The following is a list of notable deaths in 2007. Names are listed under the date of death, not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name.

A typical entry appears in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

November 2007

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20

• Ian Smith, 88, Prime Minister of Rhodesia (1965–1979) and Rhodesian politician. [1]
• Francisco Henríquez Vásquez, 90, Dominican Professor of History and member of the Academy of History. [2] (Spanish)

19

• André Bettencourt, 88, French Resistance fighter and politician. [3] (French)
• Nyimpine Chissano, 37, Mozambican businessman, son of ex-president Joaquim Chissano, heart attack. [4]
• Mike Gregory, 43, British Lions rugby league captain, motor neurone disease. [5]
• Ken Leek, 72, British international footballer (Wales, Birmingham City). [6]
• Graham Paddon, 57, British footballer (Norwich City, West Ham United). [7]
• Milo Radulovich, 81, American airman threatened by McCarthyism and championed by Edward R. Murrow, stroke. [8]
• Jim Ringo, 75, American professional football player (Green Bay Packers). [9]
• John Straffen, 77, British murderer, Britain's longest serving prisoner (56 years), natural causes. [10]
• Magda Szabó, 90, Hungarian writer. [11] (Hungarian)
• Dick Wilson, 91, British-born American actor ("Mr. Whipple"). [12]

18

• Jessie Wanda Crupe (Chickie Williams), 88, American country music singer and wife of Doc Williams. [13]
• John Hughey, 73, American steel guitar player, credited with developing a "crying sound", heart complications. [14]
• Ellen Preis, 95, Austrian fencer, gold medallist at the 1932 Summer Olympics, kidney failure. [15]
• Joe Shaw, 79, British footballer, appearance record holder for Sheffield United. [16]
• Paul Wasserman, 73, American publicist (Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Jack Nicholson), respiratory failure. [17]

17

• Landis Everson, 81, American poet, apparent suicide by gunshot. [18]
• Hy Lit, 73, American radio disc jockey, Parkinson's disease. [19]
• Robert Evander McNair, 83, American politician, Governor of South Carolina (1965–1971), brain cancer. [20]
• Ambroise Noumazalaye, 73, Congolese politician, Prime Minister (1966–1968). [21] (French)
• R. S. Pathak, 82, Indian jurist, former Chief Justice of India, heart attack. [22]
• Vernon Scannell, 85, British poet, after long illness. [23]

16

• Harold Alfond, 93, American businessman and philanthropist. [24]
• Yury Borisov, 50, Russian film director and screenwriter, myocardial infarction. [25] (Russian)
• Gene H. Golub, 75, American mathematician and computer scientist, myeloid leukemia. [26]
• Pierre Granier-Deferre, 80, French film director. [27] (French)
• Grethe Kausland, 60, Norwegian actress and singer, lung cancer. [28] (Norwegian)
• Trond Kirkvaag, 61, Norwegian comedian, cancer. [29] (Norwegian)
• Don Metz, 91, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs). [30]
• James Daniel Niedergeses, 90, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Nashville (1975–1992), hemorrhage. [31]
• Victor Rabinowitz, 96, American lawyer for left-wing clients and causes [32]

15

• John Cross, Jr., 82, American pastor of the 16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama, when bombed, stroke. [33]
• Sergio del Valle Jimenez, 80, Cuban general and politician, former army chief of staff and minister. [34]
• Domokos Kosáry, 94, Hungarian historian, president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1990–1996). [35]
• Audrey McCall, 92, American widow of former Governor of Oregon Tom McCall. [36]
• Joe Nuxhall, 79, American Major League Baseball pitcher and broadcaster for the Cincinnati Reds, cancer. [37]

14

• Ronnie Burns, 72, American actor, adopted son of George Burns and Gracie Allen, cancer. [38]
• Bertha Fry, 113, American supercentenarian, third-oldest person in the world, pneumonia. [39]
• Jan Kaczmarek, 62, Polish singer and songwriter, columnist, comedian, Parkinson's disease. [40] (Polish)
• Bud Mills, 40, American drummer for death metal band Insanity, esophageal cancer. [41]
• Yadav Pant, 82, Nepalese economist and politician. [42]
• Pablo Antonio Vega Mantilla, 88, Nicaraguan Roman Catholic Bishop of Juigalpa. [43]

13

• Wahab Akbar, 47, Filipino politician, representative for Basilan province, explosion. [44]
• Alec Cooke, Baron Cooke of Islandreagh, 87, former Northern Ireland Senator. [45]
• John Doherty, 72, British football player for Manchester United (1952–1957) and Busby Babe. [46]
• Hugh Gibbons, 91, Irish parliamentarian and Gaelic football player. [47]
• Tony Harris, 36, American basketball player (Washington State Cougars), possible suicide. [48]
• Kazuhisa Inao, 70, Japanese Hall of Fame baseball player for the Nishitetsu Lions (1956-1969), cancer. [49]
• Sho Kazakura, 71, Japanese avant-garde artist, lung cancer. [50] (Japanese)
• Erik Kurmangaliev, 47, Russian-Kazakh opera singer, liver disease. [51] (Russian)
• Robert Taylor, 59, American 4x100m relay gold medallist at the 1972 Summer Olympics. [52]
• Monty Westmore, Jr., 84, American Academy Award-nominated makeup artist. [53]
• Peter Zinner, 88, American Academy Award-winning film editor (The Deer Hunter). [54]

