Deaths in 2007

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Contents 1 April 2007 1.1 9 1.2 8 1.3 7 1.4 6 1.5 5 1.6 4 1.7 3 1.8 2 1.9 1 2 March 2007 3 February 2007 4 January 2007 5 External links

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2007. Links to other years follow.

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. Only persons meeting the Wikipedia notability guidelines are listed and with a reference to a reliable source. A typical entry appears in the following sequence:

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

Causes of death such as "old age" and "natural causes" are not cited unless stated in the reference.

[edit] April 2007

[edit] 9

[edit] 8

• Sol LeWitt, 78, American artist known for his role in the Conceptualism and Minimalism movements, cancer. [1]

[edit] 7

• Marià Gonzalvo, 85, former captain of FC Barcelona & Spanish international footballer. [2] (Spanish) [3] (Polish)
• Johnny Hart, 76, American cartoonist who created the comic strip B.C. [4]
• Brian Miller, 70, former Burnley & England international footballer. [5]

[edit] 6

• Emma Bodie Begay, 119^{[citation needed]}, Navajo woman hailed for her teachings and connections to ancient tribal ways. [6]
• Luigi Comencini, 90, Italian film director. [7]
• Colin Graham, 75, British opera, theater and television director, cardiac arrest. [8]
• Raymond G. Murphy, 77, American Medal of Honor recipient during the Korean War. [9]
• Amado Ramirez Dillanes, Mexican journalist and news correspondent of Televisa, assassinated. [10]
• Jimmy Lee Smith, 76, infamous cop killer whose story inspired the book and movie The Onion Field. [11]

[edit] 5

• Maria Gripe, 83, Swedish author. [12] [13] (Swedish)
• Leela Majumdar, 99, Bengali children's author. [14]
• Darryl Stingley, 55, American football player, bronchial pneumonia. [15]
• Mark St. John, 51, American guitarist (KISS, White Tiger), brain hemorrhage. [16]
• Poornachandra Tejaswi, 68, Indian writer and novelist in the Kannada language, cardiac arrest. [17]
• John Winter, 39, American meteorologist for WFLA-TV, suicide by gunshot. [18]

[edit] 4

• Jagjit Singh Chauhan, 80, Sikh separatist leader, heart attack. [19]
• Bob Clark, 67, American film director (A Christmas Story, Porky's), car accident. [20]
• Edward Mallory, 76, American television actor (Days of our Lives), undisclosed illness. [21]
• Datuk K. Sivalingam, 59, Malaysian politician, heart attack. [22] [23]
• Karen Spärck Jones, 71, British professor emerita of Computers and Information Technology at the University of Cambridge, cancer. [24]

[edit] 3

• Marion Eames, 85, Welsh novelist (The Secret Room). [25]
• Robin Montgomerie-Charrington, 91, British former Grand Prix driver. [26]
• Walter Nicks, 81, African-American dancer and choreographer. [27]
• Thomas Hal Phillips, 84, American novelist and screenwriter. [28]
• Zoltán Pongrácz, 95, Hungarian composer and conductor. [29] (Hungarian)
• Eddie Robinson, 88, American college football coach at Grambling State University, Alzheimer's disease. [30]
• Neal Shine, 76, American publisher (Detroit Free Press), lymphatic cancer. [31]
• Burt Topper, 78, American screenwriter, film director, and film producer, pulmonary failure. [32]
• Nina Wang, 69, Hong Kong businesswoman and Asia's richest woman. [33]

[edit] 2

• Jeannie Ferris, 66, Australian Senator, ovarian cancer. [34]
• Henry Lee Giclas, 96, American astronomer. [35]
• Mark Harrison, 82, Canadian former editor of the Montreal Gazette, Alzheimer's disease. [36]
• Tadjou Salou, 32, Togolese international footballer, after long illness. [37]
• Livio Vacchini, 74, Swiss architect. [38] (German)

[edit] 1

• Laurie Baker, 90, British architect, based mostly in India. [39]
• Dr John Billings, 89, Australian co-developer of the Billings ovulation method. [40]
• Herb Carneal, 83, American sportscaster, radio broadcaster for Minnesota Twins MLB team, congestive heart failure. [41]
• Driss Chraibi, 80, Moroccan writer. [42]
• Char Fontane, 55, American actress and singer, breast cancer. [43]
• Dr. Hans Karl Filbinger, 93, German jurist and right-wing politician. [44] (German)
• Heo Se-wook, 54, Korean labor union activist, self-immolation at free trade protest. [45]
• Norberto La Porta, 68, Argentine socialist politician, cancer. [46] (Spanish)
• Salem Ludwig, 91, American character actor. [47]
• Hannah Nydahl, 61, Danish teacher of Tibetan Buddhism and translator for her husband Lama Ole Nydahl, lung and brain cancer. [48]
• Sally Merchant, 88, Canadian broadcaster and politician, cancer. [49] [50]
• Thomas Rogers, 79, American emeritus professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, car accident. [51]
• George Sewell, 82, British actor. [52]
• Belinda Wright, 78, British ballerina. [53]

[edit] March 2007

See Deaths in March 2007.

[edit] February 2007

See Deaths in February 2007.

[edit] January 2007

See Deaths in January 2007.

[edit] External links

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