:Deaths in December 2007

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.

December 2007

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Rassim al-Jumaili, 69, Iraqi actor and comedian, kidney failure.{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2007/scene/news/iraqi-actor-rasim-al-jumaili-dies-1117976961/ |title=Iraqi actor Rasim al-Jumaili dies |date=3 December 2007 |magazine=Variety |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Jennifer Davidson, 38, American executive, senior vice president of programming and scheduling for Cartoon Network.{{cite web |url=http://www.tvweek.com/news/2007/12/cartoon_networks_davidson_dies.php |title=Cartoon Network's Davidson Dies at 38 |last=Krukowski |first=Andrew |date=3 December 2007 |website=TV Week.com |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071206165002/http://www.tvweek.com/news/2007/12/cartoon_networks_davidson_dies.php |archive-date=6 December 2007}}
Elisabeth Eybers, 92, South African-born poet.{{cite web |url=http://www.litnet.co.za/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?cmd%3Dcause_dir_news_item%26cause_id%3D1270%26news_id%3D29077%26cat_id%3D293 |title=In Memoriam: Elisabeth Eybers: 26 Februarie 1915 – 1 Desember 2007 |first=Ena |last=Jansen |date=4 December 2007 |website=LitNet |language=af |access-date=1 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071208212437/http://www.litnet.co.za/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?cmd=cause_dir_news_item&cause_id=1270&news_id=29077&cat_id=293 |archive-date=8 December 2007}}
Tony Fall, 67, British rally driver and Opel Motorsport Team director, heart attack.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.octane-magazine.com/news.php?seenews%3D420 |title=Rally legend Tony Fall dies |date=2 December 2007 |magazine=Octane |access-date=1 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071208181233/http://www.octane-magazine.com/news.php?seenews=420 |archive-date=8 December 2007}}
Ken McGregor, 78, Australian tennis player, stomach cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/tennis-ace-ken-mcgregor-dies/news-story/9d6c32b0a9de8e9a20ae514ee8290c3c |title=Tennis ace Ken McGregor dies |agency=AAP |date=1 December 2007 |newspaper=The Advertiser |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Danny Newman, 88, American publicist for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, pulmonary fibrosis.{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2007/12/03/danny-newman-1919-2007/ |title=Danny Newman (1919–2007): Legendary promoter of Lyric, the arts |date=3 December 2007 |first=John |last=von Rhein |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Anton Rodgers, 74, British actor.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1571282/Anton-Rodgers.html |title=Anton Rodgers |date=3 December 2007 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Ivo Rojnica, 92, Croatian-Argentine war crimes suspect, businessman, diplomat, and intelligence agent.{{cite book|last=Brozović|first=Dalibor|year=1999|title=Hrvatska enciklopedija|volume=1|language=Croatian|publisher=Leksikografski zavod "Miroslav Krleža"|location=Zagreb, Croatia|isbn=978-9-53603-629-5|page=400}}

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Jennifer Alexander, 35, Canadian-born American ballet dancer, traffic collision.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/nyregion/05dancers.html |title=A Ballet Love Story Comes to an End on an Icy Road |last=Wakin |first=Daniel J. |date=5 December 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Robert O. Anderson, 90, American founder and former CEO of ARCO.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/06/business/06anderson.html |title=Robert O. Anderson, Oil Executive, Dies at 90 |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=6 December 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Nelly Beltrán, 82, Argentine actress.[https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/ultimas/20-95671-2007-12-03.html Murió Nelly Beltrán] {{in lang|es}}
Elizabeth Hardwick, 91, American co-founder of The New York Review of Books.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/obituaries/04cnd-hardwick.html |title=Elizabeth Hardwick, Writer, Dies at 91 |first=Christopher |last=Lehmann-Haupt |date=4 December 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=28 September 2017}}
Doreen Kartinyeri, 72, Ngarrindjeri elder and historian.{{cite news |url=https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/anti-bridge-campaigner-dies/news-story/96b2393c6402a18d56b9acc187229733 |title=Anti-bridge campaigner dies |agency=AAP |date=2 December 2007 |newspaper=The Advertiser |access-date=23 June 2018}}
David Maybury-Lewis, 78, British anthropologist.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3114613.ece |title=Professor David Maybury-Lewis |date=1 January 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524193758/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3114613.ece |archive-date=24 May 2010}}
Eleonora Rossi Drago, 82, Italian actress, cerebral haemorrhage.{{cite news |url=http://www.ilmessaggero.it/articolo.php?id=14322&sez=HOME_SPETTACOLO |title=Addio a Eleonora Rossi Drago |date=2 December 2007 |newspaper=Il Messaggero |language=it |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071204032130/http://www.ilmessaggero.it/articolo.php?id=14322&sez=HOME_SPETTACOLO |archive-date=4 December 2007}}
Les Shannon, 81, English football player (Liverpool, Burnley) and manager (Bury, Blackpool).{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/les-shannon-feisty-footballer-and-coach-764842.html |title=Les Shannon: Feisty footballer and coach |first=Ivan |last=Ponting |date=13 December 2007 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Thomas F. Torrance, 94, Scottish theologian.{{cite news |url=http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id%3D1904452007 |title=Moderator world-famous for his theological studies |date=6 December 2007 |newspaper=The Scotsman |access-date=1 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071208140942/http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=1904452007 |archive-date=8 December 2007}}

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Art Arfons, 81, American jet-car driver and drag racer, three-time world land speed record holder.{{cite magazine |url=http://autoweek.com/article/car-news/land-speed-record-drag-racing-legend-art-arfons-dies |title=Land-speed record, drag-racing legend Art Arfons dies |date=3 December 2007 |magazine=Autoweek |access-date=23 June 2018}}
John Belgrave, 67, New Zealand public servant, Chief Ombudsman (2003–2007), cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10480215 |title=John Belgrave dies after 40 years of service |date=4 December 2007 |newspaper=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Jaime Fuster, 66, Puerto Rican politician and jurist, Resident Commissioner (1985–1992), heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.elnuevodia.com:80/diario/noticia/puertoricohoy/noticias/muere_juez_supremo_fuster/324822 |title=Supremo luto por muerte del juez Fuster |date=5 December 2007 |newspaper=El Nuevo Día |language=es |access-date=23 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071205202831/http://www.elnuevodia.com/diario/noticia/puertoricohoy/noticias/muere_juez_supremo_fuster/324822 |url-status=dead |archive-date= 5 December 2007}}
Susumu Katsumata, 63, Japanese manga artist and illustrator, melanoma.{{cite news |url=http://www.nishinippon.co.jp/nnp/national/obituaries/20071206/20071206_001.shtml |title=勝又進氏死去漫画家 |date=6 December 2007 |newspaper=Nishinippon Shimbun |access-date=1 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071210083315/http://www.nishinippon.co.jp/nnp/national/obituaries/20071206/20071206_001.shtml |archive-date=10 December 2007}}
James Kemsley, 59, Australian cartoonist (Ginger Meggs), motor neurone disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/national/tributes-flow-in-for-ginger-meggs-cartoonist/2007/12/04/1196530651231.html |title=Ginger Meggs cartoonist dies |agency=AAP |date=3 December 2007 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Keshav Meshram, 70, Indian writer and critic, lung cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.merinews.com/article/keshav-meshram-great-dalit-poet-and-novelist-passes-away-in-mumbai/128286.shtml |title=Keshav Meshram, great Dalit poet and novelist, passes away in Mumbai |first=Vibhav |last=Birwatkar |date=4 December 2007 |website=Merinews |access-date=23 June 2018 |archive-date=February 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220041047/http://www.merinews.com/article/keshav-meshram-great-dalit-poet-and-novelist-passes-away-in-mumbai/128286.shtml |url-status=dead }}
Lord Bloody Wog Rolo, 62, Australian activist, renal cell carcinoma.{{cite news |url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/activist-used-humour-as-his-best-defence/2008/01/16/1200419882255.html |title=Activist used humour as his best defence: Lord Bloody Wog Rolo, 1945–2007 |date=17 January 2008 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Heloneida Studart, 76, Brazilian writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, advocate for women's rights, and political figure.{{cite news |url=https://extra.globo.com/noticias/rio/morre-ex-deputada-heloneida-studart-644624.html |title=Morre ex-deputada Heloneida Studart |date=3 December 2007 |newspaper=O Globo |language=pt |access-date=23 June 2018}}

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Chad "Pimp C" Butler, 33, American rap artist (UGK), sleep apnea and accidental overdose.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/dec/13/deathofapimp |title=Death of a pimp |last=Stein |first=Alex |date=13 December 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=23 June 2018}}{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/feb/05/news |title=Pimp C's death ruled accidental |last=Michaels |first=Sean |date=5 February 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Jake Gaudaur, 87, Canadian Commissioner of the Canadian Football League (1968–1984), cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/sports/2007/12/04/former_cfl_commissioner_jake_gaudaur_dies_at_age_87.html |title=Former CFL commissioner Jake Gaudaur dies at age 87 |date=4 December 2007 |newspaper=Toronto Star |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Jay H. Gordon, 77, American politician, Vermont Auditor of Accounts (1965–1969), smoke inhalation.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20071211%2FOBITUARIES%2F712110332 |title=Jay H. Gordon |date=11 December 2007 |newspaper=Barre Montpelier Times Argus |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071231141736/http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20071211%2FOBITUARIES%2F712110332 |archive-date=31 December 2007}}
Stanley McArdle, 85, British admiral.{{cite web |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/stanley-mcardle-1.874690 |title=Stanley McArdle |date=14 February 2008 |newspaper=The Herald |location=Glasgow |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Norval Morrisseau, 75, Canadian Ojibwe artist, founder of the Woodlands Style, Parkinson's disease.{{cite web |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/2007/12/04/norval_morrisseau_dies_at_75.html |title=Norval Morrisseau dies at 75 |first=Peter |last=Goddard |date=4 December 2007 |newspaper=Toronto Star |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Chip Reese, 56, American professional poker player, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/sports/07reese.html |title=Chip Reese, High-Stakes Card Champion, Is Dead at 56 |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=7 December 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Herman Rose, 98, American cityscape painter, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/arts/28rose.html |title=Herman Rose, 98, Painter of Cityscapes, Is Dead |first=Ken |last=Johnson |date=28 December 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Carlos Valdes, 81, Cuban conga player, respiratory failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/dec/10/guardianobituaries.cuba |title=Carlos 'Patato' Valdés: Cuban conga drummer and dancer |first=Sue |last=Steward |date=10 December 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=23 June 2018}}

