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In the year 2007
714 Notable deaths
Karlheinz Stockhausen
German composer.
Born August 22nd, 1928 in Mödrath castle. [ref]
Died December 5th, 2007 at 79 years old in Kürten (heart failure). [ref]
Alice Ghostley
American actress.
Born August 14th, 1926 in Vernon County.
Died September 21st, 2007 at 81 years old in Studio City (colorectal cancer). [ref]
Alice Coltrane
American jazz musician (1937-2007).
Born August 27th, 1937 in Detroit. [ref]
Died January 12th, 2007 at 69 years old in Los Angeles (respiratory failure). [ref]
Dennis Johnson
Nba basketball player (1954-2007).
Born September 18th, 1954 in San Pedro.
Died February 22nd, 2007 at 52 years old in Austin (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Sigrid Valdis
American actress (1935–2007).
Born September 21st, 1935 in Bakersfield.
Died October 14th, 2007 at 72 years old in Anaheim (lung cancer).
Roscoe Lee Browne
American actor and director.
Born May 2nd, 1922 in Woodbury.
Died April 11th, 2007 at 84 years old in Los Angeles (stomach cancer). [ref]
E. Howard Hunt
American intelligence officer and author (1918-2007).
Born October 9th, 1918 in Hamburg.
Died January 23rd, 2007 at 88 years old in Miami (pneumonia).
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italian film director and screenwriter (1912–2007).
Born September 29th, 1912 in Ferrara.
Died July 30th, 2007 at 94 years old in Rome. [ref]
Wally Schirra
American astronaut (1923-2007).
Born March 12th, 1923 in Hackensack.
Died May 3rd, 2007 at 84 years old in La Jolla (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Madeleine L'Engle
American writer 1918-2007.
Born November 29th, 1918 in New York City. [ref]
Died September 8th, 2007 at 88 years old in Litchfield. [ref]
Deaths 61 to 70 of 714
Death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent, it clears out the old to make way for the new. Steve Jobs