Deaths in July 2007

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

July 2007

1

• Count Gottfried von Bismarck, 44, German aristocrat, businessman and socialite, suspected heroin overdose.
• Joerg Kalt, 40, Austrian cinematographer, suicide.
• Colleen McCrory, 57, Canadian environmental activist, brain cancer.
• David Ritcheson, 18, American hate crime victim, suicide by jumping.
• Gerhard Skrobek, 85, German sculptor of Hummel figurines, complications of heart surgery.

2

• Philip Booth, 81, American poet and educator, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Robert "Buck" Brown, 71, American cartoonist, created Playboy's "Granny" character, stroke.
• Brahim Déby, 27, Chadian son of the national President and former presidential advisor, chemical asphyxiation.
• Howell M. Estes II, 92, United States Air Force general during the Vietnam War, heart ailment.
• Ray Goins, 71, American bluegrass musician.
• Robert Keeton, 88, American District Court judge, professor at Harvard Law School, complications from pulmonary embolism.
• Peter Lyman, 66, American information researcher, brain cancer.
• Pete Mead, 83, American middleweight boxer.
• John Pinches, 91, British rower and soldier.
• Dilip Sardesai, 66, Indian cricketer, multiple organ failure.
• Beverly Sills, 78, American opera singer, lung cancer.
• Jimmy Walker, 63, American basketball player (Detroit Pistons, Houston Rockets, Kansas City Kings), lung cancer.
• Al Williams, 60, American basketball player, liver cancer.
• Kevin Woodcock, 64, British cartoonist.
• Hy Zaret, 99, American lyricist ("Unchained Melody").

3

• Anne Dreydel, 89, British educationalist, co-founder of the Oxford English Centre.
• Beppie Noyes, 87, American author, stroke.
• Claude Pompidou, 94, French widow of former Prime Minister and President Georges Pompidou.
• Boots Randolph, 80, American saxophonist ("Yakety Sax"), cerebral hemorrhage.

4

• Barış Akarsu, 28, Turkish rock musician, car accident. (Turkish)
• Liane Bahler, 25, German cyclist, car accident. (Dutch)
• José Roberto Espinosa, 59, Mexican footballer, coach and journalist, pneumonia and cancer. (Spanish)
• Johnny Frigo, 90, American jazz violinist and bass player, complications from a fall.
• Ken MacAfee, 77, American football player, heart attack.
• Vivienne Nearing, 81, American lawyer involved in quiz show scandals, adrenal cancer.
• Bill Pinkney, 81, American singer who was the last original member of The Drifters, probable heart attack.
• Osvaldo Romo, 70, Chilean security agent jailed for human rights abuses under Pinochet, heart and respiratory problems.
• Ted Row, 84, Australian politician.
• Eleanor Stewart, 94, American film and voice actor, Alzheimer's disease.
• Henrique Viana, 71, Portuguese actor and singer, cancer.

5

• Régine Crespin, 80, French operatic soprano, liver cancer.
• Odile Crick, 86, British-born artist, widow of Francis Crick, cancer.
• Kerwin Mathews, 81, American actor.
• George Melly, 80, British jazz and blues musician, lung cancer.
• Sylvan Shemitz, 82, United States lighting designer for Jefferson Memorial, Grand Central Terminal, heart attack.

6

• Don Mumford, 53, American jazz drummer.
• Marguerite Vogt, 94, American polio and cancer researcher.
• Eileen Wearne, 95, Australian athlete at the 1932 Summer Olympics and Australia's oldest surviving Olympian.
• Kathleen Woodiwiss, 68, American romance writer, cancer.
• Lois Wyse, 80, American advertising executive, author and columnist, stomach cancer.

7

• Ion Calvocoressi, 88, British soldier and stockbroker.
• Dame Anne McLaren, 80, British geneticist and developmental biologist, ex-wife of Donald Michie, car accident.
• Donald Michie, 83, British researcher in artificial intelligence, ex-husband of Dame Anne McLaren, car accident.
• John G. Mitchell, 75, American environment editor and author, National Geographic (1994–2004), heart attack.
• Jack Odell, 87, British engineer and co-founder of Matchbox Toys.
• John Szarkowski, 81, American photography curator, complications of a stroke.

