2007
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.
January 30 - Windows Vista, Microsoft's newest NT-based operating system, was released worldwide to consumers.
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 PS20 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
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)
January 4 - 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)
January 19 - Bam Bam Bigelow, American professional wrestler (b. 1961)
January 19 - Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist (b. 1954)
January 21 - Maria Cioncan, Romanian runner (b. 1977)
January 23 - Ryszard Kapuscinski, Polish journalist (b. 1932)
January 28 - Karel Svoboda, Czech composer (b. 1938)
January 30 - Sidney Sheldon, American writer (b. 1917)
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 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
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 Lopez 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
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
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 Stambolic, 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
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 - Tose 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)
November
November 1 - Paul Tibbets, American pilot (b. 1929)
November 2 - The Fabulous Moolah, American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
November 5 - Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer (b. 1922)
November 6 - Hank Thompson, American country musician (b. 1925)
November 6 - Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist (b. 1920)
November 8 - Chad Varah, British Anglican priest (b. 1911)
November 9 - Luis Herrera Campins, former President of Venezuela (b. 1925)
November 10 - Norman Mailer, American writer (b. 1923)
November 10 - Laraine Day, American actress (b. 1920)
November 12 - Janlavyn Narantsralt, former Prime Minister of Mongolia (b. 1957)
November 12 - Ira Levin, American writer (b. 1929)
November 17 - Ambroise Noumazalaye, former Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1933)
November 19 - Kevin DuBrow, American rock singer (b. 1955)
November 20 - Ian Smith, 8th Prime Minister of Rhodesia (b. 1919)
November 23 - Oscar Carmelo Sanchez, Bolivian footballer (b. 1971)
November 24 - William O'Neill, American politician, former Governor of Connecticut (b. 1930)
November 27 - Sean Taylor, American football player (b. 1983)
November 28 - Elly Beinhorn, German pilot and writer (b. 1907)
November 28 - Gudrun Wagner, German festival organiser (b. 1944)
November 30 - Francois-Xavier Ortoli, French politician (b. 1925)
November 30 - Evel Knievel, American stuntman (b. 1938)
December
December 1 - Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (b. 1929)
December 4 - Pimp C, American rapper (b. 1973)
December 5 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (b. 1928)
December 6 - Katy French, Irish model (b. 1983)
December 12 - Ike Turner, American musician (b. 1931)
December 16 - Dan Fogelberg, American musician (b. 1951)
December 19 - Inti Chauveau, French professor (b. 1925)
December 20 - Kazumi Tanaka, Japanese voice actor (b. 1951)
December 22 - Chrysostomos I, Archbishop of Cyprus (b. 1927)
December 23 - Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist (b. 1925)
December 27 - Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1953)
December 27 - Jan Kawalerowicz, Polish movie director (b. 1922)
December 27 - Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (b. 1920)
December 28 - Aidin Nikkah Bahrami, Iranian basketball player (b. 1982)
December 29 - Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer (b. 1972)
December 31 - Muhammad Osman Said, former Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1922)
December 31 - Ettore Sottsass, Italian architect (b. 1917)
Nobel prize winners
Chemistry - Gerhard Ertl
Economics - Leonid Hurwicz
Economics - Eric S. Maskin
Economics - Roger B. Myerson
Literature - Doris Lessing
Medicine - Mario R. Capecchi
Medicine - Sir Martin J. Evans
Medicine - Oliver Smithies
Peace - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Peace - Al Gore
Physics - Albert Fert
Physics - Peter Grunberg
References
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