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M. V. Dhond, 93, Indian literary and art critic.{{cite web |url=http://loksatta.com/daily/20071206/mp02.htm |title=M. V. Dhond Dies |date=6 December 2007 |website=Loksatta.com |language=mr |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Christine Finn, 78, English actress.[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0278097/ Christine Finn (I) (1929–2007)]
Robin Gloag, 64, British co-founder of Stagecoach Group, traffic collision.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7130178.stm |title=Gloag's ex-husband dies in crash |date=6 December 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Arnold Hardy, 85, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, complications from hip surgery.{{cite news |url=http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/251/story/194225.html |title=Amateur who took Pulitzer-winning Winecoff fire photo dies |date=7 December 2007 |newspaper=Ledger-Enquirer |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071221085402/http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/251/story/194225.html |archive-date=21 December 2007}}
Robert A. Hawkins, 19, American mass murderer, suicide by gunshot.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/us/05cnd-omaha.html|title=Gunman Kills 8 People, Then Himself at a Mall in Omaha|first1=Ardy|last1=Friedberg|first2=Monica|last2=Davey|date=5 December 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 July 2019}}
Andrew Imbrie, 86, American composer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/arts/09imbrie.html |title=Andrew Imbrie, 86, Composer and Teacher, Is Dead |first=Allan |last=Kozinn |date=9 December 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Dan Iosif, 57, Romanian revolutionary, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/12/07/dan_iosif_figure_in_romania_revolt/ |title=Dan Iosif; figure in Romania revolt |date=7 December 2007 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Jillian Kesner-Graver, 58, American actress (Happy Days), Orson Welles historian, staph infection.{{cite news |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jillian-kesner-graver-welles-historian-157603 |title=Jillian Kesner-Graver, Welles historian, dies |date=21 December 2007 |newspaper=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Alois Kracher, 48, Austrian winemaker, pancreatic cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/business/story.html?id=5193ccae-e947-4158-a44d-b8187b8feb6a |title=Famed winemaker Kracher dead |date=7 December 2007 |newspaper=The StarPhoenix |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071209232205/http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/business/story.html?id=5193ccae-e947-4158-a44d-b8187b8feb6a |archive-date=9 December 2007}}
Peter Orton, 64, English television producer, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/dec/12/guardianobituaries.television |title=Obituary: Peter Orton |first=Simon |last=Forrest |date=12 December 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=28 September 2017}}
George Paraskevaides, 91, Cypriot businessman (Joannou & Paraskevaides) and philanthropist.{{cite web |url=http://news.pseka.net/index.php?module=article&id=7759 |title=Cypriot businessman George Paraskevaides passes away |date=6 December 2007 |website=PSEKA.net |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Karlheinz Stockhausen, 79, German composer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/germany/article/0,,2224071,00.html |title=Composer Stockhausen dies aged 79 |first=David |last=Ward |date=7 December 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Tony Tenser, 87, British film producer.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/tony-tenser-film-producer-and-distributor-who-dubbed-bardot-a-sex-kitten-766205.html |title=Tony Tenser: Film producer and distributor who dubbed Bardot a 'sex kitten' |first=Tom |last=Vallance |date=20 December 2007 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Harry Thomson Jones, 82, British racehorse trainer.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1571756/Tom-Jones.html |title=Tom Jones |date=7 December 2007 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Rene Villanueva, 53, Filipino playwright and author, stroke.{{cite web |url=http://www.gmanews.tv/story/71604/Playwright-Rene-O-Villanueva-passes-away |title=Playwright Rene O. Villanueva passes away |date=6 December 2007 |website=GMA News TV |access-date=23 June 2018}}
John Winter, 83, Australian athlete, 1948 Olympics high jump gold medalist.{{cite web |url=http://www.athletics.com.au/community/news/vale_john_winter |title=Vale John Winter, 1924–2007 |date=6 December 2007 |website=Athletics Australia |access-date=8 December 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20071209203658/http://www.athletics.com.au/community/news/vale_john_winter |archive-date=9 December 2007}}

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Wolfgang Assbrock, 55, German politician, member of the CDU and Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia.{{cite web |url=http://www.ad-hoc-news.de/Politik-News/de/14521916/Landtagsabgeordneter-Aßuebrock-gestorben |title=Landtagsabgeordneter Aßbrock gestorben |date=7 December 2007 |website=Ad-Hoc-News.de |language=de |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071231131821/http://www.ad-hoc-news.de/Politik-News/de/14521916/Landtagsabgeordneter-A%26szliguebrock-gestorben |archive-date=31 December 2007}}
Mike Donkin, 56, British reporter and journalist (BBC News), cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,2226392,00.html |title=Mike Donkin |first=John |last=Mair |date=13 December 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Katy French, 24, Irish model, suspected overdose.{{cite web |url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1206/frenchk.html |title=Model Katy French dies in hospital |date=7 December 2007 |website=RTÉ News |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Jacques Hébert, 84, Canadian politician, Senator (1983–1998).{{cite web |url=http://www.ctvnews.ca/former-senator-jacques-hebert-dead-at-84-1.266784 |title=Former senator Jacques Hebert dead at 84 |date=7 December 2007 |website=CTV News |access-date=23 June 2018}}
John Hill, 95, British politician, Conservative MP for South Norfolk (1955–1974).{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1573143/John-Hill.html |title=John Hill |date=20 December 2007 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=23 June 2018}}
John Pilkington Hudson, 97, British horticulturist and bomb disposal expert.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/feb/08/secondworldwar.obituaries |title=John Hudson |first=Dan |last=van der Vat |date=8 February 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Gennadi Kinko, 65, Soviet Estonian rower.{{cite news |url=https://www.soudeliit.ee/in-memoriam-gennadi-kinko-28101942-6122007/ |title=In Memoriam Gennadi Kinko 28.10.1942-6.12.2007 |first=Vahur |last=Mäe |date=10 December 2007 |publisher=Eesti Sõudeliit |access-date=25 August 2018}}
Murray Klein, 84, American businessman, co-owner of New York City's Zabar's food emporium, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/nyregion/07klein.html |title=Murray Klein, Who Helped Build Zabar's Into Food Destination, Dies at 84 |first=Julia |last=Moskin |date=7 December 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Shelley Rohde, 74, British journalist and author.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,2240768,00.html |title=Shelley Rohde |first=Angela |last=Neustatter |date=14 January 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Ken Southworth, 89, American animator (Scooby-Doo, Q. T. Hush, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe), stroke.{{cite web |url=http://www.animationmagazine.net/article/7689 |title=Veteran Animator Southworth Dies |first=Ryan |last=Ball |date=6 December 2007 |website=Animation Magazine |access-date=23 June 2018}}
András Szöllősy, 86, Hungarian composer.{{cite web |url=http://www.caboodle.hu/nc/news/news_archive/single_page/article/11/hungarian_co-14/?cHash%3D3135789a09 |title=Hungarian composer Szöllősy dies aged 87 |date=7 December 2007 |website=Caboodle.hu |access-date=1 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071209013151/http://www.caboodle.hu/nc/news/news_archive/single_page/article/11/hungarian_co-14/?cHash=3135789a09 |archive-date=9 December 2007}}

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Noel Forster, 75, British artist.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/noel-forster-artist-who-believed-that-painting-is-the-concretisation-of-light-767617.html |title=Noel Forster: Artist who believed that painting is the 'concretisation of light' |date=2 January 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Fuad Hassan, 78, Indonesian Minister of Education (1985–1993), cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.antara.co.id/en/arc/2007/12/8/former-education-minister-fuad-hassan-passes-away |title=Former education minister Fuad Hassan passes away |date=10 December 2007 |website=ANTARA News |access-date=23 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071210002300/http://www.antara.co.id/en/arc/2007/12/8/former-education-minister-fuad-hassan-passes-away |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 December 2007}}
John Hollowbread, 73, British football goalkeeper (Tottenham Hotspur, Southampton).{{cite web |url=http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/obituary-john-hollowbread-101207/ |title=Obituary: John Hollowbread |date=10 December 2007 |website=Tottenham Hotspur F.C. |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Sartono Kartodirdjo, 86, Indonesian historian.{{cite news |title=Mahaguru Sejarah Indonesia |url=https://tokoh.id/biografi/1-ensiklopedi/mahaguru-sejarah-indonesia/ |access-date=2 April 2024 |work=tokoh.id |date=17 October 2007 |language=id}}

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Donald Burton, 73, British actor, husband of actress Carroll Baker, emphysema.{{cite news |url=https://metro.co.uk/2008/01/14/tv-actor-donald-burton-dies-493933/ |title=TV actor Donald Burton dies |date=14 January 2008 |newspaper=Metro |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Ioan Fiscuteanu, 70, Romanian actor, colon cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/arts/10ficuteanu.html |title=Ion Fiscuteanu, a Star of Romanian Stage and Film, Dies at 70 |first=A. O. |last=Scott |date=10 December 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Dmitry Grigorieff, 89, American Episcopalian prelate, dean emeritus of Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Washington, D.C., cardiac arrest.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/13/AR2007121302028.html |title=Dmitry Grigorieff, Scholar And Orthodox Priest |first=Joe |last=Holley |date=14 December 2007 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Roger King, 63, American TV executive (King World, CBS), developed Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy! and The Oprah Winfrey Show, stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/business/media/10king.html |title=Roger M. King, 63, TV Syndicator, Dies |first=Steve |last=Lohr |date=10 December 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Gerardo García Pimentel, 24, Mexican crime reporter, shot.{{cite web |url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKN0836248320071209 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071214061111/http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKN0836248320071209 |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 14, 2007 |title=Gunmen in Mexico kill crime reporter |first=Estelle |last=Shirbon |date=9 December 2007 |website=Reuters |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Al Scaduto, 79, American cartoonist (They'll Do It Every Time).{{cite magazine |url=http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/syndicates/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id%3D1003683300 |title="They'll Do It Every Time" Cartoonist Al Scaduto Dies at Age 79 |date=10 December 2007 |magazine=Editor & Publisher |access-date=1 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071227023710/http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/syndicates/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003683300 |archive-date=27 December 2007}}

