Deaths in January 2007

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

January 2007

31

• Kirill Babitzin, 56, Finnish singer, 9th in 1984 Eurovision Song Contest. [1]
• Lee Bergere, 82, American actor. [2]
• Molly Ivins, 62, American newspaper columnist, political commentator and author, breast cancer. [3] [4] [5]
• Richard Kelley, 91, American stepfather of Bill Clinton, cancer. [6] [7]
• Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, 49, Saudi brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden, shot. [8]
• Olevi Kull, 51, Estonian ecologist. [9] (Estonian)
• Ronald Muldrow, 57, American jazz guitarist. [10]
• Douglas T Ross, 77, American who created APT (programming language) and led MIT CAD project. [11]
• Adelaide Tambo, 77, South African activist and wife of Oliver Tambo. [12]

30

• Stu Inman, 80, American National Basketball Association executive, heart attack. [13]
• Griffith Jones, 97, British actor. [14]
• Nikos Kourkoulos, 72, Greek actor and artistic director of the National Theatre of Greece, cancer. [15]
• Max Lanier, 91, American baseball player. [16] [17]
• Gordon Macklin, 78, American stock broker, NASD President (1970–87), oversaw NASDAQ start, stroke. [18]
• Calvin Plimpton, 89, American president of Amherst College (1960–71), complications from surgery. [19] [20]
• Sidney Sheldon, 89, American author and TV producer (I Dream of Jeannie), complications from pneumonia. [21]

29

• Barbaro, 4, American racehorse, 2006 Kentucky Derby winner, euthanized after contracting laminitis. [22]
• José D'Elía, 90, Uruguayan labor leader and politician. [23] (Spanish)
• Art Fowler, 84, American Major League Baseball pitcher and pitching coach. [24] [25]
• Robert Meier, 109, oldest living German man, World War I veteran. [26]

28

• Iván Böszörményi-Nagy, 86, Hungarian-American psychiatrist, complications from Parkinson's disease. [27] [28]
• Malcolm Bowie, 63, English scholar of French literature and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge (2002-2006). [29]
• Carlo Clerici, 78, Swiss road racing cyclist who won 1954 Giro d'Italia, cancer. [30] (Italian)
• Cyril Demarne, 101, British wartime firefighter. [31]
• Robert Drinan, S.J., 86, American Democratic Representative and law professor, pneumonia/congestive heart failure. [32]
• Beatrice Hsu, 28, Taiwanese actress, cardiac arrest following car accident. [33] [34]
• Fiona Jones, 49, British politician, Labour MP for Newark (1997-2001), alcoholic liver disease [35]
• Nona Koirala, 78, politician of Nepali Congress, widow of Keshav Prasad Koirala, liver failure. [36] [37]
• Alf Large, 88, Norwegian Olympic bobsledder. [38]
• O P Nayyar, 81, Indian music director for Hindi films, cardiac arrest. [39]
• Deborah Orin-Eilbeck, 59, American bureau chief in Washington for the New York Post, cancer. [40] [41]
• Yelena Romanova, 43, Russian track and field athlete, 3000 metres gold medalist at 1992 Summer Olympics. [42]
• Karel Svoboda, 68, Czech composer, suicide. [43]
• Emma Tillman, 114, American who was the recognised world's oldest person. [44] [45]

27

• Trevor Allan, 80, Australian rugby union player and TV commentator, cancer. [46]
• Tige Andrews, 86, American actor (The Mod Squad), cardiac arrest. [47]
• Marcheline Bertrand, 56, American actress and mother of Angelina Jolie and James Haven, cancer. [48]
• Bob Carroll, 88, American television writer for I Love Lucy. [49] [50]
• Paul Channon (Baron Kelvedon of Ongar), 71, British MP for Southend West (1959–1997) and government minister.[51]
• Alberta Davis, 125?, American woman listed by Social Security as oldest person in America. [52]
• Bing Devine, 90, American general manager of the NL's St. Louis Cardinals baseball team (1958–1964, 1968–1978). [53]
• Claudio Guillén, 82, Spanish writer, member of the Royal Spanish Academy and son of Jorge Guillén, heart attack. [54] [55] (Spanish)
• Kamleshwar, 75, Indian writer and television executive, heart attack. [56]
• Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, 66, French professor of aesthetics at University of Strasbourg, respiratory insufficiency. [57] (French)
• Herbert Reinecker, 92, German novelist, dramatist and screenwriter (Derrick). [58]
• Yang Chuan-Kwang, 73, Taiwanese silver medalist in decathlon at 1960 Summer Olympics, brain hemorrhage. [59]

