2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar.
2007 was designated as:
UNESCO has recognized fifteen anniversaries for 2007.[6]
Events
January
February
March
April
May
- May 3 – The U.S. House of Representatives passes the Matthew Shepard Act. It is the first time that the House brings a gay rights bill to the floor for a vote.
- May 4 – A tornado kills 12 in Greensburg, Kansas, destroying about 90% of the town.
- May 5 – Kenya Airways Flight KQ 507 crashes in Cameroon.
- May 6 – French Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy wins the French presidential election, succeeding incumbent President Jacques Chirac 10 days later.
- May 7 – The 2007 Chinese slave scandal is exposed.
- May 9 – Subtropical Storm Andrea forms off the coast of Florida, the earliest since Subtropical Storm Ana in 2003.
- May 15 – The coalition government of Fatah and Hamas in the Palestinian National Authority breaks down, as massive fighting breaks out in Gaza Strip.
- May 16 – The United Nations General Assembly, recognizing that genuine multilingualism promotes unity in diversity and international understanding, proclaims 2008 the International Year of Languages [1].
- May 17 – The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and the Moscow Patriarchate re-unite after 80 years of schism.
- May 20
- May 21 – The 19th century ship Cutty Sark is badly damaged by fire in London, UK.
- May 26 – Russia is once again recognized as a full-fledged superpower by the United States.[13]
- May 27 – Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV) is taken off the air after the government of Venezuela refuses to renew its license. This action results in protests. On July 16, 2007, RCTV resumes broadcasting via cable and satellite.
- May 31 – A calendar blue moon occurs in the Western Hemisphere and parts of the Eastern Hemisphere.
June
July
- July 1
- July 2 – Venus and Saturn are in conjunction, separation 46 arcsecs.
- July 3 – Torrential rains cause the onset of the 2007 Sudan floods, the worst in the Sudan's history.
- July 4 – After being held captive for 114 days, BBC journalist Alan Johnston is freed by his Palestinian kidnappers.
- July 7 – Live Earth Concerts are held throughout 9 major cities around the world.
- July 8 – Boeing launches the new Boeing 787.
- July 10 – Zheng Xiaoyu, head of the State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China, is executed.
- July 12 – Queen Elizabeth II visits the world's largest Commonwealth war grave in Ypres, Belgium to pay respects to fallen soldiers of the Battle of Passchendaele.
- July 14 – Following a presidential decree, Russia withdraws from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
- July 15 – In Tacoma, Washington, the second span of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge opens to traffic, making it the longest twin suspension bridge in the world.
- July 16 – An earthquake in Japan kills 7 and causes a pipe at a nuclear power plant to break, releasing about 300 gallons of radioactive water.[citation needed]
- July 17 – TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054 overruns the runway of Congonhas-São Paulo International Airport and crashes, killing all 186 and others on the ground.
- July 18 – Nelson Mandela convenes a group of world leaders to contribute their ideas to tackle some of the world's toughest problems.[citation needed]
- July 19
- Russia expels 4 British embassy staff in a tit-for-tat response over Britain's expulsion of 4 of Russia's diplomats. Russia also refuses to cooperate with Britain over the war on terror.[citation needed]
- Prathiba Patil is elected as the first female President of India.
- July 21 – The final book of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is released and sells over 11 million copies in the first 24 hours, becoming the fastest selling book in history.[25]
- July 22
August
- August 1
- August 3 – Foot and mouth disease is found on a farm at Wanborough, near to Guildford, Surrey. A UK-wide ban on movement of all livestock is put in place the following day.
- August 4 – The Phoenix spacecraft launches toward the Martian north pole.
- August 6
- August 14
- August 15 – An 8.0 earthquake strikes Peru, killing 512 people, injuring more than 1,500, and causing tsunami warnings in the Pacific Ocean.
- August 16 – The Crandall Canyon Mine in Emery County, Utah, collapses a second time, killing 3 rescue workers and injuring 6 more.
- August 17 Vladimir Putin issues a statement, revealing that Russia is to resume the flight exercises of its strategic bombers in remote areas. The flights were suspended in 1991 after the Collapse of the Soviet Union.
