# Deaths in October 2007
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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

## October 2007
### 1

* Bernard Delaire, 108, French Naval veteran of World War I, one of the last six identified.
* Bruce Hay, 57, British rugby player for Britain and Scotland, brain tumour.
* Ronnie Hazlehurst, 79, British theme song composer (Are You Being Served?) and jazz musician, stroke.
* Israel Kugler, 90, American labor leader and professor, pneumonia.
* Harry Lee, 75, American politician, Sheriff of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, leukemia.
* Chris Mainwaring, 41, Australian footballer (West Coast Eagles), television and radio sports journalist.
* Peggy Maley, 84, American actress.
* James A. Martin, 105, American Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, world's oldest Jesuit, pneumonia.
* Al Oerter, 71, American athlete and Olympic gold medallist in discus (1956, 1960, 1964 and 1968), heart failure.
* Tetsuo Okamoto, 75, Brazilian swimmer and Brazil's first Olympic swimming medallist (1952), respiratory failure.
* Pedro Saúl Pérez, 54, Dominican advocate for the rights of Dominican immigrants in Puerto Rico, heart attack.
* Ned Sherrin, 76, British broadcaster and theatre producer, throat cancer.
* Ralph W. Sturges, 88, American Mohegan tribal chief.
* Henry Wells, 92, American expert on Latin American politics, professor and author, complications from Alzheimer's disease.

### 2

* Frederick Bayer, 85, American emeritus curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, heart failure.
* DeWitt "Tex" Coulter, 82, American National and Canadian Football League player.
* Gianni Danzi, 67, Italian Archbishop of the Territorial Prelature of Loreto.
* Elfi von Dassanowsky, 83, Austrian opera singer, actress and film producer.
* Christopher Derrick, 86, British writer.
* Šime Đodan, 79, Croatian parliamentarian, defence minister (1991).
* Gary Franklin, 79, American film critic, KABC-TV (Los Angeles).
* Richard Goldwater, 71, American president of Archie Comics, creator of Josie and the Pussycats, cancer.
* George Grizzard, 79, American actor, lung cancer.
* Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, 94, Greek former Princess of Greece, last surviving great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
* Dan Keating, 105, Irish republican activist, last surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence.
* J. Edward Lundy, 92, American automobile executive (Ford Motor Co.).
* Tawn Mastrey, 53, American radio disc jockey (KNAC), hepatitis C.
* James Michaels, 86, American editor of Forbes (1961–1999), pneumonia.
* José Antonio Ríos Granados, 48, Mexican politician, mayor of Tultitlán (2000–2003), air crash.
* Willi Rössler, 83, German Olympic fencer.
* Alec Spalding, 84, British scout leader.

### 3

* John Buxton, 73, New Zealand rugby union player.
* Violet Kazue de Cristoforo, 90, American poet, held in Japanese-American internment camps during WWII, stroke.
* Kenneth R. Harding, 93, American Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives (1972–1980), pneumonia.
* Wyn Harness, 47, British journalist.
* Herbert Muschamp, 59, American architecture critic for The New York Times, lung cancer.
* Pablo Palazuelo, 90, Spanish artist.
* Tony Ryan, 71, Irish entrepreneur and joint founder of Ryanair, after long illness.
* Rogelio Salmona, 78, Colombian architect, Alvar Aalto Medal and Prince Claus Award winner, cancer.
* Sir Richard Trant, 79, British Army general.
* Giuseppe Valdengo, 93, Italian operatic baritone.
* M. N. Vijayan, 77, Indian academic, writer and journalist, heart attack.

### 4

* Bob Burdick, 70, American NASCAR driver.
* Chen Chi-li, 64, Chinese-born Taiwanese gangster, killer of dissident journalist Henry Liu, pancreatic cancer.
* Antonie Iorgovan, 59, Romanian politician, main author of the Constitution of Romania, heart attack.
* Kim Min-woo, 21, South Korean ice dancer, traffic collision.
* Don Nottebart, 71, American Major League Baseball player, stroke.

### 5

* John Atchison, 53, American federal prosecutor and alleged child sex offender, suicide by hanging.
* Alexandra Boulat, 45, French photojournalist, aneurysm.
* Walter Kempowski, 78, German author and archivist, intestinal cancer.
* Władysław Kopaliński, 99, Polish lexicographer.
* Vladimir Kuzin, 77, Russian 1956 Winter Olympics gold medallist, long illness.
* Steven Massarsky, 59, American attorney and businessman, complications related to cancer.
* Edwyn Owen, 71, American ice hockey player, gold medallist at the 1960 Winter Olympics, car fire.
* Matilde Salvador i Segarra, 89, Spanish composer, stroke.
* Justin Tuveri, 109, Italian-French World War I veteran.

