Famous people born in 1907

The best-known people born in 1907, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Frida Kahlo
Mexican painter (1907–1954)
July 6 · d. 1954
Photo: Guillermo Kahlo, Public domain
Leonid Brezhnev
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)
January 1 · d. 1982
Photo: Vladimir Musaelyan, CC0
Katharine Hepburn
American actress (1907–2003)
May 12 · d. 2003
Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios ; Restored by Adam Cuerden, Public domain
John Wayne
American actor (1907–1979)
May 26 · d. 1979
Photo: Unknown photographer, Public domain
Astrid Lindgren
Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays (1907–2002)
November 14 · d. 2002
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Rachel Carson
American marine biologist and conservationist (1907–1964)
May 27 · d. 1964
Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Public domain
Robert A. Heinlein
American author and aeronautical engineer (1907–1988)
July 7 · d. 1988
Photo: Photographer unknown, published by Doubleday, Public domain
W. H. Auden
British-American poet (1907–1973)
February 21 · d. 1973
Photo: Carl Van Vechten, Public domain
Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian architect (1907–2012)
December 15 · d. 2012
Photo: Unknown (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain
Laurence Olivier
English actor and director (1907–1989)
May 22 · d. 1989
Photo: Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0
Hideki Yukawa
Japanese theoretical physicist (1907-1981)
January 23 · d. 1981
Photo: Nobel Foundation archive, Public domain
Alberto Moravia
Italian writer and journalist (1907-1990)
November 28 · d. 1990
Photo: Paolo Monti, CC BY-SA 4.0
Barbara Stanwyck
American actress (1907–1990)
July 16 · d. 1990
Photo: ABC Television, Public domain
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
January 12 · d. 1966
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY 4.0
Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
German aristocrat, army officer and resistance fighter (1907-1944)
November 15 · d. 1944
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, CC0
Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen
German nuclear physicist (1907–1973)
June 25 · d. 1973
Photo: Nobel foundation, Public domain
Daphne du Maurier
British writer (1907–1989)
May 13 · d. 1989
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Copyrighted free use
Mircea Eliade
Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago (1907–1986)
March 22 · d. 1986
Photo: Elena Ancu Damian, CC0
Ayub Khan
President of Pakistan from 1958 to 1969
May 14 · d. 1974
Photo: Steiner, Egon, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Hergé
Belgian comics writer (1907–1983)
May 22 · d. 1983
Burgess Meredith
American actor (1907–1997)
November 16 · d. 1997
Photo: Harris & Ewing, Public domain
Daniel Bovet
Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist and Esperantist (1907–1992)
March 23 · d. 1992
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Edwin McMillan
American physicist (1907-1991)
September 18 · d. 1991
Photo: Nobel Foundation, Public domain
Cesar Romero
American actor (1907–1994)
February 15 · d. 1994
Photo: Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0
Nikolaas Tinbergen
Dutch Zoologist, ethologist (1907-1988)
April 15 · d. 1988
Photo: Lorenz_and_Tinbergen2.jpg : Max Planck Gesellschaft derivative work: Materialscientist, CC BY-SA 3.0
Alexander Todd
British biochemist and Nobel laureate (1907-1997)
October 2 · d. 1997
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
François Duvalier
40th President of the Republic of Haiti (1907-1971)
April 14 · d. 1971
Photo: Unknown artist Unknown artist, Public domain
Jacques Tati
French filmmaker (1907-1982)
October 9 · d. 1982
Photo: Willy Pragher, CC BY 3.0 de
Fred Zinnemann
Austrian film director (1907-1997)
April 29 · d. 1997
Photo: MGM, Public domain
Ray Milland
British actor (1907–1986)
January 3 · d. 1986
Photo: Whitey Schafer, Public domain

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January

January 11 · Pierre Mendès France, French politician (1907-1982)
January 11 · Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish-American rabbi, philosopher, and civil rights activist (1907-1972)
January 16 · Alexander Knox, Canadian actor and author of adventure novels (1907-1995)
January 22 · Dixie Dean, English footballer (1907–1980)
January 24 · Maurice Couve de Murville, 81st Prime Minister of France (1907-1999)
January 26 · Hans Selye, Austro-Hungarian Canadian endocrinologist

February

February 3 · James A. Michener, American author (1907-1997)
February 5 · Pierre Pflimlin, French politician (1907-2000)
February 9 · Trường Chinh, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (1907–1988)
February 23 · Roberto Cherro, Argentine footballer (1907-1965)
February 25 · Sabahattin Ali, Turkish novelist (1907–1948)
February 26 · John Bowlby, British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (1907–1990)

