The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

May 2007

1

• Wiley Harker, 92, American actor (The Straight Story, City Heat, Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead).^[1]
• Winifred Pennington, 91, British limnologist.^[2]
• Mathilde Octavie Tafna, 112, Guadeloupean oldest living person of a French possession.^[3]

2

• Phillip Carter, 44, British businessman, honorary VP of Chelsea F.C., helicopter crash.^[4][5]
• Abdul Sabur Farid Kohistani, 54-55, Afghan legislator and Prime Minister (1992), assassination by gunshot.^[6]
• Brad McGann, 43, New Zealand film director (In My Father's Den), cancer.^[7]

3

• Alex Agase, 85, Iranian-born American football coach.^[8]
• J. Robert Bradley, 87, American gospel singer, diabetes.^[9]
• Leonard Eron, 87, American psychologist, congestive heart failure.^[10]
• Pat O'Shea, 74, Irish writer.^[11]
• Wally Schirra, 84, American astronaut in Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo projects, heart attack.^[12]
• "Rose Tombe", Sudanese celebrity goat, asphyxiation.^[13]
• Knock Yokoyama, 75, Japanese comedian and politician, throat cancer.^[14]
• Mamadou Zaré, 42, Ivorian footballer.^[15]

4

• Russell W. Kruse, 85, American auctioneer, stroke.^[16]
• Jeremias Nguenha, 35, Mozambican political musician who sang in Shangaan.^[17]
• José Antonio Roca, 78, Mexican football player and manager.^[18]

5

• Prince Abdul-Majid bin Abdul-Aziz, 64-65, Saudi politician, governor of Mecca.^[19]
• José Aponte de la Torre, 65, Puerto Rican mayor, respiratory complications.^[20]
• Tom Hutchinson, 65, American football wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns 1964 NFL champions.^[21]
• Theodore Maiman, 79, American physicist who built the first laser, systemic mastocytosis.^[22]
• Edwin H. Simmons, 85, American Marine Corps historian.^[23]
• Gusti Wolf, 95, Austrian actress.^[24]
• John Zamet, 74, British periodontist.^[25]

6

• Alvin Batiste, 74, American jazz musician, heart attack.^[26]
• Carey Bell, 70, American blues harmonica player, heart failure.^[27]
• Lesley Blanch, 102, British writer and fashion editor.^[28]
• Enéas Carneiro, 68, Brazilian politician, leukemia.^[29]
• Tamás Gábor, 75, Hungarian Olympic fencer.^[30]
• Curtis Harrington, 80, American film director.^[31]
• Kazuo Kitamura, 80, Japanese actor (Tora! Tora! Tora!, Black Rain, Shinobi: Heart Under Blade), pneumonia.^[32]
• Maurice Marsac, 92, French actor (King of Kings, The Jerk, Robert Kennedy and His Times), cardiac arrest.^[33]
• Đorđe Novković, 63, Croatian songwriter.^[34][35]
• Bernard Weatherill, Baron Weatherill, 86, English Speaker of the British House of Commons (1983–1992), after short illness.^[36]

7

• Isabella Blow, 48, British fashion journalist and stylist, suicide by poisoning.^[37][38][39]
• Quentin Brooks, 86, American Olympic shooter.^[40]
• Fulton Burley, 84, Canadian performer, heart failure.
• Diego Corrales, 29, American world champion boxer, motorcycle accident.^[41]
• Shirl Conway, 90, American actress.^[42]
• George Dawson, 45, British politician, Northern Ireland Assembly member, cancer.^[43][44]
• Donald Ginsberg, 73, American physicist, melanoma.^[45]
• Tomasi Kulimoetoke II, 88, Wallisian King of Wallis ('Uvea).^[46]
• Raffi Lavie, 70, Israeli artist, pancreatic cancer.^[47]
• Emma Lehmer, 100, Russian-born American mathematician.^[48]
• Sonny Myers, 83, American professional wrestler.^[49]
• Octavian Paler, 81, Romanian writer and journalist, heart attack.^[50]
• Nicholas Worth, 69, American actor (Darkman, Heartbreak Ridge, Night Court), heart failure.^[51]
• Yahweh ben Yahweh, 71, American religious cult leader (Nation of Yahweh) and convicted felon, prostate cancer.^[52][53]

