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.

Events

January

• January 14 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000.

February

• February 9 The "Mud March", the first large procession organised by The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), takes place in London.

• February 11 The French warship Jean Bart sinks off the coast of Morocco.

• February 12 The steamship Larchmont collides with the Harry Hamilton in Long Island Sound; 183 lives are lost.

• February 16 SKF, a worldwide mechanical parts manufacturing brand is founded in Gothenburg, Sweden.

• February 21 The English mail steamship Berlin is wrecked off the Hook of Holland; 142 lives are lost.

• February 24 The Austrian Lloyd steamship Imperatrix, from Trieste to Bombay, is wrecked on Cape of Crete and sinks; 137 lives are lost.

March

March

• The steamship Congo collides at the mouth of the Ems River with the German steamship Nerissa; 7 lives are lost.

• 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".

• Pablo Picasso completes his painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

• March 11 The Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Dimitar Petkov, is assassinated by an anarchist in Sofia.

• March 1516 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.

• c. March 28 The volcano Ksudach erupts, in the Kamchatka Peninsula.

April

• April 7 Hershey Park opens in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

• 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.

May

• May 13 The 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party convenes in secret in London.

June

• 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 6 Persil laundry detergent is first marketed by Henkel of Düsseldorf, Germany, the first to combine bleach with detergent commercially.

• June 10August 10 The Peking to Paris motor race is won by Prince Scipione Borghese, driving a 7-litre 35/45hp 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

• July 1 The Orange River Colony gains autonomy, as the Orange Free State.

• July 6 Guardians of the Irish Crown Jewels notice that they have been stolen.

• July 15 The London Electrobus Company starts running the first ever service of battery-electric buses between London's Victoria Station and Liverpool Street.

• July 21 The 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 Japaneseese control.

August

• August 2431 The International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam meets in the Netherlands.

• August 28 UPS is founded by James E. (Jim) Casey in Seattle, Washington.

• 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

• September 7 British Cunard Line passenger liner sets out on her maiden voyage, from Liverpool (England) to New York City.

• September 8 Pope Pius X promulgates the encyclical Pascendi Dominici gregis, opposing modernism in the Catholic Church.

• September 22 – Uruguay abolishes capital punishment.

• September 26 New Zealand and Newfoundland become dominions of the British Empire.

October

• 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.

• October 27 Černová massacre: Fifteen people are shot during the consecration of a Catholic church in Hungary (modern-day Slovakia).

November

November 16

• British Cunard Line 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 U.S. state.

December

• December 6 Monongah Mining disaster: A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in Monongah, West Virginia.

• December 14 The largest sailing ship ever built, the 7-masted U.S.-owned 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.

Date unknown

• 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 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.

• James M. Spangler invents the first Hoover vacuum cleaner.

• The Moine Thrust Belt in Scotland is identified, one of the first to be discovered anywhere.

Births

January

• 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

• 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)

January 24

• Maurice Couve de Murville, Prime Minister of France (d. 1999)

• Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu, King of Malaysia (d. 1979)

• January 27 Joyce Compton, American actress (d. 1997)

February

February 5

• Pierre Pflimlin, French politician (d. 2000)

• Sergio Méndez Arceo, Roman Catholic bishop of Cuernavaca, Mexico 1953–1983 (d. 1992)

  February 9 Trường Chinh, President of Vietnam (d. 1988)

February 15

• 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)

February 22

• 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

• 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

• Takeo Miki, 41st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1988)

• Jean Van Houtte, 38th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1991)

• 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

• April 1 Shivakumara Swami, Hindu religious figure and humanitarian (d. 2019)

• April 5 Sanya Dharmasakti, Thai politician, Prime Minister (19731975) (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)

May

• May 1 Oliver Hill, American lawyer (d. 2007)

• May 4 Walter Walsh, American FBI agent and Olympic shooter (d. 2014)

• May 9 Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974)

• 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)

May 16

• Bob Tisdall, Irish Olympic athlete (d. 2004)

May 22

• Hergé, Belgian cartoonist (d. 1983)

• 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)

• Konstantin Anisimovich Pavlov, Latvian iconographer (d. 1976)

May 30

• Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (d. 2007)

• Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (d. 2008)

June

• 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

• July 3 Horia Sima, Romanian fascist politician (d. 1993)

• July 4 Henning Holck-Larsen, Danish engineer and businessman (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

• Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction author (d. 1988)

• Pavel Sudoplatov, Russian lieutenant general and spy (d. 1996)

• Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia (d. 1989)

• 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

• Isabel Jewell, American actress (d. 1972)

