John Gardner (80) prolific British thriller writer who wrote more novels about Bond—James Bond—than Bond creator Ian Fleming did. A former Anglican priest, Gardner wrote four dozen books in a career of more than 40 years. He was best known for the 14 Bond novels he wrote in the '80s and '90s, which officially continued Fleming's work. Gardner died of heart failure after collapsing near his home in Basingstoke, England on August 3, 2007.

Walter Oppenheimer (92) art collector and philanthropist who cofounded Helga, a line of women's special-occasion clothing. With his wife Helga (d. 2003) as designer of suits, dresses, and evening clothes sold in specialty stores, Oppenheimer launched Helga Inc. in 1947. He managed the business until the couple sold it in 1986. Oppenheimer died of heart disease in Los Angeles, California on August 1, 2007.

Norman Cohn (92) British historian who influenced a generation of historians and social scientists with his insight that totalitarian ideologies of the 20th century, chiefly Communism and Nazism, were propelled by mythologies associated with medieval apocalyptic movements. Cohn died of a degenerative heart condition in Cambridge, England on July 31, 2007.

Raul Hilberg (81) renowned Holocaust scholar, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Vermont. Hilberg wrote The Destruction of the European Jews (1961), a landmark study of the Nazi killings of more than 5 million Jews. He died of lung cancer, although he never smoked, in Williston, Vermont on August 4, 2007.

Leonard Lief (83) first president of Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York. Lief was named president of Lehman, formerly known as Hunter-in-the-Bronx, in 1968, the year the college was established as a separate entity from Hunter College, and retired in '90. During his tenure, a performing arts center, a library, an art gallery, and a new classroom building were either built or planned. He died of Parkinson's disease in New Rochelle, New York on July 30, 2007.

Norman A. Wiggins (83) chancellor and retired president of Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina. Wiggins was president of the private, Baptist-affiliated university for 36 years before he retired in 2003. As a legal scholar, he wrote three books on wills, trusts, and estates. He died of lymphoma in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on August 1, 2007.

Jacob Adams (40) caretaker allegedly mauled to death by four dogs, three bull mastiffs and one English bulldog owned by Hollywood actor Ving Rhames. Investigators found Adams' body on the front lawn of Rhames's residence and believed he had suffered "massive injuries" from dog mauling. At the time, Rhames was out of the country filming a movie. Adams died in Los Angeles, California on August 3, 2007.

Michelangelo Antonioni (94) Italian film director whose depiction of the emotional alienation of Italy's postwar generation made him a symbol of art-house cinema with movies such as Blow-Up and L'Avventura. Antonioni depicted alienation in the modern world through sparse dialogue and long takes. Along with Federico Fellini, he helped to turn postwar Italian film away from the Neorealism movement and toward a personal cinema of imagination. Many audiences found his pictures, with their long lingering shots, plodding and pretentious. Others hailed him as one of the founding fathers of European avant-garde cinema. He continued working after suffering a paralyzing stroke in 1983. He died in Rome, Italy on July 30, 2007.

Chauncey Bailey (57) outspoken editor of a prominent black newspaper. In June, Bailey was named editor of the Oakland Post, a weekly with a circulation of about 60,000 that covers issues involving blacks. He was killed on a downtown street in an attack the police described as "targeted." He was shot multiple times at close range while walking in an open-air parking lot just three blocks from the Alameda County Courthouse and several city buildings, in Oakland, California on August 2, 2007.

Ingmar Bergman (89) legendary Swedish film director who influenced a generation of filmmakers with his often stark works on themes of mortality and sexual torment. Bergman was famed for films such as Wild Strawberries, Scenes from a Marriage, and Fanny & Alexander—a classic that won four Oscars—which brought Sweden a reputation for melancholy but made the director an acknowledged master of modern cinema. His work encompassed 54 films, 126 theater productions, and 39 radio plays. His cinematic masterpieces often dwelt on sexual confusion, loneliness, and the vain search for the meaning of life—themes he ascribed to a traumatic childhood during which he was beaten by his father, a Lutheran minister. Bergman died on the small island of Faro, on the Baltic coast of Sweden, on July 30, 2007.

Trevor Butler (28) bassist for the Brooklyn-based indie rock band Bottom of the Hudson. The band had recorded three albums, including the recently released Fantastic Hawk (2007). Butler was killed in a van accident near Clinton, North Carolina on July 29, 2007.

