# Deaths in December 2007
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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

* Rassim al-Jumaili, 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 O. Anderson, 90, American founder and former CEO of ARCO.
* Nelly Beltrán, 82, Argentine actress.
* 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

* Chad "Pimp C" Butler, 33, American rap artist (UGK), sleep apnea and accidental overdose.
* 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.
* 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

* M. V. Dhond, 93, Indian literary and art critic.
* Christine Finn, 78, English actress.
* 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.
* Dan Iosif, 57, Romanian revolutionary, lung cancer.
* 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 Szöllősy, 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.
* 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), accidental heroin overdose.
* 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 Yurchenko, 91, American folklorist.

### 11

* Allan Berube, 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* Clarence Marshall, 82, American Major League Baseball pitcher (New York Yankees).
* Frank Morgan, 73, American saxophonist.
* Johnny Science, 52, American drag king, heart failure.
* Emory Sekaquaptewa, 78, American indigenous Hopi anthropologist.
* Krishna Srinivas, 94, Indian poet and writer.
* Jan Švéda, 76, Czech Olympic rower.

### 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).
* 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 in the National Football League (NFL).
* 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.
* Samuel Karlin, 83, American mathematician, heart attack.
* Jack Linkletter, 70, American television host, son of Art Linkletter, lymphoma.
* Motiur Rahman, 58, Indian politician, Rashtriya Janata Dal member of the Rajya Sabha since 2005, heart attack.
* Bill Strauss, 60, American writer and satirist, founder of political comedy group Capitol Steps, pancreatic cancer.

### 19

* Frank Capra, Jr., 73, American movie studio executive, son of director Frank Capra, prostate cancer.
* James Costigan, 81, American actor and television writer (Eleanor and Franklin), heart failure.
* Desmond C. Derbyshire, 83, British linguist.
* John A. Garraty, 87, American historian, heart failure.
* Albert L. O'Neil, 87, American politician, Boston City Council (1971–1999).

### 20

* Tommy Byrne, 87, American baseball player.
* Jeanne Carmen, 77, American actress and pin-up girl, lymphoma.
* Arabella Churchill, 58, British founder of Children's World charity, granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill, pancreatic cancer.
* Russell Coffey, 109, American serviceman, one of three known remaining American veterans of World War I.
* Lorne Davis, 77, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens) and scout (Edmonton Oilers).
* Ted Finn, 68, Canadian intelligence official, director of CSIS (1984–1987).
* John Gibbs, 90, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Coventry (1976–1985).
* Peer Hultberg, 72, Danish author and psychoanalyst.
* Geoffrey Martin, 79, British historian and Keeper of the Public Records (1982–1988).
* Lydia Mendoza, 91, American Tejano music singer and guitarist.
* Raphaël Nguyễn Văn Diệp, 81, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, coadjutor bishop of Vĩnh Long (1975–2007).
* Robbie Williams, 45, Australian politician, first Indigenous Australian Brisbane City councillor, former ATSIC commissioner, heart attack.

### 21

* Adolfas Akelaitis, 97, Lithuanian Olympic athlete.
* Carol Bly, 77, American author and poet, ovarian cancer.
* Kex Gorin, 56, British drummer (Magnum), kidney cancer.
* Ken Hendricks, 66, American contractor and billionaire, fall from roof.
* Hans Imhoff, 85, German businessman, founder of Imhoff Chocolate Museum in Cologne.
* Jack Lamabe, 71, American Major League Baseball pitcher.
* Ken Lee, 75, Chinese-born Australian businessman, owner and co-founder of Bing Lee superstores, cancer.
* Saadia Marciano, 57, Israeli Black Panthers leader, member of the Knesset.
* Norton Nascimento, 45, Brazilian actor, heart failure.
* Jeani Read, 60, Canadian journalist, cancer.
* Battista Serioli, 107, Italian World War I veteran.

