Deaths in August 2007

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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

 * Sergei Antonov, 59, Bulgarian accused of involvement in attempt by Mehmet Ali Ağca to kill Pope John Paul II.
 * Ryan Cox, 28, South African professional road racing cyclist, ruptured artery following vascular surgery.
 * Robert Hughes, 95, Australian composer.
 * Veikko Karvonen, 81, Finnish athlete, bronze medalist in the 1956 Summer Olympics marathon.
 * Winfred P. Lehmann, 91, American linguist.
 * Tommy Makem, 74, Irish folk musician (The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem), lung cancer.
 * Pete Naktenis, 93, American baseball player.
 * Philip S. Paludan, 69, American history professor, authority on Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War.
 * Norman Adrian Wiggins, 83, American third president of Campbell University.

2

 * Kafeel Ahmed, 28, Indian terrorist involved in the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack, third degree burns.
 * Haitham al-Badri, Iraqi al Qaeda emir of Salahuddin Province and Golden Dome bomber, airstrike.
 * Chauncey Bailey, 58, American journalist, editor of The Oakland Post, shot.
 * Ed Brown, 78, American football quarterback Chicago Bears, Pittsburgh Steelers, prostate cancer.
 * Franco Dalla Valle, 62, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Juína.
 * Evan Enwerem, 71, Nigerian Senate President (1999).
 * Peter Eriksson, 48, Swedish neuroscientist.
 * Terry Kelly, 75, English footballer (Luton Town), dementia.
 * Holden Roberto, 84, Angolan founder and leader of the FNLA (1962–1999), after long illness.
 * Frank Rosenfelt, 85, American executive at MGM.

3

 * José Miguel Battle Sr., 77, Cuban founder and nominal leader of the "Cuban Mafia".
 * Ron Brown, 67, British Labour Party MP (1979–1992), liver failure.
 * James T. Callahan, 76, American actor (Charles in Charge), cancer.
 * Peter Connelly, 1, British murder victim.
 * John Gardner, 80, British thriller writer and James Bond continuation novelist, suspected heart failure.
 * Nasho Kamungeremu, 34, Zimbabwean golfer, heart attack.

4

 * Lee Hazlewood, 78, American country music singer and songwriter ("These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"), renal cancer.
 * Raul Hilberg, 81, Austrian Jewish Holocaust historian, lung cancer.
 * Frank Mancuso, 89, American Major League Baseball player, Houston City Councillor.
 * Santos Padilla Ferrer, 50, Puerto Rican mayor of Cabo Rojo, heart attack.

5

 * Henri Amouroux, 87, French journalist and historian.
 * Duncan W. Clark, 96, American physician.
 * Stanley Myron Handelman, 77, American comedian, heart attack.
 * Oliver Hill, 100, American lawyer, lead attorney on the Brown v. Board of Education case.
 * Jean-Marie Lustiger, 80, French Jewish-born Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Paris, cancer.
 * Amos Manor, 89, Israeli head of Shin Bet (1953–1963).
 * Janine Niépce, 86, French photojournalist.
 * Florian Pittiș, 63, Romanian actor and folk singer, prostate cancer.
 * Peter Graham Scott, 83, British film producer.

6

 * Heinz Barth, 86, German SS officer, Nazi war criminal, cancer.
 * Zsolt Daczi, 37, Hungarian guitarist, cancer.
 * Moe Fishman, 92, American representative of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, pancreatic cancer.
 * Ah Jook Ku, 97, American journalist and writer, first Asian American Associated Press reporter.
 * Elie de Rothschild, 90, French banker, member of Rothschild dynasty, heart attack.
 * Paul Rutherford, 67, British trombonist.
 * Atle Selberg, 90, Norwegian-born American mathematician, heart failure.

7

 * Ernesto Alonso, 90, Mexican television producer and actor, pneumonia.
 * Hal Fishman, 75, American television news anchor since 1960, KTLA Prime News anchor since 1975, cancer.
 * Gato Del Sol, 28, American racehorse, won 1982 Kentucky Derby, euthanized.
 * Russell Johnson, 83, American architect and acoustician.
 * Hank Morgenweck, 78, American baseball umpire, cancer.
 * Wolfgang Sievers, 93, Australian photographer.
 * Sir Angus Tait, 88, New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman.
 * William F. Walker, 69, American academic, President of Auburn University (2001–2004).

