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* [[December 5]] – [[Lin Biao]], Chinese communist military leader (d. [[1971]])

* [[December 12]] – [[Roy Douglas]], British composer (d. [[2015]])

* [[December 14]] – [[Beatriz Costa]], Portuguese actress (d. [[1996]])

* [[December 15]] – [[Oscar Niemeyer]], Brazilian architect (d. [[2012]])

* [[December 16]] – [[Barbara Kent]], Canadian silent film actress (d. [[2011]])

Calendar year

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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.

Calendar year

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 6 – The Deutscher Werkbund is founded in Germany.
October 17 – Guglielmo Marconi initiates commercial transatlantic radio communications between his high power longwave wireless 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), focussing on naval warfare.
October 24 – A major United States financial crisis is averted when J. P. Morgan, E. H. Harriman, James Stillman, Henry Clay Frick and other Wall Street financiers create a $25,000,000 pool to invest in the shares on the plunging New York Stock Exchange, ending the bank panic of 1907.^[8]
October 27 – Černová massacre: Fifteen people are shot during the consecration of a Catholic church in Hungary (modern-day Slovakia).

January 3 – Ray Milland, Welsh actor, film director (d. 1986)
January 5 – Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete (d. 1969)
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 20
January 22 – Dixie Dean, English football player (d. 1980)
January 23 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
January 24
January 27 – Joyce Compton, American actress (d. 1997)

March 4 – Maria Branyas, American-born Spanish supercentenarian (d. 2024)
March 8 – Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998)
March 9 – Mircea Eliade, Romanian religious historian, writer (d. 1986)
March 15 – Zarah Leander, Swedish actress, singer (d. 1981)
March 17
March 18 – John Zachary Young, English biologist (d. 1997)
March 23 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
March 26 – Mahadevi Varma, Indian Hindi-language poet, essayist (d. 1987)
March 28 – Sister Lúcia, Portuguese nun, visionary (d. 2005)
March 30 – Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe officer (d. 1994)

April 1 – Shivakumara Swami, Hindu religious figure and humanitarian (d. 2019)
April 5 – Sanya Dharmasakti, Thai politician, Prime Minister (1973–1975) (d. 2002)
April 7 – Lê Duẩn, Vietnamese politician (d. 1986)
April 10 – Germán Suárez Flamerich, Venezuelan lawyer, politician and 50th President of Venezuela (d. 1990)
April 11 – Paul Douglas, American actor (d. 1959)
April 12 – Felix de Weldon, Austrian-born American 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 17 – Martii Miettunen, 2-time Prime Minister of Finland (d. 2002)
April 21 – Wade Mainer, American singer, banjoist (d. 2011)
April 24 – William Sargant, British psychiatrist (d. 1988)
April 26 – Ilias Tsirimokos, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1968)
April 29 – Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born American film director (d. 1997)

June 1 – Frank Whittle, British jet engine developer (d. 1996)
June 4 – Rosalind Russell, American actress (d. 1976)
June 5 – Rudolf Peierls, German-born British physicist (d. 1995)
June 14 – René Char, French poet (d. 1988)
June 16 – Jack Albertson, American actor, comedian (d. 1981)
June 19 – George de Mestral, Swiss inventor (d. 1990)
June 23 – James Meade, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
June 25 – J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
June 27 – John McIntire, American actor (d. 1991)
June 28 – Franciszka Themerson, Polish-born British artist, filmmaker (d. 1989)

July 3 – Horia Sima, Romanian fascist politician (d. 1993)
July 4 – Henning Holck-Larsen, Danish engineer and businessman (d. 2003)
July 6
July 7
July 13 – George Weller, American novelist, playwright, and journalist (d. 2002)
July 14 – Annabella, French actress (d. 1996)
July 16 – Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (d. 1990)
July 19
July 21 – A. D. Hope, Australian poet and essayist (d. 2000)
July 22
- 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 – Richard Beesly, British Olympic gold medal rower (d. 1965)
July 29 – Melvin Belli, American lawyer (d. 1996)

August 3
August 7 – Bernard Beryl Brodie, English-born American chemist and pharmacologist (d. 1989)
August 8 – Benny Carter, American musician (d. 2003)
August 12
August 15 – Bob Pearson, British variety performer with his brother Alf as half of Bob and Alf Pearson (d. 1985)
August 20 – Alan Reed, American actor and voice actor (d. 1977)
August 21 – John G. Trump, American electrical engineer, inventor, and physicist (d. 1985)
August 24 – 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)
August 31

September 1 – Walter Reuther, American labor union leader and president of the United Auto Workers (d. 1970) ^[18]
September 2 – Evelyn Hooker, American psychologist (d. 1996)
September 3 – Loren Eiseley, American author (d. 1977)
September 12 – Louis MacNeice, Northern Irish poet (d. 1963)
September 15 – Fay Wray, Canadian-born American actress (d. 2004)
September 17 – Warren E. Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)
September 18 – 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)
September 26
September 27 – Bhagat Singh, Indian revolutionary (d. 1931)
September 28 – Heikki Savolainen, Finnish artistic gymnast (d. 1997)
September 29 – Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and businessman (d. 1998)

November 1 – Homero Manzi, Argentine tango lyricist, author (d. 1951)
November 9 – Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (d. 1994)
November 10 – Salme Reek, Estonian actress (d. 1996)
November 14
November 15 – Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, German aristocrat, military officer (d. 1944)
November 16 – Burgess Meredith, American actor, director (d. 1997)
November 18 – Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (d. 2003)
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)^[22]
November 30 – Jacques Barzun, French-born American historian (d. 2012)

February 2 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834)
February 7 – Preston Leslie, 26th Governor of Kentucky and 9th territorial Governor of Montana (b. 1819)
February 12 – Muriel Robb, English tennis player (b. 1878)
February 13 – Marcel Alexandre Bertrand, French geologist (b. 1847)
February 16
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, 7th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1842)
February 26 – C. W. Alcock, English footballer, journalist, and football promoter (b. 1842)

March 3 – Oronhyatekha, Canadian Mohawk physician, CEO of an international benefit society, native statesman, scholar, rights campaigner and international shooter (b. 1841)
March 7 – Charlotta Raa-Winterhjelm, Swedish actress (b. 1838)
March 9 – Frederic George Stephens, English art critic (b. 1828)
March 10 – George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn, Welsh industrialist (b. 1836)
March 11
March 18 – Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist (b. 1827)
March 19
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)

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 15 – William Wales (optician), English-American inventor (b. c. 1838)
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)

November 1 – Alfred Jarry, French writer (b. 1873)
November 6 – Sir James Hector, Scottish geologist (b. 1834)^[26]
November 14 – Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian jurist and politician (b. 1848)
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 17 – Sir Francis McClintock, Irish explorer and admiral in British Royal Navy (b. 1819)
November 20 – Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter (b. 1876)
November 22 – Asaph Hall, American astronomer (b. 1829)
November 23 – Naimuddin, Bengali writer and Islamic scholar (b. 1832)
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)

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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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