James T. ("Jimmy") Callahan (76) character actor best known for playing the cranky grandfather on TV's Charles in Charge (1987-90), which starred Scott Baio in the title role. Callahan appeared in more than 120 films and TV shows (1959-2007), including NBC-TV's Dr. Kildare in the early '60s and as the bandleader in Lady Sings the Blues (1972). Diagnosed with esophageal cancer in February, he died in Fallbrook, California on August 3, 2007.

Chet Currier (62) financial writer whose stock market and investing stories were fixtures in newspapers across the US over a 29-year career at the Associated Press. A prolific writer, Currier for years reported the Wall Street story as it developed throughout the trading day, also turning out three weekly columns on the markets and personal finance. He also turned a passion for crossword puzzles into a side career, creating more than 1,000 Sunday-size puzzles for the AP over 20 years. He died of prostate cancer in Santa Monica, California on July 29, 2007.

Art Davis (73) renowned double bassist who played with John Coltrane and other jazz greats. Davis played classical music with the New York Philharmonic; was a member of the NBC, Westinghouse, and CBS orchestras; and played with the pit orchestras of Broadway shows. He was blacklisted in the '70s for speaking up about racism in the music industry, then later earned a doctorate in clinical psychology and balanced performance dates with patients' appointments. He died of a heart attack in Long Beach, California on July 29, 2007.

Phil Drabble (93) Briton who came to fame presenting BBC2's sheepdog trials TV program One Man & His Dog (1976-93), a series based on the guaranteed stupidity of sheep. The program became a surprise hit, attracting peak-time audiences of 6 million and making Drabble, with his tweeds and flat cap, a cult hero. He died in Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire, England on July 29, 2007.

Beryl Denzer Hines (84) Cold War journalist who landed the first US TV interview with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, in 1955, among other scoops. Hines also got the first interview with US Rep. Alvin M. Bentley (R-Mich.) after he and four other congressman were shot on the House floor by Puerto Rican nationalists in 1954. In 1957 she played a role in landing the first unrestricted interview by American correspondents with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. She died of cancer in Washington, DC on July 30, 2007.

Robert E. ("Bob") Huber (76) New Mexico journalist and humor columnist, one of two people taken hostage during the 1967 armed assault on the Rio Arriba County courthouse. Working for United Press International during the '60s, Huber covered the courthouse raid led by land grant activist Reies Lopez Tijerina in Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico on June 5, 1967. Tijerina and his followers, attempting a citizen's arrest of the district attorney, shot and wounded a state police officer and jailer, beat a deputy, and took Huber and the sheriff hostage. Both escaped, and Tijerina spent about three years in prison. Huber died in Portales, New Mexico on August 3, 2007.

Peter James (??) psychic perhaps best known for his regular appearances on the TV show Sightings. James also performed hundreds of investigations on the haunted Queen Mary at Long Beach. He died after a long fight with multiple health problems in Long Beach, California on July 31, 2007.

Brett Lykins (27) Georgia man whose fight against AIDS made him a national celebrity. Lykins attended the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation charity picnic annually and met Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman, Mel Gibson, Magic Johnson, and Shaquille O'Neal. He contracted the HIV virus from the life-saving blood transfusion he'd received after his premature birth. He later became youth spokesperson for AIDS Walk Atlanta (1991-2002), had carried the Olympic torch during the 1996 relay, and volunteered for the NAMES Project. He died of AIDS in Duluth, Georgia on August 1, 2007.

Tommy Makem (74) Irish singer, songwriter, and storyteller who teamed with the Clancy Brothers to become stars during the folk music boom. The Irish-born Makem, who came to America in the '50s to seek work as an actor, grew to international fame while performing with the band The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem. The brothers, also from Ireland, were Tom (d. 1990), Liam, and Paddy Clancy (d. 1998). Makem died of lung cancer in Dover, New Hampshire on Aug. 1, 2007.

Oliver ("Ollie") Morgan (74) New Orleans rhythm and blues vocalist best known for his 1964 hit "Who Shot the La La," a whimsical take on the mysterious '63 drug overdose death of singer Lawrence ("Prince La La") Nelson. After Hurrican Katrina destroyed his home, Morgan moved to Atlanta. He suffered a heart attack about two weeks ago and died in Atlanta, Georgia on July 31, 2007.

