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Year 1907 (MCMVII ) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar ).
Events of 1907
January - February
March - April
May - June
July - August
September - October
September 1 - Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart is opened in Washington
September 7 - Maiden voyage of new passenger liner RMS Lusitania from Liverpool England to New York City.
September 22 - The transatlantic passenger ship Princess Yolanda sinks during its launch. [3]
September 26 - New Zealand and Newfoundland become dominions .
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 Eotvos meet in Paris to select a language for international use . The committee ultimately decides to reform Esperanto .
October 17 - Guglielmo Marconi initiated commercial transatlantic radio communications between his high power longwave wireless telegraphy stations in Clifden Ireland and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia .
October 24 - A major American financial crisis is averted when J. P. Morgan , E. H. Harriman , James Stillman , Henry Clay Frick , and other Wall Street financiers create a $25,000,000 pool to invest in the shares on the plunging New York Stock Exchange , ending the bank panic of 1907 .[4]
October 27 - The Černová tragedy . Fifteen people are shot during the consecration of the Catholic church in Slovakia .
The first non-profit school in California is created, Polytechnic School .
November - December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January-February
January 12 - Sergei Korolev , Russian rocket scientist (d. 1966 )
January 20 - Paula Wessely , Austrian actress (d. 2000 )
January 22 - Dixie Dean , English football phenomenon (d. 1980 )
January 23 - Hideki Yukawa , Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981 )
February 1 - Günter Eich , German writer (d. 1972 )
February 12 - Clifton C. Edom , American photojournalism educator (d. 1991 )
February 13 - Katy de la Cruz , Filipino singer (d. 2004 )
February 15
February 17 - Buster Crabbe , American swimmer and actor (d. 1983 )
February 18 - Oscar Brodney , American screenwriter
February 21 - W. H. Auden , English poet (d. 1973 )
February 22
February 27 - Mildred Bailey , American singer (d. 1951 )
March-April
March 8 - Constantine Karamanlis , Greek politician (d. 1998 )
March 9 - Mircea Eliade , Romanian historian of religions and writer (d. 1986 )
March 12
March 15 - Zarah Leander , Swedish actress and singer (d. 1981 )
March 18 - John Zachary Young , English biologist (d. 1997 )
March 22 - Lucia dos Santos , Potuguese nun and visionary (d. 2005 )
March 23 - Daniel Bovet , Swiss-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1992 )
March 29 - "Braguinha" , Brazilian songwriter (d. 2006 )
March 30 - Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte , German Luftwaffe Officer (d. 1994 )
April 1 - Dr. Sree Sree Shivakumara Swamiji , Indian born social reformer
April 11 - 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, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1988 )
April 18 - Bert Hazell , British Labour Member of Parliament
April 23 - Fritz Wotruba , Austrian sculptor (d. 1975 )
April 24 - William Sargant , British psychiatrist (d. 1988 )
April 29
May-June
May 1 - Oliver Hill , Civil Rights Attorney (d. 2007 )
May 2 - Pinky Lee , American comedian (d. 1993 )
May 9 - Baldur von Schirach , Nazi official (d. 1974 )
May 11 - Rose Ausländer , German poet (d. 1988 )
May 12 - Katharine Hepburn , American actress (d. 2003 )
May 13 - Dame Daphne du Maurier , English author (d. 1989 )
May 14
May 22
May 25 - U Nu , Burmese politician (d. 1995 )
May 26
May 30
June 14
June 19 - Clarence Wiseman , Salvation Army general (d. 1985 )
June 23 - James Meade , English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995 )
June 25 - J. Hans D. Jensen , German physicist, Nobel Prize laurete (d. 1973 )
June 28 Franciszka Themerson , Polish, later British, artist and film-maker (d. 1989 )
July-August
July 6 - Frida Kahlo , Mexican painter (d. 1954 )
