List of Famous people who died in 2007
Commodore Frank Dudley Elcock
David George Kendall
David George Kendall FRS was an English statistician and mathematician, known for his work on probability, statistical shape analysis, ley lines and queueing theory. He spent most of his academic life in the University of Oxford (1946–1962) and the University of Cambridge (1962–1985). He worked with M. S. Bartlett during World War II, and visited Princeton University after the war.
Malika al-Fassi
Malika al-Fassi was a Moroccan writer and nationalist. She was the only woman to sign the independence treaty of Morocco in 1944. She was a student of Abdeslam Serghini.
Brigitte Krause
Shinsuke Achiha
Lloyd Alexander
Lloyd Chudley Alexander was an American author of more than forty books, primarily fantasy novels for children and young adults. Over his seven-decade career, Alexander wrote 48 books, and his work has been translated into 20 languages. His most famous work is The Chronicles of Prydain, a series of five high fantasy novels whose conclusion, The High King, was awarded the 1969 Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature. He won U.S. National Book Awards in 1971 and 1982.
Geoffrey Manners Cavendish
Arve Opsahl
Arve Opsahl was a Norwegian movie and stage actor, singer and stand-up comedian.
Michael Kidd
Michael Kidd was an American film and stage choreographer, dancer and actor, whose career spanned five decades, and staged some of the leading Broadway and film musicals of the 1940s and 1950s. Kidd, strongly influenced by Charlie Chaplin and Léonide Massine, was an innovator in what came to be known as the "integrated musical", in which dance movements are integral to the plot.
Shino Miyaso
Shino Miyaso is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 2-dan.