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John Stuart Archer, 64, British chemical engineer and academic administrator.{{cite web |url=http://www.rse.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/obits_alpha/archer_j.pdf |title=John Stuart Archer |last=Simmons |first=J.E.L. |website=Royal Society of Edinburgh |access-date=23 June 2018}}
István Borzsák, 92, Hungarian classical scholar.[https://www.geni.com/people/István-Borzsák/6000000008692140861 István Borzsák]
Edward Dutkiewicz, 46, British artist.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/jan/31/1 |title=Edward Dutkiewicz |first=Susan |last=Loppert |date=30 January 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Wayne Howard, 58, American comic book artist (Charlton Comics), heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.cbr.com/aw-man-wayne-howard-died/ |title=Aw, man, Wayne Howard died |date=10 December 2007 |first=Mark |last=Andrew |website=Comic Book Resources |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Apichet Kittikorncharoen, 25, Thai singer, brain injury.{{cite news |url=http://nationmultimedia.com/2007/12/09/headlines/headlines_30058606.php |title="Big" of D2B band dies |date=11 December 2007 |newspaper=The Nation |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071224010539/http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007/12/09/headlines/headlines_30058606.php |archive-date=24 December 2007 |df=dmy-all }}
Jim Langley, 78, British footballer for England, Fulham, and QPR, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.qpr.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10373~1189334,00.html |title=Jim Langley RIP |date=13 December 2007 |website=Queens Park Rangers Football Club |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080115190136/http://www.qpr.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0%2C%2C10373~1189334%2C00.html |archive-date=15 January 2008}}
Matthew J. Murray, 24, American spree killer, suicide by gunshot.{{cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/colorado-church-gunman-had-grudge-against-christian-group-cops-say |title=Colorado Church Gunman Had Grudge Against Christian Group, Cops Say |date=10 December 2007 |agency=Associated Press |website=Fox News |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Elspeth Rostow, 90, American academic, University of Texas dean, widow of Walt Whitman Rostow, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/13/AR2007121302031.html |title=Elspeth Davies Rostow, 90; Presidential Adviser |last=Holley |first=Joe |date=14 December 2007 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Kurt Schmied, 81, Austrian footballer, former member of the national team.{{cite news |url=https://derstandard.at/3146579/Kurt-Schmied-1926---2007 |title=Kurt Schmied, 1926–2007 |date=13 January 2008 |newspaper=Der Standard |language=de |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Thore Skogman, 76, Swedish musician, stroke.{{cite news |url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article1432148.ab |title=Thore Skogman död |date=10 December 2007 |newspaper=Aftonbladet |language=sv |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Rafael Sperafico, 26, Brazilian racing driver, race crash.{{cite web |url=http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hmrESqWbo4DwM4OKD625PNg3VD3g |title=Driver Rafael Sperafico killed after mishap at Brazilian stock car race |date=11 December 2007 |website=The Canadian Press |access-date=1 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071212182530/http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hmrESqWbo4DwM4OKD625PNg3VD3g |archive-date=12 December 2007}}
J. Fife Symington Jr., 97, American diplomat to Trinidad and Tobago, complications of old age.{{cite news |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2007/12/11/j-fife-symington-jr/ |title=J. Fife Symington Jr. |last=Kelly |first=Jacques |date=11 December 2007 |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun |access-date=23 June 2018 |archive-date=June 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180624010755/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2007-12-11/news/0712110253_1_fife-symington-trinidad-and-tobago-pan |url-status=live }}
Gordon Zahn, 84, American Catholic peace activist, co-founder of Pax Christi USA, complications of Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=694792 |title=Zahn, 84, fought for peace |first=Marie |last=Rohde |date=9 December 2007 |newspaper=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213031002/http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=694792 |archive-date=13 December 2007}}

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Ashleigh Aston Moore, 26, American-born Canadian actress (Now and Then).{{CN|date=May 2025}}
George Morris, 76, American football player (Georgia Tech, San Francisco 49ers), apparent heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/espn/wire/_/section/ncf/id/3149530 |title=Former Georgia Tech LB George Morris dies in North Carolina |agency=Associated Press |date=10 December 2007 |website=ESPN |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Aqsa Parvez, 16, Canadian allegedly killed for refusing to wear hijab, strangled.{{cite web |url=http://www.ctv.ca:80/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071211/muslim_dad_071212/20071212?hub=TopStories |title=Autopsy shows teen died from 'neck compression' |date=12 December 2007 |website=CTV.ca |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071214115032/http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071211/muslim_dad_071212/20071212?hub=TopStories |archive-date=14 December 2007}}
Jerry Ricks, 67, American blues guitarist.{{cite web |url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gg0PNIOmeGrBjaLtqZ1Ojph74iXQ |title=Blues guitarist Jerry Ricks dies at 67 |date=11 December 2007 |agency=AFP |website=Google News |access-date=1 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080116072306/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gg0PNIOmeGrBjaLtqZ1Ojph74iXQ |archive-date=16 January 2008}}
James Roxburgh, 86, British prelate, Bishop of Barking.{{cite news |url=http://www.bmdsonline.co.uk/30498065-death-james-roxburgh |title=James Roxburgh |date=13 December 2007 |newspaper=Liverpool Echo |via=bmdsonline.co.uk |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Gordon Samuels, 84, Australian governor of New South Wales (1996–2001).{{cite news |url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/national/funeral-service-today-for-samuels/2007/12/12/1197135558297.html |title=Funeral service today for Samuels |first=Tony |last=Stephens |date=13 December 2007 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Henrietta Yurchenko, 91, American folklorist.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/feb/11/folk.mainsection |title=Henrietta Yurchenco |first=Ken |last=Hunt |date=11 February 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=23 June 2018}}

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Allan Berube, 61, American gay historian and writer, complications from stomach ulcers.{{cite news |url=https://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/12/17/allan_berube_gay_historian_chronicled_roles_in_wwii/ |title=Allan Berube; gay historian chronicled roles in WWII |first=Elaine |last=Woo |date=17 December 2007 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=23 June 2018}}
José Luis Calva, 38, Mexican writer, serial killer and cannibal, suicide by hanging.{{cite web |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/12/11/mexico.suicide.ap/ |title='Cannibal' killer commits suicide |date=11 December 2007 |website=CNN |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071215011523/http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/12/11/mexico.suicide.ap/ |archive-date=15 December 2007}}
Yuriy Chervochkin, 22, Russian opposition activist, beating.
Freddie Fields, 84, American Hollywood agent, producer and studio executive, lung cancer.{{cite web |url=http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iJzQaGzyDvH2QkJ7B0jj1AZmiB1QD8TGCC2G0 |title=Hollywood Mogul Freddie Fields Dies |first=John |last=Rogers |date=13 December 2007 |website=Google News |access-date=1 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071215190109/http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iJzQaGzyDvH2QkJ7B0jj1AZmiB1QD8TGCC2G0 |archive-date=15 December 2007}}
Pat Hannigan, 71, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers).{{cite news |url=http://www.niagara-gazette.com/sabres/local_story_347002941.html |title=Former Sabres analyst Hannigan dies at 71 |first=Tim |last=Schmitt |date=13 December 2007 |newspaper=Niagara Gazette |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130208133838/http://www.niagara-gazette.com/sabres/local_story_347002941.html |archive-date=8 February 2013}}
Christie Hennessy, 62, Irish singer and songwriter, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/national-news/singer-christie-hennessy-dies-after-battle-with-cancer-1244276.html |title=Singer Christie Hennessy dies |date=11 December 2007 |newspaper=Irish Independent |access-date=23 June 2018}}

*Nicholas Kao Se Tseien, 110, Chinese supercentenarian, world's oldest Catholic priest.{{cite web |url=http://www.theindiancatholic.com/report.asp?nid=9624 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071215105058/http://www.theindiancatholic.com/report.asp?nid=9624 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=2007-12-15 |title=Nicholas Kao Se Tseien |website=The Indian Catholic}}

Carl Ludwig, Archduke of Austria, 89, Austrian son of Emperor Charles I of Austria.{{cite web |url=http://wien.orf.at/stories/242892/ |title=Carl Ludwig Habsburg-Lothringen tot |date=14 December 2007 |website=ORF |language=de |access-date=23 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093938/http://wien.orf.at/stories/242892/ |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=dead }}
Ottomar Pinto, 76, Brazilian politician, Governor of Roraima (2004–2007), heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.emtemporeal.com.br/index.asp?area%3D2%26dia%3D14%26mes%3D12%26ano%3D2007%26idnoticia%3D42293 |title=José de Anchieta Júnior is new governor of Roraima |date=14 December 2007 |website=Emtemporeal.com.br |access-date=1 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080101134348/http://www.emtemporeal.com.br/index.asp?area=2&dia=14&mes=12&ano=2007&idnoticia=42293 |archive-date=1 January 2008}}
Tatsuzō Shimaoka, 88, Japanese potter, living national treasure, acute liver failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2008/jan/17/mainsection.obituaries |title=Tatsuzo Shimaoka, Japanese potter |last=Whiting |first=David |date=17 January 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Terry Yates, 57, American biologist, discovered source of hantavirus, brain cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/12/24/terry_yates_57_biologist_found_source_of_hantavirus/ |title=Terry Yates, 57; biologist found source of hantavirus |first=Matt |last=Schudel |date=24 December 2007 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=23 June 2018}}

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Basuki, 51, Indonesian comedian.{{cite web |url=http://www.metrotvnews.com/indonesiathismorning/berita.asp?id=661 |title=Basuki, Indonesian Comedian, Passes Away |date=13 December 2007 |website=MetroTV News |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071218141722/http://www.metrotvnews.com/indonesiathismorning/berita.asp?id=661 |archive-date=18 December 2007}}
Ted Corbitt, 88, American ultramarathon runner, respiratory complications.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/13/sports/othersports/13corbitt.html |title=Ted Corbitt, a Pioneer in American Distance Running, Dies at 88 |first=Frank |last=Litsky |date=13 December 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Shawn Eckardt, 40, American bodyguard and businessman, conspired to assault Nancy Kerrigan, natural causes.{{cite web |url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071215/ap_on_re_us/obit_griffith |title=Player in attack on Kerrigan dies at 40 |date=15 December 2007 |website=Yahoo! News |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071218172722/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071215/ap_on_re_us/obit_griffith |archive-date=18 December 2007}}
Josep Guinovart, 80, Spanish artist.{{cite news |url=http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2007/12/12/barcelona/1197456481.html |title=Fallece a los 80 años de edad el pintor, dibujante y grabador Josep Guinovart |date=12 December 2007 |newspaper=El Mundo |language=es |access-date=23 June 2018}}
François al-Hajj, 54, Lebanese Army general, roadside bomb.{{cite web |url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g3m6swZF24n1EFhBo0Zs7iBl83Ew |title=Top general assassinated in crisis-hit Lebanon |date=16 December 2007 |website=Google News |access-date=1 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071216075221/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g3m6swZF24n1EFhBo0Zs7iBl83Ew |archive-date=16 December 2007}}{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7139809.stm |title=Blast kills Lebanon army general |date=12 December 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Rosemarie Koczy, 72, Holocaust survivor, German artist and teacher known for her many works dealing with the Holocaust.{{Cite web |title=Rosemarie Koczy Obituary (2007) - New York, NY - New York Times |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/rosemarie-koczy-obituary?id=29310419 |access-date=2023-12-05 |website=Legacy.com}}
Márcio Montarroyos, 59, Brazilian jazz trumpeter, lung cancer.[https://www.allmusic.com/artist/márcio-montarroyos-mn0000574910 Márcio Montarroyos]
Jim Nevill, 80, British police officer, former head of Scotland Yard anti-terrorist squad.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1576483/Jim-Nevill.html |title=Jim Nevill |date=25 January 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Alfons Maria Stickler, 97, Austrian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.{{cite news |url=https://derstandard.at/3149276/Oesterreichischer-Kurienkardinal-Stickler-gestorben |title=Österreichischer Kurienkardinal Stickler gestorben |date=25 December 2007 |newspaper=Der Standard |language=de |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Ike Turner, 76, American R&B musician and record producer, ex-husband of singer Tina Turner, cocaine overdose.{{cite news |url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ike-Turner-R-B-pioneer-and-Tina-s-infamous-3300055.php |title=Ike Turner, R&B pioneer and Tina's infamous ex-husband, dies at 76 |last=Selvin |first=Joel |date=13 December 2007 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=23 June 2018}}{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/medical-examiner-ike-turner-died-of-a-cocaine-overdose-20080116 |title=Medical Examiner: Ike Turner Died of a Cocaine Overdose |last=Kreps |first=Daniel |date=16 January 2008 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=23 June 2018 |archive-date=June 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180624010811/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/medical-examiner-ike-turner-died-of-a-cocaine-overdose-20080116 |url-status=dead }}
Schuster Vance, 47, American actor, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/baltimoresun/obituary.aspx?pid=99613240 |title=Henry Schuster Vance III |date=15 December 2007 |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Lee Vincent, 91, American bassist and radio personality (WILK), heart failure.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesleader.com/news/20071213_13lee_vincent_ART.html |title=Local music legend dies but melody of life lingers |last=Sokolowski |first=Lisa |date=13 December 2007 |newspaper=Times Leader |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071215090932/http://www.timesleader.com/news/20071213_13lee_vincent_ART.html |archive-date=15 December 2007}}
Yuli Vorontsov, 78, Russian diplomat, former ambassador to the United Nations and United States.{{cite web |url=http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-30979220071213 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071222200124/http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-30979220071213 |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 22, 2007 |title=Veteran Russian diplomat Yuli Vorontsov dies |date=13 December 2007 |website=Reuters |access-date=23 June 2018}}

