Goodbye 2007

1/8 Yvonne De Carlo, 84, Canadian-born American actress (The Ten Commandments, The Munsters), natural causes. [225]

1/9 Carlo Ponti, 94, Italian film producer, pulmonary complications. [218]

1/17 Art Buchwald, 81, American humorist and columnist, kidney failure. [144] [145]

1/22 L. M. Boyd, 79, American newspaper columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. [105]

1/23 E. Howard Hunt, 88, American Watergate scandal principal, pneumonia. [99]

1/29 Barbaro, 3, American racehorse, 2006 Kentucky Derby winner, euthanized after contracting laminitis. [21]

1/31 Molly Ivins, 62, American newspaper columnist, political commentator and author, breast cancer. [3] [4] [5]

2/28 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., 89, American historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, heart attack. [6]

3/17 Wilford "Crazy Ray" Jones, 76, American cheerleading fan of the Dallas Cowboys, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. [89]

3/19 Calvert DeForest, 85, American actor, comedian and David Letterman sidekick known as Larry "Bud" Melman. [74]

4/7 Johnny Hart, 76, American cartoonist (B.C., The Wizard of Id), stroke. [181]

4/11 Kurt Vonnegut, 84, American novelist and social critic, brain injury from a fall. [156]

4/16 Virginia Tech

Seung-Hui Cho, 23, South Korean Virginia Tech mass murderer, suicide by gunshot. [107]

Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, 49, Canadian instructor of French at Virginia Tech, homicide. [108]

Kevin Granata, 45, American associate professor of engineering at Virginia Tech, homicide. [111]

Liviu Librescu, 76, Romanian-born professor of engineering at Virginia Tech, Holocaust survivor, homicide. [114]

G. V. Loganathan, 50, Indian-born professor of engineering at Virginia Tech, homicide. [115]

4/23

Boris Yeltsin, 76, first President of the Russian Federation (1991–1999), heart failure. [55] [56]

David Halberstam, 73, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, car accident. [52]

4/30 Tom Poston, 85, American actor (Newhart). [6]

5/3 Wally Schirra, 84, American Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronaut, heart attack. [197]

5/15 Jerry Falwell, 73, American pastor, television evangelist and founder of the Moral Majority, cardiac arrhythmia. [121] [122]

5/25 Charles Nelson Reilly, 76, American Tony-winning actor and Match Game panelist, complications from pneumonia. [48]

6/2 Steve Gilliard, 42, American blogger, heart and kidney failure. [210]

6/12 Don Herbert, 89, American TV host ("Mr. Wizard"), bone cancer. [143]

6/14 Kurt Waldheim, 88, Austrian President (1986–1992), UN Sec-General (1972–1981), WWII Wehrmacht officer, heart failure. [133] [134]

7/2 Beverly Sills, 78, American opera singer, lung cancer. [225]

7/11 Lady Bird Johnson, 94, First Lady of the United States (1963–1969), natural causes. [149]

7/20 Tammy Faye Messner, 65, American evangelist, metastatic colon cancer. [89]

7/29

Tom Snyder, 71, American talk show host and journalist, complications of leukemia. [26]

Marvin Zindler, 85, American reporter, pancreatic cancer. [27]

8/12 Merv Griffin, 82, American talk show host, real estate tycoon, creator of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, prostate cancer. [155]

9/6 Luciano Pavarotti, 71, Italian operatic tenor, pancreatic cancer. [166]

9/10 Jane Wyman, 90, American Academy Award-winning actress and first wife of Ronald Reagan. [134] [135]

9/15 Colin McRae, 39, British World Rally champion, helicopter crash. [94] [95]

9/22 Marcel Marceau, 84, French mime artist. [56]

10/28 Porter Wagoner, 80, American country music singer, lung cancer. [35]

10/30

Washoe, c.42, African-born chimpanzee believed to be first non-human to acquire human language, influenza. [14]

Robert Goulet, 73, American singer and actor, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. [6] [7]

11/19 Dick Wilson, 91, British-born American actor ("Mr. Whipple"), natural causes. [110] [111]

11/27 Sean Taylor, 24, American football player (Washington Redskins), homicide by gunshot. [33]

11/30 Robert "Evel" Knievel, Jr., 69, American stunt performer. [4] [5]

12/12 Ike Turner, 76, American R&B musician and record producer, ex-husband of Tina Turner, emphysema. [175]

12/13 Laura Huxley, 96, American musician and author, widow of Aldous Huxley, cancer. [160]

12/16 Dan Fogelberg, 56, American singer-songwriter ("Same Old Lang Syne"), prostate cancer. [130]

12/27 Benazir Bhutto, 54, Pakistani Opposition Leader and former Prime Minister (1988–1990, 1993–1996), assassinated. [35]