2007

This article is about the year 2007.

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century 21st century 22nd century
Decades:	1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
Years:	2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

2007 by topic:

Arts

Architecture – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television – Video gaming

Politics

Elections – Int'l leaders – Sovereign states Sovereign state leaders – Territorial governors

Science and technology

Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Spaceflight

Sports

Association football (soccer) – Athletics (track and field) – Badminton – Baseball – Basketball – Boxing – Cricket – Golf – Horse racing – Ice hockey – Motorsport – Road cycling – Rugby league – Rugby union – Table tennis – Tennis – Volleyball

By place

Afghanistan – Algeria – Antarctica – Argentina – Armenia – Australia – Austria – Azerbaijan – Bangladesh – Belgium – Brazil – Canada – Chile – China – Costa Rica – Croatia – Cuba – Denmark – El Salvador – Egypt – Estonia – Ethiopia – European Union – Finland – France – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Greece – Hungary – Iceland – India – Indonesia – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Latvia – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – Moldova – Netherlands – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Palestinian territories – Philippines – Poland – Romania – Russia – Rwanda – Serbia – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – Sri Lanka – Sweden – Taiwan – Thailand – Turkey – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States – Venezuela – Vietnam

Other topics

Awards – Law – Religious leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain

2007 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	2007 MMVII
Ab urbe condita	2760
Armenian calendar	1456 ԹՎ ՌՆԾԶ
Assyrian calendar	6757
Bahá'í calendar	163–164
Bengali calendar	1414
Berber calendar	2957
British Regnal year	55 Eliz. 2 – 56 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2551
Burmese calendar	1369
Byzantine calendar	7515–7516
Chinese calendar	丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 4703 or 4643     — to — 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 4704 or 4644
Coptic calendar	1723–1724
Discordian calendar	3173
Ethiopian calendar	1999–2000
Hebrew calendar	5767–5768
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2063–2064
- Shaka Samvat	1928–1929
- Kali Yuga	5107–5108
Holocene calendar	12007
Igbo calendar	1007–1008
Iranian calendar	1385–1386
Islamic calendar	1427–1428
Japanese calendar	Heisei 19 (平成１９年)
Javanese calendar	1939–1940
Juche calendar	96
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4340
Minguo calendar	ROC 96 民國96年
Nanakshahi calendar	539
Thai solar calendar	2550
Unix time	1167609600 – 1199145599

2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday (dominical letter G) 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

• International Heliophysical Year.
• International Polar Year.
• International Year of Languages.

Events

January

• January 1
  • Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eurozone.
  • Adam Air Flight 574 disappeared from Jakarta's radar. A week later it was founded that the aircraft has crashed into the Makassar Strait, killing all 102 people on board.
• January 8 – Russian oil supplies to Poland, Germany, and Ukraine are cut as the Russia–Belarus energy dispute escalates; they are restored three days later.

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.
• February 3 – A truck bomb explodes in Baghdad, Iraq, killing at least 135 people and injures 339 others.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• March 23 – Naval forces of Iran's Revolutionary Guard seize Royal Navy personnel in disputed Iran-Iraq waters; they were released on April 4.
• 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.

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.
• April 18 – A series of attacks take place across Baghdad, Iraq, killing nearly 200 people.
• April 24 – Gliese 581 c, a potentially Earth-like extrasolar planet habitable for life, is discovered in the constellation Libra.
• 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.

May

• May 17 – The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and the Moscow Patriarchate re-unite after 80 years of schism.
• 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.

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.

July

• July 7 – Live Earth Concerts are held throughout 9 major cities around the world to raise environmental awareness.
• 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.
• 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".

August

• August 4 – The Phoenix spacecraft is launched toward Mars to study its north pole.
• 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 2007–2012 global financial crisis.
• August 14 – Multiple suicide bombings kill 572 people in Qahtaniya, northern Iraq.
• August 15 – An 8.0 earthquake strikes Peru, killing at least 450 people, injuring more than 1,500, and causing tsunami warnings in the Pacific Ocean.

