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
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
- October РA committee of the Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language, made up of academics including Otto Jespersen, Wilhelm Ostwald and Roland E̦tv̦s, 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 – ÃÂernová massacre: Fifteen people are shot during the consecration of a Catholic church in Hungary (modern-day Slovakia).
November
December
Date unknown
Births
January
- January 3 – Ray Milland, Welsh actor, film director (d. 1986)
- January 5 – Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete (d. 1969)
- January 8 – KeizÃ
 Hayashi, Japanese civil servant, military official (d. 1991)
- January 11 РPierre Mend̬s 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 1953âÂÂ1983 (d. 1992)
- February 9 – Trðá»Âng 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 РSister L̼cia, 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 РFran̤ois 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)
- 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 РRen̩ 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, 4th President of the People's Republic 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)
- VÃÂctor 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 1953âÂÂ1982, 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
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 РErik Gustaf Bostr̦m, 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
July
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
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 – StanisÃ
Âaw WyspiaÃ
Âski, Polish writer, painter and architect (b. 1869)
- November 30 – Ludwig Levy, German architect (b. 1854)
December
Date unknown
Nobel Prizes
References
Further reading
- Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900-1933 (1997); global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 143âÂÂ57.
- International Year Book: 1907 (1908) 1002pp, worldwide coverage online edition