2007
2007
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| Gregorian calendar | 2007 |
| Ab urbe condita | 2760 |
| Armenian calendar | 1456ԹՎ ՌՆԾԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6757 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 163–164 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1928–1929 |
| Bengali calendar | 1414 |
| Berber calendar | 2957 |
| British Regnal year | 55Eliz. 2– 56Eliz. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2551 |
| Burmese calendar | 1369 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7515–7516 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙戌年 (FireDog)4703 or 4643— to —丁亥年 (FirePig)4704 or 4644 |
| Coptic calendar | 1723–1724 |
| Discordian calendar | 3173 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1999–2000 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5767–5768 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| 2063–2064 | |
| 1928–1929 | |
| 5107–5108 | |
| Holocene calendar | 12007 |
| Igbo calendar | 1007–1008 |
| Iranian calendar | 1385–1386 |
| Islamic calendar | 1427–1428 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei19(平成１９年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1939–1940 |
| Juche calendar | 96 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4340 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC96民國96年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 539 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2550 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳火狗年(male Fire-Dog)2133 or 1752 or 980— to —阴火猪年(female Fire-Pig)2134 or 1753 or 981 |
| Unix time | 1167609600 – 1199145599 |
2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2007th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 7th year of the 3rd millennium, the 7th year of the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2000s decade.
2007 was designated as
| Millennium: | 3rd millennium |
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| 2007 by topic: | |
| Arts | |
| Architecture–Comics–Film–Home video–Literature(Poetry) –Music(Country, Rock,Metal,UK) –Radio– Photo –Television–Video gaming | |
| Politics | |
| Elections –International leaders–Sovereign statesSovereign state leaders–Territorial governors | |
| Science and technology | |
| Archaeology–Aviation–Birding/Ornithology–Palaeontology–Rail transport–Spaceflight | |
| Sports | |
| Badminton–Baseball–Basketball– Volleyball | |
| By place | |
| Afghanistan–Albania–Algeria–Angola–Antarctica–Argentina–Armenia–Australia–Austria–Azerbaijan–Bangladesh– The Bahamas – Barbados –Belgium– Benin –Bhutan–Bosnia and Herzegovina–Brazil–Bulgaria–Burkina Faso– Burundi –Cambodia– Cameroon –Canada–Cape Verde– Central African Republic –Chad–Chile–China–Colombia–Costa Rica– Croatia – Cuba – Cyprus – Czechia –Denmark– Ecuador – Egypt – El Salvador – Estonia –Ethiopia–European Union– Finland –France– Gabon –Georgia–Germany–Ghana– Greece – Guatemala –Hong Kong– Hungary –Iceland–India–Indonesia–Iraq–Iran–Ireland–Israel– Italy – Ivory Coast –Japan– Kazakhstan –Kenya–Kuwait–Laos– Latvia -Lebanon–Libya– Lithuania –Luxembourg–Macau– Madagascar – Malawi –Malaysia– Mali –Mexico– Moldova – Montenegro – Morocco – Mozambique –Myanmar–Nepal–Netherlands–New Zealand– Niger –Nigeria–North Korea–Norway– Oman –Pakistan–Palestine– Peru –Philippines–Poland–Portugal– Romania –Russia–Rwanda– Saudi Arabia – Senegal – Serbia –Singapore– Slovakia – Slovenia –Somalia–South Africa–South Korea– South Sudan –Spain– Sri Lanka –Sudan–Sweden– Switzerland –Syria–Taiwan– Tanzania –Thailand– Tunisia –Turkey– Uganda –Ukraine–United Arab Emirates–United Kingdom–United States– Uruguay –Uzbekistan– Venezuela –Vietnam–Yemen– Zambia –Zimbabwe | |
| Other topics | |
| Religious leaders | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births–Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments–Disestablishments | |
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| Works–IntroductionsWorks entering the public domain | |
| Gregorian calendar | 2007 |
| Ab urbe condita | 2760 |
| Armenian calendar | 1456ԹՎ ՌՆԾԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6757 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 163–164 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1928–1929 |
| Bengali calendar | 1414 |
| Berber calendar | 2957 |
| British Regnal year | 55Eliz. 2– 56Eliz. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2551 |
| Burmese calendar | 1369 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7515–7516 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙戌年 (FireDog)4703 or 4643— to —丁亥年 (FirePig)4704 or 4644 |
| Coptic calendar | 1723–1724 |
