Deaths in May 2007

The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

May 2007

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Wiley Harker, 92, American actor (The Straight Story, City Heat, Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead).{{cite news |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/OBITUARIES.-a0163359851 |title=Obituaries: Wiley Harker |date=5 May 2007 |newspaper=The Register-Guard |access-date=12 August 2018 |via=thefreelibrary.com}}
Temira Pachmuss, 79, Russian-American philologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Temira Pachmuss |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12138822p |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=2 April 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Winifred Pennington, 91, British limnologist.{{cite web |url=https://www.le.ac.uk/ebulletin-archive/ebulletin/people/bereavements/2000-2009/2007/05/nparticle.2007-05-23.html |title=Mrs Winifred Tutin |first=John |last=Bailey |date=23 May 2007 |website=University of Leicester |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Mathilde Octavie Tafna, 112, Guadeloupean oldest living person of a French possession.{{cite web |url=http://www.grg.org/Adams/E.HTM |title=Validated Living Supercentenarians |date=29 November 2007 |website=Gerontology Research Group |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071126092018/http://www.grg.org/Adams/E.HTM |archive-date=November 26, 2007 |df=mdy-all }}
Fermín Trueba, 92, Spanish road cyclist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Fermín Trueba |url=https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/fermín-trueba |website=procyclingstats.com |publisher= |access-date=2 April 2024 |language= |date=}}

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Maurice Jacob, 74, French theoretical particle physicist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Maurice Jacob |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12305211c |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=2 April 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
Abdul Sabur Farid Kohistani, 54-55, Afghan legislator and Prime Minister (1992), assassination by gunshot.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6618127.stm |title=Ex-Afghan prime minister killed |date=3 May 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Brad McGann, 43, New Zealand film director (In My Father's Den), cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.screendaily.com/new-zealand-mourns-death-of-film-maker-brad-mcgann/4032153.article |title=New Zealand mourns death of film-maker Brad McGann |date=2 May 2007 |website=Screendaily |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Juan Valdivieso, 96, Peruvian football goalkeeper and manager, heart failure.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Juan Valdivieso |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/26906 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=2 April 2024 |language= |date=}}

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Alex Agase, 85, Iranian-born American football coach.{{cite web |url=https://purduesports.com/news/2007/5/4/Hall_Of_Famer_Alex_Agase_Dies_At_Age_85.aspx |title=Hall of Famer Alex Agase Dies at Age 85 |date=4 May 2007 |website=Purdue University |access-date=12 August 2018}}
J. Robert Bradley, 87, American gospel singer, diabetes.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/arts/music/04bradley.html |title=J. Robert Bradley, 87, Charismatic Gospel Singer, Dies |first=Jon |last=Pareles |date=4 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Leonard Eron, 87, American psychologist, congestive heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/12/us/12eron.html |title=Leonard Eron, 87, Is Dead; Researcher on TV's Tie to Violent Conduct |first=Jeremy |last=Pearce |date=12 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Pat O'Shea, 74, Irish writer.{{cite news |url=http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2631309.ece |title=Pat O'Shea: Novelist inspired by a dream |date=8 June 2007 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=8 June 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001082409/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2631309.ece |archive-date=1 October 2007}}
Wally Schirra, 84, American astronaut in Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo projects, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/05/03/schirra.obit/index.html |title=Astronaut Wally Schirra, fifth American in space, dies at 84 |date=4 May 2007 |website=CNN |access-date=12 August 2018}}
"Rose Tombe", Sudanese celebrity goat, asphyxiation.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article1744570.ece |title=Rose the goat 'wife' chokes to death on a plastic bag |first=Simon |last=de Bruxelles |date=4 May 2007 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523110320/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article1744570.ece |archive-date=23 May 2011}}
Knock Yokoyama, 75, Japanese comedian and politician, throat cancer.{{cite news |url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/rss/nn20070504a7.html |title=Ex-Osaka governor 'Knock' Yokoyama dies at 75 |date=4 May 2007 |newspaper=The Japan Times |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926221622/http://search.japantimes.co.jp/rss/nn20070504a7.html |archive-date=26 September 2007}}
Mamadou Zaré, 42, Ivorian footballer.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/africa/6626429.stm Asec legend Mamadou Zare dies]

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Russell W. Kruse, 85, American auctioneer, stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/08/automobiles/08kruse.html |title=Russell W. Kruse, Auctioneer of Classic Autos, Dies at 85 |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=8 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Jeremias Nguenha, 35, Mozambican political musician who sang in Shangaan.{{cite web |url=http://www.noticiaslusofonas.com/view.php?load=arcview&article=17464&catogory=Mo%25E7ambique |title=Morreu Jeremias Nguenha, um dos músicos mais críticos do poder |date=4 May 2007 |website=Notícias Lusófonas |language=pt |access-date=12 August 2018}}
José Antonio Roca, 78, Mexican football player and manager.{{cite news |url=http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2007/05/05/index.php?section=deportes&article=a21n1dep |title=Murió José Antonio Roca, el 'antichiva' número uno de México |date=5 May 2007 |newspaper=La Jornada |language=es |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Gábor Takács, 47, Hungarian Olympic sprint canoer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Gábor Takács |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/10105 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=2 April 2024 |language= |date=}}

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Prince Abdul-Majid bin Abdul-Aziz, 64-65, Saudi politician, governor of Mecca.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/07/world/middleeast/07abdul.html |title=Prince Abdul-Majid, Governor of Mecca, Dies at 65 |date=7 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
José Aponte de la Torre, 65, Puerto Rican mayor, respiratory complications.{{cite news |url=http://www.primerahora.com/noticia/politica/noticias/muere_alcalde_de_carolina/60440 |title=Muere Alcalde de Carolina |date=5 May 2007 |newspaper=Primera Hora |language=es |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070508043533/http://www.primerahora.com/noticia/politica/noticias/muere_alcalde_de_carolina/60440 |archive-date=8 May 2007}}
Tom Hutchinson, 65, American football wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns 1964 NFL champions.{{cite news |url=http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/steelers/rss/s_506524.html |title=Former NFL wide receiver Hutchinson dies |date=8 May 2007 |newspaper=Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |access-date=1 June 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071124053156/http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/steelers/rss/s_506524.html |archive-date=24 November 2007}}
Theodore Maiman, 79, American physicist who built the first laser, systemic mastocytosis.{{cite news |url=http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2524415.ece |title=Theodore Maiman: Physicist who built the first laser |date=9 May 2007 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=1 June 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070524105559/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2524415.ece |archive-date=24 May 2007}}
Anthony Mitchell, 39-40, British journalist, plane crash.{{Cite news |last=Rice |first=Xan |date=2007-05-07 |title=Missing Britons named as plane's wreckage is found in Cameroon jungle |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2007/may/07/theairlineindustry.kenya |access-date=2025-04-07 |work=The Guardian |issn=0261-3077}}
Edwin H. Simmons, 85, American Marine Corps historian.{{cite news |url=http://www.nj.com/columns/gloucester/jimsix/index.ssf?/base/columns-0/1178781903105030.xml&coll=8 |title=To the core, he was of the Corps |date=10 May 2007 |newspaper=Gloucester County Times |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070512234014/http://www.nj.com/columns/gloucester/jimsix/index.ssf?%2Fbase%2Fcolumns-0%2F1178781903105030.xml&coll=8 |archive-date=May 12, 2007 |df=mdy-all }}
Gusti Wolf, 95, Austrian actress.{{cite web |url=http://wien.orf.at/stories/190696/ |title=Gusti Wolf 95-jährig gestorben |date=5 May 2007 |website=ORF |language=de |access-date=12 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093905/http://wien.orf.at/stories/190696/ |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=dead }}
John Zamet, 74, British periodontist.{{cite web |url=https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Wills?Surname=zamet&SurnameGrants=zamet&YearOfDeath=2007&YearOfDeathGrants=2007&IsGrantSearch=True&IsCalendarSearch=False#wills |title=Zamet, Saville John |website=Find a Will |access-date=2 August 2018}}

