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December 14 – U.S. Spy Satellite USA 193, also known as NRO Launch 21 (NROL-21 or simply L-21), is launched and malfunctions soon after.
 December 15 – Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter successfully flies for the first time.
 December 15 – An alleged assassination attempt on Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniyeh sparks inter-Palestinian clashes.
 December 15 – King Jigme Singye Wangchuck of Bhutan abdicates in favour of his son Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, a year earlier than expected.
 December 15 – The Japanese government passes a bill to upgrade the Japan Defense Agency to a Ministry.
 December 19 – A Libyan court sentences 5 Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death, for knowingly infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV.
 December 20 – Somalia: Islamic Courts Union fighters begin attacking the government-held town of Baidoa.
December 21 – The death of Saparmurat Niyazov sparks world concern over a possible power vacuum and instability in energy-rich Turkmenistan.
 December 22 – The Space Shuttle Discovery lands at the Kennedy Space Center, concluding a 2-week mission to the International Space Station.
 December 24 – Ethiopia admits its troops have intervened in Somalia.
 December 26 – An oil pipeline explodes in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, killing at least 200 people.
 December 26 – The Hengchun earthquake in Taiwan kills 2 people, and damages about 15 historical buildings and several undersea cables, disrupting Internet and IDD telecommunication services in Asia.
 December 29 – War in Somalia: Ethiopian and Transitional government troops capture Mogadishu without resistance.
 December 30 – Saddam Hussein, former Iraq president, is executed in Baghdad.
 December 30 – The M/V Senopati Nusantara sinks in Indonesia, causing several hundred casualties.
December 30 – The Free State Project completes its "First 1,000" pledge.
 December 30 – The Basque separatist group ETA sets off a bomb in Madrid Barajas International Airport, killing 2 Ecuadorians.
 December 31 – At least 11 bombs go off in Bangkok hours before the new year, leaving at least 30 injured.
 December 31 – The Met Office announces that England has experienced its warmest year since records began in 1659, with an average temperature of .
January 6 – Feast of Epiphany or Día de los Reyes Magos (Day of the Magi Kings) or La Fête des Rois (Feast of the Kings).
 January 7 – Christmas in the Russian Orthodox, Serbian Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Ukrainian Catholic and other Eastern Christian church calendars.
 January 10 – Islamic festival of Eid ul-Adha begins (ends on January 12).
 January 11 – Vaikunta Ekadashi is observed by Hindus.
 January 14 – Mahayana Buddhist New Year.
 January 14 – Pongal Harvest Festival in Tamil Nadu.
 January 15 – Maatu Pongal, Festival of Cows in Tamil Nadu.
 January 16 – Uzhavar Tirunaal, Farmer's Day in Tamil Nadu.
 January 29 – Lunar New Year
 January 31 – Muslim New Year.
 February 1 – Imbolc Cross-quarter day (Celebrated on February 2 in some places).
 February 9 – Day of Ashurah.
 February 13 – Tu Bishvat.
 February 28 – Mardi Gras.
 March 13 – Jewish holiday of Purim begins at sunset.
 March 14 – Sikh New Year.
 March 21 – Iranian New Year's Day (Norouz).
 March 30 – Hindu New Year.
April 5 – Qingming Festival.
 April 11 – Birth anniversary of Muhammad.
 April 12 – Pesach or Passover begins at sunset, continues for a week.
 April 13 – Theravada Buddhist New Year.
 April 13 – Punjabi New Year.
 April 14 – Good Friday in the Western Church Calendar, Sikh Holiday of Vaisakhi.
 April 14 – Puththaandu Tamil New Year in the Tamil Calendar, observed by people in Tamil Nadu.
 April 16 – Easter in the Western Church Calendar.
 April 21 – Good Friday in the Eastern Church Calendar.
 April 23 – Easter in the Eastern Church Calendar.
 May 1 – Beltane Cross-quarter day.
 June 1 – Jewish holiday of Shavuot begins at sunset.
 August 1 – Lammas Cross-quarter day.
 August 2 – Jewish fast of Tisha B'Av begins at sundown; it extends until the night of August 3.
 September 22 – Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown. Continues until nightfall of the 24th.
 September 23 – First day of Ramadan.
 October 1 – Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur begins at sundown. Ends at nightfall of the 2nd.
October 21 – Hindu festival of Diwali.
 October 23 – Islamic festival of Eid ul-Fitr.
 October 31 – Samhain Cross-quarter day.
 December 15 – Hanukkah.
 December 21 – Wiccans celebrate the festival of Yule.
 December 25 – Christmas in the Western Church Calendar.
 December 31 – Islamic festival of Eid ul-Adha begins (ends on January 2, 2007).
Births 
for more information, see Category:2006 births.
2 February - Preston Oliver III, American child actor from Las Vegas.
 27 February - Josephina Evie, English musician (d. 2021)
 1 March - Sawyer Sharbino, American child vlogger, from Metropolitan Dallas.
Baby P, British murder victim (d. 2007)
 8 March - Dylan Hockley, American child student, from Newton, Connecticut
 April 5 - Remus Covaci, Romanian bass player (Timpuri Grele)
 April 10 - Sofia Pablo, Philippine actress 
 May 3 - Mutya Orqulia, Philippine actress 
 6 May - Jack Pinto Jr., American child student and footballer, from Danbury, Connecticut
 30 June - Jesse Lewis, American child student, from Newton, Connecticut
 6 September - Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japanese prince
 9 September - Andra Maria Leon, Romanian drummer (Timpuri Grele)
 12 September - Benjamin Wheeler, American child student, from Newton, Connecticut
 5 October - Jacob Tremblay, Canadian child actor, from Vancouver, Canada
 20 November - Noah Pozner, American child student, from Newton, Connecticut

