Deaths in February 2007

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.

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).

3

 * 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, 61, 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, 44, 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 (SSN-571).
 * 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, 76, 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.