8

• Mark Burns, 71, English actor (Exodus, House of the Living Dead, By the Sword Divided), cancer.^[54]
• Philip R. Craig, 74, American mystery writer.^[55]
• Velma Dunn, 88, American diver who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics, stroke.^[56]
• Abdullah al Faisal, 85, Saudi prince, writer and businessman, after long illness.^[57]
• David Farquhar, 79, New Zealand composer.^[58]
• John Henry, 68, British toxicologist, haemorrhage.^[59]
• René Lamps, 91, French politician.^[60]
• Jagdish Narain Sapru, 74, Indian former chairman of ITC Limited and BOC India.^[61]
• Carson Whitsett, 62, American composer, musician and record producer, brain tumor.^[62]

9

• Donald Alexander, 79, Scottish medical researcher.^[63]
• Charley Ane, 76, American football player (Detroit Lions), pneumonia.^[64]
• Alfred Chandler, 88, American economic historian.^[65]
• Gino Pariani, 79, American soccer player (1950 World Cup), bone cancer.^[66]
• George Seddon, 80, Australian environmental scholar.^[67]
• Dwight Wilson, 106, Canadian centenarian, second-to-last surviving World War I veteran.^[68]
• Philip Workman, 53, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.^[69]

10

• John Lattimer, 92, American urologist who developed a cure for renal tuberculosis.^[70]
• Sir Oliver Millar, 84, British Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures (1972–1988) and Director of the Royal Collection (1987–1988).^[71]
• Robert Oelman, 97, American chief executive of NCR Corporation (1962–1973), co-founder of Wright State University.^[72]
• Chuck Riley, 66, American voice actor.^[73]

11

• Norman Frank, 82, American producer and political strategist.^[74]
• Bernard Gordon, 88, American screenwriter, named on the Hollywood blacklist, cancer.^[75]
• Stanley Holden, 79, British ballet dancer, complications from heart problems and colon cancer.^[76][77]
• Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe, 71, Nigerian Igbo highlife musician.^[78]
• Malietoa Tanumafili II, 94, Samoan politician, head of state.^[79]

12

• Mullah Dadullah, 41, Afghan militant, Taliban military commander, shot.^[80]
• Teddy Infuhr, 70, American child actor.^[81]
• Kai Johansen, 66, Danish footballer (Greenock Morton F.C. and Rangers), cancer.^[82]
• Henri Klein, 87, French Olympic athlete.^[83]
• Edy Vásquez, 23, Honduran footballer, car accident.^[84]

13

• Alexander Buchanan Campbell, 92, Scottish architect.^[85]
• Chen Xiaoxu, 41, Chinese actress (Dream of the Red Mansion) and Buddhist nun, breast cancer.^[86]
• Mendel Jackson Davis, 64, American politician, U.S. Representative from South Carolina (1971–1981), emphysema.^[87]
• Gomer Hodge, 63, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.^[88]
• Luis María Mendía, 82, Argentine naval officer.^[89]
• Kate Webb, 64, New Zealand journalist and foreign correspondent, bowel cancer.^[90]

14

• Orlando Bobo, 33, American-born Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers), heart and liver failure.^[91]
• Ülo Jõgi, 86, Estonian anti-communist.^[92]
• Sir Edward Jones, 70, British Army general, Black Rod (1996–2001), heart attack.^[93]
• Nancy McDonald, 72, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives (1984–1995), ovarian cancer.^[94]
• Aaron McMillan, 30, Australian classical pianist, bone cancer.^[95]
• Jean Saubert, 65, American dual medalist in slalom (1964 Winter Olympics), breast cancer.^[96]
• Sir Colin St John Wilson, 85, British architect, designer of the British Library.^[97]

