DEATHS IN JANUARY 2007

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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2007.
===31===

★ Kirill Babitzin, 56, Finnish singer, 9th in 1984 Eurovision Song Contest. [1]

★ Lee Bergere, 82, American actor. [2]

★ Molly Ivins, 62, American newspaper columnist, political commentator and author, breast cancer. [3] [4] [5]

★ Richard Kelley, 91, American stepfather of Bill Clinton, cancer. [6] [7]

★ Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, 49, Saudi brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden, shot. [8]

★ Ronald Muldrow, 57, American jazz guitarist. [9]

★ Douglas T Ross, 77, American who created APT (programming language) and led MIT computer-aided design project. [10]

★ Adelaide Tambo, 77, South African activist and wife of Oliver Tambo. [11]
===30===

★ Stu Inman, 80, American, National Basketball Association executive, heart attack. [12]

★ Griffith Jones, 96, British actor. [13]

★ Nikos Kourkoulos, 72, Greek actor and artistic director of the National Theatre of Greece, cancer. [14]

★ Max Lanier, 91, American baseball player. [15] [16]

★ Gordon Macklin, 78, American stock broker, NASD President (1970–87), oversaw NASDAQ start, stroke. [17]

★ Calvin Plimpton, 89, American president of Amherst College (1960–71), complications from surgery. [18] [19]

★ Sidney Sheldon, 89, American author and TV producer (''I Dream of Jeannie''), complications from pneumonia. [20]
===29===

★ Barbaro, 4, American thoroughbred racehorse, 2006 Kentucky Derby winner, euthanized after contracting laminitis. [21]

★ José D'Elía, 90, Uruguayan labor leader and politician. [22] (Spanish)

★ Art Fowler, 84, American Major League Baseball pitcher and pitching coach. [23] [24]

★ Robert Meier, 109, oldest living German man, World War I veteran. [25]
===28===

★ Iván Böszörményi-Nagy, 86, Hungarian-American psychiatrist, complications from Parkinson's disease. [26] [27]

★ Malcolm Bowie, 63, English scholar of French literature and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge (2002-2006). [28]

★ Carlo Clerici, 78, Swiss road racing cyclist who won 1954 Giro d'Italia, cancer. [29] (Italian)

★ Cyril Demarne, 101, British wartime firefighter. [30]

★ Robert Drinan, S.J., 86, American Democratic Representative and law professor, pneumonia/congestive heart failure. [31]

★ Fiona Jones, 49, British politician, Labour MP for Newark (1997-2001). [32]

★ Nona Koirala, 78, politician of Nepali Congress, widow of Keshav Prasad Koirala, liver failure. [33] [34]

★ Hsu Wei Lun, 28, Taiwanese actress, cardiac arrest following car accident. [35] [36]

★ O P Nayyar, 81, Indian music director for Hindi films, cardiac arrest. [37]

★ Deborah Orin-Eilbeck, 59, American bureau chief in Washington for the ''New York Post'', cancer. [38] [39]

★ Yelena Romanova, 43, Russian athlete, 3000 metres gold medalist at 1992 Summer Olympics. [40]

★ Karel Svoboda, 68, Czech composer, suicide. [41]

★ Emma Tillman, 114, American who was the recognised world's oldest person. [42] [43]
===27===

★ Trevor Allan, 80, Australian rugby union player and TV commentator, cancer. [44]

★ Tige Andrews, 86, American actor (''The Mod Squad''), cardiac arrest. [45]

★ Marcheline Bertrand, 56, American actress and mother of Angelina Jolie and James Haven, cancer. [46]

★ Bob Carroll, 88, American television writer for ''I Love Lucy''. [47] [48]

★ Paul Channon (Baron Kelvedon of Ongar), 71, British MP for Southend West (1959–1997) and government minister.[49]

★ Alberta Davis, 125?, American woman listed by Social Security as oldest person in America. [50]

★ Bing Devine, 90, American general manager of the NL's St. Louis Cardinals baseball team (1958–1964, 1968–1978). [51]

★ Claudio Guillén, 82, Spanish writer, member of the Royal Spanish Academy and son of Jorge Guillén, heart attack. [52] [53] (Spanish)

★ Kamleshwar, 75, Indian writer and television executive, heart attack. [54]

★ Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, 66, French professor of aesthetics at University of Strasbourg, respiratory insufficiency. [55] (French)

★ Herbert Reinecker, 92, German novelist, dramatist and screenwriter (''Derrick''). [56]

★ Yang Chuan-Kwang, 73, Taiwanese silver medalist in decathlon at 1960 Summer Olympics, brain hemorrhage. [57]
===26===

★ Charles Brunier, 105, French veteran of WWI and WWII who claimed to have been the inspiration for ''Papillon''. [58] (French)

★ Sharon Tyler Herbst, American author of ''The Food Lover's Companion'' cookbook, ovarian cancer. [59]

★ Jean Ichbiah, 66, French computer scientist and chief designer of the Ada programming language, brain cancer.[60]

★ Max Kelly, 76, Australian mathematics professor and leading researcher into category theory. [61]

★ Jimmy Ledgard, 84, British rugby league player for Great Britain, Dewsbury and Leigh. [62]

★ Emanuele Luzzati, 85, Italian painter, Oscar-nominated production designer and animator. [63]

★ David Rattray, 48, South African historian of the Anglo-Zulu War, shot. [64] [65]

★ Glen Tetley, 80, American choreographer and dancer, melanoma. [66] [67]

★ Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi, 21, Nigerian convicted of drug trafficking in Singapore, execution by hanging. [68]

★ Hans Wegner, 92, Danish furniture designer. [69]

★ Lorne "Gump" Worsley, 77, Canadian NHL goaltender and Vezina Trophy winner, heart attack. [70]
===25===

★ Ken Kavanaugh, 90, American National Football League player, complications from pneumonia. [71]

★ Majid Khadduri, 98, Iraqi–born American founder of the SAIS Middle East Studies program, failure to thrive. [72] [73].

★ Jack Lang, 85, American sportswriter and secretary-treasurer of the Baseball Writers Association (1966–1988). [74] [75]

★ Eleanor McGovern, 85, American wife of Senator and Presidential candidate George McGovern. [76] [77]

★ Hideo Ogata, 73, Japanese founding editor of ''Animage''. [78]

★ Roberta Semple Salter, 96, American evangelist, daughter of Aimee Semple McPherson and co-creator of ''Name That Tune''. [79]
===24===

★ Ismail Cem, 67, Turkish politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1997–2002), lung cancer. [80] [81]

★ Jean-François Deniau, 78, French writer and statesman, member of the Académie française. [82]

★ Krystyna Feldman, 91, Polish actress, lung cancer. [83] (Polish)

★ Wolfgang Iser, 80, German literary scholar and founder of Reader-response criticism. [84] (German)

★ Bryan Kocis, 44, American gay pornography producer, stabbed. [85]

★ Guadalupe Larriva, 50, Ecuadorian Defense minister, helicopter crash. [86]

★ John W. Lavelle, 57, New York State Assemblyman, stroke. [87].

★ A. H. de Oliveira Marques, 73, Portuguese historian, heart failure. [88]

★ Harry Melbourne, 94, Australian inventor of the Freddo Frog chocolate, golden staph infection. [89] [90]

★ Emiliano Mercado del Toro, 115, Puerto Rican WW I veteran, was world's oldest person, natural causes. [91]

★ David Morris, 79, British Labour Member of the European Parliament (1984–1999) and Chairman of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Cymru. [92]

★ Charlotte Thompson Reid, 93, American singer and Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives. [93]

★ Mendy Samstein, 68, American civil rights activist, organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, carcinoid cancer. [94]

★ Daniel Stern, 79, American University of Houston professor, Warner Bros. and CBS Vice President, heart surgery complications.[95]

★ Peter Tompkins, 87, American journalist and writer (''The Secret Life of Plants''). [96]
===23===

★ Syed Hussein Alatas, 78, Malaysian academic, writer and Gerakan Party founding president, heart attack. [97] [98]

★ E. Howard Hunt, 88, American Watergate scandal principal, pneumonia. [99]

★ Ryszard Kapuściński, 74, Polish journalist, author of book about The Soccer War. [100]

★ John Majhor, 53, Canadian and American radio and TV broadcaster, cancer. [101]

