2007 facts for kids
| Millennium: | 3rd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 20th century – 21st century – 22nd century |
| Decades: | 1970s 1980s 1990s – 2000s – 2010s 2020s 2030s |
| Years: | 2004 2005 2006 – 2007 – 2008 2009 2010 |
2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar.
The year 2007 was called:
- In the Chinese calendar, dates up to February 17 are in the Year of the Dog, while dates from February 18 onwards are in the Year of the Pig.
- European Year of Equal Opportunities for All
- Year of the Dolphin
- UNESCO has formally recognized fifteen anniversaries for 2007.
Contents
Events
January
- January 1 – Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union.
- January 1 – Bulgarian, Romanian, and Irish become official languages of the European Union, joining 20 other official languages.
- January 1 – Slovenia adopted the Euro as its official currency, replacing the tolar.
- January 1 – South Korea's Ban Ki-moon became the new UN Secretary-General, replacing Kofi Annan.
- January 4 – Nancy Pelosi becomes the first woman Speaker of the House in the United States.
- January 12 – The US embassy in Athens was attacked with a rocket propelled grenade, which caused minimal damage and no injuries.
- January 13 – The Greek ship Server broke in half off the Norwegian coast, which released over 200 tons of crude oil.
- January 18 – Comet McNaught, the brightest comet to have appeared in over forty years, became visible over the Southern Hemisphere.
- January 25 – The President of Israel, Moshe Katsav, took a temporary leave of absence.
- January 30 – Windows Vista, Microsoft's newest NT-based operating system, was released worldwide to consumers.
February
- February 2 – An unseasonal tornado in central Florida killed at least 20 people.
- February 2 – Chinese President Hu Jintao signed a series of economic deals with Sudan.
- February 3 – Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi cancelled all football matches in Italy whilst an investigation into riots on February 2 began.
- February 3 – Five people were killed and 40 were injured in a series of car bombs in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
- February 3 – A truck bombing in a crowded Baghdad market killed at least 135 people and injured a further 339 others.
- February 10 – U.S. Senator Barack Obama of Illinois announced a presidential bid in Springfield.
- February 19 – North Korea agreed to give up its nuclear program, for oil.
- February 27 – World stock markets plummeted after China and Europe released less-than-expected growth reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 416.02 points, its largest single-day decline since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
March
- March 4 – Parliamentary elections took place in Estonia and in Abkhazia.
- March 6 – Mega Millions set a new world record for the highest jackpot of US$370 million.
- March 7 – Garuda Indonesia Flight 200, a Boeing 737-400, crashed at Yogyakarta on the Indonesian island of Java killing many on board.
- March 7 – Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007, was held.
- March 8 – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert admitted that Israel had planned an attack on Lebanon in the event of kidnapped soldiers on the border, months before Hezbollah carried out its kidnapping.
- March 11 – Daylight saving time in most of the United States and Canada began; three to four weeks earlier than previously.
- March 13 – The Bank of England replaces the £20 note bearing the portrait of Edward Elgar with one featuring Adam Smith.
- March 14 – Pi Day
- March 15 – March 21 – CeBIT 2007 took place in Hannover, Germany.
- March 17 – Chlorine bombs injured hundreds in Baghdad, Iraq.
- March 17 – France won the 2007 Six Nations Championship.
- March 24 – A legislative election took place in the Australian state of New South Wales, with Morris Iemma's Labor government being returned to power with a reduced minority.
- March 25 – In Berlin 27 European ministers celebrate 50 year Treaty of Rome.
- March 25 – Daylight savings begins in Europe
- March 25 – This day marked the 200th anniversary of the finalization of the 1807 Slave trade act, which abolished the slave trade in the British Empire.
- March 31 – Sydney, Australia, turned off its lights for one hour between 7:30pm and 8:30pm as a political statement for Global Climate Change.
April
- April 2 – Smoking in public and work places is banned in Wales.
