Famous People Who Died in 2007 (Part 2)

Deaths 201 - 400 of 816

Kurt Vonnegut

Apr 11 Kurt Vonnegut Jr, American author, dies from head trauma at 84

Apr 11 Ronald Speirs, American Army officer (CO of Easy Company), dies at 86
Apr 11 Janet McDonald, American novelist (b. 1954)
Apr 12 Kevin Crease, Australian TV anchor (b. 1936)
Apr 13 Don Selwyn, Māori actor & film director, dies at 71
Apr 14 June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author and social activist (b. 1924)
Apr 14 Don Ho, American musician (b. 1930)
Apr 15 Brant Parker, American cartoonist, dies at 86
Apr 16 Gaetan Duchesne, Canadian hockey player (b. 1962)
Apr 16 Maria Lenk, Brazilian swimmer and first Brazilian woman to compete in the Olympic Games (b. 1915)
Apr 16 Seung-Hui Cho, Korean American murderer (b. 1984), see List of victims of the Virginia Tech massacre
Apr 16 Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, American instructor of French (b. 1958)
Apr 16 Kevin Granata, American professor of Engineering (b. 1961)
Apr 16 Liviu Librescu, American Jewish-Romanian professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics (b. 1930)
Apr 16 G. V. Loganathan, Indian American professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (b. 1954)
Apr 16 Frank Bateson, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1909)
Apr 17 Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality, dies at 96
Apr 18 Iccho Itoh, mayor of Nagasaki, dies at 61
Apr 19 Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (Trout), dies at 74
Apr 19 Helen Walton, wife of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton (b. 1919)
Apr 20 Andrew Hill, American jazz composer and pianist (b. 1931)
Apr 20 Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (b. 1931).
Apr 21 Lobby Loyde, Australian guitarist and songwriter (b. 1941)
Apr 21 Parry O'Brien, American shot putter (Olympic golds 1952, 1956, silver 1960), dies at 75
Apr 22 Juanita Millender-McDonald, American congresswoman from southern California, dies at 68
Apr 23 Paul Erdman, Canadian-born American economist & author, dies at 74
Apr 23 David Halberstam, American journalist, historian and author (Pulitzer 1964), dies at 73

Boris Yeltsin

Apr 23 Boris Yeltsin, Russian politician & 1st President of Russian Federation (1991-99), dies of congestive heart failure at 76

Apr 25 Alan Ball, English footballer (b. 1945)

Apr 25 Bobby "Boris" Pickett, American singer-songwriter (Monster Mash), dies from leukemia at 69
Apr 25 Arthur Milton, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1928)
Apr 25 Les Jackson, English cricket fast bowler (2 Tests, 7 wickets; Derbyshire), dies at 86
Apr 26 Jack Valenti, American political advisor & film executive, dies at 85
Apr 27 Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor, dies at 80
Apr 28 Robert "Dabbs" Greer, American actor (Gunsmoke, The Green Mile, Little House on Prairie), dies of a kidney and heart ailment at 90
Apr 28 Tommy Newsom, American saxophonist & bandleader (The Tonight Show), dies at 78
Apr 28 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist & philosopher, dies at 94
Apr 28 Bertha Wilson, Canadian lawyer & the 1st woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, dies at 83
Apr 29 Milt Bocek, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox), dies at 94
Apr 29 Josh Hancock, American baseball player, dies at 29
Apr 29 Ivica Račan, former Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1944)
Apr 29 Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor and stand-up comedian (Mot i brøstet, Olsen-banden), dies of heart failure at 85
Apr 29 Dick Motz, New Zealand cricket player (b. 1940)
Apr 29 Zhang Taofang, Chinese sniper (b. 1931)
Apr 30 Grégory Lemarchal, French singer, dies of health complications while waiting for a lung transplant at 23
Apr 30 Kevin Mitchell, American football player (b. 1971)
Apr 30 Tom Poston, American actor (Newhart, Mork & Mindy, Steve Allen Show, Newhart), dies from respiratory failure at 85
Apr 30 Gordon Scott [Werschkul], American actor (Tarzan series), dies at 80
Apr 30 Zola Taylor, American singer (b. 1938)
Apr 30 Jara Ribnikar, Serbian writer, dies at 94
Apr 30 Zoletta "Zola" Taylor, American pop singer (The Platters, 1954-62 - "The Great Pretender"; "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"), dies at 69
May 2 Brad McGann, New Zealand film director and screenwriter (b. 1964)
May 3 Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (b. 1913)
May 3 Wally Schirra, American astronaut (b. 1923)
May 3 Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician (b. 1932)
May 3 Ellsworth Milburn, American composer and educator (Menil Antiphons), dies of complications from pneumonia at 69
May 5 Theodore Harold Maiman, American Inventor and engineer (created 1st working laser), dies at 79
May 6 Enéas Carneiro, Brazilian politician (b. 1938)
May 6 Curtis Harrington, American film director (b. 1926)

