Deaths in July 2007

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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

 * Joerg Kalt, 40, Austrian cinematographer, suicide.
 * Robert McBride, 96, American composer and instrumentalist.
 * Colleen McCrory, 57, Canadian environmental activist, brain cancer.
 * David Ritcheson, 18, American hate crime victim, suicide by jumping.
 * Gerhard Skrobek, 85, German sculptor of Hummel figurines, complications of heart surgery.

2

 * Philip Booth, 81, American poet and educator, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
 * Robert Brown, 71, American cartoonist, stroke.
 * Brahim Déby, 27, Chadian son of the national President and former presidential advisor, chemical asphyxiation.
 * Howell M. Estes II, 92, American Air Force general during the Vietnam War, heart ailment.
 * Ray Goins, 71, American bluegrass musician.
 * Robert Keeton, 88, American District Court judge, professor at Harvard Law School, complications from pulmonary embolism.
 * Peter Lyman, 66, American information researcher, brain cancer.
 * John Pinches, 91, British rower and soldier.
 * Dilip Sardesai, 66, Indian cricketer, multiple organ failure.
 * Beverly Sills, 78, American opera singer, lung cancer.
 * Jimmy Walker, 63, American basketball player (Detroit Pistons, Houston Rockets, Kansas City Kings), lung cancer.
 * Al Williams, 60, American basketball player, liver cancer.
 * Kevin Woodcock, 64, British cartoonist.
 * Hy Zaret, 99, American lyricist ("Unchained Melody").

3

 * Anne Dreydel, 89, British educationalist, co-founder of the Oxford English Centre.
 * Eric Gullage, 63, Canadian politician, cancer.
 * Beppie Noyes, 87, American author, stroke.
 * Claude Pompidou, 94, French widow of former Prime Minister and President Georges Pompidou.
 * Boots Randolph, 80, American saxophonist ("Yakety Sax"), cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Dave Simmons, 58, English footballer (Colchester United, Brentford).

4

 * Barış Akarsu, 28, Turkish rock musician, car accident.
 * Liane Bahler, 25, German cyclist, car accident.
 * José Roberto Espinosa, 59, Mexican footballer, coach and journalist, pneumonia and cancer.
 * Johnny Frigo, 90, American jazz violinist and bass player, complications from a fall.
 * Ken MacAfee, 77, American football player, heart attack.
 * Vivienne Nearing, 81, American lawyer involved in quiz show scandals, adrenal cancer.
 * Bill Pinkney, 81, American singer who was the last original member of The Drifters, probable heart attack.
 * X1, 28, American rapper and Onyx affiliate, suicide.
 * Osvaldo Romo, 70, Chilean security agent jailed for human rights abuses under Pinochet, heart and respiratory problems.
 * Ted Row, 84, Australian politician.
 * Eleanor Stewart, 94, American film and voice actor, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Henrique Viana, 71, Portuguese actor and singer, cancer.

5

 * Régine Crespin, 80, French operatic soprano, liver cancer.
 * Odile Crick, 86, British-born artist, cancer.
 * David Hilberman, 95, American animator (Bambi, The Smurfs, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe), co-founder of United Productions of America.
 * Kerwin Mathews, 81, American actor (The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, The Three Worlds of Gulliver, Jack the Giant Killer).
 * George Melly, 80, British jazz and blues musician, lung cancer.
 * Sylvan Shemitz, 82, United States lighting designer for Jefferson Memorial, Grand Central Terminal, heart attack.

6

 * Robert Frederick Carr, 63, American serial killer.
 * Don Mumford, 53, American jazz drummer.
 * Marguerite Vogt, 94, American polio and cancer researcher.
 * Eileen Wearne, 95, Australian athlete at the 1932 Summer Olympics and Australia's oldest surviving Olympian.
 * Kathleen Woodiwiss, 68, American romance writer, cancer.
 * Lois Wyse, 80, American advertising executive, author and columnist, stomach cancer.

7

 * Ion Calvocoressi, 88, British soldier and stockbroker.
 * Dame Anne McLaren, 80, British geneticist and developmental biologist, ex-wife of Donald Michie, car accident.
 * Donald Michie, 83, British researcher in artificial intelligence, ex-husband of Dame Anne McLaren, car accident.
 * John G. Mitchell, 75, American environment editor and author, National Geographic (1994–2004), heart attack.
 * Jack Odell, 87, British engineer and co-founder of Matchbox Toys.
 * John Szarkowski, 81, American photography curator, complications of a stroke.

