Deaths in January 2008

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2008.

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.

January 2008

1

• Salvatore Bonanno, 75, American mobster, heart attack.
• Peter Caffrey, 58, Irish actor (Ballykissangel, Coronation Street, Glenroe), complications from stroke.
• Pratap Chandra Chunder, 89, Indian Cabinet Minister (1977–1980), heart disease.
• Harold Corsini, 88, American photographer, stroke.
• Chuck Daniel, 74, American baseball player.
• Harald Deilmann, 87, German architect and author.
• Len Dockett, 87, Australian footballer.
• Irena Górska-Damięcka, 97, Polish actress.
• John Granville, 33, American diplomat, homicide.
• Philip Hogarty, 19, Irish Chess Union president, traffic collision.
• Erich Kästner, 107, German jurist and last known World War I veteran.
• T. Maheswaran, 47, Sri Lankan politician, Cabinet Minister, assassination by gunshot.
• Lucas Sang, 46, Kenyan runner and 1988 Olympian, homicide.
• Wanda Sieradzka de Ruig, 84, Polish author, poet, journalist and translator.
• Oleg Tolmachev, 88, Russian ice hockey player and coach.

2

• Henri Andrieux, 76, French Olympic cyclist.
• Joyce Carlson, 84, American artist, designer of Disney's It's a Small World rides, cancer.
• Lee S. Dreyfus, 81, American politician, Governor of Wisconsin (1979–1983).
• George MacDonald Fraser, 82, British novelist (Harry Paget Flashman) and screenwriter (Octopussy, The Three Musketeers), cancer.
• Brice Mack, 90, American animator (Cinderella, Peter Pan, Fantasia).
• Keith McCance, 78, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1979–1989).
• G. G. Njuguna Ngengi, Kenyan politician, homicide.
• Julio Martínez Pradanos, 84, Chilean sports journalist, cancer.
• Robert C. Schnitzer, 101, American actor, producer and educator.
• Günter Schubert, 69, German actor.
• Gerry Staley, 87, American baseball pitcher (Chicago White Sox), natural causes.
• Galyani Vadhana, 84, Thai princess, eldest sister of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, cancer.
• Edward F. Welch, Jr., 83, American admiral, heart failure.

3

• Aleksandr Abdulov, 54, Russian actor, lung cancer.
• Jack Aranson, 83, British actor, pneumonia.
• Edelmiro Arévalo, 78, Paraguayan football player.
• Yo-Sam Choi, 35, South Korean boxer, WBC Light Flyweight Champion, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Henri Chopin, 85, French poet and artist.
• Natasha Collins, 31, British television presenter.
• Werner Dollinger, 89, German politician.
• Petru Dugulescu, 62, Romanian Baptist pastor, poet and politician, heart attack.
• Milt Dunnell, 102, Canadian sportswriter.
• Butch Felker, 62, American mayor of Topeka, Kansas, cancer.
• Gilbert A Harrison, 92, American magazine editor.
• Joseph Lazarow, 84, American mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey.
• Herman Le Compte, 78, Belgian doctor, the 'Vitamin Doctor', heart attack.
• Antônio Matias, 44, Portuguese judoka.
• Andrew J. Olmsted, 37, American army blogger in Iraq, shot.
• Lisandro Otero, 75, Cuban author.
• Nikolay Puzanov, 69, Russian Soviet biathlete, 1968 Olympic Gold medalist.
• Manolo Reyes, 83, American pioneering Spanish-language newscaster, Parkinson's disease.
• Jimmy Stewart, 76, British racing driver.
• O.G. Style, 37, American rapper, brain aneurysm.

