Deaths in August 2007
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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2007.
August 2007
- Gay Brewer, 75, American professional golfer, lung cancer. [1]
- Willie Cunningham, 77, British football player. [2]
- Kees Klop, 59, Dutch professor of political ethics and former chairman of the NCRV. [3] (Dutch)
- Karloff Lagarde, 79, Mexican lucha libre professional wrestler. [4]
- Doug Maxwell, 80, Canadian curling innovator, cancer. [5]
- Sulev Vahtre, 81, Estonian historian. [6] (Estonian)
- Ramrao Adik, 77, Indian former Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra. [7]
- Banarsi Das Gupta, 89, Indian former Chief Minister of Haryana. [8]
- Augustine Harris, 89, British Bishop Emeritus of Middlesbrough, former Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool. [9]
- Michael Jackson, 65, British writer and beer expert (The Beer Hunter), heart attack. [10]
- Nancy Littlefield, 77, American film producer, cancer. [11]
- K. P. H. Notoprojo, 103, Indonesian gamelan performer. [12] (Indonesian)
- Ong Hok Ham, 74, Indonesian historian. [13]
- Charles Vanik, 94, American politician, U.S. Representative from Ohio (1955-1981). [14]
- José Luis de Vilallonga, 87, Spanish aristocrat, author and actor (Breakfast at Tiffany's). [15]
- Sir James Fletcher, 92, New Zealand industrialist (Fletcher Challenge). [16]
- Richard Jewell, 44, American security guard wrongly accused of the Atlanta Olympics bombing, diabetes. [17]
- Pierre Messmer, 91, French Prime Minister (1972-1974), Free French fighter, French Academician. [18]
- Chaswe Nsofwa, 28, Zambian footballer, heart attack. [19]
- Alfred Peet, 87, American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea. [20]
- Anacleto Angelini, 93, Chilean businessman, South America's richest man, emphysema. [21]
- David Garcia, 63, American journalist, White House correspondent (ABC), complications of a liver condition. [22]
- Arthur Jones, 80, American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines. [23]
- Hilly Kristal, 75, American club owner (CBGB), complications of lung cancer. [24]
- Smain Lamari, 67, Algerian head of intelligence services, after long illness. [25] [26]
- Paul MacCready, 81, American aviation pioneer and inventor. [27] [28]
- Nikola Nobilo, 94, Croatian-born New Zealand winemaker. [29]
- Antonio Puerta, 22, Spanish footballer (Sevilla FC), ARVD. [30]
- Francisco Umbral, 72, Spanish writer, pneumonia. [31]
- Miyoshi Umeki, 78, Japanese-born Academy Award-winning actress (Sayonara), also on Courtship of Eddie's Father, cancer. [32]
- Driss Basri, 69, Moroccan Interior Minister (1979–1999). [33]
- Galina Dzhugashvili, 68, Russian granddaughter of Joseph Stalin, cancer. [34]
- Eduardo Malapit, 74, American who was first mayor of Filipino American ancestry. [35] [36] [37]
- Emma Penella, 77, Spanish actress (El Verdugo, Aqui no hay quien viva), renal and heart failure. [38] (Spanish)
- Doug Riley, 62, Canadian musician ("Doctor Music"), heart failure. [39]
- Hans Ruesch, 94, Swiss racing driver, author and activist against animal testing. [40]
- Gad Yaacobi, 72, Israeli former Minister and Labor Party Knesset member, heart failure. [41]
- Edward Brandt, Jr., 74, American doctor and public health official, directed initial response to AIDS, lung cancer. [42]
- Oliver Byrne, 63, Irish CEO of soccer club Shelbourne F.C., after short illness. [43]
