Deaths in May 2007
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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2007.
May 2007
- Clifford Scott Green, 84, American jurist, Federal Court judge. [1]
- David J. Lawson, 77, American minister, bishop of the United Methodist Church, after long illness. [2]
- Fathia Nkrumah, c75, Egyptian–born Ghanaian First lady, after long illness. [3]
- Charles Remington, 85, American zoologist, known for studies of butterflies and moths. [4]
- Alexander Tubelsky, 66, Russian academic, President of Association of Democratic Schools, stroke. [5] (Russian)
- Jim Williams, 92, American basketball coach (Colorado State University). [6]
- 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]
- Yevgeni Mishakov, 66, Russian ice hockey player. [12]
- Dave Balon, 68, Canadian ice hockey player, multiple sclerosis. [13]
- Tony Bastable, 62, British television presenter (Magpie), DJ and independent producer, pneumonia. [14]
- Dame Lois Browne-Evans, 79, Bermudian politician. [15]
- Donald Johanos, 79, American conductor. [16]
- Norman Kaye, 80, Australian actor and musician, Alzheimer's disease. [17]
- Posteal Laskey, 69, American convicted murderer, commonly believed to be the serial killer called the "Cincinnati Strangler." [18]
- Tahir Mirza, 70, Pakistani journalist and former editor of Dawn, lung cancer. [19]
- Folole Muliaga, 44, Samoan–NZ teacher whose oxygen machine failed after power cut for unpaid account, heart & lung disease. [20]
- Michael Seaton, 84, British astronomer and physicist. [21]
- Wallace Seawell, 90, American photographer and filmmaker, age-related causes. [22]
- Barbara Cox Anthony, 84, American heiress, after long illness. [23]
- Jörg Immendorff, 61, German painter, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [24]
- David Lane, 68, American white supremacist leader and author. [25]
- John Macquarrie, 87, British theologian, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford (1970–1986). [26]
- Toshikatsu Matsuoka, 62, Japanese politician, Minister of Agriculture, suicide by hanging. [27]
- Parren Mitchell, 85, American politician, U.S. Representative from Maryland (1971–1987), co-founder of Congressional Black Caucus, pneumonia. [28]
- Ethel Mutharika, 63, First Lady of Malawi, cancer. [29]
- Ron Archer, 73, Australian Test cricketer, lung cancer. [30]
- Edward Behr, 81, British journalist and author. [31][32]
- Sam Garrison, 65, American lawyer, defended President Richard Nixon in impeachment hearings in 1974, leukemia. [33]
- Marquise Hill, 24, American football player (New England Patriots), drowning. [34]
- Jack Kerr, 96, New Zealand cricket player, Chairman and President of NZ Cricket. [35]
- Wiley Mayne, 90, American politician, U.S. Representative from Iowa (1966–1974), cardiopulmonary incident. [36]
- Howard Porter, 58, American basketball player (Bulls, Knicks, Pistons), injuries sustained from beating. [37]
- Izumi Sakai, 40, Japanese singer (Zard), cerebral contusion. [38]
- Percy Sonn, 57, South African cricket player, President of the International Cricket Council, complications after surgery. [39]
- G. Srinivasan, 48, Indian film producer, brother of director Mani Ratnam, fall into gorge. [40]
- Gretchen Wyler, 75, American actress and animal rights activist, complications of breast cancer. [41]
- Ed Yost, 87, American inventor, (modern hot air balloon). [42].
- James Beck, 77, American art historian, founder of ArtWatch International, [43].