 2006 births

Deaths
Deaths

January
January 1 – Charles Steen, American geologist, The "Uranium King" (b. 1919)
 January 2 – Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (b. 1913)
 January 3 – Steve Rogers, Australian rugby player (b. 1954)
 January 3 – Bill Skate, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1954)
 January 4 – Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1946)
 January 4 – Robert Howard White, Mayor of Papatoetoe, New Zealand (b. 1914)
 January 6 – Lou Rawls, American singer (b. 1933)
 January 7 – Heinrich Harrer, mountaineer, explorer and writer (b. 1912)
 January 8 – Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, British politician (b. 1943)
 January 9 – Andy Caldecott, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1964)
 January 14 – Jim Gary, American sculptor (b. 1939)
 January 14 – Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920)
 January 15 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
 January 19 – Wilson Pickett, American singer (b. 1941)
January 19 – Geoff Rabone, New Zealand cricket player (b. 1921)
 January 21 – Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (b. 1944)
 January 21 – Bedanand Jha, Nepalese politician
 January 24 – Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)
 January 25 – Anna Malle, American pornographic actress (b. 1967)
 January 27 – Johannes Rau, President of Germany (b. 1931)
 January 28 – Yitzchak Kadouri, Iraqi-born rabbi (b. 1900)
 January 30 – Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)
February 1 – Dick Brooks, American auto racer (b. 1942)
 February 1 – Bryce Harland, New Zealand diplomat (b. 1931)
 February 3 – Al Lewis, American actor (b. 1923)
 February 4 – Betty Friedan, American feminist, activist, and writer (b.1921)
 February 8 – Ron Greenwood, English football manager (b. 1921)
 February 8 – Akira Ifukube, Japanese classical music/movie composer (b. 1914)
 February 9 – Sir Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur (b. 1922)
 February 10 – J Dilla, American music producer (b. 1974)
 February 12 – Ken Hart, American composer, journalist, and playwright (b. 1917)
 February 13 – Andreas Katsulas, American actor (b. 1946)
 February 13 – P. F. Strawson, English philosopher (b. 1919)
 February 14 – Shoshana Damari, Israeli singer and actress (b. 1923)
 February 15 – Sun Yun-suan, Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1913)
 February 16 – Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player (b. 1925)
 February 18 – Sirr Al-Khatim Al-Khalifa, 5th Prime Minister of Sudan (b. 1919)
February 20 – Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveler (b. 1920)
 February 22 – Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (b. 1961)
 February 22 – Sinnathamby Rajaratnam, Singapore politician (b. 1925)
 February 23 – Mauri Favén, Finnish painter (b. 1920)
 February 23 – Zarra, Spanish footballer (b. 1921)
 February 24 – Don Knotts, American actor (b. 1924)
 February 24 – Dennis Weaver, American actor (b. 1924)
 February 25 – Darren McGavin, American actor (b. 1922)
 February 25 – Florian ZaBach, American musician and TV personality (b. 1931)
 February 27 – Linda Smith, English comedian (b. 1958)
 February 28 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist (b. 1921)
March 1 – Harry Browne, American Libertarian Presidential candidate (b. 1933)
 March 1 – Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)
 March 1 – Peter Snow, New Zealand doctor (b. 1935)
 March 2 – Jack Wild, English actor (b. 1952)
 March 3 – William Herskovic, Hungarian Holocaust hero and philanthropist (b. 1914)
 March 4 – Dave Rose, American artist (b. 1910)
 March 4 – Edgar Valter, Estonian illustrator and cartoonist (b. 1929)
 March 4 – John Reynolds Gardiner, American writer and engineer (b. 1944)
 March 6 – Dana Reeve, American actress, wife of Christopher Reeve (b. 1961)
 March 6 – Kirby Puckett, U.S. baseball player (b. 1960)
 March 6 – King Floyd, American singer (b. 1945)
 March 8 – Brian Barratt-Boyes, New Zealand heart surgeon (b. 1924)
 March 9 – Hanka Bielicka, Polish actress (b. 1915)
 March 9 – John Profumo, British politician (b. 1915)
 March 11 – Bernie Geoffrion, Canadian hockey player (b. 1931)
 March 11 – Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia (b. 1941)
March 13 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
 March 13 – Peter Tomarken, American game show host (b. 1942)
 March 14 – Lennart Meri, President of Estonia (b. 1929)
 March 15 – George Mackey, American mathematician (b. 1916)
 March 22 – Lawrence Stephen, Nauruan politician (b. 1939)
 March 23 – Cindy Walker, American songwriter (b. 1918)
 March 24 – Lynne Perrie, English actress (b. 1931)
 March 25 – Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
 March 25 – Buck Owens, American musician (b. 1929)
 March 26 – Paul Dana, American race car driver (b. 1975)
 March 27 – Stanislaw Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921)
 March 28 – Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)
April 2 – Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, German wife of soldier Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (b. 1913)
 April 4 – Denis Donaldson, Irish Republican informer (b. 1950)
 April 5 – Gene Pitney, American singer (b. 1941)
 April 6 – Francis L. Kellogg, U.S. diplomat and prominent socialite (b. 1917)
 April 8 – Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (b. 1923)
 April 11 – Proof, American rapper (D12) (b. 1973)
