1907

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1904 1905 1906 - 1907 - 1908 1909 1910 \n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s \n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Nobel Prizes

Events

\n* January 6 - Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome (Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo).\n* January 14 - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than a 1,000\n* January 23 - Charles Curtis from Kansas, becomes the first Native American US Senator.\n* March 5 - The new Duma is opened in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators had to be dispersed by Russian troops.\n* March 18 - Train robbery in Sweden (first and only as of 2004)\n* March 22 - The first cabs with taxi meters began operating in London\n* May 27 - A Bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California.\n* July 25 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.\n* July 29 - Sir Robert Baden-Powell founds the Boy Scouts movement with the first scout camp at Brownsea Island.\n* September 26 - New Zealand becomes a dominion\n* November 16 - Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma and are admitted as the 46th U.S. state.\n* December 19 - Explosion in coal mine in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania - 239 dead \n* The Diamond Sutra of 868, a Buddhist scripture later dated as earliest example of block printing, is discovered in the Mogao Caves.\n* The triode thermionic amplifier invented by Lee DeForest, starting the development of electronics as a practical technology.\n* The Autochrome Lumière is the first color photography process marketed.\n* Herero Wars end\n* French warship Jena explodes - 117 dead\n* First parliamentary elections in the Philippines\n* Adlon Hotel finished in Berlin \n

Births

\n* January 3 - Ray Milland, actor (d. 1986)\n* January 19 - Lilian Harvey, actress (d. 1968)\n* January 20 - Barbara Stanwyck, actress (d. 1990)\n* January 20 - Paula Wessely, actress (d. 2000)\n* January 23 - Dan Durya, actor (d. 1968)\n* February 1 - Günter Eich, lyricist (d. 1972)\n* February 11 - E W Swanton, author & sports commentator (d. 1990)\n* February 15 - Cesar Romero, actor (d. 1994)\n* February 17 - Buster Crabbe, swimming champion, actor (d. 1983)\n* February 21 - W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973)\n* February 22 - Robert Young, actor (d. 1998)\n* February 22 - Sheldon Leonard, actor, writer, director, producer (d. 1997)\n* February 27 - Mildred Bailey, jazz performer (d. 1951)\n* March 8 - Constantine Caramanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998)\n* March 11 - Helmut von Moltke, jurist (d. 1945)\n* March 15 - Zarah Leander, actress and singer (d. 1981)\n* April 3 - Iron Eyes Cody, actor (d. 1999)\n* April 12 - Felix de Weldon, sculptor (d. 2003)\n* April 29 - Tino Rossi, French singer (d. 1983)\n* May 8 - Wof Stefan Traugott Graf von Baudissin, general (d. 1993)\n* May 9 - Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974)\n* May 11 - Rose Ausänder, poet (d. 1988)\n* May 12 - Katharine Hepburn, actress (d. 2003)\n* May 13 - Dame Daphne du Maurier, author (d. 1989)\n* May 14 - Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1974)\n* May 22 - Hergé, Belgian writer-artist (d. 1983)\n* May 22 - Sir Laurence Olivier, actor, director (d. 1989)\n* May 26 - John Wayne ("The Duke"), actor (d. 1979)\n* May 30 - Elly Beinhorn, pilot\n* June 14 - René Char, French poet (d. 1988)\n* July 6 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)\n* July 7 - Robert Heinlein, American (science fiction author)\n* August 12 - Joe Besser, member of the Three Stooges (d. 1988)\n* August 13 - Viscount William Waldorf Astor, British parliamentarian (d. 1966)\n* September 15 - Fay Wray, actress\n* September 18 - Leon Askin, actor\n* October 5 - Mrs. Miller, singer (d. 1997)\n* October 9 - Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician (d. 2001)\n* October 15 - Varian Fry, ran an escape network in wartime Marseille, France (d. 1967)\n* October 19 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, band leader (d. 1962)\n* October 22 - Jimmie Foxx, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1967)\n* November 14 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author of children's books (d. 2002)\n* December 7 - [Lily] Teresa Ferster Glazier (Glazier is her married name), American author of The Least You Should Know About English\n* December 23 - James Roosevelt, businessman, politician (d. 1991)\n* December 27 - Johann Wilhelm Trollmann, German boxer (d. 1943)\n*Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III, later Sultan of Terengganu and 4th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.

Deaths

\n* January 20 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev periodic table\n* January 31 - Timothy Eaton, department store founder\n* February 11 - Peter J Savelberg, Dutch monastery founder\n* May 12 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, author\n* May 19 - Benjamin Baker, English engineer\n* August 15 - Joseph Joachim, violinist\n* August 16 - James Hector, geologist\n* September 4 - Edvard Grieg, composer\n* December 17 - Lord Kelvin, physicist and engineer, created kelvin temperature scale

Nobel Prizes

\n* Physics - Albert Abraham Michelson\n* Chemistry - Eduard Buchner\n* Medicine - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran\n* Literature - Rudyard Kipling\n* Peace - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Louis Renault \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n