15

• Giorgio Cavaglieri, 95, Italian-born American architect, founder of New York City's urban preservation movement.^[98]
• Jerry Falwell, 73, American minister, television evangelist, and conservative activist, founder of the Moral Majority, cardiac arrhythmia.^[99]
• Karen Hess, 88, American culinary historian and author, stroke.^[100]
• Yolanda King, 51, American activist and actress, daughter and first-born child of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.^[101]
• Duncan Macrae, 92, British rugby football player, (Scotland Rugby Union Team).^[102]
• Angus McBride, 76, British illustrator.^[103]
• Lauren Terrazzano, 39, American journalist, chronicled her battle with cancer, lung cancer.^[104][105]

16

• Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin, 91, American creole accordionist.^[106]
• Dame Mary Douglas, 86, British social anthropologist.^[107]
• Gohar Gasparyan, 83, Armenian soprano opera singer.^[108]
• Allan Hird, Sr., 88, Australian footballer and academic, President of Essendon Football Club (1969–1975), Victorian Director-general of Education.^[109]
• Peter Marner, 71, British cricketer, youngest player to represent the Lancashire County Cricket Club.^[110]
• C. Timothy O'Meara, 64, American film editor (The Rose, Hoosiers, Conan the Barbarian).^[111]
• Terry Ryan, 60, American writer (The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio), cancer.^[112]

17

• Lloyd Alexander, 83, American author (The Chronicles of Prydain), cancer.^[113]
• Petro Balabuyev, 76, Ukrainian aircraft designer, including world's largest aeroplane, the An-225.^[114]
• Don Burton, 87, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1976–1984).^[115]
• Egmont Foregger, 84, Austrian jurist, official and politician, severe illness.^[116]
• John Gonzaga, 74, American football player with the San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions and Denver Broncos.^[117]
• Kawika Kapahulehua, 76, American captain of the Hokulea's first voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti.^[118]
• Sir John Nicholls, 80, British air marshal.^[119]
• Eugen Weber, 82, Romanian-born American historian, pancreatic cancer.^[120]
• Bill Wight, 85, American MLB pitcher and scout.^[121]
• Wiktor Zin, 82, Polish architect and graphic artist.^[122]

18

• Roy De Forest, 77, American artist and professor at University of California, Davis.^[123]
• Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, 74, French physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1991.^[124]
• Cornelius R. Hager, 93, American educator, President of Asbury University.^[125]
• Saud Memon, 44, Pakistani businessman implicated in the murder of Daniel Pearl, tuberculosis and meningitis.^[126]
• Les Schwab, 89, American tire tycoon.^[127]
• Mika Špiljak, 90, Croatian politician, chairman of the Collective Presidency of Yugoslavia (1983–1984).^[128][129]
• Yoyoy Villame, 69, Filipino musician and comedian, heart attack.^[130]

19

• Derek Cooper, 94, British army officer and refugee campaigner.^[131]
• Miroslav Deronjić, 52, Bosnian Serb politician and convicted war criminal, natural causes.^[132]
• Willie Ferguson, 67, South African racing driver.^[133]
• Jack Findlay, 72, Australian Grand Prix motorcycle racer.^[134]
• Frank Guida, 84, Italian-born American record producer.^[135]
• Ron Hall, 43, American football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Detroit Lions).^[136]
• Marian Radke-Yarrow, 89, American researcher in child psychology, leukemia.^[137]
• Scott Thorkelson, 49, Canadian member of the House of Commons (1988–1993), heart attack.^[138]
• Michel Visi, 52, Vanuatuan Catholic bishop.^[139]
• Hans Wollschläger, 72, German author and translator.^[140]
• Carl Wright, 75, American actor (Big Momma's House, Barbershop, Soul Food), cancer.^[141]

20

• Bobby Ash, 82, British-born Canadian television host (The Uncle Bobby Show), heart attack.^[142]
• Dame Jean Herbison, 84, New Zealand academic, first N.Z. female chancellor (University of Canterbury, 1979–1984).^[143]
• Baruch Kimmerling, 67, Israeli sociologist and historian.^[144]
• Valentina Leontyeva, 84, Russian television presenter, one of the first television presenters in the Soviet Union.^{[citation needed]}
• Sir George Macfarlane, 91, British scientist and engineer.^[145]
• Tod H. Mikuriya, 73, American psychiatrist and medical marijuana advocate, cancer.^[146]
• Stanley Miller, 77, American chemist and biologist, known for the Miller–Urey experiment into the origins of life, heart failure.^[147]
• William Peters, 85, American journalist and documentarian of race issues, Alzheimer's disease.^[148]
• Guram Sharadze, 66, Georgian philologist and politician, shot.^[149]
• Norman Von Nida, 93, Australian golfer.^[150]
• Ben Weisman, 85, American musician and songwriter, wrote nearly 60 songs for singer Elvis Presley, stroke.^[151]

