List of Famous people who died in 2007
Uładzimir Katkoŭski
Uładzimir Katkoŭski was a Belarusian blogger, web designer and website creator.
Norifumi Abe
Norifumi "Norick" Abe , or Norick Abe (ノリック・アベ) was a Japanese professional motorcycle road racer who was previously a 500 cc/MotoGP rider. He died in a road traffic accident in October 2007.
Ellen Preis
Ellen Müller-Preis, née Preis, was German-born Austrian Olympic-champion foil fencer.
Ryszard Kapuściński
Ryszard Kapuściński was a Polish journalist, photographer, poet and author. He received many awards and was considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Kapuściński's personal journals in book form attracted both controversy and admiration for blurring the conventions of reportage with the allegory and magical realism of literature. He was the Communist-era Polish Press Agency's only correspondent in Africa during decolonization, and also worked in South America and Asia. Between 1956 and 1981 he reported on 27 revolutions and coups, until he was fired because of his support for the pro-democracy Solidarity movement in his native country. He was celebrated by other practitioners of the genre. The acclaimed Italian reportage-writer Tiziano Terzani, Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, and Chilean writer Luis Sepúlveda accorded him the title "Maestro".
Amir Rešić
Nikola Rešić, born Amir Rešić, known by the stage name Nino, was a Bosnian and Serbian singer, popular in the 1990s.
Bernd Jakubowski
Bernd Jakubowski was an East German footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Masanobu Fukuoka
Masanobu Fukuoka was a Japanese farmer and philosopher celebrated for his natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified lands. He was a proponent of no-till, herbicide and pesticide free cultivation methods from which he created a particular method of agriculture, commonly referred to as "natural farming" or "do-nothing farming".
Francis Borelli
Francis Borelli was a French businessman. He was the chairman of Paris Saint-Germain from 1978 to 1991.
Jürgen Roland
Jürgen Roland, born Jürgen Schellack was a German film director. Roland was described as the "father of German TV crime shows". He directed about 80 TV productions and 30 movies.
Andrea Dotti
Andrea Paolo Mario Dotti was an Italian psychiatrist and the second husband of Audrey Hepburn from 1969 to 1982. He was born in Naples.