Deaths in February 2007
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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2007.
February 2007
- 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]
- 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]
- John Robert Anderson, 78, Australian chemist. [16]
- Angelo Arcidiacono, 51, Italian Olympic fencer. [17]
- Raúl Alonso de Marco, 72, Uruguayan member of the Supreme Court of Justice (1992–2002). [18] [19] (Spanish)
- Alex Henshaw, 94, British test pilot noted for his work with Spitfire and Lancaster aircraft. [20]
- Baroness Jeger, 91, British Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras South and opposition spokesman in the House of Lords. [21]
- Sergio Previtali, 66, Uruguayan politician and former deputy (1990–1995). [22] (Spanish)
- William Anderson, 85, American congressman from Tennessee and captain of the USS Nautilus. [23]
- P. Bhaskaran, 83, Indian director and lyricist in the Malayalam language. [24]
- Jean Grelaud, 108, one of the last three 'official' French World War I veterans. [25] (French)
- Brett Mycles, 29, American fitness model and bisexual pornography actor, heart failure. [26]
- Mark Spoelstra, 66, American folk singer and veteran of the Greenwich Village music scene, pancreatic cancer. [27]
- Bryan Balkwill, 84, British conductor. [28]
- Bruce Bennett, 100, American actor (New Adventures of Tarzan, Treasure of the Sierra Madre), Olympic medallist, hip fracture. [29]
- Kåre Olav Berg, 62, Norwegian Olympic nordic skier. [30]
- Mordechai Breuer, 85, Israeli Bible researcher and Orthodox rabbi. [31]
- Mario Chanes de Armas, 80, Cuban political prisoner. [32]
- Charles Frederick Ehret, 83, American molecular biologist. [33]
- Leroy Jenkins, 74, American composer and free jazz violinist, lung cancer. [34].
- Lamar Lundy, 71, American football player, member of the Los Angeles Rams' "Fearsome Foursome" defensive line. [35]
- Damien Nash, 24, American football running back for the Denver Broncos. [36]
- George Preas, 73, American football lineman who won two NFL championships with the Baltimore Colts, Parkinson's disease. [37]
- Paul Secon, 91, American businessman who founded Pottery Barn. [38]
- Hanna Barysevich, 118?, Belarusian claimed to be world's oldest person. [39] (Polish)
- Heinz Berggruen, 93, German art collector and friend of Pablo Picasso, heart attack. [40]
- Donnie Brooks, 71, American singer ("Mission Bell"), heart failure. [41]
- Jock Dodds, 91, British footballer for Scotland and Blackpool F.C. [42]
- Robert Engler, 84, American political scientist, heart ailment. [43]
- Winthrop Jordan, 75, American historian, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [44]
- Will Maslow, 99, American Jewish leader and civil rights lawyer. [45]
- John Ritchie, 65, British footballer for Stoke City F.C., club's record goalscorer. [46]
- Pascal Yoadimnadji, 56, Prime Minister of Chad, brain haemorrhage. [47]
- Avrohom Blumenkrantz, 62, American Orthodox rabbi, posek, and kashrut authority, complications of diabetes. [48]
- Lothar-Günther Buchheim, 89, German author (Das Boot), painter and art collector, heart failure. [49]
- Irwin Caplan, 87, American cartoonist (Saturday Evening Post, Collier's), Parkinson's disease. [50]
- Jozef Dunajovec, 73, Slovak journalist and non-fiction author. [51] (Slovak)
- Edgar Evans, 94, British opera singer. [52]
- George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, 88, British soldier, politician and businessman. [53]
- Dennis Johnson, 52, American All-Star basketball player and coach, 1979 NBA Finals MVP, cardiac arrest. [54] [55]
- Nikita Khrushchev, 47, Russian journalist, grandson of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, stroke. [56]
- Samuel Hinga Norman, 67, Sierra Leone leader of pro-government Kamajors militia, heart failure. [57]
- Fons Rademakers, 86, Dutch Academy Award-winning film director (The Assault), emphysema. [58]
- Howard Ramsey, 108, American who was one of the last surviving US World War I combat veterans. [59]
- Ian Wallace, 60, British drummer (King Crimson, 21st Century Schizoid Band), esophageal cancer. [60]
- Victor Clemett, 107, Canada's second oldest living veteran of World War I. [61]
- Sherman Jones, 72, American baseball player and Kansas state politician. [62]
- Keith Kyle, 81, British journalist, historian and broadcaster. [63]
- John Robins, 80, British rugby union player for Wales, coach of the British Lions. [64]
- Barry Stevens, 44, American basketball player and second highest scorer in Iowa State University history, heart attack. [65]
