Deaths in April 2007

 

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

30

• Edward F. Boyd, 92, American marketing executive at Pepsi who shunned racial stereotypes in advertising. [1]
• Tom Cartwright, 71, British test cricketer for England, complications of heart attack. [2]
• Grégory Lemarchal, 23, French singer, winner of Star Academy France, cystic fibrosis. [3]
• Bernard Marszałek, 31, Polish offshore powerboat racer, 2003 World Champion, 2004 Euro Championship runner-up, asthma. [4]
• Kevin Mitchell, 36, American football player for the San Francisco 49ers (Super Bowl XXIX) and Washington Redskins, heart attack. [5]
• Tom Poston, 85, American actor (Newhart). [6]
• Gordon Scott, 79, American actor who portrayed Tarzan in six films (1955–1960), complications of surgery. [7]
• Zola Taylor, 69, American singer, member of The Platters (1954–1964), complications of pneumonia. [8]

29

• Milt Bocek, 94, American baseball player. [9]
• Octavio Frias, 94, Brazilian publishing magnate, kidney failure. [10]
• Josh Hancock, 29, American baseball relief pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, car accident. [11]
• Donald P. Lay, 80, American judge of the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1966–2006). [12]
• Dick Motz, 67, New Zealand Test cricketer. [13]
• Joseph Nérette, 83, President of Haïti (1991–1992), lung cancer. [14] (French)
• Arve Opsahl, 85, Norwegian actor, heart failure. [15]
• Ivica Račan, 63, Croatian prime minister (2000–2003), cancer. [16]
• Lee Roberson, 97, American founder of Tennessee Temple University. [17]

28

• Lloyd Crouse, 88, Canadian politician, Progressive Conservative MP (1957–1988), Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (1989–1994). [18]
• Luigi Filippo D'Amico, 82, Italian film director. [19] (Italian)
• Dabbs Greer, 90, American actor. [20]
• René Mailhot, 64, Canadian journalist for Radio-Canada, pneumonia. [21] (French)
• Tommy Newsom, 78, American musician from The Tonight Show, cancer. [22]
• Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, 94, German physicist and philosopher. [23]
• Bertha Wilson, 83, Canadian who was the first female Supreme Court judge, Alzheimer's disease. [24]

27

• Karel Dillen, 81, Belgian politician, founder of the Flemish Interest party. [25]
• Bill Forester, 74, American NFL football player. [26]
• Kirill Lavrov, 81, Russian actor, after long illness. [27]
• Mstislav Rostropovich, 80, Russian cellist and conductor, intestinal cancer. [28]
• Robert E. Webber, 73, American scholar and author on Christian worship renewal, pancreatic cancer. [29]

26

• Florea Dumitrache, 58, Romanian football player, digestive hemorrhage. [30] (Romanian)
• Wolfgang Gewalt, 78, German zoologist, director of the Duisburg Zoo (1966–1993). [31] (German)
• Lindsey Hughes, 57, British professor of Russian History at University College London, cancer. [32]
• Henry LeTang, 91, American choreographer. [33]
• Jack Valenti, 85, American president of the Motion Picture Association of America (1966–2004), complications of stroke. [34]

25

• Alan Ball, 61, British footballer, youngest member of England's 1966 World Cup-winning team, heart attack. [35] [36]
• Barbara Blida, 57, Polish politician, suicide by gunshot. [37]
• Polly Hill, 100, American horticulturist, founder of Polly Hill Arboretum. [38]
• Les Jackson, 86, British cricketer, fast-medium bowler for Derbyshire and England. [39]
• Arthur Milton, 79, British sportsman, last person to play both football and cricket for England, heart attack. [40].
• Johnny Perkins, 54, American National Football League player for the New York Giants, complications following heart surgery. [41]
• Bobby "Boris" Pickett, 69, American one-hit wonder singer ("Monster Mash"), leukemia. [42]

24

• Warren Avis, 91, American founder of Avis Rent A Car System and real estate developer. [43]
• Ida R. Hoos, 94, American sociologist and critic of systems analysis, pneumonia. [44]
• Roy Jenson, 80, Canadian actor, cancer. [45]
• James M. Moran, 88, American automotive dealer and philanthropist. [46]
• James Richards, 58, American veterinarian and feline expert, motorcycle accident while avoiding a cat. [47]
• Kate Walsh, 60, Irish Progressive Democrat senator. [48]
• Robert M. Warner, 79, American archivist who led the National Archives and Records Administration, heart attack. [49]

23

• Walter Bareiss, 87, German-American art collector, heart failure. [50]
• Paul Erdman, 74, American economist, banker, and writer. [51]
• David Halberstam, 73, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, car accident. [52]
• Axel Madsen, 77, American biographer, pancreatic cancer. [53]
• Michael Smuin, 68, American ballet dancer, choreographer and director, heart attack. [54]
• Boris Yeltsin, 76, first President of the Russian Federation (1991–1999), heart failure. [55] [56]

