The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

June 2007

1

• Warren M. Anderson, 91, American legislator, Temporary President and Majority Leader of the NY Senate (1973–1989).^[1]
• Jan Beneš, 71, Czech writer, translator, publicist and screenwriter, suicide.^[2]
• Kasma Booty, 75, Malaysian actress, pneumonia.^[3]
• Sir John Gilmour, 94, British Conservative MP for East Fife (1961–1979) and Lord Lieutenant of Fife (1980–1987).^[4]
• Charles Johnson, 58, American basketball player, cancer.^[5]
• Charles Kinkead, 93, Jamaican photojournalist, stroke.^[6]
• Pamela Low, 79, American flavorist who created the coating for Cap'n Crunch.^[7]
• Marly de Oliveira, 69, Brazilian poet ("O Mar de Permeio"), multiple organ failure.^[8]
• Arn Shein, 78, American sports writer.^[9]
• Dave Smalley, 72, American coach of US Naval Academy men's and women's basketball teams, complications of cancer.^[10]
• Tony Thompson, 31, American lead vocalist of the R&B group Hi-Five, toxic inhalation of freon.^[11]

2

• Sandy Barr, 69, American professional wrestler, heart attack.^[12]
• Charles Evans, 81, American businessman and film producer (Showgirls), complications from pneumonia.^[13]
• Marion Francis Forst, 96, American oldest Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.^[14]
• Steve Gilliard, 42, American blogger, heart and kidney failure.^[15]
• Kentaro Haneda, 58, Japanese pianist, composer and arranger, liver cancer.^[16]
• Wolfgang Hilbig, 65, German author and poet.^[17]
• Huang Ju, 68, Chinese Vice Premier, Politburo Standing Committee member, former Mayor of Shanghai.^[18][19]
• Martin Meyerson, 84, American academic, President of Penn (1971–1982) and Chancellor of UC Berkeley.^[20]
• John Moriarty, 69, Irish poet and philosopher, cancer.^[21]

3

• Richard Attipoe, 50, Togolese Minister for Sport, helicopter crash.^[22]
• Ivan Darvas, 82, Hungarian actor.^[23]
• Ragheed Ganni, 35, Iraqi Chaldean Catholic priest, shot.^[24]
• Earl Hogan, 87, American politician, U.S. Representative from Indiana (1959–1961).^[25]
• James Arthur Kelsey, 54, American Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan, automobile accident.^[26]
• Nelson Levy, 58, Tahitian founding head of Air Tahiti Nui, leading figure in French Polynesian tourism, heart attack.^[27]
• Leonard Nathan, 82, American poet, National Book Award nominee, UC Berkeley professor of rhetoric, Alzheimer's disease.^[28]
• Juan Antonio Arguelles Rius, 28, Spanish songwriter and programmer, traffic collision.^[29]

4

• Clete Boyer, 70, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves) and coach, stroke.^[30]
• Tom Burns, 75, Australian politician, former Queensland opposition leader, Deputy Premier and Australian Labor Party national president.^[31]
• Lady Jeanne Campbell, 78, British journalist and aristocrat.^[32]
• Jim Clark, 84, American sheriff of Dallas County, Alabama who opposed voting rights in Selma, stroke and heart condition.^[33]
• Hallie Ford, 102, American timber entrepreneur and philanthropist.^[34]
• Bill France Jr., 74, American CEO of NASCAR (1972–2003), cancer.^[35]
• Wallace McIntosh, 87, British World War II air gunner.^[36]
• Sotiris Moustakas, 67, Greek Cypriot actor, cancer.^[37]
• Freddie Scott, 74, American singer ("Hey Girl"), heart attack.^[38]
• Craig L. Thomas, 74, American Senator from Wyoming since 1995, leukemia.^[39]

5

• Sam Baker, 76, American football player, complications of diabetes.^[40]
• Gert-Jan Dröge, 64, Dutch TV personality, lung cancer.^[41]
• Povel Ramel, 85, Swedish artist, singer, pianist, comedian, actor, author.^[42]
• Jean Vollum, 80, American philanthropist and widow of Tektronix founder Howard Vollum, congestive heart failure.^[43]

