2007 R.I.P (Part 3)

History museum offers glimpse of the past.
Headline in Jakarta Post 28.12.07

No surprises there but I don't know whether it was a Wikipedia criterion for selection in their list but a surprising number of wrestlers died this year, although I haven't listed any here. Cancer also seemed to be a major factor.

July
--5. George Melly, 80, English jazz and blues singer, critic, writer and lecturer, lung cancer.
29. Phil Drabble, 93, British television presenter (One Man and His Dog)

August
--1. Tommy Makem, 74, Irish folk musician (The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem), lung cancer.
--3. Paul Rutherford, 67, British jazz trombonist
-----John Gardner, 80, British thriller writer and James Bond continuation novelist, suspected heart failure.
16. Max Roach, 83, American jazz drummer.

September
10. Dame Anita Roddick, 64, British entrepreneur and founder of The Body Shop, brain haemorrhage.
11. Joe Zawinul, 75, Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer, founder of Weather Report, cancer.
19. Mike Osborne, 66, British jazz musician.
22. Marcel Marceau, 84, French mime artist.
29. Lois Maxwell, 80, first Miss Moneypenny in James Bond film series, colorectal cancer.
30. Joe Mitty, 88, British founder of the Oxfam charity shop.

October
--1. Ned Sherrin, 76, British broadcaster and theatre producer, throat cancer.
-----Ronnie Hazlehurst, 79, British theme song composer (Are You Being Served?) and jazz musician, stroke.
11. Sri Chinmoy, 76, Indian-born philosopher and guru, heart attack.
16. Barbara West Dainton, 96, British Titanic survivor.
-----Deborah Kerr, 86, British actress (From Here to Eternity, Black Narcissus, The King and I), complications of Parkinson's disease.
18. Alan Coren, 69, British writer and satirist, editor of Punch (1978-1987), cancer.
20. Ivo Cappo, 55, Papua New Guinean magistrate, stoning.
22. Billy Ray Hamilton, 57, American death row inmate, natural causes.
30. John Woodruff, 92, the first black athlete to win gold at the notorious 1936 Berlin Olympic games

November
--1. Paul Tibbets, 92, American pilot of the Enola Gay which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, heart failure.
--6. George Osmond, 90, American patriarch of the Osmond singing family.
--8. Chad Varah, 95, British Anglican priest, founder of the Samaritans.
12. Ira Levin, 78, American author (Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives) and playwright (Deathtrap), heart attack.
18. Peter Cadogan, 86, British writer and anti-nuclear campaigner.
19. John Straffen, 77, British murderer, Britain's longest serving prisoner (56 years), natural causes.
20. Ian Smith, 88, Rhodesian politician, Prime Minister (1964-1979).
22. Reg Park, 79, British bodybuilder, Mr. Universe (1951), skin cancer.
-----Verity Lambert, 71, British TV producer, BBC's first female producer (Doctor Who).
25. Peter Houghton, 68, British recipient of the first artificial heart transplant, multiple organ failure.
30. Robert "Evel" Knievel, Jr., 69, American stunt performer.

December
--5. Karlheinz Stockhausen, 79, German composer.
--7. Fuad Hassan, 78, Indonesian Minister of Education (1985-1993), cancer.
--8. Patsy Wood, 47, an inspirational environmentalist, maverick tree planter and talented seamstress, cancer.
12. Basuki, 51, Indonesian comedian.
13. Floyd Red Crow Westerman, 71, actor, singer and campaigner for Native American rights.
17. Sir Norman Reid, 91, gallery curator.
23. Oscar Peterson, 82, Canadian jazz pianist, kidney failure and complications from a stroke.
27. Benazir Bhutto, 54, Pakistani opposition leader, assassinated.
 

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