| Discordian calendar | 3173 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1999–2000 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5767–5768 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| 2063–2064 | |
| 1928–1929 | |
| 5107–5108 | |
| Holocene calendar | 12007 |
| Igbo calendar | 1007–1008 |
| Iranian calendar | 1385–1386 |
| Islamic calendar | 1427–1428 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei19(平成１９年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1939–1940 |
| Juche calendar | 96 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4340 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC96民國96年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 539 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2550 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳火狗年(male Fire-Dog)2133 or 1752 or 980— to —阴火猪年(female Fire-Pig)2134 or 1753 or 981 |
| Unix time | 1167609600 – 1199145599 |
Events
January
January 1 Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eurozone.[4] Adam Air Flight 574 disappears from Jakarta's radar. A week later it is founded that the aircraft had crashed into the Makassar Strait, killing all 102 people on board.[5]
January 4 – Congress elects Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
January 8 – Russian oil supplies to Poland, Germany, and Ukraine are cut as the Russia–Belarus energy dispute escalates;[6] they are restored three days later.[7]
January 9 – Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the original iPhone at a Macworld keynote in San Francisco.
February
February 2 – The IPCC publishes its fourth assessment report, having concluded that global climate change is "very likely" to have a predominantly human cause.[8]
February 3 – A truck bomb explodes in Baghdad, Iraq, killing at least 135 people and injures 339 others.[9]
February 13 – North Korea agrees to shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon by April 14 as a first step towards complete denuclearization, receiving in return energy aid equivalent to 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil.[10]
February 26 – The International Court of Justice finds Serbia guilty of failing to prevent genocide in the Srebrenica massacre, but clears it of direct responsibility and complicity in the case.[11]
March
March 1 – The fourth International Polar Year, a $1.73 billion research program to study both the North Pole and South Pole, is launched in Paris.[12]
March 11 – According to the accusation[13] by Georgia, three Russian helicopters fired on the Georgian-controlled[14] Kodori Gorge in a break-away autonomous republic of Abkhazia in north-western Georgia.
March 13 – April 28 – The 2007 Cricket World Cup is held in the West Indies and is won by Australia.[15]
March 23 – Naval forces of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps arrest Royal Navy personnel in disputed Iran-Iraq waters;[16] they were released on April 4.[17]
March 27 – Latvian Prime Minister Aigars Kalvītis and Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov sign a border treaty between Latvia and Russia, officially demarcating the border between the two.[18]
April
April 3 – French high speed passenger train, the TGV, reaches a top speed of 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph), breaking the record for the world's fastest conventional train.[19]
April 16 – South Korean Seung-Hui Cho kills 32 people and wounds 17 others in a shooting at Virginia Tech, a university in the United States.[20][21][22]
April 18 – A series of attacks take place across Baghdad, Iraq, killing nearly 200 people.[23]
April 24 – Gliese 581c, a potentially Earth-like extrasolar planet habitable for life, is discovered in the constellation Libra.[24]
April 26–27 – Ethnic Russian riot in Tallinn and other cities in Estonia against the moving of the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet World War II memorial.[25]
May
May 3 – Madeleine McCann disappeared from 5A Rua Dr Agostinho da Silva in Praia da Luz, Portugal while she was sleeping.
May 17 – The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and the Moscow Patriarchate re-unite after 80 years of schism.[26]
May 20 – Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai makes the largest single charitable donation in modern history, committing €7.41 billion to an educational foundation in the Middle East.[27]
June
June 5 – NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second fly-by of Venus en route to Mercury.
June 28 – 2007 European heat wave: in the aftermath of Greece's worst heat wave in a century, at least 11 people are reported dead from heatstroke, approximately 200 wildfires break out nationwide, and the country's electricity grid nearly collapses due to record breaking demand.
