(Redirected from As of 2007)
Year '2007' ('
MMVII') is the current year, a
common year starting on Monday of the
Gregorian calendar and the ''
AD/
CE'' era.
The year is usually pronounced as "two thousand and seven" or "two thousand seven"; however, some people prefer "twenty oh-seven" (as per the convention for
1907) or simply as "oh-seven".
The year 2007 has been designated:
★ In the
Chinese calendar, dates from
February 18 onwards are in the ''
Year of the Pig''
★
International Polar Year[1]
★
International Heliophysical Year[2]
★
European Year of Equal Opportunities for All[3]
★
Year of the Dolphin[4]
UNESCO has formally recognized fifteen anniversaries for 2007.
[5]
Events
January
★
January 1 -
Bulgaria and
Romania join the
European Union.
★
January 1 -
Slovenia adopts the
euro as its official currency, replacing the
tolar.
★
January 1 -
South Korea's
Ban Ki-moon becomes the new
United Nations Secretary-General, replacing
Kofi Annan.
★
January 1 -
Hong Kong's new smoking law starts. From this day onwards, smoking is prohibited in clubs, karaoke bars, restaurants, and all public places.
★
January 1 -
Adam Air Flight 574, a routine domestic flight in
Indonesia, disappears; debris is found 10 days later, but the aircraft remains missing.
★
January 1 -
Angola joins
OPEC.
★
January 1 -
War in Somalia: Fighters of the
Islamic Courts Union abandon their last stronghold in
Kismayo and flee for the
Kenyan border.
★
January 3 - Former
United States president Gerald Ford is buried in
Grand Rapids, Michigan.
★
January 3 -
China conducts an
anti-terror raid in
Xinjiang.
★
January 4 -
Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female
Speaker of the
United States House of Representatives.
★
January 5 -
War in Somalia: The first shots are fired in the
battle for control of the border town of
Ras Kamboni.
★
January 8 -
Russian oil supplies to
Poland,
Germany, and
Ukraine are cut as the
Russia-Belarus energy dispute escalates; restored 3 days later.
★
January 8 - The
Florida Gators beat
Ohio State 41-14 in the
BCS National Championship Game to be crowned
NCAA National Football Champions.
★
January 9 -
War in Somalia: U.S. planes conduct
air strikes against suspected terrorists, possibly having killed senior
Al Qaeda operative
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed.
★
January 9 - An
AerianTur-M Antonov An-26 crashes in
Balad,
Iraq. The
Islamic Army in Iraq claims to have shot it down.
★
January 10 -
U.S. President George W. Bush announces a plan to station 21,500 additional troops into
Iraq.
★
January 11 - In
Bangladesh, a state of emergency is declared by caretaker President
Iajuddin Ahmed, following weeks of violent protests preceding upcoming
parliamentary elections.
★
January 11 -
Vietnam joins the
World Trade Organization as its 150th member.
★
January 11 -
China successfully tests a ground-based
ballistic missile capable of destroying satellites in orbit, drawing criticisms from other countries.
★
January 12 - An
Argentine judge issues a warrant for the arrest of former
President Isabel Martínez de Perón in connection with the disappearance of a
human rights worker in
1976.
★
January 12 - The US Embassy in
Athens is attacked with a
rocket propelled grenade, which causes minimal damage and no injuries.
★
January 12 -
Comet McNaught, the brightest comet in over 40 years, makes
perihelion.
★
January 13 - The Greek ship ''Server'' breaks in half off the
Norwegian coast, releasing over 200 tons of crude
oil.
★
January 14 - The
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement officially adopts the
Red Crystal as a non-religious emblem for use in its overseas operations.
★
January 14 -
Nazanin Fatehi, a 19 year old
Iranian girl previously
sentenced to death for killing a man she claimed tried to
rape her, is exonerated, as her re-trial comes to an end.
★
January 14 -
Ryan Hall broke the US half marathon record.
★
January 15 - The
Sentosa Express monorail opens in
Singapore.
★
January 15 -
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and
half-brother of
Saddam Hussein, and
Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former
chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq.
★
January 17 -
Hurricane force winds from
storm Kyrill claim at least 40 lives in western
Europe.
★
January 17 - Protests occur in
India and the
United Kingdom against the British series of
''Celebrity Big Brother'' after
Jade Goody,
Danielle Lloyd and
Jo O'Meara were alleged to have been racially abusive towards
Bollywood star
Shilpa Shetty.
★
January 17 -
Doomsday Clock is set to 5 minutes to midnight.
★
January 18 -
Comet McNaught, the brightest
comet to appear in over 40 years, becames visible over the
Southern Hemisphere.
★
January 19 -
Israel released $100 million in frozen assets to President
Mahmoud Abbas of the
Palestinian National Authority in order to bolster the president's position.
[1]
★
January 22 - A
bombing in a market in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 88 people.
★
January 24 - The
Israeli
Ministry of Justice announces that the
President of Israel,
Moshe Katsav, will be charged with
rape and abuse of power.
★
January 25 - The
President of Israel,
Moshe Katsav, takes a temporary
leave of absence due to a
sex scandal.
★
January 28 - A
battle between
insurgents and U.S.-backed Iraqi troops kills 300 suspected terrorists in
Najaf,
Iraq.
★
January 28 -
February 4 - The
2007 Asian Winter Games are held in
Changchun,
China.
★
January 29 - A
suicide bomber kills three people in a bakery in
Eilat,
Israel.
★
January 31 - The
Venezuelan
National Assembly gives President
Hugo Chávez the power to
rule by decree for 18 months.
★
January 31 -
Delta Air Lines creditors officially reject
US Airways'
hostile takeover bid.
★
January 31 - The
Mooninite scare occurs in Boston when devices used in a
guerrilla marketing campaign for the animated television series ''
Aqua Teen Hunger Force'' are mistaken for
improvised explosive devices.
February
★
February 1 -
British Prime Minister Tony Blair is questioned for a second time in the '
cash for peerages' probe as a witness.
★
February 2 - An
unseasonal tornado in central Florida kills at least 20 people.
★
February 2 -
Palestinian factional violence:
Hamas and its rival
Fatah renew their truce after violence broke out following the initial ceasefire.
★
February 2 -
Chinese President
Hu Jintao signs a series of economic deals with
Sudan.
★
February 2 -
War in Somalia: Eight people are killed in a mortar attack in
Somalia's capital
Mogadishu.
