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The following is a list of notable deaths in 2007. Links to other years follow.
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- Jurga Ivanauskaitė, 45, Lithuanian writer. [1] (Lithuanian)
- Maurice Papon, 96, French WW2 Vichy government official convicted of deporting Jews to Nazi death camps. [2]
- Herminio Iglesias, 77, Argentinian Peronist Party politician. [3]
- Sheridan Morley, 65, British broadcaster and author, in his sleep. [4] [5]
- José Silva de Oliveira, 57, Brazilian football player (Operário, Belenenses, FC Porto), complications of cirrhosis. [6] (Portuguese)
- Ralph Penza, 74, American senior correspondent and substitute anchor for WNBC. [7]
- Gene Snyder, 79, American Republican Representative from Kentucky (1963–65, 1967–87). [8]
- Robert Adler, 93, Austrian-born American co-inventor of the TV remote control, heart failure. [9] [10] [11]
- Abu Abdullah al-Majamiai, top aide of al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri, shot. [12]
- Ray Evans, 92, American songwriter, partner of Jay Livingston for numerous hits such as "Buttons and Bows", heart attack. [13] [14]
- Mordkhe Schaechter, 79, American Yiddish linguist. [15]
- Walter Sondheim, 98, American civic leader who played a key role in Baltimore's school desegregation, pneumonia. [16]
- Alfred Desio, 74, American dancer and choreographer, complications of bladder cancer. [17]
- Pál Erdöss, 60, Hungarian film director. [18]
- Ryan Larkin, 63, Canadian animator, Oscar nominee and subject of the Oscar-winning animated short Ryan, lung cancer. [19]
- Steven Pimlott, 53, British theatre director, lung cancer. [20]
- Collin Smith, 45, Canadian sports anchor who adopted the persona "Joe Sports," leukemia. [21]
- Pat Heffernan, 96, British-born journalist and only non-U.S. citizen to head America's National Press Club. [22]
- Bruce Metzger, 93, American professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and expert on Greek biblical manuscripts. [23] [24]
- Charlie Norwood, 65, American Republican Representative from Georgia since 1995, cancer. [25]
- Eliana Ramos, 18, Uruguayan model and sister of late model Luisel Ramos, heart attack. [26]
- Johanna Sällström, 32, Swedish actress. [27]
- Hannu Savola, 57, Finnish journalist and editor of Ilta-Sanomat. [28] (Finnish)
- Violet Barasa, 31, Kenyan women's volleyball team captain and Olympic competitor. [29]
- Georg Buschner, 81, East German football coach, prostate cancer. [30]
- Frances Duffy, 101, American survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. [31]
- Peter Ellenshaw, 93, Anglo-American Academy Award-winning special effects designer. [32] [33]
- Thomas E. Fairchild, 94, American Federal Appeals Court Judge. [34]
- Ellen Hanley, 80, American Broadway theatre actress, stroke. [35] [36]
- Buddy McAtee, 53, American President of IndyCar TV productions, cancer. [37]
- Trudy McCaffery, 62, American racehorse owner and breeder, cancer. [38]
- Paolo Pileri, 62, Italian motorcycle racer (1973–1979), 1975 World Champion and Capirossi team manager, natural causes. [39] (Italian)
- Randy Stone, 48, American child actor in the 1970s, casting director and Oscar-winning film producer, heart failure. [40]
- Sulejman Talovic, 18, Salt Lake City spree killer, shot by police. [41]
- Eldee Young, 71, American bassist best known as a member of the Ramsey Lewis Trio, heart attack. [42]
- José António Arsénio, 91, Portuguese leader of Sporting Lisbon in the 1960s and 1970s, injuries from a fall. [43] [44] (Portuguese)
- Bill Clement, 92, British rugby player for Wales (1937–1938) and secretary of the Welsh Rugby Union (1956–1981). [45]
- Dante "Doc Doom" Cunningham, American member of the Wu-Tang Clan-affiliated rap group Black Knights, shot. [46]
- Marianne Fredriksson, 79, Swedish writer and journalist, heart attack. [47]
- Huang Hai-tai, 106, Taiwanese glove puppetry actor, pulmonary edema. [48]
- Charles Langford, 84, American, Alabama state senator, civil rights lawyer for Rosa Parks over the Montgomery Bus Boycott. [49]
- Yunus Parvez, 75, Indian Bollywood actor, complications of diabetes. [50]
- Jim Ricca, 79, American football player (Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles, Detroit Lions), cerebral aneurysm. [51]
- Sobron Aidit, 72, Indonesian author, stroke. [52]
- Gary Frisch, 38, South African co-founder of Gaydar dating website, fall from balcony. [53]
- Jung Da Bin, 26, South Korean actress, suspected suicide by hanging. [54]
- James C. Melby, 57, American professional wrestling historian, author and magazine editor. [55]
- Alan "Nidge" Miller, 48, British guitarist for the band Blitz, car accident. [56]
- Emiko Sugi, 47, Japanese manga artist, stomach cancer. [57]
- Charles R. Walgreen, Jr., 100, American president of Walgreens (1939–1971) and son of founder Charles R. Walgreen. [58] [59]
