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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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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July 2007
1
- Joerg Kalt, 40, Austrian cinematographer, suicide.[1]
- Robert McBride, 96, American composer and instrumentalist.[2]
- Colleen McCrory, 57, Canadian environmental activist, brain cancer.[3]
- David Ritcheson, 18, American hate crime victim, suicide by jumping.[4]
- Gerhard Skrobek, 85, German sculptor of Hummel figurines, complications of heart surgery.[5]
2
- Philip Booth, 81, American poet and educator, complications from Alzheimer's disease.[6]
- Robert Brown, 71, American cartoonist, stroke.[7]
- Brahim Déby, 27, Chadian son of the national President and former presidential advisor, chemical asphyxiation.[8]
- Howell M. Estes II, 92, American Air Force general during the Vietnam War, heart ailment.[9]
- Ray Goins, 71, American bluegrass musician.[10]
- Robert Keeton, 88, American District Court judge, professor at Harvard Law School, complications from pulmonary embolism.[11]
- Peter Lyman, 66, American information researcher, brain cancer.[12]
- John Pinches, 91, British rower and soldier.[13]
- Dilip Sardesai, 66, Indian cricketer, multiple organ failure.[14]
- Beverly Sills, 78, American opera singer, lung cancer.[15]
- Jimmy Walker, 63, American basketball player (Detroit Pistons, Houston Rockets, Kansas City Kings), lung cancer.[16]
- Al Williams, 60, American basketball player, liver cancer.[17]
- Kevin Woodcock, 64, British cartoonist.[18]
- Hy Zaret, 99, American lyricist ("Unchained Melody").[19]
3
- Anne Dreydel, 89, British educationalist, co-founder of the Oxford English Centre.[20]
- Eric Gullage, 63, Canadian politician, cancer.[21]
- Beppie Noyes, 87, American author, stroke.[22]
- Claude Pompidou, 94, French widow of former Prime Minister and President Georges Pompidou.[23]
- Boots Randolph, 80, American saxophonist ("Yakety Sax"), cerebral hemorrhage.[24]
- Dave Simmons, 58, English footballer (Colchester United, Brentford).[25]
4
- Barış Akarsu, 28, Turkish rock musician, car accident.[26]
- Liane Bahler, 25, German cyclist, car accident.[27]
- José Roberto Espinosa, 59, Mexican footballer, coach and journalist, pneumonia and cancer.[28][29]
- Johnny Frigo, 90, American jazz violinist and bass player, complications from a fall.[30]
- Ken MacAfee, 77, American football player, heart attack.[31]
- Bill Pinkney, 81, American singer who was the last original member of The Drifters, probable heart attack.[32]
- X1, 28, American rapper and Onyx affiliate, suicide.
- Osvaldo Romo, 70, Chilean security agent jailed for human rights abuses under Pinochet, heart and respiratory problems.[33]
- Ted Row, 84, Australian politician.[34]
- Eleanor Stewart, 94, American film and voice actor, Alzheimer's disease.[35]
- Henrique Viana, 71, Portuguese actor and singer, cancer.[36]
5
- Régine Crespin, 80, French operatic soprano, liver cancer.[37]
- Odile Crick, 86, British-born artist, cancer.[38]
- David Hilberman, 95, American animator (Bambi, The Smurfs, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe), co-founder of United Productions of America.[39]
- Kerwin Mathews, 81, American actor (The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, The Three Worlds of Gulliver, Jack the Giant Killer).[40]
- George Melly, 80, British jazz and blues musician, lung cancer.[41]
- Sylvan Shemitz, 82, United States lighting designer for Jefferson Memorial, Grand Central Terminal, heart attack.[42]
6
- Robert Frederick Carr, 63, American serial killer.[43]
- Don Mumford, 53, American jazz drummer.[44]
- Marguerite Vogt, 94, American polio and cancer researcher.[45]
- Eileen Wearne, 95, Australian athlete at the 1932 Summer Olympics and Australia's oldest surviving Olympian.[46]
- Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, 68, American romance writer, cancer.[47]
- Lois Wyse, 80, American advertising executive, author and columnist, stomach cancer.[48]
7
- Ion Calvocoressi, 88, British soldier and stockbroker.[49]
- Dame Anne McLaren, 80, British geneticist and developmental biologist, car accident.[50]
- Donald Michie, 83, British researcher in artificial intelligence, car accident.[50]
- John G. Mitchell, 75, American environment editor and author, National Geographic (1994–2004), heart attack.[51]
- Jack Odell, 87, British engineer and co-founder of Matchbox Toys.[52]
- John Szarkowski, 81, American photography curator, complications of a stroke.[53]
8
- Alemão, 23, Brazilian footballer, car accident.
