Adolf Frohner (72) leading Austrian abstract painter and graphic artist who helped to found Vienna’s "Actionism" movement in the '60s and gained an international following. Frohner once walled himself in behind brick and mortar for three days to explore what it meant to be an isolated observer. He died in Vienna, Austria on January 24, 2007.

Hannah Loesser (44) artist and daughter of Broadway composer Frank Loesser (Guys & Dolls, The Most Happy Fella) and singer Jo Sullivan whose works were exhibited at the 70th Art Gallery in New York City, Williams Gallery in Princeton, Eliane Benson Gallery in Bridgehampton, and at galleries on Sanibel Island and in Hollywood, Florida. Hannah Loesser died of cancer in New York City on January 25, 2007.

Barbara Seranella (50) former Brentwood, California auto mechanic who became a best-selling author of a series of mystery novels featuring a woman auto-mechanic protagonist with an unsavory past. In creating that gritty life, Seranella drew from her own experiences with drugs, booze, and biker buddies. She died of liver disease while awaiting her third liver transplant in Cleveland, Ohio on January 21, 2007.

Daniel Stern (79) Renaissance man who did it all, then wrote about it. Stern mined his own various careers in jazz and symphonic music, advertising, movies, and academia for material for the novels and short stories that were his crowning achievement. He died of complications from heart surgery, six days after his 79th birthday, in Houston, Texas on January 24, 2007.

Roger Bacon (80) physicist and materials scientist whose enterprising studies of graphite and carbon fibers contributed to a revolution in the heat-resistant materials used in aircraft and satellites. Bacon died of leukemia in Oberlin, Ohio on January 26, 2007.

Julio Ochoa Ruelas (62) cofounder and first president of Dukes So. Cal, the oldest low-rider car club in continuous existence in the world. Ochoa Ruelas and his four brothers spent 40 years heading a car club that now has 29 chapters, including one in Japan, and restoring cars in the low-rider style that turn heads even in Los Angeles, a city with more than its share of car connoisseurs. He died of heart failure in Los Angeles, California on January 21, 2007.

Leopoldo Pirelli (81) former chairman of the Italian tire and real estate company founded by his family. Pirelli stepped down in 1996 from the leadership of the company founded by his grandfather, Giovanni Battista Pirelli, after more than 40 years at the helm. He died in the northern seaside resort town of Portofino, Italy on January 23, 2007.

Hans J. Wegner (92) Danish furniture designer best known for his functional yet elegant chairs. Wegner's international breakthrough came in 1949 with the Round Chair, which soon became a classic and was used in the US in '60 in televised Presidential debates between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. He died in Copenhagen, Denmark on January 26, 2007.

Denes Agay (95) noted composer, arranger, and author whose books on music, including the anthology Best Loved Songs of the American People, have sold millions of copies. Agay died of multiple organ failure in Los Altos, California on January 24, 2007.

Tige Andrews (86) character actor who earned an Emmy nomination for portraying Capt. Adam Greer, the officer who recruited the undercover cops of TV’s The Mod Squad (1968-73). Andrews often played detectives during a TV career that spanned 50 years. He died of cardiac arrest in Encino, California on January 27, 2007.

Marcheline Bertrand (56) actress, mother of actress Angelina Jolie and ex-wife of actor Jon Voight who had small roles in the movies Lookin’ to Get Out (1982) and The Man Who Loved Women (1983). Bertrand died after a long battle with cancer in Los Angeles, California on January 27, 2007.

Bob Carroll Jr. (87) pioneering TV writer who worked on every one of Lucille Ball’s TV shows, including the ’50s classic I Love Lucy. Carroll and Madelyn Pugh Davis, his writing partner for more than 60 years, worked on every episode of the long-running show and on many episodes of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here’s Lucy, and Life with Lucy. Carroll died in Los Angeles, California on January 27, 2007.

Gino D'Auri (69) Italian-born flamenco guitarist who performed in concerts around the world and in more intimate settings at Lares restaurant in Santa Monica and El Cid restaurant in Los Angeles for more than 20 years. D’Auri died of cancer in Los Angeles, California on January 26, 2007.

Carter Harman (88) composer, music critic, author, and record producer. As a World War II helicopter pilot, Harman was the first to accomplish a rescue by helicopter behind enemy lines, extracting three Allied soldiers from a jungle in Burma. Later, his range of interests led him to write profiles of jazz greats like Duke Ellington and Rosemary Clooney while composing his own operas and symphonic works. He died in Stowe, Vermont on January 23, 2007.