Louis Moyse (94) flutist, composer, and founder of the Marlboro (Vt.) Music School & Festival, a summer program that brings talented young musicians to play as equals with top-flight professionals and has for decades exerted a profound influence on chamber music. A son of renowned flutist Marcel Moyse, Louis Moyse died of heart failure in Barre, Vermont on July 30, 2007.

Weekly World News (28) supermarket tabloid. The Weekly World News had long specialized in the sensational and weird—Elvis sightings, UFO abductions, the continuing adventures of Bat Boy—and in attention-grabbing headlines like "Garden of Eden Found: Original Apple Recovered!" and "Grossed-out Surgeon Throws Up Inside Patient." But its circulation began to lag as competitors turned to full color (the News remained defiantly black and white) and to celebrity news. Although its web site survives, the tabloid's last hard-copy issue was published in New York City on August 3, 2007.

Mike Reid (67) British stand-up comic turned soap star, best known as Frank Butcher, the unscrupulous car salesman and landlord of the Queen Vic on BBC-TV's EastEnders. Drawing on an early career as a petty criminal and one-time friendship with the notorious Kray twins, Reid brought much of himself to the role. He died of a heart attack in Marbella, Spain on July 29, 2007.

Frank Rosenfelt (85) former head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio for financier Kirk Kerkorian during the '70s and early '80s. Rosenfelt joined MGM in 1955 as a lawyer, becoming general counsel in '69. He had a hand in numerous popular films, including 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and The Sunshine Boys (1975) and was credited with securing the movie rights to the film Doctor Zhivago (1965). Another of his projects was Network (1976), the daring, prophetic look at the TV industry. Rosenfelt died in Los Angeles, California on August 2, 2007.

Michel Serrault (79) French actor whose hit performance as flamboyant gay nightclub owner Albin Mougeotte, also known as Zaza Napoli, in the theater and film versions of the mega-hit La cage aux folles (The Birdcage) catapulted him to international stardom. Serrault appeared in more than 130 films during a career that spanned half a century. He died of cancer in the northwestern French city of Honfleur on July 29, 2007.

Tom Snyder (71) pioneer of the late-late network TV talk show with an abrasive style, a robust laugh, and a cloud of cigarette smoke. Snyder conducted numerous memorable interviews as host of NBC's Tomorrow, which followed Johnny Carson's Tonight show (1973-82). His idiosyncratic interviewing style bemused and annoyed late-night TV viewers over 30 years. Frequent digressions into his personal life and the habit of laughing gustily at his own jokes shared with an unseen crew made him as much the center of attention as his guests. He died of leukemia in San Francisco, California on July 29, 2007

Eric Wishnie (44) Emmy-winning former TV producer who worked with Tom Brokaw at NBC News. Wishnie produced stories for Brokaw in the Middle East, along with coverage of the Olympic Games in Athens, Sydney, and Atlanta and the first North American interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He died after falling from his apartment building in New York City on July 30, 2007.

Marvin Zindler (85) flamboyant Houston TV consumer reporter whose crusade against a rural brothel inspired the musical play and movie The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, a 1978 Broadway smash that propelled Zindler to national renown. He liked the play but hated the 1982 Burt Reynolds-Dolly Parton movie of the same title, in which Dom DeLuise played him over the top. Always seen in a powder-white toupee, colorful suits, and colored glasses, Zindler also was a proud veteran of more cosmetic surgeries than he could count. He died of pancreatic cancer in Houston, Texas on July 29, 2007.

Michael Chavez (61) Concord (Calif.) hair stylist to local elected officials who himself became a politician. Owner of the Charisma Salon in Concord, Chavez was elected in November 2006 to his first term on the City Council. His biggest priorities centered on parks and open space. Chavez died after suffering a heart attack during a morning council meeting attended by more than 200 people and broadcast live over local TV, in Concord, California on August 4, 2007.

Holden Roberto (84) one of the fathers of Angola's independence after centuries of Portuguese rule. Roberto formed Angola's first nationalist movement, known as FNLA in the '60s. In April 1975, Roberto and the leaders of two other political parties signed peace accords with Portugal that led to Angola's independence that same year. But fighting erupted, and the country was devastated by a 27-year civil war between two political factions, in which about 500,000 people were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced. Roberto died of cardiac arrest in Luanda, Angola on August 2, 2007.