12

• Louis Galen, 82, American philanthropist and banker, heart failure. [55]
• Bob Holbert, 84, American racing driver, six-time class winner of 12 Hours of Sebring. [56]
• Ying Hope, 84, Chinese Canadian politician. [57]
• Khanmohammed Ibrahim, 88, Indian test cricketer. [58]
• Vijay Kumar Khandelwal, 71, Indian parliamentarian. [59]
• Piet Koornhof, 82, South African politician, former minister and ambassador. [60]
• Ira Levin, 78, American author (Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives) and playwright (Deathtrap), heart attack. [61]
• Tinius Nagell-Erichsen, 73, Norwegian publisher (Schibsted group, inc. Aftenposten and Verdens Gang). [62] (Norwegian)
• Janlavyn Narantsatsralt, 50, Mongolian Prime Minister (1998–1999), car crash. [63]
• Peter "Cool Man" Steiner, 90, Swiss musician and entertainer, fall. [64] (German)
• Lester Ziffren, 101, American reporter during Spanish Civil War, movie writer, and diplomat, congestive heart failure. [65]

11

• Yukio Hayashida, 91, Japanese politician (House of Councillors), governor of Kyoto and Minister of Justice, heart failure. [66] (Japanese)
• Kojiro Kusanagi, 78, Japanese actor, interstitial lung disease. [67]
• Delbert Mann, 87, American Academy Award-winning film director (Marty, Separate Tables, The Bachelor Party), pneumonia. [68]
• Dick Nolan, 75, American NFL player and coach (San Francisco 49ers, New Orleans Saints), father of 49ers coach Mike Nolan. [69]
• Omwony Ojwok, 60, Ugandan politician, former minister, heart failure. [70]
• Nick Okai, 60, Japanese dance creator, cirrhosis. [71] (Japanese)
• John Petersen, 62, American musician, drummer with The Beau Brummels and Harpers Bizarre, heart attack. [72]
• Tadahiro Sekimoto, 80, Japanese electronics engineer and business executive, former president and chairman of NEC, stroke. [73]
• Trish Williamson, 52, British TV-AM weather presenter and producer, car crash. [74]

10

• Yeshayahu Ben Porat, 80, Israeli journalist, cancer. [75]
• Laraine Day, 87, American actress (Foreign Correspondent, The High and the Mighty). [76]
• John Fee, 43, Irish nationalist politician, brain tumour. [77]
• Augustus F. Hawkins, 100, American member of the US House of Representatives from California (1963–1991). [78]
• Norman Mailer, 84, American Pulitzer Prize–winning author (The Naked and the Dead, The Executioner's Song), renal failure. [79]
• John H. Noble, 84, American prisoner in Russian gulag and author (I Was a Slave in Russia), heart attack. [80]
• Tatsuro Shigaki, 73, Japanese film producer, hypoxic failure. [81] (Japanese)
• John Wilfred Stanier, 82, British Army field marshal, retired Chief of the General Staff. [82]
• Donda West, 58, American retired academic (Chicago State University), mother of Kanye West, complications of cosmetic surgery. [83]

9

• Luis Herrera Campins, 82, Venezuelan President (1979–1984), after long illness. [84]
• Bill Hosokawa, 92, Japanese American author and journalist. [85]

8

• John Arpin, 70, Canadian pianist and composer, cancer. [86]
• Stephen Fumio Hamao, 77, Japanese Roman Catholic cardinal, former bishop of Yokohama, lung cancer. [87]
• R. Scott Hitt, 49, American AIDS campaigner, former chairman of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, colorectal cancer. [88]
• Francine Parker, 81, American film director (FTA), heart failure. [89]
• Dulce Saguisag, 64, Filipino politician, former Secretary of Department of Social Welfare and Development. [90]
• Bungo Tsuda, 89, Japanese politician, former governor of Kanagawa Prefecture, colorectal cancer. [91] (Japanese)
• Chad Varah, 95, British Anglican priest, founder of the Samaritans. [92] [93]

7

• Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, Finnish mass murderer, suicide by gunshot. [94]
• Hobart Brown, 74, American sculptor, founder of the Kinetic Sculpture Race, pneumonia. [95]
• Earl Dodge, 74, American presidential candidate (Prohibition Party), heart attack. [96]
• Paul Dojack, 93, Canadian CFL referee. [97]
• George W. George, 87, American Broadway and film producer (My Dinner With Andre), Parkinson's disease. [98]
• Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch, 100, German-American geneticist. [99]
• Arthur Hezlet, 93, British Royal Navy Vice-Admiral, submariner and naval historian. [100]
• Lidia Ivanova, 71, Russian TV journalist, announcer and writer, diabetes. [101] (Russian)
• Alejandra Meyer, 70, Mexican telenovela actress, heart failure. [102] (Spanish)

