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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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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May 2007
1
- Wiley Harker, 92, American actor (The Straight Story, City Heat, Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead).[1]
- Temira Pachmuss, 79, Russian-American philologist.[2]
- Winifred Pennington, 91, British limnologist.[3]
- Fermín Trueba, 92, Spanish road cyclist.[4]
2
- Maurice Jacob, 74, French theoretical particle physicist.[5]
- Abdul Sabur Farid Kohistani, 54-55, Afghan legislator and Prime Minister (1992), assassination by gunshot.[6]
- Brad McGann, 43, New Zealand film director (In My Father's Den), cancer.[7]
- Juan Valdivieso, 96, Peruvian football goalkeeper and manager, heart failure.[8]
3
- Alex Agase, 85, Iranian-born American football coach.[9]
- J. Robert Bradley, 87, American gospel singer, diabetes.[10]
- Leonard Eron, 87, American psychologist, congestive heart failure.[11]
- Pat O'Shea, 74, Irish writer.[12]
- Wally Schirra, 84, American astronaut in Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo projects, heart attack.[13]
- "Rose Tombe", Sudanese celebrity goat, asphyxiation.[14]
- Knock Yokoyama, 75, Japanese comedian and politician, throat cancer.[15]
- Mamadou Zaré, 42, Ivorian footballer.[16]
4
- Russell W. Kruse, 85, American auctioneer, stroke.[17]
- Jeremias Nguenha, 35, Mozambican political musician who sang in Shangaan.[18]
- José Antonio Roca, 78, Mexican football player and manager.[19]
- Gábor Takács, 47, Hungarian Olympic sprint canoer.[20]
5
- Prince Abdul Majeed bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 64-65, Saudi politician, governor of Mecca.[21]
- José Aponte de la Torre, 65, Puerto Rican mayor, respiratory complications.[22]
- Tom Hutchinson, 65, American football wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns 1964 NFL champions.[23]
- Theodore Maiman, 79, American physicist who built the first laser, systemic mastocytosis.[24]
- Anthony Mitchell, 39-40, British journalist, plane crash.[25]
- Edwin H. Simmons, 85, American Marine Corps historian.[26]
- Gusti Wolf, 95, Austrian actress.[27]
- John Zamet, 74, British periodontist.[28]
6
- Alvin Batiste, 74, American jazz musician, heart attack.[29]
- Carey Bell, 70, American blues harmonica player, heart failure.[30]
- Lesley Blanch, 102, British writer and fashion editor.[31]
- Enéas Carneiro, 68, Brazilian politician, leukemia.[32]
- Tamás Gábor, 75, Hungarian Olympic fencer.[33]
- Curtis Harrington, 80, American film director.[34]
- Kazuo Kitamura, 80, Japanese actor (Tora! Tora! Tora!, Black Rain, Shinobi: Heart Under Blade), pneumonia.[35]
- Maurice Marsac, 92, French actor (King of Kings, The Jerk, Robert Kennedy and His Times), cardiac arrest.[36]
- Đorđe Novković, 63, Croatian songwriter.[37][38]
- Bernard Weatherill, Baron Weatherill, 86, English Speaker of the British House of Commons (1983–1992), after short illness.[39]
7
- Isabella Blow, 48, British fashion journalist and stylist, suicide by poisoning.[40][41][42]
- Quentin Brooks, 86, American Olympic shooter.[43]
- Fulton Burley, 84, Canadian performer, heart failure.
