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

October 2007

1

• Bernard Delaire, 108, last French Naval veteran of World War I. (French)
• Bruce Hay, 57, British rugby player for Britain and Scotland, brain tumour.
• Ronnie Hazlehurst, 79, British theme song composer (Are You Being Served?) and jazz musician, stroke.
• Israel Kugler, 90, American labor leader and professor, pneumonia.
• Harry Lee, 75, American politician, Sheriff of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, leukemia.
• Chris Mainwaring, 41, Australian footballer (West Coast Eagles), television and radio sports journalist.
• James A. Martin, 105, American Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, world's oldest Jesuit, pneumonia.
• Al Oerter, 71, American athlete and Olympic gold medallist in discus (1956, 1960, 1964 and 1968), heart failure.
• Tetsuo Okamoto, 75, Brazilian swimmer and Brazil's first Olympic swimming medallist (1952), respiratory failure.
• Pedro Saúl Pérez, 54, Dominican advocate for the rights of Dominican immigrants in Puerto Rico, heart attack.
• Ned Sherrin, 76, British broadcaster and theatre producer, throat cancer.
• Ralph W. Sturges, 88, American Mohegan tribal chief.
• Henry Wells, 92, American expert on Latin American politics, professor and author, complications from Alzheimer's disease.

2

• Frederick Bayer, 85, American emeritus curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, heart failure.
• Tex Coulter, 83, American National and Canadian Football League player.
• Gianni Danzi, 67, Italian Archbishop of the Territorial Prelature of Loreto.
• Elfi von Dassanowsky, 83, Austrian opera singer, actress and film producer.
• Christopher Derrick, 86, British writer.
• Šime Đodan, 79, Croatian parliamentarian, defence minister (1991).
• Gary Franklin, 79, American film critic, KABC-TV (Los Angeles).
• Richard Goldwater, 67, American president of Archie Comics, creator of Josie and the Pussycats, cancer.
• George Grizzard, 79, American actor, lung cancer.
• Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, 94, former Princess of Greece, last surviving great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
• Dan Keating, 105, Irish republican activist, last surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence.
• J. Edward Lundy, 92, American automobile executive (Ford Motor Co.).
• Tawn Mastrey, 53, American radio disc jockey (KNAC), hepatitis C.
• James Michaels, 86, American editor of Forbes (1961–1999), pneumonia.
• José Antonio Ríos Granados, 48, Mexican politician, mayor of Tultitlán (2000–2003), air crash. (Spanish)
• Willi Rössler, 83, German Olympic fencer.
• Alec Spalding, 84, British scout leader.

3

• John Buxton, 73, New Zealand ruby union player.
• Violet Kazue de Cristoforo, 90, American poet, held in Japanese-American internment camps during WWII, stroke.
• Kenneth R. Harding, 93, Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives (1972–1980), pneumonia.
• Jimmy Hutmaker, 75, American alleged to be 'Mr. Jimmy" in The Rolling Stones song You Can't Always Get What You Want.
• Herbert Muschamp, 59, American architecture critic for The New York Times, lung cancer.
• Pablo Palazuelo, 90, Spanish artist. (Spanish)
• Tony Ryan, 71, Irish entrepreneur and joint founder of Ryanair, after long illness.
• Rogelio Salmona, 78, Colombian architect, Alvar Aalto Medal and Prince Claus Award winner, cancer.
• Sir Richard Trant, 79, British Army general.
• Giuseppe Valdengo, 93, Italian operatic baritone. (Italian)
• M. N. Vijayan, 77, Indian academic, writer and journalist.

4

• Bob Burdick, 70, American NASCAR driver.
• Chen Chi-li, 64, Chinese-born Taiwanese gangster, killer of dissident journalist Henry Liu, pancreatic cancer.
• Antonie Iorgovan, 59, Romanian politician, main author of the Constitution of Romania, heart attack.
• Don Nottebart, 71, American Major League Baseball player, stroke.

