Historical figures in 1907

The atlas holds 48 people and 76 moments here, in 1907. The most recorded lives are Jack London, Rosa Luxemburg and Franz Kafka. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Scientists.

Notable people

1. Agatha Christie

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   English novelist, playwright, and memoirist, internationally known for detective fiction featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.…

2. Alfred Deakin

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   Australian barrister, journalist, federation advocate and Australia’s second prime minister.…

3. Alfred Hitchcock

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   English filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980), known as the “Master of Suspense,” worked in British cinema before relocating to Hollywood in 1939.…

4. Arthur Conan Doyle

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   Scottish-born British physician and writer best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh,…

5. Calvin Coolidge

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   John Calvin Coolidge Jr. (1872–1933) was an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as governor of Massachusetts, vice president of the…

6. Chiang Kai-shek

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   2 moments here

   Chinese military commander, revolutionary, and statesman. Chiang Kai-shek led the Nationalist government of China through the Northern Expedition,…

7. Chulalongkorn

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   3 moments here

   Chulalongkorn (Rama V) was King of Siam from 1868 until 1910. His reign combined state centralization, legal and social reform, and diplomacy…

8. C. V. Raman

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   Indian physicist Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888–1970), known for research on light scattering and for the Raman effect.…

9. Diego Rivera

   in 1907

   2 moments here

   Mexican painter and muralist Diego Rivera was a central figure in Mexican muralism. His documented movements include study in Mexico and Europe, work…

10. Dmitri Mendeleev

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    Russian chemist Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev formulated the periodic law and produced a foundational periodic table.…

11. Ernest Rutherford

    in 1907

    2 moments here

    New Zealand-born physicist and chemist whose research on radioactivity, the atomic nucleus, and nuclear transmutation helped establish nuclear…

12. Franz Kafka

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    3 moments here

    German-language Jewish Czech writer whose fiction transformed modern literature. Born and educated in Prague, Kafka trained as a lawyer and worked…

13. Frida Kahlo

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    Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón) was born in Coyoacán and spent much of her life in Mexico City.…

14. Gabriela Mistral

    in 1907

    1 moment here

    Chilean poet, educator, journalist, and diplomat born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga. Mistral taught across Chile, worked on Mexican educational reform,…

15. Henri Matisse

    in 1907

    1 moment here

    French painter, sculptor, draughtsman, printmaker, and major figure of modern art. Born in Le Cateau-Cambresis, Matisse trained and worked…

16. Herbert Hoover

    in 1907

    1 moment here

    Herbert Clark Hoover was an American mining engineer, international relief administrator, U.S.…

17. Hideki Yukawa

    in 1907

    2 moments here

    Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate, awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting mesons.…

18. Jack London

    in 1907

    7 moments here

    American novelist, journalist, sailor, war correspondent, and socialist activist. Born John Griffith Chaney in San Francisco, he grew up around the…

19. James Joyce

    in 1907

    1 moment here

    Irish novelist, poet, and critic whose life moved between Dublin, continental Europe, and Switzerland.…

20. Jawaharlal Nehru

    in 1907

    1 moment here

    Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and statesman who became independent India’s first prime minister, serving from 15 August 1947 until his…

21. John Maynard Keynes

    in 1907

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    English economist, civil servant, Cambridge fellow, and British international negotiator whose work shaped modern macroeconomics.…

22. Joseph Stalin

    in 1907

    1 moment here

    Soviet revolutionary and political leader, born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in Gori, Georgia.…

23. Katharine Hepburn

    in 1907

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    American stage, film, and television actress whose career ran from 1928 to 1995. Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut, educated at Bryn Mawr…

24. Katherine Mansfield

    in 1907

    1 moment here

    Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, later Murry) was a New Zealand modernist short-story writer, poet, critic and diarist.…

Moments

1. 1907 Winter stay at Gezira Palace Hotel Agatha Christie
2. 1907 Imperial Conference journey Alfred Deakin
3. 1907 Howrah House Convent schooling Alfred Hitchcock
4. 1907 Move to Little Windlesham Arthur Conan Doyle
5. 1907 Massachusetts General Court session Calvin Coolidge
6. 1907 Cadet at Baoding Military Academy Chiang Kai-shek
7. 1907 Moves to Paris Diego Rivera
8. 1907 Studies in Madrid Diego Rivera
9. 1907 Arrival as Manchester professor Ernest Rutherford
10. 1907 Residence in Withington Ernest Rutherford
11. 1907 Clerks at Prague’s criminal court Franz Kafka
12. 1907 Inspector at the girls’ lycée Gabriela Mistral
13. 1907 Teaching at the Academie Matisse Henri Matisse
14. 1907 Residence at the Red House Herbert Hoover
15. 1907 Birth in Tokyo Hideki Yukawa
16. 1907 Childhood in Kyoto Hideki Yukawa
17. 1907 Horseback crossing of Haleakala Jack London
18. 1907 Snark visit to Papeete Jack London
19. 1907 Snark visit to Taiohae Jack London
20. 1907 Snark voyage in Hawaii Jack London
21. 1907 Visit to Goldfield mining camp Jack London
22. 1907 Visit to Kalaupapa leprosy settlement Jack London
23. 1907 Urewera camping journey Katherine Mansfield
24. 1907 Military attaché service in Beijing Lavr Kornilov
25. 1907 Florence Charterhouse visit Le Corbusier
26. 1907 Italian Grand Tour Le Corbusier
27. 1907 Escape at Berezov Leon Trotsky
28. 1907 Fifth RSDLP Congress Leon Trotsky
29. 1907 Summer stays in Cabourg Marcel Proust
30. 1907 Appears at the Jamestown Exposition Mark Twain
31. 1907 Receives Oxford honorary degree Mark Twain
32. 1907 Study in Heidelberg Muhammad Iqbal
33. 1907 Assigned to the Third Army at Monastir Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
34. 1907 Family move to Bowral P. L. Travers
35. 1907 Residence and field work at Vacoas Ronald Ross
36. 1907 Winter on Mallorca Rubén Darío
37. 1907 Schooling in Summit Soong Mei-ling
38. 1907 Nationalist Conference at Surat Sri Aurobindo
39. 1907 Opens the Philippine Assembly William Howard Taft
40. 1907 Military entrance examination Chiang Kai-shek
41. 1907 Death in Saint Petersburg Dmitri Mendeleev
42. 1907 Departure on second European journey Chulalongkorn
43. 1907 Returns to Trieste from Rome James Joyce
44. 1907 Arrest in Shuya Mikhail Frunze
45. 1907 Return to Paris after illness Rubén Darío
46. 1907 Revolutionary headquarters in Hanoi Sun Yat-sen
47. 1907 Departure aboard the Snark Jack London
48. 1907 Residence at Fitzroy Square Virginia Woolf
49. 1907 Attends the Fifth RSDLP Congress in London Joseph Stalin
50. 1907 Birth in Hartford Katharine Hepburn

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