Deaths in April 2007

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

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
 * Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

1

 * Laurie Baker, 90, British-born Indian architect.
 * John Billings, 89, Australian co-developer of the Billings ovulation method.
 * Norman Butler, 76, English cricketer.
 * Herb Carneal, 83, American sportscaster, radio broadcaster for Minnesota Twins Major League Baseball team, congestive heart failure.
 * Driss Chraibi, 80, Moroccan writer.
 * Char Fontane, 55, American actress (Joe & Valerie, The Punisher, Pearl) and singer, breast cancer.
 * Lou Limmer, 82, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).
 * Salem Ludwig, 91, American actor (Unfaithful, Family Business, The Savages).
 * Sally Merchant, 88, Canadian broadcaster and politician, cancer.
 * Hannah Nydahl, 61, Danish teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, translator for her husband Ole Nydahl, lung and brain cancer.
 * Screechy Peach, 47, American singer and songwriter, breast cancer.
 * Ladislav Rychman, 84, Czech film director, heart attack.
 * George Sewell, 82, British actor (Get Carter, Barry Lyndon, Doctor Who), cancer.
 * Elliott Skinner, 82, American scholar and former ambassador, heart failure.

2

 * B. K. Anand, 89, Indian physiologist and pharmacologist.
 * William W. Becker, 85, American co-founder of the Motel 6 chain, heart attack.
 * Janet Bloomfield, 53, British campaigner, Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (1993–1996), septic shock.
 * Jeannie Ferris, 66, Australian Senator, ovarian cancer.
 * Henry Lee Giclas, 96, American astronomer.
 * Paul Reed, 97, American comedian and actor (Car 54, Where Are You?), heart failure.
 * Tadjou Salou, 32, Togolese international footballer, after long illness.

3

 * Marion Eames, 85, British novelist (The Secret Room).
 * Sir Walter Luttrell, 87, British army officer and public servant.
 * Robin Montgomerie-Charrington, 91, British 1952 Grand Prix driver.
 * Michael Joseph Murphy, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Erie (1982–1990).
 * Walter Nicks, 81, American dancer and choreographer.
 * Thomas Hal Phillips, 84, American novelist and screenwriter.
 * Zoltán Pongrácz, 95, Hungarian composer and conductor.
 * Bill Robinson, 88, American sailor and author.
 * Eddie Robinson, 88, American college football coach (Grambling State University), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Burt Topper, 78, American screenwriter, film director and film producer, pulmonary failure.
 * Nina Wang, 69, Hong Kong businesswoman and Asia's richest woman.

4

 * Jagjit Singh Chauhan, 80, Indian Sikh separatist leader, heart attack.
 * Bob Clark, 67, American film director (A Christmas Story, Porky's, Baby Geniuses), car accident.
 * Brian Fahey, 87, British composer and musical director.
 * Reginald H. Fuller, 92, British-born biblical scholar and Anglican priest, complications of a broken hip.
 * Terry Hall, 80, British ventriloquist and children's television presenter.
 * Edward Mallory, 76, American television actor (Days of Our Lives).
 * Datuk K. Sivalingam, 59, Malaysian politician, heart attack.
 * J. Kutty, Indian dancer and actor, accidental fall.
 * Karen Spärck Jones, 71, British professor emeritus of Computers and Information at the University of Cambridge, cancer.
 * Margaret Tor-Thompson, 44, Liberian politician, breast cancer.

5

 * Maria Gripe, 83, Swedish author.
 * Thomas Stoltz Harvey, 94, American pathologist.
 * Leela Majumdar, 99, Indian Bengali language children's author.
 * Mark St. John, 51, American guitarist (KISS, White Tiger), brain hemorrhage.
 * Ali Sriti, 88, Tunisian oudist.
 * Darryl Stingley, 55, American football player, bronchial pneumonia.
 * Poornachandra Tejaswi, 68, Indian writer and novelist in the Kannada language, cardiac arrest.

6

 * Elward Thomas Brady, Jr., 60, American businessman and politician.
 * Luigi Comencini, 90, Italian film director.
 * Stan Daniels, 72, Canadian writer and producer (Taxi, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson), heart failure.
 * Colin Graham, 75, British opera, theatre and television director, cardiac arrest.
 * George C. Jenkins, 98, American production designer (All the President's Men, Sophie's Choice, Presumed Innocent), Oscar winner (1977), heart failure.
 * Józef Kos, 106, Polish soldier, one of the last six World War I veterans from Germany.
 * Jill McGown, 59, British mystery writer.
 * James McGuinness, 81, British priest, Bishop of Nottingham (1974–2000).
 * Raymond G. Murphy, 77, American Medal of Honor recipient during the Korean War.
 * Jeff Uren, 81, British racing driver.

