Deaths in June 2007

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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

 * Warren M. Anderson, 91, American legislator, Temporary President and Majority Leader of the NY Senate (1973–1989).
 * Jan Beneš, 71, Czech writer, translator, publicist and screenwriter, suicide.
 * Kasma Booty, 75, Malaysian actress, pneumonia.
 * Sir John Gilmour, 94, British Conservative MP for East Fife (1961–1979) and Lord Lieutenant of Fife (1980–1987).
 * Charles Johnson, 58, American basketball player, cancer.
 * Charles Kinkead, 93, Jamaican photojournalist, stroke.
 * Pamela Low, 79, American flavorist who created the coating for Cap'n Crunch.
 * Marly de Oliveira, 71, Brazilian poet, Prêmio Jabuti laureate (1998), multiple organ failure.
 * Arn Shein, 78, American sports writer.
 * Dave Smalley, 72, American coach of US Naval Academy men's and women's basketball teams, complications of cancer.
 * Tony Thompson, 31, American lead vocalist of the R&B group Hi-Five, toxic inhalation of freon.

2

 * Sandy Barr, 69, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
 * Charles Evans, 81, American businessman and film producer (Showgirls), complications from pneumonia.
 * Marion Francis Forst, 96, American oldest Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.
 * Steve Gilliard, 42, American blogger, heart and kidney failure.
 * Kentaro Haneda, 58, Japanese pianist, composer and arranger, liver cancer.
 * Wolfgang Hilbig, 65, German author and poet.
 * Huang Ju, 68, Chinese Vice Premier, Politburo Standing Committee member, former Mayor of Shanghai.
 * Martin Meyerson, 84, American academic, President of Penn (1971–1982) and Chancellor of UC Berkeley.
 * John Moriarty, 69, Irish poet and philosopher, cancer.

3

 * Richard Attipoe, 50, Togolese Minister for Sport, helicopter crash.
 * Ivan Darvas, 82, Hungarian actor.
 * Ragheed Ganni, 35, Iraqi Chaldean Catholic priest, shot.
 * Earl Hogan, 87, American politician, U.S. Representative from Indiana (1959–1961).
 * James Arthur Kelsey, 54, American Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan, automobile accident.
 * Nelson Levy, 58, Tahitian founding head of Air Tahiti Nui, leading figure in French Polynesian tourism, heart attack.
 * Leonard Nathan, 82, American poet, National Book Award nominee, UC Berkeley professor of rhetoric, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Juan Antonio Arguelles Rius, 28, Spanish songwriter and programmer, traffic collision.

4

 * Clete Boyer, 70, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves) and coach, stroke.
 * Tom Burns, 75, Australian politician, former Queensland opposition leader, Deputy Premier and Australian Labor Party national president.
 * Lady Jeanne Campbell, 78, British journalist and aristocrat.
 * Jim Clark, 84, American sheriff of Dallas County, Alabama who opposed voting rights in Selma, stroke and heart condition.
 * Hallie Ford, 102, American timber entrepreneur and philanthropist.
 * Bill France Jr., 74, American CEO of NASCAR (1972–2003), cancer.
 * Wallace McIntosh, 87, British World War II air gunner.
 * Sotiris Moustakas, 67, Greek Cypriot actor, cancer.
 * Freddie Scott, 74, American singer ("Hey Girl"), heart attack.
 * Craig L. Thomas, 74, American Senator from Wyoming since 1995, leukemia.

5

 * Sam Baker, 76, American football player, complications of diabetes.
 * Gert-Jan Dröge, 64, Dutch TV personality, lung cancer.
 * Povel Ramel, 85, Swedish artist, singer, pianist, comedian, actor, author.
 * Jean Vollum, 80, American philanthropist and widow of Tektronix founder Howard Vollum, congestive heart failure.

6

 * Lila Irene Clerides, 85, Indian-born Cypriot actress and socialite, First Lady (1974, 1993–2003).
 * Tony De Santis, 93, American owner of Drury Lane Theatre, cancer.
 * Enrique Fuentes Quintana, 82, Spanish economist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1977–1979).
 * Larry Hamlin, 58, American theater producer, founder of the National Black Theater Festival.
 * Dave Hancock, 68, English footballer.
 * Luke Sela, 64, Papua New Guinean journalist, editor of the PNG Post Courier (1978–2000).
 * Zakia Zaki, 35, Afghan director of Radio Peace, shot.

