1907

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

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Year in topic
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Nobel Prizes

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 Lumière is the first color photography process marketed.

Year in topic

Births

January 3 - Ray Milland, actor (d. 1986)
January 19 - Lilian Harvey, actress (d. 1968)
January 20 - Barbara Stanwyck, actress (d. 1990)
January 20 - Paula Wessely, actress (d. 2000)
January 23 - Dan Durya, actor (d. 1968)
February 1 - Günter Eich, lyricist (d. 1972)
February 11 - E W Swanton, author & sports commentator.
February 15 - Cesar Romero, actor (d. 1994)
February 17 - Buster Crabbe, swimming champion, actor (d. 1983)
February 21 - W. H. Auden, English poet.
February 22 - Robert Young, actor (d. 1998)
February 22 - Sheldon Leonard, actor, writer, director, producer
February 27 - Mildred Bailey, jazz performer (d. 1951)
March 8 - Constantine Caramanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998)
March 11 - Helmut von Moltke, jurist (d. 1945)
March 15 - Zarah Leander, actress and singer (d. 1981)
April 3 - Iron Eyes Cody, actor (d. 1999)
April 12 - Felix de Weldon, sculptor (d. 2003)
May 8 - Wof Stefan Traugott Graf von Baudissin, general (d. 1993)
May 9 - Baldur von Schirach, Naxi official (d. 1974)
May 11 - Rose Ausänder, poet (d. 1988)
May 12 - Katharine Hepburn, actress
May 13 - Dame Daphne du Maurier, author (d. 1989)
May 22 - Herge, Belgian writer-artist
May 22 - Sir Laurence Olivier, actor, director (d. 1989)
May 26 - John Wayne ("The Duke"), actor (d. 1979)
May 30 - Elly Beinhorn, pilot
June 14 - René Char, French poet (d. 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 (d. 1997)
October 9 - Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician (d. 2001)
October 15 - Varian Fry, ran an escape network in wartime Marseille, France (d. 1967)
October 19 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, band leader (d. 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 (d. 1991)
December 27 - Johann Wilhelm Trollmann, German boxer (d. 1943)

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
August 16 - James Hector, geologist
September 4 - Edvard Grieg, composer