2007
- January 1
- Death of Ernie Koy, American baseball player (born 1909). [38]
- Death of Darrent Williams, American football player (born 1982). [38]
- January 2
- Death of Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (born 1911). [38]
- January 3
- Death of Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor (born 1937). [38]
- January 4
- Death of Marais Viljoen, State President of South Africa (born 1915). [38]
- January 5
- Death of Momofuku Ando, Japanese inventor (born 1910). [38]
- January 6
- Death of Mario Danelo, American college football player (born 1985). [38]
- January 7
- Death of Bobby Hamilton, American race car driver (born 1957). [38]
- Death of Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic-born television presenter (born 1929). [38]
- January 8
- Death of Iwao Takamoto, Japanese animator (born 1925). [38]
- Death of Yvonne de Carlo, American actress (born 1922). [38]
- January 9
- Death of Jean-Pierre Vernant, French historian and anthropologist (born 1914). [38]
- January 10
- Death of Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (born 1912). [38]
- January 11
- Death of Robert Anton Wilson, American author and conspiracy researcher (born 1932). [38]
- January 12
- Death of Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (born 1937). [38]
- January 13
- Death of Michael Brecker, American jazz musician (born 1949). [38]
- Death of Henri-Jean Martin, French expert on book history (born 1924). [38]
- January 14
- Death of Darlene Conley, American actress (born 1934). [38]
- Death of Barbara Kelly, Canadian actress (born 1924). [38]
- January 15
- Death of Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Iraqi politician (born 1951). [38]
- Death of Awad Hamed al-Bandar, Iraqi judge (born 1945). [38]
- Death of Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (born 1908). [38]
- January 16
- Death of Benny Parsons, American race car driver and television personality (born 1941). [38]
- January 17
- Death of Art Buchwald, American humorist (born 1925). [38]
- January 19
- Death of Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist (born 1954). [38]
- Death of Denny Doherty, Canadian musician (The Mamas and the Papas) (born 1940). [38]
- Death of Bam Bam Bigelow, American wrestler (born 1961). [38]
- January 21
- Death of U;Nee, K-pop singer and actress (born 1981). [38]
- January 22
- Death of Abbé Pierre, French priest and founder of Emmaus (born 1912). [38]
- Death of Carlos Olivier, Venezuelan actor (born 1952). [38]
- January 23
- Death of David Aaron Shayman aka Disco D, American music producer and composer (born 1980). [38]
- Death of Ryszard Kapuscinski, Polish journalist and author (born 1932). [38]
- January 26
- Death of Gump Worsley, Canadian hockey player (born 1929). [38]
- January 28
- Death of Cyril Demarne, British wartime firefighter (born 1905). [38]
- Death of Hsu Wei Lun, Taiwanese actress (born 1978). [38]
- January 30
- Death of Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (born 1917). [38]
- January 31
- Death of Kirka Babitzin, Finnish singer (born 1950). [38]
- Death of Lee Bergere, American actor (born 1924). [38]
- Death of Molly Ivins, American columnist (born 1944). [38]
- February 1
- Death of Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer and librettist (born 1911). [38]
- February 3
- Death of Pedro Knight, Cuban-born musician (born 1921). [38]
- Death of Billy Henderson, American singer (The Spinners) (born 1939). [38]
- February 6
- Death of Frankie Laine, American singer (born 1913). [38]
- February 7
- Death of Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927). [38]
- Death of Helen Duncan, New Zealand politician (born 1941). [38]
- February 8
- American model and television personality Anna Nicole Smith dies of combined drug intoxication in Hollywood, Florida at age 39 (born 1967). [5] [38]
- February 9
- Death of Benedict Kiely, Irish author and broadcaster (born 1919). [38]
- Death of Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (born 1934). [38]
- Death of Alejandro Finisterre, Spanish poet, editor, and inventor of table football (born 1919). [38]
- February 10
- Death of Jung Da Bin, Korean actress (born 1980). [38]
- February 11
- Death of Reginald Hugh Hickling, British lawyer, colonial civil servant, law academic and author (born 1920). [38]
- February 12