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Philippe Clay, 80, French singer and actor.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jan/16/france.arts |title=Philippe Clay, French chansonnier and star of the Parisian club circuit in the 1950s |first=Alan |last=Clayson |date=16 January 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Fuat Deniz, 40, Swedish-Assyrian sociologist, stabbed.{{cite web |url=http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/news/article_1381236.php/Killing_of_university_teacher_feared_to_be_linked_to_research |title=Killing of university teacher feared to be linked to research |date=15 December 2007 |website=Monsters and Critics |access-date=1 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071217161913/http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/news/article_1381236.php/Killing_of_university_teacher_feared_to_be_linked_to_research |archive-date=17 December 2007}}
Wiggo Hanssen, 84, Norwegian Olympic speed skater.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/wiggo-hanssen-1.html |title=Wiggo Hanssen |website=Sports Reference |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018203655/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/wiggo-hanssen-1.html |archive-date=18 October 2012}}
Laura Huxley, 96, American musician and author, widow of Aldous Huxley, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-15-me-huxley15-story.html |title=Writer, lay therapist was devoted to husband's legacy |first=Elaine |last=Woo |date=15 December 2007 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Jan Jakub Kotík, 35, Czech artist and rock drummer, cancer.[http://aktualne.centrum.cz/kultura/umeni/clanek.phtml?id=516542 Zemřel výtvarník Jan Kotík, Masarykův potomek]
Alain Payet, 60, French adult film director.{{cite news |url=http://www.dhnet.be/culture/people/article/192977/mort-de-john-love-realisateur-de-x-francais.html |title=Mort de 'John Love', réalisateur de X français |date=14 December 2007 |newspaper=La Dernière Heure |language=fr |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Robert Russin, 93, American sculptor.{{cite web |url=http://www.uwyo.edu/news/showrelease.asp?id=19341 |title=Retired UW Art Professor Russin Dies at 93 |date=14 December 2007 |website=University of Wyoming |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071229050829/http://www.uwyo.edu/news/showrelease.asp?id=19341 |archive-date=29 December 2007}}
Floyd Westerman, 71, American musician, actor (Dances With Wolves, Walker, Texas Ranger, Hidalgo) and Native American activist, leukemia.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/18/arts/18westerman.html |title=Floyd Red Crow Westerman, 71, an Actor, Is Dead |last=Martin |first=Douglas |date=18 December 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}

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Issam Al Zaim, 67, Syrian economist, former Minister of Industry, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/15/africa/ME-GEN-Syria-Obit-Al-Zaim.php |title=Former Syrian minister al-Zaim dies at 67 |date=15 December 2007 |newspaper=International Herald Tribune |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080328070554/http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/15/africa/ME-GEN-Syria-Obit-Al-Zaim.php |archive-date=28 March 2008}}
Hank Kaplan, 87, American boxing historian, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=3154776 |title='Dedicated' Kaplan, Hall of Fame historian, dies at 88 |date=14 December 2007 |website=ESPN |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Maria Lauterbach, 20, American marine and murder victim.{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/23/missing.marine/index.html |title=Initial autopsy findings on slain Marine: Fetus not born alive |first=Susan |last=Candiotti |date=23 January 2008 |website=CNN |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Clarence Marshall, 82, American Major League Baseball pitcher (New York Yankees).{{cite web |url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/othersports/2004077234_peep17.html |title=Clarence Marshall, 1925–2007 |date=17 December 2007 |newspaper=The Seattle Times |access-date=1 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071219223029/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/othersports/2004077234_peep17.html |archive-date=19 December 2007}}
Frank Morgan, 73, American saxophonist.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/frank-morgan-alto-saxophonist-protg-of-charlie-parker-who-spent-30-years-behind-bars-in-san-quentin-765502.html |title=Frank Morgan: Alto saxophonist protégé of Charlie Parker who spent 30 years behind bars in San Quentin |first=Steve |last=Voce |date=17 December 2007 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=1 January 2008}}
Johnny Science, 52, American drag king, heart failure.[https://dragkinghistory.com/johnny-science/ 1984 – 1997 Johnny Science]
Emory Sekaquaptewa, 78, American indigenous Hopi anthropologist.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/emory-sekaquaptewa-native-american-anthropologist-768358.html |title=Emory Sekaquaptewa: Native American anthropologist |first=Ken |last=Hunt |date=5 January 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Krishna Srinivas, 94, Indian poet and writer.[https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/Krishna-Srinivas-dead/article14895956.ece Krishna Srinivas dead]
Jan Švéda, 76, Czech Olympic rower.[https://web.archive.org/web/20121013085629/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sv/jan-sveda-1.html Jan Švéda]

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John Berg, 58, American actor, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.{{cite news |url=https://www.dailynews.com/2007/12/18/actor-john-berg-committed-suicide-coroner-says/ |title=Actor John Berg committed suicide, coroner says |date=18 December 2007 |newspaper=Los Angeles Daily News |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Jean Bottéro, 93, French Assyriologist.{{cite web |url=http://www.awilum.com/?p=468 |title=In Memoriam, Jean Bottéro 1914–2007 |first=Charles |last=Halton |date=21 December 2007 |website=Awilum.com |language=fr |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101205155339/http://www.awilum.com/?p=468 |archive-date=5 December 2010}}
St. Clair Bourne, 64, American documentary filmmaker (Half Past Autumn), pulmonary embolism.{{cite news |url=https://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/12/20/st_clair_bourne_captured_the_black_experience_on_film/ |title=St. Clair Bourne; captured the black experience on film |first=Dennis |last=McLellan |date=20 December 2007 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Julia Carson, 69, American member of the House of Representatives from Indiana since 1997, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/us/16carson.html |title=Julia Carson, 69, U.S. Representative, Is Dead |date=16 December 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Gerard Fairtlough, 77, British biochemist and entrepreneur.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/gerard-fairtlough-entrepreneur-in-biotechnology-780242.html |title=Gerard Fairtlough: Entrepreneur in biotechnology |first=Caroline |last=Dilke |date=9 February 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Andrzeja Górska, 91, Polish nun, abbess of the Grey Ursulines.{{cite web |url=http://info.wiara.pl/index.php?grupa=4&art=1197828969 |title=Zmarła matka Andrzeja Górska, urszulanka Serca Jezusa Konającego |first=Sr. Małgorzata |last=Krupecka |date=16 December 2007 |website=Wiara.pl |language=pl |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Ryan Gracie, 33, Brazilian martial artist.{{cite web |url=https://bleacherreport.com/articles/4901-ryan-gracie-the-bad-boy-of-brazilian-jiu-jitsu-dies-in-jail-cell |title=Ryan Gracie, the 'Bad Boy of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu,' Dies in Jail Cell |last=Willis |first=Dorothy |date=15 December 2007 |website=Bleacher Report |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Clem Jones, 89, Australian Lord Mayor of Brisbane (1961–1975), pneumonia.{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/15/2119687.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121231060934/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/15/2119687.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 31, 2012 |title=Former Brisbane mayor Clem Jones dies |date=15 December 2007 |website=ABC News |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Matjaž Klopčič, 73, Slovenian film director.{{cite web |url=http://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/film/umrl-je-reziser-matjaz-klopcic/153396 |title=Umrl je režiser Matjaž Klopčič |date=5 December 2007 |website=Radiotelevizija Slovenija |language=sl |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Diane Middlebrook, 68, American biographer and poet, cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Poet-biographer-feminist-Diane-Middlebrook-dies-3234467.php |title=Poet, biographer, feminist Diane Middlebrook dies of cancer at 68 |first=Heidi |last=Benson |date=16 December 2007 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Caetano N'Tchama, 52, Bissau-Guinean politician, Prime Minister (2000-2001).[https://books.google.com/books?id=NbJ8AQAAQBAJ&dq=Caetano+N%27Tchama+1955&pg=PA293 "Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau"]
Giuseppe Rinaldi, 88, Italian actor and voice actor.{{cite web|url=https://antoniogenna.com/2007/12/15/e-scomparso-peppino-rinaldi-uno-dei-piu-grandi-doppiatori-italiani/|website=Antoniogenna.net|title=È scomparso Peppino Rinaldi, uno dei più grandi doppiatori italiani|date= 15 December 2007|access-date=17 October 2018}}
Tejeshwar Singh, 60, Indian publisher, newsreader and theatre activist, cardiac arrest.{{cite news |url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/tejeshwar-singh-1945-2007-a-cut-above-the-rest-107121701069_1.html |title=Tejeshwar Singh (1945–2007): A Cut above the Rest |first=T. C. A. |last=Srinivasa-Raghavan |date=17 December 2007 |newspaper=Business Standard |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Ace Vergel, 55, Filipino actor, cardiac arrest.{{cite web |url=http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/topofthehour.aspx?StoryId=102521 |title=Ace Vergel, 53, dies of cardiac arrest |date=16 December 2007 |website=ABS-CBN Interactive |access-date=28 September 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070709212017/http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/topofthehour.aspx?StoryId=102521 |archive-date=9 July 2007}}
Jonathan Witchell, 33, British BBC reporter for Radio Kent.{{cite web |url=http://www.kentnews.co.uk/kent-news/Tributes-to-late-BBC-reporter-Jonathan-Witchell-newsinkent8021.aspx |title=Tributes to late BBC reporter Jonathan Witchell |date=18 December 2007 |website=Kent News |access-date=1 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071221205526/http://www.kentnews.co.uk/kent-news/Tributes-to-late-BBC-reporter-Jonathan-Witchell-newsinkent8021.aspx |archive-date=21 December 2007}}

