Deaths in June 2007

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

June 2007

1

• Warren M. Anderson, 91, American legislator, Temporary President and Majority Leader of the NY Senate (1973–1989).
• Jan Beneš, 71, Czech writer, translator, publicist and screenwriter, suicide. (Czech)
• Kasma Booty, 75, Malaysian actress, pneumonia.
• Sir John Gilmour, 94, British Conservative MP for East Fife (1961-1979) and Lord Lieutenant of Fife (1980-1987).
• Charles Johnson, 58, American basketball player, cancer.
• Charles Kinkead, 93, Jamaican photojournalist, stroke.
• Pamela Low, 79, American flavorist who created the coating for Cap'n Crunch.
• Marly de Oliveira, 69, Brazilian poet ("O Mar de Permeio"), multiple organ failure.
• Arn Shein, 78, American sports writer.
• Dave Smalley, 72, American coach of US Naval Academy men's and women's basketball teams, complications of cancer.
• Helen Stetter, 113, American who was world's fourth-oldest living person and Nebraska's oldest person.
• Tony Thompson, 31, American lead vocalist of the R&B group Hi-Five, apparent drug overdose.

2

• Sandy Barr, 69, American wrestler, heart attack.
• Marion Francis Forst, 96, American oldest Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.
• Enrico Garbuglia, 107, one of the last eight Italian veterans of World War I.
• Steve Gilliard, 42, American blogger, heart and kidney failure.
• Kentaro Haneda, 58, Japanese pianist, composer and arranger, liver cancer.
• Huang Ju, 68, Chinese Vice Premier, Politburo Standing Committee member, former Mayor of Shanghai.
• Martin Meyerson, 84, American academic, President of Penn (1971-1982) and Chancellor of UC Berkeley.
• John Moriarty, 69, Irish poet and philosopher, cancer.
• Kelsey Smith, 18, American kidnapping and murder victim.

3

• Richard Attipoe, 50, Togolese Minister for Sport, helicopter crash.
• Ivan Darvas, 82, Hungarian actor. (Hungarian)
• Ragheed Ganni, 35, Iraqi Chaldean Catholic priest, shot.
• Earl Hogan, 87, American politician, U.S. Representative from Indiana (1959–1961).
• James Arthur Kelsey, 54, American Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan, automobile accident.
• Nelson Levy, 58, Tahitian founding head of Air Tahiti Nui, leading figure in French Polynesian tourism, heart attack.
• Leonard Nathan, 82, American poet, National Book Award nominee, UC Berkeley professor of rhetoric, Alzheimer's disease.
• Juan Antonio Arguelles Rius, 28, Spanish songwriter and programmer, traffic collision.

4

• Clete Boyer, 70, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves) and coach, stroke.
• Tom Burns, 75, Australian politician, former Queensland opposition leader, Deputy Premier and Australian Labor Party national president.
• Jim Clark, 84, American sheriff of Dallas County, Alabama who opposed voting rights in Selma, stroke and heart condition.
• Hallie Ford, 102, American timber entrepreneur and philanthropist.
• Bill France, Jr., 74, American CEO of NASCAR (1972–2003), cancer.
• Wallace McIntosh, 87, British World War II air gunner.
• Sotiris Moustakas, 67, Greek Cypriot actor, cancer.
• Freddie Scott, 74, American singer ("Hey Girl"), heart attack.
• Craig L. Thomas, 74, American Senator from Wyoming since 1995, leukemia.

5

• Sam Baker, 76, American football player, complications of diabetes.
• Povel Ramel, 85, Swedish artist, singer, pianist, comedian, actor, author.
• Jean Vollum, 80, American philanthropist and widow of Tektronix founder Howard Vollum, congestive heart failure.

6

• Warren Bradley, 73, British footballer who played for Manchester United and England.
• Tony De Santis, 93, American owner of Drury Lane Theatre, cancer.
• Larry Hamlin, 58, American theater producer, founder of the National Black Theater Festival.
• Dave Hancock, 68, English footballer.
• Luke Sela, 64, Papua New Guinean journalist, editor of the PNG Post Courier (1978–2000).
• Zakia Zaki, 35, Afghan director of Radio Peace, shot.

