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2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. It is the 7th year in the 21st century and in the 3rd millennium, both of which began on January 1, 2001. The year 2007 has been designated:
- 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.
- International Polar Year[1]
- International Heliophysical Year[2]
- European Year of Equal Opportunities for All[3]
- Year of the Dolphin[4]
UNESCO has formally recognized fifteen anniversaries for 2007.[5]
Events
January
- January 1 - Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union.
- January 1 - The Irish language becomes an official and working language of the European Union.
- January 1 - Slovenia adopts the Euro as its official currency, replacing the tolar.
- January 1 - South Korea's Ban Ki-moon becomes the new UN Secretary-General, replacing Kofi Annan.
- January 1 - Adam Air Flight 574, a routine domestic flight in Indonesia, disappears; debris is found 10 days later, but the aircraft remains missing.
- January 1 - Angola joins OPEC.
- January 1 - War in Somalia: Fighters of the Islamic Courts Union abandoned their last stronghold in Kismayo and fled for the Kenyan border.
- January 3 - Former U.S. president Gerald Ford was buried in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
- January 3 - China conducted an anti-terror raid in Xinjiang.
- January 4 - Nancy Pelosi becomes the first woman Speaker of the House in the United States.
- January 5 - War in Somalia: The first shots were fired in the battle for control of the border town of Ras Kamboni.
- January 5 - BC Place's domed roof deflated in Vancouver.
- January 7 - Stanisław Wielgus, the newly appointed Archbishop of Warsaw, resigned after it was revealed that he cooperated with the former communist regime's secret police.
- January 8 - Lotte World in Seoul, South Korea, the world's largest indoor theme park, was closed indefinitely due to structural damage.
- January 8 - Russian oil supplies to Poland, Germany, and Ukraine were cut as the Russia-Belarus energy dispute escalated – restored three days later.
- January 9 - The 2007 MacWorld Expo opened in San Francisco. Apple Computer unveiled the iPhone, a mobile phone/iPod hybrid.
- January 9 - War in Somalia: U.S. planes conducted air strikes against suspected terrorists, possibly having killed senior Al Qaeda operative Fazul Abdullah Mohammed.
- January 9 - An AerianTur-M Antonov An-26 crashed in Balad, Iraq. The Islamic Army in Iraq claimed to have shot it down.
- January 10 - U.S. President George W. Bush announced a plan to station 21,500 additional troops into Iraq.
- January 11 - In Bangladesh, a state of emergency was declared by caretaker President Iajuddin Ahmed, following weeks of violent protests preceding upcoming parliamentary elections.
- January 11 - World football (soccer) superstar David Beckham announced that he will leave Real Madrid to play for the Los Angeles Galaxy of the MLS.
- January 11 - Vietnam joined World Trade Organization as its 150th member.
- January 11 - China tested a ground-based ballistic missile that destroyed one of its own weather satellites, the Fengyun, in space, drawing criticisms from other countries.
- January 12 - An Argentine judge issued a warrant for the arrest of former President Isabel Martínez de Perón in connection with the disappearance of a human rights worker in 1976.
- January 12 - The US embassy in Athens was attacked with a rocket propelled grenade, which caused minimal damage and no injuries.
- January 13 - The Greek ship Server broke in half off the Norwegian coast, which released over 200 tons of crude oil.
- January 14 - The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement officially adopted the Red Crystal as a non-religious emblem for use in its overseas operations.
- January 14 - Nazanin Fatehi, a nineteen year old Iranian girl previously sentenced to death for killing a man she claimed tried to rape her, was exonerated, as her re-trial came to an end.
- January 15 - The Sentosa Express monorail opened in Singapore.
- January 15 - Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, were executed by hanging in Iraq.
- January 17 - Hurricane force winds from storm Kyrill claimed at least forty lives in western Europe
- January 17 - Protests occurred in India and the United Kingdom against the British series of Celebrity Big Brother after Jade Goody, Danielle Lloyd and Jo O'Meara were alleged to have been racially abusive towards Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty.
- January 18 - Comet McNaught, the brightest comet to have appeared in over forty years, becames visible over the Southern Hemisphere.