- Diego Corrales, 29, American world champion boxer, motorcycle accident.[44]
- Shirl Conway, 90, American actress.[45]
- George Dawson, 45, British politician, Northern Ireland Assembly member, cancer.[46][47]
- Donald Ginsberg, 73, American physicist, melanoma.[48]
- Tomasi Kulimoetoke II, 88, Wallisian King of Wallis ('Uvea).[49]
- Raffi Lavie, 70, Israeli artist, pancreatic cancer.[50]
- Emma Lehmer, 100, Russian-born American mathematician.[51]
- Sonny Myers, 83, American professional wrestler.[52]
- Octavian Paler, 81, Romanian writer and journalist, heart attack.[53]
- Nicholas Worth, 69, American actor (Darkman, Heartbreak Ridge, Night Court), heart failure.[54]
- Yahweh ben Yahweh, 71, American religious cult leader (Nation of Yahweh) and convicted felon, prostate cancer.[55][56]
8
- Mark Burns, 71, English actor (Exodus, House of the Living Dead, By the Sword Divided), cancer.[57]
- Philip R. Craig, 74, American mystery writer.[58]
- Velma Dunn, 88, American diver who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics, stroke.[59]
- Abdullah bin Faisal Al Saud, 85, Saudi prince, writer and businessman, after long illness.[60]
- David Farquhar, 79, New Zealand composer.[61]
- John Henry, 68, British toxicologist, haemorrhage.[62]
- René Lamps, 91, French politician.[63]
- Jagdish Narain Sapru, 74, Indian former chairman of ITC Limited and BOC India.[64]
- Carson Whitsett, 62, American composer, musician and record producer, brain tumor.[65]
9
- Donald Alexander, 79, Scottish medical researcher.[66]
- Charlie Ane Jr., 76, American football player (Detroit Lions), pneumonia.[67]
- Alfred D. Chandler Jr., 88, American economic historian.[68]
- Gino Pariani, 79, American soccer player (1950 World Cup), bone cancer.[69]
- George Seddon, 80, Australian environmental scholar.[70]
- Dwight Wilson, 106, Canadian centenarian, second-to-last surviving World War I veteran.[71]
- Philip Workman, 53, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[72]
10
- John K. Lattimer, 92, American urologist who developed a cure for renal tuberculosis.[73]
- Sir Oliver Millar, 84, British Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures (1972–1988) and Director of the Royal Collection (1987–1988).[74]
- Robert Oelman, 97, American chief executive of NCR Corporation (1962–1973), co-founder of Wright State University.[75]
- Chuck Riley, 66, American voice actor.[76]
11
- Norman Frank, 82, American producer and political strategist.[77]
- Bernard Gordon, 88, American screenwriter, named on the Hollywood blacklist, cancer.[78]
- Stanley Holden, 79, British ballet dancer, complications from heart problems and colon cancer.[79][80]
- Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe, 71, Nigerian Igbo highlife musician.[81]
- Malietoa Tanumafili II, 94, Samoan politician, head of state.[82]
12
- Mullah Dadullah, 41, Afghan militant, Taliban military commander, shot.[83]
- Teddy Infuhr, 70, American child actor.[84]
- Kai Johansen, 66, Danish footballer (Greenock Morton F.C. and Rangers), cancer.[85]
- Henri Klein, 87, French Olympic athlete.[86]
- Edy Vásquez, 23, Honduran footballer, car accident.[87]
13
- Alexander Buchanan Campbell, 92, Scottish architect.[88]
- Chen Xiaoxu, 41, Chinese actress (Dream of the Red Mansion) and Buddhist nun, breast cancer.[89]
- Mendel Jackson Davis, 64, American politician, U.S. Representative from South Carolina (1971–1981), emphysema.[90]
- Gomer Hodge, 63, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[91]
- Luis María Mendía, 82, Argentine naval officer.[92]
- Kate Webb, 64, New Zealand journalist and foreign correspondent, bowel cancer.[93]
14
- Orlando Bobo, 33, American-born Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers), heart and liver failure.[94]
- Ülo Jõgi, 86, Estonian anti-communist.[95]
- Sir Edward Jones, 70, British Army general, Black Rod (1996–2001), heart attack.[96]
- Nancy McDonald, 72, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives (1984–1995), ovarian cancer.[97]