- Gene Gibson, 82, American basketball player and coach (Texas Tech University), complications from surgery. [44]
- Marek Krejčí, 26, Slovak footballer, car accident. [45]
- Aubrey Singer, 80, British television executive, head of BBC Two (1974–1978). [46]
- Khalil al-Zahawi, 60/61, Iraqi calligrapher, shot. [47]
- Arwon, 33, New Zealand-born racehorse, longest surviving Melbourne Cup winner, euthanasia. [48]
- Laurie Bartram, 49, American actress and ballet dancer, pancreatic cancer. [49]
- Charles Nelson Reilly, 76, American Tony-winning actor and Match Game panelist, complications from pneumonia. [50]
- Sun Yuanliang, 103, Chinese-born General with the Kuomintang, exiled in Taiwan. [51]
- Bartholomew Ulufa'alu, 56, Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (1997–2000), after long illness. [52]
- Buddy Childers, 81, American jazz trumpeter, cancer. [53]
- Bill Johnston, 85, Australian cricketer, member of the 1948 Invincibles. [54]
- Philip Mayer Kaiser, 93, American diplomat, ambassador to Senegal and Mauritania, Hungary, and Austria, pneumonia. [55]
- Norm Maleng, 68, American prosecutor (King County, Washington), cardiac arrest. [56]
- Christopher Newton, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. [57]
- Minako Oba, 77, Japanese author. [58] (Japanese)
- David Renton, Baron Renton, 98, British politician and aristocrat, oldest peer in the House of Lords. [59]
- Fannie Lee Chaney, 84, American civil rights activist. [64]
- Robert Comer, 50, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. [65]
- Frank E. Maestrone, 84, American diplomat, ambassador to Kuwait (1976–1979), infection. [66]
- Jef Planckaert, 73, Belgian cyclist. [67] [68] (French)
- Pemba Doma Sherpa, 36, Nepali mountaineer, two-time summiter of Mt. Everest, fall from Lhotse. [69]
- Art Stevens, 92, American animation director, animator, and writer (The Fox and the Hound), heart attack. [70]
- Clark Adams, 37, American secular humanist leader and activist. [71]
- Frank Gay, 86, American businessman, senior corporate aide to Howard Hughes. [72]
- Peter Hayes, 54, Australian lawyer. [73]
- María Hortensia de Herrera de Lacalle, 98, Uruguayan politician, mother of ex-President Luis Alberto Lacalle. [74] (Spanish)
- Bruno Mattei, 75, Italian film director. [75]
- Kenneth Sokoloff, 54, American economist who examined factor endowment, liver cancer. [76]
- Sakorn Yang-keawsot, 85, Thai puppeteer, lung illness. [77]
- Bobby Ash, 82, British-born Canadian television host (The Uncle Bobby Show), heart attack. [78]
- Dame Jean Herbison, 83 or 84, New Zealand academic, first N.Z. female chancellor (University of Canterbury, 1979–1984). [79]
- Baruch Kimmerling, 67, Israeli sociologist and historian. [80]
- Valentina Leontyeva, 84, Russian television presenter, one of the first television presenters in the Soviet Union. [81] (Russian)
- Sir George Macfarlane, 91, British scientist and engineer. [82] [83]
- Tod H. Mikuriya, 73, American psychiatrist and medical marijuana advocate, cancer. [84]
- Stanley Miller, 77, American chemist and biologist, known for the Miller-Urey experiment into the origins of life, heart failure. [85]
- William Peters, 85, American journalist and documentarian of race issues, Alzheimer's disease. [86]
- Guram Sharadze, 66, Georgian philologist and politician, shot. [87]
- Norman Von Nida, 93, Australian golfer. [88]
- Ben Weisman, 85, American musician and songwriter, wrote nearly 60 songs for singer Elvis Presley, stroke. [89]
- Miroslav Deronjić, 52, Bosnian Serb politician and convicted war criminal, natural causes. [90]
- Jack Findlay, 72, Australian Grand Prix motorcycle racer. [91]
- Frank Guida, 84, Italian-born American record producer. [92]
- Ron Hall, 43, American football player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. [93]
- Marian Radke-Yarrow, 89, American researcher in child psychology, leukemia. [94]
- Scott Thorkelson, 49, Canadian member of the House of Commons (1988–1993), heart attack. [95]
