List of Famous people who died in 2007

José Ivo Lorscheiter was a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church. He was a bishop from 1965 to his retirement in 2004. He was a leading proponent of liberation theology and denounced abuses of human rights by the military regime that controlled Brazil in the anos de chumbo from 1964 to 1985.

Sidney Richard Coleman was an American theoretical physicist who studied under Murray Gell-Mann. He is noted for his research in high-energy theoretical physics.

Frederick William Francis was an English cinematographer and film director.

Alfred DuPont Chandler Jr. was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School and Johns Hopkins University, who wrote extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporations. His works redefined business and economic history of industrialization. He received the Pulitzer Prize for History for his work, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977). He has been called "the doyen of American business historians".

Yıldırım Aktuna was a Turkish psychiatrist, politician, district mayor and government minister in a number of cabinets.

Roy Alan Rosenzweig was an American historian at George Mason University in Virginia. Roy Rosenzweig received his Ph.D. in history from Harvard University in 1978. He was the founder and director of the Center for History and New Media from 1994 until his death in October 2007 from lung cancer, aged 57.

Hy Zaret was an American Tin Pan Alley lyricist and composer best known as the co-author of the 1955 hit "Unchained Melody," one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century.

Benjamin Stewart Parsons was an American NASCAR driver, and later an announcer/analyst/pit reporter on SETN, TBS, ABC, ESPN, NBC, and TNT. He became famous as the 1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series champion, and was a 2017 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee. He was the older brother of former NASCAR driver car owner and broadcaster Phil Parsons of Phil Parsons Racing.

Vlatko Pavletić was a Croatian politician, university professor, literary critic and essayist who served as acting President of Croatia from 1999 to 2000, as well as he served as the 14th Speaker of the Croatian Parliament from 1995 to 2000.