- Jindřich Feld, 82, Czech composer.[54]
- Haroon-ul-Islam, Pakistan Army Lieutenant-Colonel, shot.[55]
- Itzik Kol, 75, Israeli film producer, pneumonia.[56]
- Chandra Shekhar, 80, Indian Prime Minister (1990–1991) and Member of Lok Sabha, multiple myeloma.[57]
- Jack B. Sowards, 78, American screenwriter (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[58]
9
- Esteban Areta, 75, Spanish international footballer and coach.[59]
- John Baker, 71, Australian general, Chief of the Australian Defence Force (1995–1998).[60]
- Hans Eschenbrenner, 96, German Olympic shooter.[61]
- John Fogarty, 78, Australian rugby union winger, played two tests for the Wallabies.[62]
- John Hill, 83, American lawyer and politician, Texas Attorney General, Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice, heart condition.[63]
- Jerry Ito, 79, Japanese-American actor, pneumonia.[64]
- Charles Lane, 102, American actor (It's a Wonderful Life, You Can't Take It with You, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington).[65]
- Ralph Paffenbarger, 84, American doctor who performed an early study on the importance of exercise, heart failure.[66]
- Penny Thomson, 56, British film producer, cancer.[67]
- Peter Tuddenham, 88, British voice actor (Blake's 7).[68]
- John Wilson, 84, Irish politician, Tánaiste (1990–1993).[69]
10
- Theresa Duncan, 40, American video game designer, suicide.[70]
- Tibor Feheregyhazi, 75, Hungarian-Canadian actor and theatre director, prostate cancer.[71]
- Devin Gaines, 22, American graduate, awarded five undergraduate degrees, drowned.[72]
- Abdul Rashid Ghazi, 43, Pakistani cleric at the Red Mosque in Islamabad, shot.[73]
- Corbin Harney, 87, American Western Shoshone leader and environmental activist, complications from cancer.[74]
- Bucko Kilroy, 86, American football player, scout and general manager for the New England Patriots.[75]
- Edward Lowbury, 93, British bacteriologist.[76]
- Morton D. Magoffin, 91, American air force colonel and flying ace during World War II.[77]
- Doug Marlette, 57, American Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist (Kudzu), car accident.[78]
- Marjorie Morgan, 92, Canadian author, Alzheimer's disease.[79]
- Mireya Rodríguez, 70, Cuban Olympic fencer.[80]
- William Seegers, 106, German-American last veteran of World War I and California's last World War I veteran.[81]
- Zheng Xiaoyu, 62, Chinese official, former head of the State Food and Drug Administration, executed.[82]
11
- Glenda Adams, 68, Australian writer, ovarian cancer.[83]
- Shag Crawford, 90, American baseball umpire (1956–1975).[84]
- Bill Flynn, 58, South African actor, heart attack.[85]
- Livio Fongaro, 69, Italian footballer and coach.[86]
- Richard Franklin, 58, Australian film director (Roadgames), prostate cancer.[87]
- Ove Grahn, 64, Swedish footballer.[88]
- Lady Bird Johnson, 94, American First Lady of the United States (1963–1969), natural causes.[89]
- Rod Lauren, 67, American actor, suicide by jumping.[90]
- Alfonso López Michelsen, 94, Colombian President (1974–1978) and Foreign Minister (1968–1970), heart attack.[91]
- Ed Mirvish, 92, Canadian retail pioneer, natural causes.[92]
- Jimmy Skinner, 90, Canadian ice hockey coach (Detroit Red Wings).[93]
- Timothy Sprigge, 75, British idealist philosopher.[94]
- Larry Staverman, 70, American basketball player and first head coach for the Indiana Pacers (1967–1968).[95]
- Medha Yodh, 79, Indian dancer and dance teacher.[96]
12
- Marc Behm, 82, American writer.[97]
- Robert Burås, 31, Norwegian guitarist for Madrugada and My Midnight Creeps.[98]
