We Hardly Knew Ye - People We Lost in March 2007

Saul Swimmer (born April 25, 1936, Uniontown, Pennsylvania; died March 3 per the Associated Press or March 7 per The Miami Herald and Variety, 2007, Miami, Florida) was an American documentary film director and producer best known for the movie The Concert for Bangladesh (1972), the George Harrison-led Madison Square Garden show that was one of the first all-star benefits in rock music. He was also a co-producer of the Beatles 1970 documentary Let It Be.


Thomas Francis Eagleton (September 4, 1929 – March 4, 2007) was a United States Senator from Missouri, serving from 1968-1987. He is best remembered for briefly being a Democratic Vice Presidential nominee, sharing the ticket under George McGovern in 1972. He was an adjunct professor of Public Affairs at Washington University for over a decade and, in his late years, taught a seminar on the Presidency and the Constitution at Saint Louis University School of Law.



Ernest Gallo (March 18, 1909 – March 6, 2007) was the American co-founder of the E & J Gallo Winery, which recently changed its name to Gallo Family Vineyards. He was ranked 297th on the 2006 Forbes 400 list of billionaires.


Frederick John Inman (28 June 1935 – 8 March 2007) was an English actor who was best known for his role as Mr. Humphries in the British sitcom Are You Being Served? in the 1970s and 1980s. Inman was also well known in the United Kingdom as a pantomime dame.









Bradley E. Delp (June 12, 1951 – March 9, 2007) was an American musician best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Boston.






Lanna Saunders (December 22, 1941 in New York City — March 10, 2007 in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California) was an American actress, best known for her role as Marie Horton on the television soap opera Days of our Lives, on which she appeared from 1979 to 1985.

Richard John Colangelo (April 14, 1957^[1] – March 10, 2007), better known by the stage name of Richard Jeni,^[2] was an American stand-up comedian and actor


Betty Hutton (born Elizabeth June Thornburg, February 26, 1921 – March 11, 2007^[1]) was an American film actress and singer.

Stuart Rosenberg (August 11, 1927 – March 15, 2007) was an American film and television director whose notable works included the movies Cool Hand Luke (1967), Voyage of the Damned (1976), The Amityville Horror (1979), and The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984).

Charles Voyde Harrelson (July 23, 1938 – March 15, 2007^[1][2]) was an American freelance hitman connected with organized crime and was convicted of assassinating a federal judge. He was the father of actor Woody Harrelson^[1].

Luther Thomas Ingram (November 30, 1937 — March 19, 2007) was an R&B soul singer and songwriter.

Calvert DeForest (July 23, 1921 – March 19, 2007), also known by his character Larry "Bud" Melman, was an American actor and comedian, best known for his appearances on Late Night with David Letterman and the Late Show with David Letterman.









Dr. Walter Turnbull (19 July 1944 in Greenville, Mississippi – 23 March 2007) was an African American musician and the founder of the Boys Choir of Harlem. Turnbull graduated from Tougaloo College where he studied classical music and vocal performance.

Charlotte Louise Berry Winters (November 10, 1897 - March 27, 2007) was the last surviving female American veteran of The First World War.

Leslie Elson Waller (April 1, 1923—March 29, 2007), author, the son of Ukrainian immigrants, was born in Chicago, Illinois. He suffered from amblyopia and poliomyelitis as a child, but graduated from Hyde Park High School by the age of 16. He was interested in writing from an early age, and became a police reporter before he went to Wilson Junior College.
His organized crime trilogy, The Banker, The Family and The American garnered recognition, landing the last title on The New York Times bestseller list. Waller became known as a go-to man for novelizations and produced the novels for Dog Day Afternoon (under the pseudonym Patrick Mann), Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Hide in Plain Sight.