- Sir John Akehurst, 77, British general. [66]
- F. Albert Cotton, 76, American chemist and Texas A&M University professor. [67]
- Sir Michael Hart, 58, British High Court judge, lung cancer. [68]
- Ronald Hilton, 95, American Stanford University professor who helped uncover the Bay of Pigs Invasion plan. [69]
- Sir Edward Gordon Jones, 92, British Air Marshal. [70]
- Ihab Kareem, 26, Iraqi footballer, bombing. [71]
- Siegfried Landau, 85, American musician and founding conductor of Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, house fire. [72]
- Carl-Henning Pedersen, 93, Danish painter known for his membership of CoBrA. [73] [74]
- Zilla Huma Usman, 35, Pakistani minister for social welfare in the Punjab province, shot. [75] [76]
- Derek Waring, 79, British actor (Z-Cars), widower of Dame Dorothy Tutin, cancer. [77]
- Robert W. Young, 94, American linguist. [78]
- Janet Blair, 85, American actress (My Sister Eileen, The Fabulous Dorseys), complications of pneumonia. [79] [80]
- Celia Franca, 85, British-born Canadian dancer, founder and artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada. [81] [82]
- Antonio Serapio, 69, Philippine congressman representing the city of Valenzuela, car accident resulting from cardiac arrest. [83]
- Barbara Gittings, 74, American gay rights campaigner, breast cancer. [84]
- Bob Oksner, 90, American comic book artist, pneumonia. [85]
- Frank M. Snowden, Jr, 95, American authority on black people in the ancient world, heart failure. [86]
- Juan "Pachín" Vicéns, 72, Puerto Rican basketball player. [87]
- Michael "Mike Awesome" Alfonso, 42, American wrestler, twice ECW World Champion, suicide by hanging. [88] [89]
- Mehmet Altınsoy, 82, Turkish politician, intracranial hemorrhage. [90] (Turkish)
- Mai Ghoussoub, 54, Lebanese author and publisher. [91]
- Jurga Ivanauskaitė, 45, Lithuanian writer, cancer. [92]
- Mary Kaye, 83, American singer/guitarist and leader of the Mary Kaye Trio, respiratory and heart failure. [93]
- Dermot O’Reilly, 64, Irish-born Canadian singer and musician with Ryan's Fancy. [94] [95]
- Maurice Papon, 96, French World War II Vichy government official convicted of deporting Jews to Nazi death camps. [96] [97]
- Herminio Iglesias, 77, Argentinian Peronist Party politician. [98]
- Jakov Lind, 80, Austrian Holocaust survivor and author. [99]
- Norman Miscampbell, 81, British politician, Conservative MP for Blackpool North (1962-1992). [100]
- Sheridan Morley, 65, British broadcaster and author, heart failure. [101] [102] [103]
- Ralph Penza, 74, American senior correspondent and substitute anchor for WNBC. [104] [105]
- Lilli Promet, 85, Estonian writer. [106] (Estonian)
- Gene Snyder, 79, American Republican Representative from Kentucky (1963–1965, 1967–1987). [107]
- Robert Adler, 93, Austrian-born American co-inventor of the TV remote control, heart failure. [108] [109] [110]
- Bill Carson, 80, American guitarist. [111]
- Arthur J. Dixon, 88, Canadian member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1952–1975). [112]
- Walker Edmiston, 81, American voice actor, cancer. [113]
- Ray Evans, 92, American songwriter, partner of Jay Livingston for hits such as "Buttons and Bows", heart attack. [114] [115]
- Stephen Gardiner, 82, British architect. [116]
- Buddy Hancken, 92, American baseball player. [117]
- Daniel McDonald, 46, American Broadway actor, brain cancer. [118]
- Mordkhe Schaechter, 79, American Yiddish linguist and lexicographer. [119]
- Ryan Larkin, 63, Canadian animator, Oscar nominee and subject of the Oscar-winning animated short Ryan, lung cancer. [120]
- Benito Medero, 84, Uruguayan Minister of Agriculture (1972-1974). [121] (Spanish)
- Gareth Morris, 86, British flautist and music teacher. [122]
- John O'Banion, 59, American singer and actor, accident causing blunt force trauma.[123][124]
- John Penn, 85, British architect. [125]
- Steven Pimlott, 53, British theatre director, lung cancer. [126] [127]
- Richard S. Prather, 85, American novelist. [128]
- Emmett Williams, 81, American poet and Fluxus artist. [129]
- Charles Henry Pepys Harington, 96, British general. [130]
- Elizabeth Jolley, 83, Australian author, illness. [131]
- Bruce Metzger, 93, American professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and expert on Greek biblical manuscripts. [132] [133]
- Charlie Norwood, 65, American Republican Representative from Georgia since 1995, cancer. [134]
- Eliana Ramos, 18, Uruguayan model and sister of late model Luisel Ramos, heart attack. [135]
