1907

Events

January

• January 6 - The first Montessori school and daycare center for working-class children opens in Rome.
• January 14 - 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 M_w earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000.
• January 23 - Charles Curtis from Kansas becomes the first Native American United States Senator.

  February

• February 11 - The French warship Jean Bart sinks off the coast of Morocco.
• February 7 - The "Mud March", the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, takes place in London.
• February 12 - The steamship Larchmont collides with the Harry Hamilton in Long Island Sound; 183 lives are lost.
• February 16 - A worldwide mechanical parts manufacturing brand, SKF was 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 French warship Jena is blown up at Toulon; 120 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 5 - At the opening of the new State Duma in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 40,000 demonstrators are dispersed by Russian troops.
• 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.
• * Today is the all-time busiest day of immigration to the United States through Ellis Island; this will be the busiest year ever seen here, with 1.1 million immigrants arriving.
• 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 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 started 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 1-9 - Robert Baden-Powell leads the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, England.
• August 17 - Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington officially opens for business.
• August 24-31 - The International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam meets in the Netherlands.
• August 28 - UPS is founded by James E. 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 passenger liner sets out on her maiden voyage, from Liverpool to New York City.
• September 26 - New Zealand and Newfoundland become dominions.

  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 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 Hague Peace Conference.
• 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.
• October 27 - Černová massacre: Fifteen people are shot during the consecration of a Catholic church in Hungary.

  November

• November 4
• * Russian immigrant bakers Perry and Ben Feigenson, began transforming their cake frosting flavors into The Feigenson Brothers Bottling Works soft drink recipe, later shortened to Faygo.
• November 16
• * British 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 state in the United States.
• November 21 - Washington State College defeats the University of Washington 10-5 in the Apple Cup, played in Seattle.
• November 25 - The Church of God in Christ, which becomes the fifth-largest African-American Pentecostal-Holiness Christian denomination in the United States, is founded by Bishop Charles Harrison Mason in Memphis, Tennessee.

  December

• December 6 - Monongah Mining disaster: A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in Monongah, West Virginia.
• December 8 - Upon the death of Oscar II, he is succeeded by his son Gustaf V, as king of Sweden.
• December 14 - The largest sailing ship ever built, the 7-masted 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.
• 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.
• December 31 - The first ever "ball drop" is held in Times Square, in New York City.

  Date unknown

• 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.
• 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 Moine Thrust Belt in Scotland is identified, one of the first to be discovered anywhere.
• The Landsforbundet for Kvinders Valgret is founded.
• James Murray Spangler invents the first Hoover vacuum cleaner.
• Henri Matisse begins to teach at the Académie Matisse in Paris, a private and non-commercial art school.

  Births

January

• January 1 - Aftab Ali, Bengali politician, social reformer
• January 3 - Ray Milland, Welsh actor, film director
• January 5 - Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete
• January 8 - Keizō Hayashi, Japanese civil servant, military official
• January 11 - Pierre Mendès France, French politician, 142nd Prime Minister of France
• January 12 - Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist
• January 16 - Alexander Knox, Canadian actor, novelist
• January 17 - Henk Badings, Dutch composer
• January 18 - Lina Haag, German World War II resistance fighter
• January 20
• * Manfred von Ardenne, German research and applied physicist, inventor
• * Paula Wessely, Austrian actress
• January 22 - Dixie Dean, English football player
• January 23 - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• January 24
• * Maurice Couve de Murville, Prime Minister of France
• * Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah, King of Malaysia
• January 27 - Joyce Compton, American actress