22

• Sir Raymond Hoffenberg, 84, South African-born endocrinologist, President of RCP (1983-1989) and Chair of the BHF. [57]
• Karl Holzamer, 100, German founder and director-general of TV channel ZDF. [58]
• Juanita Millender-McDonald, 68, American Democratic Representative (Calif.), Chair of House Administration Committee, cancer. [59]
• Conchita Montenegro, 94, Spanish actress. [60]
• Anne Pitoniak, 85, American character actress, cancer. [61]

21

• Kevin Davis, 32, American Blue Angels pilot, jet crash during an aerobatics airshow. [62]
• Boscoe Holder, 85, Trinidadian dancer, choreographer and painter. [63]
• James Hamupanda Kauluma, 75, Namibian bishop and freedom fighter, prostate cancer. [64].
• Lobby Loyde, 65, Australian rock guitarist (Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs), lung cancer.[65]
• Parry O'Brien, 75, American shot put champion at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics, heart attack. [66]
• Art Saaf, 85, American comic book artist (Sheena, Queen of the Jungle), Parkinson's disease. [67]
• Bruce Van Sickle, 90, American federal judge (1971–2002), Alzheimer's disease. [68]

20

• Yehuda Meir Abramowicz, 92, Israeli General Secretary of Agudat Israel (1972–1981). [69]
• Audrey Fagan, 44, Irish-born Australian Federal Police assistant commissioner, suspected suicide by hanging. [70] [71]
• Fred Fish, 54, American computer programmer known for GNU Debugger. [72]
• Michael Fu Tieshan, 75, Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association bishop of Beijing, cancer. [73]
• Andrew Hill, 75, American jazz pianist and composer, lung cancer. [74]
• Jan Kociniak, 69, Polish actor. [75] (Polish)
• William Phillips, 60, American engineer, Johnson Space Center shooting gunman, suicide by gunshot. [76]
• Robert Rosenthal, 89, American distinguished World War II pilot and lawyer, multiple myeloma. [77]

19

• Ken Albers, 82, American singer (The Four Freshmen). [78]
• Anthony Brooks, 85, British agent who led French Resistance saboteurs after the Normandy Invasion, stomach cancer. [79]
• Jean-Pierre Cassel, 74, French actor, cancer. [80]
• Marie Hicks, 83, American civil rights activist, complications from Parkinson's disease. [81]
• Worth McDougald, 82, American journalism educator, Director of the Peabody Awards (1963–1991), heart failure. [82]
• Bohdan Paczyński, 67, Polish astrophysicist, brain tumor. [83]
• Helen Walton, 87, American widow of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, natural causes. [84]
• George Webster, 61, American football player. [85]

18

• Josy Gyr-Steiner, 57, Swiss politician. [86] (German)
• Iccho Itoh, 61, Japanese mayor of Nagasaki, homicide by shooting. [87] [88]
• Andrej Kvašňák, 70, Slovak footballer, lung cancer. [89]
• Alvin Roth, 92, American contract bridge champion. [90]
• Donald Stephens, 79, American long-serving mayor of Rosemont, Illinois, founder of Hummel figurine museum, stomach cancer. [91]
• Tony Suarez, 51, American soccer player (Carolina Lightnin', Cleveland Force), 1981 Rookie of the Year. [92] [93]
• Dick Vosburgh, 77, American-born comedy writer and lyricist, cancer. [94]

17

• Nair Bello, 75, Brazilian actress, heart failure. [95] [96] (Portuguese)
• James B. Davis, 90, American founder of The Dixie Hummingbirds, heart failure. [97]
• Steven Derounian, 89, Bulgarian-born American Republican Representative from New York state (1953–1965). [98]
• Len Fitzgerald, 76, Australian footballer, cancer. [99] [100]
• Kitty Carlisle Hart, 96, American actress (A Night at the Opera), television personality (To Tell the Truth) and singer, heart failure. [101]
• Bruce Haslingden, 84, Australian Olympic cross-country skier, staphylococcus infection. [102]
• Raymond Kaelbel, 75, French international footballer. [103]
• Chauncey Starr, 95, American electrical engineer, pioneer in the field of nuclear energy. [104]
• Glenn Sutton, 69, American country songwriter and record producer, heart attack. [105]