7

 * Neville Duke, 85, British World War II fighter pilot.
 * Marià Gonzalvo, 85, Spanish captain of FC Barcelona and international footballer for Spain.
 * Johnny Hart, 76, American cartoonist (B.C., The Wizard of Id), stroke.
 * Brian Miller, 70, British footballer for Burnley and England.
 * Otto Natzler, 99, American ceramics and glazing master, cancer.
 * Barry Nelson, 89, American actor (The Shining My Favorite Husband, Airport).

8

 * Charles Bain, 93, Trinidadian West Indian Test cricket umpire.
 * Natalia Clare, 87, American ballet dancer and instructor, complications of strokes.
 * Asad Amanat Ali Khan, 51, Pakistani singer, heart attack.
 * Victor Kneale, 89, Manx Speaker of the House of Keys (1990–1991).
 * Sol LeWitt, 78, American artist known for his role in the Conceptualism and Minimalism movements, cancer.
 * Bill Mescher, 79, American politician, member of the South Carolina Senate from 1993 until his death, stroke.

9

 * Florence Arrowsmith, 102, British marital recordholder.
 * Egon Bondy, 77, Czech philosopher and poet.
 * AJ Carothers, 75, American playwright and television writer, cancer.
 * Bob Coats, 82, British economic historian.
 * Alain Etchegoyen, 55, French philosopher, cancer.
 * Sir Michael Fox, 85, British judge, Lord Justice of Appeal (1981–1992).
 * Dorrit Hoffleit, 100, American research astronomer, cancer.
 * Mark Langford, 42, British businessman, former head of The Accident Group, car accident.
 * Philip Mayne, 107, English officer, last surviving British officer of World War I.
 * Harry Rasky, 78, Canadian documentary film producer, heart failure.

10

 * Kevin Crease, 70, Australian television newsreader, cancer.
 * Walter Hendl, 90, American conductor, heart and lung disease.
 * Ralph Heywood, 85, American football player.
 * Awdy Kulyýew, 70, Turkmen exiled politician and Foreign Minister (1990–1992), complications from stomach surgery.
 * George Mussallem, 99, Canadian politician and businessman.
 * Salvatore Scarpitta, 88, American sculptor, complications from diabetes.
 * Dakota Staton, 76, American jazz vocalist, after long illness.

11

 * Roscoe Lee Browne, 84, American actor (The Cosby Show, Soap, Babe), Emmy winner (1986), stomach cancer.
 * James Lee Clark, 38, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Loïc Leferme, 36, French free diver, drowning.
 * Warren E. Preece, 85, American editor of Encyclopædia Britannica (1964–1975), heart failure.
 * Ronald Speirs, 86, American World War II commanding officer of Easy Company, 506th Infantry Regiment.
 * Warren Strelow, 73, American ice hockey goaltending coach for 1980 Winter Olympics gold medal team (Miracle on Ice).
 * Kurt Vonnegut, 84, American novelist (Slaughterhouse-Five) and social critic, brain injury from a fall.

12

 * Kelsie B. Harder, 84, American name expert, congestive heart failure.
 * Len Hill, 65, British cricketer for Glamorgan and footballer for Newport County.
 * James K. Lyons, 46, American film editor (Far from Heaven, The Virgin Suicides), squamous cell carcinoma.
 * Pierre Probst, 93, French children's book author and illustrator.
 * Little Sonny Warner, 77, American singer who earned a gold record with "There's Something on Your Mind".

13

 * Birgitta Arman, 86, Swedish actress.
 * Marie Clay, 81, New Zealand world-renowned literacy expert, after short illness.
 * Nathan Heffernan, 86, American judge, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court (1983–1995).
 * Hans Koning, 85, Dutch-born writer and journalist.
 * Joe Lane, 80, Australian bebop jazz singer.
 * Steve Malovic, 50, American-Israeli basketball player, heart attack.
 * Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, 88, American poet who wrote about the Dust Bowl.
 * Neil Pickard, 78, Australian politician.
 * Capil Rampersad, 46, Trinidad and Tobago cricketer.
 * Joie Ray, 83, American open-wheel and stock car race driver, respiratory failure.
 * Don Selwyn, 71, New Zealand actor and director, complications from a kidney infection.
 * Marion Yorck von Wartenburg, 102, German World War II resistance fighter.

