Deaths in January 2007

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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2007.

January 2007

1

• A.I. Bezzerides, 98, Turkish-American novelist and screenwriter, injuries from a fall.
• Leonard Fraser, 55, Australian serial killer, heart attack.
• Julius Hegyi, 83, American conductor, Alzheimer's disease.
• Tad Jones, 54, American jazz music historian, complications from a fall.
• Ernie Koy, 97, American baseball player, in his sleep.
• Roland Levinsky, 63, South African medical scientist, Plymouth University Vice Chancellor, electric shock induced heart attack.
• Tillie Olsen, 94, American writer, natural causes.
• Del Reeves, 74, American country singer, emphysema.
• Eleonore Schoenfeld, 81, Slovenian-born cellist and teacher at USC Thornton School of Music, heart attack.
• Darrent Williams, 24, American NFL player (Denver Broncos), drive-by shooting.

2

• Garry Betty, 49, American CEO of Earthlink, adrenocortical carcinoma.
• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, 65, American historian, complications from surgery.
• Sergio Jiménez, 69, Mexican actor, heart attack.
• Mauno Jokipii, 82, Finnish professor and World War II researcher, natural causes. (Finnish)
• Teddy Kollek, 95, Israeli Mayor of Jerusalem (1965–1993), natural causes.
• Don Massengale, 69, American PGA Tour golf player, heart attack.
• Richard Newton, 55, Australian-born technology pioneer and professor at University of California, Berkeley, pancreatic cancer.
• Paek Nam-sun, 78, North Korean Foreign Affairs minister, lung cancer.
• David Perkins, 87, American Stanford University geneticist, after short illness.
• Dan Shaver, 56, American NASCAR driver and ARCA race car driver/owner, cancer.
• Robert C. Solomon, 64, American scholar of continental philosophy.

3

• Annibale Ciarniello, 106, Italian World War I veteran. (Italian)
• Janos Furst, 71, Hungarian-born orchestral conductor, cancer.
• William Jencks, 79, American biochemist.
• Jim Mooney, 83, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly (1976–1979).
• Earl Reibel, 76, Canadian ice hockey forward (Detroit Red Wings), 1956 Lady Byng Trophy winner, complications of stroke.
• Calvin William Verity Jr., 89, United States Secretary of Commerce (1987–1989), complications from pneumonia.
• Sir Cecil Walker, 82, Ulster Unionist MP for North Belfast (1983–2001), heart attack.
• Michael Yeats, 85, Irish Fianna Fáil senator (1961–1981) and son of W. B. Yeats.

4

• Juma Jamaldin Akukweti, 59, Tanzanian MP for Chama Cha Mapinduzi (1990–2007), injuries from plane crash.
• Nikki Bacharach, 40, American daughter of Angie Dickinson and Burt Bacharach, suicide by asphyxia.
• Ben Gannon, 54, Australian theatre, film and television producer, cancer.
• Helen Hill, 36, American independent film-maker, shot.
• Sir Lewis Hodges, 88, British Air Chief Marshal.
• Grenfell (Gren) Jones, 72, British newspaper cartoonist.
• Steve Krantz, 83, American film and TV producer (Fritz the Cat), husband of Judith Krantz, complications of pneumonia.
• Bob Milliken, 80, American Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher (1953–1954), cardiac arrest.
• Gáspár Nagy, 57, Hungarian poet and writer
• Sandro Salvadore, 67, Italian footballer, heart attack.
• Jan Schröder, 65, Dutch cyclist. (Dutch)
• Marais Viljoen, 91, South African president (1979–1984), heart failure.

5

• Momofuku Ando, 96, Taiwanese-born inventor of Nissin instant ramen noodles including the Cup Noodle, heart failure.
• E. J. Hughes, 93, Canadian painter, heart failure.
• Chih Ree Sun, 83, Chinese-American physicist and poet, kidney and lung cancer.
• Francis Sullivan, 89, Canadian Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) ice hockey player.