- Aaron McMillan, 30, Australian classical pianist, bone cancer.[98]
- Jean Saubert, 65, American dual medalist in slalom (1964 Winter Olympics), breast cancer.[99]
- Sir Colin St John Wilson, 85, British architect, designer of the British Library.[100]
15
- Giorgio Cavaglieri, 95, Italian-born American architect, founder of New York City's urban preservation movement.[101]
- Jerry Falwell, 73, American minister, television evangelist, and conservative activist, founder of the Moral Majority, cardiac arrhythmia.[102]
- Karen Hess, 88, American culinary historian and author, stroke.[103]
- Yolanda King, 51, American activist and actress, daughter and first-born child of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.[104]
- Duncan Macrae, 92, British rugby football player, (Scotland Rugby Union Team).[105]
- Angus McBride, 76, British illustrator.[106]
- Lauren Terrazzano, 39, American journalist, chronicled her battle with cancer, lung cancer.[107][108]
16
- Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin, 91, American creole accordionist.[109]
- Dame Mary Douglas, 86, British social anthropologist.[110]
- Gohar Gasparyan, 83, Armenian soprano opera singer.[111]
- Allan Hird Sr., 88, Australian footballer and academic, President of Essendon Football Club (1969–1975), Victorian Director-general of Education.[112]
- Peter Marner, 71, British cricketer, youngest player to represent the Lancashire County Cricket Club.[113]
- C. Timothy O'Meara, 64, American film editor (The Rose, Hoosiers, Conan the Barbarian).[114]
- Terry Ryan, 60, American writer (The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio), cancer.[115]
17
- Lloyd Alexander, 83, American author (The Chronicles of Prydain), cancer.[116]
- Petro Balabuyev, 76, Ukrainian aircraft designer, including world's largest aeroplane, the An-225.[117]
- Don Burton, 87, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1976–1984).[118]
- Egmont Foregger, 84, Austrian jurist, official and politician, severe illness.[119]
- John Gonzaga, 74, American football player with the San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions and Denver Broncos.[120]
- Kawika Kapahulehua, 76, American captain of the Hokulea's first voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti.[121]
- Sir John Nicholls, 80, British air marshal.[122]
- Eugen Weber, 82, Romanian-born American historian, pancreatic cancer.[123]
- Bill Wight, 85, American MLB pitcher and scout.[124]
- Wiktor Zin, 82, Polish architect and graphic artist.[125]
18
- Roy De Forest, 77, American artist and professor at University of California, Davis.[126]
- Nikolai Galushkin, 85, Soviet military sniper
- Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, 74, French physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1991.[127]
- Cornelius R. Hager, 93, American educator, President of Asbury University.[128]
- Saud Memon, 44, Pakistani businessman implicated in the murder of Daniel Pearl, tuberculosis and meningitis.[129]
- Les Schwab, 89, American tire tycoon.[130]
- Mika Špiljak, 90, Croatian politician, chairman of the Collective Presidency of Yugoslavia (1983–1984).[131][132]
- Yoyoy Villame, 69, Filipino musician and comedian, heart attack.[133]
19
- Derek Cooper, 94, British army officer and refugee campaigner.[134]
- Miroslav Deronjić, 52, Bosnian Serb politician and convicted war criminal, natural causes.[135]
- Willie Ferguson, 67, South African racing driver.[136]
- Jack Findlay, 72, Australian Grand Prix motorcycle racer.[137]
- Frank Guida, 84, Italian-born American record producer.[138]
- Ron Hall, 43, American football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Detroit Lions).[139]
- Marian Radke-Yarrow, 89, American researcher in child psychology, leukemia.[140]
- Scott Thorkelson, 49, Canadian member of the House of Commons (1988–1993), heart attack.[141]
- Michel Visi, 52, Vanuatuan Catholic bishop.[142]
- Hans Wollschläger, 72, German author and translator.[143]
- Carl Wright, 75, American actor (Big Momma's House, Barbershop, Soul Food), cancer.[144]