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Alvin Batiste, 74, American jazz musician, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/07/arts/07batiste.html |title=Alvin Batiste, Clarinetist of New Orleans, Dies at 74 |date=7 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Carey Bell, 70, American blues harmonica player, heart failure.{{cite web |url=http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/003236.html |title=Chicago Blues Harmonica Legend Carey Bell, 1936-2007 |date=7 May 2007 |website=Modern Guitars |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070608073925/http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/003236.html |archive-date=8 June 2007}}
Lesley Blanch, 102, British writer and fashion editor.{{cite news |url=http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2521685.ece |title=Lesley Blanch: Writer and traveller |date=8 May 2007 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=1 June 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070515093846/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2521685.ece |archive-date=15 May 2007}}
Enéas Carneiro, 68, Brazilian politician, leukemia.{{cite web |url=http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_wires/2007May07/0,4675,Deaths,00.html |title=Obituaries in the News: Eneas Carneiro |date=7 May 2007 |website=Fox News |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Tamás Gábor, 75, Hungarian Olympic fencer.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ga/tamas-gabor-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417230703/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ga/tamas-gabor-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Tamás Gábor |website=Sports Reference |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Curtis Harrington, 80, American film director.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/movies/10harrington.html |title=Curtis Harrington, Director of Horror Films, Dies at 80 |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=10 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Kazuo Kitamura, 80, Japanese actor (Tora! Tora! Tora!, Black Rain, Shinobi: Heart Under Blade), pneumonia.[https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/05/07/national/veteran-actor-kazuo-kitamura-dies-at-80/ Veteran actor Kazuo Kitamura dies at 80]
Maurice Marsac, 92, French actor (King of Kings, The Jerk, Robert Kennedy and His Times), cardiac arrest.[https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2007/06/06/French-actor-croquet-champ-Marsac-dies/84311181141190/ French actor, croquet champ Marsac dies]
Đorđe Novković, 63, Croatian songwriter.{{cite web |url=http://www.esctoday.com/8554/dorde_novkovic_passed_away/ |title=Dorde Novkovic passed away |first=Marcus |last=Klier |date=6 May 2007 |website=ESCToday.com |access-date=12 August 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://www.index.hr/clanak.aspx?id=345802 |title=Umro Đorđe Novković |website=Index.hr |language=hr |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Bernard Weatherill, Baron Weatherill, 86, English Speaker of the British House of Commons (1983–1992), after short illness.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6632713.stm |title=Ex-Speaker Lord Weatherill dies |date=7 May 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=12 August 2018}}

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Isabella Blow, 48, British fashion journalist and stylist, suicide by poisoning.{{cite news |url=https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1760141.ece |title=Isabella Blow |date=8 May 2007 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523105805/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1760141.ece |archive-date=23 May 2011}}{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1571650/Isabella-Blow-feared-her-fading-public-status.html |title=Isabella Blow 'feared her fading public status' |last=Savill |first=Richard |date=6 December 2007 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=12 August 2018}}{{cite news |url=http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/fashion/article1774073.ece |title=Isabella Blow died from drinking weedkiller |last=de Bruxelles |first=Simon |date=10 May 2007 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070511223840/http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/fashion/article1774073.ece |archive-date=11 May 2007}}
Quentin Brooks, 86, American Olympic shooter.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/br/quentin-brooks-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418065959/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/br/quentin-brooks-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Quentin Brooks |website=Sports Reference |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Fulton Burley, 84, Canadian performer, heart failure.
Diego Corrales, 29, American world champion boxer, motorcycle accident.{{cite web |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/box/news;_ylt=AodubjWrf5vxTTX87Wir8ss5nYcB?slug=ki-corrales050707&prov=yhoo&type=lgns |title=Corrales dead in motorcycle accident |first=Kevin |last=Iole |date=7 May 2007 |website=Yahoo! Sports |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604062136/http://sports.yahoo.com/box/news?slug=ki-corrales050707 |archive-date=4 June 2011}}
Shirl Conway, 90, American actress.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/shirl-conway-broadway-and-television-actress-dies-at-90-141241# |title=Shirl Conway, Broadway and Television Actress, Dies at 90|author-link1=Robert Simonson |first=Robert |last=Simonson |date=4 June 2007 |magazine=Playbill |access-date=12 August 2018}}
George Dawson, 45, British politician, Northern Ireland Assembly member, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6633433.stm |title=DUP assembly member Dawson dies |date=7 May 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=12 August 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://www.georgedawson.org/ |title=George Dawson |website=georgedawson.org |access-date=11 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071225201929/http://www.georgedawson.org/ |archive-date=25 December 2007}}
Donald Ginsberg, 73, American physicist, melanoma.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/19/science/19ginsberg.html |title=Donald M. Ginsberg, 73, Expert in the Working of Superconductors, Is Dead |first=Jeremy |last=Pearce |date=19 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Tomasi Kulimoetoke II, 88, Wallisian King of Wallis ('Uvea).{{cite web |url=http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=32021 |title=King of Wallis dies aged 88 |date=7 May 2007 |website=RNZ International |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Raffi Lavie, 70, Israeli artist, pancreatic cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.4819608 |title=Artist Rafi Lavi, 70, Dies of Cancer |last=Gilerman |first=Dana |date=8 May 2007 |newspaper=Haaretz |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Emma Lehmer, 100, Russian-born American mathematician.{{cite web |url=http://www.agnesscott.edu/LRIDDLE/WOMEN/lehmer.htm |title=Biographies of Women Mathematicians: Emma Trotskaia Lehmer |first=Larry |last=Riddle |date=25 February 2016 |website=Agnes Scott College |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Sonny Myers, 83, American professional wrestler.{{cite web |url=http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2007/05/09/4166132.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115071315/http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2007/05/09/4166132.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=January 15, 2013 |title=Sonny Myers dead at 83 |first=Greg |last=Oliver |date=9 May 2007 |website=SLAM! Wrestling |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Octavian Paler, 81, Romanian writer and journalist, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://english.hotnews.ro/Romanian-thinker-Octavian-Paler-dies-of-heart-attack-articol_44904.htm |title=Romanian thinker Octavian Paler dies of heart attack |date=7 May 2007 |website=Hotnews.ro |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070509041637/http://english.hotnews.ro/Romanian-thinker-Octavian-Paler-dies-of-heart-attack-articol_44904.htm |archive-date=9 May 2007}}
Nicholas Worth, 69, American actor (Darkman, Heartbreak Ridge, Night Court), heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-11-me-passings11.1-story.html |title=Nicholas Worth, 69; actor often played villains in B movies |date=11 May 2007 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Yahweh ben Yahweh, 71, American religious cult leader (Nation of Yahweh) and convicted felon, prostate cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.miamiherald.com/459/story/100239.html |title=Sect leader Yahweh Ben Yahweh dies at 71 |first1=Amy |last1=Driscoll |first2=Martin |last2=Merzer |date=8 May 2007 |newspaper=Miami Herald |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070510050912/http://www.miamiherald.com/459/story/100239.html |archive-date=10 May 2007}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/us/09yahweh.html |title=Yahweh ben Yahweh, Leader of Separatist Sect, Dies at 71 |last=Martin |first=Douglas |date=9 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}

