1907

Centuries:	19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s
Years:	1904 1905 1906 - 1907 - 1908 1909 1910

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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 1,000.
January 23 - Charles Curtis from Kansas, becomes the first Native American US Senator.

May 12- Katharine Hepburn, American actress
May 14 - Edythe Wright, American singer
May 22 - Hergé, Belgiun cartoonist
August 8 - Benny Carter, American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and bandleader
September 29 - Gene Autry American actor
October 5 - Mrs. Miller, singer (d. 1997)
December 25 - Cab Calloway

January 31 - Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (b. 1834)
February 2 - Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834)
February 16 - Giosue Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
February 16 - Clémentine of Orléans, daughter of King Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1817)
February 20 - Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
February 26 - C. W. Alcock, English footballer, journalist, and football promoter (b. 1842)
March 19 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and novelist (b. 1836)
May 12 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (b. 1848)
August 15 - Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (b. 1831)
August 16 - James Hector, Scottish geologist (b. 1834)
September 4 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843)
September 6 - Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1829)
November 16 - Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma (b. 1848)
November 28 - Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish writer, painter, and architect (b. 1869)
December 8 - King Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)
December 17 - Lord Kelvin, Irish-born physicist and engineer (b. 1824)