7

• Gilbert Gude, 84, United States Representative from Maryland (1967–1977), heart failure.
• Michael Hamburger, 83, German-born British poet, translator, critic.
• Sahar Hussein al-Haideri, 44, Iraqi journalist, shot.

8

• Hideo Kanze, 79, Japanese Noh actor and director, intestinal cancer.
• Nellie Lutcher, 94, American jazz singer and pianist, pneumonia.
• Kenny Olsson, 30, Swedish speedway rider, crash.
• Aden Abdulle Osman, 99, first President of Somalia (1960–1967).
• Lynne Randell, 57, Australian singer ("Ciao Baby"), apparent suicide.
• Richard Rorty, 75, American philosopher, pancreatic cancer.

9

• Frankie Abernathy, 25, American cast member of The Real World: San Diego, cystic fibrosis.
• Rudolf Arnheim, 102, German-born American author, psychologist, and theorist of film and visual art.
• Lorne Carr, 96, Canadian NHL hockey player for the New York Rangers and Toronto Maple Leafs.
• Eddie Crush, 90, British cricketer for Kent (1946–1949).
• Harry Ewing, Baron Ewing of Kirkford, 76, British Labour politician, cancer.
• Rob Goode, 80, American football player for the Washington Redskins.
• Achieng Oneko, 87, Kenyan freedom fighter and politician, heart attack.
• Ousmane Sembène, 84, Senegalese film director, producer and writer, after long illness.
• Elias Wen, 110, Chinese-born Protopresbyter (senior clergy) of the Russian Orthodox Church.

10

• August H. Auer, Jr., 67, American-born New Zealand atmospheric scientist and meteorologist, heart attack.
• George Burrarrawanga, 50, Australian singer (Warumpi Band).
• Charley Harper, 84, American wildlife artist, pneumonia.
• Laurence Mancuso, 72, American founding abbot of Monks of New Skete, complications of injuries from a fall.
• John Ostashek, 71, Canadian Yukon Party Leader (1992–1999) and Yukon Government Leader (1992–1996), cancer.
• Parviz Varjavand, 73, Iranian archaeologist, heart failure.

11

• Bobby Beaton, 94, Canadian ice hockey player, professional boxer and boxing referee.
• Eamonn Coleman, 59, Northern Irish Gaelic football coach (Derry GAA), non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
• Vern Hoscheit, 85, American Major League Baseball bullpen coach.
• Ray Mears, 80, American basketball coach of the University of Tennessee Volunteers (1963–1977).
• Mala Powers, 75, American film actress (Cyrano de Bergerac, Outrage), leukemia.

12

• Donald D. Clancy, 85, American Mayor of Cincinnati (1957–1960), US Representative from Ohio (1961–1977), Parkinson's disease.
• Colin Fletcher, 85, American writer on hiking, complications of old age and injuries from a 2001 car accident.
• Tito Gómez, 59, Puerto Rican salsa singer, former member of Ray Barretto and Sonora Ponceña bands, heart attack.
• Don Herbert, 89, American TV host ("Mr. Wizard"), bone cancer.
• Sir Wally Herbert, 72, British polar explorer.
• Jim Norton, 68, American football player (Houston Oilers, 1960–1969).
• Guy de Rothschild, 98, French banker and member of the Rothschild family.
• Frank Scarrabelotti, 109, Australia's oldest living man.
• Samuel Isaac Weissman, 94, American chemist known for his work on the Manhattan Project.

13

• Jessie Davis, 26, American murder victim.
• Walid Eido, 65, Lebanese politician, bomb.
• Sir David Hatch, 68, British managing director of BBC Radio, comic actor (I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again).
• Oskar Morawetz, 90, Canadian classical composer.
• Claude Netter, 82, French Olympic fencer.
• Néstor Rossi, 82, Argentine footballer, played in 1958 FIFA World Cup.