September
October
November
December
- December 2 –
- December 3 – Winter Storms bring record amounts of rain fall in the Pacific Northwest, causing flooding and closing a 20-mile portion of Interstate 5 for several days. At least eight deaths and billions of dollars in damages occur in Washington.
- December 3 – 14 – The United Nations Climate Change Conference is held at Nusa Dua in Bali, Indonesia.
- December 5 – Robert A. Hawkins shoots 8 people dead and injures 5 at the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, then commits suicide.
- December 7 – Uranus' orbit is positioned such that the sun shines directly above its equator (i.e. an equinox).
- December 8 – The 2007 Africa-EU Summit takes place as European Union and African Union leaders gather in Lisbon, Portugal, for their first joint summit in 7 years. The British and Czech prime ministers boycott the event due to the presence of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
- December 10 – The United Nations deadline for a negotiated settlement on the future of Kosovo passes without an international agreement.
- December 11 – In Algiers, Algeria, 2 bombs explode within 10 minutes of each other, the first near a UN office and the other detonated close to the Algerian Supreme Court. The official death count for both blasts stands at 31.
- December 13
- December 15 – President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf lifts the state of emergency in Pakistan.
- December 19
- December 20
- December 21 – The Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the Schengen border-free zone.
- December 23 – Conjunction (astronomy and astrology): A grand celestial alignment takes place.
- December 24 – The Nepalese government announces that the country's 240-year-old monarchy will be abolished in 2008 and a new republic will be declared.
- December 25 – An overcrowded suspension bridge collapses near Nepalgunj, Nepal. At least 15 people are dead, with 100 to 200 missing.
- December 27 – Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated, and at least 20 others are killed by a bomb blast at an election rally in Rawalpindi.
- December 31 – Over 200 people are killed in Kenya, due to riots over the results of the December 27 presidential election.
Births
- February 28 – HRH Princess Lalla Khadija of Morocco, daughter of Mohammed VI of Morocco and his wife, Princess Lalla Salma.
- March 12 – Xan Windsor, Lord Culloden, son of Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster and Claire Windsor, Countess of Ulster.
- March 14 – Simeon Hassan Muñoz, son of Princess Kalina of Bulgaria and Kitín Muñoz.
- March 17 – HRH Prince Abdul Muntaqim, son of HRH Al-Muhtadee Billah and his wife, HRH Pengiran Anak Sarah, the Crown Prince and Princess of Brunei.
- March 19 – HRH Prince Abdullah bin Al Ali, son of Prince Ali bin Al Hussein and Rym Brahimi.
- April 7 – HRH Princess Haalah bint Al Hashim, daughter of Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein and Princess Fahdah Mohammed Abu Neyan.
- April 10 – HRH Princess Ariane of the Netherlands, daughter of Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Máxima.
- April 18 – HRH Princess Hayah bint Al Hamzah, daughter of Prince Hamzah and Princess Noor bint Asem bin Nayef.
- April 18 – HRH Prince Lerotholi Seeiso, son of King Letsie III of Lesotho and Queen Masenate Mohato Seeiso.
- April 21 – HRH Princess Isabella of Denmark, daughter of Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark and his wife, Crown Princess Mary.
- April 29 – HRH Infanta Sofía of Spain, daughter of Felipe, Prince of Asturias and his wife, Letizia, Princess of Asturias.
- September 22 – Albert Windsor, son of Lord Nicholas Windsor and Paola Doimi de Frankopan.
- December 17 – James Windsor, Viscount Severn, son of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Sophie, The Countess of Wessex.
