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.

 Births 

 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)