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Decades:

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·       1920s

·       1930s

Years:

·       1907

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·       1910

·       1911

·       1912

·       1913

 

1910 by topic

Subject

·       Archaeology

·       Architecture

·       Art

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·       Awards

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·       Film

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·       Poetry

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·       Science

·       Sports

·       Television

By country

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·       Norway

·       Ottoman Syria

·       Philippines

·       Russia

·       South Africa

·       Spain

·       Sweden

·       United Kingdom

·       United States

Lists of leaders

·       Sovereign states

·       Sovereign state leaders

·       Territorial governors

·       Religious leaders

·       Law

Birth and death categories

·       Births

·       Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

·       Establishments

·       Disestablishments

Works category

·       Works

·       Introductions

·       v

·       t

·       e

 

1910 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar

1910
MCMX

Ab urbe condita

2663

Armenian calendar

1359
ԹՎ ՌՅԾԹ

Assyrian calendar

6660

Bahα'ν calendar

66–67

Balinese saka calendar

1831–1832

Bengali calendar

1317

Berber calendar

2860

British Regnal year

10 Edw. 7 – 1 Geo. 5

Buddhist calendar

2454

Burmese calendar

1272

Byzantine calendar

7418–7419

Chinese calendar

己酉 (Earth Rooster)
4606 or 4546
    — to —
庚戌年 (Metal Dog)
4607 or 4547

Coptic calendar

1626–1627

Discordian calendar

3076

Ethiopian calendar

1902–1903

Hebrew calendar

5670–5671

Hindu calendars

 - Vikram Samvat

1966–1967

 - Shaka Samvat

1831–1832

 - Kali Yuga

5010–5011

Holocene calendar

11910

Igbo calendar

910–911

Iranian calendar

1288–1289

Islamic calendar

1327–1329

Japanese calendar

Meiji 43
(明治43年)

Javanese calendar

1839–1840

Juche calendar

N/A

Julian calendar

Gregorian minus 13 days

Korean calendar

4243

Minguo calendar

2 before ROC
民前2

Nanakshahi calendar

442

Thai solar calendar

2452–2453

Tibetan calendar

阴土鸡年
(female Earth-Rooster)
2036 or 1655 or 883
    — to —
阳金狗年
(male Iron-Dog)
2037 or 1656 or 884

 

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1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1910th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 910th year of the 2nd millennium, the 10th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1910, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Contents

·       1Events

·       2Births

·       3Deaths

·       4Nobel Prizes

·       5References

Events[edit]

January[edit]

Main article: January 1910

·       January 10–20 – The first aviation meeting to be held in the United States, the 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field, is held near Los Angeles.

·       January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.

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Halley's Comet's tail

February[edit]

Main article: February 1910

·       February 8 – William D. Boyce founds the Boy Scouts of America.

·       February 10 – Old Trafford opens to the public.

·       February 20 – Boutros Ghali, the first native-born prime minister of Egypt, is assassinated.

March[edit]

Main article: March 1910

·       March – An uprising against Ottoman rule breaks out in Albania.

·       March 8 – In FranceRaymonde de Laroche is awarded Pilot's License #36 by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, becoming the first woman authorized to fly an airplane.[1]

·       March 10 – Slavery in China, which has existed since the Shang Dynasty, is now made illegal.

·       March 18 – The first filmed version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein comes out. Considered to be the first horror movie, it stars actor Charles Ogle as the monster.

·       March 27 – A fire during a barn-dance in ΦkφritσfόlpφsHungary kills 312.

April[edit]

Main article: April 1910

·       April 20 – Comet Halley is visible from Earth (its next visit will be in 1986).

May[edit]

Main article: May 1910

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May 6King George V

·       May 6 – George V becomes King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland upon the death of his father, Edward VII.

·       May 12 – The second NAACP meeting is held in New York, New York.

·       May 18 – The Earth passes through the tail of Halley's Comet.

·       May 31 – The Union of South Africa is created.

