The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.
December 2007
1 Rasim Al-Jumaily, 69, Iraqi actor and comedian, kidney failure. Jennifer Davidson, 38, American executive, senior vice president of programming and scheduling for Cartoon Network. Elisabeth Eybers, 92, South African-born poet. Tony Fall, 67, British rally driver and Opel Motorsport Team director, heart attack. Ken McGregor, 78, Australian tennis player, stomach cancer. Danny Newman, 88, American publicist for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, pulmonary fibrosis. Anton Rodgers, 74, British actor. Ivo Rojnica, 92, Croatian-Argentine war crimes suspect, businessman, diplomat, and intelligence agent.
2 Jennifer Alexander, 35, Canadian-born American ballet dancer, traffic collision. Robert Orville Anderson, 90, American founder and former CEO of ARCO. Nelly Beltrán, 82, Argentine actress.Murió Nelly Beltrán Elizabeth Hardwick, 91, American co-founder of The New York Review of Books. Doreen Kartinyeri, 72, Ngarrindjeri elder and historian. David Maybury-Lewis, 78, British anthropologist. Eleonora Rossi Drago, 82, Italian actress, cerebral haemorrhage. Les Shannon, 81, English football player (Liverpool, Burnley) and manager (Bury, Blackpool). Thomas F. Torrance, 94, Scottish theologian.
3 Art Arfons, 81, American jet-car driver and drag racer, three-time world land speed record holder. John Belgrave, 67, New Zealand public servant, Chief Ombudsman (2003–2007), cancer. Jaime Fuster, 66, Puerto Rican politician and jurist, Resident Commissioner (1985–1992), heart attack. Susumu Katsumata, 63, Japanese manga artist and illustrator, melanoma. James Kemsley, 59, Australian cartoonist (Ginger Meggs), motor neurone disease. Keshav Meshram, 70, Indian writer and critic, lung cancer. Lord Bloody Wog Rolo, 62, Australian activist, renal cell carcinoma. Heloneida Studart, 76, Brazilian writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, advocate for women's rights, and political figure.
4 Jake Gaudaur, 87, Canadian Commissioner of the Canadian Football League (1968–1984), cancer. Jay H. Gordon, 77, American politician, Vermont Auditor of Accounts (1965–1969), smoke inhalation. Stanley McArdle, 85, British admiral. Norval Morrisseau, 75, Canadian Ojibwe artist, founder of the Woodlands Style, Parkinson's disease. Pimp C, 33, American rapper (UGK), sleep apnea and accidental overdose. Chip Reese, 56, American professional poker player, heart attack. Herman Rose, 98, American cityscape painter, cancer. Carlos Valdes, 81, Cuban conga player, respiratory failure.
5 Iosif Dan, 57, Romanian revolutionary, lung cancer. Madhukar Vasudev Dhond, 93, Indian literary and art critic. Christine Finn, 78, English actress.Christine Finn (I) (1929–2007) Robin Gloag, 64, British co-founder of Stagecoach Group, traffic collision. Arnold Hardy, 85, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, complications from hip surgery. Robert A. Hawkins, 19, American mass murderer, suicide by gunshot. Andrew Imbrie, 86, American composer. Jillian Kesner-Graver, 58, American actress (Happy Days), Orson Welles historian, staph infection. Alois Kracher, 48, Austrian winemaker, pancreatic cancer. Peter Orton, 64, English television producer, cancer. George Paraskevaides, 91, Cypriot businessman (Joannou & Paraskevaides) and philanthropist. Karlheinz Stockhausen, 79, German composer. Tony Tenser, 87, British film producer. Harry Thomson Jones, 82, British racehorse trainer. Rene Villanueva, 53, Filipino playwright and author, stroke. John Winter, 83, Australian athlete, 1948 Olympics high jump gold medalist.
