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

## August 2007
### 1

* Sergei Antonov, 59, Bulgarian accused of involvement in attempt by Mehmet Ali Ağca to kill Pope John Paul II.
* Ryan Cox, 28, South African professional road racing cyclist, ruptured artery following vascular surgery.
* Robert Hughes, 95, Australian composer.
* Veikko Karvonen, 81, Finnish athlete, bronze medalist in the 1956 Summer Olympics marathon.
* Winfred P. Lehmann, 91, American linguist.
* Tommy Makem, 74, Irish folk musician (The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem), lung cancer.
* Pete Naktenis, 93, American baseball player.
* Philip S. Paludan, 69, American history professor, authority on Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War.
* Norman Adrian Wiggins, 83, American third president of Campbell University.

### 2

* Kafeel Ahmed, 28, Indian terrorist involved in the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack, third degree burns.
* Haitham al-Badri, Iraqi al Qaeda emir of Salahuddin Province and Golden Dome bomber, airstrike.
* Chauncey Bailey, 57, American journalist, editor of The Oakland Post, shot.
* Ed Brown, 78, American football quarterback Chicago Bears, Pittsburgh Steelers, prostate cancer.
* Franco Dalla Valle, 62, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Juína.
* Evan Enwerem, 71, Nigerian Senate President (1999).
* Peter Eriksson, 48, Swedish neuroscientist.
* Terry Kelly, 75, English footballer (Luton Town), dementia.
* Holden Roberto, 84, Angolan founder and leader of the FNLA (1962–1999), after long illness.
* Frank Rosenfelt, 85, American executive at MGM.

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* José Miguel Battle Sr., 77, Cuban founder and nominal leader of the "Cuban Mafia".
* Ron Brown, 67, British Labour Party MP (1979–1992), liver failure.
* James T. Callahan, 76, American actor (Charles in Charge), cancer.
* Peter Connelly, 1, British murder victim.
* John Gardner, 80, British thriller writer and James Bond continuation novelist, suspected heart failure.
* Nasho Kamungeremu, 34, Zimbabwean golfer, heart attack.

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* Lee Hazlewood, 78, American country music singer and songwriter ("These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"), renal cancer.
* Raul Hilberg, 81, Austrian Jewish Holocaust historian, lung cancer.
* Frank Mancuso, 89, American Major League Baseball player, Houston City Councillor.
* Santos Padilla Ferrer, 50, Puerto Rican mayor of Cabo Rojo, heart attack.

### 5

* Henri Amouroux, 87, French journalist and historian.
* Duncan W. Clark, 96, American physician.
* Stanley Myron Handelman, 77, American comedian, heart attack.
* Oliver Hill, 100, American lawyer, lead attorney on the Brown v. Board of Education case.
* Jean-Marie Lustiger, 80, French Jewish-born Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Paris, cancer.
* Amos Manor, 89, Israeli head of Shin Bet (1953–1963).
* Janine Niépce, 86, French photojournalist.
* Florian Pittiș, 63, Romanian actor and folk singer, prostate cancer.
* Peter Graham Scott, 83, British film producer.

### 6

* Heinz Barth, 86, German SS officer, Nazi war criminal, cancer.
* Zsolt Daczi, 37, Hungarian guitarist, cancer.
* Moe Fishman, 92, American representative of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, pancreatic cancer.
* Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, 20, United States Army specialist, killed in action.
* Ah Jook Ku, 97, American journalist and writer, first Asian American Associated Press reporter.
* Elie de Rothschild, 90, French banker, member of Rothschild dynasty, heart attack.
* Paul Rutherford, 67, British trombonist.
* Atle Selberg, 90, Norwegian-born American mathematician, heart failure.

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* Ernesto Alonso, 90, Mexican television producer and actor, pneumonia.
* Hal Fishman, 75, American television news anchor since 1960, KTLA Prime News anchor since 1975, cancer.
* Gato Del Sol, 28, American racehorse, won 1982 Kentucky Derby, euthanized.
* Russell Johnson, 83, American architect and acoustician.
* Hank Morgenweck, 78, American baseball umpire, cancer.
* Wolfgang Sievers, 93, Australian photographer.
* Sir Angus Tait, 88, New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman.
* William F. Walker, 69, American academic, President of Auburn University (2001–2004).

