# 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).
* Temira Pachmuss, 79, Russian-American philologist.
* Winifred Pennington, 91, British limnologist.
* Mathilde Octavie Tafna, 112, Guadeloupean oldest living person of a French possession.
* Fermín Trueba, 92, Spanish road cyclist.

### 2

* Maurice Jacob, 74, French theoretical particle physicist.
* 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.
* Juan Valdivieso, 96, Peruvian football goalkeeper and manager, heart failure.

### 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.
* Gábor Takács, 47, Hungarian Olympic sprint canoer.

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* 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.
* Charlie Ane Jr., 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.

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* 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.
* 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.
* Dick Humbert, 88, American gridiron football player.
* Kei Kumai, 76, Japanese film director, brain hemorrhage.
* Tron Øgrim, 59, Norwegian author and politician.
* Åke Sundborg, 85, Swedish geographer and geomorphologist.

### 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).