7

 * Gilbert Gude, 84, United States Representative from Maryland (1967–1977), heart failure.
 * Michael Hamburger, 83, German-born British poet, translator, critic.
 * Sahar Hussein al-Haideri, 44, Iraqi journalist, shot.

8

 * Martin Buckmaster, 3rd Viscount Buckmaster, 86, English diplomat.
 * Hideo Kanze, 79, Japanese Noh actor and director, intestinal cancer.
 * Nellie Lutcher, 94, American jazz singer and pianist, pneumonia.
 * Kenny Olsson, 30, Swedish speedway rider, crash.
 * Aden Abdulle Osman, 99, Somali politician, first President of Somalia (1960–1967).
 * Lynne Randell, 57, Australian singer ("Ciao Baby"), apparent suicide.
 * Richard Rorty, 75, American philosopher, pancreatic cancer.

9

 * Frankie Abernathy, 25, American cast member of The Real World: San Diego, cystic fibrosis.
 * Rudolf Arnheim, 102, German-born American author, psychologist, and theorist of film and visual art.
 * Lorne Carr, 96, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs).
 * Eddie Crush, 90, English cricketer (Kent) (1946–1949).
 * Bill Ellis, 87, English cricketer (Nottinghamshire).
 * Harry Ewing, Baron Ewing of Kirkford, 76, British Labour politician, cancer.
 * Rob Goode, 80, American football player for the Washington Redskins.
 * Achieng Oneko, 87, Kenyan freedom fighter and politician, heart attack.
 * Ousmane Sembène, 84, Senegalese film director, producer and writer, after long illness.
 * Elias Wen, 110, Chinese-born Protopresbyter (senior clergy) of the Russian Orthodox Church.
 * Leonard E. H. Williams, 87, British World War II Spitfire pilot and businessman.

10

 * August H. Auer Jr., 67, American-born New Zealand atmospheric scientist and meteorologist, heart attack.
 * George Burrarrawanga, 50, Australian singer (Warumpi Band).
 * Jeff Erlanger, 36, American disability rights activist, asphyxiation.
 * Charley Harper, 84, American wildlife artist, pneumonia.
 * Jim Killingsworth, 83, American college basketball coach (Idaho State, Oklahoma State, TCU), complications from stroke.
 * Laurence Mancuso, 72, American founding abbot of Monks of New Skete, complications of injuries from a fall.
 * John Ostashek, 71, Canadian Yukon Party Leader (1992–1999) and Yukon Government Leader (1992–1996), cancer.
 * Parviz Varjavand, 73, Iranian archaeologist, heart failure.

11

 * Bobby Beaton, 94, Canadian ice hockey player, professional boxer and boxing referee.
 * Eamonn Coleman, 59, Northern Irish Gaelic football coach (Derry GAA), non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
 * Vern Hoscheit, 85, American Major League Baseball bullpen coach.
 * Ray Mears, 80, American basketball coach of the University of Tennessee Volunteers (1963–1977).
 * Mala Powers, 75, American film actress (Cyrano de Bergerac, Outrage), leukemia.

12

 * Donald D. Clancy, 85, American Mayor of Cincinnati (1957–1960), US Representative from Ohio (1961–1977), Parkinson's disease.
 * Colin Fletcher, 85, American writer on hiking, complications of old age and injuries from a 2001 car accident.
 * Tito Gómez, 59, Puerto Rican salsa singer, former member of Ray Barretto and Sonora Ponceña bands, heart attack.
 * Don Herbert, 89, American TV host ("Mr. Wizard"), bone cancer.
 * Sir Wally Herbert, 72, British polar explorer.
 * Jim Norton, 68, American football player (Houston Oilers, 1960–1969).
 * Guy de Rothschild, 98, French banker and member of the Rothschild family.
 * Frank Scarrabelotti, 109, Australia's oldest living man.
 * Samuel Isaac Weissman, 94, American chemist known for his work on the Manhattan Project.

13

 * Jessie Davis, 26, American murder victim.
 * Walid Eido, 65, Lebanese politician, bomb.
 * Sir David Hatch, 68, British managing director of BBC Radio, comic actor (I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again).
 * Oskar Morawetz, 90, Canadian classical composer.
 * Claude Netter, 82, French Olympic fencer.
 * Néstor Rossi, 82, Argentine footballer, played in 1958 FIFA World Cup.
 * John Stanton Ward, 89, British artist.

