2007
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2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar. If you visit English Wikipedia, you can see that it was the 2007th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 7th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2000s decade.
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[1]
- UNESCO has formally recognized fifteen anniversaries for 2007.[2]
Events
January
- January 4 – Marais Viljoen, South African politician (b. 1915)
- January 5 – Momofuko Ando, Taiwanese businessman (b. 1910)
- January 8 – Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-American actress (b. 1922)
- January 9 – Carlo Ponti, Italian movie producer (b. 1912)
- January 11 – Robert Anton Wilson, American author and conspiracy researcher (b. 1932)
- January 12 – Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (b. 1937)
- January 13 – Michael Brecker, American jazz musician (b. 1949)
- January 17 – Art Buchwald, American humorist (b. 1925)
- January 19
- Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist (b. 1954)
- Denny Doherty, Canadian musician (The Mamas & the Papas) (b. 1940)
- January 22 – Abbé Pierre, French priest and founder of Emmaus (b. 1912)
- January 23 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist and author (b. 1932)
- January 30 – Sidney Sheldon, American writer (b. 1917)
February
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- February 1 – Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian opera composer (b. 1911)
- February 6 – Frankie Laine, American singer (b. 1913)
- February 7 – Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist (b. 1927)
- February 8 – Anna Nicole Smith, American model (b. 1967)
- February 9 – Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b. 1934)
- February 15 – Robert Adler, Austrian-born inventor (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 (b. 1929)
- March 9 – Brad Delp, American singer (b. 1951)
- March 11 – Betty Hutton, American actress (b. 1921)
- March 17 – Freddie Francis, English film director (b. 1917)
- March 20 – Taha Yassin Ramadan, former Vice President of Iraq (b. 1937)
- March 25 – Andranik Margaryan, Prime Minister of Armenia (b. 1951)
- March 29 – Tosiwo Nakayama, 1st President of the Federated States of Micronesia (b. 1931)
April
- April 6 – Luigi Comencini, Italian movie director (b. 1916)
- April 7 – Barry Nelson, American actor (b. 1917)
- April 11 – Kurt Vonnegut, American writer (b. 1922)
- April 16 – Seung-Hui Cho, Korean-born American perpetrator of the Virginia Tech massacre (b. 1984)
- April 17 – Kitty Carlisle, American actress and singer (b. 1910)
- 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 25 – Alan Ball, English footballer (b. 1945)
- 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 – Gordon Scott, American actor (b. 1926)
May
- May 3 – Wally Schirra, American astronaut (b. 1923)
- May 5 – Theodore Maiman, American physicist (b. 1927)
- May 11 – Malietoa Tanumafili II, Sovereign Ruler of Samoa (b. 1913)
- May 15 – Yolanda King, American activist (b. 1955)
- May 17 – Lloyd Alexander, American writer (b. 1924)
- May 18 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist (b. 1932)
- May 25 – Bartholomew Ulufa'alu, Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (b. 1950)
- May 27 – Zard, Japanese singer (b. 1967)
- May 30 – Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor (b. 1933)
June
- June 2 – Huang Ju, Chinese politician (b. 1938)
- June 8 – Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, first President of Somalia (b. 1908)
- June 10 – Laurence Mancuso, American religious leader (b. 1934)
- June 11 – Tito Gómez, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1948)
- June 14 – Kurt Waldheim, 9th President of Austria, 4th Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1918)
- June 17 – Gianfranco Ferré, Italian designer (b. 1944)
- June 18 – Vilma Espín, Cuban feminist (b. 1930)
- June 19 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer, actor, equestrian, film producer, and screenwriter (b. 1919)
- June 24 – Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1967)
- June 26 – Jupp Derwall, German footballer (b. 1927)
- June 28 – Kiichi Miyazawa, former Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)
July
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- July 3 – Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (b. 1927)
- July 8 – Chandra Shekhar, 8th Prime Minister of India (b. 1927)
- July 11 – Lady Bird Johnson, former First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