14

• Ruth Graham, 87, American wife of evangelist Billy Graham.
• William LeMessurier, 81, American structural engineer, complications from surgery following a fall.
• Robin Olds, 84, American fighter pilot in the United States Air Force, heart failure.
• Jacques Simonet, 43, Belgian politician and mayor of Anderlecht, heart attack. (Dutch)
• Peter Ucko, 68, British archaeologist, complications of diabetes.
• Kurt Waldheim, 88, Austrian President (1986–1992), UN Secretary-General (1972–1981), World War II Wehrmacht officer, heart failure.

15

• Richard Bell, 61, Canadian keyboardist for Janis Joplin and The Band, cancer.
• Claudia Cohen, 56, American socialite and journalist, ovarian cancer.
• Hugo Corro, 53, Argentine World Boxing Association and World Boxing Council middleweight boxing champion (1978–1979).
• Sherri Martel, 49, American professional wrestler and valet, accidental overdose.
• Alex Thomson, 78, British Academy Award-nominated cinematographer (Excalibur).
• Larry Whiteside, 69, American baseball journalist.

16

• Robin Beard, 67, American Representative from Tennessee (1973–1983), brain tumor.
• Jack Doohan, 87, Australian politician, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1978–1991).
• Norman Hackerman, 95, American former president of the University of Texas at Austin and Rice University, heart disease.
• Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, 76, Iranian religious leader.
• Thommie Walsh, 57, American dancer (A Chorus Line) and Tony Award-winning choreographer, lymphoma.
• Lola Wasserstein, 89, American mother of playwright Wendy Wasserstein who inspired some of her daughter's characters.

17

• Jamal Abdul Karim al-Dabban, 68, Iraqi Sunni religious leader, heart attack.
• Ben Brocklehurst, 85, British cricketer and publisher.
• Angelo Felici, 87, Italian Catholic Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei.
• Gianfranco Ferré, 62, Italian fashion designer, brain haemorrhage.
• Ed Friendly, 85, American television producer (Little House on the Prairie, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), cancer.
• Jay Newman, 59, Canadian philosopher, cancer.
• Abilio Jose Osorio Soares, 60, Indonesian last governor of East Timor.
• Fred C. Stinson, 84, Canadian politician.

18

• Bill Barber, 87, American jazz tuba player, played with Miles Davis and John Coltrane, heart failure.
• Vilma Espín, 77, Cuban wife of acting President Raúl Castro, president of Cuban Women's Federation.
• Kenneth Franklin, 84, American astronomer at the Hayden Planetarium.
• Tung Hua Lin, 96, Chinese engineer, designed China's first twin-engine aircraft, heart failure.
• Bernard Manning, 76, British comedian, kidney failure.
• Hank Medress, 68, American singer (The Tokens), producer of The Chiffons and Tony Orlando and Dawn, lung cancer.
• Georges Thurston, 55, Canadian author and composer known as "Boule Noire" (Afro), colorectal cancer.

19

• Antonio Aguilar, 88, Mexican actor, pneumonia.
• Victorio Cieslinskas, 84, Uruguayan Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) basketball player.
• Tommy Eytle, 80, Guyanese-born British actor and jazz musician.
• El Fary, 69, Spanish singer, lung cancer.
• Terry Hoeppner, 59, American football coach for Indiana University, brain tumor.
• Piara Khabra, 82, British Labour MP for Ealing, Southall (1992–2007).
• Alberto Mijangos, 81, Mexican-American painter, lymphoma.
• Ze'ev Schiff, 74, Israeli military journalist, heart disease.
• Klausjürgen Wussow, 78, German actor (Schwarzwaldklinik), after long illness. (German)

20

• Nazik Al-Malaika, 84, Iraqi poet, old age.
• Rudy Autio, 80, American sculptor, leukemia.
• Shayne Bower, 42, Canadian professional wrestler known as "Biff Wellington", heart attack.
• Anita Guha, Indian actress, heart failure.
• J.B. Handelsman, 85, American cartoonist for The New Yorker, lung cancer.
• Margaret Helfland, 59, American architect and urban planner, colon cancer.
• Trevor Henry, 105, New Zealand Supreme Court justice.
• Mamadou Konte, 65, Senegalese music producer, founder of the Africa Fete music festival and record label.
• Jim Shoulders, 79, American Pro Rodeo Hall of Famer, heart ailment.

