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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2007.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
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August 2007
1
- Wbaldino Acosta, 69, Argentine politician, Governor of San Juan Province (2002-2003).[1]
- Sergei Antonov, 59, Bulgarian accused of involvement in attempt by Mehmet Ali Ağca to kill Pope John Paul II.[2]
- Ryan Cox, 28, South African professional road racing cyclist, ruptured artery following vascular surgery.[3]
- Robert Hughes, 95, Australian composer.[4]
- Veikko Karvonen, 81, Finnish athlete, bronze medalist in the 1956 Summer Olympics marathon.[5]
- Winfred P. Lehmann, 91, American linguist.[6]
- Tommy Makem, 74, Irish folk musician (The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem), lung cancer.[7]
- Pete Naktenis, 93, American baseball player.[8]
- Philip S. Paludan, 69, American history professor, authority on Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War.[9]
- Norman Adrian Wiggins, 83, American third president of Campbell University.[10]
2
- Kafeel Ahmed, 28, Indian terrorist involved in the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack, third degree burns.[11]
- Haitham al-Badri, Iraqi al Qaeda emir of Salahuddin Province and Golden Dome bomber, airstrike.[12]
- Chauncey Bailey, 57, American journalist, editor of The Oakland Post, shot.[13]
- Ed Brown, 78, American football quarterback Chicago Bears, Pittsburgh Steelers, prostate cancer.[14]
- Franco Dalla Valle, 62, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Juína.[15]
- Evan Enwerem, 71, Nigerian Senate President (1999).[16]
- Peter Eriksson, 48, Swedish neuroscientist.[17]
- Terry Kelly, 75, English footballer (Luton Town), dementia.[18]
- Holden Roberto, 84, Angolan founder and leader of the FNLA (1962–1999), after long illness.[19]
- Frank Rosenfelt, 85, American executive at MGM.[20]
3
- José Miguel Battle Sr., 77, Cuban founder and nominal leader of the "Cuban Mafia".[21]
- Ron Brown, 67, British Labour Party MP (1979–1992), liver failure.[22]
- James T. Callahan, 76, American actor (Charles in Charge), cancer.[23]
- Peter Connelly, 1, British murder victim.[24]
- John Gardner, 80, British thriller writer and James Bond continuation novelist, suspected heart failure.[25]
- Nasho Kamungeremu, 34, Zimbabwean golfer, heart attack.[26]
4
- Lee Hazlewood, 78, American country music singer and songwriter ("These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"), renal cancer.[27]
- Raul Hilberg, 81, Austrian Jewish Holocaust historian, lung cancer.[28]
- Frank Mancuso, 89, American Major League Baseball player, Houston City Councillor.[29]
- Santos Padilla Ferrer, 50, Puerto Rican mayor of Cabo Rojo, heart attack.[30]
5
- Henri Amouroux, 87, French journalist and historian.[31]
- Duncan W. Clark, 96, American physician.[32]
- Stanley Myron Handelman, 77, American comedian, heart attack.[33]
- Oliver Hill, 100, American lawyer, lead attorney on the Brown v. Board of Education case.[34]
- Jean-Marie Lustiger, 80, French Jewish-born Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Paris, cancer.[35]
- Amos Manor, 89, Israeli head of Shin Bet (1953–1963).[36]
- Janine Niépce, 86, French photojournalist.[37]
- Florian Pittiș, 63, Romanian actor and folk singer, prostate cancer.[38]
- Peter Graham Scott, 83, British film producer.[39]
6
- Heinz Barth, 86, German SS officer, Nazi war criminal, cancer.[40]
- Zsolt Daczi, 37, Hungarian guitarist, cancer.[41]
- Moe Fishman, 92, American representative of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, pancreatic cancer.[42]
- Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, 20, United States Army specialist, killed in action.
