1907

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1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1907th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 907th year of the 2nd millennium, the 7th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1907, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

January

January 14: Earthquake in Jamaica

• January 6 – The first Montessori school and daycare center for working class children opens in Rome.
• January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.

Births

January–February

Ray Milland

Pierre Mendès France

Manfred von Ardenne

Maurice Couve de Murville

Cesar Romero

Robert Young

Milton Caniff

• January 3 – Ray Milland, Welsh actor, film director (d. 1986)
• January 8 – Keizō Hayashi, Japanese civil servant, military official (d. 1991)
• January 11 – Pierre Mendès France, French politician, 142nd Prime Minister of France (d. 1982)
• January 12 – Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1966)
• January 16 – Alexander Knox, Canadian actor, novelist (d. 1995)
• January 18 – Lina Haag, German World War II resistance fighter (d. 2012)
• January 20
  • Manfred von Ardenne, German research and applied physicist, inventor (d. 1997)
  • Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
• January 22 – Dixie Dean, English football player (d. 1980)
• January 23 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
• January 24
  • Maurice Couve de Murville, Prime Minister of France (d. 1999)
  • Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah, King of Malaysia (d. 1979)
• January 27 – Joyce Compton, American actress (d. 1997)
• February 1 – Günter Eich, German writer (d. 1972)
• February 5
  • Birgit Dalland, Norwegian politician (d. 2007)
  • Pierre Pflimlin, French politician (d. 2000)
• February 6 – Russell Gleason, American actor (d. 1945)
• February 9 – Trường Chinh, President of Vietnam (d. 1988)
• February 12 – Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (d. 1991)
• February 13 – Katy de la Cruz, Filipino singer (d. 2004)
• February 15
  • Jean Langlais, French composer, organist (d. 1991)
  • Cesar Romero, American actor (d. 1994)
• February 18 – Oscar Brodney, American screenwriter (d. 2008)
• 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)
  • Lillian Cox, American supercentenarian (d. 2018)
• February 25 – Kathryn Wasserman Davis, American philanthropist (d. 2013)
• February 26 – Dub Taylor, American actor (d. 1994)
• February 27 – Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)
• February 28 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (d. 1988)

March–April

Konstantinos Karamanlis

Zarah Leander

Takeo Miki

Daniel Bovet

Germán Suárez Flamerich

Nikolaas Tinbergen

Fred Zinnemann

• March 8 – Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998)
• March 9 – Mircea Eliade, Romanian religious historian, writer (d. 1986)
• March 12
  • Arthur Hewlett, British actor (d. 1997)
  • Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer (d. 2007)
• March 15 – Zarah Leander, Swedish actress, singer (d. 1981)
• March 16
  • Frances Fuller, American actress (d. 1980)
  • Hans Kleppen, Norwegian ski jumper (d. 2009)
• March 17
  • Takeo Miki, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1988)
  • Jean Van Houtte, Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1991)
• March 18 – John Zachary Young, English biologist (d. 1997)
• March 23 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
• March 27 – Mary Treen, American actress (d. 1989)
• March 28 – Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun, visionary (d. 2005)
• March 29 – Braguinha, Brazilian songwriter (d. 2006)
• March 30 – Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe officer (d. 1994)
• April 1 – Shivakumara Swami, Hindu religious figure, humanitarian
• April 10 – Germán Suárez Flamerich, Venezuelan lawyer, politician and 50th President of Venezuela (d. 1990)
• April 11
  • Paul Douglas, American actor (d. 1959)
  • Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer, entrepreneur and inventor (d. 2001)
• April 12 – Felix de Weldon, Austrian-born sculptor (d. 2003)
• April 13 – Harold Stassen, American politician (d. 2001)
• April 14 – François Duvalier, 32nd President of Haiti (d. 1971)
• April 15 – Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
• April 16 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor, founder of Bombardier Inc. (d. 1964)
• April 21 – Wade Mainer, American singer, banjoist (d. 2011)
• April 23
  • James Hayter, British actor (d. 1983)
  • Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (d. 1975)
• April 24 – William Sargant, British psychiatrist (d. 1988)
• April 26 – Ilias Tsirimokos, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1968)
• April 29
  • Tino Rossi, French singer (d. 1983)
  • Fred Zinnemann, Austrian director (d. 1997)

