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

## April 2007
### 1

* Laurie Baker, 90, British-born Indian architect.
* John Billings, 89, Australian co-developer of the Billings ovulation method.
* Norman Butler, 76, English cricketer.
* Herb Carneal, 83, American sportscaster, radio broadcaster for Minnesota Twins Major League Baseball team, congestive heart failure.
* Driss Chraibi, 80, Moroccan writer.
* Char Fontane, 55, American actress (Joe & Valerie, The Punisher, Pearl) and singer, breast cancer.
* Lou Limmer, 82, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).
* Salem Ludwig, 91, American actor (Unfaithful, Family Business, The Savages).
* Sally Merchant, 88, Canadian broadcaster and politician, cancer.
* Hannah Nydahl, 61, Danish teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, translator for her husband Ole Nydahl, lung and brain cancer.
* Screechy Peach, 47, American singer and songwriter, breast cancer.
* Ladislav Rychman, 84, Czech film director, heart attack.
* George Sewell, 82, British actor (Get Carter, Barry Lyndon, Doctor Who), cancer.
* Elliott Skinner, 82, American scholar and former ambassador, heart failure.

### 2

* B. K. Anand, 89, Indian physiologist and pharmacologist.
* William W. Becker, 85, American co-founder of the Motel 6 chain, heart attack.
* Janet Bloomfield, 53, British campaigner, Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (1993–1996), septic shock.
* Jeannie Ferris, 66, Australian Senator, ovarian cancer.
* Henry Lee Giclas, 96, American astronomer.
* Paul Reed, 97, American comedian and actor (Car 54, Where Are You?), heart failure.
* Tadjou Salou, 32, Togolese international footballer, after long illness.

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* Marion Eames, 85, British novelist (The Secret Room).
* J. Kutty, Indian dancer and actor, accidental fall.
* Sir Walter Luttrell, 87, British army officer and public servant.
* Robin Montgomerie-Charrington, 91, British 1952 Grand Prix driver.
* Michael Joseph Murphy, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Erie (1982–1990).
* Walter Nicks, 81, American dancer and choreographer.
* Thomas Hal Phillips, 84, American novelist and screenwriter.
* Zoltán Pongrácz, 95, Hungarian composer and conductor.
* Bill Robinson, 88, American sailor and author.
* Eddie Robinson, 88, American college football coach (Grambling State University), Alzheimer's disease.
* Burt Topper, 78, American screenwriter, film director and film producer, pulmonary failure.
* Nina Wang, 69, Hong Kong businesswoman and Asia's richest woman.

### 4

* Jagjit Singh Chauhan, 80, Indian Sikh separatist leader, heart attack.
* Bob Clark, 67, American film director (A Christmas Story, Porky's, Baby Geniuses), car accident.
* Brian Fahey, 87, British composer and musical director.
* Reginald H. Fuller, 92, British-born biblical scholar and Anglican priest, complications of a broken hip.
* Terry Hall, 80, British ventriloquist and children's television presenter.
* Edward Mallory, 76, American television actor (Days of Our Lives).
* Datuk K. Sivalingam, 59, Malaysian politician, heart attack.
* Karen Spärck Jones, 71, British professor emeritus of Computers and Information at the University of Cambridge, cancer.
* Margaret Tor-Thompson, 44, Liberian politician, breast cancer.

### 5

* Maria Gripe, 83, Swedish author.
* Thomas Stoltz Harvey, 94, American pathologist.
* Leela Majumdar, 99, Indian Bengali language children's author.
* Mark St. John, 51, American guitarist (KISS, White Tiger), brain hemorrhage.
* Ali Sriti, 88, Tunisian oudist.
* Darryl Stingley, 55, American football player, bronchial pneumonia.
* Poornachandra Tejaswi, 68, Indian writer and novelist in the Kannada language, cardiac arrest.

### 6

* Elward Thomas Brady, Jr., 60, American businessman and politician.
* Luigi Comencini, 90, Italian film director.
* Stan Daniels, 72, Canadian writer and producer (Taxi, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson), heart failure.
* Colin Graham, 75, British opera, theatre and television director, cardiac arrest.
* George C. Jenkins, 98, American production designer (All the President's Men, Sophie's Choice, Presumed Innocent), Oscar winner (1977), heart failure.
* Józef Kos, 106, Polish soldier, one of the last six World War I veterans from Germany.
* Jill McGown, 59, British mystery writer.
* James McGuinness, 81, British priest, Bishop of Nottingham (1974–2000).
* Raymond G. Murphy, 77, American Medal of Honor recipient during the Korean War.
* Jeff Uren, 81, British racing driver.