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Mark Burns, 71, English actor (Exodus, House of the Living Dead, By the Sword Divided), cancer.[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jul/19/guardianobituaries.obituaries2 Mark Burns]
Philip R. Craig, 74, American mystery writer.{{cite news |url=https://vineyardgazette.com/obituaries/2007/05/11/mystery-writer-philip-r-craig-penned-popular-fiction-series |title=Mystery Writer Philip R. Craig Penned Popular Fiction Series |last=Wells |first=Julia |date=10 May 2007 |newspaper=Vineyard Gazette |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Velma Dunn, 88, American diver who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics, stroke.{{cite news |url=http://www.sghsalumni.com/ploessel.html |title=Velma Dunn Ploessel, 88; Olympic diving medalist, PE instructor |first=Claire |last=Noland |date=18 May 2007 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=12 August 2018 |via=South Gate High School Alumni 1931-1981}}
Abdullah al Faisal, 85, Saudi prince, writer and businessman, after long illness.{{cite news |url=http://www.arabnews.com/node/298147 |title=Abdullah Al-Faisal Passes Away |first=Ahmad |last=Mahmoud |date=9 May 2007 |newspaper=Arab News |access-date=12 August 2018}}
David Farquhar, 79, New Zealand composer.{{cite web |url=http://www.stpetersalumni.org.nz/articles/16/1/Professor-David-Farquhar-St-Peters-Old-Boy---Distinguished-Composer-/Page1.html |title=Professor David Farquhar: St Peter's Old Boy - Distinguished Composer |date=17 January 2009 |website=St Peters Alumni.org.nz |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724200939/http://www.stpetersalumni.org.nz/articles/16/1/Professor-David-Farquhar-St-Peters-Old-Boy---Distinguished-Composer-/Page1.html |archive-date=24 July 2011}}
John Henry, 68, British toxicologist, haemorrhage.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1551284/Professor-John-Henry.html |title=Professor John Henry |date=12 May 2007 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=12 August 2018}}
René Lamps, 91, French politician.[https://www.liberation.fr/france/2007/05/10/amiens-rene-lamps_92767 Amiens. René Lamps]
Jagdish Narain Sapru, 74, Indian former chairman of ITC Limited and BOC India.{{cite news |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070510/asp/business/story_7757112.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070527162657/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070510/asp/business/story_7757112.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 27, 2007 |title=JN Sapru, an officer and a gentleman |date=10 May 2007 |newspaper=The Telegraph |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Carson Whitsett, 62, American composer, musician and record producer, brain tumor.{{cite web |url=http://www.gospelengine.com/gzone/content/view/191/107/ |title=Malaco Music Mourns Loss Of Gifted Artist, Carson Whitsett |website=GospelEngine.com |access-date=17 May 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927035648/http://www.gospelengine.com/gzone/content/view/191/107/ |archive-date=27 September 2007}}

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Donald Alexander, 79, Scottish medical researcher.{{cite web |url=http://www.eurothyroid.com/about/met/alexander.html |title=Donald Alexander (1928-2007) |first=John |last=Connel |website=European Thyroid Association |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Charlie Ane Jr., 76, American football player (Detroit Lions), pneumonia.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/college-football/news/story?id=2867866 |title=Ane won Rose Bowl, two NFL championships |date=11 May 2007 |website=ESPN |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Alfred Chandler, 88, American economic historian.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/12/business/12chandler.html |title=Alfred D. Chandler Jr., a Business Historian, Dies at 88 |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=12 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Gino Pariani, 79, American soccer player (1950 World Cup), bone cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/sports/soccer/11pariani.html |title=Gino Pariani, Soccer Player Who Helped U.S. Upset England, Is Dead at 79 |date=11 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
George Seddon, 80, Australian environmental scholar.{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/academic-couldnt-be-fenced-in/2007/05/24/1179601570797.html |title=Academic couldn't be fenced in |first=Trevor |last=Hogan |date=25 May 2007 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Dwight Wilson, 106, Canadian centenarian, second-to-last surviving World War I veteran.{{cite web | url=https://sunnybrook.ca/media/item.asp?c=1&i=82&page=178 | title=Dwight Wilson, First World War Veteran Dies At Age 106 | website=Sunnybrook, California | date=9 May 2007}}
Philip Workman, 53, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.{{cite web |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/05/09/execution.pizza/ |title=Executed man's last request honored – pizza for homeless |last=Fantz |first=Ashley |date=10 May 2007 |website=CNN |access-date=12 August 2018}}

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John Lattimer, 92, American urologist who developed a cure for renal tuberculosis.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/nyregion/13lattimer.html |title=John K. Lattimer, Urologist of Varied Expertise, Dies at 92 |last=Hevesi |first=Dennis |date=13 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Sir Oliver Millar, 84, British Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures (1972–1988) and Director of the Royal Collection (1987–1988).{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1551452/Sir-Oliver-Millar.html |title=Sir Oliver Millar |date=14 May 2007 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Robert Oelman, 97, American chief executive of NCR Corporation (1962–1973), co-founder of Wright State University.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/business/16oelman.html |title=Robert S. Oelman, 97, Chief Who Led NCR to Automation, Dies |first=Milt |last=Freudenheim |date=16 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Chuck Riley, 66, American voice actor.{{cite news |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?pid=88222506 |title=Obituary: Chuck Riley |date=20 May 2007 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=12 August 2018 |via=Legacy.com}}

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Norman Frank, 82, American producer and political strategist.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/nyregion/17frank.html |title=Norman Frank, 82, Public Relations Adviser, Dies |first=Dennis |last=Hevesi |date=17 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Bernard Gordon, 88, American screenwriter, named on the Hollywood blacklist, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-12-me-gordon12-story.html |title=Bernard Gordon, 88; blacklisted screenwriter led '99 Kazan protest |last=Nelson |first=Valerie J. |date=12 May 2007 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Stanley Holden, 79, British ballet dancer, complications from heart problems and colon cancer.{{cite news |url=http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/05/13/entertainment/e115605D71.DTL&type=entertainment |title=Ballet great Stanley Holden dies at age 79 |date=13 May 2007 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071124005524/http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fn%2Fa%2F2007%2F05%2F13%2Fentertainment%2Fe115605D71.DTL&type=entertainment |archive-date=November 24, 2007 |df=mdy-all }}{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1811172.ece |title=Stanley Holden: Royal Ballet dancer and teacher |date=19 May 2007 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523101406/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1811172.ece |archive-date=23 May 2011}}
Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe, 71, Nigerian Igbo highlife musician.{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2007/05/20/chief_stephen_osita_osadebe_71_titan_of_highlife_music/ |title=Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe, 71, titan of highlife music |date=20 May 2007 |first=Jocelyn Y. |last=Stewart |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Malietoa Tanumafili II, 94, Samoan politician, head of state.{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10439457 |title=Samoa's Head of State Malietoa dies aged 95 |first=Cherelle |last=Jackson |date=13 May 2007 |newspaper=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=12 August 2018}}

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Mullah Dadullah, 41, Afghan militant, Taliban military commander, shot.{{cite web |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/05/13/afghan.dadullah/index.html |title=Taliban mastermind killed in Afghanistan |date=13 May 2007 |website=CNN |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070514193736/http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/05/13/afghan.dadullah/index.html |archive-date=14 May 2007}}
Teddy Infuhr, 70, American child actor.[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0408662/ Teddy Infuhr (1936–2007)]
Kai Johansen, 66, Danish footballer (Greenock Morton F.C. and Rangers), cancer.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/r/rangers/6651555.stm |title=Rangers pay tribute to Johansen |date=13 May 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Henri Klein, 87, French Olympic athlete.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/kl/henri-klein-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417195110/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/kl/henri-klein-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Henri Klein |website=Sports Reference |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Edy Vásquez, 23, Honduran footballer, car accident.{{cite news |url=http://www.laprensahn.com/deportes_nota.php?id04962=11040&t=1179032400 |title=Que Dios te cuide Edy |date=15 May 2007 |newspaper=La Prensa |language=es |access-date=12 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070515042805/http://www.laprensahn.com/deportes_nota.php?id04962=11040&t=1179032400 |archive-date=May 15, 2007 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}

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Alexander Buchanan Campbell, 92, Scottish architect.{{cite web |url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=204759 |title=Alexander Buchanan Campbell |website=Dictionary of Scottish Architects |access-date=12 August 2018 |archive-date=October 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019211946/http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=204759 |url-status=dead }}

*Chen Xiaoxu, 41, Chinese actress (Dream of the Red Mansion) and Buddhist nun, breast cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-05/17/content_874724.htm |title=Lin Daiyu actress dies at 42 |author=Guan Xiaomeng |date=17 May 2007 |newspaper=China Daily |access-date=12 August 2018}}