### 6

* Babasaheb Bhosale, 86, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Maharashtra (1982–1983).
* Robert W. Bussard, 79, American physicist, researcher of nuclear fusion, cancer.
* Jo Ann Davis, 57, American member of the US House of Representatives from Virginia since 2001, breast cancer.
* Nancy DeShone, 75, American baseball player (AAGPBL)
* Rodney Diak, 83, British stage and film actor, cancer.
* Phil Dodds, 56, American audio engineer, cancer.
* Bud Ekins, 77, American motorcycle racer and stunt performer (The Great Escape), natural causes.
* Terence Wilmot Hutchison, 95, British economist.
* Tom Murphy, 39, Irish Tony Award-winning actor of stage and screen (The Beauty Queen of Leenane), lymphatic cancer.
* Laza Ristovski, 51, Serbian keyboardist (Smak, Bijelo dugme), multiple sclerosis.
* George F. Senner, Jr., 85, American member of the US House of Representatives from Arizona (1963–1967).

### 7

* Norifumi Abe, 32, Japanese MotoGP racer, traffic accident.
* Stéphane Maurice Bongho-Nouarra, 70, Congolese Prime Minister (1992).
* Sir Alan Campbell, 88, British diplomat.
* Sisi Chen, 68, Chinese actress, pancreatic cancer.
* Paul Cullen, 98, Australian army general.
* Luciana Frassati Gawronska, 105, Polish-Italian writer and anti-Nazi activist, mother of Jas Gawronski.
* Herb Parker, 86, American educator and football coach.
* George E. Sangmeister, 76, American member of the US House of Representatives from Illinois (1989–1995), leukemia.
* Jiřina Steimarová, 91, Czech actress.
* Lilis Suryani, 59, Indonesian singer, uterine cancer.
* Joe Waggonner, 89, American member of the US House of Representatives from Louisiana (1961–1979).

### 8

* Constantine Andreou, 90, Brazilian-born Greek-French painter and sculptor.
* Milan Đukić, 61, Serbian-Croatian politician, leader of the Serb People's Party.
* John Henry, 32, American Hall of Fame thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized after kidney failure.
* Nicky James, 64, British pop singer (The Moody Blues), brain tumour.
* Zdzisław Peszkowski, 89, Polish Roman Catholic priest, advocate for the families of Katyn victims.
* Salem Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, 69, Kuwaiti politician, member of the ruling family, after long illness.
* Francis Schewetta, 88, French Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) athlete.
* Jean-François Van Der Motte, 93, Belgian Olympic cyclist.
* Chick Zamick, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.

### 9

* Enrico Banducci, 85, American nightclub impresario (North Beach, San Francisco).
* Carol Bruce, 87, American actress (WKRP in Cincinnati, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, American Gigolo), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
* Henk van Brussel, 72, Dutch footballer and football manager, heart attack.
* Fausto Correia, 55, Portuguese politician, heart attack.
* Belinda Dann, 107, Australian centenarian, longest-lived member of the Stolen Generation.
* Mary Louise Kolanko, 75, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
* Robert McGehee, 64, American Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Progress Energy Inc, stroke.
* Dudley Ryder, 7th Earl of Harrowby, 84, British aristocrat and banker.
* Kurt Schwaen, 98, German composer, natural causes.
* Bram Zeegers, 58, Dutch lawyer and key witness in the trial of Willem Holleeder.

### 10

* S. R. Bommai, 83, Indian politician.
* Ambrose De Paoli, 73, American-born Roman Catholic Archbishop, nuncio to Australia, leukemia.
* Ken Fry, 86, Australian politician, MP for Fraser (1974–1984).
* Francis García, 49, Mexican transvestite actress and designer, pulmonary thrombosis.
* Len Keogh, 76, Australian politician, MP for Bowman (1969–1975, 1983–1987).
* Norman Mashabane, 51, South African politician, former ambassador to Indonesia, car accident.
* Mehmed Uzun, 54, Turkish novelist, stomach cancer.

