Deaths in January 2007

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

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.
• Charles Hyatt, 75, Jamaican actor, lung cancer.
• Tad Jones, 54, American jazz music historian, complications from a fall.
• Ernie Koy, 97, American baseball player.
• 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 football player, shot.

2

• Garry Betty, 49, American CEO of Earthlink, adrenocortical carcinoma.
• Sir Eric Denton, 77, British marine biologist.
• 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, complications after hip replacement surgery.
• Teddy Kollek, 95, Israeli Mayor of Jerusalem, natural causes.
• Don Massengale, 69, American PGA Tour golf player, heart attack.
• A. Richard Newton, 55, Australian-born technology pioneer and professor at University of California, Berkeley, pancreatic cancer.
• Paek Nam-sun, 78, North Korean Foreign minister.
• 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.
• János Fürst, 71, Hungarian-born orchestral conductor, cancer.
• William Jencks, 79, American biochemist.
• Jim Mooney, 83, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly.
• Earl Reibel, 76, Canadian ice hockey forward, 1956 Lady Byng Trophy winner, complications of stroke.
• William Verity Jr., 89, United States Secretary of Commerce, complications from pneumonia.
• Sir Cecil Walker, 82, British Ulster Unionist MP for North Belfast, heart attack.
• Michael Yeats, 85, Irish Fianna Fáil senator and son of W. B. Yeats.

4

• Juma Akukweti, 59, Tanzanian MP for Chama Cha Mapinduzi, injuries from plane crash.
• Ben Gannon, 54, Australian theatre, film and television producer, cancer.
• Christopher Greenbury, 55, American film editor.
• Helen Hill, 36, American independent film-maker, shot.
• Sir Lewis Hodges, 88, British Air Chief Marshal.
• Gren, 72, British newspaper cartoonist.
• Steve Krantz, 83, American film and TV producer, husband of Judith Krantz, complications of pneumonia.
• Bob Milliken, 80, American Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher, cardiac arrest.
• Gáspár Nagy, 57, Hungarian poet and writer.
• Padre Léo, 45, Brazilian Roman Catholic priest and Founder of the "Bethânia" Community, lymphoma.
• Sandro Salvadore, 67, Italian footballer, heart attack.
• Jan Schröder, 65, Dutch cyclist.
• Marais Viljoen, 91, South African president, 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 ice hockey player.

6

• Bill W. Clayton, 78, American Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, 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, Alzheimer's disease.
• Suad Nasr, 53, Egyptian actress, complications from liposuction.
• Annelies Reinhold, 90, Austrian actress.
• Mohamed Lamine Sanha, Bissau-Guinean Navy Chief of Staff, shot.
• Ira D. Wallach, 97, American philanthropist and CEO of Central National-Gottesman.
• 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 television presenter, pancreatic cancer.
• Ernesto Martínez, 55, Cuban Olympic bronze medal-winning volleyball player.
• Olli-Matti Multamäki, 58, Finnish 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 and first African American female judge.
• Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield, 90, British proponent of the European single market and Vice President of the European Commission.
• Ken Cranston, 89, English test cricketer.
• Yvonne De Carlo, 84, Canadian-born American actress.
• 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.
• Han Bong-soo, 75, Korean martial arts master and film fight choreographer.
• José Quaglio, 80, Italian actor and theatre director.
• Italo Sarrocco, 108, Italian World War I veteran.
• Iwao Takamoto, 81, American animator and film director, heart failure.
• Judith Vladeck, 83, American labor lawyer and women's rights advocate, complications of infection.

9

• Cocoa Samoa, 61, professional wrestler.
• Dame Joyanne Bracewell, 72, British senior judge of the Family Division of the High Court, breast cancer.
• Ion Dincă, 78, Romanian Deputy Prime Minister and Mayor of Bucharest during the Communist era.
• Maureen Orcutt, 99, American golf champion.
• Yelena Petushkova, 66, Russian equestrian, double medallist at the 1972 Olympics, after long illness.
• Irma St. Paule, 80, Ukrainian-born American actress.
• Elmer Symons, 29, South African off-road motorcycle racer, accident during the Dakar Rally.
• Jean-Pierre Vernant, 93, French historian and anthropologist.

