Calendar of Literary Facts
1907
- Ivan Pavlov conducts experiments focusing upon conditioned responses
- Rudyard Kipling receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Maxim Gorky publishes Mat’ (Mother)
- Ferenc Molnar publishes Pal utcai fiuk
- Henry Adams publishes The Education of Henry Adams
- J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World is produced
- Thomas Mofolo publishes Moetti oa bochabela (The Traveller of the East)
- Gunnar Ekeloef is born
- The first exhibition of Cubist paintings is mounted in Paris
- Lord Baden-Powell founds the Boy Scouts in England
- Louis Lumière develops the technology for color photography
- Henri Bergson publishes L’Evolution creatrice (Creative Evolution)
- Alfred Jarry dies (November 1)
- Joseph Kramm is born (September 3)
- James A. Michener is born (February 3)
- Jacques Roumain is born (June 4)
- Sully Prudhomme dies (September 7)
- Helen MacInnes is born (October 7)
- Robert A. Heinlein is born (July 7)
- Louis MacNeice is born (September 12)
- Daphne Du Maurier is born (May 13)
- René Char is born (June 14)
- Giosuè Carducci dies (February 16)
- Christopher Fry is born (December 18)
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich dies (March 19)
- Hugh MacLennan is born (March 20)
- W. H. Auden is born (February 21)
- Mary Chase is born (February 25)
- Rachel Carson is born (May 27)
- Alberto Pincherle is born (November 28)
