Notable deaths in 2007

These are some of the people (and two horses) whose deaths this year occasioned at least a passing thought on my part (in no particular order):

• Molly Ivins



• Benazir Bhutto



• Jon Lundin



• Barbaro



• Ian Richardson



• Kurt Vonnegut



• Fr. Robert Drinan



• Lorne "Gump" Worsley



• Eleanor McGovern



• Dan Fogelberg



• Norman Mailer



• Anna Nicole Smith



• Donnie Brooks



• Jack Lang



• Charlotte Reid



• E. Howard Hunt



• Denny Doherty



• Art Buchwald



• Lew Burdette



• Hank Bauer



• Ron Carey



• Richard S. Prather



• Benny Parsons



• Carlo Ponti



• Frankie Laine



• Del Reeves



• Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.



• Bobby Rosengarden



• Henson Cargill



• Ed Bailey



• Calvert DeForest (Larry "Bud" Melman)



• Luther Ingram



• Charles Harrelson



• Henry Hyde



• Bowie Kuhn



• Betty Hutton



• Ernie Ladd



• John Vukovich



• Ernest Gallo



• John Drury



• Boris Yeltsin



• Bill Hartack



• Milo Radulovich



• Dick Wilson



• Joe Nuxhall



• Ronnie Burns



• Clem Labine



• Tom Poston



• Gordon Scott



• Tommy Newsom



• Jack Valenti



• Bobby "Boris" Pickett



• David Halberstam



• Ike Turner



• Donald Stephens



• Kitty Carlisle Hart



• Don Ho



• Roscoe Lee Browne



• Dakota Staton



• Johnny Hart



• Barry Nelson



• Oscar Peterson



• Stan Daniels



• Darryl Stingley



• Eddie Robinson



• Gretchen Wyler



• Michael Kidd



• Charles Nelson Reilly



• Jerry Falwell



• Ken Hendricks



• Yolanda King



• Alex Agase



• Wally Schirra



• Liz Claiborne



• Rod Beck



• Guy Vander Jagt



• Bob Evans



• Kurt Waldheim



• Don Herbert



• Mala Powers



• Clete Boyer



• Jim Clark



• Bill France Jr.



• Steve Gilliard



• Michelangelo Antonioni



• Ingmar Bergman



• Bill Walsh



• Tom Snyder



• Tammy Faye Messner



• Lady Bird Johnson



• Rod Lauren



• Boots Randolph



• Beverly Sills



• Jack Linkletter



• Gay Brewer



• Richard Jewell



• Chuck Comiskey



• Leona Helmsley



• Michael Deaver



• Phil Rizzuto



• Merv Griffin



• Lee Hazlewood



• Ed Brown



• Tommy Makem



• Alice Ghostley



• Robert Goulet



• Max McGee



• Evel Knievel



• Joey Bishop



• Deborah Kerr



• John Henry



• Laraine Day



• Hank Thompson



• Paul Tibbets



• Terry Armour