List of Famous people who died in 2007

Michael John Seaton was an influential British mathematician, atomic physicist, and astronomer.

Alan Graham MacDiarmid, ONZ FRS was a New Zealand-born American chemist, and one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000.

Carl-Henning Pedersen was a Danish painter and a key member of the COBRA movement. He was known as the "Scandinavian Chagall", and was one of the leading Danish artists of the second half of the 20th century.

Brad McGann MNZM, was a New Zealand film director and screenwriter.

Riccardo DiGuglielmo, better known as Dick Wilson was an English-born American character actor who was best-known as grocery store manager Mr. George Whipple in more than 500 Charmin toilet paper television commercials.

Charles Brunier was a French convicted murderer and veteran of both the First and Second World Wars, who claimed in 2005 to have been the inspiration for Papillon. Circumstantial evidence, including his butterfly tattoo and his having been on Devil's Island at the time, supported the claim.