- April 2 – 25th Anniversary of the Falklands War.
- April 3 – Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dissolved the Ukrainian parliament in a historic act of anti-communism in Ukraine. It has been nicknamed the "Second Orange Revolution"
- April 4 – Iran announces it will release the British sailors and marines that they captured on March 23.
- April 4 – Apple Inc. releases Mac Pro with 2 Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors each running at a speed of 3.0 GHz.
- April 5 – The British sailors and marines taken by Iran on March 23 arrive back in Britain.
- April 16 – The worst mass shooting in US history occurs at Virginia Tech.
- April 27 – Violence erupts in Estonia after the removal of a Soviet war memorial.
May
- May 4 – Tornado strikes Greensburg, Kansas, killing at least twelve and destroying about 90% of the town.
- May 5 – Kenya Airways Flight KQ 507 crashes in Cameroon.
- May 6 – Manchester United wins the English Premier League after title rivals Chelsea draw against Arsenal.
- May 9 – Subtropical Storm Andrea forms off the coast of Florida, the earliest subtropical storm since Subtropical Storm Ana in 2003.
- May 10 – Tony Blair announces he will resign as British Prime Minister on June 27 triggering a Labour Party leadership election.
- May 16 – Nicolas Sarkozy officially became President of the French Republic after taking over from Jacques Chirac.
- May 31 – A calendar blue moon occurred in the Western Hemisphere and parts of the Eastern Hemisphere.
June
- June 1 – A 2100 year old melon is found by archaeologists in western Japan
- June 2 – Four people are charged with a terror plot to blow up JFK International Airport in New York.
- June 5 – NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft made its second fly-by of Venus en route to Mercury.
- June 8 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis successfully launched on mission STS-117.
- June 18 – Nine Charleston, South Carolina firefighters are killed by a roof collapse while battling a furniture store fire.
- June 27 – Tony Blair resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; New Labour Party leader Gordon Brown is appointed Prime Minister by Queen Elizabeth II.
- June 29 – British police defuse a bomb in Haymarket, Central London.
- June 30 – A calendar blue moon occurs in most of the Eastern Hemisphere.
July
- July 1 – Smoking in public and work places is banned in England.
- July 1 – The Concert For Diana is held at Wembley Stadium to commemorate Diana, Princess of Wales.
- July 9 – Argentina's capital Buenos Aires is hit by its first snowfall in almost 90 years.
- July 14 – Following a presidential decree, Russia withdraws from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
- July 16 – Earthquake occurs in Japan, killing seven and causing a pipe at a nuclear power plant to break and released about 300 gallons of radioactive water.
- July 21 – U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney serves as Acting President for two and a half hours, while President George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy procedure.
- July 21 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the Harry Potter series, is released.
- July 27 – Two news helicopters collide in midair while covering a police chase in Phoenix, Arizona. This killed both pilots and two photojournalists.
- July 29 – Iraq wins its first Asian Cup football championship, beating Saudi Arabia 1-0.
- July 30 – New British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visits U.S. President George W. Bush for the first time as Prime Minister.
August
- August 1 – The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge on I-35W in Minneapolis, Minnesota collapsed at 6:05 pm.
- August 14 – Pakistan marks 60 years of independence.
- August 15 – Peru is hit by a major Earthquake.
- August 15 – India marks 60 years of independence.
- August 31 – Malaysia marks 50 years of independence.
September
- September 3 – Adventurer Steve Fossett goes missing.
- September 6 – Operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti dies aged 71.
- September 22 – Anti-government protests begin in Burma.
October
- October 18 – Terrorists strike Karachi on the return of Benazir Bhutto.
- October 28 – Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is elected as Argentina's first female President.
November
- November 3 – In Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf suspends the constitution and declares a State of Emergency.
- November 10 – American novelist Norman Mailer dies aged 84.
- November 24 – Kevin Rudd is elected Prime Minister of Australia.
