People we said goodbye to in 2007

Some of the internationally notable people we said goodbye to in 2007:


Antonioni, Michelangelo, director
Astor, Brooke, socialite
Avis, Warren, businessman
Barbaro, racehorse
Bauer, Hank, baseball player


Bergman, Ingmar, Swedish filmaker
Bhutto, Benazir, Pakistani politician
Bo Yibo, Chinese politician
Bracken, Peg, cookbook writer
Brecker, Michael, jazz musician
Buchwald, Art, columnist
Burdette, Lew, pitcher
Carlo, Yvonne de, actress
Claiborne, Liz, fashion designer
Clark, Bob, director
Deaver, Michael, White House aide
DeDomenico, Vincent, food inventor
Delp, brad, singer and guitarist
Denard, Bob, French mercenary
Doherty, Denny, musician
Drinan, Robert, politician
Eagleton, Thomas, former U.S. senator
Ellis, Albert, psychologist
Evans, Ray, songwriter
Falwell, Jerry, clergyman
Feigner, Eddie, softball player
Gallo, Ernest, vintner
Ghostley, Alice, actress
Gillmor, Paul, politician
Gittings, Barbara, activist
Goulet, Robert, entertainer
Halberstam, David, journalist and author
Hart, Johnny, cartoonist
Hart, Kitty Carlisle, actress
Hazlewood, Lee, songwriter
Helmsley, Leona, hotelier
Henebry, John P., combat pilot
Herbert, Don, actor
Herbert, Sir Wally, explorer
Ho, Don, entertainer
Hoffleit, Ellen Dorrit, scientist
Hunt, Howard E., spy
Hutton, Betty, actress
Hunter, Joe, Motown musician
Ivins, Molly, journalist
Johnson, Dennis, basketball player
Johnson, Lady Bird, former First Lady


Kerr, Deborah, actress
King, Yolanda, social activist
Kollek, Teddy, Israeli politician
Kornberg, Arthur, biochemist
Kristal, Hilly, nightclub owner
Kuhn, Bowie, former baseball commissioner
Laine, Frankie, singer
Lauterbur, Paul, inventor
L'Engle, Madeleine, author
MacDiarmid, Alan, chemist
Mailer, Norman, writer
Maiman, Theodore Harold, inventor
Marceau, Marcel, mime
Menotti, Gian-Carlo, Italian composer
Messner, Tammy Faye, TV evangelist
Metzger, Bruce, Biblical scholar
Mitchell, Parren, former member of Congress
Miyazawa, Kiichi, Japanese politician
Muschamp, Herbert, architecture critic
Norwood, Charlie, U.S. representative
O'Brien, Parry, shot-putter
Odell, Jack, engineer
Oerter, Al, discus thrower
Olsen, Tillie, feminist writer
Paley, Grace, writer
Parsons, Benny, auto racer
Pavarotti, Luciano, operatic tenor
Peet, Alfred, coffee guru
Pickett, Bobby, singer
Ponti, Carlo, film producer
Poston, Tom, actor
Reilly, Charles Nelson, actor, comedian
Richardson, Ian, actor
Rizzuto, Phil, baseball player
Roach, Max, jazz musician
Robinson, Eddie, football coach
Romary, Janice-Lee, foil fencer
Rorty, Richard, philosopher
Rostropovich, Mstislav, cellist and conductor
Rothman, Lorraine, women's rights advocate
Rothschild, Baron Guy de, French banker
Sa, Khun, drug lord
Sardi, Vincent, Jr., restaurateur
Schirra, Walter, astronaut
Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, Jr., American historian and public official
Sheldon, Sidney, novelist and screenwriter
Siegel, Joel, film critic and television host
Sills, Beverly, operatic soprano
Smathers, George, senator


Smith, Anna Nicole, model, reality TV personality
Snyder, Tom, radio and television personality
Somers, Brett, television personality
Takamoto, Iwao, animator who designed Scooby-Doo
Thomas, Craig, politician
Tibbets, Paul, pilot
Traisman, Edwin, iconic food creator
Valenti, Jack, head of MPAA
Vonnegut, Kurt, writer
Waldheim, Kurt, Austrian diplomat
Walsh, Bill, football coach
Washburn, Bradford, cartographer and explorer
Wegner, Hans, furniture designer
White, Willye B., long jumper
Win, Soe, Prime minister
Woods, Harriett, feminist political leader


Wyman, Jane, actress
Yeltsin, Boris, Russian politician