1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). 1907 - Events. January 6 - Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome (Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo). January 14 - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000. January 23 - Charles Curtis fr ...

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1907 - January-March. January 20 - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (d. 2000) January 23 - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981) February 1 - Günter Eich, German writer (d. 1972) February 15 - Jean Langlais, French composer and organist (d. 1991) February 15 - Cesar Romero, American actor (d. 1994) February 17 - Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor (d. 1983) February 21 - W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973) Febru ...

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William Malcolm Dickey (June 6, 1907 - November 12, 1993) was a Major League Baseball player and manager. One of the most famous catchers in league history, he played his entire career with the New York Yankees. Dickey broke into the Majors in 1928 and played his first full season in 1929. It was his first of ten seasons out of eleven with a .300+ batting average. Although his offensive production was overshadowed by Yankees greats Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio, in the late 1930s Dickey posted some of the finest offens ...

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Charles "Buddy" Bolden (September 6, 1877 - November 4, 1931) was a cornetist and the first New Orleans jazz musician ever to come to prominence. Buddy Bolden - Life. He was known as King Bolden (see: Jazz royalty), and his band was a top draw in New Orleans from about 1895 to 1907, when he was incapacitated by schizophrenia. He never recorded, but he was known for his open tone and very loud sound. Joe "King" Oliver and Louis Armstrong were directly inspired by his playing. While there is sub ...

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July July 11 - Blériot Type VI Libellule September September 10 - Nulli Secundus, the British Army's first airship November November 10 - Bléroit Type VII, first aircraft of conventional modern configuration ...

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Astrid Lindgren ▶ (help·info), born Astrid Anna Emilia Ericsson (November 14, 1907 – January 28, 2002) was a Swedish children's book author, whose many titles were translated into over 70 languages and published in more than 100 countries. Astrid Lindgren grew up in Småland in Sweden. Many of her books are based on her family and her childhood on a little farm. Pippi Longstocking, her most famous book, was o ...

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Upon commissioning, Inflexible was assigned to the Nore Division of the British Home Fleet. On 26 May 1911, she was in a collision with the battleship Bellerophon, and suffered bow damage. She was under refit and repair through November, where her fore funnel was also raised by 6 feet. On the outbreak of World War I Inflexible was flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet. Between 4 and 10 August 1914 she was engaged in the pursuit of Goeben and Breslau, before being ordered back to Britain on 19 August 1914. Bet ...

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The Lusitania made her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City, NY on September 7, 1907. At the time she was the largest ocean liner in service. In October 1907, the Lusitania took the Blue Riband from the Kaiser Wilhelm II of the North German Lloyd, ending Germany's 10 year dominance of the Atlantic. The Lusitania averaged 23.99 knots westbound and 23.61 knots eastbound. With the introduction of the Mauretania in November 1907, the Lusitania and Mauretania continu ...

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Wilhelm Frick (March 12, 1877 – October 16, 1946) was a prominent Nazi official. Frick was born in Alsenz, Germany, the son of a teacher. He was educated in Kaiserslautern and studied jurisprudence at Heidelberg, graduating in 1901. He joined the Bavarian civil service in 1903, working as a lawyer at the police headquarters in Munich. He was made a Bezirksamtassessor in 1907 and rose to the position of Regierungsassessor by 1917. He took part in the Beer Hall Putsch (November 1923), at which time he was dir ...

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Curnonsky was a ghostwriter for 'Willy', Colette's husband. According to his biographer Arbellot, he coined the name Bibendum for the Michelin Man in 1907—because "Michelin tires drink [i.e. 'soak up' or 'eat up'] everything, even obstables"—, and wrote Michelin's weekly column "Les Lundis de Michelin" in Le Journal starting on November 25, 1907. It was originally signed "Michelin" but starting on March 2, 1908, it was signed "Bibendum". Michelin had used the phrase "Nunc est bibendum" ("Cheers!" in Latin) on a poste ...

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William Steig (November 14, 1907 – October 3, 2003) was a prolific American cartoonist and, later in life, an author of popular children's literature. Steig was born in New York City to a family of aspiring artists. As a child, he dabbled in painting and was an avid reader of literature. Among other works, he was said to have been especially fascinated by Pinocchio. In addition to artistic endeavors, he also did well at athletics, being a member of the collegiate All-American water polo team. He never completed college ...

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By category Medieval 16th Century - 17th Century 18th Century -19th Century 20th Century - Contemporary Chronological list Writers by category Novelists - Playwrights Poets - Essayists Short Story Writers Alfred Jarry (September 8, 1873 – November 1, 1907) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Britt ...

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Yitzhak Ben--Zvi (November 24, 1884, Poltava, Ukraine - April 23, 1963, Jerusalem, Israel) was a historian, Labor Zionist leader, and the second Israeli president (1952 - 1963). Ben-Zvi was the eldest son of Zvi Shamshi Shimshelevitz. He was active in the Jewish self-defense units organized in Ukraine to defend Jews during the pogroms of 1905, and joined the Poalei Zion (Workers of Zion) Zionist political party. He emigrated to Palestine in 1907, and settled in Jaffa, where he helped organize the HaShomer self-defense unit in the country. In 1909, he organized the Gymnasia ...

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Cab Calloway (December 25, 1907–November 18, 1994) was a famous American jazz singer and bandleader. Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s. Calloway's Orchestra featured performers that included trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster and Leon "Chu" Berry' and bassist Milt Hinton. Calloway continued to perform right up until his death in 1994 at the age of 86. ...

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Charles "Buddy" Bolden (September 6, 1877 - November 4, 1931) was a cornetist and the first New Orleans jazz musician ever to come to prominence. Buddy Bolden - Life. He was known as King Bolden (see: Jazz royalty), and his band was a top draw in New Orleans from about 1895 to 1907, when he was incapacitated by schizophrenia. He never recorded, but he was known for his open tone and very loud sound. Joe "King" Oliver and Louis Armstrong were directly inspired by his playing. While there is sub ...

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Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848–January 13, 1929), was a sometime buffalo hunter, officer of the law, gambler, and saloon-keeper in the Wild West and the U.S. mining frontier from California to Alaska. He is best known for his participation in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral along with Doc Holliday, Virgil Earp, and Morgan Earp. Wyatt Earp - Genealogy. Wyatt was born in Monmouth, Illinois, USA to Nicholas Porter Earp (September 6, 1813 in Lincoln County, North Carolina - November 12, 1907 in Sawtel ...

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Claus Philipp Maria Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg (born November 15, 1907 in Jettingen, Bavarian Swabia; died July 21, 1944 in Berlin) was a German aristocrat and army colonel during World War II. He was one of the leading figures of the July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Prior to being posted in Germany, he served with distinction in North Africa, where he lost an eye and an arm in action. As a senior staff officer in the Wehrmacht, with regular access to Hitler at his briefing meetings, Stauffenberg took a central role ...

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Lars Leksell was born in Fassberg, Sweden on November 23rd 1907. He graduated in Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in 1935 and began training in neurosurgery in the same year. He became a professor of surgery at University of Lund in 1958. From 1960 until his retirement, in 1974, he was Professor of Neurosurgery at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, succeding Herbert Olivecrona, who was the ...

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The company was formed on June 26, 1907 as a consolidation of the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York Railroad and the Pennsylvania, New York and Long Island Railroad, which were the New Jersey and New York parts, respectively. The PNJ&NY was incorporated February 13, 1902, and the PNY&LI was incorporated April 21, 1902. The New Jersey side was opened on November 27, 1910, though it hadn't been completed yet. The Long Island side ...

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