December
- December 3 – Kevin Rudd takes office as Prime Minister of Australia.
- December 10 – Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner takes office as President of Argentina.
- December 19 – Marcus Stephen becomes President of Nauru after Ludwig Scotty loses a vote of confidence.
- December 20 – Queen Elizabeth II surpasses Queen Victoria as the oldest monarch in British history.
- December 27 – Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is killed in a terrorist attack.
- December 30 – Violence erupts in Kenya, after the disputed election victory of Mwai Kibaki.
Births
- February 28 – Princess Lalla Khadija of Morocco, daughter of King Mohammed VI and Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco.
- March 5- Eugenia Louis Alphonse-daughter of Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou, and Venezuelen heiress Margarita Vargas Santaella.
- March 17 – Prince Abdul Muntaqim son of Al-Muhtadee Billah Bolkiah and Sarah Pengiran Salleh, the Crown Prince and Princess of Brunei.
- March 19 – Prince Abdullah bin Al Ali, son of Prince Ali bin Al Hussein and his wife, Rym Brahimi.
Deaths
January
Ryszard Kapuscinski 1932-2007
- January 1 – A. I. Bezzerides, Turkish-American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1908)
- January 1 – Del Reeves, American country music singer (b. 1932)
- January 2 – Teddy Kollek, former Mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)
- January 4 – Sandro Salvadore, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
- January 4 – Marais Viljoen, South African politician (b. 1915)
- January 5 – Momofuko Ando, Taiwanese businessman (b. 1910)
- January 7 – Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic-Scottish television presenter (b. 1929)
- January 8 – Iwao Takamoto, American animator (b. 1925)
- January 8 – Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-American actress (b. 1922)
- January 9 – Carlo Ponti, Italian movie producer (b. 1912)
- January 14 – Vassilis Fotopoulos, Greek art director (b. 1934)
- January 19 – Bam Bam Bigelow, American wrestler (b. 1961)
- January 19 – Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist (b. 1954)
- January 21 – Maria Cioncan, Romanian runner (b. 1977)
- January 23 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist (b. 1932)
- January 24 – Jean-Francois Deniau, French statesman, diplomat and novelist (b. 1928)
- January 24 – Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Puerto Rican supercentenarian (b. 1891)
- January 26 – Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
- January 27 – Herbert Reinecker, German novelist, dramatist and screenwriter (b. 1914)
- January 28 – Karel Svoboda, Czech composer (b. 1938)
- January 29 – Robert Meier, German World War I veteran (b. 1897)
- January 30 – Sidney Sheldon, American writer (b. 1917)
February
Gian Carlo Menotti 1911-2007
- February 1 – Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian opera composer (b. 1911)
- February 1 – Ahmed Abu Laban, Danish Muslim leader (b. 1946)
- February 2 – Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (b. 1967)
- February 7 – Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist (b. 1927)
- February 8 – Anna Nicole Smith, American model and television personality (b. 1967)
- February 9 – Alejandro Finisterre, Spanish inventor of table football (b. 1919)
- February 9 – Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b. 1934)
- February 12 – Georg Buschner, East German football coach (b. 1925)
- February 13 – Johanna Sallstrom, Swedish actress (b. 1974)
- February 16 – Sheridan Morley, British broadcaster and writer (b. 1941)
- February 17 – Maurice Papon, French Nazi collaborator (b. 1910)
- February 17 – Mike Awesome, American professional wrestler (b. 1965)
- February 20 – Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish artist (b. 1913)
- February 23 – Pascal Yoadimnadji, Prime Minister of Chad (b. 1950)
- February 28 – Arthur Schlesinger Jr, American historian (b. 1917)
March
- March 1 – Sydney Gun Munro, former Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (b. 1916)
- March 2 – Henri Troyat, French writer (b. 1911)
