List of Famous people who died in 2007

Herval Abreu Pais, better known by his stage name Herval Rossano, was a Brazilian TV actor and director from Campos dos Goytacazes. He directed both the original 1976 version and the 2004 remake of Isaura the Slave.

Foekje Dillema was a Dutch track and field athlete.

Carmelita Madriaga, known as Carmen Costa, was a Brazilian singer and composer.

Reverend Robert William Shields was an American minister and high school English teacher who was best known for writing a diary of 37.5 million words, which chronicled every five minutes of his life from 1972 until a stroke disabled him in 1997. Shields's diary, which filled 91 boxes, was longer than those kept by the journalist Edward Robb Ellis and the poet Arthur Crew Inman, and 30 times longer than that of Samuel Pepys.

Rogelio Salmona was a French Colombian architect. He was noted for his extensive use of red brick in his buildings and for using natural shapes like spirals, radial geometry and curves in his designs. During the latter part of his life, Salmona gained renown thanks to awards like the first prize at the 1986, 1988, and 1990 Colombian Architecture Biennials, and the Alvar Aalto Medal in 2003. His works are highly representative of Colombian architecture at the end of the twentieth century.

Miyoshi Umeki was a Japanese-American singer and actress. Umeki was a Tony Award and Golden Globe nominated actress and the first Asian woman to win an Academy Award for acting.

William Max McGee was a professional football player, a wide receiver and punter for the Green Bay Packers in the NFL. He played from 1954 to 1967, and is best known for his seven receptions for 138 yards and two touchdowns, holding the first touchdown, in the first Super Bowl in 1967.

Manuela Ruiz Penella better known as Emma Penella was a Spanish film and television actress.

Jaan Kross was an Estonian writer. He was nominated several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature during the early 1990s.

Rosy Afsari was an actress in the Bangladeshi film industry. She was awarded the Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress in its first ceremony in 1975 for her role in the film Lathial.