1907

1907 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).

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.

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)
• January 20 – Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
• January 23 – Dan Durya, actor (d. 1968)
• January 23 – 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)
• February 15 – 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 – Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998)
• February 22 – Sheldon Leonard, actor, writer, director, and producer (d. 1997)
• February 27 – Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)
• March 13 – Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Braganca, duchess of Bragança (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 24 – William Sargant, British psychiatrist (d. 1988)
• April 29 – Tino Rossi, French singer (d. 1983)
• 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

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, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1995)
• November 14 – Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's writer (d. 2002)
• 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)
• 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 Renault