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This article is
about the year 1907.
1907 (MCMVII) was
a common year starting
on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and
a common
year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1907th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
907th year of the 2nd millennium,
the 7th year of the 20th century,
and the 8th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1907,
the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which
remained in localized use until 1923. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] January 14: Earthquake in Jamaica ·
January 6 – The first Montessori school and
daycare center for working class children
opens in Rome. ·
January 14 – 1907 Kingston
earthquake: An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills
more than 1,000. March[edit] ·
March ·
The 1907
Romanian Peasants' Revolt results in possibly as many as
11,000 deaths. ·
The Diamond Sūtra, a woodblock printed Buddhist
scripture dated 868, is discovered by Aurel Stein in the Mogao Caves in China; it is "the earliest
complete survival of a dated printed book".[1] ·
March 5 – At the opening of the
new State Duma in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 40,000 demonstrators
are dispersed by Russian troops. ·
March 11 – The Prime Minister
of Bulgaria, Dimitar Petkov, is assassinated by an
anarchist in Sofia. ·
March 15–March 16 – Elections to
the new Parliament of
Finland are the first in the world for a national assembly,
with woman candidates, as well as the first elections in Europe where universal suffrage is
applied; 19 women are elected. ·
March 22 – The first taxicabs with taximeters begin operating in London. ·
March 25 – The first university sports
federation in Europe is established in Hungary, with the participation or
support of the associations of ten universities and colleges.[2] ·
c. March 28 – The volcano Ksudach erupts, in
the Kamchatka Peninsula. April[edit] ·
April 17 – The first Minas
Geraes-class battleship is laid down for Brazil, by Armstrong Whitworth on
the River Tyne, in England, triggering the South
American dreadnought race. ·
April 24 – Al Ahly SC is founded in Cairo by Omar Lotfi, as a gathering
place for Egyptian students' unions in the struggle
against colonization; it is
the first association football club
officially founded in Egypt or Africa.[3] May[edit] ·
May 13 – The 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour
Party convenes in secret in London. June[edit] ·
June 5 – Shastri Yagnapurushdas consecrates
the murtis of both Sahajanand Swami and Gunatitanand Swami in
a single central shrine, thus establishing the Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan
Sanstha, later a United Nations affiliate organization. ·
June 10–August 10 – The Peking to Paris motor race is won
by Prince
Scipione Borghese, driving a 7-litre 35/45 hp Itala. ·
June 15 – The Second
Hague Peace Conference opens at The Hague. ·
June 22 – The London Underground's Charing
Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens. ·
June 26 – Tiflis bank
robbery: Bolsheviks attack
a cash-filled bank coach in the centre of Tiflis, Georgia,
killing 40 people. July[edit] ·
July 1 – The Orange River Colony gains
autonomy, as the Orange Free State. ·
July 21 – The SS Columbia sinks
after colliding with the lumber schooner San Pedro, off Shelter Cove,
California, resulting in 88 deaths. ·
July 24 – The Japan–Korea
Treaty of 1907 brings the government and military of
the protectorate of Korea more firmly under Japanese control. August[edit] ·
August 1–9 – Robert
Baden-Powell leads the first Scout camp on Brownsea
Island, England. ·
August 29 – The partially
completed superstructure of
the Quebec Bridge collapses
entirely, claiming the lives of 76 workers. ·
August 31 – Count Alexander Izvolsky and
Sir Arthur
Nicolson sign the Anglo-Russian
Entente in Saint Petersburg, bringing a pause in The Great Game in Central Asia, and
establishing the Triple Entente. September[edit] ·
