List of Famous people who died in 1907

Edmonia Lewis

First Name Edmonia
Died on September 17, 1907

Mary Edmonia Lewis, "Wildfire", was an African-American sculptor, of mixed African-American and Native American (Ojibwe) heritage. Born free in Upstate New York, she worked for most of her career in Rome, Italy. She was the first African-American sculptor to achieve national and then international prominence. She began to gain prominence in the United States during the Civil War; at the end of the 19th century, she remained the only Black woman artist who had participated in and been recognized to any extent by the American artistic mainstream. In 2002, the scholar Molefi Kete Asante named Edmonia Lewis on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.

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William Henry Perkin

First Name William
Last Name Perkin
Born on March 12, 1838
Died on July 14, 1907 (aged 69)

Sir William Henry Perkin, was a British chemist and entrepreneur best known for his serendipitous discovery of the first synthetic organic dye, mauveine, made from aniline. Though he failed in trying to synthesise quinine for the treatment of malaria, he became successful in the field of dyes after his first discovery at the age of 18.

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Dmitri Mendeleev

Дмитрій Ивановичъ Менделѣевъ
First Name Dmitri
Died on January 20, 1907

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a Russian chemist and inventor. He is best remembered for formulating the Periodic Law and creating a farsighted version of the periodic table of elements. He used the Periodic Law not only to correct the then-accepted properties of some known elements, such as the valence and atomic weight of uranium, but also to predict the properties of eight elements that were yet to be discovered.

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Paula Modersohn-Becker

Paula Becker
First Name Paula
Last Name Modersohn-Becker
Born on February 8, 1876
Died on November 30, 1907 (aged 31)
Born in Germany, Saxony

Paula Modersohn-Becker was a German painter and one of the most important representatives of early expressionism. Her brief career was cut short when she died from postpartum embolism at the age of 31. She is recognized as the first known female painter to paint nude self-portraits. She was an important member of the artistic movement of modernism at the start of the twentieth century.

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Edmund Pettus

First Name Edmund
Last Name Pettus
Born on July 6, 1821
Died on July 27, 1907 (aged 86)

Edmund Winston Pettus was an American politician who represented Alabama in the United States Senate from 1897 to 1907. He served as a senior officer of the Confederate States Army, commanding infantry in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. After the war, he was politically active in the Ku Klux Klan, serving as a Grand Dragon.

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Jordan Anderson

First Name Jordan
Last Name Anderson
Born on November 30, 1825
Died on April 15, 1907 (aged 81)

Jordan Anderson or Jourdon Anderson was an African-American and former slave noted for an 1865 letter he dictated, known as "Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master". It was addressed to his former master, Colonel P. H. Anderson, in response to the Colonel's request that Mr. Anderson return to the plantation to help restore the farm after the disarray of the war. It has been described as a rare example of documented "slave humor" of the period and its deadpan style has been compared to the satire of Mark Twain.

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Galusha A. Grow

First Name Galusha
Last Name Grow
Born on August 31, 1822
Died on March 31, 1907 (aged 84)

Galusha Aaron Grow was a prominent American politician, lawyer, writer and businessman, who served as 24th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1861 to 1863. Elected as a Democrat in the 1850 congressional elections, he switched to the newly-organized Republican Party in the mid-1850s when the Democratic Party tried to force the extension of slavery into western territories.

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Ekaterina Svanidze

First Name Ekaterina
Born on April 2, 1885
Died on December 5, 1907 (aged 22)

Ekaterine "Kato" Svanidze was the first wife of Joseph Stalin and the mother of his eldest son, Yakov.

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Eva Nansen

Eva Helene Sars
First Name Eva
Last Name Nansen
Born on December 17, 1858
Died on December 9, 1907 (aged 48)
Born in Norway

Eva Helene Nansen was a celebrated Norwegian mezzo-soprano singer. She was also a pioneer of women's skiing.

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Benjamin Franklin Tilley

First Name Benjamin
Last Name Tilley
Born on March 29, 1848
Died on March 18, 1907 (aged 58)

Benjamin Franklin Tilley, often known as B. F. Tilley, was a career officer in the United States Navy who served from the end of the American Civil War through the Spanish–American War. He is best remembered as the first acting governor of American Samoa as well as the territory's first naval governor.

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