DEATHS IN MAY 2007

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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2007.
===31===

★ Clifford Scott Green, 84, American Federal Court judge. [1]

★ David J. Lawson, 77, American bishop of the United Methodist Church, after long illness. [2]

★ Fathia Nkrumah, c75, Egyptian–born Ghanaian , after long illness. [3]

★ Charles Remington, 85, American zoologist, known for his studies of butterflies and moths. [4]

★ Alexander Tubelsky, 66, Russian President of Association of Democratic Schools, stroke. [5] (Russian)

★ Jim Williams, 92, American basketball coach with Colorado State University (1954–1980). [6]
===30===

★ Jean-Claude Brialy, 74, French actor and director, cancer. [7]

★ Mark Harris, 84, American author (''Bang the Drum Slowly''), Alzheimer's disease. [8]

★ Preston Martin, 83, American banker, Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (1982–1986), cancer. [9][10]

★ William Morris Meredith, Jr., 88, American poet and Pulitzer Prize winner. [11]
===29===

★ Dave Balon, 68, Canadian ice hockey player, multiple sclerosis. [12]

★ Tony Bastable, 62, British television presenter (''Magpie''), DJ and independent producer, pneumonia. [13]

★ Dame Lois Browne-Evans, 79, Bermudian politician. [14]

★ Donald Johanos, 79, American conductor. [15]

★ Norman Kaye, 80, Australian actor and musician, Alzheimer's disease. [16]

★ Posteal Laskey, 69, American convicted murderer, commonly believed to the serial killer called the "Cincinnati Strangler." [17]

★ Tahir Mirza, 70, Pakistani journalist and former editor of ''Dawn'', lung cancer. [18]

★ Folole Muliaga, 44, Samoan–NZ teacher whose oxygen machine failed after power cut for unpaid account, heart & lung disease. [19]

★ Michael Seaton, 84, British astronomer and physicist. [20]

★ Wallace Seawell, 90, American photographer and filmmaker, age-related causes. [21]
===28===

★ Barbara Cox Anthony, 84, American heiress to Cox Enterprises and 45th-richest person in the world, after long illness. [22]

★ Jörg Immendorff, 61, German painter, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [23]

★ David Lane, 68, American neo-Nazi leader and author. [24]

★ John Macquarrie, 87, British theologian, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford (1970–1986). [25]

★ Toshikatsu Matsuoka, 62, Japanese Minister of Agriculture, suicide by hanging. [26]

★ Parren Mitchell, 85, American Representative from Maryland (1971–1987), a founder of Congressional Black Caucus, pneumonia. [27]

★ Ethel Mutharika, 63, First Lady of Malawi, cancer. [28]
===27===

★ Ron Archer, 73, Australian Test cricketer, lung cancer. [29]

★ Edward Behr, 81, British foreign correspondent and author. [30][31]

★ Sam Garrison, 65, American lawyer who defended President Nixon in impeachment hearings in 1974, leukemia. [32]

★ Marquise Hill, 24, American football player for the New England Patriots in the NFL, drowning. [33]

★ Jack Kerr, 96, New Zealand cricket player, Chairman and President of NZ Cricket. [34]

★ Wiley Mayne, 90, American congressman from Iowa (1966–1974), cardiopulmonary incident. [35]

★ Howard Porter, 58, American basketball player (Villanova, Bulls, Knicks, Pistons), injuries sustained from beating. [36]

★ Izumi Sakai, 40, Japanese singer and member of Zard, cerebral contusion. [37]

★ Percy Sonn, 57, South African President of the International Cricket Council, complications after surgery. [38]

★ G. Srinivasan, 48, Indian film producer, brother of director Mani Ratnam, fall into gorge. [39]

★ Gretchen Wyler, 75, American Broadway and television actress and animal rights activist, complications of breast cancer. [40]

★ Ed Yost, 87, American inventor of the modern hot air balloon. [41].
===26===

★ James Beck, 77, American art historian and founder of ArtWatch International, [42].