6

• Bill W. Clayton, 78, American Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives (1975–1983), natural causes.
• Mario Danelo, 21, American football placekicker for University of Southern California, fall from a cliff.
• Yvon Durelle, 77, Canadian boxing champion, complications from a stroke.
• Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, 76, Congolese Cardinal Archbishop of Kinshasa, complications of diabetes.
• Antonella Kerr, Marchioness of Lothian, 84, British journalist and broadcaster.
• Charmion King, 81, Canadian actress.
• Sneaky Pete Kleinow, 72, American special effects artist and pedal steel guitarist (Flying Burrito Brothers), Alzheimer's disease.
• Suad Nasr, 57, Egyptian actress, complications from liposuction.
• Mohamed Lamine Sanha, Bissau-Guinean Navy Chief of Staff, shot.
• Ira D. Wallach, 97, American philanthropist and CEO of Central National-Gottesman (1956–1979).
• Roberta Wohlstetter, 94, American historian of military intelligence.

7

• Bobby Hamilton, 49, American NASCAR driver, 2004 Craftsman Truck Series Champion, head and neck cancer.
• Magnus Magnusson, 77, Icelandic-born British television presenter (Mastermind, 1972–1997), pancreatic cancer.
• Ernesto Martínez, 55, Cuban Olympic bronze medal-winning volleyball player (1972, 1976, 1980).
• Olli-Matti Multamäki, 58, commander of the Finnish Army, illness.
• Lou Palazzi, 85, American football player and umpire
• Hotte Paksha Rangaswamy, 74, Indian politician, Guinness World Record-holder for contesting elections, brief illness.

8

• Jane Bolin, 98, American New York City family court judge (1939–1979) and first African American female judge.
• Lord Cockfield, 90, British proponent of the European single market and Vice President of the European Commission (1985-1989).
• Ken Cranston, 89, English test cricketer (1947–1948).
• Yvonne De Carlo, 84, Canadian-born American actress (The Ten Commandments, The Munsters), natural causes.
• David Ervine, 53, Northern Irish leader of the Progressive Unionist Party, complications from heart attack and stroke.
• Peter Flanagan, 65, British rugby league player for Great Britain and Hull KR.
• Bong Soo Han, 75, Korean martial arts master and film fight choreographer.
• Drew Posada, 37, American comic book colourist and artist, pancreatitis.
• Italo Sarrocco, 108, Italian World War I veteran. (Italian)
• Iwao Takamoto, 81, Japanese American animator, TV producer and film director, created Scooby-Doo, heart failure.
• Judith Vladeck, 83, American labor lawyer and women's rights advocate, complications of infection.

9

• Dame Joyanne Bracewell, 72, British senior judge of the Family Division of the High Court, after long illness.
• Ion Dincă, 78, Romanian Deputy Prime Minister and Mayor of Bucharest during the Communist era. (Romanian)
• Thomas Nelson, 111, American who was second oldest man in the world at time of death.
• Maureen Orcutt, 99, American golf champion.
• Yelena Petushkova, 66, Russian equestrian, double medallist at the 1972 Olympics, after long illness.
• Carlo Ponti, 94, Italian film producer, pulmonary complications.
• Elmer Symons, 29, South African off-road motorcycle racer, accident during the Dakar Rally.
• Jean-Pierre Vernant, 93, French historian and anthropologist. (French)

10

• Harry Baxter, 85, British soldier.
• Ray Beck, 75, American football player for the New York Giants (1952–1957).
• Harry Horse, 46, British cartoonist and children's book author (The Last... series), suicide.
• Sixto Rojas, 25, Paraguayan footballer.
• Bradford Washburn, 96, American cartographer, mountaineer and founder of the Boston Museum of Science, heart failure.