6

• Enzo Biagi, 87, Italian journalist. [103]
• Hilda Braid, 78, British actress (EastEnders, Citizen Smith). [104]
• John Grenier, 77, American politician, former executive director of the Republican National Committee. [105]
• George Grljusich, 68, Australian sports broadcaster, lung cancer. [106]
• Jim Hawthorne, 88, American radio and television host, heart failure. [107]
• Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, c.45, Afghan politician, former commerce minister, bomb blast injuries. [108]
• Fred W. McDarrah, 81, American photographer (Village Voice), documented the rise of the Beat Generation. [109]
• George Osmond, 90, American patriarch of the Osmond singing family. [110]
• Jimmy Staggs, 72, American radio disk jockey, esophageal cancer. [111]
• Hank Thompson, 82, American country music singer, lung cancer. [112] [113]
• Sarah Wernick, 64, American medical writer, endometrial cancer. [114]
• Haus Weston, 29, American porn star, cardiac arrest [115]

5

• Roberto Bortoluzzi, 86, Italian sports journalist and radio broadcaster. [116]
• Nils Liedholm, 85, Swedish football midfielder and coach. [117] (Swedish)
• Marie-Rose Mueller, 111, American supercentenarian. [118]
• Paul Norris, 93, American comic book artist, co-creator of Aquaman. [119]
• Donn Pohren, 78, American writer and flamenco expert. [120].
• Paul Soloway, 66, American five-time world bridge champion, complications of infection. [121]

4

• Cyprian Ekwensi, 86, Nigerian author. [122]
• Swami Gahanananda, 91, Bangladeshi religious leader, 14th President of the Ramakrishna Order. [123]
• Hideo Hagiwara, 94, Japanese painter. [124] (Japanese)
• Lennart Rönnback, 102, Finnish veteran of the Finnish Civil War, last of the White Guard. [125] (Finnish)
• Peter Viertel, 86, German-born American author and screenwriter. [126]

3

• Peter Andren, 61, Australian independent MP, pancreatic cancer. [127] [128]
• Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville, 78, French-born British Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham (1982–1999). [129]
• Aleksandr Dedyushko, 45, Russian actor, car crash. [130] (Russian)
• Marilyn Martinez, 52, American stand up comedian, colon cancer. [131]
• Donald Matthews, 82, American political scientist and author. [132]
• Martin Meehan, 62, Irish Sinn Féin politician, heart attack. [133]
• George Ratterman, 80, American professional football player (Cleveland Browns), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [134]
• Ryan Shay, 28, American long-distance runner, heart attack during Olympic marathon trials. [135]

2

• Oreste Benzi, 82, Italian Roman Catholic priest. [136]
• Mirosław Breguła, 43, Polish singer (Universe), suicide. [137] (Polish)
• Henry Cele, 58, South African actor (Shaka Zulu) and soccer player. [138]
• Charmaine Dragun, 29, Australian television news presenter, apparent suicide by jumping. [139]
• Lillian Ellison, 84, American professional wrestler ("The Fabulous Moolah"). [140][141]
• Lord Michael Fitzalan Howard, 91, British soldier and courtier, Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps (1972–1981). [142]
• Don Freeland, 82, American racecar driver (Indianapolis 500). [143]
• Witold "Vitek" Kiełtyka, 23, Polish drummer (Decapitated), injuries from bus crash. [144].
• Igor Moiseyev, 101, Russian choreographer, heart failure. [145]
• Jean Pierre Reguerraz, 68, Argentine actor. [146]
• S.P. Thamilselvan, 40, Sri Lankan leader of Tamil Tigers, air strike. [147]
• Taku Yamada, 76, Japanese choreographer, multiple organ failure. [148] (Japanese)

1

• Peter Berle, 69, American president of the National Audubon Society (1985–1995), barn collapse. [149]
• Sonny Bupp, 79, American child actor (Our Gang, Citizen Kane). [150]
• S. Ali Raza, 85, Indian Bollywood screenwriter, heart failure. [151]
• Paul Tibbets, 92, American pilot, commander of the Enola Gay which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, heart failure. [152] [153]

October 2007

See Deaths in October 2007.

September 2007

See Deaths in September 2007.

August 2007

See Deaths in August 2007.

July 2007

See Deaths in July 2007.

June 2007

See Deaths in June 2007.

May 2007

See Deaths in May 2007.

April 2007

See Deaths in April 2007.

March 2007

See Deaths in March 2007.

February 2007

See Deaths in February 2007.

January 2007

See Deaths in January 2007.

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