Deaths in August 2007

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

August 2007

1

• Sergei Antonov, 59, Bulgarian accused of involvement in attempt by Mehmet Ali Ağca to kill Pope John Paul II.
• Ryan Cox, 28, South African professional road racing cyclist, ruptured artery following vascular surgery.
• Robert Hughes, 95, Australian composer.
• Veikko Karvonen, 81, Finnish athlete, bronze medalist in the 1956 Summer Olympics marathon.
• Winfred P. Lehmann, 91, American linguist.
• Tommy Makem, 74, Irish folk musician (The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem), lung cancer.
• Pete Naktenis, 93, American baseball player.
• Philip S. Paludan, 69, American history professor, authority on Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War.
• Norman Adrian Wiggins, 83, American third president of Campbell University.

2

• Kafeel Ahmed, 28, Indian terrorist involved in the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack, third degree burns.
• Haitham al-Badri, Iraqi al Qaeda emir of Salahuddin province and Golden Dome bomber, airstrike.
• Chauncey Bailey, 58, American journalist, editor of The Oakland Post, shot.
• Ed Brown, 78, American football quarterback Chicago Bears, Pittsburgh Steelers, prostate cancer.
• Franco Dalla Valle, 62, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Juína. (Portuguese)
• Evan Enwerem, 71, Nigerian Senate President (1999).
• Peter Eriksson, 48, Swedish neuroscientist. (Swedish)
• Terry Kelly, 75, British footballer, dementia.
• Holden Roberto, 84, Angolan founder and leader of the FNLA (1962–1999), after long illness.
• Frank Rosenfelt, 85, American executive at MGM.

3

• Jose Miguel Battle, Sr., 77, Cuban founder and nominal leader of the "Cuban Mafia". .
• Ron Brown, 67, British Labour Party MP (1979–1992), liver failure.
• James T. Callahan, 76, American actor (Charles in Charge), cancer. .
• John Gardner, 80, British thriller writer and James Bond continuation novelist, suspected heart failure.
• Nasho Kamungeremu, 34, Zimbabwean golfer, heart attack.

4

• Lee Hazlewood, 78, American country music singer and songwriter ("These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"), renal cancer.
• Raul Hilberg, 81, Austrian Jewish Holocaust historian, lung cancer.
• Frank Mancuso, 89, American Major League Baseball player, Houston City Councillor.
• Santos Padilla Ferrer, 50, Puerto Rican mayor of Cabo Rojo, heart attack.

5

• Henri Amouroux, 87, French journalist and historian. (French)
• Duncan Clark, 96, American physician.
• Stanley Myron Handelman, 77, American comedian, heart attack.
• Oliver Hill, 100, American lawyer, lead attorney on the Brown v. Board of Education case.
• Jean-Marie Lustiger, 80, French Jewish-born Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Paris, cancer.
• Amos Manor, 89, Israeli head of Shin Bet (1953–1963).
• Janine Niépce, 86, French photojournalist. (French)
• Florian Pittiş, 63, Romanian actor and folk singer, prostate cancer.
• Peter Graham Scott, 83, British film producer.

6

• Heinz Barth, 86, German SS officer, Nazi war criminal, cancer.
• Moe Fishman, 92, American representative of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, pancreatic cancer.
• Ah Jook Ku, 97, American journalist and writer, first Asian American Associated Press reporter.
• Elie de Rothschild, 90, French banker, member of Rothschild dynasty, heart attack.
• Paul Rutherford, 67, British trombonist.
• Atle Selberg, 90, Norwegian-born mathematician, heart failure.

7

• Ernesto Alonso, 90, Mexican television producer and actor, pneumonia.
• Hal Fishman, 75, American television news anchor since 1960, KTLA Prime News anchor since 1975, cancer.
• Gato Del Sol, 28, American racehorse, won 1982 Kentucky Derby, euthanized.
• Russell Johnson, 83, American architect and acoustician.
• Hank Morgenweck, 78, American baseball umpire, cancer.
• Wolfgang Sievers, 93, Australian photographer.
• Sir Angus Tait, 88, New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman.
• William F. Walker, 69, American academic, President of Auburn University (2001–2004).

8

• Joybubbles, 58, American phone phreak.
• Ma Lik, 55, Hong Kong Legislative Council member and chair of the DAB, colon cancer.
• Melville Shavelson, 90, American film director and screenwriter.
• Clarence Tex Walker, 61, American rhythm and blues musician, heart attack.
• Julius Wess, 73, Austrian physicist.

9

• Sakiusa Bulicokocoko, 57, Fijian musician, tumor.
• Richmond Flowers Sr., 88, American Attorney General of Alabama (1963–1967).
• Timothy Garden, Baron Garden, 63, British Air Marshal and Liberal Democrat peer, cancer.
• Joe O'Donnell, 85, American presidential photographer, photographed effects of Hiroshima bombing, stroke.
• Ulrich Plenzdorf, 72, German author.
• Rolf Wiik, 78, Finnish Olympic fencer.