- Chuck Comiskey, 81, American Chicago White Sox executive in the 1950s, grandson of team founder Charles Comiskey. [44]
- Roy McLean, 77, South African cricketer, after long illness. [45] [46]
- Judah Nadich, 95, American rabbi and chaplain, heart attack. [47]
- Edward Seidensticker, 86, American scholar and translator of Japanese literature, complications from a fall. [48]
- Gaston Thorn, 78, Luxembourg Prime Minister (1974-1979), President of the European Commission (1981-1985). [49]
- Benjamin Aaron, 91, American labor law expert and member of Presidential commissions, cerebral hemorrhage. [50]
- Raymond Barre, 83, French economist, Prime Minister of France (1976-1981), Mayor of Lyon (1995–2001). [51]
- Eduardo Prado Coelho, 63, Portuguese writer and political and cultural critic. [52] (Portuguese)
- Richard Cook, 50, British jazz writer, cancer. [53]
- Édouard Gagnon, 89, Canadian Roman Catholic Cardinal. [54]
- Ray Jones, 18, British footballer (QPR), car accident. [55]
- Alberto de Lacerda, 78, Portuguese poet, BBC radio presenter, founded Portucale magazine. [56] (Portuguese)
- Abdul Rahman Arif, 91, Iraqi politician, President of Iraq (1966–1968). [57]
- Mark Birley, 77, British nightclub owner (Annabel's), stroke. [58]
- Andrée Boucher, 70, Canadian politician, mayor of Sainte-Foy (1985–2001) and Quebec City (2005–2007), heart attack. [59]
- William E. McAnulty, Jr., 59, American lawyer, first African American Kentucky Supreme Court Justice, lung cancer. [60]
- Aaron Russo, 64, American movie producer (Trading Places, The Rose), cancer. [61]
- Aimé Avignon, 110, France's oldest living man. [62] (French)
- Cuesta Benberry, 83, American historian known for her studies of quilting, congestive heart failure. [63]
- William John McKeag, 79, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (1970–1976). [64]
- Martti Pokela, 83, Finnish folk musician. [65]
- Robert Symonds, 80, American actor (Dynasty, The Exorcist), prostate cancer. [66]
- Dušan Třeštík, 74, Czech historian. [67] (Czech)
- Philip Wilkinson, 80, British banker. [68]
- Butch van Breda Kolff, 84, American basketball coach (Princeton, Lakers, Pistons, Jazz). [69]
- Jacek Chmielnik, 54, Polish actor, accidental electrocution. [70] (Polish).
- Rhys Jones, 11, British murder victim, shot. [71]
- Keith Knight, 51, Canadian actor, brain cancer. [72]
- Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet, 80, British aristocrat. [73]
- Grace Paley, 84, American writer and political activist, breast cancer. [74]
- Caroline Aigle, 32, first French female fighter pilot, cancer. [75]
- Rose Bampton, 99, American opera singer. [76]
- Frank Bowe, 60, American disability rights activist, author and teacher, cancer. [77]
- Čabulītis, c72, American alligator considered to be Europe's oldest. [78] (Latvian)
- Siobhan Dowd, 47, British writer and PEN activist, breast cancer. [79]
- Elizabeth Hoisington, 88, American Army general, heart failure. [80]
- Howe Yoon Chong, 84, Singaporean politician. [81]
- Qurratulain Hyder, 81, Indian novelist. [82]
- Haley Paige, 26, Mexican-born pornographic actress. [83]
- Hana Ponická, 85, Slovak writer and dissident. [84] (French)
- Adam Watson, 93, British diplomat and academic. [85]
- Berthold Grünfeld, 75, Norwegian psychiatrist. [86] (Norwegian)
- Wild Bill Hagy, 68, American Baltimore Orioles cheerleader of the 1970s and 1980s. [87].
