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Gregorian Year
2007 (MMVII) was
a common year starting
on Monday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 2007th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 7th year of the 3rd millennium, the 7th year of
the 21st century,
and the 8th year of the 2000s decade. 2007 was designated as ·
International
Heliophysical Year[1] ·
International
Year of Languages[3] Contents · 1Events · 3Births · 4Deaths · 6New English
words and terms Events[edit] January[edit] ·
Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eurozone.[4] ·
Adam Air Flight 574 disappeared
from Jakarta's radar. A week later it was founded that the aircraft has crashed into
the Makassar Strait,
killing all 102 people on board.[5] ·
January 4 – Congress elected Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history. ·
January 8 – Russian oil supplies to
Poland, Germany, and Ukraine are cut as
the Russia–Belarus
energy disputeescalates;[6] they are restored three days later.[7] ·
January 9 – Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the
original iPhone at a Macworld keynote in San
Francisco. February[edit] ·
February 2 – The IPCC publishes
its fourth
assessment report, having concluded that global climate change is "very
likely" to have a predominantly human cause.[8] ·
February 3 – A
truck bomb explodes in Baghdad, Iraq,
killing at least 135 people and injures 339 others.[9] ·
February 13 – North Korea agrees to shut down its
nuclear facilities in Yongbyon by April 14 as a first step towards complete
denuclearization, receiving in return energy aid equivalent to 50,000 tons of
heavy fuel oil.[10] ·
February 26 – The International
Court of Justice finds Serbia guilty of failing to
prevent genocide in the Srebrenica massacre,
but clears it of direct responsibility and complicity in the case.[11] March[edit] ·
March 1 – The fourth International
Polar Year, a $1.73 billion research program to study both
the North Pole and South Pole, is launched in Paris.[12] ·
March 11 – According to the accusation[13] by Georgia, three
Russian helicopters fired on the Georgian-controlled[14] Kodori Gorge in
a break-away autonomous republic of Abkhazia in north-western Georgia. ·
March 13 – April 28 – The 2007 Cricket World
Cup is held in the West Indies and is won by Australia.[15] ·
March 23 – Naval forces of Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps arrest
Royal Navy personnel in disputed Iran-Iraq waters;[16] they were released on April 4.[17] ·
March 27 – Latvian Prime
Minister Aigars Kalvītis and Russian Prime
Minister Mikhail Fradkov sign a border treaty
between Latvia and Russia, officially
demarcating the border between the
two.[18] April[edit] ·
April 3 – French high speed passenger
train, the TGV, reaches a top speed of 574.8 km/h
(357.2 mph), breaking the record for the world's fastest conventional
train.[19] ·
April 16 – Seung-Hui Cho kills 32 people and
wounds 17 others in a shooting at Virginia Tech, a university in the United
States.[20][21][22] ·
April 18 – A series of
attacks take place across Baghdad, Iraq,
killing nearly 200 people.[23] ·
April 24 – Gliese 581c, a potentially Earth-like
extrasolar planet habitable for life, is discovered in the constellationLibra.[24] ·
April 26–27 – Ethnic Russian riot in Tallinn and other cities in
Estonia against the moving of the Bronze Soldier,
a Soviet World War II memorial.[25] May[edit] ·
May 17 – The Russian
Orthodox Church Abroad and the Moscow Patriarchate re-unite after 80 years of schism.[26] ·
May 20 – Sheikh Mohammed
bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai makes the largest single
charitable donation in modern history, committing €7.41 billion to an
educational foundation in the Middle East.[27] June[edit] ·
June 5 – NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second
fly-by of Venus en route to Mercury. ·
June 28 – 2007 European
heat wave: in the aftermath of Greece's worst heat wave in a century, at least 11
people are reported dead from heatstroke, approximately 200 wildfires break
out nationwide, and the country's electricity grid nearly