- Johanna Sällström, 32, Swedish actress. [136]
- Sir Richard Wakeford, 84, British Air Marshal. [137]
- Violet Barasa, 31, Kenyan women's volleyball team captain and Olympic competitor. [138]
- Warren Batchelder, 89, American animator for Warner Bros.. [139]
- Georg Buschner, 81, East German football coach, prostate cancer. [140]
- Jimmy Campbell, 63, British musician. [141]
- Valucha deCastro, 77, Brazilian musician, liver disease. [142]
- Peter Ellenshaw, 93, Anglo-American Academy Award-winning special effects designer. [143] [144]
- Thomas E. Fairchild, 94, American Federal Appeals Court Judge. [145]
- Peggy Gilbert, 102, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader, complications of hip surgery. [146]
- Ellen Hanley, 80, American Broadway theatre actress, stroke. [147] [148]
- Joseph Low, 95, American children's book illustrator. [149]
- John MacLeod of MacLeod, 71, British 29th chief of the Clan MacLeod, leukaemia. [150]
- Joseph McKeown, 82, British photojournalist, after a fall. [151]
- Paolo Pileri, 62, Italian motorcycle racer (1973–1979), 1975 World Champion and Capirossi team manager, natural causes. [152]
- Randy Stone, 48, American casting director and Oscar-winning film producer, heart failure. [153]
- Sulejman Talović, 18, American Salt Lake City spree killer, shot by police. [154]
- Geraldine Warrick-Crisman, 76, African-American TV executive, former assistant New Jersey state treasurer, breast cancer. [155]
- Eldee Young, 71, American musician, bass player for Ramsey Lewis Trio, heart attack. [156]
- Jorge Antonio, 89, Argentinian Peronist party politician and business man. [157] (Spanish)
- Marianne Fredriksson, 79, Swedish writer and journalist, heart attack. [158]
- Derek Gardner, 92, British marine painter. [159]
- Charles Langford, 84, American Alabama state senator and lawyer, represented Rosa Parks during Montgomery Bus Boycott. [160]
- Yunus Parvez, 75, Indian Bollywood actor, complications of diabetes. [161]
- Jim Ricca, 79, American football player (Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles, Detroit Lions), cerebral aneurysm. [162]
- Gary Frisch, 38, South African co-founder of Gaydar dating website, fall from balcony. [163]
- Jung Da Bin, 26, South Korean actress, suspected suicide by hanging. [164]
- James C. Melby, 57, American professional wrestling historian, author and magazine editor. [165]
- Charles R. Walgreen, Jr., 100, American president of Walgreens (1939–1971), son of founder Charles R. Walgreen. [166] [167]
- Hank Bauer, 84, American baseball outfielder and manager, three-time All Star, cancer. [168]
- Eddie Feigner, 81, American softball player, respiratory failure. [169] [170]
- Alejandro Finisterre, 87, Spanish inventor of table football. [171]
- Tara Lynn Grant, 34, American murdered and dismembered by her husband, strangulation. [172]
- Benedict Kiely, 87, Irish writer and broadcaster. [173]
- Aida Mason, 111, Britain's oldest person. [174]
- Andrew McAuley, 39, Australian ocean kayak adventurer, presumed drowned. [175]
- Ian Richardson, 72, British actor (House of Cards, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) and member of the RSC, in his sleep. [176] [177]
- Bruno Ruffo, 86, Italian motorcycle racer, three-time world champion (1949–1951). [178]
- Tom Abraham, 96, Lebanese-born American businessman, stroke. [179]
- Joe Edwards, 85, American comic book artist best known for his Archie and Li'l Jinx comics, heart failure. [180]
- Adele Faccio, 86, Italian civil right activist. [181] (Italian)
- Florence Melton, 95, American inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist. [182] [183]
- Shelby Metcalf, 76, Texas A&M basketball coach, cancer. [184]
- Antonio Pierro, 110, oldest man in the United States and oldest living World War I veteran. [185]
- Ismail Semed, Chinese Muslim Uighur separatist, execution by firing squad. [186]
- Anna Nicole Smith, 39, American 1993 Playmate of the Year, widow of J. Howard Marshall, accidental drug overdose. [187] [188]
- Ian Stevenson, 88, Canadian psychiatrist and reincarnation researcher.[189] [190]
- Peter Thornton, 81, British museum curator and historian. [191]
- Harriett Woods, 79, American Lieutenant Governor of Missouri (1985–1989), leukemia. [192]
- Helen Duncan, 65, New Zealand former union leader and politician, cancer. [193] [194]
- Tommy James, 83, American football player with the Cleveland Browns, congestive heart failure. [195]
- Ken Kennedy, 61, American computer scientist at Rice University, pancreatic cancer. [196]
