Deaths in January 2007

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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

 * 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.
 * Charles Hyatt, 75, Jamaican actor (Club Paradise, Cool Runnings, The Bushbaby), lung cancer.
 * 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 football player (Denver Broncos), shot.

2

 * Garry Betty, 49, American CEO of Earthlink, adrenocortical carcinoma.
 * Sir Eric Denton, 77, British marine biologist.
 * 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, complications after hip replacement surgery.
 * Teddy Kollek, 95, Israeli Mayor of Jerusalem (1965–1993), natural causes.
 * Don Massengale, 69, American PGA Tour golf player, heart attack.
 * A. Richard Newton, 55, Australian-born technology pioneer and professor at University of California, Berkeley, pancreatic cancer.
 * Paek Nam-sun, 78, North Korean Foreign minister.
 * 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.
 * János Fürst, 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, British 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

 * Léo Tarcísio Gonçalves Pereira SCJ, 45, Brazilian Roman Catholic priest and Founder of the "Bethânia" Community (1995–2007), lymphoma.
 * Juma Akukweti, 59, Tanzanian MP for Chama Cha Mapinduzi (1990–2007), injuries from plane crash.
 * Ben Gannon, 54, Australian theatre, film and television producer, cancer.
 * Christopher Greenbury, 55, American film editor (American Beauty, There's Something About Mary, Daddy Day Care).
 * Helen Hill, 36, American independent film-maker, shot.
 * Sir Lewis Hodges, 88, British Air Chief Marshal.
 * Gren, 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 (1953–1954), cardiac arrest.
 * Gáspár Nagy, 57, Hungarian poet and writer.
 * Sandro Salvadore, 67, Italian footballer, heart attack.
 * Jan Schröder, 65, Dutch cyclist.
 * 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, 53, Egyptian actress, complications from liposuction.
 * Annelies Reinhold, 90, Austrian actress.
 * 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 television presenter (Mastermind, 1972–1997), pancreatic cancer.
 * Ernesto Martínez, 55, Cuban Olympic bronze medal-winning volleyball player (1972, 1976, 1980).
 * Olli-Matti Multamäki, 58, Finnish 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 (1939–1979) and first African American female judge.
 * Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield, 90, British proponent of the European single market and Vice President of the European Commission (1985-1989).
 * Ken Cranston, 89, English test cricketer (1947–1948).
 * Yvonne De Carlo, 84, Canadian-born American actress (The Ten Commandments, The Munsters, McLintock!).
 * 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.
 * Han Bong-soo, 75, Korean martial arts master and film fight choreographer.
 * José Quaglio, 80, Italian actor and theatre director.
 * Italo Sarrocco, 108, Italian World War I veteran.
 * Iwao Takamoto, 81, American animator (Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, Sleeping Beauty) and film director (Charlotte's Web), heart failure.
 * Judith Vladeck, 83, American labor lawyer and women's rights advocate, complications of infection.

9

 * Cocoa Samoa, 61, professional wrestler.
 * Dame Joyanne Bracewell, 72, British senior judge of the Family Division of the High Court, breast cancer.
 * Ion Dincă, 78, Romanian Deputy Prime Minister and Mayor of Bucharest during the Communist era.
 * Maureen Orcutt, 99, American golf champion.
 * Yelena Petushkova, 66, Russian equestrian, double medallist at the 1972 Olympics, after long illness.
 * Irma St. Paule, 80, Ukrainian-born American actress (Thinner, 12 Monkeys, The Cemetery Club).
 * Elmer Symons, 29, South African off-road motorcycle racer, accident during the Dakar Rally.
 * Jean-Pierre Vernant, 93, French historian and anthropologist.