May–June

Kent Taylor

Katharine Hepburn

Laurence Olivier

John Wayne

J. Hans D. Jensen

• May 1 – Oliver Hill, American lawyer (d. 2007)
• May 2 – Pinky Lee, American comedian (d. 1993)
• May 3 – Dorothy Young, American entertainer (d. 2011)
• May 5 – Iryna Vilde, Ukrainian writer (d. 1982)
• May 9 – Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974)
• May 11 – Kent Taylor, American actor (d. 1987)
• 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)
  • Johnny Moss, American poker player (d. 1995)
  • Bob Tisdall, Irish Olympic athlete (d. 2004)
• May 22
  • Hergé, Belgian comics author (d. 1983)
  • Lord Laurence Olivier, English stage, screen actor and director (d. 1989)
• May 25 – U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)
• May 26 – John Wayne, American actor, film director (d. 1979)
• May 27 – Rachel Carson, American environmental writer (d. 1964)
• May 30
  • Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (d. 2007)
  • Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (d. 2008)
• June 1 – Frank Whittle, British jet engine developer (d. 1996)
• June 4 – Rosalind Russell, American actress (d. 1976)
• June 5 – Rudolf Peierls, German-British physicist (d. 1995)
• June 14
  • Nicolas Bentley, British writer, illustrator (d. 1978)
  • René Char, French poet (d. 1988)
• June 16 – Jack Albertson, American actor, comedian (d. 1981)
• June 19
  • Clarence Wiseman, Salvation Army general (d. 1985)
  • George de Mestral, Swiss inventor (d. 1990)
• June 22
  • Ernest "Doc" Paulin, American trumpeter (d. 2007)
  • Wesley E. Brown, American district court judge (d. 2012)
• June 23 – James Meade, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
• June 24 – Jean Schlumberger (jewelry designer) (d. 1987)
• June 25
  • Franca Dominici, Italian actress, voice actress (d. 1999)
  • J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
• June 26 – Joan Harrison, English screenwriter, producer (d. 1994)
• June 27 – John McIntire, American actor (d. 1991)
• June 28
  • Junius Driggs, American businessman (d. 1994)
  • Franciszka Themerson, Polish-born British artist, filmmaker (d. 1989)
• June 29 – Junji Nishikawa, Japanese football player (d. ?)