Peter Vernon-Ward (86) former British prisoner of war captured by the Nazis in 1940 along with 1,000 other men and sent to concentration camps in Poland during Hitler's regime. Vernon-Ward had suffered from a series of debilitating injuries for 67 years after being tortured by the Nazis during World War II. He died of complications of those injuries in Hassocks, West Sussex, England on July 29, 2007.

Kafeel Ahmed (27) Indian immigrant, one of the two men held at the Glasgow International Airport after the attack on June 30. Kafeel and his brother, Sabeel, were charged in connection with the attempted car bombings in London and Glasgow, when the pair allegedly drove a Jeep laden with gas canisters into the airport terminal. Kafeel Ahmed had been suffering from severe burns and was later hospitalized. He died of those burns at a hospital in Glasgow, Scotland on August 2, 2007.

Lee Andrade (47) bass player who performed with vocalist Sarah (51) and guitarist Terry Penney (59) at music gigs in and around Kerrville, Texas. Andrade played in a classic rock and blues band and was an animal control officer and a lieutenant with the Ingram Volunteer Fire Department for the past five years. He was killed with the Penneys in a head-on collision with suspected drunk driver Rogelio Palacios (18) on Highway 173 in Kerrville, Texas on August 1, 2007.

Sergei Antonov (59) Bulgarian implicated in the attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981. Italy had accused Antonov, formerly a Rome-based representative of Bulgaria’s Balkan Airlines, of complicity with Turkish gunman Ahmet Ali Agca, who shot and wounded the Pope in Rome in May 1981. Antonov was arrested in 1982 but was acquitted for lack of evidence in '86. He was found dead in his apartment, of apparent natural causes, in Sofia, Bulgaria on August 1, 2007.

José Miguel Battle Sr. (77) reputed godfather of one of the country's largest Hispanic organized crime groups. Authorities believed that Battle was boss of "The Corporation," a crime ring that authorities said operated in New York, Florida, and Latin America. In a federal racketeering trial in 2006, Battle and five others were accused of committing five murders, four arson attacks resulting in eight deaths, and more than $1.5 billion collected from drug trafficking, bookmaking, and numbers rackets. Battle pleaded guilty because of his health problems. He had been released on a $1 million bond and was awaiting a spot in a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility that could handle his medical needs. He died at a medical facility in South Carolina, where he was receiving kidney dialysis, on August 3, 2007.

Austin Haley (5) Oklahoma boy struck by a stray bullet from the guns of two police officers while fishing with his grandfather near an isolated pond. Police were investigating a call about a snake in the vicinity. Haley died in Noble, Oklahoma on August 3, 2007.

Ayatollah Ali Meshkini (85) founding member of Iran's Islamic regime and leader of an important government assembly. The top-ranking Shiite Muslim cleric was head of the Assembly of Experts, an 86-member government body that can in theory reprimand or even dismiss Iran's supreme leader, a position currently held by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Meshkini died of a lung infection in a Tehran, Iran hospital, where he had been receiving treatment all month, on July 30, 2007.

Rogelio Palacios (18) suspected drunk driver who collided head-on with a van on Texas Highway 173, killing three well-known musicians, lead guitarist Terry Penney (59), his wife Sarah Penney (51), and bass player Lee Andrade (47), all passengers, who were returning home after a performance. Palacios was also killed in the accident in Kerrville, Texas on August 1, 2007.

Sarah & Terry Penney (51, 59) Kerrville, Texas vocalist and guitarist who performed together with different bands in the area. Sarah Penney had also worked at the Dietert Claim Senior Citizen Center as a pastry chef for three years. Terry was a cosmetologist employed with Sanchez Barber Shop in Kerrville. As a musician, he played guitar with many different bands and was well known as a performer. The couple were killed with bassist Lee Andrade (47) in a head-on collision with suspected drunk driver Rogelio Palacios (18) on Highway 173 in Kerrville, Texas on August 1, 2007.

Chris Schwarz (59) London-born free-lance photographer who roamed the ancient heartland of Polish Jewry to record remnants of a vanished people, then opened a museum to celebrate their cultural heritage. Before the Holocaust, Poland had the largest Jewish population in Europe, about 3.5 million; more than 3 million were killed by the Nazis. Schwarz photographed Jewish graveyards in the countryside, synagogues being used as garages, and crumbling Hasidic schools. At his Galicia Jewish Museum, the main exhibition consists of 150 of his photographs. He died of cancer in Krakow, Poland on July 29, 2007.