4

• Vyacheslav Ambartsumyan, 67, Russian footballer, hit by car.
• Bjørn Odmar Andersen, 64, Norwegian footballer.
• Sir Bernard Audley, 83, British businessman and philanthropist.
• Keith Baxter, 36, British drummer of rock band 3 Colours Red, liver failure.
• Xavier Chamorro Cardenal, 75, Nicaraguan editor of El Nuevo Diario, heart failure.
• Stig Claesson, 79, Swedish writer.
• Vernon Derrick, 74, American musician.
• Emilio Benavent Escuín, 93, Spanish Bishop of Granada.
• Mort Garson, 83, Canadian electronic musician, renal failure.
• Herbert Keppler, 82, American photojournalist.
• Marianne Kiefer, 79, German actress.
• Jimmy Nah, 40, Singaporean actor and comedian.
• John O'Donohue, 52, Irish poet, philosopher and priest.
• Graham Percy, 69, British illustrator of children's books.
• Jens Quistgaard, 88, Danish industrial designer for Dansk International Designs.
• Bill Ramsey, 87, American baseball player.
• Henry Savory, 93, British cricketer.
• Bert Walker, 88, New Zealand politician, Cabinet Minister.
• Claude Whatham, 80, British film and television director.

5

• Luis E. Aguilar Leon, 81, Cuban journalist, professor and historian.
• Tony Ambrose, 74, British rally driver.
• John Ashley, 77, Canadian referee in the National Hockey League, heart failure.
• Rowan Ayers, 85, British television producer.
• Michel Conte, 75, French born, naturalized Canadian choreographer, lyricist and composer of film music and television music.
• Giovanni Rinaldo Coronas, 89, Italian politician, police chief and Interior Minister.
• Phillip S. Figa, 56, American federal judge, brain tumor.
• Raymond Forni, 66, French politician, National Assembly president, leukemia.
• Thomas Cecil Gray, 94, British pioneer in anaesthetics.
• Clinton Grybas, 32, Australian sports commentator, epidural hematoma.
• Louis Hon, 83, French footballer.
• Edward Kłosiński, 65, Polish cinematographer.
• Ronald Lee Moore, 40, American fugitive and suspected serial killer, suicide by hanging.
• Luiz Pacheco, 82, Portuguese writer.
• Irene Reid, 77, American jazz singer, cardiac arrest
• İhsan Saraçlar, 79, Turkish jurist and politician.

6

• Shmuel Berenbaum, 87, American Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva, stomach cancer.
• Jack Brod, 98, American last original tenant of the Empire State Building.
• Arafan Camara, 60, Guinean politician.
• Bob LeMond, 94, American radio and television announcer (Leave It to Beaver).
• Cy Leslie, 85, American founder of Pickwick Records and MGM/UA Home Entertainment Group.
• Alekos Michaelides, 74, Cypriot politician, Foreign Minister.
• Yunus Mohamed, 57, South African lawyer and anti-Apartheid activist.
• Ken Nelson, 96, American record producer and member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
• Anders Paulrud, 56, Swedish writer and journalist, lung cancer.
• Regal Discovery, 15, Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Pramod Karan Sethi, 80, Indian orthopaedic surgeon, inventor of the Jaipur foot, cardiac arrest.
• Charlie Steele Jr., 77, New Zealand football player.
• Vittorio Tomassetti, 77, Italian Bishop of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola.

7

• Philip Agee, 72, American CIA agent, complications from perforated ulcer surgery.
• Raffaello de Banfield, 85, British composer.
• Robert Chandran, 57, Singaporean CEO of Chemoil, helicopter crash.
• Maryvonne Dupureur, 70, French runner and 1964 Olympic medalist.
• Houston I. Flournoy, 78, American member of California State Assembly (1961–1967), California State Controller (1967–1975).
• Detlef Kraus, 88, German pianist.
• Andrey Kurennoy, 35, Russian track and field athlete, national triple jump champion.
• Buddy LeRoux, 77, American owner of the Boston Red Sox, natural causes.
• Boris Lurie, 83, American artist and writer.
• Vincent Meli, 87, American member of the Detroit Partnership, bone cancer.
• Bozo Miller, 89, American competitive eater, natural causes.
• Hans Monderman, 62, Dutch traffic engineer, cancer.
• Marcel Mouly, 88, French painter.
• Njoo Kiem Bie, 81, Indonesian badminton player.
• Palace Music, 26, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Alwyn Schlebusch, 90, South African politician, Vice State President (1981–1984).
• Jean-Claude Vrinat, 71, French owner of Taillevent restaurant, lung cancer.
• Wei Wenhua, 41, Chinese blogger, beaten.