6

• Lila Irene Clerides, 85, Indian-born Cypriot actress and socialite, First Lady (1974, 1993-2003).^[44]
• Tony De Santis, 93, American owner of Drury Lane Theatre, cancer.^[45]
• Enrique Fuentes Quintana, 82, Spanish economist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1977–1979).^[46]
• Larry Hamlin, 58, American theater producer, founder of the National Black Theater Festival.^[47]
• Dave Hancock, 68, English footballer.^[48]
• Luke Sela, 64, Papua New Guinean journalist, editor of the PNG Post Courier (1978–2000).^[49]
• Zakia Zaki, 35, Afghan director of Radio Peace, shot.^[50]

7

• Gilbert Gude, 84, United States Representative from Maryland (1967–1977), heart failure.^[51]
• Michael Hamburger, 83, German-born British poet, translator, critic.^[52]
• Sahar Hussein al-Haideri, 44, Iraqi journalist, shot.^[53]

8

• Martin Buckmaster, 3rd Viscount Buckmaster, 86, English diplomat.^[54]
• Hideo Kanze, 79, Japanese Noh actor and director, intestinal cancer.^[55]
• Nellie Lutcher, 94, American jazz singer and pianist, pneumonia.^[56]
• Kenny Olsson, 30, Swedish speedway rider, crash.^[57]
• Aden Abdulle Osman, 99, Somali politician, first President of Somalia (1960–1967).^[58]
• Lynne Randell, 57, Australian singer ("Ciao Baby"), apparent suicide.^[59]
• Richard Rorty, 75, American philosopher, pancreatic cancer.^[60]

9

• Frankie Abernathy, 25, American cast member of The Real World: San Diego, cystic fibrosis.^[61]
• Rudolf Arnheim, 102, German-born American author, psychologist, and theorist of film and visual art.^[62]
• Lorne Carr, 96, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs).^[63]
• Eddie Crush, 90, English cricketer (Kent) (1946–1949).^[64][65]
• Bill Ellis, 87, English cricketer (Nottinghamshire).^[66]
• Harry Ewing, Baron Ewing of Kirkford, 76, British Labour politician, cancer.^[67]
• Rob Goode, 80, American football player for the Washington Redskins.^[68]
• Achieng Oneko, 87, Kenyan freedom fighter and politician, heart attack.^[69][70]
• Ousmane Sembène, 84, Senegalese film director, producer and writer, after long illness.^[71]
• Elias Wen, 110, Chinese-born Protopresbyter (senior clergy) of the Russian Orthodox Church.^[72]
• Leonard E. H. Williams, 87, British World War II Spitfire pilot and businessman.^[73]

10

• August H. Auer Jr., 67, American-born New Zealand atmospheric scientist and meteorologist, heart attack.^[74]
• George Burrarrawanga, 50, Australian singer (Warumpi Band).^[75]
• Jeff Erlanger, 36, American disability rights activist, asphyxiation.^[76]
• Charley Harper, 84, American wildlife artist, pneumonia.^[77]
• Jim Killingsworth, 83, American college basketball coach (Idaho State, Oklahoma State, TCU), complications from stroke.^[78]
• Laurence Mancuso, 72, American founding abbot of Monks of New Skete, complications of injuries from a fall.^[79]
• John Ostashek, 71, Canadian Yukon Party Leader (1992–1999) and Yukon Government Leader (1992–1996), cancer.^[80][81]
• Parviz Varjavand, 73, Iranian archaeologist, heart failure.^[82]

11

• Bobby Beaton, 94, Canadian ice hockey player, professional boxer and boxing referee.^[83]
• Eamonn Coleman, 59, Northern Irish Gaelic football coach (Derry GAA), non-Hodgkin lymphoma.^[84]
• Vern Hoscheit, 85, American Major League Baseball bullpen coach.^[85]
• Ray Mears, 80, American basketball coach of the University of Tennessee Volunteers (1963–1977).^[86]
• Mala Powers, 75, American film actress (Cyrano de Bergerac, Outrage), leukemia.^[87]