- Mr. Butch, 55, American homeless person and local celebrity in Boston, scooter accident.[99]
- Allen Clarke, 96, British educationalist.[100]
- Nigel Dempster, 65, British journalist, progressive supranuclear palsy.[101]
- Pat Fordice, 71, American broadcaster and First Lady of Mississippi (1992–2000), cancer.[102]
- Joseíto, 80, Spanish football player (Real Madrid), stroke.[103]
- Forbes Johnston, 35, British football player (Falkirk, Airdrieonians).[104]
- Jim Mitchell, 63, American porn producer (Behind the Green Door), heart attack.[105]
- James Shen, 98, Taiwanese diplomat, last ambassador of Taiwan to the United States.[106]
- Kesha Wizzart, 18, British singer and television show contestant, murdered.[107]
- Stan Zemanek, 60, Australian radio presenter, brain cancer.[108]
13
- Harry Fain, 88, American family lawyer, pneumonia.[109]
- Otto von der Gablentz, 76, German diplomat.[110]
- Khalid Hassan, 23, Iraqi journalist (The New York Times), shot.[111]
- Frank Maher, 78, British stuntman.[112]
- Michael Readon, 42, American free solo climber, drowned.[113]
14
- Edward Boyse, 83, American physician, pneumonia.[114]
- Eva Crackles, 89, British botanist.[115]
- Nan Cross, 79, South African anti-apartheid activist.[116]
- John Ferguson Sr., 68, Canadian hockey player (Montreal Canadiens) and coach (New York Rangers, Winnipeg Jets), prostate cancer.[117]
- Bernard Pagel, 77, British astrophysicist, cancer.[118]
- Russel Timoshenko, 23, NYPD police officer.
- John Warrender, 2nd Baron Bruntisfield, 86, British soldier and aristocrat.[119]
15
- Bluma Appel, 86, Canadian philanthropist and patron of the arts, lung cancer.[120]
- Alberto Romão Dias, 65-66, Portuguese organometallic chemist, professor at the IST.[121]
- Kelly Johnson, 49, British guitarist (Girlschool), cancer of the spine.[122][123]
- Kieron Moore, 82, Irish actor (The League of Gentlemen, The Day of the Triffids).[124]
- Schelto Patijn, 70, Dutch politician, mayor of Amsterdam (1994–2001).[125]
- Tsang Tsou Choi, 85, Hong Kong-based graffiti artist whose works were included in the 2003 Venice Biennale, heart disease.[126]
16
- Angus Allan, 70, British comic strip writer.[127]
- Simone Barck, 62, German contemporary historian and literary scholar.[128]
- Tom Brooks, 88, Australian cricketer (New South Wales) and international umpire.[129]
- Mikhail Kononov, 67, Russian actor (Guest from the Future, Siberiade, A Railway Station for Two), after long illness.[130]
- Carl McNabb, 90, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[131]
- Dmitri Prigov, 66, Russian poet, heart attack.[132]
- Danielle Georgette Reddé, 95, French resistance fighter in World War II[133]
- Alan Shepherd, 71, British motorcycle racer.[134]
- Kurt Steyrer, 87, Austrian health minister and Socialist presidential candidate, after short illness.[135]
17
- Jeremy Blake, 35, American video artist, suicide by drowning.[136]
- Bart Burns, 89, American actor (Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Seven Days in May, Frances).[137]
- Peter Denning, 57, British cricketer (Somerset), cancer.[138]
- Grant Forsberg, 47, American actor (Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Bloodhounds of Broadway, My Man Adam).[139]
- Teresa Stich-Randall, 79, American opera singer.[140]
- Notable Brazilians who were killed in TAM Airlines Flight 3054:
- Márcio, 35, football player and FIFA agent.[141]
- Júlio Redecker, 51, leader of the Social Democracy Party.[142]
- Paulo Rogério Amoretty Souza, 60, chairman of SCI, attorney for Corinthians.[143]
18
- Wayne A. Downing, 67, American retired army general, meningitis.[144]