★ Leopoldo Pirelli, 81, Italian chairman of Pirelli (1965–1996). [102]

★ David "Disco D" Shayman, 26, American hip hop producer, suicide. [103]
===22===

★ Doug Blasdell, 44, American Bravo television network trainer on ''Work Out''. [104]

★ L. M. Boyd, 79, American newspaper columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. [105]

★ Lisa E. Goldberg, 54, American president of the Charles H. Revson Foundation, brain aneurysm. [106]

★ Toulo de Graffenried, 92, Swiss Formula One racing driver (1950–1956). [107] [108]

★ Victoria Hopper, 97, British stage and film actress. [109]

★ Ramón Marsal Ribó, 72, Spanish footballer for Real Madrid. [110]

★ Michael Nolan, 78, English Law Lord and first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, degenerative illness. [111]

★ Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, 83, Rwandan pastor convicted of participation in the Rwandan genocide. [112]

★ Abbé Pierre, 94, French founder of the Emmaüs movement, lung infection. [113]

★ Liz Renay, 80, American actress and author, internal bleeding. [114]
===21===

★ Maria Cioncan, 29, Romanian runner and medalist at 2004 Summer Olympics, car accident. [115]

★ Peter Clarke, 58, Children's Commissioner for Wales, cancer. [116]

★ Richard Ollard, 83, British historian and biographer. [117]

★ Peer Raben, 66, German composer, mainly of film music associated with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. [118]

★ Barbara Seranella, 50, American author, liver failure. [119]

★ U;Nee, 25, Korean pop singer, suicide by hanging. [120]
===20===

★ Eric Aubijoux, 42, French motorcycle rider, possible cardiac arrest during Dakar Rally. [121][122]

★ Dan Christensen, 64, American abstract painter, heart failure due to polymyositis.[123]

★ Lloyd Francis, 86, Canadian MP and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (1984), stomach cancer. [124]

★ Murat Nasyrov, 37, Russian-Kazakh singer, suicide by jumping. [125]

★ Anatol Rapoport, 95, Russian-born American mathematical psychologist and peace activist. [126]

★ Alfredo Ripstein, 90, Mexican movie producer, respiratory failure. [127]

★ Vern Ruhle, 55, American MLB pitcher and pitching coach, multiple myeloma. [128]

★ George Smathers, 93, American Senator for Florida (1951–1969), stroke complications. [129]

★ Ali de Vries, 92, Dutch women's 4x100m relay runner at the 1936 Summer Olympics. [130]
===19===

★ Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow, 45, American professional wrestler, drug overdose. [131] [132]

★ Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão, 69, Portuguese poet, dramatist, essayist and translator, long illness. [133] (Portuguese)

★ Gerhard Bronner, 84, Austrian composer and cabaret artist, complications following a stroke. [134]

★ Hrant Dink, 52, Armenian-Turkish editor, journalist and columnist, shot. [135] [136]

★ Denny Doherty, 66, Canadian singer with The Mamas & the Papas, abdominal aneurysm. [137] [138] [139]
===18===

★ Cyril Mar Baselious, 71, Indian Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, heart attack. [140]

★ Julie Winnefred Bertrand, 115, Canadian who was the world's oldest known woman at time of death. [141]

★ Brent Liles, 43, American bassist of the punk bands Social Distortion and Agent Orange, traffic accident.

★ Charles H. O'Brien, 86, Tennessee Supreme Court judge (1987–94). [142]
===17===

★ Art Buchwald, 81, American humorist and columnist, kidney failure. [143] [144]

★ Keeley Dorsey, 19, American football running back at the University of South Florida. [145]

★ Yevgeny Kushnarev, 55, Ukrainian politician and a deputy leader of the Party of Regions, shot while hunting. [146]

★ Virtue Hampton Whitted, 84, American jazz musician, member of ''The Hampton Sisters'', stroke. [147]
===16===

★ Ron Carey, 71, American actor (''Barney Miller'', ''History of the World, Part I''), stroke. [148]

★ Pookie Hudson, 72, American lead singer of The Spaniels, complications of thymus cancer. [149]

★ Danny Mason, 69, American golf coach and physical education professor. [150]

★ Rudolf August Oetker, 90, German food industry magnate (Oetker Group) and philanthropist. [151]