### 7

* Neville Duke, 85, British World War II fighter pilot.
* Marià Gonzalvo, 85, Spanish captain of FC Barcelona and international footballer for Spain.
* Johnny Hart, 76, American cartoonist (B.C., The Wizard of Id), stroke.
* Win Hickey, 94, American socialite, politician, First Lady of Wyoming and one of the first woman to serve in the Wyoming Senate.
* Brian Miller, 70, British footballer for Burnley and England.
* Otto Natzler, 99, American ceramics and glazing master, cancer.
* Barry Nelson, 89, American actor (The Shining My Favorite Husband, Airport).

### 8

* Charles Bain, 93, Trinidadian West Indian Test cricket umpire.
* Natalia Clare, 87, American ballet dancer and instructor, complications of strokes.
* Asad Amanat Ali Khan, 51, Pakistani singer, heart attack.
* Victor Kneale, 89, Manx Speaker of the House of Keys (1990–1991).
* Sol LeWitt, 78, American artist known for his role in the Conceptualism and Minimalism movements, cancer.
* Bill Mescher, 79, American politician, member of the South Carolina Senate from 1993 until his death, stroke.

### 9

* Florence Arrowsmith, 102, British marital recordholder.
* Egon Bondy, 77, Czech philosopher and poet.
* AJ Carothers, 75, American playwright and television writer, cancer.
* Bob Coats, 82, British economic historian.
* Alain Etchegoyen, 55, French philosopher, cancer.
* Sir Michael Fox, 85, British judge, Lord Justice of Appeal (1981–1992).
* Dorrit Hoffleit, 100, American research astronomer, cancer.
* Mark Langford, 42, British businessman, former head of The Accident Group, car accident.
* Philip Mayne, 107, English officer, last surviving British officer of World War I.
* Harry Rasky, 78, Canadian documentary film producer, heart failure.

### 10

* Kevin Crease, 70, Australian television newsreader, cancer.
* Walter Hendl, 90, American conductor, heart and lung disease.
* Ralph Heywood, 85, American football player.
* Awdy Kulyýew, 70, Turkmen exiled politician and Foreign Minister (1990–1992), complications from stomach surgery.
* George Mussallem, 99, Canadian politician and businessman.
* Salvatore Scarpitta, 88, American sculptor, complications from diabetes.
* Dakota Staton, 76, American jazz vocalist, after long illness.

### 11

* Roscoe Lee Browne, 84, American actor (The Cosby Show, Soap, Babe), Emmy winner (1986), stomach cancer.
* James Lee Clark, 38, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Loïc Leferme, 36, French free diver, drowning.
* Warren E. Preece, 85, American editor of Encyclopædia Britannica (1964–1975), heart failure.
* Ronald Speirs, 86, American World War II commanding officer of Easy Company, 506th Infantry Regiment.
* Warren Strelow, 73, American ice hockey goaltending coach for 1980 Winter Olympics gold medal team (Miracle on Ice).
* Kurt Vonnegut, 84, American novelist (Slaughterhouse-Five) and social critic, brain injury from a fall.

### 12

* Kelsie B. Harder, 84, American name expert, congestive heart failure.
* Len Hill, 65, British cricketer for Glamorgan and footballer for Newport County.
* James K. Lyons, 46, American film editor (Far from Heaven, The Virgin Suicides), squamous cell carcinoma.
* Pierre Probst, 93, French children's book author and illustrator.
* Little Sonny Warner, 77, American singer who earned a gold record with "There's Something on Your Mind".

### 13

* Birgitta Arman, 86, Swedish actress.
* Marie Clay, 81, New Zealand world-renowned literacy expert, after short illness.
* Nathan Heffernan, 86, American judge, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court (1983–1995).
* Hans Koning, 85, Dutch-born writer and journalist.
* Joe Lane, 80, Australian bebop jazz singer.
* Steve Malovic, 50, American-Israeli basketball player, heart attack.
* Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, 88, American poet who wrote about the Dust Bowl.
* Neil Pickard, 78, Australian politician.
* Capil Rampersad, 46, Trinidad and Tobago cricketer.
* Joie Ray, 83, American open-wheel and stock car race driver, respiratory failure.
* Don Selwyn, 71, New Zealand actor and director, complications from a kidney infection.
* Marion Yorck von Wartenburg, 102, German World War II resistance fighter.