collapses due to record breaking demand. ·
June 29 – The iPhone,
the first modern smartphone, is released in the United States. It was later released in
the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Portugal, the Republic of Ireland and Austria in November 2007. July[edit] ·
July 7 – Live Earth Concerts are held in nine
major cities around the world to raise environmental awareness.[28] ·
July 17 – TAM Airlines
Flight 3054 overruns the runway of Săo
Paulo–Congonhas Airport and crashes, killing all 187 and 12
others on the ground.[29] ·
July 24 – Five Bulgarian nurses were released from
Libyan prison after eight and a half years spent behind bars in Benghazi and Tripoli, marking the end of the so-called
"HIV trial in Libya".[30] August[edit] ·
August 4 – The Phoenix spacecraft is launched
toward Mars to study its north pole.[31] ·
August 9 – The French global bank BNP Paribas in the United Kingdom
blocks withdrawals from three hedge fundsheavily committed in sub-prime mortgages, signaling the financial
crisis of 2007–2008.[32] ·
August 14 – Multiple suicide
bombings kill 572
people in Qahtaniya, northern Iraq.[33] ·
August 15 – An 8.0 earthquake strikes Peru,
killing at least 519 people, injuring more than 1,300, and causing tsunamiwarnings in the Pacific Ocean.[34] September[edit] ·
September 6 – Israeli Air Force airplanes attack a suspected
nuclear reactor in Syria in an airstrike.[35] ·
September 13 – The United
Nations General Assembly adopts the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. ·
September 14 – The SELENE spacecraft launches, with its
objective being to study the Moon.[36] ·
September 20 – The Universal
Forum of Cultures opens in Monterrey, Mexico. ·
September 25 – Mount Ruapehu in Tongariro
National Park in New Zealand, erupts. November[edit] ·
November 6 – A suicide bomber kills at
least fifty people in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, including six members of
the National
Assembly. ·
November 14 – High Speed 1 from London to the Channel Tunnel is opened to passengers. ·
November 16 – Up to 15,000 people are
believed to have been killed after Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh.[37] December[edit] ·
December 5 – Eight people are killed
and four others wounded when a gunman opens fire at Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska. ·
December 13 – Treaty of Lisbon is signed by members
states of European Union. ·
December 20 – The Pablo Picasso painting Portrait of
Suzanne Bloch, together with Candido Portinari's O
Lavrador de Café, is stolen from the Săo Paulo Museum
of Art.[38] ·
At
the age of 81 years, 244 days, Queen Elizabeth II became
the oldest ever reigning British monarch, surpassing Queen Victoria who was aged
81 years, 243 days upon her death on January 22, 1901. ·
The
Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the Schengen border-free
zone.[39] ·
Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir
Bhutto is assassinated, along with 20 other people, at an election
rally in Rawalpindi.[40] ·
Riots
erupt in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of
the general
election, triggering a political,
economic, and humanitarian crisis that killed over 1,000
people.[41] Unknown date[edit] ·
Mauritania is the last country to
criminalize slavery (officially "abolished" in 1981), making the
practice illegal everywhere in the world.[42] Births[edit] ·
February 16 – Choi Ro-woon, South Korean actor ·
April 10 – Princess
Ariane of the Netherlands, daughter of Prince
Willem-Alexander and Princess
Máxima. ·
April 21 – Princess
Isabella of Denmark, daughter of Crown
Prince Frederick and Crown
Princess Mary of Denmark. ·
April 29 – Infanta Sofía of
Spain, daughter of Felipe, Prince
of Asturias (now King Felipe VI) and Letizia,
Princess of Asturias. ·
June 6 – Aubrey
Anderson-Emmons, American actress ·
September 14 – Heo Jung-eun, South Korean child Actress ·
December 17 – James, Viscount
Severn, grandson of Elizabeth II, son of The Earl and Countess of
Wessex Deaths[edit] Main article: Deaths in 2007 January[edit] ·
January 2 – Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of