Mendel Jackson Davis, 64, American politician, U.S. Representative from South Carolina (1971–1981), emphysema.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/14/AR2007051401648.html |title=Mendel Davis; S.C. Democrat In Congress |date=15 May 2007 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Gomer Hodge, 63, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.{{cite news |url=http://blog.cleveland.com/sports/2007/05/former_indian_harold_gomer_hod.html |title=Former Indian Harold 'Gomer' Hodge dies |last=Manoloff |first=Dennis |date=14 May 2007 |newspaper=The Plain Dealer |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Luis María Mendía, 82, Argentine naval officer.{{cite news |url=http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2750481.ece |title=Luis Maria Mendia: Mastermind of 'death flights' |first=Phil |last=Davison |date=10 July 2007 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=10 July 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001083124/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2750481.ece |archive-date=1 October 2007}}
Kate Webb, 64, New Zealand journalist and foreign correspondent, bowel cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/14/AR2007051400068.html |title=Famed Vietnam War Scribe Kate Webb Dies |last=Sullivan |first=Rohan |date=14 May 2007 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=12 August 2018}}

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Orlando Bobo, 33, American-born Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers), heart and liver failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/orlando-bobo-passes-away/article1076412/ |title=Orlando Bobo passes away |date=18 May 2007 |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Ülo Jõgi, 86, Estonian anti-communist.{{cite news |url=http://www.postimees.ee/150507/esileht/siseuudised/260788.php |title=Suri Erna salga liige Ülo Jõgi |date=15 May 2007 |newspaper=Postimees |access-date=14 December 2009 |language=et |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081105123958/http://www.postimees.ee/150507/esileht/siseuudised/260788.php |archive-date=5 November 2008}}
Sir Edward Jones, 70, British Army general, Black Rod (1996–2001), heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1551880/General-Sir-Edward-Jones.html |title=General Sir Edward Jones |date=18 May 2007 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Nancy McDonald, 72, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives (1984–1995), ovarian cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/statesman/obituary.aspx?pid=88062185 |title=Nancy McDonald |date=15 May 2007 |newspaper=Austin American-Statesman |access-date=12 August 2018 |via=Legacy.com}}
Aaron McMillan, 30, Australian classical pianist, bone cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1921751.htm |title=Pianist dies after cancer fight |date=14 May 2007 |website=ABC News |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070515070140/http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1921751.htm |archive-date=15 May 2007}}
Jean Saubert, 65, American dual medalist in slalom (1964 Winter Olympics), breast cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/sports/othersports/17saubert.html |title=Jean Saubert, 65, Skier, Is Dead |date=17 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Sir Colin St John Wilson, 85, British architect, designer of the British Library.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1551654/Sir-Colin-St-John-Wilson.html |title=Sir Colin St John Wilson |date=16 May 2007 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=12 August 2018}}

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Giorgio Cavaglieri, 95, Italian-born American architect, founder of New York City's urban preservation movement.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/18/arts/design/18cavaglieri.html |title=Giorgio Cavaglieri, Urban Preservationist, Dies at 95 |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=18 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Jerry Falwell, 73, American minister, television evangelist, and conservative activist, founder of the Moral Majority, cardiac arrhythmia.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/obituaries/15cnd-falwell.html |title=Jerry Falwell, Leading Religious Conservative, Dies |first=Peter |last=Applebome |date=15 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Karen Hess, 88, American culinary historian and author, stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/19/dining/19hess.html |title=Karen Hess, 88, Dies; Culinary Historian Who Challenged Standards |first=Eric |last=Asimov |date=19 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Yolanda King, 51, American activist and actress, daughter and first-born child of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/16/obit.king.ap/index.html |title=Yolanda King, daughter of MLK, dies at 51 |date=17 May 2007 |website=CNN |access-date=23 May 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070523175242/http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/16/obit.king.ap/index.html |archive-date=23 May 2007}}
Duncan Macrae, 92, British rugby football player, (Scotland Rugby Union Team).{{cite news |url=http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries.cfm?id=957582007 |title=Duncan Macrae: Scotland rugby international |date=19 June 2007 |newspaper=The Scotsman |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605023904/http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries/Duncan-Macrae.3296255.jp |archive-date=5 June 2011}}
Angus McBride, 76, British illustrator.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,2088676,00.html |title=Angus McBride |first=Steve |last=Holland |date=25 May 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Lauren Terrazzano, 39, American journalist, chronicled her battle with cancer, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.newsday.com/ny-terrazzano-column,0,6784588.columnist |title=Lauren Terrazzano: Life, With Cancer |date=4 June 2007 |newspaper=Newsday |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070604060652/http://www.newsday.com/ny-terrazzano-column,0,6784588.columnist |archive-date=4 June 2007}}{{cite web |url=http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007May16/0,4670,ObitTerrazzano,00.html |title=Newsday Columnist Dies of Cancer at 39 |first=Frank |last=Eltman |date=16 May 2007 |website=Fox News |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070519062757/http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007May16/0,4670,ObitTerrazzano,00.html |archive-date=19 May 2007}}

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Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin, 91, American creole accordionist.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/arts/music/20ardoin.html |title=Bois Sec Ardoin, Musician and Nurturer of Creole Tradition, Dies at 91 |last=Pareles |first=Jon |date=20 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Dame Mary Douglas, 86, British social anthropologist.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1805952.ece |title=Professor Dame Mary Douglas |date=18 May 2007 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724212526/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1805952.ece |archive-date=24 July 2008}}
Gohar Gasparyan, 83, Armenian soprano opera singer.{{cite web |url=http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/society/news/22239/ |title=World famous 83-year-old opera singer Gohar Gasparyan died in Yerevan |date=17 May 2007 |website=PanArmenian.net |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Allan Hird, Sr., 88, Australian footballer and academic, President of Essendon Football Club (1969–1975), Victorian Director-general of Education.{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/Sport/Hirds-grandfather-dies/2007/05/16/1178995213231.html |title=Hird's grandfather dies |date=16 May 2007 |newspaper=The Age |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Peter Marner, 71, British cricketer, youngest player to represent the Lancashire County Cricket Club.{{cite web |url=http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/england/content/story/294383.html |title=Allrounder Peter Marner dies |date=16 May 2007 |website=ESPN |access-date=12 August 2018}}
C. Timothy O'Meara, 64, American film editor (The Rose, Hoosiers, Conan the Barbarian).[https://www.newspapers.com/article/86845603/c-timothy-omeara-obituary-1943-2007/ C. Timothy O'Meara Obituary (1943-2007)]
Terry Ryan, 60, American writer (The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio), cancer.{{cite news |url=http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/17/BAGP0P3U2E115.DTL |title=Author Terry Ryan, 60, dies in S.F. home |first=Heidi |last=Benson |date=17 May 2007 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=12 August 2018}}