21

• Georg Danzer, 60, Austrian singer, lung cancer. (German)
• Bob Evans, 89, American founder of Bob Evans Restaurants, pneumonia.
• Douglas Hill, 72, Canadian author.
• Peter M. Liba, 67, Canadian Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (1999–2004).
• Carlos Romero, 80, American character actor.
• Marshall Shulman, 91, American Sovietologist who founded the Averell Harriman Institute at Columbia University.
• Mary Ellen Solt, 86, American poet and critic, stroke.

22

• Bernd Becher, 75, German photographer, complications of heart surgery.
• Nancy Benoit, 43, American professional wrestler and manager, wife of wrestler Chris Benoit, murder by strangulation.
• Daniel Benoit, 7, Son of Chris Benoit and Nancy Benoit, murder by strangulation.
• Luciano Fabro, 70, Italian artist and theorist in Arte Povera movement, heart attack.
• Lenar Gilmullin, 22, Russian footballer (FC Rubin Kazan), motorcycle accident. (Russian)
• William L. Hungate, 84, American judge, U.S. Representative (1964–1977), complications of surgery.
• Jack Ormston, 97, British speedway rider.
• Erik Parlevliet, 43, Dutch field hockey player, after long illness. (Dutch)
• Guy Vander Jagt, 75, United States Representative from Michigan (1966–1993), pancreatic cancer.

23

• Rod Beck, 38, American Major League Baseball pitcher.
• Hou Yaowen, 59, Chinese xiangsheng (cross-talk) actor, heart attack.
• Hans Sennholz, 85, German-born economist.
• Nguyen Chanh Thi, 84, Vietnamese general for South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

24

• Byron Baer, 77, American legislator for New Jersey (1971–2005), heart failure.
• Gillian Baverstock, 75, British novelist, daughter of Enid Blyton.
• Chris Benoit, 40, Canadian professional wrestler, suicide by hanging.
• Edouard Brunner, 75, Swiss diplomat and United Nations mediator.
• Derek Dougan, 69, Northern Irish footballer (Wolves, Northern Ireland).
• Jack Flynt, 92, United States Representative from Georgia (1954–1979).
• Robert Kroon, 82, Dutch journalist, pancreatic cancer.
• Charles W. Lindberg, 86, American last surviving marine who raised the first flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima.
• Natasja Saad, 32, Danish rapper, car accident. (Danish)
• Joy Simonson, 88, American feminist, complications of pneumonia.
• Maurice Wood, 90, British Anglican Bishop of Norwich (1971-1985).

25

• Jurgis Blekaitis, 89, Lithuanian-American poet and theatre producer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Alida Bosshardt, 94, Dutch "public face" of the Salvation Army.
• Dana Bullen, 75, American journalist and advocate for freedom of the press, cancer.
• Liliane Chappuis, 51, Swiss member of the National Council, heart attack. (French)
• J. Fred Duckett, 74, American sports announcer and teacher, leukemia.
• Jeeva, 43, Indian director and cinematographer.
• Mahasti, 61, Iranian pop singer, colon cancer.
• Bill Moss, 76, American gospel musician (The Celestials), emphysema.
• Adrian Mung'andu, 84, Zambian Catholic archbishop of Lusaka (1984–1996).
• Brenda Rawnsley, 90, British arts campaigner.
• Paul Smith, 85, American typewriter artist.