Jerusalem (b. 1911) ·
January 4 – Marais Viljoen, 5th State
President of South Africa (b. 1915) ·
January 5 – Momofuku Ando, Japanese inventor (b. 1910) ·
January 8 – Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born American
actress (b. 1922) ·
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) ·
Barzan Ibrahim
al-Tikriti, Iraqi politician (b. 1951) ·
Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (b. 1908) ·
January 17 – Art Buchwald, American humorist (b. 1925) ·
Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist
(b. 1954) ·
Denny Doherty, Canadian musician (The Mamas &
the Papas) (b. 1940) ·
Bam Bam Bigelow, American wrestler (b. 1961) ·
January 21 – Maria Cioncan, Romanian athlete (b. 1977) ·
January 22 – Abbé Pierre, French priest and founder of
Emmaus (b. 1912) ·
January 23 – Ryszard
Kapuściński, Polish journalist and author (b. 1932) ·
January 30 – Sidney Sheldon, American author and
screenwriter (b. 1917) ·
January 31 – Kirka Babitzin, Finnish singer (b. 1950) February[edit] ·
February 1 – Gian Carlo Menotti,
Italian-born composer and librettist (b. 1911) ·
February 6 – Frankie Laine, American singer (b. 1913) ·
February 7 – Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1927) ·
February 8 – Anna Nicole Smith,
American model and television personality (b. 1967) ·
Benedict Kiely, Irish author and broadcaster
(b. 1919) ·
Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b. 1934) ·
February 11 – Reginald Hugh
Hickling, British lawyer, colonial civil servant, law academic and
author (b. 1920) ·
February 12 – Peggy Gilbert, American saxophonist
(b. 1905) ·
Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer
(b. 1923) ·
Charles Norwood, American politician
(b. 1941) ·
Johanna Sällström,
Swedish actress (b. 1974) ·
February 15 – Robert Adler, Austrian-born inventor
(b. 1913) ·
Maurice Papon, French Vichy government
official (b. 1910) ·
Mike Awesome, American professional wrestler
(b. 1965) ·
Lothar-Günther
Buchheim, German author, painter, and art collector (b. 1918) ·
Dennis Johnson, American basketball player
(b. 1954) ·
February 24 – Bruce Bennett, American actor (b. 1906) ·
February 28 – Arthur M.
Schlesinger, Jr., American historian and political commentator
(b. 1917) March[edit] ·
March 4 ·
Thomas Eagleton, American politician
(b. 1929) ·
Bob Hattoy, American activist (b. 1950) ·
March 6 ·
Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher and
sociologist (b. 1929) ·
Allen Coage, American professional wrestler
(b. 1943) ·
March 8 – John Inman, English actor (b. 1935) ·
March 9 – Brad Delp, American singer (Boston) (b. 1951) ·
March 10 ·
Ernie Ladd, American football player and
professional wrestler (b. 1938) ·
Richard Jeni, American comedian (b. 1957) ·
March 11 – Betty Hutton, American actress (b. 1921) ·
March 12 ·
Gareth Hunt, English actor (b. 1943 ·
Antonio Ortiz Mena,
Mexican politician and economist (b. 1907) ·
March 14 ·
Lucie Aubrac, French World War II Resistance
fighter (b. 1912) ·
Gareth Hunt, English actor (b. 1943) ·
March 16 – Manjural Islam,
Bangladeshi cricketer (b. 1984) ·
March 17 ·
Jim Cronin,
British businessman (b. 1952) ·
March 18 – Bob Woolmer, English cricketer and coach
(b. 1948) ·
March 19 – Calvert DeForest, American actor and
comedian (b. 1921) ·
March 20 – Taha Yassin Ramadan,
Vice President of Iraq (b. 1938) ·
March 23 – Eric Medlen, American race car driver
(b. 1973) ·
March 25 – Andranik Margaryan,
14th Prime Minister of Armenia (b. 1951) ·
March 30 – Chrisye, Indonesian pop singer and
songwriter (b. 1949) April[edit] ·
April 1 ·
Laurie Baker, English architect (b. 1917) ·
Hans Filbinger, German jurist and politician
(b. 1913) ·
April 3 – Eddie
Robinson, American football coach (b. 1919) ·
April 4 – Bob Clark, American film director (b. 1939) ·
April 5 ·
Thomas Stoltz Harvey Pathologist
who conducted Albert Einstein's
autopsy (b. 1912) ·
Leela Majumdar, Bengali children's author
(b. 1908) ·
Darryl Stingley, American football player
(b. 1951) ·
Poornachandra
Tejaswi, Indian writer and novelist (b. 1938) ·
April 7 ·
Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (b. 1931) ·