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Lloyd Alexander, 83, American author (The Chronicles of Prydain), cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/17/AR2007051702371.html |title=Lloyd Alexander; Fantasy and Adventure Writer |first=Adam |last=Bernstein |date=18 May 2007 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Petro Balabuyev, 76, Ukrainian aircraft designer, including world's largest aeroplane, the An-225.{{cite news |url=http://ukrweekly.com/archive/2008/The_Ukrainian_Weekly_2008-02.pdf |title=2007: The Year In Review: Our community mourns their passing |date=13 January 2008 |number=2 |page=34 |newspaper=The Ukrainian Weekly |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Don Burton, 87, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1976–1984).[https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/members/formermembers/Pages/former-member-details.aspx?pk=1791 Mr Donald Ross Burton (1920–2007)]
Egmont Foregger, 84, Austrian jurist, official and politician, severe illness.{{cite web |url=http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20070518_OTS0228/justizministerin-berger-zum-tod-von-egmont-foregger |title=Justizministerin Berger zum Tod von Egmont Foregger |date=18 May 2007 |website=Austria Press Agency |language=de |access-date=12 August 2018}}
John Gonzaga, 74, American football player with the San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions and Denver Broncos.{{cite news |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2007/05/21/former-bronco-john-gonzaga-dies/ |title=Former Bronco John Gonzaga dies |date=21 May 2007 |newspaper=The Denver Post |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Kawika Kapahulehua, 76, American captain of the Hokulea's first voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/us/27kapahulehua.html |title=Kawika Kapahulehua Dies; Hawaiian Seafarer Was 76 |last=Martin |first=Douglas |date=27 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Sir John Nicholls, 80, British air marshal.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1552137/Air-Marshal-Sir-John-Nicholls.html |title=Air Marshal Sir John Nicholls |date=21 May 2007 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Eugen Weber, 82, Romanian-born American historian, pancreatic cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/arts/22weber.html |title=Eugen Weber, Authority on Modern France, Dies at 82 |first=Andrew L. |last=Yarrow |date=22 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Bill Wight, 85, American MLB pitcher and scout.{{cite news |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?n=william-wight-bill&pid=88288004&fhid=2540 |title=William "Bill" Wight |date=24 May 2007 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=12 August 2018 |via=Legacy.com}}
Wiktor Zin, 82, Polish architect and graphic artist.{{cite news |url=http://miasta.gazeta.pl/rzeszow/1,34975,4139257.html |title=Zmarł profesor Wiktor Zin |date=17 May 2007 |newspaper=Gazeta Wyborcza |language=pl |access-date=12 August 2018}}

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Roy De Forest, 77, American artist and professor at University of California, Davis.{{cite news |url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Roy-De-Forest-Bay-Area-painter-well-known-2573936.php |title=Roy De Forest – Bay Area painter well-known nationally |last=Baker |first=Kenneth |date=23 May 2007 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, 74, French physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1991.{{cite web |url=http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/65026.html |title=French Nobel Prize-winner Pierre-Gilles de Gennes dies at 74 |date=22 May 2007 |website=Earth Times.org |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927005814/http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/65026.html |archive-date=27 September 2007}}
Cornelius R. Hager, 93, American educator, President of Asbury University.{{cite web |url=http://web1.lovinghonors.com/cgi-bin/CompanyInternal?stdout+116+hagerandcundifffunerals.com+102+17+1094 |title=Obituary: Dr. Cornelius R. Hager |website=Hager and Cundiff Funeral Home |access-date=12 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170413070906/http://web1.lovinghonors.com/cgi-bin/CompanyInternal?stdout+116+hagerandcundifffunerals.com+102+17+1094 |archive-date=April 13, 2017 |url-status=dead }}
Saud Memon, 44, Pakistani businessman implicated in the murder of Daniel Pearl, tuberculosis and meningitis.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6671067.stm |title='Daniel Pearl detainee' is dead |date=18 May 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Les Schwab, 89, American tire tycoon.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/business/10schwab.html |title=Les Schwab, Who Turned a Rundown Shop Into a Tire Chain, Dies at 89 |last=Jennings |first=Angel |date=10 June 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Mika Špiljak, 90, Croatian politician, chairman of the Collective Presidency of Yugoslavia (1983–1984).{{cite web |url=http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2007&mm=05&dd=21&nav_id=247517 |title=Umro Mika Špiljak |date=21 May 2007 |website=B92.net |language=hr |access-date=12 August 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/umro-bivsi-hrvatski-i-jugoslavenski-celnik-mika-spiljak/348955.aspx |title=Umro bivši hrvatski i jugoslavenski čelnik Mika Špiljak |website=index.hr |language=hr |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Yoyoy Villame, 69, Filipino musician and comedian, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.gulfnews.com/world/Philippines/10126239.html |title=Comedian and singer Villame dies |first=Barbara Mae |last=Dacanay |date=19 May 2007 |newspaper=Gulf News |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070521171039/http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/05/19/10126239.html |archive-date=21 May 2007}}

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Derek Cooper, 94, British army officer and refugee campaigner.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jul/18/guardianobituaries.military |title=Major Derek Cooper |first=Derek |last=Brown |date=18 July 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Miroslav Deronjić, 52, Bosnian Serb politician and convicted war criminal, natural causes.{{cite news |url=http://www.news.com.au/sundayheraldsun/story/0,21985,21762798-5005961,00.html |title=Bosnian Serb war criminal dies in Sweden |date=20 May 2007 |newspaper=Herald Sun |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071127121822/http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,21762798-5005961,00.html |archive-date=27 November 2007}}
Willie Ferguson, 67, South African racing driver.[http://www.oldracingcars.com/driver/willie_ferguson Willie Ferguson]
Jack Findlay, 72, Australian Grand Prix motorcycle racer.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1553493/Jack-Findlay.html |title=Jack Findlay |date=4 June 2007 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Frank Guida, 84, Italian-born American record producer.{{cite news |url=https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article2007455.ece |title=Frank Guida |date=30 June 2007 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523163219/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article2007455.ece |archive-date=23 May 2011}}
Ron Hall, 43, American football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Detroit Lions).{{cite web |url=http://www.bucpower.com/hall2405.html |title=Former Bucs TE Ron Hall Dies |date=24 May 2007 |website=bucpower.com |access-date=1 June 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928040152/http://www.bucpower.com/hall2405.html |archive-date=28 September 2007}}
Marian Radke-Yarrow, 89, American researcher in child psychology, leukemia.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/health/23yarrow.html |title=Marian Radke-Yarrow, Child Psychology Researcher, Dies at 89 |last=Hevesi |first=Dennis |date=23 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Scott Thorkelson, 49, Canadian member of the House of Commons (1988–1993), heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/obituary-scott-thorkelson-49/article1076776/ |title=Obituary: Scott Thorkelson, 49 |date=21 May 2007 |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Michel Visi, 52, Vanuatuan Catholic bishop.{{cite web |url=http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=32390 |title=Vanuatu mourns the death of Bishop Michel Visi |first=Len |last=Garae |date=22 May 2007 |website=RNZ International |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Hans Wollschläger, 72, German author and translator.{{cite news |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/zum-tode-hans-wollschlaegers-der-groesste-aller-diener-1438651.html |title=Zum Tode Hans Wollschlägers: Der größte aller Diener |first=Paul |last=Ingendaay |date=20 May 2007 |newspaper=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung |language=de |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Carl Wright, 75, American actor (Big Momma's House, Barbershop, Soul Food), cancer.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6676067.stm |title=Barbershop actor Carl Wright dies |date=21 May 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=12 August 2018}}

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Bobby Ash, 82, British-born Canadian television host (The Uncle Bobby Show), heart attack.{{cite web |url=https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/children-s-entertainer-uncle-bobby-dies-at-82-1.242325 |title=Children's entertainer 'Uncle Bobby' dies at 82 |date=23 May 2007 |website=CTV News |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Dame Jean Herbison, 84, New Zealand academic, first N.Z. female chancellor (University of Canterbury, 1979–1984).{{cite news |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10441813 |title=Obituary: Dame Jean Herbison |date=25 May 2007 |newspaper=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Baruch Kimmerling, 67, Israeli sociologist and historian.{{cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.4821863 |title=Sociologist Baruch Kimmerling, 'New Historian,' Dies at Age 67 |date=22 May 2007 |newspaper=Haaretz |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Valentina Leontyeva, 84, Russian television presenter, one of the first television presenters in the Soviet Union.{{cn|date=December 2020}}
Sir George Macfarlane, 91, British scientist and engineer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,2137443,00.html |title=Sir George Macfarlane |first=W. H. |last=Penley |date=30 July 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Tod H. Mikuriya, 73, American psychiatrist and medical marijuana advocate, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/29/health/29mikuriya.html |title=Tod H. Mikuriya, 73, Dies; Backed Medical Marijuana |first=Margalit |last=Fox |date=29 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Stanley Miller, 77, American chemist and biologist, known for the Miller–Urey experiment into the origins of life, heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/us/23miller.html |title=Stanley Miller, Who Examined Origins of Life, Dies at 77 |first=Nicholas |last=Wade |date=23 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
William Peters, 85, American journalist and documentarian of race issues, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/business/24peters.html |title=William Peters, 85, Journalist Who Examined Race in U.S., Dies |first=Margalit |last=Fox |date=24 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Guram Sharadze, 66, Georgian philologist and politician, shot.{{cite web |url=http://www.imedinews.ge/en/news_read/40637 |title=Georgian former MP, Prof. Guram Sharadze murdered |date=20 May 2007 |website=Imedi News |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930155422/http://www.imedinews.ge/en/news_read/40637 |archive-date=30 September 2007}}
Norman Von Nida, 93, Australian golfer.{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/Sport/Golf-icon-Norman-Von-Nida-dies-aged-93/2007/05/20/1179601235225.html |title=Golf icon Norman Von Nida dies aged 93 |date=21 May 2007 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Ben Weisman, 85, American musician and songwriter, wrote nearly 60 songs for singer Elvis Presley, stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/obituaries/23weisman.html |title=Ben Weisman, 85, Composer for Presley, Dies |date=23 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}

