Deaths in April 2007

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

April 2007

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Laurie Baker, 90, British-born Indian architect.{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/004200704011322.htm |title=Architect Laurie Baker dies |date=1 April 2007 |newspaper=The Hindu |access-date=30 April 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071107003043/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/004200704011322.htm |archive-date=7 November 2007}}
John Billings, 89, Australian co-developer of the Billings ovulation method.{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Father-of-Billings-Method-dies/2007/04/03/1175366203150.html |title=Father of 'Billings Method' dies |date=3 April 2007 |newspaper=The Age |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Norman Butler, 76, English cricketer.{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/34/34517/34517.html |title=Norman Victor Butler |website=CricketArchive |url-access=subscription |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Herb Carneal, 83, American sportscaster, radio broadcaster for Minnesota Twins Major League Baseball team, congestive heart failure.{{cite news |url=http://www.startribune.com/509/story/1093520.html |title=Herb Carneal: Goodbye to an old friend |first=Judd |last=Zulgad |date=2 April 2007 |newspaper=Star Tribune |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070406221540/http://www.startribune.com/509/story/1093520.html |archive-date=6 April 2007}}
Driss Chraibi, 80, Moroccan writer.{{cite web |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/moroccan-french-novelist-driss-chraibi-dies-1.665040 |title=Moroccan-French novelist Driss Chraibi dies |date=2 April 2007 |website=CBC News |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Char Fontane, 55, American actress (Joe & Valerie, The Punisher, Pearl) and singer, breast cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.legacy.com/VenturaCountyStar/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=87072970 |title=Char "Kaci" Fontane |date=6 April 2007 |newspaper=Ventura County Star |via=Legacy.com |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Lou Limmer, 82, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).{{cite news |url=http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2007/04/05/news/world/limmer0406.txt |title=Journeyman ballplayer Limmer dies |date=5 April 2007 |newspaper=Cleveland Jewish News |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Salem Ludwig, 91, American actor (Unfaithful, Family Business, The Savages).{{cite magazine |url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/107054.html |title=Salem Ludwig, Veteran Stage Actor, Dies at 91 |last=Simonson|author-link1=Robert Simonson |first=Robert |date=4 April 2007 |magazine=Playbill |access-date=30 April 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930190233/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/107054.html |archive-date=30 September 2007}}
Sally Merchant, 88, Canadian broadcaster and politician, cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/broadcaster-politician-sally-merchant-dead-at-88-1.671722 |title=Broadcaster, politician Sally Merchant dead at 88 |date=3 April 2007 |website=CBC News |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070410141349/http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2007/04/03/merchant.html |archive-date=10 April 2007}}
Hannah Nydahl, 61, Danish teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, translator for her husband Ole Nydahl, lung and brain cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.diamondway-buddhism.org/pdf/Hannah.pdf |title=Hannah |last=Nydahl |first=Ole |date=1 April 2007 |website=Diamond Way Buddhism |access-date=30 April 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070628054240/http://www.diamondway-buddhism.org/pdf/Hannah.pdf |archive-date=28 June 2007}}
Screechy Peach, 47, American singer and songwriter, breast cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.dorkmag.com/archives/people/index.html |title=Myrna "Screechy Peach" Crenshaw |date=14 April 2007 |website=Dork Magazine |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070614224819/http://www.dorkmag.com/archives/people/index.html |archive-date=14 June 2007}}
Ladislav Rychman, 84, Czech film director, heart attack.{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2007/scene/people-news/ladislav-rychman-84-director-1117962807/ |title=Ladislav Rychman, 84, director |first=Will |last=Tizard |date=10 April 2007 |magazine=Variety |access-date=26 August 2018}}
George Sewell, 82, British actor (Get Carter, Barry Lyndon, Doctor Who), cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1547656/George-Sewell.html |title=George Sewell |date=5 April 2007 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Elliott Skinner, 82, American scholar and former ambassador, heart failure.{{cite web |url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/07/04/skinner_obit.html |title=Elliot Percival Skinner, Franz Boas Professor Emeritus, Dies |date=6 April 2007 |website=Columbia News |publisher=Columbia University |access-date=26 August 2018}}

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B. K. Anand, 89, Indian physiologist and pharmacologist.{{cite journal |url=http://www.ijpp.com/IJPP%20archives/2007_51_2/103-104.pdf |title=Obituary: Professor B. K. Anand |last=Sengupta |first=Jayasree |journal=Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology |year=2007 |volume=51 |number=2 |pages=103–104 |access-date=26 August 2018}}
William W. Becker, 85, American co-founder of the Motel 6 chain, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-12-me-becker12-story.html |title=William Becker, 85; helped begin Motel 6, founded Arizona bank |first=Dennis |last=McLellan |date=12 May 2007 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Janet Bloomfield, 53, British campaigner, Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (1993–1996), septic shock.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,2068309,00.html |title=Janet Bloomfield |first=Scilla |last=Elworthy |date=30 April 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Jeannie Ferris, 66, Australian Senator, ovarian cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,21488485-5006301,00.html |title=Tributes for Ferris |first1=David |last1=Crawshaw |first2=Greg |last2=Kelton |date=2 April 2007 |newspaper=The Advertiser |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070510003533/http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,21488485-5006301,00.html |archive-date=10 May 2007}}
Henry Lee Giclas, 96, American astronomer.{{cite news |url=http://www.azdailysun.com/articles/2007/04/03/news/20070403_front%20page_6.txt |title=Like a fading star, Flagstaff astronomer Giclas dies at 96 |last=Bruner |first=Betsey |date=2 April 2007 |newspaper=Arizona Daily Sun |access-date=30 April 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130109065219/https://azdailysun.com/news/like-a-fading-star-flagstaff-astronomer-giclas-dies-at/article_e10868f1-38b2-5878-9e41-4e46fc820b9e.html |archive-date=9 January 2013}}
Paul Reed, 97, American comedian and actor (Car 54, Where Are You?), heart failure.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0715628/bio |title=Paul Reed (II) (1909–2007) |website=Internet Movie Database |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Tadjou Salou, 32, Togolese international footballer, after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/africa/6526759.stm |title=Former Togo captain Tadjou dies |date=4 April 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=26 August 2018}}

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Marion Eames, 85, British novelist (The Secret Room).{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/6525953.stm |title=Historical novelist dies aged 85 |date=4 April 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=26 August 2018}}
J. Kutty, Indian dancer and actor, accidental fall.{{Cite web |date=2007-04-04 |title=Tamil actor J Kutty passes away |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/tamil-actor-j-kutty-passes-away/story-spbCXtVXcfAsNfRGYLTeHJ.html |access-date=2024-03-17 |website=Hindustan Times |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Actor Kutty passes away |url=http://www.cinesouth.com/masala/hotnews/new/05042007-3.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100201064036/http://cinesouth.com/masala/hotnews/new/05042007-3.shtml |archive-date=2010-02-01 |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=Cinesouth}}
Sir Walter Luttrell, 87, British army officer and public servant.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1553609/Colonel-Sir-Walter-Luttrell.html |title=Colonel Sir Walter Luttrell |date=5 June 2007 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Robin Montgomerie-Charrington, 91, British 1952 Grand Prix driver.{{cite web |url=http://www.brdc.co.uk/news.cfm/title/ROBIN%20MONTGOMERIE-CHARRINGTON/flag/2/id/524 |title=Robin Montgomerie-Charrington |website=British Racing Drivers' Club |access-date=30 April 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070919205101/http://www.brdc.co.uk/news.cfm/title/ROBIN%20MONTGOMERIE-CHARRINGTON/flag/2/id/524 |archive-date=19 September 2007}}
Michael Joseph Murphy, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Erie (1982–1990).{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmurphym.html |title=Bishop Michael Joseph Murphy |first=David M. |last=Cheney |website=Catholic Hierarchy |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Walter Nicks, 81, American dancer and choreographer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/07/obituaries/07nicks.html |title=Walter Nicks, 81, Dance Teacher and Choreographer, Dies |first=Jennifer |last=Dunning |author-link=Jennifer Dunning |date=7 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Thomas Hal Phillips, 84, American novelist and screenwriter.{{cite news |url=http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp?ID=240351&pub=1&div=News |title=Obituaries, April 4; Thomas Hal Phillips |date=4 April 2007 |newspaper=Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928223746/http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp?ID=240351&pub=1&div=News |archive-date=28 September 2007}}
Zoltán Pongrácz, 95, Hungarian composer and conductor.{{cite web |url=http://www.muvesz-vilag.hu/muzsika/hirek/4564 |title=Elhunyt Pongrácz Zoltán zeneszerző |date=3 April 2007 |website=Művész-világ |language=hu |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Bill Robinson, 88, American sailor and author.{{cite web |url=http://www.sailingworld.com/sailboats/former-i-yachting-i-editor-william-robinson-passes-away |title=Former Yachting Editor William Robinson Passes Away |date=12 April 2007 |website=Sailing World |access-date=26 August 2018 |archive-date=April 15, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415180037/http://www.sailingworld.com/sailboats/former-i-yachting-i-editor-william-robinson-passes-away |url-status=dead }}
Eddie Robinson, 88, American college football coach (Grambling State University), Alzheimer's disease.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/college-football/news/story?id=2825016 |title=Coaching legend Eddie Robinson dead at 88 |date=5 April 2007 |website=ESPN |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Burt Topper, 78, American screenwriter, film director and film producer, pulmonary failure.{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2007/film/news/burt-topper-78-filmmaker-1117962505/ |title=Burt Topper, 78, filmmaker |date=4 April 2007 |magazine=Variety |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Nina Wang, 69, Hong Kong businesswoman and Asia's richest woman.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6524861.stm |title=HK richest woman Nina Wang dead |date=4 April 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=26 August 2018}}

