Английская Википедия:Deaths in May 2007

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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

May 2007

1

• Wiley Harker, 92, American actor (The Straight Story, City Heat, Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead).
• Winifred Pennington, 91, British limnologist.
• Mathilde Octavie Tafna, 112, Guadeloupean oldest living person of a French possession.

2

• Phillip Carter, 44, British businessman, honorary VP of Chelsea F.C., helicopter crash.
• Abdul Sabur Farid Kohistani, 54-55, Afghan legislator and Prime Minister (1992), assassination by gunshot.
• Brad McGann, 43, New Zealand film director (In My Father's Den), cancer.

3

• Alex Agase, 85, Iranian-born American football coach.
• J. Robert Bradley, 87, American gospel singer, diabetes.
• Leonard Eron, 87, American psychologist, congestive heart failure.
• Pat O'Shea, 74, Irish writer.
• Wally Schirra, 84, American astronaut in Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo projects, heart attack.
• "Rose Tombe", Sudanese celebrity goat, asphyxiation.
• Knock Yokoyama, 75, Japanese comedian and politician, throat cancer.
• Mamadou Zaré, 42, Ivorian footballer.

4

• Russell W. Kruse, 85, American auctioneer, stroke.
• Jeremias Nguenha, 35, Mozambican political musician who sang in Shangaan.
• José Antonio Roca, 78, Mexican football player and manager.

5

• Prince Abdul-Majid bin Abdul-Aziz, 64-65, Saudi politician, governor of Mecca.
• José Aponte de la Torre, 65, Puerto Rican mayor, respiratory complications.
• Tom Hutchinson, 65, American football wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns 1964 NFL champions.
• Theodore Maiman, 79, American physicist who built the first laser, systemic mastocytosis.
• Edwin H. Simmons, 85, American Marine Corps historian.
• Gusti Wolf, 95, Austrian actress.
• John Zamet, 74, British periodontist.

6

• Alvin Batiste, 74, American jazz musician, heart attack.
• Carey Bell, 70, American blues harmonica player, heart failure.
• Lesley Blanch, 102, British writer and fashion editor.
• Enéas Carneiro, 68, Brazilian politician, leukemia.
• Tamás Gábor, 75, Hungarian Olympic fencer.
• Curtis Harrington, 80, American film director.
• Kazuo Kitamura, 80, Japanese actor (Tora! Tora! Tora!, Black Rain, Shinobi: Heart Under Blade), pneumonia.
• Maurice Marsac, 92, French actor (King of Kings, The Jerk, Robert Kennedy and His Times), cardiac arrest.
• Đorđe Novković, 63, Croatian songwriter.
• Bernard Weatherill, Baron Weatherill, 86, English Speaker of the British House of Commons (1983–1992), after short illness.

7

• Isabella Blow, 48, British fashion journalist and stylist, suicide by poisoning.
• Quentin Brooks, 86, American Olympic shooter.
• Fulton Burley, 84, Canadian performer, heart failure.
• Diego Corrales, 29, American world champion boxer, motorcycle accident.
• Shirl Conway, 90, American actress.
• George Dawson, 45, British politician, Northern Ireland Assembly member, cancer.
• Donald Ginsberg, 73, American physicist, melanoma.
• Tomasi Kulimoetoke II, 88, Wallisian King of Wallis ('Uvea).
• Raffi Lavie, 70, Israeli artist, pancreatic cancer.
• Emma Lehmer, 100, Russian-born American mathematician.
• Sonny Myers, 83, American professional wrestler.
• Octavian Paler, 81, Romanian writer and journalist, heart attack.
• Nicholas Worth, 69, American actor (Darkman, Heartbreak Ridge, Night Court), heart failure.
• Yahweh ben Yahweh, 71, American religious cult leader (Nation of Yahweh) and convicted felon, prostate cancer.

8

• Mark Burns, 71, English actor (Exodus, House of the Living Dead, By the Sword Divided), cancer.
• Philip R. Craig, 74, American mystery writer.
• Velma Dunn, 88, American diver who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics, stroke.
• Abdullah al Faisal, 85, Saudi prince, writer and businessman, after long illness.
• David Farquhar, 79, New Zealand composer.
• John Henry, 68, British toxicologist, haemorrhage.
• René Lamps, 91, French politician.
• Jagdish Narain Sapru, 74, Indian former chairman of ITC Limited and BOC India.
• Carson Whitsett, 62, American composer, musician and record producer, brain tumor.