June 29 – The iPhone, the first modern smartphone, is released in the United States. It was later released in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Portugal, the Republic of Ireland and Austria in November 2007.
July
July 7 – Live Earth Concerts are held in nine major cities around the world to raise environmental awareness.[28]
July 17 – TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns the runway of São Paulo–Congonhas Airport and crashes, killing all 187 and 12 others on the ground.[29]
July 24 – Five Bulgarian nurses were released from Libyan prison after eight and a half years spent behind bars in Benghazi and Tripoli, marking the end of the so-called "HIV trial in Libya".[30]
August
August 4 – The Phoenix spacecraft is launched toward Mars to study its north pole.[31]
August 9 – The French global bank BNP Paribas in the United Kingdom blocks withdrawals from three hedge funds heavily committed in sub-prime mortgages, signaling the financial crisis of 2007–2008.[32]
August 14 – Multiple suicide bombings kill 572 people in Qahtaniya, northern Iraq.[9]
August 15 – An 8.0 earthquake strikes Peru, killing at least 519 people, injuring more than 1,300, and causing tsunami warnings in the Pacific Ocean.[34]
September
September 6 – Israeli Air Force airplanes attack a suspected nuclear reactor in Syria in an airstrike.[35]
September 13 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
September 14 – The SELENE spacecraft launches, with its objective being to study the Moon.[36]
September 20 – The Universal Forum of Cultures opens in Monterrey, Mexico.
September 25 – Mount Ruapehu in Tongariro National Park in New Zealand, erupts.
November
November 6 – A suicide bomber kills at least fifty people in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, including six members of the National Assembly.
November 14 – High Speed 1 from London to the Channel Tunnel is opened to passengers.
November 16 – Up to 15,000 people are believed to have been killed after Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh.[37]
December
December 5 – Eight people are killed and four others wounded when a gunman opens fire at Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska.
December 13 – Treaty of Lisbon is signed by members states of European Union.
December 20 – The Pablo Picasso painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch, together with Candido Portinari's O Lavrador de Café, is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art.[38]
December 21 At the age of 81 years, 244 days, Queen Elizabeth II became the oldest ever reigning British monarch, surpassing Queen Victoria who was aged 81 years, 243 days upon her death on January 22, 1901. The Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the Schengen border-free zone.[39]
December 27 Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated, along with 20 other people, at an election rally in Rawalpindi.[40] Riots erupt in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of the general election, triggering a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis that killed over 1,000 people.[41]
Unknown date
Mauritania is the last country to criminalize slavery (officially "abolished" in 1981), making the practice illegal everywhere in the world.[42]
Births
February 16 – Choi Ro-woon, South Korean actor
April 10 – Princess Ariane of the Netherlands, daughter of Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Máxima.
April 21 – Princess Isabella of Denmark, daughter of Crown Prince Frederick and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark.
April 29 – Infanta Sofía of Spain, daughter of Felipe, Prince of Asturias (now King Felipe VI) and Letizia, Princess of Asturias.
