Deaths in January 2007
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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2007.
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.
- Tad Jones, 54, American jazz music historian, complications from a fall.
- Ernie Koy, 97, American baseball player, in his sleep.
- 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 NFL player (Denver Broncos), drive-by shooting.
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- Garry Betty, 49, American CEO of Earthlink, adrenocortical carcinoma.
- 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, natural causes. (Finnish)
- Teddy Kollek, 95, Israeli Mayor of Jerusalem (1965–1993), natural causes.
- Don Massengale, 69, American PGA Tour golf player, heart attack.
- Richard Newton, 55, Australian-born technology pioneer and professor at University of California, Berkeley, pancreatic cancer.
- Paek Nam-sun, 78, North Korean Foreign Affairs minister, lung cancer.
- 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. (Italian)
- Janos Furst, 71, Hungarian-born orchestral conductor, cancer.
- William Jencks, 79, American biochemist.
- Jim Mooney, 83, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly (1976–1979).
- Earl Reibel, 76, Canadian ice hockey forward (Detroit Red Wings), 1956 Lady Byng Trophy winner, complications of stroke.
- Calvin William Verity Jr., 89, United States Secretary of Commerce (1987–1989), complications from pneumonia.
- Sir Cecil Walker, 82, Ulster Unionist MP for North Belfast (1983–2001), heart attack.
- Michael Yeats, 85, Irish Fianna Fáil senator (1961–1981) and son of W. B. Yeats.
4
- Juma Jamaldin Akukweti, 59, Tanzanian MP for Chama Cha Mapinduzi (1990–2007), injuries from plane crash.
- Nikki Bacharach, 40, American daughter of Angie Dickinson and Burt Bacharach, suicide by asphyxia.
- Ben Gannon, 54, Australian theatre, film and television producer, cancer.
- Helen Hill, 36, American independent film-maker, shot.
- Sir Lewis Hodges, 88, British Air Chief Marshal.
- Grenfell (Gren) Jones, 72, British newspaper cartoonist.
- Steve Krantz, 83, American film and TV producer (Fritz the Cat), husband of Judith Krantz, complications of pneumonia.
- Bob Milliken, 80, American Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher (1953–54), cardiac arrest.
- Gáspár Nagy, 57, Hungarian poet and writer
- Sandro Salvadore, 67, Italian footballer, heart attack.
- Jan Schröder, 65, Dutch cyclist. (Dutch)
- Marais Viljoen, 91, South African president (1979–1984), 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 (1952) ice hockey player.
6
- Bill W. Clayton, 78, American Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives (1975-1983), 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 (Flying Burrito Brothers), Alzheimer's disease.
- Suad Nasr, 57, Egyptian actress, complications from liposuction.
- Mohamed Lamine Sanha, Bissau-Guinean Navy Chief of Staff, shot.
- Ira D. Wallach, 97, American philanthropist and CEO of Central National-Gottesman (1956–1979).
- 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-born British television presenter (Mastermind, 1972–1997), pancreatic cancer.
- Ernesto Martínez, 55, Cuban Olympic bronze medal-winning volleyball player (1972, 1976, 1980).
- Olli-Matti Multamäki, 58, 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 (1939–79) and first African American female judge.
- Lord Cockfield, 90, British proponent of the European single market and Vice President of the European Commission (1985-1989).
- Gloria Connors, 82, American US Open tennis player (1942–43) and mother and coach of Jimmy Connors, natural causes.
- Ken Cranston, 89, English test cricketer (1947-1948).
- Yvonne De Carlo, 84, Canadian-born American actress (The Ten Commandments, The Munsters), natural causes.
- 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.
- Bong Soo Han, 75, Korean martial arts master and film fight choreographer.
- Drew Posada, 37, American comic book colourist and artist, pancreatitis.
- Italo Sarrocco, 108, Italian World War I veteran. (Italian)
- Iwao Takamoto, 81, Japanese American animator, TV producer and film director, created Scooby-Doo, heart failure.
- Judith Vladeck, 83, American labor lawyer and women's rights advocate, complications of infection.
9
- Dame Joyanne Bracewell, 72, British senior judge of the Family Division of the High Court, after long illness.
- Ion Dincă, 78, Romanian Deputy Prime Minister and Mayor of Bucharest during the Communist era. (Romanian)
- Thomas Nelson, 111, American who was second oldest man in the world at time of death.
- Maureen Orcutt, 99, American golf champion.
- Yelena Petushkova, 66, Russian equestrian, double medallist at the 1972 Olympics, after long illness.
- Carlo Ponti, 94, Italian film producer, pulmonary complications.
- Elmer Symons, 29, South African off-road motorcycle racer, accident during the Dakar Rally.