6 Wolfgang Assbrock, 55, German politician, member of the CDU and Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. Mike Donkin, 56, British reporter and journalist (BBC News), cancer. Katy French, 24, Irish model, suspected overdose. Jacques Hébert, 84, Canadian politician, Senator (1983–1998). John Hill, 95, British politician, Conservative MP for South Norfolk (1955–1974). John Pilkington Hudson, 97, British horticulturist and bomb disposal expert. Gennadi Kinko, 65, Soviet Estonian rower. Murray Klein, 84, American businessman, co-owner of New York City's Zabar's food emporium, lung cancer. Shelley Rohde, 74, British journalist and author. Ken Southworth, 89, American animator (Scooby-Doo, Q. T. Hush, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe), stroke. András Szőllősy, 86, Hungarian composer.
7 Noel Forster, 75, British artist. Fuad Hassan, 78, Indonesian Minister of Education (1985–1993), cancer. John Hollowbread, 73, British football goalkeeper (Tottenham Hotspur, Southampton). Sartono Kartodirdjo, 86, Indonesian historian.
8 Donald Burton, 73, British actor, husband of actress Carroll Baker, emphysema. Ioan Fiscuteanu, 70, Romanian actor, colon cancer. Dmitry Grigorieff, 89, American Episcopalian prelate, dean emeritus of Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Washington, D.C., cardiac arrest. Roger King, 63, American TV executive (King World, CBS), developed Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy! and The Oprah Winfrey Show, stroke. Gerardo García Pimentel, 24, Mexican crime reporter, shot. Al Scaduto, 79, American cartoonist (They'll Do It Every Time).
9 John Stuart Archer, 64, British chemical engineer and academic administrator. István Borzsák, 92, Hungarian classical scholar.István Borzsák Edward Dutkiewicz, 46, British artist. Wayne Howard, 58, American comic book artist (Charlton Comics), heart attack. Apichet Kittikorncharoen, 25, Thai singer, brain injury. Jim Langley, 78, British footballer for England, Fulham, and QPR, heart attack. Matthew J. Murray, 24, American spree killer, suicide by gunshot. Elspeth Rostow, 90, American academic, University of Texas dean, widow of Walt Whitman Rostow, heart attack. Kurt Schmied, 81, Austrian footballer, former member of the national team. Thore Skogman, 76, Swedish musician, stroke. Rafael Sperafico, 26, Brazilian racing driver, race crash. J. Fife Symington Jr., 97, American diplomat to Trinidad and Tobago, complications of old age. Gordon Zahn, 84, American Catholic peace activist, co-founder of Pax Christi USA, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
10 Ashleigh Aston Moore, 26, American-born Canadian actress (Now and Then). George Morris, 76, American football player (Georgia Tech, San Francisco 49ers), apparent heart attack. Aqsa Parvez, 16, Canadian allegedly killed for refusing to wear hijab, strangled. Jerry Ricks, 67, American blues guitarist. James Roxburgh, 86, British prelate, Bishop of Barking. Gordon Samuels, 84, Australian governor of New South Wales (1996–2001). Henrietta Yurchenco, 91, American folklorist.
11 Allan Bérubé, 61, American gay historian and writer, complications from stomach ulcers. José Luis Calva, 38, Mexican writer, serial killer and cannibal, suicide by hanging. Yuriy Chervochkin, 22, Russian opposition activist, beating. Freddie Fields, 84, American Hollywood agent, producer and studio executive, lung cancer. Pat Hannigan, 71, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers). Christie Hennessy, 62, Irish singer and songwriter, cancer. *Nicholas Kao Se Tseien, 110, Chinese supercentenarian, world's oldest Catholic priest. Carl Ludwig, Archduke of Austria, 89, Austrian son of Emperor Charles I of Austria. Ottomar Pinto, 76, Brazilian politician, Governor of Roraima (2004–2007), heart attack. Tatsuzō Shimaoka, 88, Japanese potter, living national treasure, acute liver failure. Terry Yates, 57, American biologist, discovered source of hantavirus, brain cancer.