  February

• February 1 - Günter Eich, German writer
• February 5
• * Birgit Dalland, Norwegian politician
• * Pierre Pflimlin, French politician
• * Sergio Méndez Arceo, Roman Catholic bishop of Cuernavaca, Mexico 1953-1983
• February 6 - Russell Gleason, American actor
• February 9
• * Pierre Aliker, French-Martinican politician
• * Trường Chinh, President of Vietnam
• February 12 - Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator
• February 13 - Katy de la Cruz, Filipino singer
• February 15
• * Jean Langlais, French composer, organist
• * Cesar Romero, American actor
• February 18 - Oscar Brodney, American screenwriter
• February 21 - W. H. Auden, English poet
• February 22
• * Sheldon Leonard, American actor, writer, director, and producer
• * Robert Young, American actor
• February 25 - Kathryn Wasserman Davis, American philanthropist
• February 26
• * Dub Taylor, American actor
• * Rosebud Yellow Robe, Native American folklorist, educator, and author
• February 27 - Mildred Bailey, American singer
• February 28 - Milton Caniff, American cartoonist

  March

• March 8 - Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician
• March 9 - Mircea Eliade, Romanian religious historian, writer
• March 12
• * Arthur Hewlett, British actor
• * Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer
• March 15 - Zarah Leander, Swedish actress, singer
• March 16
• * Frances Fuller, American actress
• * Hans Kleppen, Norwegian ski jumper
• March 17
• * Takeo Miki, 41st Prime Minister of Japan
• * Jean Van Houtte, 38th Prime Minister of Belgium
• March 18 - John Zachary Young, English biologist
• March 23 - Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born scientist, Nobel Prize laureate
• March 27 - Mary Treen, American actress
• March 28 - Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun, visionary
• March 29 - Braguinha, Brazilian songwriter
• March 30 - Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe officer

  April

• April 1 - Shivakumara Swami, Hindu religious figure and humanitarian
• April 10 - Germán Suárez Flamerich, Venezuelan lawyer, politician and 50th President of Venezuela
• April 11
• * Paul Douglas, American actor
• April 12 - Felix de Weldon, Austrian-born sculptor
• April 13 - Harold Stassen, American politician
• April 14 - François Duvalier, 32nd President of Haiti
• April 15 - Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• April 16 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor, founder of Bombardier Inc.
• April 21 - Wade Mainer, American singer, banjoist
• April 23
• * James Hayter, British actor
• * Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor
• April 24 - William Sargant, British psychiatrist
• April 26 - Ilias Tsirimokos, Prime Minister of Greece
• April 29
• * Tino Rossi, French singer
• * Fred Zinnemann, Austrian director

  May

• May 1 - Oliver Hill, American lawyer
• May 2 - Pinky Lee, American comedian
• May 3 - Dorothy Young, American entertainer
• May 5 - Iryna Vilde, Ukrainian writer
• May 9 - Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official
• May 11 - Kent Taylor, American actor
• May 12 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress
• May 13 - Dame Daphne du Maurier, English author
• May 14
• * Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan
• * Johnny Moss, American poker player
• * Bob Tisdall, Irish Olympic athlete
• May 22
• * Hergé, Belgian comics author
• * Lord Laurence Olivier, English stage, screen actor and director
• May 25 - U Nu, Burmese politician
• May 26 - John Wayne, American actor, film director
• May 27
• * Rachel Carson, American environmental writer
• * Carl Falck, Norwegian businessman
• May 30
• * Elly Beinhorn, German pilot
• * Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance

  June

• June 1 - Frank Whittle, British jet engine developer
• June 4
• * Rosalind Russell, American actress
• * Jacques Roumain, Haitian writer, politician, and advocate of Marxism
• June 5 - Rudolf Peierls, German-British physicist
• June 7 - Arthur Marshall Davis, American judge
• June 14
• * Nicolas Bentley, British writer, illustrator
• * René Char, French poet
• June 16 - Jack Albertson, American actor, comedian
• June 19
• * Clarence Wiseman, Salvation Army general
• * George de Mestral, Swiss inventor
• June 22
• * Ernest "Doc" Paulin, American trumpeter
• * Wesley E. Brown, American district court judge
• June 23 - James Meade, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• June 24 - Jean Schlumberger, French jewelry designer
• June 25
• * Franca Dominici, Italian actress, voice actress
• * J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• June 26 - Joan Harrison, English screenwriter, producer
• June 27 - John McIntire, American actor
• June 28
• * Junius Driggs, American businessman
• * Franciszka Themerson, Polish-born British artist, filmmaker
• June 29 - Junji Nishikawa, Japanese football player