5

• John Atchison, 53, American federal prosecutor and alleged child sex offender, suicide.
• Alexandra Boulat, 45, French photojournalist, aneurysm.
• Fannie Greenberg, 112, Canadian-born American supercentenarian, oldest New Yorker.
• Walter Kempowski, 78, German author and archivist, intestinal cancer.
• Władysław Kopaliński, 99, Polish lexicographer. (Polish)
• Vladimir Kuzin, 77, Russian 1956 Winter Olympics gold medallist, long illness. (Russian)
• Steven Massarsky, 59, American attorney and businessman, complications related to cancer.
• Edwyn Owen, 71, American ice hockey player, gold medallist at the 1960 Winter Olympics, car fire.
• Matilde Salvador i Segarra, 89, Spanish composer, stroke. (Spanish)
• Irmgard von Stephani, 112, Germany's oldest person.
• Justin Tuveri, 109, Italian-French World War I veteran.

6

• Babasaheb Bhosale, 86, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Maharashtra (1982–1983).
• Robert W. Bussard, 79, American physicist, researcher of nuclear fusion, cancer.
• Jo Ann Davis, 57, American member of the US House of Representatives from Virginia since 2001, breast cancer.
• Rodney Diak, 83, British stage and film actor, cancer.
• Bud Ekins, 77, American motorcycle racer and stunt performer (The Great Escape), natural causes.
• Terence Wilmot Hutchison, 95, British economist.
• Tom Murphy, 39, Irish Tony Award-winning actor of stage and screen (The Beauty Queen of Leenane), lymphatic cancer.
• Laza Ristovski, 51, Serbian keyboardist (Smak, Bijelo dugme), multiple sclerosis. (Croatian)
• George F. Senner, Jr., 85, American member of the US House of Representatives from Arizona (1963–1967).
• Elsa Tauser, 111, Germany's oldest person, natural causes. (German)

7

• Norifumi Abe, 32, Japanese MotoGP racer, traffic accident.
• Stéphane Maurice Bongho-Nouarra, 70, Congolese Prime Minister (1992). (French)
• Sir Alan Campbell, 88, British diplomat.
• Sisi Chen, 68, Chinese actress, pancreatic cancer.
• Paul Cullen, 98, Australian army general.
• Luciana Frassati Gawronska, 105, Polish-Italian writer and anti-Nazi activist, mother of Jas Gawronski.
• George E. Sangmeister, 76, American member of the US House of Representatives from Illinois (1989–1995), leukemia.
• Jiřina Steimarová, 91, Czech actress. (Czech)
• Joe Waggonner, 89, American member of the US House of Representatives from Louisiana (1961–1979).

8

• Constantine Andreou, 90, Brazilian-born Greek-French painter and sculptor. (Greek)
• Milan Đukić, 61, Serbian-Croatian politician, leader of the Serb People's Party.
• John Henry, 32, American Hall of Fame thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized after kidney failure.
• Zdzisław Peszkowski, 89, Polish Roman Catholic priest, advocate for the families of Katyn victims.
• Salem Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, 69, Kuwaiti politician, member of the ruling family, after long illness.
• Francis Schewetta, 88, French Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) athlete.

9

• Enrico Banducci, 85, American nightclub impresario (North Beach, San Francisco).
• Carol Bruce, 87, American actress (WKRP in Cincinnati), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Henk van Brussel, 72, Dutch footballer and football manager, heart attack. (Dutch)
• Jack Boyd Buckley, 81, American civil engineer.
• Fausto Correia, 55, Portuguese politician, heart attack. (Portuguese)
• Robert McGehee, 64, American Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Progress Energy Inc, stroke.
• Dudley Ryder, 7th Earl of Harrowby, 84, British aristocrat and banker.
• Kurt Schwaen, 98, German composer, natural causes. (German)
• Bram Zeegers, 58, Dutch lawyer and key witness in the trial of Willem Holleeder.

10

• Anne Christopher, 112, American supercentenarian, Georgia's oldest person.
• Ambrose De Paoli, 73, American-born Roman Catholic Archbishop, nuncio to Australia, leukemia.
• Ken Fry, 86, Australian politician, MP for Fraser (1974–1984).
• Francis García, 49, Mexican transvestite actress and designer, pulmonary thrombosis. (Spanish)
• Len Keogh, 76, Australian politician, MP for Bowman (1969–1975, 1983–1987).
• Norman Mashabane, 51, South African politician, former ambassador to Indonesia, car accident.
• Mehmed Uzun, 54, Turkish novelist, stomach cancer.