- Larry Hartsell, 65, American martial arts instructor, student of Bruce Lee. [88]
- Leona Helmsley, 87, American hotelier, heart failure. [89]
- Chas Poynter, 68, New Zealand politician, mayor of Wanganui (1986–2004), lung disease. [90]
- Stephen Bicknell, 49, British expert on the pipe organ. [94]
- Michael Deaver, 69, American Deputy White House Chief of Staff (1981–1985), pancreatic cancer. [95]
- Lucien Jarraud, 84, Canadian radio host. [96]
- Jon Lucien, 65, American smooth jazz singer/songwriter, respiratory failure and complications of kidney surgery.[97]
- Magdalen Nabb, 60, British author, stroke.[98]
- Viktor Prokopenko, 62, Ukrainian footballer and coach (FC Shakhtar Donetsk), thrombus. [99]
- Edward Avedisian, 71, American artist. [100]
- John Belk, 87, American Democratic politician, mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina (1969–1977). [101]
- Jos Brink, 65, Dutch television host, actor, minister of religion and writer, colorectal cancer. [102]
- Bill Deedes, 94, British journalist, editor of The Daily Telegraph (1974–1986) and Conservative politician. [103]
- Carolyn Goodman, 91, American psychologist and civil rights activist. [104]
- Eddie Griffin, 25, American former Seton Hall, Rockets and Timberwolves basketball player, car accident. [105] [106] [107]
- Max Hodge, 91, American television writer, creator of Mr. Freeze on the 1960s Batman series. [108]
- Victor Klee, 81, American mathematician, complications of intestinal surgery. [109]
- Tanja Liedtke, 29, German choreographer appointed as Sydney Dance Company artistic director, road accident. [110]
- Elmer MacFadyen, 64, Canadian politician, PEI Progressive Conservative cabinet minister (1996–2007), heart attack. [111]
- Alison Plowden, 75, British historian. [112]
- Bahaedin Adab, 62, Iranian member of parliament, cancer. [113] (Persian)
- John Blewett III, 33, American NASCAR driver, racing crash. [114]
- Jeroen Boere, 39, Dutch football player (West Ham, West Bromwich Albion, Crystal Palace, Portsmouth, Southend). [115]
- Will Edwards, 69, British Labour politician, MP for Merioneth (1966–Feb 1974). [116] [117]
- Clive Exton, 77, British television and film writer, brain cancer. [118]
- Roland Mathias, 91, British poet and literary critic. [119]
- Vito Pallavicini, 83, Italian lyricist/pop composer. [120] (Italian)
- Max Roach, 83, American jazz drummer. [121] [122]
- Dewey Robertson, 68, Canadian professional wrestler ("The Missing Link"), cancer. [123]
- Richard Bradshaw, 63, British conductor, Canadian Opera Company general director (1998–2007), heart attack. [124]
- Steven Campbell, 53, British painter, ruptured appendix. [125]
- John Gofman, 88, American nuclear physicist, heart failure. [126]
- Geoffrey Orbell, 98, New Zealand bush walker who rediscovered the Takahē in 1948. [127]
- Sam Pollock, 81, Canadian former general manager of Montreal Canadiens, Hockey Hall of Famer. [128]
- Liam Rector, 58, American poet, Folger Shakespeare Library program director, suicide by shotgun. [129] [130]
- John Wallowitch, 81, American singer and songwriter, bone cancer. [131]
- John Biffen, 76, British Tory member of the House of Lords, MP (1961–1997), septicaemia. [132]
- Horace Brearley, 94, British cricketer, father of Mike Brearley. [133]
- Jirair S. Hovnanian, 80, Armenian Iraqi-American home builder. [134]
- Tikhon Khrennikov, 94, Russian Soviet-era cultural functionary, composer and pianist. [135]
- Emory King, 76, Belizean historian, author and journalist, cancer. [136]
- John C. Lanham, 82, American former chief justice of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. [137]
- Diane Lewis, 54, American reporter (The Boston Globe), cancer. [138]
- Kotozakura Masakatsu, 66, Japanese yokozuna, complications of diabetes. [139]
- Eduardo Noriega, 90, Mexican actor, heart attack. [140]
- Sayoko Yamaguchi, 57, Japanese fashion model, pneumonia. [141]