★ Benny Parsons, 65, American champion NASCAR driver, won 1973 Winston Cup, complications from lung cancer. [152] [153]

★ René Riffaud, 108, one of France's last surviving World War I veterans. [154]

★ Jainal Antel Sali, Jr., 42, Filipino terrorist and a commander of Abu Sayyaf, shot in an army raid. [155]

★ Yuri Stern, 57, Israeli politician, cancer. [156]

★ Betty Trezza, 82, American baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, heart attack. [157]

★ David Vanole, 43, American soccer goalkeeper, heart condition. [158]
===15===

★ Awad Hamed al-Bandar, 61, former chief judge of Iraq, execution by hanging. [159]

★ Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, 55, half-brother of Saddam Hussein, former leader of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, execution by hanging. [160]

★ Leonard Berg, 79, American neurologist, creator of the Clinical Dementia Rating scale, stroke. [161]

★ Bo Yibo, 98, Chinese politician known for urging crackdown on Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. [162] [163]

★ Isaac Fanous, 87, Egyptian artist and scholar who specialized in Coptic art. [164] (Arabic)

★ James Hillier, 91, Canadian-born American inventor of first practical electron microscope. [165] [166]

★ Ardeshir Hosseinpour, 44, Iranian nuclear physicist. [167]

★ Aart Koopmans, 60, Dutch founder of the Alternative Elfstedentocht speed skating series, pneumonia. [168] [169] (Dutch)

★ Richard Musgrave, 96, German-born Harvard economist and government adviser, natural causes. [170] [171]

★ Percy Saltzman, 91, first person to appear on Canadian television. [172]

★ Colin Thurston, 59, British record producer (''Duran Duran, Magazine, Human League, Kajagoogoo''). [173] [174]
===14===

★ Darlene Conley, 72, American actress (''The Bold and the Beautiful''), stomach cancer. [175] [176]

★ Vassilis Fotopoulos, 72, Greek Academy Award-winning art director (''Zorba the Greek''). [177]

★ Tudor Gates, 76, British playwright and trade unionist. [178]

★ Barbara Kelly, 82, Canadian-born British actress (''What's My Line''), cancer. [179]

★ Robert Noortman, 60, Dutch art dealer, heart attack. [180]

★ Louis Pendleton, 75, African American civil rights leader in Shreveport, Louisiana. [181]

★ Peter Prendergast, 60, Welsh artist. [182]
===13===

★ Michael Brecker, 57, American jazz saxophonist, leukemia. [183]

★ Doyle Holly, 70, American bassist for Buck Owens' Buckaroos (1963–71), prostate cancer. [184]

★ Henri-Jean Martin, 82, French librarian and book historian, cancer. [185]

★ Danny Oakes, 95, American USAC champion midget car driver. [186]

★ Augustin Diamacoune Senghor, 78, Senegalese separatist leader. [187]
===12===

★ Jimmy Cheatham, 82, American jazz trombonist.[188]

★ Alice Coltrane, 69, American jazz musician and widow of John Coltrane, respiratory failure. [189] [190]

★ Stephen Gilbert, 96, British painter and sculptor. [191]

★ Sir James Killen, 81, Australian Minister for Defence (1975–82). [192]

★ Terrance B. Lettsome, 71, politician in the British Virgin Islands, illness. [193]

★ Larry Stewart, 58, American philanthropist known in Kansas City as "Secret Santa", cancer of the esophagus. [194] [195]

★ Jennifer Strange, 28, American radio contestant, water intoxication. [196]
===11===

★ Solveig Dommartin, 45, French actress, trapeze artist in Wim Wenders' ''Wings of Desire'', heart attack. [197]

★ Bob MacQuarrie, 80, Canadian politician (1981–85). [198]

★ Kéba Mbaye, 82, Senegalese judge, vice president of the ICJ and vice president of the IOC. [199]

★ Dale Noyd, 73, American Air Force captain and Vietnam War conscientious objector, emphysema. [200]

★ Donald Edward Osterbrock, 82, American astronomer. [201], [202]

★ Bryan Pearce, 77, British painter. [203][204]

★ Robert Anton Wilson (RAW), 74, American novelist, futurist and conspiracy theory researcher, post-polio syndrome. [205]
===10===

