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Months in 2007: January February March May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Results 1 - 12 of 12

3rd - Conventional-Train World Speed Record: a French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.
4th - 15 British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President.
11th - 2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers, kills 33 people and wounds a further 222 others.
14th - At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
16th - Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, shoots 32 people to death and injures 23 others before committing suicide.
18th - The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision.
20th - Johnson Space Center Shooting: A man with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
24th - Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime.
25th - Boris Yeltsin's funeral - the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
26th - Queen's Pier is officially closed by the Hong Kong Government, after a bitter struggle by conservationists, in order to facilitate land reclamation in Hong Kong's Central district
27th - Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
29th - Republic Protests in Turkey.

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 5 of 5

6th - Princess Haalah bint Hashim, Princess of Jordan
10th - Princess Ariane of the Netherlands, Dutch Princess
18th - Hayah bint Hamzah, Princess of Jordan
21st - Princess Isabella of Denmark
29th - Infanta Sofía of Spain, Princess of Spain

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 65 of 65

1st - Herb Carneal, American sports broadcaster (b. 1923
3rd - Marion Eames, Welsh novelist (b. 1921)
3rd - Eddie Robinson, American football coach (b. 1919)
3rd - Nina Wang, Asia's richest woman (b. 1937)
4th - Bob Clark, American film director (b. 1941)
4th - Terry Hall, English ventriloquist (b. 1927)
5th - Mark St. John, American musician (Kiss)(b. 1956)
5th - Darryl Stingley, American football player (b. 1951)
5th - Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (b. 1923)
5th - Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer (b. 1908)
5th - Poornachandra Tejaswi, Kannada writer (b. 1938)
6th - Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (b. 1916)
7th - Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
7th - Barry Nelson, American actor (b. 1917)
8th - Carey W. Barber, a member of Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses (b. 1905)
8th - Sol LeWitt, American artist (b. 1928)
9th - Egon Bondy, Czech philosopher and writer (b. 1930)
10th - Dakota Staton, American singer (b. 1930)
11th - Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor (b. 1925)
11th - Kurt Vonnegut, American author (b. 1922)
11th - Ronald Speirs, American Army officer(CO of Easy Company) (b. 1920)
11th - Janet McDonald, American novelist (b. 1954)
12th - Kevin Crease, Australian TV anchor (b. 1936)
13th - Don Selwyn, Māori actor and film director (b. circa 1936)
14th - June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author and social activist (b. 1924)
14th - Don Ho, American musician (b. 1930)
15th - Brant Parker, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
16th - Gaetan Duchesne, Canadian hockey player (b. 1962)
16th - Maria Lenk, Brazilian swimmer and first Brazilian woman to compete in the Olympic Games (b. 1915)
16th - Seung-Hui Cho, Korean American murderer (b. 1984), see List of victims of the Virginia Tech massacre
16th - Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, American instructor of French (b. 1958)
16th - Kevin Granata, American professor of Engineering (b. 1961)
16th - Liviu Librescu, American Jewish-Romanian professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics (b. 1930)
16th - G. V. Loganathan, Indian American professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (b. 1954)
16th - Frank Bateson, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1909)
17th - Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality (b. 1910)
18th - Iccho Itoh, mayor of Nagasaki (b. 1945)
19th - Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
19th - Helen Walton, wife of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton (b. 1919)
20th - Andrew Hill, American jazz composer and pianist (b. 1931)
20th - Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (b. 1931).
21st - Lobby Loyde, Australian guitarist and songwriter (b. 1941)
22nd - Juanita Millender-McDonald, congresswoman from southern California (b. 1938)
23rd - Paul Erdman, American economist and author (b. 1932)
23rd - David Halberstam, American journalist, historian and author (b. 1934)
23rd - Boris Yeltsin, first President of the Russian Federation (b. 1931)
25th - Alan Ball, English footballer (b. 1945)
25th - Bobby "Boris" Pickett, American singer and songwriter (b. 1938)
25th - Arthur Milton, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1928)
26th - Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (b. 1921)
27th - Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927)
28th - Dabbs Greer, American actor (b. 1917)
28th - Tommy Newsom, American bandleader (b. 1929)
28th - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (b. 1912)
29th - Milt Bocek, American baseball player (b. 1912)
29th - Josh Hancock, American baseball player (b. 1978)
29th - Ivica Račan, former Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1944)
29th - Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor, known as the leader of Olsenbanden
29th - Dick Motz, New Zealand cricket player (b. 1940)
29th - Zhang Taofang, Chinese sniper (b. 1931)
30th - Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (b. 1983)
30th - Kevin Mitchell, American football player (b. 1971)
30th - Tom Poston, American actor (b. 1921)
30th - Gordon Scott, American actor (b. 1927)
30th - Zola Taylor, American singer (b. 1938)