# Deaths in February 2007
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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2007.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## February 2007
### 1

* Whitney Balliett, 80, American jazz critic, cancer.
* Ray Berres, 99, American baseball player who was second-oldest living major league player, pneumonia.
* Emery Bopp, 82, American artist and art teacher.
* Ahmad Abu Laban, 60, Egyptian-born Danish Muslim leader, key figure in the Muhammad cartoons controversy, cancer.
* Gian Carlo Menotti, 95, Italian-born opera composer (Amahl and the Night Visitors).
* Antonio María Javierre Ortas, 85, Spanish cardinal and prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship (1992–1996), cardiac arrest.
* Adelina Tattilo, 78, Italian founder of Playmen magazine.
* Seri Wangnaitham, 70, Thai dancer, choreographer and national artist, heart failure.

### 2

* Edmund Arnold, 93, American newspaper designer, pneumonia.
* Vijay Arora, 62, Indian film and television actor, intestinal condition.
* Loren Grey, 91, American educational psychologist and son of Zane Grey, age-related complications.
* Billy Henderson, 67, American singer with The Spinners, diabetes.
* Joe Hunter, 79, American pianist and bandleader of The Funk Brothers.
* Terry McMillan, 53, American harmonica player.
* Gisèle Pascal, 85, French actress.
* Filippo Raciti, 40, Italian police officer, fatal injury by football hooligan.
* Eric Von Schmidt, 75, American folk/blues singer-songwriter, stroke.
* Masao Takemoto, 87, Japanese gymnast, gold medallist at 1960 Summer Olympics, bile duct cancer.
* Shannon J. Wall, 87, American union official, president of the National Maritime Union (1973–1990).

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* Liliane Ackermann, 68, French Jewish community leader, writer and lecturer.
* George Becker, 78, American president of United Steelworkers (1993–2001), prostate cancer.
* Ralph de Toledano, 90, Moroccan-born American political columnist and author.
* Stephan R. Epstein, 46, British professor of economic history at LSE, epileptic seizure.
* Pedro Knight, 85, Cuban–American musician and husband of Celia Cruz.
* Mohamed Sanni-Thomas, 79, Ghanaian Olympic athlete.
* Devi Das Thakur, 77, Indian lawyer and politician, Governor of Assam (1990–1991).

### 4

* Steve Barber, 68, American Major League Baseball pitcher, pneumonia.
* Bauer, 81, Brazilian World Cup footballer.
* Paul Burwell, 57, British percussionist.
* Ilya Kormiltsev, 47, Russian poet and translator, spinal cancer.
* Barbara McNair, 72, American singer and actress, throat cancer.
* Jules Olitski, 84, Ukrainian-born American abstract painter and sculptor, cancer.

### 5

* John S. Beckett, 80, Irish musician.
* Arthur J. Dixon, 88, Canadian member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1952–1975).
* Calvin Henry Glauser, 84, Canadian politician.
* Angela King, 68, Jamaican diplomat, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations (1997–2004), cancer.
* Leo T. McCarthy, 76, New Zealand-born American politician and Lieutenant Governor of California (1983–1995), kidney failure.
* Alfred Worm, 61, Austrian investigative journalist, heart attack.

### 6

* Dick Allen, 62, British film editor.
* Wolfgang Bartels, 66, German bronze medal-winning Olympic alpine skier (1964).
* Lew Burdette, 80, American baseball player, MVP of the 1957 World Series, stomach cancer.
* Helen Duncan, 65, New Zealand union leader and politician, cancer.
* Doug Gailey, 59, New Zealand rugby league player, complications of a fall.
* Lee Hoffman, 74, American science fiction and western writer, heart attack.
* Len Hopkins, 76, Canadian politician, Liberal MP from Ontario (1965–1997), pneumonia.
* Robert Kimpton, 93, Australian cricketer.
* Frankie Laine, 93, American singer ("Mule Train"), complications of hip replacement surgery.
* Reiner Merkel, 55, German manager, CEO of German Press Agency Picture Alliance, heart attack.
* Nelson W. Polsby, 72, American political scientist and author, heart failure.
* Sir Gareth Roberts, 66, British physicist and principal of Wolfson College, Oxford.
* Glenn Sarty, 77, Canadian original producer of CBC's The Fifth Estate, Take 30 and Take 60, emphysema.
* Bent Skovmand, 62, Danish plant scientist and conservationist, founder of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, brain tumor.
* Harry Webster, 89. British automotive engineer.
* Willye White, 68, African American first 5-time U.S. track and field Olympian, pancreatic cancer.