21

• Clark Adams, 37, American secular humanist leader and activist.^[152]
• Frank Gay, 86, American businessman, senior corporate aide to Howard Hughes.^[153]
• Peter Hayes, 58, Australian lawyer.^[154]
• María Hortensia de Herrera de Lacalle, 98, Uruguayan politician, mother of ex-President Luis Alberto Lacalle.^[155]
• Bruno Mattei, 75, Italian film director.^[156]
• Kenneth Sokoloff, 54, American economist who examined factor endowment, liver cancer.^[157]
• Sakorn Yang-keawsot, 85, Thai puppeteer, lung illness.^[158]

22

• Fannie Lee Chaney, 84, American civil rights activist.^[159]
• Frank E. Maestrone, 84, American diplomat, ambassador to Kuwait (1976–1979), infection.^[160]
• Jef Planckaert, 73, Belgian cyclist.^[161][162]
• Pemba Doma Sherpa, 36, Nepali mountaineer, two-time summiter of Mt. Everest, fall from Lhotse.^[163]
• Art Stevens, 92, American animator, film director and screenwriter (The Fox and the Hound, The Rescuers, The Black Cauldron), heart attack.^[164]

23

• Clyde Robert Bulla, 93, American children's author.^[165]
• Kei Kumai, 76, Japanese film director, brain hemorrhage.^[166][167]
• Tron Øgrim, 59, Norwegian author and politician.^[168]

24

• Buddy Childers, 81, American jazz trumpeter, cancer.^[169]
• Les Harmer, 86, New Zealand cricket umpire.^[170]
• Bill Johnston, 85, Australian cricketer, member of the 1948 Invincibles.^[171]
• Philip Mayer Kaiser, 93, American diplomat, ambassador to Senegal and Mauritania, Hungary, and Austria, pneumonia.^[172]
• Norm Maleng, 68, American prosecutor (King County, Washington), cardiac arrest.^[173]
• Christopher Newton, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.^[174]
• Minako Oba, 77, Japanese author.^[175]
• David Renton, Baron Renton, 98, British politician and aristocrat, oldest peer in the House of Lords.^[176]

25

• Arwon, 33, New Zealand-born racehorse, longest surviving Melbourne Cup winner, euthanasia.^[177]
• Laurie Bartram, 49, American actress (Friday the 13th) and ballet dancer, pancreatic cancer.^[178]
• Victor Firea, 84, Romanian Olympic athlete.^[179]
• Charles Nelson Reilly, 76, American actor (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, All Dogs Go to Heaven), Tony winner (1962), complications from pneumonia.^[180]
• Kaspar Schiesser, 91, Swiss Olympic runner.^[181]
• Sun Yuanliang, 103, Chinese-born General with the Kuomintang, exiled in Taiwan.^[182]
• Bartholomew Ulufa'alu, 56, Solomon Islander politician, Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (1997–2000), after long illness.^[183]

26

• Sir James Baird, 92, British army general.^[184]
• James Beck, 77, American art historian, founder of ArtWatch International,.^[185]
• Gene Gibson, 82, American basketball player and coach (Texas Tech University), complications from surgery.^[186]
• Marek Krejčí, 26, Slovak footballer, car accident.^[187]
• Phyllis Sellick, 95, British pianist.^[188]
• Aubrey Singer, 80, British television executive, head of BBC Two (1974–1978).^[189]
• Khalil al-Zahawi, 60-61, Iraqi calligrapher, shot.^[190]