★
February 2 -
Martti Ahtisaari unveils a
United Nations plan for the final status of
Kosovo;
Serbian leaders denounce the proposal.
★
February 2 - The
IPCC publishes its
fourth assessment report, having concluded that
global climate change is "very likely" to have a predominantly human cause.
★
February 3 - The deadly
H5N1 strain of
bird flu is found at a ''
Bernard Matthews''
turkey farm in
Suffolk.
★
February 3 -
State of Emergency is declared in
Indonesia after '
El Nino'-like flooding.
★
February 3 - A
truck bombing in a crowded
Baghdad market kills at least 135 people and injured a further 339 others.
★
February 4 - The
Indianapolis Colts defeat the
Chicago Bears 29-17 in
Super Bowl XLI, played at
Dolphin Stadium,
Miami.
★
February 10 -
U.S. Senator Barack Obama of
Illinois announces a
presidential bid in
Springfield, Illinois.
★
February 11 -
Portuguese voters agree to legalise
abortion in a national
referendum.
★
February 11 - The
49th Annual Grammy Awards take place at the
Staples Center in Los Angeles.
★
February 12 - An armed
gunman shoots and kills five people at the
Trolley Square Mall in
Salt Lake City,
Utah, before being killed by the police, bringing the evening's rampage death toll to six.
★
February 13 -
North Korea agrees to shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon by Apr. 14 as a first step towards complete denuclearization, receiving in return energy aid equivalent to 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil.
[6]
★
February 13 -
Taiwan opposition leader
Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the
Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement; Ma also announces his candidacy for the
2008 presidential election.
★
February 17 - The
2007 NBA All-Star Game was held in the
Thomas & Mack Center in
Las Vegas.
★
February 18 -
Melbourne Victory beats
Adelaide United 6-0 in the 2006–2007
A-League Grand Final at the
Telstra Dome in
Melbourne,
Australia.
★
February 18 -
Kevin Harvick wins the
2007 Daytona 500.
★
February 22 - Huge fire causes 26 fatalities in care centre "Reģi" which is located in
Alsunga,
Latvia.
★
February 25 - The
European Space Agency confirms
Rosetta's successful Mars trajectory
fly-by.
★
February 25 - The
79th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by
Ellen DeGeneres, takes place at the
Kodak Theater in
Hollywood.
★
February 25 - The Intel building in
Austin, Texas implodes to the ground.
★
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.
★
February 27 -
The Chinese Correction: world
stock markets plummet after China and Europe release less-than-expected growth reports.The Chinese stock market drops by 9% during a single session, the largest slide in 10 years. The
Dow Jones Industrial Average loses 416.02 points, its largest single-day decline since the
September 11, 2001 attacks.
★
February 27 -
2007 Bagram Air Base bombing: A suicide attack at Bagram Air Base while Vice President of the United States
Dick Cheney is visiting kills 23, but the Vice President is not injured. The
Taliban claims responsibility, and declares that Cheney was their intended target.
★
February 28 - The
New Horizons space probe makes a
gravitational slingshot against
Jupiter which changes its trajectory towards
Pluto.
March
★ March -
India's
10th Five Year Plan comes to an end.
★
March 1 -
International Polar Year, a $1.5 billion research program to study both the
North Pole and
South Pole, is launched in
Paris.
★
March 1 -
Airbus announces that it will cease work indefinitely on the
A380F freight aircraft.
★
March 3 -
March 4 - Total
lunar eclipse.
★
March 4 -
Parliamentary elections take place in
Estonia and in
Abkhazia.
★
March 5 -
March 15 - The
2007 National People's Congress is held in
Beijing,
China. The
Property Law of the People's Republic of China is officially adopted.
★
March 6 - ''
Mega Millions'' sets a new world record for the
highest jackpot of US $370 million.
★
March 7 -
Garuda Indonesia Flight 200, a
Boeing 737-400, crashes at
Yogyakarta on the
Indonesian island of
Java, killing many on board.
★
March 7 -
Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007 is held.
★
March 8 -
Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert admits 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 13 - The
Stardust Resort & Casino in
Las Vegas is imploded.
★
March 17 -
Chlorine bombs injure hundreds in
Baghdad, Iraq.
★
March 17 -
France wins the
2007 Six Nations Championship on points difference after a controversial try.
★
March 18 -
2007 Formula One season begins at the
Australian Grand Prix.
★
March 22 -
NATO troops launch two assaults in
Helmand Province,
Afghanistan, killing 38
Taliban terrorists. NATO suffers no casualties.
★
March 23 - Naval forces of
Iran's Revolutionary Guard seize Royal Navy personnel in disputed Iran-Iraq waters.
★
March 25 - In
Berlin 27 European ministers celebrate the 50-year
Treaty of Rome.
★
March 26 - A
National Assembly election takes place in the
Canadian province of
Québec. The Liberal Party (le Parti Libéral du Québec) wins the elections with 48 seats out of 125 and forms a minority government.
★
March 27 -
Prime Minister of Latvia Aigars Kalvitis and
Prime minister of Russia Mikhail Fradkov finally signs a border treaty between
Latvia and
Russia.
★
March 28 - Former
MLB pitcher
Ugueth Urbina is sentenced to 14 years in prison.
★
March 31 -
Sydney, Australia, turns off its lights for 1 hour between 7:30pm and 8:30pm as a
political statement for
Global Climate Change.
April
★
April 2 - The
Florida Gators defeat the
Ohio State Buckeyes in the
2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament Championship Game, to win their second consecutive National Championship.
★
April 2 - The
Solomon Islands is shaken by a magnitude 8.1
earthquake, and hit by a subsequent
tsunami.
★
April 3 -
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dissolves the
Ukrainian Parliament following defections that increased the majority of his opponents. It has been nicknamed the "Second
Orange Revolution".
★
April 3 - Pat Summit and the Tennessee Lady Volunteers defeat Rutgers to win their 7th NCAA Women's National Title.
★
April 4 -
NATO and
Afghan forces retake a key town from the
Taliban in
Sangin in southern
Helmand Province.
★
April 4 -
Iran announced it will release the
British sailors and marines that they captured on
March 23. The captives arrive back in the UK the next day.
★
April 5 - The Greek cruise ship
M/S ''Sea Diamond'' strikes a reef off the harbor of
Santorini; the ship sinks the next day.