8

 * Bertha Crowther, 85, British Olympic hurdler.
 * Richard Dahl, 74, Swedish high jumper.
 * Joybubbles, 58, American phone phreak.
 * Daniel Lam, 85, Hong Kong businessman.
 * Ma Lik, 55, Hong Kong Legislative Council member and chair of the DAB, colon cancer.
 * Melville Shavelson, 90, American film director and screenwriter.
 * Clarence Tex Walker, 61, American rhythm and blues musician, heart attack.
 * Julius Wess, 73, Austrian physicist.

9

 * Sakiusa Bulicokocoko, 57, Fijian musician, tumor.
 * Richmond Flowers Sr., 88, American Attorney General of Alabama (1963–1967).
 * Timothy Garden, Baron Garden, 63, British Air Marshal and Liberal Democrat peer, cancer.
 * Joe O'Donnell, 85, American presidential photographer, photographed effects of Hiroshima bombing, stroke.
 * Ulrich Plenzdorf, 72, German author.
 * Rolf Wiik, 78, Finnish Olympic fencer.

10

 * Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, 82, American civil rights campaigner, member of Tuskegee Airmen, brain injuries following a fall.
 * Shagdaryn Chanrav, 58, Mongolian judoka.
 * Tom Cheasty, 73, Irish hurler.
 * James E. Faust, 87, American second counselor in the First Presidency of the LDS Church.
 * Irene Kirkaldy, 90, American civil rights campaigner, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
 * Jean Rédélé, 85, French creator of the Alpine automobile brand.
 * Mario Rivera, 68, Dominican Latin jazz saxophonist with Machito, Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez orchestras, bone cancer.
 * Tony Wilson, 57, British owner of Factory Records, radio and TV presenter, journalist, heart attack.

11

 * Franz Antel, 94, Austrian film director.
 * Michael Frede, 67, German professor of Ancient Philosophy, swimming accident.
 * MacDonald Gallion, 94, American politician, Attorney General of Alabama (1959–1963, 1967–1971).
 * Joe Jimenez, 81, American professional golfer, won 1978 Senior PGA Championship, renal failure brought on by lung cancer.
 * Alexander H. Leighton, 99, American-Canadian sociologist and psychiatrist.
 * Arthur Levenson, 93, American Army Officer, NSA official and cryptologist.
 * Roberto Maidana, 79, Argentine journalist, pneumonia.
 * Herb Pomeroy, 77, American jazz trumpeter (Charlie Parker, Frank Sinatra), cancer.
 * Sukadji Ranuwihardjo, 76, Indonesian President of Gadjah Mada University (1973–1981).
 * Lluís Maria Xirinacs, 75, Spanish Catalan political activist and priest, natural causes.
 * Zhang Shuhong, 50, Chinese businessman and factory co-owner involved in Fisher-Price toy recall, suicide by hanging.

12

 * Ralph Asher Alpher, 86, American physicist and college professor, respiratory failure.
 * Ronald N. Bracewell, 86, Australian physicist and radio astronomer, heart failure.
 * Christian Elder, 38, American sports car and Busch Series driver.
 * Joan Finnigan, 81, Canadian writer and poet.
 * Merv Griffin, 82, American talk show host, real estate tycoon, creator of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, prostate cancer.
 * Asa Hilliard, 73, American educationalist, historian and psychologist, malaria.
 * Allen McClure, 72, American Olympic sailor
 * Sir Ian McGeoch, 93, British admiral.
 * Elizabeth Murray, 66, American artist, lung cancer.
 * Mike Wieringo, 44, American comic book artist (The Flash, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four), heart attack.

13

 * Brian "Crush" Adams, 44, American professional wrestler, accidental overdose of pain killers and anti-depressants.
 * Brooke Astor, 105, American philanthropist, pneumonia.
 * Paul Boyd, 39, American-born Canadian animator, shot.
 * Ox Miller, 92, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
 * Clifton Neita, 92, Jamaican editor of The Gleaner newspaper (1954–1979).
 * Phil Rizzuto, 89, American baseball player, member of the MLB Hall of Fame, and sports broadcaster, pneumonia.
 * Tim Royes, 42, British music video director, car accident.

