1907: On this day in history

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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1907

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Birthdays

January 6 - David Fleay, Australian naturalist (d. 1993)
January 7 - Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harpist (d. 1993)
January 11 - Pierre Mendès-France, French politician (d. 1982)
January 12 - Patsy Kelly, American actress (d. 1981)
January 12 - Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1966)
January 14 - Georges-Émile Lapalme, Quebec politician (d. 1985)
January 16 - Alexander Knox, Canadian actor (d. 1995)
January 16 - Paul Nitze, American government official (d. 2004)
January 17 - Henk Badings, Dutch composer (d. 1987)
January 20 - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
January 22 - Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (d. 1995)
January 22 - Dixie Dean, English footballer (d. 1980)
January 22 - Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (d. 2004)
January 23 - Dan Duryea, American actor (d. 1968)
January 23 - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist
January 24 - Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician (d. 1999)
February 1 - Günter Eich, German lyricist (d. 1972)
February 1 - Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer (d. 1993)
February 3 - James Michener, American author (d. 1997)
February 7 - Yevgeniy Abalakov, Soviet mountaineer (d. 1948)
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)
February 15 - Cesar Romero, American actor (d. 1994)
February 18 - Oscar Brodney, American screenwriter (d. 2008)
February 20 - Malcolm Atterbury, American actor (d. 1992)
February 21 - W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973)
February 22 - Sheldon Leonard, American actor (d. 1997)
February 22 - Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998)
February 26 - Dub Taylor, American actor (d. 1994)
February 27 - Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)
February 28 - Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates
March 4 - Eleanor "Sis" Daley, wife of Richard J. Daley (d. 2003)
March 8 - Constantine Karamanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998)
March 11 - Jessie Matthews, English actress (d. 1981)
March 12 - Arthur Hewlett, British actor (d. 1997)
March 12 - Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer (d. 2007)
March 13 - Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian of religions and writer (d. 1986)
March 15 - Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (d. 1981)
March 17 - Sonny Werblin, former owner of the New York Jets (d. 1991)
March 18 - John Zachary Young, British biologist (d. 1997)
March 22 - James Gavin, American general and ambassador (d. 1990)
March 22 - Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun (d. 2005)
March 23 - Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born scientist
March 24 - Paul Sauvé, Quebec politician (d. 1960)
March 28 - "Swifty" Lazar, American talent agent (d. 1993)
March 29 - "Braguinha", Brazilian songwriter (d. 2006)
March 30 - Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe Officer (d. 1994)
March 31 - Eddie Quillan, American actor (d. 1990)
April 2 - Luke Appling, American baseball player (d. 1991)
April 11 - Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer and entrepreneur (d. 2001)
April 12 - Felix de Weldon, Austrian-born sculptor (d. 2003)
April 12 - Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator (d. 1979)
April 13 - Harold Stassen, American Presidential candidate (d. 2001)
April 14 - François Duvalier, Haitian politician (d. 1971)
April 15 - Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ethologist
April 16 - August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (d. 1947)
April 16 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier, French-Canadian inventor and businessman (Bombardier) (d. 1964)
April 18 - Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1995)
April 22 - Ivan Efremov, Russian paleontologist and author (d. 1972)
April 23 - Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (d. 1975)
April 23 - Lee Miller, American photographer & model (d. 1977)
April 24 - William Sargant, British psychiatrist (d. 1988)
April 29 - Tino Rossi, French singer and actor (d. 1983)
April 29 - Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born American film director (d. 1997)
May 1 - Oliver Hill, civil rights attorney (d. 2007)
May 1 - Kate Smith, American singer (d. 1986)
May 2 - Pinky Lee, American vaudeville performer (d. 1993)
May 4 - Lincoln Kirstein, American impresario (d. 1996)
May 9 - Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974)
May 9 - Kathryn Kuhlman, famed evangelist (d. 1976)