★
April 6 - Severe clashes between two rival factions erupted in
Parachinar, a tribal area of
Pakistan bordering the famous
Tora Bora Heights.
★
April 7 - The
Michigan State Spartans defeated the
Boston College Eagles in the
NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship in
St. Louis, Missouri.
★
April 8 -
Zach Johnson wins the
2007 Masters Tournament.
★
April 10 -
NFL commissioner
Roger Goodell suspends
Tennessee Titans star cornerback
Adam "Pacman" Jones for the entire 2007 season.
★
April 11 -
Al Qaeda claims responsibility for
two bomb blasts in the Algerian capital of
Algiers. At least 33 people have been killed and 222 others injured.
★
April 12 -
U.S. negotiator to the DPRK nuclear issue,
Christopher Hill, states that North Korea is unexpected to meet the April 14 deadline for shutting down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon as previously agreed.
[7]
★
April 12 - Radio personality
Don Imus is fired by
CBS for making controversial comments about the
Rutgers women's basketball team.
★
April 13 -
AP breaks a story about the massacre of civilians during the Korean War by the United States Armed Forces. It is written by a Korean AP writer.
★
April 14 - Retired chess champion
Garry Kasparov is detained in Moscow for participating in a banned march.
★
April 16 - The
Virginia Tech massacre takes place in the premises of
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in
Blacksburg, Virginia. 32 people are shot dead by
Cho Seung Hui in the deadliest single shooting incident in the history of the
United States. Two days later a video diatribe is presented by NBC news.
★
April 17 - The
Pound Sterling hits a 15-year high against the US dollar, breaking through the US$2 level for the first time since 1992.
★
April 17 – The 2014 Asian Games is awarded to be held in Incheon, South Korea, winning over India’s New Dehli.
★
April 18 - 32
Chinese steel workers are burnt to death in the
Qinghe Special Steel Corporation disaster.
★
April 19 - US and allied air forces conduct massive exercises over
South Korea with over 500 planes.
[8]
★
April 20 - Two are dead after a shooting at
NASA's
Johnson Space Center in
Houston.
★
April 21 - Presidential elections are held in
Nigeria.
★
April 21 - A
Blue Angels plane #6
crashes during an air show in
Beaufort, South Carolina, killing pilot
Kevin Davis.
★
April 22 - The first round of the
French presidential election of 2007 takes place.
★
April 23 -
Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s first President following the dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991-1999), passes away.
★
April 23 - A bombing in Iraq kills 9 U.S. soldiers of the
82nd Airborne Division and wounds 20. The Islamic State of Iraq, an al-Qaida group, claims responsibility for one of the worst attacks on the ground forces since the 2003 invasion.
★
April 23 - 2 die and 2 are injured in a luxury apartment complex shooting in Houston, reported to be close to where former President George H.W. Bush presently resides.
[2]
★
April 23 -
Bogotá, Colombia, begins its term as
World Book Capital.
★
April 24 -
Abortion is legalized in
Mexico City.
★
April 24 -
Gliese 581 c, a potentially habitable Earth-like extrasolar planet, is discovered in the
constellation Libra.
★
April 25 - The
Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 135.95 points to close at 13089.89; its first close above 13000 in its history.
★
April 25 - The
Burj Dubai reaches the height of the
Sears Tower on its way to becoming the tallest building in the world. Its construction is led by Samsung E&C and was designed by the same company that designed the Sears Tower,
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
★
April 25 - A U.S. Congressman introduces articles to
impeach Vice President Dick Cheney.
[9]
★
April 26 - Russians start a riot in
Tallinn,
Estonia, about moving the
Bronze Soldier.
★
April 27 -
Turkish Presidential Election first round, which was later declared invalid by a Turkish court.
★
April 28 - An
earthquake registering 4.3 on the
Richter scale strikes
Kent,
England,
United Kingdom.
May
★
May 3 -
Scottish Parliament election, 2007: The
Scottish National Party became the largest party in
Scotland for the first time in their history.
★
May 3 -
Local government elections in
Scotland and most of
England.
★
May 3 -
National Assembly for Wales elections 2007.
★
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 -
Nicolas Sarkozy is elected
President of the French Republic, defeating
Ségolène Royal with 53% of the vote in the
French Presidential Election.
★
May 6 -
Manchester United wins the
English Premier League after title rivals
Chelsea draw against
Arsenal.
★
May 6 -
Panathinaikos BC wins basketball's
Euroleague after beating
CSKA Moscow 93-91 in Athens Olympic stadium.
★
May 6 -
A.C. Paranavaí wins its first ever Paraná State Championship after a scoreless draw against
Paraná Clube in the city of
Curitiba,
Brazil.
★
May 7 -
Chinese slave scandal.
★
May 8 - A fire occurs at
Griffith Park in
Los Angeles,
California.
★
May 8 -
Devolved government is restored to
Northern Ireland, with
Ian Paisley as First Minister and
Martin McGuinness as Deputy First Minister.
★
May 9 -
Subtropical Storm Andrea forms off the coast of
Florida, the earliest subtropical storm since
Subtropical Storm Ana in
2003.
★
May 10 - Wildfire threatens the city of Avalon on
Santa Catalina Island, California
★
May 10 -
Tony Blair announces he will resign as
British Prime Minister on
27th June triggering a
Labour Party leadership election.
★
May 12 - The final of the
Eurovision Song Contest 2007 is held in Helsinki, resulting in
Serbia's first victory.
★
May 14 - Senatorial Elections in the
Philippines was held.
★
May 15 - Coalition government of
Fatah and
Hamas in
Palestinian National Authority appeared to break down, as massive fighting breaks out in
Gaza Strip.
★
May 16 -
Nicolas Sarkozy officially became
President of the French Republic after taking over from
Jacques Chirac.
★
May 16-
May 20 - The
European Festival of Youth Choirs was held in
Basel,
Switzerland.
★
May 17 -
Alex Salmond officially became
First Minister of Scotland after taking over from
Jack McConnell.
★
May 17 - The
Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and the
Moscow Patriarchate re-united after eighty years of schism.
★
May 17 -
Hong Kong media regulator receives more than thousand complaints about the
bible being too sexual.
★
May 19 - The 126th
FA Cup Final is held, the first at the new
Wembley Stadium.
Chelsea FC beat
Manchester United 1-0.