20
- Bobby Ash, 82, British-born Canadian television host (The Uncle Bobby Show), heart attack.[145]
- Dame Jean Herbison, 84, New Zealand academic, first N.Z. female chancellor (University of Canterbury, 1979–1984).[146]
- Baruch Kimmerling, 67, Israeli sociologist and historian.[147]
- Valentina Leontyeva, 84, Russian television presenter, one of the first television presenters in the Soviet Union.[citation needed]
- Sir George Macfarlane, 91, British scientist and engineer.[148]
- Tod H. Mikuriya, 73, American psychiatrist and medical marijuana advocate, cancer.[149]
- Stanley Miller, 77, American chemist and biologist, known for the Miller–Urey experiment into the origins of life, heart failure.[150]
- William Peters, 85, American journalist and documentarian of race issues, Alzheimer's disease.[151]
- Guram Sharadze, 66, Georgian philologist and politician, shot.[152]
- Norman Von Nida, 93, Australian golfer.[153]
- Ben Weisman, 85, American musician and songwriter, wrote nearly 60 songs for singer Elvis Presley, stroke.[154]
21
- Clark Adams, 37, American secular humanist leader and activist.[155]
- Frank William Gay, 86, American businessman, senior corporate aide to Howard Hughes.[156]
- Peter Hayes, 58, Australian lawyer.[157]
- Bruno Mattei, 75, Italian film director.[158]
- Kenneth Sokoloff, 54, American economist who examined factor endowment, liver cancer.[159]
- Sakorn Yang-keawsot, 85, Thai puppeteer, lung illness.[160]
22
- Fannie Lee Chaney, 84, American civil rights activist.[161]
- Frank E. Maestrone, 84, American diplomat, ambassador to Kuwait (1976–1979), infection.[162]
- Jef Planckaert, 73, Belgian cyclist.[163][164]
- Pemba Doma Sherpa, 36, Nepali mountaineer, two-time summiter of Mt. Everest, fall from Lhotse.[165]
- Art Stevens, 92, American animator, film director and screenwriter (The Fox and the Hound, The Rescuers, The Black Cauldron), heart attack.[166]
23
- Clyde Robert Bulla, 93, American children's author.[167]
- Dick Humbert, 88, American gridiron football player.[168]
- Kei Kumai, 76, Japanese film director, brain hemorrhage.[169][170]
- Tron Øgrim, 59, Norwegian author and politician.[171]
- Åke Sundborg, 85, Swedish geographer and geomorphologist.[172]
24
- Buddy Childers, 81, American jazz trumpeter, cancer.[173]
- Les Harmer, 86, New Zealand cricket umpire.[174]
- Bill Johnston, 85, Australian cricketer, member of the 1948 Invincibles.[175]
- Philip Mayer Kaiser, 93, American diplomat, ambassador to Senegal and Mauritania, Hungary, and Austria, pneumonia.[176]
- Norm Maleng, 68, American prosecutor (King County, Washington), cardiac arrest.[177]
- Christopher Newton, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[178]
- Minako Oba, 77, Japanese author.[179]
- David Renton, Baron Renton, 98, British politician and aristocrat, oldest peer in the House of Lords.[180]
25
- Arwon, 33, New Zealand-born racehorse, longest surviving Melbourne Cup winner, euthanasia.[181]
- Laurie Bartram, 49, American actress (Friday the 13th) and ballet dancer, pancreatic cancer.[182]
- Victor Firea, 84, Romanian Olympic athlete.[183]
- Charles Nelson Reilly, 76, American actor (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, All Dogs Go to Heaven), Tony winner (1962), complications from pneumonia.[184]
- Kaspar Schiesser, 91, Swiss Olympic runner.[185]
- Sun Yuanliang, 103, Chinese-born General with the Kuomintang, exiled in Taiwan.[186]
- Bartholomew Ulufa'alu, 56, Solomon Islander politician, Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (1997–2000), after long illness.[187]
26
- Sir James Baird, 92, British army general.[188]
- James Beck, 77, American art historian, founder of ArtWatch International,.[189]
- Gene Gibson, 82, American basketball player and coach (Texas Tech University), complications from surgery.[190]
- Marek Krejčí, 26, Slovak footballer, car accident.[191]
- Phyllis Sellick, 95, British pianist.[192]
- Aubrey Singer, 80, British television executive, head of BBC Two (1974–1978).[193]