 April 11 – Les Foote, Australian footballer (b. 1924)
 April 11 – June Pointer, American singer (b. 1953)
 April 12 – Rajkumar, Indian actor (b. 1929)
 April 12 – William Sloane Coffin, American university chaplain and activist (b. 1924)
 April 13 – Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist (b. 1918)
 April 15 – Louise Smith, American race car driver (b. 1916)
 April 17 – Calum Kennedy, Scottish singer (b. 1928)
 April 18 – John Lyall, British football player and manager (b. 1940)
 April 19 – Scott Crossfield, American pilot (b. 1921)
 April 21 – Telê Santana, Brazilian footballer and coach (b. 1931)
April 23 – Alida Valli, Italian actress (b. 1921)
 April 23 – Johnny Checketts, New Zealand flying ace (b. 1912)
 April 24 – Nasreen Huq, Bangladeshi social worker and human rights activist (b. 1958)
 April 24 – Brian Labone, English footballer (b. 1940)
 April 24 – Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (b. 1927)
 April 24 – Moshe Teitelbaum, Hungarian-born Hassidic rabbi (b. 1914)
 April 25 – Jane Jacobs, American-born writer and activist (b. 1916)
 April 25 – Peter Law, British politician (b. 1948)
 April 28 – Steve Howe, American Baseball Player (b. 1958)
 April 29 – John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (b. 1908)
 April 30 – Beatriz Sheridan, Mexican actress and director (b. 1934)
May 2 – Louis Rukeyser, American television host (b. 1933)
 May 3 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter (b. 1921)
 May 3 – Pramod Mahajan, Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician and strategist (b. 1949)
 May 3 – Earl Woods, American athlete and father of Tiger Woods (b. 1932)
 May 6 – Konstantin Beskov, Russian footballer (b. 1920)
 May 6 – Lillian Asplund, last American survivor of the Titanic disaster (b. 1906)
 May 6 – Shigeru Kayano, Japanese activist (b. 1926)
 May 7 – Richard Carleton, Australian journalist (b. 1943)
 May 7 – Steve Bender, German musician (Dschinghis Khan) (b. 1946)
 May 8 – Iain Macmillan, British photographer (b. 1938)
 May 10 – Val Guest, British movie director (b. 1911)
 May 11 – Yossi Banai, Israeli singer and actor (b. 1932)
 May 11 – Floyd Patterson, American boxer (b. 1935)
 May 12 – Hussein Maziq, Former Libyan prime minister (b. 1918).
 May 13 – Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (b. 1923)
 May 13 – Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American R&B singer (b. 1949)
May 16 – Jorge Porcel, Argentine actor (b. 1936)
 May 19 – Freddie Garrity, English singer (Freddie and the Dreamers) (b. 1940)
 May 21 – Katherine Dunham, American dancer, choreographer, and songwriter (b. 1909)
 May 22 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organisation (b. 1945)
 May 23 – Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (b. 1921)
 May 24 – Anderson Mazoka, Zambian politician (b. 1943)
 May 24 – Michał Życzkowski, Polish technician (b. 1930)
 May 25 – Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer and songwriter (b. 1941)
 May 25 – Tobías Lasser, Venezuelan botanist (b. 1911)
 May 25 – Kari S. Tikka, Finnish professor (b. 1944)
 May 26 – Édouard Michelin, French businessman (b. 1963)
 May 27 – Alex Toth, American comic book artist and cartoonist (b. 1928)
 May 29 – Masumi Okada, Japanese actor (b. 1935)
 May 30 – Shohei Imamura, Japanese movie director (b. 1926)
 May 30 – David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938)
June 1 – Rocio Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
 June 6 – Arnold Newman, American photographer (b. 1918)
 June 6 – Billy Preston, American artist and musician (b. 1946)
 June 6 – Hilton Ruiz, Puerto Rican jazz pianist (b. 1952)
 June 7 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian militant (b. 1966)
 June 7 – John Tenta, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1963)
 June 11 – Neroli Fairhall, New Zealand archer (b. 1944)
 June 12 – Chakufwa Chihana, Malawi politician (b. 1939)
 June 12 – György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
 June 12 – Kenneth Thomson, Canadian businessman and art collector (b. 1923)
 June 13 – Charles Haughey, Prime Minister of Ireland (b. 1925)
 June 13 – Hiroyuki Iwaki, Japanese conductor and percussionist (b. 1932)
 June 14 – Jean Roba, Belgian comics writer (b. 1930)
 June 15 – Raymond Devos, French humorist (b. 1922)
 June 18 – Gica Petrescu, Romanian musician (b. 1915)
 June 23 – Aaron Spelling, American television producer (b. 1923)
June 25 – Arif Mardin, Turkish-born music producer (b. 1932)
 June 25 – Jaap Penraat, Dutch architect and resistance fighter (b. 1918)
 June 30 – Mohamed Haneef, Maldivian Politician and former vice-president of Islamic Democratic Party of Maldives (b. 1946)
 June 30 – Robert Gernhardt, German satirist (b. 1937)
July 1 – Ryutaro Hashimoto, 53rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
 July 1 – Fred Trueman, English cricketer (b. 1931)
 July 3 – Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
 July 5 – Gert Fredriksson, Swedish kayaker (b. 1919)
 July 5 – Kenneth Lay, American businessman (b. 1942)
 July 6 – Kasey Rogers, American actress, writer, and biker (b. 1925)
 July 7 – Tom Weir, Scottish climber, writer, and broadcaster (b. 1914)
 July 7 – Rudi Carrell, Dutch entertainer (b. 1934)
 July 7 – Syd Barrett, English singer, songwriter, and guitarist (b. 1946)
 July 7 – John Money, Sexologist (b. 1921)
 July 8 – June Allyson, American actress (b. 1917)
 July 8 – Catherine Leroy, French photographer (b. 1945)