8

• D. M. Dassanayake, 54, Sri Lankan Minister of Nation Building, roadside bomb.
• Jim Dooley, 77, American football player and coach (Chicago Bears), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Guy Hance, 74, Belgian politician.
• Bjarni Jónsson, 73, Icelandic painter.
• Moshe Levi, 71, Israeli Chief of Staff of the Defense Forces (1983–1987), stroke.
• George Moore, 84, Australian jockey and trainer.
• Clyde Otis, 83, American songwriter and record producer.
• Irvan Perez, 85, American Isleño décima singer and woodcarver, heart attack.
• Steve Ridzik, 78, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies), heart disease.
• Mohammad Sadli, 85, Indonesian politician.
• Shaadi, 21, American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.
• Cissie Stewart, 96, British Olympic swimmer.
• Xu Genjun, 72, Chinese biochemist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

9

• Paul Aimson, 64, English footballer (Manchester City, York City), heart attack.
• Jorge Anaya, 81, Argentinian admiral, heart failure.
• Bobby Beasley, 72, Irish jockey and racehorse trainer.
• Sir Adam Butler, 76, British MP (1970–1987) and minister.
• Václav Čevona, 85, Czech Olympic athlete.
• Sophie Elliott, 22, New Zealand murder victim.
• Carmine Furletti, 81, Brazilian industrialist, president of Cruzeiro.
• Gemina, 21, American-born African Baringo giraffe at the Santa Barbara Zoo with neck deformity, euthanized.
• Mehran Ghassemi, 30, Iranian journalist, heart failure.
• Johnny Grant, 84, American entertainer, honorary Mayor of Hollywood.
• Sir John Harvey-Jones, 83, British businessman and media personality.
• Walter J. Kavanaugh, 74, American politician, complications from diabetes.
• Roi Kwabena, 51, Trinidadian cultural anthropologist, lung cancer.
• Sara Misquez, 62, American president of the Mescalero Apache of New Mexico (1999–2003), traffic collision.
• Peter O'Donnell, 68, Australian gold medal-winning Olympic sailor (1964), cancer.
• Erna Sondheim, 103, German fencer.
• Lew Spence, 87, American songwriter.
• Sir John Willis, 70, British Air Chief Marshal.
• Tim Willoughby, 53, Australian 1984 Olympic rowing medallist, heart attack.

10

• Pandiyan, 49, Tamil Actor and Politician (Times of India), liver failure due to jaundice.
• Christopher Bowman, 40, American Olympic figure skater, accidental drug overdose.
• Jack Eagle, 81, American comedian and actor (Stepmom, Isn't She Great).
• Ray M. Flavin, 95, American politician.
• Abdelaziz Gorgi, 79, Tunisian painter.
• Andrés Henestrosa, 101, Mexican writer and politician, proponent of the Zapotec language.
• George Laking, 95, New Zealand diplomat and public servant.
• Andrée Marlière, 73, Belgian prima ballerina, choreographer and painter, cancer.
• Allan McEachern, 81, Canadian jurist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
• Mikhail Minin, 85, Russian soldier who raised the Soviet flag on the Reichstag building in 1945.
• Sir Geoffrey Musson, 97, British army general.
• Katsutoshi Nagasawa, 84, Japanese composer.
• Maila Nurmi, 85, Finnish actress (Plan 9 from Outer Space, The Beat Generation).
• Zhang Lichang, 68, Chinese politician, Politbureau member.