10

 * Harry Baxter, 85, British soldier.
 * Ray Beck, 75, American football player (New York Giants).
 * Harry Horse, 46, British cartoonist and children's book author (The Last... series), suicide.
 * Carlo Ponti, 94, Italian film producer (Doctor Zhivago, La Strada, Marriage Italian Style), Oscar winner (1957), pulmonary complications.
 * 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.
 * Tudor Gates, 77, English screenwriter (Barbarella, Twins of Evil, The Vampire Lovers).
 * Bob MacQuarrie, 80, Canadian politician (1981–1985).
 * 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, heart attack.
 * 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 (1975–1982).
 * Terrance B. Lettsome, 71, British Virgin Islands politician, illness.
 * Olivier Prechac, 58, French Olympic ice hockey player
 * Larry Stewart, 58, American philanthropist known in Kansas City as "Secret Santa", esophageal cancer.
 * Adolfas Varanauskas, 72, Lithuanian Olympic athlete.

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.
 * Doyle Holly, 70, American bassist for Buck Owens' Buckaroos (1963–1971), 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

 * Gido Babilonia, 40, Filipino basketball player, pulmonary embolism.
 * Darlene Conley, 72, American actress (The Bold and the Beautiful, The Young and the Restless, Faces), stomach cancer.
 * John Hawkins, 62, Canadian composer.
 * Beate Hermelin, 87, German psychologist.
 * Barbara Kelly, 82, Canadian-born British actress (What's My Line), cancer.
 * Robert Noortman, 60, Dutch art dealer, heart attack.
 * Vassilis Photopoulos, 72, Greek art director (Zorba the Greek), Oscar winner (1965).
 * Peter Prendergast, 60, Welsh artist.

15

 * Awad Hamed al-Bandar, 61, Iraqi former chief judge, execution by hanging.
 * Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, 55, Iraqi former leader of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, half-brother of Saddam Hussein, 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.
 * Sir John Boynton, 88, British local government official.
 * Colette Caillat, 86, French Sanskrit scholar.
 * Isaac Fanous, 87, Egyptian artist and scholar who specialized in Coptic art.
 * 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.
 * Richard Musgrave, 96, German-born Harvard economist and government adviser, natural causes.
 * Percy Saltzman, 91, Canadian meteorologist and television personality, first person to appear on Canadian CBLT Toronto 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, The Montefuscos), stroke.
 * Rudolf August Oetker, 90, German food industry magnate (Oetker Group) and philanthropist.
 * Benny Parsons, 65, American racecar 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.
 * Gisela Uhlen, 87, German actress.
 * David Vanole, 43, American soccer goalkeeper, heart condition.

17

 * Ülle Aaskivi, 56, Estonian politician.
 * 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.
 * Yevhen Kushnaryov, 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 Baselios, 71, Indian Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, heart attack.
 * Julie Winnefred Bertrand, 115, supercentenarian, oldest living Canadian and oldest verified living recognized woman at the time of her 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

 * Murat Nasyrov, 37, Russian pop singer of Uyghur ethnicity, committed suicide by jumping from a balcony. The postmortem examination of his body did not reveal any traces of alcohol or drugs.
 * Bam Bam Bigelow, 45, American professional wrestler (WWF, ECW, NJPW), drug overdose.
 * Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão, 69, Portuguese poet, dramatist, essayist and translator, long illness.
 * 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, abdominal aneurysm.
 * Bill Lefebvre, 91, American baseball pitcher for Boston Red Sox (1938–1939) and Washington Senators (1943–1944).

20

 * Éric Aubijoux, 42, French motorcycle rider, possible cardiac arrest during Dakar Rally.
 * Charles Blakey Blackmar, 84, American jurist (Supreme Court of Missouri).
 * Dan Christensen, 64, American abstract painter, heart failure due to polymyositis.
 * Brian Eatwell, 67, British production designer (The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Three Musketeers, Walkabout).
 * Lloyd Francis, 86, Canadian MP and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (1984), stomach cancer.
 * Christopher Helm, 69, British publisher and ornithologist.
 * Sir David Mostyn, 78, British Army general, Adjutant-General to the Forces (1986–1988).
 * 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 politician, United States Senator (D-FL; 1951–1969), stroke complications.
 * Alida de Vries, 92, Dutch women's 4 × 100 m relay runner at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

21

 * Maria Cioncan, 29, Romanian runner and medalist at 2004 Summer Olympics, car accident.
 * Peter Clarke, 58, British Children's Commissioner for Wales, cancer.
 * Myrtle Devenish, 94, Welsh actress (Time Bandits).
 * 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.
 * Toulo de Graffenried, 92, Swiss Formula One racing driver (1950–1956).
 * Victoria Hopper, 97, British stage and film actress.
 * Ramón Marsal, 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.

