Deaths in October 2007

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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

 * Bernard Delaire, 108, French Naval veteran of World War I, one of the last six identified.
 * Bruce Hay, 57, British rugby player for Britain and Scotland, brain tumour.
 * Ronnie Hazlehurst, 79, British theme song composer (Are You Being Served?) and jazz musician, stroke.
 * Israel Kugler, 90, American labor leader and professor, pneumonia.
 * Harry Lee, 75, American politician, Sheriff of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, leukemia.
 * Chris Mainwaring, 41, Australian footballer (West Coast Eagles), television and radio sports journalist.
 * Peggy Maley, 84, American actress.
 * James A. Martin, 105, American Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, world's oldest Jesuit, pneumonia.
 * Al Oerter, 71, American athlete and Olympic gold medallist in discus (1956, 1960, 1964 and 1968), heart failure.
 * Tetsuo Okamoto, 75, Brazilian swimmer and Brazil's first Olympic swimming medallist (1952), respiratory failure.
 * Pedro Saúl Pérez, 54, Dominican advocate for the rights of Dominican immigrants in Puerto Rico, heart attack.
 * Ned Sherrin, 76, British broadcaster and theatre producer, throat cancer.
 * Ralph W. Sturges, 88, American Mohegan tribal chief.
 * Henry Wells, 92, American expert on Latin American politics, professor and author, complications from Alzheimer's disease.

2

 * Frederick Bayer, 85, American emeritus curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, heart failure.
 * DeWitt "Tex" Coulter, 82, American National and Canadian Football League player.
 * Gianni Danzi, 67, Italian Archbishop of the Territorial Prelature of Loreto.
 * Elfi von Dassanowsky, 83, Austrian opera singer, actress and film producer.
 * Christopher Derrick, 86, British writer.
 * Šime Đodan, 79, Croatian parliamentarian, defence minister (1991).
 * Gary Franklin, 79, American film critic, KABC-TV (Los Angeles).
 * Richard Goldwater, 71, American president of Archie Comics, creator of Josie and the Pussycats, cancer.
 * George Grizzard, 79, American actor, lung cancer.
 * Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, 94, Greek former Princess of Greece, last surviving great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
 * Dan Keating, 105, Irish republican activist, last surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence.
 * J. Edward Lundy, 92, American automobile executive (Ford Motor Co.).
 * Tawn Mastrey, 53, American radio disc jockey (KNAC), hepatitis C.
 * James Michaels, 86, American editor of Forbes (1961–1999), pneumonia.
 * José Antonio Ríos Granados, 48, Mexican politician, mayor of Tultitlán (2000–2003), air crash.
 * Willi Rössler, 83, German Olympic fencer.
 * Alec Spalding, 84, British scout leader.

3

 * John Buxton, 73, New Zealand rugby union player.
 * Violet Kazue de Cristoforo, 90, American poet, held in Japanese-American internment camps during WWII, stroke.
 * Kenneth R. Harding, 93, American Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives (1972–1980), pneumonia.
 * Wyn Harness, 47, British journalist.
 * Herbert Muschamp, 59, American architecture critic for The New York Times, lung cancer.
 * Pablo Palazuelo, 90, Spanish artist.
 * Tony Ryan, 71, Irish entrepreneur and joint founder of Ryanair, after long illness.
 * Rogelio Salmona, 78, Colombian architect, Alvar Aalto Medal and Prince Claus Award winner, cancer.
 * Sir Richard Trant, 79, British Army general.
 * Giuseppe Valdengo, 93, Italian operatic baritone.
 * M. N. Vijayan, 77, Indian academic, writer and journalist, heart attack.

4

 * Bob Burdick, 70, American NASCAR driver.
 * Chen Chi-li, 64, Chinese-born Taiwanese gangster, killer of dissident journalist Henry Liu, pancreatic cancer.
 * Antonie Iorgovan, 59, Romanian politician, main author of the Constitution of Romania, heart attack.
 * Kim Min-woo, 21, South Korean ice dancer., traffic collision.
 * Don Nottebart, 71, American Major League Baseball player, stroke.

