Deaths in October 2007

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

  October 2007

1

• Bernard Delaire, 108, French Naval veteran of World War I, one of the last six identified.
• Bruce Hay, 57, British rugby player for Britain and Scotland, brain tumour.
• Ronnie Hazlehurst, 79, British theme song composer and jazz musician, stroke.
• Israel Kugler, 90, American labor leader and professor, pneumonia.
• Harry Lee, 75, American politician, Sheriff of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, leukemia.
• Chris Mainwaring, 41, Australian footballer, television and radio sports journalist.
• Peggy Maley, 84, American actress.
• James A. Martin, 105, American Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, world's oldest Jesuit, pneumonia.
• Al Oerter, 71, American athlete and Olympic gold medallist in discus, heart failure.
• Tetsuo Okamoto, 75, Brazilian swimmer and Brazil's first Olympic swimming medallist, respiratory failure.
• Pedro Saúl Pérez, 54, Dominican advocate for the rights of Dominican immigrants in Puerto Rico, heart attack.
• Ned Sherrin, 76, British broadcaster and theatre producer, throat cancer.
• Ralph W. Sturges, 88, American Mohegan tribal chief.
• Henry Wells, 92, American expert on Latin American politics, professor and author, complications from Alzheimer's disease.

  2

• Frederick Bayer, 85, American emeritus curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, heart failure.
• Tex Coulter, 82, American National and Canadian Football League player.
• Gianni Danzi, 67, Italian Archbishop of the Territorial Prelature of Loreto.
• Elfi von Dassanowsky, 83, Austrian opera singer, actress and film producer.
• Christopher Derrick, 86, British writer.
• Šime Đodan, 79, Croatian parliamentarian, defence minister.
• Gary Franklin, 79, American film critic, KABC-TV.
• Richard Goldwater, 71, American president of Archie Comics, creator of Josie and the Pussycats, cancer.
• George Grizzard, 79, American actor, lung cancer.
• Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, 94, Greek former Princess of Greece, last surviving great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
• Dan Keating, 105, Irish republican activist, last surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence.
• J. Edward Lundy, 92, American automobile executive.
• Tawn Mastrey, 53, American radio disc jockey, hepatitis C.
• James Michaels, 86, American editor of Forbes, pneumonia.
• José Antonio Ríos Granados, 48, Mexican politician, mayor of Tultitlán, air crash.
• Willi Rössler, 83, German Olympic fencer.
• Alec Spalding, 84, British scout leader.

  3

• John Buxton, 73, New Zealand rugby union player.
• Violet Kazue de Cristoforo, 90, American poet, held in Japanese-American internment camps during WWII, stroke.
• Kenneth R. Harding, 93, American Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives, pneumonia.
• Wyn Harness, 47, British journalist.
• Herbert Muschamp, 59, American architecture critic for The New York Times, lung cancer.
• Pablo Palazuelo, 90, Spanish artist.
• Tony Ryan, 71, Irish entrepreneur and joint founder of Ryanair, after long illness.
• Rogelio Salmona, 78, Colombian architect, Alvar Aalto Medal and Prince Claus Award winner, cancer.
• Sir Richard Trant, 79, British Army general.
• Giuseppe Valdengo, 93, Italian operatic baritone.
• M. N. Vijayan, 77, Indian academic, writer and journalist, heart attack.

  4

• Bob Burdick, 70, American NASCAR driver.
• Chen Chi-li, 64, Chinese-born Taiwanese gangster, killer of dissident journalist Henry Liu, pancreatic cancer.
• Antonie Iorgovan, 59, Romanian politician, main author of the Constitution of Romania, heart attack.
• Kim Min-woo, 21, South Korean ice dancer, traffic collision.
• Don Nottebart, 71, American Major League Baseball player, stroke.

  5

• John Atchison, 53, American federal prosecutor and alleged child sex offender, suicide by hanging.
• Alexandra Boulat, 45, French photojournalist, aneurysm.
• Walter Kempowski, 78, German author and archivist, intestinal cancer.
• Władysław Kopaliński, 99, Polish lexicographer.
• Vladimir Kuzin, 77, Russian 1956 Winter Olympics gold medallist, long illness.
• Steven Massarsky, 59, American attorney and businessman, complications related to cancer.
• Edwyn Owen, 71, American ice hockey player, gold medallist at the 1960 Winter Olympics, car fire.
• Matilde Salvador i Segarra, 89, Spanish composer, stroke.
• Justin Tuveri, 109, Italian-French World War I veteran.

  6

• Babasaheb Bhosale, 86, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
• Robert W. Bussard, 79, American physicist, researcher of nuclear fusion, cancer.
• Jo Ann Davis, 57, American member of the US House of Representatives from Virginia since 2001, breast cancer.
• Nancy DeShone, 75, American baseball player
• Rodney Diak, 83, British stage and film actor, cancer.
• Phil Dodds, 56, American audio engineer, cancer.
• Bud Ekins, 77, American motorcycle racer and stunt performer, natural causes.
• Terence Wilmot Hutchison, 95, British economist.
• Tom Murphy, 39, Irish Tony Award-winning actor of stage and screen, lymphatic cancer.
• Laza Ristovski, 51, Serbian keyboardist, multiple sclerosis.
• George F. Senner Jr., 85, American member of the US House of Representatives from Arizona.