- January 19 - Israel released 100 million [citation needed] in frozen assets to President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority in order to bolster the president's position.
- January 22 - A bombing in a market in Baghdad, Iraq, killed 88 people.
- January 23 - United States President, George W. Bush, gave the annual State of the Union Address.
- January 24 - The Israeli Ministry of Justice announced that the President of Israel, Moshe Katsav, was to be charged with rape and abuse of power.
- January 25 - The President of Israel, Moshe Katsav, took a temporary leave of absence due to a sex scandal.
- January 27 - Thousands of anti-Iraq War protesters converged on the National Mall in Washington, D.C..
- January 28 - A battle between insurgents and U.S.-backed Iraqi troops killed 300 suspected terrorists in Najaf, Iraq.
- January 29 - A suicide bomber killed three people in a bakery in Eilat, Israel.
- January 29 - The Princeton Community Works was held in Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.
- January 30 - Windows Vista, Microsoft's newest NT-based operating system, was released world-wide to consumers.
- January 31 - The Venezuelan National Assembly gave President Hugo Chávez the power to rule by decree for eighteen months.
- January 31 - Creditors of Delta Air Lines officially rejected US Airways hostile takeover bid.
- January 31 - The Mooninite scare occurred in Boston where devices used in a guerrilla marketing campaign for a film were mistaken for improvised explosive devices.
- January 31 - Lord Levy, a UK Labour Party fundraiser, was re-arrested for conspiracy in relation to the 'cash for peerages' investigation.
February
- February 1 - British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, was questioned for a second time in the 'cash for peerages' probe as a witness.
- February 2 - An unseasonal tornado in central Florida killed at least 20 people.
- February 2 - A policeman was killed in the Catania football clashes in Italy and 71 people are hopitalized.
- February 2 - Palestinian factional violence: Hamas and its rival Fatah renewed their truce after violence broke out following the initial ceasefire.
- February 2 - Chinese President Hu Jintao signed a series of economic deals with Sudan.
- February 2 - War in Somalia: Eight people were killed in a mortar attack in Somalia's capital Mogadishu.
- February 2 - Martti Ahtisaari unveiled a United Nations plan for the final status of Kosovo; Serbian leaders denounced the proposal.
- February 2 - The IPCC published its fourth assessment report, having concluded that global climate change is "very likely" to have a predominantly human cause.
- February 3 - The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was found at a Bernard Matthews turkey farm in Suffolk.
- February 3 - State of Emergency was declared in Boliva after 'El Nino'-like flooding.
- February 3 - Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi cancelled all football matches in Italy whilst an investigation into riots on February 2 began.
- February 3 - Five people were killed and 40 were injured in a series of car bombs in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
- February 3 - A truck bombing in a crowded Baghdad market killed at least 135 people and injured a further 339 others.
- February 4 - The Indianapolis Colts defeated the Chicago Bears 29 – 17 in Super Bowl XLI, played at Dolphin Stadium, Miami.
- February 10 - U.S. Senator Barack Obama of Illinois announced a presidential bid in Springfield.
- February 11 - Portuguese voters agreed to legalise abortion in a national referendum.
- February 11 - The 49th Annual Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
- February 13 - Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigned as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after having been indicted on charges of embezzlement; Ma also announced his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
- February 17 - Nova V1280 Scorpii peaked at 3.9 magnitude – discovered February 4.
- February 18 - Chinese New Year: the Year of the Pig began.
- February 18 - Melbourne Victory beat Adelaide United 6-0 in the 2006-2007 A-League Grand Final at the Telstra Dome in Melbourne, Australia.
- February 18 - Canadian Government paid its Chinese Head Tax victims up to $20,000 each.
- February 19 - North Korea agreed to give up its nuclear program, for oil.
- February 25 - The European Space Agency confirmed Rosetta's successful Mars trajectory fly-by.
- February 26 - The International Court of Justice found Serbia guilty of failing to prevent genocide in the Srebrenica massacre, but cleared it of direct responsibility and complicity in the case.
- February 27 - World stock markets plummeted after China and Europe released less-than-expected growth reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 416.02 points, its largest single-day decline since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
- February 28 - The New Horizons space probe made a gravitational slingshot against Jupiter which changed its trajectory towards Pluto.