5

 * John Atchison, 53, American federal prosecutor and alleged child sex offender, suicide.
 * Alexandra Boulat, 45, French photojournalist, aneurysm.
 * Walter Kempowski, 78, German author and archivist, intestinal cancer.
 * Władysław Kopaliński, 99, Polish lexicographer.
 * Vladimir Kuzin, 77, Russian 1956 Winter Olympics gold medallist, long illness.
 * Steven Massarsky, 59, American attorney and businessman, complications related to cancer.
 * Edwyn Owen, 71, American ice hockey player, gold medallist at the 1960 Winter Olympics, car fire.
 * Matilde Salvador i Segarra, 89, Spanish composer, stroke.
 * Justin Tuveri, 109, Italian-French World War I veteran.

6

 * Babasaheb Bhosale, 86, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Maharashtra (1982–1983).
 * Robert W. Bussard, 79, American physicist, researcher of nuclear fusion, cancer.
 * Jo Ann Davis, 57, American member of the US House of Representatives from Virginia since 2001, breast cancer.
 * Nancy DeShone, 75, American baseball player (AAGPBL)
 * Rodney Diak, 83, British stage and film actor, cancer.
 * Phil Dodds, 56, American audio engineer, cancer.
 * Bud Ekins, 77, American motorcycle racer and stunt performer (The Great Escape), natural causes.
 * Terence Wilmot Hutchison, 95, British economist.
 * Tom Murphy, 39, Irish Tony Award-winning actor of stage and screen (The Beauty Queen of Leenane), lymphatic cancer.
 * Laza Ristovski, 51, Serbian keyboardist (Smak, Bijelo dugme), multiple sclerosis.
 * George F. Senner, Jr., 85, American member of the US House of Representatives from Arizona (1963–1967).

7

 * Norifumi Abe, 32, Japanese MotoGP racer, traffic accident.
 * Stéphane Maurice Bongho-Nouarra, 70, Congolese Prime Minister (1992).
 * Sir Alan Campbell, 88, British diplomat.
 * Sisi Chen, 68, Chinese actress, pancreatic cancer.
 * Paul Cullen, 98, Australian army general.
 * Luciana Frassati Gawronska, 105, Polish-Italian writer and anti-Nazi activist, mother of Jas Gawronski.
 * Herb Parker, 86, American educator and football coach.
 * George E. Sangmeister, 76, American member of the US House of Representatives from Illinois (1989–1995), leukemia.
 * Jiřina Steimarová, 91, Czech actress.
 * Lilis Suryani, 59, Indonesian singer, uterine cancer.
 * Joe Waggonner, 89, American member of the US House of Representatives from Louisiana (1961–1979).

8

 * Constantine Andreou, 90, Brazilian-born Greek-French painter and sculptor.
 * Milan Đukić, 61, Serbian-Croatian politician, leader of the Serb People's Party.
 * John Henry, 32, American Hall of Fame thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized after kidney failure.
 * Nicky James, 64, British pop singer (The Moody Blues), brain tumour.
 * Zdzisław Peszkowski, 89, Polish Roman Catholic priest, advocate for the families of Katyn victims.
 * Salem Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, 69, Kuwaiti politician, member of the ruling family, after long illness.
 * Francis Schewetta, 88, French Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) athlete.
 * Jean-François Van Der Motte, 93, Belgian Olympic cyclist.
 * Chick Zamick, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.