- Death of Peggy Gilbert, American saxophonist (born 1905). [38]
- February 13
- Death of Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (born 1923). [38]
- Death of Charles Norwood, American politician (born 1941). [38]
- Death of Eliana Ramos, Uruguayan model (born 1988). [38]
- Death of Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (born 1974). [38]
- February 15
- Death of Robert Adler, Austrian-born inventor (born 1913). [38]
- February 17
- Death of Maurice Papon, French Vichy government official (born 1910). [38]
- Death of Dermot O'Reilly, Irish-born musician (Ryan's Fancy) (born 1942). [38]
- Death of Mike Awesome, American professional wrestler (born 1965). [38]
- February 18
- Death of Juan "Pachín" Vicéns, Puerto Rican basketball player (born 1933). [38]
- February 22
- Death of Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author, painter, and art collector (born 1918). [38]
- Death of Fons Rademakers, Dutch film director (born 1920). [38]
- Death of Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (born 1954). [38]
- February 24
- Death of Damien Nash, American football player (born 1982). [38]
- Death of Bruce Bennett, American actor (born 1906). [38]
- February 27
- Death of Bobby Rosengarden, American drummer (born 1924). [38]
- February 28
- Death of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., American historian and political commentator (born 1917). [38]
- Death of Billy Thorpe, Australian musician (Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs) (born 1946). [38]
- Death of Charles Forte, English hotelier (born 1908). [38]
- March 2
- Five Bluffton University baseball players and the driver and his wife are killed in a chartered bus accident in Atlanta. The players, Zach Arend, David Betts, Scott Harmon, Cody Holp, and Tyler Williams, were en route to to Sarasota, Florida. [56]
- Death of Henri Troyat, French writer (born 1911). [38]
- Death of Madi Phala, South African artist (born 1955). [38]
- March 3
- Death of Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (born 1913). [38]
- March 4
- Death of Natalie Bodanya (Natalie Bodanskaya), American soprano (born 1908). [38]
- Death of Thomas Eagleton, American politician (born 1929). [38]
- Death of Bob Hattoy, American activist (born 1950). [38]
- Death of Richard Joseph, British game music composer (born 1954). [38]
- Death of Sunil Kumar Mahato, Indian parliamentarian (born 1966). [38]
- Death of Tadeusz Nalepa, Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist (born 1934). [38]
- Death of Ian Wooldridge, British sports journalist (born 1932). [38]
- March 6
- Death of Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher and sociologist (born 1929). [38]
- Death of Allen Coage, American professional wrestler (born 1943). [38]
- Death of Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (born 1909). [38]
- March 8
- Death of John Inman, English actor (born 1935). [38]
- March 9
- Death of Brad Delp, American singer (Boston) (born 1951). [38]
- March 10
- Death of Richard Jeni, American comedian (born 1957). [38]
- Death of Ernie Ladd, American football player and professional wrestler (born 1938). [38]
- March 11
- Death of Betty Hutton, American actress (born 1921). [38]
- March 12
- Death of Antonio Ortiz Mena, Mexican politician and economist (born 1907). [38]
- March 13
- Death of Arnold Skaaland, American wrestler (born 1925). [38]
- March 14
- Death of Lucie Aubrac, French World War II Resistance fighter (born 1912). [38]
- Death of Gareth Hunt, English actor (born 1943). [38]
- March 15
- Death of Bowie Kuhn, Major League Baseball Commissioner (born 1926). [38]
- March 16
- Death of Manjural Islam, Bangladeshi cricketer (born 1984). [38]
- Death of Sir Arthur Marshall, British aviation engineer (born 1903). [38]
- March 17
- Death of Jim Cronin, British businessman (born 1952). [38]
- Death of Roger Bennett, American Southern Gospel Vocalist and Pianist. [38]
- March 18
- Death of Bob Woolmer, English cricketer and coach (born 1948). [38]
- March 19
- Death of Calvert DeForest, American actor and comedian (born 1921). [38]
- Death of Luther Ingram, American singer (born 1937). [38]
- March 20
- Death of Taha Yassin Ramadan, Vice President of Iraq (born 1938). [38]
- March 23
- Death of Eric Medlen, American race car driver (born 1973). [38]
- March 25
