We Hardly Knew Ye - People We Lost in December, 2007

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• Tab Thacker, 45, American NCAA wrestling champion, actor (Police Academy films, City Heat, Wildcats), diabetes complications.

27

• Benazir Bhutto, 54, Pakistani Opposition Leader and former Prime Minister (1988–1990, 1993–1996), assassinated.
• Steven Florio, 58, American businessman, former CEO of Condé Nast, heart attack.
• Jim Beauchamp, 68, American Major League Baseball player and coach.
• Tatiana, 4, Siberian tiger at San Francisco Zoo, mauled a visitor to death, shot.

23

• Oscar Peterson, 82, Canadian jazz pianist, kidney failure and complications from a stroke.
  

22

• Sylvan Fox, 79, American Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, complications from pneumonia.
• Leila Backman Shull, 113, American supercentenarian, seventh-oldest living person in the world.
  

21

• Carol Bly, 77, American author and poet, ovarian cancer. [74]
• Ken Hendricks, 66, American contractor and billionaire, fall from roof

20

• Gar Campbell, 64, American actor and director, cancer. [86]
• Jeanne Carmen, 77, American actress and pin-up girl, lymphoma.
• Russell Coffey, 109, American serviceman, one of three known remaining American veterans of World War I.

19

• Frank Capra, Jr., 73, American movie studio executive, son of director Frank Capra, prostate cancer.
  

18

• Jack Linkletter, 70, American television host, son of Art Linkletter, lymphoma. [102]
• Bill Strauss, 60, American writer on generations, satirist, and founder of the Capitol Steps, pancreatic cancer. [103]

16

• Dan Fogelberg, 56, American singer-songwriter ("Same Old Lang Syne"), prostate cancer.

15

• John Berg, 58, American actor, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

13

• Laura Huxley, 96, American musician and author, widow of Aldous Huxley, cancer.
• Floyd Red Crow Westerman, 71, American musician, actor (Dances With Wolves) and Native American activist, leukemia.

12

• Ike Turner, 76, American R&B musician and record producer, ex-husband of Tina Turner, emphysema.
  

10

• Emil Brenkus, 94, American jazz bassist, prostate cancer.
• Jerry Ricks, 67, American blues guitarist.

9

• Al Scaduto, 79, American cartoonist (They'll Do It Every Time).
  

5

• Jillian Kesner-Graver, 58, American actress (Happy Days), Orson Welles historian, staph infection.

4

• Chad "Pimp C" Butler, 33, American rap artist (UGK).
• David "Chip" Reese, 56, American professional poker player, heart attack.

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• Jennifer Davidson, 38, American senior vice president of programming and scheduling for Cartoon Network.