- Ah Jook Ku, 97, American journalist and writer, first Asian American Associated Press reporter.[43]
- Elie de Rothschild, 90, French banker, member of Rothschild dynasty, heart attack.[44]
- Paul Rutherford, 67, British trombonist.[45]
- Atle Selberg, 90, Norwegian-born American mathematician, heart failure.[46]
7
- Ernesto Alonso, 90, Mexican television producer and actor, pneumonia.[47]
- Hal Fishman, 75, American television news anchor since 1960, KTLA Prime News anchor since 1975, cancer.[48]
- Gato Del Sol, 28, American racehorse, won 1982 Kentucky Derby, euthanized.[49]
- Russell Johnson, 83, American architect and acoustician.[50]
- Hank Morgenweck, 78, American baseball umpire, cancer.[51]
- Wolfgang Sievers, 93, Australian photographer.[52]
- Sir Angus Tait, 88, New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman.[53]
- William F. Walker, 69, American academic, President of Auburn University (2001–2004).[54]
8
- Bertha Crowther, 85, British Olympic hurdler.[55]
- Richard Dahl, 74, Swedish high jumper.[56]
- Joybubbles, 58, American phone phreak.[57]
- Daniel Lam, 85, Hong Kong businessman.[58]
- Ma Lik, 55, Hong Kong Legislative Council member and chair of the DAB, colon cancer.[59]
- Melville Shavelson, 90, American film director and screenwriter.[60]
- Clarence Tex Walker, 61, American rhythm and blues musician, heart attack.[61]
- Julius Wess, 73, Austrian physicist.[62]
9
- Sakiusa Bulicokocoko, 57, Fijian musician, tumor.[63]
- Richmond Flowers Sr., 88, American Attorney General of Alabama (1963–1967).[64]
- Timothy Garden, Baron Garden, 63, British Air Marshal and Liberal Democrat peer, cancer.[65]
- Joe O'Donnell, 85, American presidential photographer, photographed effects of Hiroshima bombing, stroke.[66]
- Ulrich Plenzdorf, 72, German author.[67]
- Rolf Wiik, 78, Finnish Olympic fencer.[68]
10
- Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, 82, American civil rights campaigner, member of Tuskegee Airmen, brain injuries following a fall.[69]
- Shagdaryn Chanrav, 58, Mongolian judoka.[70]
- Tom Cheasty, 73, Irish hurler.[71]
- James E. Faust, 87, American second counselor in the First Presidency of the LDS Church.[72]
- Irene Kirkaldy, 90, American civil rights campaigner, complications of Alzheimer's disease.[73]
- Jean Rédélé, 85, French creator of the Alpine automobile brand.[74]
- Mario Rivera, 68, Dominican Latin jazz saxophonist with Machito, Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez orchestras, bone cancer.[75]
- Tony Wilson, 57, British owner of Factory Records, radio and TV presenter, journalist, heart attack.[76]
11
- Franz Antel, 94, Austrian film director.[77]
- Michael Frede, 67, German professor of Ancient Philosophy, swimming accident.[78]
- MacDonald Gallion, 94, American politician, Attorney General of Alabama (1959–1963, 1967–1971).[79]
- Joe Jimenez, 81, American professional golfer, won 1978 Senior PGA Championship, renal failure brought on by lung cancer.[80]
- Alexander H. Leighton, 99, American-Canadian sociologist and psychiatrist.[81]
- Arthur Levenson, 93, American Army Officer, NSA official and cryptologist.[82]
- Roberto Maidana, 79, Argentine journalist, pneumonia.[83]
- Herb Pomeroy, 77, American jazz trumpeter (Charlie Parker, Frank Sinatra), cancer.[84]
- Sukadji Ranuwihardjo, 76, Indonesian President of Gadjah Mada University (1973–1981).[85]
- Lluís Maria Xirinacs, 75, Spanish Catalan political activist and priest, natural causes.[86]
- Zhang Shuhong, 50, Chinese businessman and factory co-owner involved in Fisher-Price toy recall, suicide by hanging.[87]
12
- Ralph Asher Alpher, 86, American physicist and college professor, respiratory failure.[88][89]
- Ronald N. Bracewell, 86, Australian physicist and radio astronomer, heart failure.[90]
- Christian Elder, 38, American sports car and Busch Series driver.[91]
- Joan Finnigan, 81, Canadian writer and poet.[92]
- Merv Griffin, 82, American talk show host, real estate tycoon, creator of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, prostate cancer.[93]
- Asa Hilliard, 73, American educationalist, historian and psychologist, malaria.[94]
- Allen McClure, 72, American Olympic sailor
- Sir Ian McGeoch, 93, British admiral.[95]
- Elizabeth Murray, 66, American artist, lung cancer.[96]
- Mike Wieringo, 44, American comic book artist (The Flash, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four), heart attack.[97]
13
- Brian "Crush" Adams, 44, American professional wrestler, accidental overdose of pain killers and anti-depressants.[98]
- Brooke Astor, 105, American philanthropist, pneumonia.[99]
- Paul Boyd, 39, American-born Canadian animator, shot.[10]
- Ox Miller, 92, American baseball player (Washington Senators).[100]
- Clifton Neita, 92, Jamaican editor of The Gleaner newspaper (1954–1979).[101]
- Chiara Poggi, 26, Italian murder victim, stabbed.