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Clark Adams, 37, American secular humanist leader and activist.{{cite web |url=http://www.americanhumanist.org/press/ClarkAdams.php |title=Clark Adams: 1969-2007 |date=24 May 2007 |website=American Humanist Association |access-date=20 August 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080927045953/http://www.americanhumanist.org/press/ClarkAdams.php |archive-date=27 September 2008}}
Frank Gay, 86, American businessman, senior corporate aide to Howard Hughes.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-25-me-gay25-story.html |title=Frank William Gay, 86; target of claim on Howard Hughes' fortune |date=25 May 2007 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Peter Hayes, 58, Australian lawyer.{{cite web |url=http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21773710-2,00.html |title=Prominent barrister Hayes loses fight for life |last=Schliebs |first=Mark |date=22 May 2007 |website=News.com.au |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070529092653/http://www.news.com.au/story/0%2C23599%2C21773710-2%2C00.html |archive-date=29 May 2007}}
María Hortensia de Herrera de Lacalle, 98, Uruguayan politician, mother of ex-President Luis Alberto Lacalle.{{cite web |url=http://www.espectador.com/nota.php?idNota=96078 |title=Sepultaron los restos de Hortensia Herrera de Lacalle |date=23 May 2007 |website=Espectador.com |language=es |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926220335/http://www.espectador.com/nota.php?idNota=96078 |archive-date=26 September 2007}}
Bruno Mattei, 75, Italian film director.{{cite web |url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/director%20bruno%20mattei%20dies_1031930 |title=Director Bruno Mattei Dies |date=23 May 2007 |website=Contactmusic.com |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Kenneth Sokoloff, 54, American economist who examined factor endowment, liver cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/obituaries/24sokoloff.html |title=Kenneth Sokoloff, 54, Economist, Is Dead |first=Julie |last=Creswell |date=24 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Sakorn Yang-keawsot, 85, Thai puppeteer, lung illness.{{cite news |url=http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007/05/22/headlines/headlines_30034850.php |title=Legendary Thai puppet master passes away |first1=Phattarawadee |last1=Phattaranawik |first2=Sirinya |last2=Wattanasukchai |date=22 May 2007 |newspaper=The Nation |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929151211/http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007/05/22/headlines/headlines_30034850.php |archive-date=29 September 2007}}

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Fannie Lee Chaney, 84, American civil rights activist.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/obituaries/24chaney.html |title=Fannie Lee Chaney, 84, Mother of Slain Civil Rights Worker, Is Dead |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=24 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Frank E. Maestrone, 84, American diplomat, ambassador to Kuwait (1976–1979), infection.{{cite web |url=http://www.10news.com/news/13395676/detail.html |title=Local Middle East Expert Dies |date=26 May 2007 |website=ABC 10 News |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Jef Planckaert, 73, Belgian cyclist.{{cite web |url=http://www.rtbf.be/info/sports/ARTICLE_093668 |title=Décès de Joseph Planckaert |date=22 May 2007 |website=RTBF |language=fr |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070525113812/http://www.rtbf.be/info/sports/ARTICLE_093668 |archive-date=25 May 2007}}{{cite web |url=http://www.7sur7.be/hlns/cache/fr/det/art_468910.html?wt.bron=homeSportLinks |title=Jef Planckaert n'est plus |date=22 May 2007 |website=7SUR7.be |language=fr |access-date=1 June 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20071124021117/http://www.7sur7.be/hlns/cache/fr/det/art_468910.html?wt.bron=homeSportLinks |archive-date=24 November 2007}}
Pemba Doma Sherpa, 36, Nepali mountaineer, two-time summiter of Mt. Everest, fall from Lhotse.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6684649.stm |title=Famous female Nepal climber dead |date=23 May 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Art Stevens, 92, American animator, film director and screenwriter (The Fox and the Hound, The Rescuers, The Black Cauldron), heart attack.{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2007/film/news/art-stevens-animator-92-1117967854/ |title=Art Stevens, animator, 92 |date=28 June 2007 |magazine=Variety |access-date=12 August 2018}}

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Clyde Robert Bulla, 93, American children's author.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-27-me-bulla27-story.html |title=Clyde R. Bulla, 93; wrote more than 60 children's books |first=Claire |last=Noland |date=27 May 2007 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Dick Humbert, 88, American gridiron football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Dick Humbert Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Dick+Humbert |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=2 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
Kei Kumai, 76, Japanese film director, brain hemorrhage.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/25/movies/25kumai.html |title=Kei Kumai, 76, Japanese Director Who Specialized in True Stories, Dies |date=25 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}{{cite magazine |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/features/people/deaths/e3i100bdf32d950877f99302f11e0be427e |title=Japan's Kei Kumai dies at 76 |first=Julian |last=Ryall |date=24 May 2007 |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001001756/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/features/people/deaths/e3i100bdf32d950877f99302f11e0be427e |archive-date=1 October 2007}}
Tron Øgrim, 59, Norwegian author and politician.{{cite news |url=http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2007/05/24/501573.html |title=Tron Øgrim er død |date=24 May 2007 |newspaper=Dagbladet |language=no |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Åke Sundborg, 85, Swedish geographer and geomorphologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Åke Sundborg |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13050357d |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=2 April 2024 |language=fr |date=}}

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Buddy Childers, 81, American jazz trumpeter, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2591492.ece |title=Buddy Childers: Lead trumpeter with Stan Kenton |first=Steve |last=Voce |date=29 May 2007 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=1 June 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070604150240/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2591492.ece |archive-date=4 June 2007}}
Les Harmer, 86, New Zealand cricket umpire.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/37484.html |title=Les Harmer |website=ESPN Cricinfo |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Bill Johnston, 85, Australian cricketer, member of the 1948 Invincibles.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia/story/0,,2089626,00.html |title=Bill Johnston |first=David |last=Frith |date=28 May 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Philip Mayer Kaiser, 93, American diplomat, ambassador to Senegal and Mauritania, Hungary, and Austria, pneumonia.{{cite web |url=http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_wires/2007May24/0,4675,ObitKaiser,00.html |title=Former Ambassador Kaiser Dies at 93 |date=24 May 2007 |website=Fox News Channel |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Norm Maleng, 68, American prosecutor (King County, Washington), cardiac arrest.{{cite news |url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003721534_normmaleng25.html |title=Longtime prosecutor Norm Maleng dies |date=25 May 2007 |newspaper=The Seattle Times |access-date=10 November 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524053123/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003721534_normmaleng25.html |archive-date=24 May 2011}}
Christopher Newton, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.{{cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/ohio-executes-grossly-overweight-man-who-killed-cellmate-over-chess-games |title=Ohio Executes Grossly Overweight Man Who Killed Cellmate Over Chess Games |date=24 May 2007 |website=Fox News Channel |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Minako Oba, 77, Japanese author.{{cite news |url=http://www.daily.co.jp/newsflash/2007/05/24/0000349292.shtml |title=芥川賞作家の大庭みな子さん死去 |date=24 May 2007 |newspaper=Kobe Shimbun |language=ja |access-date=26 May 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070526052929/http://www.daily.co.jp/newsflash/2007/05/24/0000349292.shtml |archive-date=26 May 2007}}
David Renton, Baron Renton, 98, British politician and aristocrat, oldest peer in the House of Lords.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6689239.stm |title=UK's Went on the harry potter series dies and 17 years old. |date=24 May 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=12 August 2018}}