★
May 20 - The ruler of
Dubai, Sheikh
Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum makes the largest single charitable donation in modern history, committing €7.41 billion to an educational foundation in the Middle East.
★
May 20 - Clashes in
Tripoli, Lebanon, spark the
2007 Lebanon conflict.
★
May 21 - The
19th century ship the ''
Cutty Sark'' is badly damaged by fire in
London, UK.
★
May 23 -
A.C. Milan beat
Liverpool F.C. 2-1 in the
UEFA Champions League 2006-07 final at the
Olympic Stadium in
Athens,
Greece.
★
May 24 -
General election in the
Republic of Ireland.
★
May 25 -
Ozeki Hakuho clinches the
Emperor's Cup at the Summer Grand
Sumo Tournament (Natsu Basho) in
Tokyo, Japan.
★
May 25 -
Danish former professional bicyclist
Bjarne Riis admitted to having used
doping when winning the
1996 Tour de France.
★
May 27 -
Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV) is taken off the air after the government of
Venezuela refused to renew its license. This action results in
protests. On July 16, 2007, RCTV resumed broadcasting via cable and satellite.
★
May 27 -
Dario Franchitti wins the
2007 Indianapolis 500.
★
May 28 -
Riyo Mori was crowned the new
Miss Universe 2007 in
Mexico City.
★
May 29 - Inauguration of newly elected
President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria at the Abuja Eagle Square and first civilian to civilian transfer of power in
Nigeria.
★
May 31 -
Valdis Zatlers is elected
President of Latvia, defeating
Aivars Endziņš in the
Latvian presidential election.
★
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 discovered by archaeologists in western Japan
[10]
★
June 1 - U.S. warships bombard a Somali village where Islamic militants had set up a base
[11]
★
June 2 - Four people are charged with a terror plot to blow up
JFK International Airport in
New York.
[12]
★
June 4 - Ten people, including a Californian National Guard officer and former Laotian general, are charged over plans to overthrow the Laotian Government.
[13][14]
★
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.
[15]
★
June 5 - Eleven people are killed and 23 others injured in a
train crash near Kerang in
Victoria,
Australia.
★
June 6 - Twelve people are killed by cyclone
Gonu in
Oman.
★
June 6 - The
Anaheim Ducks defeat the
Ottawa Senators 4 games to 1 to win the
NHL's
Stanley Cup.
★
June 6-
June 8 - The
33rd G8 summit took place amid strong protests in
Heiligendamm,
Germany.
★
June 8 - The
Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' successfully launched on mission
STS-117.
★
June 10 - The first round of a
legislative election was held in
France, and a
general election was held in
Belgium.
★
June 10 - The
61st Tony Awards, honoring
Broadway theatres' best shows, took place at
Radio City Music Hall.
★
June 10 -
Lewis Hamilton wins the
Canadian Grand Prix becoming the first driver of mixed racial origin to win a
Formula One race.
★
June 12 -
Justin Verlander threw just the 6th
No hitter in
Detroit Tigers history.
★
June 14 - The
Green Party enters government for the first time in
Ireland, with
Fianna Fáil and the
Progressive Democrats.
★
June 14 - The
San Antonio Spurs sweep the
Cleveland Cavaliers to win the
2007 NBA Finals.
★
June 17 -
Lewis Hamilton wins the
US Grand Prix becoming the first black driver to win two
Formula One races.
★
June 18 - Three people are injured and one dead in a shooting near
Flinders St in
Melbourne.
★
June 18 - Nine
Charleston,
South Carolina firefighters are killed by a roof collapse while battling a furniture store fire.
★
June 20 - The Argentinian team
Boca Juniors beat the Brazilian team
Grêmio to win the
Copa Libertadores 2007. This was the last match of
Juan Román Riquelme for Boca Juniors. In this match Riquelme scored 2 goals.
★
June 22 - For the first time in
NHL history, two American players are drafted first and second into the
NHL.
★
June 22 - An
F4 tornado tears through
Elie, Manitoba, no injuries.
★
June 24 - The refurbished
Millennium Dome, now called The O
2, reopens in
London.
★
June 24 - South Lake Tahoe - A wildfire starts eventually destroying 254 homes in the area.
★
June 25 -
WWE wrestler
Chris Benoit, his wife
Nancy Benoit, and son Daniel, are found dead as the result of a murder-suicide that took place over the previous weekend.
★
June 25 - Groundbreaking of the
Chicago Spire.
★
June 25 - Intense heatwaves begin to hit Southeast Europe as temperatures reach 46c in Bulgaria and Greece.
★
June 26-
July 15 - The
Copa América 2007 soccer tournament takes place in
Venezuela.
★
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 28 - In the aftermath of
Greece's worst
heatwave in a century, at least 11 people are reported dead from
heatstroke, approximately 200
wildfires break out across the country's electricity grid nearly collapses due to record breaking demand.
★
June 28 - Start of the
Manchester International Festival.
★
June 29 -
British police
defuse a bomb in
Haymarket,
Central London.
[16]
★
June 30 - A
Jeep Cherokee drove into the entrance of the main terminal of
Glasgow International Airport in an
apparent terrorist incident, resulting in a petrol-driven fire.
[17]
★
June 30 - A calendar
blue moon occurred in most of the
Eastern Hemisphere.
★
June 30 - The
FIFA U-20 World Cup 2007 soccer tournament takes place in
Canada.
★
June 30 - A
parliamentary election was held in
Papua New Guinea.
July
★
July 1 -
Hong Kong celebrates 10 years of Chinese rule.
★
July 1 -
Portugal takes over the
Presidency of the Council of the European Union from
Germany.
★
July 1 - Smoking in public and work places is banned in
England.
★
July 1 - Smoking banned in pubs and clubs in
New South Wales and
Victoria,
Australia.
★
July 1 - A law goes into effect lowering the
voting age in
Austria from 18 to 16 in federal elections.
★
July 1 -
Russia is composed of 85 federal subjects instead of 86 as
Koryakia was merged into the
Kamchatka Oblast per a 2005 referendum.
★
July 1 - The
Concert For Diana is held at Wembley Stadium to commemorate
Diana, Princess of Wales.
★
July 2 -
Venus and
Saturn are in
conjunction, separation 46 arcsecs.
★
July 3 - Torrential rains cause the onset of the
2007 Sudan floods, the worst in the
Sudan's history.
★
July 4 - The
50-star U.S. flag replaces the
48-star flag, which flew from
1912 to
1959, as the longest-flying American flag.