  July

• July 3
• * Vittoria Di Silverio, Italian film, television and stage actress
• * Horia Sima, Romanian fascist politician
• July 4
• * Henning Holck-Larsen, Danish engineer and businessman
• * Emilio Ochoa, Cuban dentist, politician
• July 6
• * Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter
• * George Stanley, Canadian historian, author, soldier, teacher, public servant, and designer
• July 7
• * Walter Dieminger, German space scientist
• * Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction author
• * Pavel Sudoplatov, Russian Lieutenant General
• * Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia
• July 9
• * Teresa Jungman, English socialite
• * Philip Klutznick, American administrator
• July 10 - John Michaels, American pitcher
• July 13 - George Weller, American novelist, playwright, and journalist
• July 14
• * Annabella, French actress
• * Maria Matray, German screenwriter and actress
• July 15
• * Paterson Fraser, English Royal Air Force
• * Shōshin Nagamine, Japanese author and soldier, police officer, and karate master
• * Mona Rico, Mexican-born American actress
• July 16
• * Orville Redenbacher, American botanist and popcorn businessman
• * Barbara Stanwyck, American actress
• July 19
• * Giulio Balestrini, Italian football player
• * Isabel Jewell, American actress
• * Paul Magloire, President of Haiti
• July 21
• * A. D. Hope, Australian poet and essayist
• * Georg Rydeberg, Swedish actor
• July 22
• * Jack Dennington, Australian rules footballer
• * Aldo Donelli, American football player and coach, soccer player, and college athletics administrator
• * Zubir Said, Singaporean composer of Singapore's national anthem
• July 25 - Johnny Hodges, American alto saxophonist
• July 27
• * Ross Alexander, American actor
• * Richard Beesly, British Olympic gold medal rower
• July 29 - Melvin Belli, American lawyer

  August

• August 1 - Elisabeth Johansen, Greenlandic midwife and politician
• August 2 - Mary Hamman, American writer and editor
• August 3
• * Ernesto Geisel, 29th President of Brazil
• * Yang Shangkun, 4th President of the People's Republic of China
• * Irene Tedrow, American actress
• August 7
• *Bernard Brodie, English-American chemist and "founder of modern pharmacology"
• *Albert Kotin, American painter
• August 8 - Benny Carter, American musician
• August 12
• * Joe Besser, American comedian
• * Benjamin Sheares, 2nd President of Singapore
• August 13 - Viscount William Waldorf Astor, British politician
• August 14 - Stanley Adams, American lyricist and songwriter
• August 15 - Bob Pearson, British variety performer with his brother Alf as half of Bob and Alf Pearson
• August 20 - Alan Reed, American actor and voice actor
• August 21
• * John G. Trump, American electrical engineer, inventor, and physicist
• * Hy Zaret, American lyricist and composer
• August 24
• *Bruno Giacometti, Swiss architect
• *Gil Perkins, Australian actor and stuntman
• August 28 - Rupert Hart-Davis, British publisher
• August 29 - Lurene Tuttle, American character actress
• August 31
• * Argentina Brunetti, Argentinian actress and writer
• * Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician and civil rights lawmaker
• * Ramon Magsaysay, 7th President of the Philippines

  September

• September 2
• * Evelyn Hooker, American psychologist
• * Miriam Seegar, American actress
• September 3 - Loren Eiseley, American author
• September 4
• * Frances Griffiths, Cottingley Fairies girl
• * Reggie Nalder, Austrian actor
• September 12
• * Spud Chandler, American baseball player
• * Louis MacNeice, Northern Irish poet
• September 15
• * Jimmy Wallington, American radio personality
• * Fay Wray, Canadian-born actress
• September 17 - Warren E. Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States
• September 18
• * Leon Askin, Austrian actor
• * Elza Brandeisz, Hungarian dancer, teacher
• * Edwin McMillan, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• September 19 - Lewis F. Powell Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• September 22 - Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher, writer
• September 23 - Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, pretender to the throne of Portugal
• September 26
• * Anthony Blunt, British art historian, spy
• * Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer
• September 27 - Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist
• September 28 - Heikki Savolainen, Finnish artistic gymnast
• September 29
• * Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and businessman
• * George W. Jenkins, American businessman