27

• Ron Archer, 73, Australian Test cricketer, lung cancer.^[191]
• Edward Behr, 81, British journalist and author.^[192]
• Sam Garrison, 65, American lawyer, defended President Richard Nixon in impeachment hearings in 1974, leukemia.^[193]
• Marquise Hill, 24, American football player (New England Patriots), drowning.^[194]
• Jack Kerr, 96, New Zealand cricket player, Chairman and President of New Zealand Cricket.^[195]
• Wiley Mayne, 90, American politician, U.S. Representative from Iowa (1966–1974), cardiopulmonary incident.^[196]
• Howard Porter, 58, American basketball player (Bulls, Knicks, Pistons), injuries sustained from beating.^[197]
• Izumi Sakai, 40, Japanese singer (Zard), cerebral contusion.^[198]
• Percy Sonn, 57, South African cricket player, President of the International Cricket Council, complications after surgery.^[199]
• Gretchen Wyler, 75, American actress (Private Benjamin, Dallas, The Devil's Brigade) and animal rights activist, complications from breast cancer.^[200]
• Ed Yost, 87, American inventor of the modern hot air balloon.^[201]

28

• Barbara Cox Anthony, 84, American heiress, after long illness.^[202]
• Harold C. Helgeson, 75, American geochemist, lung cancer.^[203]
• Jörg Immendorff, 61, German painter, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.^[204]
• Phyllis Koehn, 84, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).^[205]
• David Lane, 68, American white supremacist leader and author.^[206]
• John Macquarrie, 87, British theologian, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford (1970–1986).^[207]
• Toshikatsu Matsuoka, 62, Japanese politician, Minister of Agriculture, suicide by hanging.^[208]
• Parren Mitchell, 85, American politician, U.S. Representative from Maryland (1971–1987), co-founder of Congressional Black Caucus, pneumonia.^[209]
• Ethel Mutharika, 63, Zimbabwe-born First Lady of Malawi, cancer.^[210]

29

• Dave Balon, 68, Canadian ice hockey player, multiple sclerosis.^[211]
• Tony Bastable, 62, British television presenter (Magpie), DJ and independent producer, pneumonia.^[212]
• Dame Lois Browne-Evans, 79, Bermudian politician.^[213]
• Donald Johanos, 79, American conductor.^[214]
• Norman Kaye, 80, Australian actor and musician, Alzheimer's disease.^[215]
• Posteal Laskey Jr., 69, American convicted murderer, commonly believed to be the serial killer called the "Cincinnati Strangler".^[216]
• Tahir Mirza, 70, Pakistani journalist and former editor of Dawn, lung cancer.^[217]
• Folole Muliaga, 44, Samoan–NZ teacher whose oxygen machine failed after power cut for unpaid account, heart and lung disease.^[218]
• Michael Seaton, 84, British astronomer and physicist.^[219]
• Wallace Seawell, 90, American photographer and filmmaker, age-related causes.^[220]
• John Stanning junior, 87, English cricketer.^[221]

30

• Jean-Claude Brialy, 74, French actor and director, cancer.^[222]
• Kieran Carey, 74, Irish hurler.^[223]
• Mark Harris, 84, American author (Bang the Drum Slowly), Alzheimer's disease.^[224]
• Preston Martin, 83, American banker, Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (1982–1986), cancer.^[225]
• William Morris Meredith, Jr., 88, American poet and Pulitzer Prize winner.^[226]
• Yevgeni Mishakov, 66, Russian ice hockey player.^[227]

31

• George Bragg, 81, American conductor and founder of the Texas Boys Choir.^[228]
• Norman Fletcher, 89, American architect.^[229]
• Clifford Scott Green, 84, American jurist, Federal Court judge.^[230]
• David J. Lawson, 77, American minister, bishop of the United Methodist Church, after long illness.^[231]
• Fathia Nkrumah, 75, Egyptian–born Ghanaian First Lady, after long illness.^[232]
• Charles Remington, 85, American zoologist, known for studies of butterflies and moths.^[233]
• Alexander Tubelsky, 66, Russian academic, President of Association of Democratic Schools, stroke.^[234]
• Jim Williams, 92, American basketball coach (Colorado State University).^[235]