★ Ray Beck, 75, American football player for the New York Giants (1952-57). [206]

★ Cho Tat Wah, 91, Hong Kong wuxia actor, stomach hemorrhage. [207] (Chinese)

★ Harry Horse (Richard Horne), 46, British cartoonist and children's book author (''The Last''... series), suicide. [208]

★ Alice Lakwena, 50, Ugandan rebel leader and founder of the Holy Spirit Movement. [209] [210]

★ Bradford Washburn, 96, American cartographer, mountaineer and founder of the Boston Museum of Science, heart failure. [211]
===9===

★ Dame Joyanne Bracewell, 72, British senior judge of the Family Division of the High Court, after long illness. [212]

★ Ion Dincă, 78, Romanian Deputy Prime Minister and Mayor of Bucharest during the Communist era. [213] (Romanian)

★ Thomas Nelson, 111, American who was second oldest man in the world at time of death. [214]

★ Maureen Orcutt, 99, American golf champion. [215]

★ Yelena Petushkova, 66, Russian equestrian, Olympic double medallist in 1972, after long illness.[216] [217]

★ Carlo Ponti, 94, Italian film producer, pulmonary complications. [218]

★ Elmer Symons, 29, South African off-road motorcycle racer, accident during the Dakar Rally. [219]

★ Jean-Pierre Vernant, 93, French historian and anthropologist. [220] (French)
===8===

★ Jane Bolin, 98, American New York City family court judge (1939–79) and first African American female judge. [221]

★ Lord Cockfield, 90, British proponent of the European single market and VP of the European Commission (1985-1989). [222]

★ Gloria Connors, 82, American US Open tennis player (1942–43) and mother and coach of Jimmy Connors, natural causes. [223]

★ Ken Cranston, 89, English test cricketer (1947-1948). [224]

★ Yvonne De Carlo, 84, Canadian-born American actress (''The Ten Commandments'', ''The Munsters''), natural causes. [225]

★ David Ervine, 53, Northern Irish, leader of the Progressive Unionist Party, complications from heart attack and stroke. [226]

★ Peter Flanagan, 65, British rugby league player for Great Britain and Hull KR. [227]

★ Bong Soo Han, 75, Korean martial arts master and film fight choreographer. [228] [229]

★ Drew Posada, 37, American comic book colourist and artist, pancreatitis. [230]

★ Italo Sarrocco, 108, Italian World War I veteran. [231] (Italian)

★ Iwao Takamoto, 81, Japanese American animator, TV producer and film director, created Scooby-Doo, heart failure. [232] [233]

★ Judith Vladeck, 83, American labor lawyer and women's rights advocate, complications of infection. [234] [235]
===7===

★ Bobby Hamilton, 49, American NASCAR 2004 Craftsman Truck Series Champion, head and neck cancer. [236] [237]

★ Magnús Magnússon, 77, Icelandic-born British television presenter (''Mastermind'', 1972–1997), pancreatic cancer. [238]

★ Olli-Matti Multamäki, 58, commander of the Finnish Army, illness. [239]

★ Hotte Paksha Rangaswamy, 74, Indian politician, Guinness World Record-holder for contesting elections, brief illness. [240]
===6===

★ Bill W. Clayton, 78, American Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives (1975-1983), natural causes. [241]

★ Mario Danelo, 21, American football placekicker for USC, fall from a cliff. [242] [243]

★ Yvon Durelle, 77, Canadian boxing champion, complications from a stroke. [244]

★ Frédéric Cardinal Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, 76, Congolese Archbishop of Kinshasa, complications of diabetes. [245]

★ Antonella Kerr, Marchioness of Lothian, 84, British journalist and broadcaster. [246]

★ Charmion King, 81, Canadian actress. [247]

★ Sneaky Pete Kleinow, 72, American special effects artist & pedal steel guitarist (Flying Burrito Brothers), Alzheimer's. [248]

★ Soad Nasr, 57, Egyptian actress, complications from liposuction. [249]

★ Mohamed Lamine Sanha, Bissau-Guinean Navy Chief of Staff, shot. [250]

★ Ira D. Wallach, 97, American philanthropist and CEO of Central National-Gottesman (1956–1979). [251]