8

 * Jindřich Feld, 82, Czech composer.
 * Haroon-ul-Islam, Pakistan Army Lieutenant-Colonel, shot.
 * Itzik Kol, 75, Israeli film producer, pneumonia.
 * Chandra Shekhar, 80, Indian Prime Minister (1990–1991) and Member of Lok Sabha, multiple myeloma.
 * Jack B. Sowards, 78, American screenwriter (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

9

 * Esteban Areta, 75, Spanish international footballer and coach.
 * John Baker, 71, Australian general, Chief of the Australian Defence Force (1995–1998).
 * Hans Eschenbrenner, 96, German Olympic shooter.
 * John Fogarty, 78, Australian rugby union winger, played two tests for the Wallabies.
 * John Hill, 83, American lawyer and politician, Texas Attorney General, Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice, heart condition.
 * Jerry Ito, 79, Japanese-American actor, pneumonia.
 * Charles Lane, 102, American actor (It's a Wonderful Life, You Can't Take It with You, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington).
 * Ralph Paffenbarger, 84, American doctor who performed an early study on the importance of exercise, heart failure.
 * Penny Thomson, 56, British film producer, cancer.
 * Peter Tuddenham, 88, British voice actor (Blake's 7).
 * John Wilson, 84, Irish politician, Tánaiste (1990–1993).

10

 * Theresa Duncan, 40, American video game designer, suicide.
 * Tibor Feheregyhazi, 75, Hungarian-Canadian actor and theatre director, prostate cancer.
 * Devin Gaines, 22, American graduate, awarded five undergraduate degrees, drowned.
 * Abdul Rashid Ghazi, 43, Pakistani cleric at the Red Mosque in Islamabad, shot.
 * Corbin Harney, 87, American Western Shoshone leader and environmental activist, complications from cancer.
 * Frank Kilroy, 86, American football player, scout and general manager for the New England Patriots.
 * Edward Lowbury, 93, British bacteriologist.
 * Doug Marlette, 57, American Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist (Kudzu), car accident.
 * Marjorie Morgan, 92, Canadian author, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Mireya Rodríguez, 70, Cuban Olympic fencer.
 * William Seegers, 106, German-American last veteran of World War I and California's last World War I veteran.
 * Zheng Xiaoyu, 62, Chinese official, former head of the State Food and Drug Administration, executed.

11

 * Glenda Adams, 68, Australian writer, ovarian cancer.
 * Shag Crawford, 90, American baseball umpire (1956–1975).
 * Bill Flynn, 58, South African actor, heart attack.
 * Livio Fongaro, 69, Italian footballer and coach.
 * Richard Franklin, 58, Australian film director (Roadgames), prostate cancer.
 * Ove Grahn, 64, Swedish footballer.
 * Nana Gualdi, 75, German singer and actress.
 * Lady Bird Johnson, 94, American First Lady of the United States (1963–1969), natural causes.
 * Rod Lauren, 67, American actor, suicide by jumping.
 * Alfonso López Michelsen, 94, Colombian President (1974–1978) and Foreign Minister (1968–1970), heart attack.
 * Ed Mirvish, 92, Canadian retail pioneer, natural causes.
 * Jimmy Skinner, 90, Canadian ice hockey coach (Detroit Red Wings).
 * Timothy Sprigge, 75, British idealist philosopher.
 * Larry Staverman, 70, American basketball player and first head coach for the Indiana Pacers (1967–1968).
 * Medha Yodh, 79, Indian dancer and dance teacher.

12

 * Marc Behm, 82, American writer.
 * Robert Burås, 31, Norwegian guitarist for Madrugada and My Midnight Creeps.
 * Mr. Butch, 56, American homeless person and local celebrity in Boston, scooter accident.
 * Allen Clarke, 96, British educationalist.
 * Nigel Dempster, 65, British journalist, progressive supranuclear palsy.
 * Pat Fordice, 71, American broadcaster and First Lady of Mississippi (1992–2000), cancer.
 * José Iglesias Fernández, 80, Spanish football player (Real Madrid), stroke.
 * Forbes Johnston, 35, British football player (Falkirk, Airdrieonians).
 * Jim Mitchell, 63, American porn producer (Behind the Green Door), heart attack.
 * James Shen, 98, Taiwanese diplomat, last ambassador of Taiwan to the United States.
 * Kesha Wizzart, 18, British singer and television show contestant, murdered.
 * Stan Zemanek, 60, Australian radio presenter, brain cancer.