10

• Harry Baxter, 85, British soldier.
• Ray Beck, 75, American football player.
• Harry Horse, 46, British cartoonist and children's book author, suicide by stabbing.
• Carlo Ponti, 94, Italian film producer, Oscar winner, pulmonary complications.
• Sixto Rojas, 24, 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.
• Tudor Gates, 77, English screenwriter.
• Bob MacQuarrie, 80, Canadian politician.
• 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, heart attack.
• 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.
• Terrance B. Lettsome, 71, British Virgin Islands politician, illness.
• Olivier Prechac, 58, French Olympic ice hockey player
• Larry Stewart, 58, American philanthropist known in Kansas City as "Secret Santa", esophageal cancer.
• Adolfas Varanauskas, 72, Lithuanian Olympic athlete.

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.
• Doyle Holly, 70, American bassist for Buck Owens' Buckaroos, 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

• Gido Babilonia, 40, Filipino basketball player, pulmonary embolism.
• Darlene Conley, 72, American actress, stomach cancer.
• John Hawkins, 62, Canadian composer.
• Beate Hermelin, 87, German psychologist.
• Barbara Kelly, 82, Canadian-born British actress, cancer.
• Robert Noortman, 60, Dutch art dealer, heart attack.
• Vassilis Photopoulos, 72, Greek art director, Oscar winner.
• Peter Prendergast, 60, Welsh artist.

15

• Awad Hamed al-Bandar, 61, Iraqi former chief judge, execution by hanging.
• Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, 55, Iraqi former leader of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, half-brother of Saddam Hussein, 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.
• Sir John Boynton, 88, British local government official.
• Colette Caillat, 86, French Sanskrit scholar.
• Isaac Fanous, 87, Egyptian artist and scholar who specialized in Coptic art.
• James Hillier, 91, Canadian-born American inventor of first practical electron microscope, stroke.
• 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.
• Richard Musgrave, 96, German-born Harvard economist and government adviser, natural causes.
• Percy Saltzman, 91, Canadian meteorologist and television personality, first person to appear on Canadian CBLT Toronto television.
• Colin Thurston, 59, British record producer.

16

• Ron Carey, 71, American actor, stroke.
• Rudolf August Oetker, 90, German food industry magnate and philanthropist.
• Benny Parsons, 65, American racecar 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.
• Gisela Uhlen, 87, German actress.
• David Vanole, 43, American soccer goalkeeper, heart condition.

17

• Ülle Aaskivi, 56, Estonian politician.
• 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.
• Yevhen Kushnaryov, 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 Baselios, 71, Indian Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, heart attack.
• Julie Winnefred Bertrand, 115, supercentenarian, oldest living Canadian and oldest verified living recognized woman at the time of her death
• Brent Liles, 43, American bassist, traffic accident.
• Charles H. O'Brien, 86, American judge, Tennessee Supreme Court.
• Bonaventure Patrick Paul, 77, Pakistani Roman Catholic Bishop of Hyderabad.

19

• Bam Bam Bigelow, 45, American professional wrestler, drug overdose.
• Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão, 69, Portuguese poet, dramatist, essayist and translator, long illness.
• 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, abdominal aneurysm.
• Bill Lefebvre, 91, American baseball pitcher for Boston Red Sox and Washington Senators.
• Murat Nasyrov, 37, Russian pop singer of Uyghur ethnicity, suicide by jumping.

20

• Éric Aubijoux, 42, French motorcycle rider, possible cardiac arrest during Dakar Rally.
• Charles Blakey Blackmar, 84, American jurist.
• Dan Christensen, 64, American abstract painter, heart failure due to polymyositis.
• Brian Eatwell, 67, British production designer.
• Lloyd Francis, 86, Canadian MP and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, stomach cancer.
• Christopher Helm, 69, British publisher and ornithologist.
• Sir David Mostyn, 78, British Army general, Adjutant-General to the Forces.
• 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 politician, United States Senator, stroke complications.
• Alida de Vries, 92, Dutch women's 4 × 100 m relay runner at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

21

• Maria Cioncan, 29, Romanian runner and medalist at 2004 Summer Olympics, car accident.
• Peter Clarke, 58, British Children's Commissioner for Wales, cancer.
• Myrtle Devenish, 94, Welsh actress.
• 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.
• Toulo de Graffenried, 92, Swiss Formula One racing driver.
• Victoria Hopper, 97, British stage and film actress.
• Ramón Marsal, 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.