- Alan MacDiarmid, 79, New Zealand recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2000, injuries from a fall. [197]
- Erika Ortiz Rocasolano, 31, Spanish youngest sister of Letizia, Princess of Asturias. [198] [199]
- Fred Mustard Stewart, 74, American author (The Mephisto Waltz, Ellis Island), cancer. [200]
- Brian Williams, 44, British former rugby union player for Wales and Neath RFC, heart attack. [201]
- Wolfgang Bartels, 66, German bronze-medal winning Olympic alpine skiier (1964). [202]
- Lew Burdette, 80, American baseball player, MVP of the 1957 World Series, stomach cancer. [203] [204]
- Lee Hoffman, 74, American science fiction and western writer, heart attack. [205]
- Len Hopkins, 76, Canadian politician, Liberal MP from Ontario (1965-1997), pneumonia. [206]
- Frankie Laine, 93, American singer ("Mule Train"), complications of hip replacement surgery. [207] [208]
- Reiner Merkel, 55, CEO of German Press Agency Picture Alliance, heart attack. [209]
- Nelson W. Polsby, 72, American political scientist and author, heart failure. [210]
- Sir Gareth Roberts, 66, British physicist and principal of Wolfson College, Oxford. [211]
- Glenn Sarty, 77, Canadian original producer of CBC's The Fifth Estate, Take 30 and Take 60, emphysema. [212]
- Bent Skovmand, 61, Danish plant scientist and conservationist, founder of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, brain tumor. [213] [214]
- Willye White, 68, African American first 5-time U.S. track and field Olympian, pancreatic cancer. [215]
- Johnny Williams, 80, British champion professional boxer in the 1940s and 50s. [216]
- Angela King, 68, Jamaican diplomat, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations (1997-2004), cancer. [217]
- Leo T. McCarthy, 76, New Zealand-born American politician and Lt.-Gov. of California (1983–1995), kidney failure. [218]
- Alfred Worm, 61, Austrian investigative journalist, heart attack. [219]
- Steve Barber, 68, American Major League Baseball pitcher, pneumonia. [220] [221]
- José Carlos Bauer, 81, Brazilian World Cup footballer. [222]
- Paul Burwell, 57, British percussionist. [223]
- Ilya Kormiltsev, 47, Russian poet and translator, spinal cancer. [224].
- Barbara McNair, 72, American singer and actress, throat cancer. [225] [226]
- Jules Olitski, 84, Ukrainian-born American abstract painter and sculptor, cancer. [227]
- Liliane Ackermann, 68, French Jewish community leader, writer and lecturer. [228] (French)
- George Becker, 78, American president of United Steelworkers (1993–2001), prostate cancer. [229]
- Ralph de Toledano, 90, Moroccan-born American political columnist and author. [230]
- Stephan Epstein, 46, British professor of economic history at LSE, epileptic seizure. [231]
- Ben Kaye, 68, Canadian songwriter and adviser to Celine Dion, cancer. [232]
- Pedro Knight, 85, Cuban–American musician and husband of Celia Cruz. [233] [234]
- Edmund Arnold, 93, American newspaper designer, pneumonia. [235] [236]
- Vijay Arora, 62, Indian film and television actor, intestinal condition. [237]
- Loren Grey, 91, American educational psychologist and son of Zane Grey, age-related complications. [238]
- Billy Henderson, 67, American singer with The Spinners, diabetes. [239]
- Joe Hunter, 79, American pianist and bandleader of The Funk Brothers. [240] [241]
- Terry Lee McMillan, 53, American harmonica player. [242]
- Gisèle Pascal, 85, French actress and one-time lover of Prince Rainier. [243]
- Filippo Raciti, 40, Italian police officer, fatal injury by football hooligan. [244] [245]
- Eric von Schmidt, 75, American folk/blues singer-songwriter, stroke. [246] [247]
- Masao Takemoto, 87, Japanese gymnast, gold medallist at 1960 Summer Olympics, bile duct cancer. [248]
- Shannon J. Wall, 87, American union official, President of the National Maritime Union (1973–1990). [249]
- Whitney Balliett, 80, American jazz critic, cancer. [250]
- Ray Berres, 99, American baseball player who was second-oldest living major league player, pneumonia. [251]
- Ahmad Abu Laban, 60, Egyptian-born Danish Muslim leader, key figure in the Muhammad cartoons controversy, cancer. [252] [253]
- Gian Carlo Menotti, 95, Italian-born opera composer (Amahl and the Night Visitors). [254] [255]
- Antonio María Javierre Ortas, 85, Spanish cardinal and prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship (1992–1996), cardiac arrest. [256]
- Adelina Tattilo, 78, Italian founder of Playmen magazine. [257] (Italian)
- Seri Wangnaitham, 70, Thai dancer, choreographer and national artist, heart failure. [258]