June 6 – Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, American actress
September 14 – Heo Jung-eun, South Korean child actress
December 17 – James, Viscount Severn, grandson of Elizabeth II, son of The Earl and Countess of Wessex
Deaths
January
January 2 – Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)
January 4 – Marais Viljoen, 5th State President of South Africa (b. 1915)
January 5 – Momofuku Ando, Japanese inventor (b. 1910)
January 8 Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1922) Iwao Takamoto, American animator, television producer, and film director (b. 1925)
January 9 – Jean-Pierre Vernant, French historian and anthropologist (b. 1914)
January 10 – Carlo Ponti, Italian film 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 14 – Darlene Conley, American actress (b. 1934)
January 15 Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Iraqi politician (b. 1951) Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (b. 1908)
January 17 – Art Buchwald, American humorist (b. 1925)
January 19 Bam Bam Bigelow, American wrestler (b. 1961) Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist (b. 1954) Denny Doherty, Canadian musician (b. 1940)
January 21 Maria Cioncan, Romanian athlete (b. 1977) U;Nee, South Korean singer, rapper, dancer, and actress (b. 1981)
January 22 – Abbé Pierre, French priest and founder of Emmaus (b. 1912)
January 23 E. Howard Hunt, American intelligence officer (b. 1918) Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist and author (b. 1932)
January 27 – Marcheline Bertrand, American actress and humanitarian (b. 1950)
January 30 – Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
January 31 – Kirka Babitzin, Finnish singer (b. 1950)
February
February 1 – Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer and librettist (b. 1911)
February 6 – Frankie Laine, American singer (b. 1913)
February 7 – Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
February 8 – Anna Nicole Smith, American model and television personality (b. 1967)
February 9 – Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b. 1934)
February 10 – Jeong Da-bin, South Korean actress (b. 1980)
February 12 – Peggy Gilbert, American saxophonist (b. 1905)
February 13 – Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (b. 1974)
February 15 – Robert Adler, Austrian-born inventor (b. 1913)
February 17 Maurice Papon, French Vichy government official (b. 1910) Mike Awesome, American professional wrestler (b. 1965)
February 18 – Barbara Gittings, American activist (b. 1932)
February 22 Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author, painter, and art collector (b. 1918) Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1954) Fons Rademakers, Dutch actor, film director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1920)
February 23 – Pascal Yoadimnadji, Chadian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Chad (b. 1950)
February 24 – Bruce Bennett, American actor (b. 1906)
February 27 – Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, German army officer (b. 1914)
February 28 Princess Marie Adelaide of Luxembourg, Princess of Luxembourg (b. 1924) Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., American historian and political commentator (b. 1917)
March
March 4 – Thomas Eagleton, American politician (b. 1929)
March 6 Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher and sociologist (b. 1929) Allen Coage, American professional wrestler (b. 1943)
March 8 – John Inman, English actor (b. 1935)
March 9 – Brad Delp, American singer (Boston) (b. 1951)
March 10 Ernie Ladd, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938) 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 14 Lucie Aubrac, French World War II Resistance fighter (b. 1912) Gareth Hunt, English actor (b. 1943)
March 16 – Manjural Islam, Bangladeshi cricketer (b. 1984)
March 18 – Bob Woolmer, English cricketer and coach (b. 1948)
March 19 – Calvert DeForest, American actor and comedian (b. 1921)
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 30 – Chrisye, Indonesian pop singer and songwriter (b. 1949)
April
April 1 Laurie Baker, English architect (b. 1917) Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan author (b. 1926) Hans Filbinger, German jurist and politician (b. 1913)
April 4 – Bob Clark, American film director (b. 1939)
April 5 – Thomas Stoltz Harvey Pathologist who conducted Albert Einstein's autopsy (b. 1912)
April 6 – Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (b. 1916)
April 7 Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (b. 1931) Barry Nelson, American actor (b. 1917)
April 11 Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor (b. 1922) Ronald Speirs, United States Army officer (b. 1920) Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist and playwright (b. 1922)
April 14 – Don Ho, American musician (b. 1930)
April 16 – Seung-Hui Cho, South Korean terrorist (b. 1984)
April 17 – Kitty Carlisle Hart, American singer, actress & talk show panelist (b. 1910)
April 22 – Juanita Millender-McDonald, American politician (b. 1938)
April 23 David Halberstam, American journalist and historian (b. 1934) Boris Yeltsin, first President of the Russian Federation (b. 1931)
April 25 – Alan Ball, English footballer (b. 1945)