11

• Sri Chinmoy, 76, Indian-born philosopher and guru, heart attack.
• Ignatius D'Cunha, 83, Indian Bishop Emeritus of Aurangabad.
• John H. Edwards, 79, British geneticist.
• David Lee "Tex" Hill, 92, American fighter pilot and flying ace, member of the Flying Tigers.
• Rauni Mollberg, 78, Finnish film director, leukemia. (Finnish)
• Pat “Gravy” Patterson, 73, American baseball and football coach at Louisiana Tech, suicide by gunshot.
• Roy Rosenzweig, 57, American historian, lung cancer.
• Carlos Salgado, 67, Honduran journalist and comedian, shot.
• David Salmon, 95, American Athabascan tribal chief, cancer.
• Werner von Trapp, 91, Austrian-born musician and singer, member of the Trapp Family Singers who inspired The Sound of Music.

12

• Paulo Autran, 85, Brazilian actor, lung cancer.
• Kim Edward Beazley, 90, Australian politician, former government minister.
• Lonny Chapman, 87, American actor, heart disease.
• Ruby Hooper, 83, American first female major party candidate to run for Governor of North Carolina, 1993 North Carolina Mother of the Year.
• Kisho Kurokawa, 73, Japanese architect, heart failure.
• Judy Mazel, 63, American cookbook author (The Beverly Hills Diet), complications from peripheral vascular disease.
• Rajinder Singh Sarkaria, 91, Indian Supreme Court judge (1973–1981), head of the Sarkaria Commission.
• Soe Win, 59, Burmese Prime Minister (2004–2007), leukemia.

13

• Vernon Bellecourt, 75, Native American activist, pneumonia.
• Andrée de Jongh, 90, Belgian Resistance member, organized the Comet Line POW escape network.
• Bob Denard, 78, French mercenary.
• Alec Kessler, 40, American basketball player (Georgia Bulldogs, Miami Heat), heart attack.
• Marion Michael, 66, German actress and singer, heart failure.
• James L. Oakes, 83, American federal judge.
• Jim Poston, 63, British diplomat, Governor of the Turks & Caicos Islands (2002–2005).

14

• Salih Saif Aldin, 32, Iraqi correspondent for The Washington Post, shot.
• Big Moe, 33, American rapper, heart attack.
• Judy Crichton, 77, American television producer, leukemia.
• George Neil Jenkins, 92, British scientist.
• André Maréchal, 90, French optics researcher. (French)
• Raymond Pellegrin, 82, French actor. (French)
• Frances Rich, 97, American actress and sculptor, heart attack. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/25/AR2007102502626.html?nav=hcmodule.]
• Slew o' Gold, 27, American thoroughbred racehorse and Hall of Fame inductee, euthanized.
• Sigrid Valdis, 72, American actress (Hogan's Heroes), lung cancer.

15

• Nicky James, 64, British pop singer (The Moody Blues), brain tumour.
• Jackie Little, 95, British footballer (Ipswich Town).
• Bobby Mauch, 86, American child actor and film editor.
• Bernard Scudder, 53, British poet and translator of Icelandic literature.
• Vito Taccone, 67, Italian cyclist, heart attack. (Italian)
• Lucius Theus, 85, American airforce major-general, Tuskegee Airman.
• Ernest Withers, 85, American photographer, stroke.

16

• Rosalio José Castillo Lara, 85, Venezuelan Roman Catholic cardinal.
• Barbara West Dainton, 96, British Titanic survivor.
• Ignacy Jeż, 93, Polish Roman Catholic bishop.
• Deborah Kerr, 86, British actress (From Here to Eternity, Black Narcissus, The King and I), complications of Parkinson's disease.
• Arbab Jehangir Khan, 72, Pakistani politician, former NWFP Chief Minister, cardiac arrest.
• Jerzy Markuszewski, 76, Polish theatre director and dissident. (Polish)
• Toše Proeski, 26, Macedonian singer, car accident.
• Steve J. Spears, 56, Australian author, playwright and television writer, cancer.