★ Gene Gibson, 82, American basketball player and coach with Texas Tech University (1962-1969), complications from surgery. [43]

★ Marek Krejčí, 26, Slovak footballer, recently played for Wacker Burghausen in the German 2nd Bundesliga, car accident. [44]

★ Aubrey Singer, 80, British television executive, head of BBC Two (1974–1978). [45]

★ Khalil al-Zahawi, 60/61, Iraqi calligrapher, shot. [46]
===25===

★ Arwon, 33, New Zealand-born racehorse, longest surviving Melbourne Cup winner, euthanasia. [47]

★ Charles Nelson Reilly, 76, American Tony-winning actor and ''Match Game'' panelist, complications from pneumonia. [48]

★ Sun Yuanliang, 103, Chinese-born General with the Kuomintang, exiled in Taiwan. [49]

★ Bartholomew Ulufa'alu, 56, Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (1997–2000), after long illness. [50]
===24===

★ Buddy Childers, 81, American jazz trumpeter, cancer. [51]

★ Bill Johnston, 85, Australian cricketer who played 40 tests (1947–1955), member of the 1948 Invincibles. [52]

★ Philip Mayer Kaiser, 93, American ambassador to Senegal and Mauritania, Hungary, and Austria, pneumonia. [53]

★ Norm Maleng, 68, American prosecutor for King County, Washington, cardiac arrest. [54]

★ Christopher Newton, 37, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. [55]

★ Minako Oba, 77, Japanese author. [56] (Japanese)

★ David Renton, Baron Renton, 98, oldest peer in the United Kingdom's House of Lords. [57]
===23===

★ Clyde Robert Bulla, 93, American children's author. [58]

★ Kei Kumai, 76, Japanese film director. brain hemorrhage [59] [60]

★ Tron Øgrim, 59, Norwegian author and politician. [61] (Norwegian)
===22===

★ Fannie Lee Chaney, 84, American civil rights activist. [62]

★ Robert Comer, 50, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. [63]

★ Frank E. Maestrone, 84, American ambassador to Kuwait (1976–1979), infection. [64]

★ Jef Planckaert, 73, Belgian cyclist. [65] [66] (French)

★ Pemba Doma Sherpa, 36, Nepali mountaineer and two-time summiter of Mt. Everest, fall from Lhotse. [67]

★ Art Stevens, 92, American director, animator and writer (''The Fox and the Hound''), heart attack. [68]
===21===

★ Frank Gay, 86, American businessman, senior corporate aide to Howard Hughes. [69]

★ Peter Hayes, 54, Australian lawyer. [70]

★ María Hortensia de Herrera de Lacalle, 98, Uruguayan politician, mother of ex-President Luis Alberto Lacalle. [71] (Spanish)

★ Bruno Mattei, 75, Italian film director. [72]

★ Kenneth Sokoloff, 54, American economist who examined factor endowment, liver cancer. [73]

★ Sakorn Yang-keawsot, 85, Thai puppeteer, lung illness. [74]
===20===

★ Bobby Ash, 82, British-born host of ''The Uncle Bobby Show'', heart attack. [75]

★ Dame Jean Herbison, 83 or 84, New Zealand academic, first NZ female chancellor (University of Canterbury, 1979–1984). [76]

★ Baruch Kimmerling, 67, Israeli sociologist and historian known for his studies of Zionism and Israeli society, cancer. [77]

★ Valentina Leontyeva, 84, Russian who was one of the first television presenters in the Soviet Union. [78] (Russian)

★ Sir George Macfarlane, 91, British pioneering scientist and engineer. [79] [80]

★ Tod H. Mikuriya, 73, American psychiatrist and medical marijuana advocate, cancer. [81]

★ Stanley Miller, 77, American chemist and biologist best known for the Miller-Urey experiment into the origins of life, heart failure. [82]

★ William Peters, 85, American journalist and documentarian of race issues, Alzheimer's disease. [83]

★ Guram Sharadze, 66, Georgian philologist and politician, shot. [84]

★ Norman Von Nida, 93, Australian golf champion. [85]

★ Ben Weisman, 85, American musician and songwriter who wrote nearly 60 songs for Elvis Presley, stroke. [86]
===19===

★ Miroslav Deronjić, 52, Bosnian Serb politician and convicted war criminal, natural causes. [87]

★ Jack Findlay, 72, Australian Grand Prix motorcycle racer. [88]

★ Frank Guida, 84, Italian-born American record producer. [89]

★ Ron Hall, 43, American football player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. [90]

★ Marian Radke-Yarrow, 89, American researcher in child psychology, leukemia. [91]

★ Scott Thorkelson, 49, Canadian member of the House of Commons (1988 - 1993), heart attack. [92]

★ Michel Visi, 52, Vanuatuan Catholic bishop. [93] [94]

★ Hans Wollschläger, 72, German author and translator. [95] (German)

