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). 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. References 2007-01 01