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 Wbaldino Acosta, 69, Argentine politician, Governor of San Juan Province (2002–2003).Murió ex gobernador de San Juan Wbaldino Acosta 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. Phillip 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.Bishop Franco Dalla Valle, S.D.B. 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.
3 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.Baby P: the battle to name his mother Tracey Connelly and her boyfriend Steven Barker John Gardner, 80, British thriller writer and James Bond continuation novelist, suspected heart failure. Nasho Kamungeremu, 34, Zimbabwean golfer, heart attack.
4 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. Mosess 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. Élie 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.
7 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.EM-guldmedaljören Richard Dahl död Joybubbles, 58, American phone phreak. Daniel Lam, 85, Hong Kong businessman.Obituary of Daniel H. Lam 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 Morgan, 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.
11 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 Grant Hilliard III, 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). Chiara Poggi, 26, Italian murder victim, stabbed. 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.
14 John Biffen, 76, British Conservative member of the House of Lords, MP (1961–1997), septicaemia. Horace Brearley, 94, British cricketer. 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 M. 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.Morto l'onorevole Franco Foschi 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.