8

• Jindřich Feld, 82, Czech composer.
• Haroon-ul-Islam, Pakistan Army Lieutenant-Colonel, shot.
• Itzik Kol, 75, Israeli film producer, pneumonia.
• Chandra Shekhar, 80, Indian Prime Minister (1990–1991) and Member of Lok Sabha, multiple myeloma.
• Jack B. Sowards, 78, American screenwriter (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

9

• Esteban Areta, 75, Spanish international footballer and coach. (Spanish)
• John Baker, 71, Australian general, Chief of the Australian Defence Force (1995–1998).
• Sean Collins, 13, son of Canadian politician Chris Collins, cancer.
• John Fogarty, 78, Australian rugby union winger, played two tests for the Wallabies.
• John Hill, 83, American lawyer and politician, Texas Attorney General, Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice, heart condition.
• Jerry Ito, 79, Japanese-American actor, pneumonia.
• Charles Lane, 102, American character actor (It's a Wonderful Life, I Love Lucy), founding member of SAG.
• Ralph Paffenbarger, 84, American doctor who performed an early study on the importance of exercise, heart failure.
• Penny Thomson, 56, British film producer, cancer.
• Peter Tuddenham, 88, British voice actor (Blake's 7).
• John Wilson, 84, Irish politician, Tánaiste (1990–1993).

10

• Emma Carroll, 112, American who was oldest Iowan and oldest person to ride in a hot-air balloon.
• Tibor Feheregyhazi, 75, Hungarian-Canadian actor and theatre director, prostate cancer.
• Devin Gaines, 22, American graduate, awarded five undergraduate degrees, drowned.
• Abdul Rashid Ghazi, 43, Pakistani cleric at the Red Mosque in Islamabad, shot.
• Corbin Harney, 87, American Western Shoshone leader and environmental activist, complications from cancer.
• Frank Kilroy, 86, American football player, scout and general manager for the New England Patriots.
• Doug Marlette, 57, American Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist (Kudzu), car accident.
• Marjorie Morgan, 92, Canadian author, Alzheimer's disease.
• Mireya Rodríguez, 70, Cuban Olympic fencer.
• William Seegers, 106, last German-American veteran of World War I and California's last World War I veteran.
• Zheng Xiaoyu, 62, Chinese official, former head of the State Food and Drug Administration, executed.

11

• Glenda Adams, 68, Australian writer, ovarian cancer.
• Shag Crawford, 90, American baseball umpire (1956–1975).
• Bill Flynn, 58, South African actor, heart attack.
• Livio Fongaro, 69, Italian footballer and coach.
• Richard Franklin, 58, Australian film director (Roadgames), prostate cancer.
• Ove Grahn, 64, Swedish footballer. (Swedish)
• Nana Gualdi, 75, German singer and actress.
• Lady Bird Johnson, 94, First Lady of the United States (1963–1969), natural causes.
• Rod Lauren, 67, American actor, suicide by jumping.
• Alfonso López Michelsen, 94, Colombian President (1974–1978) and Foreign Minister (1968–1970), heart attack.
• Ed Mirvish, 92, Canadian retail pioneer, natural causes.
• Jimmy Skinner, 90, Canadian ice hockey coach (Detroit Red Wings).
• Timothy Sprigge, 75, British idealist philosopher.
• Larry Staverman, 70, American basketball player and first head coach for the Indiana Pacers (1967–1968).
• Medha Yodh, 79, Indian dancer and dance teacher.