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Jagjit Singh Chauhan, 80, Indian Sikh separatist leader, heart attack.{{Cite news |last=Pandya |first=Haresh |date=11 April 2007 |title=Jagjit Singh Chauhan, Sikh Militant Leader in India, Dies at 80 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/world/asia/11chauhan.html |access-date=26 August 2018 |work=The New York Times}}
Bob Clark, 67, American film director (A Christmas Story, Porky's, Baby Geniuses), car accident.{{Cite news |last=Reitman |first=Valerie |last2=Blankstein |first2=Andrew |date=5 April 2007 |title=Director of 'Christmas Story' dies in collision |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-05-me-crash5-story.html |access-date=26 August 2018 |work=Los Angeles Times}}
Brian Fahey, 87, British composer and musical director.[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/aug/02/guardianobituaries.obituaries Brian Fahey Composer, big band arranger and director]
Reginald H. Fuller, 92, British-born biblical scholar and Anglican priest, complications of a broken hip.{{Cite news |last=Martin |first=Douglas |date=14 April 2007 |title=Reginald H. Fuller, 92, New Testament Scholar, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/14/obituaries/14fuller.html |access-date=26 August 2018 |work=The New York Times}}
Terry Hall, 80, British ventriloquist and children's television presenter.{{Cite web |date=11 April 2007 |title=Children's entertainer Hall dies |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/6544083.stm |access-date=26 August 2018 |website=BBC News}}
Edward Mallory, 76, American television actor (Days of Our Lives).{{Cite web |date=7 April 2007 |title=Former soap actor Edward Mallory dead at 76 |url=http://www.wfmj.com/Global/story.asp?S=6335873 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929002416/http://www.wfmj.com/Global/story.asp?S=6335873 |archive-date=29 September 2007 |access-date=30 April 2007 |website=WFMJ-TV}}
Datuk K. Sivalingam, 59, Malaysian politician, heart attack.{{Cite news |date=5 April 2007 |title=Selangor MIC deputy chief Sivalingam dies at 61 |url=http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/4/5/nation/17356894&sec=nation |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608141444/http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=%2F2007%2F4%2F5%2Fnation%2F17356894&sec=nation |archive-date=June 8, 2011 |access-date=26 August 2018 |work=The Star}}
Karen Spärck Jones, 71, British professor emeritus of Computers and Information at the University of Cambridge, cancer.{{Cite web |date=4 April 2007 |title=Karen Spärck Jones (26 August 1935 – 4 April 2007) |url=http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2007040403 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070408120148/http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2007040403 |archive-date=8 April 2007 |access-date=26 August 2018 |website=University of Cambridge}}
Margaret Tor-Thompson, 44, Liberian politician, breast cancer.[https://allafrica.com/stories/200705290464.html Liberia: Margaret Thompson Died of Breast Cancer]

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Maria Gripe, 83, Swedish author.{{cite web |url=http://daphne.blogs.com/books/2007/04/maria_gripe_192.html |title=The Places You Will Go: Maria Gripe 1923–2007 |date=6 April 2007 |website=Daphne.blogs.com |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Thomas Stoltz Harvey, 94, American pathologist.{{cite news |url=http://www.wwpinfo.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=81&twindow=Default&mad=No&sdetail=2365&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1108&hn=wwpinfo&he=.com |title=Jerome David Epstein M.D. |date=6 October 2007 |newspaper=The West Windsor-Plainsboro News |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071006222121/http://www.wwpinfo.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=81&twindow=Default&mad=No&sdetail=2365&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1108&hn=wwpinfo&he=.com |archive-date=6 October 2007}}
Leela Majumdar, 99, Indian Bengali language children's author.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1070406/asp/nation/story_7611474.asp |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130203175906/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070406/asp/nation/story_7611474.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 3, 2013 |title=Children's tales never outgrown |date=6 April 2007 |newspaper=The Telegraph |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Mark St. John, 51, American guitarist (KISS, White Tiger), brain hemorrhage.{{cite web |url=http://www.antimusic.com/dayinrock/07/april/06/02.shtml |title=Former KISS Guitarist Mark St John Dies |date=6 April 2007 |website=antiMUSIC News |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Ali Sriti, 88, Tunisian oudist.{{cite web |url=http://www.tap.info.tn/fr/index.php?option%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D25409%26Itemid%3D222 |title=Ali Sriti: une vie dévouée à la musique |date=6 April 2007 |website=Tunis Afrique Presse |language=fr |access-date=17 June 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081009064023/http://www.tap.info.tn/fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25409&Itemid=222 |archive-date=9 October 2008}}
Darryl Stingley, 55, American football player, bronchial pneumonia.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/nfl/news/story?id=2826562 |title=Darryl Stingley, paralyzed by Tatum hit, dies at 55 |date=6 April 2007 |website=ESPN |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Poornachandra Tejaswi, 68, Indian writer and novelist in the Kannada language, cardiac arrest.{{cite web |url=http://mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=local&newsid=41718 |title=Noted Kannada writer Poornachandra Tejasvi passes away |date=6 April 2007 |website=Mangalorean.com |access-date=30 April 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927215949/http://mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=local&newsid=41718 |archive-date=27 September 2007}}

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Elward Thomas Brady, Jr., 60, American businessman and politician.{{cite web |url=http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20070408/NEWS/704080322?p=3&tc=pg |title=Local businessman, former legislator dies |first=Robert |last=Morris |date=8 April 2007 |website=Houma Today |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222042623/http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20070408/NEWS/704080322?p=3&tc=pg |archive-date=22 February 2014}}
Luigi Comencini, 90, Italian film director.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,2052743,00.html |title=Luigi Comencini |first=John Francis |last=Lane |date=8 April 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Stan Daniels, 72, Canadian writer and producer (Taxi, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson), heart failure.{{cite web |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/emmy-winner-stan-daniels-dies-at-72-1.666997 |title=Emmy winner Stan Daniels dies at 72 |date=11 April 2007 |website=CBC News |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Colin Graham, 75, British opera, theatre and television director, cardiac arrest.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/apr/10/guardianobituaries.musicnews |title=Colin Graham: Opera director who worked with Britten |last=Blyth |first=Alan |date=10 April 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=26 August 2018}}
George C. Jenkins, 98, American production designer (All the President's Men, Sophie's Choice, Presumed Innocent), Oscar winner (1977), heart failure.{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/12/entertainment/e112025D06.DTL |title=Oscar-Winning Art Director Jenkins Dies |date=12 April 2007 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071124005513/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fn%2Fa%2F2007%2F04%2F12%2Fentertainment%2Fe112025D06.DTL |archive-date=November 24, 2007 }}
Józef Kos, 106, Polish soldier, one of the last six World War I veterans from Germany.{{cite web |url=http://expresskaszubski.pl/o-tym-sie-mowi/2007/04/najstarszy-sierakowiczanin-nie-zyje |title=Najstarszy Sierakowiczanin nie żyje |first=Wojciech |last=Drewka |date=6 April 2007 |website=Express Kaszubski |language=pl |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018213247/http://expresskaszubski.pl/o-tym-sie-mowi/2007/04/najstarszy-sierakowiczanin-nie-zyje |archive-date=18 October 2007}}
Jill McGown, 59, British mystery writer.{{cite news |url=http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2488791.ece |title= Jill McGown: Author of intelligent whodunits |last=Adrian |first=Jack |date=27 April 2007 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=27 April 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070518101002/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2488791.ece |archive-date=18 May 2007 }}
James McGuinness, 81, British priest, Bishop of Nottingham (1974–2000).{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1867864.ece |title=The Right Rev James McGuinness |date=1 June 2007 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523105439/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1867864.ece |archive-date=23 May 2011}}
Raymond G. Murphy, 77, American Medal of Honor recipient during the Korean War.{{cite web |url=http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/6918797.html |title=Korean War Medal of Honor Winner Dies |website=KKTV |access-date=26 August 2018 |archive-date=April 23, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070423030150/http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/6918797.html |url-status=dead }}
Jeff Uren, 81, British racing driver.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/june-2007/11/obituary |title=Obituary: Jeff Uren, 1925–2007 |date=June 2007 |page=11 |magazine=Motor Sport |access-date=26 August 2018}}

