Biographies: Deaths of 2007

Deaths of 2007

A-E | F-L | M-Q | R-Z

A-E

• Abu Laban, Ahmad, Danish imam
• Adler, Robert, physicist
• Alexander, Lloyd, writer
• Alfonso, Alberto, choreographer
• Ando, Momofoku, inventor of instant ramen
• Antonioni, Michelangelo, director
• Astor, Brooke, socialite
• Avis, Warren, businessman
• Barbaro, racehorse
• Bauer, Hank, baseball player
• Bejart, Maurice, choreographer
• Bergman, Ingmar, Swedish filmaker
• Bluestone, Irving, union negotiator
• Bhutto, Benazir, Pakistani politician
• Bo Yibo, Chinese politician
• Bolin, Bert, climatologist
• Bracken, Peg, cookbook writer
• Brecker, Michael, jazz musician
• Edward, Brennan, former CEO of Sears
• Buchwald, Art, columnist
• Burdette, Lew, pitcher
• Cade, J. Robert, inventor of Gatorade
• Carlo, Yvonne de, actress
• Carson, Julia, politician
• Claiborne, Liz, fashion designer
• Clark, Bob, director
• Dainton, Barbara, Titanic survivor
• Davi, Peter, surfer
• Deaver, Michael, White House aide
• DeDomenico, Vincent, food inventor
• Delp, brad, singer and guitarist
• Denard, Bob, French mercenary
• Doherty, Denny, musician
• Drinan, Robert, politician
• Eagleton, Thomas, former U.S. senator
• Ellis, Albert, psychologist
• Ellison, Mary Lillian, wrestler
• Evans, Ray, songwriter

F-L

• Falwell, Jerry, clergyman
• Feigner, Eddie, softball player
• Fogelberg, Dan, singer
• Gallo, Ernest, vintner
• Ghostley, Alice, actress
• Gillmor, Paul, politician
• Gittings, Barbara, activist
• Goldberg, Michael, abstract painter
• Goulet, Robert, entertainer
• Graham, Ruth Bell, wife of Billy Graham
• Guarrera, Frank, opera singer
• Halberstam, David, journalist and author
• Hart, Johnny, cartoonist
• Hart, Kitty Carlisle, actress
• Hartack, Bill, jockey
• Hazlewood, Lee, songwriter
• Helmsley, Leona, hotelier
• Henebry, John P., combat pilot
• Herbert, Don, actor
• Herbert, Sir Wally, explorer
• Ho, Don, entertainer
• Hoffleit, Ellen Dorrit, scientist
• Hunt, Howard E., spy
• Hutton, Betty, actress
• Hunter, Joe, Motown musician
• Ivins, Molly, journalist
• Johnson, Dennis, basketball player
• Johnson, Lady Bird, former First Lady
• Johnson, Tom, hockey defenseman
• Jones, Arthur, entrepreneur
• Jongh, Andree de, rescuer
• Kerr, Deborah, actress
• King, Yolanda, social activist
• Kollek, Teddy, Israeli politician
• Kornberg, Arthur, biochemist
• Kristal, Hilly, nightclub owner
• Kryuchkov, Vladimir, former chief of K.G.B.
• Kuhn, Bowie, former baseball commissioner
• Laine, Frankie, singer
• Lauterbur, Paul, inventor
• L'Engle, Madeleine, author

M-Q

• MacDiarmid, Alan, chemist
• Mailer, Norman, writer
• Maiman, Theodore Harold, inventor
• Marceau, Marcel, mime
• Mbacké, Serigne Saliou, spiritual leader
• Menotti, Gian-Carlo, Italian composer
• Messner, Tammy Faye, TV evangelist
• Metzger, Bruce, Biblical scholar
• Mitchell, Parren, former member of Congress
• Miyazawa, Kiichi, Japanese politician
• Muschamp, Herbert, architecture critic
• Noble, John, gulag captive
• Norwood, Charlie, U.S. representative
• O'Brien, Parry, shot-putter
• Odell, Jack, engineer
• Oerter, Al, discus thrower
• Olsen, Tillie, feminist writer
• Orgel, Leslie, biochemist
• Osmond, George, music manager
• Paley, Grace, writer
• Parker, Francine, political activist
• Parsons, Benny, auto racer
• Pavarotti, Luciano, operatic tenor
• Peet, Alfred, coffee guru
• Peterson, Oscar, jazz pianist
• Pickett, Bobby, singer
• Ponti, Carlo, film producer
• Poston, Tom, actor

R-Z

• Reilly, Charles Nelson, actor, comedian
• Richardson, Ian, actor
• Rizzuto, Phil, baseball player
• Roach, Max, jazz musician
• Robinson, Eddie, football coach
• Roche, Paul, poet
• Romary, Janice-Lee, foil fencer
• Rorty, Richard, philosopher
• Rostropovich, Mstislav, cellist and conductor
• Rothman, Lorraine, women's rights advocate
• Rothschild, Baron Guy de, French banker
• Sa, Khun, drug lord
• Saffir, Herbert, engineer
• Sardi, Vincent, Jr., restaurateur
• Schirra, Walter, astronaut
• Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, Jr., American historian and public official
• Sheldon, Sidney, novelist and screenwriter
• Siegel, Joel, film critic and television host
• Sills, Beverly, operatic soprano
• Smathers, George, senator
• Smith, Anna Nicole, model, reality TV personality
• Smith, Ian, former prime minister
• Snyder, Tom, radio and television personality
• Somers, Brett, television personality
• Stockhausen, Karlheinz, composer
• Takamoto, Iwao, animator who designed Scooby-Doo
• Thomas, Craig, politician
• Thompson, Hank, country singer
• Tibbets, Paul, pilot
• Traisman, Edwin, iconic food creator
• Turner, Ike, singer
• Valenti, Jack, head of MPAA
• Vesco, Robert, financier and fugitive
• Viertel, Peter, writer
• Vonnegut, Kurt, writer
• Vorontsov, Yuli, Russian ambassador
• Waldheim, Kurt, Austrian diplomat
• Wallis, Ruth, cabaret dancer
• Walsh, Bill, football coach
• Washburn, Bradford, cartographer and explorer
• Wegner, Hans, furniture designer
• White, Willye B., long jumper
• Whitney, Thomas P., translator
• Win, Soe, Prime minister
• Woodruff, John, Olympic runner
• Woods, Harriett, feminist political leader
• Wyman, Jane, actress
• Yeltsin, Boris, Russian politician
• Zahir, Mohammed Shah, former Afghan King
• Zaki, Zakia, Afghan journalist