Deaths in February 2007

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

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• Angeline Barrette, 110, Canadian believed to be country's oldest person. [1]
• Charles Forte, Baron Forte, 98, British hotelier. [2]
• Alexander King, 98, British scientist who co-founded the Club of Rome. [3]
• Robert C. Kingston, 78, American Army General, complications from a fall. [4]
• Alexei Komech, 70, Russian architectural historian, cancer. [5]
• Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., 89, American historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, heart attack. [6]
• Sir John Smith, 83, British founder of the Landmark Trust. [7]
• Billy Thorpe, 60, Australian rock musician, cardiac arrest. [8]

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• Russell Churney, 42, British pianist, pancreatic cancer. [9]
• Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, 93, German World War II General, survivor of Hitler's bunker. [10]
• Wayne Hooper, 86, American music composer, arranger and singer. [11]
• Jack Marks, 80, Canadian Chief of Metro Toronto Police (1984–1989), pancreatic cancer. [12]
• Bobby Rosengarden, 82, American jazz drummer and bandleader on The Dick Cavett Show, kidney failure. [13]
• Mel Swart, 87, Canadian politician, stroke. [14]
• Judith Toups, 76, American birding expert and Sun Herald columnist. [15]

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• Raúl Alonso de Marco, 72, Uruguayan member of the Supreme Court of Justice (1992–2002). [16] [17] (Spanish)
• Alex Henshaw, 94, British test pilot noted for his work with Spitfire and Lancaster aircraft. [18]
• Baroness Jeger, 91, British Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras South and opposition spokesman in the House of Lords. [19]
• Sergio Previtali, 66, Uruguayan politician and former deputy (1990–1995). [20] (Spanish)

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• William Anderson, 85, American congressman from Tennessee and captain of the USS Nautilus. [21]
• P. Bhaskaran, 83, Indian director and lyricist in the Malayalam language. [22]
• Jean Grelaud, 108, one of the last three 'official' French World War I veterans. [23] (French)
• Brett Mycles, 29, American fitness model and bisexual pornography actor, heart failure. [24]
• Mark Spoelstra, 66, American folk singer and veteran of the Greenwich Village music scene, pancreatic cancer. [25]

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• Bryan Balkwill, 84, British conductor. [26]
• Bruce Bennett, 100, American actor (New Adventures of Tarzan, Treasure of the Sierra Madre), Olympic medallist, hip fracture. [27]
• Mordechai Breuer, 85, Israeli Bible researcher and Orthodox rabbi. [28]
• Mario Chanes de Armas, 80, Cuban political prisoner. [29]
• Charles Frederick Ehret, 83, American molecular biologist. [30]
• Leroy Jenkins, 74, American composer and free jazz violinist, lung cancer. [31].
• Lamar Lundy, 71, American football player, member of the Los Angeles Rams' "Fearsome Foursome" defensive line. [32]
• Damien Nash, 24, American football running back for the Denver Broncos. [33]
• George Preas, 73, American football lineman who won two NFL championships with the Baltimore Colts, Parkinson's disease. [34]
• Paul Secon, 91, American businessman who founded Pottery Barn. [35]

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• Hanna Barysevich, 118?, Belarusian claimed to be world's oldest person. [36] (Polish)
• Heinz Berggruen, 93, German art collector and friend of Pablo Picasso, heart attack. [37]
• Donnie Brooks, 71, American singer ("Mission Bell"), heart failure. [38]
• Jock Dodds, 91, British footballer for Scotland and Blackpool F.C. who held the record for fastest hat-trick. [39]
• Robert Engler, 84, American political scientist, heart ailment. [40]
• Winthrop Jordan, 75, American historian, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [41]
• Will Maslow, 99, American Jewish leader and civil rights lawyer. [42]
• John Ritchie, 65, British footballer for Stoke City F.C., club's record goalscorer. [43]
• Pascal Yoadimnadji, 56, Prime Minister of Chad, brain haemorrhage. [44]

