1907

Events

January

* January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 M_w earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000.

February

* February 11 – The French warship ''Jean Bart'' sinks off the coast of Morocco.
* February 7 – The " Mud March", the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies ( NUWSS), takes place in London.
* February 12 – The steamship ''Larchmont'' collides with the ''Harry Hamilton'' in Long Island Sound; 183 lives are lost.
* February 16 – SKF, a worldwide mechanical parts manufacturing brand (mainly, bearing and seal), is founded in Gothenburg, Sweden.
* February 21 – The English mail steamship ''Berlin'' is wrecked off the Hook of Holland; 142 lives are lost.
* February 24 – The Austrian Lloyd steamship ''Imperatrix'', from Trieste to Bombay, is wrecked on Cape of Crete and sinks; 137 lives are lost.

March

* March
** The steamship ''Congo'' collides at the mouth of the Ems River with the German steamship ''Nerissa''; 7 lives are lost.
** 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".
** Pablo Picasso completes his painting ''Les Demoiselles d'Avignon''.
* March 5 – At the opening of the new State Duma in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 40,000 demonstrators are dispersed by Russian troops.
* March 11 – The Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Dimitar Petkov, is assassinated by an anarchist in Sofia.
* March 15– 16 – Elections to the new Parliament of Finland are the first in the world for a national assembly with woman candidates, as well as the first elections in Europe where universal suffrage is applied; 19 women are elected.
* March 22 – The first taxicabs with taximeters begin operating in London.
* March 25 – The first university sports federation in Europe is established in Hungary, with the participation or support of the associations of ten universities and colleges.
* c. March 28 – The volcano Ksudach erupts, in the Kamchatka Peninsula.

April

* April 7 – Hershey Park opens in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
* April 17
** The first ''Minas Geraes''-class battleship is laid down for Brazil, by Armstrong Whitworth on the River Tyne, in England, triggering the South American dreadnought race.
** Today is the all-time busiest day of immigration to the United States through Ellis Island; this will be the busiest year ever seen here, with 1.1 million immigrants arriving.
* April 24 – Al Ahly SC is founded in Cairo by Omar Lotfi, as a gathering place for Egyptian students' unions in the struggle against colonization; it is the first association football club officially founded in Egypt or Africa.

May

* May 3 – Turkish Football team Fenerbahçe was founded in Istanbul.
* May 13 – The 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party convenes in secret in London.

June

* June 5 – Shastri Yagnapurushdas consecrates the murtis of both Sahajanand Swami and Gunatitanand Swami in a single central shrine, thus establishing the Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, later a United Nations affiliate organization.
* June 10–August 10 – The Peking to Paris motor race is won by Prince Scipione Borghese, driving a 7-litre 35/45 hp Itala.
* June 15 – The Second Hague Peace Conference opens at The Hague.
* June 22 – The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
* June 26 – Tiflis bank robbery: Bolsheviks attack a cash-filled bank coach in the centre of Tiflis, Georgia, killing 40 people.

July

* July 1 – The Orange River Colony gains autonomy, as the Orange Free State.
* July 6 – Guardians of the Irish Crown Jewels notice that they have been stolen.
* July 15 – The London Electrobus Company started running the first ever service of battery-electric buses between London's Victoria Station and Liverpool Street.
* July 21 – The sinks after colliding with the lumber schooner ''San Pedro'', off Shelter Cove, California, 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 24– 31 – The International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam meets in the Netherlands.
* August 28 – UPS is founded by James E. (Jim) Casey in Seattle, Washington.
* 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 – British passenger liner sets out on her 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 8 – Edvard Grieg's Olaf Trygvason, his only opera, is produced posthumously in Christiania, Norway.
* 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 – The Hague Convention is revised by the (second) Hague Peace Conference (effective 26 January 1910).
* October 24 – A major United States 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.
* October 27 – Černová massacre: Fifteen people are shot during the consecration of a Catholic church in Hungary (modern-day Slovakia).
* October 31 – The Parliament of Finland approves the Prohibition Act, but the law was not implemented because it was not ratified by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

