1907

January

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

February

• February 7 – 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 (mainly, bearing and seal), 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 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 15–16 – 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.
• 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.
  • Today is the all-time busiest day of immigration to the United States through Ellis Island; this will be the busiest year ever seen here, with 1.1 million immigrants arriving.
• 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 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

• 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 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

• August 24–31 – 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 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 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 8 – Edvard Grieg's Olaf Trygvason, his only opera, is produced posthumously in Christiania, Norway.
• 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).
• October 31 – The Parliament of Finland approves the Prohibition Act, but the law is not implemented because it is not ratified by Grand Duke Nicholas II.

November

• November 4 – Russian immigrant bakers Perry and Ben Feigenson begin transforming their cake frosting flavors into The Feigenson Brothers Bottling Works soft drink recipe, later shortened to Faygo.
• November 16
  • 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 University of Washington 10-5 in the Apple Cup in college football, played in Seattle.
• 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.
  • Edeka, a major retailer group in Europe, is founded in Germany.^{[citation needed]}

December

• 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 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.
• December 31 – The first ever "ball drop" is held in Times Square, in New York City.

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• 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 Murray Spangler invents the first Hoover vacuum cleaner.
• The Moine Thrust Belt in Scotland is identified, one of the first to be discovered anywhere.
• The Landsforbundet for Kvinders Valgret, a Danish national association for women's suffrage, is founded.
• Anino ng Kahapon, a Tagalog-language novel is published.
• Henri Matisse begins to teach at the Académie Matisse in Paris, a private and non-commercial art school.
• A statue of J. E. B. Stuart, Confederate general, is dedicated on Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue.
• Staviteľský robotník, a Slovak language biweekly newspaper ends publication.

January

• January 1 – Aftab Ali, Bengali politician, social reformer (d. 1972)
• 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 17 – Henk Badings, Dutch composer (d. 1987)
• January 18 – Lina Haag, German World War II resistance fighter (d. 2012)
• 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)
  • Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah, King of Malaysia (d. 1979)
• January 27 – Joyce Compton, American actress (d. 1997)
• January 29 – Bil Dwyer, American cartoonist and humorist (d. 1987)

February

• February 1 – Günter Eich, German writer (d. 1972)
• February 5
  • Birgit Dalland, Norwegian politician (d. 2007)
  • Pierre Pflimlin, French politician (d. 2000)
  • Sergio Méndez Arceo, Roman Catholic bishop of Cuernavaca, Mexico 1953–1983 (d. 1992)
• February 6 – Russell Gleason, American actor (d. 1945)
• February 9
  • Pierre Aliker, French-Martinican politician (d. 2013)
  • Trường Chinh, President of Vietnam (d. 1988)
• February 12 – Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (d. 1991)
• 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)
  • Rosebud Yellow Robe, Native American folklorist, educator, and author (d. 1992)
• February 27 – Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)
• February 28 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (d. 1988)

March

• March 4 – Maria Branyas Morera, Spanish supercentenarian, oldest living person
• March 5 – Thomas McKimson, American animator (d. 1998)
• 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, 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 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

• April 1 – Shivakumara Swami, Hindu religious figure and humanitarian (d. 2019)
• April 10
  • Marcel Deviq, French Algerian engineer, businessman, and politician (d. 1972)
  • 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 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

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

• June 1 – Frank Whittle, British jet engine developer (d. 1996)
• June 4
  • Rosalind Russell, American actress (d. 1976)
  • Jacques Roumain, Haitian writer, politician, and advocate of Marxism (d. 1944)
• June 5 – Rudolf Peierls, German-British physicist (d. 1995)
• June 7 – Arthur Marshall Davis, American judge (d. 1963)
• June 14 – René Char, French poet (d. 1988)
• June 16 – Jack Albertson, American actor, comedian (d. 1981)
• June 19
  • Bae Hee-han, Korean master carpenter (d. 1997)
  • Clarence Wiseman, Salvation Army general (d. 1985)
  • George de Mestral, Swiss inventor (d. 1990)
• June 22 – Wesley E. Brown, American district court judge (d. 2012)
• June 23 – James Meade, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
• June 24 – Jean Schlumberger, French 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