Shim Sung-min (29) member of a Protestant Christian volunteering group in South Korea, one of 23 aid workers held hostage by the Taliban in a public bus traveling to Kabul, Afghanistan. A Taliban spokesperson later claimed that another male hostage had been shot dead because the government had not acceded to the group's demands. Shim was found shot to death in Arzoo, Afghanistan on July 30, 2007.

Patriarch Teoctist (92) head of the Romanian Orthodox Church, a man who made history when he invited the late Pope John Paul II to his Orthodox country in 1999. It was the first invitation extended by an Orthodox Church leader to a Catholic pope since the churches split in the Great Schism of 1054. In 1989, anti-Communist protesters said Teoctist had been too conciliatory toward former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu because he refused to condemn Ceausescu's destruction of Orthodox churches in Bucharest. Teoctist died of a heart attack after surgery on his prostate, in Bucharest, Romania on July 30, 2007.

Donald Webb Jr. (48) Maryland prison guard being sought for the murder of his wife, Cynthia Webb (42). Authorities believed Webb shot his wife several times and killed her during a dispute on July 27. He also allegedly shot and critically wounded his 13-year-old stepson. Webb was found dead, an apparent suicide by gunshot, in his parked truck near Watertown, New York on July 30, 2007.

Giuseppe Baldo (93) last survivor of the Italian team that won the gold medal in soccer at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Baldo was a midfielder on the Azzurri squad that beat Austria 2-1 in extra time in the Olympic final. He also played seven seasons for Lazio in the Italian league. He died in Rome, Italy on July 31, 2007.

Ed Brown (78) former NFL quarterback and a leader of the University of San Francisco's undefeated 1951 team. Brown played 12 NFL seasons, including eight with the Chicago Bears and nearly four more with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was the Bears' starting quarterback (1955-59), playing in the 1956 NFL title game and earning a spot in two Pro Bowls while also serving as Chicago's punter. He died of prostate cancer in Kennewick, Washington on August 2, 2007.

Jim David (79) six-time Pro Bowl defensive back who won three National Football League championships as a starter with the Detroit Lions (1952-53, '57). David went into coaching after retiring and returned to Detroit in 1967 as defensive coordinator after stints with the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco. He died in Allen Park, Michigan on July 29, 2007.

Bill Ireland (80) first football coach at what is now the University of Nevada/Las Vegas who later became athletic director and hired Jerry Tarkanian as basketball coach. Ireland compiled an overall record of 26-23-1 before becoming athletic director in 1973. Over the next seven years he helped the campus move up to the elite Division I status in football, oversaw the creation of a womenÕs sports program, and pushed for the construction of Sam Boyd Stadium for football and the Thomas & Mack Center for basketball and other indoor events. He died in Reno, Nevada on July 31, 2007.

Veikko Karvonen (81) Finnish distance runner who ranked as one of the greatest marathoners in track and field history and won a bronze medal at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. Karvonen ran 34 marathons and won 14. He won the Boston Marathon in 1954 and finished second twice (1953, ’57), during a stretch when Finnish runners won the race six times (1954–62). He died in Turku, Finland on August 1, 2007.

Mary Murphy (89) water ski enthusiast who set age and endurance records in 2002 when she rode a hydrofoil ski from Long Beach to Catalina and back when she was 84. Murphy's family, including her husband, Nick, and their four children, started water-skiing together at lakes and off the coast of southern California in the '50s. When Mary was in her mid-70s, her son Mike taught her to ski on a hydrofoil. She died of colon cancer and Alzheimer's disease in Stanton, California on August 2, 2007.

Bill Robinson (64) longtime outfielder who played with the Pittsburgh Pirates' 1979 World Series champions and was batting coach for World Series winners with the Mets and Florida Marlins. A minor league hitting coordinator for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Robinson was found dead in his hotel room while visiting the team's Pacific Coast League farm club in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 29, 2007.

Bill Walsh (75) groundbreaking football coach who won three Super Bowls (1982, '85, '89) and perfected the ingenious schemes that became known as the West Coast offense during a Hall of Fame career with the San Francisco '49ers. Walsh went 102-63-1 with the '49ers, winning 10 of his 14 postseason games along with six division titles. He left an indelible mark on the US's most popular sport, building the once-woebegone '49ers into the most successful team of the '80s with his innovative offensive strategies and teaching techniques. He died of leukemia in Woodside, California on July 30, 2007.