DEATHS IN JUNE 2007

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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2007.
=== 30 ===

★ Jim Corbett, 82, American politician, Mayor of Tucson, Arizona (1967–1971), Arizona legislator (1956–1958), heart problems. [1]

★ Bruce Greensill, 65, Australian rugby union player and administrator, represented Auckland and Sydney. [2]

★ Jan Herman Linge, 85, Norwegian boat designer, Soling and Yngling class. [3]

★ Will Schaefer, 78, American composer of background music for ''I Dream of Jeannie'' and ''The Flintstones'', cancer. [4]

★ Robert E. Sweeney, 82, American politician, US Representative from Ohio (1965-1967), heart problems. [5]

★ Sahib Singh Verma, 64, Indian Chief Minister of Delhi (1996–1998), Bharatiya Janata Party leader, car accident. [6]
=== 29 ===

★ Frank W. Burke, 87, American politician, US Representative (1959–1963), Mayor of Louisville (1969–1973). [7]

★ Raymond E. Douglas, 58, American NY Times executive who helped add color to its pages, pulmonary embolism. [8]

★ John Hansl, 82, Croatian ex-concentration camp guard whose US citizenship was revoked in 2005, congestive heart failure. [9]

★ Harry Henshel, 88, American watchmaker, last member of the Bulova family to head that company. [10]

★ George McCorkle, 60, American guitarist with The Marshall Tucker Band, cancer. [11]

★ Fred Saberhagen, 77, American writer of Berserker series, cancer. [12]

★ Joel Siegel, 63, American film critic for ''Good Morning America'' on ABC, colon cancer. [13]

★ Alojzij Šuštar, 86, Slovenian former Archbishop of Ljubljana. [14] (Slovenian)

★ Maurice Wohl, 83, British philanthropist and businessman, heart problems. [15]

★ Edward Yang, 59, Taiwanese film director (''Yi Yi''), colon cancer. [16]
=== 28 ===

★ Inez Baskin, 91, American journalist, covered the Montgomery Bus Boycott. [17]

★ Leo Burmester, 63, American actor, leukemia. [18]

★ Eugene B. Fluckey, 93, American submarine commander awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II. [19]

★ Hugh Johns, 83, British football commentator with ITV. [20]

★ Bruce R. Kennedy, 68, American businessman, former chairman and CEO of Alaska Airlines, light plane crash. [21] [22]

★ Abraham Klausner, 92, American rabbi, supporter of Holocaust survivors, complications of Parkinson's disease. [23]

★ Kiichi Miyazawa, 87, Japanese Prime Minister (1991–1993), natural causes. [24]

★ Howie Schneider, 77, American cartoonist (''Eek and Meek''), complications of heart surgery. [25]

★ Catherine Troeh, 96, American native people activist and historian. [26]

★ Jess Weiss, 90, American anesthesiologist. [27]
=== 27 ===

★ Patrick Allotey, 28, Ghanaian footballer for Feyenoord and Ghana. [28] (Dutch)

★ William Hutt, 87, Canadian actor, leukemia. [29]

★ Jimmy Marks, 62, American Romani civil rights leader, heart attack. [30]

★ Ashraf Marwan, 62, Egyptian son-in-law of former President Nasser, alleged double agent. [31]

★ Emilio Ochoa, 99, Cuban who was last living signatory of the 1940 Constitution, cardiac arrest. [32]

★ Silas Rhodes, 91, American educator, founder of the School of Visual Arts. [33]

★ Dragutin Tadijanović, 101, Croatian author. [34]
=== 26 ===

★ Tina Brozman, 54, American Bankruptcy Court judge, complications of ovarian cancer. [35]

★ Liz Claiborne, 78, Belgian-born American fashion designer, cancer. [36]

★ Jupp Derwall, 80, German football coach of West Germany (1978–1984), heart attack. [37]

★ Fasal al Gaood, Iraqi former governor of Al Anbar, Sunni tribal sheik prominent in alliance against Al Qaeda, suicide bomb victim. [38]

★ Lucien Hervé, 96, Hungarian-born French photographer, after long illness. [39] (Hungarian)

★ Bobby Hussey, 67, American basketball coach at Virginia Tech and Davidson College. [40]

★ Dame Thea King, 81, British clarinetist. [41]