- March 6 – Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher and sociologist (b. 1929)
- March 8 – John Inman, English actor (b. 1935)
- March 9 – Brad Delp, American singer (b. 1951)
- March 11 – Betty Hutton, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
- March 13 – Arnold Skaaland, American wrestler (b. 1925)
- March 17 – John Backus, American computer scientist (b. 1924)
- March 17 – Ernst Haefliger, Swiss tenor (b. 1929)
- March 18 – Bob Woolmer, English cricketer and coach (b. 1948)
- March 19 – Luther Ingram, American singer and songwriter (b. 1937)
- March 20 – Taha Yassin Ramadan, former Vice President of Iraq (b. 1937)
- March 25 – Andranik Margaryan, Prime Minister of Armenia (b. 1951)
- March 27 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist (b. 1929)
- March 29 – Tosiwo Nakayama, 1st President of the Federated States of Micronesia (b. 1931)
- March 31 – Paul Watzlawick, American psychologist (b. 1921)
April
Boris Yeltsin 1931-2007
Mstislav Rostropovich 1927-2007
- April 4 – Bob Clark, American movie director (b. 1939)
- April 5 – Mark St. John, American guitarist (b. 1956)
- April 6 – Luigi Comencini, Italian movie director (b. 1916)
- April 11 – Kurt Vonnegut, American writer (b. 1922)
- April 16 – Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, Canadian instructor of French (b. 1957)
- April 16 – Kevin Granata, American associate professor of engineering (b. 1961)
- April 16 – Liviu Librescu, Romanian-born engineering professor (b. 1930)
- April 17 – Kitty Carlisle Hart, American actress and singer (b. 1910)
- April 18 – Iccho Itoh, Japanese politician (b. 1945)
- April 19 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
- April 23 – Boris Yeltsin, former President of Russia (b. 1931)
- April 23 – David Halberstam, American writer and journalist (b. 1934)
- April 24 – Bobby "Boris" Pickett, American singer (b. 1938)
- April 25 – Alan Ball, English footballer (b. 1945)
- April 26 – Jack Valenti, American movie executive (b. 1921)
- April 27 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian musician (b. 1927)
- April 28 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsaecker, German philosopher (b. 1912)
- April 29 – Ivica Racan, 7th Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1944)
- April 30 – Gregory Lemarchal, French singer (b. 1983)
May
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes 1932-2007
- May 3 – Wally Schirra, American astronaut (b. 1923)
- May 5 – Theodore Maiman, American physicist (b. 1927)
- May 6 – Bernard Weatherill, British politician (b. 1920)
- May 11 – Malietoa Tanumafili II, Sovereign Ruler of Samoa (b. 1913)
- May 14 – Uli Jogi, Estonian anti-Communist (b. 1930)
- May 15 – Yolanda King, American activist (b. 1955)
- May 15 – Jerry Falwell, American televangelist (b. 1933)
- May 17 – Lloyd Alexander, American writer (b. 1924)
- May 18 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist (b. 1932)
- May 22 – Pemba Doma Sherpa, Nepali mountaineer (b. 1971)
- May 25 – Bartholomew Ulufa'alu, Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (b. 1950)
- May 27 – Zard, Japanese singer (b. 1967)
- May 27 – Ed Yost, American inventor (b. 1919)
- May 27 – Gretchen Wyler, American actress (b. 1932)
- May 30 – Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and director (b. 1933)
June
Jupp Derwall 1927-2007
- June 2 – Huang Ju, Chinese politician (b. 1938)
- June 4 – Craig L. Thomas, American politician (b. 1933)
- June 5 – Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (b. 1922)
- June 8 – Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, first President of Somalia (b. 1908)
- June 10 – Laurence Mancuso, American religious leader (b. 1934)
- June 13 – Nestor Rossi, Argentine footballer (b. 1925)
- June 13 – Walid Eido, Lebanese politician (b. 1942)
- June 14 – Ruth Graham, American poet, wife of Billy Graham (b. 1920)
- June 14 – Robin Olds, American fighter pilot (b. 1922)
- June 14 – Kurt Waldheim, 9th President of Austria, 4th Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1918)
- June 15 – Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
- June 17 - Begum Mahmooda Salim Khan, early Pakistani social activist and woman leader (born 1913).