- Phil Rizzuto, 89, American baseball player, member of the MLB Hall of Fame, and sports broadcaster, pneumonia.[102]
- Tim Royes, 42, British music video director, car accident.[44]
14
- John Biffen, 76, British Conservative member of the House of Lords, MP (1961–1997), septicaemia.[103]
- Horace Brearley, 94, British cricketer, father of Mike Brearley.[104]
- Jirair S. Hovnanian, 80, Armenian Iraqi-American home builder.[105]
- Tikhon Khrennikov, 94, Russian Soviet-era cultural functionary, composer and pianist.[106]
- Emory King, 76, Belizean historian, author and journalist, cancer.[107]
- John Lanham, 82, American former chief justice of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.[108]
- Diane Lewis, 54, American reporter (The Boston Globe), cancer.[109]
- Kotozakura Masakatsu, 66, Japanese yokozuna, complications of diabetes.[110]
- Eduardo Noriega, 90, Mexican actor, heart attack.[111]
- Kihei Tomioka, 75, Japanese Olympic cyclist.[112]
- Sayoko Yamaguchi, 57, Japanese fashion model, pneumonia.[113]
15
- Richard Bradshaw, 63, British conductor, Canadian Opera Company general director (1998–2007), heart attack.[114]
- Steven Campbell, 53, British painter, ruptured appendix.[115]
- John Gofman, 88, American nuclear physicist, heart failure.[116]
- Geoffrey Orbell, 98, New Zealand bush walker who rediscovered the takahē in 1948.[117]
- Sam Pollock, 81, Canadian former general manager of Montreal Canadiens, Hockey Hall of Famer.[118]
- Liam Rector, 58, American poet, Folger Shakespeare Library program director, suicide by gunshot.[119]
- John Wallowitch, 81, American singer and songwriter, bone cancer.[120]
16
- Bahaedin Adab, 62, Iranian member of parliament, cancer.[121]
- John Blewett III, 33, American NASCAR driver, racing crash.[122]
- Jeroen Boere, 39, Dutch football player (West Ham, West Bromwich Albion, Crystal Palace, Portsmouth, Southend).[123]
- Will Edwards, 69, British Labour politician, MP for Merioneth (1966–1974).[124][125]
- Clive Exton, 77, British television and film writer, brain cancer.[126]
- Roland Mathias, 91, British poet and literary critic.[127]
- Robert Mignat, 86, French cyclist.[128]
- The Missing Link, 68, Canadian professional wrestler, cancer.[129]
- Vito Pallavicini, 83, Italian lyricist/pop composer.[130]
- Max Roach, 83, American jazz drummer.[131][132]
17
- John Austin, 68, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Aston (1992–2005).[133]
- Edward Avedisian, 71, American artist.[134]
- John Belk, 87, American Democratic politician, mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina (1969–1977).[135]
- Jos Brink, 65, Dutch television host, actor, minister of religion and writer, colorectal cancer.[136]
- Bill Deedes, 94, British journalist, editor of The Daily Telegraph (1974–1986) and Conservative politician.[137]
- Franco Foschi, 76, Italian writer and politician.[138]
- Carolyn Goodman, 91, American psychologist and civil rights activist.[139]
- Eddie Griffin, 25, American basketball player of Seton Hall, Rockets and Timberwolves, car accident.[140]
- Max Hodge, 91, American television writer, creator of Mr. Freeze on the 1960s Batman series.[141]
- Victor Klee, 81, American mathematician, complications of intestinal surgery.[142]
- Tanja Liedtke, 29, German choreographer appointed as Sydney Dance Company artistic director, road accident.[143]
- Elmer MacFadyen, 64, Canadian politician, Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative cabinet minister (1996–2007), heart attack.[144]
- Alison Plowden, 75, British historian.[145]
18
- Stephen Bicknell, 49, British expert on the pipe organ.[146]
- Michael Deaver, 69, American Deputy White House Chief of Staff (1981–1985), pancreatic cancer.[147]
- Norman Ickeringill, 84, Australian Olympic wrestler.
- Lucien Jarraud, 84, Canadian radio host.[148]
- Jon Lucien, 65, American smooth jazz singer/songwriter, respiratory failure and complications of kidney surgery.[149]
- Magdalen Nabb, 60, British author, stroke.[150]
- Viktor Prokopenko, 62, Ukrainian footballer and coach (FC Shakhtar Donetsk), thrombus.[151]
19
- Daniel Brewster, 83, American Senator (Democrat) from Maryland (1963–1969), liver cancer.[152]
- Perry DeAngelis, 43, American podcaster, scleroderma.[153]
- Gilles Fabre, 73, French painter.[154]
- Francis Ryck, 87, French author of crime and spy novels.[155]
20
- Gabriel Glorieux, 77, Belgian Olympic cyclist.[156]
- Berthold Grünfeld, 75, Norwegian psychiatrist.[157]
- Wild Bill Hagy, 68, American Baltimore Orioles cheerleader of the 1970s and 1980s.[158]
- Leona Helmsley, 87, American hotelier, heart failure.[159]
- Chas Poynter, 68, New Zealand politician, mayor of Wanganui (1986–2004), lung disease.[160]
- Roch La Salle, 78, Canadian Progressive Conservative politician, Quebec cabinet minister (1968–1988).[161]
21
- Caroline Aigle, 32, French aviator, first French female fighter pilot, cancer.[162]
- Rose Bampton, 99, American opera singer.[163]
- Frank Bowe, 60, American disability rights activist, author and teacher, cancer.[164]
- Čabulītis, 71-72, American alligator considered to be Europe's oldest.[165]
- Antonio De Gaetano, 73, Italian Olympic racewalker.[166]
- Siobhan Dowd, 47, British writer and PEN activist, breast cancer.[167]
- Elizabeth Hoisington, 88, American Army general, heart failure.[168]
- Howe Yoon Chong, 84, Singaporean politician.[169]
- Qurratulain Hyder, 81, Indian novelist.[170]
- Hana Ponická, 85, Slovak writer and dissident.[171]
- Adam Watson, 93, British diplomat and academic.[172]
22
- Butch van Breda Kolff, 84, American basketball coach (Princeton, Lakers, Pistons, Jazz).[173]
- José Ribamar Celestino, 65, Brazilian footballer.[174]
- Jacek Chmielnik, 54, Polish actor, accidental electrocution.[175]
- Keith Knight, 51, Canadian actor, brain cancer.[176]
- Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet, 80, British aristocrat.[177]
- Grace Paley, 84, American writer and political activist, breast cancer.[178]
23
- Cuesta Benberry, 83, American historian known for her studies of quilting, congestive heart failure.[179]
- William John McKeag, 79, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (1970–1976).[180]
- David Perry, 78, New Zealand cricketer.[181]
- Martti Pokela, 83, Finnish folk musician.[182]
- Robert Symonds, 80, American actor (Dynasty, The Exorcist, Catch Me If You Can), prostate cancer.[183]
- Dušan Třeštík, 74, Czech historian.[184]
- Sir Philip Wilkinson, 80, British banker.[185]
24
- Abdul Rahman Arif, 91, Iraqi politician, President of Iraq (1966–1968).[186]
- Mark Birley, 77, British nightclub owner (Annabel's), stroke.[187]
- Andrée Boucher, 70, Canadian politician, mayor of Sainte-Foy (1985–2001) and Quebec City (2005–2007), heart attack.[188]
- William E. McAnulty, Jr., 59, American lawyer, first African American Kentucky Supreme Court Justice, lung cancer.[189]
- Aaron Russo, 64, American movie producer (Trading Places, The Rose), cancer.[190]
- Adam Watson, 93, British diplomat.[191]
25
- Benjamin Aaron, 91, American labor law expert and member of Presidential commissions, cerebral hemorrhage.[192]
- Raymond Barre, 83, French economist, Prime Minister of France (1976–1981), Mayor of Lyon (1995–2001).[193]
- Jim Carlson, 74, American screenwriter.[194]
- Eduardo Prado Coelho, 63, Portuguese writer and political and cultural critic.[195]
- Richard Cook, 50, British jazz writer, cancer.[196]
- Édouard Gagnon, 89, Canadian Roman Catholic Cardinal.[197]
- Ray Jones, 18, British footballer (QPR), car accident.[198]
- Alberto de Lacerda, 78, Portuguese poet, BBC radio presenter, founded Portucale magazine.[199]
- Linda Smith, 58, Canadian writer.[200]
26
- Edward Brandt, Jr., 74, American doctor and public health official, directed initial response to AIDS, lung cancer.[201]
- Oliver Byrne, 63, Irish CEO of soccer club Shelbourne F.C., after short illness.[202]
- Chuck Comiskey, 81, American Chicago White Sox executive in the 1950s, grandson of team founder Charles Comiskey.[203]