- Jean-Pierre Vernant, 93, French historian and anthropologist. (French)
10
- Harry Baxter, 85, British soldier.
- Ray Beck, 75, American football player for the New York Giants (1952–57).
- Harry Horse, 46, British cartoonist and children's book author (The Last... series), suicide.
- Sixto Rojas, 25, 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.
- Bob MacQuarrie, 80, Canadian politician (1981–85).
- 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. ,
- 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 (1975–82).
- Terrance B. Lettsome, 71, British Virgin Islands politician, illness.
- Larry Stewart, 58, American philanthropist known in Kansas City as "Secret Santa", esophageal cancer.
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. (Chinese)
- Doyle Holly, 70, American bassist for Buck Owens' Buckaroos (1963–71), 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
- Darlene Conley, 72, American actress (The Bold and the Beautiful), stomach cancer.
- Vassilis Fotopoulos, 72, Greek Academy Award-winning art director (Zorba the Greek).
- Tudor Gates, 76, British playwright and trade unionist.
- Barbara Kelly, 82, Canadian-born British actress (What's My Line), cancer.
- Robert Noortman, 60, Dutch art dealer, heart attack.
- Louis Pendleton, 75, African American civil rights leader in Shreveport, Louisiana.
- Peter Prendergast, 60, Welsh artist.
15
- Awad Hamed al-Bandar, 61, former chief judge of Iraq, execution by hanging.
- Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, 55, half-brother of Saddam Hussein, former leader of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, 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.
- Isaac Fanous, 87, Egyptian artist and scholar who specialized in Coptic art. (Arabic)
- James Hillier, 91, Canadian-born American inventor of first practical electron microscope.
- 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. (Dutch)
- Richard Musgrave, 96, German-born Harvard economist and government adviser, natural causes.
- Percy Saltzman, 91, first person to appear on Canadian television.
- Colin Thurston, 59, British record producer (Duran Duran, Magazine, The Human League, Kajagoogoo).
16
- Ron Carey, 71, American actor (Barney Miller, History of the World, Part I), stroke.
- Pookie Hudson, 72, American lead singer of The Spaniels, complications of thymus cancer.
- Rudolf August Oetker, 90, German food industry magnate (Oetker Group) and philanthropist.
- Benny Parsons, 65, American champion NASCAR driver, won 1973 Winston Cup, complications from lung cancer.
- René Riffaud, 108, one of France's last surviving World War I veterans.
- Jainal Antel Sali, Jr., 42, Filipino terrorist and a commander of Abu Sayyaf, shot in an army raid.
- Yuri Stern, 57, Israeli politician, cancer.
- Betty Trezza, 82, American baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, heart attack.
- David Vanole, 43, American soccer goalkeeper, heart condition.
17
- Alice Auma, 50, Ugandan rebel leader and founder of the Holy Spirit Movement.
- Art Buchwald, 81, American humorist and columnist, kidney failure.
- Ralph Henstock, 83, British mathematician.
- Yevgeny Kushnarev, 55, Ukrainian politician and a deputy leader of the Party of Regions, shot while hunting.
- Virtue Hampton Whitted, 84, American jazz musician, member of The Hampton Sisters, stroke.
18
- Cyril Mar Baselious, 71, Indian Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, heart attack.
- Julie Winnefred Bertrand, 115, Canadian who was the world's oldest known woman at time of death.
- Brent Liles, 43, American bassist (Social Distortion, Agent Orange), traffic accident.
- Charles H. O'Brien, 86, American judge, Tennessee Supreme Court (1987–1994).
- Bonaventure Patrick Paul, 77, Pakistani Roman Catholic Bishop of Hyderabad.
19
- Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow, 45, American professional wrestler, drug overdose.
- Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão, 69, Portuguese poet, dramatist, essayist and translator, long illness. (Portuguese)
- Gerhard Bronner, 84, Austrian composer and cabaret artist, complications following a stroke.
- Hrant Dink, 52, Armenian-Turkish editor, journalist and columnist, shot.
- Denny Doherty, 66, Canadian singer with The Mamas & the Papas, abdominal aneurysm.
- Bill Lefebvre, 91, American baseball pitcher for Boston Red Sox (1938–1939) and Washington Senators (1943–1944).
20
- Eric Aubijoux, 42, French motorcycle rider, possible cardiac arrest during Dakar Rally.
- Buddy Burris, 84, American footballer.
- Dan Christensen, 64, American abstract painter, heart failure due to polymyositis.
- Lloyd Francis, 86, Canadian MP and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (1984), stomach cancer.
- Christopher Helm, 69, British publisher and ornithologist.
