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2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2007th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 7th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2000s decade.

2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year,[1] International Polar Year,[2] and the International Year of Languages.[3]

2007 was the beginning of the Great Recession, a worldwide recession which lasted until 2009.

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Unknown date

  • Mauritania is the last country to criminalise slavery (officially "abolished" in 1981), making the practice illegal everywhere in the world.[43]

Births

Deaths

Deaths
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

Yvonne De Carlo
Ryszard Kapuściński

February

Anna Nicole Smith

March–April

Jean Baudrillard
Mstislav Rostropovich

May–June

Wally Schirra
Antonio Aguilar

July–August

Alfonso López Michelsen
Mohammed Zahir Shah
Ingmar Bergman
Max Roach

September–October

Luciano Pavarotti
Marcel Marceau
Deborah Kerr

November–December

Ian Smith
Oscar Peterson
Benazir Bhutto

Nobel Prizes

New English words and terms

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