11

• Mohammad Alam, 61, Bangladeshi photo journalist.
• José Bello, 103, Spanish intellectual and writer.
• Pete Candoli, 84, American big band-era jazz trumpeter, prostate cancer.
• Murray Cohl, 78, Canadian film producer, co-founder of the Toronto Film Festival and Canada's Walk of Fame, liver cancer.
• Sir Edmund Hillary, 88, New Zealand mountaineer and the first person (with Tenzing Norgay) to reach summit of Mount Everest, heart failure.
• Carl Karcher, 90, American founder of Carl's Jr. restaurants, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Frank Loughran, 77, Australian international footballer.
• Nancy Phelan, 94, Australian writer.

12

• Charlie Aitken, 75, Scottish footballer.
• Gennady Bachinsky, 36, Russian television and radio personality, traffic collision.
• Isobel Bennett, 98, Australian marine scientist.
• Gwendolyn T. Britt, 66, American Maryland State Senator since 2003.
• Sir Howard Dalton, 63, British microbiologist, Chief Scientific Adviser at DEFRA.
• Adriano González León, 76, Venezuelan writer.
• Ángel González Muñiz, 82, Spanish poet.
• Marty Hendin, 59, American vice president of community relations for St. Louis Cardinals, cancer.
• Leszek Jezierski, 79, Polish footballer and trainer.
• Anatoly Kyarov, 50, Russian head of the Kabardino-Balkaria police, shot.
• Jennifer Musa, 90, Irish-born Pakistani politician.
• Louis Alexandre Raimon, 85, French hairdresser.
• Stanisław Wycech, 105, Polish last World War I veteran.

13

• Joe Burk, 93, American rowing champion, complications of surgery.
• John Harvey, 87, British politician, MP for Walthamstow East (1955–1966).
• Sergej Larin, 51, Lithuanian tenor.
• Johnny Podres, 75, American baseball pitcher (Brooklyn Dodgers), 1955 World Series MVP.
• Jafar Shahidi, 89, Iranian linguist and historian.
• Doreen Tovey, 89, British writer.
• Patricia Verdugo, 61, Chilean writer, journalist and human rights violations investigator, cancer.
• Walter Zimper, 65, Austrian politician.

14

• Józef Bartosik, 90, Polish World War II veteran and rear admiral.
• Don Cardwell, 72, American baseball pitcher.
• Kaj Christiansen, 86, Danish association football player.
• Selim Al Deen, 58, Bangladeshi dramatist, cardiac arrest.
• Judah Folkman, 74, American cancer researcher, apparent heart attack.
• Thor Hesla, 45, American USAid worker in the 2008 Kabul Serena Hotel attack.
• Richard Knerr, 82, American co-founder of Wham-O, inventor of the frisbee and Hula Hoop, stroke.
• Vincenz Liechtenstein, 57, Austrian politician.
• Tommy Limby, 60, Swedish cross-country skier.
• Joseph Payne, 70, British musician.
• Johnny Steele, 91, British football manager of Barnsley (1960–1971, 1972–1973).
• Carsten Thomassen, 38, Norwegian journalist, 2008 Kabul Serena Hotel attack.
• Milton Wolff, 92, American Spanish Civil War veteran.
• Wu Jin, 74, Taiwanese Minister for Education (1996–1998), cancer.

15

• K. M. Adimoolam, 69, Indian abstract artist.
• Rupe Andrews, 81, Canadian football player.
• Roger Anger, 84, French architect.
• Arthur I. Appleton, 92, American businessman.
• Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, 43, British video game developer (Paperboy, Zombies Ate My Neighbors), pancreatic cancer.
• Eduardo Hontiveros, 84, Filipino Jesuit composer of Roman Catholic liturgical songs, stroke.
• John D. Lawson, 84, British scientist.
• Adele Longmire, 89, American actress.
• Jason MacIntyre, 34, British road bicycle racer, traffic collision.
• Ronald Noll, 78, American conductor, complications from diabetes and heart disease.
• Brad Renfro, 25, American actor (The Client, Ghost World, Apt Pupil), accidental heroin overdose.
• Anthony M. Solomon, 88, American President of Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1980–1985), kidney failure.

