About the day » Saturday May 18, 1907Calender converter

• Albert Lawrence Fröling, Chicago († 1968)
• "Alain" Henri Marie Charles Guillet de Chatellus († 1987)
• Alida Maria de Wind, Schoondijke, Zld, NL
• Huber, Leeuwarden
• Albartus Jan van Druten, Tiel († 1907)
• Adrianus ZANDBERGEN, Leiderdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Amália Beatriz Cruz da Costa, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil († 1977)
• Abraham KARELS, Herkingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1977)
• Johanna Maria Schel(Huijberts), Nuland
• Albert Edward WALKER, Sandridge, St Albans, Hertfordshire († 1989)

• Adriana van Dam (56), Zeist
• Bernardus Renders (60), Geel, 2440, België
• Berhard Anton Effting (62), Vargem do Cedro, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Agnes Henderson (90), Aln St, Oamaru, Otago, New Zealand
• Andries Rietveld (76), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Mulder (11), Groningen
• Aaltjen Weerts (83), Dedemsvaart
• Albertus Schaller (68), Delft
• Adriana van Dam (57), Zeist
• Aaltje Pepping (57)

• 1902 » Meredith Willson, American playwright and composer († 1984)
• 1904 » Jacob K. Javits, American colonel and politician, 58th New York Attorney General († 1986)
• 1904 » Shunryū Suzuki, Japanese-American monk and educator († 1971)
• 1905 » Hedley Verity, English cricketer and soldier († 1943)
• 1905 » Ruth Alexander, pioneering American pilot († 1930)
• 1907 » Irene Hunt, American author and educator († 2001)
• 1909 » Fred Perry, English-Australian tennis player and academic († 1995)
• 1910 » Ester Boserup, Danish economist and author († 1999)
• 1911 » Big Joe Turner, American blues/R&B singer († 1985)
• 1912 » Richard Brooks, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1992)

• 1889 » Isabella Glyn, Scottish-English actress (b. 1823)
• 1900 » Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, French archaeologist and philosopher (b. 1813)
• 1908 » Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1823)
• 1909 » George Meredith, English novelist and poet (b. 1828)
• 1909 » Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author and publisher (b. 1841)
• 1910 » Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (b. 1821)
• 1911 » Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1860)
• 1922 » Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1941 » Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (b. 1863)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacobus
10. Adrianus
11. Jacob
12. Wilhelmus
13. Dirk
14. Hendrikus
15. Arie
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Jacoba
11. Petronella
12. Aaltje
13. Grietje
14. Geertruida
15. Neeltje
16. Helena

• 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.
• July 21 » The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.
• 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 17 » Pike Place Market, a popular tourist destination and registered historic district in Seattle, opened.
• September 29 » The cornerstone is laid at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) in Washington, D.C.
• October 27 » Fifteen people are killed in Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration.
• December 6 » A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.

The temperature on May 18, 1907 was between 1.8 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.