13

 * Harry Fain, 88, American family lawyer, pneumonia.
 * Otto von der Gablentz, 76, German diplomat.
 * Khalid Hassan, 23, Iraqi journalist (The New York Times), shot.
 * Frank Maher, 78, British stuntman.
 * Albert Putt, 80, New Zealand cricketer.
 * Michael Readon, 42, American free solo climber, drowned.

14

 * Edward Boyse, 83, American physician, pneumonia.
 * Eva Crackles, 89, British botanist.
 * Nan Cross, 79, South African anti-apartheid activist.
 * John Ferguson, Sr., 68, Canadian hockey player, general manager, coach and scout, prostate cancer.
 * Bernard Pagel, 77, British astrophysicist, cancer.
 * John Warrender, 2nd Baron Bruntisfield, 86, British soldier and aristocrat.

15

 * Bluma Appel, 86, Canadian philanthropist and patron of the arts, lung cancer.
 * Alberto Romão Dias, 65-66, Portuguese organometallic chemist, professor at the IST.
 * Kelly Johnson, 49, British guitarist (Girlschool), cancer of the spine.
 * Kieron Moore, 82, Irish actor (The League of Gentlemen, The Day of the Triffids).
 * Schelto Patijn, 70, Dutch politician, mayor of Amsterdam (1994–2001).
 * Tsang Tsou Choi, 85, Hong Kong-based graffiti artist whose works were included in the 2003 Venice Biennale, heart disease.

16

 * Angus Allan, 70, British comic strip writer.
 * Simone Barck, 62, German contemporary historian and literary scholar.
 * Tom Brooks, 88, Australian cricketer (New South Wales) and international umpire.
 * Mikhail Kononov, 67, Russian actor (Guest from the Future, Siberiade, A Railway Station for Two), after long illness.
 * Skinny McNabb, 90, American Major League Baseball player for the Detroit Tigers.
 * Dmitri Prigov, 66, Russian poet, heart attack.
 * Alan Shepherd, 71, British motorcycle racer.
 * Kurt Steyrer, 87, Austrian health minister and Socialist presidential candidate, after short illness.

17

 * Jeremy Blake, 35, American video artist, suicide by drowning.
 * Bart Burns, 89, American actor (Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Seven Days in May, Frances).
 * Peter Denning, 57, British cricketer (Somerset), cancer.
 * Grant Forsberg, 47, American actor (Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Bloodhounds of Broadway, My Man Adam).
 * Júlio Redecker, 51, Brazilian leader of the Social Democracy Party, aviation accident.
 * Paulo Rogério Amoretty Souza, 60, Brazilian chairman of SCI, attorney for Corinthians, aviation accident.
 * Teresa Stich-Randall, 79, American opera singer.

18

 * Wayne Downing, 67, American retired army general, meningitis.
 * Jerry Hadley, 55, American opera singer, suicide by gunshot.
 * Charles Jauncey, Baron Jauncey of Tullichettle, 82, British Law Lord.
 * John Kronus, 38, American professional wrestler (ECW), heart failure.
 * Gary Lupul, 48, Canadian hockey player (Vancouver Canucks).
 * Sir Gordon MacWhinnie, 85, British-born Hong Kong accountant and public servant.
 * Orlando McFarlane, 69, Cuban Major League Baseball player.
 * Kenji Miyamoto, 98, Japanese politician, leader of the Japanese Communist Party for 40 years, old age.
 * Sekou Sundiata, 58, American poet, musician and performance artist, heart failure.
 * Charles Wylie, 87, British army officer and mountain climber.

19

 * Glen Angus, 36, Canadian game artist, heart failure.
 * Ivor Emmanuel, 79, British singer and actor (Zulu), stroke.
 * A. K. Faezul Huq, 62, Bangladeshi politician, lawyer, and freelance journalist, sudden heart failure.
 * Roberto Fontanarrosa, 62, Argentine cartoonist and writer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Howard Judd, 71, American women's health researcher, congestive heart failure.
 * Shirley Slesinger Lasswell, 84, American marketing pioneer, sued Disney over Winnie the Pooh royalties, respiratory failure.
 * Hector MacLean, 93, British World War II fighter pilot.
 * Roger Nathan, 2nd Baron Nathan, 84, British solicitor and aristocrat.
 * Alanah Woody, 51, American archaeologist, executive director of the Nevada Rock Art Foundation.

