DEATHS IN FEBRUARY 2007

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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2007.
===28===

★ Angeline Barrette, 110, Canadian believed to be country's oldest person. [1]

★ Charles Forte, Baron Forte, 98, British hotelier. [2]

★ Alexander King, 98, British scientist who co-founded the Club of Rome. [3]

★ Robert C. Kingston, 78, American Army General, complications from a fall. [4]

★ Alexei Komech, 70, Russian architectural historian, cancer. [5]

★ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., 89, American historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, heart attack. [6]

★ Sir John Smith, 83, British founder of the Landmark Trust. [7]

★ Billy Thorpe, 60, Australian rock musician, cardiac arrest. [8]
===27===

★ Russell Churney, 42, British pianist, pancreatic cancer. [9]

★ Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, 93, German World War II General, survivor of Hitler's bunker. [10]

★ Wayne Hooper, 86, American music composer, arranger and singer. [11]

★ Jack Marks, 80, Canadian Chief of Metro Toronto Police (1984–1989), pancreatic cancer. [12]

★ Bobby Rosengarden, 82, American jazz drummer and bandleader on ''The Dick Cavett Show'', kidney failure. [13]

★ Mel Swart, 87, Canadian politician, stroke. [14]

★ Judith Toups, 76, American birding expert and Sun Herald columnist. [15]
===26===

★ Raúl Alonso de Marco, 72, Uruguayan member of the Supreme Court of Justice (1992–2002). [16] [17] (Spanish)

★ Alex Henshaw, 94, British test pilot noted for his work with Spitfire and Lancaster aircraft. [18]

★ Baroness Jeger, 91, British Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras South and opposition spokesman in the House of Lords. [19]

★ Sergio Previtali, 66, Uruguayan politician and former deputy (1990–1995). [20] (Spanish)
===25===

★ William Anderson, 85, American congressman from Tennessee and captain of the USS Nautilus. [21]

★ P. Bhaskaran, 83, Indian director and lyricist in the Malayalam language. [22]

★ Jean Grelaud, 108, one of the last three 'official' French World War I veterans. [23] (French)

★ Brett Mycles, 29, American fitness model and bisexual pornography actor, heart failure. [24]

★ Mark Spoelstra, 66, American folk singer and veteran of the Greenwich Village music scene, pancreatic cancer. [25]
===24===

★ Bryan Balkwill, 84, British conductor. [26]

★ Bruce Bennett, 100, American actor (''New Adventures of Tarzan'', ''Treasure of Sierra Madre''), Olympic medallist, hip fracture. [27]

★ Mordechai Breuer, 85, Israeli Bible researcher and Orthodox rabbi. [28]

★ Mario Chanes de Armas, 80, Cuban political prisoner. [29]

★ Charles Frederick Ehret, 83, American molecular biologist. [30]

★ Leroy Jenkins, 74, American composer and free jazz violinist, lung cancer. [31].

★ Lamar Lundy, 71, American football player, member of the Los Angeles Rams' "Fearsome Foursome" defensive line. [32]

★ Damien Nash, 24, American football running back for the Denver Broncos. [33]

★ George Preas, 73, American football lineman who won two NFL championships with the Baltimore Colts, Parkinson's disease. [34]

★ Paul Secon, 91, American businessman who founded Pottery Barn. [35]
===23===

★ Hanna Barysevich, 118?, Belarusian claimed to be world's oldest person. [36] (Polish)

★ Heinz Berggruen, 93, German art collector and friend of Pablo Picasso, heart attack. [37]

★ Donnie Brooks, 71, American singer ("Mission Bell"), heart failure. [38]

★ Jock Dodds, 91, British footballer for Scotland and Blackpool F.C. who held the record for fastest hat-trick. [39]

★ Robert Engler, 84, American political scientist, heart ailment. [40]

★ Winthrop Jordan, 75, American historian, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [41]

★ Will Maslow, 99, American Jewish leader and civil rights lawyer. [42]

★ John Ritchie, 65, British footballer for Stoke City F.C., club's record goalscorer. [43]