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Neville Duke, 85, British World War II fighter pilot.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/apr/14/guardianobituaries.military |title=Squadron Leader Neville Duke: Fighter ace and record-breaking test pilot |last=Fountain |first=Nigel |date=14 April 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Marià Gonzalvo, 85, Spanish captain of FC Barcelona and international footballer for Spain.{{cite news |url=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21525430-23215,00.html |title=Barcelona legend, 84, dies |date=9 April 2007 |newspaper=The Australian |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071125211629/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21525430-23215,00.html |archive-date=25 November 2007}}
Johnny Hart, 76, American cartoonist (B.C., The Wizard of Id), stroke.{{cite web |url=https://www.today.com/popculture/b-c-cartoonist-johnny-hart-dies-storyboard-wbna18013348 |title='B.C.' cartoonist Johnny Hart dies at storyboard |date=8 April 2007 |website=Today |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Win Hickey, 94, American socialite, politician, First Lady of Wyoming and one of the first woman to serve in the Wyoming Senate.{{Cite web |title=Winifred Win Hickey, 94, former Wyoming first lady dies |url=https://groups.google.com/g/alt.obituaries/c/dlrza7eb8SQ?pli=1 |access-date=2024-08-18 |website=groups.google.com}}
Brian Miller, 70, British footballer for Burnley and England.{{cite news |url=http://www.burnleycitizen.co.uk/news/newsheadlines/display.var.1315047.0.clarets_legend_brian_miller_dies.php |title=Tributes to Brian Miller |first=Paul |last=Plunkett |date=8 April 2007 |newspaper=The Burnley Citizen |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Otto Natzler, 99, American ceramics and glazing master, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003676334_potterobit22.html |title=Otto Natzler, ceramics master, dies at 99 |last=Luther |first=Claudia |date=22 April 2007 |newspaper=The Seattle Times |access-date=30 April 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071124045554/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003676334_potterobit22.html |archive-date=24 November 2007}}
Barry Nelson, 89, American actor (The Shining My Favorite Husband, Airport).{{cite news |url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/apnews/story/0,,-6556111,00.html |title=Actor Barry Nelson Dies at 89 |last=Risling |first=Greg |date=13 April 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070515194934/http://film.guardian.co.uk/apnews/story/0%2C%2C-6556111%2C00.html |archive-date=15 May 2007}}

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Charles Bain, 93, Trinidadian West Indian Test cricket umpire.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/westindies/content/player/51291.html |title=Charles Bain |website=ESPN CricInfo |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Natalia Clare, 87, American ballet dancer and instructor, complications of strokes.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-17-me-clare17-story.html |title=Natalia Clare, 87; ballerina, dance teacher |first=Lewis |last=Segal |date=17 April 2007 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Asad Amanat Ali Khan, 51, Pakistani singer, heart attack.[https://www.dawn.com/news/241480/asad-amanat-ali-dies-of-heart-attack Asad Amanat Ali dies of heart attack]
Victor Kneale, 89, Manx Speaker of the House of Keys (1990–1991).{{cite web |url=http://www.iomonline.co.im/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=870&ArticleID=2678831 |title=Victor Kneale Dies |date=9 April 2007 |website=IoM Online |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070509091259/http://www.iomonline.co.im/ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=870&ArticleID=2678831 |archive-date=9 May 2007}}
Sol LeWitt, 78, American artist known for his role in the Conceptualism and Minimalism movements, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/arts/design/09lewitt.html |title=Sol LeWitt, Master of Conceptualism, Dies at 78 |first=Michael |last=Kimmelman |date=9 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Bill Mescher, 79, American politician, member of the South Carolina Senate from 1993 until his death, stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.postandcourier.com/news/sen-mescher-dies-after-stroke/article_719e7d9f-e6be-5cc3-9539-b96f8955d35c.html |title=Sen. Mescher dies after stroke |last=Wenger |first=Yvonne |date=8 April 2007 |newspaper=The Post and Courier |access-date=26 August 2018}}

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Florence Arrowsmith, 102, British marital recordholder.[https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/1323273.record-breaker-florence-dies/ Hereford Times]
Egon Bondy, 77, Czech philosopher and poet.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/books/15bondy.html |title=Egon Bondy, Czech Writer and Critic, Dies at 77 |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=15 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
AJ Carothers, 75, American playwright and television writer, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/11/state/n150759D46.DTL |title='Secret of My Success' writer A.J. Carothers dies in LA |date=11 April 2007 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071124005509/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fn%2Fa%2F2007%2F04%2F11%2Fstate%2Fn150759D46.DTL |archive-date=November 24, 2007 }}
Bob Coats, 82, British economic historian.{{cite journal |url=http://www.res.org.uk/SpringboardWebApp/userfiles/res/file/obituaries/coats.pdf |title=A. W. ('Bob') Coats |first1=Roger E. |last1=Backhouse |first2=Mary S. |last2=Morgan |date=October 2007 |journal=RES Newsletter |number=139 |access-date=26 August 2018 |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305011659/http://www.res.org.uk/SpringboardWebApp/userfiles/res/file/obituaries/coats.pdf |url-status=dead }}
Alain Etchegoyen, 55, French philosopher, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/france/20070410.WWW000000354_le_philosophe_alain_etchegoyen_est_decede.html |title=Le philosophe Alain Etchegoyen est mort |date=10 April 2007 |newspaper=Le Figaro |language=fr |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070416021402/http://www.lefigaro.fr/france/20070410.WWW000000354_le_philosophe_alain_etchegoyen_est_decede.html |archive-date=16 April 2007}}
Sir Michael Fox, 85, British judge, Lord Justice of Appeal (1981–1992).{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1690256.ece |title=Sir Michael Fox |date=23 April 2007 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523073828/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1690256.ece |archive-date=23 May 2011}}
Dorrit Hoffleit, 100, American research astronomer, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.aavso.org/aavso/membership/dhoffleit.shtml |title=In Memoriam: Dorrit Hoffleit, 1907–2007 |last1=Saladyga |first1=Michael |last2=Waagen |first2=Elizabeth |website=American Association of Variable Star Observers |access-date=30 April 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927210624/http://www.aavso.org/aavso/membership/dhoffleit.shtml |archive-date=27 September 2007}}
Mark Langford, 42, British businessman, former head of The Accident Group, car accident.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6541131.stm |title=Text message boss killed in crash |date=10 April 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Philip Mayne, 107, English officer, last surviving British officer of World War I.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1642562.ece |title=Philip Mayne: Survivor of flu pandemic who lived in three centuries |date=12 April 2007 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=13 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523065035/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1642562.ece |archive-date=23 May 2011}}
Harry Rasky, 78, Canadian documentary film producer, heart failure.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/canada-s-poet-with-a-camera-harry-rasky-dies-at-78-1.674522 |title=Canada's 'poet with a camera' Harry Rasky dies at 78 |date=10 April 2007 |website=CBC Arts |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070707111356/http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/story/2007/04/10/harry-rasky-obit.html |archive-date=7 July 2007}}

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Kevin Crease, 70, Australian television newsreader, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,21537661-5006301,00.html |title=Shattering loss for colleagues |first=Sophie |last=Elsworth |date=12 April 2007 |newspaper=The Advertiser |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070415083343/http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,21537661-5006301,00.html |archive-date=15 April 2007}}
Walter Hendl, 90, American conductor, heart and lung disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/arts/16hendl.html |title=Walter Hendl, Dies at 90; Led Eastman School |date=16 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Ralph Heywood, 85, American football player.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-12-me-passings12.2-story.html |title=Ralph Heywood, 85; former USC end later served as a Marine |date=12 April 2007 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Awdy Kulyýew, 70, Turkmen exiled politician and Foreign Minister (1990–1992), complications from stomach surgery.{{cite web |url=http://www.rferl.org/a/1075789.html |title=Turkmenistan: Exiled Opposition Leader Kuliev Dies At 71 |first=Bruce |last=Pannier |date=10 April 2007 |website=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |access-date=26 August 2018}}
George Mussallem, 99, Canadian politician and businessman.{{cite web |url=http://www.mapleridgemuseum.org/08_community/04/08_04_06_03_mussallem.html |title=Mussallem Family |website=Maple Ridge Museum |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222231045/http://www.mapleridgemuseum.org/08_community/04/08_04_06_03_mussallem.html |archive-date=22 February 2012}}
Salvatore Scarpitta, 88, American sculptor, complications from diabetes.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/arts/16scarpitta.html |title=Salvatore Scarpitta, New York Artist, Dies at 88 |first=Kathryn |last=Shattuck |date=16 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Dakota Staton, 76, American jazz vocalist, after long illness.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-20-me-staton20-story.html |title=Dakota Staton, 76; jazz vocalist known for album 'The Late, Late Show' |first=Valerie J. |last=Nelson |date=20 April 2007 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}

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Roscoe Lee Browne, 84, American actor (The Cosby Show, Soap, Babe), Emmy winner (1986), stomach cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/obituaries/12browne.html |title=Roscoe Lee Browne, 81, Actor of Stage and Screen, Dies |last=Robertson |first=Campbell |date=12 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
James Lee Clark, 38, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1116393320070412|work=Reuters|title=Texas executes man for murder, rape of teen|date=April 12, 2007}}
Loïc Leferme, 36, French free diver, drowning.{{cite web |url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idUKL1116311320070411 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070422214958/http://uk.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idUKL1116311320070411 |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 22, 2007 |title=Diver celebrated in hit film 'The Big Blue' dead |date=11 April 2007 |website=Reuters |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Warren E. Preece, 85, American editor of Encyclopædia Britannica (1964–1975), heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/14/us/14preece.html |title=Warren E. Preece, 85, Who Revamped Encyclopedia Britannica, Dies |first=Margalit |last=Fox |date=14 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Ronald Speirs, 86, American World War II commanding officer of Easy Company, 506th Infantry Regiment.{{cite web |url=http://members.chello.nl/~p.vandewal/pagina.html |first=Peter |last=van de Wal |title=Another Eagle has soared |website=Band of Brothers |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Warren Strelow, 73, American ice hockey goaltending coach for 1980 Winter Olympics gold medal team (Miracle on Ice).{{cite news |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2007/04/11/sharks-mourn-goalie-coachs-death/ |title=Sharks mourn goalie coach's death |last=Chi |first=Victor |date=11 April 2007 |newspaper=The Mercury News |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Kurt Vonnegut, 84, American novelist (Slaughterhouse-Five) and social critic, brain injury from a fall.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/books/11cnd-vonnegut.html |title=Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American Counterculture, Dies at 84 |first=Dinitia |last=Smith |author-link=Dinitia Smith |date=11 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}

