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). [edit] Events of 1907 [edit] January–February [edit] March–April [edit] May–June - May 7 – Seattle film maker William Harbeck sets up a camera at the front of a B.C. electric streetcar and films the downtown streets of Vancouver, British Columbia. Pieces of the film, the earliest surviving of the city[1], have disappeared, only about 7 minutes remain.[2]
- 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 – Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, a sect of Hinduism, is established by Swami Yagnapurushdas.
- June 11 – George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.
- June 15 – The Second Hague Peace Conference is held.
[edit] July–August [edit] September–October - September 7 – The new passenger liner RMS Lusitania makes its maiden voyage 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 initiates 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 – Černová tragedy: Fifteen people are shot during the consecration of the Catholic Church in Slovakia.
[edit] November–December [edit] Undated [edit] Ongoing [edit] Births [edit] January–February - January 2 – Ray Milland, Welsh actor (d. 1986)
- January 12 – Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1966)
- January 18 – Lina Haag, German WWII resistance fighter
- January 20 – 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)
- 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 (d. 2008)
- February 21 – W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973)
- February 22
- February 25 – Kathryn Wasserman Davis, American philanthropist
- February 27 – Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)
[edit] March–April - March 8 – Constantine Karamanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998)
- March 9 – Mircea Eliade, Romanian religious historian and writer (d. 1986)
- March 12
- March 15 – Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (d. 1981)
- March 16 – Hans Kleppen, Norwegian ski jumper (d. 2009)
- March 18 – John Zachary Young, English biologist (d. 1997)
- March 22 – Lucia dos Santos, Portuguese nun and visionary (d. 2005)
- March 23 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (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, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
- April 18 – Bert Hazell, British politician (d. 2009)
- April 21 – Wade Mainer, American singer and banjoist
- April 23 – Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (d. 1975)
- April 24 – William Sargant, British psychiatrist (d. 1988)
- April 29
[edit] May–June - May 1 – Oliver Hill, American lawyer (d. 2007)
- May 2 – Pinky Lee, American comedian (d. 1993)
- May 3 – Dorothy Young, American entertainer
- 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 1 – Frank Whittle, British jet engine developer (d. 1996)
- 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 laureate (d. 1973)
- June 28 Franciszka Themerson, Polish, later British, artist and filmmaker (d. 1989)
[edit] July–August - July 6 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
- July 7 – Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction author (d. 1988)
- July 15 – Yang Shangkun, President of the People's Republic of China (d. 1998)
- July 16
- July 19 – Paul Magloire, President of Haiti (d. 2001)
- July 22 – Zubir Said, Singaporean composer of Singapore's national anthem (d. 1987)
- July 27
- August 2 – Mary Hamman, American writer and editor (d. 1984)
- 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 21 – Hy Zaret, American lyricist and composer (d. 2007)
- August 24 – Bruno Giacometti, Swiss architect
- August 31 – Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician and civil rights lawmaker (d. 2007)
[edit] September–October - September 2 – Evelyn Hooker, American psychologist (d. 1996)
- September 3 – Loren Eiseley, American author (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 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 28 – John Harold Hewitt, Irish poet (d. 1987)
- October 30 – Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1995)
[edit] November–December - November 4 – Draga Matkovic, German concert pianist
- November 10 – John Moore, British author (d. 1967)
- November 14
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- 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)
- November 18 – Gustav Nezval, Czech actor (d. 1998)
- November 23 – Run Run Shaw, Hong Kong media mogul
- 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)
[edit] Deaths [edit] January–June - January 14 – Hermann Iseke, German doctor (b. 1856)
- January 21 – Bertram Fletcher Robinson, English journalist, editor and author (b. 1870)
- 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 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)
- April 23 – Alferd Packer, American cannibal (b. 1842)
- May 12 – Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (b. 1848)
- May 26 – Ida Saxton McKinley, American First Lady (b. 1847)
- June 6 – J. A. Chatwin, English architect (b. 1830)
- June 25 – John Hall, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1824)
[edit] July–December - July 13 – Heinrich Kreutz, astronomer (b. 1854)
- August – Dinqinesh Mercha, empress consort of Ethiopia (b. 1815)
- August 3 – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Irish-American Beaux-Arts sculptor (b. 1848)
- 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
- 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 – Jacob 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, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler (b. 1860)
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