2007

• Alicia Keys – “No One”
• Amy Winehouse – “Rehab”
• Beyonce – “Irreplaceable”
• Carrie Underwood – “Before He Cheats”
• Daughtry – “It’s Not Over”
• Fergie – “Big Girls Don’t Cry”
• Gwen Stefani – “The Sweet Escape”
• John Mayer – “Waiting on the World to Change”
• Justin Timerlake – ‘What Goes Around … Comes Around”
• Kanye West – “Stronger”
• Maroon 5 – “Makes Me Wonder”
• Nelly Furtado – “Say It Right”
• Nickelback – “If Everyone Cared”
• Nickelback – “Rockstar”
• Plain White T’s – “Hey There Delilah”
• Soulja Boy – “Crank That”
• The Fray – “How to Save a Life”
• Timbaland ft Keri Hilson – “The Way I Are”
• Timbaland ft OneRepublic – “Apologize”

• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Spider-Man 3
• Shrek the Third
• Transformers
• Ratatouille
• I Am Legend
• The Simpsons Movie
• National Treasure: Book of Secrets
• 300

• Chuck
• The Big Bang Theory
• Keeping Up with the Kardashians
• Cory in the House
• Survivor: Fiji
• Survivor: China
• Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?
• Jon & Kate Plus 8
• Heartland
• Burn Notice
• iCarly
• Gossip Girl

• The O.C.
• Nanny 911
• Stargate SG-1
• Bratz
• 7th Heaven
• Gilmore GIrls
• Veronica Mars
• Punk'd
• Pimp My Ride
• The Sopranos
• Extreme Makeover
• Heartland
• Kim Possible
• Drake & Josh
• That's So Raven
• Queer Eye

• Season: China
• 2 tribes of 8 new players
• Winner: Todd Herzog
• Runners-up: Courtney Yates, Amanda Kimmel

• Season: Fiji
• 2 tribes of 9 new players divided by 1 castaway, who joined tribe who lost 1st challenge
• Winner: Earl Cole
• Runners-up: Cassandra Franklin & Andrea "Dreams" Herd

• Winner: Jordin Sparks
• Runner-up: Blake Lewis
• Sanjaya was season's most talked-about contestant for his unusual hairdo, and for managing to survive elimination for many weeks due by encouraging people to vote for the worst

• Aubrey Anderson-Emmons - actress, on "Modern Family"
• Ariana Greenblatt - actress, in "A Bad Moms Christmas"
• Angelica Hale - pop singer, made it to the finals on America's Got Talent in 2017
• Elias Harger - TV actor, on "Fuller House"
• Millie Davis - TV actress, in "Wonder"
• August Maturo - TV actor
• Alyvia Alyn Lind - actress, on soap opera "Young and the Restless"; also in movie "Blended"
• Jason Maybaum - TV actor, on "Raven's Home"
• Piper Rockelle - Musical.ly star
• Malachi Barton - TV actor, on "Stuck in the Middle"
• Elliana Walmsley - dancer, on "Dance Moms"
• Alexis Oladi - dancer, on "Dance Moms"
• Zircon - YouTube star, viral with is video "Loan Paul (My Hero)"

• Chris Benoit - Canadian wrestler
• Barbara Morgan - American teacher, died on space shuttle flight
• Anna Nicole Smith - American model/actress
• Luciano Pavarotti - Italian opera singer
• Boris Yeltsin - first President of Russian Federation
• Merv Griffin - American TV host of his own talk show and "Wheel of Fortune"
• Momofuku Ando - Japanese inventor of instant noodles/ramen

• tumblr
• Amazon.com launches its Kindle e-book reader
• Apple introduces a touchscreen cellphone called the iPhone

• Friendsgiving
• hashtag
• netbook
• retweet
• tweep
• tweetstorm

October 14 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) taser a Polish man, Robert Dziekański,  who died shortly thereafter, at the Vancouver Airport. The incident is videotaped and eventually released to the public.

October 19 – In Surrey, British Columbia, six people are murdered in a highrise apartment. Chris Mohan, and Ed Schellenburg, were innocent victims in the murder. The other four were drug dealers.

Barbara Morgan, a former teacher from Idaho, is part of a mission aboard the space shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station, where additional trusses will be added and supplies delivered. Morgan was the backup to Christa McAuliffe, the teacher who died in 1986 when the shuttle Challenger disintegrated shortly after takeoff (Aug. 8)

April 16: Seung-Hui Cho, a seniorat Virginia Tech, shot and killed 32 people and wounded 17 others in two separate attacks (another six people were injured escaping from classroom windows), approximately two hours apart, before committing suicide.

Feb 8: age 39, prescription drug overdose. Anna Nicole Smith, was an American model, actress and television personality. Smith modeled for Playboy and Guess. Her highly publicized marriage to J. Howard Marshall resulted in speculation that she married the 89-year-old mainly for his money, which she denied. Following Marshall's death, Smith began a lengthy legal battle over a share of his estate. During the final six months of her life, Smith was the focus of renewed press coverage surrounding the paternity and custody battle over her newborn daughter, Dannielynn. 

June 24: Canadian professional wrestler, known as the Canadian Crippler, killed his wife and 7-year-old son in their home in Fayetteville, Georgia, before taking his own life by hanging himself. Benoit held 22 championships between WWF/WWE, WCW, NJPW, and ECW. He was a two-time world champion, having been a one-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, and a one-time World Heavyweight Champion in WWE. Research suggests depression and brain damage from numerous concussions are likely contributing factors leading to the crime.

The one-time pop princess hit a rough patch in late 2006 and early 2007, as she dealt with her divorce from Kevin Federline and subsequent custody battle. It was clear the star needed a break when on February 16, 2007 she headed to a salon and buzzed her famous locks off herself as paparazzi frantically snapped away outside. While it took two more years for things to settle down (somewhat) for Spears, she's regained much of her music mojo: Her 2008 album, "Circus", went platinum.