The year in history
1907
Someone born in 1907 turns 119 in 2026
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. Cohort extinction took place on 19th of August 2024 when the last surviving person born in 1907, Maria Branyas, died at the age of 117 years, 168 days.
What happened in 1907
1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000.
SKF, a worldwide mechanical parts manufacturing brand is founded in Gothenburg, Sweden.
The 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt results in possibly as many as 11,000 deaths.
The first taxicabs with taximeters begin operating in London.
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.
The Second Hague Peace Conference opens at The Hague.
The London Electrobus Company starts running the first ever service of battery-electric buses between London's Victoria Station and Liverpool Street.
The partially completed superstructure of the Quebec Bridge collapses entirely, claiming the lives of 76 workers.
New Zealand and Newfoundland become dominions of the British Empire.
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.
The largest sailing ship ever built, the 7-masted U.S.-owned Thomas W. Lawson, is wrecked in the Isles of Scilly.
Indiana, in the United States, becomes the world's first legislature to place laws permitting compulsory sterilization for eugenic purposes on the statute book.
Famous people born in 1907
Ray Milland
Welsh actor, film director (d. 1986)
January 3 β
Manfred von Ardenne
German research and applied physicist, inventor (d. 1997)
January 20 β
Pierre Pflimlin
French politician (d. 2000)
February 5 β
W. H. Auden
English poet (d. 1973)
February 21 β
Maria Branyas
American-born Spanish supercentenarian (d. 2024)
March 4 β
John Zachary Young
English biologist (d. 1997)
March 18 β
LΓͺ DuαΊ©n
Vietnamese politician (d. 1986)
April 7 β
Martii Miettunen
2-time Prime Minister of Finland (d. 2002)
April 17 β
Walter Walsh
American FBI agent and Olympic shooter (d. 2014)
May 4 β
HergΓ©
Belgian cartoonist (d. 1983)
May 22 β
Elly Beinhorn
German pilot (d. 2007)
May 30 β
George de Mestral
Swiss inventor (d. 1990)
June 19 β
Frida Kahlo
Mexican painter (d. 1954)
July 6 β
Annabella
French actress (d. 1996)
July 14 β
Johnny Hodges
American alto saxophonist (d. 1970)
July 25 β
Bernard Beryl Brodie
English-born American chemist and pharmacologist (d. 1989)
August 7 β
Gil Perkins
Australian actor and stuntman (d. 1999)
August 24 β
Walter Reuther
American labor union leader and president of the United Auto Workers (d. 1970)
September 1 β
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1998)
September 19 β
Gene Autry
American actor, singer, and businessman (d. 1998)
September 29 β
Roger Wolfe Kahn
American bandleader (d. 1962)
October 19 β
Astrid Lindgren
Swedish children's writer (d. 2002)
November 14 β
Run Run Shaw
Hong Kong media mogul (d. 2014)
November 23 β
Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian architect (d. 2012)
December 15 β