### 22

* Joe Ames, 86, American singer (Ames Brothers), heart attack.
* Philip Bednall, 76, Australian cricketer.
* Chrysostomos I, 80, Cypriot prelate, Archbishop of Cyprus (1977–2006).
* Sir Charles Court, 96, Australian politician, Premier of Western Australia (1974–1982).
* Andy Davis, 80, American football player (Washington Redskins).
* Sylvan Fox, 79, American journalist, complications from pneumonia.
* Andrew Glyn, 64, British economist.
* Julien Gracq, 97, French writer.
* Lucien Teisseire, 88, French road bicycle racer.
* Marvin Wachman, 90, American historian, President of Lincoln University and Temple University, heart failure.
* Ruth Wallis, 87, American singer-songwriter, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
* Takashi Yamamoto, 58, Japanese politician.

### 23

* Dale Baird, 71, American thoroughbred horse trainer, traffic collision.
* Donald Chant, 79, Canadian biologist and environmental advocate.
* Evelyn Gandy, 87, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi (1976–1980).
* W.F. Ganong, 83, American neuroendocrinologist, prostate cancer.
* Michael Kidd, 92, American film and stage choreographer, cancer.
* Aloísio Lorscheider, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal, heart failure.
* Tyler MacDuff, 82, American actor.
* Hans Mild, 73, Swedish footballer and ice hockey player.
* Oscar Peterson, 82, Canadian jazz pianist, kidney failure and complications from a stroke.
* Rhoda Pritzker, 93, American philanthropist, member of the Pritzker family.
* Ferreira Queimado, 94, Portuguese former chairman of S.L. Benfica, after long illness.
* Kevin Sinclair, 65, New Zealand-born Hong Kong reporter, editor and columnist for the South China Morning Post, cancer.
* Osvaldo Reyes, 88, Chilean painter, stroke.
* Frank Swaelen, 77, Belgian politician, former president of the Senate and minister of state.

### 24

* Jim Angel, 67, Australian radio newsreader, stroke.
* Cláudio Camunguelo, 60, Brazilian composer and singer, diabetes.
* Reinhard Heß, 62, German ski jumping coach, pancreatic cancer.
* Wilhelmina Jashemski, 97, American archaeologist, renal failure.
* Andreas Matzbacher, 25, Austrian cyclist, traffic collision.
* Sir Nicholas Pumfrey, 56, British judge, stroke.
* George Warrington, 55, American transportation official, President of Amtrak (1998–2002), pancreatic cancer.

### 25

* Jim Beauchamp, 68, American Major League Baseball player and coach, leukemia.
* Tommy Harmer, 79, British footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, Watford and Chelsea).
* John Hayes, 80, New Zealand test cricketer.
* Patricia Kirkwood, 86, British actress, Alzheimer's disease.
* Hugh Massingberd, 60, British genealogist and journalist, former Daily Telegraph obituary editor.
* Mighty King Kong, 34, Kenyan reggae musician.
* William MacDonald, 90, American Christian author.
* Hans Otte, 81, German avant-garde composer and pianist.
* G. P. Sippy, 93, Indian film producer and director.
* Carlos Eduardo Sousa Jr., 17, American student, tiger attack.
* Tatiana, 4, American-born Siberian tiger at San Francisco Zoo, mauled a visitor to death, shot.
* Sir George Vallings, 75, British vice admiral, throat cancer.

### 26

* Raúl Bernao, 66, Argentine footballer, hepatitis.
* Sir Phillip Bridges, 85, British barrister and judge, Chief Justice of the Gambia.
* Jim Castiglia, 89, American football and baseball player, natural causes.
* Joe Dolan, 68, Irish singer and entertainer, brain haemorrhage.
* Andrew Grima, 86, British jeweller.
* Voitto Liukkonen, 67, Finnish sports commentator.
* Paul D. MacLean, 94, American physician, developed triune brain concept, heart attack.
* Nina Menshikova, 79, Russian actress.
* Stu Nahan, 81, American sportscaster, lymphoma.
* John Pappenheimer, 92, American physiologist, respiratory failure.