12

• Marc Behm, 82, American writer. (French)
• Robert Burås, 31, Norwegian guitarist for Madrugada and My Midnight Creeps.
• Mr. Butch, 56, American homeless person and local celebrity in Boston, scooter accident.
• Allen Clarke, 96, British educationalist.
• Nigel Dempster, 65, British journalist, progressive supranuclear palsy.
• Pat Fordice, 71, American broadcaster and First Lady of Mississippi (1992–2000), cancer.
• José Iglesias Fernández, 80, Spanish football player (Real Madrid), stroke.
• Forbes Johnston, 35, British football player (Falkirk, Airdrieonians).
• Jim Mitchell, 63, American porn producer (Behind the Green Door), heart attack.
• James Shen, 98, Taiwanese diplomat, last ambassador of Taiwan to the United States.
• Kesha Wizzart, 18, British singer and television show contestant, murdered.
• Stan Zemanek, 60, Australian radio presenter, brain cancer.

13

• Harry Fain, 88, American family lawyer, pneumonia.
• Otto von der Gablentz, 76, German diplomat. (Dutch)
• Khalid Hassan, 23, Iraqi reporter for The New York Times, shot.
• Frank Maher, 78, British stuntman.

14

• Edward Boyse, 83, American physician, pneumonia.
• Nan Cross, 79, South African anti-apartheid activist.
• John Ferguson, Sr., 68, Canadian hockey player, general manager, coach and scout, prostate cancer.
• William LeMessurier, 81, American architect, designed Boston City Hall and Citigroup Center, complications from fall.
• Bernard Pagel, British astrophysicist, cancer.
• John Warrender, 2nd Baron Bruntisfield, 86, British soldier and aristocrat.

15

• Bluma Appel, 86, Canadian philanthropist and patron of the arts, lung cancer.
• Alberto Romão Dias, Portuguese organometallic chemist, professor at the IST. (Portuguese)
• Kelly Johnson, 49, British guitarist (Girlschool), cancer of the spine.
• Kieron Moore, 82, Irish actor (The League of Gentlemen, The Day of the Triffids).
• Schelto Patijn, 70, Dutch politician, mayor of Amsterdam (1994–2001). (Dutch)
• Tsang Tsou Choi, 85, Hong Kong-based graffiti artist whose works were included in the 2003 Venice Biennale, heart disease.

16

• Angus Allan, 70, British comic strip writer.
• Tom Brooks, 88, Australian cricketer (New South Wales) and international umpire.
• Mikhail Kononov, 67, Russian actor (Guest from the Future, Siberiade, A Railway Station for Two), after long illness.
• Skinny McNabb, 90, American Major League Baseball player for the Detroit Tigers.
• Dmitri Prigov, 66, Russian poet, heart attack.
• Kurt Steyrer, 87, Austrian health minister and Socialist presidential candidate, after short illness.

17

• Jeremy Blake, 35, American video artist, suicide by drowning.
• Cheng Shifa, 86, Chinese painter, cartoonist and calligrapher.
• Peter Denning, 57, British cricketer (Somerset), cancer.
• Júlio Redecker, 51, Brazilian leader of the Social Democracy Party, plane crash. (Portuguese)
• Paulo Rogério Amoretty Souza, 60, Brazilian chairman of SCI, attorney for Corinthians, plane crash. (Portuguese)
• Teresa Stich-Randall, 79, American opera singer.

18

• Wayne Downing, 67, American retired army general, meningitis.
• Jerry Hadley, 55, American opera singer, suicide by gunshot.
• Charles Jauncey, Baron Jauncey of Tullichettle, 82, British Law Lord.
• John Kronus, 38, American professional wrestler, four-time ECW tag team champion.
• Gary Lupul, 48, Canadian hockey player.
• Sir Gordon MacWhinnie, 85, British-born Hong Kong accountant and public servant.
• Orlando McFarlane, 69, Cuban Major League Baseball player.
• Kenji Miyamoto, 98, Japanese politician, leader of the Japanese Communist Party for 40 years, old age.
• Sekou Sundiata, 58, American poet, musician and performance artist, heart failure.

19

• Glen Angus, 36, game artist, sudden heart failure.
• Ivor Emmanuel, 79, British singer and actor (Zulu), stroke.
• Roberto Fontanarrosa, 62, Argentine cartoonist and writer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. (Spanish)
• Howard Judd, 71, American women's health researcher, congestive heart failure.
• Shirley Slesinger Lasswell, 84, American marketing pioneer, sued Disney over Winnie the Pooh royalties, respiratory failure.
• Hector MacLean, 93, British World War II fighter pilot.
• Roger Nathan, 2nd Baron Nathan, 84, British solicitor and aristocrat.
• Alanah Woody, 51, American archaeologist, executive director of the Nevada Rock Art Foundation.