12 Basuki, 51, Indonesian comedian. Ted Corbitt, 88, American ultramarathon runner, respiratory complications. Shawn Eckardt, 40, American bodyguard and businessman, conspired to assault Nancy Kerrigan, natural causes. Josep Guinovart, 80, Spanish artist. François al-Hajj, 54, Lebanese Army general, roadside bomb. Rosemarie Koczy, 72, Holocaust survivor, German artist and teacher known for her many works dealing with the Holocaust. Márcio Montarroyos, 59, Brazilian jazz trumpeter, lung cancer.Márcio Montarroyos Jim Nevill, 80, British police officer, former head of Scotland Yard anti-terrorist squad. Alfons Maria Stickler, 97, Austrian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Ike Turner, 76, American R&B musician and record producer, ex-husband of singer Tina Turner, cocaine overdose. Schuster Vance, 47, American actor, cancer. Lee Vincent, 91, American bassist and radio personality (WILK), heart failure. Yuli Vorontsov, 78, Russian diplomat, former ambassador to the United Nations and United States.
13 Philippe Clay, 80, French singer and actor. Fuat Deniz, 40, Swedish-Assyrian sociologist, stabbed. Wiggo Hanssen, 84, Norwegian Olympic speed skater. Laura Huxley, 96, American musician and author, widow of Aldous Huxley, cancer. Jan Jakub Kotík, 35, Czech artist and rock drummer, cancer.Zemřel výtvarník Jan Kotík, Masarykův potomek Alain Payet, 60, French adult film director. Robert Russin, 93, American sculptor. Floyd Westerman, 71, American musician, actor (Dances With Wolves, Walker, Texas Ranger, Hidalgo) and Native American activist, leukemia.
14 Issam Al Zaim, 67, Syrian economist, former Minister of Industry, heart attack. Hank Kaplan, 87, American boxing historian, cancer. Maria Lauterbach, 20, American marine and murder victim. Cuddles Marshall, 82, American baseball player (New York Yankees). Frank Morgan, 73, American saxophonist. Johnny Science, 52, American drag king, heart failure.1984 – 1997 Johnny Science Emory Sekaquaptewa, 78, American indigenous Hopi anthropologist. Krishna Srinivas, 94, Indian poet and writer.Krishna Srinivas dead Jan Švéda, 76, Czech Olympic rower.Jan Švéda
15 John Berg, 58, American actor, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. Jean Bottéro, 93, French Assyriologist. St. Clair Bourne, 64, American documentary filmmaker (Half Past Autumn), pulmonary embolism. Julia Carson, 69, American member of the House of Representatives from Indiana since 1997, lung cancer. Gerard Fairtlough, 77, British biochemist and entrepreneur. Andrzeja Górska, 91, Polish nun, abbess of the Grey Ursulines. Ryan Gracie, 33, Brazilian martial artist. Clem Jones, 89, Australian Lord Mayor of Brisbane (1961–1975), pneumonia. Matjaž Klopčič, 73, Slovenian film director. Diane Middlebrook, 68, American biographer and poet, cancer. Caetano N'Tchama, 52, Bissau-Guinean politician, Prime Minister (2000-2001)."Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau" Giuseppe Rinaldi, 88, Italian actor and voice actor. Tejeshwar Singh, 60, Indian publisher, newsreader and theatre activist, cardiac arrest. Ace Vergel, 55, Filipino actor, cardiac arrest. Jonathan Witchell, 33, British BBC reporter for Radio Kent.
16 Joe Ethridge, 79, American football player (Green Bay Packers). Dan Fogelberg, 56, American singer-songwriter ("Same Old Lang Syne"), prostate cancer. Harald Genzmer, 98, German composer of classical music. Ismail Gulgee, 81, Pakistani painter, strangled. Serge Vinçon, 58, French politician.
17 Don Chevrier, 69, Canadian sportscaster. Joel Dorn, 65, American jazz, pop and R&B record producer, heart attack. Jim Holstein, 77, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers). Tom Murphy, 83, American politician, speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives (1973–2002), complications of a stroke. Celestino Piatti, 85, Swiss graphic artist, painter and book designer. Marnesba Tackett, 99, American civil rights activist. Jack Zander, 99, American animator (Tom and Jerry).
18 Walter Bowart, 68, American co-founder of East Village Other, colon cancer. Gerald Le Dain, 83, Canadian jurist, Justice of the Supreme Court. Carl Graff-Wang, 64, Norwegian Olympic handball player.