March
- March 1 - International Polar Year, a $1.5 billion research program to study both the North Pole and South Pole was launched in Paris.
- March 1 - Airbus announced that it would cease work indefinitely on the A380F freight aircraft.
- March 3-March 4 - Total lunar eclipse.
- March 4 - Parliamentary elections took place in Estonia and in Abkhazia.
- March 6 - Mega Millions set a new world record for the highest jackpot of US$370 million.
- March 7 - Garuda Indonesia Flight 200, a Boeing 737-400, crashed at Yogyakarta on the Indonesian island of Java killing many on board.
- March 7 - Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007, was held.
- March 8 - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert admitted that Israel had planned an attack on Lebanon in the event of kidnapped soldiers on the border, months before Hezbollah carried out its kidnapping.
- March 9 - The keys of Wembley Stadium, England, were handed over to The FA, on completion of the new venue.
- March 11 - Daylight saving time in most of the United States and Canada began; three to four weeks earlier than previously.
- March 13 - The Bank of England replaces the £20 note bearing the portrait of Edward Elgar with one featuring Adam Smith.
- March 14 - Local number portability began in Canada.
- March 14 - Pi Day
- March 15 - March 21 - CeBIT 2007 took place in Hannover, Germany.
- March 16 - For the first time in the 23-year history of the popular gameshow Jeopardy!, a three-way tie occurred.
- March 17 - Chlorine bombs injured hundreds in Baghdad, Iraq.
- March 17 - France won the 2007 Six Nations Championship on points difference after a controversial tri.
- March 18 - A parliamentary election took place in Finland.
- March 19 - Partial solar eclipse visible in Asia and Alaska.
- March 21 - Baha'i New Year.
- March 21 - Iranian New Year 1386 Begins at 00:07:26 (GMT)
- March 21 - Heavy fighting took place in the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia.
- March 22 - NATO troops launch two assaults in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, killing 38 Taliban terrorists. NATO suffers no casualties.
- March 22 - Jamaican police announce that they are launching a murder investigation into the death of Pakistan Cricket Coach Bob Woolmer after a post mortem revealed that he died due to asphyxia as a result of manual strangulation.
- March 23 - Naval forces of Iran's Revolutionary Guard seize Royal Navy personnel in disputed Iran-Iraq waters.
- March 24 - A legislative election took place in the Australian state of New South Wales, with Morris Iemma's Labor government being returned to power with a reduced minority.
- March 24 - The 400th birthday of admiral Michiel de Ruyter celebrated in the Netherlands.
- March 25 - In Berlin 27 European ministers celebrate 50 year Treaty of Rome.
- March 25 - Daylight savings begins in Europe
- March 25 - Australia's first ring road, the Sydney Orbital Motorway, is completed with the opening of the Lane Cove Tunnel, linking the M2 Motorway with the Gore Hill Freeway in Sydney's North. [1].
- March 25 - This day marked the 200th anniversary of the finalization of the 1807 Slave trade act, which abolished the slave trade in the British Empire.
- March 26 - After 50 years, Dr. Ian Paisley agrees to power-sharing in Northern Ireland
- March 26 - A National Assembly election takes place in the Canadian province of Québec. The Liberal Party (le Parti Libéral du Québec) wins the elections with 48 seats out of 125 and forms a minority government.
- March 28 - Former MLB pitcher Ugueth Urbina sentenced to 14 years in prison.
- March 29 - Father Nguyen Van Ly, a Roman Catholic priest in Vietnam was jailed for eight years for involvement in pro-democracy Bloc 8406.
- 30 March - An Air Link cargo plane carrying newspapers crashes in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Both pilots are killed.
- March 31 - Milad un Nabi, celebration of the birthday of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.
- March 31 - Sydney, Australia, turned off its lights for one hour between 7:30pm and 8:30pm as a political statement for Global Climate Change.
April
- April 2 - Smoking in public and work places is banned in Wales.
- April 2 - 25th Anniversary of the Falklands War.
- April 2 - The Solomon Islands is shaken by a magnitude 8.1 earthquake, and hit by a subsequent tsunami.
- April 3 - Chevelle's CD Vena Sera is released.
