1907 (original) (raw)
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years: 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 - 1907 - 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912
Events
- 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.
- March 5 - The new Duma is opened in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators had to be dispersed by Russian troops.
- May 27 - A Bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California.
- July 25 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
- July 29 - Sir Robert Baden-Powell founds the Boy Scouts movement with the first scout camp at Brownsea Island.
- September 26 - New Zealand becomes a dominion
- November 16 - Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma and are admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
- The Diamond Sutra of AD 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 Lumi�re is the first color photography process marketed.
Year in topic
Births
- January 3 - Ray Milland, actor († 1986)
- January 19 - Lilian Harvey, actress († 1968)
- January 20 - Barbara Stanwyck, actress († 1990)
- January 20 - Paula Wessely, actress († 2000)
- January 23 - Dan Durya, actor († 1968)
- February 1 - G�nter Eich, lyricist († 1972)
- February 11 - E W Swanton, author & sports commentator.
- February 15 - Cesar Romero, actor († 1994)
- February 17 - Buster Crabbe, swimming champion, actor († 1983)
- February 21 - W. H. Auden, English poet.
- February 22 - Robert Young, actor († 1998)
- February 22 - Sheldon Leonard, actor, writer, director, producer
- February 27 - Mildred Bailey, jazz performer († 1951)
- March 11 - Helmut von Moltke, jurist († 1945)
- March 15 - Zarah Leander, actress and singer († 1981)
- April 3 - Iron Eyes Cody, actor († 1999)
- April 12 - Felix de Weldon, sculptor († 2003)
- May 8 - Wof Stefan Traugott Graf von Baudissin, general († 1993)
- May 9 - Baldur von Schirach, Naxi official († 1974)
- May 11 - Rose Aus�nder, poet († 1988)
- May 12 - Katharine Hepburn, actress
- May 13 - Dame Daphne du Maurier, author († 1989)
- May 22 - Herge, Belgian writer-artist
- May 22 - Sir Laurence Olivier, actor, director († 1989)
- May 26 - John Wayne ("The Duke"), actor († 1979)
- May 30 - Elly Beinhorn, pilot
- June 14 - Ren� Char, French poet († 1988)
- July 6 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter
- July 7 - Robert Heinlein, American (science fiction author).
- September 15 - Fay Wray, actress
- September 18 - Leon Askin, actor
- October 5 - Mrs. Miller, singer († 1997)
- October 9 - Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician († 2001)
- October 15 - Varian Fry, ran an escape network in wartime Marseille, France († 1967)
- October 19 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, band leader († 1962)
- November 14 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author of children's books.
- December 7 - [Lily] Teresa Ferster Glazier (Glazier is her married name), American author of The Least You Should Know About English
- December 23 - James Roosevelt, businessman, politician († 1991)
Deaths
- January 20 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev periodic table
- January 31 - Timothy Eaton, department store founder
- February 11 - Peter J Savelberg, Dutch monastery founder
- May 12 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, author
- May 19 - Benjamin Baker, English engineer
- August 15 - Joseph Joachim, violinist
- September 4 - Edvard Grieg, composer