- Jerry Hadley, 55, American opera singer, suicide by gunshot.[145]
- Charles Jauncey, Baron Jauncey of Tullichettle, 82, British Law Lord.[146]
- John Kronus, 38, American professional wrestler (ECW), heart failure.[147]
- Gary Lupul, 48, Canadian hockey player (Vancouver Canucks).[148]
- Sir Gordon MacWhinnie, 85, British-born Hong Kong accountant and public servant.[149]
- Orlando McFarlane, 69, Cuban Major League Baseball player.[150]
- Kenji Miyamoto, 98, Japanese politician, leader of the Japanese Communist Party for 40 years, old age.[151]
- Sekou Sundiata, 58, American poet, musician and performance artist, heart failure.[152]
- Charles Wylie, 87, British army officer and mountain climber.[153]
19
- Glen Angus, 36, Canadian game artist, heart failure.[154]
- Ivor Emmanuel, 79, British singer and actor (Zulu), stroke.[155]
- A. K. Faezul Huq, 62, Bangladeshi politician, lawyer, and freelance journalist, sudden heart failure.[156]
- Roberto Fontanarrosa, 62, Argentine cartoonist and writer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[157]
- Howard Judd, 71, American women's health researcher, congestive heart failure.[158][159]
- Shirley Slesinger Lasswell, 84, American marketing pioneer, sued Disney over Winnie the Pooh royalties, respiratory failure.[160]
- Hector MacLean, 93, British World War II fighter pilot.[161]
- Roger Nathan, 2nd Baron Nathan, 84, British solicitor and aristocrat.[162]
- Alanah Woody, 51, American archaeologist, executive director of the Nevada Rock Art Foundation.[163]
20
- Ollie Bridewell, 21, British motorcycle racer, crash during race practice for the British Superbike Championship.[164]
- Golde Flami, 89, Argentine actress.[165]
- Tammy Faye Messner, 65, American evangelist, metastatic colon cancer.[166]
- David Preece, 44, British footballer (Luton Town), throat cancer.[167]
- Maurice Riel, 85, Canadian Senator.[168]
- Kai Siegbahn, 89, Swedish physicist at Uppsala University, won Nobel Prize in Physics in 1981.[169]
- Geoff Taylor, 84, English footballer.[170]
- Pete Wilson, 62, American broadcaster, heart attack.[171]
21
- Don Arden, 81, British rock manager, father of Sharon Osbourne.[172]
- René Deceja, 73, Uruguayan Olympic cyclist.[173]
- Jack Fearey, 84, American television pioneer, Bumbershoot festival founder.[174]
- Jesús de Polanco, 77, Spanish media entrepreneur and publisher (El País), complications of arthritic disease.[175]
- Sherwin Wine, 79, American rabbi, founder of Birmingham Temple and Humanistic Judaism movement, car accident.[176]
- Yang Xizong, 79, Chinese politician, Governor of Sichuan province and Communist Party Chief of Henan province.[177]
22
- Derek Bazalgette, 83, British admiral.[178]
- Sir John Harrison Burnett, 85, British academic, Principal of Edinburgh University (1979–1987).[179]
- Carmelo Camet, 102, Argentine 1928 Olympic bronze medalist in fencing and oldest living former Olympian.[180]
- Mike Coolbaugh, 35, American baseball first base coach for the Tulsa Drillers, head injury.[181]
- Jarrod Cunningham, 38, New Zealand rugby union footballer for London Irish, motor neurone disease.[182]
- Norma Gabler, 84, American textbook campaigner, Parkinson's disease.[183]
- Walter Jona, 81, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1964–1985).[184]
- László Kovács, 74, Hungarian-American cinematographer (Easy Rider, Ghostbusters, Five Easy Pieces).[185]
- André Milongo, 71, Congolese Prime Minister (1991–1992).[186]
- Ulrich Mühe, 54, German actor (The Lives of Others), stomach cancer.[187]
- Juan Sebastián Restrepo, 20, Colombian American soldier and medic.