### 11

* Sri Chinmoy, 76, Indian-born philosopher and guru, heart attack.
* Ignatius D'Cunha, 83, Indian Bishop Emeritus of Aurangabad.
* John H. Edwards, 79, British geneticist.
* David Lee "Tex" Hill, 92, American fighter pilot and flying ace, member of the Flying Tigers.
* Juca, 78, Portuguese footballer and coach (Sporting, national team).
* Rauni Mollberg, 78, Finnish film director, leukemia.
* Pat "Gravy" Patterson, 73, American baseball and football coach at Louisiana Tech, suicide by gunshot.
* Roy Rosenzweig, 57, American historian, lung cancer.
* Carlos Salgado, 67, Honduran journalist and comedian, shot.
* David Salmon, 95, American Athabascan tribal chief, cancer.
* Werner von Trapp, 91, Austrian-born musician and singer, member of the Trapp Family Singers who inspired The Sound of Music.

### 12

* Paulo Autran, 85, Brazilian actor, lung cancer.
* Kim Beazley Sr., 90, Australian politician, former government minister.
* Lonny Chapman, 87, American actor (The Birds, Norma Rae, The Hunted), heart disease.
* Noel Coleman, 87, British actor.
* Ruby Hooper, 83, American first female major party candidate to run for Governor of North Carolina, 1993 North Carolina Mother of the Year.
* Kisho Kurokawa, 73, Japanese architect, heart failure.
* Judy Mazel, 63, American cookbook author (The Beverly Hills Diet), complications from peripheral vascular disease.
* Rajinder Singh Sarkaria, 91, Indian Supreme Court judge (1973–1981), head of the Sarkaria Commission.
* Soe Win, 59, Burmese Prime Minister (2004–2007), leukemia.

### 13

* Vernon Bellecourt, 75, Native American activist, pneumonia.
* Andrée de Jongh, 90, Belgian Resistance member, organized the Comet Line POW escape network.
* Bob Denard, 78, French mercenary.
* Obaidul Huq, 95, Bangladeshi journalist and filmmaker.
* Alec Kessler, 40, American basketball player (Georgia Bulldogs, Miami Heat), heart attack.
* Kribensis, 23, Irish racehorse.
* Marion Michael, 66, German actress and singer, heart failure.
* James L. Oakes, 83, American federal judge.
* Jim Poston, 63, British diplomat, Governor of the Turks & Caicos Islands (2002–2005).

### 14

* Salih Saif Aldin, 32, Iraqi correspondent for The Washington Post, shot.
* Big Moe, 33, American rapper, heart attack.
* Judy Crichton, 77, American television producer, leukemia.
* George Neil Jenkins, 92, British scientist.
* Philippe Malaud, 82, French diplomat and politician.
* André Maréchal, 90, French optics researcher.
* Raymond Pellegrin, 82, French actor.
* Frances Rich, 97, American actress and sculptor, heart attack.
* Slew o' Gold, 27, American thoroughbred racehorse and Hall of Fame inductee, euthanized.
* Pentti Snellman, 81, Finnish Olympic athlete.
* Sigrid Valdis, 72, American actress (Hogan's Heroes), lung cancer.

### 15

* Jackie Little, 95, British footballer (Ipswich Town).
* Bobby Mauch, 86, American child actor and film editor.
* Bernard Scudder, 53, British poet and translator of Icelandic literature.
* Robert Shields, 89, American Protestant minister and diarist.
* Vito Taccone, 67, Italian cyclist, heart attack.
* Lucius Theus, 85, American US Air Force major-general, Tuskegee Airman.
* Ernest Withers, 85, American photographer, stroke.

### 16

* Rosalio José Castillo Lara, 85, Venezuelan Roman Catholic cardinal.
* Barbara West Dainton, 96, British Titanic survivor.
* Ignacy Jeż, 93, Polish Roman Catholic bishop.
* Deborah Kerr, 86, British actress (From Here to Eternity, Black Narcissus, The King and I), complications of Parkinson's disease.
* Arbab Jehangir Khan, 72, Pakistani politician, former NWFP Chief Minister, cardiac arrest.
* Jerzy Markuszewski, 76, Polish theatre director and dissident.
* Ragnar Pedersen, 65, Norwegian illustrator.
* Toše Proeski, 26, Macedonian singer, car accident.
* Steve J. Spears, 56, Australian author, playwright and television writer, cancer.
* M. A. Hadi, 68, Bangladeshi academic, Vice Chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, brain haemorrhage.

### 17

* Billy Berroa, 79, Dominican Spanish broadcaster for New York Mets on WADO, prostate cancer.
* Joey Bishop, 89, American entertainer, last surviving member of the Rat Pack.
* Teresa Brewer, 76, American pop and jazz singer, supranuclear palsy.
* Sammy Duddy, 62, British political activist, member of the Northern Irish loyalist UPRG, heart attack.
* Germán Espinosa, 69, Colombian writer, cancer.
* Delphia Hankins, 111, American supercentenarian who was Mississippi's oldest person.
* Maria Kwaśniewska, 94, Polish javelin thrower, 1936 Olympic bronze medallist.
* Peter Oliver, Baron Oliver of Aylmerton, 86, British law lord (1986–1992).
* Aminu Safana, 46, Nigerian MP, heart attack.
* Taku, 14, American orca at SeaWorld San Antonio.
* Rüdiger von Wechmar, 83, German diplomat and politician.
* Robert A. Young, 83, American member of the US House of Representatives from Missouri (1977–1987), liver disease.