20

• Ollie Bridewell, 21, British motorcycle racer, crash during race practice for the British Superbike Championship.
• Golde Flami, 89, Argentine actress.
• Tammy Faye Messner, 65, American evangelist, metastatic colon cancer.
• David Preece, 44, British footballer (Luton Town), throat cancer.
• Maurice Riel, 85, Canadian Senator.
• Kai Siegbahn, 89, Swedish physicist at Uppsala University, won Nobel Prize in Physics in 1981.
• Pete Wilson, 62, American broadcaster, heart attack.

21

• Don Arden, 81, British rock manager, father of Sharon Osbourne.
• Jack Fearey, 84, American arts administrator founded Bumbershoot festival.
• Jesús de Polanco, 77, Spanish media entrepreneur and publisher (El País), complications of arthritic disease.
• Sherwin Wine, 79, American rabbi, founder of Birmingham Temple and Humanistic Judaism movement, car accident.
• Yang Xizong, 79, Chinese politician, Governor of Sichuan province and Communist Party Chief of Henan province.

22

• John Harrison Burnett, 85, British academic, Principal of Edinburgh University (1979–1987).
• Carmelo Camet, 102, Argentine 1928 Olympic bronze medalist in fencing and oldest living former Olympian.
• Mike Coolbaugh, 35, American baseball first base coach for the Tulsa Drillers, head injury.
• Jarrod Cunningham, 38, New Zealand rugby union footballer for London Irish, motor neurone disease.
• Norma Gabler, 84, American textbook campaigner, Parkinson's disease.
• Walter Jona, 81, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1964–1985).
• László Kovács, 74, Hungarian-born cinematographer (Easy Rider).
• André Milongo, 71, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (1991–1992).
• Ulrich Mühe, 54, German actor (The Lives of Others), stomach cancer.
• Jean Stablinski, 75, French cyclist.
• Rollie Stiles, 100, American oldest living former Major League Baseball player.
• Gerhard Thielcke, 76, German conservationist, BUND co-founder, head injury. (German)

23

• Sir Tom Davis, 90, Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (1978–1987).
• Otis Davis, 86, American Major League Baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
• Ernst Otto Fischer, 88, German Nobel-Prize-winning chemist. (German)
• Tor Kamata, 70, American professional wrestler (Stampede Wrestling), heart disease.
• Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., 87, American scientist, editor of Science magazine (1985–1995), stroke.
• Benjamin Libet, 91, American pioneering scientist in the field of human consciousness.
• Ron Miller, 74, American songwriter ("Touch Me in the Morning", "For Once in My Life"), cardiac arrest.
• Gyani Nand, 64, Fijian politician (FLP, 2001–2006), Minister for Agriculture (2006).
• Joan O'Hara, 76, Irish actress, heart disease.
• Mary Anne Scoles, 110, oldest verified Canadian and Manitoban.
• Mirsha Serrano, 28, Mexican footballer for Tecos UAG, car accident.
• George Tabori, 93, Hungarian-born British theater director.
• Mohammed Zahir Shah, 92, last king of Afghanistan.

24

• Giorgio Anglesio, 85, Italian Olympic fencer.
• Eric Davis, 75, British footballer.
• Albert Ellis, 93, American pioneer in cognitive-behavioral therapy, kidney and heart failure.
• Abdullah Mehsud, 31, Pakistani Taliban commander, suicide by hand grenade.
• Geoffrey Nuttall, 95, British historian and Nonconformist minister.
• Edward J. Sullivan, 86, American Clerk of Courts for Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
• Charles Whiting, 80, British author and military historian.
• William Young, 107, British airman, last known remaining World War I veteran of the Royal Flying Corps.
• Nicola Zaccaria, 84, Greek operatic bass, Alzheimer's disease.