9

 * Enrico Banducci, 85, American nightclub impresario (North Beach, San Francisco).
 * Carol Bruce, 87, American actress (WKRP in Cincinnati, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, American Gigolo), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
 * Henk van Brussel, 72, Dutch footballer and football manager, heart attack.
 * Fausto Correia, 55, Portuguese politician, heart attack.
 * Belinda Dann, 107, Australian centenarian, longest-lived member of the Stolen Generation.
 * Mary Louise Kolanko, 75, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
 * Robert McGehee, 64, American Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Progress Energy Inc, stroke.
 * Dudley Ryder, 7th Earl of Harrowby, 84, British aristocrat and banker.
 * Kurt Schwaen, 98, German composer, natural causes.
 * Bram Zeegers, 58, Dutch lawyer and key witness in the trial of Willem Holleeder.

10

 * S. R. Bommai, 83, Indian politician.
 * Ambrose De Paoli, 73, American-born Roman Catholic Archbishop, nuncio to Australia, leukemia.
 * Ken Fry, 86, Australian politician, MP for Fraser (1974–1984).
 * Francis García, 49, Mexican transvestite actress and designer, pulmonary thrombosis.
 * Len Keogh, 76, Australian politician, MP for Bowman (1969–1975, 1983–1987).
 * Norman Mashabane, 51, South African politician, former ambassador to Indonesia, car accident.
 * Mehmed Uzun, 54, Turkish novelist, stomach cancer.

11

 * Sri Chinmoy, 76, Indian-born philosopher and guru, heart attack.
 * Ignatius D'Cunha, 83, Indian Bishop Emeritus of Aurangabad.
 * John H. Edwards, 79, British geneticist.
 * David Lee "Tex" Hill, 92, American fighter pilot and flying ace, member of the Flying Tigers.
 * Juca, 78, Portuguese footballer and coach (Sporting, national team).
 * Rauni Mollberg, 78, Finnish film director, leukemia.
 * Pat "Gravy" Patterson, 73, American baseball and football coach at Louisiana Tech, suicide by gunshot.
 * Roy Rosenzweig, 57, American historian, lung cancer.
 * Carlos Salgado, 67, Honduran journalist and comedian, shot.
 * David Salmon, 95, American Athabascan tribal chief, cancer.
 * Werner von Trapp, 91, Austrian-born musician and singer, member of the Trapp Family Singers who inspired The Sound of Music.

12

 * Paulo Autran, 85, Brazilian actor, lung cancer.
 * Kim Beazley Sr., 90, Australian politician, former government minister.
 * Lonny Chapman, 87, American actor (The Birds, Norma Rae, The Hunted), heart disease.
 * Noel Coleman, 87, British actor.
 * Ruby Hooper, 83, American first female major party candidate to run for Governor of North Carolina, 1993 North Carolina Mother of the Year.
 * Kisho Kurokawa, 73, Japanese architect, heart failure.
 * Judy Mazel, 63, American cookbook author (The Beverly Hills Diet), complications from peripheral vascular disease.
 * Rajinder Singh Sarkaria, 91, Indian Supreme Court judge (1973–1981), head of the Sarkaria Commission.
 * Soe Win, 59, Burmese Prime Minister (2004–2007), leukemia.

13

 * Vernon Bellecourt, 75, Native American activist, pneumonia.
 * Andrée de Jongh, 90, Belgian Resistance member, organized the Comet Line POW escape network.
 * Bob Denard, 78, French mercenary.
 * Obaidul Huq, 95, Bangladeshi journalist and filmmaker.
 * Alec Kessler, 40, American basketball player (Georgia Bulldogs, Miami Heat), heart attack.
 * Kribensis, 23, Irish racehorse.
 * Marion Michael, 66, German actress and singer, heart failure.
 * James L. Oakes, 83, American federal judge.
 * Jim Poston, 63, British diplomat, Governor of the Turks & Caicos Islands (2002–2005).