### 18

* Alan Coren, 69, British writer and satirist, editor of Punch (1978–1987), cancer.
* William J. Crowe, 82, American Ambassador to UK (1994–1997), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1985–1989), cardiac arrest.
* Vincent DeDomenico, 92, American inventor of Rice-a-Roni.
* Lucky Dube, 43, South African reggae musician, shot during carjacking.
* Anthony R. Michaelis, 91, German science journalist.
* Nino Rešić, 43, Bosnian singer.
* Joe Sellwood, 96, Australian who was oldest living AFL/VFL footballer.
* Mark Tavener, 53, British novelist and comedy writer, cancer.

### 19

* Anton Bodem, 82, German Catholic theologian.
* Yolanda Brown, 21, American R&B singer.
* Randall Forsberg, 64, American nuclear arms control advocate, cancer.
* Michael Maidens, 20, British footballer for Hartlepool United, car accident.
* Jan Wolkers, 81, Dutch writer and artist.

### 20

* Peg Bracken, 89, American cookbook writer.
* Ivo Cappo, 55, Papua New Guinean magistrate, stoning.
* Max McGee, 75, American professional football player (Green Bay Packers), fall from roof.
* Jim Mitchell, 60, American professional football player (Atlanta Falcons), heart attack.
* Helend Peep, 97, Estonian actor.
* Josep Pintat-Solans, 82, Andorran politician and businessman, Mayor of Sant Julià de Lòria (1960-1963) and Prime Minister (1984-1990).
* Paul Raven, 46, British rock bassist (Ministry, Killing Joke), heart attack.
* Stine Rossel, 32, Danish archaeologist, hiking accident.
* Yemi Tella, 56, Nigerian coach of the World Cup–winning under-17 football team, cancer.

### 21

* Surinder Singh Bajwa, 52, Indian politician, Deputy Mayor of Delhi, fall after rhesus macaque attack.
* Ernst Ehrlich, 86, Swiss Jewish philosopher.
* Don Fellows, 84, American actor.
* Paul Fox, 56, British guitarist (The Ruts), lung cancer.
* Lance Hahn, 40, American musician (J Church, Cringer) and journalist, kidney disease.
* Peter Howard, 81, British Air Vice Marshal, Royal Air Force.
* Siddiq Khan, 60, Pakistani cricket umpire.
* R. B. Kitaj, 74, American-born British-based pop artist.
* Peter Moffatt, 84, British television director (All Creatures Great and Small, Doctor Who).
* Ileana Sonnabend, 92, Romanian-born American founder of Sonnabend Gallery.
* Lloyd Wendt, 99, American newspaper editor and publisher.

### 22

* Sargon Boulus, 63, Iraqi poet.
* Ève Curie, 102, French author, daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie.
* Billy Ray Hamilton, 57, American death row inmate, natural causes.
* Brendan McWilliams, 63, Irish meteorologist and writer.
* Soedarpo Sastrosatomo, 87, Indonesian businessman.

### 23

* John Ilhan, 42, Australian founder of Crazy John's mobile phone retail chain, suspected heart attack.
* David Kendall, 89, British mathematician.
* Lim Goh Tong, 90, Malaysian Chinese billionaire, founder of the Genting Group.
* Ursula Vaughan Williams, 96, British author and poet, wife of Ralph Vaughan Williams.

### 24

* David Adams, 78, Canadian ballet dancer, after long illness.
* Petr Eben, 78, Czech composer.
* Peter Harding, 82, British rock climber.
* Alisher Saipov, 26, Kyrgyz journalist, shot.
* Masakazu Yoshizawa, 57, Japanese-born American flutist (Memoirs of a Geisha, Jurassic Park), stomach cancer.

### 25

* Michael England, 89, English cricketer.
* Carole Hillard, 71, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota (1995–2003), pneumonia.
* Puntsagiin Jasrai, 73, Mongolian Prime Minister (1992–1996).
* Matthew Locke, 33, Australian soldier.
* Sir Richard Rougier, 75, British judge, lung cancer.
* Harvey Shapiro, 97, American cellist.

