Deaths in July 2007

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

July 2007

1

• Joerg Kalt, 40, Austrian cinematographer, suicide.
• Robert McBride, 96, American composer and instrumentalist.
• Colleen McCrory, 57, Canadian environmental activist, brain cancer.
• David Ritcheson, 18, American hate crime victim, suicide by jumping.
• Gerhard Skrobek, 85, German sculptor of Hummel figurines, complications of heart surgery.

2

• Philip Booth, 81, American poet and educator, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Robert Brown, 71, American cartoonist, stroke.
• Brahim Déby, 27, Chadian son of the national President and former presidential advisor, chemical asphyxiation.
• Howell M. Estes II, 92, American Air Force general during the Vietnam War, heart ailment.
• Ray Goins, 71, American bluegrass musician.
• Robert Keeton, 88, American District Court judge, professor at Harvard Law School, complications from pulmonary embolism.
• Peter Lyman, 66, American information researcher, brain cancer.
• John Pinches, 91, British rower and soldier.
• Dilip Sardesai, 66, Indian cricketer, multiple organ failure.
• Beverly Sills, 78, American opera singer, lung cancer.
• Jimmy Walker, 63, American basketball player, lung cancer.
• Al Williams, 60, American basketball player, liver cancer.
• Kevin Woodcock, 64, British cartoonist.
• Hy Zaret, 99, American lyricist.

3

• Anne Dreydel, 89, British educationalist, co-founder of the Oxford English Centre.
• Eric Gullage, 63, Canadian politician, cancer.
• Beppie Noyes, 87, American author, stroke.
• Claude Pompidou, 94, French widow of former Prime Minister and President Georges Pompidou.
• Boots Randolph, 80, American saxophonist, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Dave Simmons, 58, English footballer.

4

• Barış Akarsu, 28, Turkish rock musician, car accident.
• Liane Bahler, 25, German cyclist, car accident.
• José Roberto Espinosa, 59, Mexican footballer, coach and journalist, pneumonia and cancer.
• Johnny Frigo, 90, American jazz violinist and bass player, complications from a fall.
• Ken MacAfee, 77, American football player, heart attack.
• James Street, 13, American voice actor, fatal head injuries from a skateboarding accident.
• Bill Pinkney, 81, American singer who was the last original member of The Drifters, probable heart attack.
• 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.
• Ted Row, 84, Australian politician.
• Eleanor Stewart, 94, American film and voice actor, Alzheimer's disease.
• Henrique Viana, 71, Portuguese actor and singer, cancer.

5

• Régine Crespin, 80, French operatic soprano, liver cancer.
• Odile Crick, 86, British-born artist, cancer.
• David Hilberman, 95, American animator, co-founder of United Productions of America.
• Kerwin Mathews, 81, American actor.
• George Melly, 80, British jazz and blues musician, lung cancer.
• Sylvan Shemitz, 82, United States lighting designer for Jefferson Memorial, Grand Central Terminal, heart attack.

6

• Robert Frederick Carr, 63, American serial killer.
• Don Mumford, 53, American jazz drummer.
• Marguerite Vogt, 94, American polio and cancer researcher.
• Eileen Wearne, 95, Australian athlete at the 1932 Summer Olympics and Australia's oldest surviving Olympian.
• Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, 68, American romance writer, cancer.
• Lois Wyse, 80, American advertising executive, author and columnist, stomach cancer.

7

• Ion Calvocoressi, 88, British soldier and stockbroker.
• Dame Anne McLaren, 80, British geneticist and developmental biologist, car accident.
• Donald Michie, 83, British researcher in artificial intelligence, car accident.
• John G. Mitchell, 75, American environment editor and author, National Geographic, heart attack.
• Jack Odell, 87, British engineer and co-founder of Matchbox Toys.
• John Szarkowski, 81, American photography curator, complications of a stroke.