★ Carl Wright, 75, American dancer, comedian and actor, cancer. [96]
===18===

★ Roy De Forest, 77, American artist and professor at University of California, Davis. [97]

★ Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, 74, French physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1991. [98]

★ Saud Memon, 44, Pakistani businessman implicated in the murder of Daniel Pearl, tuberculosis and meningitis. [99]

★ Les Schwab, 89, American tire tycoon. [100]

★ Mika Špiljak, 90, Chairman of the Collective Presidency of Yugoslavia (1983–1984). [101] [102] (Croatian)

★ Yoyoy Villame, 69, Filipino musician and comedian, heart attack. [103]
===17===

★ Lloyd Alexander, 83, American fantasy author, including ''The Chronicles of Prydain'', cancer. [104]

★ Petro Balabuyev, 76, Ukrainian aircraft designer, including world's largest aeroplane, the An-225. [105]

★ John Gonzaga, 74, American football player with the San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions and Denver Broncos. [106]

★ Kawika Kapahulehua, 76, American captain of the Hokulea's first voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti. [107]

★ Eugen Weber, 82, Romanian-born American historian, pancreatic cancer. [108]

★ Bill Wight, 85, American MLB pitcher and scout. [109]

★ Wiktor Zin, 82, Polish architect and graphic artist. [110] (Polish)
===16===

★ Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin, 91, American creole accordionist. [111]

★ Dame Mary Douglas, 86, British social anthropologist. [112]

★ Gohar Gasparyan, 83, Armenian soprano opera singer. [113]

★ Allan Hird, 88, Australian footballer (1940–1945) and President of Essendon (1969–1975), Victorian DG of Education. [114]

★ Peter Marner, 71, British cricketer, youngest player to represent Lancashire. [115]

★ Terry Ryan, 60, American writer (''The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio''), cancer. [116]

★ Lauren Terrazzano, 39, American ''Newsday'' columnist who chronicled her battle with cancer, lung cancer. [117] [118]
===15===

★ Giorgio Cavaglieri, 95, Italian-born American architect who founded New York City's urban preservation movement. [119]

★ Jerry Falwell, 73, American pastor, television evangelist and founder of the Moral Majority, cardiac arrhythmia. [120] [121]

★ Karen Hess, 88, American culinary historian and author, stroke. [122]

★ Yolanda King, 51, American activist, actress, daughter of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. [123]

★ Duncan Macrae, 92, British rugby union player, Scotland Rugby Union Team (1937–1939). [124]

★ Angus McBride, 76, British illustrator. [125]
===14===

★ Orlando Bobo, 33, American-born Canadian football player with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the CFL, heart and liver failure. [126]

★ General Sir Edward Jones, 70, British Army general, Black Rod (1996–2001), heart attack. [127]

★ Nancy McDonald, 72, American Representative for El Paso in the Texas House (1984–1995), ovarian cancer. [128]

★ Aaron McMillan, 30, Australian classical pianist, bone cancer. [129]

★ Jean Saubert, 65, American dual medalist in slalom at the 1964 Winter Olympics, breast cancer. [130]

★ Sir Colin St John Wilson, 85, British architect who designed the British Library. [131]
===13===

★ Chen Xiaoxu, 41, Chinese actress (Lin Daiyu in ''Dream of the Red Mansion''), later becoming a Buddhist nun, breast cancer. [132]

★ Mendel Jackson Davis, 64, American Democratic Representative from South Carolina (1971–1981), emphysema. [133]

★ Gomer Hodge, 63, American Major League Baseball player for the Cleveland Indians (1971), Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [134]

★ Luis Maria Mendia, 82, Argentine naval commander. [135]

★ Kate Webb, 64, New Zealand foreign correspondent, bowel cancer. [136]
===12===

★ Mullah Dadullah, 41, Afghan Taliban military commander, shot. [137]

★ Kai Johansen, 67, Danish soccer player for Greenock Morton F.C. and Rangers, cancer. [138]

★ Edy Vasquez, 23, Honduran soccer player, car accident. [139]
===11===

★ Norman Frank, 82, American producer and political strategist. [140]

★ Bernard Gordon, 88, American screenwriter named on the Hollywood blacklist, cancer. [141]

★ Stanley Holden, 79, British ballet dancer, complications from heart problems and colon cancer. [142] [143]

★ Malietoa Tanumafili II, 94, Samoan head of state. [144]
===10===

★ John Lattimer, 92, American urologist who developed a cure for renal tuberculosis.