12

• Donald D. Clancy, 85, American Mayor of Cincinnati (1957–1960), US Representative from Ohio (1961–1977), Parkinson's disease.^[88]
• Colin Fletcher, 85, American writer on hiking, complications of old age and injuries from a 2001 car accident.^[89]
• Tito Gómez, 59, Puerto Rican salsa singer, former member of Ray Barretto and Sonora Ponceña bands, heart attack.^[90]
• Don Herbert, 89, American TV host ("Mr. Wizard"), bone cancer.^[91]
• Sir Wally Herbert, 72, British polar explorer.^[92]
• Jim Norton, 68, American football player (Houston Oilers, 1960–1969).^[93]
• Guy de Rothschild, 98, French banker and member of the Rothschild family.^[94]
• Frank Scarrabelotti, 109, Australia's oldest living man.^[95]
• Samuel Isaac Weissman, 94, American chemist known for his work on the Manhattan Project.^[96]

13

• Jessie Davis, 26, American murder victim.^[97]
• Walid Eido, 65, Lebanese politician, bomb.^[98]
• Sir David Hatch, 68, British managing director of BBC Radio, comic actor (I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again).^[99]
• Oskar Morawetz, 90, Canadian classical composer.^[100]
• Claude Netter, 82, French Olympic fencer.^[101]
• Néstor Rossi, 82, Argentine footballer, played in 1958 FIFA World Cup.^[102]
• John Stanton Ward, 89, British artist.^[103]

14

• Ruth Graham, 87, American author.^[104]
• William LeMessurier, 81, American structural engineer, complications from surgery following a fall.^[105]
• Jørgen Hare, 83, Danish Olympic shooter.^[106]
• Martin McKay, 70, Irish Olympic cyclist.^[107]
• Robin Olds, 84, American fighter pilot, heart failure.^[108]
• Jacques Simonet, 43, Belgian politician and mayor of Anderlecht, heart attack.^[109]
• Alex Thomson, 78, British cinematographer (Excalibur, Alien 3, Labyrinth).^[110]
• Larry Whiteside, 69, American baseball journalist.^[111]
• Peter Ucko, 68, British archaeologist, complications of diabetes.^[112]
• Kurt Waldheim, 88, Austrian President (1986–1992), UN Secretary-General (1972–1981), World War II Wehrmacht officer, heart failure.^[113]

15

• Richard Bell, 61, Canadian keyboardist (Janis Joplin, The Band), cancer.^[114]
• Bertin Borna, 76, Beninese politician, former finance minister.^[115]
• Claudia Cohen, 56, American socialite and journalist, ovarian cancer.^[116]
• Hugo Corro, 53, Argentine World Boxing Association and World Boxing Council middleweight boxing champion (1978–1979).^[117]
• Sherri Martel, 49, American professional wrestler and valet (WWF, WCW, AWA), accidental overdose.^[118][119]

16

• Robin Beard, 67, American Representative from Tennessee (1973–1983), brain tumor.^[120]
• Jack Doohan, 87, Australian politician, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1978–1991).^[121]
• Norman Hackerman, 95, American former president of the University of Texas at Austin and Rice University, heart disease.^[122]
• Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, 76, Iranian religious leader.^[123]
• Thommie Walsh, 57, American dancer (A Chorus Line) and Tony Award-winning choreographer, lymphoma.^[124]
• Lola Wasserstein, 89, American mother of playwright Wendy Wasserstein who inspired some of her daughter's characters.^[125]

