The Recently Dead List 2007

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Celebrity
Died
Age
Comments
Kevin Greening
30 dec 2007
44
Former Radio 1 DJ.
Benazir Bhutto
27 dec 2007
54
Pakistani politician.
Ike Turner
12 dec 2007
76
Singer and ex husband of Tina Turner.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
5 dec 2007
79
German composer.
Anton Rodgers
1 dec 2007
74
TV actor.
Evel Knievel
30 nov 2007
69
Stuntman/Daredevil.
Tony Holland
29 nov 2007
67
Creator of the Eastenders TV soap.
Verity Lambert
22 nov 2007
71
TV producer.
Ian Smith
20 nov 2007
88
Former Prime Minister of Rhodesia
Normal Mailer
10 nov 2007
84
American novelist.
Tricia Williamson
10 nov 2007
52
BBC and ITN Weather presenter
Hilda Braid
6 nov 2007
78
Actress. Appeared in Eastenders
Anthony Clare
30 oct 2007
64
Psychiatrist. Regulary appeared on Radio 4
Robert Goulet
30 oct 2007
73
American actor.
Porter Wagoner
28 oct 2007
80
Country music singer
Alan Coren
19 oct 2007
69
Writer
Deborah Kerr
17 oct 2007
86
Actress.
Werner Von Trapp
11 oct 2007
91
Member of the 'Sound of Music' von Trapp family
Ned Sherrin
01 oct 2007
76
Writer and broadcaster.
Ronnie Hazlehurst
1 oct 2007
79
TV composer.
Lois Maxwell
29 sep 2007
80
Actress. Played Miss Moneypenny in the Bond films
Marcel Marceau
22 sep 2007
84
French mime artist.
Colin McRae
15 sep 2007
39
Rally driver.
Anita Roddick
10 sep 2007
64
Founder of the Body Shop
Jane Wyman
10 sep 2007
90
Actress and first wife of Ronald Reagan.
Luciano Pavarotti
06 sep 2007
71
Overweight opera singer.
Ronald Magill
6 sep 2007
87
Actor - played Amos Brearly in Emmerdale.
Michael Jackson
30 aug 2007
65
Not the singer. Writer and broadcaster
Bill Deedes
17 aug 2007
94
Journalist and former MP. Edited the Daily Telegraph.
Brooke Astor
13 aug 2007
105
American Socialite
Merv Griffin
12 aug 2007
82
American TV show host.
Tony Wilson
10 aug 2007
57
Former journalist and founder of Factory Records
Ingmar Bergman
30 jul 2007
93
Swedish film director.
Mike Reid
29 jul 2007
67
Former comedian and East Enders actor.
Tammy Faye Bakker
20 jul 2007
65
Ex-wife of Jim Bakker
Nigel Dempster
12 jul 2007
65
Daily Mail Journalist.
Lady Bird Johnson
11 jul 2007
94
Wife of president Lyndon Johnson.
Charles Lane
9 jul 2007
102
American Actor
George Melly
05 jul 2007
80
Jazz musician.
Bernard Manning
18 jun 2007
76
'Controversial' comedian
Kurt Waldheim
14 jun 2007
88
Former UN secretary-general
Tom Poston
30 apr 2007
85
Comedy actor.
Alan Ball
25 apr 2007
61
Member of the England World Cup winning team of 1966.
Boris Yeltsin
23 apr 2007
76
Former president of Russia and famous alcoholic.
Kurt Vonnegut
11 apr 2007
84
Novelist - wrote Slaughterhouse 5 after surviving the bombing of Dresden.
Gareth Hunt
13 mar 2007
65
Actor
John Inman
8 mar 2007
71
Famous for playing the camp Mr Humphries in Are You Being Served.
Ernest Gallo
6 mar 2007
97
Winemaker - half of E&J Gallo.
Ian Richardson
9 feb 2007
72
Actor. Best known for the TV series 'House of Cards'
Anna Nicole Smith
8 feb 2007
39
Model and Playboy centrefold.
Frankie Lane
7 feb 2007
93
Singer from the 1940s and 50s. Sang the themes for Rawhide and also the film Blazing Saddles.
Magnus Magnusson
07 jan 2007
77
TV presenter. Hosted Mastermind for 25 years.

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