14

 * Salih Saif Aldin, 32, Iraqi correspondent for The Washington Post, shot.
 * Big Moe, 33, American rapper, heart attack.
 * Judy Crichton, 77, American television producer, leukemia.
 * George Neil Jenkins, 92, British scientist.
 * Philippe Malaud, 82, French diplomat and politician.
 * André Maréchal, 90, French optics researcher.
 * Raymond Pellegrin, 82, French actor.
 * Frances Rich, 97, American actress and sculptor, heart attack.
 * Slew o' Gold, 27, American thoroughbred racehorse and Hall of Fame inductee, euthanized.
 * Pentti Snellman, 81, Finnish Olympic athlete.
 * Sigrid Valdis, 72, American actress (Hogan's Heroes), lung cancer.

15

 * Jackie Little, 95, British footballer (Ipswich Town).
 * Bobby Mauch, 86, American child actor and film editor.
 * Bernard Scudder, 53, British poet and translator of Icelandic literature.
 * Robert Shields, 89, American Protestant minister and diarist.
 * Vito Taccone, 67, Italian cyclist, heart attack.
 * Lucius Theus, 85, American US Air Force major-general, Tuskegee Airman.
 * Ernest Withers, 85, American photographer, stroke.

16

 * Rosalio José Castillo Lara, 85, Venezuelan Roman Catholic cardinal.
 * Barbara West Dainton, 96, British RMS Titanic survivor.
 * Ignacy Jeż, 93, Polish Roman Catholic bishop.
 * Deborah Kerr, 86, British actress (From Here to Eternity, Black Narcissus, The King and I), complications of Parkinson's disease.
 * Arbab Jehangir Khan, 72, Pakistani politician, former NWFP Chief Minister, cardiac arrest.
 * Jerzy Markuszewski, 76, Polish theatre director and dissident.
 * Ragnar Pedersen, 65, Norwegian illustrator.
 * Toše Proeski, 26, Macedonian singer, car accident.
 * Steve J. Spears, 56, Australian author, playwright and television writer, cancer.
 * M. A. Hadi, 68, Bangladeshi academic, Vice Chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, brain haemorrhage.

17

 * Billy Berroa, 79, Dominican Spanish broadcaster for New York Mets on WADO, prostate cancer.
 * Joey Bishop, 89, American entertainer, last surviving member of the Rat Pack.
 * Teresa Brewer, 76, American pop and jazz singer, supranuclear palsy.
 * Sammy Duddy, 62, British political activist, member of the Northern Irish loyalist UPRG, heart attack.
 * Germán Espinosa, 69, Colombian writer, cancer.
 * Delphia Hankins, 111, American supercentenarian who was Mississippi's oldest person.
 * Maria Kwaśniewska, 94, Polish javelin thrower, 1936 Olympic bronze medallist.
 * Peter Oliver, Baron Oliver of Aylmerton, 86, British law lord (1986–1992).
 * Aminu Safana, 46, Nigerian MP, heart attack.
 * Taku, 14, American orca at SeaWorld San Antonio.
 * Rüdiger von Wechmar, 83, German diplomat and politician.
 * Robert A. Young, 83, American member of the US House of Representatives from Missouri (1977–1987), liver disease.

18

 * Alan Coren, 69, British writer and satirist, editor of Punch (1978–1987), cancer.
 * William J. Crowe, 82, American Ambassador to UK (1994–1997), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1985–1989), cardiac arrest.
 * Vincent DeDomenico, 92, American inventor of Rice-a-Roni.
 * Lucky Dube, 43, South African reggae musician, shot during carjacking.
 * Anthony R. Michaelis, 91, German science journalist.
 * Nino Rešić, 43, Bosnian singer.
 * Joe Sellwood, 96, Australian who was oldest living AFL/VFL footballer.
 * Mark Tavener, 53, British novelist and comedy writer, cancer.

19

 * Anton Bodem, 82, German Catholic theologian.
 * Randall Forsberg, 64, American nuclear arms control advocate, cancer.
 * Michael Maidens, 20, British footballer for Hartlepool United, car accident.
 * Jan Wolkers, 81, Dutch writer and artist.