★ Patrick Knight, 39, American convicted double murderer, execution by lethal injection. [42]

★ Luigi Meneghello, 85, Italian writer and essayist. [43] (Italian)

★ Joey Sadler, 92, New Zealand All Blacks rugby union player. [44]

★ Malcolm Slesser, 80, British scientist and mountaineer, fall from clifftop. [45]
=== 25 ===

★ Jurgis Blekaitis, 89, Lithuanian-American poet and theatre producer, Alzheimer's disease. [46]

★ Alida Bosshardt, 94, Dutch "public face" of the Salvation Army. [47]

★ Dana Bullen, 75, American journalist and advocate for freedom of the press, cancer. [48]

★ J. Fred Duckett, 74, American sports announcer and teacher, cancer. [49]

★ Jeeva, 43, Indian director and cinematographer. [50]

★ Mahasti, 61, Iranian pop singer, colon cancer. [51]

★ Bill Moss, 76, American gospel musician (''The Celestials''), emphysema. [52]

★ Adrian Mung'andu, 84, Zambian Catholic archbishop of Lusaka (1984–1996). [53]

★ Brenda Rawnsley, 90, British arts campaigner. [54]
=== 24 ===

★ Byron Baer, 77, American legislator for New Jersey (1971–2005), heart failure. [55]

★ Gillian Baverstock, 75, British novelist, daughter of Enid Blyton. [56]

★ Chris Benoit, 40, Canadian professional wrestler, suicide by hanging. [57]

★ Edouard Brunner, 75, Swiss diplomat and United Nations mediator. [58]

★ Derek Dougan, 69, Northern Irish footballer (Wolves, Northern Ireland). [59]

★ Jack Flynt, 92, United States Representative from Georgia (1954–1979). [60]

★ Robert Kroon, 82, Dutch journalist, pancreatic cancer. [61]

★ Charles W. Lindberg, 86, American last surviving marine who raised the first flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima. [62]

★ Natasja Saad, 32, Danish rapper, car accident. [63] (Danish)

★ Joy Simonson, 88, American feminist, complications of pneumonia. [64]

★ Maurice Wood, 90, British Anglican Bishop of Norwich (1971-1985). [65]
=== 23 ===

★ Rod Beck, 38, American Major League Baseball pitcher. [66]

★ Hou Yaowen, 59, Chinese xiangsheng (cross-talk) actor, heart attack. [67]

★ Hans Sennholz, 85, German-born economist. [68]

★ Nguyen Chanh Thi, 84, South Vietnamese general during the Vietnam War. [69]
=== 22 ===

★ Bernd Becher, 75, German photographer, complications of heart surgery. [70]

★ Nancy Benoit, 43, American professional wrestler and manager, wife of wrestler Chris Benoit, murder by strangulation. [71]

★ Luciano Fabro, 70, Italian artist and theorist in Arte Provera movement, heart attack. [72]

★ Lenar Gilmullin, 22, Russian footballer (FC Rubin Kazan), motorcycle accident. [73] (Russian)

★ William L. Hungate, 84, American judge, U.S. Representative (1964–1977), complications of surgery. [74]

★ Erik Parlevliet, 43, Dutch field hockey player, after long illness. [75] (Dutch)

★ Guy Vander Jagt, 75, United States Representative from Michigan (1966–1993), pancreatic cancer. [76]
=== 21 ===

★ Georg Danzer, 60, Austrian singer, lung cancer. [77] (German)

★ Bob Evans, 89, American founder of Bob Evans Restaurants, pneumonia. [78]

★ Douglas Hill, 72, Canadian author. [79]

★ Peter M. Liba, 67, Canadian Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (1999–2004). [80]

★ Marshall Shulman, 91, American Sovietologist who founded the Averell Harriman Institute at Columbia University. [81]

★ Mary Ellen Solt, 86, American poet and critic, stroke. [82]
=== 20 ===

★ Nazik Al-Malaika, 84, Iraqi poet, old age. [83]

★ Rudy Autio, 80, American sculptor, leukemia. [84]

★ Shayne Bower, 42, Canadian professional wrestler known as "Biff Wellington", heart attack. [85]

★ Anita Guha, Indian actress, heart failure. [86]

★ J.B. Handelsman, 85, American cartoonist for The New Yorker, lung cancer. [87]

★ Margaret Helfland, 59, American architect and urban planner, colon cancer.