- Brian "Crush" Adams, 44, American professional wrestler, accidental overdose of pain killers and anti-depressants. [142][143]
- Brooke Astor, 105, American philanthropist, pneumonia. [144][145]
- Ox Miller, 92, American baseball player (Washington Senators). [146]
- Yone Minagawa, 114, Japanese woman, recognized as world's oldest person. [147] [148]
- Clifton Neita, 92, Jamaican editor of the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper (1954–1979). [149]
- Phil Rizzuto, 89, American baseball player, Hall of Fame inductee and sports broadcaster, pneumonia. [150] [151]
- Tim Royes, 42, British music video director, car accident. [152]
- Ralph Asher Alpher, 86, American physicist and college professor, respiratory failure. [153] [154]
- Ronald N. Bracewell, 86, Australian physicist and radio astronomer, heart failure. [155]
- Christian Elder, 38, American sports car and Busch Series driver. [156]
- Merv Griffin, 82, American talk show host, real estate tycoon, creator of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, prostate cancer. [157]
- Asa Hilliard, 73, American educationalist, historian and psychologist, malaria. [158]
- Sir Ian McGeoch, 93, British admiral. [159]
- Elizabeth Murray, 66, American artist, lung cancer. [160]
- Alwyn Rice Jones, 73, British Archbishop of Wales (1991–1999). [161]
- Mike Wieringo, 44, American comic book artist, heart attack. [162]
- Franz Antel, 94, Austrian film director. [163] (German)
- Michael Frede, 67, German professor of Ancient Philosophy, swimming accident. [164]
- MacDonald Gallion, 94, American politician, Attorney General of Alabama (1959–1963, 1967–1971). [165]
- Joe Jimenez, 81, American professional golfer, won 1978 Senior PGA Championship, renal failure brought on by lung cancer. [166]
- Alexander H. Leighton, 99, American-Canadian sociologist and psychiatrist. [167]
- Roberto Maidana, 79, Argentine journalist, pneumonia. [168] (Spanish)
- Herb Pomeroy, 77, American jazz trumpeter (Charlie Parker, Frank Sinatra), cancer. [169]
- Sukadji Ranuwihardjo, 76, Indonesian President of Gadjah Mada University (1973–1981). [170]
- Lluís Maria Xirinacs, 75, Catalan political activist and priest, natural causes. [171] [172] [173] [174] (Spanish)
- Zhang Shuhong, 50, Chinese company co-owner involved in Fisher-Price toy recall, suicide by hanging. [175] [176]
- Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, 82, American civil rights campaigner, member of Tuskegee Airmen, brain injuries following a fall. [177]
- James E. Faust, 87, American second counselor in the First Presidency of the LDS Church. [178]
- Irene Kirkaldy, 90, American civil rights campaigner, complications of Alzheimer's disease. [179]
- Jean Rédélé, 85, French creator of the Alpine automobile brand. [180] (French)
- Mario Rivera, 68, Dominican Latin jazz saxophonist with Machito, Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez orchestras, bone cancer. [181]
- Tony Wilson, 57, British owner of Factory Records, radio and TV presenter, journalist, heart attack. [182]
- Sakiusa Bulicokocoko, 57, Fijian musician, tumor. [183]
- Richmond Flowers Sr., 88, American Attorney General of Alabama (1963–1967). [184]
- Timothy Garden, Baron Garden, 63, British Air Marshal and Liberal Democrat peer, cancer. [185]
- Joe O'Donnell, 85, American presidential photographer, photographed effects of Hiroshima bombing, stroke.[186]
- Ulrich Plenzdorf, 72, German author. [187]
- Rolf Wiik, 78, Finnish Olympic fencer. [188]
- Joybubbles, 58, American phone phreak. [189]
- Ma Lik, 55, Hong Kong Legislative Council member and chair of the DAB, colon cancer. [190]
- Melville Shavelson, 90, American film director and screenwriter. [191]
- Clarence Tex Walker, 61, American rhythm and blues musician, heart attack. [192]
- Julius Wess, 73, Austrian physicist. [193]
- Ernesto Alonso, 90, Mexican television producer and actor, pneumonia. [194] (Spanish)