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Arwon, 33, New Zealand-born racehorse, longest surviving Melbourne Cup winner, euthanasia.{{cite news |url=https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/sport/grand-old-melbourne-cup-winner-arwon-dies-20070527-ge8pw5.html |title=Grand old Melbourne Cup winner Arwon dies |date=27 May 2007 |newspaper=Brisbane Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Laurie Bartram, 49, American actress (Friday the 13th) and ballet dancer, pancreatic cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/laurie-bartram-passes |title=Laurie Bartram passes |first=Omar |last=Hussain |date=27 May 2007 |website=JoBlo.com |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Victor Firea, 84, Romanian Olympic athlete.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fi/victor-firea-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417172103/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fi/victor-firea-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Victor Firea |website=Sports Reference |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Charles Nelson Reilly, 76, American actor (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, All Dogs Go to Heaven), Tony winner (1962), complications from pneumonia.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/28/theater/28reilly.html |title=Charles Nelson Reilly, Tony-Winning Comic Actor, Dies at 76 |first=Patrick |last=McGeehan |date=28 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Kaspar Schiesser, 91, Swiss Olympic runner.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sc/kaspar-schiesser-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418054824/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sc/kaspar-schiesser-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Kaspar Schiesser |website=Sports Reference |access-date=12 August 2018}}

*Sun Yuanliang, 103, Chinese-born General with the Kuomintang, exiled in Taiwan.{{cite news |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/06/12/2003364885 |title=Nationalist general Sun Yuan-liang dies at 103 |date=12 June 2007 |newspaper=Taipei Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}

Bartholomew Ulufa'alu, 56, Solomon Islander politician, Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (1997–2000), after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=32537 |title=Former Solomons PM Ulufa'alu dies |date=25 May 2007 |website=RNZ International |access-date=12 August 2018}}

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Sir James Baird, 92, British army general.{{cite web |url=http://www.rcpe.ac.uk/obituary/lieut-general-sir-james-parlane-baird-frcp-edin |title=Lieutenant General Sir James Parlane Baird FRCP (Edin.) |website=Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh |date=September 11, 2013 |access-date=12 August 2018}}
James Beck, 77, American art historian, founder of ArtWatch International,.{{cite news |url=http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2631297.ece |title=Professor James Beck |first=Selby |last=Whittingham |date=8 June 2007 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=2 August 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930212624/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2631297.ece |archive-date=30 September 2007}}
Gene Gibson, 82, American basketball player and coach (Texas Tech University), complications from surgery.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/ncb/news/story?id=2888307&campaign=rss&source=NCBHeadlines |title=Gibson, former Red Raiders coach and player, dies |date=31 May 2007 |website=ESPN |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Marek Krejčí, 26, Slovak footballer, car accident.{{cite web |url=https://isport.blesk.cz/clanek/fotbal/14827/slovensky-fotbalista-krejci-havaroval-a-zemrel.html |title=Slovenský fotbalista Krejčí havaroval a zemřel |date=26 May 2007 |website=iSport |language=cs |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Phyllis Sellick, 95, British pianist.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/may/30/guardianobituaries.obituaries |title=Phyllis Sellick |first=John |last=Amis |date=30 May 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Aubrey Singer, 80, British television executive, head of BBC Two (1974–1978).{{cite news |url=http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2588951.ece |title=Aubrey Singer: Energetic BBC television producer |first=Michael |last=Leapman |date=28 May 2007 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=4 June 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070604102318/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2588951.ece |archive-date=4 June 2007}}
Khalil al-Zahawi, 60-61, Iraqi calligrapher, shot.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6696503.stm |title=Leading Muslim calligrapher shot |date=27 May 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=12 August 2018}}

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Ron Archer, 73, Australian Test cricketer, lung cancer.{{cite web |url=http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/296078.html?CMP=OTC-RSS |title=Ron Archer dies at 73 |date=28 May 2007 |website=ESPN Cricinfo |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Edward Behr, 81, British journalist and author.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/aug/06/pressandpublishing.guardianobituaries |title=Edward Behr |first=Jonathan |last=Randal |date=6 August 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Sam Garrison, 65, American lawyer, defended President Richard Nixon in impeachment hearings in 1974, leukemia.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/30/AR2007053002402.html |title=Watergate GOP Counsel, Gay Activist Sam Garrison |last=Sullivan |first=Patricia |date=31 May 2007 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Marquise Hill, 24, American football player (New England Patriots), drowning.{{cite web |url=http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl052807tplsu.1aa969dc.html |title=Body of ex-LSU star found in Lake Pontchartrain |date=28 May 2007 |website=WWL-TV |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080218115322/http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl052807tplsu.1aa969dc.html |archive-date=18 February 2008}}
Jack Kerr, 96, New Zealand cricket player, Chairman and President of New Zealand Cricket.{{cite web |url=http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/default.aspx?id=73524 |title=Former cricketer Jack Kerr dies aged 96 |date=29 May 2007 |website=NZ City |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071222071021/http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=73524&cat=975 |archive-date=December 22, 2007 |df=mdy-all }}
Wiley Mayne, 90, American politician, U.S. Representative from Iowa (1966–1974), cardiopulmonary incident.{{cite news |url=http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2007/05/29/news/local/ff0c32c6c8e08cb0862572ea00127d86.txt |title=Former congressman Mayne dies at 90 |date=29 May 2007 |first=Alicia |last=Ebaugh |newspaper=Sioux City Journal |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Howard Porter, 58, American basketball player (Bulls, Knicks, Pistons), injuries sustained from beating.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/news/story?id=2884248 |title=Ex-Villanova star Porter dies from attack injuries |date=28 May 2007 |website=ESPN |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Izumi Sakai, 40, Japanese singer (Zard), cerebral contusion.{{cite news |url=http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200705290095.html |title=Pop star Zard dies after fall |date=29 May 2007 |newspaper=Asahi Shimbun |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070602122705/http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200705290095.html |archive-date=2 June 2007}}
Percy Sonn, 57, South African cricket player, President of the International Cricket Council, complications after surgery.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article1846180.ece |title=ICC president Percy Sonn dies aged 57 |date=27 May 2007 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=13 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523105727/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article1846180.ece |archive-date=23 May 2011}}
Gretchen Wyler, 75, American actress (Private Benjamin, Dallas, The Devil's Brigade) and animal rights activist, complications from breast cancer.{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2007/legit/markets-festivals/gretchen-wyler-75-actress-1117965883/ |title=Gretchen Wyler, 75, actress |via=Associated Press |date=28 May 2007 |magazine=Variety |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Ed Yost, 87, American inventor of the modern hot air balloon.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/04/us/04yost.html |title=Ed Yost, 87, Father of Modern Hot-Air Ballooning, Dies |last=Hevesi |first=Dennis |date=4 June 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}

