1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1907th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 907th year of the 2nd millennium, the 7th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1907, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1870s 1880s 1890s – 1900s – 1910s 1920s 1930s |
| Years: | 1904 1905 1906 – 1907 – 1908 1909 1910 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1907 MCMVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2660 |
| Armenian calendar | 1356 ԹՎ ՌՅԾԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6657 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 63–64 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1828–1829 |
| Bengali calendar | 1314 |
| Berber calendar | 2857 |
| British Regnal year | 6 Edw. 7 – 7 Edw. 7 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2451 |
| Burmese calendar | 1269 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7415–7416 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4603 or 4543 — to — 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4604 or 4544 |
| Coptic calendar | 1623–1624 |
| Discordian calendar | 3073 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1899–1900 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5667–5668 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1963–1964 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1828–1829 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5007–5008 |
| Holocene calendar | 11907 |
| Igbo calendar | 907–908 |
| Iranian calendar | 1285–1286 |
| Islamic calendar | 1324–1325 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiji 40 (明治４０年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1836–1837 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4240 |
| Minguo calendar | 5 before ROC 民前5年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 439 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2449–2450 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 2033 or 1652 or 880 — to — 阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 2034 or 1653 or 881 |
- 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 from Kansas, becomes the first Native American US Senator.
- November 16 - Oklahoma becomes a U.S. state.
- Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French doctor, won in 1907 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Rudyard Kipling awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
January
- January 3 – Ray Milland, Welsh actor and director (d. 1986)
- January 11 – Pierre Mendès France, Prime Minister of France (d. 1982)
February
- February 15 – Cesar Romero, American actor (d. 1994)
- February 15 – Hastings Banda, 1st President of Malawi (d. 1997)
March
April
- April 5 – Sanya Dharmasakti, Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2002)
- April 29 – Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born movie director (d. 1997)
May
- May 12 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)
- May 14 – Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1974)
- May 22 – Hergé, Belgian cartoonist (d. 1983)
- May 22 – Laurence Olivier, British actor (d. 1989)
- May 25 – U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)
- May 26 – John Wayne, American actor (d. 1979)
June
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- June 4 – Rosalind Russell, American actress (d. 1976)
- June 16 - Jack Albertson, American actor (d. 1981)
- June 25 – J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist (d. 1973)
July
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- July 6 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
- July 7 – Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer (d. 1988)
- July 16 – Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (d. 1990)
August
- August 3 – Ernesto Geisel, President of Brazil (d. 1996)
- August 3 - Yang Shangkun, Chinese politician (d. 1998)
- August 8 – Benny Carter, American musician (d. 2003)
- August 12 – Miguel Torga, Portuguese writer (d. 1995)
- August 30 - Leonor Fini, Argentine painter (d. 1996)
- August 31 – Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines (d. 1957)
September
- September 17 – Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)
- September 29 – Gene Autry, American country music singer and actor (d. 1998)
October
November
- November 15 – Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, German army officer during World War Two (d. 1944)
December
- December 15 – Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect (d. 2012)
- December 25 – Cab Calloway, American bandleader (d. 1994)
- January 31 – Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (b. 1834)
- February 2 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834)
- February 16 – Giosue Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
- February 16 – Clémentine of Orléans, daughter of King Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1817)
- February 20 – Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
- February 26 – C. W. Alcock, English footballer, journalist, and football promoter (b. 1842)
- March 19 – Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and novelist (b. 1836)
- May 12 – Joris-Karl Huysmans, French writer (b. 1848)
- August 15 – Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (b. 1831)
- August 16 – James Hector, Scottish geologist (b. 1834)
- September 4 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843)
- September 6 – Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839)
- September 17 – Edmonia Lewis, American sculptor (b. 1844)
- November 16 – Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma (b. 1848)
- November 22 – Asaph Hall, American astronomer (b. 1829)
- November 28 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish writer, painter, and architect (b. 1869)
- December 8 – King Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)
- December 17 – Lord Kelvin, Irish-born physicist and engineer (b. 1824)
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