10

• Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, 82, American civil rights campaigner, member of Tuskegee Airmen, brain injuries following a fall.
• Tom Cheasty, 73, Irish hurler.
• James E. Faust, 87, American second counselor in the First Presidency of the LDS Church.
• Irene Kirkaldy, 90, American civil rights campaigner, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
• Jean Rédélé, 85, French creator of the Alpine automobile brand. (French)
• Mario Rivera, 68, Dominican Latin jazz saxophonist with Machito, Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez orchestras, bone cancer.
• Tony Wilson, 57, British owner of Factory Records, radio and TV presenter, journalist, heart attack.

11

• Franz Antel, 94, Austrian film director. (German)
• Michael Frede, 67, German professor of Ancient Philosophy, swimming accident.
• MacDonald Gallion, 94, American politician, Attorney General of Alabama (1959–1963, 1967–1971).
• Joe Jimenez, 81, American professional golfer, won 1978 Senior PGA Championship, renal failure brought on by lung cancer.
• Alexander H. Leighton, 99, American-Canadian sociologist and psychiatrist.
• Arthur Levenson, 93, American NSA official and cryptologist.
• Roberto Maidana, 79, Argentine journalist, pneumonia. (Spanish)
• Herb Pomeroy, 77, American jazz trumpeter (Charlie Parker, Frank Sinatra), cancer.
• Sukadji Ranuwihardjo, 76, Indonesian President of Gadjah Mada University (1973–1981).
• Lluís Maria Xirinacs, 75, Catalan political activist and priest, natural causes. (Spanish)
• Zhang Shuhong, 50, Chinese company co-owner involved in Fisher-Price toy recall, suicide by hanging.

12

• Ralph Asher Alpher, 86, American physicist and college professor, respiratory failure.
• Ronald N. Bracewell, 86, Australian physicist and radio astronomer, heart failure.
• Christian Elder, 38, American sports car and Busch Series driver.
• Merv Griffin, 82, American talk show host, real estate tycoon, creator of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, prostate cancer.
• Asa Hilliard, 73, American educationalist, historian and psychologist, malaria.
• Sir Ian McGeoch, 93, British admiral.
• Elizabeth Murray, 66, American artist, lung cancer.
• Alwyn Rice Jones, 73, British Archbishop of Wales (1991–1999).
• Mike Wieringo, 44, American comic book artist, heart attack.

13

• Brian "Crush" Adams, 44, American professional wrestler, accidental overdose of pain killers and anti-depressants.
• Brooke Astor, 105, American philanthropist, pneumonia.
• Ox Miller, 92, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
• Yone Minagawa, 114, Japanese supercentenarian, recognized as world's oldest person.
• Clifton Neita, 92, Jamaican editor of the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper (1954–1979).
• Phil Rizzuto, 89, American baseball player, member of the MLB Hall of Fame, and sports broadcaster, pneumonia.
• Tim Royes, 42, British music video director, car accident.

14

• John Biffen, 76, British Conservative member of the House of Lords, MP (1961–1997), septicaemia.
• Horace Brearley, 94, British cricketer, father of Mike Brearley.
• Jirair S. Hovnanian, 80, Armenian Iraqi-American home builder.
• Tikhon Khrennikov, 94, Russian Soviet-era cultural functionary, composer and pianist.
• Emory King, 76, Belizean historian, author and journalist, cancer.
• John C. Lanham, 82, American former chief justice of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
• Diane Lewis, 54, American reporter (The Boston Globe), cancer.
• Kotozakura Masakatsu, 66, Japanese yokozuna, complications of diabetes.
• Eduardo Noriega, 90, Mexican actor, heart attack.
• Kihei Tomioka, 75, Japanese Olympic cyclist.
• Sayoko Yamaguchi, 57, Japanese fashion model, pneumonia.

15

• Richard Bradshaw, 63, British conductor, Canadian Opera Company general director (1998–2007), heart attack.
• Steven Campbell, 53, British painter, ruptured appendix.
• John Gofman, 88, American nuclear physicist, heart failure.
• Geoffrey Orbell, 98, New Zealand bush walker who rediscovered the Takahē in 1948.
• Sam Pollock, 81, Canadian former general manager of Montreal Canadiens, Hockey Hall of Famer.
• Liam Rector, 58, American poet, Folger Shakespeare Library program director, suicide by shotgun.
• John Wallowitch, 81, American singer and songwriter, bone cancer.

