Deaths in April 2007

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

  April 2007

1

• Laurie Baker, 90, British-born Indian architect.
• John Billings, 89, Australian co-developer of the Billings ovulation method.
• Norman Butler, 76, English cricketer.
• Herb Carneal, 83, American sportscaster, radio broadcaster for Minnesota Twins Major League Baseball team, congestive heart failure.
• Driss Chraïbi, 80, Moroccan writer.
• Char Fontane, 55, American actress and singer, breast cancer.
• Lou Limmer, 82, American baseball player.
• Salem Ludwig, 91, American actor.
• Sally Merchant, 88, Canadian broadcaster and politician, cancer.
• Hannah Nydahl, 61, Danish teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, translator for her husband Ole Nydahl, lung and brain cancer.
• Screechy Peach, 47, American singer and songwriter, breast cancer.
• Ladislav Rychman, 84, Czech film director, heart attack.
• George Sewell, 82, British actor, cancer.
• Elliott P. Skinner, 82, American scholar and former ambassador, heart failure.

  2

• B. K. Anand, 89, Indian physiologist and pharmacologist.
• William W. Becker, 85, American co-founder of the Motel 6 chain, heart attack.
• Janet Bloomfield, 53, British campaigner, Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, septic shock.
• Jeannie Ferris, 66, Australian Senator, ovarian cancer.
• Henry Lee Giclas, 96, American astronomer.
• Paul Reed, 97, American comedian and actor, heart failure.
• Tadjou Salou, 32, Togolese international footballer, after long illness.

  3

• Marion Eames, 85, British novelist.
• Sir Walter Luttrell, 87, British army officer and public servant.
• Robin Montgomerie-Charrington, 91, British 1952 Grand Prix driver.
• Michael Joseph Murphy, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Erie.
• Walter Nicks, 81, American dancer and choreographer.
• Thomas Hal Phillips, 84, American novelist and screenwriter.
• Zoltán Pongrácz, 95, Hungarian composer and conductor.
• Bill Robinson, 88, American sailor and author.
• Eddie Robinson, 88, American college football coach, Alzheimer's disease.
• Burt Topper, 78, American screenwriter, film director and film producer, pulmonary failure.
• Nina Wang, 69, Hong Kong businesswoman and Asia's richest woman.

  4

• Sivalingam Arumugam, 59, Malaysian politician, heart attack.
• Jagjit Singh Chohan, 80, Indian Sikh separatist leader, heart attack.
• Bob Clark, 67, American film director, car accident.
• Brian Fahey, 87, British composer and musical director.
• Reginald H. Fuller, 92, British-born biblical scholar and Anglican priest, complications of a broken hip.
• Terry Hall, 80, British ventriloquist and children's television presenter.
• Edward Mallory, 76, American television actor.
• Karen Spärck Jones, 71, British professor emeritus of Computers and Information at the University of Cambridge, cancer.
• Margaret Tor-Thompson, 44, Liberian politician, breast cancer.

  5

• Maria Gripe, 83, Swedish author.
• Thomas Stoltz Harvey, 94, American pathologist.
• Leela Majumdar, 99, Indian Bengali language children's author.
• Mark St. John, 51, American guitarist, brain hemorrhage.
• Ali Sriti, 88, Tunisian oudist.
• Darryl Stingley, 55, American football player, bronchial pneumonia.
• Poornachandra Tejaswi, 68, Indian writer and novelist in the Kannada language, cardiac arrest.

  6

• Elward Thomas Brady Jr., 60, American businessman and politician.
• Luigi Comencini, 90, Italian film director.
• Stan Daniels, 72, Canadian writer and producer, heart failure.
• Colin Graham, 75, British opera, theatre and television director, cardiac arrest.
• George C. Jenkins, 98, American production designer, Oscar winner, heart failure.
• Jill McGown, 59, British mystery writer.
• James McGuinness, 81, British priest, Bishop of Nottingham.
• Raymond G. Murphy, 77, American Medal of Honor recipient during the Korean War.
• Jeff Uren, 81, British racing driver.

  7

• Neville Duke, 85, British World War II fighter pilot.
• Mariano Gonzalvo, 85, Spanish captain of FC Barcelona and international footballer for Spain.
• Johnny Hart, 76, American cartoonist, stroke.
• Win Hickey, 94, American socialite, politician, First Lady of Wyoming and one of the first woman to serve in the Wyoming Senate.
• Brian Miller, 70, British footballer for Burnley and England.
• Otto Natzler, 99, American ceramics and glazing master, cancer.
• Barry Nelson, 89, American actor.