  October

• October 1 - Ödön Pártos, Hungarian-Israeli violist, composer
• October 2
• * Víctor Paz Estenssoro, 53rd, 55th, and 72nd President of Bolivia
• * Alexander R. Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• October 5 - Elva Ruby Miller, American singer
• October 6 - Francisco Gabilondo Soler, Mexican singer, composer
• October 7 - Jesse Bankston, American political activist
• October 9 - Lord Hailsham, British politician
• October 15 - Varian Fry, American journalist, rescuer
• October 17 - John Marley, American actor
• October 19 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader
• October 20 - Arlene Francis, Amcerican actress
• October 24 - Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer
• October 28
• * John Hewitt, Irish poet
• * Sergio Méndez Arceo, 7th Mexican bishop of Cuernavaca 1953-1982, and advocate of Liberation theology.
• October 30 - Sol Tax, American anthropologist

  November

• November 1 - Homero Manzi, Argentine tango lyricist, author
• November 4 - Draga Matković, German concert pianist
• November 6 - Charles W. Yost, American ambassador
• November 7 - Dumitru Coliu, Romanian communist activist and politician
• November 9 - Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia
• November 10
• *John Moore, British author
• *Salme Reek, Estonian actress
• November 11
• * Viktoria Brezhneva, First Lady of the Soviet Union
• * Günter Fronius, Transylvanian Saxon entrepreneur
• November 14
• * Howard W. Hunter, 14th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• * Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's writer
• * William Steig, American cartoonist
• November 15 - Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, German aristocrat, military officer
• November 16 - Burgess Meredith, American actor, director
• November 18
• * Compay Segundo, Cuban musician
• * Gustav Nezval, Czech actor
• November 19 - Luigi Beccali, Italian Olympic athlete
• November 23 - Run Run Shaw, Hong Kong media mogul
• November 26 - Ruth Patrick, American botanist
• November 27 - L. Sprague de Camp, American writer
• November 28 - Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist
• November 28 - Katharine Bartlett, American physical anthropologist, museum curator
• November 30 - Jacques Barzun, French-born American historian

  December

• December 5 - Lin Biao, Chinese communist leader
• December 6 - Helli Stehle, Swiss actress, radio presenter
• December 10 - Lucien Laurent, French footballer
• December 12 - Roy Douglas, British composer
• December 15 - Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect
• December 16 - Barbara Kent, Canadian silent film actress
• December 19 - Jimmy McLarnin, Irish-born boxer
• December 22 - Peggy Ashcroft, British actress
• December 23 - James Roosevelt, American businessman, politician
• December 25
• * Cab Calloway, American jazz singer, bandleader
• * Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon, businessman
• December 27 - Johann Wilhelm Trollmann, German boxer

  Deaths

January

• January 9 - Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, Shah of Iran
• January 13 - Jakob Hurt, Estonian folklorist, theologian, and linguist
• January 14 - Hermann Iseke, German doctor
• January 19 - Giuseppe Saracco, 15th Prime Minister of Italy
• January 21
• * Bertram Fletcher Robinson, English journalist, editor and author
• * Graziadio Isaia Ascoli, Italian linguist
• January 31 - Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder

  February

• February 2 - Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist
• February 7 - Preston Leslie, 26th Governor of Kentucky and 9th territorial Governor of Montana
• February 12 - Muriel Robb, English tennis player
• February 13 - Marcel Alexandre Bertrand, French geologist
• February 16
• * Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• * Clémentine of Orléans, daughter of King Louis-Philippe of France
• February 17 - Henry Steel Olcott, American officer, theosophist
• February 20 - Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• February 21 - Erik Gustaf Boström, 7th Prime Minister of Sweden
• February 26 - C. W. Alcock, English footballer, journalist, and football promoter