June[edit]

Main article: June 1910

·       June 6 – The Holland Dakota Landbouw Compagnie is established. [1] 6 June 1910, page 7, Middelburgsche Courant, Krantenbank, Zeeland

·       June 15 – British ship Terra Nova leaves London, on its way toward an Antarctic expedition.

·       June 22 – DELAG Zeppelin dirigible Deutschland makes the first commercial passenger flight, from Friedrichshafen to Dόsseldorf in Germany; the flight takes 9 hours.

·       June 25 – The ballet The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu), the first major work by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, commissioned by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, is premiθred in Paris, bringing the composer international fame.[2]

July[edit]

Main article: July 1910

·       July 4 – African-American boxer Jack Johnson defeats white American boxer James J. Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking race riots across the United States.

·       July 22 – A wireless telegraph sent from the SS Montrose results in the identification, arrest and execution of murderer Dr. Hawley Crippen.

·       July 24 – Ottoman forces capture the city of Shkodλr to put down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.

August[edit]

Main article: August 1910

·       August – The Pan-American Union is formed.

·       August 14 – A fire at the Brussels International 1910 destroys exhibitions of Britain and France.

·       August 22 – The Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty is signed (it becomes null and void in 1965).

·       August 28 – Montenegro is proclaimed an independent kingdom, under Nicholas I.

·       August 29 – Emperor Sunjong of Korea abdicates, and the country's monarchy is abolished.

September[edit]

Main article: September 1910

·       September 1

·       The Vatican introduces a compulsory oath against modernism (Sacrorum antistitum), to be taken by all priests upon ordination.

·       Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, the first Fifa World Club Championship club, is founded in Brazil by railwaymen.

October[edit]

Main article: October 1910

·       October – Infrared photographs are first published by Professor Robert Williams Wood, in the Royal Photographic Society's journal.

·       October 5 – 5 October 1910 revolution: The First Portuguese Republic is proclaimed in Lisbon; King Manuel II of Portugal flees to England.

·       October 10 – Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity is founded at Columbia University in New York, New York.

·       October 20 – The hull of RMS Olympic is launched, at the Harland and Wolff Shipyards in Belfast.

·       October 23

·       Vajiravudh (Rama VI) is crowned King of Siam, after the death of his father, King Chulalongkorn (Rama V).

·       The Philadelphia Athletics defeat the Chicago Cubs, 7–2, to win the 1910 World Series in Game 5 (Jack Coombs had been the winning pitcher in three of the Athletics' four wins).

November[edit]

Main article: November 1910

·       November 7 – The first air flight for the purpose of delivering commercial freight takes place in the United States. The flight, made by Wright brothers pilot Philip Parmalee, is between Dayton and Columbus, Ohio.

·       November 14 – In the first takeoff from a ship by a fixed-wing aircraft, Eugene Ely takes off from a temporary platform erected over the bow of the light cruiser USS Birmingham in Hampton Roads, Virginia.

·       November 20 – The Mexican Revolution begins, when Francisco I. Madero proclaims the elections of 1910 null and void, and calls for an armed revolution at 6 p.m. against the illegitimate presidency/dictatorship of Porfirio Dνaz.

·       November 22 – Revolt of the Lash at Rio de Janeiro: Mutineers in the Brazilian Navy, led by Joγo Cβndido Felisberto, seize control of the new dreadnoughtbattleship Minas Geraes, and other ships whose guns are aimed at the city, as the crews demand improvements in their conditions (which are conceded on November 26 by the Brazilian government).

·       November 23 – Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.

December[edit]

Main article: December 1910

·       December – A form of pneumonic plague spreads through northeastern China, killing more than 40,000.[3][4][5]

·       December 3 – Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.

Date unknown[edit]

·       The electric streetcars of Austria-Hungary, France, Germany and Great Britain are carrying 6.7 million riders per year.

·       Henry Ford sells 10,000 automobiles.

