Timeline February 1907

Events in February 1907 7

• 1834 – 1907 Dmitri Mendeleev (1834-1907) Died 2 February 1907, aged 72 Russian chemist who created the periodic table of elements, arranging them by atomic weight and predicting the properties of then-undiscovered elements. His system became the foundation of modern chemistry. He died in Saint Petersburg.
• 1835 – 1907 Giosue Carducci (1835-1907) Died 16 February 1907, aged 71 Italian poet and the first Italian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in 1906 for his mastery of classical and civic verse. He was also a scholar and professor at the University of Bologna. He died in Bologna.
• 1907 The Romanian Peasants' Revolt Suppressed by the army Peasants across Moldavia and Wallachia rise against the arendasi, the leaseholders who worked estates on the landowners' behalf, and against terms of tenancy that had barely moved since serfdom. The government calls out the army and shells villages. Contemporary accounts put the dead at around eleven thousand, though the figure is disputed and may be considerably lower. Land reform is promised and largely not delivered until after the First World War.
• 1907 – 1994 Cesar Romero (1907-1994) American actor and dancer, the Cisco Kid and the Joker in Batman.
• 1907 Cesar Romero born in New York Cesar Romero is born in New York.
• 1907 – 1998 Robert Young (1907-1998) American actor, the father in Father Knows Best and the doctor in Marcus Welby, M.D.
• 1907 Robert Young born in Chicago Robert Young is born in Chicago.