March

March 15 · Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (1907–1981)
March 17 · Takeo Miki, Japanese politician (1907-1988)
March 18 · IanisSigma (Sobă), first child of Josef Stalin (1907–1943)
March 21 · Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician and lawyer (1907–1998), Prime Minister of Greece intermittently between 1955–80, President from 1980–85, 1990–95
March 22 · Sister Lúcia, Portuguese nun, one of the three children who have witnessed Marian apparitions in Fátima, Portugal, in 1917
March 26 · Mahadevi Varma, Indian Hindi writer and poet (1907-1987)

April

April 7 · Le Duan, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (1907-1986)
April 17 · Martti Miettunen, Finnish politician (1907–2002)
April 18 · Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American composer (1907–1995)
April 18 · Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician (1907-1996)
April 23 · Lee Miller, American photographer and photojournalist (1907–1977)
April 29 · Tino Rossi, French singer (1907–1983)

May

May 10 · Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, Crown Prince of Spain (1907–1938); heir apparent to the throne until 1933
May 16 · Antonín Puč, Czech footballer (1907–1988)
May 17 · Álvaro Gestido, Uruguayan footballer (1907-1957)
May 17 · Ilona Elek, Hungarian fencer (1907-1988)
May 20 · Franz Jägerstätter, Austrian martyr and conscientious objector (1907–1943)
May 25 · U Nu, Burmese nationalist and political figure (1907-1995)

June

June 1 · Daigoro Kondo, Japanese association football player (1907–1991)
June 4 · Rosalind Russell, American actress (1907–1976)
June 14 · René Char, French poet (1907–1988)
June 16 · Jack Albertson, American actor (1907–1981)
June 18 · Varlam Shalamov, Soviet writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor
June 23 · James Meade, British economist

July

July 5 · Yang Shangkun, 4th President of the People's Republic of China (1907–1998)
July 5 · Ethel Smith, Canadian sprinter (1907-1979)
July 7 · Ita Rina, Slovenian actress (1907-1979)
July 8 · George W. Romney, Governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969
July 14 · Annabella, French cinema actress (1907–1996)
July 18 · H. L. A. Hart, English legal philosopher (1907–1992)

August

August 3 · Ernesto Geisel, military and president of Brazil (1974–1979)
August 8 · Benny Carter, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader (1907-2003)
August 12 · Benjamin Sheares, 2nd President of Singapore (1907–1981)
August 12 · Miguel Torga, Portuguese writer (1907-1995)
August 31 · Ramon Magsaysay, president of the Philippines from 1953 to 1957
August 31 · Altiero Spinelli, Italian politician (1907-1986)

September

September 1 · Mehdi Bazargan, Iranian politician and Islamic thinker (1907–1995)
September 14 · Solomon Asch, Polish-American psychologist (1907-1996)
September 15 · Fay Wray, actress (1907-2004)
September 22 · Maurice Blanchot, French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist (1907–2003)
September 29 · Gene Autry, American actor and singer (1907–1998)
September 29 · Hans Martin Sutermeister, Swiss physician writer (1907-1977)

October

October 2 · Víctor Paz Estenssoro, 45th President of Bolivia
October 8 · Polina Osipenko, Soviet aviator
October 9 · Horst Wessel, SA officer (1907-1930)
October 16 · Roger Vailland, French writer (1907–1965)
October 20 · Arlene Francis, American actress and television host (1907–2001)
October 22 · Emilie Schindler, Sudetenland-German who helped save lives during the Holocaust, wife of Oskar Schindler (1907-2001)

November

November 13 · Sisavang Vatthana, Prime Minister of Laos (1907-1978)
November 18 · Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (1907-2003)
November 19 · Run Run Shaw, Hong Kong entertainment mogul and philanthropist (1907-2014)
November 20 · Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director, screenwriter and producer (1907–1977)
November 22 · Dora Maar, French photographer and painter (1907–1997)
November 30 · Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Portuguese-French artist

December

December 5 · Lin Biao, Chinese Communist military commander and politician
December 6 · Giovanni Ferrari, Italian footballer (1907–1982)
December 10 · Lucien Laurent, French footballer (1907-2005)
December 22 · Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (1907-1991)
December 25 · Cab Calloway, American jazz singer (1907–1994)
December 27 · Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and author (1907–1999)

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