### 7

* Tommy James, 83, American football player with the Cleveland Browns, congestive heart failure.
* Ken Kennedy, 61, American computer scientist at Rice University, pancreatic cancer.
* Josephine Lenard, 85, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
* Alan MacDiarmid, 79, death from a fall off a bridge .
* Fred Mustard Stewart, 74, American author, cancer.
* Brian Williams, 46, British former rugby union player for Wales and Neath RFC, heart attack.

### 8

* Joe Edwards, 85, American comic book artist best known for his Archie and Li'l Jinx comics, heart failure.
* Adele Faccio, 86, Italian civil right activist.
* Dick Harding, 72, Canadian Olympic sprinter.
* Florence Melton, 95, American inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
* Shelby Metcalf, 76, American coach for Texas A&M basketball, cancer.
* Ismail Semed, Chinese Muslim Uighur separatist, execution by firing squad.
* Anna Nicole Smith, 39, American 1993 Playmate of the Year, widow of J. Howard Marshall, accidental drug overdose.
* Ian Stevenson, 88, Canadian psychiatrist and reincarnation researcher.
* Peter Thornton, 81, British museum curator and historian.
* Harriett Woods, 79, American Lieutenant Governor of Missouri (1985–1989), leukemia.

### 9

* Hank Bauer, 84, American baseball outfielder and manager, three-time All Star, cancer.
* Francisco Calamita, 84, Spanish Olympic swimmer.
* Eddie Feigner, 81, American softball player, respiratory failure.
* Benedict Kiely, 87, Irish writer and broadcaster.
* Emil Kiszka, 80, Polish Olympic sprinter.
* Andrew McAuley, 39, Australian ocean kayak adventurer, presumed drowned.
* Ian Richardson, 72, British actor (House of Cards, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Brazil).
* Bruno Ruffo, 86, Italian motorcycle racer, three-time world champion (1949–1951).

### 10

* Bill Clement, 91, Welsh rugby union player and soldier.
* Gary Frisch, 38, South African co-founder of Gaydar dating website, fall from balcony.
* Jeong Da-bin, 26, South Korean actress, suspected suicide by hanging.
* James C. Melby, 57, American professional wrestling historian, author and magazine editor.
* Charles S. Swartz, 67, American filmmaker, brain cancer.
* Charles R. Walgreen Jr., 100, American president of Walgreens (1939–1971), son of founder Charles R. Walgreen.
* Cardis Cardell Willis, 69, American comic.
* David Boynton, 61, American historian and photographer, hiking accident.

### 11

* Jorge Antonio, 89, Argentinian Peronist party politician and business man.
* Lorentz Eldjarn, 86, Norwegian biochemist.
* Marianne Fredriksson, 79, Swedish writer and journalist, heart attack.
* Derek Gardner, 92, British marine painter.
* Charles Langford, 84, American Alabama state senator and lawyer, represented Rosa Parks during Montgomery bus boycott.
* Jules Maenen, 75, Dutch Olympic cyclist.
* Yunus Parvez, 75, Indian Bollywood actor, complications of diabetes.
* Jim Ricca, 79, American football player (Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles, Detroit Lions), cerebral aneurysm.
* Joe Wilkinson, 72, English footballer (Hartlepool United).