Deaths
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Deaths in 2007 January
- January 2 – Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)
- January 4 – Marais Viljoen, State President of South Africa (b. 1915)
- January 5 – Momofuku Ando, Japanese inventor (b. 1910)
- January 8 – Iwao Takamoto, Japanese animator (b. 1925)
- January 8 – Yvonne de Carlo, American actress (b. 1922)
- January 9 – Jean-Pierre Vernant, French historian and anthropologist (b. 1914)
- January 10 – Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (b. 1912)
- January 10 – Gary Phillips, American keyboardist with The Greg Kihn Band (b. 1947)
- 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 14 – Darlene Conley, American actress (b. 1934)
- January 15 – Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Iraqi politician (b. 1951)
- January 15 – Awad Hamed al-Bandar, Iraqi judge (b. 1945)
- January 15 – Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (b. 1908)
- January 15 – Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (b. 1905)
- January 16 – Benny Parsons, American race car driver and television personality (b. 1941)
- January 17 – Art Buchwald, American humorist (b. 1925)
- January 19 – Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist (b. 1954)
- January 19 – Denny Doherty, Canadian musician (The Mamas & the Papas) (b. 1940)
- January 19 – Bam Bam Bigelow, American wrestler (b. 1961)
- January 21 – Maria Cioncan, Romanian athlete (b. 1977)
- January 22 – Abbé Pierre, French priest and founder of Emmaus (b. 1912)
- January 23 – Ryszard Kapuscinski, Polish journalist and author (b. 1932)
- January 26 – Gump Worsley, Canadian hockey player (b. 1929)
- January 28 – Cyril Demarne, British wartime firefighter (b. 1905)
- January 28 – Hsu Wei Lun, Taiwanese actress (b. 1978)
- January 30 – Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
- January 31 – Kirka Babitzin, Finnish singer (b. 1950)
- January 31 – Lee Bergere, American actor (b. 1924)
February
- February 1 – Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer and librettist (b. 1911)
- February 3 – Ralph de Toledano, Moroccan-born American political columnist and author (b. 1916)
- February 3 – Pedro Knight, Cuban-born musician (b. 1921)
- February 3 – Billy Henderson, American singer (The Spinners) (b. 1939)
- February 4 – Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (b. 1934)
- February 6 – Frankie Laine, American singer (b. 1913)
- February 7 – Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
- February 7 – Helen Duncan, New Zealand politician (b. 1941)
- February 8 – Anna Nicole Smith, American model and television personality (b. 1967)
- February 9 – Benedict Kiely, Irish author and broadcaster (b. 1919)
- February 9 – Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b. 1934)
- February 9 – Alejandro Finisterre, Spanish poet, editor, and inventor of table football (b. 1919)
- February 10 – Cardell Willis, American Comedian, and comedic mentor (b. 1937)
- February 10 – Jung Da Bin, Korean actress (b. 1980)
- February 11 – Reginald Hugh Hickling, British lawyer, colonial civil servant, law academic and author (b. 1920)
- February 12 – Peggy Gilbert, American saxophonist (b. 1905)
- February 13 – Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (b. 1923)
- February 13 – Charles Norwood, American politician (b. 1941)
- February 13 – Eliana Ramos, Uruguayan model (b. 1988)
- February 13 – Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (b. 1974)
- February 14 – Ryan Larkin, Canadian animator, artist, and sculptor (b. 1943)
- February 15 – Robert Adler, Austrian-born inventor (b. 1913)
- February 17 – Maurice Papon, French Vichy government official (b. 1910)
- February 17 – Dermot O'Reilly, Irish-born musician (Ryan's Fancy) (b. 1942)
- February 17 – Mike Awesome, American professional wrestler (b. 1965)
- February 18 – Juan "Pachín" Vicéns, Puerto Rican basketball player (b. 1933)
- February 22 – Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author, painter, and art collector (b. 1918)
- February 22 – Fons Rademakers, Dutch film director (b. 1920)
- February 22 – Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1954)
