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Frida Kahlo
Mexican painter (1907–1954)
Katharine Hepburn
American actress (1907–2003)
John Wayne
American actor (1907–1979)
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Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays (1907–2002)
Rachel Carson
American marine biologist and conservationist (1907–1964)
Robert A. Heinlein
American author and aeronautical engineer (1907–1988)
Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian architect (1907–2012)
W. H. Auden
British-American poet (1907–1973)
Laurence Olivier
English actor and director (1907–1989)
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Japanese theoretical physicist (1907-1981)
Alberto Moravia
Italian writer and journalist (1907-1990)
Barbara Stanwyck
American actress (1907–1990)
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
German aristocrat, army officer and resistance fighter (1907-1944)
J. Hans D. Jensen
German nuclear physicist (1907–1973)
Daphne du Maurier
British writer (1907–1989)
Mircea Eliade
Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago (1907–1986)
Ayub Khan
President of Pakistan from 1958 to 1969
Hergé
Georges Prosper Remi (; 22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983), known by the pen name Hergé ( ; ), from the French pronunciation of his reversed initials RG, was a Belgian comic strip artist. He is best known for creating The Adventures of Tintin, the series of comic albums that are considered one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century. He was also responsible for two other well-known series, Quick & Flupke (1930–1940) and The Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko (1936–1957). His works were executed in his distinctive ligne claire drawing style.
Burgess Meredith
American actor (1907–1997)
Edwin McMillan
American physicist (1907-1991)
Daniel Bovet
Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist (1907–1992)
Cesar Romero
American actor (1907–1994)
Niko Tinbergen
Dutch Zoologist, ethologist (1907-1988)
Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd
British biochemist (1907-1997)
François Duvalier
40th President of the Republic of Haiti (1907-1971)
Jacques Tati
French filmmaker (1907-1982)
Fred Zinnemann
Austrian film director (1907-1997)
Varlam Shalamov
Soviet writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor
Ray Milland
Welsh-American actor and film director (1907–1986)
Lin Biao
Chinese Communist military commander and politician
Bhagat Singh
Indian revolutionary (1907–1931)
Baldur von Schirach
German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1907-1974)
Konstantinos Karamanlis
Prime Minister of Greece intermittently between 1955–80, President from 1980–85, 1990–95
Rosalind Russell
American actress (1907–1976)
Peggy Ashcroft
British actress (1907-1991)
Ramon Magsaysay
president of the Philippines from 1953 to 1957
Takeo Wakabayashi
Japanese association football player (1907-1937)
James A. Michener
American author (1907-1997)
Fay Wray
actress (1907-2004)
Ernesto Geisel
military and president of Brazil (1974–1979)
Lars Ahlfors
Finnish mathematician (1907-1996)
René Char
French poet (1907–1988)
Lee Miller
American photographer and photojournalist (1907–1977)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
French film director, screenwriter and producer (1907–1977)
Miklós Rózsa
Hungarian-American composer (1907–1995)
Maurice Blanchot
French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist (1907–2003)
Horst Wessel
Horst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel was a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party, who became a propaganda symbol in Nazi Germany following his murder in 1930 by two members of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). After his death, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels elevated him into a martyr for the Nazi Party.
Pierre Mendès France
French politician (1907-1982)
Le Duan
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (1907-1986)
Takeo Miki
Japanese politician (1907-1988)
Yang Shangkun
4th President of the People's Republic of China (1907–1998)
U Nu
Burmese nationalist and political figure (1907-1995)
Cab Calloway
American jazz singer (1907–1994)
Yakov Dzhugashvili
first child of Josef Stalin (1907–1943)
Gene Autry
American actor and singer (1907–1998)
Lucien Laurent
French footballer (1907-2005)
Jack Albertson
American actor (1907–1981)
Frank Whittle
British Royal Air Force engineer air officer (1907–1996)
Erich Mielke
German politician (1907-2000)