Barry Nelson, American actor (b. 1917) ·
April 11 ·
Roscoe Lee Browne,
American actor (b. 1922) ·
Ronald Speirs, United States Army officer (b. 1920) ·
Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist and
playwright (b. 1922) ·
April 14 – Don Ho, American musician (b. 1930) ·
April 17 – Kitty Carlisle Hart,
American singer, actress & talk show panelist (b. 1910) ·
April 22 – Juanita
Millender-McDonald, American politician (b. 1938) ·
April 23 – Boris Yeltsin, first President
of the Russian Federation (b. 1931) ·
April 25 – Alan Ball, English footballer (b. 1945) ·
April 26 – Jack Valenti, American film executive,
creator of MPAA film rating
system (b. 1921) ·
April 27 – Mstislav
Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927) ·
April 28 ·
Dabbs Greer, American actor (b. 1917) ·
Carl
Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher
(b. 1912) ·
April 29 – Ivica Račan, 7th Prime Minister of
Croatia (b. 1944) ·
April 30 ·
Grégory Lemarchal,
French singer (b. 1983) ·
Tom Poston, American actor (b. 1921) ·
Gordon Scott, American actor (b. 1926) May[edit] ·
May 3 – Wally Schirra, American astronaut (b. 1923) ·
May 5 – Theodore Maiman, American physicist
(b. 1927) ·
May 11 – Malietoa
Tanumafili II, Samoan head of state (b. 1913) ·
May 12 – Mullah Dadullah
Akhund, Afghan Taliban military leader ·
May 14 – Colin St John Wilson,
English architect (b. 1922) ·
May 15 ·
Jerry Falwell, American evangelist (b. 1933) ·
Yolanda King, American actress and activist,
daughter of Martin Luther
King, Jr. (b. 1955) ·
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 27 – Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard)
(b. 1967) ·
May 28 ·
Marquise Hill, American football player
(b. 1982) ·
David Lane,
American white nationalist (b. 1938) June[edit] ·
June 2 – Huang Ju, Chinese politician (b. 1938) ·
June 4 – Craig L. Thomas, American politician
(b. 1933) ·
June 8 – Aden Abdullah
Osman Daar, first President
of Somalia (b. 1908) ·
June 11 – Mala Powers, American film actress (b. 1931) ·
June 12 – Don Herbert, American television
personality, Mr. Wizard (b. 1917) ·
June 13 – David Hatch, BBC Radio producer and comedian
(b. 1939) ·
June 14 ·
Ruth Bell Graham, Wife of Billy Graham
(b. 1920) ·
Kurt Waldheim, Austrian politician and
diplomat, former United Nations Secretary-General (b. 1918) ·
June 15 – Sherri Martel, American professional
wrestler (b. 1958) ·
June 17 – Gianfranco Ferré,
Italian designer (b. 1944) ·
June 18 – Bernard Manning, English comedian (b. 1930) ·
June 19 ·
Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer and actor
(b. 1919) ·
Klausjürgen Wussow,
German theatre and television actor (b. 1929) ·
June 22 – Nancy Benoit, American professional
wrestling valet and model (b. 1964) ·
June 23 – Rod Beck, American baseball player (b. 1968) ·
June 24 ·
Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer
(b. 1938) ·
Natasja Saad, Afro Danish rapper and reggae
singer (b. 1974) ·
Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler
(b. 1967) ·
June 26 – Jupp Derwall, German footballer and coach
(b. 1927) ·
June 27 – William Hutt,
Canadian stage and film actor (b. 1920) ·
June 28 – Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of
Japan (b. 1919) July[edit] ·
July 2 – Vojislav
Nikčević, Montenegrin professor and linguist (b. 1935) ·
July 5 – Régine Crespin,
French soprano (b. 1927) ·
July 9 ·
Charles Lane,
American actor (b. 1905) ·
Belinda Dann, Irish cattle station manager
(b. 1900) ·
July 11 ·
Lady Bird Johnson,
former First
Lady of the United States (b. 1912) ·
Alfonso López
Michelsen, 32nd Colombian President (b. 1913) ·
Ed Mirvish, Canadian businessman and
philanthropist (b. 1914) ·
Shag Crawford, American umpire in Major
League Baseball (b. 1916) ·
July 14 – John Ferguson,
Canadian professional hockey player, coach and executive (b. 1938) ·
July 18 – Kenji
Miyamoto, Japanese politician (b. 1908) ·
July 22 ·
László
Kovács, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1933) ·
Ulrich Mühe, German actor (b. 1953) ·
Jean Stablinski, French cyclist of Polish
origin (b. 1932) ·
July 23 ·
Benjamin Libet, American pioneering