20

 * Peg Bracken, 89, American cookbook writer.
 * Ivo Cappo, 55, Papua New Guinean magistrate, stoning.
 * Max McGee, 75, American professional football player (Green Bay Packers), fall from roof.
 * Jim Mitchell, 60, American professional football player (Atlanta Falcons), heart attack.
 * Helend Peep, 97, Estonian actor.
 * Josep Pintat-Solans, 82, Andorran politician and businessman, Mayor of Sant Julià de Lòria (1960-1963) and Prime Minister (1984-1990).
 * Paul Raven, 46, British rock bassist (Ministry, Killing Joke), heart attack.
 * Stine Rossel, 32, Danish archaeologist, hiking accident.
 * Yemi Tella, 56, Nigerian coach of the World Cup–winning under-17 football team, cancer.

21

 * Surinder Singh Bajwa, 52, Indian politician, Deputy Mayor of Delhi, fall after rhesus macaque attack.
 * Ernst Ehrlich, 86, Swiss Jewish philosopher.
 * Don Fellows, 84, American actor.
 * Paul Fox, 56, British guitarist (The Ruts), lung cancer.
 * Lance Hahn, 40, American musician (J Church, Cringer) and journalist, kidney disease.
 * Peter Howard, 81, British Air Vice Marshal, Royal Air Force.
 * Siddiq Khan, 60, Pakistani cricket umpire.
 * R. B. Kitaj, 74, American-born British-based pop artist.
 * Peter Moffatt, 84, British television director (All Creatures Great and Small, Doctor Who).
 * Ileana Sonnabend, 92, Romanian-born American founder of Sonnabend Gallery.
 * Lloyd Wendt, 99, American newspaper editor and publisher.

22

 * Sargon Boulus, 63, Iraqi poet.
 * Ève Curie, 102, French author, daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie.
 * Billy Ray Hamilton, 57, American death row inmate, natural causes.
 * Brendan McWilliams, 63, Irish meteorologist and writer.
 * Soedarpo Sastrosatomo, 87, Indonesian businessman.

23

 * John Ilhan, 42, Australian founder of Crazy John's mobile phone retail chain, suspected heart attack.
 * David Kendall, 89, British mathematician.
 * Lim Goh Tong, 90, Malaysian Chinese billionaire, founder of the Genting Group.
 * Ursula Vaughan Williams, 96, British author and poet, wife of Ralph Vaughan Williams.

24

 * David Adams, 78, Canadian ballet dancer, after long illness.
 * Petr Eben, 78, Czech composer.
 * Peter Harding, 82, British rock climber.
 * Alisher Saipov, 26, Kyrgyz journalist, shot.
 * Masakazu Yoshizawa, 57, Japanese-born American flutist (Memoirs of a Geisha, Jurassic Park), stomach cancer.

25

 * Carole Hillard, 71, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota (1995–2003), pneumonia.
 * Michael England, 89, English cricketer.
 * Puntsagiin Jasrai, 73, Mongolian Prime Minister (1992–1996).
 * Sir Richard Rougier, 75, British judge, lung cancer.
 * Harvey Shapiro, 97, American cellist.

26

 * Jacinta Balbela, 88, Uruguayan judge and jurist, member of the Supreme Court of Justice (1985–1989).
 * Jim Cummins, 62, American correspondent for NBC News, cancer.
 * Nicolae Dobrin, 60, Romanian footballer, lung cancer.
 * Friedman Paul Erhardt, 63, German-born pioneering television chef, "Chef Tell," inspiration for the Swedish Chef, heart failure.
 * Alexandre Feklisov, 93, Russian KGB spymaster.
 * John L. Gaunt, 83, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, congestive heart failure.
 * Arthur Kornberg, 89, American recipient of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, respiratory failure.
 * Lisa Richette, 79, American lawyer, judge of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, lung cancer.
 * Khun Sa, 73, Burmese warlord.
 * Hans Stern, 85, Brazilian jeweler, founder of the company H.Stern.