 July 10 – Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (b. 1965)
 July 11 – Ross M. Lence, American political scientist (b. 1943)
 July 11 – John Spencer, British snooker player (b. 1935)
 July 13 – Red Buttons, American actor and comedian (b. 1919)
 July 16 – Bob Orton, American wrestler (b. 1929)
July 17 – Mickey Spillane, American writer (b. 1918)
 July 18 – Raul Cortez, Brazilian actor (b. 1931)
 July 19 – Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920)
 July 20 – Lim Kim San, Singapore politician (b. 1916)
 July 20 – Ted Grant, British politician (b. 1913)
 July 21 – Ta Mok, Cambodian military leader (b. 1926)
 July 21 – Mako Iwamatsu, Japanese-born actor (b. 1933)
 July 22 – José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (b. 1965)
 July 22 – Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Italian-born Brazilian actor and playwright (b.1934)
 July 25 – Hani Mohsin, Malaysian actor (b. 1965)
 July 28 – David Gemmell, British writer (b. 1948)
 July 30 – Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
August 3 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (b. 1915)
 August 3 – Arthur Lee, American musician (b. 1945)
 August 6 – Hirotaka Suzuoki, Japanese Seiyu (b. 1950)
 August 9 – James van Allen, American physicist (b. 1914)
 August 11 – Mike Douglas, American entertainer (b. 1925)
 August 13 – Tony Jay, English-born actor (b. 1933)
 August 13 – Payao Poontarat, Thai boxer (b. 1957)
 August 15 – Te Atairangi Kaahu, Maori queen (b. 1931)
 August 15 – Faas Wilkes, former Dutch football player(b. 1923)
 August 16 – Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (b. 1912)
 August 20 – Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (b. 1911)
 August 21 – Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (b. 1916)
 August 21 – S. Yizhar, Israeli writer (b. 1916)
 August 23 – Maynard Ferguson, Canadian musician and bandleader (b. 1928)
 August 23 – Wolfgang Priklopil, Austrian kidnapper of Natascha Kampusch (b. 1962)
 August 26 – Rainer Barzel, German politician (b. 1924)
 August 26 – Clyde Walcott, Barbadian cricketer (b. 1926)
August 27 – Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian movie maker (b. 1922)
 August 30 – Glenn Ford, Canadian actor (b. 1916)
 August 30 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
 August 30 – Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand jurist and member of the British House of Lords (b. 1926)
September 1 – György Faludy, Hungarian poet (b. 1910)
 September 2 – Charlie Williams, British comedian (b. 1927)
 September 2 – Bob Mathias, American athlete (b. 1930)
 September 2 – Willi Ninja, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1961)
 September 4 – Steve Irwin, Australian environmentalist and television personality (b. 1962)
 September 4 – Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (b. 1942)
 September 4 – Colin Thiele, Australian writer and educator (b. 1920)
 September 8 – Hilda Bernstein, English-born writer, artist, and activist (b. 1915)
 September 9 – Richard Burmer, American composer and musician (b. 1955)
 September 9 – William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (b. 1930)
 September 10 – Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, King of Tonga (b. 1918)
 September 11 – Joachim Fest, German historian and journalist (b. 1926)
 September 11 – Johannes Bob van Benthem, Dutch lawyer (b. 1921)
 September 14 – Elizabeth Choy, Singaporean World War II hero (b. 1910)
September 14 – Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-born actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926)
 September 15 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist (b. 1929)
 September 15 – Abe Saffron, Australian nightclub owner and property developer (b. 1920)
 September 16 – Rob Levin, American computer programmer (b. 1955)
 September 17 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite, sister of John F. Kennedy (b. 1924)
 September 17 – Dorothy C. Stratton, Director of the United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve (b. 1899)
 September 19 – Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (b. 1950)
 September 19 – Hugh Kawharu, New Zealand academic and Māori chief (b. 1927)
 September 20 – Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (b. 1932)
 September 20 – John W. Peterson, American composer (b. 1921)
 September 23 – Malcolm Arnold, English composer (b. 1921)
 September 23 – Aladár Pege, Hungarian musician (b. 1939)
 September 24 – Tetsuro Tamba, Japanese actor (b. 1922)
 September 26 – Byron Nelson, American golfer (b. 1912)
September 26 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American propagandist for Japan in World War II (b. 1916)
 September 29 – Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1915)
October 6 – Buck O'Neil, American baseball player (b. 1911)
 October 6 – Wilson Tucker, American writer (b. 1914)
 October 7 – Anna Politkovskaya, American-born Russian journalist (b. 1958)
 October 8 – Mark Porter, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1975)
 October 9 – Paul Hunter, British snooker player (b. 1978)
 October 10 – Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
 October 11 – Cory Lidle, American baseball player (b. 1972)
 October 13 – Mason Andrews, delivered America's first test tube baby; former mayor of Norfolk, Virginia (b. 1919)
 October 14 – Freddy Fender, American singer (b. 1937)
 October 16 – Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921)
 October 16 – Valentín Paniagua, President of Peru (b. 1936)