★ Pascal Yoadimnadji, 56, Prime Minister of Chad, brain haemorrhage. [44]
===22===

★ Avrohom Blumenkrantz, 62, American Orthodox rabbi, posek, and kashrut authority, complications of diabetes. [45]

★ Lothar-Günther Buchheim, 89, German author (''Das Boot''), painter and art collector, heart failure. [46]

★ Irwin Caplan, 87, American cartoonist (''Saturday Evening Post'', ''Collier's''), Parkinson's disease. [47]

★ Edgar Evans, 94, British opera singer. [48]

★ George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, 88, British soldier, politician and businessman. [49]

★ Dennis Johnson, 52, American All-Star basketball player and coach, 1979 NBA Finals MVP, cardiac arrest. [50] [51]

★ Nikita Khrushchev, 47, Russian journalist, grandson of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, stroke. [52]

★ Samuel Hinga Norman, 67, Sierra Leone leader of pro-government Kamajors militia, heart failure. [53]

★ Fons Rademakers, 86, Dutch Academy Award-winning film director (''The Assault''), emphysema. [54]

★ Howard Ramsey, 108, American who was one of the last surviving US World War I combat veterans. [55]

★ Kirk Rundstrom, 38, American guitarist, songwriter and member of Split Lip Rayfield, esophageal cancer. [56]

★ Ian Wallace, 60, British drummer (King Crimson, 21st Century Schizoid Band), esophageal cancer. [57]
===21===

★ Victor Clemett, 107, Canada's second oldest living veteran of World War I. [58]

★ Sherman Jones, 72, American baseball player and Kansas state politician. [59]

★ Keith Kyle, 81, British journalist, historian and broadcaster. [60]

★ John Robins, 80, British rugby union player for Wales, coach of the British Lions. [61]

★ Barry Stevens, 44, American basketball player and second highest scorer in Iowa State University history, heart attack. [62]
===20===

★ F. Albert Cotton, 76, American chemist and Texas A&M University professor. [63]

★ Sir Michael Hart, 58, British High Court judge, lung cancer. [64]

★ Ronald Hilton, 95, American Stanford University professor who helped uncover the Bay of Pigs Invasion plan. [65]

★ Sir Edward Gordon Jones, 92, British Air Marshal. [66]

★ Ihab Kareem, 26, Iraqi footballer, bombing. [67]

★ Siegfried Landau, 85, American musician and founding conductor of Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, house fire. [68]

★ Carl-Henning Pedersen, 93, Danish painter known for his membership of CoBrA. [69] [70]

★ Zilla Huma Usman, 35, Pakistani minister for social welfare in the Punjab province, shot. [71] [72]

★ Derek Waring, 79, British actor (''Z Cars''), widower of Dame Dorothy Tutin, cancer. [73]

★ Robert W. Young, 94, American linguist. [74]
===19===

★ Janet Blair, 85, American actress (''My Sister Eileen'', ''The Fabulous Dorseys''), complications of pneumonia. [75] [76]

★ Celia Franca, 85, British-born Canadian dancer, founder and artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada. [77] [78]

★ Antonio Serapio, 69, Philippine congressman representing the city of Valenzuela, car accident resulting from cardiac arrest. [79]
===18===

★ Barbara Gittings, 74, American gay rights campaigner, breast cancer. [80]

★ Bob Oksner, 90, American comic book artist, pneumonia. [81]

★ Frank M. Snowden, Jr, 95, American authority on black people in the ancient world, heart failure. [82]

★ Juan "Pachín" Vicéns, 72, Puerto Rican basketball player. [83]
===17===

★ Michael "Mike Awesome" Alfonso, 42, American wrestler, twice ECW World Champion, suicide by hanging. [84] [85]

★ Mai Ghoussoub, 54, Lebanese author and publisher. [86]

★ John Patrick Griffin, 91, American actor, father of comedian Kathy Griffin, heart failure and multiple myeloma. [87]

★ Jurga Ivanauskaitė, 45, Lithuanian writer, cancer. [88]

★ Mary Kaye, 83, American singer/guitarist and leader of the Mary Kaye Trio, respiratory and heart failure. [89]

