Yes, he died this year 2008.
His publicist stated that Coddington was a long-time diabetic who died from complications that were brought on from a recent surgery along with liver and kidney complications.
On 27 February 2008 at the age of 63.
Evelyn Granville is still avlive...she turned 84 in 2008. Right now she is 87 and still alive.
Well, she was two days short of her 85th birthday, so chances are that it was just old age.
She died on September 14th, 1972.