scientist in the field of human consciousness (b. 1916) ·
Mohammed Zahir Shah,
last King of Afghanistan (b. 1914) ·
July 24 – Albert Ellis, American psychologist
(b. 1913) ·
July 29 ·
Mike Reid,
British comedian and actor (b. 1940) ·
Tom Snyder, American talk show host
(b. 1936) ·
July 30 ·
Michelangelo
Antonioni, Italian film director (b. 1912) ·
Teoctist
Arăpaşu, Ex-Romanian Orthodox Church Patriarch (b. 1915) ·
Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director
(b. 1918) ·
Bill
Walsh, American football coach (b. 1931) August[edit] ·
August 1 – Ryan Cox, South African professional road
racing cyclist (b. 1979) ·
August 3 – John
Gardner, British author (b. 1926) ·
August 5 ·
Oliver Hill, American lawyer (b. 1907) ·
Jean-Marie Lustiger,
French Cardinal Archbishop of Paris (b. 1926) ·
August 10 – Tony Wilson, English broadcaster, nightclub
manager, and record label owner (b. 1950) ·
August 12 – Merv Griffin, American television
personality (b. 1925) ·
Brooke Astor, American socialite and
philanthropist (b. 1902) ·
Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and
announcer (b. 1917) ·
August 15 – John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist
and advocate (b. 1918) ·
August 16 – Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer,
and composer (b. 1924) ·
August 17 – Eddie Griffin,
American basketball player (b. 1982) ·
August 18 – Michael Deaver, American political adviser
(b. 1938) ·
August 20 – Leona Helmsley, American hotel operator and
real estate investor (b. 1920) ·
August 24 – Abdul Rahman Arif,
3rd President of Iraq (b. 1916) ·
Raymond Barre, French politician and
economist (b. 1924) ·
Ray
Jones, English footballer (b. 1988) ·
August 26 – Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger politician (b. 1928) ·
Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984) ·
Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese actress (b. 1929) ·
Richard Jewell, American falsely accused of
bombing the Centennial
Olympic Park (b. 1962) ·
Pierre Messmer, French politician (b. 1916) ·
August 30 – Michael Jackson,
English writer (b. 1942) September[edit] ·
September 6 – Luciano Pavarotti,
Italian tenor (b. 1935) ·
September 7 – John Compton, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia
(b. 1925) ·
Anita Roddick, English entrepreneur
(b. 1942) ·
Jane Wyman, American actress, first wife
of Ronald Reagan (b. 1917) ·
Ian Porterfield, Scottish footballer
(b. 1946) ·
Joe Zawinul, Austrian musician (b. 1932) ·
September 14 – Benny Vansteelant,
Belgian duathlete (b. 1976) ·
Colin McRae, Scottish world rally champion
(b. 1968) ·
Brett Somers, American actress (b. 1924) ·
September 20 – Mahlon Clark, American musician (b. 1923) ·
Alice Ghostley, American actress (b. 1926) ·
Rex Humbard, American evangelist (b. 1919) ·
September 22 – Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (b. 1923) ·
Avraham Shapira, Israeli chief rabbi (b. 1914) ·
Kenji Nagai, Japanese journalist (b. 1957) ·
September 29 – Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927) October[edit] ·
Al Oerter, American athlete (b. 1936) ·
Ned Sherrin, English broadcaster and theatre
director (b. 1931) ·
October 3 – Tony Ryan, Irish businessman (b. 1936) ·
October 6 – Jo Ann Davis, American politician (b. 1950) ·
October 7 – Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle road racer
(b. 1975) ·
October 11 – Sri Chinmoy, Indian philosopher (b. 1931) ·
Soe Win,
Burmese politician (b. 1948) ·
Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (b. 1934) ·
October 13 – Bob Denard, French mercenary (b. 1929) ·
Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (b. 1921) ·
Toše Proeski, Macedonian singer (b. 1981) ·
Barbara West, 2nd to last living survivor of
the Titanic sinking
(b. 1911) ·
October 17 – Joey Bishop, American entertainer (b. 1918) ·
October 18 – William J. Crowe, American military
commander and ambassador (b. 1925) ·
October 19 – Jan Wolkers, Dutch author, sculptor and
painter (b. 1925) ·
October 22 – Čve Curie, French author, daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie (b. 1904) ·
October 23 – Lim Goh Tong, Malaysian Chinese businessman