14

 * Ruth Graham, 87, American author.
 * William LeMessurier, 81, American structural engineer, complications from surgery following a fall.
 * Jørgen Hare, 83, Danish Olympic shooter.
 * Martin McKay, 70, Irish Olympic cyclist.
 * Robin Olds, 84, American fighter pilot, heart failure.
 * Jacques Simonet, 43, Belgian politician and mayor of Anderlecht, heart attack.
 * Alex Thomson, 78, British cinematographer (Excalibur, Alien 3, Labyrinth).
 * Larry Whiteside, 69, American baseball journalist.
 * Peter Ucko, 68, British archaeologist, complications of diabetes.
 * Kurt Waldheim, 88, Austrian President (1986–1992), UN Secretary-General (1972–1981), World War II Wehrmacht officer, heart failure.

15

 * Richard Bell, 61, Canadian keyboardist (Janis Joplin, The Band), cancer.
 * Bertin Borna, 76, Beninese politician, former finance minister.
 * Claudia Cohen, 56, American socialite and journalist, ovarian cancer.
 * Hugo Corro, 53, Argentine World Boxing Association and World Boxing Council middleweight boxing champion (1978–1979).
 * Sherri Martel, 49, American professional wrestler and valet (WWF, WCW, AWA), accidental overdose.

16

 * Robin Beard, 67, American Representative from Tennessee (1973–1983), brain tumor.
 * Jack Doohan, 87, Australian politician, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1978–1991).
 * Norman Hackerman, 95, American former president of the University of Texas at Austin and Rice University, heart disease.
 * Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, 76, Iranian religious leader.
 * Thommie Walsh, 57, American dancer (A Chorus Line) and Tony Award-winning choreographer, lymphoma.
 * Lola Wasserstein, 89, American mother of playwright Wendy Wasserstein who inspired some of her daughter's characters.

17

 * Jamal Abdul Karim al-Dabban, 68, Iraqi Sunni religious leader, heart attack.
 * Ben Brocklehurst, 85, British cricketer and publisher.
 * Cheng Shifa, 86, Chinese painter, cartoonist and calligrapher.
 * Angelo Felici, 87, Italian Catholic Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei.
 * Gianfranco Ferré, 62, Italian fashion designer, brain haemorrhage.
 * Ed Friendly, 85, American television producer (Little House on the Prairie, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), cancer.
 * Velimir Ilić, 81, Yugoslav Olympic athlete.
 * Jay Newman, 59, Canadian philosopher, cancer.
 * José Abílio Osório Soares, 60, Indonesian last governor of East Timor.
 * Fred C. Stinson, 84, Canadian politician.

18

 * Bill Barber, 87, American jazz tuba player, played with Miles Davis and John Coltrane, heart failure.
 * Vilma Espín, 77, Cuban wife of acting President Raúl Castro, president of Cuban Women's Federation.
 * Kenneth Franklin, 84, American astronomer at the Hayden Planetarium.
 * Tung Hua Lin, 96, Chinese engineer, designed China's first twin-engine aircraft, heart failure.
 * Bernard Manning, 76, British comedian, kidney failure.
 * Hank Medress, 68, American singer (The Tokens), producer of The Chiffons and Tony Orlando and Dawn, lung cancer.
 * Georges Thurston, 55, Canadian author and composer known as "Boule Noire" (Afro), colorectal cancer.
 * Cheves Walling, 91, American organic chemist.

19

 * Antonio Aguilar, 88, Mexican actor, pneumonia.
 * Victorio Cieslinskas, 84, Uruguayan Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) basketball player.
 * Tommy Eytle, 80, Guyanese-born British actor (EastEnders) and jazz musician.
 * El Fary, 69, Spanish singer, lung cancer.
 * Terry Hoeppner, 59, American football coach for Indiana University, brain tumor.
 * Antanas Karoblis, 67, Lithuanian politician.
 * Piara Khabra, 82, British Labour MP for Ealing, Southall (1992–2007).
 * Alberto Mijangos, 81, Mexican-American painter, lymphoma.
 * Ze'ev Schiff, 74, Israeli military journalist, heart disease.
 * Klausjürgen Wussow, 78, German actor, after long illness.

