References are numbered in [brackets], which are listed here. A number after the dot gives the page in the source.

Last updated: 2008 June 28.

2007 January 1 Death of Ernie Koy, American baseball player (born 1909). [38] Death of Darrent Williams, American football player (born 1982). [38] January 2 Death of Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (born 1911). [38] January 3 Death of Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor (born 1937). [38] January 4 Death of Marais Viljoen, State President of South Africa (born 1915). [38] January 5 Death of Momofuku Ando, Japanese inventor (born 1910). [38] January 6 Death of Mario Danelo, American college football player (born 1985). [38] January 7 Death of Bobby Hamilton, American race car driver (born 1957). [38] Death of Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic-born television presenter (born 1929). [38] January 8 Death of Iwao Takamoto, Japanese animator (born 1925). [38] Death of Yvonne de Carlo, American actress (born 1922). [38] January 9 Death of Jean-Pierre Vernant, French historian and anthropologist (born 1914). [38] January 10 Death of Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (born 1912). [38] January 11 Death of Robert Anton Wilson, American author and conspiracy researcher (born 1932). [38] January 12 Death of Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (born 1937). [38] January 13 Death of Michael Brecker, American jazz musician (born 1949). [38] Death of Henri-Jean Martin, French expert on book history (born 1924). [38] January 14 Death of Darlene Conley, American actress (born 1934). [38] Death of Barbara Kelly, Canadian actress (born 1924). [38] January 15 Death of Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Iraqi politician (born 1951). [38] Death of Awad Hamed al-Bandar, Iraqi judge (born 1945). [38] Death of Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (born 1908). [38] January 16 Death of Benny Parsons, American race car driver and television personality (born 1941). [38] January 17 Death of Art Buchwald, American humorist (born 1925). [38] January 19 Death of Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist (born 1954). [38] Death of Denny Doherty, Canadian musician (The Mamas and the Papas) (born 1940). [38] Death of Bam Bam Bigelow, American wrestler (born 1961). [38] January 21 Death of U;Nee, K-pop singer and actress (born 1981). [38] January 22 Death of Abbé Pierre, French priest and founder of Emmaus (born 1912). [38] Death of Carlos Olivier, Venezuelan actor (born 1952). [38] January 23 Death of David Aaron Shayman aka Disco D, American music producer and composer (born 1980). [38] Death of Ryszard Kapuscinski, Polish journalist and author (born 1932). [38] January 26 Death of Gump Worsley, Canadian hockey player (born 1929). [38] January 28 Death of Cyril Demarne, British wartime firefighter (born 1905). [38] Death of Hsu Wei Lun, Taiwanese actress (born 1978). [38] January 30 Death of Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (born 1917). [38] January 31 Death of Kirka Babitzin, Finnish singer (born 1950). [38] Death of Lee Bergere, American actor (born 1924). [38] Death of Molly Ivins, American columnist (born 1944). [38] February 1 Death of Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer and librettist (born 1911). [38] February 3 Death of Pedro Knight, Cuban-born musician (born 1921). [38] Death of Billy Henderson, American singer (The Spinners) (born 1939). [38] February 6 Death of Frankie Laine, American singer (born 1913). [38] February 7 Death of Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927). [38] Death of Helen Duncan, New Zealand politician (born 1941). [38] February 8 American model and television personality Anna Nicole Smith dies of combined drug intoxication in Hollywood, Florida at age 39 (born 1967). [5] [38] February 9 Death of Benedict Kiely, Irish author and broadcaster (born 1919). [38] Death of Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (born 1934). [38] Death of Alejandro Finisterre, Spanish poet, editor, and inventor of table football (born 1919). [38] February 10 Death of Jung Da Bin, Korean actress (born 1980). [38] February 11 Death of Reginald Hugh Hickling, British lawyer, colonial