The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2007. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference. October 2007 1 Bernard Delaire, 108, French Naval veteran of World War I, one of the last six identified. Bruce Hay, 57, British rugby player for Britain and Scotland, brain tumour. Ronnie Hazlehurst, 79, British theme song composer (Are You Being Served?) and jazz musician, stroke. Israel Kugler, 90, American labor leader and professor, pneumonia. Harry Lee, 75, American politician, Sheriff of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, leukemia. Chris Mainwaring, 41, Australian footballer (West Coast Eagles), television and radio sports journalist. Peggy Maley, 84, American actress. James A. Martin, 105, American Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, world's oldest Jesuit, pneumonia. Al Oerter, 71, American athlete and Olympic gold medallist in discus (1956, 1960, 1964 and 1968), heart failure. Tetsuo Okamoto, 75, Brazilian swimmer and Brazil's first Olympic swimming medallist (1952), respiratory failure. Pedro Saúl Pérez, 54, Dominican advocate for the rights of Dominican immigrants in Puerto Rico, heart attack. Ned Sherrin, 76, British broadcaster and theatre producer, throat cancer. Ralph W. Sturges, 88, American Mohegan tribal chief. Henry Wells, 92, American expert on Latin American politics, professor and author, complications from Alzheimer's disease. 2 Frederick Bayer, 85, American emeritus curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, heart failure. DeWitt "Tex" Coulter, 82, American National and Canadian Football League player. Gianni Danzi, 67, Italian Archbishop of the Territorial Prelature of Loreto. Elfi von Dassanowsky, 83, Austrian opera singer, actress and film producer. Christopher Derrick, 86, British writer. Šime Đodan, 79, Croatian parliamentarian, defence minister (1991). Gary Franklin, 79, American film critic, KABC-TV (Los Angeles). Richard Goldwater, 71, American president of Archie Comics, creator of Josie and the Pussycats, cancer. George Grizzard, 79, American actor, lung cancer. Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, 94, Greek former Princess of Greece, last surviving great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Dan Keating, 105, Irish republican activist, last surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence. J. Edward Lundy, 92, American automobile executive (Ford Motor Co.). Tawn Mastrey, 53, American radio disc jockey (KNAC), hepatitis C. James Michaels, 86, American editor of Forbes (1961–1999), pneumonia. *José Antonio Ríos Granados, 48, Mexican politician, mayor of Tultitlán (2000–2003),