July–August

Frida Kahlo

Robert A. Heinlein

Ernesto Geisel

Yang Shangkun

Lurene Tuttle

Ramon Magsaysay

• July 3 – Vittoria Di Silverio, Italian film, television and stage actress (d. 2014)
• July 4
  • Emilio Ochoa, Cuban dentist, politician (d. 2007)
  • Henning Holck-Larsen, Danish businesspeople (d. 2003)
• July 6
  • Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
  • George Stanley, Canadian historian, author, soldier, teacher, public servant, and designer (d. 2002)
• July 7
  • Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia (d. 1989)
  • Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction author (d. 1988)
  • Pavel Sudoplatov, Russian Lieutenant General (d. 1996)
  • Walter Dieminger, German space scientist (d. 2000)
• July 9 – Teresa Jungman, English socialite (d. 2010)
• July 10 – John Michaels, American pitcher (d. 1996)
• July 13 – George Weller, American novelist, playwright, and journalist (d. 2002)
• July 14
  • Annabella, French actress (d. 1996)
  • Maria Matray, German screenwriter and actress (d. 1993)
• July 15
  • Shōshin Nagamine, Japanese author and soldier, police officer, and karate master (d. 1997)
  • Mona Rico, Mexican-born American actress (d. 1994)
  • Paterson Fraser, English Royal Air Force (d. 2001)
• July 16
  • Orville Redenbacher, American botanist and popcorn businessman (d. 1995)
  • Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (d. 1990)
• July 19
  • Giulio Balestrini, Italian football player (d. ?)
  • Isabel Jewell, American actress (d. 1972)
  • Paul Magloire, President of Haiti (d. 2001)
• July 21
  • A. D. Hope, Australian poet and essayist (d. 2000)
  • Georg Rydeberg, Swedish actor (d. 1983)
• July 22
  • Jack Dennington, Australian rules footballer (d. 1994)
  • Aldo Donelli, American football player and coach, soccer player, and college athletics administrator (d. 1994)
  • Zubir Said, Singaporean composer of Singapore's national anthem (d. 1987)
  • Millicent Yearwood, Barbadian supercentenarian, oldest woman ever from Barbados
• July 25 – Johnny Hodges, American alto saxophonist (d. 1970)
• July 27
  • Ross Alexander, American actor (d. 1937)
  • Richard Beesly, British Olympic gold medal rower (d. 1965)
• July 29 – Melvin Belli, American lawyer (d. 1996)
• August 1 – Elisabeth Johansen, Greenlandic midwife and politician (d. 1993)
• August 2 – Mary Hamman, American writer and editor (d. 1984)
• August 3
  • Ernesto Geisel, 29th President of Brazil (d. 1996)
  • Yang Shangkun, President of the People's Republic of China (d. 1998)
  • Irene Tedrow, American actress (d. 1995)
• August 7
  • Bernard Brodie (biochemist), English-American chemist and "founder of modern pharmacology" (d. 1989)
  • Albert Kotin, American painter (d. 1980)
• August 8 – Benny Carter, American musician (d. 2003)
• August 12
  • Joe Besser, American comedian (d. 1988)
  • Benjamin Sheares, 2nd President of Singapore (d. 1981)
• August 13 – Viscount William Waldorf Astor, British politician (d. 1966)
• August 14 – Stanley Adams, American lyricist and songwriter (d. 1994)
• August 20 – Alan Reed, American actor and voice actor (d. 1977)
• August 21
  • John G. Trump, American electrical engineer, inventor, and physicist (d. 1985)
  • Hy Zaret, American lyricist and composer (d. 2007)
• August 24
  • Bruno Giacometti, Swiss architect (d. 2012)
  • Gil Perkins, Australian actor and stuntman (d. 1999)
• August 28 – Rupert Hart-Davis, British publisher (d. 1999)
• August 29 – Lurene Tuttle, American character actress (d. 1986)
• August 31
  • Argentina Brunetti, Argentinian actress and writer (d. 2005)
  • Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician and civil rights lawmaker (d. 2007)
  • Ramon Magsaysay, 7th President of the Philippines (d. 1957)

September–October

Fay Wray

Warren E. Burger

Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Alexander R. Todd

• September 2
  • Evelyn Hooker, American psychologist (d. 1996)
  • Miriam Seegar, American actress (d. 2011)
• September 3 – Loren Eiseley, American author (d. 1977)
• September 4
  • Frances Griffiths, Cottingley Fairies girl (d. 1986)
  • Reggie Nalder, Austrian actor (d. 1991)
• September 12
  • Spud Chandler, American baseball player (d. 1990)
  • Louis MacNeice, Northern Irish poet (d. 1963)
• September 15
  • Jimmy Wallington, American radio personality (d. 1972)
  • Fay Wray, Canadian-born actress (d. 2004)
• September 17 – Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)
• September 18
  • Leon Askin, Austrian actor (d. 2005)
  • Elza Brandeisz, Hungarian dancer, teacher (d. 2018)
  • Edwin McMillan, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
• September 19 – Lewis F. Powell Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1998)
• September 22 – Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher, writer (d. 2003)
• September 23 – Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, pretender to the throne of Portugal (d. 1976)
• September 26
  • Anthony Blunt, British art historian, spy (d. 1983)
  • Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (d. 1992)
• September 27 – Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist (d. 1998)
• September 28 – Heikki Savolainen, Finnish artistic gymnast (d. 1997)
• September 29
  • Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and businessman (d. 1998)
  • George W. Jenkins, American businessman (d. 1996)
• October 1 – Ödön Pártos, Hungarian-Israeli violist, composer (d. 1977)
• October 2
  • Víctor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia (d. 2001)
  • Alexander R. Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
• October 5 – Elva Ruby Miller, American singer (d. 1997)
• October 6 – Francisco Gabilondo Soler, Mexican singer, composer (d. 1990)
• October 9 – Lord Hailsham, British politician (d. 2001)
• October 15 – Varian Fry, American journalist, rescuer (d. 1967)
• October 17 – John Marley, American actor (d. 1984)
• October 19 – Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader (d. 1962)
• October 20 – Arlene Francis, Amcerican actress (d. 2001)
• October 24 – Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (d. 1973)
• October 28 – John Hewitt, Irish poet (d. 1987)
• October 30 – Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1995)