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Kelsie B. Harder, 84, American name expert, congestive heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/nyregion/22harder.html |title=Kelsie B. Harder, Name Expert, Dies at 84 |date=22 April 2007 |first=Douglas |last=Martin |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Len Hill, 65, British cricketer for Glamorgan and footballer for Newport County.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/counties/glamorgan/6547863.stm |title=Welsh dual sport star Hill dies |date=12 April 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=26 August 2018}}
James K. Lyons, 46, American film editor (Far from Heaven, The Virgin Suicides), squamous cell carcinoma.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/arts/16lyons.html |title=James Lyons, 46, Film Editor and Actor, Dies |first=Edward |last=Wyatt |date=16 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Pierre Probst, 93, French children's book author and illustrator.{{cite web |url=http://cultureetloisirs.france3.fr/culture/29971078-fr.php |title=Décès de Pierre Probst, auteur de "Caroline" |date=14 April 2007 |website=France 3 |language=fr |access-date=30 April 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071116000940/http://cultureetloisirs.france3.fr/culture/29971078-fr.php |archive-date=16 November 2007}}
Little Sonny Warner, 77, American singer who earned a gold record with "There's Something on Your Mind".{{cite news |url=https://fcnp.com/2007/04/18/fc-native-and-gold-record-winner-haywood-little-sonny-warner-dies/ |title=F.C. Native and Gold Record Winner Haywood |first=Tom |last=Whipple |date=18 April 2007 |newspaper=Falls Church News-Press |access-date=26 August 2018}}

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Birgitta Arman, 86, Swedish actress.{{cite web |url=http://www.sfi.se/sv/svensk-filmdatabas/Item/?type=PERSON&itemid=60778 |title=Birgitta Arman |website=Swedish Film Database |language=sv |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Marie Clay, 81, New Zealand world-renowned literacy expert, after short illness.{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10434122 |title=Tributes flow for renowned educator Dame Marie Clay |date=13 April 2007 |newspaper=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Nathan Heffernan, 86, American judge, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court (1983–1995).{{cite journal |url=https://www.wisbar.org/NewsPublications/WisconsinLawyer/Pages/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1253 |title=Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Nathan S. Heffernan remembered for three decades of service |date=May 2007 |journal=Wisconsin Lawyer |volume=80 |issue=5 |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Hans Koning, 85, Dutch-born writer and journalist.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/books/18koning.html |title=Hans Koning, 85, Prolific Left-Leaning Writer, Is Dead |last=Martin |first=Douglas |date=18 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Joe Lane, 80, Australian bebop jazz singer.{{cite news |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/eccentric-minstrel-was-our-inimitable-king-of-bebop-20070511-gdq3yy.html |title=Eccentric minstrel was our inimitable king of bebop |last=Shand |first=John |date=11 May 2007 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Steve Malovic, 50, American-Israeli basketball player, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/sports/basketball-steve-malovic-dies-at-50-1.218066 |title=Basketball: Steve Malovic Dies at 50 |first=Arie |last=Livnat |date=15 April 2017 |newspaper=Haaretz |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, 88, American poet who wrote about the Dust Bowl.{{cite web |url=http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Entertainment/2007/04/20/dust_bowl_poet_wilma_mcdaniel_dies/ |title=Dust Bowl poet Wilma McDaniel dies |date=20 April 2007 |website=United Press International |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070729234432/http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Entertainment/2007/04/20/dust_bowl_poet_wilma_mcdaniel_dies/ |archive-date=29 July 2007}}
Neil Pickard, 78, Australian politician.[https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/members/formermembers/Pages/former-member-details.aspx?pk=1884 The Hon. Neil Edward William Pickard (1929–2007)]
Capil Rampersad, 46, Trinidad and Tobago cricketer.{{cite web |url=http://content-www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/52831.html |title=Capil Rampersad |website=ESPN CricInfo |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Joie Ray, 83, American open-wheel and stock car race driver, respiratory failure.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/racing/news/story?id=2841760&seriesId=2 |title=Ray, whose career spanned 17 years, dies at 83 |date=18 April 2007 |website=ESPN |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Don Selwyn, 71, New Zealand actor and director, complications from a kidney infection.{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10434094 |title=Veteran Maori film-maker and actor Don Selwyn dies |date=14 April 2007 |newspaper=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Marion Yorck von Wartenburg, 102, German World War II resistance fighter.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/may/21/guardianobituaries.germany |title=Marion, Countess Yorck von Wartenburg |first=Dan |last=van der Vat |author-link=Dan van der Vat |date=21 May 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=26 August 2018}}

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Ladislav Adamec, 80, Czech communist politician, Prime Minister of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1988–1989).{{cite web |url=https://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/communist-era-prime-minister-ladislav-adamec-dies |title=Communist-era prime minister Ladislav Adamec dies |last=Velinger |first=Jan |date=17 April 2007 |website=Radio Prague |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Robert Buck, 93, American aviator who set several aviation records in his teens, complications from a fall.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/us/20buck.html |title=Robert N. Buck Dies at 93; Was Record-Setting Aviator |first=Margalit |last=Fox |date=20 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
June Callwood, 82, Canadian journalist and activist, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070414.wcallwoodobit/BNStory/National/home |title=Journalist, activist June Callwood dies at 82 |last=Martin |first=Sandra |date=14 April 2007 |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070416045414/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070414.wcallwoodobit/BNStory/National/home |archive-date=16 April 2007}}
Bobby Cram, 67, British footballer for West Bromwich Albion and Colchester United.{{cite news |url=http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2469294.ece |title=Bobby Cram: Giantkiller captain of Colchester |last=Ponting |first=Ivan |date=21 April 2007 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=30 April 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001062937/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2469294.ece |archive-date=1 October 2007}}
Don Ho, 76, American Hawaiian musician and entertainer, heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-15-me-ho15-story.html |title=Don Ho, 76; singer was best known for '66 hit 'Tiny Bubbles' |first=Dennis |last=McLellan |date=15 April 2007 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Jim Jontz, 55, American congressman from Indiana (1987–1993), colon cancer.{{cite news |url=http://chestertontribune.com/Obituaries%202007/4167%20former_congressman_jim_jontz_die.htm |title=Former Congressman Jim Jontz dies in Oregon at 55 |date=16 April 2007 |newspaper=Chesterton Tribune |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Meredith Kline, 84, American theologian and Old Testament scholar.{{cite web |url=https://obittree.com/obituary/us/massachusetts/beverly/campbell-funeral-home/meredith-kline/627434/ |title=Obituary: Meredith George Kline |website=ObitTree™ |access-date=26 August 2018}}
William Menster, 94, American Catholic priest, first member of the clergy to visit Antarctica.{{cite news |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-11227581.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180826214550/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-11227581.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 August 2018 |title=Rev. William J. Menster |date=16 April 2007 |newspaper=Telegraph Herald |access-date=26 August 2018 |via=HighBeam Research}}
René Rémond, 88, French historian and academician.{{cite news |url=http://www.nysun.com/obituaries/rene-remond-88-french-historian/52609/ |title=Rene Remond, 88, French Historian |date=17 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Sun |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Mike Reynolds, British conservationist.{{cite web |url=http://www.parrots.org/about-wpt/founder-mike-reynolds |title=Founder: Mike Reynolds |website=World Parrot Trust |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Herman Riley, 73, American tenor saxophone jazz performer, heart failure.{{cite web |url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/saxophonist%20herman%20riley%20dies_1029149 |title=Saxophonist Herman Riley Dies |date=25 April 2007 |website=Contactmusic.com |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Audrey Santo, 23, American brain-injured girl claimed to have performed miracles, cardio-respiratory failure.{{cite news |url=http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070415/ALERT01/70415001 |title=Little Audrey, inspiration to thousands, dies at 23 |first=Mike |last=Elfland |newspaper=Telegram & Gazette |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070418112802/http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20070415%2FALERT01%2F70415001 |archive-date=April 18, 2007 }}
Jim Thurman, 72, American children's television writer and voice of Sesame Street's "Teeny Little Super Guy", illness.{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2007/scene/news/jim-thurman-72-tv-writer-1117963501/ |title=Jim Thurman, 72, TV writer |date=11 April 2007 |magazine=Variety |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Mike Webb, 51, American radio personality, stabbed.{{cite news |url=http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Radio-host-Mike-Webb-s-killer-sentenced-to-20-1305037.php |title=Radio host Mike Webb's killer sentenced to 20 years in prison |first=Casey |last=McNerthney |date=9 July 2009 |newspaper=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020225640/http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Radio-host-Mike-Webb-s-killer-sentenced-to-20-1305037.php |archive-date=20 October 2012}}
Frank Westheimer, 95, American chemist.{{cite journal |url=http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/85/i17/8517news3.html |title=Frank Westheimer Dies At 95 |last=Wang |first=Linda |date=23 April 2007 |journal=Chemical & Engineering News |volume=85 |number=17 |page=10 |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070528025116/http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/85/i17/8517news3.html |archive-date=28 May 2007|doi=10.1021/cen-v085n017.p010 |url-access=subscription }}