May 6 Đorđe Novković, Croatian songwriter (b. 1943)
May 7 Diego Corrales, American boxer (b. 1977)
May 7 Octavian Paler, Romanian writer and journalist (b. 1926)
May 7 Yahweh ben Yahweh, American cult leader (b. 1935)
May 9 Dwight Wilson, second-to-last Canadian WWI veteran, dies at 106
May 9 Jacob Gilboa, Israeli composer, dies at 87
May 10 Brian Wolfson, British CEO (Wembley Stadium Ltd), dies at 71
May 10 Oliver Millar, British art historian (served in the Royal Household for 41 years), dies at 84
May 11 Malietoa Tanumafili II, Sovereign Ruler of Samoa, dies at 94
May 11 Bernard Gordon, American writer & producer (Earth vs. the Flying Saucers), dies at 88
May 12 Mullah Dadullah Akhund, Taliban military leader (b. 1966?)
May 12 Teddy Infuhr, American former child actor (The Bishop's Wife, They Live By Night), dies at 70
May 14 Mary Goldsmith, American ceramist (b. 1908)
May 14 Ülo Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter (b. 1921)
May 14 Jean Saubert, American alpine ski racer (Olympic giant slalom silver, slalom bronze 1964), dies of breast cancer at 65
May 15 Jerry Falwell, American TV evangelist, founder of Liberty University, dies at 73
May 15 Yolanda King, American actress and activist, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. (b. 1955)
May 17 Lloyd Alexander, author (b. 1924)
May 18 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist & Nobel Prize laureate (1991), dies at 74
May 18 Yoyoy Villame, Philippine novelty singer & movie actor, dies at 74
May 19 Dean Eyre, New Zealand politician (b. 1914)
May 19 Bernard Blaut, Polish soccer midfielder (36 caps; KP Legia Warsaw, FC Metz) and manager (UAE), dies at 67
May 20 Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer, coach, broadcaster (British Open 1948 3rd), dies at 93
May 25 Bill Johnston, Australian cricket fast/spin bowler (40 Tests, 160 wickets @ 23.91; Victoria), dies at 85
May 25 Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor, comedian and gameshow panelist (Match Game, Ghost & Mrs Muir), dies at 76
May 26 J Edward Oliver, cartoonist and composer (b. 1942)
May 27 Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (b. 1967)
May 27 Ed Yost, American inventor of the modern hot air balloon and known as "Father of the Modern Day Hot-Air Balloon.", dies at 87
May 27 Gretchen Wyler, American actress, dancer and animal rights activist (Silk Stockings), dies at 75
May 28 Marquise Hill, American football player (b. 1982)