### 8

* Bertha Crowther, 85, British Olympic hurdler.
* Richard Dahl, 74, Swedish high jumper.
* Joybubbles, 58, American phone phreak.
* Daniel Lam, 85, Hong Kong businessman.
* Ma Lik, 55, Hong Kong Legislative Council member and chair of the DAB, colon cancer.
* Melville Shavelson, 90, American film director and screenwriter.
* Clarence Tex Walker, 61, American rhythm and blues musician, heart attack.
* Julius Wess, 73, Austrian physicist.

### 9

* Sakiusa Bulicokocoko, 57, Fijian musician, tumor.
* Richmond Flowers Sr., 88, American Attorney General of Alabama (1963–1967).
* Timothy Garden, Baron Garden, 63, British Air Marshal and Liberal Democrat peer, cancer.
* Joe O'Donnell, 85, American presidential photographer, photographed effects of Hiroshima bombing, stroke.
* Ulrich Plenzdorf, 72, German author.
* Rolf Wiik, 78, Finnish Olympic fencer.

### 10

* Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, 82, American civil rights campaigner, member of Tuskegee Airmen, brain injuries following a fall.
* Shagdaryn Chanrav, 58, Mongolian judoka.
* Tom Cheasty, 73, Irish hurler.
* James E. Faust, 87, American second counselor in the First Presidency of the LDS Church.
* Irene Kirkaldy, 90, American civil rights campaigner, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
* Jean Rédélé, 85, French creator of the Alpine automobile brand.
* Mario Rivera, 68, Dominican Latin jazz saxophonist with Machito, Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez orchestras, bone cancer.
* Tony Wilson, 57, British owner of Factory Records, radio and TV presenter, journalist, heart attack.

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* Franz Antel, 94, Austrian film director.
* Michael Frede, 67, German professor of Ancient Philosophy, swimming accident.
* MacDonald Gallion, 94, American politician, Attorney General of Alabama (1959–1963, 1967–1971).
* Joe Jimenez, 81, American professional golfer, won 1978 Senior PGA Championship, renal failure brought on by lung cancer.
* Alexander H. Leighton, 99, American-Canadian sociologist and psychiatrist.
* Arthur Levenson, 93, American Army Officer, NSA official and cryptologist.
* Roberto Maidana, 79, Argentine journalist, pneumonia.
* Herb Pomeroy, 77, American jazz trumpeter (Charlie Parker, Frank Sinatra), cancer.
* Sukadji Ranuwihardjo, 76, Indonesian President of Gadjah Mada University (1973–1981).
* Lluís Maria Xirinacs, 75, Spanish Catalan political activist and priest, natural causes.
* Zhang Shuhong, 50, Chinese businessman and factory co-owner involved in Fisher-Price toy recall, suicide by hanging.

### 12

* Ralph Asher Alpher, 86, American physicist and college professor, respiratory failure.
* Ronald N. Bracewell, 86, Australian physicist and radio astronomer, heart failure.
* Christian Elder, 38, American sports car and Busch Series driver.
* Joan Finnigan, 81, Canadian writer and poet.
* Merv Griffin, 82, American talk show host, real estate tycoon, creator of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, prostate cancer.
* Asa Hilliard, 73, American educationalist, historian and psychologist, malaria.
* Allen McClure, 72, American Olympic sailor
* Sir Ian McGeoch, 93, British admiral.
* Elizabeth Murray, 66, American artist, lung cancer.
* Mike Wieringo, 44, American comic book artist (The Flash, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four), heart attack.

### 13

* Brian "Crush" Adams, 44, American professional wrestler, accidental overdose of pain killers and anti-depressants.
* Brooke Astor, 105, American philanthropist, pneumonia.
* Paul Boyd, 39, American-born Canadian animator, shot.
* Ox Miller, 92, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
* Clifton Neita, 92, Jamaican editor of The Gleaner newspaper (1954–1979).
* Phil Rizzuto, 89, American baseball player, member of the MLB Hall of Fame, and sports broadcaster, pneumonia.
* Tim Royes, 42, British music video director, car accident.