20

 * Ollie Bridewell, 21, British motorcycle racer, crash during race practice for the British Superbike Championship.
 * Golde Flami, 89, Argentine actress.
 * Tammy Faye Messner, 65, American evangelist, metastatic colon cancer.
 * David Preece, 44, British footballer (Luton Town), throat cancer.
 * Maurice Riel, 85, Canadian Senator.
 * Kai Siegbahn, 89, Swedish physicist at Uppsala University, won Nobel Prize in Physics in 1981.
 * Geoff Taylor, 84, English footballer.
 * Pete Wilson, 62, American broadcaster, heart attack.

21

 * Don Arden, 81, British rock manager, father of Sharon Osbourne.
 * René Deceja, 73, Uruguayan Olympic cyclist.
 * Jack Fearey, 84, American television pioneer, Bumbershoot festival founder.
 * Jesús de Polanco, 77, Spanish media entrepreneur and publisher (El País), complications of arthritic disease.
 * Sherwin Wine, 79, American rabbi, founder of Birmingham Temple and Humanistic Judaism movement, car accident.
 * Yang Xizong, 79, Chinese politician, Governor of Sichuan province and Communist Party Chief of Henan province.

22

 * Derek Bazalgette, 83, British admiral.
 * Sir John Burnett, 85, British academic, Principal of Edinburgh University (1979–1987).
 * Carmelo Camet, 102, Argentine 1928 Olympic bronze medalist in fencing and oldest living former Olympian.
 * Mike Coolbaugh, 35, American baseball first base coach for the Tulsa Drillers, head injury.
 * Jarrod Cunningham, 38, New Zealand rugby union footballer for London Irish, motor neurone disease.
 * Norma Gabler, 84, American textbook campaigner, Parkinson's disease.
 * Walter Jona, 81, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1964–1985).
 * László Kovács, 74, Hungarian-American cinematographer (Easy Rider, Ghostbusters, Five Easy Pieces).
 * André Milongo, 71, Congolese Prime Minister (1991–1992).
 * Ulrich Mühe, 54, German actor (The Lives of Others), stomach cancer.
 * Jean Stablinski, 75, French cyclist.
 * Rollie Stiles, 100, American oldest living former Major League Baseball player.
 * Gerhard Thielcke, 76, German conservationist, BUND co-founder, head injury.

23

 * Franco Cuomo, 69, Italian writer.
 * Sir Tom Davis, 90, Cook Islander Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (1978–1987).
 * Otis Davis, 86, American Major League Baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
 * Ernst Otto Fischer, 88, German Nobel Prize–winning chemist.
 * Tor Kamata, 70, American professional wrestler (Stampede Wrestling), heart disease.
 * Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., 87, American scientist, editor of Science magazine (1985–1995), stroke.
 * Benjamin Libet, 91, American pioneering scientist in the field of human consciousness.
 * Ron Miller, 74, American songwriter ("Touch Me in the Morning", "For Once in My Life"), cardiac arrest.
 * Gyani Nand, 64, Fijian politician (FLP, 2001–2006), Minister for Agriculture (2006).
 * Joan O'Hara, 76, Irish actress, heart disease.
 * Mary Anne Scoles, 110, Canadian and Manitoban oldest verified person.
 * Mirsha Serrano, 28, Mexican footballer for Tecos UAG, car accident.
 * George Tabori, 93, Hungarian-born British theater director.
 * Mohammed Zahir Shah, 92, Afghan royal, last king of Afghanistan.

24

 * Giorgio Anglesio, 85, Italian Olympic fencer.
 * Eric Davis, 75, English footballer (Plymouth Argyle).
 * Albert Ellis, 93, American pioneer in cognitive-behavioral therapy, kidney and heart failure.
 * Chaney Kley, 34, American actor (The Shield, Darkness Falls, Legally Blonde), drug overdose.
 * Abdullah Mehsud, 31, Pakistani Taliban commander, suicide by hand grenade.
 * Geoffrey Nuttall, 95, British historian and Nonconformist minister.
 * Edward J. Sullivan, 86, American Clerk of Courts for Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
 * Charles Whiting, 80, British author and military historian.
 * William Young, 107, British airman, last known remaining World War I veteran of the Royal Flying Corps.
 * Nicola Zaccaria, 84, Greek operatic bass, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Riley Ann Sawyers, 2, American murder victim.