14

 * John Biffen, 76, British Conservative member of the House of Lords, MP (1961–1997), septicaemia.
 * Horace Brearley, 94, British cricketer, father of Mike Brearley.
 * Jirair S. Hovnanian, 80, Armenian Iraqi-American home builder.
 * Tikhon Khrennikov, 94, Russian Soviet-era cultural functionary, composer and pianist.
 * Emory King, 76, Belizean historian, author and journalist, cancer.
 * John Lanham, 82, American former chief justice of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
 * Diane Lewis, 54, American reporter (The Boston Globe), cancer.
 * Kotozakura Masakatsu, 66, Japanese yokozuna, complications of diabetes.
 * Eduardo Noriega, 90, Mexican actor, heart attack.
 * Kihei Tomioka, 75, Japanese Olympic cyclist.
 * Sayoko Yamaguchi, 57, Japanese fashion model, pneumonia.

15

 * Richard Bradshaw, 63, British conductor, Canadian Opera Company general director (1998–2007), heart attack.
 * Steven Campbell, 53, British painter, ruptured appendix.
 * John Gofman, 88, American nuclear physicist, heart failure.
 * Geoffrey Orbell, 98, New Zealand bush walker who rediscovered the takahē in 1948.
 * Sam Pollock, 81, Canadian former general manager of Montreal Canadiens, Hockey Hall of Famer.
 * Liam Rector, 58, American poet, Folger Shakespeare Library program director, suicide by shotgun.
 * John Wallowitch, 81, American singer and songwriter, bone cancer.

16

 * Bahaedin Adab, 62, Iranian member of parliament, cancer.
 * John Blewett III, 33, American NASCAR driver, racing crash.
 * Jeroen Boere, 39, Dutch football player (West Ham, West Bromwich Albion, Crystal Palace, Portsmouth, Southend).
 * Will Edwards, 69, British Labour politician, MP for Merioneth (1966–1974).
 * Clive Exton, 77, British television and film writer, brain cancer.
 * Roland Mathias, 91, British poet and literary critic.
 * Robert Mignat, 86, French cyclist.
 * The Missing Link, 68, Canadian professional wrestler, cancer.
 * Vito Pallavicini, 83, Italian lyricist/pop composer.
 * Max Roach, 83, American jazz drummer.

17

 * John Austin, 68, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Aston (1992–2005).
 * Edward Avedisian, 71, American artist.
 * John Belk, 87, American Democratic politician, mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina (1969–1977).
 * Jos Brink, 65, Dutch television host, actor, minister of religion and writer, colorectal cancer.
 * Bill Deedes, 94, British journalist, editor of The Daily Telegraph (1974–1986) and Conservative politician.
 * Franco Foschi, 76, Italian writer and politician.
 * Carolyn Goodman, 91, American psychologist and civil rights activist.
 * Eddie Griffin, 25, American basketball player of Seton Hall, Rockets and Timberwolves, car accident.
 * Max Hodge, 91, American television writer, creator of Mr. Freeze on the 1960s Batman series.
 * Victor Klee, 81, American mathematician, complications of intestinal surgery.
 * Tanja Liedtke, 29, German choreographer appointed as Sydney Dance Company artistic director, road accident.
 * Elmer MacFadyen, 64, Canadian politician, Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative cabinet minister (1996–2007), heart attack.
 * Alison Plowden, 75, British historian.

18

 * Stephen Bicknell, 49, British expert on the pipe organ.
 * Michael Deaver, 69, American Deputy White House Chief of Staff (1981–1985), pancreatic cancer.
 * Norman Ickeringill, 84, Australian Olympic wrestler.
 * Lucien Jarraud, 84, Canadian radio host.
 * Jon Lucien, 65, American smooth jazz singer/songwriter, respiratory failure and complications of kidney surgery.
 * Magdalen Nabb, 60, British author, stroke.
 * Viktor Prokopenko, 62, Ukrainian footballer and coach (FC Shakhtar Donetsk), thrombus.

