In Turkey, the most prominent and active secularist organization is Atatürk Thought Association ( ADD ), which is credited for organizing the Republic Protests – demonstrations in the four largest cities in Turkey in 2007, where over 2 million people, mostly women, defended their concern in and support of secularist principles introduced by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

According to prominent ECT researcher Harold Sackeim, " despite over fifty years of clinical use and ongoing controversy ", until 2007 there had " never been a large-scale, prospective study of the cognitive effects of ECT.

Dr. Charles Kellner, a prominent ECT researcher and former chief editor of the Journal of ECT, stated in a 2007 interview that, " There are a number of well-designed studies that show ECT does not cause brain damage and numerous reports of patients who have received a large number of treatments over their lifetime and have suffered no significant problems due to ECT.

American Vogue dubbed ten models ( Doutzen Kroes, Agyness Deyn, Hilary Rhoda, Raquel Zimmermann, Coco Rocha, Lily Donaldson, Chanel Iman, Sasha Pivovarova, Caroline Trentini, and Jessica Stam ) as the new crop of supermodels in their May 2007 cover story, while the likes of Christie Brinkley, Christy Turlington, and Linda Evangelista returned to reclaim prominent contracts from celebrities and younger models.

Marbles was released in 2004 with a 2-CD version that is only available at Marillion's website – kind of a ' thank-you ' gesture to the over 18, 000 fans who pre-ordered it, and as even a further thanks to the fans, their names were credited in the sleeve notes ( this ' thank you ' to the fans also occurred with the previous album, Anoraknophobia ). Marillion in 2007, left to right: Steve Rothery, Steve Hogarth, Pete Trewavas ( front row ), Mark Kelly, Ian Mosley ( back row ) The band ’ s management organised the biggest promotional schedule since they had left EMI and Steve Hogarth secured interviews with prominent broadcasters on BBC Radio, including Matthew Wright, Bob Harris, Stuart Maconie, Simon Mayo and Mark Lawson.

Merzbow, prominent Japanoise musician, in 2007

However, West's 2007 single " Stronger " used a prominent sample from a song by the French dance-oriented electronic act Daft Punk, whose work in the 1990s and early 2000s was also becoming highly sampled and influential on the musical aesthetic of acts in other genres such as indie rock and indie dance.

In January 2007 the prominent Selsdon Clock, in rustic style with a brushwood motif round its face, was installed on the Selsdon Triangle, on the plinth of a former public lavatory, in front of the library and Sainsbury's supermarket.

One prominent former King Citian was celebrated children's author Clyde Robert Bulla, who died in 2007 while living in Warrensburg, Missouri.

Charles Stewart Parnell ; Comprising a Graphic Story of His Ancestry, Edgewood Publishing, 1891 ; reprinted in paperback by Kessinger Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-0-548-59792-7McWade held a number of government posts in the U. S., the most prominent of which was in the U. S. diplomatic delegation to Peking during the Boxer Rebellion.

Callow is one of the most prominent gay actors in Britain, listed 28th in the Independents 2007 listing of the most influential gay men and women in the UK.

In February 2007 The Age took a prominent role to publicly advocate on behalf of the Free David Hicks campaign ( where Hicks was a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay ).

In 2007, Gormley's Event Horizon, consisting of 31 life-size and anatomically-correct casts of his body, four in cast iron and 27 in fiberglass, was installed on top of prominent buildings along London's South Bank, and was later installed in locations around New York City's Madison Square in 2010.

Brett Garsed and T. J. Helmerich are also watched as prominent fusion guitar players, having released several albums together since the beginning of the 1990s ( Quid Pro Quo ( 1992 ), Exempt ( 1994 ), Under the Lash of Gravity ( 1999 ), Uncle Moe's Space Ranch ( 2001 ), Moe's Town ( 2007 )) and collaborating in many other projects or releasing solo albums ( Brett Garsed – Big Sky ) all them falling in the genre.

* Dawn O ' Donnell ( 1928 – 2007 ), prominent business and nightclub owner, gay and lesbian rights campaigner

Two prominent publications about Shaolin were published in 2007, including the first ever photo documentary on the temple entitled Shaolin: Temple of Zen, published by the non-profit Aperture Foundation, featuring the photos of National Geographic photographer Justin Guariglia.

" With the heavy defeat of the Socialists on the national scale during the 2007 elections, Manuel Valls has taken a prominent position in the party and has been given the nickname of " Le Sarko de la gauche " ( the left wing Sarkozy ).

Notably on 28 March 2007, two of Huyton's most prominent footballers starred for England in a 3-nil away win in Andorra.

He was a prominent figure in the Congress campaign for the 2007 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections ; Congress, however, won only 22 seats with 8. 53 % of votes.

In May 2007, President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez contributed $ 18 million to fund the production of Toussaint for Glover, who is a prominent U. S. supporter of Chávez.

In October 2007, the FDA announced that the labeling for all PDE5 inhibitors, including tadalafil, requires a more prominent warning of the potential risk of sudden hearing loss as the result of postmarketing reports of deafness associated with use of PDE5 inhibitors.

In early March 2007, with many prominent members of the UDF calling for Muluzi to run for president in 2009, the party said that he would have until March 11 to declare whether he intended to run.

In September 2007, prominent members Miroslav Rožić and Tonči Tadić left the party.

Jennifer Blackburn Dunn ( July 29, 1941 – September 5, 2007 ) was a prominent Republican member of the United States House of Representatives 1993 – 2005, representing.

* 1929 – Ira Levin, American author ( d. 2007 )

* 2007 – John Gardner, English author ( b. 1926 )

* 1918 – Gordon Zahn, American sociologist, pacifist, and author ( d. 2007 )

* 1932 – Lee Hoffman, American author ( d. 2007 )

* 1919 – Benedict Kiely, Irish author ( d. 2007 )

* 1942 – Larry Hartsell, American martial arts instructor and author ( d. 2007 )

In April 2007, it was reported that imaging analysis had discovered an early commentary on Aristotle's Categories in the Archimedes Palimpsest, and Robert Sharples suggested Alexander as the most likely author.

* 2007 – June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author, and activist ( b. 1924 )

According to Tom Roberts, author of Alex Raymond: His Life and Art ( 2007 ), Capp delivered a stirring speech that was instrumental in changing those rules.

Colin Kapp ( 1928 – 3 August 2007 ) was a British science fiction author.

* 1939 – Glenda Adams, Australian author ( d. 2007 )

* 1918 – Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author ( d. 2007 )

* 1917 – Sidney Sheldon, American author ( d. 2007 )

* 2007 – Molly Ivins, American political columnist and author ( b. 1944 )

* 2007 – Povel Ramel, Swedish singer, pianist, composer, and author ( b. 1922 )

* 1947 – Magdalen Nabb, British author ( d. 2007 )

* 1904 – Rudolf Arnheim, German-born American author and psychologist ( d. 2007 )

* 1927 – Gene Savoy, American author, explorer, scholar, and cleric ( d. 2007 )

* 1911 – Henri Troyat, French author and historian ( d. 2007 )

* 1925 – Jan Wolkers, Dutch author ( d. 2007 )

Robert Anton Wilson ( born Robert Edward Wilson, January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007 ), known to friends as " Bob ", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic.

Crow wrote a foreword for the book Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips, author Kris Carr's book that was based on her 2007 documentary film Crazy Sexy Cancer.

* February 6 – Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author ( d. 2007 )

* November 29 – Madeleine L ' Engle, American author ( d. 2007 )