2007 Year In Review
Tributes to the 52 most notable deaths in 2007
Week 1
Bobby Hamilton »
NASCAR driver
DIED: January 7, 2007
Bobby Hamilton, the longtime NASCAR driver who won the 2001 Talladega 500 and was the 2004 Craftsman Truck Series champion, died Sunday of cancer, said Liz Allison, a family friend who co-hosted a radio show with Hamilton. He was 49. Hamilton was at home with his family when he died, said Allison...
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Bobby Hamilton - NASCAR driver
May 29, 1957 - January 7, 2007 Week 1Bobby Hamilton, the longtime NASCAR driver who won the 2001 Talladega 500 and was the 2004 Craftsman Truck Series champion, died Sunday of cancer, said Liz Allison, a family friend who co-hosted a radio show with Hamilton. He was 49. Hamilton was at home with his family when he died, said Allison...
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Yvonne De Carlo - Actress
September 1, 1922 - January 8, 2007 Week 2Yvonne De Carlo, the beautiful star who achieved her greatest popularity on TV's slapstick comedy "The Munsters," has died. She was 84. De Carlo died of natural causes Monday at the Motion Picture & Television facility in suburban Woodland Hills, California, longtime friend and television produce...
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Art Buchwald - Journalist
October 20, 1925 - January 17, 2007 Week 3Art Buchwald, the Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist, made a career out of skewering Washington's elite, then won even wider fame when he chose to let himself die rather than fight for every ounce of life. Now he has had the last laugh. Buchwald died of kidney failure at home Wednesday, surrounded ...
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Emiliano Mercado Del Toro - World's oldest person
November 22, 1892 - January 24, 2007 Week 4Emiliano Mercado del Toro was born when Puerto Rico was still a Spanish colony and trained as a soldier the year World War I ended. On Wednesday, having spent just a month as the world's oldest person, he died at his home on the northern coast of Puerto Rico, his grandniece, Dolores Martinez told...
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Barbaro - Race horse
April 29, 2003 - January 29, 2007 Week 5Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro was euthanized Monday after complications from his gruesome breakdown at last year's Preakness, ending an eight-month ordeal that prompted an outpouring of support across the country. "We just reached a point where it was going to be difficult for him to go on withou...
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Anna Nicole Smith - Actress
November 28, 1967 - February 8, 2007 Week 6HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) - Anna Nicole Smith, the pneumatic blonde whose life played out as an extraordinary tabloid tale -- Playboy centerfold, jeans model, bride of an octogenarian oil tycoon, reality-show subject, tragic mother -- died Thursday after collapsing at a hotel. She was 39. She was stri...
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Barbara Gittings - Gay rights activist
July 31, 1932 - February 18, 2007 Week 7Barbara Gittings, a gay rights activist since the late 1950s, died Sunday. She was 74. Gittings died after a lengthy fight with breast cancer, said Mark Segal, a friend and the publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News. Gittings helped organize the New York City chapter of the Daughters of Biliti...
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Dennis Johnson - Basketball player
September 18, 1954 - February 22, 2007 Week 8Dennis Johnson, the star NBA guard who was part of three championship teams and combined with Larry Bird in one of the great postseason plays, died Thursday after collapsing at the end of practice. He was 52. Johnson, coach of the Austin Toros of the NBA Development League, was unconscious and in...
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Arthur Schlesinger - Historian
October 15, 1917 - February 28, 2007 Week 9In his 89 years, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. was a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a Kennedy insider, and an influential thinker who helped define mainstream liberalism during the Cold War. "(He had) enormous stamina and a kind of energy and drive which most people don't have, and it kept him goi...
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Thomas Eagleton - Senator
September 4, 1929 - March 5, 2007 Week 10Former U.S. Sen. Thomas Eagleton, who resigned as a vice presidential nominee in 1972 after it was revealed he had been hospitalized for depression, died Sunday, according to the office of Sen. Claire McCaskill. The cause of death was not disclosed. Eagleton, 77, had suffered from a variety of il...