### 14

* Ladislav Adamec, 80, Czech communist politician, Prime Minister of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1988–1989).
* Robert Buck, 93, American aviator who set several aviation records in his teens, complications from a fall.
* June Callwood, 82, Canadian journalist and activist, cancer.
* Bobby Cram, 67, British footballer for West Bromwich Albion and Colchester United.
* Don Ho, 76, American Hawaiian musician and entertainer, heart failure.
* Jim Jontz, 55, American congressman from Indiana (1987–1993), colon cancer.
* Meredith Kline, 84, American theologian and Old Testament scholar.
* William Menster, 94, American Catholic priest, first member of the clergy to visit Antarctica.
* René Rémond, 88, French historian and academician.
* Mike Reynolds, British conservationist.
* Herman Riley, 73, American tenor saxophone jazz performer, heart failure.
* Audrey Santo, 23, American brain-injured girl claimed to have performed miracles, cardio-respiratory failure.
* Jim Thurman, 72, American children's television writer and voice of Sesame Street's "Teeny Little Super Guy", illness.
* Mike Webb, 51, American radio personality, stabbed.
* Frank Westheimer, 95, American chemist.

### 15

* Patricia Buckley, 80, Canadian-born socialite and fundraiser, wife of William F. Buckley, Jr., infection after long illness.
* Heo Se-uk, 54, South Korean protester against U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, septic shock following self-immolation burns.
* Brant Parker, 86, American cartoonist (The Wizard of Id).
* Justine Saunders, 54, Australian actress, cancer.
* Peter Tsiamalili, 54, Papua New Guinean first administrator of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville.
* Donald Tuzin, 62, American anthropologist and leading authority on Melanesian culture, pulmonary hypertension.

### 16

* Frank Bateson, 97, New Zealand astronomer and writer.
* Tran Bach Dang, 81, Vietnamese journalist and politician.
* Robert Desbats, 85, French cyclist.
* Gaetan Duchesne, 44, Canadian NHL player (1981–1995), heart attack.
* Robert Jones, 56, British Conservative politician (MP 1983–1997), minister in the government of John Major, liver cancer.
* Maria Lenk, 92, Brazilian Olympic swimmer (1932, 1936), rupture of aortic aneurysm.
* Jack Wiebe, 70, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan (1994–2000), Senator (2000–2004), lung cancer.
* Notable people killed in Virginia Tech shooting:
** Jamie Bishop, 35, Canadian instructor of German, shot.
** Seung-Hui Cho, 23, South Korean mass murderer and student, suicide by gunshot.
** Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, 49, Canadian instructor of French, shot.
** Kevin Granata, 45, American associate professor of engineering, shot.
** Liviu Librescu, 76, Romanian-born professor of engineering, Holocaust survivor, shot.
** G. V. Loganathan, 50, Indian-born professor of engineering, shot.

### 17

* Nair Bello, 75, Brazilian actress, heart failure.
* Archie Campbell, 65, Canadian jurist.
* James B. Davis, 90, American founder of The Dixie Hummingbirds, heart failure.
* Steven Derounian, 89, Bulgarian-born American Republican Representative from New York state (1953–1965).
* Len Fitzgerald, 76, Australian footballer, cancer.
* Kitty Carlisle, 96, American actress (A Night at the Opera), TV personality (To Tell the Truth) and singer, heart failure.
* Bruce Haslingden, 84, Australian Olympic cross-country skier, staphylococcus infection.
* Raymond Kaelbel, 75, French international footballer.
* Leyly Matine-Daftary, 70, Iranian artist.
* Chauncey Starr, 95, American electrical engineer, pioneer in the field of nuclear energy.
* Glenn Sutton, 69, American country songwriter and record producer, heart attack.

### 18

* Josy Gyr-Steiner, 57, Swiss politician.
* Iccho Itoh, 61, Japanese mayor of Nagasaki, shooting.
* Andrej Kvašňák, 70, Slovak footballer, lung cancer.
* Harry Miller, 83, American baseball player.
* Alvin Roth, 92, American contract bridge champion.
* Donald Stephens, 79, American long-serving mayor of Rosemont, Illinois, founder of Hummel figurine museum, stomach cancer.
* Tony Suarez, 51, American soccer player (Carolina Lightnin', Cleveland Force), 1981 Rookie of the Year
* Dick Vosburgh, 77, American-born comedy writer and lyricist, cancer.