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* John Biffen, 76, British Conservative member of the House of Lords, MP (1961–1997), septicaemia.
* Horace Brearley, 94, British cricketer, father of Mike Brearley.
* Jirair S. Hovnanian, 80, Armenian Iraqi-American home builder.
* Tikhon Khrennikov, 94, Russian Soviet-era cultural functionary, composer and pianist.
* Emory King, 76, Belizean historian, author and journalist, cancer.
* John Lanham, 82, American former chief justice of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
* Diane Lewis, 54, American reporter (The Boston Globe), cancer.
* Kotozakura Masakatsu, 66, Japanese yokozuna, complications of diabetes.
* Eduardo Noriega, 90, Mexican actor, heart attack.
* Kihei Tomioka, 75, Japanese Olympic cyclist.
* Sayoko Yamaguchi, 57, Japanese fashion model, pneumonia.

### 15

* Richard Bradshaw, 63, British conductor, Canadian Opera Company general director (1998–2007), heart attack.
* Steven Campbell, 53, British painter, ruptured appendix.
* John Gofman, 88, American nuclear physicist, heart failure.
* Geoffrey Orbell, 98, New Zealand bush walker who rediscovered the takahē in 1948.
* Sam Pollock, 81, Canadian former general manager of Montreal Canadiens, Hockey Hall of Famer.
* Liam Rector, 58, American poet, Folger Shakespeare Library program director, suicide by gunshot.
* John Wallowitch, 81, American singer and songwriter, bone cancer.

### 16

* Bahaedin Adab, 62, Iranian member of parliament, cancer.
* John Blewett III, 33, American NASCAR driver, racing crash.
* Jeroen Boere, 39, Dutch football player (West Ham, West Bromwich Albion, Crystal Palace, Portsmouth, Southend).
* Will Edwards, 69, British Labour politician, MP for Merioneth (1966–1974).
* Clive Exton, 77, British television and film writer, brain cancer.
* Roland Mathias, 91, British poet and literary critic.
* Robert Mignat, 86, French cyclist.
* The Missing Link, 68, Canadian professional wrestler, cancer.
* Vito Pallavicini, 83, Italian lyricist/pop composer.
* Max Roach, 83, American jazz drummer.

### 17

* John Austin, 68, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Aston (1992–2005).
* Edward Avedisian, 71, American artist.
* John Belk, 87, American Democratic politician, mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina (1969–1977).
* Jos Brink, 65, Dutch television host, actor, minister of religion and writer, colorectal cancer.
* Bill Deedes, 94, British journalist, editor of The Daily Telegraph (1974–1986) and Conservative politician.
* Franco Foschi, 76, Italian writer and politician.
* Carolyn Goodman, 91, American psychologist and civil rights activist.
* Eddie Griffin, 25, American basketball player of Seton Hall, Rockets and Timberwolves, car accident.
* Max Hodge, 91, American television writer, creator of Mr. Freeze on the 1960s Batman series.
* Victor Klee, 81, American mathematician, complications of intestinal surgery.
* Tanja Liedtke, 29, German choreographer appointed as Sydney Dance Company artistic director, road accident.
* Elmer MacFadyen, 64, Canadian politician, Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative cabinet minister (1996–2007), heart attack.
* Alison Plowden, 75, British historian.

### 18

* Stephen Bicknell, 49, British expert on the pipe organ.
* Michael Deaver, 69, American Deputy White House Chief of Staff (1981–1985), pancreatic cancer.
* Norman Ickeringill, 84, Australian Olympic wrestler.
* Lucien Jarraud, 84, Canadian radio host.
* Jon Lucien, 65, American smooth jazz singer/songwriter, respiratory failure and complications of kidney surgery.
* Magdalen Nabb, 60, British author, stroke.
* Viktor Prokopenko, 62, Ukrainian footballer and coach (FC Shakhtar Donetsk), thrombus.