  March

• March 7 - Charlotta Raa-Winterhjelm, Swedish actress
• March 9 - Frederic George Stephens, English art critic
• March 10 - George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn, Welsh industrialist
• March 11
• * Jean Casimir-Perier, 6th President of France
• * Dimitar Petkov, 14th Prime Minister of Bulgaria
• March 18 - Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist
• March 19
• * Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet, novelist
• * Mariano Baptista, former President of Bolivia
• March 23 - Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Russian statesman
• March 25 - Ernst von Bergmann, Baltic German surgeon

  April

• April 6 - William Henry Drummond, Irish-Canadian poet
• April 14 - Frank Manly Thorn, American lawyer, politician, government official, essayist, journalist, humorist, inventor, and 6th Superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
• April 23 - Alferd Packer, American cannibal

  May

• May 1 - Melissa Elizabeth Riddle Banta, American poet
• May 4 - John Watts de Peyster, American author, philanthropist, and soldier
• May 6 - Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect, civil engineer
• May 12 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author
• May 19 - Sir Benjamin Baker, English civil engineer
• May 26 - Ida Saxton McKinley, First Lady of the United States
• May 27 - Kevork Chavush, Armenian national hero

  June

• June 4 - Agathe Backer-Grøndahl, Norwegian pianist and composer
• June 6 - J. A. Chatwin, English architect
• June 14
• * Bartolomé Masó, Cuban patriot
• * William Le Baron Jenney, American architect, engineer
• June 25 - Sir John Hall, 12th Prime Minister of New Zealand
• June 29 - Maximilian Cercha, Polish painter and drawer

  July

• July 13 - Heinrich Kreutz, German astronomer
• July 14 - Sir William Perkin, English chemist
• July 15 - Qin Jin, Chinese poet, revolutionary
• July 28 - Mildred Amanda Baker Bonham, American travel writer

  August

• August - Dinqinesh Mercha, empress consort of Ethiopia
• August 1
• * Lucy Mabel Hall-Brown, American physician and writer
• * Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro, 3-time Prime Minister of Portugal
• August 3 - Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Irish-American Beaux-Arts sculptor
• August 4 - Richard Meade, Lord Gilford, British admiral
• August 13 - Hermann Carl Vogel, German astrophysicist
• August 15 - Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist
• August 25
• *Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, British poet, novelist
• * Alexandre Franquet, French admiral
• August 30 - Richard Mansfield, Anglo-American actor

  September

• September 4 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer
• September 6 - Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• September 9 - Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop
• September 12 - Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian writer, Orthodox priest and saint
• September 19 - Jacob Morenga, Namibian rebel leader
• September 22 - Wilbur Olin Atwater, American chemist
• September 30 - Sir John Ardagh, British army general

  October

• October 10 - Adolf Furtwängler, German archaeologist, historian
• October 30 - Caroline Dana Howe, American author

  November

• November 1 - Alfred Jarry, French writer
• November 6 - Sir James Hector, Scottish geologist
• November 14 - Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian jurist and politician
• November 15 - Raphael Kalinowski, Polish Discalced Carmelite friar and saint
• November 16 - Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma
• November 17 - Sir Francis McClintock, Irish explorer and admiral in British Royal Navy
• November 21 - Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter
• November 22 - Asaph Hall, American astronomer
• November 25 - Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, Danish explorer
• November 28 - Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish writer, painter and architect
• November 30 - Ludwig Levy, German architect

  December

• December 4 - Luis Sáenz Peña, 12th President of Argentina
• December 8 - King Oscar II of Sweden
• December 15 - Carola of Vasa, queen consort of Saxony
• December 17 - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist and engineer
• December 20 - Helen Louisa Bostwick Bird, American author
• December 21 - Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler
• December 23 - Pierre Janssen, French astronomer
• December 28 - Kate Stone, American diarist
• December 31 - Jules de Trooz, 18th Prime Minister of Belgium

  Date unknown

• Ellen Russell Emerson, American ethnologist
• Sarah Gibson Humphreys, American author and suffragist

  Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Albert Abraham Michelson
• Chemistry - Eduard Buchner
• Medicine - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
• Literature - Rudyard Kipling
• Peace - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Louis Renault