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• Avrohom Blumenkrantz, 62, American Orthodox rabbi, posek, and kashrut authority, complications of diabetes. [45]
• Lothar-Günther Buchheim, 89, German author (Das Boot), painter and art collector, heart failure. [46]
• Irwin Caplan, 87, American cartoonist (Saturday Evening Post, Collier's), Parkinson's disease. [47]
• Jozef Dunajovec, 73, Slovak journalist and non-fiction author. [48] (Slovak)
• Edgar Evans, 94, British opera singer. [49]
• George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, 88, British soldier, politician and businessman. [50]
• Dennis Johnson, 52, American All-Star basketball player and coach, 1979 NBA Finals MVP, cardiac arrest. [51] [52]
• Nikita Khrushchev, 47, Russian journalist, grandson of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, stroke. [53]
• Samuel Hinga Norman, 67, Sierra Leone leader of pro-government Kamajors militia, heart failure. [54]
• Fons Rademakers, 86, Dutch Academy Award-winning film director (The Assault), emphysema. [55]
• Howard Ramsey, 108, American who was one of the last surviving US World War I combat veterans. [56]
• Kirk Rundstrom, 38, American guitarist, songwriter and member of Split Lip Rayfield, esophageal cancer. [57]
• Ian Wallace, 60, British drummer (King Crimson, 21st Century Schizoid Band), esophageal cancer. [58]

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• Victor Clemett, 107, Canada's second oldest living veteran of World War I. [59]
• Sherman Jones, 72, American baseball player and Kansas state politician. [60]
• Keith Kyle, 81, British journalist, historian and broadcaster. [61]
• John Robins, 80, British rugby union player for Wales, coach of the British Lions. [62]
• Barry Stevens, 44, American basketball player and second highest scorer in Iowa State University history, heart attack. [63]

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• F. Albert Cotton, 76, American chemist and Texas A&M University professor. [64]
• Sir Michael Hart, 58, British High Court judge, lung cancer. [65]
• Ronald Hilton, 95, American Stanford University professor who helped uncover the Bay of Pigs Invasion plan. [66]
• Sir Edward Gordon Jones, 92, British Air Marshal. [67]
• Ihab Kareem, 26, Iraqi footballer, bombing. [68]
• Siegfried Landau, 85, American musician and founding conductor of Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, house fire. [69]
• Carl-Henning Pedersen, 93, Danish painter known for his membership of CoBrA. [70] [71]
• Zilla Huma Usman, 35, Pakistani minister for social welfare in the Punjab province, shot. [72] [73]
• Derek Waring, 79, British actor (Z Cars), widower of Dame Dorothy Tutin, cancer. [74]
• Robert W. Young, 94, American linguist. [75]

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• Janet Blair, 85, American actress (My Sister Eileen, The Fabulous Dorseys), complications of pneumonia. [76] [77]
• Celia Franca, 85, British-born Canadian dancer, founder and artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada. [78] [79]
• Antonio Serapio, 69, Philippine congressman representing the city of Valenzuela, car accident resulting from cardiac arrest. [80]

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• Barbara Gittings, 74, American gay rights campaigner, breast cancer. [81]
• Bob Oksner, 90, American comic book artist, pneumonia. [82]
• Frank M. Snowden, Jr, 95, American authority on black people in the ancient world, heart failure. [83]
• Juan "Pachín" Vicéns, 72, Puerto Rican basketball player. [84]

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• Michael "Mike Awesome" Alfonso, 42, American wrestler, twice ECW World Champion, suicide by hanging. [85] [86]
• Mehmet Altınsoy, 82, Turkish politician, intracranial hemorrhage. [87] (Turkish)
• Mai Ghoussoub, 54, Lebanese author and publisher. [88]
• John Patrick Griffin, 91, American actor, father of comedian Kathy Griffin, heart failure and multiple myeloma. [89]
• Jurga Ivanauskaitė, 45, Lithuanian writer, cancer. [90]
• Mary Kaye, 83, American singer/guitarist and leader of the Mary Kaye Trio, respiratory and heart failure. [91]
• Dermot O’Reilly, 64, Irish-born Canadian singer and musician with Ryan's Fancy. [92] [93]
• Maurice Papon, 96, French World War II Vichy government official convicted of deporting Jews to Nazi death camps. [94] [95]