April 26 – Jack Valenti, American film executive, creator of MPAA film rating system (b. 1921)
April 27 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927)
April 28 Dabbs Greer, American actor (b. 1917) Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (b. 1912)
April 29 – Ivica Račan, 7th Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1944)
April 30 Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (b. 1983) Tom Poston, American actor (b. 1921) Gordon Scott, American actor (b. 1926)
May
May 3 – Wally Schirra, American astronaut (b. 1923)
May 5 – Theodore Maiman, American physicist (b. 1927)
May 7 – Diego Corrales, American professional boxer (b. 1977)
May 11 – Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan head of state (b. 1913)
May 12 – Mullah Dadullah Akhund, Afghan Taliban military leader (b. 1966)
May 15 Jerry Falwell, American evangelist (b. 1933) Yolanda King, American actress and activist, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1955)
May 16 – Mary Douglas, British anthropologist (b. 1921)
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 20 – Stanley Miller, American chemist and biologist (b. 1930)
May 21 – Bruno Mattei, Italian film director, screenwriter and editor (b. 1931)
May 25 – Bill Johnston, Australian cricketer (b. 1922)
May 27 – Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (b. 1967)
May 28 – David Lane, American white nationalist (b. 1938)
May 30 – Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and director (b. 1933)
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 11 – Mala Powers, American film actress (b. 1931)
June 14 Ruth Graham, American Christian author (b. 1920) 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 Ferré, Italian designer (b. 1944)
June 18 – Vilma Espín, Cuban revolutionary, feminist, and chemical engineer (b. 1930)
June 19 Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1919) Klausjürgen Wussow, German theatre and television actor (b. 1929)
June 22 – Nancy Benoit, American professional wrestling valet and model (b. 1964)
June 24 Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1938) Natasja Saad, Afro Danish rapper and reggae singer (b. 1974) Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1967)
June 26 – Jupp Derwall, German footballer and coach (b. 1927)
June 28 – Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)
July
July 3 Claude Pompidou, French philanthropist (b. 1912) Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (b. 1927)
July 5 – Régine Crespin, French soprano (b. 1927)
July 9 – Charles Lane, American actor (b. 1905)
July 11 Lady Bird Johnson, former First Lady of the United States (b. 1912) Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd Colombian President (b. 1913)
July 18 – Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (b. 1908)
July 20 Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist (b. 1918) Tammy Faye Messner, American televangelist (b. 1942)
July 22 László Kovács, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1933) Ulrich Mühe, German actor (b. 1953) Jean Stablinski, French cyclist of Polish origin (b. 1932)
July 23 Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist (b. 1918) Benjamin Libet, American pioneering scientist in the field of human consciousness (b. 1916) Mohammed Zahir Shah, last King of Afghanistan (b. 1914)
July 24 – Albert Ellis, American psychologist (b. 1913)
July 28 – Isidore Isou, French poet, film critic and artist (b. 1925)
July 29 – Mike Reid, British comedian and actor (b. 1940)
July 30 Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (b. 1912) Teoctist Arăpaşu, Ex-Romanian Orthodox Church Patriarch (b. 1915) Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director (b. 1918)
August
August 1 – Ryan Cox, South African professional road racing cyclist (b. 1979)
August 3 – John Gardner, British author (b. 1926)
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 13 Brooke Astor, American socialite and philanthropist (b. 1902) Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and announcer (b. 1917)
August 15 – John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist and advocate (b. 1918)
August 16 – Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer, and composer (b. 1924)
August 17 – Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (b. 1982)
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) Ray Jones, English footballer (b. 1988)
August 26 – Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger politician, 19th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1928)
August 28 Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984) Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese actress (b. 1929)
August 29 – Pierre Messmer, French politician (b. 1916)
August 30 – Michael Jackson, English writer (b. 1942)
September
September 6 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935)
September 7 – John Compton, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (b. 1925)
September 10 Anita Roddick, English entrepreneur (b. 1942) Jane Wyman, American actress (b. 1917)
September 11 Ian Porterfield, Scottish footballer (b. 1946) Joe Zawinul, Austrian musician (b. 1932)
September 14 – Benny Vansteelant, Belgian duathlete (b. 1976)