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Patricia Buckley, 80, Canadian-born socialite and fundraiser, wife of William F. Buckley, Jr., infection after long illness.{{cite magazine |url=http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ODhhNDliZDhmM2E2MDJkZTJkMjMyMjlmYWZiMTcyYjI |title=Patricia Taylor Buckley R.I.P. |date=15 April 2007 |magazine=National Review |access-date=30 April 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071124032605/http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ODhhNDliZDhmM2E2MDJkZTJkMjMyMjlmYWZiMTcyYjI |archive-date=24 November 2007}}
Heo Se-uk, 54, South Korean protester against U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, septic shock following self-immolation burns.{{cite news |url=http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/203235.html |title=Man who immolated himself in protest of FTA dies |date=16 April 2007 |newspaper=The Hankyoreh |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Brant Parker, 86, American cartoonist (The Wizard of Id).{{cite magazine |url=http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003572154 |title='Wizard of Id' Cartoonist Brant Parker Dies |first=Dave |last=Astor |date=16 April 2007 |magazine=Editor & Publisher |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070614233524/http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003572154 |archive-date=14 June 2007}}
Justine Saunders, 54, Australian actress, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21565438-5005961,00.html |title=Australian actress Saunders dies |first=Erin |last=McWhirter |date=16 April 2007 |newspaper=Herald Sun |via=news.com.au |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615092856/http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/australian-actress-saunders-dies/story-e6frf7kf-1111113352279 |archive-date=15 June 2011}}
Peter Tsiamalili, 54, Papua New Guinean first administrator of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville.{{cite web |url=http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=31527 |title=Bougainville administrator Tsaimalili dies aged 54 |date=16 April 2007 |website=RNZ International |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Donald Tuzin, 62, American anthropologist and leading authority on Melanesian culture, pulmonary hypertension.{{cite web |url=https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/archive/newsrel/general/04-07TuzinPJ-L.asp |title=Tributes to UCSD Faculty Leader Don Tuzin Follow his April 15 Death |last=JaCoby |first=Pat |date=18 April 2007 |website=University of California, San Diego |access-date=26 August 2018}}

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Frank Bateson, 97, New Zealand astronomer and writer.{{cite news |url=http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName%3D374602 |title=NZ astronomer, Frank Bateson, dies at 97 |date=19 April 2007 |newspaper=The West Australian |access-date=6 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930022310/http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=374602 |archive-date=30 September 2007}}
Tran Bach Dang, 81, Vietnamese journalist and politician.{{cite web |url=http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01SOC170407 |title=Vietnamese revolutionary, scholar, journalist dies at 82 |date=17 April 2007 |website=Vietnam News Agency |access-date=30 April 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930171207/http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01SOC170407 |archive-date=30 September 2007}}
Robert Desbats, 85, French cyclist.{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=8912 |title=Robert Desbats |website=Cycling Archives |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Gaetan Duchesne, 44, Canadian NHL player (1981–1995), heart attack.{{cite web |url=https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=204403&hubname= |title=Gaetan Duchesne passes away at 44 |date=16 April 2007 |website=The Sports Network |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070418062124/https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=204403&hubname= |archive-date=18 April 2007}}
Robert Jones, 56, British Conservative politician (MP 1983–1997), minister in the government of John Major, liver cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,2059409,00.html |title=Robert Jones, Planning minister under Major |first=Edward |last=Pearce |date=18 April 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Maria Lenk, 92, Brazilian Olympic swimmer (1932, 1936), rupture of aortic aneurysm.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/swimming-legend-maria-lenk-dead-at-92-1.675063 |title=Swimming legend Maria Lenk dead at 92 |date=17 April 2007 |website=CBC Sports |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Jack Wiebe, 70, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan (1994–2000), Senator (2000–2004), lung cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/local/story.html?id=7cf0cebd-c3a8-4483-8d89-495273c8a65a |title=Wiebe led life of public service |date=17 April 2007 |newspaper=The StarPhoenix |via=Canada.com |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071124054155/http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/local/story.html?id=7cf0cebd-c3a8-4483-8d89-495273c8a65a |archive-date=24 November 2007}}
Notable people killed in Virginia Tech shooting:
Jamie Bishop, 35, Canadian instructor of German, shot.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-17-na-victim17-story.html |title=Popular teacher among the first victims |first1=Greg |last1=Miller |first2=Richard |last2=Fausset |date=17 April 2007 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Seung-Hui Cho, 23, South Korean mass murderer and student, suicide by gunshot.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/us/17virginia.html |title=Virginia Gunman Identified as a Student |first=Christine |last=Hauser |date=17 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, 49, Canadian instructor of French, shot.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/victim-from-quebec-was-proud-canadian-dedicated-to-french-1.643229 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127012252/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/victim-from-quebec-was-proud-canadian-dedicated-to-french-1.643229 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 27, 2021 |title=Victim from Quebec was 'proud Canadian, dedicated to French' |date=17 April 2007 |website=CBC News |access-date=26 August 2018 }}
Kevin Granata, 45, American associate professor of engineering, shot.{{cite news |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/toledoblade/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=87558334 |title=Kevin Patrick Granata |date=26 April 2007 |newspaper=Toledo Blade |via=Legacy.com |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Liviu Librescu, 76, Romanian-born professor of engineering, Holocaust survivor, shot.{{cite news |url=http://news.bostonherald.com/international/middleEast/view.bg?articleid=195818&srvc=home |title=Virginia Tech hero buried in Israel |date=20 April 2007 |newspaper=Boston Herald |access-date=30 April 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070510143104/http://news.bostonherald.com/international/middleEast/view.bg?articleid=195818 |archive-date=10 May 2007}}
G. V. Loganathan, 50, Indian-born professor of engineering, shot.{{cite news |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?pid=87366894 |title=G.V. Loganathan |date=21 April 2007 |newspaper=The Washington Post |via=Legacy.com |access-date=26 August 2018 }}

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Nair Bello, 75, Brazilian actress, heart failure.{{cite news |url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u70348.shtml |title=Atriz Nair Bello morre aos 75 anos após cinco meses de internação |date=17 April 2007 |newspaper=Folha de São Paulo |language=pt |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Archie Campbell, 65, Canadian jurist.{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/2007/04/18/archie_campbell_65_legal_giant.html |title=Archie Campbell, 65: Legal giant |first=Debra |last=Black |date=18 April 2007 |newspaper=Toronto Star |access-date=26 August 2018}}
James B. Davis, 90, American founder of The Dixie Hummingbirds, heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/28/arts/28jdavis.html |title=James Davis, 90, Leader of Longtime Gospel Group, Is Dead |last=Sisario |first=Ben |author-link=Ben Sisario |date=28 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Steven Derounian, 89, Bulgarian-born American Republican Representative from New York state (1953–1965).{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/obituaries/20derounian.html |title=Steven B. Derounian, 89, Judge and Nassau Ex-Congressman, Dies |first=Wolfgang |last=Saxon |date=20 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Len Fitzgerald, 76, Australian footballer, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl/sturt-legend-fitzgerald-dies/news-story/ddec38be059e58e6895719a1868c960f |title=Sturt legend Fitzgerald dies |first=Michelangelo |last=Rucci |date=16 April 2007 |newspaper=The Advertiser |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Kitty Carlisle, 96, American actress (A Night at the Opera), TV personality (To Tell the Truth) and singer, heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/theater/18cnd-hart.html |title=Kitty Carlisle Hart, Actress and Arts Advocate, Dies at 96 |last=Berger |first=Marilyn |date=18 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Bruce Haslingden, 84, Australian Olympic cross-country skier, staphylococcus infection.{{cite news |url=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21588377-2722,00.html |title=Olympic pioneer dies at 84 |date=20 April 2007 |newspaper=The Australian |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071125211634/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21588377-2722,00.html |archive-date=25 November 2007}}
Raymond Kaelbel, 75, French international footballer.
Leyly Matine-Daftary, 70, Iranian artist.{{cite web |url=http://www.xerxesart.com/artists.aspx?aid=43 |title=Artists: Leyly Matine-Daftary |website=Xerxes Art |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Chauncey Starr, 95, American electrical engineer, pioneer in the field of nuclear energy.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/obituaries/19starr.html |title=Chauncey Starr, 95, Pioneer in Nuclear Energy, Dies |first=Matthew L. |last=Wald |date=19 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Glenn Sutton, 69, American country songwriter and record producer, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.countryweekly.com/glenn_sutton/scoop/2324 |title=Hall of Fame Songwriter Sutton Dies |website=Countryweekly.com |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927180022/http://www.countryweekly.com/glenn_sutton/scoop/2324 |archive-date=27 September 2007}}

