1907: Encyclopedia II - 1907 - Births

1907 - Births

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)
• February 22 - Sheldon Leonard, American actor, writer, director, and producer (d. 1997)
• February 22 - Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998)
• February 27 - Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)
• March 13 - Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Braganca, claimant to the Portuguese throne (d. 1995)
• March 8 - Constantine Caramanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998)
• March 15 - Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (d. 1981)
• March 22 - Lucia dos Santos, Potuguese nun and visionary (d. 2005)
• March 23 - Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1992)

1907 - April-June

• April 12 - Felix de Weldon, Austrian-born sculptor (d. 2003)
• April 13 - Harold Stassen, American politician (d. 2001)
• April 15 - Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1988)
• April 23 - Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (d. 1975)
• April 24 - William Sargant, British psychiatrist (d. 1988)
• April 29 - Tino Rossi, French singer (d. 1983)
• April 29 - Fred Zinnemann, Austrian director (d. 1997)
• May 2 - Pinky Lee, American comedian (d. 1993)
• May 9 - Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974)
• May 11 - Rose Ausländer, German poet (d. 1988)
• 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)
• May 22 - Hergé, Belgian comics author (d. 1983)
• May 22 - Sir Laurence Olivier, English actor and director (d. 1989)
• May 25 - U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)
• May 26 - John Wayne, American actor (d. 1979)
• May 26 - Rachel Carson, American environmental writer (d. 1964)
• May 30 - Elly Beinhorn, German pilot
• June 14 - René Char, French poet (d. 1988)
• June 23 - James Meade, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
• June 25 - J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laurete (d. 1973)

1907 - July-September

• July 6 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
• July 7 - Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction author (d. 1988)
• January 20 - Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (d. 1990)
• August 8 - Benny Carter, American musician (d. 2003)
• August 12 - Joe Besser, American comedian (d. 1988)
• August 13 - Viscount William Waldorf Astor, British politician (d. 1966)
• September 12 - Spud Chandler, baseball player (d. 1990)
• September 15 - Fay Wray, Canadian-born actress (d. 2004)
• September 18 - Leon Askin, Austrian actor (d. 2005)
• September 18 - Edwin McMillan, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
• September 26 - Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (d. 1992)
• September 27 - Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and writer (d. 2003)
• September 29 - Gene Autry, American actor (d. 1998)

1907 - October-December

• October 2 - Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize luarete (d. 1997)
• October 5 - Mrs. Miller, American singer (d. 1997)
• October 9 - Lord Hailsham, British politician (d. 2001)
• October 15 - Varian Fry, American journalist and rescuer (d. 1967)
• October 19 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader (d. 1962)
• October 22 - Jimmie Foxx, baseball player (d. 1967)
• November 14 - Howard W. Hunter, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1995)
• November 14 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's writer (d. 2002)
• November 14 - William Steig, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
• November 16 - Burgess Meredith, American actor (d. 1997)
• November 18 - Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2003)
• November 28 - Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist (d. 1990)
• December 10 - Lucien Laurent, French footballer (d. 2005)
• December 19 - Jimmy McLarnin, Irish-born boxer (d. 2004)
• December 22 - Dame Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (d. 1991)
• December 23 - James Roosevelt, American businessman and politician (d. 1991)
• December 27 - Johann Wilhelm Trollmann, German boxer (d. 1943)

1907 - Undated

• Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (d. 1973)
• Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III, King of Malaysia (d. 1979)
• Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist (d. 1998)

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