### 27

* Kit Ahern, 92, Irish politician.
* Ben D. Altamirano, 77, American politician, member of the New Mexico Senate since 1971, heart attack.
* Ben Bamfuchile, 47, Zambian coach of the Namibia national football team, after short illness.
* Benazir Bhutto, 54, Pakistani opposition leader and former prime minister (1988–1990, 1993–1996), assassinated.
* Edward A. Brennan, 73, American businessman, former chairman of Sears, Roebuck and Company.
* Sir Howard Colvin, 88, British architectural historian.
* Steven Florio, 58, American businessman, former CEO of Condé Nast, heart attack.
* Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 85, Polish film director.
* Jaan Kross, 87, Estonian writer.
* Ed LaDou, 52, American pizza chef, popularized gourmet California-style pizzas, cancer.
* Marie-Jeanne, 87, American ballet dancer, congestive heart failure
* Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza, 94, Brazilian pretender to the title Emperor of Brazil.
* Peter Wing, 93, Canadian politician, mayor of Kamloops, North America's first mayor of Chinese descent, stroke.

### 28

* Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, 25, Iranian basketball player, traffic collision.
* Jiří Pauer, 88, Czech composer, theatre director and academic.
* Serigne Saliou Mbacké, 92, Senegalese religious leader, fifth caliph of the Mouride Islamic movement.
* Amarnath Sehgal, 85, Indian sculptor.
* Sun Daolin, 86, Chinese actor.
* Tab Thacker, 45, American wrestler and actor (Police Academy, City Heat, Wildcats), complications from diabetes.

### 29

* Olayr Coan, 48, Brazilian actor and theater director, traffic collision.
* Phil Dusenberry, 71, American advertising executive, lung cancer.
* Kevin Greening, 44, British former BBC Radio 1 disc jockey.
* Vincent Gruppuso, 67, American businessman, founder of Kozy Shack puddings, complications from diabetes.
* Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar, 74, Yemeni politician, Parliamentary speaker since 1993, cancer.
* Joan Ingpen, 91, British classical music manager (Ingpen & Williams), launched the career of Luciano Pavarotti.
* Rex King-Clark, 94, British soldier and racing driver.
* Robert Morris, 81, English cricketer.
* Nonja, 55, Indonesian Sumatran orangutan thought to be world's oldest.
* Phil O'Donnell, 35, Scottish footballer (Motherwell) with one Scotland cap, heart failure.
* Scott M. Robinson, 54, American key grip.
* H. D. Thoreau, Jr., 84, American track-and-field authority and Olympics official, complications from Alzheimer's and stroke.
* Shu Uemura, 79, Japanese makeup artist, pneumonia.

### 30

* Bert Bolin, 82, Swedish meteorologist, stomach cancer.
* Kinkri Devi, 82, Indian environmentalist.
* Laila Kaland, 68, Norwegian politician, MP (1985–2001), after long illness.
* Jorge Machiñena, 71, Uruguayan deputy (1985–2000), President of the Chamber (1996–1997), heart attack.
* Leonard B. Meyer, 89, American musicologist.
* Victor Navarra, 55, American coordinator for New York Marathon, cancer.
* Doreen Norton, 85, British nursing pioneer.
* Willie Robinson, 81, American blues singer, injuries from a fire.
* Louis Wolfson, 95, American businessman, bred and raced 1978 U.S. Triple Crown champion Affirmed, colon cancer.

### 31

* Alberto Alonso, 90, Cuban dancer and choreographer, heart attack.
* Tommy Dickson, 78, British footballer (Linfield, Northern Ireland), after long illness.
* Tony Elliott, 48, American football player (New Orleans Saints), natural causes.
* Ralph Emmerson, 94, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Knaresborough (1972–1979).
* Michael Goldberg, 83, American abstract expressionist painter, heart attack.
* Bill Idelson, 88, American actor and script writer, complications from a broken hip.
* Kathryn Ish, 71, American television, voiceover and theater actress (Laverne & Shirley), cancer.
* Milton L. Klein, 97, Canadian politician, MP for Cartier (1963–1968).
* Markku Peltola, 51, Finnish actor and musician.
* Muhammad Osman Said, 85, Libyan Prime Minister (1960–1963).
* Ettore Sottsass, 90, Italian designer, heart failure.