- April 3 - Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dissolves the Ukrainian Parliament following defections that increased the majority of his opponents. It has been nicknamed the "Second Orange Revolution"
- April 4 - Iran announces it will release the British sailors and marines that they captured on March 23.
- April 4 - Apple Inc. releases Mac Pro with 2 Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors each running at a speed of 3.0 GHz.
- April 5 - The British sailors and marines taken by Iran on March 23 arrive back in Britain.
- April 5 - An F.B.I. agent is killed during a bank shootout in Readington, New Jersey.
- April 6 - Christians celebrate Good Friday.
Scheduled events
April
- April 7 - The Michigan State will play the Boston College in the NCAA Division 1 Hockey Championship in St. Louis, Missouri.
- April 14 - The 2007 Sir Arthur Clarke Awards, known as the "Space Oscars", will be presented.
- April 16 - Elections to be held in Nigeria.
- April 22 - The first round of the French presidential election of 2007 will take place
- April 23 - Bogotá, Colombia, begins its term as World Book Capital.
- April 26 - Jamestown 2007, the 400th anniversary of the establishment of the first English settlement of the modern-day United States at Jamestown, Virginia will be celebrated.
- April 27 - Turkey's Presidential Election first round
- April 29 - US release of the Microsoft Xbox 360 Elite for $479.99
- April 30 - Smoking in public and work places will be outlawed in Northern Ireland.
May
- May 3 - Parliamentary and local government elections in Scotland.
- May 3 - Assembly election in Wales.
- May 3 - Local government elections in England.
- May 5 - 9th Annual Global Marijuana March scheduled; about 200 participating cities expected worldwide.
- May 6 - If no candidate has secured over half the votes in the French Presidential Election, then a runoff between the top two candidates will be held on this date.
- May 12 - A general election to the Alþingi, the parliament of Iceland, will take place.
- May 12-May 13 - Virginia will commemorate the 400th anniversary of the settlement of Jamestown
- May 14 - Legislative and local elections in the Philippines also known as Philippine Midterm Elections.
- May 16 - The 2006-07 UEFA Cup final will be held at Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland.
- May 16-May 20 - The European Festival of Youth Choirs will be held in Basel, Switzerland.
- May 17 - French President Jacques Chirac must hand over power to the winner of the French presidential election by this date.
- May 18 - The 4th annual Personal Democracy Forum will be held in New York City at Pace University.
- May 19 - The 126th FA Cup Final will be held, the first at the new Wembley Stadium.
- May 19 - The 23rd annual United States National Science Olympiad tournament will be held in Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas.
- May 23 - The UEFA Champions League 2006-07 season final will be held in the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece.
- May 25 - Scheduled prison release of Andrew Golden, one of two gunmen in the Jonesboro massacre.
- May 27 - Parliamentary reelections will occur in Ukraine after Ukrainian President Victor Yuschenko dismissed Parliament.
- May 27 - Radio Caracas Televisión, Venezuela's oldest existing television network is expected to sign off after 53 and a half years on the air due to the government's decision not to renew its broadcast license.
- May 27 - Autonomical and local elections in all the Spanish Autonomous Communities except Galicia, Andalusia, the Basque Country and Catalonia.
- May 28-June 2 - The Urdd National Eisteddfod will be held in Carmarthenshire, South Wales
- May 29 - Inauguration of newly elected President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria at the Abuja Eagle Squre and first civilian to civilian transfer of power in Nigeria.
- May 31 - A calendar Blue moon will occur in the Western Hemisphere and parts of the Eastern Hemisphere.
June
- June 1 - 2007 Atlantic Hurricane season officially begins
- June 5 - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft will make its second flyby of Venus en route to Mercury.
- June 6-June 8 - The 33rd G8 summit will take place in Heiligendamm, Germany.
- June 10 - The first round of a legislative election and a general election will be held in France and Belgium respectively.
- June 11- Apple's iPhone will be released
- June 11-June 15 - Apple's 18th Annual WWDC takes place in San Fransisco, CA.
- June 17 - The second round of the legislative election in France will take place.
- June 18 - June 29 - Human Rights Council fifth session (Geneva).
- June 20 - NASA's Dawn spacecraft is scheduled to be launched.