14

 * Ladislav Adamec, 80, Czech communist politician, Prime Minister of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1988–1989).
 * Robert Buck, 93, American aviator who set several aviation records in his teens, complications from a fall.
 * June Callwood, 82, Canadian journalist and activist, cancer.
 * Bobby Cram, 67, British footballer for West Bromwich Albion and Colchester United.
 * Don Ho, 76, American Hawaiian musician and entertainer, heart failure.
 * Jim Jontz, 55, American congressman from Indiana (1987–1993), colon cancer.
 * Meredith Kline, 84, American theologian and Old Testament scholar.
 * William Menster, 94, American Catholic priest, first member of the clergy to visit Antarctica.
 * René Rémond, 88, French historian and academician.
 * Mike Reynolds, British conservationist.
 * Herman Riley, 73, American tenor saxophone jazz performer, heart failure.
 * Audrey Santo, 23, American brain-injured girl claimed to have performed miracles, cardio-respiratory failure.
 * Jim Thurman, 72, American children's television writer and voice of Sesame Street's "Teeny Little Super Guy", illness.
 * Mike Webb, 51, American radio personality, stabbed.
 * Frank Westheimer, 95, American chemist.

15

 * Patricia Buckley, 80, Canadian-born socialite and fundraiser, wife of William F. Buckley, Jr., infection after long illness.
 * Heo Se-uk, 54, South Korean protester against U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, septic shock following self-immolation burns.
 * Brant Parker, 86, American cartoonist (The Wizard of Id).
 * Justine Saunders, 54, Australian actress, cancer.
 * Peter Tsiamalili, 54, Papua New Guinean first administrator of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville.
 * Donald Tuzin, 62, American anthropologist and leading authority on Melanesian culture, pulmonary hypertension.

16

 * Frank Bateson, 97, New Zealand astronomer and writer.
 * Tran Bach Dang, 81, Vietnamese journalist and politician.
 * Robert Desbats, 85, French cyclist.
 * Gaetan Duchesne, 44, Canadian NHL player (1981–1995), heart attack.
 * Robert Jones, 56, British Conservative politician (MP 1983–1997), minister in the government of John Major, liver cancer.
 * Maria Lenk, 92, Brazilian Olympic swimmer (1932, 1936), rupture of aortic aneurysm.
 * Jack Wiebe, 70, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan (1994–2000), Senator (2000–2004), lung cancer.
 * Notable people killed in Virginia Tech shooting:
 * Jamie Bishop, 35, Canadian instructor of German, homicide.
 * Seung-Hui Cho, 23, South Korean mass murdererer and student, suicide by gunshot.
 * Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, 49, Canadian instructor of French, homicide.
 * Kevin Granata, 45, American associate professor of engineering, homicide.
 * Liviu Librescu, 76, Romanian-born professor of engineering, Holocaust survivor, homicide.
 * G. V. Loganathan, 50, Indian-born professor of engineering, homicide.

17

 * Nair Bello, 75, Brazilian actress, heart failure.
 * Archie Campbell, 65, Canadian jurist.
 * James B. Davis, 90, American founder of The Dixie Hummingbirds, heart failure.
 * Steven Derounian, 89, Bulgarian-born American Republican Representative from New York state (1953–1965).
 * Len Fitzgerald, 76, Australian footballer, cancer.
 * Kitty Carlisle, 96, American actress (A Night at the Opera), TV personality (To Tell the Truth) and singer, heart failure.
 * Bruce Haslingden, 84, Australian Olympic cross-country skier, staphylococcus infection.
 * Raymond Kaelbel, 75, French international footballer.
 * Leyly Matine-Daftary, 70, Iranian artist.
 * Chauncey Starr, 95, American electrical engineer, pioneer in the field of nuclear energy.
 * Glenn Sutton, 69, American country songwriter and record producer, heart attack.

18

 * Josy Gyr-Steiner, 57, Swiss politician.
 * Iccho Itoh, 61, Japanese mayor of Nagasaki, shooting.
 * Andrej Kvašňák, 70, Slovak footballer, lung cancer.
 * Harry Miller, 83, American baseball player.
 * Alvin Roth, 92, American contract bridge champion.
 * Donald Stephens, 79, American long-serving mayor of Rosemont, Illinois, founder of Hummel figurine museum, stomach cancer.
 * Tony Suarez, 51, American soccer player (Carolina Lightnin', Cleveland Force), 1981 Rookie of the Year
 * Dick Vosburgh, 77, American-born comedy writer and lyricist, cancer.

