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. January 2007 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. 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 NFL player (Denver Broncos), drive-by shooting. 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 , 45, Brazilian Roman Catholic priest and Founder of the "Bethânia" Community (1995–2007), lymphoma. Juma Akukweti, 59, Tanzanian MP for Chama Cha Mapinduzi