1907

**1907** (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday in the Julian calendar.

## 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 1,000.
- January 23 – Charles Curtis from Kansas, becomes the first Native American US Senator.
- November 16 - Oklahoma becomes a U.S. state.
- Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French doctor, won in 1907 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Rudyard Kipling awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- James Murray Spangler invents the first Hoover vacuum cleaner.

### January

- January 3 – Ray Milland, Welsh actor and director (d. 1986)
- January 11 – Pierre Mendès France, Prime Minister of France (d. 1982)

### February

- February 15 – Cesar Romero, American actor (d. 1994)
- February 15 – Hastings Banda, 1st President of Malawi (d. 1997)

### March

- March 17 – Takeo Miki, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1988)

### April

- April 5 – Sanya Dharmasakti, Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2002)
- April 29 – Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born movie director (d. 1997)

### May

- May 12 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)
- May 14 – Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1974)
- May 22 – Hergé, Belgian cartoonist (d. 1983)
- May 22 – Laurence Olivier, British actor (d. 1989)
- May 25 – U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)
- May 26 – John Wayne, American actor (d. 1979)

### June

- June 4 – Rosalind Russell, American actress (d. 1976)
- June 16 - Jack Albertson, American actor (d. 1981)
- June 25 – J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist (d. 1973)

### July

- July 6 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
- July 7 – Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer (d. 1988)
- July 16 – Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (d. 1990)

### August

- August 3 – Ernesto Geisel, President of Brazil (d. 1996)
- August 3 - Yang Shangkun, Chinese politician (d. 1998)
- August 8 – Benny Carter, American musician (d. 2003)
- August 12 – Miguel Torga, Portuguese writer (d. 1995)
- August 30 - Leonor Fini, Argentine painter (d. 1996)
- August 31 – Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines (d. 1957)

### September

- September 17 – Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)
- September 29 – Gene Autry, American country music singer and actor (d. 1998)

### October

- October 2 – Alexander R. Todd, Scottish chemist (d. 1997)

### November

- November 15 – Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, German army officer during World War Two (d. 1944)

### December

- December 15 – Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect (d. 2012)
- December 25 – Cab Calloway, American bandleader (d. 1994)

## Deaths

- January 31 – Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (b. 1834)
- February 2 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834)
- February 16 – Giosue Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
- February 16 – Clémentine of Orléans, daughter of King Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1817)
- February 20 – Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
- February 26 – C. W. Alcock, English footballer, journalist, and football promoter (b. 1842)
- March 19 – Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and novelist (b. 1836)
- May 12 – Joris-Karl Huysmans, French writer (b. 1848)
- August 15 – Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (b. 1831)
- August 16 – James Hector, Scottish geologist (b. 1834)
- September 4 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843)
- September 6 – Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839)
- September 17 – Edmonia Lewis, American sculptor (b. 1844)
- November 16 – Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma (b. 1848)
- November 22 – Asaph Hall, American astronomer (b. 1829)
- November 28 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish writer, painter, and architect (b. 1869)
- December 8 – King Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)
- December 17 – Lord Kelvin, Irish-born physicist and engineer (b. 1824)