Norman Mailer, Luciano Pavarotti, Ingmar Bergman, Liz Claiborne, Beverly Sills, Oscar Peterson, Boris Yeltsin, Lady Bird Johnson: They were just some of the notable figures of our time who passed from the scene in 2007. The Times here remembers them and others in a slide show and a month-by-month list with links to each of their obituaries.

January

Teddy Kollek, 95, longtime mayor of Jerusalem.

Vincent Sardi Jr., 91, famed Broadway restaurateur.

Yvonne De Carlo, 84, played Lily on "The Munsters."

Carlo Ponti, 94, film producer.

Alice Coltrane, 69, jazz pianist, spiritual leader and wife of John Coltrane.

Michael Brecker, 57, prolific jazz saxophonist.

Art Buchwald, 81, newspaper humorist.

Denny Doherty, 66, Mamas and Papas singer.