Year (''' MCMVII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Monday of the 13-day-slower Julian Calendar ).
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February - The French warship ''Jean Bart'' sinks off the coast of Morocco .
- January 12 - Sergei Korolev , Russian rocket scientist (d. 1966 )
- January 20 - Paula Wessely , Austrian actress (d. 2000 )
- January 22 - Dixie Dean , English football phenomenon (d. 1980 )
- 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 )
- --- Cesar Romero , American actor (d. 1994 )
- February 17 - Buster Crabbe , American swimmer and actor (d. 1983 )
- February 18 - Oscar Brodney , American screenwriter
- February 21 - W. H. Auden , English poet (d. 1973 )
- February 22
- --- Sheldon Leonard , American actor, writer, director, and producer (d. 1997 )
- --- Robert Young , American actor (d. 1998 )
- February 27 - Mildred Bailey , American singer (d. 1951 )
- March 8 - Constantine Karamanlis , Greek politician (d. 1998 )
- March 9 - Mircea Eliade , Romanian historian of religions and writer (d. 1986 )
- March 12
- --- Dorrit Hoffleit , American astronomer (d. 2007 )
- --- Arthur Hewlett , actor (d. 1997 )
- March 15 - Zarah Leander , Swedish actress and singer (d. 1981 )
- March 18 - John Zachary Young , English biologist (d. 1997 )
- 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 )
- March 29 - "Braguinha" , Brazilian songwriter (d. 2006 )
- April 1 - Dr. Sree Sree Shivakumara Swamiji , Indian born social reformer
- 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 )
- --- Fred Zinnemann , Austrian director (d. 1997 )
- May 1 - Oliver Hill , Civil Rights Attorney (d. 2007 )
- 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 )
- --- Johnny Moss , American poker player (d. 1995 )
- May 22
- --- Hergé , Belgian comics author (d. 1983 )
- --- Lord Laurence Olivier , Prolific English actor of stage and screen and director (d. 1989 )
- May 25 - U Nu , Burmese politician (d. 1995 )
- May 26
- --- John Wayne , American actor (d. 1979 )
- --- Rachel Carson , American environmental writer (d. 1964 )
- May 30 - Elly Beinhorn , German pilot
- June 14
- --- Nicolas Bentley , British writer and illustrator (d. 1978 )
- --- René Char , French poet (d. 1988 )
- June 19 - Clarence Wiseman , Salvation Army general (d. 1985 )
- June 23 - James Meade , English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995 )
- June 25 - J. Hans D. Jensen , German physicist, Nobel Prize laurete (d. 1973 )
- June 28 Franciszka Themerson , Polish, later British, artist and film-maker (d. 1989 )
- July 6 - Frida Kahlo , Mexican painter (d. 1954 )
- July 7 - Robert A. Heinlein , American science fiction author (d. 1988 )
- July 16
- --- Barbara Stanwyck , American actress (d. 1990 )
- --- Orville Redenbacher , American botanist and businessman (d. 1995 )
- July 19 - Paul Magloire , President of Haiti (d. 2001 )
- July 22 - Zubir Said , Singaporean composer who composed Singapore's national anthem (d. 1987 )
- July 27
- --- Richard Beesly , British Olympic gold medal rower (d. 1965 )
- --- Ross Alexander , American actor (d. 1937 )
- August 2 - Mary Hamman , American writer and editor, modern living editor ''LIFE'' and eidtor in chief ''Bride & Home'' (d. 1984 )
- August 7 - Albert Kotin , American Abstract Expressionist painter (d. 1980 )
- 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 )
- August 21 - Hy Zaret , American lyricist and composer (d. 2007 )
- August 31 - Augustus F. Hawkins , American politician
- September 3 - Loren Eiseley , Nebraska author, USA (d. 1977 )
- September 12
- --- Spud Chandler , baseball player (d. 1990 )
- --- Louis MacNeice , Northern Irish poet (d. 1963 )
- September 15 - Fay Wray , Canadian-born actress (d. 2004 )
- September 18
- --- Leon Askin , Austrian actor (d. 2005 )
- --- Edwin McMillan , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991 )
