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

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Kirill Babitzin, 56, Finnish singer, 9th in 1984 Eurovision Song Contest. [1]
Lee Bergere, 82, American actor. [2]
George Burger, 50, American PGA executive, bacterial meningitis. [3]
Nat Hentel, 87, American judge who served on the New York State Supreme Court, Parkinson's disease. [4]
Molly Ivins, 62, American newspaper columnist, political commentator and author, breast cancer. [5] [6] [7]
Richard Kelley, 91, American stepfather of Bill Clinton, cancer. [8] [9]
Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, 49, Saudi brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden, shot. [10]
Olevi Kull, 51, Estonian ecologist. [11] (Estonian)
Ronald Muldrow, 57, American jazz guitarist. [12]
Milan Opočenský, 75, Czech protestant theologian and secretary-general of the WARC (1989–2000). [13]
Douglas T Ross, 77, created APT (programming language) and led MIT computer-aided design project. [14]
Adelaide Tambo, 77, South African activist and wife of Oliver Tambo. [15]

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Stu Inman, 80, American, National Basketball Association executive, heart attack. [16]
Griffith Jones, 96, British actor. [17]
Nikos Kourkoulos, 72, Greek actor and artistic director of the National Theatre of Greece, cancer. [18]
Max Lanier, 91, American baseball player. [19] [20]
Gordon Macklin, 78, American stock broker, NASD President (1970–87), oversaw NASDAQ start, stroke. [21]
Calvin Plimpton, 89, American president of Amherst College (1960–71), complications from surgery. [22] [23]
Sidney Sheldon, 89, American author and TV producer (I Dream of Jeannie), complications from pneumonia. [24]
Christopher Swift, 31, American multiple murderer, execution by lethal injection. [25]

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Barbaro, 3, American thoroughbred racehorse, 2006 Kentucky Derby winner, euthanized after contracting laminitis. [26]
José D'Elía, 90, Uruguayan labor leader and politician. [27] (Spanish)
Art Fowler, 84, American Major League Baseball pitcher and pitching coach. [28] [29]
Michael Hurson, 65, American whimsical artist, heart attack. [30]
Lajos Illés, 64, Hungarian keyboardist, founding member of the rock band Illés. [31] (Hungarian)
Didier Lefèvre, 50, French photojournalist and author. [32] [33] (French)
Robert Meier, 109, oldest living German man, World War I veteran. [34]

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Iván Böszörményi-Nagy, 86, Hungarian-American psychiatrist, complications from Parkinson's disease. [35] [36]
Malcolm Bowie, 63, English scholar of French literature and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge (2002-2006). [37]
Carlo Clerici, 78, Swiss road racing cyclist who won 1954 Giro d'Italia, cancer. [38] (Italian)
Cyril Demarne, 101, British wartime firefighter. [39]
Robert Drinan, S.J., 86, American Democratic Representative and law professor, pneumonia/congestive heart failure. [40]
Joseph S. Farland, 92, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Pakistan (1969–1972), stroke. [41] [42]
Werner Hackmann, 59, German president of Fußball-Bundesliga, cancer. [43]
Fiona Jones, 49, British politician, Labour MP for Newark (1997-2001). [44]
Nona Koirala, 78, politician of Nepali Congress, widow of Keshav Prasad Koirala, liver failure. [45] [46]
Hsu Wei Lun, 28, Taiwanese actress, cardiac arrest following car accident. [47] [48]
Vickie Myers, 39, American winner of Miss West Virginia USA 1992, asphyxiation by choking. [49]
O P Nayyar, 81, Indian music director for Hindi films, cardiac arrest. [50]
Deborah Orin-Eilbeck, 59, American bureau chief in Washington for the New York Post, cancer. [51] [52]
Yelena Romanova, 43, Russian athlete, 3000 metres gold medalist at 1992 Summer Olympics. [53]
Michael Shurtleff, 86, American casting director and author. [54]
Karel Svoboda, 68, Czech composer, suicide. [55]
Elizabeth Tashjian, 94, American artist and nut enthusiast, founder of the Nut Museum. [56]
Emma Tillman, 114, American who was the recognised world's oldest person. [57] [58]
Ellis Williamson, 88, US Army General who led the 173rd Airborne Brigade during the Vietnam War. [59]

