List of Famous people who died in 2007

Howard Jacob Goorney was a British actor who starred in such programmes as Only Fools and Horses.

Paul Fritz Helmuth Gericke was a German mathematician and an historian of mathematics.

Lin Ming-yi was a Taiwanese politician.

Carlos Valdés Galán, better known as Patato, was a Cuban conga player. In 1954, he emigrated from La Habana to New York City where he continued his prolific career as a sideman for several jazz and Latin music ensembles, and occasionally as a bandleader. He contributed to the development of the tunable conga drum which revolutionized the use of the instrument in the US. His experimental descarga albums recorded for Latin Percussion are considered the counterpart to the commercial salsa boom of the 1970s. Tito Puente once called him "the greatest conguero alive today".

Gérard Herter, also known as Gerhard Haerter, Gerard Haerther, Gerald Herter, Gerard Herter, and Gerhard Herter was a German actor of the 1950s and 1960 who played many villains, especially Prussian types, in Spaghetti Westerns. He made his film debut in Caltiki - il mostro immortale in 1959. His last credited appearance was in Ludwig in 1972.

Henry Cele was a South African actor noted for his portrayal of the great Zulu Warrior King Shaka kaSenzangakhona in the South African television miniseries Shaka Zulu.