### 19

* Ken Albers, 82, American singer (The Four Freshmen).
* Anthony Brooks, 85, British agent who led French Resistance saboteurs after the Normandy Invasion, stomach cancer.
* Jean-Pierre Cassel, 74, French actor, cancer.
* Dermot Chichester, 7th Marquess of Donegall, 91, Irish soldier and aristocrat.
* Marie Hicks, 83, American civil rights activist, complications from Parkinson's disease.
* George Logie-Smith, 92, Australian musician.
* Worth McDougald, 82, American journalism educator, Director of the Peabody Awards (1963–1991), heart failure.
* Bohdan Paczyński, 67, Polish astrophysicist, brain tumor.
* Leszek Suski, 77, Polish Olympic fencer.
* Helen Walton, 87, American widow of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, natural causes.
* George D. Webster, 61, American football player.

### 20

* Yehuda Meir Abramowicz, 92, Israeli General Secretary of Agudat Israel (1972–1981).
* Audrey Fagan, 44, Irish-born Australian Federal Police assistant commissioner, suspected suicide by hanging.
* Fred Fish, 54, American computer programmer known for GNU Debugger.
* Michael Fu Tieshan, 75, Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association bishop of Beijing, cancer.
* Andrew Hill, 75, American jazz pianist and composer, lung cancer.
* Jan Kociniak, 69, Polish actor.
* William Phillips, 60, American engineer, Johnson Space Center shooting gunman, suicide by gunshot.
* Robert Rosenthal, 89, American distinguished World War II pilot and lawyer, multiple myeloma.

### 21

* Boscoe Holder, 85, Trinidadian dancer, choreographer and painter.
* George Howard, Jr., 82, American federal judge.
* James Hamupanda Kauluma, 75, Namibian bishop and freedom fighter, prostate cancer.
* C. Bruce Littlejohn, 93, American jurist, Chief Justice of South Carolina.
* Lobby Loyde, 65, Australian rock guitarist (Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs), lung cancer.
* Parry O'Brien, 75, American shot put champion at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics, heart attack.
* Art Saaf, 85, American comic book artist (Sheena, Queen of the Jungle), Parkinson's disease.
* Bruce Van Sickle, 90, American federal judge (1971–2002), Alzheimer's disease.
* Don White, 81, English rugby union player and coach.

### 22

* Ruth Frankenberg, 49, British sociologist, lung cancer.
* Sir Raymond Hoffenberg, 84, South African-born endocrinologist, President of RCP (1983–1989) and Chair of the BHF.
* Karl Holzamer, 100, German founder and director-general of TV channel ZDF.
* Juanita Millender-McDonald, 68, American Democratic Representative (Calif.), Chair of House Administration Committee, cancer.
* Conchita Montenegro, 94, Spanish actress.
* Anne Pitoniak, 85, American actress (Picnic, 'night, Mother, Unfaithful), cancer.

### 23

* Walter Bareiss, 87, German-American art collector, heart failure.
* Tony Bridge, 92, British Anglican priest, Dean of Guildford (1968–1986).
* Paul Erdman, 74, American economist, banker, and writer.
* David Halberstam, 73, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, car accident.
* Axel Madsen, 77, American biographer, pancreatic cancer.
* Michael Smuin, 68, American ballet dancer, choreographer and director, heart attack.
* Boris Yeltsin, 76, Russian politician, first President of the Russian Federation (1991–1999), heart failure.

### 24

* Warren Avis, 91, American founder of Avis Rent a Car System and real estate developer.
* Ida R. Hoos, 94, American sociologist and critic of systems analysis, pneumonia.
* Roy Jenson, 80, Canadian actor (Chinatown, Soylent Green, The Way We Were), cancer.
* Jim Moran, 88, American automotive dealer and philanthropist.
* James Richards, 58, American veterinarian and feline expert, motorcycle accident while avoiding a cat.
* Kate Walsh, 60, Irish Progressive Democrat senator.
* Robert M. Warner, 79, American archivist who led the National Archives and Records Administration, heart attack.

