The Recently Dead List 2007

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

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