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Josy Gyr-Steiner, 57, Swiss politician.{{cite web |url=https://www.parlament.ch/en/biografie/josy-gyr-steiner/1151 |title=Josy Gyr-Steiner |website=Federal Assembly|access-date=26 August 2018}}
Iccho Itoh, 61, Japanese mayor of Nagasaki, shooting.{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-shooting-idUST33398520070417 |title=Mayor of Japanese city dies after being shot |first=George |last=Nishiyama |date=17 April 2017 |website=Reuters |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Andrej Kvašňák, 70, Slovak footballer, lung cancer.{{cite web |url=https://fotbal.idnes.cz/legendarni-fotbalista-andrej-kvasnak-zemrel-fmo-/fot_reprez.aspx?c=A070418_191152_fot_reprez_min |title=Legendární fotbalista Andrej Kvašňák zemřel |date=18 April 2007 |website=IDNES.cz |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Harry Miller, 83, American baseball player.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/nba/news/story?id=2844187 |title=Player from first NBA game dies at 83 |date=20 April 2007 |website=ESPN |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Alvin Roth, 92, American contract bridge champion.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/obituaries/19roth.html |title=Alvin Roth, Bridge Champion, Dies at 92 |last=Alder |first=Phillip |date=19 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Donald Stephens, 79, American long-serving mayor of Rosemont, Illinois, founder of Hummel figurine museum, stomach cancer.{{cite web |url=http://qconline.com/archives/qco/display.php?id=334794 |title=Longtime Rosemont mayor Donald Stephens dies at 79 |website=Quad-Cities Online |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928060206/http://qconline.com/archives/qco/display.php?id=334794 |archive-date=28 September 2007}}
Tony Suarez, 51, American soccer player (Carolina Lightnin', Cleveland Force), 1981 Rookie of the Year{{cite news |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/charlotte/obituary.aspx?n=antonio-jose-suarez&pid=87352760&fhid=4156 |title=Antonio Jose Suarez |date=20 April 2007 |newspaper=The Charlotte Observer |via=Legacy.com |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Dick Vosburgh, 77, American-born comedy writer and lyricist, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/apr/21/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries |title=Dick Vosburgh |first=Michael |last=Coveney |date=21 April 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=26 August 2018}}

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Ken Albers, 82, American singer (The Four Freshmen).{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-21-me-passings21.1-story.html |title=Ken Albers, 82; singer harmonized as one of the Four Freshmen |date=21 April 2007 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Anthony Brooks, 85, British agent who led French Resistance saboteurs after the Normandy Invasion, stomach cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/21/world/21brooks.html |title=Anthony M. Brooks, Undercover Foe of Nazis, Dies at 85 |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=21 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Jean-Pierre Cassel, 74, French actor, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/apr/25/guardianobituaries.obituaries |title=Jean-Pierre Cassel |first=Ronald |last=Bergan |date=24 April 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Dermot Chichester, 7th Marquess of Donegall, 91, Irish soldier and aristocrat.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1557945/The-Marquess-of-Donegall.html |title=The Marquess of Donegall |date=20 July 2007 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Marie Hicks, 83, American civil rights activist, complications from Parkinson's disease.{{cite news |url=http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20070421_Marie_Hicks__83__the_Rosa_Parks_of_Girard_College.html |title=Marie Hicks, 83, the Rosa Parks of Girard College |date=21 April 2007 |newspaper=Philadelphia Daily News |access-date=26 August 2018}}
George Logie-Smith, 92, Australian musician.{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/maestro-to-generations-of-school-musicians/2007/07/05/1183351371359.html?page=fullpage |title=Maestro to generations of school musicians |first=Ian |last=Harrison |date=6 July 2007 |newspaper=The Age |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Worth McDougald, 82, American journalism educator, Director of the Peabody Awards (1963–1991), heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/23/us/23mcdougald.html |title=Worth McDougald, Journalism Educator, Dies at 82 |date=23 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Bohdan Paczyński, 67, Polish astrophysicist, brain tumor.{{cite magazine |title=Bohdan Paczyński |last1=Draine |first1=Bruce T. |last2=Lupton |first2=Robert H. |date=1 October 2007 |magazine=Physics Today |volume=60 |issue=10 |page=75 |doi=10.1063/1.2800107 }}
Leszek Suski, 77, Polish Olympic fencer.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/su/leszek-suski-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417230405/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/su/leszek-suski-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Leszek Suski |website=Sports Reference |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Helen Walton, 87, American widow of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, natural causes.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/21/business/21walton.html |title=Helen Walton, Matriarch of Wal-Mart Family, Dies at 87 |first=Eduardo |last=Porter |date=21 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
George D. Webster, 61, American football player.{{cite news |url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8OK0HHG0.html |title=Ex-Michigan State, NFL star George Webster dies |date=20 April 2007 |newspaper=The Dallas Morning News |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930023730/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8OK0HHG0.html |archive-date=30 September 2007}}

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Yehuda Meir Abramowicz, 92, Israeli General Secretary of Agudat Israel (1972–1981).{{cite web |url=https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=241 |title=Members: Yehuda Meir Abramovicz |website=Knesset |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Audrey Fagan, 44, Irish-born Australian Federal Police assistant commissioner, suspected suicide by hanging.{{cite news |url=http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21593718-5006009,00.html |title=Top cop dead at luxury resort |first=Vikki |last=Campion |date=20 April 2007 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |via=news.com.au |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070422153602/http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21593718-5006009,00.html |archive-date=22 April 2007}}{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/act-police-chief-found-hanged-on-holiday-island/2007/04/21/1176697161151.html |title=ACT police chief found hanged on holiday island |first1=John |last1=Kidman |first2=Erin |last2=O'Dwyer |date=22 April 2007 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Fred Fish, 54, American computer programmer known for GNU Debugger.{{cite web |url=http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2007-04/msg00154.html |title=Fred Fish will be missed |first=Richard |last=Fish |date=25 Apr 2007 |website=Sourceware.org |access-date=26 August 2018}}

*Michael Fu Tieshan, 75, Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association bishop of Beijing, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0702236.htm |title=Beijing Bishop Michael Fu Tieshan, 75, dies |date=20 April 2007 |website=Catholic News Service |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070427115538/http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0702236.htm |archive-date=27 April 2007}}

Andrew Hill, 75, American jazz pianist and composer, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/21/arts/21hill.html |title=Andrew Hill, 75, Jazz Artist Known for His Daring Style, Dies |last=Ratliff |first=Ben |date=21 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Jan Kociniak, 69, Polish actor.{{cite web |url=http://www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?osoba=111602 |title=Jan Kociniak |date=2017 |website=Filmpolski.pl |language=pl |access-date=26 August 2018}}
William Phillips, 60, American engineer, Johnson Space Center shooting gunman, suicide by gunshot.{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna18248153 |title=NASA shooter feared being fired, police say |date=21 April 2007 |website=NBC News |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Robert Rosenthal, 89, American distinguished World War II pilot and lawyer, multiple myeloma.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/obituaries/29rosenthal.html |title=Robert Rosenthal, Leader in Bombing Raids and Lawyer at Nuremberg, Dies at 89 |last=Martin |first=Douglas |date=29 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}

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Boscoe Holder, 85, Trinidadian dancer, choreographer and painter.{{cite news |url=http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2474441.ece |title=Boscoe Holder: Dancer, choreographer and artist |last=Bourne |first=Stephen |date=23 April 2007 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=30 April 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930213138/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2474441.ece |archive-date=30 September 2007}}
George Howard, Jr., 82, American federal judge.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-25-me-passings25.3-story.html |title=George Howard Jr., 82; federal judge presided over Whitewater cases |date=25 April 2007 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
James Hamupanda Kauluma, 75, Namibian bishop and freedom fighter, prostate cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,2071932,00.html |title=Bishop James Kauluma |first=Denis |last=Herbstein |date=3 May 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=26 August 2018}}
C. Bruce Littlejohn, 93, American jurist, Chief Justice of South Carolina.{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1454&dat=20070422&id=0h5PAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AyAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5077,3040990 | title=Former S.C. chief justice Littlejohn dies | work=Star-News | date=April 23, 2007 | access-date=November 25, 2014 | location=Wilmington, North Carolina | pages=4B}}
Lobby Loyde, 65, Australian rock guitarist (Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs), lung cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.news.com.au/sundayheraldsun/story/0,,21600151-5006024,00.html |title=Lobby Loyde dead at 65 |date=22 April 2007 |newspaper=Sunday Herald Sun |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071125211612/http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,21600151-5006024,00.html |archive-date=25 November 2007}}
Parry O'Brien, 75, American shot put champion at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/23/sports/othersports/23obrien.html |title=Parry O'Brien, Pioneer in Shot-Putting Technique, Dies at 75 |first=Frank |last=Litsky |author-link=Frank Litsky |date=23 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Art Saaf, 85, American comic book artist (Sheena, Queen of the Jungle), Parkinson's disease.{{cite web |url=http://www.artsaaf.com/ |title=Arthur "Artie" Saaf b.1921-d.2007 |date=8 July 2007 |website=ArtSaaf.com |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070708163642/http://www.artsaaf.com/ |archive-date=8 July 2007 }}
Bruce Van Sickle, 90, American federal judge (1971–2002), Alzheimer's disease.{{cite web |url=http://www.court.state.nd.us/court/news/vansickle.htm |title=Judge Bruce Van Sickle 1917–2007 |date=23 April 2007 |website=North Dakota Supreme Court News |access-date=26 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071124051809/http://www.court.state.nd.us/court/news/vansickle.htm |archive-date=November 24, 2007 |url-status=dead }}
Don White, 81, English rugby union player and coach.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jun/07/guardianobituaries.rugbyunion |title=Don White: The first coach of the England rugby team |first=Paul |last=Stephens |date=7 June 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=26 August 2018}}

