Cohort extinction took place on 19th of August 2024 when the last surviving person born in 1907, Maria Branyas, died at the age of 117 years, 168 days.
Events
January
January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000.
February February 9 – The "Mud March", the first large procession organised by The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), takes place in London. February 11 – The French warship Jean Bart sinks off the coast of Morocco. February 12 – The steamship Larchmont collides with the Harry Hamilton in Long Island Sound; 183 lives are lost. February 16 – SKF, a worldwide mechanical parts manufacturing brand is founded in Gothenburg, Sweden. February 21 – The English mail steamship Berlin is wrecked off the Hook of Holland; 142 lives are lost. February 24 – The Austrian Lloyd steamship Imperatrix, from Trieste to Bombay, is wrecked on Cape of Crete and sinks; 137 lives are lost.
March March The steamship Congo collides at the mouth of the Ems River with the German steamship Nerissa; 7 lives are lost. The 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt results in possibly as many as 11,000 deaths. The Diamond Sūtra, a woodblock printed Buddhist scripture dated 868, is discovered by Aurel Stein in the Mogao Caves in China; it is "the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book". Pablo Picasso completes his painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. March 11 – The Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Dimitar Petkov, is assassinated by an anarchist in Sofia. March 15–16 – Elections to the new Parliament of Finland are the first in the world for a national assembly with woman candidates, as well as the first elections in Europe where universal suffrage is applied; 19 women are elected. March 22 – The first taxicabs with taximeters begin operating in London. March 25 – The first university sports federation in Europe is established in Hungary, with the participation or support of the associations of ten universities and colleges. c. March 28 – The volcano Ksudach erupts, in the Kamchatka Peninsula.
April April 7 – Hershey Park opens in Hershey, Pennsylvania. April 17 – The first Minas Geraes-class battleship is laid down for Brazil, by Armstrong Whitworth on the River Tyne, in England, triggering the South American dreadnought race. April 24 – Al Ahly SC is founded in Cairo by Omar Lotfi, as a gathering place for Egyptian students' unions in the struggle against colonization; it is the first association football club officially founded in Egypt or Africa.
May May 13 – The 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party convenes in secret in London.
June June 5 – Shastri Yagnapurushdas consecrates the murtis of both Sahajanand Swami and Gunatitanand Swami in a single central shrine, thus establishing the Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, later a United Nations affiliate organization. June 6 – Persil laundry detergent is first marketed by Henkel of Düsseldorf, Germany, the first to combine bleach with detergent commercially. June 10–August 10 – The Peking to Paris motor race is won by Prince Scipione Borghese, driving a 7-litre 35/45 hp Itala. June 15 – The Second Hague Peace Conference opens at The Hague. June 22 – The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens. June 26 – Tiflis bank robbery: Bolsheviks attack a cash-filled bank coach in the centre of Tiflis, Georgia, killing 40 people.
July July 1 – The Orange River Colony gains autonomy, as the Orange Free State. July 6 – Guardians of the Irish Crown Jewels notice that they have been stolen. July 15 – The London Electrobus Company starts running the first ever service of battery-electric buses between London's Victoria Station and Liverpool Street. July 21 – The sinks after colliding with the lumber schooner San Pedro, off Shelter Cove, California, resulting in 88 deaths. July 24 – The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1907 brings the government and military of the protectorate of Korea more firmly under Japanese control.
August August 24–31 – The International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam meets in the Netherlands. August 28 – UPS is founded by James E. (Jim) Casey in Seattle, Washington. August 29 – The partially completed superstructure of the Quebec Bridge collapses entirely, claiming the lives of 76 workers. August 31 – Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the Anglo-Russian Entente in Saint Petersburg, bringing a pause in The Great Game in Central Asia, and establishing the Triple Entente.
September September 7 – British Cunard Line passenger liner sets out on her maiden voyage, from Liverpool (England) to New York City. September 8 – Pope Pius X promulgates the encyclical Pascendi Dominici gregis, opposing modernism in the Catholic Church. September 22 – Uruguay abolishes capital punishment. September 26 – New Zealand and Newfoundland become dominions of the British Empire.
October October – A committee of the Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language, made up of academics including Otto Jespersen, Wilhelm Ostwald and Roland Eötvös, meet in Paris to select a language for international use. The committee ultimately decides to reform Esperanto. October 6 – The Deutscher Werkbund is founded in Germany. October 17 – Guglielmo Marconi initiates commercial transatlantic radio communications between his high power longwave wireless telegraphy stations in Clifden, Ireland, and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. October 18 – The Hague Convention is revised by the (second) Hague Peace Conference (effective 26 January 1910), focussing on naval warfare. October 24 – A major United States financial crisis is averted when J. P. Morgan, E. H. Harriman, James Stillman, Henry Clay Frick and other Wall Street financiers create a $25,000,000 pool to invest in the shares on the plunging New York Stock Exchange, ending the bank panic of 1907.See also Federal Reserve System. October 27 – Černová massacre: Fifteen people are shot during the consecration of a Catholic church in Hungary (modern-day Slovakia).