★ Jakov Lind, 80, Austrian-born British writer, painter and actor. [90]

★ Dermot O’Reilly, 64, Irish-born Canadian singer and musician with Ryan's Fancy. [91] [92]

★ Maurice Papon, 96, French World War II Vichy government official convicted of deporting Jews to Nazi death camps. [93] [94]
===16===

★ Herminio Iglesias, 77, Argentinian Peronist Party politician. [95]

★ Jakov Lind, 80, Austrian Holocaust survivor and author. [96]

★ Norman Miscampbell, 81, British politician, Conservative MP for Blackpool North (1962-1992). [97]

★ Sheridan Morley, 65, British broadcaster and author, heart failure. [98] [99] [100]

★ Ralph Penza, 74, American senior correspondent and substitute anchor for WNBC. [101] [102]

★ Lilli Promet, 85, Estonian writer. [103] (Estonian)

★ Gene Snyder, 79, American Republican Representative from Kentucky (1963–1965, 1967–1987). [104]
===15===

★ Robert Adler, 93, Austrian-born American co-inventor of the TV remote control, heart failure. [105] [106] [107]

★ Bill Carson, 80, American guitarist. [108]

★ Arthur J. Dixon, 88, Canadian member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1952–1975). [109]

★ Walker Edmiston, 81, American voice actor, cancer. [110]

★ Ray Evans, 92, American songwriter, partner of Jay Livingston for hits such as "Buttons and Bows", heart attack. [111] [112]

★ Buddy Hancken, 92, American baseball player. [113]

★ Daniel McDonald, 46, American Broadway actor, brain cancer. [114]

★ Mordkhe Schaechter, 79, American Yiddish linguist and lexicographer. [115]
===14===

★ Ryan Larkin, 63, Canadian animator, Oscar nominee and subject of the Oscar-winning animated short ''Ryan'', lung cancer. [116]

★ Benito Medero, 84, Uruguayan Minister of Agriculture (1972-1974). [117] (Spanish)

★ Gareth Morris, 86, British flautist and music teacher. [118]

★ John O'Banion, 59, American singer and actor, accident causing blunt force trauma.[119][120]

★ John Penn, 85, British architect. [121]

★ Steven Pimlott, 53, British theatre director, lung cancer. [122] [123]

★ Richard S. Prather, 85, American novelist. [124]

★ Emmett Williams, 81, American poet and Fluxus artist. [125] [126]
===13===

★ Charles Henry Pepys Harington, 96, British general. [127]

★ Elizabeth Jolley, 83, Australian author, illness. [128]

★ Bruce Metzger, 93, American professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and expert on Greek biblical manuscripts. [129] [130]

★ Charlie Norwood, 65, American Republican Representative from Georgia since 1995, cancer. [131]

★ Eliana Ramos, 18, Uruguayan model and sister of late model Luisel Ramos, heart attack. [132]

★ Johanna Sällström, 32, Swedish actress. [133]

★ Sir Richard Wakeford, 84, British Air Marshal. [134]
===12===

★ Violet Barasa, 31, Kenyan women's volleyball team captain and Olympic competitor. [135]

★ Georg Buschner, 81, East German football coach, prostate cancer. [136]

★ Peter Ellenshaw, 93, Anglo-American Academy Award-winning special effects designer. [137] [138]

★ Thomas E. Fairchild, 94, American Federal Appeals Court Judge. [139]

★ Peggy Gilbert, 102, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader, complications of hip surgery. [140]

★ Ellen Hanley, 80, American Broadway theatre actress, stroke. [141] [142]

★ John MacLeod of MacLeod, 71, British 29th chief of the Clan MacLeod, leukaemia. [143]

★ Paolo Pileri, 62, Italian motorcycle racer (1973–1979), 1975 World Champion and Capirossi team manager, natural causes. [144]

★ Randy Stone, 48, American casting director and Oscar-winning film producer, heart failure. [145]

★ Sulejman Talović, 18, American Salt Lake City spree killer, shot by police. [146]