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Joe Ethridge, 79, American football player in the National Football League (NFL).{{Cite web |title=Joe Ethridge Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft, College |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/E/EthrJo20.htm |access-date=2024-03-03 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en}}
Dan Fogelberg, 56, American singer-songwriter ("Same Old Lang Syne"), prostate cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2007/12/16/dan-fogelberg-dies-at-age-56/ |title=Dan Fogelberg dies at age 56 |first=Ricardo |last=Baca |date=16 December 2007 |newspaper=The Denver Post |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Harald Genzmer, 98, German composer of classical music.{{cite web |url=http://www.monstersandcritics.de/artikel/200751/article_48161.php/Komponist-Harald-Genzmer-gestorben |title=Komponist Harald Genzmer gestorben |date=18 December 2007 |website=Monsters and Critics |language=de |access-date=1 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080103011047/http://www.monstersandcritics.de/artikel/200751/article_48161.php/Komponist-Harald-Genzmer-gestorben |archive-date=3 January 2008}}
Ismail Gulgee, 81, Pakistani painter, strangled.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7151914.stm |title=Top Pakistani artist 'murdered' |date=19 December 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Serge Vinçon, 58, French politician.{{cite news |url=http://secretdefense.blogs.liberation.fr/defense/2007/12/le-snateur-serg.html |title=Le sénateur Serge Vinçon est mort |first=Jean-Dominique |last=Merchet |date=16 December 2007 |newspaper=Libération |language=fr |access-date=23 June 2018 |archive-date=December 18, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071218182715/http://secretdefense.blogs.liberation.fr/defense/2007/12/le-snateur-serg.html |url-status=dead }}

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Don Chevrier, 69, Canadian sportscaster.{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/obituaries/2007/12/19/don_chevrier_69_sports_broadcaster.html |title=Don Chevrier, 69: Sports broadcaster |last=Zelkovich |first=Chris |date=19 December 2007 |newspaper=Toronto Star |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Joel Dorn, 65, American jazz, pop and R&B record producer, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/18/AR2007121802023.html |title=Joel Dorn, 65; Producer of Jazz and Pop Hits |last=Schudel |first=Matt |date=19 December 2007 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Jim Holstein, 77, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers).{{cite web |url=http://www.nba.com/lakers/news/071218holstein.html |title=Former Minneapolis Laker Jim Holstein Passes Away at 77 |date=18 December 2007 |website=Los Angeles Lakers |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Tom Murphy, 83, American politician, speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives (1973–2002), complications of a stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/us/20murphy.html |title=Tom B. Murphy, a Longtime Power in Georgia, Dies at 83 |last=Goodman |first=Brenda |date=20 December 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Celestino Piatti, 85, Swiss graphic artist, painter and book designer.{{Cite web |title=Celestino Piatti |url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3235979/ |access-date=2022-07-20 |website=IMDb}}
Marnesba Tackett, 99, American civil rights activist.{{Cite web|url=http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/tackett-marnesba-tillmon-1908-2007|title=Tackett, Marnesba Tillmon (1908-2007) {{!}} The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed|website=www.blackpast.org|date=April 24, 2016 |language=en|access-date=2018-04-02}}
Jack Zander, 99, American animator (Tom and Jerry).{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/arts/20zander.html |title=Jack Zander, Animator of Early TV Commercials, Dies at 99 |first=Margalit |last=Fox |date=20 December 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}

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Walter Bowart, 68, American co-founder of East Village Other, colon cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/arts/14bowart.html |title=Walter Bowart, Alternative Journalist, Dies at 68 |first=Margalit |last=Fox |date=14 January 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Gerald Le Dain, 83, Canadian jurist, Justice of the Supreme Court.{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/2007/12/20/judge_who_led_drug_commission_dies_at_83.html |title=Judge who led drug commission dies at 83 |date=20 December 2007 |newspaper=Toronto Star |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Carl Graff-Wang, 64, Norwegian Olympic handball player.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gr/carl-graff-wang-1.html |title=Carl Graff-Wang |website=Sports Reference |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026112604/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gr/carl-graff-wang-1.html |archive-date=26 October 2012}}
Samuel Karlin, 83, American mathematician, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/us/21karlin.html |title=Samuel Karlin, Versatile Mathematician, Dies at 83 |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=21 February 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Jack Linkletter, 70, American television host, son of Art Linkletter, lymphoma.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-20-me-linkletter20-story.html |title=TV host followed in father Art's footsteps |first=Dennis |last=McLellan |date=20 December 2007 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Motiur Rahman, 58, Indian politician, Rashtriya Janata Dal member of the Rajya Sabha since 2005, heart attack.{{cite web |url=https://www.oneindia.com/2007/12/18/rajya-sabha-mp-motiur-rahman-passes-away-1197966919.html |title=Rajya Sabha MP Motiur Rahman passes away |date=18 December 2007 |website=Oneindia News |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Bill Strauss, 60, American writer and satirist, founder of political comedy group Capitol Steps, pancreatic cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/21/AR2007122102403.html |title=Bill Strauss: He Was the Life of the Parody |first=Ken |last=Ringle |date=22 December 2007 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=23 June 2018}}

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Frank Capra, Jr., 73, American movie studio executive, son of director Frank Capra, prostate cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-21-me-capra21-story.html |title=Son of film legend, producer, studio boss |first=Dennis |last=McLellan |date=21 December 2007 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
James Costigan, 81, American actor and television writer (Eleanor and Franklin), heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/01/14/james_costigan_81_actor_and_award_winning_tv_writer/ |title=James Costigan, 81, actor and award-winning TV writer |first=Dennis |last=McLellan |date=14 January 2008 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=28 September 2017}}
Desmond C. Derbyshire, 83, British linguist.{{cite web |url=https://linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-1/ |title=Obituary: Desmond Derbyshire (1924–2007) |date=30 December 2007 |first=Geoffrey K. |last=Pullum |website=Linguist List |access-date=23 June 2018}}
John A. Garraty, 87, American historian, heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/nyregion/26garraty.html |title=John A. Garraty, Historian and Trailblazing Biographer, Dies at 87 |first=Margalit |last=Fox |date=26 December 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Albert L. O'Neil, 87, American politician, Boston City Council (1971–1999).{{cite news |url=https://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/12/20/dapper_oneil_champion_of_personal_politics_dies_at_87/ |title='Dapper' O'Neil, champion of personal politics, dies at 87 |first=Bryan |last=Marquard |date=20 December 2007 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=28 September 2017}}

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Tommy Byrne, 87, American baseball player.{{cite web |url=http://www.wral.com/sports/story/2202988/ |title=Ex-Major Leaguer Tommy Byrne Dead at 87 |date=20 December 2007 |website=WRAL-TV |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Jeanne Carmen, 77, American actress and pin-up girl, lymphoma.{{cite web |url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071226/ap_en_ot/obit_carmen |title=Pinup girl Jeanne Carmen dies |date=26 December 2007 |website=Yahoo! News |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071227145336/https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071226/ap_en_ot/obit_carmen |archive-date=27 December 2007}}
Arabella Churchill, 58, British founder of Children's World charity, granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill, pancreatic cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia/story/0,,2230914,00.html |title=Granddaughter of Churchill dies as Australia jails her son |first1=Barbara |last1=McMahon |first2=Sam |last2=Jones |date=21 December 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Russell Coffey, 109, American serviceman, one of three known remaining American veterans of World War I.{{cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/one-of-the-last-world-war-i-veterans-dies-at-109 |title=One of the Last World War I Veterans Dies at 109 |date=21 December 2007 |website=Fox News Channel |access-date=23 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071231152831/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317766,00.html |archive-date=December 31, 2007 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }}
Lorne Davis, 77, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens) and scout (Edmonton Oilers).{{cite news |url=https://nationalpost.com/sports/story.html?id%3D191339 |title=Lorne Davis: Always looking for the next great draft pick |first=Mark |last=Spector |date=21 December 2007 |newspaper=National Post |access-date=1 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20080101164624/http://www.nationalpost.com/sports/story.html?id=191339 |archive-date=1 January 2008}}
Ted Finn, 68, Canadian intelligence official, director of CSIS (1984–1987).{{cite web |url=http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=9dc68afe-3230-4b5b-bd27-6f1f7322465a&k=31435 |title=First CSIS director, Ted Finn, dies at 68 |first=Andrew |last=Thomson |date=24 December 2007 |website=Canada.com |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080101031825/http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=9dc68afe-3230-4b5b-bd27-6f1f7322465a&k=31435 |archive-date=1 January 2008}}
John Gibbs, 90, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Coventry (1976–1985).{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1574086/The-Right-Reverend-John-Gibbs.html |title=The Right Reverend John Gibbs |date=31 December 2007 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Peer Hultberg, 72, Danish author and psychoanalyst.{{cite web |url=http://www.cgjungpage.org/learn/articles/100-news/frontpage-news/879-obituaries-january-7-2008#hultberg |title=Obituaries |date=7 January 2008 |first=Sean |last=Fitzpatrick |website=CG Jung Page |access-date=28 September 2017 |archive-date=September 17, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170917032708/http://www.cgjungpage.org/learn/articles/100-news/frontpage-news/879-obituaries-january-7-2008#hultberg |url-status=dead }}
Geoffrey Martin, 79, British historian and Keeper of the Public Records (1982–1988).{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/professor-geoffrey-martin-sgzpzpcwcnl |title=Professor Geoffrey Martin |date=31 January 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Lydia Mendoza, 91, American Tejano music singer and guitarist.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/24/arts/music/24Mendoza.html |title=Lydia Mendoza, 91, an Early Tejano Star, Is Dead |date=24 December 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Raphaël Nguyễn Văn Diệp, 81, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, coadjutor bishop of Vĩnh Long (1975–2007).{{cite news |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bngvd.html |title=Bishop Raphaël Nguyễn Văn Diệp [Catholic-Hierarchy] }}
Robbie Williams, 45, Australian politician, first Indigenous Australian Brisbane City councillor, former ATSIC commissioner, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/queensland/hundreds-honour-aboriginal-worrior/2007/12/28/1198778690164.html |title=Hundreds honour 'Aboriginal warrior' |first=Georgina |last=Robinson |date=29 December 2007 |website=Brisbane Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}