26

• Charles Brunier, 105, French veteran of WWI and WWII who claimed to have been the inspiration for Papillon. [60] (French)
• Avis M. Dry, 85, British-born clinical psychologist and author on work of Carl Jung.
• Sharon Tyler Herbst, 64 (or 65?) American author of The Food Lover's Companion cookbook, ovarian cancer. [61]
• Jean Ichbiah, 66, French computer scientist and chief designer of the Ada programming language, brain cancer. [62]
• Max Kelly, 76, Australian mathematics professor and leading researcher into category theory. [63]
• Jimmy Ledgard, 84, British rugby league player for Great Britain, Dewsbury and Leigh. [64]
• Emanuele Luzzati, 85, Italian painter, Oscar-nominated production designer and animator. [65]
• David Rattray, 48, South African historian of the Anglo-Zulu War, shot. [66] [67]
• Glen Tetley, 80, American choreographer and dancer, melanoma. [68] [69]
• Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi, 21, Nigerian convicted of drug trafficking in Singapore, execution by hanging. [70]
• Hans Wegner, 92, Danish furniture designer. [71]
• Lorne "Gump" Worsley, 77, Canadian NHL goaltender and Vezina Trophy winner, heart attack. [72]

25

• Ken Kavanaugh, 90, American National Football League player, complications from pneumonia. [73]
• Majid Khadduri, 98, Iraqi–born American founder of the SAIS Middle East Studies program, failure to thrive. [74] [75].
• Jack Lang, 85, American sportswriter and secretary-treasurer of the Baseball Writers Association (1966–1988). [76] [77]
• Eleanor McGovern, 85, American wife of Senator and Presidential candidate George McGovern. [78] [79]
• Hideo Ogata, 73, Japanese founding editor of Animage. [80]
• Roberta Semple Salter, 96, American evangelist, daughter of Aimee Semple McPherson and co-creator of Name That Tune. [81]

24

• Ismail Cem, 67, Turkish politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1997–2002), lung cancer. [82] [83]
• Jean-François Deniau, 78, French writer and statesman, member of the Académie française. [84]
• Krystyna Feldman, 91, Polish actress, lung cancer. [85] (Polish)
• Wolfgang Iser, 80, German literary scholar and founder of Reader-response criticism. [86] (German)
• Bryan Kocis, 44, American gay pornography producer, stabbed. [87]
• Guadalupe Larriva, 50, Ecuadorian Defense minister, helicopter crash. [88]
• John W. Lavelle, 57, New York State Assemblyman, stroke. [89].
• A. H. de Oliveira Marques, 73, Portuguese historian, heart failure. [90]
• Harry Melbourne, 94, Australian inventor of the Freddo Frog chocolate, golden staph infection. [91] [92]
• Emiliano Mercado del Toro, 115, Puerto Rican WW I veteran, was world's oldest person, natural causes. [93]
• David Morris, 79, British Labour MEP (1984–1999) and Chairman of CND Cymru. [94]
• Charlotte Thompson Reid, 93, American singer and Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives. [95]
• Mendy Samstein, 68, American civil rights activist, organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, carcinoid cancer. [96]
• Daniel Stern, 79, American University of Houston professor, Warner Bros. and CBS Vice President, heart surgery complications.[97]
• Peter Tompkins, 87, American journalist and writer (The Secret Life of Plants). [98]

23

• Syed Hussein Alatas, 78, Malaysian academic, writer and Gerakan Party founding president, heart attack. [99] [100]
• E. Howard Hunt, 88, American Watergate scandal principal, pneumonia. [101]
• Ryszard Kapuściński, 74, Polish journalist, author of book about The Soccer War. [102]
• John Majhor, 53, Canadian and American radio and TV broadcaster, cancer. [103]
• Leopoldo Pirelli, 81, Italian chairman of Pirelli (1965–1996). [104]
• David M. Ronne, 63, American sound engineer. [105]
• David "Disco D" Shayman, 26, American hip hop producer, suicide. [106]