19

 * Ken Albers, 82, American singer (The Four Freshmen).
 * Anthony Brooks, 85, British agent who led French Resistance saboteurs after the Normandy Invasion, stomach cancer.
 * Jean-Pierre Cassel, 74, French actor, cancer.
 * Dermot Chichester, 7th Marquess of Donegall, 91, Irish soldier and aristocrat.
 * Marie Hicks, 83, American civil rights activist, complications from Parkinson's disease.
 * George Logie-Smith, 92, Australian musician.
 * Worth McDougald, 82, American journalism educator, Director of the Peabody Awards (1963–1991), heart failure.
 * Bohdan Paczyński, 67, Polish astrophysicist, brain tumor.
 * Leszek Suski, 77, Polish Olympic fencer.
 * Helen Walton, 87, American widow of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, natural causes.
 * George D. Webster, 61, American football player.

20

 * Yehuda Meir Abramowicz, 92, Israeli General Secretary of Agudat Israel (1972–1981).
 * Audrey Fagan, 44, Irish-born Australian Federal Police assistant commissioner, suspected suicide by hanging.
 * Fred Fish, 54, American computer programmer known for GNU Debugger.
 * Michael Fu Tieshan, 75, Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association bishop of Beijing, cancer.
 * Andrew Hill, 75, American jazz pianist and composer, lung cancer.
 * Jan Kociniak, 69, Polish actor.
 * William Phillips, 60, American engineer, Johnson Space Center shooting gunman, suicide by gunshot.
 * Robert Rosenthal, 89, American distinguished World War II pilot and lawyer, multiple myeloma.

21

 * Boscoe Holder, 85, Trinidadian dancer, choreographer and painter.
 * George Howard, Jr., 82, American federal judge.
 * James Hamupanda Kauluma, 75, Namibian bishop and freedom fighter, prostate cancer.
 * C. Bruce Littlejohn, 93, American jurist, Chief Justice of South Carolina.
 * Lobby Loyde, 65, Australian rock guitarist (Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs), lung cancer.
 * Parry O'Brien, 75, American shot put champion at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics, heart attack.
 * Art Saaf, 85, American comic book artist (Sheena, Queen of the Jungle), Parkinson's disease.
 * Bruce Van Sickle, 90, American federal judge (1971–2002), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Don White, 81, English rugby union player and coach.

22

 * Ruth Frankenberg, 49, British sociologist, lung cancer.
 * Sir Raymond Hoffenberg, 84, South African-born endocrinologist, President of RCP (1983–1989) and Chair of the BHF.
 * Karl Holzamer, 100, German founder and director-general of TV channel ZDF.
 * Juanita Millender-McDonald, 68, American Democratic Representative (Calif.), Chair of House Administration Committee, cancer.
 * Conchita Montenegro, 94, Spanish actress.
 * Anne Pitoniak, 85, American actress (Picnic, 'night, Mother, Unfaithful), cancer.

23

 * Walter Bareiss, 87, German-American art collector, heart failure.
 * Tony Bridge, 92, British Anglican priest, Dean of Guildford (1968–1986).
 * Paul Erdman, 74, American economist, banker, and writer.
 * David Halberstam, 73, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, car accident.
 * Axel Madsen, 77, American biographer, pancreatic cancer.
 * Michael Smuin, 68, American ballet dancer, choreographer and director, heart attack.
 * Boris Yeltsin, 76, Russian politician, first President of the Russian Federation (1991–1999), heart failure.

24

 * Warren Avis, 91, American founder of Avis Rent a Car System and real estate developer.
 * Ida R. Hoos, 94, American sociologist and critic of systems analysis, pneumonia.
 * Roy Jenson, 80, Canadian actor (Chinatown, Soylent Green, The Way We Were), cancer.
 * Jim Moran, 88, American automotive dealer and philanthropist.
 * James Richards, 58, American veterinarian and feline expert, motorcycle accident while avoiding a cat.
 * Kate Walsh, 60, Irish Progressive Democrat senator.
 * Robert M. Warner, 79, American archivist who led the National Archives and Records Administration, heart attack.