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Trevor Allan, 80, Australian rugby union player and TV commentator, cancer. [60]
Tige Andrews, 86, American actor (The Mod Squad), cardiac arrest. [61]
Marcheline Bertrand, 56, American actress and mother of Angelina Jolie and James Haven, cancer. [62]
Bob Carroll, 88, American television writer for I Love Lucy. [63] [64]
Paul Channon (Baron Kelvedon of Ongar), 71, British MP for Southend West (1959–1997) and government minister.[65]
Alberta Davis, 125?, American woman listed by Social Security as oldest person in America. [66]
Bing Devine, 90, American general manager of the NL's St. Louis Cardinals baseball team (1958–1964, 1968–1978). [67]
Claudio Guillén, 82, Spanish writer, member of the Royal Spanish Academy and son of Jorge Guillén, heart attack. [68] [69] (Spanish)
Kamleshwar, 75, Indian writer and television executive, heart attack. [70]
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, 66, French professor of aesthetics at University of Strasbourg, respiratory insufficiency. [71] (French)
Charlotte Lesher, 80, American mother of Joey Ramone, heart attack. [72]
Herbert Reinecker, 92, German novelist, dramatist and screenwriter (Derrick). [73]
Yang Chuan-Kwang, 73, Taiwanese silver medalist in decathlon at 1960 Summer Olympics, brain hemorrhage. [74]

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Roger Bacon, 80, American physicist and aerospace researcher, leukemia. [75]
Charles Brunier, 105, French veteran of WWI and WWII who claimed to have been the inspiration for Papillon. [76] (French)
Doug Gentry, 34, American Ring of Honor wrestling producer, complications from coronary bacterial infection. [77]
Sharon Tyler Herbst, American author of The Food Lover's Companion cookbook, ovarian cancer. [78]
Jean Ichbiah, 66, French computer scientist and chief designer of the Ada programming language, brain cancer.[79]
Jimmy Ledgard, 84, British rugby league player for Great Britain, Dewsbury and Leigh. [80]
Emanuele Luzzati, 85, Italian painter, Oscar-nominated production designer and animator. [81]
Van McKenzie, 61, American sports editor for the Orlando Sentinel, cancer. [82]
David Rattray, 48, South African historian of the Anglo-Zulu War, shot. [83] [84]
Glen Tetley, 80, American choreographer and dancer, melanoma. [85] [86]
Philip Thomas, 85, Canadian author and folk music historian, complications from surgery. [87]
Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi, 21, Nigerian convicted of drug trafficking in Singapore, execution by hanging. [88]
Hans Wegner, 92, Danish furniture designer. [89]
Lorne "Gump" Worsley, 77, Canadian NHL goaltender and Vezina Trophy winner, heart attack. [90]

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Maureen Cannon, 84, American poet. [91]
Ken Kavanaugh, 90, American National Football League player, complications from pneumonia. [92]
Majid Khadduri, 98, Iraqi–born American founder of the SAIS Middle East Studies program, failure to thrive. [93] [94].
Jack Lang, 85, American sportswriter and secretary-treasurer of the Baseball Writers Association (1966–1988). [95] [96]
Eleanor McGovern, 85, American wife of Senator and Presidential candidate George McGovern. [97] [98]
Olga Mortrude, 110, American who was oldest person living in South Dakota. [99]
Hideo Ogata, 73, Japanese founding editor of Animage. [100]
Roberta Semple Salter, 96, American evangelist, daughter of Aimee Semple McPherson and co-creator of Name That Tune. [101]
Albert Tenasco Jr., 74, Canadian former Grand Chief of the Algonquin Anishnabeg Nation, cancer. [102]
Andrei Zhegalov, 42, Russian cinematographer, heart disease. [103]