- Michel Visi, 52, Vanuatuan Catholic bishop. [96] [97]
- Hans Wollschläger, 72, German author and translator. [98] (German)
- Carl Wright, 75, American dancer, comedian and actor, cancer. [99]
- Roy De Forest, 77, American artist and professor at University of California, Davis. [100]
- Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, 74, French physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1991. [101]
- Saud Memon, 44, Pakistani businessman implicated in the murder of Daniel Pearl, tuberculosis and meningitis. [102]
- Les Schwab, 89, American tire tycoon. [103]
- Mika Špiljak, 90, Chairman of the Collective Presidency of Yugoslavia (1983–1984). [104] [105] (Croatian)
- Yoyoy Villame, 69, Filipino musician and comedian, heart attack. [106]
- Lloyd Alexander, 83, American fantasy author, including The Chronicles of Prydain, cancer. [107]
- Petro Balabuyev, 76, Ukrainian aircraft designer, including world's largest aeroplane, the An-225. [108]
- Don Burton, 87, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1976–1984). [109]
- John Gonzaga, 74, American football player with the San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions and Denver Broncos. [110]
- Kawika Kapahulehua, 76, American captain of the Hokulea's first voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti. [111]
- Eugen Weber, 82, Romanian-born American historian, pancreatic cancer. [112]
- Bill Wight, 85, American MLB pitcher and scout. [113]
- Wiktor Zin, 82, Polish architect and graphic artist. [114] (Polish)
- Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin, 91, American creole accordionist. [115]
- Dame Mary Douglas, 86, British social anthropologist. [116]
- Gohar Gasparyan, 83, Armenian soprano opera singer. [117]
- Allan Hird, Sr., 88, Australian footballer and academic, President of Essendon Football Club (1969–1975), Victorian Director-general of Education. [118]
- Peter Marner, 71, British cricketer, youngest player to represent the Lancashire County Cricket Club. [119]
- Terry Ryan, 60, American writer (The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio), cancer. [120]
- Lauren Terrazzano, 39, American journalist, chronicled her battle with cancer, lung cancer. [121] [122]
- Giorgio Cavaglieri, 95, Italian-born American architect, founder of New York City's urban preservation movement. [123]
- Jerry Falwell, 73, American minister, television evangelist, and politician activist, founder of the Moral Majority, cardiac arrhythmia. [124] [125]
- Karen Hess, 88, American culinary historian and author, stroke. [126]
- Yolanda King, 51, American activist and actress, daughter of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. [127]
- Duncan Macrae, 92, British rugby football player, (Scotland Rugby Union Team). [128]
- Angus McBride, 76, British illustrator. [129]
- Orlando Bobo, 33, American-born Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers), heart and liver failure. [130]
- Ülo Jõgi, 86, Estonian anti-communist. [131] (Estonian)
- Edward Jones, 70, British Army general, Black Rod (1996–2001), heart attack. [132]
- Nancy McDonald, 72, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives (1984–1995), ovarian cancer. [133]
- Aaron McMillan, 30, Australian classical pianist, bone cancer. [134]
- Jean Saubert, 65, American dual medalist in slalom (1964 Winter Olympics), breast cancer. [135]
- Sir Colin St John Wilson, 85, British architect, designer of the British Library. [136]
- Chen Xiaoxu, 41, Chinese actress (Dream of the Red Mansion) and Buddhist nun, breast cancer. [137]
- Mendel Jackson Davis, 64, American politician, U.S. Representative from South Carolina (1971–1981), emphysema. [138]
- Gomer Hodge, 63, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [139]
- Luis María Mendía, 82, Argentine naval officer. [140]
- Kate Webb, 64, New Zealand journalist and foreign correspondent, bowel cancer. [141]
- Mullah Dadullah, 41, Afghan militant, Taliban military commander, shot. [142]
- Kai Johansen, 66, Danish (Greenock Morton F.C. and Rangers), cancer. [143]
- Edy Vasquez, 23, Honduran footballer, car accident. [144]
- Norman Frank, 82, American producer and political strategist. [145]
- Bernard Gordon, 88, American screenwriter, named on the Hollywood blacklist, cancer. [146]
- Stanley Holden, 79, British ballet dancer, complications from heart problems and colon cancer. [147] [148]
- Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe, 71, Nigerian Igbo highlife musician. [149]
- Malietoa Tanumafili II, 94, Samoan politician, head of state. [150]
- Charley Ane, 76, American football player (Detroit Lions), pneumonia. [155]
- Alfred Chandler, 88, American economic historian. [156]
- Gino Pariani, 79, American footballer (1950 World Cup), bone cancer. [157]
- George Seddon, 80, Australian environmental scholar. [158]
- Dwight Wilson, 106, Canadian centenarian, second-to-last surviving World War I veteran. [159]
- Philip Workman, 53, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. [160]
- Philip Craig, 74, American mystery writer. [161]
- Velma Dunn, 88, American diver who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics, stroke. [162]
- Abdullah al Faisal, 85, Saudi prince, writer and businessman, after long illness. [163]
- John Henry, 68, British toxicologist, haemorrhage. [164]
- Jagdish Narain Sapru, 74, Indian former chairman of ITC Limited and BOC India. [165]
- Carson Whitsett, 62, American composer, musician and record producer, brain tumor. [166]
- Isabella Blow, 48, British fashion journalist and stylist, suicide by poisoning. [167] [168] [169]
- Diego Corrales, 29, American boxer, motorcycle accident. [170]
- George Dawson, 45, British politician, Northern Ireland Assembly member, cancer. [171] [172]
- Donald Ginsberg, 73, American physicist, melanoma. [173]
- Tomasi Kulimoetoke II, 88, King of Wallis ('Uvea). [174]
- Raffi Lavie, 70, Israeli artist, pancreatic cancer. [175]
- Emma Lehmer, 100, Russian-born American mathematician. [176]
- Sonny Myers, 83, American professional wrestler. [177]
- Octavian Paler, 81, Romanian writer and journalist, heart attack. [178]
- Nicholas Worth, 69, American character actor, heart failure. [179]
- Yahweh ben Yahweh, 71, American religious cult leader (Nation of Yahweh) and convicted felon, prostate cancer. [180] [181]
- Alvin Batiste, 74, American jazz musician, heart attack. [182]
- Carey Bell, 70, American blues harmonica player, heart failure. [183]
- Lesley Blanch, 102, British writer and fashion editor. [184]
- Enéas Carneiro, 68, Brazilian politician, leukemia. [185]
- Tamás Gábor, 75, Hungarian Olympic fencer. [186]
- Curtis Harrington, 80, American film director. [187]
- Đorđe Novković, 63, Croatian songwriter. [188][189] (Croatian)
- Lord Weatherill, 86, Speaker of the British House of Commons (1983–1992), after short illness. [190]
- Prince Abdul-Majid bin Abdul-Aziz, c.64, Saudi politician, governor of Mecca. [191]
- José Aponte de la Torre, 65, Puerto Rican mayor, respiratory complications. [192] (Spanish)
- Tom Hutchinson, 65, American football wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns 1964 NFL champions. [193]
- Theodore Maiman, 79, American physicist who built the first laser, systemic mastocytosis. [194]
- Edwin H. Simmons, 85, American Marine Corps historian. [195]
- Gusti Wolf, 95, Austrian actress. [196] (German)
- Alex Agase, 85, Iranian-born American football coach. [200]
- J. Robert Bradley, 87, American gospel singer, diabetes. [201]
- Leonard Eron, 87, American psychologist, congestive heart failure. [202]
- Abdul Sabur Farid Kuhestani, 54/55, Afghan legislator and Prime Minister (1992), assassination by gunshot. [203]
- Pat O'Shea, 74, Irish writer. [204]
- Wally Schirra, 84, American Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronaut, heart attack. [205]
- Rose Tombe, Sudanese celebrity goat, asphyxiation. [206]
- Knock Yokoyama, 75, Japanese comedian and politician, throat cancer. [207]