★ Mamadou Konte, 65, Senegalese music producer, founder of the Africa Fete music festival and record label. [88]

★ Jim Shoulders, 79, American Pro Rodeo Hall of Famer, heart ailment. [89]
=== 19 ===

★ Antonio Aguilar, 88, Mexican actor, pneumonia. [90]

★ Tommy Eytle , 80, Guyanese-born British actor. [91]

★ El Fary, 69, Spanish singer, lung cancer. [92]

★ Terry Hoeppner, 59, American football coach for Indiana University, brain tumor. [93]

★ Piara Khabra, 82, British Labour MP for Ealing, Southall (1992–2007). [94]

★ Alberto Mijangos, 81, Mexican-American painter, lymphoma. [95]

★ Ze'ev Schiff, 74, Israeli military journalist, heart disease. [96]

★ Klausjürgen Wussow, 78, German actor (''Schwarzwaldklinik''), after long illness. [97] (German)
=== 18 ===

★ Bill Barber, 87, American jazz tuba player, played with Miles Davis and John Coltrane, heart failure. [98]

★ Vilma Espín, 77, Cuban wife of acting President Raúl Castro, president of Cuban Women's Federation. [99]

★ Kenneth Franklin, 84, American astronomer at the Hayden Planetarium. [100]

★ Tung Hua Lin, 96, Chinese engineer, designed China's first twin-engine aircraft, heart failure. [101]

★ Bernard Manning, 76, British comedian, kidney failure. [102]

★ Hank Medress, 68, American singer (The Tokens), producer of The Chiffons and Tony Orlando and Dawn, lung cancer. [103]

★ Georges Thurston, 55, Canadian author and composer known as "Boule Noire" (Afro), colorectal cancer. [104]
=== 17 ===

★ Jamal Abdul Karim al-Dabban, 68, Iraqi Sunni religious leader, heart attack. [105]

★ Ben Brocklehurst, 85, British cricketer and publisher. [106]

★ Angelo Felici, 87, Italian Catholic Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei. [107]

★ Gianfranco Ferrè, 62, Italian fashion designer, brain haemorrhage. [108]

★ Ed Friendly, 85, American television producer (''Little House on the Prairie'', ''Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In''), cancer. [109]

★ Jay Newman, 59, Canadian philosopher, cancer. [110]

★ Abilio Jose Osorio Soares, 60, Indonesia's last governor of East Timor. [111]

★ Fred C. Stinson, 84, Canadian politician. [112]
=== 16 ===

★ Robin Beard, 67, American Representative from Tennessee (1973–1983), brain tumor. [113]

★ Norman Hackerman, 95, American former president of the University of Texas at Austin and Rice University, heart disease. [114]

★ Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, 76, Iranian religious leader. [115]

★ Thommie Walsh, 57, American dancer (''A Chorus Line'') and Tony Award-winning choreographer, lymphoma. [116]

★ Lola Wasserstein, 89, American mother of playwright Wendy Wasserstein who inspired some of her daughter's characters. [117]
=== 15 ===

★ Richard Bell, 61, Canadian keyboardist for Janis Joplin and The Band, cancer. [118]

★ Claudia Cohen, 56, American socialite and journalist, ovarian cancer. [119]

★ Hugo Corro, 53, Argentine WBA and WBC middleweight boxing champion (1978–1979). [120]

★ Sherri Martel, 49, American professional wrestler and valet. [121]

★ Alex Thomson, 78, British Academy Award-nominated cinematographer (''Excalibur''). [122]

★ Larry Whiteside, 69, American baseball journalist. [123]
=== 14 ===

★ Ruth Graham, 87, American wife of evangelist Billy Graham. [124]

★ William LeMessurier, 81, American structural engineer, complications from surgery following a fall. [125]

★ Robin Olds, 84, American fighter pilot in the United States Air Force, heart failure. [126]

★ Jacques Simonet, 43, Belgian politician and mayor of Anderlecht, heart attack. [127] (Dutch)

★ Peter Ucko, 68, British archaeologist, complications of diabetes. [128]

★ Kurt Waldheim, 88, Austrian President (1986–1992), UN Sec-General (1972–1981), WWII Wehrmacht officer, heart failure. [129] [130]
=== 13 ===