• Paul Magloire, President of Haiti (d. 2001)

• 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

August 3

• Ernesto Geisel, 29th President of Brazil (d. 1996)

• Yang Shangkun, President of China (d. 1998)

• Irene Tedrow, American actress (d. 1995)

• August 7 Bernard Beryl Brodie, English-born American chemist and pharmacologist (d. 1989)

• August 8 Benny Carter, American musician (d. 2003)

August 12

• Joe Besser, American comedian (d. 1988)

• Benjamin Sheares, 2nd President of Singapore (d. 1981)

• 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 30 Leonor Fini, Argentine artist (d. 1996)

August 31

• Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician and civil rights lawmaker (d. 2007)

• Ramon Magsaysay, 7th President of the Philippines (d. 1957)

September

• September 1 Walter Reuther, American labor union leader and president of the United Auto Workers (d. 1970)

• 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

• Anthony Blunt, British art historian, spy (d. 1983)

• Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (d. 1992)

• 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)

October

October 2

• Alec Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)

• Víctor Paz Estenssoro, 45th President of Bolivia (d. 2001)

  October 9 Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, 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 28

• John Hewitt, Irish poet (d. 1987)

• Sergio Méndez Arceo, 7th Mexican bishop of Cuernavaca 1953–1982, and advocate of Liberation theology (d. 1991).

November

• 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

• Howard W. Hunter, 14th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (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)

• 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)

• November 30 Jacques Barzun, French-born American historian (d. 2012)

December

• December 5 Lin Biao, Chinese communist military leader (d. 1971)

• 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)

• December 25 Cab Calloway, American jazz singer and bandleader (d. 1994)

• December 27 Johann Trollmann, German boxer (d. 1944)

Deaths

January

• January 3 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)

• January 19 Giuseppe Saracco, 15th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1821)

• January 21 Graziadio Isaia Ascoli, Italian linguist (b. 1829)

• January 31 Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (b. 1834)

February

• 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

• 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, 7th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1842)

• February 26 C. W. Alcock, English footballer, journalist, and football promoter (b. 1842)

March

• 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

• 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. 1827)

March 19

• Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and novelist (b. 1836)

• Mariano Baptista, 23rd President of Bolivia (b. 1832)

• March 23 Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Russian statesman (b. 1827)

• March 25 Ernst von Bergmann, Baltic German surgeon (b. 1836)

April

• 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

• 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

• June 4 Agathe Backer-Grøndahl, Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1847)

• 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 23 Hod Stuart, Canadian professional ice hockey player, killed in diving accident (b. 1879)

• June 25 Sir John Hall, 12th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1824)

• June 29 Maximilian Cercha, Polish painter and drawer (b. 1818)

July

• July 13 Heinrich Kreutz, German astronomer (b. 1854)

• July 14 Sir William Perkin, English chemist (b. 1838)

• July 15 Qiu Jin, Chinese revolutionary, feminist and poet, executed (b. 1875)

• July 28 Mildred Amanda Baker Bonham, American travel writer (b. 1840)

August

• August Dinqinesh Mercha, empress consort of Ethiopia (b. 1815)

August 1

• Lucy Mabel Hall-Brown, American physician and writer (b. 1843)

• Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro, 3-time Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1849)

• August 3 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Irish-American Beaux-Arts sculptor (b. 1848)

• August 4 Richard Meade, Lord Gilford, British admiral (b. 1832)

• August 13 Hermann Carl Vogel, German astrophysicist (b. 1841)

• August 15 Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (b. 1831)

August 25

• Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, British poet, novelist (b. 1861)

• Alexandre Franquet, French admiral (b. 1828)

• August 30 Richard Mansfield, Anglo-American actor (b. 1857)

September

• 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 13 John Mushmouth Johnson, American gambler (b. 1856)

• September 15 William Wales (optician), English-American inventor (b. 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)

October

• October 10 Adolf Furtwängler, German archaeologist, historian (b. 1853)

• October 30 Caroline Dana Howe, American author (b. 1824)

November

• November 1 Alfred Jarry, French writer (b. 1873)

• November 6 Sir James Hector, Scottish geologist (b. 1834)

• 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)

December

• 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 William Thomson, 1st Baron 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, 18th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1857)

Date unknown

• Ellen Russell Emerson, American ethnologist (b. 1837)

• Sarah Gibson Humphreys, American author and suffragist (b. 1830)

• Joseph Stannah, Founder of Stannah Lifts (b. 1836)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics Albert Abraham Michelson

• Chemistry Eduard Buchner

• Medicine Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

• Literature Rudyard Kipling

• Peace Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Louis Renault

References

Further reading

• 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