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Ruth Frankenberg, 49, British sociologist, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jul/09/guardianobituaries.obituaries3 |title=Obituary: Ruth Frankenberg |first=Donna |last=Haraway |author-link=Donna Haraway |date=9 July 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Sir Raymond Hoffenberg, 84, South African-born endocrinologist, President of RCP (1983–1989) and Chair of the BHF.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1550969/Sir-Raymond-Hoffenberg.html |title=Sir Raymond Hoffenberg |date=9 May 2007 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Karl Holzamer, 100, German founder and director-general of TV channel ZDF.{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2007/scene/news/holzamer-100-tv-executive-1117963598/ |title=Holzamer, 100, TV executive |first=Ed |last=Meza |date=11 May 2007 |magazine=Variety |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Juanita Millender-McDonald, 68, American Democratic Representative (Calif.), Chair of House Administration Committee, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://thehill.com:80/leading-the-news/rep.-millender-mcdonald-dies-aide-says-2007-04-22.html |title=Rep. Millender-McDonald dies |first=Mike |last=Soraghan |date=22 April 2007 |website=TheHill.com |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070423235114/http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/rep.-millender-mcdonald-dies-aide-says-2007-04-22.html |archive-date=23 April 2007}}
Conchita Montenegro, 94, Spanish actress.[https://web.archive.org/web/20171013080000/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9fb2bc7e BFI]
Anne Pitoniak, 85, American actress (Picnic, 'night, Mother, Unfaithful), cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/26/obituaries/26pitoniak.html |title=Anne Pitoniak, 85, Actress Who Played Strong Older Women, Dies |first=Campbell |last=Robertson |date=26 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}

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Walter Bareiss, 87, German-American art collector, heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/arts/design/27bare.html?ref=obituaries |title=Walter Bareiss, 87, Dies; Specialist in African Art |first=Holland |last=Cotter |author-link=Holland Cotter |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Tony Bridge, 92, British Anglican priest, Dean of Guildford (1968–1986).{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1550260/The-Very-Reverend-Antony-Bridge.html |title=The Very Reverend Antony Bridge |date=2 May 2007 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Paul Erdman, 74, American economist, banker, and writer.{{cite news |url=http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/24/BAGA7PE7OU1.DTL |title=Paul Erdman – expert economist and prolific writer |first=Carl |last=Nolte |date=24 April 2007 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=26 August 2018}}
David Halberstam, 73, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, car accident.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/arts/24halberstam.html |title=David Halberstam, 73, Reporter and Author, Dies |last=Haberman |first=Clyde |date=24 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Axel Madsen, 77, American biographer, pancreatic cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-29-me-madsen29-story.html |title=Axel Madsen, 76; writer chronicled the lives of celebrities, business giants |first=Claire |last=Noland |date=29 April 2007 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Michael Smuin, 68, American ballet dancer, choreographer and director, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/23/BAGAJPE2T84.DTL |title=SF dance pioneer Michael Smuin collapses, dies |first=Steven |last=Winn |date=23 April 2007 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Boris Yeltsin, 76, Russian politician, first President of the Russian Federation (1991–1999), heart failure.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6584481.stm |title=Russian ex-president Yeltsin dies |date=23 April 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=26 August 2018}}

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Warren Avis, 91, American founder of Avis Rent a Car System and real estate developer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/business/25avis.html |title=Warren E. Avis, 92, Founder of Car Rental Company, Dies |date=25 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Ida R. Hoos, 94, American sociologist and critic of systems analysis, pneumonia.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/05/us/05hoos.html?ref=obituaries |title=Ida R. Hoos Is Dead at 94; a Critic of Systems Analysis |first=Katie |last=Hafner |date=5 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Roy Jenson, 80, Canadian actor (Chinatown, Soylent Green, The Way We Were), cancer.{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2007/film/markets-festivals/roy-jenson-80-actor-1117964189/ |title=Roy Jenson, 80, actor |date=3 May 2007 |magazine=Variety |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Jim Moran, 88, American automotive dealer and philanthropist.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/automobiles/27moran.html |title=Jim Moran, 88, Automobile Dealer and Philanthropist, Dies |date=27 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
James Richards, 58, American veterinarian and feline expert, motorcycle accident while avoiding a cat.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/26/obituaries/26richards.html |title=James Richards, Veterinarian and Expert on Cat Care, Dies at 58 |date=26 April 2007 |first=Margalit |last=Fox |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Kate Walsh, 60, Irish Progressive Democrat senator.{{cite journal |url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0424/walshk.html |title=PD Senator Kate Walsh passes away |date=26 April 2007 |journal=RTÉ News |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Robert M. Warner, 79, American archivist who led the National Archives and Records Administration, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/obituaries/03WARNER.html |title=Robert M. Warner, 79, the National Archivist, Dies |first=Sarah |last=Abruzzese |date=3 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}

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Edward Astley, 22nd Baron Hastings, 95, British landowner and politician.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/may/29/guardianobituaries.obituaries |title=Lord Hastings |first=Andrew |last=Roth |date=29 May 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Alan Ball, 61, British footballer, youngest member of England's 1966 World Cup-winning team, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6590715.stm |title=World Cup winner Ball dies at 61 |date=26 April 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Barbara Blida, 57, Polish politician, suicide by gunshot.{{cite web |url=https://www.upi.com/Poland-ex-Cabinet-minister-kills-herself/79151177605417/ |title=Poland ex-Cabinet minister kills herself |date=26 April 2007 |website=UPI |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Polly Hill, 100, American horticulturist, founder of Polly Hill Arboretum.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/us/30hill.html |title=Polly Hill Is Dead at 100; Tested Hardiness of Plants |first=Dennis |last=Hevesi |date=30 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Les Jackson, 86, British cricketer, fast-medium bowler for Derbyshire and England.{{cite web |url=http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/england/content/story/292348.html |title=Derbyshire legend Les Jackson dies |date=25 April 2007 |website=ESPN CricInfo |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Arthur Milton, 79, British sportsman, last person to play both football and cricket for England, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/story/292360.html |title=Double international Arthur Milton dies |date=25 April 2007 |website=ESPN CricInfo |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Johnny Perkins, 54, American National Football League player for the New York Giants, complications following heart surgery{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/28/sports/football/28perkins.html |title=Johnny Perkins, 54, Receiver for Giants, Is Dead |date=28 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Bobby Pickett, 69, American one-hit wonder singer ("Monster Mash"), leukemia.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/arts/music/27pickett.html |title=Bobby Pickett, 69, Is Dead; Scored 'Monster' Hit |date=27 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Edgar Wisniewski, 76, German architect.{{cite web |url=https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/entity/123870542?lang=en |title=Edgar Wisniewski |website=Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek |language=de |access-date=26 August 2018}}

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Ardhendu Das, 96, Indian cricketer.{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Players/38/38631/38631.html |title=Ardhendu Das |website=CricketArchive |url-access=subscription |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Florea Dumitrache, 59, Romanian football player, digestive hemorrhage.{{cite web |url=http://www.onlinesport.ro/stiri/fotbal/fotbal-intern/liga-1/dinamo/17267/florea-dumitrache-a-decedat.htm |title=Florea Dumitrache a decedat |date=26 April 2007 |website=OnlineSport.ro |language=ro |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070430011251/http://www.onlinesport.ro/stiri/fotbal/fotbal-intern/liga-1/dinamo/17267/florea-dumitrache-a-decedat.htm |archive-date=30 April 2007}}
Wolfgang Gewalt, 78, German zoologist, director of the Duisburg Zoo (1966–1993).{{cite news |url=http://www.rp-online.de/public/article/regional/niederrheinnord/duisburg/nachrichten/duisburg/434410 |title=Duisburg: Dr. Gewalt im Haus verunglückt |first=Hildegard |last=Chudobba |date=3 May 2007 |newspaper=Rheinische Post |language=de |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071124011800/http://www.rp-online.de/public/article/regional/niederrheinnord/duisburg/nachrichten/duisburg/434410 |archive-date=24 November 2007}}
Lindsey Hughes, 57, British professor of Russian History at University College London, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://blogsideinn.blogspot.com/2007/04/lindsey-aj-hughes-1949-2007.html |title=Lindsey A.J. Hughes, 1949–2007 |author=Moville |date=26 April 2007 |website=Blogside Inn |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Henry LeTang, 91, American choreographer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,2075108,00.html |title=Henry LeTang |first=Terry |last=Monaghan |date=8 May 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Jack Valenti, 85, American president of the Motion Picture Association of America (1966–2004), complications of stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-27-me-valenti27-story.html |title=Formidable force for Hollywood |first=James |last=Bates |date=27 April 2007 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}

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Al Hunter Ashton, 49, English actor and scriptwriter, heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/may/11/artsobituaries.guardianobituaries |title=Al Hunter Ashton |first=Martin |last=Jameson |date=11 May 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Svatopluk Beneš, 89, Czech actor.{{cite web |url=http://www.csfd.cz/herec/7363-svatopluk-benes/ |title=Svatopluk Beneš |website=Česko-Slovenská Filmová Databáze |language=cs |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Karel Dillen, 81, Belgian politician, founder of the Flemish Interest party.{{cite news |url=http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf27042007_113 |title=Vlaams Blok-stichter Karel Dillen overleden |date=27 April 2007 |newspaper=De Standaard |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Bill Forester, 74, American NFL football player.{{cite news |url=https://www.twincities.com/2007/04/30/former-packers-linebacker-bill-forester-dies-at-74/ |title=Former Packers linebacker Bill Forester dies at 74 |date=30 April 2007 |newspaper=St. Paul Pioneer Press |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Magda Gerber, 90s, Hungarian-born American educator.{{cite news |url=http://reginaldwilliams.com/magdagerber.html |title=Magda Gerber; infant education expert known internationally for teachings |last=Woo |first=Elaine |date=3 May 2007 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |via=ReginaldWilliams.com |access-date=29 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903054738/http://reginaldwilliams.com/magdagerber.html |archive-date=3 September 2014}}
Raymond Guégan, 85, French cyclist.{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/calbum.php?coureurid=9485 |title=Raymond Guegan |website=Cycling Archives |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Kirill Lavrov, 81, Russian actor, after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070427/64549724-print.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071124051816/http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070427/64549724-print.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 24, 2007 |title=Celebrated Russian actor Kirill Lavrov dies at 81 |date=27 April 2007 |website=Sputnik |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Mstislav Rostropovich, 80, Russian cellist and conductor, intestinal cancer.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6598895.stm |title=Russian maestro Rostropovich dies |date=27 April 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Robert E. Webber, 73, American scholar and author on Christian worship renewal, pancreatic cancer.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/aprilweb-only/118-12.0.html |title=Robert E. Webber, Theologian of 'Ancient-Future' Faith, Dies at 73 |first=Tabby |last=Yang |date=30 April 2007 |magazine=Christianity Today |access-date=26 August 2018}}