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Barbara Cox Anthony, 84, American heiress, after long illness.{{cite news |url=http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/May/28/br/br0596431827.html |title=Media heiress Barbara Cox Anthony dies |date=28 May 2007 |newspaper=The Honolulu Advertiser |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Harold C. Helgeson, 75, American geochemist, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Harold-C-Helgeson-UC-geology-professor-had-2586999.php |title=Harold C. Helgeson – UC geology professor had fresh approach |first=Tanya |last=Schevitz |date=14 June 2007 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Jörg Immendorff, 61, German painter, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.{{cite web |url=http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2560139,00.html |title=German Expressionist Artist Jörg Immendorff Dies |date=28 May 2007 |website=Deutsche Welle |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Phyllis Koehn, 84, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2007-06-03-0706030231-story.html|title=Koehn, Phyllis|work=Chicago Tribune|date=2007-06-03|access-date=2019-05-30}}
David Lane, 68, American white supremacist leader and author.{{cite news |url=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5561093,00.html |title=White supremacist, talk show host killer dies in prison |first=Kevin |last=Flynn |date=29 May 2007 |newspaper=Rocky Mountain News |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703182105/http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0%2C1299%2CDRMN_15_5561093%2C00.html |archive-date=3 July 2007}}
John Macquarrie, 87, British theologian, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford (1970–1986).{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1552962/The-Rev-Professor-John-Macquarrie.html |title=The Reverend Professor John Macquarrie |date=30 May 2007 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Toshikatsu Matsuoka, 62, Japanese politician, Minister of Agriculture, suicide by hanging.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6697329.stm |title=Japanese minister kills himself |date=28 May 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Parren Mitchell, 85, American politician, U.S. Representative from Maryland (1971–1987), co-founder of Congressional Black Caucus, pneumonia.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/us/30mitchell.html |title=Parren Mitchell, 85, Congressman and Rights Leader, Dies |last=Martin |first=Douglas |date=30 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Ethel Mutharika, 63, Zimbabwe-born First Lady of Malawi, cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/malawi-in-mourning-after-first-ladys-death-355203 |title=Malawi in mourning after first lady's death |date=30 May 2007 |website=Independent Online |access-date=12 August 2018}}

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Dave Balon, 68, Canadian ice hockey player, multiple sclerosis.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/31/sports/hockey/31balon.html |title=Dave Balon, 68, Rangers Wing, Is Dead |date=31 May 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=13 August 2018}}
Tony Bastable, 62, British television presenter (Magpie), DJ and independent producer, pneumonia.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6709139.stm |title=First Magpie host Bastable dies |date=31 May 2007 |website=BBC News |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Dame Lois Browne-Evans, 79, Bermudian politician.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1862391.ece |title=Dame Lois Browne-Evans |date=31 May 2007 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=13 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523105457/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1862391.ece |archive-date=23 May 2011}}
Donald Johanos, 79, American conductor.{{cite news |url=http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2007/jun/02/internationally_known_conductor_johanos_dies_naple/?breaking_news |title=Internationally known conductor Johanos dies in Naples |last=Heithaus |first=Harriet Howard |date=2 June 2007 |newspaper=Naples Daily News |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928030609/http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2007/jun/02/internationally_known_conductor_johanos_dies_naple/?breaking_news |archive-date=28 September 2007}}
Norman Kaye, 80, Australian actor and musician, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/modest-quietly-intense-actor-dies/2007/05/30/1180205330874.html |title='Modest, quietly intense' actor dies |first=Philippa |last=Hawker |date=31 May 2007 |newspaper=The Age |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Posteal Laskey Jr., 69, American convicted murderer, commonly believed to be the serial killer called the "Cincinnati Strangler".{{cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/suspected-cincinnati-strangler-serial-killer-dies-of-natural-causes-in-jail/ |title=Suspected 'Cincinnati Strangler' Serial Killer Dies of Natural Causes in Jail |date=12 June 2007 |website=Fox News |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Tahir Mirza, 70, Pakistani journalist and former editor of Dawn, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.pakistantimes.net/2007/05/30/top10.htm |title=Noted Journalist of Pakistan Tahir Mirza Dies |date=30 May 2007 |newspaper=Pakistan Times |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930201621/http://www.pakistantimes.net/2007/05/30/top10.htm |archive-date=30 September 2007}}
Folole Muliaga, 44, Samoan–NZ teacher whose oxygen machine failed after power cut for unpaid account, heart and lung disease.{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10442627 |title=Mercury and family disagree over power cut death |date=31 May 2007 |newspaper=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Michael Seaton, 84, British astronomer and physicist.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1895791.ece |title=Professor Michael Seaton |date=7 June 2007 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523120423/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1895791.ece |archive-date=23 May 2011}}
Wallace Seawell, 90, American photographer and filmmaker, age-related causes.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/02/arts/02seawell.html |title=Wallace Seawell, 90, a Master at Shooting Stars, Is Dead |last=Kennedy |first=Randy |date=2 June 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
John Stanning junior, 87, English cricketer.[http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/60315/stanning Stanning]

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Jean-Claude Brialy, 74, French actor and director, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/movies/01brialy.html |title=Jean-Claude Brialy, 74, Actor, Dies |last=Weiner |first=Tim |date=June 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Kieran Carey, 74, Irish hurler.[http://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/other/former-tipp-hurler-carey-passes-away-313075.html Former Tipp hurler Carey passes away]
Mark Harris, 84, American author (Bang the Drum Slowly), Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/02/sports/baseball/02harris.html |title=Mark Harris, Author of 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' Is Dead at 84 |last=Litsky |first=Frank |date=2 June 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Preston Martin, 83, American banker, Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (1982–1986), cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/business/03martin.html |title=Preston Martin, 83, Economist and Former Fed Vice Chairman, Is Dead |date=3 June 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
William Morris Meredith, Jr., 88, American poet and Pulitzer Prize winner.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/books/01meredith.html |first=Margalit |last=Fox |date=1 June 2007 |title=William Meredith, 88, Poet Who Wed Depth to Form, Dies |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Yevgeni Mishakov, 66, Russian ice hockey player.{{cite web |url=http://www.chidlovski.net/1954/54_player_info.asp?p_id=m021 |first=Arthur R. |last=Chidlovski |title=Team CCCP Players Info: Yevgeny MISHAKOV (Евгений МИШАКОВ) |website=Hockey CCCP International |access-date=12 August 2018}}

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George Bragg, 81, American conductor and founder of the Texas Boys Choir.{{cite news |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dfw/obituary.aspx?n=george-bragg&pid=88566319 |title=George Bragg 1926–2007 |date=2 June 2007 |newspaper=Fort Worth Star-Telegram |via=Legacy.com |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Norman Fletcher, 89, American architect.{{cite web |url=http://eng.archinform.net/arch/2011.htm |title=Norman Collings Fletcher, architect (*1917 †2007) |first=Sascha |last=Hendel |website=ArchINFORM |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Clifford Scott Green, 84, American jurist, Federal Court judge.{{cite news |url=http://www.philly.com/inquirer/breaking/news_breaking/7785826.html |title=Pioneering jurist Clifford Scott Green dies |last=Shiffman |first=John |date=1 June 2007 |newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929125745/http://www.philly.com/inquirer/breaking/news_breaking/7785826.html |archive-date=29 September 2007}}
David J. Lawson, 77, American minister, bishop of the United Methodist Church, after long illness.{{cite news |url=https://www.twincities.com/2007/06/01/retired-methodist-bishop-david-lawson-dies-at-77-2/ |title=Retired Methodist Bishop David Lawson dies at 77 |date=1 June 2007 |newspaper=St. Paul Pioneer Press |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Fathia Nkrumah, 75, Egyptian–born Ghanaian First Lady, after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=124921 |title=Fathia Nkrumah is dead |date=31 May 2007 |website=GhanaWeb.com |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Charles Remington, 85, American zoologist, known for studies of butterflies and moths.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/obituaries/17remington.html |title=Charles Lee Remington, Butterfly Expert, Dies at 85 |first=Carol Kaesuk |last=Yoon |date=17 June 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Alexander Tubelsky, 66, Russian academic, President of Association of Democratic Schools, stroke.{{cite web |url=http://www.libed.org.uk/index.php/articles/346-alexandr-naumovich-tubelsky-1940-2007 |title=Alexandr Naumovich Tubelsky (1940-2007) |date=1 September 2007 |website=Libertarian Education |access-date=12 August 2018}}
Jim Williams, 92, American basketball coach (Colorado State University).{{cite news |url=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/ncaa/article/0,2777,DRMN_23932_5565146,00.html |title=Williams, CSU pioneer, dies at 92 |last=Benton |first=Jim |date=1 June 2007 |newspaper=Rocky Mountain News |access-date=12 August 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927230052/http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/ncaa/article/0,2777,DRMN_23932_5565146,00.html |archive-date=27 September 2007}}

References

External links

[https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=2007-05-01,2007-05-31&adult=include List of May 2007 deaths] at IMDb

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