### 12

* Violet Barasa, 31, Kenyan women's volleyball team captain and Olympic competitor.
* Warren Batchelder, 89, American animator for Warner Bros.
* Georg Buschner, 81, East German football coach, prostate cancer.
* Jimmy Campbell, 63, British musician.
* Valucha deCastro, 77, Brazilian musician, liver disease.
* Peter Ellenshaw, 93, English-born American special effects technician (Mary Poppins, The Black Hole) and matte painter (Dick Tracy), Oscar winner (1965).
* Thomas E. Fairchild, 94, American Federal Appeals Court Judge.
* Peggy Gilbert, 102, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader, complications of hip surgery.
* Ellen Hanley, 80, American Broadway theatre actress, stroke.
* Joseph Low, 95, American children's book illustrator.
* John MacLeod of MacLeod, 71, British 29th chief of the Clan MacLeod, leukaemia.
* Joseph McKeown, 82, British photojournalist, after a fall.
* Hasan Özbekhan, 86, Turkish economist.
* Paolo Pileri, 62, Italian motorcycle racer (1973–1979), 1975 World Champion and Capirossi team manager, natural causes.
* Randy Stone, 48, American short film director and casting director (The X-Files), Oscar winner (1995), heart failure.
* Sulejman Talović, 18, American Salt Lake City spree killer, shot by police.
* Geraldine Warrick-Crisman, 76, African-American TV executive, former assistant New Jersey state treasurer, breast cancer.
* Eldee Young, 71, American musician, bass player for Ramsey Lewis Trio, heart attack.

### 13

* Sir Charles Harington, 96, British general.
* Elizabeth Jolley, 83, Australian author, illness.
* Bruce M. Metzger, 93, American professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and expert on Greek biblical manuscripts.
* Charlie Norwood, 65, American Republican representative from Georgia since 1995, cancer.
* Eliana Ramos, 18, Uruguayan model, heart attack caused by anorexia nervosa.
* Johanna Sällström, 32, Swedish actress.
* Sir Richard Wakeford, 84, British Air Marshal.

### 14

* Ryan Larkin, 63, Canadian animator, Oscar nominee and subject of the Oscar-winning animated short Ryan, lung cancer.
* Thomas Marealle, 91, Tanzanian politician and Paramount Chief, pneumonia.
* Benito Medero, 84, Uruguayan Minister of Agriculture (1972–1974).
* Gareth Morris, 86, British flautist and music teacher.
* John O'Banion, 59, American singer and actor, accident causing blunt force trauma.
* Lee Patterson, 77, Canadian actor (One Life to Live, Surfside 6, Texas), heart failure.
* John Penn, 85, British architect.
* Steven Pimlott, 53, British theatre director, lung cancer.
* Richard S. Prather, 85, American novelist.
* Emmett Williams, 81, American poet and Fluxus artist.

### 15

* Robert Adler, 93, Austrian-born American co-inventor of the TV remote control, heart failure.
* Bill Carson, 80, American guitarist.
* Walker Edmiston, 81, American voice actor (Transformers, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Dick Tracy), cancer.
* Ray Evans, 92, American songwriter, partner of Jay Livingston for hits such as "Buttons and Bows", heart attack.
* Stephen Gardiner, 82, British architect.
* Buddy Hancken, 92, American baseball player.
* Daniel McDonald, 46, American Broadway actor, brain cancer.
* Mordkhe Schaechter, 79, American Yiddish linguist and lexicographer.

### 16

* Samararatne Dharmasena, 56, Sri Lankan Olympic sprinter.
* Herminio Iglesias, 77, Argentinian Peronist Party politician.
* Jakov Lind, 80, Austrian Holocaust survivor and author.
* Norman Miscampbell, 81, British politician, Conservative MP for Blackpool North (1962–1992).
* Sheridan Morley, 65, British broadcaster and author, heart failure.
* Ralph Penza, 74, American senior correspondent and substitute anchor for WNBC.
* Lilli Promet, 85, Estonian writer.
* Gene Snyder, 79, American Republican representative from Kentucky (1963–1965, 1967–1987).
* John G. Truxal, 82, American control theorist.

### 17

* Mike Awesome, 42, American professional wrestler (ECW, FMW, WCW), suicide by hanging.
* Mehmet Altınsoy, 82, Turkish politician, intracranial hemorrhage.
* Mai Ghoussoub, 54, Lebanese author and publisher.
* Jurga Ivanauskaitė, 45, Lithuanian writer, cancer.
* Mary Kaye, 83, American singer/guitarist and leader of the Mary Kaye Trio, respiratory and heart failure.
* Dermot O'Reilly, 64, Irish-born Canadian singer and musician with Ryan's Fancy.
* Maurice Papon, 96, French World War II Vichy government official convicted of deporting Jews to Nazi death camps.