November

* November 4 – Russian immigrant bakers Perry and Ben Feigenson begin transforming their cake frosting flavors into The Feigenson Brothers Bottling Works soft drink recipe, later shortened to Faygo.
* November 16
** British passenger liner RMS ''Mauretania'', the world's largest and fastest at this date, sets out on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York.
** President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims that Oklahoma has become the 46th state in the United States.
* November 21 – Washington State College defeats the University of Washington 10-5 in the Apple Cup in college football, played in Seattle.
* November 25
** The Church of God in Christ, which becomes the fifth-largest African-American Pentecostal-Holiness Christian denomination in the United States, is founded by Bishop Charles Harrison Mason in Memphis, Tennessee.
** Edeka, a major retailer group in Europe, was founded in Germany.

December

* December 6 – Monongah Mining disaster: A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in Monongah, West Virginia.
* 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 16 – The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world.
* December 17 – Ugyen Wangchuck becomes the 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 2,000 are killed.
* December 31 – The first ever " ball drop" is held in Times Square, in New York City.

Date unknown

* '' Anino ng Kahapon'', a Tagalog-language novel is published.
* 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.
* Indiana, in the United States, becomes the world's first legislature to place laws permitting compulsory sterilization for eugenic purposes on the statute book.
* The Moine Thrust Belt in Scotland is identified, one of the first to be discovered anywhere.
* The ''Landsforbundet for Kvinders Valgret'' is founded.
* James Murray Spangler invents the first Hoover vacuum cleaner.
* Henri Matisse begins to teach at the ''Académie Matisse'' in Paris, a private and non-commercial art school.
* Statue J.E.B. Stuart, Confederate general, is dedicated on Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue.

Births

January

* January 1 – Aftab Ali, Bengali politician, social reformer (d. 1972)
* January 3 – Ray Milland, Welsh actor, film director (d. 1986)
* January 5 – Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete (d. 1969)
* 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 17 – Henk Badings, Dutch composer (d. 1987)
* 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)
* January 29 – Bil Dwyer, American cartoonist and humorist (d. 1987)

February

* February 1 – Günter Eich, German writer (d. 1972)
* February 5
** Birgit Dalland, Norwegian politician (d. 2007)
** Pierre Pflimlin, French politician (d. 2000)
** Sergio Méndez Arceo, Roman Catholic bishop of Cuernavaca, Mexico 1953-1983 (d. 1992)
* February 6 – Russell Gleason, American actor (d. 1945)
* February 9
** Pierre Aliker, French-Martinican politician (d. 2013)
** Trường Chinh, President of Vietnam (d. 1988)
* February 12 – Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (d. 1991)
* 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)
* February 25 – Kathryn Wasserman Davis, American philanthropist (d. 2013)
* February 26
** Dub Taylor, American actor (d. 1994)
** Rosebud Yellow Robe, Native American folklorist, educator, and author (d. 1992)
* February 27 – Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)
* February 28 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (d. 1988)

March

* 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, 41st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1988)
** Jean Van Houtte, 38th 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

* April 1 – Shivakumara Swami, Hindu religious figure and humanitarian (d. 2019)
* April 10 – Germán Suárez Flamerich, Venezuelan lawyer, politician and 50th President of Venezuela (d. 1990)
* April 11
** Paul Douglas, American actor (d. 1959)
* 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

* 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 4 – Walter Walsh, American FBI agent, Olympic shooter, and USMC instructor (d. 2014)
* 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 cartoonist (d. 1983)
** 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)
** Carl Falck, Norwegian businessman (d. 2016)
* May 30
** Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (d. 2007)
** Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (d. 2008)