- June 27-July 15 - The Copa América 2007 association football tournament will take place in Venezuela.
- June 28 - Start of the Manchester International Festival
- June 30 - A calendar Blue moon will occur in most of the Eastern Hemisphere.
July
- July - Rwanda and Burundi are scheduled to join the East African Community.
- July 1 - The refurbished Millennium Dome, now called The O2 will reopen in London.
- July 1 - Smoking in public and work places is banned in England.
- July 1 - Hong Kong will be marking its 10th anniversary of its Special Administrative Region Establishment.
- July 1 - Russia will be composed of 85 federal subjects instead of 86 as Koryakia will be merged into the Kamchatka Oblast per a 2005 referendum.
- July 4 - The host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics will be announced during the 119th International Olympic Committee Session in Guatemala City, Guatemala. The three candidates cities are Sochi, Salzburg and PyeongChang.
- July 5 - The 50-star flag will surpass the 48-star flag, which flew from 1912 to 1959, as the longest-flying American flag.
- July 7-July 29 - The 2007 Tour de France will take place; the grand départ will be from London.
- July 7 - The New Seven Wonders of the World are set to be revealed in a ceremony in Portugal.
- July 8 - Boeing is set to roll out the new 787 on this date, which corresponds with the hull designation.
- July 13 - The 15th Pan Am Games will open in Rio de Janeiro.
- July 13 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is set to be in theatres.
- July 21 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final novel of the Harry Potter series, set to be released.
- July 22 - An election will determine 121 of the 242 seats in the Japanese House of Councillors.
- July 27 to August 8 - 21st World Scout Jamboree takes place in Hylands Park, Essex to celebrate centenary of scouting.
- July 29 - The popular, long-running Broadway musical Beauty and the Beast will close to make way for The Little Mermaid.
August
- August 3-August 5 - The Wikimania conference will be held at Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.
- August 4-August 11 - The National Eisteddfod of Wales will be held at Mold, Flintshire, Wales.
- August 4-August 11 - The 92nd Universal Congress of Esperanto in Yokohama, Japan
- August 24-September 2 - The 2007 World Championships in Athletics will be held at Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan.
- August 28 - Total lunar eclipse.
- August 30-September 3 - The 65th World Science Fiction Convention will take place in Yokohama, Japan.
- August 31 - Malaysia celebrates 50 years of Independence.
September
- September 2 - A general election in Guatemala will elect the president, vice-president, congressmen, municipal mayors and representatives to Parlacen.
- September 8-September 9 - The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation will host its annual city meeting in Sydney.
- September 9 - Manuel Noriega may be paroled by Bureau of Prisons
- September 11 - Partial solar eclipse.
- September 21 - International Day of Peace (United Nations)
- September 23-September 28 - Labour Party Conferences in Bournemouth at which the newly elected party leader will address delegates for the first time as Prime Minister.
October
- October - An election in Pakistan is due.
- October - Singapore Airlines expected to take its first service of the A380
- October 1 - The minimum age for buying tobacco products will rise from 16 to 18 across England and Wales.
- October 4 - The 50th anniversary of the start of space exploration.
- October 10 - An election in the Canadian province of Ontario will take place.
- October 13 - Elections will be held for all Local Government in New Zealand.
- October 17 - Whitehaven, England will become the first place in the United Kingdom to have one of its analogue terrestrial television signals switched off as part of digital switchover.
- October 27 - An election in Argentina will elect the President and members of the National Congress.
November
- November - Parliamentary elections will be held in Croatia
- November - The Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator and collider at CERN in France and Switzerland, is scheduled to be switched on.
- November 4 - General Elections will be held in Turkey.
- November 4 - Daylight saving time in the United States and most of Canada will end, one week later than the previous schedule, in accordance with the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
- November 14 - The Channel Tunnel Rail Link from London to the Channel Tunnel is expected to be completed.
December
- December 19 - A presidential election will take place in South Korea.
- December 21 - If Queen Elizabeth II lives to this date, at the age of 81, she will become the oldest reigning monarch in both British and the Commonwealth Realms' history, surpassing King George III and Queen Victoria.