Yuni Hye-ryun (26) South Korean pop singer and actress, known professionally only by her first name, who started acting in TV dramas and movies in 1996. Yuni later released her first album in 2003, adopting a sexy image as a dancing singer. She was found dead of an apparent suicide by hanging at her home in Inchon City, South Korea on January 21, 2007.

Ryszard Kapuscinski (74) globe-trotting Polish writer and journalist who gained international acclaim for his books chronicling wars, coups, and revolutions in Africa, the Middle East, and other parts of the world. Kapuscinski died after heart surgery in Warsaw, Poland on January 23, 2007.

Charlotte Lesher (80) mother of The Ramones’ late frontman Joey Ramone (d. 2001), who along with another son, Mickey Leigh, announced the formation of the Joey Ramone Foundation for Lymphoma Research on May 19, 2006 on what would have been Joey's 55th birthday. Lesher died of a heart attack in New York City on January 27, 2007.

Emanuele Luzzati (85) Italian scenic and costume designer whose haunting fairy tale images graced opera stages and animated films. Luzzati was best known for the colorful, dreamlike style of his work, marked by figures and landscapes that seemed taken out of children’s fables. He died a day after falling ill, in Genoa, Italy on January 27, 2007.

Liz Renay (80) stripper and cult movie actress whose real life included roles as a gangster's moll, prison inmate, author, artist, and Hollywood Boulevard streaker. Renay died of cardiopulmonary arrest and gastric bleeding in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 22, 2007.

Floyd Standifer (78) mainstay of Seattle's jazz scene for 60 years after working closely with Quincy Jones and Ray Charles in their early years. Standifer was known for his gentlemanly manner and Fats Navarro-type hard bop style. He died of cancer in Seattle, Washington on January 22, 2007.

Glen Tetley (80) American choreographer long popular in Europe whose pioneering fusion of ballet and modern dance influenced major companies worldwide. Tetley died of melanoma in West Palm Beach, Florida on January 26, 2007.

Peter Tompkins (87) former journalist, World War II spy, and best-selling author. Tompkins was a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune and NBC before he joined the Office of Strategic Services, precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency, in 1941. After the war he wrote articles for the New Yorker, Esquire, Look, Life, the New Republic, and a dozen foreign journals. He died in Shepherdstown, West Virginia on January 24, 2007.

Klas Bergenstrand (61) head of Sweden's intelligence agency, or SAPO. Bergenstrand had led the agency since 2004, after serving as the country's chief prosecutor for 10 years. He died of an apparent heart attack in Stockholm, Sweden on January 22, 2007.

Ismail Cem (67) former Turkish foreign minister, who together with his Greek counterpart was the driving force behind the thawing relations between the two archrivals. Cem was the longest-serving Turkish foreign minister in recent years. His greatest achievement was forging close ties with Greece. He had been hospitalized with a lung infection on December 26 and died of lung cancer in Ankara, Turkey on January 24, 2007.

Jean-François Deniau (78) former French government minister, diplomat, sailor, and novelist. Deniau was truly a Renaissance man. As an envoy, he specialized in dangerous missions. An avid sailor, he crossed the Atlantic in a catamaran in 1995—just eight weeks after undergoing triple heart bypass surgery. He died in Paris, France on January 24, 2007.

Joseph Simpson Farland (92) former ambassador who helped to arrange Henry Kissinger's secret trip to China in 1971 that paved the way for President Richard M. Nixon's historic visit in '72. Farland's role in the US opening to China was detailed when 100,000 pages of previously classified Nixon-era materials were released by the National Archives in April 2001. He had suffered a stroke in 2006 and died in Winchester, Virginia on January 27, 2007.

E. Howard Hunt (88) self-styled “Watergate conspirator,’’ a cold warrior for the Central Intelligence Agency who helped to organize the Watergate break-in, leading to the greatest scandal in American political history and the downfall of Richard Nixon’s Presidency. Hunt served nearly three years in prison. He died of pneumonia in Miami, Florida on January 23, 2007.

John W. Lavelle (57) New York State assemblyman for the 61st District and chairman of the Democrat Party on Staten Island. Lavelle was elected to the State Assembly in 2000 and served on several important committees. He died after a stroke, on Staten Island, New York on January 24, 2007.