11

• Solveig Dommartin, 45, French actress, trapeze artist in Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire, heart attack.
• Bob MacQuarrie, 80, Canadian politician (1981–85).
• Kéba Mbaye, 82, Senegalese judge, vice president of the International Court of Justice and vice president of the International Olympic Committee.
• Dale Noyd, 73, American Air Force captain and Vietnam War conscientious objector, emphysema.
• Donald Edward Osterbrock, 82, American astronomer.
• Bryan Pearce, 77, British painter.
• Robert Anton Wilson, 74, American novelist, futurist and conspiracy theory researcher, post-polio syndrome.

12

• Jimmy Cheatham, 82, American jazz trombonist.
• Alice Coltrane, 69, American jazz musician and widow of John Coltrane, respiratory failure.
• Stephen Gilbert, 96, British painter and sculptor.
• Sir James Killen, 81, Australian Minister for Defence (1975–1982).
• Terrance B. Lettsome, 71, British Virgin Islands politician, illness.
• Larry Stewart, 58, American philanthropist known in Kansas City as "Secret Santa", esophageal cancer.

13

• Michael Brecker, 57, American jazz saxophonist, leukemia.
• Chalky, 17, British Jack Russell terrier, celebrity pet of Rick Stein.
• Cho Tat Wah, 91, Hong Kong wuxia actor, stomach hemorrhage. (Chinese)
• Doyle Holly, 70, American bassist for Buck Owens' Buckaroos (1963–1971), prostate cancer.
• Henri-Jean Martin, 82, French librarian and book historian, cancer.
• Danny Oakes, 95, American USAC champion midget car driver.
• Augustin Diamacoune Senghor, 78, Senegalese separatist leader.

14

• Darlene Conley, 72, American actress (The Bold and the Beautiful), stomach cancer.
• Vassilis Fotopoulos, 72, Greek Academy Award-winning art director (Zorba the Greek).
• Tudor Gates, 76, British playwright and trade unionist.
• Barbara Kelly, 82, Canadian-born British actress (What's My Line), cancer.
• Robert Noortman, 60, Dutch art dealer, heart attack.
• Louis Pendleton, 75, African American civil rights leader in Shreveport, Louisiana.
• Peter Prendergast, 60, Welsh artist.

15

• Awad Hamed al-Bandar, 61, former chief judge of Iraq, execution by hanging.
• Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, 55, half-brother of Saddam Hussein, former leader of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, execution by hanging.
• Leonard Berg, 79, American neurologist, creator of the Clinical Dementia Rating scale, stroke.
• Bo Yibo, 98, Chinese politician known for urging crackdown on Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
• Isaac Fanous, 87, Egyptian artist and scholar who specialized in Coptic art. (Arabic)
• James Hillier, 91, Canadian-born American inventor of first practical electron microscope.
• Ardeshir Hosseinpour, 44, Iranian nuclear physicist.
• Bruce Kenrick, 86, British social activist and clergyman.
• Aart Koopmans, 60, Dutch founder of the Alternative Elfstedentocht speed skating series, pneumonia. (Dutch)
• Richard Musgrave, 96, German-born Harvard economist and government adviser, natural causes.
• Percy Saltzman, 91, first person to appear on Canadian television.
• Colin Thurston, 59, British record producer (Duran Duran, Magazine, The Human League, Kajagoogoo).

16

• Ron Carey, 71, American actor (Barney Miller, History of the World, Part I), stroke.
• Pookie Hudson, 72, American lead singer of The Spaniels, complications of thymus cancer.
• Rudolf August Oetker, 90, German food industry magnate (Oetker Group) and philanthropist.
• Benny Parsons, 65, American champion NASCAR driver, won 1973 Winston Cup, complications from lung cancer.
• René Riffaud, 108, one of France's last surviving World War I veterans.
• Jainal Antel Sali, Jr., 42, Filipino terrorist and a commander of Abu Sayyaf, shot in an army raid.
• Yuri Stern, 57, Israeli politician, cancer.
• Betty Trezza, 82, American baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, heart attack.
• David Vanole, 43, American soccer goalkeeper, heart condition.

