AP Features, December 17th, 2007
Jan. 1
_A.I. Bezzerides, 98, a Turkey-born novelist-screenwriter best known for film noir classics such as "Kiss Me Deadly" and "On Dangerous Ground," in Los Angeles.
Jan. 2
_Teddy Kollek, 95, the former Jerusalem mayor who presided over the reunification of the city after the 1967 Mideast war, in Jerusalem.
Jan. 6
_Cardinal Frederic Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, 76, Congo's top Roman Catholic prelate, in Leuven, Belgium.
Jan. 8
_Iwao Takamoto, 81, the animator who created the cartoon character Scooby-Doo and directed the cartoon classic "Charlotte's Web," of heart failure in Los Angeles.
_Bong Soo Han, 73, a Korean who helped revolutionize Hollywood's understanding of martial arts by creating fight sequences for films, in Santa Monica, California.
_Yvonne De Carlo, 84, who played Moses' wife in "The Ten Commandments," but achieved her greatest popularity on TV's "The Munsters," in Los Angeles.
Jan. 9
_Carlo Ponti, 94, the Italian film producer and husband of Sophia Loren, in Geneva, Switzerland.
Jan. 10
_Bradford Washburn, 96, who founded the Boston Museum of Science and directed a 1999 effort that revised the official elevation of Mount Everest, of heart failure in Lexington, Massachusetts.
Jan. 12
_Larry Stewart, 58, a millionaire who became known internationally as Secret Santa for his habit of roaming the streets each December and anonymously handing money to people, from complications from esophageal cancer in Lee's Summit, Missouri.
Jan. 13
_The Rev. Augustin Diamacoune Senghor, 78, a Senegal rebel leader who fought for an independent state in the country's southern Casamance region, in Paris.
_Michael Brecker, 57, a versatile and influential tenor saxophonist who won 11 Grammys, of leukemia in New York City.
Jan. 16
_Pookie Hudson, 72, lead singer and songwriter for the doo wop group The Spaniels, of complications from cancer of the thymus gland in Capitol Heights, Maryland.
Jan. 17
_Art Buchwald, 81, a Pulitzer Prize-winning satirist, of kidney failure in Washington.
Jan. 18
_Julie Winnifred Bertrand, 115, the world's oldest woman, in Montreal, Canada.
Jan. 19
_Denny Doherty, 66, one-quarter of the 1960s folk-rock group the Mamas and the Papas, in Mississauga, Canada.
Jan. 20
_Dr. Hugo Wolfgang Moser, 82, a neurologist whose work with a rare genetic disorder was depicted in the 1992 movie "Lorenzo's Oil," in Baltimore, Maryland.
Jan. 21
_Zdzislaw Rurarz, 76, a former Polish ambassador to Japan who defected to the United States to protest the imposition of martial law by Poland's communist regime, of cancer in Falls Church, Virginia.
Jan. 22
_Abbe Pierre, 94. a priest who founded the international Emmaus Community for the poor, in Paris.
Jan. 23
_Ryszard Kapuscinski, 74, a Polish writer who gained international acclaim for his books chronicling wars, coups and revolutions, of a heart attack in Warsaw, Poland.
_E. Howard Hunt, 88, who helped organize the Watergate break-in, leading to the downfall of Richard Nixon's presidency, in Miami, Florida.
Jan. 24
_Adolf Frohner, 72, a leading Austrian abstract painter with an international following, in Vienna, Austria.
_Emiliano Mercado del Toro, 115, who spent just a month as the world's oldest person, in Isabela, Puerto Rico.
_Ismail Cem, 67, a former Turkish foreign minister who together with his Greek counterpart was the driving force behind the thawing relations between the two archrivals, of lung cancer in Istanbul, Turkey.
Jan. 28
_Emma Faust Tillman, 114, just four days after becoming the world's oldest-known living person, in East Hartford, Connecticut.
Jan. 30
_Gordon S. Macklin, 79, a founder of the Nasdaq stock exchange and a board member for Worldcom, in Delray Beach, Florida.
_Sidney Sheldon, 89, the best-selling novelist who also won awards for writing for the Broadway theater, movies and television, of complications from pneumonia in Rancho Mirage, California.