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Belinda Bidwell, 71, Gambian politician, Speaker of the National Assembly.{{cite news |url=http://archive.observer.gm/africa/article/2008/4/28/late-former-speaker-bidwell-remembered |title=Late former speaker Bidwell remembered |last=Jobe |first=Alhagie |date=28 April 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Observer |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160130160544/http://archive.observer.gm/africa/article/2008/4/28/late-former-speaker-bidwell-remembered |archive-date=30 January 2016}}
Lloyd Crouse, 88, Canadian politician, Progressive Conservative MP (1957–1988), Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (1989–1994).{{cite web |url=http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/832447.html |title=Former lieutenant-governor Crouse dead at 88 |date=30 April 2007 |website=CBC News |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Luigi Filippo D'Amico, 82, Italian film director.{{cite web |url=http://trovacinema.repubblica.it/news/dettaglio/morto-il-regista-luigi-filippo-damico/323964/ |title=Morto il regista Luigi Filippo D'Amico |date=28 April 2007 |website=TrovaCinema |language=it |access-date=26 August 2018 |archive-date=August 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180826150651/http://trovacinema.repubblica.it/news/dettaglio/morto-il-regista-luigi-filippo-damico/323964/ |url-status=dead }}
Dabbs Greer, 90, American actor (The Green Mile, Little House on the Prairie, Invasion of the Body Snatchers).{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-01-me-greer1-story.html |title=Dabbs Greer, 90; busy character actor played everyman-type roles |first=Valerie J. |last=Nelson |date=1 May 2007 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Sir Anthony Lambert, 96, British diplomat.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1553610/Sir-Anthony-Lambert.html |title=Sir Anthony Lambert |date=5 June 2007 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=26 August 2018}}
René Mailhot, 64, Canadian journalist for Radio-Canada, pneumonia.{{cite web |url=http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/societe/2007/04/29/001-deces-rene-mailhot.shtml |title=Un grand vulgarisateur nous quitte |first=Alain |last=Saulnier |date=29 April 2007 |website=Radio-Canada |language=fr |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Tommy Newsom, 78, American musician from The Tonight Show, cancer.{{cite web |url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070430/ap_en_tv/obit_newsom_2 |title=Carson's foil Tommy Newsom dies at 78 |date=30 April 2007 |website=Yahoo! News |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070503160744/https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070430/ap_en_tv/obit_newsom_2 |archive-date=3 May 2007}}
David Turnbull. 92, American materials scientist.[https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/11/david-turnbull/ David Turnbull]
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, 94, German physicist and philosopher.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1550078/Carl-Friedrich-von-Weizsacker.html |title=Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker |date=30 April 2007 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Bertha Wilson, 83, Canadian who was the first female Supreme Court judge, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070430.wobit-wilson0430/BNStory/National/home |title=Bertha Wilson, 83 |last=Martin |first=Sandra |date=30 April 2007 |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |access-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070505081622/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070430.wobit-wilson0430/BNStory/National/home |archive-date=5 May 2007}}

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Georges Aminel, 84, French actor and voice actor.[http://une-autre-histoire.org/georges-aminel-biographie/ GEORGES AMINEL (1922-2007)] (in French)
Milt Bocek, 94, American baseball player.{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2007/04/30/bocek-milton-a/ |title=Obituary: Bocek, Milton A. |date=30 April 2007 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Octavio Frias, 94, Brazilian publishing magnate, kidney failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/business/worldbusiness/01frias.html |title=Octavio Frias, 94, Brazilian Media Executive, Dies |first=Andrew |last=Downie |date=1 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Josh Hancock, 29, American baseball relief pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, car accident.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/sports/baseball/30hancockcnd.html |title=Cardinals Relief Pitcher Dies in a Car Accident |first=Jack |last=Curry |date=29 April 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Donald P. Lay, 80, American judge of the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1966–2006).{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/obituaries/02lay.html |title=Donald P. Lay, 80, Federal Judge Notable in Rights Cases, Dies |first=Dennis |last=Hevesi |date=2 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Dick Motz, 67, New Zealand test cricketer.{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/Sport/NZ-cricketer-Dick-Motz-dead-at-67/2007/04/30/1177788004373.html |title=NZ cricketer Dick Motz dead at 67 |date=30 April 2007 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Joseph Nérette, 83, Haitian judge and politician, President of Haïti (1991–1992), lung cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.haitiobserver.com/blog/judge-joseph-nerette-haiti-provisional-president.html |title=Judge Joseph Nerette, Haiti Provisional President |date=20 February 2013 |website=Haiti Observer |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Arve Opsahl, 85, Norwegian actor, heart failure.{{cite news |url=http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1763473.ece |title=Arve Opsahl dead at 85 |date=30 April 2007 |newspaper=Aftenposten |access-date=30 April 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070503055145/http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1763473.ece |archive-date=3 May 2007}}
Sir George Pinker, 82, British obstetrician and gynaecologist.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1550160/Sir-George-Pinker.html |title=Sir George Pinker |date=1 May 2007 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Ivica Račan, 63, Croatian prime minister (2000–2003), cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-croatia-racan-death-idUSL2949361720070429 |title=Croatia's former PM Racan dies of cancer |first=Zoran |last=Radosavljevic |date=29 April 2017 |website=Reuters |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Lee Roberson, 97, American founder of Tennessee Temple University.{{cite web |url=http://www.chattanoogan.com/2007/4/29/106453/Renowned-Minister-Dr.-Lee-Roberson-Dies.aspx |title=Renowned Minister Dr. Lee Roberson Dies At 97 |date=29 April 2007 |website=The Chattanoogan |access-date=26 August 2018}}

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Edward F. Boyd, 92, American marketing executive at Pepsi who shunned racial stereotypes in advertising.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/business/06boyd.html |title=Edward F. Boyd Dies at 92; Marketed Pepsi to Blacks |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=6 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Tom Cartwright, 71, British test cricketer for England, complications of heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/292885.html?CMP=OTC-RSS |title=England seamer Tom Cartwright dies |date=30 April 2007 |website=ESPN CricInfo |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Grégory Lemarchal, 23, French singer, winner of Star Academy France, cystic fibrosis.{{cite news |url=https://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2008/05/01/451523-il-y-a-un-an-la-mort-de-gregory-lemarchal.html |title=Il y a un an, la mort de Grégory Lemarchal |first=Philippe |last=Rioux |date=1 May 2008 |newspaper=La Dépêche du Midi |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Bernard Marszałek, 31, Polish offshore powerboat racer, 2003 World Champion, 2004 Euro Championship runner-up, asthma.{{cite web |url=http://www.formulaseries.net/main/content/view/109/1/ |title=Bernard Marszalek has passed away |date=2007 |website=Formula Series International Powerboat Racing |access-date=20 May 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928200132/http://www.formulaseries.net/main/content/view/109/1/ |archive-date=28 September 2007 }}
Kevin Mitchell, 36, American football player for San Francisco 49ers (Super Bowl XXIX) and Washington Redskins, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.redskins.com/news/newsDetail.jsp?id=1547 |title=Former Redskins LB Mitchell Passes Away |date=30 April 2007 |website=Washington Redskins |access-date=30 April 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070502035504/http://www.redskins.com/news/newsDetail.jsp?id=1547 |archive-date=2 May 2007}}
Grisha Ostrovski, 88, Bulgarian film director.[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0652533/ Grisha Ostrovski (1918–2007)]
Tom Poston, 85, American actor (Newhart, Mork & Mindy, Up the Academy), Emmy winner (1959).{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/obituaries/02poston.html |title=Tom Poston, Virtuosic Comic Actor, Is Dead at 85 |last=Fox |first=Margalit |date=2 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Claude Saunders, 95, Canadian rower and second-oldest national Olympic competitor.{{cite web |url=http://www.rowingcanada.org/rowing_news/tribute_page/claude_saunders |title=Claude Saunders - 'He could get the best out of people' |last=Puchalski |first=Bernie |website=RowingCanada.org |access-date=3 March 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080302124350/http://www.rowingcanada.org/rowing_news/tribute_page/claude_saunders |archive-date=2 March 2008}}
Gordon Scott, 80, American actor who portrayed Tarzan in six films (1955–1960), complications of surgery.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/05/arts/05scott.html |title=Gordon Scott, 80, Dies; Film Actor Best Known for Playing Tarzan |date=5 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}
Zola Taylor, 69, American singer, member of The Platters (1954–1964), complications of pneumonia.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/obituaries/02taylor.html |title=Zola Taylor, 69, R&B Singer, Is Dead |date=2 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 August 2018}}

References

External links

[https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=2007-04-01,2007-04-30&adult=include List of April 2007 deaths] at IMDb

*2007-04