September 7 – British passenger liner RMS Lusitania sets out on
her maiden voyage, from Liverpool (England)
to New York City. ·
September 26 – New Zealand and Newfoundland become dominions. October[edit] ·
October – A committee of the Delegation for the Adoption of an International
Auxiliary Language, made up of academics including Otto Jespersen, Wilhelm Ostwald and Roland Eötvös meet
in Paris to select a language
for international use. The committee ultimately decides to
reform Esperanto. ·
October 17 – Guglielmo Marconi initiates
commercial transatlantic radio communications,
between his high power longwavewireless telegraphy
stations in Clifden, Ireland
and Glace Bay, Nova
Scotia. ·
October 18 – The Hague
Convention is revised by the (second) Hague Peace
Conference (effective 26 January, 1910). ·
October 27 – Černová
massacre: Fifteen people are shot during the consecration of a
Catholic church in Hungary (now Slovakia). November[edit] ·
British
passenger liner RMS Mauretania,
the world's largest and fastest at this date, sets out on her maiden voyage
from Liverpool to New York. ·
President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims
that Oklahoma has become the 46th state in
the United States. ·
November 21 – Washington State
College defeats the [sic] University of
Washington 10-5 in the Apple Cup, played in Seattle.[4] ·
November 25 – The Church of God in
Christ, which becomes the fifth largest African American Pentecostal-Holiness Christian
denomination in the United States, is founded by Bishop Charles Harrison
Mason in Memphis, Tennessee. December[edit] ·
December 6 – Monongah Mining
disaster: A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in Monongah, West
Virginia. ·
December 8 – Upon the death of Oscar II,
he is succeeded by his son Gustaf V,
as king of Sweden. ·
December 14 – The largest sailing ship
ever built, the 7-masted Thomas W. Lawson,
is wrecked in the Isles of Scilly. ·
December 16 – The American Great White Fleet begins
its circumnavigation of the world. ·
December 17 – Ugyen Wangchuck becomes the first Druk Gyalpo (king of Bhutan). ·
December 19 – An explosion in a coal
mine in Jacobs Creek,
Pennsylvania kills 239. ·
December 21 – Santa María
School massacre: In Chile, soldiers fire at striking mineworkers
gathered in the Santa María School in Iquique; over 2,000 are killed. ·
December 31 – The first ever "ball drop"
is held in Times Square,
in New York City. Date unknown[edit] ·
The triode thermionic amplifier invented
by Lee de Forest,
starting the development of electronics as a practical technology. ·
The Autochrome Lumière is
the first commercial color photography process. ·
Indiana, in the United States, becomes the
world's first legislature to place laws permitting compulsory
sterilization for eugenic purposes
on the statute book. ·
The Moine Thrust Belt in
Scotland is identified, one of the first to be discovered anywhere.[5] ·
The Landsforbundet
for Kvinders Valgret is founded. ·
Henri Matisse begins to teach at
the Académie Matisse in Paris, a private and
non-commercial art school. Births[edit] January–February[edit] ·
January 3 – Ray Milland, Welsh actor, film director
(d. 1986) ·
January 8 – Keizō Hayashi, Japanese civil servant,
military official (d. 1991) ·
January 11 – Pierre Mendès France,
French politician, 142nd Prime Minister
of France (d. 1982) ·
January 12 – Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist
(d. 1966) ·
January 16 – Alexander Knox, Canadian actor, novelist
(d. 1995) ·
January 18 – Lina Haag, German World War II resistance
fighter (d. 2012) ·
Manfred von Ardenne,
German research and applied physicist, inventor (d. 1997) ·
Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (d. 2000) ·
January 22 – Dixie Dean, English football player
(d. 1980) ·
January 23 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1981) ·
Maurice Couve
de Murville, Prime Minister of France (d. 1999) ·
Sultan
Ismail Nasiruddin Shah, King of Malaysia (d. 1979) ·
January 27 – Joyce Compton, American actress (d. 1997) ·
February 1 – Günter Eich, German writer (d. 1972) ·