Eleanor McGovern (85) wife of former Sen. George McGovern (D-SD), the 1972 Democrat Presidential nominee who lost 49 states to Richard Nixon. Eleanor McGovern campaigned for her husband across the country and appeared frequently on TV and radio programs discussing national and international issues. She had suffered heart problems for five years and underwent bypass surgery in 2006. She died in Mitchell, South Dakota on January 25, 2007.

Charlotte Reid (93) pop singer and mother before she became a US congresswoman (R-Ill., 1963-71). Reid's political career began after the death of her husband, Frank Reid Jr., an attorney who won the GOP primary in 1962 for the 15th Congressional District but died shortly after being nominated. Before her marriage, Charlotte Thompson was a featured vocalist with NBC Radio's Don McNeil’s Breakfast Club, appearing under the professional name of Annette King. She died in Geneva, Illinois on January 24, 2007.

Mendy Samstein (68) civil rights activist who left graduate school to put himself in the forefront of the fight for black voting rights in Mississippi, enduring bombings and beatings in the crucial summer of 1964. Samstein became known as an adept organizer and pull-no-punches speaker. He died of carcinoid cancer in New Lisbon, New York on January 24, 2007.

Brandy Britton (42) former assistant professor at the University of Maryland who in January 2006 was arrested and charged with prostitution after detectives reported that she agreed to provide sex for money during an undercover police operation. Britton's case had not yet gone to trial. She was found dead of an apparent suicide by hanging in Ellicott City, Maryland on January 27, 2007.

Alberta Davis (125) Georgia woman claimed to be the world's oldest person who became the first "125" claimant that was made by a US-born person since 1995. Davis's claims of documentation had been her social security records, the only documents she'd only produced, but is not considered as being proof of birth. She died in Thomson, Georgia on January 27, 2007.

Danny Finegood (52) prankster known for his creative alterations of the HOLLYWOOD sign. In his first prank, performed as a college art project on New Year's Day 1976, Finegood hung curtains to make the sign read HOLLYWEED on the day less restrictive California marijuana laws took effect. He died of multiple myeloma in Los Angeles, California on January 22, 2007.

Josh Gilchrist (16) South Dakota boy who used a sword to kill his mother, Betty Gilchrist (49), and injured three other people including his sister, a foreign exchange student, and a police officer. Josh Gilchrist was shot and killed by the police after he struck one of the officers several times, in Huron, South Dakota on January 26, 2007.

Sharon Tyler Herbst (??) cookbook author whose seminal work The Food Lover’s Companion is a must-read among celebrity chefs and food aficionados. Herbst wrote 16 books, including The Ultimate A-to-Z Bar Guide, The Joy of Cookies, and Never Eat More Than You Can Lift. She died of ovarian cancer in Bodega Bay, California on January 26, 2007.

Helen Jones (88) thrifty Yucaipa, California widow whose legal case spotlighted the failings of the state’s conservatorship system. Jones had built a nest egg of more than $560,000 by ferreting away wages from a series of blue-collar jobs. She became entangled in the state’s conservatorship system in 2002 when she inadvertently signed away her autonomy. For-profit conservators take control of the lives and finances of the elderly and infirm when they lose the ability to make their own decisions. Her case resulted in legislative reforms. Jones died of pneumonia in Redlands, California on January 23, 2007.

James Keppel (47) Florida registered sex offender who had served time for his crime. Because Keppel was currently not on probation, it was legal for him to possess pornographic materials. He was found dead and naked in front of his computer, where he had been viewing pornography, of apparent heart disease at his home in Leisureville, Florida on January 23, 2007.

Carlos Lezama (83) Caribbean-born transportation worker who turned Brooklyn's West Indian Carnival parade into a world-famed event. A retired machinist for the Metropolitan Transit Authority, Lezama started the parade in 1967 as a local five-block event; it now draws as many as 1 million people. He died in Brooklyn, New York on January 22, 2007.

Emiliano Mercado del Toro (115) oldest man in the world who became the oldest known person in the world after the recent deaths of Julie Winnefred Bertrand and Elizabeth Bolden. Born on August 21, 1891, Mercado del Toro was the 36th person to hold the title since its inception. Unusually, he was one of the few males to hold the title; the 16 consecutive preceding holders were female, and 39 of the top 40 oldest persons living at his death were female. He died in Isabela, Puerto Rico on January 24, 2007.

