List of Famous people who died in 2007

Peter Viertel was an author and screenwriter.

François Georges René Bruhat was a French mathematician who worked on algebraic groups. The Bruhat order of a Weyl group, the Bruhat decomposition, and the Schwartz–Bruhat functions are named after him.

Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He wrote the classic Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors, along with over two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste.

Alexander Vasilyevich Sergeychik was a Belarusian serial killer. He committed murders between 2000 and 2006 in Shchuchyn District and Grodno District. He confessed to killing a total of twelve people, however, the investigation could only bring forward enough evidence to convict him of six murders. He was sentenced to death by the court.

Georg Zundel was a German physical chemist, tenured professor of biophysics at University of Munich, peace activist, environmentalist and philanthropist.