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Adolfas Akelaitis, 97, Lithuanian Olympic athlete.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ak/adolfas-akelaitis-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417173141/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ak/adolfas-akelaitis-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Adolfas Akelaitis |website=Sports Reference |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Carol Bly, 77, American author and poet, ovarian cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/books/12762077.html |title=Carol Bly, Minnesota's lioness of letters, dies |first=Sarah T. |last=Williams |date=23 December 2007 |newspaper=Star Tribune |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Kex Gorin, 56, British drummer (Magnum), kidney cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.kexgorin.com/ |title=Kex & Magnum |date=December 2007 |website=kexgorin.com |access-date=26 March 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106221025/http://www.kexgorin.com/ |archive-date=6 January 2009}}
Ken Hendricks, 66, American contractor and billionaire, fall from roof.{{cite web |url=http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=7529964 |title=Billionaire Ken Hendricks dies after fall from roof |date=21 December 2007 |website=WBAY-TV |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071231043641/http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=7529964 |archive-date=31 December 2007}}
Hans Imhoff, 85, German businessman, founder of Imhoff Chocolate Museum in Cologne.{{cite news |url=http://www.ksta.de/koeln-uebersicht/ein-rheinischer-kapitalist,16341264,13293562.html |title=Ein rheinischer Kapitalist |date=22 December 2007 |newspaper=Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger |language=de |access-date=28 September 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121208204742/http://www.ksta.de/koeln-uebersicht/ein-rheinischer-kapitalist,16341264,13293562.html |archive-date=8 December 2012}}
Jack Lamabe, 71, American Major League Baseball pitcher.{{cite web |url=http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=27865&SPID=2173&ATCLID=1355725&DB_OEM_ID=5200 |title=Former Baseball Coach Jack Lamabe Dies, 71 |date=21 December 2007 |website=Louisiana State University Sports |access-date=23 June 2018 |archive-date=May 17, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517162249/http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=27865&SPID=2173&ATCLID=1355725&DB_OEM_ID=5200 |url-status=dead }}
Ken Lee, 75, Chinese-born Australian businessman, owner and co-founder of Bing Lee superstores, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/national/face-of-bing-lee-dead/2007/12/21/1198175304610.html |title=Face of Bing Lee dead |date=21 December 2007 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Saadia Marciano, 57, Israeli Black Panthers leader, member of the Knesset.{{cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.4970853 |title=Radical Black Panthers Bury Group's Leader Sa'adia Marciano |last=Ettinger |first=Yair |date=23 December 2007 |newspaper=Haaretz |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Norton Nascimento, 45, Brazilian actor, heart failure.{{cite news |url=http://www.estadao.com.br/arteelazer/not_art99538,0.htm |title=Norton Nascimento morre de falência cardíaca |date=21 December 2007 |newspaper=O Estado de S. Paulo |language=pt |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080106132529/http://www.estadao.com.br/arteelazer/not_art99538%2C0.htm |archive-date=6 January 2008}}
Jeani Read, 60, Canadian journalist, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.straight.com/article-126187/vancouver-province-reporter-jeani-read-dies |title=Vancouver Province reporter Jeani Read dies |last=Smith |first=Charlie |date=23 December 2007 |newspaper=The Georgia Straight |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Battista Serioli, 107, Italian World War I veteran.{{cite web |url=http://www.camunity.it/flash_page.php?id=15523 |title=Morto Battista Serioli |date=21 December 2007 |website=Camunity |language=it |access-date=23 June 2018}}

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Joe Ames, 86, American singer (Ames Brothers), heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/joe-ames-ames-brothers-dies-102654 |title=Joe Ames, of Ames Brothers, dies at 86 |date=16 January 2008 |newspaper=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Philip Bednall, 76, Australian cricketer.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/4341.html |title=Philip Bednall |website=ESPN CricInfo |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Chrysostomos I, 80, Cypriot prelate, Archbishop of Cyprus (1977–2006).{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/archbishop-chrysostomos-i-leading-cleric-in-cyprus-768356.html |title=Archbishop Chrysostomos I: Leading cleric in Cyprus |last=Corley |first=Felix |date=5 January 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Sir Charles Court, 96, Australian politician, Premier of Western Australia (1974–1982).{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/23/2126244.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121231101058/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/23/2126244.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 31, 2012 |title=Former WA premier Court dies |date=23 December 2007 |website=ABC News |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Andy Davis, 80, American football player (Washington Redskins).{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/23/AR2007122302164.html |title=Andy Davis, 80; Washington Redskin, Star GWU Tailback |first=Patricia |last=Sullivan |date=24 December 2007 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Sylvan Fox, 79, American journalist, complications from pneumonia.{{cite news |url=https://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/12/25/sylvan_fox_first_rewrite_man_to_win_pulitzer_prize_at_79/ |title=Sylvan Fox, first 'rewrite' man to win Pulitzer Prize; at 79 |first=Eric |last=Konigsberg |date=25 December 2007 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Andrew Glyn, 64, British economist.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,2233746,00.html |title=Andrew Glyn |first=Bob |last=Sutcliffe |date=1 January 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Julien Gracq, 97, French writer.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/julien-gracq-distinguished-novelist-known-for-his-surrealism-and-solitude-who-refused-all-literary-766767.html |title=Julien Gracq: Distinguished novelist known for his surrealism and solitude who refused all literary honours |first=James |last=Kirkup |date=24 December 2007 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Lucien Teisseire, 88, French road bicycle racer.{{cite news |url=http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/sports/2007/December/sports_December1085.xml§ion=sports&col= |title=French cycling great Teisseire dies |date=26 December 2007 |newspaper=Khaleej Times |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071231125355/http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data%2Fsports%2F2007%2FDecember%2Fsports_December1085.xml§ion=sports&col= |archive-date=31 December 2007}}
Marvin Wachman, 90, American historian, President of Lincoln University and Temple University, heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/education/31wachman.html |title=Marvin Wachman, 90, Leader of Four Colleges, Dies |first=Richard |last=Severo |date=31 December 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Ruth Wallis, 87, American singer-songwriter, complications of Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/arts/03wallis.html |title=Ruth Wallis, Singer-Writer of Risqué Songs, Dies at 87 |first=Margalit |last=Fox |date=28 September 2017 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=28 September 2017}}
Takashi Yamamoto, 58, Japanese politician.{{cite web |url=http://www.asahi.com/kansai/okuyami/OSK200712230045.html |title=がん公表の民主・山本参院議員が死去 |date=23 December 2007 |newspaper=Asahi Shimbun |language=ja |access-date=23 June 2018}}

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Dale Baird, 71, American thoroughbred horse trainer, traffic collision.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-25-me-baird25-story.html |title=Horse trainer's 9,445 victories leads all-time list |first=Bob |last=Mieszerski |date=25 December 2007 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Donald Chant, 79, Canadian biologist and environmental advocate.{{cite web |url=http://esc-sec.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Obit_Chant_Donald.pdf |title=Professor Emeritus Dr. Donald A. Chant (1928–2007) |website=Entomological Society of Canada |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Evelyn Gandy, 87, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi (1976–1980).{{cite web |url=http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j92Xe_vr8jiUGs1QhxXfqpzFkWJAD8TNL6K00 |title=Former Miss. Lt. Gov. Evelyn Gandy Dies |date=25 December 2007 |website=Google News |access-date=1 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071226040510/http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j92Xe_vr8jiUGs1QhxXfqpzFkWJAD8TNL6K00 |archive-date=26 December 2007}}
W.F. Ganong, 83, American neuroendocrinologist, prostate cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/12/obituaries/12ganong.html |title=W. F. Ganong, 83, Expert in Brain's Control of Body, Dies |first=Dennis |last=Hevesi |date=12 January 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Michael Kidd, 92, American film and stage choreographer, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/24/arts/dance/24cnd-kidd.html |title=Michael Kidd, Choreographer, Dies |first=Patricia Eliot |last=Tobias |date=24 December 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Aloísio Lorscheider, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal, heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/25/AR2007122501309.html |title=Brazilian Cardinal Aloisio Lorscheider, 83 |last=Azzoni |first=Tales |date=26 December 2007 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Tyler MacDuff, 82, American actor.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0532057/bio |title=Tyler MacDuff Biography |website=IMDb |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Hans Mild, 73, Swedish footballer and ice hockey player.{{cite web |url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/allsvenskan/djurgarden/article1527343.ab |title=Hans "Tjalle" Mild har avlidit |date=26 December 2007 |newspaper=Aftonbladet |language=sv |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Oscar Peterson, 82, Canadian jazz pianist, kidney failure and complications from a stroke.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/canadian-jazz-great-oscar-peterson-dies-1.646844 |title=Canadian jazz great Oscar Peterson dies |date=24 December 2007 |website=CBC News |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071227090633/http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2007/12/24/obit-peterson-oscar.html |archive-date=27 December 2007}}
Rhoda Pritzker, 93, American philanthropist, member of the Pritzker family.{{cite web |url=http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20071230/NEWS/712300563 |title=Philanthropist helped education and arts |first=Mark |last=Zaloudek |date=30 December 2007 |newspaper=Sarasota Herald-Tribune |access-date=23 June 2018 |archive-date=June 5, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605035024/http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20071230/NEWS/712300563 |url-status=dead }}
Ferreira Queimado, 94, Portuguese former chairman of S.L. Benfica, after long illness.{{cite news |url=http://ultimahora.publico.clix.pt/noticia.aspx?id%3D1314779 |title=Morreu Ferreira Queimado, antigo presidente do Benfica |date=24 December 2007 |newspaper=Última Hora |language=pt |access-date=1 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071225152508/http://ultimahora.publico.clix.pt/noticia.aspx?id=1314779 |archive-date=25 December 2007}}
Kevin Sinclair, 65, New Zealand-born Hong Kong reporter, editor and columnist for the South China Morning Post, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapacific/news/article_1382933.php/Hong_Kongs_best-known_western_journalist_dies_of_cancer |title=Hong Kong's best-known western journalist dies of cancer |date=24 December 2007 |website=Monsters and Critics |access-date=1 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071226012048/http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapacific/news/article_1382933.php/Hong_Kongs_best-known_western_journalist_dies_of_cancer |archive-date=26 December 2007}}
Osvaldo Reyes, 88, Chilean painter, stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/2007/12/27/chilean_brought_his_art_here.html |title=Chilean brought his art here |first=Paola |last=Loriggio |date=27 December 2007 |newspaper=Toronto Star |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Frank Swaelen, 77, Belgian politician, former president of the Senate and minister of state.{{cite news |url=http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf23122007_011 |title=Frank Swaelen overleden |date=23 December 2007 |newspaper=De Standaard |language=nl |access-date=23 June 2018}}