- Death of Andranik Margaryan, 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (born 1951). [38]
- April 1
- Death of Laurie Baker, English architect (born 1917). [38]
- Death of Driss Chraibi, Moroccan writer (born 1926). [38]
- Death of Hans Filbinger, German jurist and politician (born 1913). [38]
- April 2
- Death of Henry Lee Giclas, American astronomer (born 1910). [38]
- April 3
- Death of Eddie Robinson, American football coach (born 1919). [38]
- April 4
- Death of Bob Clark, American film director (born 1939). [38]
- April 5
- Death of Thomas Stoltz Harvey, Pathologist who conducted Albert Einstein's autopsy (born 1912). [38]
- Death of Leela Majumdar, Bengali children's author (born 1908). [38]
- Death of Darryl Stingley, American football player (born 1951). [38]
- Death of Poornachandra Tejaswi, Indian writer and novelist (born 1938). [38]
- April 6
- Death of Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (born 1916). [38]
- April 7
- Death of Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (born 1931). [38]
- Death of Barry Nelson, American actor (born 1920). [38]
- Death of Carey W. Barber, Jehovah's Witnesses leader (born 1905). [38]
- April 9
- Death of AJ Carothers, American writer (born 1931). [38]
- April 10
- Death of Kevin Crease Australian news presenter and entertainer (born 1936). [38]
- April 11
- Death of Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor (born 1925). [38]
- Death of Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist and playwright (born 1922). [38]
- April 13
- Death of Don Selwyn, Maori actor and film director (born circa 1936). [38]
- April 14
- Death of June Callwood, Canadian journalist (born 1924). [38]
- Death of Don Ho, American musician (born 1930). [5] [38]
- April 15
- Death of Brant Parker, American cartoonist (born 1920). [38]
- April 16
- Death of Frank Bateson, New Zealand astronomer (born 1909). [38]
- April 17
- Death of Kitty Carlisle Hart, American singer, actress and talk show panelist (born 1910). [38]
- Death of Iccho Itoh, Mayor of Nagasaki, Japan (assassinated) (born 1945). [38]
- April 20
- Death of Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (born 1931). [38]
- April 22
- Death of Juanita Millender-McDonald, American politician (born 1938). [38]
- April 23
- Death of David Halberstam, American author and journalist (born 1934). [38]
- Death of Boris Yeltsin, first President of the Russian Federation (born 1931). [38]
- April 25
- Death of Alan Ball, English footballer (born 1945). [38]
- Death of Arthur Milton, English cricketer and footballer (born 1928). [38]
- Death of Bobby Pickett, American singer (born 1938). [38]
- April 26
- Death of Jack Valenti, American film executive, creator of MPAA film rating system (born 1921). [38]
- Death of Conchita Montenegro, Spanish model and actress (born 1912). [38]
- April 27
- Death of Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (born 1927). [38]
- April 28
- Death of Dabbs Greer, American actor (Little House on the Prairie) (born 1917). [38]
- Death of Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (born 1912). [38]
- April 29
- Death of Ivica Racan, 7th Prime Minister of Croatia (born 1944). [38]
- Death of Josh Hancock, American baseball player (born 1978). [38]
- Death of Dick Motz, New Zealand cricket player (born 1940). [38]
- April 30
- Death of Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (born 1983). [38]
- Death of Kevin Mitchell, American football player (born 1971). [38]
- Death of Tom Poston, American actor (born 1921). [38]
- Death of Gordon Scott, American actor (born 1926). [38]
- May 2
- Death of Juan Valdivieso, Peruvian footballer (born 1910). [38]
- Death of Brad McGann, New Zealand film director and screenwriter (born 1964). [38]
- May 3
- Death of Wally Schirra, American astronaut (born 1923). [38]
- May 5
- Death of Theodore Maiman, American physicist (born 1927). [38]
- Death of Gusti Wolf, Austrian actress (born 1912). [38]
- May 6
- Death of Lesley Blanch, English writer and fashion editor (born 1904). [38]
- May 7
- Death of Emma Lehmer, Russian-born mathematician (born 1906). [38]
- May 11
- Death of Bernard Gordon, American screenwriter (born 1918). [38]
- Death of Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan head of state (born 1913). [38]
- May 12
- Death of Mullah Dadullah Akhund, Afghani Taliban military leader. [38]
- May 14
