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Events from the year 1907 in the United Kingdom.
[edit] Events
- Rudyard Kipling wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author". [1]
[edit] Births
- 22 January - Dixie Dean, footballer (d. 1980)
- 26 January - Henry Cotton, golfer (d. 1987)
- 21 February - W. H. Auden, poet (d. 1973)
- 18 March - John Zachary Young, biologist (d. 1997)
- 24 April - William Sargant, psychiatrist (d. 1988)
- 13 May - Daphne du Maurier, author (d. 1989)
- 22 May - Sir Laurence Olivier, actor and director (d. 1989)
- 14 June - Nicolas Bentley, writer and illustrator (d. 1978)
- 23 June - James Meade, economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
- 27 July - Richard Beesly, Olympic gold medal rower (d. 1965)
- 13 August - Viscount William Waldorf Astor, politician (d. 1966)
- 12 September - Louis MacNeice, poet (d. 1963)
- 2 October - Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
- 9 October - Lord Hailsham, politician (d. 2001)
[edit] Deaths
[edit] References
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1907
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