★
July 4 -
Sochi is elected as the host city of the
2014 Winter Olympics. It was announced during the 119th
International Olympic Committee Session in
Guatemala City,
Guatemala.
Sochi was selected over
Pyeongchang and
Salzburg.
★
July 7 -
Venus Williams wins the Women's Singles, at
Wimbledon for a fourth time.
★
July 7 -
Live Earth Concerts are held throughout 9 major cities around the world.
★
July 7-
July 29 - The
2007 Tour de France begins, with the ''grand départ'' being from
London.
★
July 7-
July 29 - The
Asian Cup 2007 Football (Soccer) tournament begins, taking place in
Indonesia,
Thailand,
Malaysia and
Vietnam.
★
July 8 - Boeing launches the new
Boeing 787.
★
July 8 -
Roger Federer wins the Men's Singles, at
Wimbledon for a fifth time in a row.
★
July 9 - While celebrating Argentinean Independence Day, snow falls in
Buenos Aires for the first time in almost one hundred years.
★
July 10 - The
American League defeats the
National League 5-4 in the
2007 MLB All-Star Game in
San Francisco, the AL's 10th straight All-Star Game victory (excluding
the 2002 tie).
Ichiro Suzuki of the
Seattle Mariners hits the first inside the park home run in the history of the All-Star Game.
★
July 10 - A
Cessna 310R twin-engine airplane crashes into two homes in
Sanford, Florida, killing three adults and two children.
★
July 10 -
Zheng Xiaoyu, head of
State Food and Drug Administration of the
People's Republic of China executed.
★
July 11 - The ninth
All Africa Games kick off in
Algiers,
Algeria
★
July 12 - For the first time in the United States, a Hindu (chaplain
Rajan Zed from Nevada) is chosen to deliver the morning prayer in the U.S. Senate chamber — but the ceremony is disrupted by three
Christian right fanatics, shouting down from the gallery at the Hindu clergyman. The Christian fanatics are subsequently arrested for disruption of the Senate.
★
July 12 -
Queen Elizabeth II visits the world's largest Commonwealth war grave in
Ypres,
Belgium to pay respects to fallen soldiers of the
Battle of Passchendaele.
★
July 13 - The
15th Pan Am Games opens in
Rio de Janeiro.
★
July 14 - Following a presidential decree,
Russia withdraws from the
Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
★
July 15 -
Brazil defeats
Argentina 3-0 in the
Copa América 2007 Final.
★
July 15 - In
Tacoma, Washington, the second span of the
Tacoma Narrows Bridge opens to traffic, making it the longest twin suspension bridge in the world.
★
July 16 - Earthquake occurs in Japan, killing seven and causing a pipe at a nuclear power plant to break and release about 300 gallons of radioactive water.
★
July 16 - Britain expels four Russian diplomats in response to a refusal by the Russians to extradite Andrei Ludovoi, the suspect behind the murder of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko in London.
★
July 17 -
TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054 overruns the runway of
Congonhas-São Paulo International Airport, crossing a major runway during rush hour, crashing into a warehouse and exploding, killing all 186 on board plus some people on the ground and in the building.
★
July 18 -
Nelson Mandela convenes a group of world leaders to contribute their wisdom, independent leadership and integrity to tackle some of the world's toughest problems as he turns 89. Members of the group include
Graça Machel,
Desmond Tutu, Muhammad Yunus,
Jimmy Carter,
Mary Robinson,
Li Zhaoxing and
Kofi Annan.
★
July 18 - At the height of rush hour in New York City
a major steam pipe bursts, releasing millions of gallons of boiling water and super heated steam. Only one fatality occurred; a pedestrian who went into cardiac arrest.
★
July 19 -
Ol Doinyo Lengai mountain erupts, bringing a stop to the daily week long tremors experienced in
Nairobi and Northern
Tanzania. No deaths are reported.
★
July 19 - Russia expels four British embassy staff in a tit-for-tat response over Britain's expulsion of four of Russia's diplomats. Russia also refuses to cooperate with Britain over the war on terror.
★
July 19 -
Prathiba Patil is elected as the first female
President of India.
★
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 22 -
Floods cause chaos through wide areas of
Britain, especially the counties of
Gloucestershire,
Warwickshire,
Worcestershire and
Oxfordshire, leaving hundreds homeless and thousands of vehicles stranded on major roads.
★
July 22 -
Parliamentary elections took place in
Turkey.
★
July 26 -
Atlanta Falcons star quarterback
Michael Vick is arraigned on Federal dogfighting charges.
★
July 27 - Two television news
helicopters
collide in midair while covering a police chase in
Phoenix, Arizona, killing both pilots and two
photojournalists.
★
July 29 - The ruling coalition of
Japan lost its majority in the upper house after the
election.
★
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 over the
Mississippi River in
Minneapolis, Minnesota between University Avenue and Washington Avenue collapses at 6:05 pm CST during the later part of
rush hour, killing 13 people.
★
August 1 -
Scouting celebrates its
100th birthday with worldwide celebrations.
★
August 3 - A strain of
foot and mouth disease is found on a farm at
Wanborough, near to
Guildford,
Surrey. Gordon Brown holds a
COBRA meeting by phone on the outbreak. For more information see
2007 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak.
★
August 4 - A
UK-wide ban on movement of all livestock is in place after foot and mouth disease is found on the Surrey farm.
★
August 4 - Smoking in public places is banned in
Slovenia.
★
August 4 - The
Phoenix spacecraft launches toward the Martian north pole.
★
August 6 -
Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert arrives in historic Palestianian town of
Jericho, becoming the first Prime Minister of Israel to visit the
West Bank or
Gaza Strip in over seven years. Olmert met with Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas.
★
August 6 - The
Crandall Canyon Mine in
Emery County,
Utah collapses, trapping six miners.
★
August 7 -
San Francisco Giants left fielder
Barry Bonds hits his 756th career
home run, surpassing the record for most career home runs which
Hank Aaron held for nearly 34 years.
★
August 8 - The
Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'' is successfully launched on mission
STS-118.
★
August 8 - The 21st
World Scout Jamboree at Hylands Park, Essex closes.
★
August 9 - The
Dow Jones Industrial Average loses 387.18 points, its largest single-day drop since February 27.
★
August 4-
August 11 - The
National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at
Mold,
Flintshire,
Wales.