- Jean Stablinski, 75, French cyclist.[188]
- Rollie Stiles, 100, American oldest living former Major League Baseball player.[189]
- Gerhard Thielcke, 76, German conservationist, BUND co-founder, head injury.[190]
23
- Franco Cuomo, 69, Italian writer.[191]
- Sir Tom Davis, 90, Cook Islander Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (1978–1987).[192]
- Otis Davis, 86, American Major League Baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers.[193]
- Ernst Otto Fischer, 88, German Nobel Prize–winning chemist.[194]
- Tor Kamata, 70, American professional wrestler (Stampede Wrestling), heart disease.[195]
- Daniel E. Koshland Jr., 87, American scientist, editor of Science magazine (1985–1995), stroke.[196]
- Benjamin Libet, 91, American pioneering scientist in the field of human consciousness.[197]
- Ron Miller, 74, American songwriter ("Touch Me in the Morning", "For Once in My Life"), cardiac arrest.[198]
- Gyani Nand, 64, Fijian politician (FLP, 2001–2006), Minister for Agriculture (2006).[199]
- Joan O'Hara, 76, Irish actress, heart disease.[200]
- Mirsha Serrano, 28, Mexican footballer for Tecos UAG, car accident.[201]
- George Tabori, 93, Hungarian-born British theater director.[202]
- Mohammed Zahir Shah, 92, Afghan royal, last king of Afghanistan.[203]
24
- Giorgio Anglesio, 85, Italian Olympic fencer.[204]
- Eric Davis, 75, English footballer (Plymouth Argyle).[205]
- Albert Ellis, 93, American pioneer in cognitive-behavioral therapy, kidney and heart failure.[206]
- Chaney Kley, 34, American actor (The Shield, Darkness Falls, Legally Blonde), drug overdose.[207]
- Abdullah Mehsud, 31, Pakistani Taliban commander, suicide by hand grenade.[208]
- Geoffrey Nuttall, 95, British historian and Nonconformist minister.[209]
- Riley Ann Sawyers, 2, American murder victim.
- Edward J. Sullivan, 86, American Clerk of Courts for Middlesex County, Massachusetts.[210]
- Charles Whiting, 80, British author and military historian.[211]
- William Young, 107, British airman, last known remaining World War I veteran of the Royal Flying Corps.[212]
- Nicola Zaccaria, 84, Greek operatic bass, Alzheimer's disease.[213]
25
- Bae Hyung-kyu, 42, South Korean pastor, Taliban hostage, shot.[214]
- Danny Bergara, 64, Uruguayan football manager of Stockport County and Brunei, stroke.[215][216]
- Raymond Bristow, 98, British priest, longest-serving Anglican minister.[217]
- Jake, 12, American search and rescue dog for September 11, 2001 attacks and Hurricane Katrina, cancer.[218]
- Bernd Jakubowski, 54, German footballer (East Germany), after short illness.[219]
- Jesse Marunde, 27, American strongman, heart attack.[220]
26
- George Brown, 65, Belizean Chief Justice (1990–1998), illness.[221]
- Lars Forssell, 79, Swedish author and member of the Swedish Academy.[222]
- Eleanor Josephine Macdonald, 101, American cancer researcher.[223]
- John Normington, 70, British actor (Atonement, Doctor Who, Rollerball), pancreatic cancer.[224]
- Skip Prosser, 56, American college basketball coach for Wake Forest University, heart attack.[225]
- Shambo, 6, British Hindu sacred bull, lethal injection due to bovine tuberculosis.[226]
- Luis Alberto Villamizar Cárdenas, 62, Colombian politician (NL) and diplomat, complications of lung surgery.[227]
27
- Gabriel Cisneros, 66, Spanish politician (PP), co-author of the 1978 Constitution, complications from stroke.[228]
