1907

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1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday (dominical letter G) 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. The name of this year is read in several ways as: one-thousand nine-hundred seven, nineteen-hundred seven, and/or nineteen-o’-seven.

January

January 6 – The first Montessori school and daycare center for working class children opens in Rome.

January 14 – An earthquake, in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.

March

The 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt results in possibly as many as 11,000 deaths.

The Diamond Sūtra, a woodblock printed Buddhist scripture dated 868, is discovered by Aurel Stein in the Mogao Caves in China; it is "the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book".

March 5 – At the opening of the new State Duma in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 40,000 demonstrators are dispersed by Russian troops.

March 15–March 16 – Elections to the new Parliament of Finland are the first in the world with woman candidates, as well as the first elections in Europe where universal suffrage is applied. Nineteen women are elected.

March 22 – The first taxicabs with taxi meters begin operating in London.

March 25 – The first in Europe the Federation was established with the participation of the associations of 8 Hungarian universities and colleges and with the written support of a further two (see stamp).

April

April 24 – Al Ahly SC, as known well for football club in Cairo, a first officially football club founded in Egypt and African Nations.

May

May 13 – The 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party convenes in secret in London.

June

June 5 – Shastri Yagnapurushdas consecrated the murtis of both Sahajanand Swami and Gunatitanand Swami in a single central shrine, thus establishing the Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, now a United Nations affiliate organization.

June 15 – The Second Hague Peace Conference opens at The Hague.

June 26 – Tiflis bank robbery: Bolsheviks attack a cash-filled bank coach in the centre of Tiflis, Georgia, killing forty people.

July

July 1 – The Orange River Colony gains autonomy as the Orange Free State.

July 21 – The SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the lumber schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, U.S.A., resulting in 88 deaths.

July 24 – The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1907 brings the government and military of the protectorate of Korea more firmly under Japanese control.

August

August 1–9 – Robert Baden-Powell leads the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, England.

August 29 – The partially completed superstructure of the Quebec Bridge collapses entirely, claiming the lives of 76 workers.

August 31 – Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the Anglo-Russian Entente in Saint Petersburg, bringing a pause in The Great Game in Central Asia and establishing the Triple Entente.

September

September 7 – The passenger liner RMS Lusitania makes its maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.

September 26 – New Zealand and Newfoundland become dominions.

October

October – A committee of the Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language, made up of academics including Otto Jespersen, Wilhelm Ostwald and Roland Eötvös meet in Paris to select a language for international use. The committee ultimately decides to reform Esperanto.

October 17 – Guglielmo Marconi initiates commercial transatlantic radio communications between his high power longwave wireless telegraphy stations in Clifden Ireland and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.

October 18 – Hague Convention revised by (second) Hague Peace Conference (effective 26 January 1910).

October 27 – Černová massacre: Fifteen people are shot during the consecration of a Catholic church in Hungary (now Slovakia).

November

November 16 – British passenger liner RMS Mauretania, the world's largest and fastest at this date, sets out on her maiden voyage from Liverpool (England) to New York.

November 25 – The Church of God in Christ, now the fifth largest African-American Pentecostal-Holiness Christian denomination in the United States was founded by Bishop Charles Harrison Mason in Memphis, TN.

December

December 6 – Monongah Mining disaster: A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in Monongah, West Virginia, United States.

December 8 – Upon the death of Oscar II, he is succeeded by his son Gustaf V as king of Sweden.

December 14 – The largest sailing ship ever built, the 7-masted Thomas W. Lawson, is wrecked in the Isles of Scilly.

December 17 – Ugyen Wangchuck becomes first Druk Gyalpo (king of Bhutan).

December 19 – An explosion in a coal mine in Jacobs Creek (Pennsylvania) kills 239.

December 21 – Santa María School massacre: In Chile soldiers fire at striking mineworkers gathered in the Santa María School in Iquique; over 2000 are killed.

Date unknown

The triode thermionic amplifier invented by Lee de Forest, starting the development of electronics as a practical technology.

The Autochrome Lumière is the first commercial color photography process.

Peking to Paris motor race, won by Prince Scipione Borghese driving a 7-litre 35/45 hp Itala.

The Moine Thrust Belt in Scotland is identified, one of the first to be discovered anywhere.

Henri Matisse begins to teach at the Académie Matisse in Paris, a private and non-commercial art school.