★ Geraldine Warrick-Crisman, 76, African-American TV executive, former assistant New Jersey state treasurer, breast cancer. [147]
===11===

★ Jorge Antonio, 89, Argentinian Peronist party politician and business man. [148] (Spanish)

★ Marianne Fredriksson, 79, Swedish writer and journalist, heart attack. [149]

★ Derek Gardner, 92, British marine painter. [150]

★ Charles Langford, 84, American Alabama state senator and lawyer, represented Rosa Parks during Montgomery Bus Boycott. [151]

★ Yunus Parvez, 75, Indian Bollywood actor, complications of diabetes. [152]

★ Jim Ricca, 79, American football player (Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles, Detroit Lions), cerebral aneurysm. [153]
===10===

★ Gary Frisch, 38, South African co-founder of Gaydar dating website, fall from balcony. [154]

★ Jung Da Bin, 26, South Korean actress, suspected suicide by hanging. [155]

★ James C. Melby, 57, American professional wrestling historian, author and magazine editor. [156]

★ Charles R. Walgreen, Jr., 100, American president of Walgreens (1939–1971), son of founder Charles R. Walgreen. [157] [158]
===9===

★ Hank Bauer, 84, American baseball outfielder and manager, three-time All Star, cancer. [159]

★ Eddie Feigner, 81, American softball player, respiratory failure. [160] [161]

★ Alejandro Finisterre, 87, Spanish inventor of table football. [162]

★ Tara Grant, 34, American allegedly murdered and dismembered by her husband Stephen Grant, strangulation. [163]

★ Benedict Kiely, 87, Irish writer and broadcaster. [164]

★ Aida Mason, 111, Britain's oldest person. [165]

★ Andrew McAuley, 39, Australian ocean kayak adventurer, missing presumed dead at sea. [166]

★ Ian Richardson, 72, British actor (''House of Cards'', ''Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'') and member of the RSC, in his sleep. [167] [168]

★ Bruno Ruffo, 86, Italian motorcycle racer, three-time world champion (1949–1951). [169]
===8===

★ Joe Edwards, 85, American comic book artist best known for his Archie and Li'l Jinx comics, heart failure. [170]

★ Adele Faccio, 86, Italian civil right activist. [171] (Italian)

★ Florence Melton, 95, American inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist. [172] [173]

★ Shelby Metcalf, 76, Texas A&M basketball coach, cancer. [174]

★ Antonio Pierro, 110, oldest man in the United States and oldest living World War I veteran. [175]

★ Ismail Semed, Chinese Muslim Uighur separatist, execution by firing squad. [176]

★ Anna Nicole Smith, 39, American 1993 Playmate of the Year, widow of J. Howard Marshall, accidental drug overdose. [177] [178]

★ Ian Stevenson, 88, Canadian psychiatrist and researcher of reincarnation.[179] [180]

★ Peter Thornton, 81, British museum curator and historian. [181]

★ Harriett Woods, 79, American Lieutenant Governor of Missouri (1985–1989), leukemia. [182]
===7===

★ Helen Duncan, 65, New Zealand former union leader and politician, cancer. [183] [184]

★ Tommy James, 83, American football player with the Cleveland Browns, congestive heart failure. [185]

★ Ken Kennedy, 61, American computer scientist at Rice University, pancreatic cancer. [186]

★ Alan MacDiarmid, 79, New Zealand recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2000, injuries from a fall. [187]

★ Erika Ortiz Rocasolano, 31, Spanish youngest sister of Letizia, Princess of Asturias. [188] [189]

★ Fred Mustard Stewart, 74, American author (''The Mephisto Waltz'', ''Ellis Island''), cancer. [190]

★ Brian Williams, 44, British former rugby player for Wales and Neath RFC, heart attack. [191]
===6===

★ Lew Burdette, 80, American baseball player, MVP of the 1957 World Series, stomach cancer. [192] [193]

★ Lee Hoffman, 74, American science fiction and western writer, heart attack. [194]

★ Len Hopkins, 76, Canadian politician, Liberal MP from Ontario (1965-1997), pneumonia. [195]