8

• Alemão, 23, Brazilian footballer, car accident.
• Jindřich Feld, 82, Czech composer.
• Haroon-ul-Islam, Pakistan Army Lieutenant-Colonel, shot.
• Itzik Kol, 75, Israeli film producer, pneumonia.
• Chandra Shekhar, 80, Indian Prime Minister and Member of Lok Sabha, multiple myeloma.
• Jack B. Sowards, 78, American screenwriter, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

9

• Esteban Areta, 75, Spanish international footballer and coach.
• John Baker, 71, Australian general, Chief of the Australian Defence Force.
• Hans Eschenbrenner, 96, German Olympic shooter.
• John Fogarty, 78, Australian rugby union winger, played two tests for the Wallabies.
• John Hill, 83, American lawyer and politician, Texas Attorney General, Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice, heart condition.
• Jerry Ito, 79, Japanese-American actor, pneumonia.
• Charles Lane, 102, American actor.
• Ralph Paffenbarger, 84, American doctor who performed an early study on the importance of exercise, heart failure.
• Penny Thomson, 56, British film producer, cancer.
• Peter Tuddenham, 88, British voice actor.
• John Wilson, 84, Irish politician, Tánaiste.

10

• Theresa Duncan, 40, American video game designer, suicide.
• Tibor Feheregyhazi, 75, Hungarian-Canadian actor and theatre director, prostate cancer.
• Devin Gaines, 22, American graduate, awarded five undergraduate degrees, drowned.
• Abdul Rashid Ghazi, 43, Pakistani cleric at the Red Mosque in Islamabad, shot.
• Corbin Harney, 87, American Western Shoshone leader and environmental activist, complications from cancer.
• Bucko Kilroy, 86, American football player, scout and general manager for the New England Patriots.
• Edward Lowbury, 93, British bacteriologist.
• Morton D. Magoffin, 91, American air force colonel and flying ace during World War II.
• Doug Marlette, 57, American Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, car accident.
• Marjorie Morgan, 92, Canadian author, Alzheimer's disease.
• Mireya Rodríguez, 70, Cuban Olympic fencer.
• William Seegers, 106, German-American last veteran of World War I and California's last World War I veteran.
• Zheng Xiaoyu, 62, Chinese official, former head of the State Food and Drug Administration, executed.

11

• Glenda Adams, 68, Australian writer, ovarian cancer.
• Shag Crawford, 90, American baseball umpire.
• Bill Flynn, 58, South African actor, heart attack.
• Livio Fongaro, 69, Italian footballer and coach.
• Richard Franklin, 58, Australian film director, prostate cancer.
• Ove Grahn, 64, Swedish footballer.
• Lady Bird Johnson, 94, American First Lady of the United States, natural causes.
• Rod Lauren, 67, American actor, suicide by jumping.
• Alfonso López Michelsen, 94, Colombian President and Foreign Minister, heart attack.
• Ed Mirvish, 92, Canadian retail pioneer, natural causes.
• Jimmy Skinner, 90, Canadian ice hockey coach.
• Timothy Sprigge, 75, British idealist philosopher.
• Larry Staverman, 70, American basketball player and first head coach for the Indiana Pacers.
• Medha Yodh, 79, Indian dancer and dance teacher.

12

• Marc Behm, 82, American writer.
• Robert Burås, 31, Norwegian guitarist for Madrugada and My Midnight Creeps.
• Mr. Butch, 55, American homeless person and local celebrity in Boston, scooter accident.
• Allen Clarke, 96, British educationalist.
• Nigel Dempster, 65, British journalist, progressive supranuclear palsy.
• Pat Fordice, 71, American broadcaster and First Lady of Mississippi, cancer.
• Joseíto, 80, Spanish football player, stroke.
• Forbes Johnston, 35, British football player.
• Jim Mitchell, 63, American porn producer, heart attack.
• James Shen, 98, Taiwanese diplomat, last ambassador of Taiwan to the United States.
• Kesha Wizzart, 18, British singer and television show contestant, murdered.
• Stan Zemanek, 60, Australian radio presenter, brain cancer.