Birgit Dalland, Norwegian politician
(d. 2007) ·
Pierre Pflimlin, French politician (d. 2000) ·
February 6 – Russell Gleason, American actor (d. 1945) ·
Trường
Chinh, President of Vietnam (d. 1988) ·
Pierre Aliker, French-Martinican politician
(d. 2013) ·
February 12 – Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism
educator (d. 1991) ·
February 13 – Katy de la Cruz, Filipino singer (d. 2004) ·
Jean Langlais, French composer, organist
(d. 1991) ·
Cesar Romero, American actor (d. 1994) ·
February 18 – Oscar Brodney, American screenwriter
(d. 2008) ·
February 21 – W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973) ·
Sheldon Leonard, American actor, writer,
director, and producer (d. 1997) ·
Robert Young,
American actor (d. 1998) ·
February 25 – Kathryn Wasserman
Davis, American philanthropist (d. 2013) ·
February 26 – Dub Taylor, American actor (d. 1994) ·
February 27 – Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951) ·
February 28 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (d. 1988) March–April[edit] ·
March 8 – Konstantinos
Karamanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998) ·
March 9 – Mircea Eliade, Romanian religious historian,
writer (d. 1986) ·
March 12 ·
Arthur Hewlett, British actor (d. 1997) ·
Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer
(d. 2007) ·
March 15 – Zarah Leander, Swedish actress, singer
(d. 1981) ·
March 16 ·
Frances Fuller, American actress (d. 1980) ·
Hans Kleppen, Norwegian ski jumper (d. 2009) ·
March 17 ·
Takeo Miki, Prime Minister of
Japan (d. 1988) ·
Jean Van Houtte, Prime Minister
of Belgium (d. 1991) ·
March 18 – John Zachary Young,
English biologist (d. 1997) ·
March 23 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born scientist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1992) ·
March 27 – Mary Treen, American actress (d. 1989) ·
March 28 – Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun, visionary
(d. 2005) ·
March 29 – Braguinha,
Brazilian songwriter (d. 2006) ·
March 30 – Friedrich
August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe officer (d. 1994) ·
April 1 – Shivakumara Swami,
Hindu religious figure, humanitarian ·
April 10 – Germán Suárez
Flamerich, Venezuelan lawyer, politician and 50th President of
Venezuela (d. 1990) ·
April 11 ·
Paul Douglas,
American actor (d. 1959) ·
Ivor Spencer-Thomas,
English farmer, entrepreneur and inventor (d. 2001) ·
April 12 – Felix de Weldon, Austrian-born sculptor
(d. 2003) ·
April 13 – Harold Stassen, American politician
(d. 2001) ·
April 14 – François Duvalier,
32nd President of Haiti (d. 1971) ·
April 15 – Nikolaas Tinbergen,
Dutch ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988) ·
April 16 – Joseph-Armand
Bombardier, Canadian inventor, founder of Bombardier Inc. (d. 1964) ·
April 21 – Wade Mainer, American singer, banjoist
(d. 2011) ·
April 23 ·
James Hayter,
British actor (d. 1983) ·
Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (d. 1975) ·
April 24 – William Sargant, British psychiatrist
(d. 1988) ·
April 26 – Ilias Tsirimokos, Prime Minister
of Greece (d. 1968) ·
April 29 ·
Tino Rossi, French singer (d. 1983) ·
Fred Zinnemann, Austrian director (d. 1997) May–June[edit] ·
May 1 – Oliver Hill, American lawyer (d. 2007) ·
May 2 – Pinky Lee, American comedian (d. 1993) ·
May 3 – Dorothy Young, American entertainer
(d. 2011) ·
May 5 – Iryna Vilde, Ukrainian writer (d. 1982) ·
May 9 – Baldur von Schirach,
Nazi official (d. 1974) ·
May 11 – Kent Taylor, American actor (d. 1987) ·
May 12 – Katharine Hepburn,
American actress (d. 2003) ·
May 13 – Dame Daphne du Maurier,
English author (d. 1989) ·
May 14 ·
Ayub
Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1974) ·
Johnny Moss, American poker player (d. 1995) ·
Bob Tisdall, Irish Olympic athlete (d. 2004) ·
May 22 ·
Hergé, Belgian comics author (d. 1983) ·
Lord Laurence Olivier, English stage, screen
actor and director (d. 1989) ·
May 25 – U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995) ·
May 26 – John Wayne, American actor, film director
(d. 1979) ·
May 27 ·
Rachel Carson, American environmental writer
(d. 1964) ·
Carl Falck, Norwegian businessman (d. 2016) ·
May 30 ·
Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (d. 2007) ·
Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist,
member of French Resistance (d. 2008) ·
June 1 – Frank Whittle, British jet engine developer
(d. 1996) ·
June 4 – Rosalind Russell, American actress (d. 1976) ·
June 5 – Rudolf Peierls, German-British physicist
(d. 1995) ·
June 14 ·
Nicolas Bentley, British writer, illustrator
(d. 1978) ·
René Char, French poet (d. 1988) ·
June 16 – Jack Albertson, American actor, comedian
(d. 1981) ·
June 19 ·
Clarence Wiseman, Salvation Army general
(d. 1985) ·
George de Mestral,
Swiss inventor (d. 1990) ·
June 22 ·
Ernest
"Doc" Paulin, American trumpeter (d. 2007) ·
Wesley E. Brown, American district court
judge (d. 2012) ·
June 23 – James Meade, English economist, Nobel Prize
laureate (d. 1995) ·
June 24 – Jean
Schlumberger (jewelry designer) (d. 1987) ·
June 25 ·
Franca Dominici, Italian actress, voice
actress (d. 1999) ·
J. Hans D. Jensen,
German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973) ·
June 26 – Joan
Harrison, English screenwriter, producer (d. 1994) ·
June 27 – John McIntire, American actor (d. 1991) ·
June 28 ·
Junius Driggs, American businessman
(d. 1994) ·
Franciszka Themerson,
Polish-born British artist, filmmaker (d. 1989) ·
June 29 – Junji Nishikawa, Japanese football player
(d. ?) July–August[edit] ·
July 3 – Vittoria Di Silverio,
Italian film, television and stage actress (d. 2014) ·
July 4 ·
Emilio Ochoa, Cuban dentist, politician
(d. 2007) ·
Henning Holck-Larsen,
Danish businesspeople (d. 2003) ·
July 6 ·
Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954) ·
George Stanley, Canadian historian, author,
soldier, teacher, public servant, and designer (d. 2002) ·
July 7 ·
Prince
Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia (d. 1989) ·
Robert A. Heinlein,
American science fiction author (d. 1988) ·
Pavel Sudoplatov, Russian Lieutenant General
(d. 1996) ·
Walter Dieminger, German space scientist
(d. 2000) ·
July 9 ·
Teresa Jungman, English socialite (d. 2010) ·
Philip Klutznick, American administrator
(d. 1999) ·
July 10 – John Michaels, American pitcher (d. 1996) ·
July 13 – George Weller, American novelist,
playwright, and journalist (d. 2002) ·
July 14 ·
Annabella,
French actress (d. 1996) ·
Maria Matray, German screenwriter and actress
(d. 1993) ·
July 15 ·
Shōshin
Nagamine, Japanese author and soldier, police officer, and karate
master (d. 1997) ·
Mona Rico, Mexican-born American actress
(d. 1994) ·
Paterson Fraser, English Royal Air Force
(d. 2001) ·
July 16 ·
Orville Redenbacher,
American botanist and popcorn businessman (d. 1995) ·
Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (d. 1990) ·
July 19 ·
Giulio Balestrini,
Italian football player (d. ?) ·
Isabel Jewell, American actress (d. 1972) ·
Paul Magloire, President of Haiti (d. 2001) ·
July 21 ·
A. D. Hope, Australian poet and essayist
(d. 2000) ·
Georg Rydeberg, Swedish actor (d. 1983) ·
July 22 ·
Jack Dennington, Australian rules footballer
(d. 1994) ·
Aldo Donelli, American football player and
coach, soccer player, and college athletics administrator (d. 1994) ·
Zubir Said, Singaporean composer of
Singapore's national anthem (d. 1987) ·
July 25 – Johnny Hodges, American alto saxophonist
(d. 1970) ·
July 27 ·
Ross Alexander, American actor (d. 1937) ·
Richard Beesly, British Olympic gold medal
rower (d. 1965) ·
July 29 – Melvin Belli, American lawyer (d. 1996) ·
August 1 – Elisabeth Johansen,
Greenlandic midwife and politician (d. 1993) ·
August 2 – Mary Hamman, American writer and editor
(d. 1984) ·
August 3 ·
Ernesto Geisel, 29th President of Brazil
(d. 1996) ·
Yang Shangkun, President of the People's
Republic of China (d. 1998) ·
Irene Tedrow, American actress (d. 1995) ·
August 7 ·
Bernard
Brodie (biochemist), English-American chemist and "founder of
modern pharmacology" (d. 1989) ·
Albert Kotin, American painter (d. 1980) ·
August 8 – Benny Carter, American musician (d. 2003) ·