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• Herminio Iglesias, 77, Argentinian Peronist Party politician. [96]
• Jakov Lind, 80, Austrian Holocaust survivor and author. [97]
• Norman Miscampbell, 81, British politician, Conservative MP for Blackpool North (1962-1992). [98]
• Sheridan Morley, 65, British broadcaster and author, heart failure. [99] [100] [101]
• Ralph Penza, 74, American senior correspondent and substitute anchor for WNBC. [102] [103]
• Lilli Promet, 85, Estonian writer. [104] (Estonian)
• Gene Snyder, 79, American Republican Representative from Kentucky (1963–1965, 1967–1987). [105]

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• Robert Adler, 93, Austrian-born American co-inventor of the TV remote control, heart failure. [106] [107] [108]
• Bill Carson, 80, American guitarist. [109]
• Arthur J. Dixon, 88, Canadian member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1952–1975). [110]
• Walker Edmiston, 81, American voice actor, cancer. [111]
• Ray Evans, 92, American songwriter, partner of Jay Livingston for hits such as "Buttons and Bows", heart attack. [112] [113]
• Buddy Hancken, 92, American baseball player. [114]
• Daniel McDonald, 46, American Broadway actor, brain cancer. [115]
• Mordkhe Schaechter, 79, American Yiddish linguist and lexicographer. [116]

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• Ryan Larkin, 63, Canadian animator, Oscar nominee and subject of the Oscar-winning animated short Ryan, lung cancer. [117]
• Benito Medero, 84, Uruguayan Minister of Agriculture (1972-1974). [118] (Spanish)
• Gareth Morris, 86, British flautist and music teacher. [119]
• John O'Banion, 59, American singer and actor, accident causing blunt force trauma.[120][121]
• John Penn, 85, British architect. [122]
• Steven Pimlott, 53, British theatre director, lung cancer. [123] [124]
• Richard S. Prather, 85, American novelist. [125]
• Emmett Williams, 81, American poet and Fluxus artist. [126]

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• Charles Henry Pepys Harington, 96, British general. [127]
• Elizabeth Jolley, 83, Australian author, illness. [128]
• Bruce Metzger, 93, American professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and expert on Greek biblical manuscripts. [129] [130]
• Charlie Norwood, 65, American Republican Representative from Georgia since 1995, cancer. [131]
• Eliana Ramos, 18, Uruguayan model and sister of late model Luisel Ramos, heart attack. [132]
• Johanna Sällström, 32, Swedish actress. [133]
• Sir Richard Wakeford, 84, British Air Marshal. [134]

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• Violet Barasa, 31, Kenyan women's volleyball team captain and Olympic competitor. [135]
• Warren Batchelder, 89, American animator for Warner Bros.. [136]
• Georg Buschner, 81, East German football coach, prostate cancer. [137]
• Jimmy Campbell, 63, British musician. [138]
• Valucha deCastro, 77, Brazilian musician, liver disease. [139]
• Peter Ellenshaw, 93, Anglo-American Academy Award-winning special effects designer. [140] [141]
• Thomas E. Fairchild, 94, American Federal Appeals Court Judge. [142]
• Peggy Gilbert, 102, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader, complications of hip surgery. [143]
• Ellen Hanley, 80, American Broadway theatre actress, stroke. [144] [145]
• Joseph Low, 95, American children's book illustrator. [146]
• John MacLeod of MacLeod, 71, British 29th chief of the Clan MacLeod, leukaemia. [147]
• Joseph McKeown, 82, British photojournalist, after a fall. [148]
• Paolo Pileri, 62, Italian motorcycle racer (1973–1979), 1975 World Champion and Capirossi team manager, natural causes. [149]
• Randy Stone, 48, American casting director and Oscar-winning film producer, heart failure. [150]
• Sulejman Talović, 18, American Salt Lake City spree killer, shot by police. [151]
• Geraldine Warrick-Crisman, 76, African-American TV executive, former assistant New Jersey state treasurer, breast cancer. [152]
• Eldee Young, 71, American musician, bass player for Ramsey Lewis Trio, heart attack. [153]