- February 24 – Damien Nash, American football player (b. 1982)
- February 24 – Bruce Bennett, American actor (b. 1906)
- February 27 – Bobby Rosengarden, American drummer (b. 1924)
- February 28 – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., American historian and political commentator (b. 1917)
- February 28 – Billy Thorpe, Australian musician (Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs) (b. 1946)
- February 28 – Charles Forte, English hotelier (b. 1908)
March
- March 2 – Henri Troyat, French writer (b. 1911)
- March 2 – Madi Phala, South African artist (b. 1955)
- March 3 – Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (b. 1913)
- March 4 – Natalie Bodanya, American soprano (b. 1908)
- March 4 – Thomas Eagleton, American politician (b. 1929)
- March 4 – Bob Hattoy, American activist (b. 1950)
- March 4 – Richard Joseph, British game music composer (b. 1954)
- March 4 – Sunil Kumar Mahato, Indian parliamentarian (b. 1966)
- March 4 – Tadeusz Nalepa, Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist (b. 1934)
- March 4 – Ian Wooldridge, British sports journalist (b. 1932)
- March 4 – Jorge Kolle Cueto, Bolivian politician
- March 6 – Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher and sociologist (b. 1929)
- March 6 – Allen Coage, American professional wrestler (b. 1943)
- March 6 – Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (b. 1909)
- March 8 – John Inman, English actor (b. 1935)
- March 9 – Brad Delp, American singer (Boston) (b. 1951)
- March 9 – Thomas Mason, U.S. Attorney (b. 1919)
- March 10 – Ernie Ladd, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938)
- March 10 – Angela Webber, Australian author, TV writer, producer and comedian (b. 1954)
- March 10 – Richard Jeni, American comedian (b. 1957)
- March 11 – Betty Hutton, American actress (b. 1921)
- March 12 – Antonio Ortiz Mena, Mexican politician and economist (b. 1907)
- March 13 – Arnold Skaaland, American wrestler (b. 1925)
- March 14 – Lucie Aubrac, French World War II Resistance fighter (b. 1912)
- March 14 – Gareth Hunt, English actor (b. 1943)
- March 16 – Manjural Islam, Bangladeshi cricketer (b. 1984)
- March 16 – Sir Arthur Marshall, British aviation engineer (b. 1903)
- March 17 – Jim Cronin, British businessman (b. 1952)
- March 17 – Roger Bennett, American gospel musician (b. 1952)
- March 18 – Bob Woolmer, English cricketer and coach (b. 1948)
- March 19 – Calvert DeForest, American actor and comedian (b. 1921)
- March 19 – Luther Ingram, American singer (b. 1937)
- March 20 – Taha Yassin Ramadan, Vice President of Iraq (b. 1938)
- March 23 – Eric Medlen, American race car driver (b. 1973)
- March 25 – Andranik Margaryan, 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (b. 1951)
- March 29 – Leslie Waller, American novelist (b. 1923)
April
- April 1 – Laurie Baker, English architect (b. 1917)
- April 1 – Driss Chraibi, Moroccan writer (b. 1926)
- April 1 – Hans Filbinger, German jurist and politician (b. 1913)
- April 2 – Henry Lee Giclas, American astronomer (b. 1910)
- April 3 – Eddie Robinson, American football coach (b. 1919)
- April 4 – Bob Clark, American film director (b. 1939)
- April 5 – Thomas Stoltz Harvey Pathologist who conducted Albert Einstein's autopsy (b. 1912)
- April 5 – Leela Majumdar, Bengali children's author (b. 1908)
- April 5 – Darryl Stingley, American football player (b. 1951)
- April 5 – Poornachandra Tejaswi, Indian writer and novelist (b. 1938)
- April 6 – Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (b. 1916)
- April 7 – Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
- April 7 – Barry Nelson, American actor (b. 1920)
- April 7 – Carey W. Barber, English Jehovah's Witnesses leader (b. 1905)
- April 9 – AJ Carothers, American writer (b. 1931)
- April 10 – Kevin Crease Australian news presenter and entertainer (b. 1936)
- April 11 – Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor (b. 1925)
- April 11 – Ronald Speirs, United States Army officer (b. 1920)
- April 11 – Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist and playwright (b. 1922)
- April 13 – Don Selwyn, Māori actor and film director (b. circa 1936)
- April 14 – June Callwood, Canadian journalist (b. 1924)