27

 * Charles Batt, 78, Australian politician.
 * George Washington, 4, Irish race horse, euthanized.
 * Satyen Kappu, 76, Indian Bollywood character actor, cardiac arrest.
 * Moira Lister, 84, South African-born British-based actress.
 * Leslie Orgel, 80, British chemist.
 * Othman Saat, 80, Malaysian politician, former Chief Minister of Johor state.
 * Henk Vredeling, 82, Dutch politician, minister and European Commissioner.

28

 * Bao Zunxin, 70, Chinese intellectual and jailed Tiananmen Square democracy activist, brain hemorrhage.
 * Graham Chadwick, 84, British bishop and anti-apartheid campaigner.
 * Arnold Wilson Cowen, 101, American judge.
 * Takao Fujinami, 74, Japanese politician convicted of accepting bribes.
 * Evelyn Hamann, 65, German actress.
 * Jimmy Makulis, 72, Greek singer.
 * Guido Nicheli, 73, Italian actor, stroke.
 * Stuart Sidey, 99, New Zealand politician, Mayor of Dunedin (1959–1965).
 * Josef Stawinoga, 87, Polish hermit, lived nearly 40 years in tent next to Wolverhampton Ring Road.
 * Porter Wagoner, 80, American country music singer, lung cancer.
 * William George Wilson, 90, American cinematographer.

29

 * Eloise Baza, 54, Guamanian president of the Guam Chamber of Commerce (1984–2007).
 * Jan Borkus, 87, Dutch radio actor.
 * Anthony Clare, 64, Irish psychiatrist and broadcaster.
 * Sam Dana, 104, American football player, complications of infection.
 * Kenneth Franzheim II, 82, American oilman and philanthropist.
 * Jarmila Loukotková, 84, Czech author.
 * Frane Matošić, 89, Croatian football player.
 * Jesse J. McCrary, Jr., 70, American politician, Secretary of State of Florida, (1978–1979), lung cancer.
 * Thomas Joseph Meskill, 79, American politician and federal judge, Governor of Connecticut (1971–1975).
 * David Morris, 83, British painter and actor.
 * Christian d'Oriola, 79, French fencer.
 * La Sa Ra, 91, Indian Tamil novelist.
 * Savo Radusinović, 53, Serbian folk singer.
 * Carrie Rozelle, 69, Canadian-born education activist, wife of Pete Rozelle, cancer.
 * Senkichi Taniguchi, 95, Japanese film director, pneumonia.

30

 * Robert Goulet, 73, American singer and actor (Camelot, Beetlejuice), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
 * Peter Hoagland, 66, American member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska (1989–1995), Parkinson's disease.
 * Izzy Katzman, 90, American sportswriter.
 * Norbert Lynton, 80, German-born British art historian.
 * Srđan Mrkušić, 92, Serbian football goalkeeper.
 * Yisrael Poliakov, 66, Israeli actor, member of comedy group HaGashash HaHiver.
 * Dina Rabinovitch, 44, British journalist, breast cancer.
 * Paul Roche, 91, British poet and translator.
 * Linda S. Stein, 62, American former manager of the Ramones, real estate agent, beaten.
 * Washoe, 42, American-trained African-born chimpanzee believed to be first non-human to acquire human language, influenza.
 * John Woodruff, 92, American Olympic gold medalist in 800m (1936), atrial fibrillation and chronic renal failure.

31

 * Alderbrook, 18, British racehorse, winner of the 1995 Champion Hurdle.
 * John Baker, Jr., 72, American football player and county sheriff.
 * Sir Kenneth Bradshaw, 85, British constitutionalist, Clerk of the House of Commons (1983–1987).
 * Ray Gravell, 56, British rugby union player for Wales.
 * Erdal İnönü, 81, Turkish physicist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1991–1993), leukemia.
 * Bradford Kelleher, 87, American former vice president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, founder of the Met Store.