List of Famous people who died in 2007
Yevhen Kushnaryov
Yevhen Petrovych Kushnaryov was a prominent Ukrainian politician of the post-Soviet era. Kushnaryov was considered one of the chief ideologues of the Party of Regions and a key ally of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.
Serge Rousseau
Serge Rousseau was a French film and television actor and agent. He was a close friend of François Truffaut. He played the husband of murdered Jeanne Moreau in The Bride Wore Black and the unknown man who declares his love for Claude Jade at the end of Stolen Kisses. He married Marie Dubois in 1961 and they remained together until his death by cancer at the age of 77. They had a daughter, actress Dominique Rousseau.
Ryūzō Sejima
Ryūzō Sejima was a Japanese army officer and business leader.
Dmitri Prigov
Dmitri Aleksandrovich Prigov was a Russian writer and artist. Prigov was a dissident during the era of the Soviet Union and was briefly sent to a psychiatric hospital in 1986.
Jupp Derwall
Josef "Jupp" Derwall was a German professional football manager and former player. He was head coach of the West Germany national team between 1978 and 1984, winning the UEFA Euro 1980 and reaching the final of the 1982 FIFA World Cup.
Vladimir Soshalsky
Vladimir Borisovich Soshalsky was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1988). Real name — Feodosyev.
Luis Herrera Campins
Luis Antonio Herrera Campins was President of Venezuela from 1979 to 1984. He was elected to one five-year term in 1978. He was a member of COPEI, a Christian Democratic party.
Thomas Stoltz Harvey
Thomas Stoltz Harvey was a pathologist who conducted the autopsy on Albert Einstein in 1955. Harvey later kept Einstein's brain without permission for decades.
Hans Billian
Hans Billian was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor noted for the "sex comedies" he directed in the 1970s. He was also credited as Hans Billan, Phillip Halliday, and Christian Kessler.
Ernst Otto Fischer
Ernst Otto Fischer was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize for pioneering work in the area of organometallic chemistry.