13

• Harry Fain, 88, American family lawyer, pneumonia.
• Otto von der Gablentz, 76, German diplomat.
• Khalid Hassan, 23, Iraqi journalist, shot.
• Frank Maher, 78, British stuntman.
• Michael Readon, 42, American free solo climber, drowned.

14

• Edward Boyse, 83, American physician, pneumonia.
• Eva Crackles, 89, British botanist.
• Nan Cross, 79, South African anti-apartheid activist.
• John Ferguson Sr., 68, Canadian hockey player and coach, prostate cancer.
• Bernard Pagel, 77, British astrophysicist, cancer.
• Russel Timoshenko, 23, NYPD police officer.
• John Warrender, 2nd Baron Bruntisfield, 86, British soldier and aristocrat.

15

• Bluma Appel, 86, Canadian philanthropist and patron of the arts, lung cancer.
• Alberto Romão Dias, 65-66, Portuguese organometallic chemist, professor at the IST.
• Kelly Johnson, 49, British guitarist, cancer of the spine.
• Kieron Moore, 82, Irish actor.
• Schelto Patijn, 70, Dutch politician, mayor of Amsterdam.
• Tsang Tsou Choi, 85, Hong Kong-based graffiti artist whose works were included in the 2003 Venice Biennale, heart disease.

16

• Angus Allan, 70, British comic strip writer.
• Simone Barck, 62, German contemporary historian and literary scholar.
• Tom Brooks, 88, Australian cricketer and international umpire.
• Mikhail Kononov, 67, Russian actor, after long illness.
• Carl McNabb, 90, American baseball player.
• Dmitri Prigov, 66, Russian poet, heart attack.
• Danielle Georgette Reddé, 95, French resistance fighter in World War II
• Alan Shepherd, 71, British motorcycle racer.
• Kurt Steyrer, 87, Austrian health minister and Socialist presidential candidate, after short illness.

17

• Jeremy Blake, 35, American video artist, suicide by drowning.
• Bart Burns, 89, American actor.
• Peter Denning, 57, British cricketer, cancer.
• Grant Forsberg, 47, American actor.
• Teresa Stich-Randall, 79, American opera singer.
• Notable Brazilians who were killed in TAM Airlines Flight 3054:
• *Márcio, 35, football player and FIFA agent.
• *Júlio Redecker, 51, leader of the Social Democracy Party.
• *Paulo Rogério Amoretty Souza, 60, chairman of SCI, attorney for Corinthians.

18

• Wayne A. Downing, 67, American retired army general, meningitis.
• Jerry Hadley, 55, American opera singer, suicide by gunshot.
• Charles Jauncey, Baron Jauncey of Tullichettle, 82, British Law Lord.
• John Kronus, 38, American professional wrestler, heart failure.
• Gary Lupul, 48, Canadian hockey player.
• Sir Gordon MacWhinnie, 85, British-born Hong Kong accountant and public servant.
• Orlando McFarlane, 69, Cuban Major League Baseball player.
• Kenji Miyamoto, 98, Japanese politician, leader of the Japanese Communist Party for 40 years, old age.
• Sekou Sundiata, 58, American poet, musician and performance artist, heart failure.
• Charles Wylie, 87, British army officer and mountain climber.

19

• Glen Angus, 36, Canadian game artist, heart failure.
• Ivor Emmanuel, 79, British singer and actor, stroke.
• A. K. Faezul Huq, 62, Bangladeshi politician, lawyer, and freelance journalist, sudden heart failure.
• Roberto Fontanarrosa, 62, Argentine cartoonist and writer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Howard Judd, 71, American women's health researcher, congestive heart failure.
• Shirley Slesinger Lasswell, 84, American marketing pioneer, sued Disney over Winnie the Pooh royalties, respiratory failure.
• Hector MacLean, 93, British World War II fighter pilot.
• Roger Nathan, 2nd Baron Nathan, 84, British solicitor and aristocrat.
• Alanah Woody, 51, American archaeologist, executive director of the Nevada Rock Art Foundation.

