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	* ] – ], French World War II Resistance fighter (b. ])
	* ] – ], English cricketer and coach (b. ])		* ] – ], English cricketer and coach (b. ])
	* ] – ], Vice President of Iraq (b. ])		* ] – ], Vice President of Iraq (b. ])
	* ] – ], 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (b. ])		* ] – ], 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (b. ])
	* ] – ], Indonesian pop singer and songwriter (b. ])

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	* ] – ], Mayor of Nagasaki, Japan (b. ])		* ] – ], Mayor of Nagasaki, Japan (b. ])
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	* ] – ], American film executive (b. ])
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	* ] – ], Samoan head of state (b. ])		* ] – ], Samoan head of state (b. ])
	* ] – ], Afghan Taliban military leader (b. ])		* ] – ], Afghan Taliban military leader (b. ])
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	* ] – ], Cuban feminist and chemical engineer (b. ])		* ] – ], Cuban feminist and chemical engineer (b. ])
	* ] – ], Spanish singer (b. ])
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	** ], Swedish film director (b. ])		** ], Swedish film director (b. ])

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	* ] – ], South African professional road racing cyclist (b. ])		* ] – ], South African professional road racing cyclist (b. ])
	* ] – ], Angolan nationalist leader (b. ])		* ] – ], Angolan nationalist leader (b. ])
	* ] – ], British author (b. ])
	* ] – ], American country singer, songwriter and producer (b. ])		* ] – ], American country singer, songwriter and producer (b. ])
	* ] – ], French Cardinal Archbishop of Paris (b. ])		* ] – ], French Cardinal Archbishop of Paris (b. ])
	* ] – ], English broadcaster, nightclub manager, and record label owner (b. ])		* ] – ], English broadcaster, nightclub manager, and record label owner (b. ])
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	* ] – ], 3rd President of Iraq (b. ])		* ] – ], 3rd President of Iraq (b. ])
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2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2007th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 7th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2000s decade.

Calendar year

2007 was designated as

Events

January

January 1
- Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eurozone.
- Adam Air Flight 574 disappeared from Jakarta's radar. A week later it was founded that the aircraft has crashed into the Makassar Strait, killing all 102 people on board.
January 8 – Russian oil supplies to Poland, Germany, and Ukraine are cut as the Russia–Belarus energy dispute escalates; they are restored three days later.

February

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 – A truck bomb explodes in Baghdad, Iraq, killing at least 135 people and injures 339 others.
February 13 – North Korea agrees to shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon by April 14 as a first step towards complete denuclearization, receiving in return energy aid equivalent to 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil.
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.

March

March 1 – The fourth International Polar Year, a $1.73 billion research program to study both the North Pole and South Pole, is launched in Paris.
March 23 – Naval forces of Iran's Revolutionary Guard seize Royal Navy personnel in disputed Iran-Iraq waters; they were released on April 4.
March 27 – Latvian Prime Minister Aigars Kalvītis and Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov sign a border treaty between Latvia and Russia, officially demarcating the border between the two.

April

April 3 – French high speed passenger train, the TGV, reaches a top speed of 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph), breaking the record for the world's fastest conventional train.
April 18 – A series of attacks take place across Baghdad, Iraq, killing nearly 200 people.
April 24 – Gliese 581 c, a potentially Earth-like extrasolar planet habitable for life, is discovered in the constellation Libra.
April 26-27 – Ethnic Russian riot in Tallinn and other cities in Estonia against the moving of the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet World War II memorial.

May

May 17 – The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and the Moscow Patriarchate re-unite after 80 years of schism.
May 20 – Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai makes the largest single charitable donation in modern history, committing €7.41 billion to an educational foundation in the Middle East.

June

June 5 – NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second fly-by of Venus en route to Mercury.
June 28 – 2007 European heat wave: in the aftermath of Greece's worst heat wave in a century, at least 11 people are reported dead from heatstroke, approximately 200 wildfires break out nationwide, and the country's electricity grid nearly collapses due to record breaking demand.

July

July 7 – Live Earth Concerts are held throughout 9 major cities around the world to raise environmental awareness.
July 17 – TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns the runway of São Paulo–Congonhas Airport and crashes, killing all 187 and 12 others on the ground.
July 24 – Five Bulgarian nurses were released from Libyan prison after eight and a half years spent behind bars in Benghazi and Tripoli, marking the end of the so-called "HIV trial in Libya".

August

August 4 – The Phoenix spacecraft is launched toward Mars to study its north pole.
August 9 – The French global bank BNP Paribas in the United Kingdom blocks withdrawals from three hedge funds heavily committed in sub-prime mortgages, signaling the 2007–2012 global financial crisis.
August 14 – Multiple suicide bombings kill 572 people in Qahtaniya, northern Iraq.
August 15 – An 8.0 earthquake strikes Peru, killing at least 450 people, injuring more than 1,500, and causing tsunami warnings in the Pacific Ocean.

September

September 6 – Israeli Air Force airplanes attack a suspected nuclear reactor in Syria in an airstrike.
September 14 – The SELENE spacecraft launches, with its objective being to study the Moon.
September 20 – The Universal Forum of Cultures opens in Monterrey, Mexico.

October

October 28 – The Vatican beatifies 498 Spanish victims of religious persecution from before and during the Spanish Civil War.

November

November 6 – A suicide bomber kills at least 50 people in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, including 6 members of the National Assembly.
November 14 – High Speed 1 from London to the Channel Tunnel is opened to passengers.
November 16 – Over 15,000 people are believed to have been killed after Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh.

December

December 20 – The Pablo Picasso painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch, together with Candido Portinari's O Lavrador de Café, is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art.
December 21 – The Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the Schengen border-free zone.
December 27
- Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated, along with 20 other people, at an election rally in Rawalpindi.
- Riots erupt in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of the presidential election, triggering a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis that killed over 1,000 people.

Unknown date

Mauritania was the last country to criminalize slavery in 2007 (officially "abolished" in 1981), making the practice illegal everywhere in the world.

Births

April 10 – Princess Ariane of the Netherlands, daughter of Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Máxima.
April 21 – Princess Isabella of Denmark, daughter of Crown Prince Frederick and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark.
April 29 – Infanta Sofía of Spain, daughter of Felipe, Prince of Asturias (now King Felipe VI) and Letizia, Princess of Asturias.
June 6 – Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, American actress
December 17 – James, Viscount Severn, grandson of Elizabeth II, son of The Earl and Countess of Wessex

Deaths

Main article: Deaths in 2007