 October 18 – Anna Russell, British-born comedian and music satirist (b. 1911)
 October 20 – Jane Wyatt, American actress (b. 1910)
 October 24 – Enolia McMillan, American first female president of the NAACP (b. 1904)
October 25 – Danny Rolling, American murderer (b. 1954) (executed)
 October 28 – Red Auerbach, American basketball coach and official (b. 1917)
 October 28 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (b. 1955)
 October 30 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926)
 October 31 – P. W. Botha, former State President of South Africa (b. 1916)
November 1 – Adrienne Shelly, American actress & director (b. 1966)
 November 1 – William Styron, American writer (b. 1925)
 November 2 – Adrien Douady, French mathematician (b. 1935)
 November 2 – Wally Foreman, Australian sports commentator (b. 1948)
 November 3 – Paul Mauriat, French musician (b. 1925)
 November 3 – Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1937)
 November 4 – Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician (b. 1915)
 November 4 – Sergi López Segú, Spanish footballer (b. 1967)
 November 5 – Bülent Ecevit, Turkish politician, poet, writer and journalist (b. 1925)
 November 5 – Samuel Bowers, American Ku Klux Klansman and convicted killer (b. 1924)
 November 8 – Basil Poledouris, American composer (b. 1945)
 November 9 – Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
 November 10 – Gerald Levert, American singer (b. 1966)
 November 10 – Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
 November 15 – Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian fashion model (b. 1985)
November 16 – Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
 November 17 – Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927)
 November 17 – Bo Schembechler, American football coach (b. 1929)
 November 17 – Ruth Brown, American singer (b. 1928)
 November 20 – Robert Altman, American movie director (b. 1925)
 November 20 – Andre Waters, American football player (b. 1962)
 November 21 – Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese politician (b. 1972)
 November 22 – John Allan Cameron, Canadian musician (b. 1938)
 November 23 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian-born spy (b. 1962)
 November 23 – Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930)
 November 23 – Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919)
 November 23 – Willie Pep, American boxer (b. 1922)
 November 24 – Walter Booker, American jazz bassist (b. 1933)
 November 24 – Juice Leskinen, Finnish singer and songwriter (b. 1950)
 November 25 – Leo Chiosso, Italian poet (b. 1920)
 November 25 – Valentin Elizalde, Mexican singer (b. 1979)
November 25 – Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner, American actress, journalist and publisher (b. 1916)
 November 26 – Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (b. 1943)
 November 27 – Alan Freeman, Australian-born broadcaster and disc jockey (b. 1927)
 November 28 – Bernard Orchard, British biblical scholar (b. 1912)
December 3 – Craig Hinton, British novelist (b. 1964)
 December 4 – Ross A. McGinnis, American soldier, posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor (b. 1987)
 December 5 – David Bronstein, Soviet Union chess grandmaster (b. 1924)
 December 6 – John Feeney, New Zealand documentary movie director (b. 1922)
 December 7 – Jeane Kirkpatrick, American political theorist and U.N. ambassador (b. 1926)
 December 7 – J. B. Hunt, American trucking magnate (b. 1927)
 December 8 – Jose Uribe, Dominican Major League Baseball player (b. 1959)
 December 10 – Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator (b. 1915)
 December 12 – Paul Arizin, American basketball player (b. 1928)
 December 12 – Peter Boyle, American actor (b. 1935)
 December 12 – Raymond P. Shafer, American politician (b. 1917)
 December 13 – Lamar Hunt, American sports executive (b. 1932)
 December 13 – "Homesick" James Williamson, American blues musician (b. 1910)
 December 13 – Federico Crescentini, Sanmarinese football player (b. 1982)
December 14 – Ahmet Ertegün, Turkish record executive (b. 1923)
 December 14 – Mike Evans, American actor (b. 1949)
 December 15 – Clay Regazzoni, Swiss race car driver (b. 1939)
 December 16 – Don Jardine, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1940)
 December 18 – Joseph Barbera, American animator (b. 1911)
 December 20 – Yukio Aoshima, Japanese politician, novelist and TV-actor (b. 1932)
 December 20 – Ma Ji, Chinese actor (b. 1934)
 December 21 – Saparmurat Niyazov, President of Turkmenistan (b. 1940)
 December 22 – Elena Mukhina, Russian gymnast (b. 1960)
 December 23 – Robert Stafford, American politician (b. 1913)
 December 23 – Dutch Mason, Canadian blues musician (b. 1938)
 December 23 – Marilyn Waltz, American actress, model, and Playboy Playmate (b. 1931)
 December 24 – Braguinha, Brazilian songwriter (b. 1907)
 December 24 – Charlie Drake, English comedian (b. 1925)
 December 24 – Frank Stanton, American television executive (b. 1908)
December 24 – Kenneth Sivertsen, Norwegian musician, composer, poet and comedian (b. 1961)
 December 25 – James Brown, American singer (b. 1933)
 December 26 – Gerald R. Ford, 38th President of the United States (b. 1913)
 December 29 – Charles Addo Odametey, Ghanaian football player (b. 1937)
 December 30 – Saddam Hussein, 5th President of Iraq (b. 1937)
 December 30 – Antony Lambton, Viscount Lambton, British politician (b. 1922)
Nobel Prizes 