- April 14 – Don Ho, American musician (b. 1930)
- April 15 – Brant Parker, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
- April 16 – Frank Bateson, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1909)
- April 17 – Kitty Carlisle Hart, American singer, actress & talk show panelist (b. 1910)
- April 18 – Iccho Itoh, Mayor of Nagasaki, Japan (b. 1945)
- April 20 – Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (b. 1931)
- April 22 – Juanita Millender-McDonald, American politician (b. 1938)
- April 23 – David Halberstam, American author and journalist (b. 1934)
- April 23 – Boris Yeltsin, first President of the Russian Federation (b. 1931)
- April 25 – Alan Ball, English footballer (b. 1945)
- April 25 – Arthur Milton, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1928)
- April 25 – Bobby Pickett, American singer (b. 1938)
- April 26 – Jack Valenti, American film executive, creator of MPAA film rating system (b. 1921)
- April 26 – Conchita Montenegro, Spanish model and actress (b. 1912)
- April 27 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927)
- April 28 – Dabbs Greer, American actor (b. 1917)
- April 28 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (b. 1912)
- April 29 – Ivica Račan, 7th Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1944)
- April 29 – Josh Hancock, American baseball player (b. 1978)
- April 29 – Dick Motz, New Zealand cricket player (b. 1940)
- April 30 – Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (b. 1983)
- April 30 – Kevin Mitchell, American football player (b. 1971)
- April 30 – Tom Poston, American actor (b. 1921)
- April 30 – Gordon Scott, American actor (b. 1926)
May
- May 2 – Juan Valdivieso, Peruvian footballer (b. 1910)
- May 2 – Brad McGann, New Zealand film director and screenwriter (b. 1964)
- May 3 – Wally Schirra, American astronaut (b. 1923)
- May 3 – Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician (b. 1932)
- May 5 – Theodore Maiman, American physicist (b. 1927)
- May 5 – Gusti Wolf, Austrian actress (b. 1912)
- May 6 – Lesley Blanch, English writer and fashion editor (b. 1904)
- May 7 – Emma Lehmer, Russian-born mathematician (b. 1906)
- May 11 – Bernard Gordon, American screenwriter (b. 1918)
- May 11 – Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan head of state (b. 1913)
- May 12 – Mullah Dadullah Akhund, Afghani Taliban military leader
- May 12 – Teddy Infuhr, American child actor (b. 1936)
- May 14 – Colin St John Wilson, English architect (b. 1922)
- May 15 – Jerry Falwell, American evangelist (b. 1933)
- May 15 – Yolanda King, American actress and activist, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1955)
- May 17 – Lloyd Alexander, American author (b. 1924)
- May 18 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and Nobel Prize for Physics laureate (b. 1932)
- May 18 – Yoyoy Villame, Filipino singer (b. 1938)
- May 19 – Dean Eyre, New Zealand politician (b. 1914)
- May 20 – Stanley Miller, American chemist and biologist (b. 1930)
- May 25 – Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor (b. 1931)
- May 27 – Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (b. 1967)
- May 27 – Percy Sonn, South African lawyer and cricket executive (b. 1949)
- May 27 – Ed Yost, American inventor of the modern hot air balloon (b. 1919)
- May 28 – Marquise Hill, American football player (b. 1982)
June
- June 2 – Huang Ju, Chinese politician (b. 1938)
- June 4 – Craig L. Thomas, American politician (b. 1933)
- June 8 – Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, first President of Somalia (b. 1908)
- June 9 – Frankie Abernathy, Real World: San Diego cast member (b. 1981)
- June 10 – Augie Auer, meteorologist (b. 1940)
- June 11 – Imre Friedmann, American scientist (b. 1921)
- June 11 – Mala Powers, American film actress (b. 1931)
- June 12 – Don Herbert, American television personality, Mr. Wizard (b. 1917)
- June 13 – David Hatch, BBC Radio producer and comedian (b. 1939)
- June 14 – Ruth Bell Graham, Wife of Billy Graham (b. 1920)
- June 14 – Jacques Simonet, Belgian politician (b. 1963)
- June 14 – Kurt Waldheim, Austrian politician and diplomat, former United Nations Secretary-General (b. 1918)
- June 15 – Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