- Death of Colin St John Wilson, English architect (born 1922). [38]
- May 15
- Death of Jerry Falwell, American evangelist (born 1933). [38]
- Death of Yolanda King, American actress and activist, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (born 1955). [38]
- May 17
- Death of Lloyd Alexander, American author (born 1924). [38]
- May 18
- Death of Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and Nobel Prize for Physics laureate (born 1932). [38]
- Death of Yoyoy Villame, Filipino singer "King of Philippine Novelty Songs." (born 1938). [38]
- May 19
- Death of Dean Eyre, New Zealand politician (born 1914). [38]
- May 20
- Death of Stanley Miller, American chemist and biologist (born 1930). [38]
- May 25
- Death of Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor (born 1931). [38]
- May 27
- Death of Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (born 1967). [38]
- Death of Percy Sonn, South African lawyer and cricket executive (born 1949). [38]
- Death of Ed Yost, American inventor of the modern hot air balloon (born 1919). [38]
- May 28
- Death of Marquise Hill, American football player (born 1982). [38]
- June 2
- Death of Huang Ju, Chinese politician (born 1938). [38]
- June 4
- Death of Bill France, Jr., American President/CEO of NASCAR (born 1933). [38]
- Death of Craig L. Thomas, American politician (born 1933). [38]
- June 6
- Povel Ramel, Swedish writer/singer/musician/songwriter/comedian, dies at age 85. [7] (June 5 [38])
- June 8
- Death of Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, first President of Somalia (born 1908). [38]
- June 10
- Death of Augie Auer, meteorologist (born 1940). [38]
- June 11
- Death of Imre Friedmann, American scientist (born 1921). [38]
- Death of Mala Powers, American film actress (born 1931). [38]
- June 12
- Death of Don Herbert, American television personality, "Mr. Wizard" (born 1917). [38]
- June 13
- Death of David Hatch, BBC Radio producer and comedian (born 1939). [38]
- June 14
- Death of Ruth Bell Graham, wife of Billy Graham (born 1920). [38]
- Death of Jacques Simonet, Belgian politician (born 1963). [38]
- Death of Kurt Waldheim, Austrian politician and diplomat (born 1918). [38]
- June 15
- Death of Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler (born 1958). [38]
- June 17
- Death of Gianfranco Ferrè, Italian designer (born 1944). [38]
- June 18
- Death of Bernard Manning, English comedian (born 1930). [38]
- Death of Vilma Espín, Wife of Raúl Castro (born 1930). [38]
- Death of Georges Thurston, Canadian singer (born 1951). [38]
- June 19
- Death of El Fary, Spanish singer (born 1937). [38]
- Death of Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (born 1947). [38]
- Death of Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer and actor (born 1919). [38]
- June 20
- Death of Trevor Henry, New Zealand Justice (born 1902). [38]
- June 21
- Death of Bob Evans, American restaurateur (born 1918). [38]
- June 22
- Death of Nancy Benoit, American professional wrestling manager (born 1964). [38]
- Death of Rod Beck, American baseball player (born 1968). [38]
- Death of Erik Parlevliet, Dutch field hockey player (born 1964). [38]
- June 24
- Death of Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer (born 1938). [38]
- Death of Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (double-murder suicide) (born 1967). [38]
- Death of Jack Flynt, American politician (born 1914). [38]
- 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. [38]
- Death of J. Fred Duckett, Texan sports announcer and teacher (born 1933). [38]
- Death of Khadijeh Dadehbala (Mahasti), Iranian popular singer (born 1946). [38]
- June 26
- Death of Anne Elizabeth Jane Claiborne, Belgian-American fashion designer, at age 78 (born 1929). [96.83] (June 27 [38])
- Death of Jupp Derwall, German footballer and coach (born 1927). [38]
- Death of Joey Sadler, All Black rugby player (born 1914). [38]
- June 27
- Death of William Hutt, Canadian stage and film actor (born 1920). [38]
- June 28
- Death of Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (born 1919). [38]
- June 29
- Death of Joel Siegel, American film critic (born 1943). [38]
- Death of George McCorkle, Founder of The Marshall Tucker Band (born 1947). [38]
- June 30
- Death of Jan Herman Linge, Norwegian engineer and boat designer (born 1922). [38]
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