17

• Jamal Abdul Karim al-Dabban, 68, Iraqi Sunni religious leader, heart attack.^[126]
• Ben Brocklehurst, 85, British cricketer and publisher.^[127]
• Cheng Shifa, 86, Chinese painter, cartoonist and calligrapher.^[128]
• Angelo Felici, 87, Italian Catholic Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei.^[129]
• Gianfranco Ferré, 62, Italian fashion designer, brain haemorrhage.^[130]
• Ed Friendly, 85, American television producer (Little House on the Prairie, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), cancer.^[131]
• Velimir Ilić, 81, Yugoslav Olympic athlete.^[132]
• Jay Newman, 59, Canadian philosopher, cancer.^[133]
• José Abílio Osório Soares, 60, Indonesian last governor of East Timor.^[134]
• Fred C. Stinson, 84, Canadian politician.^{[135][better source needed]}

18

• Bill Barber, 87, American jazz tuba player, played with Miles Davis and John Coltrane, heart failure.^[136]
• Vilma Espín, 77, Cuban wife of acting President Raúl Castro, president of Cuban Women's Federation.^[137]
• Kenneth Franklin, 84, American astronomer at the Hayden Planetarium.^[138]
• Tung Hua Lin, 96, Chinese engineer, designed China's first twin-engine aircraft, heart failure.^[139]
• Bernard Manning, 76, British comedian, kidney failure.^[140]
• Hank Medress, 68, American singer (The Tokens), producer of The Chiffons and Tony Orlando and Dawn, lung cancer.^[141]
• Georges Thurston, 55, Canadian author and composer known as "Boule Noire" (Afro), colorectal cancer.^[142]
• Cheves Walling, 91, American organic chemist.^[143]

19

• Antonio Aguilar, 88, Mexican actor, pneumonia.^[144]
• Victorio Cieslinskas, 84, Uruguayan Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) basketball player.^[145]
• Tommy Eytle, 80, Guyanese-born British actor (EastEnders) and jazz musician.^[146]
• El Fary, 69, Spanish singer, lung cancer.^[147]
• Terry Hoeppner, 59, American football coach for Indiana University, brain tumor.^[148]
• Antanas Karoblis, 67, Lithuanian politician.^[149]
• Piara Khabra, 82, British Labour MP for Ealing, Southall (1992–2007).^[150]
• Alberto Mijangos, 81, Mexican-American painter, lymphoma.^[151]
• Ze'ev Schiff, 74, Israeli military journalist, heart disease.^[152]
• Klausjürgen Wussow, 78, German actor, after long illness.^[153]

20

• Nazik Al-Malaika, 84, Iraqi poet, old age.^[154]
• Rudy Autio, 80, American sculptor, leukemia.^[155]
• Shayne Bower, 42, Canadian professional wrestler known as "Biff Wellington", heart attack.^[156]
• Jerry Fleishman, 85, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors).^[157]
• Anita Guha, Indian actress, heart failure.^[158]
• J.B. Handelsman, 85, American cartoonist for The New Yorker, lung cancer.^[159]
• Margaret Helfland, 59, American architect and urban planner, colon cancer.^[160]
• Trevor Henry, 105, New Zealand Supreme Court justice.^[161]
• Mamadou Konte, 65, Senegalese music producer, founder of the Africa Fete music festival and record label.^[162]
• Jim Shoulders, 79, American Pro Rodeo Hall of Famer, heart ailment.^[163]

21

• Georg Danzer, 60, Austrian singer, lung cancer.^[164]
• Bob Evans, 89, American founder of Bob Evans Restaurants, pneumonia.^[165]
• Douglas Hill, 72, Canadian author.^[166]
• Peter Liba, 67, Canadian Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (1999–2004).^[167]
• Carlos Romero, 80, American actor (Falcon Crest, Soylent Green, The Professionals).^[168]
• Marshall Shulman, 91, American Sovietologist who founded the Averell Harriman Institute at Columbia University.^[169]
• Mary Ellen Solt, 86, American poet and critic, stroke.^[170]