16

• Jorge de Bagration, 63, Spanish race car driver, claimant to throne of the Royal House of Georgia, hepatitis.
• Chen Xilu, 79, Chinese Roman Catholic Bishop of Hengshui, organ failure.
• Nikola Kljusev, 80, Macedonian politician and economist, Prime Minister of Macedonia (1991–1992).
• Pierre Lambert, 87, French Trotskyist leader and 1988 presidential candidate.
• Munjuku Nguvauva II, 85, Namibian traditional tribal chief, complications from strokes.
• Gerry Tordoff, 78, English cricketer (Somerset).
• Hone Tuwhare, 85, New Zealand Māori poet.
• Bungo Yoshida, 73, Japanese Bunraku puppeteer, liver cancer.
• Elias Zoghby, 96, Egyptian Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop of Baalbek.

17

• Manfred Abelein, 77, German politician.
• Mofida Ahmed, 88, Indian politician.
• Carlos, 64, French singer, cancer.
• Joseph M. Champlin, 77, American Roman Catholic priest, bone marrow, cancer.
• Trevor Drayton, 52, Australian winemaker, explosion.
• Tony Dean, 75, British racing driver.
• Bobby Fischer, 64, American chess grandmaster, world champion (1972–1975), kidney failure.
• Edward D. Hoch, 77, American writer of detective fiction, heart attack.
• Ernie Holmes, 59, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), traffic collision.
• Mildred Callahan Jones, 64, American decorative flag pioneer.
• Denise Amber Lee, 21, American kidnap victim, shot.
• Carole Lynne, 89, British actress, wife of Bernard Delfont.
• John McHale, 86, American baseball player.
• Allan Melvin, 84, American actor (The Phil Silvers Show, The Brady Bunch, All in the Family), cancer.
• Madeleine Milhaud, 105, French actress, wife of Darius Milhaud.
• Giuliana Penzi, 90, Italian dancer and choreographer.
• Della Purves, 62, British botanical artist, liver disease.
• William E. Schaufele Jr., 84, American diplomat, U. S. Ambassador to Upper Volta (1969–1971), U. S. Ambassador to Poland (1978–1980).
• Trevor Sprigg, 61, Australian politician, Western Australian Legislative Assembly whip, heart attack.
• Jinzo Toriumi, 78, Japanese novelist and screenwriter (Speed Racer, Gatchaman, Armored Trooper Votoms), liver cancer.
• Eddy Williams, 92, Australian cricketer.

18

• Uzi Cohen, 55, Israeli Likud politician, heart attack.
• Pier Miranda Ferraro, 83, Italian opera tenor, cardiac arrest.
• Wally Fielding, 88, British footballer (Everton).
• Georgia Frontiere, 80, American majority-owner of Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams, breast cancer.
• Ruth Hamilton, 109, American talk show host, member of New Hampshire General Court (1964–1966, 1973–1975).
• Bertram "Jimmy" James, 92, British World War II airman, participant in The Great Escape.
• Frank Lewin, 82, American composer, heart failure.
• Sir Frederick Mason, 94, British diplomat, Ambassador to Chile.
• Lois Nettleton, 80, American actress (A Face in the Crowd, All That Glitters, In the Heat of the Night), lung cancer.
• Paul Nixon, 93, American Olympic cyclist.
• Ugo Pirro, 87, Italian screenwriter.
• John Stroger, 78, American politician, President of the Cook County, Illinois Board, stroke.