### 18

* Lawrence J. Fogel, 78, American computer scientist.
* Barbara Gittings, 74, American gay rights campaigner, breast cancer.
* Félix Lévitan, 95, French sports journalist and organiser.
* Bob Oksner, 90, American comic book artist (Superman, Green Lantern, Captain America), pneumonia.
* Frank M. Snowden, Jr, 95, American authority on black people in the ancient world, heart failure.
* Juan "Pachín" Vicéns, 72, Puerto Rican basketball player.
* Jack Wood (director), 82, American television director.

### 19

* Janet Blair, 85, American actress (My Sister Eileen, The Fabulous Dorseys), complications of pneumonia.
* Mahala Ashley Dickerson, 94, American lawyer and civil rights advocate.
* Celia Franca, 85, British-born Canadian dancer, founder and artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada.
* Max Hugel, 81, American businessman and political figure, former Deputy Director for Operations of the CIA, cancer.
* René Imbot, 81, French general.
* Ruth Posselt, 95, American violinist and educator.
* Antonio Serapio, 69, Philippine congressman representing the city of Valenzuela, car accident resulting from cardiac arrest.

### 20

* Sir John Akehurst, 77, British general.
* F. Albert Cotton, 76, American chemist and Texas A&M University professor.
* Sir Michael Hart, 58, British judge of the High Court of England and Wales, lung cancer.
* Ronald Hilton, 95, American Stanford University professor who helped uncover the Bay of Pigs Invasion plan.
* Sir Tap Jones, 92, British air marshal.
* Siegfried Landau, 85, American musician and founding conductor of Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, house fire.
* Amos Mariani, 75, Italian football player and coach (Fiorentina, A.C. Milan, national team).
* Carl-Henning Pedersen, 93, Danish painter known for his membership of CoBrA.
* Kenneth Steer, 93, British archaeologist.
* Zille Huma Usman, 35, Pakistani minister for social welfare in the Punjab province, shot.
* Richard Tom, 86, Chinese-born American weightlifter.
* Derek Waring, 79, British actor (Z-Cars), widower of Dame Dorothy Tutin, cancer.
* Robert W. Young, 94, American linguist.

### 21

* Daniel Boemle, 36, Swiss disc jockey.
* Victor Clemett, 107, Canadian second oldest living veteran of World War I.
* Sherman Jones, 72, American baseball player and Kansas state politician.
* Jim Kennedy, 74, British cricketer.
* Keith Kyle, 81, British journalist, historian and broadcaster.
* John Robins, 80, British rugby union player for Wales, coach of the British Lions.
* Barry Stevens, 43, American basketball player and second highest scorer in Iowa State University history, heart attack.
* Al Viola, 87, American jazz guitarist, cancer.

### 22

* Avrohom Blumenkrantz, 62, American Orthodox rabbi, posek, and kashrut authority, complications of diabetes.
* Lothar-Günther Buchheim, 89, German author (Das Boot), painter and art collector, heart failure.
* Irwin Caplan, 87, American cartoonist (Saturday Evening Post, Collier's), Parkinson's disease.
* Jozef Dunajovec, 73, Slovak journalist and non-fiction author.
* Edgar Evans, 94, British opera singer.
* George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, 88, British soldier, politician and businessman.
* Dennis Johnson, 52, American All-Star basketball player and coach, 1979 NBA Finals MVP, cardiac arrest.
* Samuel Hinga Norman, 67, Sierra Leone leader of pro-government Kamajors militia, heart failure.
* Fons Rademakers, 86, Dutch Academy Award-winning film director (The Assault), emphysema.
* Howard Ramsey, 108, American who was one of the last surviving US World War I combat veterans.
* George André Robertson, 77, British educator and cricketer.
* Ian Wallace, 60, British drummer (King Crimson, 21st Century Schizoid Band), esophageal cancer.