- Hank Bauer, 84, American baseball outfielder and manager, three-time All Star, cancer. [60]
- Eddie Feigner, 81, American softball player, respiratory failure. [61] [62]
- Barry Gomersall, 61, Australian Rugby League State of Origin referee of the 1980s, cancer. [63]
- Benedict Kiely, 87, Irish writer and broadcaster. [64]
- Aida Mason, 111, Britain's oldest person. [65]
- Andrew McAuley, 39, Australian ocean kayak adventurer, missing presumed dead at sea. [66]
- Ian Richardson, 72, British actor (House of Cards, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) and member of the RSC, in his sleep. [67] [68]
- Frank Rodriguez, 86, American labor activist and first Hispanic elected to Minnesota House of Representatives, heart attack. [69]
- Bruno Ruffo, 86, Italian motorcycle racer, three-time world champion (1949–1951). [70]
- Adele Faccio, 86, Italian civil right activist. [71] (Italian)
- Florence Melton, 95, American inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist. [72] [73]
- Shelby Metcalf, 76, Texas A&M basketball coach, cancer. [74]
- Antonio Pierro, 110, oldest man in the United States and oldest living WWI veteran. [75]
- Ismail Semed, Chinese Muslim Uighur separatist, execution by firing squad. [76]
- Anna Nicole Smith, 39, American 1993 Playmate of the Year, widow of tycoon J. Howard Marshall. [77][78]
- Ian Stevenson, 88, Canadian psychiatrist and authority on reincarnation.[79]
- Sérgio Vilarigues, 92, Portuguese Communist Party leader and anti-fascist resistant. [80]
- Harriett Woods, 79, American Lieutenant Governor of Missouri (1985–1989), leukemia. [81]
- Helen Duncan, 65, New Zealand former union leader and politician, cancer. [82] [83]
- John Iorio, 82, Italian-American author and educator, father of Tampa, Florida mayor Pam Iorio, cancer. [84]
- Tommy James, 83, American football player with the Cleveland Browns, congestive heart failure. [85]
- Ken Kennedy, 61, American computer scientist at Rice University, pancreatic cancer. [86]
- Alan MacDiarmid, 79, New Zealand recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2000, injuries from a fall. [87]
- Jeannette Ordman, 72, South African-born dancer and director of the Bat-Dor Dance Company, heart attack. [88]
- Erika Ortiz Rocasolano, 31, Spanish youngest sister of Letizia, Princess of Asturias. [89] [90]
- Fred Mustard Stewart, 74, American author (The Mephisto Waltz, Ellis Island), cancer. [91]
- Brian Williams, 44, British former rugby player for Wales and Neath RFC, heart attack. [92]
- Wolfgang Bartels, 66, German alpine skier and Olympic medallist. [93] (German)
- Lew Burdette, 80, American baseball player, MVP of the 1957 World Series, stomach cancer. [94] [95]
- Lee Hoffman, 74, American science fiction and western writer, heart attack. [96]
- Len Hopkins, 76, Canadian politician, Liberal MP from Ontario (1965-1997), pneumonia. [97]
- Frankie Laine, 93, American singer ("Mule Train"), complications of hip replacement surgery. [98] [99]
- Reiner Merkel, 55, CEO of German Press Agency Picture Alliance, heart attack. [100] (German)
- Flavio Ortega, 62, Honduras national football team coach, complications of a brain aneurysm. [101]
- Nelson W. Polsby, 72, American political scientist and author, heart failure. [102]
- Sir Gareth Roberts, 66, British physicist and principal of Wolfson College, Oxford. [103]
- Glenn Sarty, 77, Canadian original producer of CBC's The Fifth Estate, Take 30 and Take 60, emphysema. [104]
- Bent Skovmand, 61, Danish plant scientist and conservationist, founder of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, brain tumor. [105] [106]
- Gerardo Vallejo, 64, Argentine film director, lung cancer. [107]
- Kazuhiro Watanabe, 56, Japanese cartoonist and editor of Garo, liver cancer. [108]
- Willye White, 68, African American first 5-time U.S. track and field Olympian, pancreatic cancer. [109]
- Johnny Williams, 80, British champion professional boxer in the 1940s and 50s. [110]
- Fred Ball, 91, American director of Desilu Productions and brother of Lucille Ball. [111]
- David W. Denton, 57, American federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York (1987–1992), brain cancer. [112]
- Charles Grimes, 71, American rower who won a gold medal at the 1956 Olympics, pancreatic cancer. [113]
- Leo T. McCarthy, 76, New Zealand-born American politician and Lt.-Gov. of California (1983–1995), kidney failure. [114]
- Marion Lamar Muse, 86, American first president of Southwest Airlines, cancer. [115]
- George Sadek, 78, Czechoslovakian-born graphic designer, founder of Center for Design & Typography at Cooper Union, cancer. [116]
- Alfred Worm, 61, Austrian investigative journalist, heart attack. [117]
- Steve Barber, 68, American Major League Baseball pitcher, pneumonia. [118] [119]
- José Carlos Bauer, 81, Brazilian World Cup footballer. [120]
- Paul Burwell, 57, British percussionist. [121]
- Job Bwayo, 61, Kenyan AIDS researcher, shot. [122].