May 28 Toshikatsu Matsuoka, Japanese politician (b. 1945)
May 29 Dave Balon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
May 29 Lois Browne-Evans, Bermudian Politician (stroke) (b. 1927)
May 29 Posteal Laskey, American convicted murderer widely believed to be the Cincinnati Strangler, dies of natural causes (b. 1938)
May 30 Jean-Claude Brialy, Algerian actor and director (Églantine, Circle of Love, Cousins), dies of cancer at 74
Jun 1 Arn Shein, American sports writer (editor The Daily Item 1949-74), dies at 78
Jun 1 Tony Thompson, American singer-songwriter in R&B group Hi-Five, dies at 31
Jun 2 Huang Ju, Chinese Vice-Premier
Jun 2 Kentaro Haneda, Japanese composer (b. 1949)
Jun 4 Clete Boyer, American baseball player (b. 1937)
Jun 4 Jim Clark, American sheriff and segregationist (b. 1922)
Jun 4 Bill France, Jr., NASCAR pioneer, dies of lung cancer at 74
Jun 4 Sotiris Moustakas, Greek actor (Zorba the Greek), dies at 66
Jun 4 Freddie Scott, American singer and songwriter (Cry to Me), dies at 74
Jun 4 Craig L. Thomas, United States Senator (b. 1933)
Jun 5 Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (b. 1922)
Jun 8 Kenny Olsson, Swedish speedway racer (b. 1977)
Jun 8 Richard Rorty, American postanalytic, pragmatic philosopher (b. 1931)
Jun 9 Frankie Abernathy, Former The Real World: San Diego castmate (b. 1981)
Jun 10 Augie Auer, Meteorologist and television presenter (b. 1940)
Jun 10 Charley Harper, American modernist artist, dies of pneumonia at 84
Jun 11 Imre Friedmann, American scientist (b. 1921)
Jun 11 Mary Ellen "Mala" Powers, American actress (Cyrano de Bergerac, The Wild Wild West), dies of leukaemia at 75
Jun 12 Don Herbert, American scientist and TV host (Watch Mr Wizard), dies at 89
Jun 12 Colin Fletcher, Welsh author and pioneering backpacker (Walking Through Time), dies of complications from an old head injury at 85
Jun 13 Walid Eido, Lebanese MP (b. 1942)
Jun 14 Ruth Graham [Bell], American Christian author and wife of evangelist Billy Graham, dies at 87
Jun 14 Robin Olds, American fighter pilot (b. 1922)

Kurt Waldheim

Jun 14 Kurt Waldheim, Austrian 4th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1972-81) and 9th President of Austria (1986-92), dies at 88

Jun 15 Claudia Cohen, American gossip columnist and socialite (b. 1950)

Jun 15 "Sensational" Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler (WWF), dies of an overdose at 49
Jun 15 Richard Bell, Canadian musician (Full Tilt Boogie Band), dies of multiple myeloma at 61
Jun 16 Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, Iranian cleric (b. 1931)
Jun 16 Mikhail Kononov, Soviet actor (b. 1940)
Jun 16 Pattie D'Arcy, American musical theater, session and touring vocalist (Cher), dies at 54
Jun 17 Gianfranco Ferrè, Italian fashion designer (b. 1944)
Jun 17 Serena Wilson, American belly dancer (b. 1933)
Jun 18 Bernard Manning, British comedian, dies at 76
Jun 18 Georges Thurston, Canadian singer (b. 1951)
Jun 19 El Fary, Spanish singer and actor, dies at 69
Jun 19 Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (b. 1947)
Jun 19 Antonio Aguilar [Barraza], Mexican singer, producer and actor (Emiliano Zapata) who popularized the Mexican equestrian sport la charrería, dies of pneumonia at 88
Jun 19 Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist and military correspondent for Haaretz, dies at 74
Jun 20 Trevor Henry, New Zealand Justice (b. 1902)
Jun 21 Bob Evans, American restaurateur (b. 1918)
Jun 22 Nancy Benoit, former professional wrestling valet (b. 1964)
Jun 22 Erik Parlevliet, Dutch field hockey player (b. 1964)
Jun 22 Bernhard "Bernd" Becher, German artist, worked collaboratively with Hilla Becher his wife, dies at 75
Jun 22 Derek Simpson, British cellist (Aeolian String Quartet, 1956-81; Beatles - "Strawberry Fields Forever), and teacher, dies at 79

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Famous People Who Died in 2007 (Part 2)

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