★
August 4-
August 11 - The 92nd
World Congress of Esperanto is held in
Yokohama,
Japan.
★
August 11 - The
Premier League and
Football League seasons start in
England.
★
August 12 -
Tiger Woods wins
PGA Championship, his 13th career major.
★
August 14 - Multiple suicide bombings
kill 572 people in
Qahtaniya, northern
Iraq.
★
August 14 - At least 22 people are killed, and at least 39 missing, as a bridge collapses in the southeastern province of
Hunan,
China.
★
August 15 -
NBA referee
Tim Donaghy surrenders to police and pleads guilty to charges brought up by the
FBI investigation that he placed bets on games that he refereed.
★
August 15 -
India and
Pakistan mark the 60th anniversary of their independence from the
British Empire.
★
August 15 - An
8.0 earthquake strikes
Peru, killing 512 people, injuring more than 1,500, and causing
tsunami warnings in the
Pacific Ocean.
★
August 16 - The
Crandall Canyon Mine in
Emery County,
Utah, collapses a second time, killing three rescue workers and injuring six more.
★
August 21 -
Hurricane Dean, a powerful
Category 5 storm, slams into a largely evacuated
Yucatán Peninsula of
Mexico.
★
August 21 -
STS-118 lands at the
Kennedy Space Center, completing
Space Shuttle Endeavour's 19th flight.
★
August 22 - The
Texas Rangers score thirty
runs in one game, setting the modern (post-
1900)
MLB record for most runs by one team in a single game, in a 30-3 victory over the
Baltimore Orioles.
★
August 24 -
NFL commissioner
Roger Goodell suspends deactivated
Atlanta Falcons quarterback
Michael Vick indefinitely without pay after Vick chose to plead guilty in federal court to
dog fighting.
★
August 25 -
Greek Prime Minister
Kostas Karamanlis declares a national
state of emergency after a series of
devastating wildfires ravage western
Peloponese and the island of
Euboea, killing at least 64 people.
★
August 25 -
Forty-four people are dead after two bombs explode in
Hyderabad,
India.
★
August 27 -
United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced his resignation effective
September 17.
★
August 24-
September 2 - The
2007 World Championships in Athletics was held at
Nagai Stadium in
Osaka,
Japan.
★
August 28 -
Total lunar eclipse.
★
August 28 -
Abdullah Gül is
elected as the
eleventh President of Turkey by the
Turkish Parliament, after secularist concerns delayed his initial candidacy.
★
August 31 -
Malaysia celebrated their 50th anniversary of independence.
★
August 31 - A memorial service is held at the Guards' Chapel in
London, the area of worship for the
Household Division of the
British Army, for the 10th anniversary of the death of
Princess Diana. The service was organised by her sons, Princes
William and
Harry.
September
★
September 1 -
Finland switches off all of its
analogue terrestrial television signals as part of the
digital switchover.
★
September 2-
September 9 - The
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation hosts its
19th annual city meeting in
Sydney.
★
September 3 -
British troops withdraw from the
Basra region of
Iraq.
★
September 4 - Northeast
Nicaragua takes a direct hit from
Hurricane Felix. The hurricane was a strong
Category 5 storm when it reached the coast.
★
September 6 - A bomb explodes in
Batna,
Algeria as a crowd gathered to see Algerian President
Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Nineteen people died, while 107 were wounded by the attack.
★
September 7 -
2007 NFL Season begins.
★
September 8 - Over 50 people are dead after a car bomb explodes in the
Algerian port city of
Dellys.
★
September 9 - A
general election in Guatemala will elect the
president, vice president,
congressmen, municipal mayors, and representatives to
Parlacen.
★
September 9 - Panamanian dictator
Manuel Noriega is released after 18 years in a U.S. prison, although further judicial proceedings in
Panama or
France are possible.
Scheduled events
★
September 10-
September 30 - The
2007 FIFA Women's World Cup will be held in
China.
★
September 11 - Partial
solar eclipse.
★
September 11 - Inaugural
Twenty20 World Championship begins.
★
September 16 -
Parliamentary elections in
Greece.
★
September 20 - Opening of the
2007 Universal Forum of Cultures, in the city of
Monterrey,
Mexico.
★
September 28 -
Labour Party Conferences in
Bournemouth at which
Gordon Brown will address delegates for the first time as
Prime Minister.
★
September 30 -
Parliamentary reelections will occur in
Ukraine after
Ukrainian President Victor Yuschenko dismisses
Parliament.
October
★
October 1 - The minimum age for purchasing
tobacco products will rise from 16 to 18 across
England and Wales.
★
October 3 -
Los Ríos Region of
Chile will officially begin its functions as a new
region.
★
October 9 - An
election will take place in the Canadian province of
Newfoundland and Labrador.
★
October 10 - An
election in the Canadian province of Ontario will take place.
★
October 11 - The
Pakistani general election is due.
★
October 13 -
Elections will be held for all
Local Government in
New Zealand.
★
October 14 -
Mayor elections will be held in Bogota.
★
October 15 - The
Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China is expected to take place.
★
October 17 -
Whitehaven, England will become the first place in the
United Kingdom to have one of its analogue
terrestrial television signals switched off as part of
digital switchover.
★
October 20 -
Rugby World Cup 2007 Final in
Stade de France,
Paris.
★
October 20 -
Jungle (open) primary election will be held for
governor and the
legislature of the U.S. state of
Louisiana.
★
October 21 -
Presidential election in
Slovenia.
★
October 21 -
2007 Formula One season ends at the
Brazilian Grand Prix.
★
October 25 -
Singapore Airlines expected to take its first service of the
A380.
★
October 27 - An
election in Argentina will elect the
President and members of the
National Congress.
November
★
November -
Parliamentary elections will be held in
Croatia.
★
November 3 -
DARPA Urban Challenge, a prized competition for driverless cars to navigate safely in traffic is scheduled.
★
November 4 -
Daylight saving time in the
United States and most of
Canada will end, one week later than the previous schedule, in accordance with the
Energy Policy Act of 2005.
★
November 6 -
Legislative elections will be held in the U.S. states of
Kentucky,
Mississippi,
New Jersey, and
Virginia; Kentucky and Mississippi will also hold
gubernatorial elections.
★
November 14 - The
Channel Tunnel Rail Link from London to the
Channel Tunnel is expected to be completed.
★
November 17 - General (run-off) election for the
governor and
legislature of the U.S. state of
Louisiana.
