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.
April 2007
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 Chraïbi, 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 P. 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 Sivalingam Arumugam, 59, Malaysian politician, heart attack. Jagjit Singh Chohan, 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.Brian Fahey Composer, big band arranger and 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). 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.Liberia: Margaret Thompson Died of 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. 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. Mariano Gonzalvo, 85, Spanish captain of FC Barcelona and international footballer for Spain. Johnny Hart, 76, American cartoonist (B.C., The Wizard of Id), stroke. Win Hickey, 94, American socialite, politician, First Lady of Wyoming and one of the first woman to serve in the Wyoming Senate. 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.Asad Amanat Ali dies of 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 Egon Bondy, 77, Czech philosopher and poet. A. J. 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. 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. Sidney Gordon, 89, Scottish-born Hongkonger businessman. 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 Mohammed Awad, Iraqi politician, member of the Council of Representatives, bombing.Insurgents claim Baghdad attack Kelsie B. Harder, 84, American name expert, congestive heart failure. Len Hill, 65, British cricketer for Glamorgan and footballer for Newport County. James 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.The Hon. Neil Edward William Pickard (1929–2007) 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 N. 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. J. Alan Thomas, 56, American actor. 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. Gaétan 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, shot. Seung-Hui Cho, 23, South Korean mass murderer and student, suicide by gunshot. Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, 49, Canadian instructor of French, shot. Kevin Granata, 45, American associate professor of engineering, shot. Liviu Librescu, 76, Romanian-born professor of engineering, Holocaust survivor, shot. G. V. Loganathan, 50, Indian-born professor of engineering, shot.
17 Nair Bello, 75, Brazilian actress, heart failure. Archie Campbell, 65, Canadian jurist. Kitty Carlisle, 96, American actress (A Night at the Opera), TV personality (To Tell the Truth) and singer, heart failure. 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.