People Who Died in 2007
A-E
- Abu Laban, Ahmad, Danish imam
- Adler, Robert, physicist
- Alexander, Lloyd, writer
- Alfonso, Alberto, choreographer
- Ando, Momofoku, inventor of instant ramen
- Antonioni, Michelangelo, director
- Astor, Brooke, socialite
- Avis, Warren, businessman
- Barbaro, racehorse
- Bauer, Hank, baseball player
- Bejart, Maurice, choreographer
- Bergman, Ingmar, Swedish filmaker
- Bluestone, Irving, union negotiator
- Bhutto, Benazir, Pakistani politician
- Bo Yibo, Chinese politician
- Bolin, Bert, climatologist
- Bracken, Peg, cookbook writer
- Brecker, Michael, jazz musician
- Edward, Brennan, former CEO of Sears
- Buchwald, Art, columnist
- Burdette, Lew, pitcher
- Cade, J. Robert, inventor of Gatorade
- Carlo, Yvonne de, actress
- Carson, Julia, politician
- Claiborne, Liz, fashion designer
- Clark, Bob, director
- Dainton, Barbara, Titanic survivor
- Davi, Peter, surfer
- Deaver, Michael, White House aide
- DeDomenico, Vincent, food inventor
- Delp, brad, singer and guitarist
- Denard, Bob, French mercenary
- Doherty, Denny, musician
- Drinan, Robert, politician
- Eagleton, Thomas, former U.S. senator
- Ellis, Albert, psychologist
- Ellison, Mary Lillian, wrestler
- Evans, Ray, songwriter
F-L
- Falwell, Jerry, clergyman
- Feigner, Eddie, softball player
- Fogelberg, Dan, singer
- Gallo, Ernest, vintner
- Ghostley, Alice, actress
- Gillmor, Paul, politician
- Gittings, Barbara, activist
- Goldberg, Michael, abstract painter
- Goulet, Robert, entertainer
- Graham, Ruth Bell, wife of Billy Graham
- Guarrera, Frank, opera singer
- Halberstam, David, journalist and author
- Hart, Johnny, cartoonist
- Hart, Kitty Carlisle, actress
- Hartack, Bill, jockey
- Hazlewood, Lee, songwriter
- Helmsley, Leona, hotelier
- Henebry, John P., combat pilot
- Herbert, Don, actor
- Herbert, Sir Wally, explorer
- Ho, Don, entertainer
- Hoffleit, Ellen Dorrit, scientist
- Hunt, Howard E., spy
- Hutton, Betty, actress
- Hunter, Joe, Motown musician
- Ivins, Molly, journalist
- Johnson, Dennis, basketball player
- Johnson, Lady Bird, former First Lady
- Johnson, Tom, hockey defenseman
- Jones, Arthur, entrepreneur
- Jongh, Andree de, rescuer
- Kerr, Deborah, actress
- King, Yolanda, social activist
- Kollek, Teddy, Israeli politician
- Kornberg, Arthur, biochemist
- Kristal, Hilly, nightclub owner
- Kryuchkov, Vladimir, former chief of K.G.B.
- Kuhn, Bowie, former baseball commissioner
- Laine, Frankie, singer
- Lauterbur, Paul, inventor
- L'Engle, Madeleine, author
M-Q
- MacDiarmid, Alan, chemist
- Mailer, Norman, writer
- Maiman, Theodore Harold, inventor
- Marceau, Marcel, mime
- Mbacké, Serigne Saliou, spiritual leader
- Menotti, Gian-Carlo, Italian composer
- Messner, Tammy Faye, TV evangelist
- Metzger, Bruce, Biblical scholar
- Mitchell, Parren, former member of Congress
- Miyazawa, Kiichi, Japanese politician
- Muschamp, Herbert, architecture critic
- Noble, John, gulag captive
- Norwood, Charlie, U.S. representative
- O'Brien, Parry, shot-putter
- Odell, Jack, engineer
- Oerter, Al, discus thrower
- Olsen, Tillie, feminist writer
- Orgel, Leslie, biochemist
- Osmond, George, music manager
- Paley, Grace, writer
- Parker, Francine, political activist
- Parsons, Benny, auto racer
- Pavarotti, Luciano, operatic tenor
- Peet, Alfred, coffee guru
- Peterson, Oscar, jazz pianist
- Pickett, Bobby, singer
- Ponti, Carlo, film producer
- Poston, Tom, actor
R-Z
- Reilly, Charles Nelson, actor, comedian
- Richardson, Ian, actor
- Rizzuto, Phil, baseball player
- Roach, Max, jazz musician
- Robinson, Eddie, football coach
- Roche, Paul, poet
- Romary, Janice-Lee, foil fencer
- Rorty, Richard, philosopher
- Rostropovich, Mstislav, cellist and conductor
- Rothman, Lorraine, women's rights advocate
- Rothschild, Baron Guy de, French banker
- Sa, Khun, drug lord
- Saffir, Herbert, engineer
- Sardi, Vincent, Jr., restaurateur
- Schirra, Walter, astronaut
- Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, Jr., American historian and public official
- Sheldon, Sidney, novelist and screenwriter
- Siegel, Joel, film critic and television host
- Sills, Beverly, operatic soprano
- Smathers, George, senator
- Smith, Anna Nicole, model, reality TV personality
- Smith, Ian, former prime minister
- Snyder, Tom, radio and television personality
- Somers, Brett, television personality
- Stockhausen, Karlheinz, composer
- Takamoto, Iwao, animator who designed Scooby-Doo
- Thomas, Craig, politician
- Thompson, Hank, country singer
- Tibbets, Paul, pilot
- Traisman, Edwin, iconic food creator
- Turner, Ike, singer
- Valenti, Jack, head of MPAA
- Vesco, Robert, financier and fugitive
- Viertel, Peter, writer
- Vonnegut, Kurt, writer
- Vorontsov, Yuli, Russian ambassador
- Waldheim, Kurt, Austrian diplomat
- Wallis, Ruth, cabaret dancer
- Walsh, Bill, football coach
- Washburn, Bradford, cartographer and explorer
- Wegner, Hans, furniture designer
- White, Willye B., long jumper
- Whitney, Thomas P., translator
- Win, Soe, Prime minister
- Woodruff, John, Olympic runner
- Woods, Harriett, feminist political leader
- Wyman, Jane, actress
- Yeltsin, Boris, Russian politician
- Zahir, Mohammed Shah, former Afghan King
- Zaki, Zakia, Afghan journalist