20

• Ollie Bridewell, 21, British motorcycle racer, crash during race practice for the British Superbike Championship.
• Golde Flami, 89, Argentine actress.
• Tammy Faye Messner, 65, American evangelist, metastatic colon cancer.
• David Preece, 44, British footballer, throat cancer.
• Maurice Riel, 85, Canadian Senator.
• Kai Siegbahn, 89, Swedish physicist at Uppsala University, won Nobel Prize in Physics in 1981.
• Geoff Taylor, 84, English footballer.
• Pete Wilson, 62, American broadcaster, heart attack.

21

• Don Arden, 81, British rock manager, father of Sharon Osbourne.
• René Deceja, 73, Uruguayan Olympic cyclist.
• Jack Fearey, 84, American television pioneer, Bumbershoot festival founder.
• Jesús de Polanco, 77, Spanish media entrepreneur and publisher, complications of arthritic disease.
• Sherwin Wine, 79, American rabbi, founder of Birmingham Temple and Humanistic Judaism movement, car accident.
• Yang Xizong, 79, Chinese politician, Governor of Sichuan province and Communist Party Chief of Henan province.

22

• Derek Bazalgette, 83, British admiral.
• Sir John Harrison Burnett, 85, British academic, Principal of Edinburgh University.
• Carmelo Camet, 102, Argentine 1928 Olympic bronze medalist in fencing and oldest living former Olympian.
• Mike Coolbaugh, 35, American baseball first base coach for the Tulsa Drillers, head injury.
• Jarrod Cunningham, 38, New Zealand rugby union footballer for London Irish, motor neurone disease.
• Norma Gabler, 84, American textbook campaigner, Parkinson's disease.
• Walter Jona, 81, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.
• László Kovács, 74, Hungarian-American cinematographer.
• André Milongo, 71, Congolese Prime Minister.
• Ulrich Mühe, 54, German actor, stomach cancer.
• Juan Sebastián Restrepo, 20, Colombian American soldier and medic.
• Jean Stablinski, 75, French cyclist.
• Rollie Stiles, 100, American oldest living former Major League Baseball player.
• Gerhard Thielcke, 76, German conservationist, BUND co-founder, head injury.

23

• Franco Cuomo, 69, Italian writer.
• Sir Tom Davis, 90, Cook Islander Prime Minister of the Cook Islands.
• Otis Davis, 86, American Major League Baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
• Ernst Otto Fischer, 88, German Nobel Prize–winning chemist.
• Tor Kamata, 70, American professional wrestler, heart disease.
• Daniel E. Koshland Jr., 87, American scientist, editor of Science magazine, stroke.
• Benjamin Libet, 91, American pioneering scientist in the field of human consciousness.
• Ron Miller, 74, American songwriter, cardiac arrest.
• Gyani Nand, 64, Fijian politician, Minister for Agriculture.
• Joan O'Hara, 76, Irish actress, heart disease.
• Mirsha Serrano, 28, Mexican footballer for Tecos UAG, car accident.
• George Tabori, 93, Hungarian-born British theater director.
• Mohammed Zahir Shah, 92, Afghan royal, last king of Afghanistan.

24

• Giorgio Anglesio, 85, Italian Olympic fencer.
• Eric Davis, 75, English footballer.
• Albert Ellis, 93, American pioneer in cognitive-behavioral therapy, kidney and heart failure.
• Chaney Kley, 34, American actor, drug overdose.
• Abdullah Mehsud, 31, Pakistani Taliban commander, suicide by hand grenade.
• Geoffrey Nuttall, 95, British historian and Nonconformist minister.
• Riley Ann Sawyers, 2, American murder victim.
• Edward J. Sullivan, 86, American Clerk of Courts for Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
• Charles Whiting, 80, British author and military historian.
• William Young, 107, British airman, last known remaining World War I veteran of the Royal Flying Corps.
• Nicola Zaccaria, 84, Greek operatic bass, Alzheimer's disease.