- June 18 – Bernard Manning, English comedian (b. 1930)
- June 21 – Georg Danzer, Austrian musician (b. 1946)
- June 24 – Natasja Saad, Danish rapper (b. 1974)
- June 24 – Chris Benoit, Canadian wrestler (b. 1967)
- June 26 – Jupp Derwall, German footballer and coach (b. 1927)
- June 26 – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born fashion designer (b. 1929)
- June 28 – Kiichi Miyazawa, former Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)
July
Michelangelo Antonioni 1912-2007
Ingmar Bergman 1918-2007
- July 2 – Beverly Sills, American opera singer (b. 1929)
- July 4 – Baris Akarsu, Turkish musician (b. 1979)
- July 5 – George Melly, British musician (b. 1926)
- July 8 – Chandra Shekhar, 8th Prime Minister of India (b. 1927)
- July 9 – Charles Lane, American actor (b. 1905)
- July 11 – Lady Bird Johnson, former First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
- July 11 – Alfonso Lopez Michelsen, 32nd President of Colombia (b. 1913)
- July 12 – Kesha Wizzart, British singer (b. 1988)
- July 17 – Julio Redecker, Brazilian politician (b. 1956)
- July 18 – Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese Communist politician (b. 1908)
- July 20 – Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist (b. 1918)
- July 20 – Tammy Faye Messner, American televangelist (b. 1942)
- July 22 – Andre Milongo, former Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1935)
- July 22 – Ulrich Muehe, German actor (b. 1953)
- July 22 – Laszlo Kovacs, Hungarian cinematographer (b. 1933)
- July 23 – Mohammed Zahir Shah, last King of Afghanistan (b. 1914)
- July 23 – Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist (b. 1918)
- July 23 – Tom Davis, former Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (b. 1917)
- July 25 – Bernd Jakubowski, East German footballer (b. 1952)
- July 27 – Abdullah Kurshumi, former Prime Minister of Yemen (b. 1932)
- July 29 – Mike Reid, British actor (b. 1940)
- July 29 – Tom Snyder, American television personality (b. 1936)
- July 30 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian movie director (b. 1912)
- July 30 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish movie director (b. 1918)
- July 30 – Bill Walsh, American football coach (b. 1931)
August
Antonio Puerta 1984-2007
- August 1 – Ryan Cox, South African cyclist (b. 1979)
- August 2 – Franco Dalla Valle, Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1945)
- August 4 – Lee Hazlewood, American singer (b. 1929)
- August 5 – Jean-Marie Lustiger, French Roman Catholic Archbishop and cardinal (b. 1926)
- August 5 – Oliver Hill, American lawyer (b. 1907)
- August 12 – Merv Griffin, American television personality (b. 1925)
- August 12 – Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (b. 1963)
- August 13 – Yone Minagawa, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1893)
- August 16 – Max Roach, American jazz drummer (b. 1924)
- August 17 – Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (b. 1982)
- August 24 – Abdul Rahman Arif, 3rd President of Iraq (b. 1916)
- August 25 – Raymond Barre, former Prime Minister of France (b. 1924)
- August 26 – Gaston Thorn, former Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1928)
- August 28 – Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese actress (b. 1929)
- August 28 – Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984)
- August 29 – Pierre Messmer, former Prime Minister of France (b. 1916)
- August 29 – Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian footballer (b. 1978)
- August 30 – Michael Jackson, British writer and journalist (b. 1942)
- August 31 – Willie Cunningham, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1930)
September
Luciano Pavarotti 1935-2007
- September 3 – Steve Fossett, American adventurer (b. 1944)
- September 5 – D. James Kennedy, American televangelist (b. 1930)
- September 6 – Madeleine L'Engle, American writer (b. 1918)
- September 6 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935)