19

• Sir Derek Alun-Jones, 74, British businessman.
• Valentim Amões, 48, Angolan politician and businessman, plane crash.
• Georgina Bruni, 61, British UFO researcher and author, cancer.
• Creighton Burns, 82, Australian editor (The Age, 1981–1989), cancer.
• Victor S. Johnson, Jr., 91, American lawyer, president of Aladdin Industries, colon cancer.
• Frances Lewine, 86, American journalist and White House Correspondent, stroke.
• Morris Maddocks, 79, British Bishop of Selby (1972–1983).
• Mildred Noble, 86, American writer and Native American activist, complications from liver cancer.
• Andy Palacio, 47, Belizean musician, UNESCO Artist for Peace and Garifuna activist, heart attack followed by stroke.
• Lou Palmer, 75, American radio personality and announcer, brain hemorrhage.
• Suzanne Pleshette, 70, American actress (The Bob Newhart Show, The Birds, Spirited Away), respiratory failure.
• Eugene Sawyer, 73, American politician, Mayor of Chicago (1987–1989), strokes.
• John Stewart, 68, American musician (The Kingston Trio), stroke.
• Trevor Taylor, 50, Jamaican-born German singer (Bad Boys Blue), heart attack.
• H. Bradford Westerfield, 79, American political scientist, complications of Parkinson's disease.
• Don Wittman, 71, Canadian sports broadcaster for CBC, cancer.

20

• Clark Allen, 82, American entertainer, artist, and businessman, respiratory failure.
• Louis de Cazenave, 110, French supercentenarian, second-to-last official surviving French World War I veteran, natural causes.
• Brianna Denison, 19, American college student.
• Ken Gee, 92, Australian judge.
• Harry Gill, 85, British Royal Air Force officer.
• Talivaldis Kenins, 88, Canadian composer.
• Margit Kristian, 94, Yugoslavian Olympic fencer.
• Abdul Latif, 56, British restaurateur, heart attack.
• Duilio Loi, 78, Italian boxer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Tommy McQuater, 93, British jazz trumpeter.
• Donald Odanga, Kenyan basketball player, accidental shooting.
• Ghorban Soleimani, 87, Iranian vocalist and dotar player.
• James LeVoy Sorenson, 86, American medical device inventor and billionaire philanthropist, cancer.
• Georges Wahler, 74, French Olympic shooter.
• Eudoxia Woodward, 88, American painter, cancer.

21

• Rooster Andrews, 84, American football player.
• Pam Barrett, 54, Canadian politician, cancer.
• Billy Elliott, 82, British footballer (Sunderland).
• Evan G. Galbraith, 79, American diplomat, Ambassador to France (1981–1985), cancer.
• Burton Hatlen, 71, American literary scholar, founder of National Poetry Foundation, mentor to Stephen King, pneumonia.
• Peggy Jay, 95, British politician.
• Wesley Ngetich Kimutai, 30, Kenyan marathon runner, homicide by poison arrow.
• Kenneth Parnell, 76, American convicted child molester and kidnapper, natural causes.
• Jiří Sequens, 85, Czech film director.
• Marie Smith Jones, 89, American last known native speaker of the Eyak language, natural causes.
• Luiz Carlos Tourinho, 43, Brazilian actor, cerebral aneurysm.

22

• Orhan Aksoy, 78, Turkish director and screenwriter.
• Bernie Boston, 74, American photographer ("flower power" movement), blood disease.
• Dora Bria, 49, Brazilian windsurfing champion, traffic collision.
• Mike Cacic, 71, Canadian football player (BC Lions).
• Diane Chenery-Wickens, 48, British television make-up artist, murder (last seen alive on this date).
• Lance Clemons, 60, American baseball relief pitcher, cancer.
• Roberto Gari, 88, American actor and artist, heart attack.
• Helge Hansen, 82, Danish Olympic cyclist.
• Heath Ledger, 28, Australian actor (The Dark Knight, Brokeback Mountain, 10 Things I Hate About You), Oscar winner (2009), accidental drug overdose.
• Miles Lerman, 88, American founder of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
• Ştefan Niculescu, 80, Romanian composer.
• Claude Piron, 76, Swiss linguist and Esperanto author.
• Kevin Stoney, 87, British actor (Doctor Who), skin cancer.