17

• Alice Auma, 50, Ugandan rebel leader and founder of the Holy Spirit Movement.
• Art Buchwald, 81, American humorist and columnist, kidney failure.
• Ralph Henstock, 83, British mathematician.
• Yevgeny Kushnarev, 55, Ukrainian politician and a deputy leader of the Party of Regions, shot while hunting.
• Virtue Hampton Whitted, 84, American jazz musician, member of The Hampton Sisters, stroke.

18

• Cyril Mar Baselious, 71, Indian Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, heart attack.
• Julie Winnefred Bertrand, 115, Canadian who was the world's oldest known woman at time of death.
• Brent Liles, 43, American bassist (Social Distortion, Agent Orange), traffic accident.
• Charles H. O'Brien, 86, American judge, Tennessee Supreme Court (1987–1994).
• Bonaventure Patrick Paul, 77, Pakistani Roman Catholic Bishop of Hyderabad.

19

• Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow, 45, American professional wrestler, drug overdose.
• Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão, 69, Portuguese poet, dramatist, essayist and translator, long illness. (Portuguese)
• Gerhard Bronner, 84, Austrian composer and cabaret artist, complications following a stroke.
• Hrant Dink, 52, Armenian-Turkish editor, journalist and columnist, shot.
• Denny Doherty, 66, Canadian singer with The Mamas & the Papas, abdominal aneurysm.
• Bill Lefebvre, 91, American baseball pitcher for Boston Red Sox (1938–1939) and Washington Senators (1943–1944).

20

• Eric Aubijoux, 42, French motorcycle rider, possible cardiac arrest during Dakar Rally.
• Buddy Burris, 84, American footballer.
• Dan Christensen, 64, American abstract painter, heart failure due to polymyositis.
• Lloyd Francis, 86, Canadian MP and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (1984), stomach cancer.
• Christopher Helm, 69, British publisher and ornithologist.
• Sir David Mostyn, 78, British Army general, Adjutant-General to the Forces (1986–1988).
• Murat Nasyrov, 37, Russian-Kazakh singer, suicide by jumping.
• Anatol Rapoport, 95, Russian-born American mathematical psychologist and peace activist.
• Alfredo Ripstein, 90, Mexican movie producer, respiratory failure.
• Vern Ruhle, 55, American Major League Baseball pitcher and pitching coach, multiple myeloma.
• George Smathers, 93, American Senator for Florida (1951–1969), stroke complications.
• Ali de Vries, 92, Dutch women's 4x100m relay runner at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

21

• Maria Cioncan, 29, Romanian runner and medalist at 2004 Summer Olympics, car accident.
• Peter Clarke, 58, Children's Commissioner for Wales, cancer.
• Richard Ollard, 83, British historian and biographer.
• Peer Raben, 66, German composer, mainly of film music associated with Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
• Barbara Seranella, 50, American author, liver failure.
• U;Nee, 25, Korean pop singer, suicide by hanging.

22

• John Arthur, 60, American philosopher, lung cancer.
• Doug Blasdell, 44, American Bravo television network trainer on Work Out.
• L. M. Boyd, 79, American newspaper columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle.
• Lisa E. Goldberg, 54, American president of the Charles H. Revson Foundation, brain aneurysm.
• Toulo de Graffenried, 92, Swiss Formula One racing driver (1950–1956).
• Victoria Hopper, 97, British stage and film actress.
• Ramón Marsal Ribó, 72, Spanish footballer for Real Madrid.
• Michael Nolan, Baron Nolan, 78, English Law Lord and first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, degenerative illness.
• Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, 83, Rwandan pastor convicted of participation in the Rwandan genocide.
• Abbé Pierre, 94, French founder of the Emmaüs movement, lung infection.
• Liz Renay, 80, American actress and author, internal bleeding.

