* 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 )

The name Red Sox, chosen by owner John I. Taylor after the 1907 season, refers to the red hose in the team uniform beginning.

John I. Taylor had said in December 1907 that the Pilgrims “ sounded too much like homeless wanderers .”

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

File: Munch death of marat I 1907. jpg | Death of Marat I ( 1907 )

Hackett, who would become a member of the football rules committee in December 1907 and officiated games into the 1930s, was quoted the next day in Ed Wray's Post-Dispatch article: " It was the most perfect exhibition ... of the new rules ... that I have seen all season and much better than that of Yale and Harvard.

In an effort to isolate Germany, France went to great pains to woo Russia and the United Kingdom to its side, first by means of the Franco-Russian Alliance of 1894, then the 1904 Entente Cordiale with the U. K, and finally the Anglo-Russian Entente in 1907 which became the Triple Entente and eventually led Russia and the UK to enter World War I as Allies.

* 1848 – Robert I, Duke of Parma ( d. 1907 )

However, in the article on Saint Alexander I in the 1907 Catholic Encyclopedia, Thomas Shahan judges this tradition to be inaccurate.

Reflecting on his career in 1930, Cobb told Grantland Rice, " The biggest thrill I ever got came in a game against the Athletics in 1907 September 30 ...

Before World War I, in 1907, 54. 9 % of German workers were manual labourers.

* July 9 – Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma ( d. 1907 )

* March 6 – Clémentine of Orléans, daughter of King Louis-Philippe of France and mother of Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria ( d. 1907 )

A Romanian Army career officer who made his name during the 1907 peasants ' revolt and the World War I Romanian Campaign, the antisemitic Antonescu sympathized with the far right and fascist National Christian and Iron Guard groups for much of the interwar period.

* Hippolyte Delehaye, The Legends of the Saints: An Introduction to Hagiography ( 1907 ), Chapter I: Preliminary Definitions, et passim

* Latin Chroniclers from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries: Giraldus Cambrensis from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume I, 1907 – 21.

John William Mauchly ( August 30, 1907 – January 8, 1980 ) was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States.

Its object was to avert the nemesis of the dead, who were supposed to have the power of punishing the living, if their cult had been in any way neglected ( Sophocles, Electra, 792 ; E. Rohde, Psyche, 1907, i. 236, note I ).

* Asser's Life of Alfred, commentary from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume I, 1907 – 21.

Ascending to the throne in 1907, his early reign saw the rise of parliamentary rule in Sweden, although the leadup to World War I pre-empted his overthrow of Liberal Prime Minister Karl Staaff in 1914, replacing him with his own figurehead Hjalmar Hammarskjöld ( father of Dag Hammarskjöld ) for most of the war.

* Latin Chroniclers from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries: Matthew Paris from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume I, 1907 – 21.

* Latin Chroniclers from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries: Walter Map from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume I, 1907 – 21.