civil servant, law academic and author (born 1920). [38] February 12 Death of Peggy Gilbert, American saxophonist (born 1905). [38] February 13 Death of Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (born 1923). [38] Death of Charles Norwood, American politician (born 1941). [38] Death of Eliana Ramos, Uruguayan model (born 1988). [38] Death of Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (born 1974). [38] February 15 Death of Robert Adler, Austrian-born inventor (born 1913). [38] February 17 Death of Maurice Papon, French Vichy government official (born 1910). [38] Death of Dermot O'Reilly, Irish-born musician (Ryan's Fancy) (born 1942). [38] Death of Mike Awesome, American professional wrestler (born 1965). [38] February 18 Death of Juan "Pachín" Vicéns, Puerto Rican basketball player (born 1933). [38] February 22 Death of Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author, painter, and art collector (born 1918). [38] Death of Fons Rademakers, Dutch film director (born 1920). [38] Death of Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (born 1954). [38] February 24 Death of Damien Nash, American football player (born 1982). [38] Death of Bruce Bennett, American actor (born 1906). [38] February 27 Death of Bobby Rosengarden, American drummer (born 1924). [38] February 28 Death of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., American historian and political commentator (born 1917). [38] Death of Billy Thorpe, Australian musician (Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs) (born 1946). [38] Death of Charles Forte, English hotelier (born 1908). [38] March 2 Five Bluffton University baseball players and the driver and his wife are killed in a chartered bus accident in Atlanta. The players, Zach Arend, David Betts, Scott Harmon, Cody Holp, and Tyler Williams, were en route to to Sarasota, Florida. [56] Death of Henri Troyat, French writer (born 1911). [38] Death of Madi Phala, South African artist (born 1955). [38] March 3 Death of Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (born 1913). [38] March 4 Death of Natalie Bodanya (Natalie Bodanskaya), American soprano (born 1908). [38] Death of Thomas Eagleton, American politician (born 1929). [38] Death of Bob Hattoy, American activist (born 1950). [38] Death of Richard Joseph, British game music composer (born 1954). [38] Death of Sunil Kumar Mahato, Indian parliamentarian (born 1966). [38] Death of Tadeusz Nalepa, Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist (born 1934). [38] Death of Ian Wooldridge, British sports journalist (born 1932). [38] March 6 Death of Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher and sociologist (born 1929). [38] Death of Allen Coage, American professional wrestler (born 1943). [38] Death of Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (born 1909). [38] March 8 Death of John Inman, English actor (born 1935). [38] March 9 Death of Brad Delp, American singer (Boston) (born 1951). [38] March 10 Death of Richard Jeni, American comedian (born 1957). [38] Death of Ernie Ladd, American football player and professional wrestler (born 1938). [38] March 11 Death of Betty Hutton, American actress (born 1921). [38] March 12 Death of Antonio Ortiz Mena, Mexican politician and economist (born 1907). [38] March 13 Death of Arnold Skaaland, American wrestler (born 1925). [38] March 14 Death of Lucie Aubrac, French World War II Resistance fighter (born 1912). [38] Death of Gareth Hunt, English actor (born 1943). [38] March 15 Death of Bowie Kuhn, Major League Baseball Commissioner (born 1926). [38] March 16 Death of Manjural Islam, Bangladeshi cricketer (born 1984). [38] Death of Sir Arthur Marshall, British aviation engineer (born 1903). [38] March 17 Death of Jim Cronin, British businessman (born 1952). [38] Death of Roger Bennett, American Southern Gospel Vocalist and Pianist. [38] March 18 Death of Bob Woolmer, English cricketer and coach (born 1948). [38] March 19 Death of Calvert DeForest, American actor and comedian (born 1921). [38] Death of Luther Ingram, American singer (born 1937). [38] March 20 Death of Taha Yassin Ramadan, Vice President of Iraq (born 1938). [38] March 23 Death of Eric Medlen, American race car driver (born 1973). [38] March 