(b. 1918) ·
Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer
(b. 1947) ·
Friedman Paul
Erhardt, German-American television chef (b. 1943) ·
Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist
(b. 1918) ·
Khun Sa, Burmese warlord (b. 1934) ·
October 28 – Porter Wagoner, American country singer
(b. 1927) ·
October 30 – Robert Goulet, American entertainer
(b. 1933) November[edit] ·
November 1 – Paul Tibbets, American general, pilot of
the Enola Gay (b. 1915) ·
Charmaine Dragun, Australian news anchor
(b. 1978) ·
S. P. Thamilselvan, Sri Lankan Tamil political leader (b. 1967) ·
Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer
(b. 1906) ·
The Fabulous Moolah,
American professional wrestler (b. 1923) ·
Martin
Meehan, Irish republican (b. 1945) ·
Ryan Shay, American runner (b. 1979) ·
November 5 – Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer and coach
(b. 1922) ·
November 6 – Hank Thompson,
American country singer (b. 1925) ·
November 7 – Hilda Braid, English actress (b. 1929) ·
November 8 – Chad Varah, English Anglican priest, founder
of the Samaritans (b. 1911) ·
November 9 – Luis Herrera Campins,
56th President of
Venezuela (b. 1925) ·
Laraine Day, American actress (b. 1920) ·
Augustus F. Hawkins,
American politician and civil rights lawmaker (b. 1907) ·
Norman Mailer, American writer (b. 1923) ·
November 11 – Delbert Mann, American film and television
director (b. 1920) ·
November 12 – Ira Levin, American novelist (b. 1929) ·
Kazuhisa Inao, Japanese baseball player
(b. 1937) ·
Wahab Akbar, Filipino politician (b. 1960) ·
November 15 – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and announcer
(b. 1928) ·
November 20 – Ian Smith, Prime Minister
of Rhodesia (b. 1919) ·
Fernando Fernán
Gómez, Spanish actor, director, and playwright (b. 1921) ·
Tom Johnson,
Canadian sports executive and hockey player (b. 1928) ·
November 22 – Verity Lambert, English producer (b. 1935) ·
November 23 – Vladimir Kryuchkov,
Russian Soviet-era bureaucrat (b. 1924) ·
November 25 – Kevin DuBrow, American musician (Quiet Riot) (b. 1955) ·
Sean Taylor, American football player
(b. 1983) ·
Robert Cade, American physician and inventor
of the beverage Gatorade (b. 1927) ·
Henry Hyde, American politician (b. 1924) ·
Roger Bonham Smith,
American businessman (b. 1925) ·
November 30 – Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil
(b. 1938) December[edit] ·
December 1 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player
(b. 1929) ·
Robert O. Anderson,
American businessman (b. 1917) ·
Les Shannon, English footballer and manager
(b. 1926) ·
Pimp C, American rapper (b. 1973) ·
Norval Morrisseau,
Canadian artist (b. 1932) ·
Chip Reese, American professional gambler
(b. 1951) ·
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 15 – Julia Carson, American politician (b. 1938) ·
December 16 – Dan Fogelberg, American singer and
songwriter (b. 1951) ·
December 18 – Bill Strauss, American satirist, author and
historian (b. 1947) ·
Ken Hendricks, American entrepreneur
(b. 1941) ·
Carol Bly, Teacher, award-winning American
author of short stories, essays, and nonfiction (b. 1930) ·
Michael Kidd, American choreographer
(b. 1915) ·
Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist and
composer (b. 1925) ·
December 26 – Joe Dolan, Irish singer (b. 1939) ·
Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician
(assassinated; b. 1953) ·
Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (b. 1920) ·
Muhammad Osman Said,
Former Libyan prime minister (b. 1922). ·
Ettore Sottsass, Italian architect (b. 1917) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Economics – Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin, and Roger Myerson ·
Peace – Albert Gore Jr, and the United Nations Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change ·
Physics – Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Mario Capecchi, Oliver Smithies, and Sir Martin Evans New English words and terms[edit] ·
additive
manufacturing ·
collony
collapse disorder ·
hashtag ·
listicle ·
netbook ·
sharing
economy ·
tweep[43] See also |
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