### 25

* Edward Astley, 22nd Baron Hastings, 95, British landowner and politician.
* Alan Ball, 61, British footballer, youngest member of England's 1966 World Cup-winning team, heart attack.
* Barbara Blida, 57, Polish politician, suicide by gunshot.
* Polly Hill, 100, American horticulturist, founder of Polly Hill Arboretum.
* Les Jackson, 86, British cricketer, fast-medium bowler for Derbyshire and England.
* Arthur Milton, 79, British sportsman, last person to play both football and cricket for England, heart attack.
* Johnny Perkins, 54, American National Football League player for the New York Giants, complications following heart surgery
* Bobby Pickett, 69, American one-hit wonder singer ("Monster Mash"), leukemia.
* Edgar Wisniewski, 76, German architect.

### 26

* Ardhendu Das, 96, Indian cricketer.
* Florea Dumitrache, 59, Romanian football player, digestive hemorrhage.
* Wolfgang Gewalt, 78, German zoologist, director of the Duisburg Zoo (1966–1993).
* Lindsey Hughes, 57, British professor of Russian History at University College London, cancer.
* Henry LeTang, 91, American choreographer.
* Jack Valenti, 85, American president of the Motion Picture Association of America (1966–2004), complications of stroke.

### 27

* Al Hunter Ashton, 49, English actor and scriptwriter, heart failure.
* Svatopluk Beneš, 89, Czech actor.
* Karel Dillen, 81, Belgian politician, founder of the Flemish Interest party.
* Bill Forester, 74, American NFL football player.
* Magda Gerber, 90s, Hungarian-born American educator.
* Raymond Guégan, 85, French cyclist.
* Kirill Lavrov, 81, Russian actor, after long illness.
* Mstislav Rostropovich, 80, Russian cellist and conductor, intestinal cancer.
* Robert E. Webber, 73, American scholar and author on Christian worship renewal, pancreatic cancer.

### 28

* Belinda Bidwell, 71, Gambian politician, Speaker of the National Assembly.
* Lloyd Crouse, 88, Canadian politician, Progressive Conservative MP (1957–1988), Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (1989–1994).
* Luigi Filippo D'Amico, 82, Italian film director.
* Dabbs Greer, 90, American actor (The Green Mile, Little House on the Prairie, Invasion of the Body Snatchers).
* Sir Anthony Lambert, 96, British diplomat.
* René Mailhot, 64, Canadian journalist for Radio-Canada, pneumonia.
* Tommy Newsom, 78, American musician from The Tonight Show, cancer.
* David Turnbull. 92, American materials scientist.
* Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, 94, German physicist and philosopher.
* Bertha Wilson, 83, Canadian who was the first female Supreme Court judge, Alzheimer's disease.

### 29

* Georges Aminel, 84, French actor and voice actor.
* Milt Bocek, 94, American baseball player.
* Octavio Frias, 94, Brazilian publishing magnate, kidney failure.
* Josh Hancock, 29, American baseball relief pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, car accident.
* Donald P. Lay, 80, American judge of the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1966–2006).
* Dick Motz, 67, New Zealand test cricketer.
* Joseph Nérette, 83, Haitian judge and politician, President of Haïti (1991–1992), lung cancer.
* Arve Opsahl, 85, Norwegian actor, heart failure.
* Sir George Pinker, 82, British obstetrician and gynaecologist.
* Ivica Račan, 63, Croatian prime minister (2000–2003), cancer.
* Lee Roberson, 97, American founder of Tennessee Temple University.

### 30

* Edward F. Boyd, 92, American marketing executive at Pepsi who shunned racial stereotypes in advertising.
* Tom Cartwright, 71, British test cricketer for England, complications of heart attack.
* Grégory Lemarchal, 23, French singer, winner of Star Academy France, cystic fibrosis.
* Bernard Marszałek, 31, Polish offshore powerboat racer, 2003 World Champion, 2004 Euro Championship runner-up, asthma.
* Kevin Mitchell, 36, American football player for San Francisco 49ers (Super Bowl XXIX) and Washington Redskins, heart attack.
* Grisha Ostrovski, 88, Bulgarian film director.
* Tom Poston, 85, American actor (Newhart, Mork & Mindy, Up the Academy), Emmy winner (1959).
* Claude Saunders, 95, Canadian rower and second-oldest national Olympic competitor.
* Gordon Scott, 80, American actor who portrayed Tarzan in six films (1955–1960), complications of surgery.
* Zola Taylor, 69, American singer, member of The Platters (1954–1964), complications of pneumonia.