25 Death of Andranik Margaryan, 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (born 1951). [38] April 1 Death of Laurie Baker, English architect (born 1917). [38] Death of Driss Chraibi, Moroccan writer (born 1926). [38] Death of Hans Filbinger, German jurist and politician (born 1913). [38] April 2 Death of Henry Lee Giclas, American astronomer (born 1910). [38] April 3 Death of Eddie Robinson, American football coach (born 1919). [38] April 4 Death of Bob Clark, American film director (born 1939). [38] April 5 Death of Thomas Stoltz Harvey, Pathologist who conducted Albert Einstein's autopsy (born 1912). [38] Death of Leela Majumdar, Bengali children's author (born 1908). [38] Death of Darryl Stingley, American football player (born 1951). [38] Death of Poornachandra Tejaswi, Indian writer and novelist (born 1938). [38] April 6 Death of Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (born 1916). [38] April 7 Death of Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (born 1931). [38] Death of Barry Nelson, American actor (born 1920). [38] Death of Carey W. Barber, Jehovah's Witnesses leader (born 1905). [38] April 9 Death of AJ Carothers, American writer (born 1931). [38] April 10 Death of Kevin Crease Australian news presenter and entertainer (born 1936). [38] April 11 Death of Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor (born 1925). [38] Death of Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist and playwright (born 1922). [38] April 13 Death of Don Selwyn, Maori actor and film director (born circa 1936). [38] April 14 Death of June Callwood, Canadian journalist (born 1924). [38] Death of Don Ho, American musician (born 1930). [5] [38] April 15 Death of Brant Parker, American cartoonist (born 1920). [38] April 16 Death of Frank Bateson, New Zealand astronomer (born 1909). [38] April 17 Death of Kitty Carlisle Hart, American singer, actress and talk show panelist (born 1910). [38] Death of Iccho Itoh, Mayor of Nagasaki, Japan (assassinated) (born 1945). [38] April 20 Death of Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (born 1931). [38] April 22 Death of Juanita Millender-McDonald, American politician (born 1938). [38] April 23 Death of David Halberstam, American author and journalist (born 1934). [38] Death of Boris Yeltsin, first President of the Russian Federation (born 1931). [38] April 25 Death of Alan Ball, English footballer (born 1945). [38] Death of Arthur Milton, English cricketer and footballer (born 1928). [38] Death of Bobby Pickett, American singer (born 1938). [38] April 26 Death of Jack Valenti, American film executive, creator of MPAA film rating system (born 1921). [38] Death of Conchita Montenegro, Spanish model and actress (born 1912). [38] April 27 Death of Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (born 1927). [38] April 28 Death of Dabbs Greer, American actor (Little House on the Prairie) (born 1917). [38] Death of Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (born 1912). [38] April 29 Death of Ivica Racan, 7th Prime Minister of Croatia (born 1944). [38] Death of Josh Hancock, American baseball player (born 1978). [38] Death of Dick Motz, New Zealand cricket player (born 1940). [38] April 30 Death of Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (born 1983). [38] Death of Kevin Mitchell, American football player (born 1971). [38] Death of Tom Poston, American actor (born 1921). [38] Death of Gordon Scott, American actor (born 1926). [38] May 2 Death of Juan Valdivieso, Peruvian footballer (born 1910). [38] Death of Brad McGann, New Zealand film director and screenwriter (born 1964). [38] May 3 Death of Wally Schirra, American astronaut (born 1923). [38] May 5 Death of Theodore Maiman, American physicist (born 1927). [38] Death of Gusti Wolf, Austrian actress (born 1912). [38] May 6 Death of Lesley Blanch, English writer and fashion editor (born 1904). [38] May 7 Death of Emma Lehmer, Russian-born mathematician (born 1906). [38] May 11 Death of Bernard Gordon, American screenwriter (born 1918). [38] Death of Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan head of state (born 1913). [38] May 12 Death of Mullah Dadullah Akhund, Afghani Taliban military leader. [38] May 14 Death of Colin St John Wilson, English