List of Famous people who died in 2007

Francis Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield, PC, was by turns a civil servant, a company director, a Conservative politician, and a European Commissioner. He served as Minister of State at the Treasury from 1979 to 1982, as Secretary of State for Trade from 1982 until 1983, as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1983 until 1984, and a member of the European Commission from 1984 to 1988. He is known as 'The Father of the Single Market'.

Ali Dinçer was a Turkish mechanical engineer, politician, former Mayor of Ankara and former government minister.

Major Sir Hamish Stewart Forbes, 7th Baronet, MBE, MC, KStJ was a British Army officer who served in the Welsh Guards in the Second World War, spending over 5 years in German custody as a prisoner of war. In later life, he was patron of the Lonach Highland and Friendly Society from 1984 until his death.

Prince Nikita Nikitich Romanov was a British born, American historian and writer, author of a book about Ivan the Terrible. He was a member of the Romanov family, a son of Prince Nikita Alexandrovich of Russia and a great nephew of Nicholas II of Russia, the last Tsar.

Petr Eben was a Czech composer of modern and contemporary classical music, and an organist and choirmaster.