★
November 25 - A
European Parliament election will take place in
Romania.
★
November 30 - The
2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season will officially end.
December
★
December -
Presidential and parliamentary elections will take place in
Kenya.
★
December - The
Andean Community and
Mercosur will fully integrate into the
Union of South American Nations.
★
December 7 -
Uranus'
orbit will be positioned such that the
sun shines directly above its
equator (i.e. an
equinox).
★
December 8-
December 9 - The
World Peace One concert is held.
★
December 19 - A
presidential election will take place in
South Korea.
★
December 23 - The
Thailand general election will be held.
★
December 23 - The 155th
clasico between
FC Barcelona and
Real Madrid CF at
Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe.
★
December 23 - A
grand conjunction in which the solar system would align with the galactic center.
Undated
★
India's 11th Five Year Plan will be launched.
★ The
Met Office predicts that 2007 will be the warmest year ever, on a global scale.
Ongoing
★
War in Iraq
★
War in Afghanistan
★
Conflict in Darfur
★
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Births
★
February 28 -
HRH Princess Lalla Khadija of Morocco, daughter of
King Mohammed VI and his wife,
Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco.
★
March 12 -
Xan Windsor, Lord Culloden, son of
Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster, and his wife
Claire Windsor, Countess of Ulster.
★
March 14 -
Simeon Hassan Muñoz, son of
Princess Kalina of Bulgaria, and her husband
Antonio "Kitín" Muñoz Valcárcel.
★
March 17 -
HRH Prince
Abdul Muntaqim, son of
HRH Al-Muhtadee Billah and his wife,
HRH Pengiran Anak Sarah, the Crown Prince and Princess of Brunei.
★
March 19 -
HRH Prince Abdullah bin Al Ali of Jordan, son of
Prince Ali bin Al Hussein and Rym Brahimi
★
March 26 -
TRH Princess Paulina and
Prince Moritz of Hesse, fraternal twin daughter and son of
Heinrich, Hereditary Prince of Hesse and his wife, Countess Floria of Faber-Castell
★
April 6 -
HRH Princess Haalah bint Al Hashim of Jordan, daughter of
Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein and Princess Fahdah.
★
April 10 -
HRH Princess Ariane of the Netherlands, daughter of
Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, and his wife,
Princess Máxima of the Netherlands.
★
April 18 -
HRH Princess Hayah bint Al Hamzah daughter of
Princess Noor bint Asem and
Prince Hamzah.
★
April 18 -
HRH Prince Lerotholi Seeiso son of King
Letsie III of Lesotho and Queen Masenate Mohato Seeiso.
★
April 21 -
HRH Princess Isabella of Denmark, daughter of
Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark and his wife,
Crown Princess Mary.
★
April 29 -
HRH Infanta Sofía of Spain, daughter of
Felipe, Prince of Asturias and his wife,
Letizia, Princess of Asturias.
Deaths
Main articles: Deaths in 2007
January
★
January 1 -
Ernie Koy, American baseball player (b.
1909)
★
January 1 -
Darrent Williams, American football player (b.
1982)
★
January 2 -
Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (b.
1911)
★
January 3 -
Sergio Jimenez, Mexican actor. (b.
1937)
★
January 4 -
Marais Viljoen, State
President of South Africa (b.
1915)
★
January 5 -
Momofuku Ando, Japanese inventor (b.
1910)
★
January 7 -
Bobby Hamilton, American race car driver (b.
1957)
★
January 7 -
Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic-born television presenter (b.
1929)
★
January 8 -
Iwao Takamoto, Japanese animator (b.
1925)
★
January 8 -
Yvonne de Carlo, American actress (b.
1922)
★
January 9 -
Jean-Pierre Vernant, French historian and anthropologist (b.
1914)
★
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)
★
January 13 -
Henri-Jean Martin, French expert on book history (b.
1924)
★
January 14 -
Darlene Conley, American actress (b.
1934)
★
January 14 -
Barbara Kelly, Canadian actress (b.
1924)
★
January 15 -
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Iraqi politician (b.
1951)
★
January 15 -
Awad Hamed al-Bandar, Iraqi judge (b.
1945)
★
January 15 -
Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (b.
1908)
★
January 16 -
Benny Parsons, American race car driver and television personality (b.
1941)
★
January 17 -
Art Buchwald, American humorist (b.
1925)
★
January 19 -
Hrant Dink, Turkish journalist (b.
1954)
★
January 19 -
Denny Doherty, Canadian musician (
The Mamas and the Papas) (b.
1940)
★
January 19 -
Bam Bam Bigelow, American wrestler (b.
1961)
★
January 21 -
U;Nee, K-pop singer and actress (b.
1981)
★
January 22 -
Abbé Pierre, French priest and founder of Emmaus (b.
1912)
★
January 22 -
Carlos Olivier, Venezuelan actor (b.
1952)
★
January 23 -
Ryszard Kapuscinski, Polish journalist and author (b.
1932)
★
January 26 -
Gump Worsley, Canadian hockey player (b.
1929)
★
January 28 -
Cyril Demarne, British wartime firefighter (b.
1905)
★
January 28 -
Hsu Wei Lun, Taiwanese actress (b.
1978)
★
January 30 -
Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (b.
1917)
★
January 31 -
Kirka Babitzin, Finnish singer (b.
1950)
★
January 31 -
Lee Bergere, American actor (b.
1924)
★
January 31 -
Molly Ivins, American columnist (b.
1944)
February
★
February 1 -
Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer and librettist (b.
1911)
★
February 3 -
Pedro Knight, Cuban-born musician (b.
1921)
★
February 3 -
Billy Henderson, American singer (
The Spinners) (b.
1939)
★
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)
★
February 9 -
Benedict Kiely, Irish author and broadcaster (b.
1919)
★
February 9 -
Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b.
1934)
★
February 9 -
Alejandro Finisterre, Spanish poet, editor, and inventor of table football (b.
1919)
★
February 10 -
Jung Da Bin, Korean actress (b.
1980)
★
February 11 -
Reginald Hugh Hickling, British lawyer, colonial civil servant, law academic and author (b.
1920)
★
February 12 -
Peggy Gilbert, American saxophonist (b.
1905)
★
February 13 -
Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (b.
1923)
★
February 13 -
Charles Norwood, American politician (b.
1941)
★
February 13 -
Eliana Ramos, Uruguayan model (b.