23

 * Syed Hussein Alatas, 78, Malaysian academic, writer and Gerakan Party founding president, heart attack.
 * Disco D, 26, American hip hop producer, suicide.
 * E. Howard Hunt, 88, American Watergate scandal principal, pneumonia.
 * Dick Joyce, 63, American baseball player.
 * 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).
 * Wally Ridley, 93, English record producer and songwriter.
 * David M. Ronne, 63, American sound engineer (On Golden Pond, Silverado, Face/Off).

24

 * İsmail Cem, 66, Turkish politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1997–2002), lung cancer.
 * Jean-François Deniau, 78, French writer and statesman, member of the Académie française.
 * Krystyna Feldman, 90, 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, American Member of the New York State Assembly, stroke.
 * A. H. de Oliveira Marques, 73, Portuguese historian, heart failure.
 * Emiliano Mercado del Toro, 115, Puerto Rican WW I veteran, was world's oldest person, natural causes.
 * David Morris, 79, British Labour MEP (1984–99) 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, stomach cancer.
 * 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.
 * Avis M. Dry, 85, British-born clinical psychologist and author on work of Carl Jung.
 * Sharon Tyler Herbst, 64, 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 Grey 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.
 * Philip J. Thomas, 92, Canadian folklorist.
 * Hans Wegner, 92, Danish furniture designer.
 * Gump Worsley, 77, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Montreal Canadiens, Minnesota North Stars), heart attack.

27

 * Trevor Allan, 80, Australian rugby union player and TV commentator, cancer.
 * Tige Andrews, 86, American actor (The Mod Squad, The Detectives, Mister Roberts), cardiac arrest.
 * Marcheline Bertrand, 56, American actress, cancer.
 * Bob Carroll Jr., 88, American television writer (I Love Lucy).
 * Paul Channon, 71, British MP for Southend West (1959–1997) and government minister.
 * 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.
 * Kamleshwar, 75, Indian writer and television executive, heart attack.
 * Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, 66, French professor of aesthetics at University of Strasbourg, respiratory insufficiency.
 * 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

 * Ivan Boszormenyi-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.
 * Cyril Demarne, 101, British wartime firefighter.
 * Robert Drinan, 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
 * Alf Large, 88, Norwegian Olympic bobsledder.
 * O. P. Nayyar, 81, Indian music director for Bollywood films, cardiac arrest.
 * Deborah Orin, 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.
 * Johnny Williams, 80, British champion professional boxer in the 1940s and 50s.

29

 * Barbaro, 4, American racehorse, 2006 Kentucky Derby winner, euthanized after contracting laminitis.
 * José D'Elía, 90, Uruguayan labor leader and politician.
 * Art Fowler, 84, American Major League Baseball pitcher and pitching coach.
 * Robert Meier, 109, German oldest living man, World War I veteran.
 * Dick Wingfield-Digby, 95, British Anglican priest, Dean of Peterborough (1966–1980).
 * William D. Winston, 74, American politician.

30

 * Sir Stephen Berthon, 84, British admiral, cancer.
 * 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 (1970–1987), oversaw NASDAQ start, stroke.
 * John Matsudaira, 84, American painter.
 * Calvin Plimpton, 89, American president of Amherst College (1960–1971), 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, 88, American actor (Dynasty).
 * Molly Ivins, 62, American newspaper columnist, political commentator and author, breast cancer.
 * Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, 49, Saudi brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden, shot.
 * Olevi Kull, 51, Estonian ecologist.
 * 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.
 * Hokishe Sema, 85, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Nagaland.
 * Adelaide Tambo, 77, South African activist and wife of Oliver Tambo.