17

• Billy Berroa, 79, Dominican Spanish broadcaster for New York Mets on WADO, prostate cancer.
• Joey Bishop, 89, American entertainer, last surviving member of the Rat Pack.
• Teresa Brewer, 76, American pop and jazz singer, supranuclear palsy.
• Sammy Duddy, 62, British political activist, member of the Northern Irish loyalist UPRG, heart attack.
• Germán Espinosa, 69, Colombian writer, cancer. (Spanish)
• Delphia Hankins, 111, American supercentenarian who was Mississippi's oldest person.
• Maria Kwaśniewska, 94, Polish javelin thrower, 1936 Olympic bronze medallist. (Polish)
• Lord Oliver of Aylmerton, 86, British law lord (1986–1992).
• Aminu Safana, 46, Nigerian MP, heart attack.
• Taku, 14, American orca at SeaWorld San Antonio.
• Rüdiger von Wechmar, 83, German diplomat and politician. (German)
• Robert A. Young, 83, American member of the US House of Representatives from Missouri (1977–1987), liver disease.

18

• Alan Coren, 69, British writer and satirist, editor of Punch (1978–1987), cancer.
• William J. Crowe, 82, American Ambassador to UK (1994–1997), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1985–1989), cardiac arrest.
• Vincent DeDomenico, 92, American inventor of Rice-a-Roni.
• Lucky Dube, 43, South African reggae musician, shot during carjacking.
• Anthony R. Michaelis, 91, German science journalist.
• Joe Sellwood, 96, Australian who was oldest living AFL/VFL footballer.
• Mark Tavener, British novelist and comedy writer, cancer.

19

• Randall Forsberg, 64, American nuclear arms control advocate, cancer.
• Michael Maidens, 20, British footballer for Hartlepool United, car accident.
• Sam B. Thomas, 82, American politician, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives.
• Jan Wolkers, 81, Dutch writer and artist.

20

• Peg Bracken, 89, American cookbook writer.
• Ivo Cappo, 55, Papua New Guinean magistrate, stoning.
• Max McGee, 75, American professional football player (Green Bay Packers), fall from roof.
• Jim Mitchell, 60, American professional football player (Atlanta Falcons), heart attack.
• Helend Peep, 97, Estonian actor. (Estonian)
• Paul Raven, 46, British rock bassist (Ministry, Killing Joke), heart attack.
• Stine Rossel, 32, Danish archaeologist, hiking accident.
• Yemi Tella, 56, Nigerian coach of the World Cup–winning under-17 football team, cancer.

21

• Surinder Singh Bajwa, 52, Indian politician, Deputy Mayor of Delhi, fall after rhesus macaque attack.
• Ernst Ehrlich, 86, Swiss Jewish philosopher.
• Don Fellows, 84, American actor.
• Paul Fox, 56, British guitarist (The Ruts), lung cancer.
• Lance Hahn, 40, American musician (J Church, Cringer) and journalist, kidney disease.
• Peter Howard, 81, British Air Vice Marshal, Royal Air Force.
• R. B. Kitaj, 74, American-born British-based pop artist.
• Peter Moffatt, 84, British television director (All Creatures Great and Small, Doctor Who).
• Ileana Sonnabend, 92, Romanian-born American founder of Sonnabend Gallery.
• Lloyd Wendt, 99, American newspaper editor and publisher.

22

• Sargon Boulus, 63, Iraqi poet.
• Ève Curie, 102, French author, daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie. (German)
• Billy Ray Hamilton, 57, American death row inmate, natural causes.
• Brendan McWilliams, 63, Irish meteorologist and writer.

23

• John Ilhan, 42, Australian founder of Crazy John's mobile phone retail chain, suspected heart attack.
• David Kendall, 89, British mathematician.
• Lim Goh Tong, 90, Malaysian Chinese billionaire, founder of the Genting Group.
• Ursula Vaughan Williams, 96, British author and poet, wife of Ralph Vaughan Williams.

24

• David Adams, 78, Canadian ballet dancer, after long illness.
• Petr Eben, 78, Czech composer.
• Alisher Saipov, 26, Kyrgyz journalist, shot.
• Masakazu Yoshizawa, 57, Japanese-born American flutist (Memoirs of a Geisha, Jurassic Park), stomach cancer.

25

• Carole Hillard, 71, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota (1995–2003), pneumonia.
• Michael England, 89, English cricketer.
• Puntsagiin Jasrai, 73, Mongolian Prime Minister (1992–1996).
• Sir Richard Rougier, 75, British judge, lung cancer.
• Harvey Shapiro, 97, American cellist.