 Chemistry – Roger D. Kornberg.
 Economics – Edmund Phelps.
 Literature – Orhan Pamuk.
 Peace – Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank.
 Physics – John C. Mather, George F. Smoot.
 Physiology or Medicine – Andrew Z. Fire, Craig C. Mello.

References

Other websites
2007 (MMVII) was .

The year 2007 was called:
 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.
 European Year of Equal Opportunities for All
 Year of the Dolphin
 UNESCO has formally recognized fifteen anniversaries for 2007.

Events
January 
 January 1 – Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union.
 January 1 – Bulgarian, Romanian, and Irish become official languages of the European Union, joining 20 other official languages.
 January 1 – Slovenia adopted the Euro as its official currency, replacing the tolar.
 January 1 – South Korea's Ban Ki-moon became the new UN Secretary-General, replacing Kofi Annan.
 January 4 – Nancy Pelosi becomes the first woman Speaker of the House in the United States.
 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 18 – Comet McNaught, the brightest comet to have appeared in over forty years, became visible over the Southern Hemisphere.
 January 25 – The President of Israel, Moshe Katsav, took a temporary leave of absence due to a sex scandal.
February 
 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 hospitalized.
 February 2 – Chinese President Hu Jintao signed a series of economic deals with Sudan.
 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 10 – U.S. Senator Barack Obama of Illinois announced a presidential bid in Springfield.
 February 19 – North Korea agreed to give up its nuclear program, for oil.
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.
March 
 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 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 – Pi Day
 March 15 – March 21 – CeBIT 2007 took place in Hannover, Germany.
 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 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 25 – In Berlin 27 European ministers celebrate 50 year Treaty of Rome.
 March 25 – Daylight savings begins in Europe
 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 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 3 – Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dissolved the Ukrainian parliament in a historic act of anti-communism in Ukraine. 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 two 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 16 – The worst mass shooting in US history occurs at Virginia Tech.
 April 27 – Violence erupts in Estonia after the removal of a Soviet war memorial.
May 
 May 4 – Tornado strikes Greensburg, Kansas, killing at least twelve and destroying about 90% of the town.
 May 5 – Kenya Airways Flight KQ 507 crashes in Cameroon.
 May 6 – Manchester United wins the English Premier League after title rivals Chelsea draw against Arsenal.
 May 9 – Subtropical Storm Andrea forms off the coast of Florida, the earliest subtropical storm since Subtropical Storm Ana in 2003.
 May 10 – Tony Blair announces he will resign as British Prime Minister on June 27 triggering a Labour Party leadership election.
 May 16 – Nicolas Sarkozy officially became President of the French Republic after taking over from Jacques Chirac.
 May 31 – A calendar blue moon occurred in the Western Hemisphere and parts of the Eastern Hemisphere.
June 
 June 1 – A 2100 year old melon is found by archaeologists in western Japan
 June 2 – Four people are charged with a terror plot to blow up JFK International Airport in New York City.
 June 5 – NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft made its second fly-by of Venus en route to Mercury.
 June 5 – A mass grave in southern Ukraine, found accidentally by workers in May, has been confirmed to be filled with thousands of victims of The Holocaust.
 June 8 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis successfully launched on mission STS-117.
 June 10 - Emma's Theatre got debuted.
 June 18 – Nine Charleston, South Carolina firefighters are killed by a roof collapse while battling a furniture store fire.
 June 27 – Tony Blair resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; New Labour Party leader Gordon Brown is appointed Prime Minister by Queen Elizabeth II.
 June 29 – British police defuse a bomb in Haymarket, Central London.
 June 30 – A calendar blue moon occurs in most of the Eastern Hemisphere.
July 
 July 1 – Smoking in public and work places is banned in England.
 July 1 – The Concert For Diana is held at Wembley Stadium to commemorate Diana, Princess of Wales.
 July 9 – Argentina's capital Buenos Aires is hit by its first snowfall in almost 90 years.
 July 14 – Following a presidential decree, Russia withdraws from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
 July 16 – Earthquake occurs in Japan, killing seven and causing a pipe at a nuclear power plant to break and released about 300 gallons of radioactive water.
 July 21 – U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney serves as Acting President for two and a half hours, while President George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy procedure.
 July 21 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the Harry Potter series, is released.
 July 27 – Two news helicopters collide in midair while covering a police chase in Phoenix, Arizona. This killed both pilots and two photojournalists.
July 29 – Iraq wins its first Asian Cup football championship, beating Saudi Arabia 1–0.
 July 30 – New British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visits U.S. President George W. Bush for the first time as Prime Minister.
August 
 August 1 – The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge on I-35W in Minneapolis, Minnesota collapsed at 6:05 pm.
 August 14 – Pakistan marks 60 years of independence.
 August 15 – Peru is hit by a major Earthquake.
 August 15 – India marks 60 years of independence.
 August 31 – Malaysia marks 50 years of independence.

September 
 September 3 – Adventurer Steve Fossett goes missing.
 September 6 – Operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti dies aged 71.
 September 22 – Anti-government protests begin in Burma.

October 
 October 18 – Terrorists strike Karachi on the return of Benazir Bhutto.
 October 28 – Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is elected as Argentina's first female President.

November 
 November 3 – In Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf suspends the constitution and declares a State of Emergency.
 November 10 – American novelist Norman Mailer dies aged 84.
 November 24 – Kevin Rudd is elected Prime Minister of Australia.
December 
 December 3 – Kevin Rudd takes office as Prime Minister of Australia.
 December 10 – Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner takes office as President of Argentina.
 December 11 - Car bombs in Algiers kill 41 people and injured 170 others.
 December 19 – Marcus Stephen becomes President of Nauru after Ludwig Scotty loses a vote of confidence.
 December 20 – Queen Elizabeth II surpasses Queen Victoria as the oldest monarch in British history.
 December 27 – Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is killed in a terrorist attack.
 December 30 – Violence erupts in Kenya, after the disputed election victory of Mwai Kibaki.