Births[edit]

January[edit]

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Trygve Bratteli

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Django Reinhardt

·       January 1

·       Frank Bogert, American actor, professional rodeo announcer and politician (d. 2009)

·       Koesbini, Indonesian composer (d. 1991)

·       January 4

·       Josephine McKim, American Olympic swimmer (d. 1992)

·       Hilde Schrader, German swimmer (d. 1966)

·       January 5 – Jack Lovelock, New Zealand Olympic athlete (d. 1949)

·       January 6

·       Kid Chocolate, Cuban boxer (d. 1988)

·       Wright Morris, American novelist, photographer and essayist (d. 1998)

·       January 8 – Galina Ulanova, Russian dancer (d. 1998)

·       January 10

·       Alioune Diop, Senegalese writer, editor (d. 1980)

·       Allal al-Fassi, Moroccan politician, writer, poet and Islamic scholar (d. 1974)

·       January 11 – Trygve Bratteli, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1984)

·       January 12 – Luise Rainer, German-born actress (d. 2014)

·       January 16 – Mario Tobino, Italian poet, writer and psychiatrist (d. 1991)

·       January 21 – Kαroly Takαcs, Hungarian Olympic shooter (d. 1976)

·       January 23 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian jazz musician (d. 1953)

·       January 25 – Edgar V. Saks, Estonian statesman, historian (d. 1984)

·       January 27 – Edvard Kardelj, Yugoslav political leader, partisan (d. 1979)

·       January 28

·       John Banner, Austrian film, television actor (d. 1973)

·       Arnold Moss, American actor (d. 1989)

February[edit]

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Princess Eugιnie of Greece and Denmark

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William Shockley

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Joan Bennett

·       February 2 – David Sharpe, American actor, stunt performer (d. 1980)

·       February 5 – Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer (d. 2010)

·       February 9 – Jacques Monod, French biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)

·       February 10

·       Princess Eugιnie of Greece and Denmark (d. 1989)

·       Georges Pire, Belgian monk, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969)

·       Sofia Vembo, Greek singer, actress (d. 1978)

·       February 13 – William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)

·       February 15 – Irena Sendler, Polish humanitarian (d. 2008)

·       February 17

·       Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (d. 1979)

·       Marc Lawrence, American actor (d. 2005)

·       Kothamangalam Seenu, Tamil actor, Carnatic music singer (d. 2001)

·       February 21 – Douglas Bader, British fighter pilot (d. 1982)

·       February 22 – Vaughn Taylor, American actor (d. 1983)

·       February 27

·       Joan Bennett, American actress (d. 1990)

·       Genrikh Kasparyan, Armenian chess player, composer (d. 1995)

March[edit]

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David Niven

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Tancredo Neves

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Akira Kurosawa

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Ingrid of Sweden

·       March 1

·       Archer Martin, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)

·       David Niven, British actor (d. 1983)

·       March 4 – Tancredo NevesPresident of Brazil (d. 1985)

·       March 5

·       Momofuku Ando, Japanese inventor, businessman (d. 2007)

·       Ennio Flaiano, Italian screenwriter, playwright, novelist, journalist and drama critic (d. 1972)

·       March 7 – Will Glickman, American playwright (d. 1983)

·       March 8 – Claire Trevor, American actress (d. 2000)

·       March 9 – Samuel Barber, American composer (d. 1981)

·       March 11

·       Robert Havemann, German chemist (d. 1982)

·       Jacinta Marto, Portuguese, beatified (d. 1920)

·       March 12 – Masayoshi ŌhiraPrime Minister of Japan (d. 1980)

·       March 13 – Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985)

·       March 23 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese screenwriter, producer, and director (d. 1998)

·       March 24 – Sailor Malan, South African Battle of Britain fighter pilot (d. 1963)

·       March 25 – Magda Olivero, Italian soprano (d. 2014)

·       March 28 – Ingrid of SwedenQueen consort of Denmark (d. 2000)

·       March 31 – Edward Seago, British artist (d. 1974)

April[edit]

