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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.[1]
- 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".[2]
- 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 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.[3]
- 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.[4]
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.[5]
- 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 Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". 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 Cunard Line passenger liner Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". 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.[6]
- September 22 – Uruguay abolishes capital punishment.[7]
- 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.[8]
- 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.[9]
- December 16 – The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world.[10]
- 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.[11]
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)[12]
- Cesar Romero, American actor (d. 1994)
- February 18 – Oscar Brodney, American screenwriter (d. 2008)
- February 21 – W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973)[13]
- 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)[14]
- 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 (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)
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)[15]
- 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)[16]
- 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) [17]
- 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
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- October 2
- Alec Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)[18]
- 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).[19]
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)[20]
- 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)[21]
- 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)[22]
- December 27 – Johann Trollmann, German boxer (d. 1944)
Deaths
January
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- 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)[23]
- 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)[24]
- 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
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- 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
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- 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. c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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)[25]
- 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)
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- 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
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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