List of Famous people who died in 2007
Brian Savegar
Brian Savegar was a production designer in the film and TV industry. He won an Academy Award in 1986 in the category Best Art Direction for the film A Room with a View.
Ulla Strand
Ulla Strand was badminton player of Denmark who excelled from the early 1960s to the early 1970s. Though she won three Danish national singles titles and reached the women's singles final at the All-England Championships in 1965, most of her major championship victories were in doubles and mixed doubles. Attractive and charismatic, she was a crowd favorite throughout her career.
Lilo Sandberg-Grahn
Joel Silveira
Joel Silveira was a Brazilian writer and journalist. Silveira was a war correspondent in Europe during World War II, following the Brazilian Expeditionary Force. He became known for his investigative news stories, and incisive personality; Assis Chateaubriand nicknamed him "a víbora".
Ian Stevenson
Ian Pretyman Stevenson was a Canadian-born American psychiatrist. He worked for the University of Virginia School of Medicine for fifty years, as chair of the department of psychiatry from 1957 to 1967, Carlson Professor of Psychiatry from 1967 to 2001, and Research Professor of Psychiatry from 2002 until his death.
Wakanami Jun
Wakanami Jun was a sumo wrestler from Iwai, Ibaraki, Japan. His highest rank was komusubi. He won a top division tournament championship in March 1968. He was also a sumo coach.
Mel Leven
Melville A. Leven (1914–2007), known professionally as Mel Leven, was an American composer and lyricist who had a long association with the Walt Disney Company, although he also wrote songs for Peggy Lee, The Andrews Sisters, Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, and Les Brown, among others.
Franz Keller
Beverly Sills
Beverly Sills was an American operatic soprano whose peak career was between the 1950s and 1970s.