About the day » Wednesday December 4, 1907Calender converter

• Adriaan van Doesburg, Tiel
• Kamerman, Andel († 1907)
• Age Geert Hoekstra, Haarlem († 1989)
• Alphonse Constance Danielle BAUMGARTEN, Soerabaja,Ned.Indië († 1985)
• Adelaide Margarida Fleischmann, Itajaí, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1995)
• Alida Cornelia Maria Vollebregt, Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes van Adrichem, Vlaardinger-Ambacht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1983)
• Albert Schonewille, Eickel Gelsenkirchen, Duitsland († 1951)
• Anna Theresia van den Oudenhoven, Oudenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1987)
• Albert T Monson, Kansas († 1979)

• Aaltje Siertsema (45), Groningen
• Angelina Van Roey (74), Herenthout, België
• Adriana Pauw (17), Buiksloot
• Anna Mechtilde Ruhr gnt. Eickelkamp (44), ...Rheinland
• Anna Alida Maria Cornelisse (0), Uitgeest, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Hamer (62), Ermelo, Nederland
• Pieter Simon Zijlmans (63), Haarlemmermeer
• Anna Barbara Lenssen (0), Kerkrade (L
• Amand Constant BONNET (54), Bergues... Hauts de France
• Antoinetta Vertommen (63), Brussel-Elsene

• 1899 » Karl-Günther Heimsoth, German physician and politician († 1934)
• 1903 » Cornell Woolrich, American author († 1968)
• 1904 » Albert Norden, German journalist and politician († 1982)
• 1908 » Alfred Hershey, American bacteriologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1910 » Alex North, American composer and conductor († 1991)
• 1910 » R. Venkataraman, Indian lawyer and politician, 6th President of India († 2009)
• 1912 » Pappy Boyington, American colonel and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient († 1988)
• 1913 » Mark Robson, Canadian-American director and producer († 1978)
• 1914 » Claude Renoir, French cinematographer († 1993)
• 1914 » Rudolf Hausner, Austrian painter and sculptor († 1995)

• 1893 » John Tyndall, Irish-English physicist and chemist (b. 1820)
• 1897 » Griffith Rhys Jones, Welsh conductor (b. 1834)
• 1902 » Charles Dow, American journalist and publisher, co-founded the Dow Jones & Company (b. 1851)
• 1926 » Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (b. 1861)
• 1933 » Stefan George, German-Swiss poet and translator (b. 1868)
• 1935 » Charles Richet, French physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)
• 1935 » Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1864)
• 1938 » Tamanishiki San'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 32nd Yokozuna (b. 1903)
• 1942 » Fritz Löhner-Beda, Jewish Austrian librettist, lyricist and writer (b. 1883)
• 1942 » Juhan Kukk, Estonian politician, 3rd Head of State of Estonia (b. 1885)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
• January 6 » Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
• August 3 » Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.
• August 9 » The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
• August 15 » Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
• December 16 » The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world.
• December 21 » The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in Iquique, Chile.

The temperature on December 4, 1907 was between 0.8 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.