25

• Bae Hyung-kyu, 42, South Korean pastor, Taliban hostage, shot.
• Danny Bergara, 64, Uruguayan football manager of Stockport County and Brunei, stroke.
• Raymond Bristow, 98, British priest, longest-serving Anglican minister.
• Jake, 12, American search and rescue dog for September 11, 2001 attacks and Hurricane Katrina, cancer.
• Bernd Jakubowski, 54, German footballer (East Germany), after short illness. (German)
• Jesse Marunde, 27, American strongman, heart attack.

26

• George Brown, 65, Belizean Chief Justice (1990–1998), illness.
• Lars Forssell, 79, Swedish author and member of the Swedish Academy.
• John Normington, 70, British theatre and television actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Skip Prosser, 56, American college basketball coach for Wake Forest University, heart attack.
• Shambo, 6, British Hindu sacred bull, lethal injection due to bovine tuberculosis.
• Alberto Villamizar, 62, Colombian politician (NL) and diplomat, complications of lung surgery.

27

• Gabriel Cisneros, 66, Spanish politician (PP), co-author of the 1978 Constitution, complications from stroke. (Spanish)
• Lucky Grills, 79, Australian comedian and actor (Bluey).
• Fannie Hillsmith, 96, American Cubist painter.
• Abdullah Kurshumi, 75, Yemeni politician, Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic (1969–1970).
• James Oyebola, 46, British heavyweight boxer, shot.
• Alan Pottasch, 79, American advertising executive for Pepsi, developed Pepsi Generation ad campaign.
• Christophe Ruer, 42, French Olympic modern pentathlete (1988, 1992, 1996), motorcycle accident.
• William J. Tuttle, 95, American Academy Award-winning make-up artist.

28

• Crown Prince Bao Long, 71, Vietnamese son of the last Emperor Bao Dai.
• Karl Gotch, 82, German-born professional wrestler.
• Jim LeRoy, 46, American stunt pilot, air crash.
• Sal Mosca, 80, American jazz pianist and educator.

29

• Ian Anstruther, 85, British diplomat, baronet, writer and literary patron.
• Jack Cole, 87, American publisher (Cole Directory), cancer.
• James David, 79, American football player (Detroit Lions), after long illness.
• Art Davis, 73, American jazz double-bassist, heart attack.
• Phil Drabble, 93, British television presenter (One Man and His Dog).
• Mike Reid, 67, British comedian and actor (EastEnders), heart attack.
• Bill Robinson, 64, American baseball player (Braves, Yankees, Phillies and Pirates) and coach.
• Michel Serrault, 79, French actor (La Cage aux Folles), cancer.
• Tom Snyder, 71, American talk show host and journalist, complications of leukemia.
• Marvin Zindler, 85, American reporter, pancreatic cancer.

30

• Michelangelo Antonioni, 94, Italian film director (L'avventura, Blowup, Zabriskie Point).
• Teoctist Arăpaşu, 92, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, heart attack.
• Ingmar Bergman, 89, Swedish stage and film director (The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Fanny and Alexander).
• Kazi Lhendup Dorjee, 103, Indian first Chief Minister of Sikkim (SNC, 1974–1978), heart attack.
• Thomas McGraw, 54, British mobster, heart attack.
• Ali-Akbar Meshkini, 86, Iranian Chairman of the Assembly of Experts, respiratory and kidney complications.
• Makoto Oda, 75, Japanese writer and anti-war activist, cancer.
• Shim Sung-Min, 29, South Korean Taliban hostage, shot.
• Richard Stott, 63, British newspaper editor and author, pancreatic cancer.
• Bill Walsh, 75, American three-time Super Bowl-winning football coach of the San Francisco 49ers and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, leukemia.
• Eric Wishnie, 44, American former television producer for NBC News, fall from building.

31

• Margaret Avison, 89, Canadian poet.
• J. Esmonde Barry, 83, Canadian healthcare activist and political commentator, complications from a heart attack.
• Norman Cohn, 92, British historian, degenerative heart condition.
• Oliver Morgan, 74, American rhythm & blues vocalist, heart attack.