List of Famous people who died in 2007

Marly de Oliveira was a Brazilian poet who wrote eight volumes of poetry in a career lasting 40 years. Her best known work is "O Mar de Permeio" or "The Sea Between Us", a collection of poems about worry and despair, which won the Jabuti Prize in 1998. De Oliveira was a professor of Hispanic and Italian literature. She was married to fellow Brazilian poet João Cabral de Melo Neto and she had two surviving daughters at the time of her death resulting from multiple organ failure. De Oliveira was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

Edward George Seidensticker was a noted post-World War II scholar, historian, and preeminent translator of classical and contemporary Japanese literature. His English translation of the epic The Tale of Genji, published in 1976, was especially well received critically and is counted among the preferred modern translations.

Andrew Welsh Imbrie was an American contemporary classical music composer and pianist.

Peter Charles Orton, CVO was a British media entrepreneur and television producer noted for his work in children's television. He, Muppets creator Jim Henson and businesswoman Sophie Turner Laing founded HiT Entertainment in 1982. Orton led the company from 1989 to 2005 when he sold it to Apax. After HiT was sold to Apax in 2005, he retired but kept close contacts with the entertainment world.

Johannes "Hans" Poeppel was a general in the German Bundeswehr. He served as Inspekteur des Heeres 1979–81.

Stuart Rosenberg was an American film and television director whose motion pictures include Cool Hand Luke (1967), Voyage of the Damned (1976), The Amityville Horror (1979), and The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984). He was noted for his work with actor Paul Newman.