* 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 – Benny Carter, American musician, composer, and bandleader ( d. 2003 )

* 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 )

He was concerned about providing adequate recreation and diversions, so he built Hershey Park ( now rendered " Hersheypark "), which opened on April 24, 1907 and expanded rapidly over the next several years.

* 1907 – Al Ahly was founded.

The house of studies of the province of France publishes L ' Année Dominicaine ( founded 1859 ), La Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Theologiques ( 1907 ), and La Revue de la Jeunesse ( 1909 ).

The Trustees Drawing Academy of Edinburgh was founded in 1760 – an institution that became the Edinburgh College of Art in 1907.

After decades of growing interest in and development of experiential education and scouting ( not Scouting ) in the United States, and the emergence of the Scout Movement in 1907, in 1910 Boy Scouts of America was founded in the merger of three older Scouting organizations: Boy Scouts of the United States, the National Scouts of America and the Peace Scouts of California.

In 1907 Gardner returned to Britain for several months ' leave, spending time with his family and joining the Legion of Frontiersmen, a militia founded to repel the threat of German invasion.

* 1907 – Earl Tupper, American inventor and businessman, founded Tupperware Brands ( d. 1983 )

* 1907 – Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York University.

* 1907 – Walter Reuther, American labor union leader, founded United Auto Workers ( d. 1970 )

It was founded in 1907 by Henri La Fontaine, the 1913 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and Paul Otlet, a founding father of what is now called information science.

Pentaverken, founded in 1907, was acquired in 1935.

In 1886, railroad magnate Collis Potter Huntington founded Newport News Shipbuilding, which was responsible for building six major World War I-era battleships for the U. S. Navy from 1907 – 1923.

The remaining archaeological wealth consisted of inscriptions, sculptures, and other objects collected in the local museum, founded by Stamatakis in 1872 and enlarged in 1907.

The Baptist Church was founded in 1818, though the current church was not constructed until 1907.

Whatever the original club, it is certain that on October 10, 1907 the Surf Bathing Association of NSW ( SBANSW ) was founded – with 9 clubs and affiliated associations.

Dodoma was founded in 1907 by German colonists during construction of the Tanzanian central railway.

Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900 ; Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841, became an official divinity school of the university in 1901 ; Goldsmiths College joined in 1904 ; Imperial College was founded in 1907 ; Queen Mary College joined in 1915 ; the School of Oriental and African Studies was founded in 1916 ; and Birkbeck joined in 1920.

The MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, N. H. was founded in 1907 by Edward MacDowell, a composer, and his wife, Marian.

The North Carolina General Assembly founded ECU on March 8, 1907 as a teacher training school and selected Greenville as its seat on July 2, 1908 with the first classes beginning in 1909.

SKF, Svenska Kullagerfabriken AB ( Swedish: Swedish ball bearing factory AB ), later AB SKF, is a Swedish bearing company founded in 1907, supplying bearings, seals, lubrication and lubrication systems, maintenance products, mechatronics products, power transmission products and related services globally.

The company was founded on Sven Wingqvist's 1907 Swedish patent No. 25406, a multi-row self-aligning radial ball bearing.

Robert Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scouts as an organization in 1908, a few months after the first scout encampment at Brownsea Island Scout camp in 1907.

* 1907 Post is founded as a utopian venture by, and named for, cereal king Charles William Post.

The county was founded at the time of Oklahoma statehood in 1907, and was named for Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina.