Deaths in May 2007

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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2007.

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• Clifford Scott Green, 84, American Federal Court judge. [1]
• David J. Lawson, 77, American bishop of the United Methodist Church, after long illness. [2]
• Fathia Nkrumah, c75, Egyptian–born Ghanaian first First lady, after long illness. [3]
• Charles Remington, 85, American zoologist, known for his studies of butterflies and moths. [4]
• Alexander Tubelsky, 66, Russian President of Association of Democratic Schools, stroke. [5] (Russian)
• Jim Williams, 92, American basketball coach with Colorado State University (1954–1980). [6]

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• Jean-Claude Brialy, 74, French actor and director, cancer. [7]
• Mark Harris, 84, American author (Bang the Drum Slowly), Alzheimer's disease. [8]
• Preston Martin, 83, American banker, Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (1982–1986), cancer. [9][10]
• William Morris Meredith, Jr., 88, American poet and Pulitzer Prize winner. [11]

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• Dave Balon, 68, Canadian ice hockey player, multiple sclerosis. [12]
• Tony Bastable, 62, British television presenter (Magpie), DJ and independent producer, pneumonia. [13]
• Dame Lois Browne-Evans, 79, Bermudian politician. [14]
• Donald Johanos, 79, American conductor. [15]
• Norman Kaye, 80, Australian actor and musician, Alzheimer's disease. [16]
• Posteal Laskey, 69, American convicted murderer, commonly believed to be the serial killer called the "Cincinnati Strangler." [17]
• Tahir Mirza, 70, Pakistani journalist and former editor of Dawn, lung cancer. [18]
• Folole Muliaga, 44, Samoan–NZ teacher whose oxygen machine failed after power cut for unpaid account, heart & lung disease. [19]
• Michael Seaton, 84, British astronomer and physicist. [20]
• Wallace Seawell, 90, American photographer and filmmaker, age-related causes. [21]

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• Barbara Cox Anthony, 84, American heiress to Cox Enterprises and 45th-richest person in the world, after long illness. [22]
• Jörg Immendorff, 61, German painter, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [23]
• David Lane, 68, American neo-Nazi leader and author. [24]
• John Macquarrie, 87, British theologian, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford (1970–1986). [25]
• Toshikatsu Matsuoka, 62, Japanese Minister of Agriculture, suicide by hanging. [26]
• Parren Mitchell, 85, American Representative from Maryland (1971–1987), a founder of Congressional Black Caucus, pneumonia. [27]
• Ethel Mutharika, 63, First Lady of Malawi, cancer. [28]

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• Ron Archer, 73, Australian Test cricketer, lung cancer. [29]
• Edward Behr, 81, British foreign correspondent and author. [30][31]
• Sam Garrison, 65, American lawyer who defended President Nixon in impeachment hearings in 1974, leukemia. [32]
• Marquise Hill, 24, American football player for the New England Patriots in the NFL, drowning. [33]
• Jack Kerr, 96, New Zealand cricket player, Chairman and President of NZ Cricket. [34]
• Wiley Mayne, 90, American congressman from Iowa (1966–1974), cardiopulmonary incident. [35]
• Howard Porter, 58, American basketball player (Villanova, Bulls, Knicks, Pistons), injuries sustained from beating. [36]
• Izumi Sakai, 40, Japanese singer and member of Zard, cerebral contusion. [37]
• Percy Sonn, 57, South African President of the International Cricket Council, complications after surgery. [38]
• G. Srinivasan, 48, Indian film producer, brother of director Mani Ratnam, fall into gorge. [39]
• Gretchen Wyler, 75, American Broadway and television actress and animal rights activist, complications of breast cancer. [40]
• Ed Yost, 87, American inventor of the modern hot air balloon. [41].

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• James Beck, 77, American art historian and founder of ArtWatch International, [42].
• Gene Gibson, 82, American basketball player and coach with Texas Tech University (1962-1969), complications from surgery. [43]
• Marek Krejčí, 26, Slovak footballer, recently played for Wacker Burghausen in the German 2nd Bundesliga, car accident. [44]
• Aubrey Singer, 80, British television executive, head of BBC Two (1974–1978). [45]
• Khalil al-Zahawi, 60/61, Iraqi calligrapher, shot. [46]

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• Arwon, 33, New Zealand-born racehorse, longest surviving Melbourne Cup winner, euthanasia. [47]
• Charles Nelson Reilly, 76, American Tony-winning actor and Match Game panelist, complications from pneumonia. [48]
• Sun Yuanliang, 103, Chinese-born General with the Kuomintang, exiled in Taiwan. [49]
• Bartholomew Ulufa'alu, 56, Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (1997–2000), after long illness. [50]

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• Buddy Childers, 81, American jazz trumpeter, cancer. [51]
• Bill Johnston, 85, Australian cricketer who played 40 tests (1947–1955), member of the 1948 Invincibles. [52]
• Philip Mayer Kaiser, 93, American ambassador to Senegal and Mauritania, Hungary, and Austria, pneumonia. [53]
• Norm Maleng, 68, American prosecutor for King County, Washington, cardiac arrest. [54]
• Christopher Newton, 37, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. [55]
• Minako Oba, 77, Japanese author. [56] (Japanese)
• David Renton, Baron Renton, 98, oldest peer in the United Kingdom's House of Lords. [57]

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• Clyde Robert Bulla, 93, American children's author. [58]
• Kei Kumai, 76, Japanese film director. brain hemorrhage [59] [60]
• Tron Øgrim, 59, Norwegian author and politician. [61] (Norwegian)

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• Fannie Lee Chaney, 84, American civil rights activist. [62]
• Robert Comer, 50, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. [63]
• Frank E. Maestrone, 84, American ambassador to Kuwait (1976–1979), infection. [64]
• Jef Planckaert, 73, Belgian cyclist. [65] [66] (French)
• Pemba Doma Sherpa, 36, Nepali mountaineer and two-time summiter of Mt. Everest, fall from Lhotse. [67]
• Art Stevens, 92, American director, animator and writer (The Fox and the Hound), heart attack. [68]

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• Clark Adams, 37, American secular humanist leader and activist. [69]
• Frank Gay, 86, American businessman, senior corporate aide to Howard Hughes. [70]
• Peter Hayes, 54, Australian lawyer. [71]
• María Hortensia de Herrera de Lacalle, 98, Uruguayan politician, mother of ex-President Luis Alberto Lacalle. [72] (Spanish)
• Bruno Mattei, 75, Italian film director. [73]
• Kenneth Sokoloff, 54, American economist who examined factor endowment, liver cancer. [74]
• Sakorn Yang-keawsot, 85, Thai puppeteer, lung illness. [75]

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• Bobby Ash, 82, British-born host of The Uncle Bobby Show, heart attack. [76]
• Dame Jean Herbison, 83 or 84, New Zealand academic, first NZ female chancellor (University of Canterbury, 1979–1984). [77]
• Baruch Kimmerling, 67, Israeli sociologist and historian known for his studies of Zionism and Israeli society, cancer. [78]
• Valentina Leontyeva, 84, Russian who was one of the first television presenters in the Soviet Union. [79] (Russian)
• Sir George Macfarlane, 91, British pioneering scientist and engineer. [80] [81]
• Tod H. Mikuriya, 73, American psychiatrist and medical marijuana advocate, cancer. [82]
• Stanley Miller, 77, American chemist and biologist best known for the Miller-Urey experiment into the origins of life, heart failure. [83]
• William Peters, 85, American journalist and documentarian of race issues, Alzheimer's disease. [84]
• Guram Sharadze, 66, Georgian philologist and politician, shot. [85]
• Norman Von Nida, 93, Australian golf champion. [86]
• Ben Weisman, 85, American musician and songwriter who wrote nearly 60 songs for Elvis Presley, stroke. [87]

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• Miroslav Deronjić, 52, Bosnian Serb politician and convicted war criminal, natural causes. [88]
• Jack Findlay, 72, Australian Grand Prix motorcycle racer. [89]
• Frank Guida, 84, Italian-born American record producer. [90]
• Ron Hall, 43, American football player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. [91]
• Marian Radke-Yarrow, 89, American researcher in child psychology, leukemia. [92]
• Scott Thorkelson, 49, Canadian member of the House of Commons (1988 - 1993), heart attack. [93]
• Michel Visi, 52, Vanuatuan Catholic bishop. [94] [95]
• Hans Wollschläger, 72, German author and translator. [96] (German)
• Carl Wright, 75, American dancer, comedian and actor, cancer. [97]

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• Roy De Forest, 77, American artist and professor at University of California, Davis. [98]
• Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, 74, French physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1991. [99]
• Saud Memon, 44, Pakistani businessman implicated in the murder of Daniel Pearl, tuberculosis and meningitis. [100]
• Les Schwab, 89, American tire tycoon. [101]
• Mika Špiljak, 90, Chairman of the Collective Presidency of Yugoslavia (1983–1984). [102] [103] (Croatian)
• Yoyoy Villame, 69, Filipino musician and comedian, heart attack. [104]

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• Lloyd Alexander, 83, American fantasy author, including The Chronicles of Prydain, cancer. [105]
• Petro Balabuyev, 76, Ukrainian aircraft designer, including world's largest aeroplane, the An-225. [106]
• John Gonzaga, 74, American football player with the San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions and Denver Broncos. [107]
• Kawika Kapahulehua, 76, American captain of the Hokulea's first voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti. [108]
• Eugen Weber, 82, Romanian-born American historian, pancreatic cancer. [109]
• Bill Wight, 85, American MLB pitcher and scout. [110]
• Wiktor Zin, 82, Polish architect and graphic artist. [111] (Polish)

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• Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin, 91, American creole accordionist. [112]
• Dame Mary Douglas, 86, British social anthropologist. [113]
• Gohar Gasparyan, 83, Armenian soprano opera singer. [114]
• Allan Hird, 88, Australian footballer (1940–1945) and President of Essendon (1969–1975), Victorian DG of Education. [115]
• Peter Marner, 71, British cricketer, youngest player to represent Lancashire. [116]
• Terry Ryan, 60, American writer (The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio), cancer. [117]
• Lauren Terrazzano, 39, American Newsday columnist who chronicled her battle with cancer, lung cancer. [118] [119]

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• Giorgio Cavaglieri, 95, Italian-born American architect who founded New York City's urban preservation movement. [120]
• Jerry Falwell, 73, American pastor, television evangelist and founder of the Moral Majority, cardiac arrhythmia. [121] [122]
• Karen Hess, 88, American culinary historian and author, stroke. [123]
• Yolanda King, 51, American activist, actress, daughter of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. [124]
• Duncan Macrae, 92, British rugby union player, Scotland Rugby Union Team (1937–1939). [125]
• Angus McBride, 76, British illustrator. [126]

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• Orlando Bobo, 33, American-born Canadian football player with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the CFL, heart and liver failure. [127]
• Edward Jones, 70, British Army general, Black Rod (1996–2001), heart attack. [128]
• Nancy McDonald, 72, American Representative for El Paso in the Texas House (1984–1995), ovarian cancer. [129]
• Aaron McMillan, 30, Australian classical pianist, bone cancer. [130]
• Jean Saubert, 65, American dual medalist in slalom at the 1964 Winter Olympics, breast cancer. [131]
• Sir Colin St John Wilson, 85, British architect who designed the British Library. [132]

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• Chen Xiaoxu, 41, Chinese actress (Lin Daiyu in Dream of the Red Mansion), later becoming a Buddhist nun, breast cancer. [133]
• Mendel Jackson Davis, 64, American Democratic Representative from South Carolina (1971–1981), emphysema. [134]
• Gomer Hodge, 63, American Major League Baseball player for the Cleveland Indians (1971), Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [135]
• Luis Maria Mendia, 82, Argentine naval commander. [136]
• Kate Webb, 64, New Zealand foreign correspondent, bowel cancer. [137]

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• Mullah Dadullah, 41, Afghan Taliban military commander, shot. [138]
• Kai Johansen, 67, Danish soccer player for Greenock Morton F.C. and Rangers, cancer. [139]
• Edy Vasquez, 23, Honduran soccer player, car accident. [140]

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• Norman Frank, 82, American producer and political strategist. [141]
• Bernard Gordon, 88, American screenwriter named on the Hollywood blacklist, cancer. [142]
• Stanley Holden, 79, British ballet dancer, complications from heart problems and colon cancer. [143] [144]
• Malietoa Tanumafili II, 94, Samoan head of state. [145]

