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1907 births
- Jean BeaufretJean Beaufret was born on the 22nd of May 1907 in Auzances, a small town in central France, and he would spend his life building a bridge between French…
- Katharine HepburnKatharine Hepburn won four Academy Awards for Best Actress, a record no one else has matched. She wore trousers before women commonly did.
- HergéGeorges Prosper Remi signed the first 500 copies of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets using the signature of his own fictional creation.
- John WayneMarion Robert Morrison weighed thirteen pounds when he was born at 224 South Second Street in Winterset, Iowa, on the 26th of May 1907.
- Laurence OlivierLaurence Kerr Olivier was born on the 22nd of May 1907 in Dorking, Surrey, the youngest child of a nomadic Church of England clergyman who never quite found…
- W. H. AudenW. H. Auden died on the 29th of September 1973 in a Vienna hotel room, a few hours after reading his poems aloud at the Palais Pálffy.
- L. Sprague de Camp"My own true name sounds more like a pseudonym than most pseudonyms do," L. Sprague de Camp said, explaining why he rarely used pen names.
- Paul NitzePaul Henry Nitze was born on the 16th of January 1907 in Amherst, Massachusetts. His parents were both of German descent and his father worked as a professor…
- Astrid LindgrenAstrid Lindgren was born on the 14th of November 1907 in Näs, near Vimmerby, in the Swedish province of Småland. By the time she died, on the 28th of January…
- Frederick CoplestonFrederick Charles Copleston was born on the 10th of April 1907 in the parish of Trull, near Taunton in Somerset, and he would go on to write one of the most…
- Lucien LaurentLucien Laurent scored the most historically significant goal in the history of football, and almost nobody at the time understood what they had just…