page_title: 2007
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 2007 / Deaths / May
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of American astronaut Walter Schirra
context_page_description: 2007 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2007th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini 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 the International Heliophysical Year, International Polar Year, and the International Year of Languages.
context_section_description: May 3 – Wally Schirra, American astronaut (b. 1923)
  May 5 – Theodore Maiman, American physicist (b. 1927)
  May 7 – Diego Corrales, American professional boxer (b. 1977)
  May 11 – Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan head of state (b. 1913)
  May 12 – Mullah Dadullah Akhund, Afghan Taliban military leader (b. 1966)
  May 15
  Jerry Falwell, American evangelist (b. 1933)
  Yolanda King, American actress and activist, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1955)
  May 16 – Mary Douglas, British anthropologist (b. 1921)
  May 17 – Lloyd Alexander, American author (b. 1924)
  May 18 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and Nobel Prize for Physics laureate (b. 1932)
  May 20 – Stanley Miller, American chemist and biologist (b. 1930)
  May 21 – Bruno Mattei, Italian film director, screenwriter and editor (b. 1931)
  May 25
  Bill Johnston, Australian cricketer (b. 1922)
  Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor, comedian, and director (b. 1931)
  May 27 – Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (b. 1967)
  May 28 – David Lane, American white nationalist (b. 1938)
  May 30 – Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and director (b. 1933)
caption: Wally Schirra
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