- December 31 - By this date, there will be four million household robots in use worldwide, according to the United Nations, as reported in the Reader's Digest, January 2007.
Unknown dates
- The current British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is expected to step down before Summer Recess 2007. His likely successor, Gordon Brown might face a leadership election. However, as of yet, there has not been a serious contender to declare their intention to stand against Brown. If Brown continues to face no competition, then it is likely that he will be declared as the leader of the Labour party on 25th June and become Prime Minister the next day. The race for the office of Deputy Prime Minister looks to be more of a 'competition', with Harriet Harman, Peter Hain, Hilary Benn, Jon Cruddas, Alan Johnson and Hazel Blears already in the race.
- India's 10th Five Year Plan comes to an end.
- Uranus' orbit will be positioned such that the Sun shines directly above its equator.
- The Andean Community and Mercosur will fully integrate into the South American Community of Nations.
- A presidential election will take place in Kenya.
- A legislative election will most certainly take place in Australia.
- Most candidates seeking their party's nomination in the 2008 United States presidential election will declare their candidacies and start actively campaigning.
- The Hidden Imam will appear this year, according to Iranian President Ahmadinejad. [citation needed]
- The seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China is expected to take place.
- Groundbreaking of the Chicago Spire
- The Republic of Ireland hold a general election. Many media outlets in Ireland report that this will take place on May 18th. However, this date will not be known until the president dissolves parliament on the advice of the Taoiseach
- The European Parliament election will take place in Romania
- Ozzfest, Also known as Freefest, will take place during the Summer
Births
- February 28 - Princess Lalla Khadija of Morocco, daughter of King Mohammed VI and Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco.
- 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.
Deaths
January
- January 1 - Ernie Koy, American baseball player (b. 1909)
- January 1 - Darrent Williams, American football player (b. 1982)
- January 2 - Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born former Mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)
- January 4 - Marais Viljoen, former State President of South Africa (b. 1915)
- January 5 - Momofuku Ando, Japanese inventor (b. 1910)
- January 7 - Bobby Hamilton, American race car driver (b. 1957)
- 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 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 14 - Barbara Kelly, Canadian actress (b. 1924)
- 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 16 - Benny Parsons, American race car driver and television personality (b. 1941)
- January 17 - Art Buchwald, American humorist (b. 1925)
- January 18 - Julie Winnefred Bertrand, Oldest living Canadian and oldest living validated woman in the world (b. 1891)
- January 19 - Hrant Dink, Turkish journalist (b. 1954)
- January 19 - Denny Doherty, Canadian musician (The Mamas and the Papas) (b. 1940)
- January 19 - Bam Bam Bigelow, American wrestler (b. 1961)
- January 22 - Abbé Pierre, French Catholic priest, founder of Emmaus (b. 1912)
- January 22 - Carlos Olivier, Venezuelan actor (b. 1952)
- January 23 - Ryszard Kapuscinski, Polish journalist and author (b. 1932)
- January 24 - Emiliano Mercado del Toro, veteran of World War I (b. 1891)
- 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 29 - Robert Meier, Germany's oldest living man (b. 1897)
- 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)
- January 31 - Molly Ivins, American columnist (b. 1944)
February
- February 1 - Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born American composer and librettist (b. 1911)
- February 3 - Pedro Knight, Cuban-born musician (b. 1921)
- February 3 - Billy Henderson, American singer (The Spinners) (b. 1939)
- February 6 - Frankie Laine, American singer (b. 1913)
- February 7 - Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1927)
- 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 - Jung Da Bin, Korean Actress (b. 1980)
- February 12 - Peggy Gilbert, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1905)
- February 13 - Charles Norwood, American politician (b. 1941)