20

 * Nazik Al-Malaika, 84, Iraqi poet, old age.
 * Rudy Autio, 80, American sculptor, leukemia.
 * Shayne Bower, 42, Canadian professional wrestler known as "Biff Wellington", heart attack.
 * Jerry Fleishman, 85, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors).
 * Anita Guha, Indian actress, heart failure.
 * J.B. Handelsman, 85, American cartoonist for The New Yorker, lung cancer.
 * Margaret Helfland, 59, American architect and urban planner, colon cancer.
 * Trevor Henry, 105, New Zealand Supreme Court justice.
 * Mamadou Konte, 65, Senegalese music producer, founder of the Africa Fete music festival and record label.
 * Jim Shoulders, 79, American Pro Rodeo Hall of Famer, heart ailment.

21

 * Georg Danzer, 60, Austrian singer, lung cancer.
 * Bob Evans, 89, American founder of Bob Evans Restaurants, pneumonia.
 * Douglas Hill, 72, Canadian author.
 * Peter Liba, 67, Canadian Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (1999–2004).
 * Carlos Romero, 80, American actor (Falcon Crest, Soylent Green, The Professionals).
 * Marshall Shulman, 91, American Sovietologist who founded the Averell Harriman Institute at Columbia University.
 * Mary Ellen Solt, 86, American poet and critic, stroke.

22

 * Bernd Becher, 75, German photographer, complications of heart surgery.
 * Nancy Benoit, 43, American professional wrestler and manager (WCW, ECW), strangulation.
 * Eleanor Emery, 88, British diplomat, High Commissioner to Botswana.
 * Luciano Fabro, 70, Italian artist and theorist in Arte Povera movement, heart attack.
 * Lenar Gilmullin, 22, Russian footballer (FC Rubin Kazan), motorcycle accident.
 * William L. Hungate, 84, American judge, U.S. Representative (1964–1977), complications of surgery.
 * Jack Ormston, 97, British speedway rider.
 * Erik Parlevliet, 43, Dutch field hockey player, after long illness.
 * Guy Vander Jagt, 75, United States Representative from Michigan (1966–1993), pancreatic cancer.

23

 * Rod Beck, 38, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs).
 * Hou Yaowen, 59, Chinese xiangsheng (cross-talk) actor, heart attack.
 * Hans Sennholz, 85, German-born economist.
 * Nguyen Chanh Thi, 84, Vietnamese general for South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

24

 * Byron Baer, 77, American legislator for New Jersey (1971–2005), heart failure.
 * Gillian Baverstock, 75, British novelist, daughter of Enid Blyton.
 * Chris Benoit, 40, Canadian professional wrestler (WWE, WCW, NJPW), suicide by hanging.
 * Edouard Brunner, 75, Swiss diplomat and United Nations mediator.
 * Derek Dougan, 69, Northern Irish footballer (Wolves, Northern Ireland).
 * Jack Flynt, 92, United States Representative from Georgia (1954–1979).
 * Léon Jeck, 60, Belgian footballer (Standard Liège, national team).
 * Robert Kroon, 82, Dutch journalist, pancreatic cancer.
 * Charles W. Lindberg, 86, American last surviving marine who raised the first flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima.
 * Natasja Saad, 32, Danish rapper, car accident.
 * Joey Sadler, 92, New Zealand All Blacks rugby union player.
 * Joy Simonson, 88, American feminist, complications of pneumonia.
 * Biff Wellington, 42, Canadian professional wrestler, heart attack.
 * Maurice Wood, 90, British Anglican Bishop of Norwich (1971–1985).

25

 * Jurgis Blekaitis, 89, Lithuanian-American poet and theatre producer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Alida Bosshardt, 94, Dutch "public face" of the Salvation Army.
 * Dana Bullen, 75, American journalist and advocate for freedom of the press, cancer.
 * Liliane Chappuis, 51, Swiss member of the National Council, heart attack.
 * J. Fred Duckett, 74, American sports announcer and teacher, leukemia.
 * Fasal al Gaood, Iraqi former governor of Al Anbar, Sunni tribal sheikh prominent in alliance against Al Qaeda, suicide bomb victim.
 * Jeeva, 43, Indian director and cinematographer.
 * Mahasti, 60, Iranian pop singer, colon cancer.
 * Jan Herman Linge, 85, Norwegian boat designer, Soling and Yngling class.
 * Bill Moss, 76, American gospel musician (The Celestials), emphysema.
 * Adrian Mung'andu, 84, Zambian Catholic archbishop of Lusaka (1984–1996).
 * William O'Brien, 77, American politician, Minnesota State Auditor (1969–1971).
 * Brenda Rawnsley, 90, British arts campaigner.
 * Paul Smith, 85, American typewriter artist.

