* 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 peak year for immigration at Ellis Island was 1907, with 1, 004, 756 immigrants processed.

In 1907 – 10, he worked for New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children as an interpreter for the U. S. Bureau of Immigration at the Ellis Island immigrant station.

On the 5th of April 1907 the ketch Mary Ellis, on its way from Port Adelaide to Venus Bay, got caught in a gale and was wrecked on a beach along Sleaford Bay, now named Mary Ellis Wreck Beach.

When the Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway was routed through Ellis County in 1907, the gin and community were moved to the nearest stretch of track.

Although the actual report omits the names of the vessels she traveled on, records at Ellis Island reveal which ships she had included in her study: in 1905, she made a westbound crossing in steerage aboard the North German Lloyd line's Friedrich Der Grosse, followed in 1907 by the Hamburg Amerika Line's Pennsylvania, and finally, in 1909, she sailed aboard the White Star Line's Cedric.

Lovestone arrived with his mother, Emma, and his siblings, Morris, Esther and Sarah at Ellis island on September 15, 1907.

Ellis Gibbs Arnall ( March 20, 1907, Newnan, GeorgiaDecember 13, 1992 ) was an American politician, a liberal Democrat who served as the 69th Governor of the U. S. state of Georgia from 1943 to 1947.

* Major-General Sir Arthur Ellis, GCVO MC ( 1901 – 1907 )

* William R. Ellis ( 1850 – 1915 ), United States Congressman from Oregon from 1893 – 1899 and 1907 – 1911

The island was later the site of an immigration quarantine station from 1907 to 1937, and was considered the ' Ellis Island of the North '.

Its founding superintendent was Clifton Ellis Byrd, a Virginia native, who assumed the chief administrative position in 1907 and continued until his death in 1926.

* 1907 – Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England, United Kingdom.

* 1907 to 1948 in Prince Edward Island, and for shorter periods in other provinces in Canada

Scouting began in 1907 when Robert Baden-Powell, a lieutenant general in the British Army, held the first Scouting encampment on Brownsea Island in England.

* In 1907, author Henry James described the mansions in Newport, Rhode Island as being " white elephants " and " witless dreams " because they were summer homes for the wealthy and were unoccupied for most of the year.

In 1907 the Minister for Lands gave instructions to the Land and Survey Department that the name Middle Island was not to be used in future.

However, his health had deteriorated during his imprisonment on Devil's Island and, at his request, he was granted an honorable discharge in 1907.

Dreyfus's time in prison, notably at Devil's Island, had been hard on his health, and he was granted early retirement in October 1907.

Although there had been some missteps in his career up to that point, in 1907 Edwin Earhart's job as a claims officer for the Rock Island Railroad led to a transfer to Des Moines, Iowa.

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.

In 1907 it was cut in two and moved to sites at 133 and 125 Island St. to serve as residences in use today.

In 1907 Al-Tro Island Park renovated Pleasure Island, Al-Tro was named for being halfway between Albany and Troy, and the park's manager boasted of surpassing Coney Island.

The project was finished by 1911 while this was still going on, and after several private and government endeavors couldn't to get a deep-water pass between Mustang and St. Joseph islands, the United States Army Corps of Engineers took over the project in 1907, and was granted the right to build a new south " Nelson " jetty and to unite the " Haupt jetty " to St. Joseph Island that same year.

In New York City construction on the Long Island Motor Parkway ( Vanderbilt Parkway ) began in 1906 and planning for the Bronx River Parkway in 1907.

A further maritime tragedy occurred in 1907, with the loss of the Dundonald and 12 crew off Disappointment Island.

Fort Wint ( Grande Island, the Philippines ) was part of the harbor defenses of Manila and Subic Bays built by the Philippine Department of the United States Army between 1907 and 1920 in response to recommendations of the Taft Board prior to the non-fortification clause of the Washington Naval Treaty.

* Not having been contested in 1907, the Vanderbilt Cup is revived for its 4th running at Long Island over 258. 06 miles ( 23. 460 miles x 11 laps ).

Luss (" Lios ") and the islands nearby were used as the setting for E. J. Oxenham's first book, Goblin Island, published in 1907.

Robert Baden-Powell at the first Scout encampment on Brownsea Island held in August, 1907.