1907

1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian 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.
Births
January
January 3 - Ray Milland, Welsh actor and director (d. 1986)
January 11 - Pierre Mendes 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 - Herge, 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 - Clementine of Orleans, 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. 1829)
November 16 - Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma (b. 1848)
November 28 - Stanislaw Wyspianski, 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)