22

• Bernd Becher, 75, German photographer, complications of heart surgery.^[171]
• Nancy Benoit, 43, American professional wrestler and manager (WCW, ECW), strangulation.^[172]
• Eleanor Emery, 88, British diplomat, High Commissioner to Botswana.^[173]
• Luciano Fabro, 70, Italian artist and theorist in Arte Povera movement, heart attack.^[174]
• Lenar Gilmullin, 22, Russian footballer (FC Rubin Kazan), motorcycle accident.^[175]
• William L. Hungate, 84, American judge, U.S. Representative (1964–1977), complications of surgery.^[176]
• Jack Ormston, 97, British speedway rider.^[177]
• Erik Parlevliet, 43, Dutch field hockey player, after long illness.^[178]
• Guy Vander Jagt, 75, United States Representative from Michigan (1966–1993), pancreatic cancer.^[179]

23

• Rod Beck, 38, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs).^[180]
• Hou Yaowen, 59, Chinese xiangsheng (cross-talk) actor, heart attack.^[181]
• Hans Sennholz, 85, German-born economist.^[182]
• Nguyen Chanh Thi, 84, Vietnamese general for South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.^[183]

24

• Byron Baer, 77, American legislator for New Jersey (1971–2005), heart failure.^[184]
• Gillian Baverstock, 75, British novelist, daughter of Enid Blyton.^[185]
• Chris Benoit, 40, Canadian professional wrestler (WWE, WCW, NJPW), suicide by hanging.^[186]
• Edouard Brunner, 75, Swiss diplomat and United Nations mediator.^[187]
• Derek Dougan, 69, Northern Irish footballer (Wolves, Northern Ireland).^[188]
• Jack Flynt, 92, United States Representative from Georgia (1954–1979).^[189]
• Léon Jeck, 60, Belgian footballer (Standard Liège, national team).^[190]
• Robert Kroon, 82, Dutch journalist, pancreatic cancer.^[191]
• Charles W. Lindberg, 86, American last surviving marine who raised the first flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima.^[192]
• Natasja Saad, 32, Danish rapper, car accident.^[193]
• Joey Sadler, 92, New Zealand All Blacks rugby union player.^[194][195]
• Joy Simonson, 88, American feminist, complications of pneumonia.^[196]
• Biff Wellington, 42, Canadian professional wrestler, heart attack.^[197]
• Maurice Wood, 90, British Anglican Bishop of Norwich (1971–1985).^[198]

25

• Jurgis Blekaitis, 89, Lithuanian-American poet and theatre producer, Alzheimer's disease.^[199]
• Alida Bosshardt, 94, Dutch "public face" of the Salvation Army.^[200]
• Dana Bullen, 75, American journalist and advocate for freedom of the press, cancer.^[201]
• Liliane Chappuis, 51, Swiss member of the National Council, heart attack.^[202]
• J. Fred Duckett, 74, American sports announcer and teacher, leukemia.^[203]
• Fasal al Gaood, Iraqi former governor of Al Anbar, Sunni tribal sheikh prominent in alliance against Al Qaeda, suicide bomb victim.^[204]
• Jeeva, 43, Indian director and cinematographer.^[205]
• Mahasti, 60, Iranian pop singer, colon cancer.^[206]
• Jan Herman Linge, 85, Norwegian boat designer, Soling and Yngling class.^[207]
• Bill Moss, 76, American gospel musician (The Celestials), emphysema.^[208]
• Adrian Mung'andu, 84, Zambian Catholic archbishop of Lusaka (1984–1996).^[209]
• William O'Brien, 77, American politician, Minnesota State Auditor (1969–1971).^[210]
• Brenda Rawnsley, 90, British arts campaigner.^[211]
• Paul Smith, 85, American typewriter artist.^[212]

26

• Tina Brozman, 54, American Bankruptcy Court judge, complications of ovarian cancer.^[213]
• Liz Claiborne, 78, Belgian-born American fashion designer, cancer.^[214]
• Jupp Derwall, 80, German football coach of West Germany (1978–1984), heart attack.^[215]
• Lucien Hervé, 96, Hungarian-born French photographer, after long illness.^[216]
• Bobby Hussey, 67, American basketball coach at Virginia Tech and Davidson College.^[217]
• Dame Thea King, 81, British clarinetist.^[218]
• Luigi Meneghello, 85, Italian writer and essayist.^[219]
• Malcolm Slesser, 80, British scientist and mountaineer, suspected heart attack while hillwalking.^[220]
• Tamaiti Willie Star, 80, Nauruan diplomat and politician.^[221]