23

• Syed Hussein Alatas, 78, Malaysian academic, writer and Gerakan Party founding president, heart attack.
• Disco D, 26, American hip hop producer, suicide by hanging.
• 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.
• Wally Ridley, 93, English record producer and songwriter.
• David M. Ronne, 63, American sound engineer.

24

• İsmail Cem, 66, Turkish politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs, lung cancer.
• Jean-François Deniau, 78, French writer and statesman, member of the Académie française.
• Krystyna Feldman, 90, 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, American Member of the New York State Assembly, stroke.
• A. H. de Oliveira Marques, 73, Portuguese historian, heart failure.
• Emiliano Mercado del Toro, 115, Puerto Rican WW I veteran, was world's oldest person, natural causes.
• David Morris, 76, British Labour MEP and Chairman of CND Cymru.
• 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.

25

• Ken Kavanaugh, 90, American National Football League player, complications from pneumonia.
• Majid Khadduri, 97, Iraqi–born American founder of the SAIS Middle East Studies program, failure to thrive.
• Charlotte Thompson Reid, 93, American singer and Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Jack Lang, 85, American sportswriter and secretary-treasurer of the Baseball Writers Association.
• Eleanor McGovern, 85, American wife of Senator and Presidential candidate George McGovern.
• Hideo Ogata, 73, Japanese founding editor of Animage, stomach cancer.
• 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.
• Avis M. Dry, 85, British-born clinical psychologist and author on work of Carl Jung.
• Sharon Tyler Herbst, 64, 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 Grey 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.
• Philip J. Thomas, 85, Canadian folklorist.
• Hans Wegner, 92, Danish furniture designer.
• Gump Worsley, 77, Canadian ice hockey player, heart attack.

27

• Trevor Allan, 80, Australian rugby union player and TV commentator, cancer.
• Tige Andrews, 86, American actor, cardiac arrest.
• Marcheline Bertrand, 56, American actress, cancer.
• Bob Carroll Jr., 88, American television writer.
• Paul Channon, 71, British MP for Southend West and government minister.
• Bing Devine, 90, American general manager of the National League's St. Louis Cardinals baseball team.
• Claudio Guillén, 82, Spanish writer, member of the Royal Spanish Academy and son of Jorge Guillén, heart attack.
• Kamleshwar, 75, Indian writer and television executive, heart attack.
• Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, 66, French professor of aesthetics at University of Strasbourg, respiratory insufficiency.
• Herbert Reinecker, 92, German novelist, dramatist and screenwriter.
• Yang Chuan-kwang, 73, Taiwanese silver medalist in decathlon at 1960 Summer Olympics, brain hemorrhage.

28

• Ivan Boszormenyi-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.
• Carlo Clerici, 77, Swiss road racing cyclist who won 1954 Giro d'Italia, cancer.
• Cyril Demarne, 101, British wartime firefighter.
• Robert Drinan, 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, alcoholic liver disease
• Alf Large, 88, Norwegian Olympic bobsledder.
• O. P. Nayyar, 81, Indian music director for Bollywood films, cardiac arrest.
• Deborah Orin, 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 by gunshot.
• Emma Tillman, 114, American who was the recognised world's oldest person.
• Johnny Williams, 80, British champion professional boxer in the 1940s and 50s.

29

• Barbaro, 3, American racehorse, 2006 Kentucky Derby winner, euthanized after contracting laminitis.
• José D'Elía, 90, Uruguayan labor leader and politician.
• Dick Wingfield Digby, 95, British Anglican priest, Dean of Peterborough.
• Art Fowler, 84, American Major League Baseball pitcher and pitching coach.
• Robert Meier, 109, German oldest living man, World War I veteran.
• Dan Stoneking, 64, American journalist who was sports editor of the Minneapolis Star and president of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association
• William D. Winston, 74, American politician.

30

• Sir Stephen Berthon, 84, British admiral, cancer.
• 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, oversaw NASDAQ start, stroke.
• John Matsudaira, 84, American painter.
• Calvin Plimpton, 88, American president of Amherst College, complications from surgery.
• Sidney Sheldon, 89, American author and TV producer, complications from pneumonia.

31

• Kirill Babitzin, 56, Finnish singer, 9th in 1984 Eurovision Song Contest.
• Lee Bergere, 88, 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.
• 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.
• Hokishe Sema, 85, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Nagaland.
• Adelaide Tambo, 77, South African activist and wife of Oliver Tambo.