26

• Tina Brozman, 54, American Bankruptcy Court judge, complications of ovarian cancer.
• Liz Claiborne, 78, Belgian-born American fashion designer, cancer.
• Jupp Derwall, 80, German football coach of West Germany (1978–1984), heart attack.
• Fasal al Gaood, Iraqi former governor of Al Anbar, Sunni tribal sheikh prominent in alliance against Al Qaeda, suicide bomb victim.
• Lucien Hervé, 96, Hungarian-born French photographer, after long illness. (Hungarian)
• Bobby Hussey, 67, American basketball coach at Virginia Tech and Davidson College.
• Dame Thea King, 81, British clarinetist.
• Patrick Knight, 39, American convicted double murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Luigi Meneghello, 85, Italian writer and essayist.
• Joey Sadler, 92, New Zealand All Blacks rugby union player.
• Malcolm Slesser, 80, British scientist and mountaineer, heart attack while hillwalking.

27

• Patrick Allotey, 28, Ghanaian footballer for Feyenoord and Ghana. (Dutch)
• Kari Blackburn, 53, British broadcaster, suicide by drowning.
• William Hutt, 87, Canadian actor, leukemia.
• Hugh Johns, 83, British football commentator with ITV.
• Jimmy Marks, 62, American Romani civil rights leader, heart attack.
• Ashraf Marwan, 62, Egyptian son-in-law of former President Nasser, alleged double agent.
• Emilio Ochoa, 99, Cuban who was last living signatory of the 1940 Constitution, cardiac arrest.
• Ruslan Odizhev, 33, Russian former Guantanamo Bay detainee, shot by police. (Russian)
• Silas Rhodes, 91, American educator, founder of the School of Visual Arts.
• Dragutin Tadijanović, 101, Croatian author.

28

• Inez Baskin, 91, American journalist, covered the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• Leo Burmester, 63, American actor, leukemia.
• Eugene B. Fluckey, 93, American submarine commander awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II.
• Bruce R. Kennedy, 68, American businessman, former chairman and CEO of Alaska Airlines, light plane crash.
• Abraham Klausner, 92, American rabbi, supporter of Holocaust survivors, complications of Parkinson's disease.
• Kiichi Miyazawa, 87, Japanese Prime Minister (1991–1993), natural causes.
• Thomas K. Mooney, 45, American diplomat and soldier.
• Shinji Nakae, 72, Japanese voice actor and narrator.
• Howie Schneider, 77, American cartoonist (Eek and Meek), complications of heart surgery.
• Catherine Troeh, 96, American native people activist and historian.
• Jess Weiss, 90, American anesthesiologist.

29

• Frank W. Burke, 87, American politician, US Representative (1959–1963), Mayor of Louisville (1969–1973).
• Raymond E. Douglas, 58, American NY Times executive who helped add color to its pages, pulmonary embolism.
• John Hansl, 82, Croatian ex-concentration camp guard whose United States citizenship was revoked in 2005, congestive heart failure.
• Harry Henshel, 88, American watchmaker, last member of the Bulova family to head that company.
• George McCorkle, 60, American guitarist with The Marshall Tucker Band, cancer.
• Fred Saberhagen, 77, American writer of Berserker series, cancer.
• Joel Siegel, 63, American film critic for Good Morning America on ABC, colon cancer.
• Alojzij Šuštar, 86, Slovenian former Archbishop of Ljubljana. (Slovenian)
• Maurice Wohl, 83, British philanthropist and businessman, heart problems.
• Edward Yang, 59, Taiwanese film director (Yi Yi), colon cancer.

30

• Jim Corbett, 82, American politician, Mayor of Tucson, Arizona (1967–1971), Arizona legislator (1956–1958), heart problems.
• Bruce Greensill, 65, Australian rugby union player and administrator, represented Auckland and Sydney.
• Jan Herman Linge, 85, Norwegian boat designer, Soling and Yngling class.
• Will Schaefer, 78, American composer of background music for I Dream of Jeannie and The Flintstones, cancer.
• Robert E. Sweeney, 82, American politician, US Representative from Ohio (1965-1967), heart problems.
• Sahib Singh Verma, 64, Indian Chief Minister of Delhi (1996–1998), Bharatiya Janata Party leader, car accident.
• Norman Williams, 92, Australian World War II air gunner.