23

• Syed Hussein Alatas, 78, Malaysian academic, writer and Gerakan Party founding president, heart attack.
• E. Howard Hunt, 88, American Watergate scandal principal, pneumonia.
• Dick Joyce, 63, American baseball player.
• Ryszard Kapuściński, 74, Polish journalist, author of book about The Soccer War.
• John Majhor, 53, Canadian and American radio and TV broadcaster, cancer.
• Leopoldo Pirelli, 81, Italian chairman of Pirelli (1965–1996).
• David M. Ronne, 63, American sound engineer.
• David "Disco D" Shayman, 26, American hip hop producer, suicide.

24

• Ismail Cem, 67, Turkish politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1997–2002), lung cancer.
• Jean-François Deniau, 78, French writer and statesman, member of the Académie française.
• Krystyna Feldman, 91, Polish actress, lung cancer.
• Wolfgang Iser, 80, German literary scholar and founder of Reader-response criticism.
• Bryan Kocis, 44, American gay pornography producer, stabbed.
• Guadalupe Larriva, 50, Ecuadorian Defense Minister, helicopter crash.
• John W. Lavelle, 57, New York State Assemblyman, stroke. .
• A. H. de Oliveira Marques, 73, Portuguese historian, heart failure.
• Harry Melbourne, 94, Australian inventor of the Freddo Frog chocolate, golden staph infection.
• Emiliano Mercado del Toro, 115, Puerto Rican WW I veteran, was world's oldest person, natural causes.
• David Morris, 79, British Labour MEP (1984–1999) and Chairman of CND Cymru.
• Charlotte Thompson Reid, 93, American singer and Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Mendy Samstein, 68, American civil rights activist, organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, carcinoid cancer.
• Daniel Stern, 79, American University of Houston professor, Warner Bros. and CBS Vice President, heart surgery complications.
• Peter Tompkins, 87, American journalist and writer (The Secret Life of Plants).

25

• Ken Kavanaugh, 90, American National Football League player, complications from pneumonia.
• Majid Khadduri, 98, Iraqi–born American founder of the SAIS Middle East Studies program, failure to thrive. .
• Jack Lang, 85, American sportswriter and secretary-treasurer of the Baseball Writers Association (1966–1988).
• Eleanor McGovern, 85, American wife of Senator and Presidential candidate George McGovern.
• Hideo Ogata, 73, Japanese founding editor of Animage.
• Roberta Semple Salter, 96, American evangelist, daughter of Aimee Semple McPherson and co-creator of Name That Tune.

26

• Charles Brunier, 105, French veteran of WWI and WWII who claimed to have been the inspiration for Papillon. (French)
• Avis M. Dry, 85, British-born clinical psychologist and author on work of Carl Jung.
• Sharon Tyler Herbst, 64 (or 65?) American author of The Food Lover's Companion cookbook, ovarian cancer.
• Jean Ichbiah, 66, French computer scientist and chief designer of the Ada programming language, brain cancer.
• Max Kelly, 76, Australian mathematics professor and leading researcher into category theory.
• Jimmy Ledgard, 84, British rugby league player for Great Britain, Dewsbury and Leigh.
• Emanuele Luzzati, 85, Italian painter, Oscar-nominated production designer and animator.
• David Rattray, 48, South African historian of the Anglo-Zulu War, shot.
• Glen Tetley, 80, American choreographer and dancer, melanoma.
• Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi, 21, Nigerian convicted of drug trafficking in Singapore, execution by hanging.
• Hans Wegner, 92, Danish furniture designer.
• Lorne "Gump" Worsley, 77, Canadian NHL goaltender and Vezina Trophy winner, heart attack.