- June 17 – Gianfranco Ferrè, Italian designer (b. 1944)
- June 18 – Bernard Manning, English comedian (b. 1930)
- June 18 – Vilma Espín, Cuban wife of Raúl Castro (b. 1930)
- June 19 – El Fary, Spanish singer (b. 1937)
- June 19 – Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (b. 1947)
- June 19 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1919)
- June 20 – Trevor Henry, New Zealand Justice (b. 1902)
- June 21 – Bob Evans, American restaurateur (b. 1918)
- June 22 – Rod Beck, American baseball player (b. 1968)
- June 22 – Erik Parlevliet, Dutch field hockey player b. (1964)
- June 24 – Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1938)
- June 24 – Natasja Saad, Afro Danish rapper and reggae singer (b. 1974)
- June 24 – Byron Baer, American politician (b. 1929)
- June 24 – Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1967)
- June 24 – Jack Flynt, American politician (b. 1914)
- June 25 – J. Fred Duckett, American sports announcer and teacher (b. 1933)
- June 26 – Jupp Derwall, German footballer and coach (b. 1927)
- June 26 – Joey Sadler, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1914)
- June 27 – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-American fashion designer (b. 1929)
- June 27 – William Hutt, Canadian stage and film actor (b. 1920)
- June 28 – Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)
- June 29 – Joel Siegel, American film critic (b. 1943)
- June 29 – George McCorkle, American musician (b. 1947)
- June 30 – Jan Herman Linge, Norwegian engineer and boat designer (b. 1922)
July
- July 1 – Gottfried von Bismarck, German aristocrat and socialite (b. 1962)
- July 2 – Brahim Déby, son of Chadian president Idriss Déby (b. 1980)
- July 2 – Vojislav Nikčević, Montenegrin professor and linguist (b. 1935)
- July 2 – Beverly Sills, American soprano (b. 1929)
- July 2 – Dilip Sardesai, Indian cricketer (b. 1940)
- July 2 – Jimmy Walker, American basketball player (b. 1944)
- July 2 – Hy Zaret, American lyricist and composer (b. 1907)
- July 3 – Claude Pompidou, wife of President of France Georges Pompidou (b. 1912)
- July 3 – Boots Randolph, American saxophone player (b. 1927)
- July 4 – Barış Akarsu, Turkish musician (b.1979)
- July 4 – José Roberto Espinosa, Mexican commentator (b.1948)
- July 4 – Liane Bahler, German cyclist (b. 1982)
- July 4 – Johnny Frigo, American jazz violinist and bassist (b.1916)
- July 4 – Bill Pinkney, American singer (b. 1925)
- July 4 – Osvaldo Romo, Chilean agent of the Pinochet's Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) (b. 1938)
- July 5 – George Melly, English singer (b. 1926)
- July 5 – Régine Crespin, French soprano (b. 1927)
- July 6 – Lois Wyse, American advertising executive, author, and columnist (b. 1926)
- July 6 – Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, U.S.American novelist (b. 1939)
- July 9 – Charles Lane, American actor (b. 1905)
- July 10 – Zheng Xiaoyu, Chinese bureaucrat (b. 1944)
- July 10 – Abdul Rashid Ghazi, Pakistani cleric (b. 1964)
- July 10 – Corbin Harney, an elder and spiritual leader of the Newe (Western Shoshone) people (b. 1920)
- July 11 – Lady Bird Johnson, former First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
- July 11 – Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd Colombian President (b. 1913)
- July 11 – Ed Mirvish, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1914)
- July 11 – Shag Crawford, American umpire in Major League Baseball (b. 1916)
- July 11 – Jimmy Skinner, Detroit Red Wings head coach (b. 1917)
- July 11 – Richard Franklin, Australian film director (b. 1948)
- July 12 – Nigel Dempster, British journalist, author, broadcaster and diarist (b.1941)
- July 12 – Pat Fordice, First Lady of Mississippi from 1992 until 2000 (b. 1935)
- July 12 – Jim Mitchell, pioneer in the pornographic film industry (b. 1945)
- July 12 – Larry Staverman, American professional basketball player and coach (b. 1936)
- July 12 – Stan Zemanek, Australian radio broadcaster (b. 1947)
- July 12 – Mr. Butch, American homeless man living on the streets of Boston, also known as "King of Kenmore Square" (b. 1951)
- July 14 – John Ferguson, Canadian professional hockey player, coach and executive (b. 1938)
