1907 Events January events January 6 - Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome (Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo). 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 events March 5 - The new Duma is opened in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators had to be dispersed by Russian troops. March 18 - Train robbery in Sweden (first and only as of 2004) March 22 - The first cabs with taxi meters began operating in London. May events May 27 - A Bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California. July events July 25 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan. August events August 1-9 - Baden-Powell leads the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, England. September events September 26 - New Zealand becomes a dominion. November events November 16 - Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma and are admitted as the 46th U.S. state. December 19 - Explosion in coal mine in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania - 239 dead Undated events The Diamond Sutra of 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. Herero Wars end French warship Jena explodes - 117 dead First parliamentary elections in the Philippines Adlon Hotel finished in Berlin Births January births January 3 - Ray Milland, actor (d. 1986) January 19 - Lilian Harvey, actress (d. 1968) January 20 - Barbara Stanwyck, actress (d. 1990) January 20 - Paula Wessely, actress (d. 2000) January 23 - Dan Durya, actor (d. 1968) January 23 - Hideki Yukawa, physicist (d. 1981) February births February 1 - Günter Eich, lyricist (d. 1972) February 11 - E W Swanton, author & sports commentator (d. 1990) February 15 - Cesar Romero, actor (d. 1994) February 17 - Buster Crabbe, swimming champion, actor (d. 1983) February 21 - W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973) February 22 - Robert Young, actor (d. 1998) February 22 - Sheldon Leonard, actor, writer, director, producer (d. 1997) February 27 - Mildred Bailey, jazz performer (d. 1951) March births March 8 - Constantine Caramanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998) March 11 - Helmut von Moltke, jurist (d. 1945) March 15 - Zarah Leander, actress and singer (d. 1981) April births April 3 - Iron Eyes Cody, actor (d. 1999) April 12 - Felix de Weldon, sculptor (d. 2003) April 29 - Tino Rossi, French singer (d. 1983) May births May 8 - Wof Stefan Traugott Graf von Baudissin, general (d. 1993) May 9 - Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974) May 11 - Rose Ausänder, poet (d. 1988) May 12 - Katharine Hepburn, actress (d. 2003) May 13 - Dame Daphne du Maurier, author (d. 1989) May 14 - Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1974) May 22 - Hergé, Belgian writer-artist (d. 1983) May 22 - Sir Laurence Olivier, actor, director (d. 1989) May 26 - John Wayne ("The Duke"), actor (d. 1979) May 26- rachel carson scientist died 1964 May 30 - Elly Beinhorn, pilot June births June 14 - René Char, French poet (d. 1988) July births July 6 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954) July 7 - Robert Heinlein, American (science fiction author) (d. 1988) August births August 12 - Joe Besser, member of the Three Stooges (d. 1988) August 13 - Viscount William Waldorf Astor, British parliamentarian (d. 1966) September births September 15 - Fay Wray, actress (d. 2004) September 18 - Leon Askin, actor October births October 5 - Mrs. Miller, singer (d. 1997) October 9 - Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham, British politician (d. 2001) October 15 - Varian Fry, ran an escape network in wartime Marseille, France (d. 1967) October 19 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, band leader (d. 1962) October 22 - Jimmie Foxx, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1967) November births November 14 - Howard W. Hunter, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1995) November 14 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author of children's books (d. 2002) December births December 7 - [Lily] Teresa Ferster Glazier (Glazier is her married name), American author of The Least You Should Know About English December 19 - Jimmy McLarnin, two-time boxing world champion (d. 2004) December 23 - James Roosevelt, businessman, politician (d. 1991) December 27 - Johann Wilhelm Trollmann, German boxer (d. 1943) Undated births Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III, later Sultan of Terengganu and 4th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia. Zhang Chongren , Chinese artist. Deaths January deaths January 20 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev periodic table January 31 - Timothy Eaton, department store founder February deaths February 11 - Peter J Savelberg, Dutch monastery founder May deaths May 12 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, author May 19 - Benjamin Baker, English engineer August deaths August 15 - Joseph Joachim, violinist August 16 - James Hector, geologist September deaths September 4 - Edvard Grieg, composer November deaths November 28 - Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, architect (b. 1869) December deaths December 17 - Lord Kelvin, physicist and engineer, created kelvin temperature scale Undated deaths Clémentine of Orléans, daughter of King Louis-Philippe of France and mother of Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria. 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