9

• Donald Alexander, 79, Scottish medical researcher.
• Charley Ane, 76, American football player (Detroit Lions), pneumonia.
• Alfred Chandler, 88, American economic historian.
• Gino Pariani, 79, American soccer player (1950 World Cup), bone cancer.
• George Seddon, 80, Australian environmental scholar.
• Dwight Wilson, 106, Canadian centenarian, second-to-last surviving World War I veteran.
• Philip Workman, 53, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

10

• John Lattimer, 92, American urologist who developed a cure for renal tuberculosis.
• Sir Oliver Millar, 84, British Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures (1972–1988) and Director of the Royal Collection (1987–1988).
• Robert Oelman, 97, American chief executive of NCR Corporation (1962–1973), co-founder of Wright State University.
• Chuck Riley, 66, American voice actor.

11

• Norman Frank, 82, American producer and political strategist.
• Bernard Gordon, 88, American screenwriter, named on the Hollywood blacklist, cancer.
• Stanley Holden, 79, British ballet dancer, complications from heart problems and colon cancer.
• Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe, 71, Nigerian Igbo highlife musician.
• Malietoa Tanumafili II, 94, Samoan politician, head of state.

12

• Mullah Dadullah, 41, Afghan militant, Taliban military commander, shot.
• Teddy Infuhr, 70, American child actor.
• Kai Johansen, 66, Danish footballer (Greenock Morton F.C. and Rangers), cancer.
• Henri Klein, 87, French Olympic athlete.
• Edy Vásquez, 23, Honduran footballer, car accident.

13

• Alexander Buchanan Campbell, 92, Scottish architect.
• Chen Xiaoxu, 41, Chinese actress (Dream of the Red Mansion) and Buddhist nun, breast cancer.
• Mendel Jackson Davis, 64, American politician, U.S. Representative from South Carolina (1971–1981), emphysema.
• Gomer Hodge, 63, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Luis María Mendía, 82, Argentine naval officer.
• Kate Webb, 64, New Zealand journalist and foreign correspondent, bowel cancer.

14

• Orlando Bobo, 33, American-born Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers), heart and liver failure.
• Ülo Jõgi, 86, Estonian anti-communist.
• Sir Edward Jones, 70, British Army general, Black Rod (1996–2001), heart attack.
• Nancy McDonald, 72, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives (1984–1995), ovarian cancer.
• Aaron McMillan, 30, Australian classical pianist, bone cancer.
• Jean Saubert, 65, American dual medalist in slalom (1964 Winter Olympics), breast cancer.
• Sir Colin St John Wilson, 85, British architect, designer of the British Library.

15

• Giorgio Cavaglieri, 95, Italian-born American architect, founder of New York City's urban preservation movement.
• Jerry Falwell, 73, American minister, television evangelist, and conservative activist, founder of the Moral Majority, cardiac arrhythmia.
• Karen Hess, 88, American culinary historian and author, stroke.
• Yolanda King, 51, American activist and actress, daughter and first-born child of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
• Duncan Macrae, 92, British rugby football player, (Scotland Rugby Union Team).
• Angus McBride, 76, British illustrator.
• Lauren Terrazzano, 39, American journalist, chronicled her battle with cancer, lung cancer.

16

• Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin, 91, American creole accordionist.
• Dame Mary Douglas, 86, British social anthropologist.
• Gohar Gasparyan, 83, Armenian soprano opera singer.
• Allan Hird, Sr., 88, Australian footballer and academic, President of Essendon Football Club (1969–1975), Victorian Director-general of Education.
• Peter Marner, 71, British cricketer, youngest player to represent the Lancashire County Cricket Club.
• C. Timothy O'Meara, 64, American film editor (The Rose, Hoosiers, Conan the Barbarian).
• Terry Ryan, 60, American writer (The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio), cancer.

17

• Lloyd Alexander, 83, American author (The Chronicles of Prydain), cancer.
• Petro Balabuyev, 76, Ukrainian aircraft designer, including world's largest aeroplane, the An-225.
• Don Burton, 87, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1976–1984).
• Egmont Foregger, 84, Austrian jurist, official and politician, severe illness.
• John Gonzaga, 74, American football player with the San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions and Denver Broncos.
• Kawika Kapahulehua, 76, American captain of the Hokulea's first voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti.
• Sir John Nicholls, 80, British air marshal.
• Eugen Weber, 82, Romanian-born American historian, pancreatic cancer.
• Bill Wight, 85, American MLB pitcher and scout.
• Wiktor Zin, 82, Polish architect and graphic artist.