26

• Jacinta Balbela, 88, Uruguayan judge and jurist, member of the Supreme Court of Justice (1985–1989). (Spanish)
• Jim Cummins, 62, American correspondent for NBC News, cancer.
• Nicolae Dobrin, 60, Romanian footballer, lung cancer.
• Friedman Paul Erhardt, 63, German-born pioneering television chef, "Chef Tell," inspiration for the Swedish Chef, heart failure.
• Alexandre Feklisov, 93, Russian KGB spymaster.
• John L. Gaunt, 83, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, congestive heart failure.
• Arthur Kornberg, 89, American recipient of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, respiratory failure.
• Lisa Richette, 79, American lawyer, judge of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, lung cancer.
• Khun Sa, 73, Burmese warlord.
• Hans Stern, 85, Brazilian jeweler, founder of the company H. Stern.

27

• Charles Batt, 78, Australian politician.
• George Washington, 4, Irish race horse, euthanized.
• Satyen Kappu, 76, Indian Bollywood character actor, cardiac arrest.
• Moira Lister, 84, South African-born British-based actress.
• Leslie Orgel, 80, British chemist.
• Othman Saat, 84, Malaysian politician, former Chief Minister of Johor state.
• Henk Vredeling, 82, Dutch politician, minister and European Commissioner. (Dutch)

28

• Bao Zunxin, 70, Chinese intellectual and jailed Tiananmen Square democracy activist, brain hemorrhage.
• Graham Chadwick, 84, British bishop and anti-apartheid campaigner.
• Arnold Wilson Cowen, 101, American judge.
• Takao Fujinami, 74, Japanese politician convicted of accepting bribes.
• Evelyn Hamann, 65, German actress.
• Joe Herzenberg, 66, American politician and gay rights activist.
• Jimmy Makulis, 72, Greek singer.
• Guido Nicheli, 73, Italian actor, stroke. (Italian)
• Josef Stawinoga, 87, Polish hermit, lived nearly 40 years in tent next to Wolverhampton Ring Road.
• Porter Wagoner, 80, American country music singer, lung cancer.
• William George Wilson, 90, American cinematographer.

29

• Eloise Baza, 54, Guamanian president of the Guam Chamber of Commerce (1984–2007).
• Jan Borkus, 87, Dutch radio actor. (Dutch)
• Anthony Clare, 64, Irish psychiatrist and broadcaster.
• Sam Dana, 104, American football player, complications of infection.
• Kenneth Franzheim II, 82, American oilman and philanthropist.
• Jarmila Loukotková, 84, Czech author. (German)
• Frane Matošić, 89, Croatian football player. (Croatian)
• Jesse J. McCrary, Jr., 70, American politician, Secretary of State of Florida, (1978–1979), lung cancer.
• Thomas Joseph Meskill, 79, American politician and federal judge, Governor of Connecticut (1971–1975).
• Christian d'Oriola, 79, French fencer. (French)
• La Sa Ra, 91, Indian Tamil novelist.
• Carrie Rozelle, 69, Canadian-born education activist, wife of Pete Rozelle, cancer.
• Senkichi Taniguchi, 95, Japanese film director, pneumonia. (Japanese)

30

• Robert Goulet, 73, American singer and actor, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
• Peter Hoagland, 66, American member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska (1989–1995), Parkinson's disease.
• Norbert Lynton, 80, German-born British art historian.
• Srđan Mrkušić, 92, Serbian football goalkeeper. (Serbian)
• Yisrael Poliakov, 66, Israeli actor, member of comedy group HaGashash HaHiver.
• Dina Rabinovitch, 44, British journalist, breast cancer.
• Paul Roche, 91, British poet and translator.
• Linda S. Stein, 62, American former manager of the Ramones, real estate agent, beaten.
• Washoe, c.42, African-born chimpanzee believed to be first non-human to acquire human language, influenza.
• John Woodruff, 92, American Olympic gold medalist in 800m (1936), atrial fibrillation and chronic renal failure.

31

• Alderbrook, 18, British racehorse, winner of the 1995 Champion Hurdle.
• John Baker, Jr., 72, American football player and county sheriff.
• Ray Gravell, 56, British rugby union player for Wales.
• Erdal İnönü, 81, Turkish physicist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1991–1993), leukemia.
• Bradford Kelleher, 87, American former vice president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, founder of the Met Store.

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