- September 23 - Duarte Nuno , Duke Of Braganza , Pretender to the throne of Portugal (d. 1976 )
- 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 )
- October 2
- --- Víctor Paz Estenssoro , President of Bolivia (d. 2001 )
- --- Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd , Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize luarete (d. 1997 )
- October 4 - Run Run Shaw , Hong Kong Media Mogul
- 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 )
- October 28 - John Harold Hewitt , Irish poet (d. 1987 )
- October 30 - Sol Tax , American anthropologist (d. 1995 )
- November 14
- --- Howard W. Hunter , president of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (d. 1995 )
- --- Astrid Lindgren , Swedish children's writer (d. 2002 )
- --- 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 26 - Ruth Patrick , Botanist
- November 27 - L. Sprague De Camp , American writer (d. 2000 )
- November 28 - Alberto Moravia , Italian novelist (d. 1990 )
- November 30 - Jacques Barzun , French born historian
- December 10 - Lucien Laurent , French footballer (d. 2005 )
- December 12 - Roy Douglas , British composer
- December 15 - Oscar Niemeyer , Brazilian architect
- December 19 - Jimmy McLarnin , Irish-born boxer (d. 2004 )
- December 22 - Peggy Ashcroft , British actress (d. 1991 )
- December 23 - James Roosevelt , American businessman and politician (d. 1991 )
- December 25 - Glenn McCarthy , American oil tycoon and businessman (d. 1988 )
- December 27 - Johann Wilhelm Trollmann , German boxer (d. 1943 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Rafael Godoy , Colombian composer (d. 1973 )
- --- Zhang Chongren , Chinese artist (d. 1998 )
- --- George W. Jenkins , American businessman (d. 1996 )
- ''probable'' - Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah , King of Malaysia (d. 1979 )
- January 14 - Hermann Iseke , doctor (b. 1856 )
- January 31 - Timothy Eaton , Canadian department store founder (b. 1834 )
- February 2 - Dmitri Mendeleev , Russian chemist (b. 1834 )
- February 16
- --- Giosuè Carducci , Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835 )
- --- 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 10 - George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn , industrialist (b. 1836 )
- March 11 - Jean Casimir-Perier , President of France (b. 1847 )
- March 19 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich , American poet and novelist (b. 1836 )
- March 23 - Konstantin Pobedonostsev , statesman (b. 1827 )
- May 12 - Joris-Karl Huysmans , French author (b. 1848 )
- May 26 - Ida Saxton McKinley , former U.S. First Lady & widow of President William McKinley (b. 1847 )
- June 6 - J. A. Chatwin , architect (b. 1830 )
- June 25 - John Hall , Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1824 )
- July 13 - Heinrich Kreutz , astronomer (b. 1854 )
- August - Dinqinesh Mercha , empress consort of Ethiopia (b. 1815 )
- August 15 - Joseph Joachim , Austrian violinist (b. 1831 )
- August 16 - James Hector , Scottish geologist (b. 1834 )
- August 25 - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge , British poet and novelist (b. 1861 )
- August 30 - Ilia Chavchavadze , Georgian writer and saint of the Georgian Orthodox Church (b. 1837 )
- September 4 - Edvard Grieg , Norwegian composer (b. 1843 )
- September 6 - Sully Prudhomme , French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1829 )
- September 19 - Jakobus Morenga , Namibian rebel leader (b. c. 1875)
- November 16 - Robert I, Duke Of Parma , last ruling Duke of Parma (b. 1848 )
- November 28 - Stanisław Wyspiański , Polish writer, painter, and architect (b. 1869 )
- December 8 - King Oscar II Of Sweden (b. 1829 )
- December 15 - Carola Of Vasa , queen consort of Saxony (b. 1833 )
- December 17 - Lord Kelvin , Irish-born physicist and engineer (b. 1824 )
- December 21 - Klara Hitler , mother of Adolf Hitler (b. 1860 )
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