23

• Andrzej Andrzejewski, 46, Polish Brigadier General of the Polish Air Force, plane crash.
• David Askevold, 67, Canadian artist.
• Felix Carlebach, 96, British rabbi.
• Steve Duplantis, 35, American pro golf caddy, traffic collision.
• Leticia de Oyuela, 74, Honduran historian.
• Stein Rønning, 42, Norwegian karate world champion (1990).

24

• Lee Embree, 92, American photographer, took first air-to-air photographs of 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, kidney infection.
• Art Frantz, 86, American baseball umpire, heart failure.
• Johannes Heggland, 88, Norwegian author and politician.
• Dorothy Hennessey, 94, American nun and activist.
• J. Robert Hooper, 71, American politician, Maryland State Senator (1999–2007), colon cancer.
• Megat Junid, 65, Malaysian MP, Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (1997–1999) prostate cancer.
• Randy Salerno, 45, American news reporter (CBS, WBBM-TV), snowmobile accident.
• Jahna Steele, 49, American transgender showgirl.

25

• Christopher Allport, 60, American actor (To Live and Die in L.A., Another World, Felicity), avalanche.
• Evelyn Barbirolli, 97, British oboist, wife of Sir John Barbirolli.
• Annette Cameron, 88, Australian political activist.
• Richard Darman, 64, American Director of the Office of Management and Budget (1989–1993), leukemia.
• Ralph Dupas, 72, American boxer, complications of boxing-induced brain damage.
• Louisa Horton, 87, American actress (All My Sons, Swashbuckler, Alice, Sweet Alice).
• Andreas Hönisch, 77, Polish Superior General of Servi Jesu et Mariae, founder of the Catholic Scouts of Europe.
• Roc Kirby, 89, Australian founder of Village Roadshow Limited.
• Robert Miller, 24, American soldier, posthumous Medal of Honor recipient, killed in action.
• Cândido Rubens Padín, 92, Brazilian Bishop of Bauru.
• Aziz Sedki, 87, Egyptian Prime Minister (1972–1973).
• P. K. Thomas, 81, Welsh neurologist.
• Gary Wiggins, 55, Australian cyclist.

26

• John Ardagh, 79, British journalist and author.
• Christian Brando, 49, American actor and convicted killer, son of Marlon Brando, pneumonia.
• Abraham Brumberg, 81, American writer and editor, heart failure.
• Raymond Daniels, 28, Irish footballer (Wicklow GAA), suspected heart attack.
• Igor Dmitriev, 80, Russian actor.
• George Habash, 81, Palestinian founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, heart attack.
• Bryan Jennett, 81, British neurosurgeon.
• Arthur Kramer, 81, American lawyer, founder of Kramer Levin, stroke.
• Padraic McGuinness, 69, Australian journalist and editor, cancer.
• Viktor Schreckengost, 101, American artist and industrial designer.
• Robert Weaver, 87, Canadian editor and broadcaster.
• Lovie Yancey, 96, American businessman, founder of Fatburger, pneumonia.
• Zhang Hanzhi, 72, Chinese diplomat and linguist, English tutor for Mao, Nixon interpreter for 1972 visit, lung-related illness.

27

• Botho Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein, 80, German politician, president of German Red Cross (1982–1994).
• Gordon B. Hinckley, 97, American President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• Mike Holovak, 88, American football player and coach (Boston Patriots), pneumonia.
• Ken Hunt, 69, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).
• John W. Ingram, 79, American railroad executive (Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad).
• Anna Loginova, 29, Russian bodyguard for boxer Kostya Tszyu, head injury during carjacking.
• Gerry McIntyre, 78, Irish Olympic athlete.
• Alan G. Rogers, 40, American Army major, first known gay combat fatality of Iraq War, improvised explosive device.
• Valery Shumakov, 76, Russian transplantologist, founder of the Transplant and Artificial Organs Research Institute.
• Irene Stegun, 88, American mathematician.
• Suharto, 86, Indonesian President (1967–1998), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
• Louie Welch, 89, American mayor of Houston, Texas (1964–1973), lung cancer.