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Denes Agay, 95, Hungarian-American composer, multiple organ failure. [104]
Ismail Cem, 67, Turkish politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1997–2002), lung cancer. [105] [106]
Jean-François Deniau, 78, French writer and statesman, member of the Académie française. [107]
Krystyna Feldman, 91, Polish actress, lung cancer. [108] (Polish)
Adolf Frohner, 72, Austrian painter, natural causes. [109]
Wolfgang Iser, 80, German literary scholar and founder of Reader-response criticism. [110] (German)
Oliver Jackman, 77, Barbadian diplomat and international jurist. [111]
Bryan Kocis, 44, American gay pornography producer, stabbed. [112]
Bradley Krause, 58, American founding partner of Kinko's, cancer. [113]
Guadalupe Larriva, 50, Ecuadorian Defense minister, helicopter crash. [114]
John W. Lavelle, 57, New York State Assemblyman, stroke. [115].
A. H. de Oliveira Marques, 73, Portuguese historian, heart failure. [116]
Harry Melbourne, 94, Australian inventor of the Freddo Frog chocolate, golden staph infection. [117] [118]
Emiliano Mercado del Toro, 115, Puerto Rican WW I veteran, was world's oldest person, natural causes. [119]
David Morris, 79, British Labour MEP (1984–1999) and Chairman of CND Cymru. [120]
Klara Palankay, 85, Hungarian mezzo soprano opera singer. [121]
Charlotte Thompson Reid, 93, American singer and Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives. [122]
Mendy Samstein, 68, American civil rights activist, organizer for the SNCC, carcinoid cancer. [123]
Daniel Stern, 79, American University of Houston professor, Warner Bros. and CBS VP, heart surgery complications.[124]
Peter Tompkins, 87, American journalist and writer (The Secret Life of Plants). [125]

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Syed Hussein Alatas, 78, Malaysian academic, writer and Gerakan Party founding president, heart attack. [126] [127]
Eric Craies, 94, New Zealand rowing coach. [128]
Carter Harman, 88, American composer, music critic, author and record producer. [129]
E. Howard Hunt, 88, American Watergate scandal principal, pneumonia. [130]
Ryszard Kapuściński, 74, Polish journalist, author of book about The Soccer War. [131]
John Majhor, 53, Canadian and American radio and TV broadcaster, cancer. [132]
Leopoldo Pirelli, 81, Italian chairman of Pirelli (1965–1996). [133]
Walter Ridley, 94, British record producer. [134]
David "Disco D" Shayman, 26, American hip hop producer, suicide. [135]

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Klas Bergenstrand, 61, Swedish Director of the Swedish Security Police, apparent heart attack. [136]
Doug Blasdell, 44, American Bravo television network trainer on Work Out. [137]
L. M. Boyd, 79, American newspaper columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. [138]
Anna Cropper, 68, British actress. [139]
Lisa E. Goldberg, 54, American president of the Charles H. Revson Foundation, brain aneurysm. [140]
Toulo de Graffenried, 92, Swiss Formula One racing driver (1950–1956). [141] [142]
Victoria Hopper, 97, British stage and film actress. [143]
Arnold Kats, 82, Russian musician and conductor. [144] (Russian)
Carlos Lezama, 83, Venezuelan-born president of NY West Indian American Day Carnival Association, diabetes complications [145]
Ramón Marsal Ribó, 72, Spanish footballer for Real Madrid. [146]
Lyle McCabe, 68, Australian television producer, cancer. [147]
Michael Nolan, 78, English Law Lord and first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, degenerative illness. [148]
Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, 83, Rwandan pastor convicted of participation in the Rwandan genocide. [149]
Abbé Pierre, 94, French founder of the Emmaüs movement, lung infection. [150]
Liz Renay, 80, American actress and author, internal bleeding. [151]
Father Charles Sylvestre, 84, Canadian Catholic priest guilty of sexual abuse. [152] [153]

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Maria Cioncan, 29, Romanian runner and medalist at 2004 Summer Olympics, car accident. [154]
Peter Clarke, 58, Children's Commissioner for Wales, cancer. [155]
Vic Kasinja, 49, Malawian cartoonist. [156]
Richard Ollard, 83, British historian and biographer. [157]
Peer Raben, 66, German composer, mainly of film music associated with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. [158]
Barbara Seranella, 50, American author, liver failure. [159]
U;Nee, 25, Korean pop singer, suicide by hanging. [160]