  8

• Charles Bain, 93, Trinidadian West Indian Test cricket umpire.
• Natalia Clare, 87, American ballet dancer and instructor, complications of strokes.
• Asad Amanat Ali Khan, 51, Pakistani singer, heart attack.
• Victor Kneale, 89, Manx Speaker of the House of Keys.
• Sol LeWitt, 78, American artist known for his role in the Conceptualism and Minimalism movements, cancer.
• Bill Mescher, 79, American politician, member of the South Carolina Senate from 1993 until his death, stroke.

  9

• Egon Bondy, 77, Czech philosopher and poet.
• A. J. Carothers, 75, American playwright and television writer, cancer.
• Bob Coats, 82, British economic historian.
• Alain Etchegoyen, 55, French philosopher, cancer.
• Sir Michael Fox, 85, British judge, Lord Justice of Appeal.
• Dorrit Hoffleit, 100, American research astronomer, cancer.
• Philip Mayne, 107, English officer, last surviving British officer of World War I.
• Harry Rasky, 78, Canadian documentary film producer, heart failure.

  10

• Kevin Crease, 70, Australian television newsreader, cancer.
• Walter Hendl, 90, American conductor, heart and lung disease.
• Ralph Heywood, 85, American football player.
• Awdy Kulyýew, 70, Turkmen exiled politician and Foreign Minister, complications from stomach surgery.
• George Mussallem, 99, Canadian politician and businessman.
• Salvatore Scarpitta, 88, American sculptor, complications from diabetes.
• Dakota Staton, 76, American jazz vocalist, after long illness.

  11

• Roscoe Lee Browne, 84, American actor, Emmy winner, stomach cancer.
• James Lee Clark, 38, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Sidney Gordon, 89, Scottish-born Hongkonger businessman.
• Loïc Leferme, 36, French free diver, drowning.
• Warren E. Preece, 85, American editor of Encyclopædia Britannica, heart failure.
• Ronald Speirs, 86, American World War II commanding officer of Easy Company, 506th Infantry Regiment.
• Warren Strelow, 73, American ice hockey goaltending coach for 1980 Winter Olympics gold medal team.
• Kurt Vonnegut, 84, American novelist and social critic, brain injury from a fall.

  12

• Kelsie B. Harder, 84, American name expert, congestive heart failure.
• Len Hill, 65, British cricketer for Glamorgan and footballer for Newport County.
• James Lyons, 46, American film editor, squamous cell carcinoma.
• Pierre Probst, 93, French children's book author and illustrator.
• Little Sonny Warner, 77, American singer who earned a gold record with "There's Something on Your Mind".

  13

• Birgitta Arman, 86, Swedish actress.
• Marie Clay, 81, New Zealand world-renowned literacy expert, after short illness.
• Nathan Heffernan, 86, American judge, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
• Hans Koning, 85, Dutch-born writer and journalist.
• Joe Lane, 80, Australian bebop jazz singer.
• Steve Malovic, 50, American-Israeli basketball player, heart attack.
• Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, 88, American poet who wrote about the Dust Bowl.
• Neil Pickard, 78, Australian politician.
• Capil Rampersad, 46, Trinidad and Tobago cricketer.
• Joie Ray, 83, American open-wheel and stock car race driver, respiratory failure.
• Don Selwyn, 71, New Zealand actor and director, complications from a kidney infection.
• Marion Yorck von Wartenburg, 102, German World War II resistance fighter.

  14

• Ladislav Adamec, 80, Czech communist politician, Prime Minister of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.
• Robert N. Buck, 93, American aviator who set several aviation records in his teens, complications from a fall.
• June Callwood, 82, Canadian journalist and activist, cancer.
• Bobby Cram, 67, British footballer for West Bromwich Albion and Colchester United.
• Don Ho, 76, American Hawaiian musician and entertainer, heart failure.
• Jim Jontz, 55, American congressman from Indiana, colon cancer.
• Meredith Kline, 84, American theologian and Old Testament scholar.
• William Menster, 94, American Catholic priest, first member of the clergy to visit Antarctica.
• René Rémond, 88, French historian and academician.
• Mike Reynolds, British conservationist.
• Herman Riley, 73, American tenor saxophone jazz performer, heart failure.
• Audrey Santo, 23, American brain-injured girl claimed to have performed miracles, cardio-respiratory failure.
• Jim Thurman, 72, American children's television writer and voice of Sesame Street's "Teeny Little Super Guy", illness.
• Mike Webb, 51, American radio personality, stabbed.
• Frank Westheimer, 95, American chemist.

  15

• Patricia Buckley, 80, Canadian-born socialite and fundraiser, wife of William F. Buckley, Jr., infection after long illness.
• Heo Se-uk, 54, South Korean protester against U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, septic shock following self-immolation burns.
• Brant Parker, 86, American cartoonist.
• Justine Saunders, 54, Australian actress, cancer.
• Peter Tsiamalili, 54, Papua New Guinean first administrator of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville.
• Donald Tuzin, 62, American anthropologist and leading authority on Melanesian culture, pulmonary hypertension.