18

• Roy De Forest, 77, American artist and professor at University of California, Davis.
• Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, 74, French physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1991.
• Cornelius R. Hager, 93, American educator, President of Asbury University.
• Saud Memon, 44, Pakistani businessman implicated in the murder of Daniel Pearl, tuberculosis and meningitis.
• Les Schwab, 89, American tire tycoon.
• Mika Špiljak, 90, Croatian politician, chairman of the Collective Presidency of Yugoslavia (1983–1984).
• Yoyoy Villame, 69, Filipino musician and comedian, heart attack.

19

• Derek Cooper, 94, British army officer and refugee campaigner.
• Miroslav Deronjić, 52, Bosnian Serb politician and convicted war criminal, natural causes.
• Willie Ferguson, 67, South African racing driver.
• Jack Findlay, 72, Australian Grand Prix motorcycle racer.
• Frank Guida, 84, Italian-born American record producer.
• Ron Hall, 43, American football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Detroit Lions).
• Marian Radke-Yarrow, 89, American researcher in child psychology, leukemia.
• Scott Thorkelson, 49, Canadian member of the House of Commons (1988–1993), heart attack.
• Michel Visi, 52, Vanuatuan Catholic bishop.
• Hans Wollschläger, 72, German author and translator.
• Carl Wright, 75, American actor (Big Momma's House, Barbershop, Soul Food), cancer.

20

• Bobby Ash, 82, British-born Canadian television host (The Uncle Bobby Show), heart attack.
• Dame Jean Herbison, 84, New Zealand academic, first N.Z. female chancellor (University of Canterbury, 1979–1984).
• Baruch Kimmerling, 67, Israeli sociologist and historian.
• Valentina Leontyeva, 84, Russian television presenter, one of the first television presenters in the Soviet Union.Шаблон:Cn
• Sir George Macfarlane, 91, British scientist and engineer.
• Tod H. Mikuriya, 73, American psychiatrist and medical marijuana advocate, cancer.
• Stanley Miller, 77, American chemist and biologist, known for the Miller–Urey experiment into the origins of life, heart failure.
• William Peters, 85, American journalist and documentarian of race issues, Alzheimer's disease.
• Guram Sharadze, 66, Georgian philologist and politician, shot.
• Norman Von Nida, 93, Australian golfer.
• Ben Weisman, 85, American musician and songwriter, wrote nearly 60 songs for singer Elvis Presley, stroke.

21

• Clark Adams, 37, American secular humanist leader and activist.
• Frank Gay, 86, American businessman, senior corporate aide to Howard Hughes.
• Peter Hayes, 58, Australian lawyer.
• María Hortensia de Herrera de Lacalle, 98, Uruguayan politician, mother of ex-President Luis Alberto Lacalle.
• Bruno Mattei, 75, Italian film director.
• Kenneth Sokoloff, 54, American economist who examined factor endowment, liver cancer.
• Sakorn Yang-keawsot, 85, Thai puppeteer, lung illness.

22

• Fannie Lee Chaney, 84, American civil rights activist.
• Frank E. Maestrone, 84, American diplomat, ambassador to Kuwait (1976–1979), infection.
• Jef Planckaert, 73, Belgian cyclist.
• Pemba Doma Sherpa, 36, Nepali mountaineer, two-time summiter of Mt. Everest, fall from Lhotse.
• Art Stevens, 92, American animator, film director and screenwriter (The Fox and the Hound, The Rescuers, The Black Cauldron), heart attack.

23

• Clyde Robert Bulla, 93, American children's author.
• Kei Kumai, 76, Japanese film director, brain hemorrhage.
• Tron Øgrim, 59, Norwegian author and politician.

24

• Buddy Childers, 81, American jazz trumpeter, cancer.
• Les Harmer, 86, New Zealand cricket umpire.
• Bill Johnston, 85, Australian cricketer, member of the 1948 Invincibles.
• Philip Mayer Kaiser, 93, American diplomat, ambassador to Senegal and Mauritania, Hungary, and Austria, pneumonia.
• Norm Maleng, 68, American prosecutor (King County, Washington), cardiac arrest.
• Christopher Newton, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Minako Oba, 77, Japanese author.
• David Renton, Baron Renton, 98, British politician and aristocrat, oldest peer in the House of Lords.

25

• Arwon, 33, New Zealand-born racehorse, longest surviving Melbourne Cup winner, euthanasia.
• Laurie Bartram, 49, American actress (Friday the 13th) and ballet dancer, pancreatic cancer.
• Victor Firea, 84, Romanian Olympic athlete.
• Charles Nelson Reilly, 76, American actor (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, All Dogs Go to Heaven), Tony winner (1962), complications from pneumonia.
• Kaspar Schiesser, 91, Swiss Olympic runner.
• Sun Yuanliang, 103, Chinese-born General with the Kuomintang, exiled in Taiwan.
• Bartholomew Ulufa'alu, 56, Solomon Islander politician, Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (1997–2000), after long illness.