- September 7 – John Compton, former Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (b. 1925)
- September 7 – Joseph W. Eschbach, American doctor and kidney specialist (b. 1933)
- September 10 – Anita Roddick, British businesswoman (b. 1942)
- September 10 – Jane Wyman, American actress (b. 1917)
- September 11 – Ian Porterfield, British footballer (b. 1946)
- September 15 – Colin McRae, Scottish racecar driver (b. 1968)
- September 16 – Robert Jordan, American novelist (b. 1948)
- September 21 – Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian cross-country skier (b. 1929)
- September 21 – Peter Stambolic, Serbian politician (b. 1912)
- September 22 – Marcel Marceau, French actor and mime (b. 1923)
- September 29 – Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)
- September 29 – Gyula Zsivotzky, Hungarian athlete (b. 1937)
- September 30 – Milan Jelic, Bosnian Serb politician (b. 1956)
- September 30 – Oswald Mathias Ungers, German architect (b. 1926)
October
Deborah Kerr 1921-2007
- October 1 – Al Oerter, American athlete (b. 1936)
- October 2 – Tex Coulter, American football player (b. 1924)
- October 2 – Elfi von Dassanowsky, Austrian singer and musician (b. 1924)
- October 2 – Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark (b. 1913)
- October 5 – Walter Kempowski, German writer (b. 1929)
- October 5 – Justin Tuveri, Italian-French World War I veteran (b. 1897)
- October 7 – Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)
- October 7 – Stephane Maurice Bongo-Nouarra, former Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1937)
- October 11 – Werner von Trapp, Austrian musician and singer (b. 1915)
- October 12 – Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (b. 1934)
- October 12 – Noe Win, Burmese politician (b. 1948)
- October 13 – Bob Denard, French mercenary (b. 1929)
- October 14 – Big Moe, American rapper (b. 1974)
- October 15 – Bernard Scudder, British poet and translator of the Icelandic language (b. 1954)
- October 16 – Tose Proeski, Macedonian singer (b. 1981)
- October 16 – Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress and singer (b. 1921)
- October 18 – Lucky Dube, South African musician (b. 1964)
- October 22 – Eve Curie, French writer (b. 1905)
- October 24 – Petr Eben, Czech composer (b. 1929)
- October 25 – Puntsagiin Jasrai, former Prime Minister of Mongolia (b. 1933)
- October 26 – Arthur Kornberg, American winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1928)
- October 28 – Evelyn Hamann, German actress (b. 1942)
- October 28 – Porter Wagoner, American country music singer (b. 1927)
- October 29 – La Sa Ra, Indian writer (b. 1916)
- October 30 – Robert Goulet, American singer and actor (b. 1933)
November
Evel Knievel 1938-2007
- November 1 – Paul Tibbets, American pilot (b. 1929)
- November 2 – The Fabulous Moolah, American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
- November 5 – Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer (b. 1922)
- November 6 – Hank Thompson, American country musician and entertainer (b. 1925)
- November 6 – Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist (b. 1920)
- November 8 – Chad Varah, British Anglican priest and founder of the Samaritans helpline (b. 1911)
- November 9 – Luis Herrera Campins, former President of Venezuela (b. 1925)
- November 10 – Norman Mailer, American writer (b. 1923)
- November 10 – Laraine Day, American actress (b. 1920)
- November 12 – Janlavyn Narantsralt, former Prime Minister of Mongolia (b. 1957)
- November 12 – Ira Levin, American writer (b. 1929)
- November 17 – Ambroise Noumazalaye, former Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1933)
- November 19 – Kevin DuBrow, American rock singer (b. 1955)
- November 20 – Ian Smith, Rhodesian political leader (b. 1919)
- November 23 – Oscar Carmelo Sanchez, Bolivian footballer (b. 1971)
- November 24 – William O'Neill, American politician, former Governor of Connecticut (b. 1930)
- November 27 – Sean Taylor, American football player (b. 1983)