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Jim Angel, 67, Australian radio newsreader, stroke.{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/25/2127263.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120719064917/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/25/2127263.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 19, 2012 |title=Sydney newsreader Jim Angel dies, aged 67 |date=25 December 2007 |website=ABC News |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Cláudio Camunguelo, 60, Brazilian composer and singer, diabetes.{{cite news |url=http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Rio/0,,MUL238537-5606,00.html |title=Morre o sambista Cláudio Camunguelo |first=Renata |last=Granchi |date=25 December 2007 |newspaper=O Globo |language=pt |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071228043125/http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Rio/0%2C%2CMUL238537-5606%2C00.html |archive-date=28 December 2007 }}
Reinhard Heß, 62, German ski jumping coach, pancreatic cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/sports/2007/December/sports_December1082.xml§ion=sports&subsection=miscellaneous |title=Germany mourns former ski-jump coach Hess |date=26 December 2007 |newspaper=Khaleej Times |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071227180017/http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data%2Fsports%2F2007%2FDecember%2Fsports_December1082.xml§ion=sports&subsection=miscellaneous |archive-date=27 December 2007}}
Wilhelmina Jashemski, 97, American archaeologist, renal failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/13/AR2008011302806.html |title=Pompeian Historian Wilhelmina Jashemski |first=Joe |last=Holley |date=14 January 2008 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Andreas Matzbacher, 25, Austrian cyclist, traffic collision.{{cite web |url=https://www.rte.ie/sport/cycling/2007/1226/226193-cycling/ |title=Cyclist Matzbacher dies in car crash |date=26 December 2007 |website=RTÉ News |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Sir Nicholas Pumfrey, 56, British judge, stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1574186/Sir-Nicholas-Pumfrey.html |title=Sir Nicholas Pumfrey |date=1 January 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=23 June 2018}}
George Warrington, 55, American transportation official, President of Amtrak (1998–2002), pancreatic cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/29/business/29warrington.html |title=G. D. Warrington, 55, Transit Executive, Dies |last=Walsh |first=Mary Williams |date=29 December 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}

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Jim Beauchamp, 68, American Major League Baseball player and coach, leukemia.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=3170470 |title=Braves bench coach for '95 Series team dies at 68 |date=28 December 2007 |website=ESPN |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Tommy Harmer, 79, British footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, Watford and Chelsea).{{cite web |url=http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/obituary-tommy-harmer-271207/ |title=Obituary - Tommy Harmer |date=27 December 2007 |website=Tottenham Hotspur F.C. |access-date=23 June 2018}}
John Hayes, 80, New Zealand test cricketer.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1574371/Johnny-Hayes.html |title=Johnny Hayes |date=3 January 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Patricia Kirkwood, 86, British actress, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7160134.stm |title=Actress Pat Kirkwood dies at 86 |date=26 December 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Hugh Massingberd, 60, British genealogist and journalist, former Daily Telegraph obituary editor.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1573717/Hugh-Massingberd.html |title=Hugh Massingberd |date=27 December 2007 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=23 June 2018}}

*Mighty King Kong, 34, Kenyan reggae musician.{{cite news |url=http://eastandard.net/news/?id=1143979516&cid=159 |title='Mighty' King Kong passes on |last=Adero |first=Brian |date=26 December 2007 |newspaper=The Standard |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071229205422/http://eastandard.net/news/?id=1143979516&cid=159 |archive-date=29 December 2007}}

William MacDonald, 90, American Christian author.{{Cite web |title=WilliamMacDonald.org |url=http://williammacdonald.blogspot.com/ |access-date=2022-03-27 |website=williammacdonald.blogspot.com |language=en}}{{better source needed|date=March 2022}}
Hans Otte, 81, German avant-garde composer and pianist.{{cite news |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buehne-und-konzert/musik-komponist-und-pianist-hans-otte-tot-1490763.html |title=Komponist und Pianist Hans Otte tot |date=26 December 2007 |newspaper=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung |language=de |access-date=23 June 2018}}
G. P. Sippy, 93, Indian film producer and director.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/27/arts/27Sippy.html |title=G. P. Sippy, Indian Filmmaker Whose 'Sholay' Was a Bollywood Hit, Dies at 93 |first=Haresh |last=Pandya |date=27 December 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Carlos Eduardo Sousa Jr., 17, American student, tiger attack.{{cite web |url=https://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5405492.html |title=Details emerge in SF Zoo tiger attack |first=Kevin |last=Fagan |date=26 December 2007 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Tatiana, 4, American-born Siberian tiger at San Francisco Zoo, mauled a visitor to death, shot.
Sir George Vallings, 75, British vice admiral, throat cancer.[https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/northern-ireland-travel/vice-admiral-sir-george-vallings-38jp9gg38hm Vice Admiral Sir George Vallings]

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Raúl Bernao, 66, Argentine footballer, hepatitis.{{cite web |url=https://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/news/newsid=665925.html |title=Argentina mourns Bernao's passing |date=26 December 2007 |website=FIFA |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071228030948/https://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/news/newsid=665925.html |archive-date=28 December 2007}}
Sir Phillip Bridges, 85, British barrister and judge, Chief Justice of the Gambia.{{cite web |title=Sir Phillip Bridges |website=The Daily Telegraph |date=April 2, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824151615/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1583576/Sir-Phillip-Bridges.html |archive-date=2017-08-24 |url-status=live |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1583576/Sir-Phillip-Bridges.html}}
Jim Castiglia, 89, American football and baseball player, natural causes.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/27/AR2007122702185.html |title=James Castiglia; Redskins Player in '40s |first=Patricia |last=Sullivan |date=28 December 2007 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Joe Dolan, 68, Irish singer and entertainer, brain haemorrhage.{{cite web |url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1226/dolanj.html |title=Joe Dolan dies after brain haemorrhage |date=26 December 2007 |website=RTÉ News |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Andrew Grima, 86, British jeweller.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1574085/Andrew-Grima.html |title=Andrew Grima |date=31 December 2007 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Voitto Liukkonen, 67, Finnish sports commentator.{{cite news |url=http://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/200712287028778_uu.shtml |title=Selostajalegenda Voitto Liukkonen on poissa |date=28 December 2007 |newspaper=Iltalehti |language=fi |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071231102024/http://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/200712287028778_uu.shtml |archive-date=31 December 2007}}
Paul D. MacLean, 94, American physician, developed triune brain concept, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-12-me-maclean12-story.html |title=Doctor developed 'triune brain' concept |first=Thomas H. |last=Maugh II |date=12 January 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Nina Menshikova, 79, Russian actress.{{cite web |url=http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=154672 |title="Маму Веру" похоронят рядом с мужем и сыном |date=28 December 2007 |website=Vesti.ru |language=ru |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Stu Nahan, 81, American sportscaster, lymphoma.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-27-me-nahan27-story.html |title=Longtime TV and radio sportscaster in L.A. also appeared in a string of films |first=Larry |last=Stewart |date=27 December 2007 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
John Pappenheimer, 92, American physiologist, respiratory failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/12/27/john_r_pappenheimer_92_taught_physiology_at_harvard/ |title=John R. Pappenheimer, 92; taught physiology at Harvard |first=Bryan |last=Marquard |date=27 December 2007 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=23 June 2018}}

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Kit Ahern, 92, Irish politician.{{cite web |url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1229/ahernk.html |title=Kit Ahern funeral takes place in Kerry |date=29 December 2007 |website=RTÉ News |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Ben D. Altamirano, 77, American politician, member of the New Mexico Senate since 1971, heart attack.{{cite web |url=https://www.abqjournal.com/news/state/273442nm12-28-07.htm |date=28 January 2008 |title=State Senator Ben Altamirano Dies |newspaper=Albuquerque Journal |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Ben Bamfuchile, 47, Zambian coach of the Namibia national football team, after short illness.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/africa/7162734.stm |title=Bamfuchile dies in Zambia |date=28 December 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Benazir Bhutto, 54, Pakistani opposition leader and former prime minister (1988–1990, 1993–1996), assassinated.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1698466,00.html |title=Benazir Bhutto Killed |last1=Jan |first1=Sadaqat |last2=Khan |first2=Zarar |date=27 December 2007 |magazine=Time |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071230071532/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1698466,00.html |archive-date=30 December 2007}}
Edward A. Brennan, 73, American businessman, former chairman of Sears, Roebuck and Company.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/01/business/01brennan.html |title=Edward Brennan, Who Led Sears at Its Peak, Dies at 73 |first=Louise |last=Story |date=1 January 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Sir Howard Colvin, 88, British architectural historian.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3114648.ece |title=Sir Howard Colvin |date=1 January 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523234941/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3114648.ece |archive-date=23 May 2010}}
Steven Florio, 58, American businessman, former CEO of Condé Nast, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/business/media/28florio.html |title=Steven T. Florio, Executive Who Expanded Condé Nast, Dies at 58 |first=Dennis |last=Hevesi |date=28 December 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 85, Polish film director.{{cite news |url=http://www.wprost.pl/ar/120446/Zmarl-Jerzy-Kawalerowicz/ |title=Zmarł Jerzy Kawalerowicz |date=27 December 2007 |newspaper=Wprost |language=pl |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Jaan Kross, 87, Estonian writer.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jaan-kross-writer-who-through-his-novels-sought-to-restore-the-national-memory-of-his-native-estonia-767282.html |title=Jaan Kross: Writer who through his novels sought to restore the national memory of his native Estonia |last=Thomson |first=Ian |date=29 December 2007 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Ed LaDou, 52, American pizza chef, popularized gourmet California-style pizzas, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-04-me-ladou4-story.html |title=California chef pioneered gourmet pizza revolution |first=Jocelyn Y. |last=Stewart |date=4 January 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Marie-Jeanne, 87, American ballet dancer, congestive heart failure{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/arts/03marie-jeanne.html|title=Marie-Jeanne, a Balanchine Ballerina, Dies at 87|work=The New York Times|last=Anderson|first=Jack|date=January 13, 2008}}

*Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza, 94, Brazilian pretender to the title Emperor of Brazil.{{cite news |url=http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/mat/2007/12/27/327776960.asp |title=Morre na Espanha dom Pedro Gastão de Orleans e Bragança |date=27 December 2007 |newspaper=O Globo |language=pt |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071230002221/http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/mat/2007/12/27/327776960.asp |archive-date=30 December 2007}}

Peter Wing, 93, Canadian politician, mayor of Kamloops, North America's first mayor of Chinese descent, stroke.{{cite news |url=http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=fa547031-9ba6-4328-b374-12c47cee758d |title=Former Kamloops mayor dies at 93 |date=31 December 2007 |newspaper=Times Colonist |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103161822/http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=fa547031-9ba6-4328-b374-12c47cee758d |archive-date=3 November 2012}}