September 15 Colin McRae, Scottish world rally champion (b. 1968) Brett Somers, American actress (b. 1924)
September 16 – Robert Jordan, American author (b. 1948)
September 21 Alice Ghostley, American actress (b. 1926) Petar Stambolić, Serbian politician, 5th President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (b. 1912)
September 22 – Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (b. 1923)
September 27 Avraham Shapira, Israeli chief rabbi (b. 1914) Kenji Nagai, Japanese journalist (b. 1957)
September 29 – Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)
October
October 1 – Al Oerter, American athlete (b. 1936)
October 3 – Tony Ryan, Irish businessman (b. 1936)
October 7 – Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle road racer (b. 1975)
October 11 – Sri Chinmoy, Indian philosopher (b. 1931)
October 12 Soe Win, Burmese politician, 10th Prime Minister of Myanmar (b. 1948) Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (b. 1934)
October 13 – Bob Denard, French mercenary (b. 1929)
October 16 Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (b. 1921) Toše Proeski, Macedonian singer (b. 1981) Barbara West, 2nd to last living survivor of the Titanic sinking (b. 1911)
October 17 – Joey Bishop, American entertainer (b. 1918)
October 18 – William J. Crowe, American military commander and ambassador (b. 1925)
October 19 – Jan Wolkers, Dutch author, sculptor and painter (b. 1925)
October 22 – Ève Curie, French author, daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie (b. 1904)
October 23 – Lim Goh Tong, Malaysian Chinese businessman (b. 1918)
October 26 Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer (b. 1947) Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist (b. 1918) Khun Sa, Burmese warlord (b. 1934)
October 28 – Porter Wagoner, American country singer (b. 1927)
October 30 – Robert Goulet, American entertainer (b. 1933)
November
November 1 – Paul Tibbets, American general, pilot of the Enola Gay (b. 1915)
November 2 Charmaine Dragun, Australian news anchor (b. 1978) S. P. Thamilselvan, Sri Lankan Tamil political leader (b. 1967) Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (b. 1906) The Fabulous Moolah, American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
November 3 Aleksandr Dedyushko, Russian actor (b. 1962) Martin Meehan, Irish republican (b. 1945) Ryan Shay, American runner (b. 1979)
November 5 – Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer and coach (b. 1922)
November 6 – Hank Thompson, American country singer (b. 1925)
November 9 – Luis Herrera Campins, 56th President of Venezuela (b. 1925)
November 10 Laraine Day, American actress (b. 1920) Norman Mailer, American writer (b. 1923)
November 11 – Delbert Mann, American film and television director (b. 1920)
November 12 – Ira Levin, American novelist (b. 1929)
November 15 – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and announcer (b. 1928)
November 20 – Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia (b. 1919)
November 21 Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, and playwright (b. 1921) Tom Johnson, Canadian sports executive and hockey player (b. 1928)
November 22 – Verity Lambert, English producer (b. 1935)
November 23 – Vladimir Kryuchkov, Russian Soviet-era bureaucrat (b. 1924)
November 25 – Kevin DuBrow, American musician (Quiet Riot) (b. 1955)
November 27 Robert Cade, American physician and inventor of the beverage Gatorade (b. 1927) Sean Taylor, American football player (b. 1983) Bill Willis, American football player (b. 1921)
November 29 – Roger Bonham Smith, American businessman (b. 1925)
November 30 – Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil (b. 1938)
December
December 1 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (b. 1929)
December 4 Pimp C, American rapper (b. 1973) Chip Reese, American professional gambler (b. 1951)
December 5 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (b. 1928)
December 12 – Ike Turner, American musician, songwriter, record producer, and bandleader (b. 1931)
December 16 – Dan Fogelberg, American singer and songwriter (b. 1951)
December 22 – Julien Gracq, French writer (b. 1910)
December 23 Michael Kidd, American choreographer (b. 1915) Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist and composer (b. 1925)
December 26 – Joe Dolan, Irish singer (b. 1939)
December 27 Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician, 11th and 13th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1953) Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Polish film director and politician (b. 1922) Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (b. 1920)
December 31 Muhammad Osman Said, Former Libyan prime minister (b. 1922). Ettore Sottsass, Italian architect (b. 1917)
Nobel Prizes
Chemistry – Gerhard Ertl
Economics – Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin, and Roger Myerson
Literature – Doris Lessing
Peace – Albert Gore Jr, and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Physics – Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg
Physiology or Medicine – Mario Capecchi, Oliver Smithies, and Sir Martin Evans
New English words and terms
additive manufacturing
colony collapse disorder
hashtag
listicle
netbook
sharing economy
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