* 1907 – Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor ( d. 2003 )

* 1907 – Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator ( d. 1979 )

* 1907 – Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city.

* 1907 – László Heller, Hungarian engineer ( d. 1980 )

* 1907 – The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England, United Kingdom.

* 1907 – Basil Spence, Scottish architect, designed the Coventry Cathedral ( d. 1976 )

Monty Noble led Australia to victory in both 1907 – 08 and 1909.

* 1907 – Mary Hamman, American writer ( d. 1984 )

* 1907 – The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.

* 1907 – Eric Shipton, English mountaineer ( d. 1977 )

* 1907 – Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $ 29. 4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers ; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.

* 1907 – Lawrence Brown, American trombonist and composer ( d. 1988 )

* 1907 – Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian military leader and politician, 29th President of Brazil ( d. 1996 )

* 1979 – Angelos Terzakis, Greek writer ( b. 1907 )

* 1907 – Albert Kotin, American painter ( d. 1980 )

* 1907 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman, invented the snowmobile ( d. 1964 )

* 1907 – August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal ( d. 1947 )

* 1907 – Ordination in Constantinople of Fr.

* 1907 – Pike Place Market, a popular tourist destination and registered historic district in Seattle, Washington, opened.

* 1860 – Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler ( d. 1907 )

* 1866 – Henrik Sillem, Dutch sports shooter ( d. 1907 )

* 1907 – Joe Besser, American actor and comedian ( d. 1988 )

* 1907 – Benjamin Henry Sheares, Singaporean politician, 2nd President of Singapore ( d. 1981 )

* 1907 – Archie League, American air traffic controller ( d. 1986 )

* Benny Carter ( 1907 – 2003 ), saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter

After three hard years, Carter was employed by Lord Carnarvon to supervise his excavations from 1907.

In 1904 W. E. Condray and Clarence Crites began the Carter County Canning Company ( 4C Brand ) in Ellsinore, but the business folded in 1907 largely do to a lack of interest.

In 1907 Carter organized Canada's first major exhibition of pictorial photography at Montreal's Art Association.

Bennett Lester Carter ( August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003 ) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader.

* The Gospel song " There's No Hiding Place Down Here " is a traditional Negro spiritual, originally collected in 1907 and first printed in 1915, and popularized in a 1934 recording by The Original Carter Family.

* John Carter ( sound engineer ) ( 1907 – 1982 ), American sound engineer

George Robert Carter ( December 28, 1866 – February 11, 1933 ) was the second Territorial Governor of Hawaii, serving from 1903 to 1907.

* The Deaconesses of the Church in Modern Times, compiled by Lawson Carter Rich ( 1907 )

Welsh went on to beat Eddie Carter in Philadelphia on Christmas Day 1907, Kid Locke on 2 January and then Maurice Sayers at the Milwaukee Boxing Club.

Philip Morris Klutznick ( July 9, 1907 – August 14, 1999 ) was a U. S. administrator who served as U. S. Secretary of Commerce from January 9, 1980 to January 19, 1981 under President Jimmy Carter.

William Hodding Carter, II ( February 3, 1907 – April 4, 1972 ) was a prominent Southern U. S. progressive journalist and author.

She also had a brother Baron Max Fould-Springer ( 1906 – 1999 ), and two sisters Helene Propper de Callejón ( 1907 – 1997 ), wife of Spanish diplomat Eduardo Propper de Callejón and grandmother of actress Helena Bonham Carter, and Baroness Liliane de Rothschild ( 1916 – 2003 ).

It was Maspero who recommended Carter to Lord Carnarvon in 1907, when the Earl approached him to seek advice for the use of an expert to head his planned archaeological expedition to the Valley of the Kings.

Charles D. Carter ( D ), from November 16, 1907

Carter, a wicket-keeper, took 44 catches and 21 stumpings in 28 Test matches between 1907 and 1921.

* Atlas ( automobile ), an American automobile manufactured from 1907 to 1913

* 1907 – Thruston Ballard Morton, American politician ( d. 1982 )

* 1907 – Luke Appling, American baseball player ( d. 1991 )

* 1964 – Rachel Carson, American author and environmentalist ( b. 1907 )

In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).

* 1907 – Wade Mainer, American singer and banjoist ( d. 2011 )

Abraham Joshua Heschel ( January 11, 1907 – December 23, 1972 ) was a Polish-born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century.

Their 1901 – 1907 jerseys, both home and road, simply read " Boston ", except for 1902 when they sported large letters " B " and " A " denoting " Boston " and " American.

* Bonnie Ethel Cone ( 1907 – 2003 ), an American educator best known as the founder of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

* The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume I Ch. 6. 5: De Consolatione Philosophiae, 1907 – 1921.

The 1913 Handbook of Indians of Canada ( reprinting 1907 material from the Bureau of American Ethnology ), claims that North American natives practicing cannibalism included "... the Montagnais, and some of the tribes of Maine ; the Algonkin, Armouchiquois, Iroquois, and Micmac ; farther west the Assiniboine, Cree, Foxes, Chippewa, Miami, Ottawa, Kickapoo, Illinois, Sioux, and Winnebago ; in the South the people who built the mounds in Florida, and the Tonkawa, Attacapa, Karankawa, Caddo, and Comanche (?

Jeron Criswell King ( August 18, 1907 – October 4, 1982 ), born Jeron Criswell Konig, and known by his stage-name The Amazing Criswell (), was an American psychic known for wildly inaccurate predictions.

* 1907 – Barbara Kent, Canadian-born American silent film actress and WAMPAS Baby Stars ( d. 2011 )

* 1822 – Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American college president ( d. 1907 )

* 1907 – I. F. Stone, American journalist ( d. 1989 )

* 1907 – Al Gore Sr., American Politician ( d. 1998 )

The Tigers have won four World Series championships ( 1935, 1945, 1968, and 1984 ) and have won the American League pennant 10 times ( 1907, 1908, 1909, 1934, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1968, 1984, and 2006 ).