June

* June 1 – Frank Whittle, British jet engine developer (d. 1996)
* June 4
** Rosalind Russell, American actress (d. 1976)
** Jacques Roumain, Haitian writer, politician, and advocate of Marxism (d. 1944)
* June 5 – Rudolf Peierls, German-British physicist (d. 1995)
* June 7 – Arthur Marshall Davis, American judge (d. 1963)
* June 14 – 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 – 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), Jean Schlumberger, French 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 (screenwriter), 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

* July 3
** Horia Sima, Romanian fascist politician (d. 1993)
** Nora Thompson Dean, Indigenous American (Lenape) linguist (d. 1984)
* July 4
** Henning Holck-Larsen, Danish engineer and businessman (d. 2003)
** Emilio Ochoa, Cuban dentist, politician (d. 2007)
* July 6
** Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
** George Stanley, Canadian historian, author, soldier, teacher, public servant, and designer (d. 2002)
* July 7
** Walter Dieminger, German space scientist (d. 2000)
** Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction author (d. 1988)
** Pavel Sudoplatov, Russian Lieutenant General (d. 1996)
** Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia (d. 1989)
* July 9
** Teresa Jungman, English socialite (d. 2010)
** Philip Klutznick, American administrator (d. 1999)
* July 10
** John Michaels, American pitcher (d. 1996)
** Lê Duẩn, Vietnamese politician (d. 1986)
* July 13 – George Weller, American novelist, playwright, and journalist (d. 2002)
* July 14
** Annabella (actress), Annabella, French actress (d. 1996)
** Maria Matray, German screenwriter and actress (d. 1993)
* July 15
** Paterson Fraser, English Royal Air Force (d. 2001)
** Shōshin Nagamine, Japanese author and soldier, police officer, and karate master (d. 1997)
** Mona Rico, Mexican-born American actress (d. 1994)
* July 16 – 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)
* 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

* 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, 4th President of the People's Republic of China (d. 1998)
** Irene Tedrow, American actress (d. 1995)
* August 7
**Bernard Brodie (biochemist), Bernard Brodie, 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 – William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor, Viscount William Waldorf Astor, British politician (d. 1966)
* August 14 – Stanley Adams (singer), Stanley Adams, American lyricist and songwriter (d. 1994)
* August 15 – Bob and Alf Pearson, Bob Pearson, British variety performer with his brother Alf as half of Bob and Alf Pearson (d. 1985)
* 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

* 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, 15th 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
**Anne Desclos, French journalist and author (d. 1998)
**Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, 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 (gymnast), 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

* October 1 – Ödön Pártos, Hungarian-Israeli violist, composer (d. 1977)
* October 2
** Alexander R. Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
** Víctor Paz Estenssoro , 45th President of Bolivia (d. 2001)
* October 5 – Mrs. Miller, Elva Ruby Miller, American singer (d. 1997)
* October 6 – Francisco Gabilondo Soler, Mexican singer, composer (d. 1990)
* October 9 – Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, 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 (poet), John Hewitt, Irish poet (d. 1987)
** Sergio Méndez Arceo, 7th Mexican bishop of Cuernavaca 1953–1982, and advocate of Liberation theology (d. 1991).
* October 30 – Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1995)

November

* November 1 – Homero Manzi, Argentine tango lyricist, author (d. 1951)
* November 6 – Charles Woodruff Yost, Charles W. Yost, American ambassador (d. 1981)
* November 7 – Dumitru Coliu, Romanian communist activist and politician (d. 1979)
* November 9 – Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (d. 1994)
* November 10
**John Moore (British author), 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, 14th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (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)
** Hans Liska, Austrian-German artist (d. 1983)Manfred H. Grieb: ''Liska, Hans''. In: ''Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Bildende Künstler, Kunsthandwerker, Gelehrte, Sammler, Kulturschaffende und Mäzene vom 12. bis zur Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts.'' Walter de Gruyter, 2011, , p. 930
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* 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

* December 1 – Joey Aiuppa, American mobster (d. 1997)
* December 5 – Lin Biao, Chinese communist military 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 14 – Beatriz Costa, Portuguese actress (d. 1996)
* 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 and bandleader (d. 1994)
** Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon, businessman (d. 1988)
* December 27 – Johann Wilhelm Trollmann, German boxer (d. 1943)