- Murat Nasyrov, 37, Russian-Kazakh singer, suicide by jumping.
- Anatol Rapoport, 95, Russian-born American mathematical psychologist and peace activist.
- Alfredo Ripstein, 90, Mexican movie producer, respiratory failure.
- Vern Ruhle, 55, American Major League Baseball pitcher and pitching coach, multiple myeloma.
- George Smathers, 93, American Senator for Florida (1951–1969), stroke complications.
- Ali de Vries, 92, Dutch women's 4x100m relay runner at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
21
- Maria Cioncan, 29, Romanian runner and medalist at 2004 Summer Olympics, car accident.
- Peter Clarke, 58, Children's Commissioner for Wales, cancer.
- Richard Ollard, 83, British historian and biographer.
- Peer Raben, 66, German composer, mainly of film music associated with Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
- Barbara Seranella, 50, American author, liver failure.
- U;Nee, 25, Korean pop singer, suicide by hanging.
22
- John Arthur, 60, American philosopher, lung cancer.
- Doug Blasdell, 44, American Bravo television network trainer on Work Out.
- L. M. Boyd, 79, American newspaper columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle.
- Lisa E. Goldberg, 54, American president of the Charles H. Revson Foundation, brain aneurysm.
- Toulo de Graffenried, 92, Swiss Formula One racing driver (1950–1956).
- Victoria Hopper, 97, British stage and film actress.
- Ramón Marsal Ribó, 72, Spanish footballer for Real Madrid.
- Michael Nolan, Baron Nolan, 78, English Law Lord and first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, degenerative illness.
- Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, 83, Rwandan pastor convicted of participation in the Rwandan genocide.
- Abbé Pierre, 94, French founder of the Emmaüs movement, lung infection.
- Liz Renay, 80, American actress and author, internal bleeding.
23
- Syed Hussein Alatas, 78, Malaysian academic, writer and Gerakan Party founding president, heart attack.
- E. Howard Hunt, 88, American Watergate scandal principal, pneumonia.
- Ryszard Kapuściński, 74, Polish journalist, author of book about The Soccer War.
- John Majhor, 53, Canadian and American radio and TV broadcaster, cancer.
- Leopoldo Pirelli, 81, Italian chairman of Pirelli (1965–1996).
- David M. Ronne, 63, American sound engineer.
- David "Disco D" Shayman, 26, American hip hop producer, suicide.
24
- Ismail Cem, 67, Turkish politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1997–2002), lung cancer.
- Jean-François Deniau, 78, French writer and statesman, member of the Académie française.
- Krystyna Feldman, 91, Polish actress, lung cancer.
- Wolfgang Iser, 80, German literary scholar and founder of Reader-response criticism.
- Bryan Kocis, 44, American gay pornography producer, stabbed.
- Guadalupe Larriva, 50, Ecuadorian Defense Minister, helicopter crash.
- John W. Lavelle, 57, New York State Assemblyman, stroke. .
- A. H. de Oliveira Marques, 73, Portuguese historian, heart failure.
- Harry Melbourne, 94, Australian inventor of the Freddo Frog chocolate, golden staph infection.
- Emiliano Mercado del Toro, 115, Puerto Rican WW I veteran, was world's oldest person, natural causes.
- David Morris, 79, British Labour MEP (1984–1999) and Chairman of CND Cymru.
- Charlotte Thompson Reid, 93, American singer and Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- Mendy Samstein, 68, American civil rights activist, organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, carcinoid cancer.
- Daniel Stern, 79, American University of Houston professor, Warner Bros. and CBS Vice President, heart surgery complications.
- Peter Tompkins, 87, American journalist and writer (The Secret Life of Plants).
25
- Ken Kavanaugh, 90, American National Football League player, complications from pneumonia.
- Majid Khadduri, 98, Iraqi–born American founder of the SAIS Middle East Studies program, failure to thrive. .
- Jack Lang, 85, American sportswriter and secretary-treasurer of the Baseball Writers Association (1966–1988).
- Eleanor McGovern, 85, American wife of Senator and Presidential candidate George McGovern.
- Hideo Ogata, 73, Japanese founding editor of Animage.
- Roberta Semple Salter, 96, American evangelist, daughter of Aimee Semple McPherson and co-creator of Name That Tune.
26
- Charles Brunier, 105, French veteran of WWI and WWII who claimed to have been the inspiration for Papillon. (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.
- Jean Ichbiah, 66, French computer scientist and chief designer of the Ada programming language, brain cancer.
- Max Kelly, 76, Australian mathematics professor and leading researcher into category theory.
- Jimmy Ledgard, 84, British rugby league player for Great Britain, Dewsbury and Leigh.