★ Roberta Wohlstetter, 94, American historian of military intelligence. [252]
===5===

★ Momofuku Ando, 96, Taiwanese-born inventor of Nissin instant ramen noodles including the Cup Noodle, heart failure. [253]

★ E. J. Hughes, 93, Canadian painter, heart failure. [254]

★ Marie Mornet Robin, 112, second-oldest person in France. [255] (French)

★ Chih Ree Sun, 83, Chinese-American physicist and poet, kidney and lung cancer. [256]
===4===

★ Nikki Bacharach, 40, American daughter of Angie Dickinson and Burt Bacharach, suicide by asphyxia. [257]

★ Ben Gannon, 54, Australian theatre, film and television producer, cancer. [258]

★ Helen Hill, 36, American independent film-maker, shot. [259]

★ Sir Lewis Hodges, 88, British Air Chief Marshal. [260]

★ Grenfell (Gren) Jones, 72, British newspaper cartoonist. [261] [262] [263]

★ Steve Krantz, 83, American film and TV producer (''Fritz the Cat''), husband of Judith Krantz, complications of pneumonia. [264]

★ Bob Milliken, 80, American Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher (1953–54), cardiac arrest. [265]

★ Gáspár Nagy, 57, Hungarian poet and writer [266] (Hungarian)

★ Sandro Salvadore, 67, Italian footballer. [267]

★ Jan Schröder, 65, Dutch cyclist. [268] (Dutch)

★ Marais Viljoen, 91, South African president (1979–1984), heart failure. [269] [270]
===3===

★ Annibale Ciarniello, 106, Italian World War I veteran. [271] (Italian)

★ Janos Furst, 71, Hungarian-born orchestral conductor, cancer. [272]

★ Earl Reibel, 76, Canadian ice hockey forward (Detroit Red Wings), 1956 Lady Byng Trophy winner, complications of stroke.[273]

★ Calvin William Verity Jr., 89, United States Secretary of Commerce (1987–1989), complications from pneumonia. [274] [275]

★ Sir Cecil Walker, 82, Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for North Belfast (1983–2001), heart attack. [276] [277]

★ Michael Yeats, 85, Irish Fianna Fáil senator (1961–1981) and son of W. B. Yeats. [278]
===2===

★ Garry Betty, 49, American CEO of Earthlink, adrenocortical carcinoma. [279] [280]

★ Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, 65, American historian, complications from surgery. [281]

★ Sergio Jiménez, 69, Mexican actor, heart attack. [282]

★ Mauno Jokipii, 82, Finnish professor and World War II researcher, natural causes. [283] (Finnish)

★ Teddy Kollek, 95, Israeli Mayor of Jerusalem (1965–1993), natural causes. [284] [285]

★ Don Massengale, 69, American PGA Tour golf player, heart attack. [286]

★ Richard Newton, 55, Australian-born technology pioneer and professor at University of California, Berkeley, pancreatic cancer. [287]

★ Paek Nam-sun, 78, North Korean Foreign Affairs minister, lung cancer. [288]

★ David Perkins, 87, American Stanford University geneticist, after short illness. [289]

★ Dan Shaver, 56, American NASCAR driver and ARCA race car driver/owner, cancer. [290]

★ Robert C. Solomon, 64, American scholar of continental philosophy. [291]
===1===

★ A.I. Bezzerides, 98, Turkish-American novelist and screenwriter, injuries from a fall. [292] [293]

★ Leonard Fraser, 55, Australian serial killer, heart attack. [294]

★ Julius Hegyi, 83, American conductor, Alzheimer's disease. [295]

★ Tad Jones, 54, American jazz music historian, complications from a fall. [296]

★ Ernie Koy, 97, American baseball player, in his sleep. [297]

★ Roland Levinsky, 63, South African medical scientist, Plymouth University Vice Chancellor, electric shock induced heart attack.[298]

★ Tillie Olsen, 94, American writer, natural causes. [299]

★ Del Reeves, 74, American country singer, emphysema. [300]

★ Eleonore Schoenfeld, 81, Slovenian-born cellist and teacher at USC Thornton School of Music, heart attack. [301]

★ Darrent Williams, 24, American NFL player (Denver Broncos), shot. [302] [303]