- Hal Fishman, 75, American television news anchor since 1960, KTLA Prime News anchor since 1975, cancer. [195] [196]
- Gato Del Sol, 28, American racehorse, won 1982 Kentucky Derby, euthanized. [197]
- Hank Morgenweck, 78, American baseball umpire, cancer. [198]
- Wolfgang Sievers, 93, Australian photographer. [199]
- Sir Angus Tait, 88, New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman. [200]
- Heinz Barth, 86, German SS officer, Nazi war criminal, cancer. [201] [202]
- Moe Fishman, 92, American representative of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, pancreatic cancer. [203]
- Ah Jook Ku, 97, American journalist and writer, first Asian American Associated Press reporter. [204]
- Elie de Rothschild, 90, French banker, member of Rothschild dynasty, heart attack. [205]
- Paul Rutherford, 67, British trombonist. [206]
- Atle Selberg, 90, Norwegian-born mathematician, heart failure. [207]
- Henri Amouroux, 87, French journalist and historian. [208] (French)
- Stanley Myron Handelman, 77, American comedian, heart attack. [209]
- Oliver Hill, 100, American lawyer, lead attorney on the Brown v. Board of Education case. [210]
- Jean-Marie Lustiger, 80, French Jewish-born Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Paris, cancer. [211]
- Amos Manor, 89, Israeli head of Shin Bet (1953–1963). [212]
- Janine Niépce, 86, French photojournalist. [213] (French)
- Florian Pittiş, 63, Romanian actor and folk singer, prostate cancer. [214] (Romanian)
- Lee Hazlewood, 78, American country music singer and songwriter ("These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"), renal cancer. [215]
- Raul Hilberg, 81, Austrian Jewish Holocaust historian, lung cancer. [216]
- Frank Mancuso, 89, American major league baseball player, Houston City Councillor. [217]
- Santos Padilla Ferrer, 50, Puerto Rican mayor of Cabo Rojo, heart attack. [218]
- Jose Miguel Battle, Sr., 77, Cuban founder and nominal leader of the "Cuban Mafia". [219].
- Ron Brown, 67, British Labour Party Member of Parliament (1979–1992), liver failure. [220]
- James T. Callahan, 76, American actor (Charles in Charge), cancer. [221].
- John Gardner, 80, British thriller writer and James Bond continuation novelist, suspected heart failure. [222]
- Nasho Kamungeremu, 34, Zimbabwean golfer, heart attack. [223]
- Kafeel Ahmed, 28, Indian terrorist involved in the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack, third degree burns. [224]
- Haitham al-Badri, Iraqi al Qaeda emir of Salahuddin province and Golden Dome bomber, airstrike. [225]
- Chauncey Bailey, 58, American journalist, editor of The Oakland Post, shot. [226]
- Ed Brown, 78, American football quarterback Chicago Bears, Pittsburgh Steelers, prostate cancer. [227]
- Franco Dalla Valle, 62, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Juína. [228] (Portuguese)
- Evan Enwerem, 71, Nigerian Senate President (1999). [229]
- Peter Eriksson, 48, Swedish neuroscientist. [230] (Swedish)
- Terry Kelly, 75, British footballer, dementia. [231]
- Holden Roberto, 84, Angolan founder and leader of the FNLA (1962–1999), after long illness. [232]
- Frank Rosenfelt, 85, American executive at MGM. [233]
- Sergei Antonov, 59, Bulgarian accused of involvement in attempt by Mehmet Ali Ağca to kill Pope John Paul II. [234]
- Ryan Cox, 28, South African professional road racing cyclist, ruptured artery following vascular surgery. [235]
- Robert Hughes, 95, Australian composer. [236]
- Veikko Karvonen, 81, Finnish athlete, bronze medalist in the 1956 Summer Olympics marathon. [237]
- Tommy Makem, 74, Irish folk musician (The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem), lung cancer. [238]
- Pete Naktenis, 93, American baseball player. [239]
- Philip S. Paludan, 69, American history professor, authority on Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War. [240]
- Norman Adrian Wiggins, 83, American third president of Campbell University. [241]