November–December

Astrid Lindgren

Claus von Stauffenberg

Oscar Niemeyer

James Roosevelt

Cab Calloway

• November 1 – Homero Manzi, Argentine tango lyricist, author (d. 1951)
• November 4 – Draga Matković, German concert pianist (d. 2013)
• November 6 – Charles W. Yost, American ambassador (d. 1981)
• November 9 – Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (d. 1994)
• November 10
  • John Moore, British author (d. 1967)
  • Salme Reek, Estonian actress (d. 1996)
• November 11
  • Viktoria Brezhneva, First Lady of the Soviet Union (d. 1995)
  • Günter Fronius, Transylvanian Saxon entrepreneur (d. 2015)
• November 14
  • Howard W. Hunter, American religious leader (d. 1995)
  • Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's writer (d. 2002)
  • William Steig, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
• November 15 – Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, German aristocrat, military officer (d. 1944)
• November 16 – Burgess Meredith, American actor, director (d. 1997)
• November 18
  • Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (d. 2003)
  • Gustav Nezval, Czech actor (d. 1998)
• November 19 – Luigi Beccali, Italian Olympic athlete (d. 1990)
• November 23 – Run Run Shaw, Hong Kong media mogul (d. 2014)
• November 26 – Ruth Patrick, American botanist (d. 2013)
• November 27 – L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (d. 2000)
• November 28 – Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist (d. 1990)
• November 28 – Katharine Bartlett, American physical anthropologist, museum curator (d. 2001)
• November 30 – Jacques Barzun, French-born American historian (d. 2012)
• December 5 – Lin Biao, Chinese communist leader (d. 1971)
• December 6 – Helli Stehle, Swiss actress, radio presenter (d. 2017)
• December 10 – Lucien Laurent, French footballer (d. 2005)
• December 12 – Roy Douglas, British composer (d. 2015)
• December 15 – Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect (d. 2012)
• December 16 – Barbara Kent, Canadian silent film actress (d. 2011)
• December 19 – Jimmy McLarnin, Irish-born boxer (d. 2004)
• December 22 – Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (d. 1991)
• December 23 – James Roosevelt, American businessman, politician (d. 1991)
• December 25
  • Cab Calloway, American jazz singer, bandleader (d. 1994)
  • Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon, businessman (d. 1988)
• December 27 – Johann Wilhelm Trollmann, German boxer (d. 1943)