May 9 - Fred Warngård, Swedish athlete (d. 1950)
May 11 - Rose Ausländer, German poet (d. 1988)
May 11 - Rip Sewell, American baseball player (d. 1989)
May 12 - Leslie Charteris, British author and screenwriter (d. 1993)
May 12 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)
May 13 - Dame Daphne du Maurier, English author (d. 1989)
May 14 - Hans von der Groeben, German diplomat (d. 2005)
May 14 - Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1974)
May 14 - Johnny Moss, American poker player (d. 1995)
May 15 - Sukhdev Thapar, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
May 18 - Carl Mydans, American photographer (d. 2004)
May 22 - Hergé, Belgian comic book creator (d. 1983)
May 22 - Sir Laurence Olivier, acclaimed English stage and screen actor (d. 1989)
May 25 - U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)
May 26 - Jean Bernard, French physician (d. 2006)
May 26 - John Wayne, American actor (d. 1979)
May 27 - Rachel Carson, American biologist and science writer (d. 1964)
May 29 - Hartland Molson, Canadian businessman and senator (d. 2002)
May 30 - Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (d. 2007)
May 30 - Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist
June 1 - Frank Whittle, English inventor of the jet engine. (d. 1996)
June 2 - Dorothy West, American writer (d. 1998)
June 3 - Paul Rotha, English director (d. 1984)
June 4 - Rosalind Russell, American actress (d. 1976)
June 4 - Jacques Roumain, Haitian writer (d. 1944)
June 4 - Patience Strong, English poet and journalist (d. 1990)
June 6 - Bill Dickey, American baseball player (d. 1993)
June 10 - Fairfield Porter, American painter (d. 1975)
June 14 - Nicolas Bentley, British writer and illustrator (d. 1978)
June 14 - Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1989)
June 16 - Jack Albertson, American actor (d. 1981)
June 17 - Maurice Cloche, French film director and screenwriter (d. 1990)
June 17 - Charles Eames, American designer and architect (d. 1978)
June 18 - Frithjof Schuon, Swiss metaphysician
June 19 - Clarence Wiseman, 10th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1985)
June 20 - Jimmy Driftwood, American songwriter and musician (d. 1998)
June 22 - Mike Todd, American film producer (d. 1958)
June 23 - James Meade, English economist
June 23 - Dercy Gonçalves, Brazilian comedienne (d. 2008)
June 24 - Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (d. 1989)
June 25 - J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist
June 26 - Debs Garms, American baseball player (d. 1984)
June 27 - John McIntire, American actor (d. 1991)
June 30 - Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian politician (d. 1950)
July 4 - Gordon Griffith, American director (d. 1958)
July 4 - Howard Taubman, American music and theater critic (d. 1996)
July 6 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
July 6 - George Stanley, Canadian politician and designer of Canada's Flag (d. 2002)
July 7 - Robert A. Heinlein, American writer (d. 1988)
July 8 - George W. Romney, American businessman and politician (d. 1995)
July 16 - Frances Horwich, American educator and television personality (d. 2001)
July 16 - Orville Redenbacher, American farmer and businessman (d. 1995)
July 16 - Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (d. 1990)
July 19 - Isabel Jewell, American actress (d. 1972)
July 22 - Zubir Said, Singaporean composer who composed Singapore's national anthem (d. 1987)
July 25 - Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist (d. 1970)
July 28 - Earl Tupper, American inventor (d. 1983)
July 29 - Melvin Belli, American lawyer and actor (d. 1996)
August 2 - Mary Hamman, American writer (d. 1984)
August 7 - Albert Kotin, American abstract painter (d. 1980)
August 8 - Benny Carter, American musician (d. 2003)
August 11 - Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer (d. 1989)
August 12 - Joe Besser, American actor and comedian (d. 1988)
August 13 - Sir Basil Spence, Scottish architect (d. 1976)
August 19 - Thruston B. Morton, American politician (d. 1982)
August 20 - Alan Reed, original voice of Fred Flintstone. (d. 1977)
August 31 - Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician and civil rights lawmaker (d. 2007)
August 31 - Ramon Magsaysay, 7th President of the Philippines (d. 1957)
August 31 - William Shawn, American editor (d. 1992)
August 31 - Altiero Spinelli, Italian citizen and advocate of European federalism (d. 1986)
September 1 - Walter Reuther, American labor union leader (d. 1970)
September 3 - Loren Eiseley, American anthropologist (d. 1977)
September 10 - Alva R. Fitch, American army officer (d. 1989)
September 12 - Louis MacNeice, Irish poet (d. 1963)