- July 17 – Júlio Redecker, Brazilian politician (b. 1956)
- July 18 – Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (b. 1908)
- July 19 – A. K. Faezul Huq, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (b. 1945)
- July 20 – Tammy Faye Messner, American evangelist (b. 1942)
- July 22 – Mike Coolbaugh, American baseball player and coach (b. 1972)
- July 22 – László Kovács, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1933)
- July 22 – Ulrich Mühe, German actor (b. 1953)
- July 22 – Peter Lennox-Kerr, British Journalist (b. 1926)
- July 22 – Jean Stablinski, French cyclist of Polish origin (b. 1932)
- July 22 – Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (b. 1906)
- July 22 – Aleksandr Tatarskiy, Russian animation film director (b. 1950)
- July 22 – Jarrod Cunningham, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1968)
- July 23 – Benjamin Libet, American pioneering scientist in the field of human consciousness (b. 1916)
- July 23 – Mohammed Zahir Shah, last King of Afghanistan (b. 1914)
- July 24 – Albert Ellis, American psychologist (b. 1913)
- July 24 – Chaney Kley, Actor (b. 1972)
- July 25 – Jesse Marunde, American Strongman (b. 1979)
- July 26 – Skip Prosser, American basketball coach (b. 1950)
- July 27 – James Oyebola, British heavyweight boxer (b. 1961)
- July 29 – Mike Reid, British comedian and actor (b. 1940)
- July 29 – Tom Snyder, American talk show host (b. 1936)
- July 30 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (b. 1912)
- July 30 – Teoctist Arăpaşu, Ex-Romanian Orthodox Church Patriarch (b. 1915)
- July 30 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director (b. 1918)
- July 30 – Bill Walsh, American football coach (b. 1931)
August
- August 1 – Tommy Makem, Irish folk musician (b. 1932)
- August 1 – Ryan Cox, South African professional road racing cyclist (b. 1979)
- August 1 – Veikko Karvonen, Finnish athlete (b. 1926)
- August 2 – Holden Roberto, Angolan nationalist leader (b. 1923)
- August 2 – Chauncey Bailey, American columnist and newspaper editor (b. 1949)
- August 3 – James T. Callahan, American actor (b. 1930)
- August 3 – John Gardner, British author (b. 1926)
- August 4 – Lee Hazlewood, American country singer, songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
- August 4 – Frank Mancuso, American baseball player and politician (b. 1918)
- August 5 – Oliver Hill, American lawyer (b. 1907)
- August 5 – Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, French Cardinal Archbishop of Paris (b. 1926)
- August 6 – Heinz Barth, German war criminal (b. 1920)
- August 7 – Hal Fishman, Los Angeles–based local news anchor (b. 1931)
- August 7 – Ernesto Alonso, Mexican soap opera actor, director and producer, best known as Señor Telenovela (b. 1917)
- August 7 – Angus Tait, New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman (b. 1919)
- August 8 – Joybubbles, American Phone Phreak (b. 1949)
- August 8 – Ma Lik, Chinese politician (b. 1952)
- August 8 – Melville Shavelson, American film director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
- August 9 – Joe O'Donnell, American documentary photographer and photojournalist (b. 1922)
- August 10 – Tony Wilson, English broadcaster, nightclub manager, and record label owner (b.1950)
- August 10 – James Faust, an Apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1920)
- August 12 – Merv Griffin, American TV personality (b. 1925)
- August 12 – Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (b. 1963)
- August 13 – Brooke Astor, American socialite and philanthropist (b. 1902)
- August 13 – Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and announcer (b. 1917)
- August 13 – Brian Adams, American professional wrestler (b. 1964)
- August 14 – Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer (b. 1913)
- August 15 – Richard Bradshaw, British opera conductor (b. 1944)
- August 15 – John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist and advocate (b. 1918)
- August 15 – Sam Pollock, Canadian sports executive (b. 1925)
- August 16 – Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer, and composer (b. 1924)
- August 17 – Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (b. 1982)