Deaths

January–June

Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar

Ida Saxton McKinley

Dmitri Mendeleev

Henri Moissan

• January 9 – Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, Shah of Iran (b. 1853)
• January 13 – Jakob Hurt, Estonian folklorist, theologian, and linguist (b. 1839)
• January 14 – Hermann Iseke, German doctor (b. 1856)
• January 21
  • Bertram Fletcher Robinson, English journalist, editor and author (b. 1870)
  • Graziadio Isaia Ascoli, Italian linguist (b. 1829)
• January 31 – Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (b. 1834)
• February 2 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834)
• February 13 – Marcel Alexandre Bertrand, French geologist (b. 1847)
• February 16
  • Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
  • Clémentine of Orléans, daughter of King Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1817)
• February 17 – Henry Steel Olcott, American officer, theosophist (b. 1832)
• February 20 – Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• February 21 – Erik Gustaf Boström, 2-time Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1842)
• February 26 – C. W. Alcock, English footballer, journalist, and football promoter (b. 1842)
• March 9 – Frederic George Stephens, English art critic (b. 1828)
• March 10 – George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn, Welsh industrialist (b. 1836)
• March 11
  • Jean Casimir-Perier, 6th President of France (b. 1847)
  • Dimitar Petkov, 14th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (assassinated) (b. 1847)
• March 18 – Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist (b. 1837)
• March 19
  • Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet, novelist (b. 1836)
  • Mariano Baptista, former President of Bolivia (b. 1832)
• March 23 – Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Russian statesman (b. 1827)
• March 25 – Ernst von Bergmann, Baltic German surgeon (b. 1836)
• April 6 – William Henry Drummond, Irish-Canadian poet (b. 1854)
• April 14 – Frank Manly Thorn, American lawyer, politician, government official, essayist, journalist, humorist, inventor, and 6th Superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (b. 1836)
• April 23 – Alferd Packer, American cannibal (b. 1842)
• May 1 – Melissa Elizabeth Riddle Banta, American poet (b. 1834)
• May 4 – John Watts de Peyster, American author, philanthropist, and soldier (b. 1821)
• May 6 – Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect, civil engineer (b. 1830)
• May 12 – Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (b. 1848)
• May 19 – Sir Benjamin Baker, English civil engineer (b. 1840)
• May 26 – Ida Saxton McKinley, First Lady of the United States (b. 1847)
• May 27 – Kevork Chavush, Armenian national hero (b. 1870)
• June 6 – J. A. Chatwin, English architect (b. 1830)
• June 14
  • Bartolomé Masó, Cuban patriot (b. 1830)
  • William Le Baron Jenney, American architect, engineer (b. 1832)
• June 25 – John Hall, 12th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1824)

July–December

Sully Prudhomme

Saint Ilia Chavchavadze

Saint Raphael Kalinowski

King Oscar II of Sweden

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

• July 13 – Heinrich Kreutz, German astronomer (b. 1854)
• July 28 – Mildred Amanda Baker Bonham, American travel writer (b. 1840)
• August – Dinqinesh Mercha, empress consort of Ethiopia (b. 1815)
• August 1 – Lucy M. Hall, American physician and writer (b. 1843)
• August 3 – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Irish-American Beaux-Arts sculptor (b. 1848)
• August 15 – Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (b. 1831)
• August 25 – Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, British poet, novelist (b. 1861)
• August 30 – Richard Mansfield, Anglo-American actor (b. 1857)
• September 4 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843)
• September 6 – Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839)
• September 9 – Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840)
• September 12 – Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian writer, Orthodox priest and saint (b. 1837)
• September 19 – Jacob Morenga, Namibian rebel leader (b. 1875)
• September 22 – Wilbur Olin Atwater, American chemist (b. 1844)
• September 30 – Sir John Ardagh, British army general (b. 1840)
• October 10 – Adolf Furtwängler, German archaeologist, historian (b. 1853)
• October 30 – Caroline Dana Howe, American author (b. 1824)
• November 1 – Alfred Jarry, French writer (b. 1873)
• November 6 – Sir James Hector, Scottish geologist (b. 1834)
• November 15 – Raphael Kalinowski, Polish Discalced Carmelite friar and saint (b. 1835)
• November 16 – Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma (b. 1848)
• November 21 – Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter (b. 1876)
• November 25 – Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, Danish explorer (b. 1872)
• November 28 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish writer, painter and architect (b. 1869)
• November 30 – Ludwig Levy, German architect (b. 1854)
• December 4 – Luis Sáenz Peña, 12th President of Argentina (b. 1822)
• December 8 – King Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)
• December 15 – Carola of Vasa, queen consort of Saxony (b. 1833)
• December 17 – Lord Kelvin, Irish-born physicist and engineer (b. 1824)
• December 20 – Helen Louisa Bostwick Bird, American author (b. 1826)
• December 21 – Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler (b. 1860)
• December 23 – Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (b. 1824)
• December 28 – Kate Stone, American diarist (b. 1841)
• December 31 – Jules de Trooz, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1857)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – Albert Abraham Michelson
• Chemistry – Eduard Buchner
• Medicine – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
• Literature – Rudyard Kipling
• Peace – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Louis Renault

References

Further reading

• Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900-1933 (1997); global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 143-57.
• International Year Book: 1907 (1908) 1002pp, worldwide coverage online edition