- Roy McLean, 77, South African cricketer, after long illness.[204]
- Judah Nadich, 95, American rabbi and chaplain, heart attack.[205]
- Edward Seidensticker, 86, American scholar and translator of Japanese literature, complications from a fall.[206]
- Gaston Thorn, 78, Luxembourg Prime Minister (1974–1979), President of the European Commission (1981–1985).[207]
27
- Driss Basri, 69, Moroccan Interior Minister (1979–1999).[208]
- Galina Dzhugashvili, 68, Russian granddaughter of Joseph Stalin, cancer.[209]
- Richard T. Heffron, 76, American film and television director.[210]
- Eduardo Malapit, 74, American who was first mayor of Filipino American ancestry.[211]
- Emma Penella, 77, Spanish actress (El Verdugo, Aquí no hay quien viva), renal and heart failure.[212]
- Doug Riley, 62, Canadian musician ("Doctor Music"), heart failure.[213]
- Hans Ruesch, 94, Swiss racing driver, author and activist against animal testing.[214]
- Gad Yaacobi, 72, Israeli former Minister and Labor Party Knesset member, heart failure.[215]
28
- Anacleto Angelini, 93, Chilean businessman, South America's richest man, emphysema.[216]
- David Garcia, 63, American journalist, White House correspondent (ABC), complications of a liver condition.[217]
- Arthur Jones, 80, American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines.[218]
- Hilly Kristal, 75, American club owner (CBGB), complications of lung cancer.[219]
- Smain Lamari, 67, Algerian head of intelligence services, after long illness.[220]
- Paul MacCready, 81, American aviation pioneer and inventor.[221]
- Nikola Nobilo, 94, Croatian-born New Zealand winemaker.[222]
- Antonio Puerta, 22, Spanish footballer (Sevilla FC), arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia.[223]
- Darryl Sly, 68, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player.[224]
- Francisco Umbral, 72, Spanish writer, pneumonia.[225]
- Miyoshi Umeki, 78, Japanese-born American actress (Sayonara, Flower Drum Song, The Courtship of Eddie's Father), Oscar winner (1958), cancer.[226]
29
- Sir James Fletcher, 92, New Zealand industrialist (Fletcher Challenge).[227]
- Aldo Forte, 89, American football player.[228]
- Richard Jewell, 44, American security guard wrongly accused of the Atlanta Olympics bombing, diabetes.[229]
- Margie Lang, 83, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[230]
- Vladimir Lobanov, 53, Russian Olympic speed skater.[231]
- Pierre Messmer, 91, French Prime Minister (1972–1974), Free French fighter, French Academician.[232]
- Chaswe Nsofwa, 28, Zambian footballer, heart attack.[233]
- Alfred Peet, 87, American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea.[234]
30
- Ramrao Adik, 77, Indian former Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra.[235]
- Banarsi Das Gupta, 89, Indian former Chief Minister of Haryana.[236]
- Augustine Harris, 89, British Bishop Emeritus of Middlesbrough, former Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool.[237]
- Michael Jackson, 65, British writer and beer expert (The Beer Hunter), heart attack.[238]
- Nancy Littlefield, 77, American film producer, cancer.[239]
- K. P. H. Notoprojo, 98, Indonesian gamelan performer.[240]
- Igor Novikov, 77, Soviet Olympic modern pentathlete.[241]
- Ong Hok Ham, 74, Indonesian historian.[242]
- Charles Vanik, 94, American politician, U.S. Representative from Ohio (1955–1981).[243]
- José Luis de Vilallonga, 87, Spanish aristocrat, author and actor (Breakfast at Tiffany's).[244]
- John Wedgwood, 87, British physician.[245]
31
- Gay Brewer, 75, American professional golfer, lung cancer.[246]
- Willie Cunningham, 77, British football player.[247]
- Barton Kirkconnell, 90, Jamaican Olympic sailor Barton Kickconnell
- Kees Klop, 59, Dutch professor of political ethics and former chairman of the NCRV.[248]
- Karloff Lagarde, 79, Mexican lucha libre professional wrestler.[249]
- Doug Maxwell, 80, Canadian curling innovator, cancer.[250]
- Jean Jacques Paradis, 78, Canadian army general, Commander of the Canadian Army.[251]
- James Brian Tait, 90, British World War II pilot.[252]
- Sulev Vahtre, 81, Estonian historian.[253]
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