### 26

* Jacinta Balbela, 88, Uruguayan judge and jurist, member of the Supreme Court of Justice (1985–1989).
* Jim Cummins, 62, American correspondent for NBC News, cancer.
* Nicolae Dobrin, 60, Romanian footballer, lung cancer.
* Friedman Paul Erhardt, 63, German-born pioneering television chef, "Chef Tell," inspiration for the Swedish Chef, heart failure.
* Alexandre Feklisov, 93, Russian KGB spymaster.
* John L. Gaunt, 83, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, congestive heart failure.
* Arthur Kornberg, 89, American recipient of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, respiratory failure.
* Lisa Richette, 79, American lawyer, judge of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, lung cancer.
* Khun Sa, 73, Burmese warlord.
* Hans Stern, 85, Brazilian jeweler, founder of the company H.Stern.

### 27

* Charles Batt, 78, Australian politician.
* George Washington, 4, Irish race horse, euthanized.
* Satyen Kappu, 76, Indian Bollywood character actor, cardiac arrest.
* Moira Lister, 84, South African-born British-based actress.
* Leslie Orgel, 80, British chemist.
* Othman Saat, 80, Malaysian politician, former Chief Minister of Johor state.
* Henk Vredeling, 82, Dutch politician, minister and European Commissioner.

### 28

* Bao Zunxin, 70, Chinese intellectual and jailed Tiananmen Square democracy activist, brain hemorrhage.
* Graham Chadwick, 84, British bishop and anti-apartheid campaigner.
* Arnold Wilson Cowen, 101, American judge.
* Takao Fujinami, 74, Japanese politician convicted of accepting bribes.
* Evelyn Hamann, 65, German actress.
* Jimmy Makulis, 72, Greek singer.
* Guido Nicheli, 73, Italian actor, stroke.
* Stuart Sidey, 99, New Zealand politician, Mayor of Dunedin (1959–1965).
* Josef Stawinoga, 87, Polish hermit, lived nearly 40 years in tent next to Wolverhampton Ring Road.
* Porter Wagoner, 80, American country music singer, lung cancer.
* William George Wilson, 90, American cinematographer.

### 29

* Eloise Baza, 54, Guamanian president of the Guam Chamber of Commerce (1984–2007).
* Jan Borkus, 87, Dutch radio actor.
* Anthony Clare, 64, Irish psychiatrist and broadcaster.
* Sam Dana, 104, American football player, complications of infection.
* Kenneth Franzheim II, 82, American oilman and philanthropist.
* Jarmila Loukotková, 84, Czech author.
* Frane Matošić, 89, Croatian football player.
* Jesse J. McCrary, Jr., 70, American politician, Secretary of State of Florida, (1978–1979), lung cancer.
* Thomas Joseph Meskill, 79, American politician and federal judge, Governor of Connecticut (1971–1975).
* David Morris, 83, British painter and actor.
* Christian d'Oriola, 79, French fencer.
* La Sa Ra, 91, Indian Tamil novelist.
* Savo Radusinović, 53, Serbian folk singer.
* Carrie Rozelle, 69, Canadian-born education activist, wife of Pete Rozelle, cancer.
* Senkichi Taniguchi, 95, Japanese film director, pneumonia.

### 30

* Robert Goulet, 73, American singer and actor (Camelot, Beetlejuice), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
* Peter Hoagland, 66, American member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska (1989–1995), Parkinson's disease.
* Izzy Katzman, 90, American sportswriter.
* Norbert Lynton, 80, German-born British art historian.
* Srđan Mrkušić, 92, Serbian football goalkeeper.
* Yisrael Poliakov, 66, Israeli actor, member of comedy group HaGashash HaHiver, liver cancer.
* Dina Rabinovitch, 44, British journalist, breast cancer.
* Paul Roche, 91, British poet and translator.
* Linda S. Stein, 62, American former manager of the Ramones, real estate agent, beaten.
* Washoe, 42, American-trained African-born chimpanzee believed to be first non-human to acquire human language, influenza.
* John Woodruff, 92, American Olympic gold medalist in 800m (1936), atrial fibrillation and chronic renal failure.

### 31

* Alderbrook, 18, British racehorse, winner of the 1995 Champion Hurdle.
* John Baker, Jr., 72, American football player and county sheriff.
* Sir Kenneth Bradshaw, 85, British constitutionalist, Clerk of the House of Commons (1983–1987).
* Ray Gravell, 56, British rugby union player for Wales.
* Erdal İnönü, 81, Turkish physicist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1991–1993), leukemia.
* Bradford Kelleher, 87, American former vice president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, founder of the Met Store.