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.
July 2007
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.Former cabinet minister Gullage dies at 63. 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. James Street, 13, American voice actor (Strawberry Shortcake, Madeline in Tahiti), fatal head injuries from a skateboarding accident. 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.David Hilberman 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 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 E. 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, car accident. Donald Michie, 83, British researcher in artificial intelligence, 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 Alemão, 23, Brazilian footballer, car accident. 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. Bucko Kilroy, 86, American football player, scout and general manager for the New England Patriots. Paulette Libermann, 87, French mathematician. Edward Lowbury, 93, British bacteriologist. Morton D. Magoffin, 91, American air force colonel and flying ace during World War II. 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. 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, 55, American homeless person and local celebrity in Boston, scooter accident. Allen Clarke, 96, British educationalist. Nigel Dempster, 65, British journalist, progressive supranuclear palsy.The Guardian Pat Fordice, 71, American broadcaster and First Lady of Mississippi (1992–2000), cancer. Joseíto, 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. Michael Readon, 42, American free solo climber, drowned.
14 Edward Boyse, 83, American physician, pneumonia. Eva Crackles, 89, British botanist.Obituaries Florence Eva Crackles 1918–2007 Nan Cross, 79, South African anti-apartheid activist. John Ferguson Sr., 68, Canadian hockey player (Montreal Canadiens) and coach (New York Rangers, Winnipeg Jets), prostate cancer. Bernard Pagel, 77, British astrophysicist, cancer. Russel Timoshenko, 23, NYPD police officer. 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. Carl McNabb, 90, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).Carl McNabb Dmitri Prigov, 66, Russian poet, heart attack. Danielle Georgette Reddé, 95, French resistance fighter in World War II 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).Bart Burns Peter Denning, 57, British cricketer (Somerset), cancer. Grant Forsberg, 47, American actor (Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Bloodhounds of Broadway, My Man Adam).Grant E. Forsberg Teresa Stich-Randall, 79, American opera singer. Notable Brazilians who were killed in TAM Airlines Flight 3054: Márcio, 35, football player and FIFA agent. Júlio Redecker, 51, leader of the Social Democracy Party. Paulo Rogério Amoretty Souza, 60, chairman of SCI, attorney for Corinthians.
18 Wayne A. 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.