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Deaths in June 2007

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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2007.

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  • 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. (Czech)
  • 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, 69, Brazilian poet ("O Mar de Permeio"), 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, apparent drug overdose.

    • 2

  • Sandy Barr, 69, American wrestler, heart attack.
  • Marion Francis Forst, 96, American oldest Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.
  • Enrico Garbuglia, 107, Italian soldier, one of the last eight veterans of World War I.
  • Steve Gilliard, 42, American blogger, heart and kidney failure.
  • Kentaro Haneda, 58, Japanese pianist, composer and arranger, liver cancer.
  • 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. (Hungarian)
  • 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.
  • 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. (Dutch)
  • 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

  • Warren Bradley, 73, British footballer who played for Manchester United and England.
  • 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

  • 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 NHL hockey player for the New York Rangers and 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.

    • 10

  • August H. Auer, Jr., 67, American-born New Zealand atmospheric scientist and meteorologist, heart attack.
  • George Burrarrawanga, 50, Australian singer (Warumpi Band).
  • 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.
  • Ann Boddington, 77, Canadian academic.
  • 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 wife of evangelist Billy Graham.
  • 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 in the United States Air Force, heart failure.
  • Jacques Simonet, 43, Belgian politician and mayor of Anderlecht, heart attack. (Dutch)
  • 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 for Janis Joplin and 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, 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.
  • Jay Newman, 59, Canadian philosopher, cancer.
  • Abilio Jose Osorio 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.

    • 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 and jazz musician.
  • El Fary, 69, Spanish singer, lung cancer.
  • Terry Hoeppner, 59, American football coach for Indiana University, brain tumor.
  • 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 (Schwarzwaldklinik), after long illness. (German)

    • 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. (German)
  • 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 character actor.
  • 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, wife of wrestler Chris Benoit, murder by strangulation.
  • Daniel Benoit, 7, Son of Chris Benoit and Nancy Benoit, murder by strangulation.
  • Luciano Fabro, 70, Italian artist and theorist in Arte Povera movement, heart attack.
  • Lenar Gilmullin, 22, Russian footballer (FC Rubin Kazan), motorcycle accident. (Russian)
  • 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. (Dutch)
  • Guy Vander Jagt, 75, United States Representative from Michigan (1966–1993), pancreatic cancer.

    • 23

  • Rod Beck, 38, American Major League Baseball pitcher.
  • 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, 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 Liege, 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. (Danish)
  • Joy Simonson, 88, American feminist, complications of pneumonia.
  • 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. (French)
  • J. Fred Duckett, 74, American sports announcer and teacher, leukemia.
  • Jeeva, 43, Indian director and cinematographer.
  • Mahasti, 61, 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).
  • 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.
  • Fasal al Gaood, Iraqi former governor of Al Anbar, Sunni tribal sheikh prominent in alliance against Al Qaeda, suicide bomb victim.
  • Lucien Hervé, 96, Hungarian-born French photographer, after long illness. (Hungarian)
  • Bobby Hussey, 67, American basketball coach at Virginia Tech and Davidson College.
  • Dame Thea King, 81, British clarinetist.
  • Patrick Knight, 39, American convicted double murderer, execution by lethal injection.
  • Luigi Meneghello, 85, Italian writer and essayist.
  • Joey Sadler, 92, New Zealand All Blacks rugby union player.
  • Malcolm Slesser, 80, British scientist and mountaineer, heart attack while hillwalking.

    • 27

  • Patrick Allotey, 28, Ghanaian footballer for Feyenoord and Ghana. (Dutch)
  • 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. (Russian)
  • Silas Rhodes, 91, American educator, founder of the School of Visual Arts.
  • Dragutin Tadijanović, 101, Croatian author.

    • 28

  • Inez Baskin, 91, American journalist, covered the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
  • Leo Burmester, 63, American actor, 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 NY Times executive 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. (Slovenian)
  • 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.

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