Olga Mortrude (110) oldest resident of South Dakota, the state's Centenarian of the Year in 2006. Mortrude celebrated her 110th birthday on September 6, 2006, prompting Gov. Mike Rounds to declare it "Olga Mortrude Day." She died in White Lake, South Dakota on January 25, 2007.

Abbé Pierre (94) French priest praised as a living legend for devoting his life to helping the homeless, using prayer and provocation to tackle misery. Pierre was a spokesman for France's conscience since the '50s when he persuaded parliament to pass a law—still on the books—forbidding landlords to evict tenants during the winter. He was hospitalized with a lung infection on January 14 and died in Paris, France eight days later on January 22, 2007.

Elsijane Trimble Roy (90) first woman to serve as a judge in the 8th US Circuit and on the Arkansas Supreme Court. Roy presided for 21 years in the same federal courtroom as her father, US District Judge Thomas C. Trimble. Roy said her father had influenced her career choice. She died in Little Rock, Arkansas on January 23, 2007.

Les Skramstad (70) activist who became a public face for victims of absestos-related disease tied to the closed W. R. Grace & Co. vermiculite mine in Montana. A former Grace mine worker, Skramstad had been diagnosed with mesothelioma—a rare, fast-moving cancer that attacks the lining of the lungs—about a month earlier. He died in Libby, Montana on January 21, 2007.

Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi (19) Nigerian drug trafficker arrested in Singapore's Changi Airport in November 2004. Authorities found 100 capsules of diamorphine on him that weighed a total of 727.02 grams, estimated to be worth $1.5 million. Tochi claimed that the capsules were for a friend and that they were African herbs that tasted like chocolate. He was later sentenced to death and was executed by hanging in Singapore on January 26, 2007.

Jacob T. Walker (15) alleged burglar shot and killed by homeowner Jerry Cress (57) while he was breaking into a shed behind Cress's Bellflower home. Cress told deputies he confronted two suspects, one wielding a hammer, and opened fire with a pellet gun because he feared for his life. Walker died in Bellflower, California on January 21, 2007.

Quinton Wortham (46) Colorado man known as the Capitol Hill rapist, sentenced to 376 years in prison for raping and attacking five women (1985-86). Wortham was involved in as many as a dozen rapes and burglaries at the time. He was found dead in his prison cell of apparent natural causes in Denver, Colorado on January 22, 2007.

Maria Cioncan (29) Olympic distance runner best known for winning a bronze medal in the 1500 meter event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Cioncan set personal bests in both 800 and 1500 meters during the games. She was killed in a car accident in Pleven, Bulgaria on January 21, 2007.

Bing Devine (90) St. Louis general manager (1958-64, '68-78) who helped to build Cardinals teams that won three National League pennants and two World Series in the '60s. Devine died in St. Louis, Missouri on January 27, 2007.

Ken Kavanaugh (90) longtime coach and scout with the New York Giants. Kavanaugh played eight seasons with the Chicago Bears, interrupted by three years as a pilot in World War II during which he flew 30 missions over Germany and won the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters. He spent 45 years in the Giants organization, beginning in 1955. He died of pneumonia in Sarasota, Florida on January 25, 2007.

Jack Lang (85) Hall of Fame baseball writer who for 20 years had the pleasant assignment of telling players they’d been elected to Cooperstown. A fixture on the New York City scene who covered Jackie Robinson's major league debut, Lang was in charge of counting the Hall of Fame votes and called 44 winners in all. He died in Huntington, New York on January 25, 2007.

Van F. McKenzie (61) associate managing sports editor at the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel and an influential figure in sports journalism. In the mid-’70s, when McKenzie was its executive sports editor, the small-market St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times sports section was voted best in the country by Associated Press Sports Editors, beating out much bigger metropolitan newspapers in New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago. McKenzie died of cancer in Heathrow, Florida on January 26, 2007.

Yelena Romanova (43) Russian middle distance runner who competed mainly in the 3000 meters and had won a gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Romanova died of unknown causes in Volgograd, Russia on January 27, 2007.

Gump Worsley (77) Hall of Fame goalie who didn't wear a mask until the final season of his 21-year National Hockey League career. Worsley helped his hometown Montreal Canadiens to win four Stanley Cup titles over a five-year span in the '60s. He suffered a heart attack on January 22 and died four days later in Beloeil, Canada on January 26, 2007.