* 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 )

A typical custom-made encyclopedia engraving by Maurice Dessertenne for the Nouveau Larousse illustré ( France, 1898 – 1907 )

* 1907 – Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician ( d. 1999 )

Dean Ormsby Torrence ( born Los Angeles, California March 10, 1940 ), is the son of Natalie Ormsby Torrence ( born April 10, 1911 in California ; died August 10, 2008 in Los Angeles, California ) and Maurice Dean Torrence ( born December 5, 1907 in South Dakota ; died November 16, 1997 in Los Angeles, California ), a graduate of Stanford University, who was a sales manager at the Wilshire Oil Company.

The Saharan family was recognized by Heinrich Barth in 1853, the Nilotic languages by Karl Richard Lepsius in 1880, the various constituent branches of Central Saharan ( but not the connection between them ) by Friedrich Müller in 1889, and the Maban family by Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes in 1907.

* 1907 – Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher ( d. 2003 )

Taking an interest in literature, Foucault was an avid reader of the book reviews authored by the philosopher Maurice Blanchot ( 1907 – 2003 ), which were published in the Nouvelle Revue Française.

) so that it is called for in, for example, Jules Massenet's Esclarmonde ( 1889 ), Visions ( 1891 ) and Suite parnassienne ( 1912 ); Maurice Ravel's Shéhérazade overture ( 1898 ), Rapsodie espagnole ( 1907 ) and L ' heure espagnole ( 1907 – 09 ); Ignacy Jan Paderewski's Symphony in B minor " Polonia " ( 1903-08 ; 3 sarrusophones are called for ); Frederick Delius's Requiem ( 1913-16 ); and Arrigo Boito's Nerone ( 1924 ).

Ralph Twisleton Wykeham Fiennes was born in Ipswich on 22 December 1962, the eldest child of Mark Fiennes ( 1933 – 2004 ), a farmer and photographer whose father was industrialist Sir Maurice Fiennes ( 1907 – 1994 ), and Jennifer Lash ( 1938 – 1993 ), a writer of English and Irish descent.

Maurice Blanchot ( September 22, 1907, Devrouze, Saône-et-Loire – February 20, 2003 ) was a French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist.

Maurice Couve de Murville (; 24 January 1907 – 24 December 1999 ) was a French diplomat and politician who was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1958 to 1968 and Prime Minister from 1968 to 1969 under the presidency of General de Gaulle.

In 1907, Félix Fénéon assembled a Cross retrospective in Paris at Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, with Maurice Denis contributing the catalogue preface.

* Maurice Loewy ( 1896 – 1907 )

Maurice O ' Connor Drury ( known as ' Con Drury ' to his friends ) ( 1907 – 1976 ) was an English psychiatrist born in Exeter, Devon, England, of Irish parents.

Maurice ( Moritz ) Loewy ( 15 April 1833 – 15 October 1907 ) was a French astronomer.

Sir Maurice George Kendall, FBA ( 6 September 1907 – 29 March 1983 ) was a British statistician, widely known for his contribution to statistics.

James Maurice " Jumpin ' Jim " Gavin ( born as James Nally Ryan ; March 22, 1907 – February 23, 1990 ) was a prominent Lieutenant General in the United States Army during World War II.

File: Crescent Beach Maurice Prendergast. jpeg | Crescent Beach ( c. 1907 )

File: Summer in the Park Maurice Prendergast. jpeg | Summer in the Park ( 1907 – 1910 )

Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes added Tunia and " Mana " ( possibly an alternate name for Fanian ) in 1907, forming a " Groupe Boa ".

Plays on which he worked included Oscar Wilde's Salome ( 1906 ), Laurence Binyon's Attila ( 1907 ), King Lear ( 1909 ), Bernard Shaw's The Dark Lady ( 1910 ), Arnold Bennett's Judith ( 1916 ), Maurice Maeterlinck's The Betrothal ( 1920 ), Shaw's Saint Joan ( 1924 ), Macbeth ( 1926 ) and John Masefield's The Coming of Christ ( 1928 ).

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.

More convincing, however, is Maurice Vitrac's Philippe-Egalité et M. Chiappini ( Paris, 1907 ), which is based on unpublished material in the Archives nationales.

* Maurice O ' Connor Drury ( 1907 – 1976 ), English psychiatrist and student of Ludwig Wittgenstein