16

• Bahaedin Adab, 62, Iranian member of parliament, cancer. (Persian)
• John Blewett III, 33, American NASCAR driver, racing crash.
• Jeroen Boere, 39, Dutch football player (West Ham, West Bromwich Albion, Crystal Palace, Portsmouth, Southend).
• Will Edwards, 69, British Labour politician, MP for Merioneth (1966–1974).
• Clive Exton, 77, British television and film writer, brain cancer.
• Roland Mathias, 91, British poet and literary critic.
• Vito Pallavicini, 83, Italian lyricist/pop composer. (Italian)
• Max Roach, 83, American jazz drummer.
• Dewey Robertson, 68, Canadian professional wrestler ("The Missing Link"), cancer.

17

• John Austin, 68, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Aston (1992–2005).
• Edward Avedisian, 71, American artist.
• John Belk, 87, American Democratic politician, mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina (1969–1977).
• Jos Brink, 65, Dutch television host, actor, minister of religion and writer, colorectal cancer.
• Bill Deedes, 94, British journalist, editor of The Daily Telegraph (1974–1986) and Conservative politician.
• Carolyn Goodman, 91, American psychologist and civil rights activist.
• Eddie Griffin, 25, American former Seton Hall, Rockets and Timberwolves basketball player, car accident.
• Max Hodge, 91, American television writer, creator of Mr. Freeze on the 1960s Batman series.
• Victor Klee, 81, American mathematician, complications of intestinal surgery.
• Tanja Liedtke, 29, German choreographer appointed as Sydney Dance Company artistic director, road accident.
• Elmer MacFadyen, 64, Canadian politician, Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative cabinet minister (1996–2007), heart attack.
• Alison Plowden, 75, British historian.

18

• Stephen Bicknell, 49, British expert on the pipe organ.
• Michael Deaver, 69, American Deputy White House Chief of Staff (1981–1985), pancreatic cancer.
• Lucien Jarraud, 84, Canadian radio host.
• Jon Lucien, 65, American smooth jazz singer/songwriter, respiratory failure and complications of kidney surgery.
• Magdalen Nabb, 60, British author, stroke.
• Viktor Prokopenko, 62, Ukrainian footballer and coach (FC Shakhtar Donetsk), thrombus.

19

• Daniel Brewster, 83, American Senator (Democrat) from Maryland (1963–1969), liver cancer.
• Roch La Salle, 78, Canadian Progressive Conservative politician, Quebec cabinet minister (1968–1988).
• Shitsu Nakano, 113, Japan's oldest person and fourth-oldest-validated person in the world, natural causes.

20

• Gabriel Glorieux, 77, Belgian Olympic cyclist.
• Berthold Grünfeld, 75, Norwegian psychiatrist. (Norwegian)
• Wild Bill Hagy, 68, American Baltimore Orioles cheerleader of the 1970s and 1980s. .
• Larry Hartsell, 65, American martial arts instructor, student of Bruce Lee.
• Leona Helmsley, 87, American hotelier, heart failure.
• Chas Poynter, 68, New Zealand politician, mayor of Wanganui (1986–2004), lung disease.

21

• Caroline Aigle, 32, first French female fighter pilot, cancer.
• Rose Bampton, 99, American opera singer.
• Frank Bowe, 60, American disability rights activist, author and teacher, cancer.
• Čabulītis, c. 72, American alligator considered to be Europe's oldest. (Latvian)
• Siobhan Dowd, 47, British writer and PEN activist, breast cancer.
• Elizabeth Hoisington, 88, American Army general, heart failure.
• Howe Yoon Chong, 84, Singaporean politician.
• Qurratulain Hyder, 81, Indian novelist.
• Haley Paige, 26, Mexican-born pornographic actress.
• Hana Ponická, 85, Slovak writer and dissident. (French)
• Adam Watson, 93, British diplomat and academic.

22

• Butch van Breda Kolff, 84, American basketball coach (Princeton, Lakers, Pistons, Jazz).
• Jacek Chmielnik, 54, Polish actor, accidental electrocution. (Polish).
• Keith Knight, 51, Canadian actor, brain cancer.
• Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet, 80, British aristocrat.
• Grace Paley, 84, American writer and political activist, breast cancer.

23

• Aimé Avignon, 110, France's oldest living man. (French)
• Cuesta Benberry, 83, American historian known for her studies of quilting, congestive heart failure.
• William John McKeag, 79, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (1970–1976).
• Martti Pokela, 83, Finnish folk musician.
• Robert Symonds, 80, American actor (Dynasty, The Exorcist), prostate cancer.
• Dušan Třeštík, 74, Czech historian. (Czech)
• Philip Wilkinson, 80, British banker.

24

• Abdul Rahman Arif, 91, Iraqi politician, President of Iraq (1966–1968).
• Mark Birley, 77, British nightclub owner (Annabel's), stroke.
• Andrée Boucher, 70, Canadian politician, mayor of Sainte-Foy (1985–2001) and Quebec City (2005–2007), heart attack.
• William E. McAnulty, Jr., 59, American lawyer, first African American Kentucky Supreme Court Justice, lung cancer.
• Aaron Russo, 64, American movie producer (Trading Places, The Rose), cancer.
• Adam Watson, 93, British diplomat.

25

• Benjamin Aaron, 91, American labor law expert and member of Presidential commissions, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Raymond Barre, 83, French economist, Prime Minister of France (1976-1981), Mayor of Lyon (1995–2001).
• Jim Carlson, 72, American screenwriter.
• Eduardo Prado Coelho, 63, Portuguese writer and political and cultural critic. (Portuguese)
• Richard Cook, 50, British jazz writer, cancer.
• Édouard Gagnon, 89, Canadian Roman Catholic Cardinal.
• Ray Jones, 18, British footballer (QPR), car accident.
• Alberto de Lacerda, 78, Portuguese poet, BBC radio presenter, founded Portucale magazine. (Portuguese)
• Linda Smith, 58, Canadian writer.

26

• Edward Brandt, Jr., 74, American doctor and public health official, directed initial response to AIDS, lung cancer.
• Oliver Byrne, 63, Irish CEO of soccer club Shelbourne F.C., after short illness.
• Chuck Comiskey, 81, American Chicago White Sox executive in the 1950s, grandson of team founder Charles Comiskey.
• Roy McLean, 77, South African cricketer, after long illness.
• Judah Nadich, 95, American rabbi and chaplain, heart attack.
• Edward Seidensticker, 86, American scholar and translator of Japanese literature, complications from a fall.
• Gaston Thorn, 78, Luxembourg Prime Minister (1974-1979), President of the European Commission (1981-1985).

27

• Driss Basri, 69, Moroccan Interior Minister (1979–1999).
• Galina Dzhugashvili, 68, Russian granddaughter of Joseph Stalin, cancer.
• Richard T. Heffron, 76, American film and television director.
• Eduardo Malapit, 74, American who was first mayor of Filipino American ancestry.
• Emma Penella, 77, Spanish actress (El Verdugo, Aqui no hay quien viva), renal and heart failure. (Spanish)
• Doug Riley, 62, Canadian musician ("Doctor Music"), heart failure.
• Hans Ruesch, 94, Swiss racing driver, author and activist against animal testing.
• Gad Yaacobi, 72, Israeli former Minister and Labor Party Knesset member, heart failure.

28

• Anacleto Angelini, 93, Chilean businessman, South America's richest man, emphysema.
• David Garcia, 63, American journalist, White House correspondent (ABC), complications of a liver condition.
• Arthur Jones, 80, American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines.
• Hilly Kristal, 75, American club owner (CBGB), complications of lung cancer.
• Smain Lamari, 67, Algerian head of intelligence services, after long illness.
• Paul MacCready, 81, American aviation pioneer and inventor.
• Nikola Nobilo, 94, Croatian-born New Zealand winemaker.
• Antonio Puerta, 22, Spanish footballer (Sevilla FC), arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia.
• Francisco Umbral, 72, Spanish writer, pneumonia.
• Miyoshi Umeki, 78, Japanese-born Academy Award-winning actress (Sayonara), also on Courtship of Eddie's Father, cancer.

29

• Sir James Fletcher, 92, New Zealand industrialist (Fletcher Challenge).
• Richard Jewell, 44, American security guard wrongly accused of the Atlanta Olympics bombing, diabetes.
• Pierre Messmer, 91, French Prime Minister (1972-1974), Free French fighter, French Academician.
• Chaswe Nsofwa, 28, Zambian footballer, heart attack.
• Alfred Peet, 87, American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea.

30

• Ramrao Adik, 77, Indian former Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
• Banarsi Das Gupta, 89, Indian former Chief Minister of Haryana.
• Augustine Harris, 89, British Bishop Emeritus of Middlesbrough, former Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool.
• Michael Jackson, 65, British writer and beer expert (The Beer Hunter), heart attack.
• Nancy Littlefield, 77, American film producer, cancer.
• K. P. H. Notoprojo, 103, Indonesian gamelan performer. (Indonesian)
• Ong Hok Ham, 74, Indonesian historian.
• Charles Vanik, 94, American politician, U.S. Representative from Ohio (1955-1981).
• José Luis de Vilallonga, 87, Spanish aristocrat, author and actor (Breakfast at Tiffany's).

31

• Gay Brewer, 75, American professional golfer, lung cancer.
• Willie Cunningham, 77, British football player.
• Kees Klop, 59, Dutch professor of political ethics and former chairman of the NCRV. (Dutch)
• Karloff Lagarde, 79, Mexican lucha libre professional wrestler.
• Doug Maxwell, 80, Canadian curling innovator, cancer.
• Sulev Vahtre, 81, Estonian historian. (Estonian)