2007

• 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 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 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 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 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 1 – A 2100 year old melon is found by archaeologists in western Japan^[4]
• June 2 – Four people are charged with a terror plot to blow up JFK International Airport in New York City.^[5]
• 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.^[6]
• 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.^[7]
• June 30 – A calendar blue moon occurs in most of the Eastern Hemisphere.

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

• 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 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 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.

• 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

• 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 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 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 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 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 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)

• 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 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)

• 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 Grünberg

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