★ Jessie Davis, 26, American murder victim. [131]

★ Walid Eido, 65, Lebanese politician, bomb. [132]

★ Sir David Hatch, 68, British managing director of BBC Radio, comic actor (''I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again''). [133]

★ Oskar Morawetz, 90, Canadian classical composer. [134]

★ Néstor Rossi, 82, Argentinean footballer, played in 1958 FIFA World Cup. [135]
=== 12 ===

★ Donald D. Clancy, 85, American Mayor of Cincinnati (1957–1960), US Representative from Ohio (1961–1977), Parkinson's disease. [136]

★ Colin Fletcher, 85, American writer on hiking, complications of old age and injuries from a 2001 car accident. [137]

★ Tito Gómez, 59, Puerto Rican salsa singer, former member of Ray Barretto and Sonora Ponceña bands, heart attack. [138]

★ Don Herbert, 89, American TV host ("Mr. Wizard"), bone cancer. [139]

★ Sir Wally Herbert, 72, British polar explorer. [140]

★ Jim Norton, 68, American football player (Houston Oilers, 1960–1969). [141]

★ Guy de Rothschild, 98, French banker and member of the Rothschild family. [142]

★ Frank Scarrabelotti, 109, Australia's oldest living man. [143]

★ Samuel Isaac Weissman, 94, American chemist known for his work on the Manhattan Project. [144]
=== 11 ===

★ Bobby Beaton, 94, Canadian ice hockey player, professional boxer and boxing referee. [145]

★ Eamonn Coleman, 59, Northern Irish Gaelic football coach (Derry GAA), Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [146]

★ Vern Hoscheit, 85, American Major League Baseball bullpen coach. [147]

★ Ray Mears, 80, American basketball coach of the University of Tennessee Volunteers (1963–1977). [148]

★ Mala Powers, 75, American film actress (''Cyrano de Bergerac'', ''Outrage''), leukemia.[149]
=== 10 ===

★ August H. Auer, Jr., 67, American-born New Zealand atmospheric scientist and meteorologist, heart attack. [150]

★ George Burrarrawanga, 50, Australian singer with the Warumpi Band. [151] [152]

★ Tommy Eytle, 79, British actor (''Eastenders'') and jazz singer. [153]

★ Charley Harper, 84, American wildlife artist, pneumonia. [154]

★ Laurence Mancuso, 72, American founding abbot of Monks of New Skete, complications of injuries from a fall. [155]

★ John Ostashek, 71, Canadian Yukon Party Leader (1992–1999) and Yukon Government Leader (1992–1996), cancer. [156] [157]

★ Parviz Varjavand, 73, Iranian archaeologist, heart failure. [158]
=== 9 ===

★ Frankie Abernathy, 25, American cast member of '', cystic fibrosis. [159]

★ Rudolf Arnheim, 102, German-born American author, psychologist, and theorist of film and visual art. [160]

★ Lorne Carr, 96, Canadian NHL hockey player for the New York Rangers and Toronto Maple Leafs. [161] [162]

★ Eddie Crush, 90, British cricketer for Kent (1946–1949). [163]

★ Harry Ewing, Baron Ewing of Kirkford, 76, British Labour politician, cancer. [164]

★ Achieng Oneko, 87, Kenyan freedom fighter and politician, heart attack. [165]

★ Ousmane Sembène, 84, Senegalese film director, producer and writer, after long illness. [166]

★ Elias Wen, 110, Chinese-born Protopresbyter (senior clergy) of the Russian Orthodox Church. [167]
=== 8 ===

★ Hideo Kanze, 79, Japanese Noh actor and director, intestinal cancer. [168]

★ Nellie Lutcher, 94, American jazz singer and pianist, pneumonia. [169]

★ Aden Abdulle Osman, 99, first President of Somalia (1960–1967). [170]

★ Lynne Randell, 57, Australian singer best known for "Ciao Baby", apparent suicide. [171] [172]

★ Richard Rorty, 75, American philosopher, pancreatic cancer. [173]
=== 7 ===

★ Gilbert Gude, 84, United States Representative from Maryland (1967–1977), heart failure. [174]

★ Michael Hamburger, 83, British poet, translator, critic. [175]