Deaths

January

* January 3 – 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 19 – Giuseppe Saracco, 15th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1821)
* January 21 – Graziadio Isaia Ascoli, Italian linguist (b. 1829)
* January 31 – Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (b. 1834)

February

* February 2 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834)
* February 7 – Preston Leslie, 26th Governor of Kentucky and 9th territorial Governor of Montana (b. 1819)
* February 12 – Muriel Robb, English tennis player (b. 1878)
* 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, 7th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1842)
* February 26 – C. W. Alcock, English footballer, journalist, and football promoter (b. 1842)

March

* March 7 – Charlotta Raa-Winterhjelm, Swedish actress (b. 1838)
* 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. 1827)
* March 19
** Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and novelist (b. 1836)
** Mariano Baptista , 23rd President of Bolivia (b. 1832)
* March 23 – Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Russian statesman (b. 1827)
* March 25 – Ernst von Bergmann, Baltic German surgeon (b. 1836)

April

* 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

* 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 (engineer), 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

* June 4 – Agathe Backer-Grøndahl, Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1847)
* 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 23 – Hod Stuart, Canadian professional ice hockey player, killed in diving accident (b. 1879)
* June 25 – John Hall (New Zealand), Sir John Hall, 12th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1824)
* June 29 – Maximilian Cercha, Polish painter and drawer (b. 1818)

July

* July 13 – Heinrich Kreutz, German astronomer (b. 1854)
* July 14 – William Henry Perkin, Sir William Perkin, English chemist (b. 1838)
*July 15 - Qiu Jin, Qin Jin, Chinese poet, revolutionary (b. 1875)
* July 28 – Mildred Amanda Baker Bonham, American travel writer (b. 1840)

August

* August – Dinqinesh Mercha, empress consort of Ethiopia (b. 1815)
* August 1
** Lucy Mabel Hall-Brown, American physician and writer (b. 1843)
** Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro, 3-time Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1849)
* August 3 – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Irish-American Beaux-Arts sculptor (b. 1848)
* August 4 – Richard Meade, 4th Earl of Clanwilliam, Richard Meade, Lord Gilford, British admiral (b. 1832)
* August 13 – Hermann Carl Vogel, German astrophysicist (b. 1841)
* August 15 – Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (b. 1831)
* August 25
**Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, British poet, novelist (b. 1861)
** Alexandre Franquet, French admiral (b. 1828)
* August 30 – Richard Mansfield, Anglo-American actor (b. 1857)

September

* September 4 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843)
* September 6 – Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, 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 – John Charles Ardagh, Sir John Ardagh, British army general (b. 1840)

October

* October 10 – Adolf Furtwängler, German archaeologist, historian (b. 1853)
* October 30 – Caroline Dana Howe, American author (b. 1824)

November

* November 1 – Alfred Jarry, French writer (b. 1873)
* November 6 – James Hector, Sir James Hector, Scottish geologist (b. 1834)
* November 14 – Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian jurist and politician (b. 1848)
* 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 17 – Francis McClintock, Sir Francis McClintock, Irish explorer and admiral in British Royal Navy (b. 1819)
* November 20 – Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter (b. 1876)
* November 22 – Asaph Hall, American astronomer (b. 1829)
* November 23 – Naimuddin, Bengali writer and Islamic scholar (b. 1832)
* 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

* 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 – William Thomson, 1st Baron 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, 18th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1857)

Date unknown

* Ellen Russell Emerson, American ethnologist (b. 1837)
* Sarah Gibson Humphreys, American author and suffragist (b. 1830)
* Joseph Stannah, Founder of Stannah Lifts (b. 1836)

Nobel Prizes

* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Albert Abraham Michelson
* Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Eduard Buchner
* Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Medicine – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
* Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Rudyard Kipling
* Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Louis Renault (jurist), 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 coverag
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