List of Famous people who died in 2007

Anna Nicole Smith

Vickie Lynn Hogan
First Name Anna
Last Name Smith
Born on November 28, 1967
Died on February 8, 2007 (aged 39)
Height 175 cm | 5'9

Anna Nicole Smith was an American model, actress, and television personality. Smith first gained popularity in Playboy magazine when she won the title of 1993 Playmate of the Year. She modeled for fashion companies, including Guess, H&M, Heatherette and Lane Bryant.

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Sean Taylor

Sean Michael Maurice Taylor
First Name Sean
Last Name Taylor
Born on April 1, 1983
Died on November 27, 2007 (aged 24)
Height 188 cm | 6'2

Sean Michael Maurice Taylor was an American football free safety for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Redskins as the fifth overall pick of the 2004 NFL Draft where he played for four seasons until his murder in 2007.

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Richard Jewell

Richard White
First Name Richard
Last Name Jewell
Born on December 17, 1962
Died on August 29, 2007 (aged 44)

Richard Allensworth Jewell was an American security guard and law enforcement officer who was the hero during the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. For many years he was suspected of planting the bomb.

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Tammy Faye Messner

First Name Tammy
Born on March 7, 1942
Died on July 20, 2007 (aged 65)

Tamara Faye Messner was an American Christian singer, evangelist, author, talk show hostess, and television personality. She initially gained notice for her work with The PTL Club, a televangelist program that she co-founded with her husband Jim Bakker in 1974. They had hosted their own puppet show series for local programming in Minnesota in the early 1970s; Messner also had a career as a recording artist. In 1978, she and Bakker built Heritage USA, a Christian theme park.

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Boris Yeltsin

Борис Николаевич Ельцин
First Name Boris
Last Name Yeltsin
Born on February 1, 1931
Died on April 23, 2007 (aged 76)
Height 187 cm | 6'2

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Russian and former Soviet politician who served as the first President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1990, he later stood as a political independent, during which time he was viewed as being ideologically aligned with liberalism and Russian nationalism.

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Ève Curie

First Name Ève
Last Name Curie
Born on December 6, 1904
Died on October 22, 2007 (aged 102)

Ève Denise Curie Labouisse was a French and American writer, journalist and pianist. Ève Curie was the younger daughter of Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie. Her sister was Irène Joliot-Curie and her brother-in-law Frédéric Joliot-Curie. She worked as a journalist and authored her mother's biography Madame Curie and a book of war reportage, Journey Among Warriors. From the 1960s she committed herself to work for UNICEF, providing help to children and mothers in developing countries. Ève was the only member of her family who did not choose a career as a scientist and did not win a Nobel Prize, although her husband, Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr., did collect the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 on behalf of UNICEF.

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Robert Jordan

First Name Robert
Last Name Jordan
Born on October 17, 1948
Died on September 16, 2007 (aged 58)

James Oliver Rigney Jr., better known by his pseudonym Robert Jordan, was an American author of epic fantasy. He is known best for his series the Wheel of Time which comprises 14 books and a prequel novel. He is one of several writers to have written original Conan the Barbarian novels. Jordan also published historical fiction using the pseudonym Reagan O'Neal, a western as Jackson O'Reilly, and dance criticism as Chang Lung. Rigney claimed to have ghostwritten an "international thriller" that is still believed to have been written by someone else.

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Evel Knievel

Robert Knievel
First Name Evel
Born on October 17, 1938
Died on November 30, 2007 (aged 69)

Robert Craig Knievel, professionally known as Evel Knievel, was an American stunt performer and entertainer. Over the course of his career, he attempted more than 75 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps.

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Maurice Papon

First Name Maurice
Last Name Papon
Born on September 3, 1910
Died on February 17, 2007 (aged 96)

Maurice Papon was a French civil servant who led the police in major prefectures from the 1930s to the 1960s, before he became a Gaullist politician. When he was secretary general for the police in Bordeaux during World War II, he participated in the deportation of more than 1600 Jews. He is also known for his activities in the Algerian War (1954–1962), during which he tortured insurgent prisoners as prefect of the Constantinois department, and ordered, as prefect of the Paris police, the severe repression of a pro-National Liberation Front (FLN) demonstration against a curfew that he had "advised."

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Grégory Lemarchal

First Name Grégory
Last Name Lemarchal
Born on May 13, 1983
Died on April 30, 2007 (aged 23)

Grégory Jean-Paul Lemarchal, known professionally as Grégory Lemarchal, was a French singer who rose to fame by winning the fourth series of the reality television show Star Academy, which was broadcast on the TF1.

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