Deaths in February 2007

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

  February 2007

1

• Whitney Balliett, 80, American jazz critic, cancer.
• Ray Berres, 99, American baseball player who was second-oldest living major league player, pneumonia.
• Emery Bopp, 82, American artist and art teacher.
• Ahmad Abu Laban, 60, Egyptian-born Danish Muslim leader, key figure in the Muhammad cartoons controversy, cancer.
• Gian Carlo Menotti, 95, Italian-born opera composer.
• Antonio María Javierre Ortas, 85, Spanish cardinal and prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, cardiac arrest.
• Adelina Tattilo, 78, Italian founder of Playmen magazine.
• Seri Wangnaitham, 70, Thai dancer, choreographer and national artist, heart failure.

  2

• Edmund Arnold, 93, American newspaper designer, pneumonia.
• Vijay Arora, 62, Indian film and television actor, intestinal condition.
• Loren Grey, 91, American educational psychologist and son of Zane Grey, age-related complications.
• Billy Henderson, 67, American singer with The Spinners, diabetes.
• Joe Hunter, 79, American pianist and bandleader of The Funk Brothers.
• Terry McMillan, 53, American harmonica player.
• Gisèle Pascal, 85, French actress.
• Filippo Raciti, 40, Italian police officer, fatal injury by football hooligan.
• Eric Von Schmidt, 75, American folk/blues singer-songwriter, stroke.
• Masao Takemoto, 87, Japanese gymnast, gold medallist at 1960 Summer Olympics, bile duct cancer.
• Shannon J. Wall, 87, American union official, president of the National Maritime Union.

  3

• Liliane Ackermann, 68, French Jewish community leader, writer and lecturer.
• George Becker, 78, American president of United Steelworkers, prostate cancer.
• Ralph de Toledano, 90, Moroccan-born American political columnist and author.
• Stephan R. Epstein, 46, British professor of economic history at LSE, epileptic seizure.
• Pedro Knight, 85, Cuban–American musician and husband of Celia Cruz.
• Mohamed Sanni-Thomas, 79, Ghanaian Olympic athlete.
• Devi Das Thakur, 77, Indian lawyer and politician, Governor of Assam.

  4

• Steve Barber, 68, American Major League Baseball pitcher, pneumonia.
• Bauer, 81, Brazilian World Cup footballer.
• Paul Burwell, 57, British percussionist.
• Ilya Kormiltsev, 47, Russian poet and translator, spinal cancer.
• Barbara McNair, 72, American singer and actress, throat cancer.
• Jules Olitski, 84, Ukrainian-born American abstract painter and sculptor, cancer.

  5

• John S. Beckett, 80, Irish musician.
• Arthur J. Dixon, 88, Canadian member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
• Calvin Henry Glauser, 84, Canadian politician.
• Angela King, 68, Jamaican diplomat, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, cancer.
• Leo T. McCarthy, 76, New Zealand-born American politician and Lieutenant Governor of California, kidney failure.
• Alfred Worm, 61, Austrian investigative journalist, heart attack.

  6

• Dick Allen, 62, British film editor.
• Wolfgang Bartels, 66, German bronze medal-winning Olympic alpine skier.
• Lew Burdette, 80, American baseball player, MVP of the 1957 World Series, stomach cancer.
• Helen Duncan, 65, New Zealand union leader and politician, cancer.
• Doug Gailey, 59, New Zealand rugby league player, complications of a fall.
• Lee Hoffman, 74, American science fiction and western writer, heart attack.
• Len Hopkins, 76, Canadian politician, Liberal MP from Ontario, pneumonia.
• Robert Kimpton, 93, Australian cricketer.
• Frankie Laine, 93, American singer, complications of hip replacement surgery.
• Reiner Merkel, 55, German manager, CEO of German Press Agency Picture Alliance, heart attack.
• Nelson W. Polsby, 72, American political scientist and author, heart failure.
• Sir Gareth Roberts, 66, British physicist and principal of Wolfson College, Oxford.
• Glenn Sarty, 77, Canadian original producer of CBC's The Fifth Estate, Take 30 and Take 60, emphysema.
• Bent Skovmand, 62, Danish plant scientist and conservationist, founder of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, brain tumor.
• Harry Webster, 89. British automotive engineer.
• Willye White, 68, African American first 5-time U.S. track and field Olympian, pancreatic cancer.

  7

• Tommy James, 83, American football player with the Cleveland Browns, congestive heart failure.
• Ken Kennedy, 61, American computer scientist at Rice University, pancreatic cancer.
• Josephine Lenard, 85, American baseball player.
• Alan MacDiarmid, 79, Nobel winning chemist, death from a fall off a bridge.
• Fred Mustard Stewart, 74, American author, cancer.
• Brian Williams, 46, British former rugby union player for Wales and Neath RFC, heart attack.