19

 * Daniel Brewster, 83, American Senator (Democrat) from Maryland (1963–1969), liver cancer.
 * Perry DeAngelis, 43, American podcaster, scleroderma.
 * Gilles Fabre, 73, French painter.
 * Francis Ryck, 87, French author of crime and spy novels.

20

 * Gabriel Glorieux, 77, Belgian Olympic cyclist.
 * Berthold Grünfeld, 75, Norwegian psychiatrist.
 * Wild Bill Hagy, 68, American Baltimore Orioles cheerleader of the 1970s and 1980s.
 * Leona Helmsley, 87, American hotelier, heart failure.
 * Chas Poynter, 68, New Zealand politician, mayor of Wanganui (1986–2004), lung disease.
 * Roch La Salle, 78, Canadian Progressive Conservative politician, Quebec cabinet minister (1968–1988).

21

 * Caroline Aigle, 32, French aviator, first French female fighter pilot, cancer.
 * Rose Bampton, 99, American opera singer.
 * Frank Bowe, 60, American disability rights activist, author and teacher, cancer.
 * Čabulītis, 71-72, American alligator considered to be Europe's oldest.
 * Antonio De Gaetano, 73, Italian Olympic racewalker.
 * Siobhan Dowd, 47, British writer and PEN activist, breast cancer.
 * Elizabeth Hoisington, 88, American Army general, heart failure.
 * Howe Yoon Chong, 84, Singaporean politician.
 * Qurratulain Hyder, 81, Indian novelist.
 * Hana Ponická, 85, Slovak writer and dissident.
 * Adam Watson, 93, British diplomat and academic.

22

 * Butch van Breda Kolff, 84, American basketball coach (Princeton, Lakers, Pistons, Jazz).
 * José Ribamar Celestino, 65, Brazilian footballer.
 * Jacek Chmielnik, 54, Polish actor, accidental electrocution.
 * Keith Knight, 51, Canadian actor, brain cancer.
 * Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet, 80, British aristocrat.
 * Grace Paley, 84, American writer and political activist, breast cancer.

23

 * Cuesta Benberry, 83, American historian known for her studies of quilting, congestive heart failure.
 * William John McKeag, 79, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (1970–1976).
 * David Perry, 78, New Zealand cricketer.
 * Martti Pokela, 83, Finnish folk musician.
 * Robert Symonds, 80, American actor (Dynasty, The Exorcist, Catch Me If You Can), prostate cancer.
 * Dušan Třeštík, 74, Czech historian.
 * Sir Philip Wilkinson, 80, British banker.

24

 * Abdul Rahman Arif, 91, Iraqi politician, President of Iraq (1966–1968).
 * Mark Birley, 77, British nightclub owner (Annabel's), stroke.
 * Andrée Boucher, 70, Canadian politician, mayor of Sainte-Foy (1985–2001) and Quebec City (2005–2007), heart attack.
 * William E. McAnulty, Jr., 59, American lawyer, first African American Kentucky Supreme Court Justice, lung cancer.
 * Aaron Russo, 64, American movie producer (Trading Places, The Rose), cancer.
 * Adam Watson, 93, British diplomat.

25

 * Benjamin Aaron, 91, American labor law expert and member of Presidential commissions, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Raymond Barre, 83, French economist, Prime Minister of France (1976–1981), Mayor of Lyon (1995–2001).
 * Jim Carlson, 74, American screenwriter.
 * Eduardo Prado Coelho, 63, Portuguese writer and political and cultural critic.
 * Richard Cook, 50, British jazz writer, cancer.
 * Édouard Gagnon, 89, Canadian Roman Catholic Cardinal.
 * Ray Jones, 18, British footballer (QPR), car accident.
 * Alberto de Lacerda, 78, Portuguese poet, BBC radio presenter, founded Portucale magazine.
 * Linda Smith, 58, Canadian writer.

