1907 - Wikipedia

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s

Years: 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 - 1907 - 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912

Events:

January 6 - Maria Montessori opens her first school, in Rome
January 14 - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than a 1,000
January 23 - Charles Curtis from Kansas, becomes the first Native American US Senator.
March 5 - The new Duma is opened in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators had to be dispersed by Russian troops.
May 27 - A Bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California.
September 26 - New Zealand becomes a dominion
November 16 - Oklahoma is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.

The Diamond Sutra of AD 868, a Buddhist scripture later dated as earliest example of block printing, is discovered in the Mogao Caves.
The triode thermionic amplifier invented by Lee DeForest, starting the development of electronics as a practical technology.
The Autochrome Lumière is the first color photography process marketed.

Art, Culture & Fashion

Births:

January 3 - Ray Milland, actor (+ 1986)
January 19 - Lilian Harvey[?], actress (+ 1968)
January 20 - Barbara Stanwyck, actress († 1990)
January 20 - Paula Wessley[?], actress († 2000)
January 23 - Dan Durya[?], actor (+ 1968)
February 1 - Günter Eich[?], lyricist (+ 1972)
February 11 - E W Swanton[?], author & sports commentator.
February 15 - Cesar Romero[?], actor (+ 1994)
February 17 - Buster Crabbe, swimming champion, actor (+ 1983)
February 21 - W. H. Auden, English poet.
February 22 - Robert Young, actor (+ 1998)
February 22 - Sheldon Leonard[?], actor, writer, director, producer
February 27 - Mildred Bailey[?], jazz performer (+ 1951)
March 11 - Helmut von Moltke[?], jurist (+ 1945)
March 15 - Zarah Leander[?], actress and singer (+ 1981)
April 3 - Iron Eyes Cody[?], actor (+ 1999)
May 8 - Wof Stefan Traugott Graf von Baudissin[?], general (+ 1993)
May 9 - Baldur von Schirach, Naxi official (+ 1974)
May 11 - Rose Ausänder[?], poet (+ 1988)
May 12 - Katharine Hepburn, actress
May 13 - Dame Daphne du Maurier, author (+ 1989)
May 22 - Herge, Belgian writer-artist
May 22 - Sir Laurence Olivier, actor, director (+ 1989)
May 26 - John Wayne ("The Duke"), actor (+ 1979)
May 30 - Elly Beinhorn[?], pilot
July 6 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter
July 7 - Robert Heinlein, American (science fiction author).
September 15 - Fay Wray, actress
October 5 - Mrs. Miller, singer (+ 1997)
October 9 - Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician (+ 2001)
November 14 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author of children's books.
December 7 - [Lily] Teresa Ferster Glazier[?] (Glazier is her married name), American author of The Least You Should Know About English[?]

Deaths:

January 20 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev periodic table
January 31 - Timothy Eaton, department store founder
February 11 - Peter J Savelberg[?], Dutch monastery founder
May 12 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, author
May 19 - Benjamin Baker, English engineer
September 4 - Edvard Grieg, composer

Nobel Prizes: