About the day » Sunday March 17, 1907Calender converter

• Aaltje Jacoba Letteboer, Borne
• Aaltje Jacoba Letteboer
• Alfred van de Vuurst, Osterfeld (bij Sterkrade Dtsl.) († 1970)
• Alberta Johanna Bruns, Amsterdam,Amsterdam,Noord-Holland,Nederland († 1907)
• Agatha Maria de Vries, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Heesters, Haaren († 1907)
• Adriana de Nies, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Wieringa, Sneek
• Aart KAPPETIJN, Bergambacht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1963)
• Adam Wijnands, Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1912)

• Abraham Crayé (54), Haarlem,Gemeente Haarlem,North Holland,Netherlands
• Aart van Veen (46), Culemborg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Hendrikus Hoevers (0), Utrecht
• Anna Duckers (1), Urmond (Stein), Limburg, Nederland
• Andries Christoffel Johannes de Wilde (79), Utrecht
• Antje Jans Mulder (83), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Willemse (2), Wateringen, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannis Otto Groeneveld (56), Soerabaja
• Aaltje Faber (77), Sneek, Nederland
• Adriana Aalberts (1), Valburg, Nederland

• 1901 » Alfred Newman, American composer and conductor († 1970)
• 1902 » Bobby Jones, American golfer and lawyer († 1971)
• 1904 » Chaim Gross, Austrian-American sculptor and educator († 1991)
• 1906 » Brigitte Helm, German-Swiss actress († 1996)
• 1907 » Jean Van Houtte, Belgian academic and politician, 50th Prime Minister of Belgium († 1991)
• 1907 » Takeo Miki, Japanese politician, 41st Prime Minister of Japan († 1988)
• 1910 » Sonny Werblin, American businessman and philanthropist († 1991)
• 1912 » Bayard Rustin, American activist († 1987)
• 1914 » Sammy Baugh, American football player and coach († 2008)
• 1915 » Robert S. Arbib Jr., American ornithologist, writer and conservationist († 1987)

• 1871 » Robert Chambers, Scottish geologist and publisher, co-founded Chambers Harrap (b. 1802)
• 1875 » Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1832)
• 1893 » Jules Ferry, French lawyer and politician, 44th Prime Minister of France (b. 1832)
• 1917 » Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (b. 1838)
• 1926 » Aleksei Brusilov, Georgian-Russian general (b. 1853)
• 1937 » Austen Chamberlain, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
• 1940 » Philomène Belliveau, Canadian artist (b. 1854)
• 1946 » Dai Li, Chinese general (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Aleksandra Ekster, Russian-French painter and set designer (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Fred Allen, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and author (b. 1894)

• 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.
• January 14 » An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000 people.
• July 7 » Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
• August 9 » The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
• October 9 » Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
• December 21 » The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in Iquique, Chile.

The temperature on March 17, 1907 was between 3.5 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.