Deaths in December 2007

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

  December 2007

1

• Rasim Al-Jumaily, 69, Iraqi actor and comedian, kidney failure.
• Jennifer Davidson, 38, American executive, senior vice president of programming and scheduling for Cartoon Network.
• Elisabeth Eybers, 92, South African-born poet.
• Tony Fall, 67, British rally driver and Opel Motorsport Team director, heart attack.
• Ken McGregor, 78, Australian tennis player, stomach cancer.
• Danny Newman, 88, American publicist for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Anton Rodgers, 74, British actor.
• Ivo Rojnica, 92, Croatian-Argentine war crimes suspect, businessman, diplomat, and intelligence agent.

  2

• Jennifer Alexander, 35, Canadian-born American ballet dancer, traffic collision.
• Robert Orville Anderson, 90, American founder and former CEO of ARCO.
• Nelly Beltrán, 82, Argentine actress.
• Elizabeth Hardwick, 91, American co-founder of The New York Review of Books.
• Doreen Kartinyeri, 72, Ngarrindjeri elder and historian.
• David Maybury-Lewis, 78, British anthropologist.
• Eleonora Rossi Drago, 82, Italian actress, cerebral haemorrhage.
• Les Shannon, 81, English football player and manager.
• Thomas F. Torrance, 94, Scottish theologian.

  3

• Art Arfons, 81, American jet-car driver and drag racer, three-time world land speed record holder.
• John Belgrave, 67, New Zealand public servant, Chief Ombudsman, cancer.
• Jaime Fuster, 66, Puerto Rican politician and jurist, Resident Commissioner, heart attack.
• Susumu Katsumata, 63, Japanese manga artist and illustrator, melanoma.
• James Kemsley, 59, Australian cartoonist, motor neurone disease.
• Keshav Meshram, 70, Indian writer and critic, lung cancer.
• Lord Bloody Wog Rolo, 62, Australian activist, renal cell carcinoma.
• Heloneida Studart, 76, Brazilian writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, advocate for women's rights, and political figure.

  4

• Jake Gaudaur, 87, Canadian Commissioner of the Canadian Football League, cancer.
• Jay H. Gordon, 77, American politician, Vermont Auditor of Accounts, smoke inhalation.
• Stanley McArdle, 85, British admiral.
• Norval Morrisseau, 75, Canadian Ojibwe artist, founder of the Woodlands Style, Parkinson's disease.
• Pimp C, 33, American rapper, sleep apnea and accidental overdose.
• Chip Reese, 56, American professional poker player, heart attack.
• Herman Rose, 98, American cityscape painter, cancer.
• Carlos Valdes, 81, Cuban conga player, respiratory failure.

  5

• Iosif Dan, 57, Romanian revolutionary, lung cancer.
• Madhukar Vasudev Dhond, 93, Indian literary and art critic.
• Christine Finn, 78, English actress.
• Robin Gloag, 64, British co-founder of Stagecoach Group, traffic collision.
• Arnold Hardy, 85, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, complications from hip surgery.
• Robert A. Hawkins, 19, American mass murderer, suicide by gunshot.
• Andrew Imbrie, 86, American composer.
• Jillian Kesner-Graver, 58, American actress, Orson Welles historian, staph infection.
• Alois Kracher, 48, Austrian winemaker, pancreatic cancer.
• Peter Orton, 64, English television producer, cancer.
• George Paraskevaides, 91, Cypriot businessman and philanthropist.
• Karlheinz Stockhausen, 79, German composer.
• Tony Tenser, 87, British film producer.
• Harry Thomson Jones, 82, British racehorse trainer.
• Rene Villanueva, 53, Filipino playwright and author, stroke.
• John Winter, 83, Australian athlete, 1948 Olympics high jump gold medalist.

  6

• Wolfgang Assbrock, 55, German politician, member of the CDU and Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia.
• Mike Donkin, 56, British reporter and journalist, cancer.
• Katy French, 24, Irish model, suspected overdose.
• Jacques Hébert, 84, Canadian politician, Senator.
• John Hill, 95, British politician, Conservative MP for South Norfolk.
• John Pilkington Hudson, 97, British horticulturist and bomb disposal expert.
• Gennadi Kinko, 65, Soviet Estonian rower.
• Murray Klein, 84, American businessman, co-owner of New York City's Zabar's food emporium, lung cancer.
• Shelley Rohde, 74, British journalist and author.
• Ken Southworth, 89, American animator, stroke.
• András Szőllősy, 86, Hungarian composer.

  7

• Noel Forster, 75, British artist.
• Fuad Hassan, 78, Indonesian Minister of Education, cancer.
• John Hollowbread, 73, British football goalkeeper.
• Sartono Kartodirdjo, 86, Indonesian historian.

  8

• Donald Burton, 73, British actor, husband of actress Carroll Baker, emphysema.
• Ioan Fiscuteanu, 70, Romanian actor, colon cancer.
• Dmitry Grigorieff, 89, American Episcopalian prelate, dean emeritus of Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Washington, D.C., cardiac arrest.
• Roger King, 63, American TV executive, developed Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy! and The Oprah Winfrey Show, stroke.
• Gerardo García Pimentel, 24, Mexican crime reporter, shot.
• Al Scaduto, 79, American cartoonist.

