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.