- August 18 – Michael Deaver, American political adviser (b. 1938)
- August 20 – Leona Helmsley, American hotel operator and real estate investor (b. 1920)
- August 21 – Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American brigadier general (b. 1918)
- August 21 – Qurratulain Hyder, Indian novelist (b. 1926)
- August 21 – Haley Paige, American actress (b. 1981)
- August 22 – Rhys Milford Jones, Murder victim (b. 1995)
- August 24 – Abdul Rahman Arif, 3rd President of Iraq (b. 1916)
- August 25 – Raymond Barre, French politician and economist (b. 1924)
- August 25 – Ray Jones, English footballer (b. 1988)
- August 26 – Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger politician (b. 1928)
- August 26 – Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor (b. 1935)
- August 28 – Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984)
- August 28 – Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (b. 1935)
- August 28 – Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese actress (b. 1929)
- August 28 – Nikola Nobilo, New Zealand winemaker (b. 1913)
- August 29 – Richard Jewell, American falsely accused of bombing the Centennial Olympic Park (b. 1962)
- August 29 – Pierre Messmer, French politician (b. 1916)
- August 29 – Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian footballer (b. 1978)
- August 29 – James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (b. 1914)
- August 30 – Michael Jackson, English writer (b. 1942)
- August 30 – Charles Vanik, American politician (b. 1918)
- August 31 – Gay Brewer, American golfer (b. 1932)
September
- September 1 – Tomás Medina Caracas, Colombian rebel leader (b. 1965)
- September 1 – Roy McKenzie, New Zealand philanthropist (b. 1922)
- September 2 – Max McNab, Canadian hockey player and hockey executive (b. 1924)
- September 3 – Jane Tomlinson, British charity fund raiser (b. 1964)
- September 3 – Syd Jackson, Māori activist and trade unionist (b. 1939)
- September 5 – Jennifer Dunn, American politician (b. 1941)
- September 5 – Paul Gillmor, American politician (b. 1939)
- September 6 – Madeleine L'Engle, American author (b. 1918)
- September 6 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935)
- September 7 – John Compton, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (b. 1925)
- September 7 – Mark Weil, Uzbek theater director (b. 1952)
- September 8 – Charlie Parlato, American musician (b. 1919)
- September 9 – Helmut Senekowitsch, Austrian footballer and coach (b. 1933)
- September 9 – Hughie Thomasson, American musician (b. 1952)
- September 10 – Anita Roddick, English entrepreneur (b. 1942)
- September 10 – Jane Wyman, American actress, former wife of Ronald Reagan (b. 1917)
- September 11 – Ian Porterfield, Scottish footballer (b. 1946)
- September 11 – Joe Zawinul, Austrian musician (b. 1932)
- September 13 – Whakahuihui Vercoe, New Zealand clergyman (b. 1928)
- September 14 – Benny Vansteelant, Belgian duathlete (b. 1976)
- September 15 – Colin McRae, Scottish world rally champion (b. 1968)
- September 15 – Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (b. 1928)
- September 15 – Brett Somers, American actress (b. 1924)
- September 16 – Robert Jordan, American author (b. 1948)
- September 18 – Len Thompson, Australian footballer (b. 1947)
- September 19 – Antoine Ghanem, Lebanese politician (b. 1943)
- September 20 – Mahlon Clark, American musician (b. 1923)
- September 21 – Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian athlete (b. 1929)
- September 21 – Alice Ghostley, American actress (b. 1926)
- September 21 – Rex Humbard, American evangelist (b. 1919)
- September 21 – Petar Stambolić, Serbian politician (b. 1912)
- September 22 – Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (b. 1923)
- September 23 – Ken Danby, Canadian artist (b. 1940)
- September 26 – Dave Carpender, American guitarist with The Greg Kihn Band (b. 1950)
- September 27 – Bill Perry, South African footballer, scored winning goal in the 1953 FA Cup Final (b. 1930)
- September 27 – Avraham Shapira, Israeli chief rabbi (b. 1914)
- September 27 – Kenji Nagai, Japanese journalist (b. 1957)
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