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Eric Aubijoux, 42, French motorcycle rider, possible cardiac arrest during Dakar Rally. [161][162]
Konstantin Borovko, 25, Russian journalist, fatal beating. [163] (Russian) [164]
Dan Christensen, 64, American abstract painter, heart failure due to polymyositis.[165]
James B. Farley, 76, American management consultant, CEO of Booz Allen and MONY, prolonged illness. [166]
Lloyd Francis, 86, Canadian MP and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (1984), stomach cancer. [167]
Hugo Moser, 82, American doctor to Lorenzo Odone of Lorenzo's oil fame, pancreatic cancer. [168]
Murat Nasyrov, 37, Russian-Kazakh singer, suicide by jumping. [169]
Anatol Rapoport, 95, Russian-born American mathematical psychologist and peace activist. [170]
Alfredo Ripstein, 90, Mexican movie producer, respiratory failure. [171]
Vern Ruhle, 55, American MLB pitcher and pitching coach, multiple myeloma. [172]
George Smathers, 93, American Senator for Florida (1951–1969), stroke complications. [173]
Ali de Vries, 92, Dutch women's 4x100m relay runner at the 1936 Summer Olympics. [174]
Albert F. Wagner, 107, oldest former United States Marine and only known veteran of World War I living in Kansas. [175]

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Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow, 45, American professional wrestler, drug overdose. [176] [177]
Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão, 69, Portuguese poet, dramatist, essayist and translator, long illness. [178] (Portuguese)
Gerhard Bronner, 84, Austrian composer and cabaret artist, complications following a stroke. [179]
Curt Dempster, 71, American artistic director of New York's Ensemble Studio Theater. [180]
Hrant Dink, 52, Armenian-Turkish editor, journalist and columnist, shot. [181] [182]
Denny Doherty, 66, Canadian singer with The Mamas & the Papas, abdominal aneurysm. [183] [184] [185]
Nely Gambon, 82, Dutch women's rowing administrator and advocate for Olympics inclusion. [186]
Antonina Tumkovsky, 101, Ukrainian-born ballet dancer and teacher at the School of American Ballet. [187]

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Cyril Mar Baselious, 71, Indian Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, heart attack. [188]
Julie Winnefred Bertrand, 115, Canadian who was the world's oldest known woman at time of death. [189]
Bernie Friedkin, 89, American boxer, natural causes. [190]
Richard Heard, 49, British managing director of Birmingham International Airport, struck by falling tree branch. [191] [192]
Brent Liles, 43, American bassist of the punk bands Social Distortion and Agent Orange, traffic accident. [193]
Thomas Lyson, 58, American sociologist and author, cancer. [194]
Charles H. O'Brien, 86, Tennessee Supreme Court judge (1987–94). [195]

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Ülle Aaskivi, 56, Estonian lawyer and politician. [196] (Estonian)
Art Buchwald, 81, American humorist and columnist, kidney failure. [197] [198]
Keeley Dorsey, 19, American football running back at the University of South Florida. [199]
Yevgeny Kushnarev, 55, Ukrainian politician and a deputy leader of the Party of Regions, shot while hunting. [200]
Uwe Nettelbeck, founding producer of German progressive rock band Faust. [201]
Virtue Hampton Whitted, 84, American jazz musician, member of The Hampton Sisters, stroke. [202]
Lyman Wynne, 83, American mental illness researcher, cancer [203]

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Michael Brecker, 57, American jazz saxophonist, leukemia. [247]
Sabrina Duim, 22, American harpist (Volunteer Pioneer, Bright Eyes, Fiest). [248]
Larkin Ford, 86, American actor, last surviving cast member of 1954 original teleplay of 12 Angry Men. [249]
Doyle Holly, 70, American bassist for Buck Owens' Buckaroos (1963–71), prostate cancer. [250]
Michael Little, 51, Chairman and CEO (1998–2003) of Pioneer Drilling. [251]
Henri-Jean Martin, 82, French librarian and book historian, cancer. [252]
Dora McDonald, 81, American secretary to Martin Luther King, Jr., complications from cancer. [253] [254]
Danny Oakes, 95, American USAC champion midget car driver. [255]
Augustin Diamacoune Senghor, 78, Senegalese separatist leader. [256]

