February 8, 2007

2007Anna Nicole Smith, American model and actress (born 1967)^[†]

Vickie Lynn Marshall, known professionally as Anna Nicole Smith, was an American model, actress, and television personality. Smith started her career as a Playboy magazine centerfold in May 1992 and won the title of 1993 Playmate of the Year. She later modeled for fashion companies, including Guess, H&M and Heatherette.

2007Ian Stevenson, Canadian-American psychiatrist and academic (born 1918)^[†]

Ian Pretyman Stevenson was a Canadian-born American psychiatrist, the founder and director of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He was a professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine for fifty years. He was chair of their department of psychiatry from 1957 to 1967, Carlson Professor of Psychiatry from 1967 to 2001, and Research Professor of Psychiatry from 2002 until his death in 2007. He was founder and director of the University of Virginia School of Medicine's Division of Perceptual Studies and helped to found the Society for Scientific Exploration in 1982.