★ Sir Oliver Millar, 84, British Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures (1972–1988) and Director of the Royal Collection (1987–1988). [145]

★ Robert Oelman, 97, American chief executive of NCR Corporation (1962–1973), co-founder of Wright State University. [146]
===9===

★ Charley Ane, 76, American football player with the Detroit Lions, pneumonia. [147]

★ Alfred Chandler, 88, American economic historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. [148]

★ Gino Pariani, 79, American soccer player (1950 World Cup), bone cancer. [149]

★ George Seddon, 80, Australian environmental scholar. [150]

★ Dwight Wilson, 106, second-to-last surviving Canadian World War I veteran. [151]

★ Philip Workman, 53, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. [152]
===8===

★ Philip Craig, 74, American mystery writer. [153]

★ Abdullah al Faisal, 85, Saudi prince, writer and businessman, after long illness. [154]

★ John Henry, 68, British toxicologist, haemorrhage. [155]

★ Carson Whitsett, 62, American composer, musician and record producer, brain tumor. [156]
===7===

★ Isabella Blow, 48, British fashion journalist and stylist, suicide by poisoning. [157] [158] [159]

★ Diego Corrales, 29, American super featherweight and lightweight boxing champion, motorcycle accident. [160]

★ George Dawson, 45, British DUP politician in Northern Ireland Assembly, cancer. [161] [162]

★ Donald Ginsberg, 73, American physicist, melanoma. [163]

★ Tomasi Kulimoetoke II, 88, King of Wallis ('Uvea). [164]

★ Raffi Lavie, 70, Israeli artist, pancreatic cancer. [165]

★ Emma Lehmer, 100, Russian-born American mathematician. [166]

★ Sonny Myers, 83, American NWA heavyweight wrestler. [167]

★ Octavian Paler, 81, Romanian writer and journalist, heart attack. [168]

★ Nicholas Worth, 69, American character actor, heart failure. [169]

★ Yahweh ben Yahweh, 71, American leader of the Nation of Yahweh cult and convicted felon, prostate cancer. [170] [171]
===6===

★ Alvin Batiste, 74, American jazz musician, heart attack. [172]

★ Carey Bell, 70, American blues harmonica player, heart failure. [173]

★ Lesley Blanch, 102, British writer and fashion editor. [174]

★ Enéas Carneiro, 68, Brazilian politician, leukemia. [175]

★ Curtis Harrington, 80, American film director. [176]

★ Đorđe Novković, 63, Croatian songwriter. [177][178] (Croatian)

★ Lord Weatherill, 86, Speaker of the British House of Commons (1983–1992), after short illness. [179]
===5===

★ Prince Abdul-Majid bin Abdul-Aziz, c.64, Saudi politician, governor of Mecca. [180]

★ José Aponte de la Torre, 65, Puerto Rican mayor, respiratory complications. [181] (Spanish)

★ Tom Hutchinson, 65, American football wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns 1964 NFL champions. [182]

★ Theodore Maiman, 79, American physicist who built the first laser, systemic mastocytosis. [183]

★ Edwin H. Simmons, 85, American Marine Corps historian. [184]

★ Gusti Wolf, 95, Austrian actress. [185] (German)
===4===

★ Russell W. Kruse, 85, American auctioneer, stroke. [186]

★ Jeremias Nguenha, Mozambican political musician who sang in Shangaan. [187] (Portuguese)

★ Mamadou Zare, 45, Ivorian soccer player and coach. [188]
===3===

★ Alex Agase, 85, Iranian-born American football coach. [189]

★ J. Robert Bradley, 87, American gospel singer, diabetes. [190]

★ Leonard Eron, 87, American psychologist, congestive heart failure. [191]

★ Abdul Sabur Farid Kuhestani, 54/55, Afghan legislator and Prime Minister (1992), assassination by gunshot. [192]

★ Pat O'Shea, 74, Irish writer. [193]

★ Wally Schirra, 84, American Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronaut, heart attack. [194]

★ Rose Tombe, Sudanese celebrity goat, asphyxiation. [195]

★ Knock Yokoyama, 75, Japanese comedian and politician, throat cancer. [196]
===2===

★ Phillip Carter, 44, British businessman, honorary VP of Chelsea FC, helicopter crash. [197] [198] [199]

★ Brad McGann, 43, New Zealand film director (''In My Father's Den''), cancer. [200]
===1===

★ Mathilde Octavie Tafna, 112, Guadeloupean oldest living person of a French possession. [201]