  7

• Norifumi Abe, 32, Japanese MotoGP racer, traffic accident.
• Stéphane Maurice Bongho-Nouarra, 70, Congolese Prime Minister.
• Sir Alan Campbell, 88, British diplomat.
• Sisi Chen, 68, Chinese actress, pancreatic cancer.
• Paul Cullen, 98, Australian army general.
• Luciana Frassati Gawronska, 105, Polish-Italian writer and anti-Nazi activist, mother of Jas Gawronski.
• Herb Parker, 86, American educator and football coach.
• George E. Sangmeister, 76, American member of the US House of Representatives from Illinois, leukemia.
• Jiřina Steimarová, 91, Czech actress.
• Lilis Suryani, 59, Indonesian singer, uterine cancer.
• Joe Waggonner, 89, American member of the US House of Representatives from Louisiana.

  8

• Constantine Andreou, 90, Brazilian-born Greek-French painter and sculptor.
• Milan Đukić, 61, Serbian-Croatian politician, leader of the Serb People's Party.
• John Henry, 32, American Hall of Fame thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized after kidney failure.
• Nicky James, 64, British pop singer, brain tumour.
• Zdzisław Peszkowski, 89, Polish Roman Catholic priest, advocate for the families of Katyn victims.
• Salem Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, 69, Kuwaiti politician, member of the ruling family, after long illness.
• Francis Schewetta, 88, French Olympic silver medal-winning athlete.
• Jean-François Van Der Motte, 93, Belgian Olympic cyclist.
• Chick Zamick, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.

  9

• Enrico Banducci, 85, American nightclub impresario.
• Carol Bruce, 87, American actress, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Henk van Brussel, 72, Dutch footballer and football manager, heart attack.
• Fausto Correia, 55, Portuguese politician, heart attack.
• Belinda Dann, 107, Australian centenarian, longest-lived member of the Stolen Generation.
• Mary Louise Kolanko, 75, American baseball player.
• Robert McGehee, 64, American Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Progress Energy Inc, stroke.
• Dudley Ryder, 7th Earl of Harrowby, 84, British aristocrat and banker.
• Kurt Schwaen, 98, German composer, natural causes.
• Bram Zeegers, 58, Dutch lawyer and key witness in the trial of Willem Holleeder.

  10

• S. R. Bommai, 83, Indian politician.
• Ambrose De Paoli, 73, American-born Roman Catholic Archbishop, nuncio to Australia, leukemia.
• Ken Fry, 86, Australian politician, MP for Fraser.
• Francis García, 49, Mexican transvestite actress and designer, pulmonary thrombosis.
• Len Keogh, 76, Australian politician, MP for Bowman.
• Norman Mashabane, 51, South African politician, former ambassador to Indonesia, car accident.
• Mehmed Uzun, 54, Turkish novelist, stomach cancer.

  11

• Sri Chinmoy, 76, Indian-born philosopher and guru, heart attack.
• Ignatius D'Cunha, 83, Indian Bishop Emeritus of Aurangabad.
• John H. Edwards, 79, British geneticist.
• Tex Hill, 92, American fighter pilot and flying ace, member of the Flying Tigers.
• Juca, 78, Portuguese footballer and coach.
• Rauni Mollberg, 78, Finnish film director, leukemia.
• Pat "Gravy" Patterson, 73, American baseball and football coach at Louisiana Tech, suicide by gunshot.
• Roy Rosenzweig, 57, American historian, lung cancer.
• Carlos Salgado, 67, Honduran journalist and comedian, shot.
• David Salmon, 95, American Athabascan tribal chief, cancer.
• Werner von Trapp, 91, Austrian-born musician and singer, member of the Trapp Family Singers who inspired The Sound of Music.

  12

• Paulo Autran, 85, Brazilian actor, lung cancer.
• Kim Beazley Sr., 90, Australian politician, former government minister.
• Lonny Chapman, 87, American actor, heart disease.
• Noel Coleman, 87, British actor.
• Ruby Hooper, 83, American first female major party candidate to run for Governor of North Carolina, 1993 North Carolina Mother of the Year.
• Kisho Kurokawa, 73, Japanese architect, heart failure.
• Judy Mazel, 63, American cookbook author, complications from peripheral vascular disease.
• Ranjit Singh Sarkaria, 91, Indian Supreme Court judge, head of the Sarkaria Commission.
• Soe Win, 59, Burmese Prime Minister, leukemia.

  13

• Vernon Bellecourt, 75, Native American activist, pneumonia.
• Andrée de Jongh, 90, Belgian Resistance member, organized the Comet Line POW escape network.
• Bob Denard, 78, French mercenary.
• Obaidul Huq, 95, Bangladeshi journalist and filmmaker.
• Alec Kessler, 40, American basketball player, heart attack.
• Kribensis, 23, Irish racehorse.
• Marion Michael, 66, German actress and singer, heart failure.
• James L. Oakes, 83, American federal judge.
• Jim Poston, 63, British diplomat, Governor of the Turks & Caicos Islands.