List of Famous people who died in 2007

Takeshi Sueda was a Japanese video director. He worked for the JWT Japan advertising agency and began directing music videos in 1998. He went on to work for video production company SeP, Inc., and established a successful career.

Rune Naito was the pen name of Japanese artist, illustrator, writer, and designer Isao Naito . His illustrations of "large-headed" (nitōshin) baby-faced girls, first drawn for Japanese magazines in the mid-1950s, are credited with pioneering the contemporary culture and aesthetic of kawaii. He is further noted for his contributions to the Japanese gay men's magazine Barazoku, the first commercially circulated gay magazine in Japan.

Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel was a German journalist, politician, and World War II Luftwaffe ace.

Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, and leader of the Union of Soviet Composers, who was also known for his political activities. He wrote three symphonies, four piano concertos, two violin concertos, two cello concertos, operas, operettas, ballets, chamber music, incidental music and film music.

André Gorz French: [ɑ̃dʁe ɡɔʁts], more commonly known by his pen names Gérard Horst [ʒeʁaʁ ɔʁst] and Michel Bosquet [miʃɛl bɔskɛ], was an Austrian and French social philosopher and journalist.

Major General Smain Lamari was the head of an Algerian intelligence service, the Department of Counter-Espionage and Internal Security. Along with Generals Mohamed Lamari, Khaled Nezzar, Larbi Belkheir and "Toufik" Médiène, he was one of the influential Algerian Generals. Lamari was close to Larbi Belkheir, now ambassador in Morocco. Lamari died from a heart attack, and was buried in the Cemetery El Alia reserved for high ranking Algerian officials, in the presence of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

Talmadge Layne "Tab" Thacker was a former NCAA wrestler and actor.

Antônio Carlos Peixoto de Magalhães was a Brazilian politician. He served as Governor of Bahia three times and represented Bahia in the Senate of Brazil three times. Magalhães was one of Brazil's most powerful politicians serving as a Minister for Communications, as Leader of the Liberal Front Party (PFL) and as President of the Federal Senate.

Josef Erich Zawinul was an Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer. First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with Miles Davis and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, a musical genre that combined jazz with rock. He co-founded the groups Weather Report and The Zawinul Syndicate. He pioneered the use of electric piano and synthesizer, and was named "Best Electric Keyboardist" twenty-eight times by the readers of Down Beat magazine.

Kaneyoshi Kuwata was a yakuza gang member, the fifth generation wakagashira of the Yamaguchi-gumi, was the third kumicho of the Yamaken-gumi yakuza gang, and second generation kaicho of Kenryu-kai. He was an Osaka graduate.