1907
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1907 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
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Events
January
- January 6 - Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome (Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo).
- January 14 - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than a 1,000
- January 23 - Charles Curtis from Kansas, becomes the first Native American US Senator.
February
- February 22 - Scouting is founded by Robert Baden-Powell in the United Kingdom.
March
- March 5 - The new Duma is opened in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators had to be dispersed by Russian troops.
- March 18 - Train robbery in Sweden (first and only as of 2004)
- March 22 - The first cabs with taxi meters began operating in London.
May
- May 27 - A Bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California.
June
- June 1 - Colin Blythe takes 17 wickets for 48 runs against Northamptonshire at Northampton in one day. It is the best analysis ever recorded for a county cricket match (or for a single day's bowling), and not bettered in first-class cricket until 1956.
- June 5 - BAPS Swaminarayan religion established.
- June 11 - George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.
July
- July 25 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
August
- August 1-9 - Baden-Powell leads the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, England.
- August 31 - Formation of the Anglo-Russian Entente.
September
- September 26 - New Zealand and Newfoundland become a dominion.
November
- November 16 - Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma and are admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
- December 19 - Explosion in coal mine in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania - 239 dead
Undated
- The Diamond Sutra of 868, a Buddhist scripture later dated as earliest example of block printing, is discovered in the Mogao Caves.
- The triode thermionic amplifier invented by Lee DeForest, starting the development of electronics as a practical technology.
- The Autochrome Lumière is the first color photography process marketed.
- Herero Wars end
- French warship Jena explodes - 117 dead
- First parliamentary elections in the Philippines
- Adlon Hotel finished in Berlin
- The Moine Thrust Belt in Scotland becomes the first thrust belt to be discovered in the world.
Births
January-March
- January 3 - Ray Milland, Welsh actor (d. 1986)
- January 19 - Lilian Harvey, actress (d. 1968)
- January 20 - Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (d. 1990)
- Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
- January 23 - Dan Durya, actor (d. 1968)
- Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist (d. 1981)
- February 1 - Günter Eich, lyricist (d. 1972)
- February 11 - E W Swanton, author and sports commentator (d. 1990)
- February 15 - Jean Langlais, French composer and organist (d. 1991)
- Cesar Romero, American actor (d. 1994)
- February 17 - Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor (d. 1983)
- February 21 - W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973)
- February 22 - Sheldon Leonard, American actor, writer, director, and producer (d. 1997)
- Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998)
- February 27 - Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)
- March 13 - Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Braganca, Portuguese claimant to the throne (d. 1995)
- March 8 - Constantine Caramanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998)
- March 11 - Helmut von Moltke, jurist (d. 1945)
- March 15 - Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (d. 1981)
- March 22 - Lucia dos Santos, Spanish nun and visionary (d. 2005)
April-June
- April 12 - Felix de Weldon, Austrian-born sculptor (d. 2003)
- April 13 - Harold Stassen, American politician (d. 2001)
- April 24 - William Sargant, British psychiatrist (d. 1988)
- April 29 - Tino Rossi, French singer (d. 1983)
- Fred Zinnemann, Austrian director (d. 1997)
- May 2 - Pinky Lee, American comedian (d. 1993)
- May 8 - Wof Stefan Traugott Graf von Baudissin, general (d. 1993)
- May 9 - Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974)
- May 11 - Rose Ausänder, poet (d. 1988)
- May 12 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)
- May 13 - Dame Daphne du Maurier, English author (d. 1989)
- May 14 - Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1974)
- May 22 - Hergé, Belgian comics author (d. 1983)
- May 22 - Sir Laurence Olivier, English actor and director (d. 1989)
- May 26 - John Wayne, American actor (d. 1979)
- May 26- Rachel Carson, American environmental writer (d. 1964)
- May 30 - Elly Beinhorn, pilot
- June 14 - René Char, French poet (d. 1988)
July-September
- July 6 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
- July 7 - Robert Heinlein, American science fiction author (d. 1988)
- August 12 - Joe Besser, American comedian (d. 1988)
- August 13 - Viscount William Waldorf Astor, British parliamentarian (d. 1966)
- September 12 - Spud Chandler, baseball player (d. 1990)
- September 15 - Fay Wray, Canadian-born actress (d. 2004)
- September 18 - Leon Askin, Austrian actor (d. 2005)
October-December
- October 5 - Mrs. Miller, American singer (d. 1997)
- October 9 - Lord Hailsham, British politician (d. 2001)
- October 15 - Varian Fry, American journalist and rescuer (d. 1967)
- October 19 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader (d. 1962)
- October 22 - Jimmie Foxx, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1967)
- November 14 - Howard W. Hunter, American religious leader, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1995)
- Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's writer (d. 2002)
- November 16 - Burgess Meredith, American actor (d. 1997)
- November 28 - Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist (d. 1990)
- December 7 - Teresa Ferster Glazier, American author
- December 10 - Lucien Laurent, French footballer (d. 2005)
- December 19 - Jimmy McLarnin, Irish-born boxer (d. 2004)
- December 23 - James Roosevelt, American businessman and politician (d. 1991)
- December 27 - Johann Wilhelm Trollmann, German boxer (d. 1943)
Undated
- Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (d. 1973)
- Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III, Sultan of Terengganu and 4th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d. 1979)
- Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist (d. 1998)
Deaths
- January 20 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834)
- January 31 - Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (b. 1834)
- February 11 - Peter J Savelberg, Dutch monastery founder
- February 16 - Giosue Carducci, Italian writer (b. 1835)
- February 16 - Clémentine of Orléans, daughter of King Louis-Philippe of France and mother of Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (b. 1817)
- February 20 - Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
- May 12 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (b. 1848)
- May 19 - Benjamin Baker, English engineer
- August 15 - Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (b. 1831)
- August 16 - James Hector, Scottish geologist (b. 1834)
- September 4 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843)
- November 28 - Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect (b. 1869)
- December 17 - Lord Kelvin, English physicist and engineer (b. 1824)
Nobel Prizes
- Physics - Albert Abraham Michelson
- Chemistry - Eduard Buchner
- Medicine - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
- Literature - Rudyard Kipling
- Peace - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Louis Renaultaf:1907
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