• July 3
  • Horia Sima, Romanian fascist politician (d. 1993)
  • Nora Thompson Dean, Indigenous American (Lenape) linguist (d. 1984)
• July 4
  • Henning Holck-Larsen, Danish engineer and businessman (d. 2003)
  • Emilio Ochoa, Cuban dentist, politician (d. 2007)
• July 6
  • Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
  • George Stanley, Canadian historian, author, soldier, teacher, public servant, and designer (d. 2002)
• July 7
  • Walter Dieminger, German space scientist (d. 2000)
  • Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction author (d. 1988)
  • Pavel Sudoplatov, Russian Lieutenant General (d. 1996)
  • Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia (d. 1989)
• July 9
  • Teresa Jungman, English socialite (d. 2010)
  • Philip Klutznick, American administrator (d. 1999)
• July 10
  • John Michaels, American pitcher (d. 1996)
  • Lê Duẩn, Vietnamese politician (d. 1986)
• 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
  • Paterson Fraser, English Royal Air Force (d. 2001)
  • Shōshin Nagamine, Japanese author and soldier, police officer, and karate master (d. 1997)
  • Mona Rico, Mexican-born American actress (d. 1994)
• July 16 – 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

• 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, 4th President of the People's Republic of China (d. 1998)
  • Irene Tedrow, American actress (d. 1995)
• August 7
  • Bernard Brodie, English-American chemist and "founder of modern pharmacology" (d. 1989)
  • Albert Kotin, American painter (d. 1980)
• 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 13 – Viscount William Waldorf Astor, British politician (d. 1966)
• August 14 – Stanley Adams, American lyricist and songwriter (d. 1994)
• 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)
  • Hy Zaret, American lyricist and composer (d. 2007)
• August 24
  • 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)
• August 31
  • 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

• September 2
  • Evelyn Hooker, American psychologist (d. 1996)
  • Miriam Seegar, American actress (d. 2011)
• September 3 – Loren Eiseley, American author (d. 1977)
• September 4
  • Frances Griffiths, Cottingley Fairies girl (d. 1986)
  • Reggie Nalder, Austrian actor (d. 1991)
• September 12
  • Spud Chandler, American baseball player (d. 1990)
  • Louis MacNeice, Northern Irish poet (d. 1963)
• September 15
  • Jimmy Wallington, American radio personality (d. 1972)
  • Fay Wray, Canadian-born actress (d. 2004)
• September 17 – Warren E. Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)
• September 18
  • 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
  • Anne Desclos, French journalist and author (d. 1998)
  • 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
  • Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist (d. 1998)
  • 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)
  • George W. Jenkinsat, American businessman (d. 1996)

October

• October 1 – Ödön Pártos, Hungarian-Israeli violist, composer (d. 1977)
• October 2
  • Alexander R. Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
  • Víctor Paz Estenssoro , 45th President of Bolivia (d. 2001)
• October 5 – Elva Ruby Miller, American singer (d. 1997)
• October 6 – Francisco Gabilondo Soler, Mexican singer, composer (d. 1990)
• 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)
  • Sergio Méndez Arceo, 7th Mexican bishop of Cuernavaca 1953–1982, and advocate of Liberation theology (d. 1991).
• October 30 – Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1995)

November

• November 1 – Homero Manzi, Argentine tango lyricist, author (d. 1951)
• November 6 – Charles W. Yost, American ambassador (d. 1981)
• November 7 – Dumitru Coliu, Romanian communist activist and politician (d. 1979)
• November 9 – Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (d. 1994)
• November 10
  • John Moore, British author (d. 1967)
  • Salme Reek, Estonian actress (d. 1996)
• November 11
  • Viktoria Brezhneva, First Lady of the Soviet Union (d. 1995)
  • Günter Fronius, Transylvanian Saxon entrepreneur (d. 2015)
• 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)
  • Gustav Nezval, Czech actor (d. 1998)
• November 19
  • Luigi Beccali, Italian Olympic athlete (d. 1990)
  • Hans Liska, Austrian-German artist (d. 1983)
• 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

• December 1 – Joey Aiuppa, American mobster (d. 1997)
• December 5 – Lin Biao, Chinese communist military 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 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)
• 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)
  • Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon, businessman (d. 1988)
• December 27 – Johann Wilhelm Trollmann, German boxer (d. 1943)

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 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)

• Physics – Albert Abraham Michelson
• Chemistry – Eduard Buchner
• Medicine – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
• Literature – Rudyard Kipling
• Peace – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Louis Renault

• 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