  8

• Joe Edwards, 85, American comic book artist best known for his Archie and Li'l Jinx comics, heart failure.
• Adele Faccio, 86, Italian civil right activist.
• Dick Harding, 72, Canadian Olympic sprinter.
• Florence Melton, 95, American inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
• Shelby Metcalf, 76, American coach for Texas A&M basketball, cancer.
• Ismail Semed, Chinese Muslim Uighur separatist, execution by firing squad.
• Anna Nicole Smith, 39, American 1993 Playmate of the Year, widow of J. Howard Marshall, accidental drug overdose.
• Ian Stevenson, 88, Canadian psychiatrist and reincarnation researcher.
• Peter Thornton, 81, British museum curator and historian.
• Harriett Woods, 79, American Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, leukemia.

  9

• Hank Bauer, 84, American baseball outfielder and manager, three-time All Star, cancer.
• Francisco Calamita, 84, Spanish Olympic swimmer.
• Eddie Feigner, 81, American softball player, respiratory failure.
• Benedict Kiely, 87, Irish writer and broadcaster.
• Emil Kiszka, 80, Polish Olympic sprinter.
• Andrew McAuley, 39, Australian ocean kayak adventurer, presumed drowned.
• Ian Richardson, 72, British actor.
• Bruno Ruffo, 86, Italian motorcycle racer, three-time world champion.

  10

• Bill Clement, 91, Welsh rugby union player and soldier.
• Gary Frisch, 38, South African co-founder of Gaydar dating website, fall from balcony.
• Jeong Da-bin, 26, South Korean actress, suspected suicide by hanging.
• James C. Melby, 57, American professional wrestling historian, author and magazine editor.
• Charles S. Swartz, 67, American filmmaker, brain cancer.
• Charles R. Walgreen Jr., 100, American president of Walgreens, son of founder Charles R. Walgreen.
• Cardis Cardell Willis, 69, American comic.
• David Boynton, 61, American historian and photographer, hiking accident.

  11

• Jorge Antonio, 89, Argentinian Peronist party politician and business man.
• Lorentz Eldjarn, 86, Norwegian biochemist.
• Marianne Fredriksson, 79, Swedish writer and journalist, heart attack.
• Derek Gardner, 92, British marine painter.
• Charles Langford, 84, American Alabama state senator and lawyer, represented Rosa Parks during Montgomery bus boycott.
• Jules Maenen, 75, Dutch Olympic cyclist.
• Yunus Parvez, 75, Indian Bollywood actor, complications of diabetes.
• Jim Ricca, 79, American football player, cerebral aneurysm.
• Joe Wilkinson, 72, English footballer.

  12

• Violet Barasa, 31, Kenyan women's volleyball team captain and Olympic competitor.
• Warren Batchelder, 89, American animator for Warner Bros.
• Georg Buschner, 81, East German football coach, prostate cancer.
• Jimmy Campbell, 63, British musician.
• Valucha deCastro, 77, Brazilian musician, liver disease.
• Peter Ellenshaw, 93, English-born American special effects technician and matte painter, Oscar winner.
• Thomas E. Fairchild, 94, American Federal Appeals Court Judge.
• Peggy Gilbert, 102, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader, complications of hip surgery.
• Ellen Hanley, 80, American Broadway theatre actress, stroke.
• Joseph Low, 95, American children's book illustrator.
• John MacLeod of MacLeod, 71, British 29th chief of the Clan MacLeod, leukaemia.
• Joseph McKeown, 82, British photojournalist, after a fall.
• Hasan Özbekhan, 86, Turkish economist.
• Paolo Pileri, 62, Italian motorcycle racer, 1975 World Champion and Capirossi team manager, natural causes.
• Randy Stone, 48, American short film director and casting director, Oscar winner, heart failure.
• Sulejman Talović, 18, American Salt Lake City spree killer, shot by police.
• Geraldine Warrick-Crisman, 76, African-American TV executive, former assistant New Jersey state treasurer, breast cancer.
• Eldee Young, 71, American musician, bass player for Ramsey Lewis Trio, heart attack.

  13

• Sir Charles Harington, 96, British general.
• Elizabeth Jolley, 83, Australian author, illness.
• Bruce M. Metzger, 93, American professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and expert on Greek biblical manuscripts.
• Charlie Norwood, 65, American Republican representative from Georgia since 1995, cancer.
• Eliana Ramos, 18, Uruguayan model, heart attack caused by anorexia nervosa.
• Johanna Sällström, 32, Swedish actress.
• Sir Richard Wakeford, 84, British Air Marshal.

  14

• Ryan Larkin, 63, Canadian animator, Oscar nominee and subject of the Oscar-winning animated short Ryan, lung cancer.
• Thomas Marealle, 91, Tanzanian politician and Paramount Chief, pneumonia.
• Benito Medero, 84, Uruguayan Minister of Agriculture.
• Gareth Morris, 86, British flautist and music teacher.
• John O'Banion, 59, American singer and actor, accident causing blunt force trauma.
• Lee Patterson, 77, Canadian actor, heart failure.
• John Penn, 85, British architect.
• Steven Pimlott, 53, British theatre director, lung cancer.
• Richard S. Prather, 85, American novelist.
• Emmett Williams, 81, American poet and Fluxus artist.