Joe Besser, American comedian (d. 1988) ·
Benjamin Sheares, 2nd President of Singapore
(d. 1981) ·
August 13 – Viscount
William Waldorf Astor, British politician (d. 1966) ·
August 14 – Stanley Adams,
American lyricist and songwriter (d. 1994) ·
August 20 – Alan Reed, American actor and voice actor
(d. 1977) ·
John G. Trump, American electrical engineer,
inventor, and physicist (d. 1985) ·
Hy Zaret, American lyricist and composer
(d. 2007) ·
Bruno Giacometti, Swiss architect (d. 2012) ·
Gil Perkins, Australian actor and stuntman
(d. 1999) ·
August 28 – Rupert Hart-Davis,
British publisher (d. 1999) ·
August 29 – Lurene Tuttle, American character actress
(d. 1986) ·
Argentina Brunetti,
Argentinian actress and writer (d. 2005) ·
Augustus F. Hawkins,
American politician and civil rights lawmaker (d. 2007) ·
Ramon Magsaysay, 7th President of
the Philippines (d. 1957) September–October[edit] ·
Evelyn Hooker, American psychologist
(d. 1996) ·
Miriam Seegar, American actress (d. 2011) ·
September 3 – Loren Eiseley, American author (d. 1977) ·
Frances Griffiths, Cottingley
Fairies girl (d. 1986) ·
Reggie Nalder, Austrian actor (d. 1991) ·
Spud Chandler, American baseball player
(d. 1990) ·
Louis MacNeice, Northern Irish poet
(d. 1963) ·
Jimmy Wallington, American radio personality
(d. 1972) ·
Fay Wray, Canadian-born actress (d. 2004) ·
September 17 – Warren E. Burger, Chief
Justice of the United States (d. 1995) ·
Leon Askin, Austrian actor (d. 2005) ·
Elza Brandeisz, Hungarian dancer, teacher
(d. 2018) ·
Edwin McMillan, American chemist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1991) ·
September 19 – Lewis F. Powell Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States (d. 1998) ·
September 22 – Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher, writer
(d. 2003) ·
September 23 – Duarte Nuno,
Duke of Braganza, pretender to the throne of Portugal (d. 1976) ·
Anthony Blunt, British art historian, spy
(d. 1983) ·
Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (d. 1992) ·
September 27 – Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist (d. 1998) ·
September 28 – Heikki
Savolainen, Finnish artistic gymnast (d. 1997) ·
Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and
businessman (d. 1998) ·
George W. Jenkins,
American businessman (d. 1996) ·
October 1 – Ödön Pártos,
Hungarian-Israeli violist, composer (d. 1977) ·
Víctor Paz
Estenssoro, President of Bolivia (d. 2001) ·
Alexander R. Todd,
Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997) ·
October 5 – Elva Ruby Miller, American singer (d. 1997) ·
October 6 – Francisco
Gabilondo Soler, Mexican singer, composer (d. 1990) ·
October 7 – Jesse Bankston, American political activist
(d. 2010) ·
October 9 – Lord Hailsham, British politician (d. 2001) ·
October 15 – Varian Fry, American journalist, rescuer
(d. 1967) ·
October 17 – John Marley, American actor (d. 1984) ·
October 19 – Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader
(d. 1962) ·
October 20 – Arlene Francis, Amcerican actress (d. 2001) ·
October 24 – Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (d. 1973) ·
October 28 – John Hewitt,
Irish poet (d. 1987) ·
October 30 – Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1995) November–December[edit] ·
November 1 – Homero Manzi, Argentine tango lyricist,
author (d. 1951) ·
November 4 – Draga Matković,
German concert pianist (d. 2013) ·
November 6 – Charles W. Yost,
American ambassador (d. 1981) ·
November 9 – Louis
Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (d. 1994) ·
John Moore,
British author (d. 1967) ·
Salme Reek, Estonian actress (d. 1996) ·
Viktoria Brezhneva, First Lady
of the Soviet Union (d. 1995) ·
Günter Fronius,
Transylvanian Saxon entrepreneur (d. 2015) ·
Howard W. Hunter, American religious leader
(d. 1995) ·
Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's writer
(d. 2002) ·
William Steig, American cartoonist (d. 2003) ·
November 15 – Claus
Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, German aristocrat, military officer
(d. 1944) ·
November 16 – Burgess Meredith, American actor, director
(d. 1997) ·
Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (d. 2003) ·
Gustav Nezval, Czech actor (d. 1998) ·
November 19 – Luigi Beccali, Italian Olympic athlete
(d. 1990) ·
November 23 – Run Run Shaw, Hong Kong media mogul
(d. 2014) ·
November 26 – Ruth Patrick, American botanist (d. 2013) ·
November 27 – L. Sprague de Camp,
American writer (d. 2000) ·
November 28 – Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist (d. 1990) ·
November 28 – Katharine Bartlett,
American physical anthropologist, museum curator (d. 2001) ·
November 30 – Jacques Barzun, French-born American
historian (d. 2012) ·
December 5 – Lin Biao, Chinese communist leader (d. 1971) ·
December 6 – Helli Stehle, Swiss actress, radio presenter
(d. 2017) ·
December 10 – Lucien Laurent, French footballer (d. 2005) ·
December 12 – Roy Douglas, British composer (d. 2015) ·
December 15 – Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect
(d. 2012) ·
December 16 – Barbara Kent, Canadian silent film actress
(d. 2011) ·
December 19 – Jimmy McLarnin, Irish-born boxer (d. 2004) ·
December 22 – Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (d. 1991) ·
December 23 – James Roosevelt, American businessman,
politician (d. 1991) ·
Cab Calloway, American jazz singer,
bandleader (d. 1994) ·
Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon,
businessman (d. 1988) ·
December 27 – Johann Wilhelm
Trollmann, German boxer (d. 1943) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit] ·
January 9 – Mozaffar
ad-Din Shah Qajar, Shah of Iran (b. 1853) ·
January 13 – Jakob Hurt, Estonian folklorist, theologian,
and linguist (b. 1839) ·
January 14 – Hermann Iseke, German doctor (b. 1856) ·
Bertram
Fletcher Robinson, English journalist, editor and author (b. 1870) ·
Graziadio Isaia
Ascoli, Italian linguist (b. 1829) ·
January 31 – Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store
founder (b. 1834) ·
February 2 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834) ·
February 13 – Marcel
Alexandre Bertrand, French geologist (b. 1847) ·
Giosuè Carducci,
Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835) ·
Clémentine of
Orléans, daughter of King Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1817) ·
February 17 – Henry Steel Olcott,
American officer, theosophist (b. 1832) ·
February 20 – Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize
laureate (b. 1852) ·
February 21 – Erik Gustaf Boström,
2-time Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1842) ·
February 26 – C. W. Alcock, English footballer,
journalist, and football promoter (b. 1842) ·
March 9 – Frederic George
Stephens, English art critic (b. 1828) ·
March 10 – George
Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn, Welsh industrialist (b. 1836) ·
March 11 ·
Jean Casimir-Perier,
6th President of France (b. 1847) ·
Dimitar Petkov, 14th Prime Minister
of Bulgaria (assassinated) (b. 1847) ·
March 18 – Marcellin Berthelot,
French chemist (b. 1837) ·
March 19 ·
Thomas Bailey
Aldrich, American poet, novelist (b. 1836) ·
Mariano Baptista, former President of Bolivia (b. 1832) ·
March 23 – Konstantin
Pobedonostsev, Russian statesman (b. 1827) ·
March 25 – Ernst von Bergmann,
Baltic German surgeon (b. 1836) ·
April 6 – William Henry Drummond,
Irish-Canadian poet (b. 1854) ·
April 14 – Frank Manly Thorn,
American lawyer, politician, government official, essayist, journalist,
humorist, inventor, and 6th Superintendent of the United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey (b. 1836) ·
April 23 – Alferd Packer, American cannibal (b. 1842) ·
May 1 – Melissa
Elizabeth Riddle Banta, American poet (b. 1834) ·
May 4 – John Watts de
Peyster, American author, philanthropist, and soldier (b. 1821) ·
May 6 – Emanuele Luigi
Galizia, Maltese architect, civil engineer (b. 1830) ·
May 12 – Joris-Karl Huysmans,
French author (b. 1848) ·
May 19 – Sir Benjamin Baker,
English civil engineer (b. 1840) ·
May 26 – Ida Saxton McKinley, First
Lady of the United States (b. 1847) ·
May 27 – Kevork Chavush, Armenian national hero
(b. 1870) ·