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Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, 25, Iranian basketball player, traffic collision.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}
Jiří Pauer, 88, Czech composer, theatre director and academic.{{cite web |url=http://www.praguemonitor.com/en/240/arts_in_prague/16399/ |title=Composer Jiří Pauer dies |date=27 December 2007 |website=Prague Daily Monitor |access-date=21 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071231105916/http://www.praguemonitor.com/en/240/arts_in_prague/16399/ |archive-date=31 December 2007}}
Serigne Saliou Mbacké, 92, Senegalese religious leader, fifth caliph of the Mouride Islamic movement.{{cite web |url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jCcHuB6UVRJO2hMoj_YvhjBDSfoQ |title=Influential Senegalese sect leader dies |date=1 January 2008 |website=Agence France-Presse |access-date=1 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080101170940/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jCcHuB6UVRJO2hMoj_YvhjBDSfoQ |archive-date=1 January 2008}}
Amarnath Sehgal, 85, Indian sculptor.{{cite web |url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200712281866.htm |title=Renowned sculptor Amarnath Sehgal no more |date=28 December 2007 |newspaper=The Hindu |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416174503/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200712281866.htm |archive-date=16 April 2014 }}

*Sun Daolin, 86, Chinese actor.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.variety.com/VR1117978249.html |title=Sun Daolin dies at 86 |first=Clifford |last=Coonan |date=30 December 2007 |magazine=Variety |access-date=23 June 2018}}

Tab Thacker, 45, American wrestler and actor (Police Academy, City Heat, Wildcats), complications from diabetes.{{cite news |url=http://www.charlotte.com/breaking_news/story/423456.html |title="Police Academy" actor from N.C. dies |date=28 December 2007 |newspaper=The Charlotte Observer |access-date=1 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080101060637/http://www.charlotte.com/breaking_news/story/423456.html |archive-date=1 January 2008}}

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Olayr Coan, 48, Brazilian actor and theater director, traffic collision.{{cite web |url=http://diversao.terra.com.br/interna/0,,OI2190179-EI3615,00.html |title=Ator e diretor teatral Olayr Coan morre em acidente de carro |date=31 December 2007 |website=Terra.com |language=pt |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080103104538/http://diversao.terra.com.br/interna/0%2C%2COI2190179-EI3615%2C00.html |archive-date=3 January 2008}}
Phil Dusenberry, 71, American advertising executive, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/business/media/31dusenberry.html |title=Philip B. Dusenberry, 71, Adman, Dies |first=Louise |last=Story |date=31 December 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Kevin Greening, 44, British former BBC Radio 1 disc jockey.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7165356.stm |title=Mayo tribute to radio DJ Greening |date=31 December 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Vincent Gruppuso, 67, American businessman, founder of Kozy Shack puddings, complications from diabetes.{{cite news |url=https://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/01/14/vincent_gruppuso_67_founder_of_kozy_shack_pudding_co/ |title=Vincent Gruppuso, 67, founder of Kozy Shack pudding co. |date=14 January 2008 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=23 June 2018}}

*Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar, 74, Yemeni politician, Parliamentary speaker since 1993, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.sabanews.net/en/news144021.htm |title=Parliament speaker passes away |date=29 December 2007 |website=Saba News Agency |access-date=23 June 2018}}

Joan Ingpen, 91, British classical music manager (Ingpen & Williams), launched the career of Luciano Pavarotti.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1574987/Joan-Ingpen.html |title=Joan Ingpen |date=9 January 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Rex King-Clark, 94, British soldier and racing driver.{{cite web |url=http://www.helensburgh-heritage.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=618:soldier-pilot-racing-driver-author&catid=39:people-&Itemid=399 |title=Soldier, pilot, racing driver, author |first=Donald |last=Fullarton |date=28 April 2010 |website=Helensburgh Heritage |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Robert Morris, 81, English cricketer.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/17697.html |title=Robert Morris |website=ESPN CricInfo |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Nonja, 55, Indonesian Sumatran orangutan thought to be world's oldest.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7166338.stm |title='World's oldest' orang-utan dies |date=31 December 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Phil O'Donnell, 35, Scottish footballer (Motherwell) with one Scotland cap, heart failure.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/motherwell/7164150.stm |title=Motherwell captain O'Donnell dies |date=29 December 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=23 June 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7166784.stm |title=Footballer died of heart failure |date=1 January 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Scott M. Robinson, 54, American key grip.
H. D. Thoreau, Jr., 84, American track-and-field authority and Olympics official, complications from Alzheimer's and stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/01/02/hd_thoreau_jr_was_authority_on_track/ |title=H.D. Thoreau Jr.; was authority on track |first=Jon |last=Thurber |date=2 January 2008 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Shu Uemura, 79, Japanese makeup artist, pneumonia.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1701376,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080112142445/http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1701376,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 12, 2008 |first=Coco |last=Masters |title=Shu Uemura, Makeup Pioneer, Dies |date=8 January 2008 |magazine=Time |access-date=15 February 2017}}

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Bert Bolin, 82, Swedish meteorologist, stomach cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/2008/01/02/swedish_climate_scientist_bolin_dies_at_82.html |title=Swedish climate scientist Bolin dies at 82 |date=2 January 2008 |newspaper=Toronto Star |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Kinkri Devi, 82, Indian environmentalist.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/obituaries/06devi.html |title=Kinkri Devi Is Dead at 82; Fought Illegal Mining in India |last=Pandya |first=Haresh |date=6 January 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Laila Kaland, 68, Norwegian politician, MP (1985–2001), after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/more_og_romsdal/1.4402841 |title=Laila Kaland er død |date=31 December 2007 |website=NRK |language=no |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Jorge Machiñena, 71, Uruguayan deputy (1985–2000), President of the Chamber (1996–1997), heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.montevideo.com.uy/notnoticias_54887_1.html |title=Falleció Jorge Machiñena |date=30 December 2007 |website=Montevideo Portal |language=es |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Leonard B. Meyer, 89, American musicologist.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/arts/02meyer.html |title=Leonard B. Meyer, Scholar of Music's Meaning, Is Dead at 89 |first=Kathryn |last=Shattuck |date=2 January 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Victor Navarra, 55, American coordinator for New York Marathon, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/sports/othersports/31navarra.html |title=Victor Navarra Dies at 55; Directed Marathon Start |first=Joshua |last=Robinson |date=31 December 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=28 September 2017}}
Doreen Norton, 85, British nursing pioneer.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/doreen-norton-pioneer-in-geriatric-nursing-782520.html |title=Doreen Norton: Pioneer in geriatric nursing |date=15 February 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101019044038/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/doreen-norton-pioneer-in-geriatric-nursing-782520.html |archive-date=19 October 2010}}
Willie Robinson, 81, American blues singer, injuries from a fire.{{cite news |url=http://archive.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/12/31/death_comes_for_a_musician_who_lived_the_blues/ |title=Death comes for a musician who lived the blues |last1=Bierman |first1=Noah |last2=Oster |first2=Alex I. |date=13 December 2007 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Louis Wolfson, 95, American businessman, bred and raced 1978 U.S. Triple Crown champion Affirmed, colon cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/sports/horse/news/story?id=3175078 |title=Affirmed owner Louis Wolfson dead at 95 |date=31 December 2007 |website=ESPN |access-date=23 June 2018}}

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Alberto Alonso, 90, Cuban dancer and choreographer, heart attack.{{Cite web |date=2008-01-11 |title=Dancer co-founded the National Ballet of Cuba |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-11-me-alonso11-story.html |access-date=2022-07-20 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}
Tommy Dickson, 78, British footballer (Linfield, Northern Ireland), after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/irish/7165703.stm |title=Linfield legend Dickson has died |date=31 December 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Tony Elliott, 48, American football player (New Orleans Saints), natural causes.{{cite web |url=http://msn.foxsports.com:80/nfl/story/7631766?MSNHPHMA |title=Elliott, former Saints nose tackle, dies at 48 |date=6 January 2008 |website=Fox Sports |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080106132831/http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/7631766?MSNHPHMA |archive-date= 6 January 2008}}
Ralph Emmerson, 94, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Knaresborough (1972–1979).{{cite web |url=http://www.riponleeds.anglican.org/pressrelease.php?storyid%3D286 |title=Announcement of death of Bishop Ralph Emmerson |date=3 January 2008 |website=Diocese of Ripon and Leeds |access-date=11 May 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080419185710/http://www.riponleeds.anglican.org/pressrelease.php?storyid=286 |archive-date=19 April 2008}}
Michael Goldberg, 83, American abstract expressionist painter, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/01/09/michael_goldberg_abstract_expressionist_painter/ |title=Michael Goldberg, Abstract Expressionist painter |first=Grace |last=Glueck |date=9 January 2008 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Bill Idelson, 88, American actor and script writer, complications from a broken hip.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-06-me-idelson6-story.html |title=Actor, writer on episodic TV got his start in radio |first=Dennis |last=McLellan |date=6 January 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Kathryn Ish, 71, American television, voiceover and theater actress (Laverne & Shirley), cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.independent.com/obits/2008/jan/09/kathryn-ish/ |title=Kathryn Ish, 1936–2007 |date=9 January 2008 |newspaper=Santa Barbara Independent |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Milton L. Klein, 97, Canadian politician, MP for Cartier (1963–1968).{{cite web |url=http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/insight/story.html?id=31aa4053-676c-46e3-9080-7f61778ba3ec&p=2 |title=An MP who loved to dance, who championed French |date=6 January 2008 |website=Canada.com |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103173117/http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/insight/story.html?id=31aa4053-676c-46e3-9080-7f61778ba3ec&p=2 |archive-date=3 November 2012}}
Markku Peltola, 51, Finnish actor and musician.{{cite web |url=http://uutiset.msn.hs.fi/kulttuuri/artikkeli/Näyttelijä%20Markku%20Peltola%20kuollut/1135232928187?ref=msn |title=Näyttelijä Markku Peltola kuollut |date=31 December 2007 |newspaper=Helsingin Sanomat |language=fi |access-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080610014945/http://uutiset.msn.hs.fi/kulttuuri/artikkeli/N%C3%A4yttelij%C3%A4%20Markku%20Peltola%20kuollut/1135232928187?ref=msn |archive-date=10 June 2008}}
Muhammad Osman Said, 85, Libyan Prime Minister (1960–1963).{{cite web |url=http://rulers.org/2007-12.html |title=December 2007 |website=Rulers.org |access-date=23 June 2018}}
Ettore Sottsass, 90, Italian designer, heart failure.{{cite web |url=http://www.observer.com/2007/ettore-sottsass-italian-designer-behind-memphis-group-dies-90 |title=Ettore Sottsass, Italian Designer Behind Memphis Group, Dies at 90 |first=David |last=Foxley |date=31 December 2007 |website=The New York Observer |access-date=1 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080107144809/http://www.observer.com/2007/ettore-sottsass-italian-designer-behind-memphis-group-dies-90 |archive-date=7 January 2008}}

References

External links

[https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=2007-12-01,2007-12-31&adult=include List of December 2007 deaths] at IMDb

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