January–February

January 3 – Ray Milland, Welsh actor and film director (d. 1986)

January 8 – Keizō Hayashi, Japanese civil servant and military official (d. 1991)

January 11 – Pierre Mendes 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 and novelist (d. 1995)

January 18 – Lina Haag, German World War II resistance fighter (d. 2012)

January 20

Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (d. 2000)

Manfred von Ardenne, German research and applied physicist and inventor (d. 1997)

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)

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 and 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)

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

March 8 – Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998)

March 9 – Mircea Eliade, Romanian religious historian and writer (d. 1986)

March 12

Arthur Hewlett, British actor (d. 1997)

Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer (d. 2007)

March 15 – Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (d. 1981)

March 16 – Hans Kleppen, Norwegian ski jumper (d. 2009)

March 17 – Takeo Miki, former Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1988)

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 and visionary (d. 2005)

March 29 – "Braguinha", Brazilian songwriter (d. 2006)

March 30 – Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe officer (d. 1994)

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 15 – Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)

April 16 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and founder of Bombardier Inc. (d. 1964)

April 21 – Wade Mainer, American singer and 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 29

Tino Rossi, French singer (d. 1983)

Fred Zinnemann, Austrian director (d. 1997)

May–June

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 and screen actor and director (d. 1989)

May 25 – U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)

May 26 – John Wayne, American actor (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 14

Nicolas Bentley, British writer and illustrator (d. 1978)

René Char, French poet (d. 1988)

June 19 – Clarence Wiseman, Salvation Army general (d. 1985)

June 22 – 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 – J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)

June 28 – Franciszka Themerson, Polish-born British artist and filmmaker (d. 1989)

June 29 – Junji Nishikawa, Japanese football player

July–August

July 3 – Vittoria Di Silverio, Italian film, television and stage actress (d. 2014)

July 5 – Yang Shangkun, President of the People's Republic of China (d. 1998)

July 6 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)

July 7 – Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction author (d. 1988)

July 16

Orville Redenbacher, American botanist and popcorn businessman (d. 1995)

Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (d. 1990)

July 19

Giulio Balestrini, Italian football player

Isabel Jewell, American actress (d. 1972)

Paul Magloire, President of Haiti (d. 2001)

July 21 – Georg Rydeberg, Swedish actor (d. 1983)

July 22 – Zubir Said, Singaporean composer of Singapore's national anthem (d. 1987)

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 2 – Mary Hamman, American writer and editor (d. 1984)

August 3 – Irene Tedrow, American actress (d. 1995)

August 7 – Albert Kotin, American painter (d. 1980)

August 8 – Benny Carter, American musician (d. 2003)

August 12 – Joe Besser, American comedian (d. 1988)

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 – 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

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)

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 and 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 and spy (d. 1983)

Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (d. 1992)

September 27 – Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist (d. 1998)

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 and composer (d. 1977)

October 2

Víctor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia (d. 2001)

Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)

October 5 – Mrs. Miller, American singer (d. 1997)

October 6 – Francisco Gabilondo Soler, (d. 1990)

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 20 – Arlene Francis, Amcerican actress (d. 2001)

October 28 – John Hewitt, Irish poet (d. 1987)

October 30 – Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1995)

November–December

November 1 – Homero Manzi, Argentine Tango lyricist and 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)

November 11 – 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 and military officer (d. 1944)

November 16 – Burgess Meredith, American actor (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 30 – Jacques Barzun, French-born American historian (d. 2012)

December 5 – Lin Biao, Chinese communist leader (d. 1971)

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 and politician (d. 1991)

December 25

Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon and businessman (d. 1988)

Cab Calloway, American jazz singer and bandleader (d. 1994)

December 27 – Johann Wilhelm Trollmann, German boxer (d. 1943)

Date unknown

Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (d. 1973)

Bernard Brodie (biochemist), English-American chemist and "founder of modern pharmacology" (d. 1989)

probable – Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah, King of Malaysia (d. 1979)

January–June

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 16

Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1835)

Clémentine of Orléans, daughter of King Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1817)

February 17 – Henry Steel Olcott, American officer and theosophist (b. 1832)

February 20 – Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1852)

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, industrialist (b. 1836)

March 11 – Jean Casimir-Perier, President of France (b. 1847)

March 18 – Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist (b. 1837)

March 19

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and novelist (b. 1836)

Mariano Baptista, former President of Bolivia (b. 1832)

March 23 – Konstantin Pobedonostsev, statesman (b. 1827)

March 25 – Ernst von Bergmann, Baltic German surgeon (b. 1836)

April 14 – Frank Manly Thorn, American lawyer, politician, government official, essayist, journalist, humorist, and inventor, sixth Superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (b. 1836)

April 23 – Alferd Packer, American cannibal (b. 1842)

May 4 – John Watts de Peyster, American author, philanthropist, and soldier (b. 1821)

May 6 – Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and 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 and engineer (b. 1832)

June 25 – John Hall, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1824)