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• Jorge Antonio, 89, Argentinian Peronist party politician and business man. [154] (Spanish)
• Marianne Fredriksson, 79, Swedish writer and journalist, heart attack. [155]
• Derek Gardner, 92, British marine painter. [156]
• Charles Langford, 84, American Alabama state senator and lawyer, represented Rosa Parks during Montgomery Bus Boycott. [157]
• Yunus Parvez, 75, Indian Bollywood actor, complications of diabetes. [158]
• Jim Ricca, 79, American football player (Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles, Detroit Lions), cerebral aneurysm. [159]

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• Gary Frisch, 38, South African co-founder of Gaydar dating website, fall from balcony. [160]
• Jung Da Bin, 26, South Korean actress, suspected suicide by hanging. [161]
• James C. Melby, 57, American professional wrestling historian, author and magazine editor. [162]
• Charles R. Walgreen, Jr., 100, American president of Walgreens (1939–1971), son of founder Charles R. Walgreen. [163] [164]

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• Hank Bauer, 84, American baseball outfielder and manager, three-time All Star, cancer. [165]
• Eddie Feigner, 81, American softball player, respiratory failure. [166] [167]
• Alejandro Finisterre, 87, Spanish inventor of table football. [168]
• Tara Grant, 34, American allegedly murdered and dismembered by her husband Stephen Grant, strangulation. [169]
• Benedict Kiely, 87, Irish writer and broadcaster. [170]
• Aida Mason, 111, Britain's oldest person. [171]
• Andrew McAuley, 39, Australian ocean kayak adventurer, missing presumed dead at sea. [172]
• Ian Richardson, 72, British actor (House of Cards, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) and member of the RSC, in his sleep. [173] [174]
• Bruno Ruffo, 86, Italian motorcycle racer, three-time world champion (1949–1951). [175]

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• Tom Abraham, 96, Lebanese-born American businessman, stroke. [176]
• Joe Edwards, 85, American comic book artist best known for his Archie and Li'l Jinx comics, heart failure. [177]
• Adele Faccio, 86, Italian civil right activist. [178] (Italian)
• Florence Melton, 95, American inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist. [179] [180]
• Shelby Metcalf, 76, Texas A&M basketball coach, cancer. [181]
• Antonio Pierro, 110, oldest man in the United States and oldest living World War I veteran. [182]
• Ismail Semed, Chinese Muslim Uighur separatist, execution by firing squad. [183]
• Anna Nicole Smith, 39, American 1993 Playmate of the Year, widow of J. Howard Marshall, accidental drug overdose. [184] [185]
• Ian Stevenson, 88, Canadian psychiatrist and researcher of reincarnation.[186] [187]
• Peter Thornton, 81, British museum curator and historian. [188]
• Harriett Woods, 79, American Lieutenant Governor of Missouri (1985–1989), leukemia. [189]

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• Helen Duncan, 65, New Zealand former union leader and politician, cancer. [190] [191]
• Tommy James, 83, American football player with the Cleveland Browns, congestive heart failure. [192]
• Ken Kennedy, 61, American computer scientist at Rice University, pancreatic cancer. [193]
• Alan MacDiarmid, 79, New Zealand recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2000, injuries from a fall. [194]
• Erika Ortiz Rocasolano, 31, Spanish youngest sister of Letizia, Princess of Asturias. [195] [196]
• Fred Mustard Stewart, 74, American author (The Mephisto Waltz, Ellis Island), cancer. [197]
• Brian Williams, 44, British former rugby union player for Wales and Neath RFC, heart attack. [198]