25

 * Edward Astley, 22nd Baron Hastings, 95, British landowner and politician.
 * Alan Ball, 61, British footballer, youngest member of England's 1966 World Cup-winning team, heart attack.
 * Barbara Blida, 57, Polish politician, suicide by gunshot.
 * Polly Hill, 100, American horticulturist, founder of Polly Hill Arboretum.
 * Les Jackson, 86, British cricketer, fast-medium bowler for Derbyshire and England.
 * Arthur Milton, 79, British sportsman, last person to play both football and cricket for England, heart attack.
 * Johnny Perkins, 54, American National Football League player for the New York Giants, complications following heart surgery
 * Bobby Pickett, 69, American one-hit wonder singer ("Monster Mash"), leukemia.
 * Edgar Wisniewski, 76, German architect.

26

 * Ardhendu Das, 96, Indian cricketer.
 * Florea Dumitrache, 58, Romanian football player, digestive hemorrhage.
 * Wolfgang Gewalt, 78, German zoologist, director of the Duisburg Zoo (1966–1993).
 * Lindsey Hughes, 57, British professor of Russian History at University College London, cancer.
 * Henry LeTang, 91, American choreographer.
 * Jack Valenti, 85, American president of the Motion Picture Association of America (1966–2004), complications of stroke.

27

 * Al Hunter Ashton, 49, English actor and scriptwriter, heart failure.
 * Svatopluk Beneš, 89, Czech actor.
 * Karel Dillen, 81, Belgian politician, founder of the Flemish Interest party.
 * Bill Forester, 74, American NFL football player.
 * Magda Gerber, 90s, Hungarian-born American educator.
 * Raymond Guégan, 85, French cyclist.
 * Kirill Lavrov, 81, Russian actor, after long illness.
 * Mstislav Rostropovich, 80, Russian cellist and conductor, intestinal cancer.
 * Robert E. Webber, 73, American scholar and author on Christian worship renewal, pancreatic cancer.

28

 * Belinda Bidwell, 71, Gambian politician, Speaker of the National Assembly.
 * Lloyd Crouse, 88, Canadian politician, Progressive Conservative MP (1957–1988), Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (1989–1994).
 * Luigi Filippo D'Amico, 82, Italian film director.
 * Dabbs Greer, 90, American actor (The Green Mile, Little House on the Prairie, Invasion of the Body Snatchers).
 * Sir Anthony Lambert, 96, British diplomat.
 * René Mailhot, 64, Canadian journalist for Radio-Canada, pneumonia.
 * Tommy Newsom, 78, American musician from The Tonight Show, cancer.
 * David Turnbull. 92, American materials scientist.
 * Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, 94, German physicist and philosopher.
 * Bertha Wilson, 83, Canadian who was the first female Supreme Court judge, Alzheimer's disease.

29

 * Georges Aminel, 84, French actor and voice actor.
 * Milt Bocek, 94, American baseball player.
 * Octavio Frias, 94, Brazilian publishing magnate, kidney failure.
 * Josh Hancock, 29, American baseball relief pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, car accident.
 * Donald P. Lay, 80, American judge of the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1966–2006).
 * Dick Motz, 67, New Zealand test cricketer.
 * Joseph Nérette, 83, Haitian judge and politician, President of Haïti (1991–1992), lung cancer.
 * Arve Opsahl, 85, Norwegian actor, heart failure.
 * Sir George Pinker, 82, British obstetrician and gynaecologist.
 * Ivica Račan, 63, Croatian prime minister (2000–2003), cancer.
 * Lee Roberson, 97, American founder of Tennessee Temple University.

30

 * Edward F. Boyd, 92, American marketing executive at Pepsi who shunned racial stereotypes in advertising.
 * Tom Cartwright, 71, British test cricketer for England, complications of heart attack.
 * Grégory Lemarchal, 23, French singer, winner of Star Academy France, cystic fibrosis.
 * Bernard Marszałek, 31, Polish offshore powerboat racer, 2003 World Champion, 2004 Euro Championship runner-up, asthma.
 * Kevin Mitchell, 36, American football player for San Francisco 49ers (Super Bowl XXIX) and Washington Redskins, heart attack.
 * Grisha Ostrovski, 88, Bulgarian film director.
 * Tom Poston, 85, American actor (Newhart, Mork & Mindy, Up the Academy), Emmy winner (1959).
 * Claude Saunders, 95, Canadian rower and second-oldest national Olympic competitor.
 * Gordon Scott, 80, American actor who portrayed Tarzan in six films (1955–1960), complications of surgery.
 * Zola Taylor, 69, American singer, member of The Platters (1954–1964), complications of pneumonia.