25

• Bae Hyung-kyu, 42, South Korean pastor, Taliban hostage, shot.
• Danny Bergara, 64, Uruguayan football manager of Stockport County and Brunei, stroke.
• Raymond Bristow, 98, British priest, longest-serving Anglican minister.
• Jake, 12, American search and rescue dog for September 11, 2001 attacks and Hurricane Katrina, cancer.
• Bernd Jakubowski, 54, German footballer, after short illness.
• Jesse Marunde, 27, American strongman, heart attack.

26

• George Brown, 65, Belizean Chief Justice, illness.
• Lars Forssell, 79, Swedish author and member of the Swedish Academy.
• Eleanor Josephine Macdonald, 101, American cancer researcher.
• John Normington, 70, British actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Skip Prosser, 56, American college basketball coach for Wake Forest University, heart attack.
• Shambo, 6, British Hindu sacred bull, lethal injection due to bovine tuberculosis.
• Luis Alberto Villamizar Cárdenas, 62, Colombian politician and diplomat, complications of lung surgery.

27

• Gabriel Cisneros, 66, Spanish politician, co-author of the 1978 Constitution, complications from stroke.
• Lucky Grills, 79, Australian comedian and actor.
• Fannie Hillsmith, 96, American Cubist painter.
• Abdullah Kurshumi, 75, Yemeni politician, Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic.
• James Oyebola, 46, British heavyweight boxer, shot.
• Alan Pottasch, 79, American advertising executive for Pepsi, developed Pepsi Generation ad campaign.
• Christophe Ruer, 42, French Olympic modern pentathlete, motorcycle accident.
• William J. Tuttle, 95, American make-up artist.

28

• Crown Prince Bảo Long, 71, Vietnamese son of the last Emperor Bảo Đại.
• Kazi Lhendup Dorjee, 102, Indian first chief minister of Sikkim, heart attack.
• Karl Gotch, 82, German-born professional wrestler.
• Isidore Isou, 82, French poet, film critic and artist.
• Jim LeRoy, 46, American stunt pilot, air crash.
• Sal Mosca, 80, American jazz pianist and educator.

29

• Ian Anstruther, 85, British diplomat, baronet, writer and literary patron.
• Jack Cole, 87, American publisher, cancer.
• James David, 79, American football player, after long illness.
• Art Davis, 73, American jazz double-bassist, heart attack.
• Phil Drabble, 93, British television presenter.
• Mike Reid, 67, English comedian and actor, heart attack.
• Bill Robinson, 64, American baseball player and coach.
• Michel Serrault, 79, French actor, cancer.
• Tom Snyder, 71, American talk show host and journalist, complications of leukemia.
• Marvin Zindler, 85, American reporter, pancreatic cancer.

30

• Michelangelo Antonioni, 94, Italian film director.
• Teoctist Arăpaşu, 92, Romanian Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, heart attack.
• Ingmar Bergman, 89, Swedish film director, Oscar winner.
• Fausto Sucena Rasga Filho, 78, Brazilian Olympic basketball player.
• Tam McGraw, 54, British mobster, heart attack.
• Ali Meshkini, 85, Iranian Chairman of the Assembly of Experts, respiratory and kidney complications.
• Anne O'Brien, 95, American Olympic athlete.
• Makoto Oda, 75, Japanese writer and anti-war activist, cancer.
• Sean Stokes, 24, United States Marine.
• Richard Stott, 63, British newspaper editor and author, pancreatic cancer.
• Shim Sung-Min, 29, South Korean Taliban hostage, shot.
• Bill Walsh, 75, American Hall of Fame football coach, leukemia.
• Wen Xingyu, 65, Chinese comedian, lung cancer.

31

• Margaret Avison, 89, Canadian poet.
• J. Esmonde Barry, 83, Canadian healthcare activist and political commentator, complications from a heart attack.
• Norman Cohn, 92, British historian, degenerative heart condition.
• Oliver Morgan, 74, American rhythm & blues vocalist, heart attack.
• R. D. Wingfield, 79, British writer and radio dramatist.