★ Sahar Hussein al-Haideri, 44, Iraqi journalist, shot. [176]
=== 6 ===

★ Warren Bradley, 73, British footballer who played for Manchester United and England. [177]

★ Tony De Santis, 93, American owner of Drury Lane Theatre, cancer. [178]

★ Larry Hamlin, 58, American theater producer, founder of the National Black Theater Festival. [179]

★ Luke Sela, 64, Papua New Guinean journalist, editor of the ''PNG Post Courier'' (1978–2000). [180]

★ Zakia Zaki, 35, Afghan director of Radio Peace, shot. [181]
=== 5 ===

★ Sam Baker, 76, American football player, complications of diabetes. [182]

★ Povel Ramel, 85, Swedish artist, singer, pianist, comedian, actor, author. [183]

★ Jean Vollum, 80, American philanthropist and widow of Tektronix founder Howard Vollum, congestive heart failure. [184]
=== 4 ===

★ Clete Boyer, 70, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves) and coach, stroke. [185]

★ Tom Burns, 75, Australian politician, former Queensland opposition leader, Deputy Premier and ALP national president. [186]

★ Jim Clark, 84, American sheriff of Dallas County, Alabama who opposed voting rights in Selma, stroke and heart condition. [187]

★ Bill France, Jr., 74, American CEO of NASCAR (1972–2003), cancer. [188] [189]

★ Sotiris Moustakas, 67, Greek Cypriot actor, cancer. [190]

★ Freddie Scott, 74, American singer ("Hey Girl"), heart attack. [191] [192]

★ Craig L. Thomas, 74, American Senator from Wyoming since 1995, leukemia. [193]
=== 3 ===

★ Richard Attipoe, Togolese Minister for Sport, helicopter crash. [194]

★ Ivan Darvas, 82, Hungarian actor. [195] (Hungarian)

★ Ragheed Ganni, 35, Iraqi Chaldean Catholic priest, shot. [196]

★ Nelson Levy, 58, Tahitian founding head of Air Tahiti Nui, leading figure in French Polynesian tourism, heart attack. [197] [198]

★ Leonard Nathan, 82, American poet, National Book Award nominee, UC Berkeley professor of Rhetoric, Alzheimer's disease. [199]
=== 2 ===

★ Sandy Barr, 69, American wrestler, heart attack. [200]

★ Marion Francis Forst, 96, oldest Roman Catholic bishop in the United States. [201]

★ Enrico Garbuglia, 107, one of the last eight Italian veterans of World War I. [202]

★ Steve Gilliard, 42, American blogger, heart and kidney failure. [203]

★ Kentaro Haneda, 58, Japanese pianist, composer and arranger, liver cancer. [204]

★ Huang Ju, 68, Chinese Vice Premier, Politburo Standing Committee member, former Mayor of Shanghai. [205] [206]

★ Martin Meyerson, 84, American academic, President of Penn (1971-1982) and Chancellor of UC Berkeley. [207]

★ John Moriarty, 69, Irish poet and philosopher, cancer. [208]

★ Kelsey Smith, 18, American kidnapping and murder victim. [209]
=== 1 ===

★ Warren M. Anderson, 91, American legislator, Temporary President and Majority Leader of the NY Senate (1973–1989). [210]

★ Jan Beneš, 71, Czech writer, translator, publicist and screenwriter, suicide. [211] [212] (Czech)

★ Kasma Booty, 75, Malaysian actress, pneumonia. [213]

★ Sir John Gilmour, 94, British Conservative MP for East Fife (1961-1979) and Lord Lieutenant of Fife (1980-1987). [214]

★ Charlie Johnson, 58, American basketball player, cancer. [215]

★ Charles Kinkead, 93 Jamaican photojournalist, stroke. [216]

★ Pamela Low, 79, American flavorist who created the coating for Cap'n Crunch. [217]

★ Marly de Oliveira, 69, Brazilian poet ("O Mar de Permeio"), multiple organ failure. [218]

★ Arn Shein, 78, American sports writer. [219]

★ Dave Smalley, 72, American coach of US Naval Academy men's and women's basketball teams, complications of cancer. [220]

★ Helen Stetter, 113, American who was world's fourth-oldest living person and Nebraska's oldest person. [221]

★ Tony Thompson, 31, American lead vocalist of the R&B group Hi-Five, apparent drug overdose. [222]