July 7 - Robert A. Heinlein , American science fiction author (d. 1988 )
July 16
July 19 - Paul Magloire , President of Haiti (d. 2001 )
July 22 - Zubir Said , Singaporean composer who composed Singapore's national anthem (d. 1987 )
July 27
August 2 - Mary Hamman , American writer and editor, modern living editor LIFE and editor in chief Bride & Home (d. 1984 )
August 7 - Albert Kotin , American abstract expressionist 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 21 - Hy Zaret , American lyricist and composer (d. 2007 )
August 31 - Augustus F. Hawkins , American politician and civil rights lawmaker (d. 2007 )
September-October
September 2 - Evelyn Hooker , psychologist (d. 1996 )
September 3 - Loren Eiseley , Nebraska author, USA (d. 1977 )
September 4 - Frances Griffiths , Cottingley Fairies girl (d. 1986 )
September 12
September 15
September 18
September 23 - Duarte Nuno , Duke of Braganza , Pretender to the throne of Portugal (d. 1976 )
September 26 - Bep van Klaveren , Dutch boxer (d. 1992 )
September 27 - Maurice Blanchot , French philosopher and writer (d. 2003 )
September 29
October 2
October 4 - Run Run Shaw , Hong Kong media mogul
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 22 - Jimmie Foxx , baseball player (d. 1967 )
October 28 - John Harold Hewitt , Irish poet (d. 1987 )
October 30 - Sol Tax , American anthropologist (d. 1995 )
November-December
November 10 - John Moore , British author (d. 1967 )
November 14
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 (Buena Vista Social Club ) (d. 2003 )
November 26 - Ruth Patrick , American botanist
November 27 - L. Sprague de Camp , American writer (d. 2000 )
November 28 - Alberto Moravia , Italian novelist (d. 1990 )
November 30 - Jacques Barzun , French born historian
December 10 - Lucien Laurent , French footballer (d. 2005 )
December 12 - Roy Douglas , British composer
December 15 - Oscar Niemeyer , Brazilian architect
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 )
December 27 - Johann Wilhelm Trollmann , German boxer (d. 1943 )
date unknown
probable - Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah , King of Malaysia (d. 1979 )
Deaths
January - June
January 14 - Hermann Iseke , doctor (b. 1856 )
January 31 - Timothy Eaton , Canadian department store founder (b. 1834 )
February 2 - Dmitri Mendeleev , Russian chemist (b. 1834 )
February 16
February 20 - Henri Moissan , French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852 )
February 26 - C. W. Alcock , English footballer, journalist, and football promoter (b. 1842 )
March 10 - George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn , industrialist (b. 1836 )
March 11 - Jean Casimir-Perier , President of France (b. 1847 )
March 19 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich , American poet and novelist (b. 1836 )
March 23 - Konstantin Pobedonostsev , statesman (b. 1827 )
May 12 - Joris-Karl Huysmans , French author (b. 1848 )
May 26 - Ida Saxton McKinley , former U.S. First Lady & widow of President William McKinley (b. 1847 )
June 6 - J. A. Chatwin , architect (b. 1830 )
June 25 - John Hall , Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1824 )
July - December
July 13 - Heinrich Kreutz , astronomer (b. 1854 )
August - Dinqinesh Mercha , empress consort of Ethiopia (b. 1815 )
August 15 - Joseph Joachim , Austrian violinist (b. 1831 )
August 16 - James Hector , Scottish geologist (b. 1834 )
August 25 - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge , British poet and novelist (b. 1861 )
August 30 - Ilia Chavchavadze , Georgian writer and saint of the Georgian Orthodox Church (b. 1837 )
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 19 - Jakobus Morenga , Namibian rebel leader (b. c. 1875)
November 16 - Robert I, Duke of Parma , last ruling Duke of Parma (b. 1848 )
November 28 - Stanisław Wyspiański , Polish writer, painter, and architect (b. 1869 )
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 21 - Klara Hitler , mother of Adolf Hitler (b. 1860 )
Nobel prizes
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