28

• Crisologo Abines, 60, Filipino politician, heart attack.
• Les Anning, 94, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Christodoulos, 69, Greek primate of the Church of Greece, cancer.
• Frances Dewey Wormser, 104, American vaudeville and Broadway theater actress.
• Dagfinn Grønoset, 87, Norwegian author.
• John Gunnell, 74, British politician, MP (1992–2001).
• Tapio Hämäläinen, 85, Finnish actor and theater counsellor.
• Gerry Patrick Hemming, 70, American anti-Castro mercenary.
• Bengt Lindström, 82, Swedish painter.
• Larry Smith, 68, American college football coach, chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
• Marie Takvam, 81, Norwegian author and actor.
• Ginty Vrede, 22, Dutch Muay Thai martial artist, heart attack.

29

• Kastuś Akuła, 82, Belarusian writer.
• Robert M. Ball, 93, American Commissioner of Social Security (1962–1973).
• Margaret Truman, 83, American author, daughter of President Harry S. Truman.
• Rubens Gerchman, 66, Brazilian painter, lung cancer.
• Roberta Gale, 93, American actress.
• Helga Goetze, 85, German artist and writer, stroke.
• James Heathman, 90, American who found the 1931 TWA plane crash that killed Knute Rockne, pneumonia.
• Raymond Jacobs, 82, American soldier, claimed to be in photo of first flag raised on Iwo Jima.
• Philippe Khorsand, 59, French actor.
• Sebastian Kräuter, 85, Romanian author and Bishop of Timişoara.
• Abu Laith al-Libi, 41, Libyan-born Afghan al-Qaeda leader, missile strike.
• Erzsébet Nagy, 80, Hungarian writer, daughter of Prime Minister Imre Nagy.
• Manuel Padilla Jr., 52, American actor (American Graffiti, Tarzan, The Flying Nun), colon cancer.
• Mugabe Were, 39, Kenyan legislator, homicide by gunshot.

30

• Jeremy Beadle, 59, British television presenter (You've Been Framed, Beadle's About), pneumonia.
• Claude Faraldo, 71, French actor, screenwriter and film director.
• Daniel Gráč, 64, Czech Olympic cyclist.
• Herbert Kenwith, 90, American television director, complications of prostate cancer.
• Miles Kington, 66, British newspaper columnist and humorist.
• Marcial Maciel, 87, Mexican religious leader, founder of the Legionaries of Christ.
• Roland Selmeczi, 38, Hungarian actor, traffic collision.
• Wilber Varela, 50, Colombian drug trafficker, shot.

31

• Arif Ali, 46, Pakistani-born British regional director for the Associated Press, cancer.
• Sanan Alizade, 64, Azerbaijani politician, heart attack.
• Veronika Bayer, 67, German actress.
• František Čapek, 93, Czech canoeist, Olympic C1 10,000m gold medallist in 1948, heart ailment.
• Joe Clark, 87, English footballer.
• Sir Ivar Colquhoun, 8th Baronet, 92, British aristocrat.
• Sir Donald Hawley, 86, British diplomat, High Commissioner to Malaysia (1977–1981).
• Jim Lacey, 73, Australian administrator of Lord Howe Island, general manager of Western Plains Zoo.
• Zeltim Odie Peterson, 10, American purebred pedigreed pug, heart attack.
• Mark Schwed, 52, American television critic and journalist.
• Bertie Smalls, 72, British criminal turned informant.
• David Kimutai Too, 39, Kenyan legislator, shot.
• Volodia Teitelboim, 91, Chilean politician.

External links

• List of January 2008 deaths at IMDb