★ Frankie Laine, 93, American singer ("Mule Train"), complications of hip replacement surgery. [196] [197]

★ Reiner Merkel, 55, CEO of German Press Agency Picture Alliance, heart attack. [198]

★ Nelson W. Polsby, 72, American political scientist and author, heart failure. [199]

★ Sir Gareth Roberts, 66, British physicist and principal of Wolfson College, Oxford. [200]

★ Glenn Sarty, 77, Canadian original producer of CBC's The Fifth Estate, Take 30 and Take 60, emphysema. [201]

★ Bent Skovmand, 61, Danish plant scientist and conservationist, founder of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, brain tumor. [202] [203]

★ Willye White, 68, African American first 5-time U.S. track and field Olympian, pancreatic cancer. [204]

★ Johnny Williams, 80, British champion professional boxer in the 1940s and 50s. [205]
===5===

★ Angela King, 68, Jamaican diplomat, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations (1997-2004), cancer. [206]

★ Leo T. McCarthy, 76, New Zealand-born American politician and Lt.-Gov. of California (1983–1995), kidney failure. [207]

★ Alfred Worm, 61, Austrian investigative journalist, heart attack. [208]
===4===

★ Steve Barber, 68, American Major League Baseball pitcher, pneumonia. [209] [210]

★ José Carlos Bauer, 81, Brazilian World Cup footballer. [211]

★ Paul Burwell, 57, British percussionist. [212]

★ Ilya Kormiltsev, 47, Russian poet and translator, spinal cancer. [213].

★ Barbara McNair, 72, American singer and actress, throat cancer. [214] [215]

★ Jules Olitski, 84, Ukrainian-born American abstract painter and sculptor, cancer. [216]
===3===

★ George Becker, 78, American president of United Steelworkers (1993–2001), prostate cancer. [217]

★ Ralph de Toledano, 90, Moroccan-born American political columnist and author. [218]

★ Stephan Epstein, 46, British professor of economic history at LSE, epileptic seizure. [219]

★ Ben Kaye, 68, Canadian songwriter and adviser to Celine Dion, cancer. [220]

★ Pedro Knight, 85, Cuban–American musician and husband of Celia Cruz. [221] [222]
===2===

★ Edmund Arnold, 93, American newspaper designer, pneumonia. [223] [224]

★ Vijay Arora, 62, Indian film and television actor, intestinal condition. [225]

★ Loren Grey, 91, American educational psychologist and son of Zane Grey, age-related complications. [226]

★ Billy Henderson, 67, American singer with The Spinners, diabetes. [227]

★ Joe Hunter, 79, American pianist and bandleader of The Funk Brothers. [228] [229]

★ Terry Lee McMillan, 53, American harmonica player. [230]

★ Gisèle Pascal, 85, French actress and one-time lover of Prince Rainier. [231]

★ Filippo Raciti, 40, Italian police officer, fatal injury by football hooligan. [232] [233]

★ Eric von Schmidt, 75, American folk/blues singer-songwriter, stroke. [234] [235]

★ Masao Takemoto, 87, Japanese gymnast, gold medallist at 1960 Olympic Games, bile duct cancer. [236]

★ Shannon J. Wall, 87, American union official, President of the National Maritime Union (1973–1990). [237]
===1===

★ Whitney Balliett, 80, American jazz critic, cancer. [238]

★ Ray Berres, 99, American baseball player who was second-oldest living major league player, pneumonia. [239]

★ Ahmad Abu Laban, 60, Egyptian-born Danish Muslim leader, key figure in the Muhammad cartoons controversy, cancer. [240] [241]

★ Gian Carlo Menotti, 95, Italian-born opera composer (''Amahl and the Night Visitors''). [242] [243]

★ Antonio María Javierre Ortas, 85, Spanish cardinal and prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship (1992–1996), cardiac arrest. [244]

★ Adelina Tattilo, 78, Italian founder of ''Playmen'' magazine. [245] (Italian)

★ Seri Wangnaitham, 70, Thai dancer, choreographer and national artist, heart failure. [246]