- Ilya Kormiltsev, 47, Russian poet and translator, spinal cancer. [123].
- Roy Kuhlman, 83, American graphic designer, pneumonia. [124]
- Barbara McNair, 72, American singer and actress, throat cancer. [125] [126]
- Jules Olitski, 84, Ukrainian-born American abstract painter and sculptor, cancer. [127]
- Kurt Schubert, 83, Austrian Hebraist and founder of the Austrian Jewish Museum. [128]
- Carlos Silva, 72, Portuguese VP of the FPF, Belenenses player and trainer, long illness. [129]
- George Becker, 78, American president of United Steelworkers (1993–2001), prostate cancer. [130]
- Ralph de Toledano, 90, Moroccan-born American political columnist and author. [131]
- Donfeld, 72, American Oscar-nominated costume designer (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Prizzi's Honor). [132] [133]
- Ben Kaye, 68, Canadian songwriter and adviser to Celine Dion, cancer. [134] (French)
- Pedro Knight, 85, Cuban–American musician and husband of Celia Cruz. [135] [136]
- Aaron Lerner, 86, American dermatologist who led team to discover melatonin, Parkinson's disease. [137]
- John Markovic, Serbian-born British darts manager of Bob Anderson and a founder of PDC, after long illness. [138]
- Charles Scripps, 87, American media executive and chairman of E.W. Scripps Company (1953-1994), natural causes. [139]
- Leon Thal, 62, American neurologist and Alzheimer's researcher, plane crash. [140]
- Edmund Arnold, 93, American newspaper designer, pneumonia. [141] [142]
- Vijay Arora, 62, Indian film and television actor, intestinal condition. [143]
- Irving Brecher, 84, Canadian Professor of Economics and founder of Rights and Democracy, heart disease. [144]
- Mikola Gnisyuk, 62, Russian photographer, after long illness. [145] [146]. (Russian)
- Billy Henderson, 67, American singer with The Spinners, diabetes. [147]
- Joe Hunter, 79, American pianist and bandleader of The Funk Brothers. [148] [149]
- Terry Lee McMillan, 53, American harmonica player. [150]
- Gisèle Pascal, 83, French actress and one-time lover of Prince Rainier. [151]
- Filippo Raciti, 40, Italian police officer, fatal injury by football hooligan. [152] [153]
- Michel Roux, 77, French comedian and dubbing artist, heart disease. [154]
- Eric von Schmidt, 75, American folk/blues singer-songwriter, stroke. [155] [156]
- Masao Takemoto, 87, Japanese gymnast, gold medallist at 1960 Olympic Games, bile duct cancer. [157]
- Shannon J. Wall, 87, American union official, President of the National Maritime Union (1973–1990). [158]
- Whitney Balliett, 80, American jazz critic, cancer. [159]
- Ray Berres, 99, American baseball player who was second-oldest living major league player, pneumonia. [160]
- Joe Edwards, 85, longtime Archie comics artist and creator of Li'l Jinx, heart problems. [161]
- Dmitry Konovalenko, 36, Russian journalist and What? Where? When? contestant, cardiac arrest. [162] (Russian)
- Ahmad Abu Laban, 60, Egyptian-born Danish Muslim leader, key figure in the Muhammad cartoons controversy, cancer. [163] [164]
- Edward LaChappelle, 80, American avalanche researcher, heart attack. [165]
- Gian Carlo Menotti, 95, Italian-born opera composer (Amahl and the Night Visitors). [166] [167]
- Henry "Hank" Moreno, 77, American jockey who won 1953 Kentucky Derby on Dark Star, pancreatic cancer. [168]
- Antonio María Javierre Ortas, 85, Spanish cardinal and prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship (1992–1996), cardiac arrest. [169]
- Adelina Tattilo, 78, Italian founder of Playmen magazine. [170] (Italian)
- Seri Wangnaitham, 70, Thai dancer, choreographer and national artist, heart failure. [171]
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