Births
Births 

 February 28 – Princess Lalla Khadija of Morocco, daughter of King Mohammed VI and Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco.
 March 1 - Parker Bates, American child actor, in the film of This Is Us.
 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.
 June 3 - Jakob Burns - A Canadian boy was disappear on November 5, 2020 in New Brunswick, Canada.
 September 1 – Wakana Matsumoto, singer and idol

Deaths

January
January 2 – Teddy Kollek, former Mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)
 January 4
Sandro Salvadore, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
 Marais Viljoen, South African politician (b. 1915)
 January 5 – Momofuko Ando, Taiwanese businessman (b. 1910)
 January 8 – Iwao Takamoto, American animator (b. 1925)
 January 8 – Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-American actress (b. 1922)
 January 9
 Carlo Ponti, Italian movie producer (b. 1912)
 Jean-Pierre Vernant, French historian and anthropologist (b. 1914)
 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 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 runner (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 28 – Karel Svoboda, Czech composer (b. 1938)
 January 30 – Sidney Sheldon, American writer (b. 1917)
 January 31 – Kirka Babitzin, Finnish singer (b. 1950)
February 

 February 1 – Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian opera composer (b. 1911)
 February 7 – Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist (b. 1927)
 February 8 – Anna Nicole Smith, American model (b. 1967)
 February 9 – Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b. 1934)
 February 17 – Maurice Papon, French Nazi collaborator (b. 1910)
 February 23 – Pascal Yoadimnadji, Prime Minister of Chad (b. 1950)
 February 28 – Arthur Schlesinger Jr, American historian (b. 1917)

March
March 

 March 1 – Sydney Gun Munro, former Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (b. 1916)
 March 2 – Henri Troyat, French writer (b. 1911)
 March 6 – Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher (b. 1929)
 March 8 – John Inman, English actor (b. 1935)
 March 9 – Brad Delp, American singer (b. 1951)
 March 11 – Betty Hutton, American actress (b. 1921)
 March 13 – Arnold Skaaland, American professional wrestler (b. 1925)
 March 17 – John Backus, American computer scientist (b. 1924)
 March 17 – Ernst Haefliger, Swiss tenor (b. 1929)
 March 18 – Bob Woolmer, English cricketer (b. 1948)
 March 19 – Luther Ingram, American singer (b. 1937)
 March 20 – Taha Yassin Ramadan, former Vice President of Iraq (b. 1937)
 March 25 – Andranik Margaryan, Prime Minister of Armenia (b. 1951)
 March 27 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist (b. 1929)
 March 29 – Tosiwo Nakayama, 1st President of the Federated States of Micronesia (b. 1931)
 March 31 – Paul Watzlawick, American psychologist (b. 1921)

April
April 4 – Bob Clark, American movie director (b. 1939)
 April 5 – Mark St. John, American guitarist (b. 1956)
 April 6 – Luigi Comencini, Italian movie director (b. 1916)
 April 11 – Kurt Vonnegut, American writer (b. 1922)
 April 16 – Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, Canadian instructor of French (b. 1957)
 April 16 – Kevin Granata, American associate professor of engineering (b. 1961)
 April 16 – Liviu Librescu, Romanian-born engineering professor (b. 1930)
 April 16 – Seung-Hui Cho, Korean-born American perpetrator of the Virginia Tech massacre (b. 1984)
 April 17 – Kitty Carlisle Hart, American actress and singer (b. 1910)
 April 18 – Iccho Itoh, Japanese politician (b. 1945)
 April 19 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
 April 23 – Boris Yeltsin, former President of Russia (b. 1931)
 April 23 – David Halberstam, American writer and journalist (b. 1934)
 April 24 – Bobby "Boris" Pickett, American singer (b. 1938)
 April 25 – Alan Ball, English footballer (b. 1945)
April 26 – Jack Valenti, American movie executive (b. 1921)
 April 27 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian musician (b. 1927)
 April 28 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsaecker, German philosopher (b. 1912)
 April 29 – Ivica Racan, 7th Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1944)
 April 30 – Gregory Lemarchal, French singer (b. 1983)
May 

 May 3 – Wally Schirra, American astronaut (b. 1923)
 May 5 – Theodore Maiman, American physicist (b. 1927)
 May 6 – Bernard Weatherill, British politician (b. 1920)
 May 11 – Malietoa Tanumafili II, Sovereign Ruler of Samoa (b. 1913)
 May 14 – Uli Jogi, Estonian anti-Communist (b. 1930)
 May 15 – Yolanda King, American activist (b. 1955)
 May 15 – Jerry Falwell, American televangelist (b. 1933)
 May 17 – Lloyd Alexander, American writer (b. 1924)
 May 18 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist (b. 1932)
 May 22 – Pemba Doma Sherpa, Nepali mountaineer (b. 1971)
 May 25 – Bartholomew Ulufa'alu, Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (b. 1950)
 May 27 – Zard, Japanese singer (b. 1967)
 May 27 – Ed Yost, American inventor (b. 1919)
 May 27 – Gretchen Wyler, American actress (b. 1932)
 May 30 – Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor (b. 1933)