- Lucky Grills, 79, Australian comedian and actor (Bluey).[229]
- Fannie Hillsmith, 96, American Cubist painter.[230]
- Abdullah Kurshumi, 75, Yemeni politician, Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic (1969–1970).[231]
- James Oyebola, 46, British heavyweight boxer, shot.[232]
- Alan Pottasch, 79, American advertising executive for Pepsi, developed Pepsi Generation ad campaign.[233]
- Christophe Ruer, 42, French Olympic modern pentathlete (1988, 1992, 1996), motorcycle accident.[234]
- William J. Tuttle, 95, American make-up artist (North by Northwest, Singin' in the Rain, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof).[235]
28
- Crown Prince Bảo Long, 71, Vietnamese son of the last Emperor Bảo Đại.[citation needed]
- Kazi Lhendup Dorjee, 102, Indian first chief minister of Sikkim (SNC, 1974–1978), heart attack.[236]
- Karl Gotch, 82, German-born professional wrestler.[237]
- Isidore Isou, 82, French poet, film critic and artist.[238]
- Jim LeRoy, 46, American stunt pilot, air crash.[239]
- Sal Mosca, 80, American jazz pianist and educator.[240]
29
- Ian Anstruther, 85, British diplomat, baronet, writer and literary patron.[241]
- Jack Cole, 87, American publisher (Cole Directory), cancer.[242]
- James David, 79, American football player (Detroit Lions), after long illness.[243]
- Art Davis, 73, American jazz double-bassist, heart attack.[244]
- Phil Drabble, 93, British television presenter (One Man and His Dog).[245]
- Mike Reid, 67, English comedian and actor (EastEnders, Snatch, Yus, My Dear), heart attack.[246]
- Bill Robinson, 64, American baseball player (Braves, Yankees, Phillies and Pirates) and coach.[247]
- Michel Serrault, 79, French actor (La Cage aux Folles), cancer.[248]
- Tom Snyder, 71, American talk show host (The Tomorrow Show, The Late Late Show) and journalist, complications of leukemia.[249]
- Marvin Zindler, 85, American reporter, pancreatic cancer.[250]
30
- Michelangelo Antonioni, 94, Italian film director (L'avventura, Blowup, Zabriskie Point).[251]
- Teoctist Arăpaşu, 92, Romanian Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, heart attack.[252]
- Ingmar Bergman, 89, Swedish film director (The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Fanny and Alexander), Oscar winner (1961, 1962, 1984).[253]
- Fausto Sucena Rasga Filho, 78, Brazilian Olympic basketball player.[254]
- Tam McGraw, 54, British mobster, heart attack.[255]
- Ali Meshkini, 85, Iranian Chairman of the Assembly of Experts, respiratory and kidney complications.[256]
- Anne O'Brien, 95, American Olympic athlete.[257]
- Makoto Oda, 75, Japanese writer and anti-war activist, cancer.[258]
- Sean Stokes, 24, United States Marine.
- Richard Stott, 63, British newspaper editor and author, pancreatic cancer.[259]
- Shim Sung-Min, 29, South Korean Taliban hostage, shot.[260]
- Bill Walsh, 75, American Hall of Fame football coach (San Francisco 49ers), leukemia.[261]
- Wen Xingyu, 65, Chinese comedian, lung cancer.[262]
31
- Margaret Avison, 89, Canadian poet.[263]
- J. Esmonde Barry, 83, Canadian healthcare activist and political commentator, complications from a heart attack.[264]
- Norman Cohn, 92, British historian, degenerative heart condition.[265]
- Oliver Morgan, 74, American rhythm & blues vocalist, heart attack.[266]
- R. D. Wingfield, 79, British writer and radio dramatist.[267]
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