27

• Trevor Allan, 80, Australian rugby union player and TV commentator, cancer.
• Tige Andrews, 86, American actor (The Mod Squad), cardiac arrest.
• Marcheline Bertrand, 56, American actress and mother of Angelina Jolie and James Haven, cancer.
• Bob Carroll, 88, American television writer for I Love Lucy.
• Paul Channon (Baron Kelvedon of Ongar), 71, British MP for Southend West (1959–1997) and government minister.
• Bing Devine, 90, American general manager of the National League's St. Louis Cardinals baseball team (1958–1964, 1968–1978).
• Claudio Guillén, 82, Spanish writer, member of the Royal Spanish Academy and son of Jorge Guillén, heart attack. (Spanish)
• Kamleshwar, 75, Indian writer and television executive, heart attack.
• Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, 66, French professor of aesthetics at University of Strasbourg, respiratory insufficiency. (French)
• Herbert Reinecker, 92, German novelist, dramatist and screenwriter (Derrick).
• Yang Chuan-Kwang, 73, Taiwanese silver medalist in decathlon at 1960 Summer Olympics, brain hemorrhage.

28

• Iván Böszörményi-Nagy, 86, Hungarian-American psychiatrist, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Malcolm Bowie, 63, English scholar of French literature and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge (2002-2006).
• Carlo Clerici, 78, Swiss road racing cyclist who won 1954 Giro d'Italia, cancer. (Italian)
• Cyril Demarne, 101, British wartime firefighter.
• Robert Drinan, S.J., 86, American Democratic Representative and law professor, pneumonia/congestive heart failure.
• Beatrice Hsu, 28, Taiwanese actress, cardiac arrest following car accident.
• Fiona Jones, 49, British politician, Labour MP for Newark (1997–2001), alcoholic liver disease
• Nona Koirala, 78, politician of Nepali Congress, widow of Keshav Prasad Koirala, liver failure.
• Alf Large, 88, Norwegian Olympic bobsledder.
• O P Nayyar, 81, Indian music director for Bollywood films, cardiac arrest.
• Deborah Orin-Eilbeck, 59, American bureau chief in Washington for the New York Post, cancer.
• Yelena Romanova, 43, Russian track and field athlete, 3000 metres gold medalist at 1992 Summer Olympics.
• Karel Svoboda, 68, Czech composer, suicide.
• Emma Tillman, 114, American who was the recognised world's oldest person.

29

• Barbaro, 4, American racehorse, 2006 Kentucky Derby winner, euthanized after contracting laminitis.
• José D'Elía, 90, Uruguayan labor leader and politician. (Spanish)
• Art Fowler, 84, American Major League Baseball pitcher and pitching coach.
• Robert Meier, 109, oldest living German man, World War I veteran.
• Dick Wingfield-Digby, 95, British Anglican priest, Dean of Peterborough (1966–1980).

30

• Stu Inman, 80, American National Basketball Association executive, heart attack.
• Griffith Jones, 97, British actor.
• Nikos Kourkoulos, 72, Greek actor and artistic director of the National Theatre of Greece, cancer.
• Max Lanier, 91, American baseball player.
• Gordon Macklin, 78, American stock broker, NASD President (1970–1987), oversaw NASDAQ start, stroke.
• Calvin Plimpton, 89, American president of Amherst College (1960–1971), complications from surgery.
• Sidney Sheldon, 89, American author and TV producer (I Dream of Jeannie), complications from pneumonia.

31

• Kirill Babitzin, 56, Finnish singer, 9th in 1984 Eurovision Song Contest.
• Lee Bergere, 82, American actor.
• Molly Ivins, 62, American newspaper columnist, political commentator and author, breast cancer.
• Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, 49, Saudi brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden, shot.
• Olevi Kull, 51, Estonian ecologist. (Estonian)
• Arben Minga, 47, Albanian football player, pancreatic cancer.
• Ronald Muldrow, 57, American jazz guitarist.
• Douglas T Ross, 77, American who created APT (programming language) and led MIT CAD project.
• Adelaide Tambo, 77, South African activist and wife of Oliver Tambo.