1988)
★
February 13 -
Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (b.
1974)
★
February 15 -
Robert Adler, Austrian-born inventor (b.
1913)
★
February 17 -
Maurice Papon, French Vichy government official (b.
1910)
★
February 17 -
Dermot O'Reilly, Irish-born musician (
Ryan's Fancy) (b.
1942)
★
February 17 -
Mike Awesome, American professional wrestler (b.
1965)
★
February 18 -
Juan "Pachín" Vicéns, Puerto Rican basketball player (b.
1933)
★
February 22 -
Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author, painter, and art collector (b.
1918)
★
February 22 -
Fons Rademakers, Dutch film director (b.
1920)
★
February 22 -
Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (b.
1954)
★
February 24 -
Damien Nash, American football player (b.
1982)
★
February 24 -
Bruce Bennett, American actor (b.
1906)
★
February 27 -
Bobby Rosengarden, American drummer (b.
1924)
★
February 28 -
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., American historian and political commentator (b.
1917)
★
February 28 -
Billy Thorpe, Australian musician (
Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs) (b.
1946)
★
February 28 -
Charles Forte, English hotelier (b.
1908)
March
★
March 2 -
Henri Troyat, French writer (b.
1911)
★
March 2 -
Madi Phala, South African artist (b.
1955)
★
March 3 -
Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (b.
1913)
★
March 4 -
Natalie Bodanya (Natalie Bodanskaya), American soprano (b.
1908)
★
March 4 -
Thomas Eagleton, American politician (b.
1929)
★
March 4 -
Bob Hattoy, American activist (b.
1950)
★
March 4 -
Richard Joseph, British game music composer (b.
1954)
★
March 4 -
Sunil Kumar Mahato, Indian parliamentarian (b.
1966)
★
March 4 -
Tadeusz Nalepa, Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist (b.
1934)
★
March 4 -
Ian Wooldridge, British sports journalist (b.
1932)
★
March 6 -
Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher and sociologist (b.
1929)
★
March 6 -
Allen Coage, American professional wrestler (b.
1943)
★
March 6 -
Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (b.
1909)
★
March 8 -
John Inman, English actor (b.
1935)
★
March 9 -
Brad Delp, American singer (
Boston) (b.
1951)
★
March 10 -
Richard Jeni, American comedian (b.
1957)
★
March 10 -
Ernie Ladd, American football player and professional wrestler (b.
1938)
★
March 11 -
Betty Hutton, American actress (b.
1921)
★
March 12 -
Antonio Ortiz Mena, Mexican politician and economist (b.
1907)
★
March 13 -
Arnold Skaaland, American wrestler (b.
1925)
★
March 14 -
Lucie Aubrac, French World War II Resistance fighter (b.
1912)
★
March 14 -
Gareth Hunt, English actor (b.
1943)
★
March 15 -
Bowie Kuhn,
Major League Baseball Commissioner (b.
1926)
★
March 16 -
Manjural Islam, Bangladeshi cricketer (b.
1984)
★
March 16 -
Sir Arthur Marshall, British aviation engineer (b.
1903)
★
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 19 -
Luther Ingram, American singer (b.
1937)
★
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)
April
★
April 1 -
Laurie Baker, English architect (b.
1917)
★
April 1 -
Driss Chraibi, Moroccan writer (b.
1926)
★
April 1 -
Hans Filbinger, German jurist and politician (b.
1913)
★
April 2 -
Henry Lee Giclas, American astronomer (b.
1910)
★
April 3 -
Eddie Robinson, American football coach (b.
1919)
★
April 4 -
Bob Clark, American film director (b.
1939)
★
April 5 -
Leela Majumdar, Bengali children's author (b.
1908)
★
April 5 -
Darryl Stingley, American football player (b.
1951)
★
April 5 -
Poornachandra Tejaswi, Indian writer and novelist (b.
1938)
★
April 6 -
Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (b.
1916)
★
April 7 -
Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (b.
1931)
★
April 7 -
Barry Nelson, American actor (b.
1920)
★
April 7 -
Carey W. Barber, Jehovah's Witnesses leader (b.
1905)
★
April 9 -
AJ Carothers, American writer (b.
1931)
★
April 10 -
Kevin Crease Australian news presenter and entertainer (b.
1936)
★
April 11 -
Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor (b.
1925)
★
April 11 -
Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist and playwright (b.
1922)
★
April 14 -
June Callwood, Canadian journalist (b.
1924)
★
April 14 -
Don Ho, American musician (b.
1930)
★
April 15 -
Brant Parker, American cartoonist (b.
1920)
★
April 17 -
Kitty Carlisle Hart, American singer, actress & talk show panelist (b.
1910)
★
April 17 -
Iccho Itoh, Mayor of Nagasaki, Japan (assassinated) (b.
1945)
★
April 20 -
Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (b.
1931)
★
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 25 -
Bobby Pickett, American singer (b.
1938)
★
April 26 -
Jack Valenti, American film executive, creator of
MPAA film rating system (b.
1921)
★
April 26 -
Conchita Montenegro, Spanish model and actress (b.
1912)
★
April 27 -
Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b.
1927)
★
April 28 -
Dabbs Greer, American actor (b.
1917)
★
April 28 -
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (b.
1912)
★
April 29 -
Ivica Račan, 7th Prime Minister of Croatia (b.
1944)
★
April 29 -
Josh Hancock, American baseball player (b.
1978)
★
April 30 -
Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (b.
1983)
★
April 30 -
Kevin Mitchell, American football player (b.
1971)
★
April 30 -
Tom Poston, American actor (b.
1921)
★
April 30 -
Gordon Scott, American actor (b.
1926)
May
★
May 2 -
Juan Valdivieso, Peruvian footballer (b.
1910)
★
May 3 -
Wally Schirra, American astronaut (b.
1923)
★
May 5 -
Theodore Maiman, American physicist (b.
1927)
★
May 5 -
Gusti Wolf, Austrian actress (b.
1912)
★
May 6 -
Lesley Blanch, English writer and fashion editor (b.
1904)
★
May 7 -
Emma Lehmer, Russian-born mathematician (b.
1906)
★
May 11 -
Bernard Gordon, American screenwriter (b.
1918)
★
May 11 -
Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan head of state (b.
1913)
★
May 12 -
Mullah Dadullah Akhund, Afghani Taliban military leader
★
May 15 -
Jerry Falwell, American evangelist
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