuguese writer, stroke. [99] (Portuguese)
- Henri Troyat, 95, French writer and historian, member of the Académie française. [100] [101]
- Manuel Bento, 58, Portuguese football goalkeeper (Portugal, SL Benfica), cardiopulmonary arrest. [102]
- Otto Brandenburg, 72, Danish singer and actor. [103] (Danish)
- Joel Brodsky, 67, American photographer specializing in rock and roll musicians, heart attack. [104]
- Collette Brosset, 85, French actress. [105] (French)
- Myer Feldman, 92, American political adviser to President Kennedy. [106]
- Eddie Firestone, 86, American movie actor (Duel, Good Morning Miss Dove), heart failure. [107]
- George Gabb, 79, Belizean artist, sculptor and writer, cardiac arrest. [108]
- Nelly Goitiño, 77, Uruguayan teacher, lawyer, actress, theatre director and politician, leukemia. [109] (Spanish)
- Sir Sydney Gun-Munro, 90, Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1979–1985), after long illness. [110]
- Tinos Rusere, 61, Zimbabwean Deputy Minister for Mines and Environment, kidney failure. [111]
External links
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