List of Famous people who died in 2007

André Valardy was a Belgian actor, director and humorist.

Hubertus Alexander Wolfgang Rüdiger Emanuel Wilhelm Count von Faber-Castell was a German billionaire and industrial heir.

Maria Emma Hulga Lenk was a Brazilian swimmer, the first South-American woman to participate in the Summer Olympic Games, in 1932.

Eduard Pons Prades, also known as Floreado Barsino, was a Spanish Catalan writer and historian, specializing in the 20th-century history of Spain. Pons Prades was also active in the Syndicalist Party of Ángel Pestaña, a member of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), and after Francisco Franco's defeat of the Second Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War, a maqui.

Henri Troyat was a Russian-born French author, biographer, historian and novelist.

Kentarō Haneda was a Japanese pianist, composer and arranger of popular anime and movies and video game music. His popular name was Haneken.

Conchita Montenegro was a Spanish model, dancer, stage and screen actress. She was educated in a convent in Madrid.

Fatma Turkan Shawkat, better known by her stage name Hala Shawkat, was a Syrian actress. She was one of the leading actresses of Syrian cinema in the mid-1950s and 1960s. Shawkat also appeared in films in Algeria, Egypt, and Lebanon.

Kazuhiro Kuroda was a Japanese professional baseball centerfielder in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Alfred Oerter Jr. was an American athlete and a four-time Olympic Champion in the discus throw. He was the first athlete to win a gold medal in the same individual event in four consecutive Olympic Games. Oerter is an inductee of the IAAF Hall of Fame.