- November 28 – Elly Beinhorn, German pilot and writer (b. 1907)
- November 28 – Gudrun Wagner, German festival organiser (b. 1944)
- November 30 – Francois-Xavier Ortoli, French politician (b. 1925)
- November 30 – Evel Knievel, American stuntman (b. 1938)
December
Benazir Bhutto 1953-2007
- December 1 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (b. 1929)
- December 5 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (b. 1928)
- December 6 – Katy French, Irish model (b. 1983)
- December 12 – Ike Turner, American musician (b. 1931)
- December 16 – Dan Fogelberg, American musician (b. 1951)
- December 19 – Inti Chauveau, French professor (b. 1925)
- December 20 – Kazumi Tanaka, Japanese voice actor (b. 1951)
- December 22 – Chrysostomos I, Archbishop of Cyprus (b. 1927)
- December 23 – Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist (b. 1925)
- December 27 – Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani opposition leader and former Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1953)
- December 27 – Jan Kawalerowicz, Polish movie director (b. 1922)
- December 27 – Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (b. 1920)
- December 28 – Aidin Nikkah Bahrami, Iranian basketball player (b. 1982)
- December 29 – Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer (b. 1972)
- December 31 – Muhammad Osman Said, former Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1922)
- December 31 – Ettore Sottsass, Italian architect and designer (b. 1917)
Movies
- Atlantis SquarePantis
- Garfield Gets Real
- High School Musical 2
- Knocked Up
- Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse
- The Simpsons Movie
Books
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows
Nobel prize winners
- Chemistry – Gerhard Ertl
- Economics – Leonid Hurwicz
- Economics – Eric S. Maskin
- Economics – Roger B. Myerson
- Literature – Doris Lessing
- Medicine – Mario R. Capecchi
- Medicine – Sir Martin J. Evans
- Medicine – Oliver Smithies
- Peace – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Peace – Al Gore
- Physics – Albert Fert
- Physics – Peter Grünberg
Holidays
- January 1 – New Year's Day
- January 26 – Australia Day. India Republic Day.
- February 19 – Presidents' Day in the USA.
- February 21 – Western Christianity: Ash Wednesday and start of Lent.
- March 17 – Saint Patrick's Day.
- March 19 – Feast of Saint Joseph in Christianity. In Judaism, start of the month of Nisan.
- March 21 – Norouz, Iranian and Bahai New Year.
- April 2 – In Judaism, 14/15 Nisan. Passover Seder.
- April 6 – Anniversary of the founding in 1830 of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- April 6 is Good Friday in 2007 in the Western Christian calendar.
- April 8 – Easter (Western Christianity)
- April 10 – End of Passover or Feast of Unleavened Bread.
- April 23 – Saint George's Day.
- April 23 -Israeli Independence Day (Iyar 5) in the Hebrew calendar.
- April 25 – Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand
- May 1 – Beltane, a Cross-quarter day. Also Labor Day in most of the world, but not in the USA and Canada. May Day.
- May 21 – Victoria Day in Canada.
- May 28 – Memorial Day in the USA.
- August 1 – Lammas, "Loaf Mass," a Cross-quarter day.
- July 1 – Canada Day.
- July 4 – Independence Day in the USA.
- July 14 – Bastille Day.
- July 24 – Birthday of Simon Bolivar observed in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador. Pioneer Day observed in Utah.
- August 9 – National Day in Singapore
- September 3 – Labour Day in Canada and the USA.
- October 8 – Thanksgiving in Canada.
- October 31 – All Hallows' Eve, Halloween.
- November 1 – All Saints' Day. Samhain, a cross-quarter day. Neopagan New Year's Day.
- December 25 – Christmas in Western Christianity.
- December 26 – Boxing Day in most Commonwealth countries.
Images for kids
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See also
In Spanish: 2007 para niños
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