- February 13 - Eliana Ramos, Uruguayan model (b. 1988)
- February 15 - Robert Adler, Austrian-American inventor (b. 1913)
- February 17 - Maurice Papon, French Vichy government official (b. 1910)
- February 17 - Jurga Ivanauskaitė, Lithuanian writer (b. 1961)
- February 17 - Dermot O'Reilly, Irish-Canadian musican (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 jazz 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 author, biographer, historian and novelist (b. 1911)
- March 2 - Madi Phala, South African artist (b. 1955)
- March 4 - Thomas Eagleton, American politician (b. 1929)
- March 6 - Allen Coage, American wrestler (b. 1943)
- March 6 - Jean Baudrillard, French postmodernist philosopher and sociologist (b. 1929)
- March 6 - Ernest Gallo, American co-founder of E & J Gallo Winery (b. 1909)
- March 8 - John Inman, English actor (b. 1935)
- March 8 - Cruz Hernández, World's Oldest Person (b. 1878)
- March 9 - Brad Delp, lead vocalist of Boston (b. 1951)
- March 10 - Richard Jeni, American comedian (b. 1957)
- March 10 - Ernie Ladd, American professional football player, American professional wrestler (b. 1938)
- 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 Two Resister (b. 1912)
- March 14 - Gareth Hunt, English actor (b. 1943)
- March 15 - Charles Harrelson, Convicted hitman, father of Woody Harrelson (b. 1938)
- March 15 - Bowie Kuhn, MLB Commissioner, 1969-1984 (b. 1926)
- March 16 - Manjural Islam, Bangladeshi test cricket player (b. 1984)
- March 16 - Sir Arthur Marshall, British aviation engineer (b. 1903)
- March 17 - Jim Cronin, founder of Monkey World in Dorset. (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, singer (b. 1937)
- March 20 - Taha Yassin Ramadan, Former Vice President of Iraq (b. 1938)
- March 25 - Andranik Margaryan, 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (b. 1951)
- March 27 - Axel Rosin, former president of the Book-of-the-Month Club, former president of the Scherman Foundation
- March 29 - Lloyd Brown,One of the last surviving American veterans of World War I (b. 1901)
April
- April 1 - Laurie Baker, English architect (b. 1917)
- April 1 - Hans Filbinger, German jurist and right-wing politician (b. 1913)
- April 1 - Driss Chraibi, Moroccan writer (b. 1926)
- April 2 - Henry Lee Giclas, American astronomer (b. 1910)
- April 3 - Eddie Robinson, Former college head coach for Grambling State (b. 1919)
- April 4 - Bob Clark, American movie director (b. 1941)
- April 5 - Poornachandra Tejaswi, Kannada writer and novelist (b. 1938)
- April 5 - Darryl Stingley, Former American football player for the NFL New England Patriots (b. 1951)
- April 5 - Leela Majumdar, Bengali children's author (b. 1907)
Holidays
- January 1 - New Year's Day
- January 26 - Australia Day. India Republic Day.
- February 19 - Presidents' Day in the USA.
- February 21 - Western Christianity: Ash Wednesday and start of Lent.
- March 17 - Saint Patrick's Day.
- March 19 - Feast of Saint Joseph in Christianity. In Judaism, start of the month of Nisan.
- March 21 - Norouz, Iranian and Bahai New Year.
- April 2 - In Judaism, 14/15 Nisan. Passover Seder.
- April 6 - Anniversary of the founding in 1830 of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- April 6 is Good Friday in 2007 in the Western Christian calendar.
- April 8 - Easter (Western Christianity)
- April 10 - End of Passover or Feast of Unleavened Bread.
- April 23 - Saint George's Day.
- April 23 -Israeli Independence Day (Iyar 5) in the Hebrew calendar.
- April 25 - Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand
- May 1 - Beltane, a Cross-quarter day. Also Labor Day in most of the world, but not in the USA and Canada. May Day.
- May 21 - Victoria Day in Canada.
- May 28 - Memorial Day in the USA.
- August 1 - Lammas, "Loaf Mass," a Cross-quarter day.
- July 1 - Canada Day.
- July 4 - Independence Day in the USA.
- July 14 - Bastille Day.
- July 24 - Birthday of Simon Bolivar observed in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador. Pioneer Day observed in Utah.
- August 9 - National Day in Singapore
- August 31 - National Day in Malaysia
- September 3 - Labour Day in Canada and the USA.
- October 8 - Thanksgiving in Canada.
- October 31 - All Hallows' Eve, Halloween.
- November 1 - All Saints' Day. Samhain, a cross-quarter day. Neopagan New Year's Day.
- December 25 - Christmas in Western Christianity.
- December 26 - Boxing Day in most Commonwealth countries.