27

• Patrick Allotey, 28, Ghanaian footballer for Feyenoord and Ghana.^[222]
• Kari Blackburn, 53, British broadcaster, suicide by drowning.^[223]
• William Hutt, 87, Canadian actor, leukemia.^[224]
• Hugh Johns, 83, British football commentator with ITV.^[225]
• Jimmy Marks, 62, American Romani civil rights leader, heart attack.^[226]
• Ashraf Marwan, 62, Egyptian son-in-law of former President Nasser, alleged double agent.^[227]
• Emilio Ochoa, 99, Cuban who was last living signatory of the 1940 Constitution, cardiac arrest.^[228]
• Ruslan Odizhev, 33, Russian former Guantanamo Bay detainee, shot by police.^[229]
• Silas Rhodes, 91, American educator, founder of the School of Visual Arts.^[230]
• Dragutin Tadijanović, 101, Croatian author.^[231]

28

• Inez Baskin, 91, American journalist, covered the Montgomery bus boycott.^[232]
• Leo Burmester, 63, American actor (The Abyss, The Last Temptation of Christ, A Perfect World), leukemia.^[233]
• Eugene B. Fluckey, 93, American submarine commander awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II.^[234]
• Bruce R. Kennedy, 68, American businessman, former chairman and CEO of Alaska Airlines, light plane crash.^[235]
• Abraham Klausner, 92, American rabbi, supporter of Holocaust survivors, complications of Parkinson's disease.^[236]
• Kiichi Miyazawa, 87, Japanese Prime Minister (1991–1993), natural causes.^[237]
• Thomas K. Mooney, 45, American diplomat and soldier.^[238]
• Shinji Nakae, 72, Japanese voice actor and narrator.^[239]
• Howie Schneider, 77, American cartoonist (Eek and Meek), complications of heart surgery.^[240]
• Catherine Troeh, 96, American native people activist and historian.^[241]
• Jess Weiss, 90, American anesthesiologist.^[242]
• Maurice Wohl, 90, British property developer and philanthropist.^[243]

29

• Frank W. Burke, 87, American politician, US Representative (1959–1963), Mayor of Louisville (1969–1973).^[244]
• Raymond E. Douglas, 58, American executive with The New York Times, who helped add color to its pages, pulmonary embolism.^[245]
• John Hansl, 82, Croatian ex-concentration camp guard whose United States citizenship was revoked in 2005, congestive heart failure.^[246]
• Harry Henshel, 88, American watchmaker, last member of the Bulova family to head that company.^[247]
• George McCorkle, 60, American guitarist with The Marshall Tucker Band, cancer.^[248]
• Fred Saberhagen, 77, American writer of Berserker series, cancer.^[249]
• Joel Siegel, 63, American film critic for Good Morning America on ABC, colon cancer.^[250]
• Alojzij Šuštar, 86, Slovenian former Archbishop of Ljubljana.^[251]
• Edward Yang, 59, Taiwanese film director (Yi Yi), colon cancer.^[252]

30

• Gottfried von Bismarck, 44, German aristocrat, businessman and socialite, suspected heroin overdose.^[253]
• Jim Corbett, 82, American politician, Mayor of Tucson, Arizona (1967–1971), Arizona legislator (1956–1958), heart problems.^[254]
• Bruce Greensill, 65, Australian rugby union player and administrator, represented Auckland and Sydney.^[255]
• Will Schaefer, 78, American composer of background music for I Dream of Jeannie and The Flintstones, cancer.^[256]
• Robert E. Sweeney, 82, American politician, US Representative from Ohio (1965–1967), heart problems.^[257]
• Sahib Singh Verma, 64, Indian Chief Minister of Delhi (1996–1998), Bharatiya Janata Party leader, car accident.^[258]
• Norman Williams, 92, Australian World War II air gunner.^[259]