22

• Doug Blasdell, 44, American Bravo television network trainer on Work Out. [107]
• L. M. Boyd, 79, American newspaper columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. [108]
• Lisa E. Goldberg, 54, American president of the Charles H. Revson Foundation, brain aneurysm. [109]
• Toulo de Graffenried, 92, Swiss Formula One racing driver (1950–1956). [110] [111]
• Victoria Hopper, 97, British stage and film actress. [112]
• Ramón Marsal Ribó, 72, Spanish footballer for Real Madrid. [113]
• Michael Nolan, 78, English Law Lord and first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, degenerative illness. [114]
• Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, 83, Rwandan pastor convicted of participation in the Rwandan genocide. [115]
• Abbé Pierre, 94, French founder of the Emmaüs movement, lung infection. [116]
• Liz Renay, 80, American actress and author, internal bleeding. [117]

21

• Maria Cioncan, 29, Romanian runner and medalist at 2004 Summer Olympics, car accident. [118]
• Peter Clarke, 58, Children's Commissioner for Wales, cancer. [119]
• Richard Ollard, 83, British historian and biographer. [120]
• Peer Raben, 66, German composer, mainly of film music associated with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. [121]
• Barbara Seranella, 50, American author, liver failure. [122]
• U;Nee, 25, Korean pop singer, suicide by hanging. [123]

20

• Eric Aubijoux, 42, French motorcycle rider, possible cardiac arrest during Dakar Rally. [124][125]
• Dan Christensen, 64, American abstract painter, heart failure due to polymyositis.[126]
• Lloyd Francis, 86, Canadian MP and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (1984), stomach cancer. [127]
• Murat Nasyrov, 37, Russian-Kazakh singer, suicide by jumping. [128]
• Anatol Rapoport, 95, Russian-born American mathematical psychologist and peace activist. [129]
• Alfredo Ripstein, 90, Mexican movie producer, respiratory failure. [130]
• Vern Ruhle, 55, American MLB pitcher and pitching coach, multiple myeloma. [131]
• George Smathers, 93, American Senator for Florida (1951–1969), stroke complications. [132]
• Ali de Vries, 92, Dutch women's 4x100m relay runner at the 1936 Summer Olympics. [133]

19

• Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow, 45, American professional wrestler, drug overdose. [134] [135]
• Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão, 69, Portuguese poet, dramatist, essayist and translator, long illness. [136] (Portuguese)
• Gerhard Bronner, 84, Austrian composer and cabaret artist, complications following a stroke. [137]
• Hrant Dink, 52, Armenian-Turkish editor, journalist and columnist, shot. [138] [139]
• Denny Doherty, 66, Canadian singer with The Mamas & the Papas, abdominal aneurysm. [140] [141] [142]
• Bill Lefebvre, 91, American baseball pitcher for Boston Red Sox (1938–1939) and Washington Senators (1943–1944). [143]

18

• Cyril Mar Baselious, 71, Indian Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, heart attack. [144]
• Julie Winnefred Bertrand, 115, Canadian who was the world's oldest known woman at time of death. [145]
• Brent Liles, 43, American bassist (Social Distortion, Agent Orange), traffic accident. [146]
• Charles H. O'Brien, 86, American judge, Tennessee Supreme Court (1987–1994). [147]
• Bonaventure Patrick Paul, 77, Pakistani Roman Catholic Bishop of Hyderabad. [148]

17

• Alice Auma, 50, Ugandan rebel leader and founder of the Holy Spirit Movement. [149] [150]
• Art Buchwald, 81, American humorist and columnist, kidney failure. [151] [152]
• Ralph Henstock, 83, British mathematician. [153]
• Yevgeny Kushnarev, 55, Ukrainian politician and a deputy leader of the Party of Regions, shot while hunting. [154]
• Virtue Hampton Whitted, 84, American jazz musician, member of The Hampton Sisters, stroke. [155]

