The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2007.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
April 2007
1
Laurie Baker, 90, British-born Indian architect. John Billings, 89, Australian co-developer of the Billings ovulation method. Norman Butler, 76, English cricketer. Herb Carneal, 83, American sportscaster, radio broadcaster for Minnesota Twins Major League Baseball team, congestive heart failure. Driss Chraibi, 80, Moroccan writer. Char Fontane, 55, American actress (Joe & Valerie, The Punisher, Pearl) and singer, breast cancer. Lou Limmer, 82, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). Salem Ludwig, 91, American actor (Unfaithful, Family Business, The Savages). Sally Merchant, 88, Canadian broadcaster and politician, cancer. Hannah Nydahl, 61, Danish teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, translator for her husband Ole Nydahl, lung and brain cancer. Screechy Peach, 47, American singer and songwriter, breast cancer. Ladislav Rychman, 84, Czech film director, heart attack. George Sewell, 82, British actor (Get Carter, Barry Lyndon, Doctor Who), cancer. Elliott Skinner, 82, American scholar and former ambassador, heart failure.
2
B. K. Anand, 89, Indian physiologist and pharmacologist. William W. Becker, 85, American co-founder of the Motel 6 chain, heart attack. Janet Bloomfield, 53, British campaigner, Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (1993–1996), septic shock. Jeannie Ferris, 66, Australian Senator, ovarian cancer. Henry Lee Giclas, 96, American astronomer. Paul Reed, 97, American comedian and actor (Car 54, Where Are You?), heart failure. Tadjou Salou, 32, Togolese international footballer, after long illness.
3
Marion Eames, 85, British novelist (The Secret Room). Sir Walter Luttrell, 87, British army officer and public servant. Robin Montgomerie-Charrington, 91, British 1952 Grand Prix driver. Michael Joseph Murphy, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Erie (1982–1990). Walter Nicks, 81, American dancer and choreographer. Thomas Hal Phillips, 84, American novelist and screenwriter. Zoltán Pongrácz, 95, Hungarian composer and conductor. Bill Robinson, 88, American sailor and author. Eddie Robinson, 88, American college football coach (Grambling State University), Alzheimer's disease. Burt Topper, 78, American screenwriter, film director and film producer, pulmonary failure. Nina Wang, 69, Hong Kong businesswoman and Asia's richest woman.
4
Jagjit Singh Chauhan, 80, Indian Sikh separatist leader, heart attack. Bob Clark, 67, American film director (A Christmas Story, Porky's, Baby Geniuses), car accident. Brian Fahey, 87, British composer and musical director. Reginald H. Fuller, 92, British-born biblical scholar and Anglican priest, complications of a broken hip. Terry Hall, 80, British ventriloquist and children's television presenter. Edward Mallory, 76, American television actor (Days of Our Lives). Datuk K. Sivalingam, 59, Malaysian politician, heart attack. Karen Spärck Jones, 71, British professor emeritus of Computers and Information at the University of Cambridge, cancer. Margaret Tor-Thompson, 44, Liberian politician, breast cancer.
5
Maria Gripe, 83, Swedish author. Thomas Stoltz Harvey, 94, American pathologist. Leela Majumdar, 99, Indian Bengali language children's author. Mark St. John, 51, American guitarist (KISS, White Tiger), brain hemorrhage. Ali Sriti, 88, Tunisian oudist. Darryl Stingley, 55, American football player, bronchial pneumonia. Poornachandra Tejaswi, 68, Indian writer and novelist in the Kannada language, cardiac arrest.
6
Elward Thomas Brady, Jr., 60, American businessman and politician. Luigi Comencini, 90, Italian film director. Stan Daniels, 72, Canadian writer and producer (Taxi, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson), heart failure. Colin Graham, 75, British opera, theatre and television director, cardiac arrest. George C. Jenkins, 98, American production designer (All the President's Men, Sophie's Choice, Presumed Innocent), Oscar winner (1977), heart failure. Józef Kos, 106, Polish soldier, one of the last six World War I veterans from Germany. Jill McGown, 59, British mystery writer. James McGuinness, 81, British priest, Bishop of Nottingham (1974–2000). Raymond G. Murphy, 77, American Medal of Honor recipient during the Korean War. Jeff Uren, 81, British racing driver.