- July 11 – Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd President of Colombia (b. 1913)
- July 20 – Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist (b. 1918)
- 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 27 – Abdullah Kurshumi, former Prime Minister of Yemen (b. 1932)
- July 30 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian movie director (b. 1912)
- July 30 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish movie director (b. 1918)
August
- August 1 – Ryan Cox, South African professional road racing cyclist (b. 1979)
- August 4 – Lee Hazlewood, American country and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer (b. 1929)
- August 5 – Jean-Marie Lustiger, French Cardinal Archbishop of Paris (b. 1926)
- August 10 – Tony Wilson, English broadcaster, nightclub manager, and record label owner (b. 1950)
- August 12 – Merv Griffin, American television personality (b. 1925)
- August 16 – Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer, and composer (b. 1924)
- August 20 – Leona Helmsley, American hotel operator and real estate investor (b. 1920)
- August 24 – Abdul Rahman Arif, 3rd President of Iraq (b. 1916)
- August 25 – Raymond Barre, French politician and economist (b. 1924)
- August 26 – Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger politician, 19th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1928)
- August 28 – Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese actress (b. 1929)
- August 29 – Pierre Messmer, French politician (b. 1916)
September
- September 3 – Steve Fossett, American adventurer (b. 1944)
- 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 10 – Anita Roddick, British businesswoman (b. 1942)
- September 10 – Jane Wyman, American actress (b. 1917)
- September 15 – Colin McRae, Scottish racecar driver (b. 1968)
- September 16 – Robert Jordan, American novelist (b. 1948)
- September 21 – Petar Stambolić, Serbian politician (b. 1912)
- September 22 – André Gorz, Austrian-born French philosopher (b. 1923)
- September 22 – Marcel Marceau, French actor (b. 1923)
- September 29 – Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)
October
- October 1 – Al Oerter, American athlete (b. 1936)
- 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 9 – Carol Bruce, American singer and actress (b. 1919)
- October 12 – Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (b. 1934)
- October 12 – Soe Win, Burmese politician (b. 1948)
- October 16 – Toše Proeski, Macedonian singer (b. 1981)
- October 16 – Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (b. 1921)
- October 22 – Eve Curie, French writer (b. 1905)
- 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 30 – John Woodruff, American athlete (b. 1915)
November
- November 1 – Paul Tibbets, American pilot (b. 1929)
- November 5 – Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer (b. 1922)
- November 8 – Stephen Fumio Hamao, Japanese cardinal (b. 1930)
- 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 20 – Ian Smith, 8th Prime Minister of Rhodesia (b. 1919)
- November 22 – Maurice Béjart, French dancer (b. 1927)
- November 28 – Elly Beinhorn, German pilot and writer (b. 1907)
- November 30 – Evel Knievel, American stuntman (b. 1938)
December
- December 1 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (b. 1929)
- December 5 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (b. 1928)
- December 12 – Ike Turner, American musician (b. 1931)
- December 16 – Dan Fogelberg, American musician (b. 1951)
- December 22 – Chrysostomos I, Archbishop of Cyprus (b. 1927)
- December 23 – Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist (b. 1925)
- December 27 – Benazir Bhutto, 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 31 – Muhammad Osman Said, former Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1922)
Births
- February 28 – Princess Lalla Khadija of Morocco, daughter of King Mohammed VI and Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco.
- March 1 - Parker Bates, American child actor, in the film of This Is Us.
- 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.
- June 3 - Jakob Burns - A Canadian boy was disappear on November 5, 2020 in New Brunswick, Canada.
- September 1 – Wakana Matsumoto, singer and idol
Deaths
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
References
- ↑ Year of the Dolphin web-site. Retrieved 2007-04-05. オプショナルツアー ドルフィン Year of the Dolphin — Home. Retrieved 2007-04-05.
- ↑ Celebration of anniversaries with which UNESCO will be associated in 2006-2007
Other websites
Media related to 2007 at Wikimedia Commons