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• Lew Burdette, 80, American baseball player, MVP of the 1957 World Series, stomach cancer. [199] [200]
• Lee Hoffman, 74, American science fiction and western writer, heart attack. [201]
• Len Hopkins, 76, Canadian politician, Liberal MP from Ontario (1965-1997), pneumonia. [202]
• Frankie Laine, 93, American singer ("Mule Train"), complications of hip replacement surgery. [203] [204]
• Reiner Merkel, 55, CEO of German Press Agency Picture Alliance, heart attack. [205]
• Nelson W. Polsby, 72, American political scientist and author, heart failure. [206]
• Sir Gareth Roberts, 66, British physicist and principal of Wolfson College, Oxford. [207]
• Glenn Sarty, 77, Canadian original producer of CBC's The Fifth Estate, Take 30 and Take 60, emphysema. [208]
• Bent Skovmand, 61, Danish plant scientist and conservationist, founder of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, brain tumor. [209] [210]
• Willye White, 68, African American first 5-time U.S. track and field Olympian, pancreatic cancer. [211]
• Johnny Williams, 80, British champion professional boxer in the 1940s and 50s. [212]

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• Angela King, 68, Jamaican diplomat, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations (1997-2004), cancer. [213]
• Leo T. McCarthy, 76, New Zealand-born American politician and Lt.-Gov. of California (1983–1995), kidney failure. [214]
• Alfred Worm, 61, Austrian investigative journalist, heart attack. [215]

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• Steve Barber, 68, American Major League Baseball pitcher, pneumonia. [216] [217]
• José Carlos Bauer, 81, Brazilian World Cup footballer. [218]
• Paul Burwell, 57, British percussionist. [219]
• Ilya Kormiltsev, 47, Russian poet and translator, spinal cancer. [220].
• Barbara McNair, 72, American singer and actress, throat cancer. [221] [222]
• Jules Olitski, 84, Ukrainian-born American abstract painter and sculptor, cancer. [223]

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• Liliane Ackermann, 68, French Jewish community leader, writer and lecturer. [224] (French)
• George Becker, 78, American president of United Steelworkers (1993–2001), prostate cancer. [225]
• Ralph de Toledano, 90, Moroccan-born American political columnist and author. [226]
• Stephan Epstein, 46, British professor of economic history at LSE, epileptic seizure. [227]
• Ben Kaye, 68, Canadian songwriter and adviser to Celine Dion, cancer. [228]
• Pedro Knight, 85, Cuban–American musician and husband of Celia Cruz. [229] [230]

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• Edmund Arnold, 93, American newspaper designer, pneumonia. [231] [232]
• Vijay Arora, 62, Indian film and television actor, intestinal condition. [233]
• Loren Grey, 91, American educational psychologist and son of Zane Grey, age-related complications. [234]
• Billy Henderson, 67, American singer with The Spinners, diabetes. [235]
• Joe Hunter, 79, American pianist and bandleader of The Funk Brothers. [236] [237]
• Terry Lee McMillan, 53, American harmonica player. [238]
• Gisèle Pascal, 85, French actress and one-time lover of Prince Rainier. [239]
• Filippo Raciti, 40, Italian police officer, fatal injury by football hooligan. [240] [241]
• Eric von Schmidt, 75, American folk/blues singer-songwriter, stroke. [242] [243]
• Masao Takemoto, 87, Japanese gymnast, gold medallist at 1960 Summer Olympics, bile duct cancer. [244]
• Shannon J. Wall, 87, American union official, President of the National Maritime Union (1973–1990). [245]

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• Whitney Balliett, 80, American jazz critic, cancer. [246]
• Ray Berres, 99, American baseball player who was second-oldest living major league player, pneumonia. [247]
• Ahmad Abu Laban, 60, Egyptian-born Danish Muslim leader, key figure in the Muhammad cartoons controversy, cancer. [248] [249]
• Gian Carlo Menotti, 95, Italian-born opera composer (Amahl and the Night Visitors). [250] [251]
• Antonio María Javierre Ortas, 85, Spanish cardinal and prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship (1992–1996), cardiac arrest. [252]
• Adelina Tattilo, 78, Italian founder of Playmen magazine. [253] (Italian)
• Seri Wangnaitham, 70, Thai dancer, choreographer and national artist, heart failure. [254]