2007 in Iraq - Notable Deaths

Notable Deaths

• January 15 – Awad Hamed al-Bandar, 61, former chief judge of Iraq, execution by hanging.
• January 15 – Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, 55, half-brother of Saddam Hussein, former leader of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, execution by hanging.
• February 20 – Ihab Kareem, 26, Iraqi footballer, bombing.
• March 14 – Sa'dun Hammadi, 76, Iraqi Prime Minister (1991), leukemia.
• March 20 – Taha Yassin Ramadan (born 1938), Iraqi vice president of Saddam Hussein, executed by hanging
• April 12 – Mohammed Awad, member of Iraqi Parliament, killed by a suicide bomber during the 2007 Iraqi Parliament bombing
• May 26 – Khalil al-Zahawi, 60/61, Iraqi calligrapher, shot.
• June 7 – Sahar Hussein al-Haideri, 44, Iraqi journalist, shot.
• June 17 – Jamal Abdul Karim al-Dabban, 68, Iraqi Sunni religious leader, heart attack.
• June 20 – Nazik Al-Malaika, 84, Iraqi poet, old age.
• June 26 – Fasal al Gaood, Iraqi former governor of Al Anbar, Sunni tribal sheikh prominent in alliance against Al Qaeda, suicide bomb victim.
• July 12 – Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen, two Reuters news staff, were killed in the July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike (associated with WikiLeaks in 2010)
• July 13 – Khalid Hassan, 23, Iraqi reporter for The New York Times, shot.
• August 2 – Haitham al-Badri, Iraqi al Qaeda emir of Salahuddin province and Golden Dome bomber, airstrike.
• August 24 – Abdul Rahman Arif, 91, Iraqi politician, President of Iraq (1966–1968).
• September 13 – Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, 35, Iraqi leader of the Anbar Salvation Council, bomb.
• September 19 – Bassem Hamad al-Dawiri, 34, Iraqi sculptor, replaced Saddam Hussein statue toppled during 2003 invasion of Iraq, car accident.
• October 14 – Salih Saif Aldin, 32, Iraqi correspondent for The Washington Post, shot.
• October 22 – Sargon Boulus, 63, Iraqi poet.
• December 1 – Rassim al-Jumaili (born 1938), Iraqi comedian and actor, kidney failure.