25

 * Bae Hyung-kyu, 42, South Korean pastor, Taliban hostage, shot.
 * Danny Bergara, 64, Uruguayan football manager of Stockport County and Brunei, stroke.
 * Raymond Bristow, 98, British priest, longest-serving Anglican minister.
 * Jake, 12, American search and rescue dog for September 11, 2001 attacks and Hurricane Katrina, cancer.
 * Bernd Jakubowski, 54, German footballer (East Germany), after short illness.
 * Jesse Marunde, 27, American strongman, heart attack.

26

 * George Brown, 65, Belizean Chief Justice (1990–1998), illness.
 * Lars Forssell, 79, Swedish author and member of the Swedish Academy.
 * Eleanor Josephine Macdonald, 101, American cancer researcher.
 * John Normington, 70, British actor (Atonement, Doctor Who, Rollerball), pancreatic cancer.
 * Skip Prosser, 56, American college basketball coach for Wake Forest University, heart attack.
 * Shambo, 6, British Hindu sacred bull, lethal injection due to bovine tuberculosis.
 * Alberto Villamizar, 62, Colombian politician (NL) and diplomat, complications of lung surgery.

27

 * Gabriel Cisneros, 66, Spanish politician (PP), co-author of the 1978 Constitution, complications from stroke.
 * Lucky Grills, 79, Australian comedian and actor (Bluey).
 * Fannie Hillsmith, 96, American Cubist painter.
 * Abdullah Kurshumi, 75, Yemeni politician, Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic (1969–1970).
 * James Oyebola, 46, British heavyweight boxer, shot.
 * Alan Pottasch, 79, American advertising executive for Pepsi, developed Pepsi Generation ad campaign.
 * Christophe Ruer, 42, French Olympic modern pentathlete (1988, 1992, 1996), motorcycle accident.
 * William J. Tuttle, 95, American make-up artist (North by Northwest, Singin' in the Rain, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof).

28

 * Crown Prince Bảo Long, 71, Vietnamese son of the last Emperor Bảo Đại.
 * Kazi Lhendup Dorjee, 102, Indian first chief minister of Sikkim (SNC, 1974–1978), heart attack.
 * Karl Gotch, 82, German-born professional wrestler.
 * Isidore Isou, 82, French poet, film critic and artist.
 * Jim LeRoy, 46, American stunt pilot, air crash.
 * Sal Mosca, 80, American jazz pianist and educator.

29

 * Ian Anstruther, 85, British diplomat, baronet, writer and literary patron.
 * Jack Cole, 87, American publisher (Cole Directory), cancer.
 * James David, 79, American football player (Detroit Lions), after long illness.
 * Art Davis, 73, American jazz double-bassist, heart attack.
 * Phil Drabble, 93, British television presenter (One Man and His Dog).
 * Mike Reid, 67, English comedian and actor (EastEnders, Snatch, Yus, My Dear), heart attack.
 * Bill Robinson, 64, American baseball player (Braves, Yankees, Phillies and Pirates) and coach.
 * Michel Serrault, 79, French actor (La Cage aux Folles), cancer.
 * Tom Snyder, 71, American talk show host (The Tomorrow Show, The Late Late Show) and journalist, complications of leukemia.
 * Marvin Zindler, 85, American reporter, pancreatic cancer.

30

 * Michelangelo Antonioni, 94, Italian film director (L'avventura, Blowup, Zabriskie Point).
 * Teoctist Arăpaşu, 92, Romanian Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, heart attack.
 * Ingmar Bergman, 89, Swedish film director (The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Fanny and Alexander), Oscar winner (1961, 1962, 1984).
 * Fausto Sucena Rasga Filho, 78, Brazilian Olympic basketball player.
 * Thomas McGraw, 54, British mobster, heart attack.
 * Ali Meshkini, 86, Iranian Chairman of the Assembly of Experts, respiratory and kidney complications.
 * Anne O'Brien, 95, American Olympic athlete.
 * Makoto Oda, 75, Japanese writer and anti-war activist, cancer.
 * Shim Sung-Min, 29, South Korean Taliban hostage, shot.
 * Richard Stott, 63, British newspaper editor and author, pancreatic cancer.
 * Bill Walsh, 75, American three-time Super Bowl-winning football coach of the San Francisco 49ers and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, leukemia.
 * Wen Xingyu, 65, Chinese comedian, lung cancer.

31

 * Margaret Avison, 89, Canadian poet.
 * J. Esmonde Barry, 83, Canadian healthcare activist and political commentator, complications from a heart attack.
 * Norman Cohn, 92, British historian, degenerative heart condition.
 * Oliver Morgan, 74, American rhythm & blues vocalist, heart attack.
 * R. D. Wingfield, 79, British writer and radio dramatist.