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Jimmy Cheatham, 82, American jazz trombonist.[257]
Alice Coltrane, 69, American jazz musician and widow of John Coltrane, respiratory failure. [258] [259]
Stephen Gilbert, 96, Scottish painter and sculptor. [260]
Sir James Killen, 81, Australian Minister for Defence (1975–82). [261]
Terrance B. Lettsome, 71, politician in the British Virgin Islands, illness. [262]
Larry Stewart, 58, American philanthropist known in Kansas City as "Secret Santa", cancer of the esophagus. [263] [264]
Jennifer Strange, 28, American radio contestant, water intoxication. [265]

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Solveig Dommartin, 45, French actress, trapeze artist in Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire, heart attack. [266]
Ward Grant, 75, American publicist and co-author with Bob Hope, heart failure. [267]
Dick Landy, 69, American NHRA driver, kidney failure. [268]
Bob MacQuarrie, 80, Canadian politician (1981–85). [269]
Kéba Mbaye, 82, Senegalese judge, vice president of the ICJ and vice president of the IOC. [270]
Dale Noyd, 73, American Air Force captain and Vietnam War conscientious objector, emphysema. [271]
Donald Edward Osterbrock, 82, American astronomer. [272], [273]
Bryan Pearce, 77, British painter. [274][275]
Mónica Pretelini Sáenz, 45, wife of Mexico state governor Enrique Peña Nieto, complications of epilepsy. [276] (Spanish)
Robert Anton Wilson (RAW), 74, American novelist, futurist and conspiracy theory researcher, post-polio syndrome. [277]
Rudy Wissler, 78, American actor and singer, singing voice of Scotty Beckett as the young Al Jolson in The Jolson Story. [278]

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Ray Beck, 75, American football player for the New York Giants (1952-57). [279]
Cho Tat Wah, 91, Hong Kong wuxia actor, stomach hemorrhage. [280] (Chinese)
Carlos Granados, 36, American murderer, capital punishment by lethal injection. [281]
Harry Horse (Richard Horne), 46, British cartoonist and children's book author (The Last... series), suicide. [282]
Wilson Hulme, 60, American philatelist and curator of the National Postal Museum, heart attack. [283]
Alice Lakwena, 50, Ugandan rebel leader and founder of the Holy Spirit Movement. [284] [285]
Bradford Washburn, 96, American cartographer, mountaineer and founder of the Boston Museum of Science, heart failure. [286]

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Chris Aylmer, 49, British musician, bass guitarist for Samson, throat cancer. [287] [288]
Dame Joyanne Bracewell, 72, British senior judge of the Family Division of the High Court, after long illness. [289]
Ion Dincă, 78, Romanian Deputy Prime Minister and Mayor of Bucharest during the Communist era. [290] (Romanian)
Rex Farrance, 59, American technical editor of PC World, shot. [291]
Ruth Jefford, 92, American pioneer pilot, founding member of the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, arterial disease. [292]
Kim Hyung-eun, 27, South Korean comedic actress, heart failure, complications from serious auto accident. [293] [294]
Thomas Nelson, 111, American who was second oldest man in the world at time of death. [295]
Maureen Orcutt, 99, American golf champion. [296]
Yelena Petushkova, 66, Russian equestrian, Olympic double medallist in 1972, after long illness.[297] [298]
Carlo Ponti, 94, Italian film producer, pulmonary complications. [299]
Irma St. Paule, 80, American Broadway and film actress. [300]
Elmer Symons, 29, South African off-road motorcycle racer, accident during the Dakar Rally. [301]
Jean-Pierre Vernant, 93, French historian and anthropologist. [302] (French)
Bob Zawoluk, 76, American National Basketball Association player, heart attack. [303]