### 19

* Daniel Brewster, 83, American Senator (Democrat) from Maryland (1963–1969), liver cancer.
* Perry DeAngelis, 43, American podcaster, scleroderma.
* Gilles Fabre, 73, French painter.
* Francis Ryck, 87, French author of crime and spy novels.

### 20

* Gabriel Glorieux, 77, Belgian Olympic cyclist.
* Berthold Grünfeld, 75, Norwegian psychiatrist.
* Wild Bill Hagy, 68, American Baltimore Orioles cheerleader of the 1970s and 1980s.
* Leona Helmsley, 87, American hotelier, heart failure.
* Chas Poynter, 68, New Zealand politician, mayor of Wanganui (1986–2004), lung disease.
* Roch La Salle, 78, Canadian Progressive Conservative politician, Quebec cabinet minister (1968–1988).

### 21

* Caroline Aigle, 32, French aviator, first French female fighter pilot, cancer.
* Rose Bampton, 99, American opera singer.
* Frank Bowe, 60, American disability rights activist, author and teacher, cancer.
* Čabulītis, 71-72, American alligator considered to be Europe's oldest.
* Antonio De Gaetano, 73, Italian Olympic racewalker.
* Siobhan Dowd, 47, British writer and PEN activist, breast cancer.
* Elizabeth Hoisington, 88, American Army general, heart failure.
* Howe Yoon Chong, 84, Singaporean politician.
* Qurratulain Hyder, 81, Indian novelist.
* Hana Ponická, 85, Slovak writer and dissident.
* Adam Watson, 93, British diplomat and academic.

### 22

* Butch van Breda Kolff, 84, American basketball coach (Princeton, Lakers, Pistons, Jazz).
* José Ribamar Celestino, 65, Brazilian footballer.
* Jacek Chmielnik, 54, Polish actor, accidental electrocution.
* Keith Knight, 51, Canadian actor, brain cancer.
* Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet, 80, British aristocrat.
* Grace Paley, 84, American writer and political activist, breast cancer.

### 23

* Cuesta Benberry, 83, American historian known for her studies of quilting, congestive heart failure.
* William John McKeag, 79, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (1970–1976).
* David Perry, 78, New Zealand cricketer.
* Martti Pokela, 83, Finnish folk musician.
* Robert Symonds, 80, American actor (Dynasty, The Exorcist, Catch Me If You Can), prostate cancer.
* Dušan Třeštík, 74, Czech historian.
* Sir Philip Wilkinson, 80, British banker.

### 24

* Abdul Rahman Arif, 91, Iraqi politician, President of Iraq (1966–1968).
* Mark Birley, 77, British nightclub owner (Annabel's), stroke.
* Andrée Boucher, 70, Canadian politician, mayor of Sainte-Foy (1985–2001) and Quebec City (2005–2007), heart attack.
* William E. McAnulty, Jr., 59, American lawyer, first African American Kentucky Supreme Court Justice, lung cancer.
* Aaron Russo, 64, American movie producer (Trading Places, The Rose), cancer.
* Adam Watson, 93, British diplomat.

### 25

* Benjamin Aaron, 91, American labor law expert and member of Presidential commissions, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Raymond Barre, 83, French economist, Prime Minister of France (1976–1981), Mayor of Lyon (1995–2001).
* Jim Carlson, 74, American screenwriter.
* Eduardo Prado Coelho, 63, Portuguese writer and political and cultural critic.
* Richard Cook, 50, British jazz writer, cancer.
* Édouard Gagnon, 89, Canadian Roman Catholic Cardinal.
* Ray Jones, 18, British footballer (QPR), car accident.
* Alberto de Lacerda, 78, Portuguese poet, BBC radio presenter, founded Portucale magazine.
* Linda Smith, 58, Canadian writer.