architect (born 1922). [38] May 15 Death of Jerry Falwell, American evangelist (born 1933). [38] Death of Yolanda King, American actress and activist, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (born 1955). [38] May 17 Death of Lloyd Alexander, American author (born 1924). [38] May 18 Death of Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and Nobel Prize for Physics laureate (born 1932). [38] Death of Yoyoy Villame, Filipino singer "King of Philippine Novelty Songs." (born 1938). [38] May 19 Death of Dean Eyre, New Zealand politician (born 1914). [38] May 20 Death of Stanley Miller, American chemist and biologist (born 1930). [38] May 25 Death of Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor (born 1931). [38] May 27 Death of Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (born 1967). [38] Death of Percy Sonn, South African lawyer and cricket executive (born 1949). [38] Death of Ed Yost, American inventor of the modern hot air balloon (born 1919). [38] May 28 Death of Marquise Hill, American football player (born 1982). [38] June 2 Death of Huang Ju, Chinese politician (born 1938). [38] June 4 Death of Bill France, Jr., American President/CEO of NASCAR (born 1933). [38] Death of Craig L. Thomas, American politician (born 1933). [38] June 6 Povel Ramel, Swedish writer/singer/musician/songwriter/comedian, dies at age 85. [7] (June 5 [38]) June 8 Death of Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, first President of Somalia (born 1908). [38] June 10 Death of Augie Auer, meteorologist (born 1940). [38] June 11 Death of Imre Friedmann, American scientist (born 1921). [38] Death of Mala Powers, American film actress (born 1931). [38] June 12 Death of Don Herbert, American television personality, "Mr. Wizard" (born 1917). [38] June 13 Death of David Hatch, BBC Radio producer and comedian (born 1939). [38] June 14 Death of Ruth Bell Graham, wife of Billy Graham (born 1920). [38] Death of Jacques Simonet, Belgian politician (born 1963). [38] Death of Kurt Waldheim, Austrian politician and diplomat (born 1918). [38] June 15 Death of Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler (born 1958). [38] June 17 Death of Gianfranco Ferrè, Italian designer (born 1944). [38] June 18 Death of Bernard Manning, English comedian (born 1930). [38] Death of Vilma Espín, Wife of Raúl Castro (born 1930). [38] Death of Georges Thurston, Canadian singer (born 1951). [38] June 19 Death of El Fary, Spanish singer (born 1937). [38] Death of Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (born 1947). [38] Death of Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer and actor (born 1919). [38] June 20 Death of Trevor Henry, New Zealand Justice (born 1902). [38] June 21 Death of Bob Evans, American restaurateur (born 1918). [38] June 22 Death of Nancy Benoit, American professional wrestling manager (born 1964). [38] Death of Rod Beck, American baseball player (born 1968). [38] Death of Erik Parlevliet, Dutch field hockey player (born 1964). [38] June 24 Death of Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer (born 1938). [38] Death of Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (double-murder suicide) (born 1967). [38] Death of Jack Flynt, American politician (born 1914). [38] June 25 WWE wrestler Chris Benoit, his wife Nancy Benoit, and son Daniel, are found dead as the result of a murder-suicide that took place over the previous weekend. [38] Death of J. Fred Duckett, Texan sports announcer and teacher (born 1933). [38] Death of Khadijeh Dadehbala (Mahasti), Iranian popular singer (born 1946). [38] June 26 Death of Anne Elizabeth Jane Claiborne, Belgian-American fashion designer, at age 78 (born 1929). [96.83] (June 27 [38]) Death of Jupp Derwall, German footballer and coach (born 1927). [38] Death of Joey Sadler, All Black rugby player (born 1914). [38] June 27 Death of William Hutt, Canadian stage and film actor (born 1920). [38] June 28 Death of Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (born 1919). [38] June 29 Death of Joel Siegel, American film critic (born 1943). [38] Death of George McCorkle, Founder of The Marshall Tucker Band (born 1947). [38] June 30 Death of Jan Herman Linge, Norwegian engineer and boat designer (born 1922). [38]