September

• September 6 – Israeli Air Force airplanes attack a suspected nuclear reactor in Syria in an airstrike.
• September 14 – The SELENE spacecraft launches, with its objective being to study the Moon.
• September 20 – The Universal Forum of Cultures opens in Monterrey, Mexico.

October

• October 28 – The Vatican beatifies 498 Spanish victims of religious persecution from before and during the Spanish Civil War.

November

• November 6 – A suicide bomber kills at least 50 people in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, including 6 members of the National Assembly.
• November 14 – High Speed 1 from London to the Channel Tunnel is opened to passengers.
• November 16 – Over 15,000 people are believed to have been killed after Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh.

December

• 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.
• December 21 – The Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the Schengen border-free zone.
• December 27
  • Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated, along with 20 other people, at an election rally in Rawalpindi.
  • Riots erupt in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of the presidential election, triggering a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis that killed over 1,000 people.

Unknown date

• Mauritania was the last country to criminalize slavery in 2007 (officially "abolished" in 1981), making the practice illegal everywhere in the world.

Births

• 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
• December 17 – James, Viscount Severn, grandson of Elizabeth II, son of The Earl and Countess of Wessex

Deaths

Main article: Deaths in 2007

January

Yvonne De Carlo

Bam Bam Bigelow

Ryszard Kapuściński

• January 2 – Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)
• January 4 – Marais Viljoen, 5th President of South Africa (b. 1915)
• January 5 – Momofuku Ando, Japanese inventor (b. 1910)
• January 8
  • Iwao Takamoto, Japanese-American animator (b. 1925)
  • 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 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)
  • Awad Hamed al-Bandar, Iraqi judge (b. 1945)
  • Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (b. 1908)
• 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)
  • 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 Kapuściński, Polish journalist and author (b. 1932)
• January 30 – Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• January 31 – Kirka Babitzin, Finnish singer (b. 1950)

February

Gian Carlo Menotti

• 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 Nobel chemist (b. 1927)
• February 8 – Anna Nicole Smith, American model and television personality (b. 1967)
• February 9 – Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b. 1934)
• February 15 – Robert Adler, Austrian-born inventor (b. 1913)
• February 17 – Maurice Papon, French Vichy government official (b. 1910)
• February 22
  • Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author, painter, and art collector (b. 1918)
  • Fons Rademakers, Dutch film director (b. 1920)
  • Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1954)
• February 24 – Bruce Bennett, American actor (b. 1906)
• February 27 – Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, German officer (b. 1914)
• February 28 – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., American historian and political commentator (b. 1917)

March

Betty Hutton

• March 2 – Henri Troyat, French writer (b. 1911)
• March 6 – Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher and sociologist (b. 1929)
• March 11 – Betty Hutton, American actress (b. 1921)
• March 18 – Bob Woolmer, English cricketer and coach (b. 1948)
• March 20 – Taha Yassin Ramadan, Vice President of Iraq (b. 1938)
• March 25 – Andranik Margaryan, 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (b. 1951)

April

Boris Yeltsin

• April 1 – Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan writer (b. 1926)
• April 2 – Henry Lee Giclas, American astronomer (b. 1910)
• April 4 – Bob Clark, American film director (b. 1939)
• April 6 – Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (b. 1916)
• April 7 – Barry Nelson, American actor (b. 1917)
• April 11
  • Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor (b. 1922)
  • Ronald Speirs, American army officer (b. 1920)
  • Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist and playwright (b. 1922)
• April 18 – Iccho Itoh, Mayor of Nagasaki, Japan (b. 1945)
• April 23
  • David Halberstam, American author and journalist (b. 1934)
  • Boris Yeltsin, 1st President of the Russian Federation (b. 1931)
• April 25 – Alan Ball, English footballer (b. 1945)
• April 27 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927)
• April 28 – 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)

May

Wally Schirra

• May 3 – Wally Schirra, American astronaut (b. 1923)
• May 5 – Theodore Maiman, American physicist (b. 1927)
• 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)
• May 17 – Lloyd Alexander, American author (b. 1924)
• May 18 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French Nobel physicist (b. 1932)
• May 20 – Stanley Miller, American chemist and biologist (b. 1930)
• May 27 – Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (b. 1967)
• May 28 – David Lane, American white nationalist (b. 1938)