- Emanuele Luzzati, 85, Italian painter, Oscar-nominated production designer and animator.
- David Rattray, 48, South African historian of the Anglo-Zulu War, shot.
- Glen Tetley, 80, American choreographer and dancer, melanoma.
- Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi, 21, Nigerian convicted of drug trafficking in Singapore, execution by hanging.
- Hans Wegner, 92, Danish furniture designer.
- Lorne "Gump" Worsley, 77, Canadian NHL goaltender and Vezina Trophy winner, heart attack.
27
- Trevor Allan, 80, Australian rugby union player and TV commentator, cancer.
- Tige Andrews, 86, American actor (The Mod Squad), cardiac arrest.
- Marcheline Bertrand, 56, American actress and mother of Angelina Jolie and James Haven, cancer.
- Bob Carroll, 88, American television writer for I Love Lucy.
- Paul Channon (Baron Kelvedon of Ongar), 71, British MP for Southend West (1959–1997) and government minister.
- Alberta Davis, 125?, American woman listed by Social Security as oldest person in America.
- Bing Devine, 90, American general manager of the National League's St. Louis Cardinals baseball team (1958–1964, 1968–1978).
- Claudio Guillén, 82, Spanish writer, member of the Royal Spanish Academy and son of Jorge Guillén, heart attack. (Spanish)
- Kamleshwar, 75, Indian writer and television executive, heart attack.
- Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, 66, French professor of aesthetics at University of Strasbourg, respiratory insufficiency. (French)
- Herbert Reinecker, 92, German novelist, dramatist and screenwriter (Derrick).
- Yang Chuan-Kwang, 73, Taiwanese silver medalist in decathlon at 1960 Summer Olympics, brain hemorrhage.
28
- Iván Böszörményi-Nagy, 86, Hungarian-American psychiatrist, complications from Parkinson's disease.
- Malcolm Bowie, 63, English scholar of French literature and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge (2002-2006).
- Carlo Clerici, 78, Swiss road racing cyclist who won 1954 Giro d'Italia, cancer. (Italian)
- Cyril Demarne, 101, British wartime firefighter.
- Robert Drinan, S.J., 86, American Democratic Representative and law professor, pneumonia/congestive heart failure.
- Beatrice Hsu, 28, Taiwanese actress, cardiac arrest following car accident.
- Fiona Jones, 49, British politician, Labour MP for Newark (1997-2001), alcoholic liver disease
- Nona Koirala, 78, politician of Nepali Congress, widow of Keshav Prasad Koirala, liver failure.
- Alf Large, 88, Norwegian Olympic bobsledder.
- O P Nayyar, 81, Indian music director for Bollywood films, cardiac arrest.
- Deborah Orin-Eilbeck, 59, American bureau chief in Washington for the New York Post, cancer.
- Yelena Romanova, 43, Russian track and field athlete, 3000 metres gold medalist at 1992 Summer Olympics.
- Karel Svoboda, 68, Czech composer, suicide.
- Emma Tillman, 114, American who was the recognised world's oldest person.
29
- Barbaro, 4, American racehorse, 2006 Kentucky Derby winner, euthanized after contracting laminitis.
- José D'Elía, 90, Uruguayan labor leader and politician. (Spanish)
- Art Fowler, 84, American Major League Baseball pitcher and pitching coach.
- Robert Meier, 109, oldest living German man, World War I veteran.
30
- Stu Inman, 80, American National Basketball Association executive, heart attack.
- Griffith Jones, 97, British actor.
- Nikos Kourkoulos, 72, Greek actor and artistic director of the National Theatre of Greece, cancer.
- Max Lanier, 91, American baseball player.
- Gordon Macklin, 78, American stock broker, NASD President (1970–87), oversaw NASDAQ start, stroke.
- Calvin Plimpton, 89, American president of Amherst College (1960–71), complications from surgery.
- Sidney Sheldon, 89, American author and TV producer (I Dream of Jeannie), complications from pneumonia.
31
- Kirill Babitzin, 56, Finnish singer, 9th in 1984 Eurovision Song Contest.
- Lee Bergere, 82, American actor.
- Molly Ivins, 62, American newspaper columnist, political commentator and author, breast cancer.
- Richard Kelley, 91, American stepfather of Bill Clinton, cancer.
- Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, 49, Saudi brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden, shot.
- Olevi Kull, 51, Estonian ecologist. (Estonian)
- Arben Minga, 47, Albanian football player, pancreatic cancer.
- Ronald Muldrow, 57, American jazz guitarist.
- Douglas T Ross, 77, American who created APT (programming language) and led MIT CAD project.
- Adelaide Tambo, 77, South African activist and wife of Oliver Tambo.
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