26

 * Edward Brandt, Jr., 74, American doctor and public health official, directed initial response to AIDS, lung cancer.
 * Oliver Byrne, 63, Irish CEO of soccer club Shelbourne F.C., after short illness.
 * Chuck Comiskey, 81, American Chicago White Sox executive in the 1950s, grandson of team founder Charles Comiskey.
 * Roy McLean, 77, South African cricketer, after long illness.
 * Judah Nadich, 95, American rabbi and chaplain, heart attack.
 * Edward Seidensticker, 86, American scholar and translator of Japanese literature, complications from a fall.
 * Gaston Thorn, 78, Luxembourg Prime Minister (1974–1979), President of the European Commission (1981–1985).

27

 * Driss Basri, 69, Moroccan Interior Minister (1979–1999).
 * Galina Dzhugashvili, 68, Russian granddaughter of Joseph Stalin, cancer.
 * Richard T. Heffron, 76, American film and television director.
 * Eduardo Malapit, 74, American who was first mayor of Filipino American ancestry.
 * Emma Penella, 77, Spanish actress (El Verdugo, Aquí no hay quien viva), renal and heart failure.
 * Doug Riley, 62, Canadian musician ("Doctor Music"), heart failure.
 * Hans Ruesch, 94, Swiss racing driver, author and activist against animal testing.
 * Gad Yaacobi, 72, Israeli former Minister and Labor Party Knesset member, heart failure.

28

 * Anacleto Angelini, 93, Chilean businessman, South America's richest man, emphysema.
 * David Garcia, 63, American journalist, White House correspondent (ABC), complications of a liver condition.
 * Arthur Jones, 80, American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines.
 * Hilly Kristal, 75, American club owner (CBGB), complications of lung cancer.
 * Smain Lamari, 67, Algerian head of intelligence services, after long illness.
 * Paul MacCready, 81, American aviation pioneer and inventor.
 * Nikola Nobilo, 94, Croatian-born New Zealand winemaker.
 * Antonio Puerta, 22, Spanish footballer (Sevilla FC), arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia.
 * Darryl Sly, 68, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player.
 * Francisco Umbral, 72, Spanish writer, pneumonia.
 * Miyoshi Umeki, 78, Japanese-born American actress (Sayonara, Flower Drum Song, The Courtship of Eddie's Father), Oscar winner (1958), cancer.

29

 * Sir James Fletcher, 92, New Zealand industrialist (Fletcher Challenge).
 * Aldo Forte, 89, American football player.
 * Richard Jewell, 44, American security guard wrongly accused of the Atlanta Olympics bombing, diabetes.
 * Margie Lang, 83, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
 * Vladimir Lobanov, 53, Russian Olympic speed skater.
 * Pierre Messmer, 91, French Prime Minister (1972–1974), Free French fighter, French Academician.
 * Chaswe Nsofwa, 28, Zambian footballer, heart attack.
 * Alfred Peet, 87, American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea.

30

 * Ramrao Adik, 77, Indian former Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
 * Banarsi Das Gupta, 89, Indian former Chief Minister of Haryana.
 * Augustine Harris, 89, British Bishop Emeritus of Middlesbrough, former Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool.
 * Michael Jackson, 65, British writer and beer expert (The Beer Hunter), heart attack.
 * Nancy Littlefield, 77, American film producer, cancer.
 * K. P. H. Notoprojo, 98, Indonesian gamelan performer.
 * Igor Novikov, 77, Soviet Olympic modern pentathlete.
 * Ong Hok Ham, 74, Indonesian historian.
 * Charles Vanik, 94, American politician, U.S. Representative from Ohio (1955–1981).
 * José Luis de Vilallonga, 87, Spanish aristocrat, author and actor (Breakfast at Tiffany's).
 * John Wedgwood, 87, British physician.

31

 * Gay Brewer, 75, American professional golfer, lung cancer.
 * Willie Cunningham, 77, British football player.
 * Barton Kirkconnell, 90, Jamaican Olympic sailor Barton Kickconnell
 * Kees Klop, 59, Dutch professor of political ethics and former chairman of the NCRV.
 * Karloff Lagarde, 79, Mexican lucha libre professional wrestler.
 * Doug Maxwell, 80, Canadian curling innovator, cancer.
 * Jean Jacques Paradis, 78, Canadian army general, Commander of the Canadian Army.
 * James Brian Tait, 90, British World War II pilot.
 * Sulev Vahtre, 81, Estonian historian.