### 23

* Heinz Berggruen, 93, German art collector and friend of Pablo Picasso, heart attack.
* Donnie Brooks, 71, American singer ("Mission Bell"), heart failure.
* Jock Dodds, 91, British footballer for Scotland and Blackpool F.C.
* Robert Engler, 84, American political scientist, heart ailment.
* Winthrop Jordan, 75, American historian, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Will Maslow, 99, American Jewish leader and civil rights lawyer.
* Robert W. Richardson, 96, American railroad preservationist.
* John Ritchie, 65, British footballer for Stoke City F.C., club's record goalscorer.
* Pascal Yoadimnadji, 56, Chadian Prime Minister, brain haemorrhage.

### 24

* Bryan Balkwill, 84, British conductor.
* Bruce Bennett, 100, American actor (New Adventures of Tarzan, Treasure of the Sierra Madre), 1928 Olympic medallist, hip fracture.
* Kåre Olav Berg, 62, Norwegian Olympic Nordic skier.
* Mordechai Breuer, 85, Israeli Bible researcher and Orthodox rabbi.
* Mario Chanes de Armas, 80, Cuban political prisoner.
* Charles Frederick Ehret, 83, American molecular biologist.
* Leroy Jenkins, 74, American composer and free jazz violinist, lung cancer.
* Lamar Lundy, 71, American football player, member of the Los Angeles Rams' "Fearsome Foursome" defensive line.
* Damien Nash, 24, American football running back for the Denver Broncos.
* George Preas, 73, American football lineman who won two NFL championships with the Baltimore Colts, Parkinson's disease.
* Paul Secon, 91, American businessman who founded Pottery Barn.

### 25

* William Anderson, 85, American congressman from Tennessee and captain of the USS Nautilus.
* P. Bhaskaran, 83, Indian director and lyricist in the Malayalam language.
* Jean Grelaud, 108, French WWI veteran, one of the last three 'official' World War I veterans.
* César Keiser, 81, Swiss comedian, radio personality, and actor.
* Mark Spoelstra, 66, American folk singer and veteran of the Greenwich Village music scene, pancreatic cancer.

### 26

* John Robert Anderson, 78, Australian chemist.
* Angelo Arcidiacono, 51, Italian Olympic fencer.
* Raúl Alonso de Marco, 72, Uruguayan member of the Supreme Court of Justice (1992–2002).
* James O. Hall, 96, American historian.
* Alex Henshaw, 94, British test pilot noted for his work with Spitfire and Lancaster aircraft.
* Baroness Jeger, 91, British Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras South and opposition spokesman in the House of Lords.
* David McGuire, 75, Australian cricketer.
* Sergio Previtali, 66, Uruguayan politician and former deputy (1990–1995).
* Hideo Takamatsu, 77, Japanese actor (The Last Emperor, Shōgun, Eijanaika), heart attack.

### 27

* Brian Belle, 92, English cricketer.
* Russell Churney, 42, British pianist, pancreatic cancer.
* Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, 93, German World War II General, survivor of Hitler's bunker.
* Wayne Hooper, 86, American music composer, arranger and singer.
* Jack Marks, 80, Canadian Chief of Metro Toronto Police (1984–1989), pancreatic cancer.
* Elbie Nickel, 84, American football player.
* Bobby Rosengarden, 82, American jazz drummer and bandleader on The Dick Cavett Show, kidney failure.
* Mel Swart, 87, Canadian politician, stroke.
* Judith Toups, 76, American birding expert and Sun Herald columnist.

### 28

* Julian Budden, 82, British opera scholar.
* Charles Forte, Baron Forte, 98, British hotelier.
* Alexander King, 98, British scientist who co-founded the Club of Rome.
* Robert Kingston, 78, American Army general, complications from a fall.
* Alexei Komech, 70, Russian architectural historian, cancer.
* Princess Marie Adelaide of Luxembourg, 82, Luxembourgish princess.
* Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 89, American historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, heart attack.
* Sir John Smith, 83, British founder of the Landmark Trust.
* Billy Thorpe, 60, Australian rock musician, cardiac arrest.