- Khalil al-Zahawi, 60-61, Iraqi calligrapher, shot.[194]
27
- Ron Archer, 73, Australian Test cricketer, lung cancer.[195]
- Edward Behr, 81, British journalist and author.[196]
- Sam Garrison, 65, American lawyer, defended President Richard Nixon in impeachment hearings in 1974, leukemia.[197]
- Marquise Hill, 24, American football player (New England Patriots), drowning.[198]
- Jack Kerr, 96, New Zealand cricket player, Chairman and President of New Zealand Cricket.[199]
- Wiley Mayne, 90, American politician, U.S. Representative from Iowa (1966–1974), cardiopulmonary incident.[200]
- Howard Porter, 58, American basketball player (Bulls, Knicks, Pistons), injuries sustained from beating.[201]
- Izumi Sakai, 40, Japanese singer (Zard), cerebral contusion.[202]
- Percy Sonn, 57, South African cricket player, President of the International Cricket Council, complications after surgery.[203]
- Gretchen Wyler, 75, American actress (Private Benjamin, Dallas, The Devil's Brigade) and animal rights activist, complications from breast cancer.[204]
- Ed Yost, 87, American inventor of the modern hot air balloon.[205]
28
- Barbara Cox Anthony, 84, American heiress, after long illness.[206]
- Hal Helgeson, 75, American geochemist, lung cancer.[207]
- Jörg Immendorff, 61, German painter, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[208]
- Phyllis Koehn, 84, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).[209]
- David Lane, 68, American white supremacist leader and author.[210]
- John Macquarrie, 87, British theologian, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford (1970–1986).[211]
- Toshikatsu Matsuoka, 62, Japanese politician, Minister of Agriculture, suicide by hanging.[212]
- Parren Mitchell, 85, American politician, U.S. Representative from Maryland (1971–1987), co-founder of Congressional Black Caucus, pneumonia.[213]
- Ethel Mutharika, 63, Zimbabwe-born First Lady of Malawi, cancer.[214]
29
- Dave Balon, 68, Canadian ice hockey player, multiple sclerosis.[215]
- Tony Bastable, 62, British television presenter (Magpie), DJ and independent producer, pneumonia.[216]
- Dame Lois Browne-Evans, 79, Bermudian politician.[217]
- Donald Johanos, 79, American conductor.[218]
- Norman Kaye, 80, Australian actor and musician, Alzheimer's disease.[219]
- Posteal Laskey Jr., 69, American convicted murderer, commonly believed to be the serial killer called the "Cincinnati Strangler".[220]
- Tahir Mirza, 70, Pakistani journalist and former editor of Dawn, lung cancer.[221]
- Folole Muliaga, 44, Samoan–NZ teacher whose oxygen machine failed after power cut for unpaid account, heart and lung disease.[222]
- Michael Seaton, 84, British astronomer and physicist.[223]
- Wallace Seawell, 90, American photographer and filmmaker, age-related causes.[224]
- John Stanning Jr, 87, English cricketer.[225]
30
- Jean-Claude Brialy, 74, French actor and director, cancer.[226]
- Kieran Carey, 74, Irish hurler.[227]
- Mark Harris, 84, American author (Bang the Drum Slowly), Alzheimer's disease.[228]
- Preston Martin, 83, American banker, Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (1982–1986), cancer.[229]
- William Morris Meredith Jr., 88, American poet and Pulitzer Prize winner.[230]
- Yevgeni Mishakov, 66, Russian ice hockey player.[231]
31
- George Bragg, 81, American conductor and founder of the Texas Boys Choir.[232]
- Norman Fletcher, 89, American architect.[233]
- Clifford Scott Green, 84, American jurist, Federal Court judge.[234]
- David J. Lawson, 77, American minister, bishop of the United Methodist Church, after long illness.[235]
- Fathia Nkrumah, 75, Egyptian–born Ghanaian First Lady, after long illness.[236]
- Charles Lee Remington, 85, American zoologist, known for studies of butterflies and moths.[237]
- Alexander Tubelsky, 66, Russian academic, President of Association of Democratic Schools, stroke.[238]
- Jim Williams, 92, American basketball coach (Colorado State University).[239]
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