16

• Ron Carey, 71, American actor (Barney Miller, History of the World, Part I), stroke. [156]
• Pookie Hudson, 72, American lead singer of The Spaniels, complications of thymus cancer. [157]
• Rudolf August Oetker, 90, German food industry magnate (Oetker Group) and philanthropist. [158]
• Benny Parsons, 65, American champion NASCAR driver, won 1973 Winston Cup, complications from lung cancer. [159] [160]
• René Riffaud, 108, one of France's last surviving World War I veterans. [161]
• Jainal Antel Sali, Jr., 42, Filipino terrorist and a commander of Abu Sayyaf, shot in an army raid. [162]
• Yuri Stern, 57, Israeli politician, cancer. [163]
• Betty Trezza, 82, American baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, heart attack. [164]
• David Vanole, 43, American soccer goalkeeper, heart condition. [165]

15

• Awad Hamed al-Bandar, 61, former chief judge of Iraq, execution by hanging. [166]
• Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, 55, half-brother of Saddam Hussein, former leader of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, execution by hanging. [167]
• Leonard Berg, 79, American neurologist, creator of the Clinical Dementia Rating scale, stroke. [168]
• Bo Yibo, 98, Chinese politician known for urging crackdown on Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. [169] [170]
• Isaac Fanous, 87, Egyptian artist and scholar who specialized in Coptic art. [171] (Arabic)
• James Hillier, 91, Canadian-born American inventor of first practical electron microscope. [172] [173]
• Ardeshir Hosseinpour, 44, Iranian nuclear physicist. [174]
• Aart Koopmans, 60, Dutch founder of the Alternative Elfstedentocht speed skating series, pneumonia. [175] [176] (Dutch)
• Richard Musgrave, 96, German-born Harvard economist and government adviser, natural causes. [177] [178]
• Percy Saltzman, 91, first person to appear on Canadian television. [179]
• Colin Thurston, 59, British record producer (Duran Duran, Magazine, The Human League, Kajagoogoo). [180] [181]

14

• Darlene Conley, 72, American actress (The Bold and the Beautiful), stomach cancer. [182] [183]
• Vassilis Fotopoulos, 72, Greek Academy Award-winning art director (Zorba the Greek). [184]
• Tudor Gates, 76, British playwright and trade unionist. [185]
• Barbara Kelly, 82, Canadian-born British actress (What's My Line), cancer. [186]
• Robert Noortman, 60, Dutch art dealer, heart attack. [187]
• Louis Pendleton, 75, African American civil rights leader in Shreveport, Louisiana. [188]
• Peter Prendergast, 60, Welsh artist. [189]

13

• Michael Brecker, 57, American jazz saxophonist, leukemia. [190]
• Chalky, 17, British Jack Russell Terrier, celebrity pet of Rick Stein. [191]
• Cho Tat Wah, 91, Hong Kong wuxia actor, stomach hemorrhage. [192] (Chinese)
• Doyle Holly, 70, American bassist for Buck Owens' Buckaroos (1963–71), prostate cancer. [193]
• Henri-Jean Martin, 82, French librarian and book historian, cancer. [194]
• Danny Oakes, 95, American USAC champion midget car driver. [195]
• Augustin Diamacoune Senghor, 78, Senegalese separatist leader. [196]

12

• Jimmy Cheatham, 82, American jazz trombonist. [197]
• Alice Coltrane, 69, American jazz musician and widow of John Coltrane, respiratory failure. [198] [199]
• Stephen Gilbert, 96, British painter and sculptor. [200]
• Sir James Killen, 81, Australian Minister for Defence (1975–82). [201]
• Terrance B. Lettsome, 71, British Virgin Islands politician, illness. [202]
• Larry Stewart, 58, American philanthropist known in Kansas City as "Secret Santa", esophageal cancer. [203] [204]

11

• Solveig Dommartin, 45, French actress, trapeze artist in Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire, heart attack. [205]
• Bob MacQuarrie, 80, Canadian politician (1981–85). [206]
• Kéba Mbaye, 82, Senegalese judge, vice president of the ICJ and vice president of the IOC. [207]
• Dale Noyd, 73, American Air Force captain and Vietnam War conscientious objector, emphysema. [208]
• Donald Edward Osterbrock, 82, American astronomer. [209], [210]
• Bryan Pearce, 77, British painter. [211][212]
• Robert Anton Wilson, 74, American novelist, futurist and conspiracy theory researcher, post-polio syndrome. [213]