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• John Lattimer, 92, American urologist who developed a cure for renal tuberculosis. [146]
• Sir Oliver Millar, 84, British Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures (1972–1988) and Director of the Royal Collection (1987–1988). [147]
• Robert Oelman, 97, American chief executive of NCR Corporation (1962–1973), co-founder of Wright State University. [148]

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• Charley Ane, 76, American football player with the Detroit Lions, pneumonia. [149]
• Alfred Chandler, 88, American economic historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. [150]
• Gino Pariani, 79, American soccer player (1950 World Cup), bone cancer. [151]
• George Seddon, 80, Australian environmental scholar. [152]
• Dwight Wilson, 106, second-to-last surviving Canadian World War I veteran. [153]
• Philip Workman, 53, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. [154]

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• Philip Craig, 74, American mystery writer. [155]
• Velma Dunn, 88, American diver who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics, stroke. [156]
• Abdullah al Faisal, 85, Saudi prince, writer and businessman, after long illness. [157]
• John Henry, 68, British toxicologist, haemorrhage. [158]
• Carson Whitsett, 62, American composer, musician and record producer, brain tumor. [159]

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• Isabella Blow, 48, British fashion journalist and stylist, suicide by poisoning. [160] [161] [162]
• Diego Corrales, 29, American super featherweight and lightweight boxing champion, motorcycle accident. [163]
• George Dawson, 45, British DUP politician in Northern Ireland Assembly, cancer. [164] [165]
• Donald Ginsberg, 73, American physicist, melanoma. [166]
• Tomasi Kulimoetoke II, 88, King of Wallis ('Uvea). [167]
• Raffi Lavie, 70, Israeli artist, pancreatic cancer. [168]
• Emma Lehmer, 100, Russian-born American mathematician. [169]
• Sonny Myers, 83, American NWA heavyweight wrestler. [170]
• Octavian Paler, 81, Romanian writer and journalist, heart attack. [171]
• Nicholas Worth, 69, American character actor, heart failure. [172]
• Yahweh ben Yahweh, 71, American leader of the Nation of Yahweh cult and convicted felon, prostate cancer. [173] [174]

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• Alvin Batiste, 74, American jazz musician, heart attack. [175]
• Carey Bell, 70, American blues harmonica player, heart failure. [176]
• Lesley Blanch, 102, British writer and fashion editor. [177]
• Enéas Carneiro, 68, Brazilian politician, leukemia. [178]
• Curtis Harrington, 80, American film director. [179]
• Đorđe Novković, 63, Croatian songwriter. [180][181] (Croatian)
• Lord Weatherill, 86, Speaker of the British House of Commons (1983–1992), after short illness. [182]

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• Prince Abdul-Majid bin Abdul-Aziz, c.64, Saudi politician, governor of Mecca. [183]
• José Aponte de la Torre, 65, Puerto Rican mayor, respiratory complications. [184] (Spanish)
• Tom Hutchinson, 65, American football wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns 1964 NFL champions. [185]
• Theodore Maiman, 79, American physicist who built the first laser, systemic mastocytosis. [186]
• Edwin H. Simmons, 85, American Marine Corps historian. [187]
• Gusti Wolf, 95, Austrian actress. [188] (German)

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• Russell W. Kruse, 85, American auctioneer, stroke. [189]
• Jeremias Nguenha, Mozambican political musician who sang in Shangaan. [190] (Portuguese)
• Mamadou Zare, 45, Ivorian soccer player and coach. [191]

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• Alex Agase, 85, Iranian-born American football coach. [192]
• J. Robert Bradley, 87, American gospel singer, diabetes. [193]
• Leonard Eron, 87, American psychologist, congestive heart failure. [194]
• Abdul Sabur Farid Kuhestani, 54/55, Afghan legislator and Prime Minister (1992), assassination by gunshot. [195]
• Pat O'Shea, 74, Irish writer. [196]
• Wally Schirra, 84, American Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronaut, heart attack. [197]
• Rose Tombe, Sudanese celebrity goat, asphyxiation. [198]
• Knock Yokoyama, 75, Japanese comedian and politician, throat cancer. [199]

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• Phillip Carter, 44, British businessman, honorary VP of Chelsea FC, helicopter crash. [200] [201] [202]
• Brad McGann, 43, New Zealand film director (In My Father's Den), cancer. [203]

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• Mathilde Octavie Tafna, 112, Guadeloupean oldest living person of a French possession. [204]