November November 16 British Cunard Line passenger liner RMS Mauretania, the world's largest and fastest at this date, sets out on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims that Oklahoma has become the 46th U.S. state.
December December 6 – Monongah Mining disaster: A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in Monongah, West Virginia. December 14 – The largest sailing ship ever built, the 7-masted U.S.-owned Thomas W. Lawson, is wrecked in the Isles of Scilly. December 16 – The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world. December 17 – Ugyen Wangchuck becomes the first Druk Gyalpo (king of Bhutan). December 19 – An explosion in a coal mine in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania kills 239. December 21 – Santa María School massacre: In Chile, soldiers fire at striking mineworkers gathered in the Santa María School in Iquique; over 2,000 are killed.
Date unknown Indiana, in the United States, becomes the world's first legislature to place laws permitting compulsory sterilization for eugenic purposes on the statute book. The triode thermionic amplifier invented by Lee de Forest, starting the development of electronics as a practical technology. The Autochrome Lumière is the first commercial color photography process. James M. Spangler invents the first Hoover vacuum cleaner. The Moine Thrust Belt in Scotland is identified, one of the first to be discovered anywhere.
Births
January
January 3 – Ray Milland, Welsh actor, film director (d. 1986) January 5 – Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete (d. 1969) January 8 – Keizō Hayashi, Japanese civil servant, military official (d. 1991) January 11 – Pierre Mendès France, French politician, 142nd Prime Minister of France (d. 1982) January 12 – Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1966) January 16 – Alexander Knox, Canadian actor, novelist (d. 1995) January 20 Manfred von Ardenne, German research and applied physicist, inventor (d. 1997) Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (d. 2000) January 22 – Dixie Dean, English football player (d. 1980) January 23 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981) January 24 Maurice Couve de Murville, Prime Minister of France (d. 1999) Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu, King of Malaysia (d. 1979) January 27 – Joyce Compton, American actress (d. 1997)
February
February 5 Pierre Pflimlin, French politician (d. 2000) Sergio Méndez Arceo, Roman Catholic bishop of Cuernavaca, Mexico 1953–1983 (d. 1992) February 9 – Trường Chinh, President of Vietnam (d. 1988) February 15 Jean Langlais, French composer, organist (d. 1991) Cesar Romero, American actor (d. 1994) February 18 – Oscar Brodney, American screenwriter (d. 2008) February 21 – W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973) February 22 Sheldon Leonard, American actor, writer, director, and producer (d. 1997) Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998) February 25 – Kathryn Wasserman Davis, American philanthropist (d. 2013) February 26 – Dub Taylor, American actor (d. 1994) February 27 – Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951) February 28 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
March
March 4 – Maria Branyas, American-born Spanish supercentenarian (d. 2024) March 8 – Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998) March 9 – Mircea Eliade, Romanian religious historian, writer (d. 1986) March 15 – Zarah Leander, Swedish actress, singer (d. 1981) March 17 Takeo Miki, 41st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1988) Jean Van Houtte, 38th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1991) March 18 – John Zachary Young, English biologist (d. 1997) March 23 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992) March 26 – Mahadevi Varma, Indian Hindi-language poet, essayist (d. 1987) March 28 – Sister Lúcia, Portuguese nun, visionary (d. 2005) March 30 – Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe officer (d. 1994)
April
April 1 – Shivakumara Swami, Hindu religious figure and humanitarian (d. 2019) April 5 – Sanya Dharmasakti, Thai politician, Prime Minister (1973–1975) (d. 2002) April 7 – Lê Duẩn, Vietnamese politician (d. 1986) April 10 – Germán Suárez Flamerich, Venezuelan lawyer, politician and 50th President of Venezuela (d. 1990) April 11 – Paul Douglas, American actor (d. 1959) April 12 – Felix de Weldon, Austrian-born American sculptor (d. 2003) April 13 – Harold Stassen, American politician (d. 2001) April 14 – François Duvalier, 32nd President of Haiti (d. 1971) April 15 – Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988) April 17 – Martii Miettunen, 2-time Prime Minister of Finland (d. 2002) April 21 – Wade Mainer, American singer, banjoist (d. 2011) April 24 – William Sargant, British psychiatrist (d. 1988) April 26 – Ilias Tsirimokos, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1968) April 29 – Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born American film director (d. 1997)
May
May 1 – Oliver Hill, American lawyer (d. 2007) May 4 – Walter Walsh, American FBI agent and Olympic shooter (d. 2014) May 9 – Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974) May 12 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003) May 13 – Dame Daphne du Maurier, English author (d. 1989) May 14 Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1974) Johnny Moss, American poker player (d. 1995) May 16 Bob Tisdall, Irish Olympic athlete (d. 2004) May 22 Hergé, Belgian cartoonist (d. 1983) Laurence Olivier, English stage, screen actor and director (d. 1989) May 25 – U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995) May 26 – John Wayne, American actor, film director (d. 1979) May 27 Rachel Carson, American environmental writer (d. 1964) Konstantin Anisimovich Pavlov, Latvian iconographer (d. 1976) May 30 Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (d. 2007)