10

• Ray Beck, 75, American football player for the New York Giants (1952-57). [214]
• Harry Horse (Richard Horne), 46, British cartoonist and children's book author (The Last... series), suicide. [215]
• Bradford Washburn, 96, American cartographer, mountaineer and founder of the Boston Museum of Science, heart failure. [216]

9

• Dame Joyanne Bracewell, 72, British senior judge of the Family Division of the High Court, after long illness. [217]
• Ion Dincă, 78, Romanian Deputy Prime Minister and Mayor of Bucharest during the Communist era. [218] (Romanian)
• Thomas Nelson, 111, American who was second oldest man in the world at time of death. [219]
• Maureen Orcutt, 99, American golf champion. [220]
• Yelena Petushkova, 66, Russian equestrian, Olympic double medallist in 1972, after long illness.[221] [222]
• Carlo Ponti, 94, Italian film producer, pulmonary complications. [223]
• Elmer Symons, 29, South African off-road motorcycle racer, accident during the Dakar Rally. [224]
• Jean-Pierre Vernant, 93, French historian and anthropologist. [225] (French)

8

• Jane Bolin, 98, American New York City family court judge (1939–79) and first African American female judge. [226]
• Lord Cockfield, 90, British proponent of the European single market and VP of the European Commission (1985-1989). [227]
• Gloria Connors, 82, American US Open tennis player (1942–43) and mother and coach of Jimmy Connors, natural causes. [228]
• Ken Cranston, 89, English test cricketer (1947-1948). [229]
• Yvonne De Carlo, 84, Canadian-born American actress (The Ten Commandments, The Munsters), natural causes. [230]
• David Ervine, 53, Northern Irish, leader of the Progressive Unionist Party, complications from heart attack and stroke. [231]
• Peter Flanagan, 65, British rugby league player for Great Britain and Hull KR. [232]
• Bong Soo Han, 75, Korean martial arts master and film fight choreographer. [233] [234]
• Drew Posada, 37, American comic book colourist and artist, pancreatitis. [235]
• Italo Sarrocco, 108, Italian World War I veteran. [236] (Italian)
• Iwao Takamoto, 81, Japanese American animator, TV producer and film director, created Scooby-Doo, heart failure. [237] [238]
• Judith Vladeck, 83, American labor lawyer and women's rights advocate, complications of infection. [239] [240]

7

• Bobby Hamilton, 49, American NASCAR driver, 2004 Craftsman Truck Series Champion, head and neck cancer. [241] [242]
• Magnús Magnússon, 77, Icelandic-born British television presenter (Mastermind, 1972–1997), pancreatic cancer. [243]
• Ernesto Martínez, 55, Cuban Olympic bronze medal-winning volleyball player (1972, 1976, 1980). [244]
• Olli-Matti Multamäki, 58, commander of the Finnish Army, illness. [245]
• Lou Palazzi, 85, American football player and umpire [246]
• Hotte Paksha Rangaswamy, 74, Indian politician, Guinness World Record-holder for contesting elections, brief illness. [247]

6

• Bill W. Clayton, 78, American Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives (1975-1983), natural causes. [248]
• Mario Danelo, 21, American football placekicker for USC, fall from a cliff. [249] [250]
• Yvon Durelle, 77, Canadian boxing champion, complications from a stroke. [251]
• Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, 76, Congolese Cardinal Archbishop of Kinshasa, complications of diabetes. [252]
• Antonella Kerr, Marchioness of Lothian, 84, British journalist and broadcaster. [253]
• Charmion King, 81, Canadian actress. [254]
• Sneaky Pete Kleinow, 72, American special effects artist & pedal steel guitarist (Flying Burrito Brothers), Alzheimer's. [255]
• Suad Nasr, 57, Egyptian actress, complications from liposuction. [256]
• Mohamed Lamine Sanha, Bissau-Guinean Navy Chief of Staff, shot. [257]
• Ira D. Wallach, 97, American philanthropist and CEO of Central National-Gottesman (1956–1979). [258]
• Roberta Wohlstetter, 94, American historian of military intelligence. [259]

5

• Momofuku Ando, 96, Taiwanese-born inventor of Nissin instant ramen noodles including the Cup Noodle, heart failure. [260]
• E. J. Hughes, 93, Canadian painter, heart failure. [261]
• Chih Ree Sun, 83, Chinese-American physicist and poet, kidney and lung cancer. [262]
• Francis Sullivan, 89, Canadian Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) ice hockey player. [263]

4

• Juma Jamaldin Akukweti, 59, Tanzanian MP for Chama Cha Mapinduzi (1990–2007), injuries from plane crash. [264]
• Nikki Bacharach, 40, American daughter of Angie Dickinson and Burt Bacharach, suicide by asphyxia. [265]
• Ben Gannon, 54, Australian theatre, film and television producer, cancer. [266]
• Helen Hill, 36, American independent film-maker, shot. [267]
• Sir Lewis Hodges, 88, British Air Chief Marshal. [268]
• Grenfell (Gren) Jones, 72, British newspaper cartoonist. [269] [270] [271]
• Steve Krantz, 83, American film and TV producer (Fritz the Cat), husband of Judith Krantz, complications of pneumonia. [272]
• Bob Milliken, 80, American Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher (1953–54), cardiac arrest. [273]
• Gáspár Nagy, 57, Hungarian poet and writer [274] (Hungarian)
• Sandro Salvadore, 67, Italian footballer, heart attack. [275]
• Jan Schröder, 65, Dutch cyclist. [276] (Dutch)
• Marais Viljoen, 91, South African president (1979–1984), heart failure. [277] [278]

3

• Annibale Ciarniello, 106, Italian World War I veteran. [279] (Italian)
• Janos Furst, 71, Hungarian-born orchestral conductor, cancer. [280]
• Earl Reibel, 76, Canadian ice hockey forward (Detroit Red Wings), 1956 Lady Byng Trophy winner, complications of stroke.[281]
• Calvin William Verity Jr., 89, United States Secretary of Commerce (1987–1989), complications from pneumonia. [282] [283]
• Sir Cecil Walker, 82, Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for North Belfast (1983–2001), heart attack. [284] [285]
• Michael Yeats, 85, Irish Fianna Fáil senator (1961–1981) and son of W. B. Yeats. [286]

2

• Garry Betty, 49, American CEO of Earthlink, adrenocortical carcinoma. [287] [288]
• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, 65, American historian, complications from surgery. [289]
• Sergio Jiménez, 69, Mexican actor, heart attack. [290]
• Mauno Jokipii, 82, Finnish professor and World War II researcher, natural causes. [291] (Finnish)
• Teddy Kollek, 95, Israeli Mayor of Jerusalem (1965–1993), natural causes. [292] [293]
• Don Massengale, 69, American PGA Tour golf player, heart attack. [294]
• Richard Newton, 55, Australian-born technology pioneer and professor at University of California, Berkeley, pancreatic cancer. [295]
• Paek Nam-sun, 78, North Korean Foreign Affairs minister, lung cancer. [296]
• David Perkins, 87, American Stanford University geneticist, after short illness. [297]
• Dan Shaver, 56, American NASCAR driver and ARCA race car driver/owner, cancer. [298]
• Robert C. Solomon, 64, American scholar of continental philosophy. [299]

1

• A.I. Bezzerides, 98, Turkish-American novelist and screenwriter, injuries from a fall. [300] [301]
• Leonard Fraser, 55, Australian serial killer, heart attack. [302]
• Julius Hegyi, 83, American conductor, Alzheimer's disease. [303]
• Tad Jones, 54, American jazz music historian, complications from a fall. [304]
• Ernie Koy, 97, American baseball player, in his sleep. [305]
• Roland Levinsky, 63, South African medical scientist, Plymouth University Vice Chancellor, electric shock induced heart attack.[306]
• Tillie Olsen, 94, American writer, natural causes. [307]
• Del Reeves, 74, American country singer, emphysema. [308]
• Eleonore Schoenfeld, 81, Slovenian-born cellist and teacher at USC Thornton School of Music, heart attack. [309]
• Darrent Williams, 24, American NFL player (Denver Broncos), drive-by shooting. [310] [311]