26

 * Tina Brozman, 54, American Bankruptcy Court judge, complications of ovarian cancer.
 * Liz Claiborne, 78, Belgian-born American fashion designer, cancer.
 * Jupp Derwall, 80, German football coach of West Germany (1978–1984), heart attack.
 * Lucien Hervé, 96, Hungarian-born French photographer, after long illness.
 * Bobby Hussey, 67, American basketball coach at Virginia Tech and Davidson College.
 * Dame Thea King, 81, British clarinetist.
 * Luigi Meneghello, 85, Italian writer and essayist.
 * Malcolm Slesser, 80, British scientist and mountaineer, suspected heart attack while hillwalking.
 * Tamaiti Willie Star, 80, Nauruan diplomat and politician.

27

 * Patrick Allotey, 28, Ghanaian footballer for Feyenoord and Ghana.
 * Kari Blackburn, 53, British broadcaster, suicide by drowning.
 * William Hutt, 87, Canadian actor, leukemia.
 * Hugh Johns, 83, British football commentator with ITV.
 * Jimmy Marks, 62, American Romani civil rights leader, heart attack.
 * Ashraf Marwan, 62, Egyptian son-in-law of former President Nasser, alleged double agent.
 * Emilio Ochoa, 99, Cuban who was last living signatory of the 1940 Constitution, cardiac arrest.
 * Ruslan Odizhev, 33, Russian former Guantanamo Bay detainee, shot by police.
 * Silas Rhodes, 91, American educator, founder of the School of Visual Arts.
 * Dragutin Tadijanović, 101, Croatian author.
 * Bruno Tolentino, 66, Brazilian poet, three-time Prêmio Jabuti laureate (1994, 2000, 2007), multiple organ failure.

28

 * Inez Baskin, 91, American journalist, covered the Montgomery bus boycott.
 * Leo Burmester, 63, American actor (The Abyss, The Last Temptation of Christ, A Perfect World), leukemia.
 * Eugene B. Fluckey, 93, American submarine commander awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II.
 * Bruce R. Kennedy, 68, American businessman, former chairman and CEO of Alaska Airlines, light plane crash.
 * Abraham Klausner, 92, American rabbi, supporter of Holocaust survivors, complications of Parkinson's disease.
 * Kiichi Miyazawa, 87, Japanese Prime Minister (1991–1993), natural causes.
 * Thomas K. Mooney, 45, American diplomat and soldier.
 * Shinji Nakae, 72, Japanese voice actor and narrator.
 * Howie Schneider, 77, American cartoonist (Eek and Meek), complications of heart surgery.
 * Catherine Troeh, 96, American native people activist and historian.
 * Jess Weiss, 90, American anesthesiologist.
 * Maurice Wohl, 90, British property developer and philanthropist.

29

 * Frank W. Burke, 87, American politician, US Representative (1959–1963), Mayor of Louisville (1969–1973).
 * Raymond E. Douglas, 58, American executive with The New York Times, who helped add color to its pages, pulmonary embolism.
 * John Hansl, 82, Croatian ex-concentration camp guard whose United States citizenship was revoked in 2005, congestive heart failure.
 * Harry Henshel, 88, American watchmaker, last member of the Bulova family to head that company.
 * George McCorkle, 60, American guitarist with The Marshall Tucker Band, cancer.
 * Fred Saberhagen, 77, American writer of Berserker series, cancer.
 * Joel Siegel, 63, American film critic for Good Morning America on ABC, colon cancer.
 * Alojzij Šuštar, 86, Slovenian former Archbishop of Ljubljana.
 * Edward Yang, 59, Taiwanese film director (Yi Yi), colon cancer.

30

 * Gottfried von Bismarck, 44, German aristocrat, businessman and socialite, suspected heroin overdose.
 * Jim Corbett, 82, American politician, Mayor of Tucson, Arizona (1967–1971), Arizona legislator (1956–1958), heart problems.
 * Bruce Greensill, 65, Australian rugby union player and administrator, represented Auckland and Sydney.
 * Will Schaefer, 78, American composer of background music for I Dream of Jeannie and The Flintstones, cancer.
 * Robert E. Sweeney, 82, American politician, US Representative from Ohio (1965–1967), heart problems.
 * Sahib Singh Verma, 64, Indian Chief Minister of Delhi (1996–1998), Bharatiya Janata Party leader, car accident.
 * Norman Williams, 92, Australian World War II air gunner.