The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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. February 2007 1 Whitney Balliett, 80, American jazz critic, cancer. Ray Berres, 99, American baseball player who was second-oldest living major league player, pneumonia. Emery Bopp, 82, American artist and art teacher. Ahmad Abu Laban, 60, Egyptian-born Danish Muslim leader, key figure in the Muhammad cartoons controversy, cancer. Gian Carlo Menotti, 95, Italian-born opera composer (Amahl and the Night Visitors). Antonio María Javierre Ortas, 85, Spanish cardinal and prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship (1992–1996), cardiac arrest. Adelina Tattilo, 78, Italian founder of Playmen magazine. Seri Wangnaitham, 70, Thai dancer, choreographer and national artist, heart failure. 2 Edmund Arnold, 93, American newspaper designer, pneumonia. Vijay Arora, 62, Indian film and television actor, intestinal condition. Loren Grey, 91, American educational psychologist and son of Zane Grey, age-related complications. Billy Henderson, 67, American singer with The Spinners, diabetes. Joe Hunter, 79, American pianist and bandleader of The Funk Brothers. Terry McMillan, 53, American harmonica player. Gisèle Pascal, 85, French actress. Filippo Raciti, 40, Italian police officer, fatal injury by football hooligan. Eric Von Schmidt, 75, American folk/blues singer-songwriter, stroke. Masao Takemoto, 87, Japanese gymnast, gold medallist at 1960 Summer Olympics, bile duct cancer. Shannon J. Wall, 87, American union official, president of the National Maritime Union (1973–1990). 3 Liliane Ackermann, 68, French Jewish community leader, writer and lecturer. George Becker, 78, American president of United Steelworkers (1993–2001), prostate cancer. Ralph de Toledano, 90, Moroccan-born American political columnist and author. Stephan R. Epstein, 46, British professor of economic history at LSE, epileptic seizure. Pedro Knight, 85, Cuban–American musician and husband of Celia Cruz. Mohamed Sanni-Thomas, 79, Ghanaian Olympic athlete. Devi Das Thakur, 77, Indian lawyer and politician, Governor of Assam (1990–1991). 4 Steve Barber, 68, American Major League Baseball pitcher, pneumonia. Bauer, 81, Brazilian World Cup footballer. Paul Burwell, 57, British percussionist. Ilya Kormiltsev, 47, Russian poet and translator, spinal cancer. Barbara McNair, 72, American singer and actress, throat cancer. Jules Olitski, 84, Ukrainian-born American abstract painter and sculptor, cancer. 5 John S. Beckett, 80, Irish musician. Arthur J. Dixon, 88, Canadian member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1952–1975).