  9

• John Stuart Archer, 64, British chemical engineer and academic administrator.
• István Borzsák, 92, Hungarian classical scholar.
• Edward Dutkiewicz, 46, British artist.
• Wayne Howard, 58, American comic book artist, heart attack.
• Apichet Kittikorncharoen, 25, Thai singer, brain injury.
• Jim Langley, 78, British footballer for England, Fulham, and QPR, heart attack.
• Matthew J. Murray, 24, American spree killer, suicide by gunshot.
• Elspeth Rostow, 90, American academic, University of Texas dean, widow of Walt Whitman Rostow, heart attack.
• Kurt Schmied, 81, Austrian footballer, former member of the national team.
• Thore Skogman, 76, Swedish musician, stroke.
• Rafael Sperafico, 26, Brazilian racing driver, race crash.
• J. Fife Symington Jr., 97, American diplomat to Trinidad and Tobago, complications of old age.
• Gordon Zahn, 84, American Catholic peace activist, co-founder of Pax Christi USA, complications of Alzheimer's disease.

  10

• Ashleigh Aston Moore, 26, American-born Canadian actress.
• George Morris, 76, American football player, apparent heart attack.
• Aqsa Parvez, 16, Canadian allegedly killed for refusing to wear hijab, strangled.
• Jerry Ricks, 67, American blues guitarist.
• James Roxburgh, 86, British prelate, Bishop of Barking.
• Gordon Samuels, 84, Australian governor of New South Wales.
• Henrietta Yurchenco, 91, American folklorist.

  11

• Allan Bérubé, 61, American gay historian and writer, complications from stomach ulcers.
• José Luis Calva, 38, Mexican writer, serial killer and cannibal, suicide by hanging.
• Yuriy Chervochkin, 22, Russian opposition activist, beating.
• Freddie Fields, 84, American Hollywood agent, producer and studio executive, lung cancer.
• Pat Hannigan, 71, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Christie Hennessy, 62, Irish singer and songwriter, cancer.
• Nicholas Kao Se Tseien, 110, Chinese supercentenarian, world's oldest Catholic priest.
• Carl Ludwig, Archduke of Austria, 89, Austrian son of Emperor Charles I of Austria.
• Ottomar Pinto, 76, Brazilian politician, Governor of Roraima, heart attack.
• Tatsuzō Shimaoka, 88, Japanese potter, living national treasure, acute liver failure.
• Terry Yates, 57, American biologist, discovered source of hantavirus, brain cancer.

  12

• Basuki, 51, Indonesian comedian.
• Ted Corbitt, 88, American ultramarathon runner, respiratory complications.
• Shawn Eckardt, 40, American bodyguard and businessman, conspired to assault Nancy Kerrigan, natural causes.
• Josep Guinovart, 80, Spanish artist.
• François al-Hajj, 54, Lebanese Army general, roadside bomb.
• Rosemarie Koczy, 72, Holocaust survivor, German artist and teacher known for her many works dealing with the Holocaust.
• Márcio Montarroyos, 59, Brazilian jazz trumpeter, lung cancer.
• Jim Nevill, 80, British police officer, former head of Scotland Yard anti-terrorist squad.
• Alfons Maria Stickler, 97, Austrian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Ike Turner, 76, American R&B musician and record producer, ex-husband of singer Tina Turner, cocaine overdose.
• Schuster Vance, 47, American actor, cancer.
• Lee Vincent, 91, American bassist and radio personality, heart failure.
• Yuli Vorontsov, 78, Russian diplomat, former ambassador to the United Nations and United States.

  13

• Philippe Clay, 80, French singer and actor.
• Fuat Deniz, 40, Swedish-Assyrian sociologist, stabbed.
• Wiggo Hanssen, 84, Norwegian Olympic speed skater.
• Laura Huxley, 96, American musician and author, widow of Aldous Huxley, cancer.
• Jan Jakub Kotík, 35, Czech artist and rock drummer, cancer.
• Alain Payet, 60, French adult film director.
• Robert Russin, 93, American sculptor.
• Floyd Westerman, 71, American musician, actor and Native American activist, leukemia.

  14

• Issam Al Zaim, 67, Syrian economist, former Minister of Industry, heart attack.
• Hank Kaplan, 87, American boxing historian, cancer.
• Maria Lauterbach, 20, American marine and murder victim.
• Cuddles Marshall, 82, American baseball player.
• Frank Morgan, 73, American saxophonist.
• Johnny Science, 52, American drag king, heart failure.
• Emory Sekaquaptewa, 78, American indigenous Hopi anthropologist.
• Krishna Srinivas, 94, Indian poet and writer.
• Jan Švéda, 76, Czech Olympic rower.

  15

• John Berg, 58, American actor, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Jean Bottéro, 93, French Assyriologist.
• St. Clair Bourne, 64, American documentary filmmaker, pulmonary embolism.
• Julia Carson, 69, American member of the House of Representatives from Indiana since 1997, lung cancer.
• Gerard Fairtlough, 77, British biochemist and entrepreneur.
• Andrzeja Górska, 91, Polish nun, abbess of the Grey Ursulines.
• Ryan Gracie, 33, Brazilian martial artist.
• Clem Jones, 89, Australian Lord Mayor of Brisbane, pneumonia.
• Matjaž Klopčič, 73, Slovenian film director.
• Diane Middlebrook, 68, American biographer and poet, cancer.
• Caetano N'Tchama, 52, Bissau-Guinean politician, Prime Minister.
• Giuseppe Rinaldi, 88, Italian actor and voice actor.
• Tejeshwar Singh, 60, Indian publisher, newsreader and theatre activist, cardiac arrest.
• Ace Vergel, 55, Filipino actor, cardiac arrest.
• Jonathan Witchell, 33, British BBC reporter for Radio Kent.