September 15 - Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and writer (d. 1968)
September 15 - Fay Wray, Canadian-born American actress (d. 2004)
September 17 - Warren Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)
September 18 - Leon Askin, Austrian actor (d. 2005)
September 18 - Edwin McMillan, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
September 19 - Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr.
September 22 - Philip Fotheringham-Parker, British racing driver (d. 1981)
September 23 - Dominique Aury, French novelist (d. 1998)
September 23 - Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza
September 26 - Anthony Blunt, English art historian and Soviet spy (d. 1983)
September 26 - Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (d. 1992)
September 27 - Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher (d. 2003)
September 28 - Heikki Savolainen, Finnish gymnast (d. 1997)
September 28 - Bhagat Singh, Indian activist (d. 1931)
September 29 - Gene Autry, American actor
September 29 - George W. Jenkins, American businessman (d. 1996)
October 2 - Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd
October 4 - Run Run Shaw, Hong Kong media mogul
October 5 - Mrs. Miller, American singer (d. 1997)
October 7 - Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician (d. 2001)
October 9 - Quintin Hogg, British politician (d. 2001)
October 9 - Jacques Tati, French filmmaker (d. 1982)
October 13 - Yves Allégret, French film director (d. 1987)
October 14 - Allan Jones, American actor and singer (d. 1992)
October 15 - Varian Fry, American journalist (d. 1967)
October 19 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader (d. 1962)
October 20 - Arlene Francis, American television personality (d. 2001)
October 21 - Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (d. 1985)
October 21 - Jules Chevalier, French priest (b. 1824)
October 22 - Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player (d. 1967)
October 28 - John Harold Hewitt, Northern Irish poet (d. 1987)
October 29 - Edwige Feuillère, French film actress (d. 1998)
October 30 - Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1995)
November 10 - John Moore, English author (d. 1967)
November 10 - Jane Froman, American actor and singer (d. 1980)
November 13 - Giovanna of Italy, tsaritsa of Bulgaria (d. 2000)
November 14 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer (d. 2002)
November 14 - Howard W. Hunter, American religious leader (d. 1995)
November 14 - William Steig, American children's book author (d. 2003)
November 15 - Claus von Stauffenberg, German
November 17 - Israel Regardie, Aleister Crowley's secretary (d. 1985)
November 18 - Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2003)
November 19 - Jack Schaefer, American author (d. 1991)
November 20 - Fran Allison, American television personality (d. 1989)
November 20 - Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director (d. 1977)
November 23 - Lars Leksell, Swedish physician (d. 1986)
November 25 - John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator (d. 1938)
November 26 - Ruth Patrick, American botanist
November 27 - L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (d. 2000)
November 28 - Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (d. 1990)
November 28 - Rose Bampton, American opera singer (d. 2007)
November 30 - Jacques Barzun, French-born historian and author
December 5 - Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist (d. 1993)
December 7 - Fred Rose, Canadian communist politician (d. 1983)
December 10 - Rumer Godden, English writer (d. 1998)
December 10 - Lucien Laurent, French footballer (d. 2005)
December 12 - Roy Douglas, English composer and orchestrator
December 15 - Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect
December 18 - Bill Holland, American auto racer (d. 1984)
December 19 - Jimmy McLarnin, former Welterweight Champion (d. 2004)
December 20 - Paul Francis Webster, songwriter (d. 1984)
December 22 - Dame Peggy Ashcroft, English actress (d. 1991)
December 23 - Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean writer and poet (d. 2005)
December 23 - Avraham Stern, Polish-born Zionist leader (d. 1942)
December 24 - I. F. Stone, American journalist (d. 1989)
December 25 - Cab Calloway, American bandleader (d. 1994)
December 25 - Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon and businessman (d. 1988)
December 25 - Mike Mazurki, Ukrainian-born actor (d. 1990)
December 26 - Albert Gore Sr., American Politician (d. 1998)
December 27 - Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and writer (d. 1999)
December 27 - Conrad L. Raiford, Goodwill Ambassador (d. 2002)
December 27 - Willem van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer (d. 1978)