16

• Frank Bateson, 97, New Zealand astronomer and writer. [106]
• Seung-Hui Cho, 23, South Korean Virginia Tech mass murderer, suicide by gunshot. [107]
• Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, 49, Canadian instructor of French at Virginia Tech, homicide. [108]
• Tran Bach Dang, 81, Vietnamese journalist and politician. [109]
• Gaetan Duchesne, 44, Canadian NHL player (1981–1995), heart attack. [110]
• Kevin Granata, 45, American associate professor of engineering at Virginia Tech, homicide. [111]
• Robert Jones, 56, British Conservative politician (MP 1983–1997), minister in the government of John Major, liver cancer. [112]
• Maria Lenk, 92, Brazilian Olympic swimmer (1932, 1936), rupture of aortic aneurysm. [113]
• Liviu Librescu, 76, Romanian-born professor of engineering at Virginia Tech, Holocaust survivor, homicide. [114]
• G. V. Loganathan, 50, Indian-born professor of engineering at Virginia Tech, homicide. [115]
• Jack Wiebe, 70, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan (1994–2000), Senator (2000–2004), lung cancer. [116]

15

• Patricia Buckley, 80, Canadian-born socialite and fundraiser, wife of William F. Buckley, Jr., infection after long illness. [117]
• Heo Se-uk, 54, South Korean protester against U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, septic shock following self-immolation burns. [118]
• Brant Parker, 86, American cartoonist who co-created The Wizard of Id. [119]
• Justine Saunders, 54, Australian actress, cancer. [120] [121]
• Peter Tsiamalili, 54, Papuan administrator of the autonomous region of Bougainville. [122] [123]
• Donald Tuzin, 62, American anthropologist and leading authority on Melanesian culture, pulmonary hypertension. [124]

14

• Ladislav Adamec, 80, Czech communist politician, Prime Minister of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1988–1989). [125] (Czech)
• Robert Buck, 93, American aviator who set several aviation records in his teens, complications from a fall. [126]
• June Callwood, 82, Canadian journalist and activist, cancer. [127]
• Bobby Cram, 67, British footballer for West Bromwich Albion and Colchester United. [128]
• Don Ho, 76, American Hawaiian musician and entertainer, heart failure. [129]
• Jim Jontz, 55, American congressman from Indiana (1987–1993), colon cancer. [130]
• William Menster, 94, American Catholic priest, first member of the clergy to visit Antarctica. [131]
• René Rémond, 88, French historian and academician. [132] (French)
• Herman Riley, 73, American tenor saxophone jazz performer, heart failure. [133]
• Audrey Santo, 23, American brain-injured girl claimed to have performed miracles, cardio-respiratory failure. [134]
• Jim Thurman, 72, American children's television writer and voice of Sesame Street's "Teeny Little Super Guy," illness. [135]
• Frank Westheimer, 95, American chemist. [136]

13

• Marie Clay, 81, New Zealand world-renowned reading expert, after short illness. [137]
• Nathan Heffernan, 86, American judge, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court (1983–1995). [138]
• Hans Koning, 85, Dutch-born writer and journalist. [139]
• Joe Lane, 80, Australian bebop jazz singer. [140]
• Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, 88, American poet who wrote about the Dust Bowl. [141]
• Capil Rampersad, 46, Trinidad and Tobago cricketer. [142]
• Joie Ray, 83, American open-wheel and stock car race driver, respiratory failure. [143]
• Don Selwyn, 71, New Zealand actor and director, complications from a kidney infection. [144]
• Marion Yorck von Wartenburg, 102, German World War II resistance fighter. [145] (German)

12

• Kelsie B. Harder, 84, American name expert, congestive heart failure. [146]
• Len Hill, 65, British cricketer for Glamorgan and footballer for Newport County. [147]
• James Lyons, 46, American film editor, squamous cell carcinoma. [148]
• Pierre Probst, 93, French children's book author and illustrator. [149] (French)
• Haywood "Little Sonny" Warner , 77, American singer who earned a gold record in 1959 with "“There’s Something on Your Mind". [150]

11

• Roscoe Lee Browne, 81, American Emmy Award-winning actor (The Cosby Show, Soap), cancer. [151]
• Loïc Leferme, 36, French free diver, drowning. [152]
• Warren E. Preece, 85, American editor of Encyclopædia Britannica (1964–1975), heart failure. [153]
• Ronald Speirs, 86, American World War II commanding officer of Easy Company (Band of Brothers). [154]
• Warren Strelow, 73, American ice hockey goaltending coach for the US 1980 Winter Olympics gold medal team (Miracle on Ice). [155].
• Kurt Vonnegut, 84, American novelist and social critic, brain injury from a fall. [156]

10

• Kevin Crease, 70, Australian television newsreader, cancer. [157]
• Mary Ewen, 128?, Jamaican claimed to be oldest person in the Western hemisphere. [158]
• Florence Finch, 113, British-born New Zealand supercentenarian, world's sixth-oldest person, cardio-respiratory failure. [159]
• Walter Hendl, 90, American conductor, heart and lung disease. [160]
• Ralph Heywood, 85, American football player. [161]
• Avdy Kuliyev, 70, Turkmen exiled politician and Foreign Minister (1990–1992), complications from stomach surgery. [162]
• Salvatore Scarpitta, 88, American sculptor, complications from diabetes. [163]
• Dakota Staton, 76, American<