26

• Sir James Baird, 92, British army general.
• James Beck, 77, American art historian, founder of ArtWatch International,.
• Gene Gibson, 82, American basketball player and coach (Texas Tech University), complications from surgery.
• Marek Krejčí, 26, Slovak footballer, car accident.
• Phyllis Sellick, 95, British pianist.
• Aubrey Singer, 80, British television executive, head of BBC Two (1974–1978).
• Khalil al-Zahawi, 60-61, Iraqi calligrapher, shot.

27

• Ron Archer, 73, Australian Test cricketer, lung cancer.
• Edward Behr, 81, British journalist and author.
• Sam Garrison, 65, American lawyer, defended President Richard Nixon in impeachment hearings in 1974, leukemia.
• Marquise Hill, 24, American football player (New England Patriots), drowning.
• Jack Kerr, 96, New Zealand cricket player, Chairman and President of New Zealand Cricket.
• Wiley Mayne, 90, American politician, U.S. Representative from Iowa (1966–1974), cardiopulmonary incident.
• Howard Porter, 58, American basketball player (Bulls, Knicks, Pistons), injuries sustained from beating.
• Izumi Sakai, 40, Japanese singer (Zard), cerebral contusion.
• Percy Sonn, 57, South African cricket player, President of the International Cricket Council, complications after surgery.
• Gretchen Wyler, 75, American actress (Private Benjamin, Dallas, The Devil's Brigade) and animal rights activist, complications from breast cancer.
• Ed Yost, 87, American inventor of the modern hot air balloon.

28

• Barbara Cox Anthony, 84, American heiress, after long illness.
• Harold C. Helgeson, 75, American geochemist, lung cancer.
• Jörg Immendorff, 61, German painter, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Phyllis Koehn, 84, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
• David Lane, 68, American white supremacist leader and author.
• John Macquarrie, 87, British theologian, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford (1970–1986).
• Toshikatsu Matsuoka, 62, Japanese politician, Minister of Agriculture, suicide by hanging.
• Parren Mitchell, 85, American politician, U.S. Representative from Maryland (1971–1987), co-founder of Congressional Black Caucus, pneumonia.
• Ethel Mutharika, 63, Zimbabwe-born First Lady of Malawi, cancer.

29

• Dave Balon, 68, Canadian ice hockey player, multiple sclerosis.
• Tony Bastable, 62, British television presenter (Magpie), DJ and independent producer, pneumonia.
• Dame Lois Browne-Evans, 79, Bermudian politician.
• Donald Johanos, 79, American conductor.
• Norman Kaye, 80, Australian actor and musician, Alzheimer's disease.
• Posteal Laskey Jr., 69, American convicted murderer, commonly believed to be the serial killer called the "Cincinnati Strangler".
• Tahir Mirza, 70, Pakistani journalist and former editor of Dawn, lung cancer.
• Folole Muliaga, 44, Samoan–NZ teacher whose oxygen machine failed after power cut for unpaid account, heart and lung disease.
• Michael Seaton, 84, British astronomer and physicist.
• Wallace Seawell, 90, American photographer and filmmaker, age-related causes.
• John Stanning junior, 87, English cricketer.

30

• Jean-Claude Brialy, 74, French actor and director, cancer.
• Kieran Carey, 74, Irish hurler.
• Mark Harris, 84, American author (Bang the Drum Slowly), Alzheimer's disease.
• Preston Martin, 83, American banker, Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (1982–1986), cancer.
• William Morris Meredith, Jr., 88, American poet and Pulitzer Prize winner.
• Yevgeni Mishakov, 66, Russian ice hockey player.

31

• George Bragg, 81, American conductor and founder of the Texas Boys Choir.
• Norman Fletcher, 89, American architect.
• Clifford Scott Green, 84, American jurist, Federal Court judge.
• David J. Lawson, 77, American minister, bishop of the United Methodist Church, after long illness.
• Fathia Nkrumah, 75, Egyptian–born Ghanaian First Lady, after long illness.
• Charles Remington, 85, American zoologist, known for studies of butterflies and moths.
• Alexander Tubelsky, 66, Russian academic, President of Association of Democratic Schools, stroke.
• Jim Williams, 92, American basketball coach (Colorado State University).