June 6 – J. A. Chatwin, English architect (b. 1830) ·
June 14 ·
Bartolomé Masó,
Cuban patriot (b. 1830) ·
William Le Baron
Jenney, American architect, engineer (b. 1832) ·
June 25 – John Hall,
12th Prime
Minister of New Zealand (b. 1824) July–December[edit] Saint Ilia Chavchavadze Saint Raphael Kalinowski King Oscar II of Sweden William
Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin ·
July 13 – Heinrich Kreutz, German astronomer (b. 1854) ·
July 28 – Mildred
Amanda Baker Bonham, American travel writer (b. 1840) ·
August – Dinqinesh Mercha, empress consort of
Ethiopia (b. 1815) ·
August 1 – Lucy M. Hall, American physician and writer
(b. 1843) ·
August 3 – Augustus
Saint-Gaudens, Irish-American Beaux-Arts sculptor (b. 1848) ·
August 15 – Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (b. 1831) ·
August 25 – Mary Elizabeth
Coleridge, British poet, novelist (b. 1861) ·
August 30 – Richard Mansfield,
Anglo-American actor (b. 1857) ·
September 4 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843) ·
September 6 – Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1839) ·
September 9 – Ernest Roland
Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840) ·
September 12 – Ilia Chavchavadze,
Georgian writer, Orthodox priest and
saint (b. 1837) ·
September 19 – Jacob Morenga, Namibian rebel leader
(b. 1875) ·
September 22 – Wilbur Olin Atwater,
American chemist (b. 1844) ·
September 30 – Sir John Ardagh,
British army general (b. 1840) ·
October 10 – Adolf Furtwängler,
German archaeologist, historian (b. 1853) ·
October 30 – Caroline Dana Howe,
American author (b. 1824) ·
November 1 – Alfred Jarry, French writer (b. 1873) ·
November 6 – Sir James Hector, Scottish geologist
(b. 1834) ·
November 15 – Raphael Kalinowski,
Polish Discalced Carmelite friar
and saint (b. 1835) ·
November 16 – Robert I, Duke of
Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma (b. 1848) ·
November 21 – Paula
Modersohn-Becker, German painter (b. 1876) ·
November 22 – Asaph Hall, American astronomer (b. 1829) ·
November 25 – Ludvig
Mylius-Erichsen, Danish explorer (b. 1872) ·
November 28 – Stanisław
Wyspiański, Polish writer, painter and architect (b. 1869) ·
November 30 – Ludwig Levy, German architect (b. 1854) ·
December 4 – Luis Sáenz Peña,
12th President of
Argentina (b. 1822) ·
December 8 – King Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829) ·
December 15 – Carola of Vasa, queen consort of Saxony
(b. 1833) ·
December 17 – Lord
Kelvin, Irish-born physicist and engineer (b. 1824) ·
December 20 – Helen Louisa
Bostwick Bird, American author (b. 1826) ·
December 21 – Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf
Hitler (b. 1860) ·
December 23 – Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (b. 1824) ·
December 28 – Kate Stone, American diarist (b. 1841) ·
December 31 – Jules de Trooz, Prime Minister
of Belgium (b. 1857) Unknown date[edit] ·
Ellen Russell
Emerson, American ethnologist (b. 1837) ·
Sarah Gibson
Humphreys, American author and suffragist (b. 1830) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Albert Abraham
Michelson ·
Medicine – Charles
Louis Alphonse Laveran ·
Literature – Rudyard Kipling ·
Peace – Ernesto Teodoro
Moneta, Louis Renault References[edit] 1.
^ "Sacred Texts: Diamond Sutra". British Library. 2003-11-30. Archived
from the original on November 10, 2013.
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^ The Hungarian university sports federation is 100 years
old. 3.
^ "Al Ahly: Spirit of success". FIFA.
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^ Spokesman-Review, November 22, 1907 5.
^ Peach, B. N.; et
al. The Geological Structure of the North-West Highlands of Scotland.
Memoirs of the Geological
Survey of Great Britain, Scotland. Glasgow: H.M.S.O. Further reading[edit] ·
Gilbert,
Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900-1933 (1997);
global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 143-57. ·
International
Year Book: 1907 (1908) 1002pp,
worldwide coverage online edition |
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