Deaths

January 14 - Sir James Fergusson, British politician
January 25 - René Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879)
January 31 - Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (b. 1834)
February 2 - Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834)
February 8 - Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (b. 1854)
February 16 - Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer
February 20 - Henri Moissan, French chemist
March 5 - Friedrich Blass, German classical scholar (b. 1843)
March 11 - Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (b. 1847)
March 18 - Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician (b. 1827)
April 23 - Alfred Packer, American Cannibal (b. 1842)
May 12 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (b. 1848)
May 19 - Benjamin Baker, English engineer (b. 1840)
May 26 - Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States (b. 1847)
June 27 - Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator (b. 1822)
July 6 - August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German Linguist
July 14 - William Henry Perkin, English chemist and inventor (b. 1838)
July 17 - Hector Malot, French writer (b. 1830)
August 15 - Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (b. 1831)
August 16 - James Hector, Scottish geologist (b. 1834)
August 30 - Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
September 4 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843)
September 6 - Sully Prudhomme, French writer
September 9 - Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840)
September 17 - Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist (b. 1846)
October 20 - Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman (b.1834)
November 1 - Alfred Jarry, French writer (b.1873)
November 14 - Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian politician (b. 1848)
November 16 - Robert I, Duke of Parma
November 28 - Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist
December 8 - Oscar II of Sweden, (b. 1829)
December 17 - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

Events

January 6 - Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome.
January 14 - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
January 23 - Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
January 24 - Robert Baden-Powell founds the Boy Scout movement.
January 26 - The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the oldest military rifle still in official use.
February 7 - The Mud March was the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
March 5 - The second Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops.
March 24 - The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
April 17 - The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than any other day.
April 24 - Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened.
April 30 - Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city.
May 11 - A derailment outside Lompoc, California kills 32 Shriners when their chartered train jumps off the tracks at a switch near Surf Depot.
May 23 - The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
May 27 - A Bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California.
June 3 - Centro Escolar University is established by Librada Avelino and Carmen de Luna in Manila, Philippines.
June 11 - George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.
June 14 - Norway adopts female suffrage.
July 20 - A train wreck on the Pere Marquette Railroad near Salem, Michigan kills thirty and injures seventy more.
July 25 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
July 29 - Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp ran from August 1-9, 1907, and is regarded as the founding of the Scouting movement.
August 1 - First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island.
August 9 - The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in Southern England.
August 17 - Pike Place Market, the longest continuously-running public farmers market in the US, opened in Seattle.
August 28 - UPS is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington.
August 29 - The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
August 31 - Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance.
September 7 - Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
September 26 - New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
September 28 - Bhagat Singh one of the most influential revolutionaries of Indian independence movement was born in the Khatkar Kalan village near Banga in the Lyallpur district of Punjab.
September 29 - The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
October 17 - Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
October 22 - Panic of 1907: A run on Knickerbocker Trust Company stock sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
November 7 - Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York University.
November 7 - Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de Garcia, Sonora by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers away before it can explode.
November 9 - The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
November 16 - Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma and are admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
November 16 - Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania sister ship of RMS Lusitania, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
November 28 - In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.
December 6 - A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia kills 362 workers.
December 8 - King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
December 10 - The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected.
December 11 - New Zealand Parliament Buildings almost completely destroyed by fire.
December 14 - The schooner Thomas W. Lawson runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Scilly Isles in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
December 16 - Great White Fleet started its circumnavigation of the world
December 19 - A group of 239 coal miners die during a mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.

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