June

Kurt Waldheim

• June 2 – Huang Ju, Chinese politician (b. 1938)
• June 8 – Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, 1st President of Somalia (b. 1908)
• June 14 – Kurt Waldheim, 9th President of Austria and 4th United Nations Secretary-General (b. 1918)
• June 17 – Gianfranco Ferré, Italian designer (b. 1944)
• June 18 – Vilma Espín, Cuban feminist and chemical engineer (b. 1930)
• June 24
  • 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

Lady Bird Johnson

Teoctist Arăpașu

Ingmar Bergman

• July 2 – Beverly Sills, American soprano (b. 1929)
• July 11
  • Lady Bird Johnson, former First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
  • Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd Colombian President (b. 1913)
• 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 – Mohammed Zahir Shah, last king of Afghanistan (b. 1914)
• July 24 – Albert Ellis, American psychologist (b. 1913)
• July 30
  • Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (b. 1912)
  • Teoctist Arăpașu, Ex-Romanian Orthodox Church Patriarch (b. 1915)
  • Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director (b. 1918)

August

Merv Griffin

Max Roach

Raymond Barre

• August 1 – Ryan Cox, South African professional road racing cyclist (b. 1979)
• August 2 – Holden Roberto, Angolan nationalist leader (b. 1923)
• August 4 – Lee Hazlewood, American country singer, songwriter and 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 14 – Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer (b. 1913)
• August 16 – Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer, and composer (b. 1924)
• 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 (b. 1928)
• August 28
  • Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984)
  • Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (b. 1935)
  • Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese actress (b. 1929)
• August 29 – Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian footballer (b. 1978)
• August 30 – Michael Jackson, English writer (b. 1942)

September

Luciano Pavarotti

Jane Wyman

Robert Jordan

• September 6 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935)
• September 7 – John Compton, 1st 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 15 – Colin McRae, Scottish world rally champion (b. 1968)
• September 21 – Petar Stambolić, Serbian politician (b. 1912)
• September 22 – Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (b. 1923)
• September 27 – Kenji Nagai, Japanese journalist (b. 1957)
• September 29 – Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)
• September 30 – Milan Jelić, Bosnian-Serb politician (b. 1956)

October

Deborah Kerr

• October 1 – Al Oerter, American Olympic athlete (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 (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)
• October 18 – Lucky Dube, South African musician (b. 1964)
• October 19 – Jan Wolkers, Dutch author, sculptor and painter (b. 1925)
• October 22 – Ève Curie, French author (b. 1904)
• October 24 – Petr Eben, Czech composer (b. 1929)
• October 26
  • Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist (b. 1918)
  • Khun Sa, Burmese warlord (b. 1934)
• October 30 – John Woodruff, American Olympic athlete (b. 1915)

November

• November 1 – Paul Tibbets, American general (b. 1915)
• November 2 – Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (b. 1906)
• November 3 – Aleksandr Dedyushko (b. 1962)
• November 5 – Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer and coach (b. 1922)
• November 6 – Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist (b. 1920)
• November 9 – Luis Herrera Campins, 56th President of Venezuela (b. 1925)
• November 10 – 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 20 – Ian Smith, 8th Prime Minister of Rhodesia (b. 1919)
• November 21 – Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, and playwright (b. 1921)
• November 23 – Vladimir Kryuchkov, Russian Soviet-era bureaucrat (b. 1924)
• November 25 – Kevin DuBrow, American musician (Quiet Riot) (b. 1955)
• November 27 – Sean Taylor, American football player (b. 1983)
• November 30 – Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil (b. 1938)

December

Oscar Peterson

Benazir Bhutto

• 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 (b. 1931)
• December 16 – Dan Fogelberg, American singer and songwriter (b. 1951)
• December 22 – Julien Gracq, French writer (b. 1910)
• December 23 – Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist and composer (b. 1925)
• December 27
  • Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician, 12th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1953)
  • Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (b. 1920)
• December 29 – Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer (b. 1972)
• December 31
  • Muhammad Osman Said, 5th Prime Minister of Libya (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

External links

• 2007 Calendar at Internet Accuracy Project.