### 26

* Edward Brandt, Jr., 74, American doctor and public health official, directed initial response to AIDS, lung cancer.
* Oliver Byrne, 63, Irish CEO of soccer club Shelbourne F.C., after short illness.
* Chuck Comiskey, 81, American Chicago White Sox executive in the 1950s, grandson of team founder Charles Comiskey.
* Roy McLean, 77, South African cricketer, after long illness.
* Judah Nadich, 95, American rabbi and chaplain, heart attack.
* Edward Seidensticker, 86, American scholar and translator of Japanese literature, complications from a fall.
* Gaston Thorn, 78, Luxembourg Prime Minister (1974–1979), President of the European Commission (1981–1985).

### 27

* Driss Basri, 69, Moroccan Interior Minister (1979–1999).
* Galina Dzhugashvili, 68, Russian granddaughter of Joseph Stalin, cancer.
* Richard T. Heffron, 76, American film and television director.
* Eduardo Malapit, 74, American who was first mayor of Filipino American ancestry.
* Emma Penella, 77, Spanish actress (El Verdugo, Aquí no hay quien viva), renal and heart failure.
* Doug Riley, 62, Canadian musician ("Doctor Music"), heart failure.
* Hans Ruesch, 94, Swiss racing driver, author and activist against animal testing.
* Gad Yaacobi, 72, Israeli former Minister and Labor Party Knesset member, heart failure.

### 28

* Anacleto Angelini, 93, Chilean businessman, South America's richest man, emphysema.
* David Garcia, 63, American journalist, White House correspondent (ABC), complications of a liver condition.
* Arthur Jones, 80, American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines.
* Hilly Kristal, 75, American club owner (CBGB), complications of lung cancer.
* Smain Lamari, 67, Algerian head of intelligence services, after long illness.
* Paul MacCready, 81, American aviation pioneer and inventor.
* Nikola Nobilo, 94, Croatian-born New Zealand winemaker.
* Antonio Puerta, 22, Spanish footballer (Sevilla FC), arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia.
* Darryl Sly, 68, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player.
* Francisco Umbral, 72, Spanish writer, pneumonia.
* Miyoshi Umeki, 78, Japanese-born American actress (Sayonara, Flower Drum Song, The Courtship of Eddie's Father), Oscar winner (1958), cancer.

### 29

* Sir James Fletcher, 92, New Zealand industrialist (Fletcher Challenge).
* Aldo Forte, 89, American football player.
* Richard Jewell, 44, American security guard wrongly accused of the Atlanta Olympics bombing, diabetes.
* Margie Lang, 83, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
* Vladimir Lobanov, 53, Russian Olympic speed skater.
* Pierre Messmer, 91, French Prime Minister (1972–1974), Free French fighter, French Academician.
* Chaswe Nsofwa, 28, Zambian footballer, heart attack.
* Alfred Peet, 87, American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea.

### 30

* Ramrao Adik, 77, Indian former Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
* Banarsi Das Gupta, 89, Indian former Chief Minister of Haryana.
* Augustine Harris, 89, British Bishop Emeritus of Middlesbrough, former Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool.
* Michael Jackson, 65, British writer and beer expert (The Beer Hunter), heart attack.
* Nancy Littlefield, 77, American film producer, cancer.
* K. P. H. Notoprojo, 98, Indonesian gamelan performer.
* Igor Novikov, 77, Soviet Olympic modern pentathlete.
* Ong Hok Ham, 74, Indonesian historian.
* Charles Vanik, 94, American politician, U.S. Representative from Ohio (1955–1981).
* José Luis de Vilallonga, 87, Spanish aristocrat, author and actor (Breakfast at Tiffany's).
* John Wedgwood, 87, British physician.

### 31

* Gay Brewer, 75, American professional golfer, lung cancer.
* Willie Cunningham, 77, British football player.
* Barton Kirkconnell, 90, Jamaican Olympic sailor Barton Kickconnell
* Kees Klop, 59, Dutch professor of political ethics and former chairman of the NCRV.
* Karloff Lagarde, 79, Mexican lucha libre professional wrestler.
* Doug Maxwell, 80, Canadian curling innovator, cancer.
* Jean Jacques Paradis, 78, Canadian army general, Commander of the Canadian Army.
* James Brian Tait, 90, British World War II pilot.
* Sulev Vahtre, 81, Estonian historian.