June
June 2 – Huang Ju, Chinese politician (b. 1938)
 June 4 – Craig L. Thomas, American politician (b. 1933)
 June 5 – Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (b. 1922)
 June 8 – Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, first President of Somalia (b. 1908)
 June 10 – Laurence Mancuso, American religious leader (b. 1934)
 June 13 – Nestor Rossi, Argentine footballer (b. 1925)
 June 13 – Walid Eido, Lebanese politician (b. 1942)
 June 14 – Ruth Graham, American poet, wife of Billy Graham (b. 1920)
 June 14 – Robin Olds, American fighter pilot (b. 1922)
 June 14 – Kurt Waldheim, 9th President of Austria, 4th Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1918)
 June 15 – Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
 June 17 - Begum Mahmooda Salim Khan, early Pakistani social activist (b. 1913).
 June 18 – Bernard Manning, English comedian (b. 1930)
 June 19 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer, actor, equestrian, film producer, and screenwriter (b. 1919)
 June 21 – Georg Danzer, Austrian musician (b. 1946)
June 24 – Natasja Saad, Danish rapper (b. 1974)
 June 24 – Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1967)
 June 26 – Jupp Derwall, German footballer (b. 1927)
 June 26 – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born fashion designer (b. 1929)
 June 28 – Kiichi Miyazawa, former Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)
July 2 – Beverly Sills, American opera singer (b. 1929)
 July 4 – Baris Akarsu, Turkish musician (b. 1979)
 July 5 – George Melly, British musician (b. 1926)
 July 8 – Chandra Shekhar, 8th Prime Minister of India (b. 1927)
 July 9 – Charles Lane, American actor (b. 1905)
 July 11 – Lady Bird Johnson, former First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
 July 11 – Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd President of Colombia (b. 1913)
 July 12 – Kesha Wizzart, British singer (b. 1988)
 July 17 – Julio Redecker, Brazilian politician (b. 1956)
 July 18 – Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese Communist politician (b. 1908)
 July 20 – Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist (b. 1918)
 July 20 – Tammy Faye Messner, American televangelist (b. 1942)
 July 22 – Andre Milongo, former Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1935)
 July 22 – Ulrich Muehe, German actor (b. 1953)
 July 22 – Laszlo Kovacs, Hungarian cinematographer (b. 1933)
 July 23 – Mohammed Zahir Shah, last King of Afghanistan (b. 1914)
July 23 – Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist (b. 1918)
 July 23 – Tom Davis, former Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (b. 1917)
 July 25 – Bernd Jakubowski, East German footballer (b. 1952)
 July 27 – Abdullah Kurshumi, former Prime Minister of Yemen (b. 1932)
 July 29 – Mike Reid, British actor (b. 1940)
 July 29 – Tom Snyder, American television personality (b. 1936)
 July 30 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian movie director (b. 1912)
 July 30 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish movie director (b. 1918)
 July 30 – Bill Walsh, American football coach (b. 1931)
August 1 – Ryan Cox, South African cyclist (b. 1979)
 August 2 – Franco Dalla Valle, Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1945)
 August 4 – Lee Hazlewood, American singer (b. 1929)
 August 5 – Jean-Marie Lustiger, French Roman Catholic Archbishop (b. 1926)
 August 5 – Oliver Hill, American lawyer (b. 1907)
 August 6 – Heinz Barth, German Nazi war criminal (b. 1920)
 August 12 – Merv Griffin, American television personality (b. 1925)
 August 12 – Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (b. 1963)
 August 13 – Yone Minagawa, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1893)
 August 16 – Max Roach, American jazz drummer (b. 1924)
 August 17 – Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (b. 1982)
 August 24 – Abdul Rahman Arif, 3rd President of Iraq (b. 1916)
 August 25 – Raymond Barre, former Prime Minister of France (b. 1924)
 August 26 – Gaston Thorn, former Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1928)
 August 28 – Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese actress (b. 1929)
 August 28 – Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984)
August 29 – Pierre Messmer, former Prime Minister of France (b. 1916)
 August 29 – Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian footballer (b. 1978)
 August 30 – Michael Jackson, British writer (b. 1942)
 August 31 – Willie Cunningham, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1930)
September 3 – Steve Fossett, American adventurer (b. 1944)
 September 5 – D. James Kennedy, American televangelist (b. 1930)
 September 6 – Madeleine L'Engle, American writer (b. 1918)
 September 6 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935)
 September 7 – John Compton, former Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (b. 1925)
 September 7 – Joseph W. Eschbach, American doctor (b. 1933)
 September 10 – Anita Roddick, British businesswoman (b. 1942)
 September 10 – Jane Wyman, American actress (b. 1917)
 September 11 – Ian Porterfield, British footballer (b. 1946)
 September 15 – Colin McRae, Scottish racecar driver (b. 1968)
 September 16 – Robert Jordan, American novelist (b. 1948)
 September 21 – Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian cross-country skier (b. 1929)
 September 21 – Petar Stambolić, Serbian politician (b. 1912)
 September 21 – Coral Watts, American serial killer (b. 1953)
 September 22 – Marcel Marceau, French actor (b. 1923)
 September 29 – Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)
September 29 – Gyula Zsivotzky, Hungarian Track (b. 1937)
 September 30 – Milan Jelic, Bosnian Serb politician (b. 1956)
 September 30 – Oswald Mathias Ungers, German architect (b. 1926)
October 1 – Al Oerter, American athlete (b. 1936)
 October 2 – Tex Coulter, American football player (b. 1924)
 October 2 – Elfi von Dassanowsky, Austrian singer (b. 1924)
 October 2 – Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark (b. 1913)
 October 5 – Walter Kempowski, German writer (b. 1929)
 October 5 – Justin Tuveri, Italian-French World War I veteran (b. 1897)
 October 7 – Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)
 October 7 – Stephane Maurice Bongo-Nouarra, former Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1937)
 October 11 – Werner von Trapp, Austrian musician and singer (b. 1915)
 October 12 – Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (b. 1934)
 October 12 – Soe Win, Burmese politician (b. 1948)
 October 13 – Bob Denard, French mercenary (b. 1929)
 October 14 – Big Moe, American rapper (b. 1974)
 October 15 – Bernard Scudder, British poet (b. 1954)
 October 16 – Toše Proeski, Macedonian singer (b. 1981)
 October 16 – Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (b. 1921)
October 18 – Lucky Dube, South African musician (b. 1964)
 October 22 – Eve Curie, French writer (b. 1905)
 October 24 – Petr Eben, Czech composer (b. 1929)
 October 25 – Puntsagiin Jasrai, former Prime Minister of Mongolia (b. 1933)
 October 26 – Arthur Kornberg, American winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1928)
 October 28 – Evelyn Hamann, German actress (b. 1942)
 October 28 – Porter Wagoner, American country music singer (b. 1927)
 October 29 – La Sa Ra, Indian writer (b. 1916)
 October 30 – Robert Goulet, American singer and actor (b. 1933)