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Harry Carney

·       April 1 – Harry Carney, American jazz musician (d. 1974)

·       April 2 – Chico Xavier, Brazilian medium (d. 2002)

·       April 4 – Barthιlemy Boganda, Central African politician (d. 1959)

·       April 6 – Barys Kit, Belarusian scientist (d. 2018)

·       April 9 – Nouhak Phoumsavanh, 3rd President of Laos (d. 2008)

·       April 10 – Paul Sweezy, American economist, editor (d. 2004)

·       April 11 – Antσnio de Spνnola, 14th President of Portugal (d. 1996)

·       April 12

·       Gillo Dorfles, Italian art critic, painter and philosopher (d. 2018)

·       Irma Rapuzzi, French politician (d. 2018)

·       April 20 – Brigitte Mira, German actress (d. 2005)

·       April 22 – Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 2001)

·       April 23 – Simone Simon, French actress (d. 2005)

·       April 24 – Pupella Maggio, Italian actress (d. 1999)

·       April 26 – Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese film producer (d. 1997)

·       April 27

·       Chiang Ching-kuoPresident of the Republic of China (d. 1988)

·       Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli, 2-time President of Brazil (d. 1975)

·       April 30 – Levi Celerio, Filipino composer, lyricist (d. 2002)

May[edit]

·       May 1

·       J. Allen Hynek, American astronomer, ufologist (d. 1986)

·       Mary Rockefeller, American heiress, socialite and philanthropist (d. 1997)

·       May 6 – June Gittelson, American film actress (d. 1993)

·       May 12

·       Johan Ferrier, 1st President of Suriname (d. 2010)

·       Dorothy Hodgkin, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)

·       Giulietta Simionato, Italian mezzo-soprano (d. 2010)

·       May 14 – Ne Win, 4th President of Burma (d. 2002)

·       May 23

·       Scatman Crothers, African-American actor, musician (d. 1986)

·       Artie Shaw, American clarinetist, bandleader (d. 2004)

·       May 25 – Edward Harrison, English cricketer, squash player (d. 2002)

·       May 28

·       Rachel Kempson, English actress (d. 2003)

·       T-Bone Walker, American singer (d. 1975)

·       May 29 – Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978)

·       May 30 – Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004)

June[edit]

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Robert Cummings

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Jacques-Yves Cousteau

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Juan Velasco Alvarado

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Paul Flory

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Konrad Zuse

·       June 1 – Gyula Kαllai, 48th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1996)

·       June 4 – Christopher Cockerell, British engineer, inventor of the Hovercraft (d. 1999)

·       June 9 – Robert Cummings, American actor (d. 1990)

·       June 10

·       Armen Takhtajan, Soviet-Armenian botanist (d. 2009)

·       Howlin' Wolf, African-American blues musician (d. 1976)

·       Ted Richmond, American film producer (d. 2013)

·       June 11 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French naval officer, explorer (d. 1997)

·       June 13 – Mary Wickes, American actress (d. 1995)

·       June 14

·       Rudolf Kempe, German conductor (d. 1976)

·       J. Harold Smith, American pastor, evangelist (d. 2001)

·       June 15 – Suleiman Frangieh, 10th President of Lebanon (d. 1992)

·       June 16 – Juan Velasco Alvarado, military President of Peru (d. 1977)

·       June 17 – Red Foley, American country music singer, musician (d. 1968)

·       June 19

·       Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)

·       Abe FortasAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1982)

·       June 22

·       Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986)

·       Anne Ziegler, English singer (d. 2003)

·       Konrad Zuse, German engineer (d. 1995)

·       June 23

·       Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (d. 1987)

·       Lydia Delectorskaya, Russian refugee, model (d. 1998)

·       Gordon B. Hinckley, American Mormon religious leader (d. 2008)

·       June 25 – Ian McTaggart-Cowan, Scottish-Canadian zoologist (d. 2010)

·       June 26

·       Margaret Dunning, American philanthropist (d. 2015)

·       Roy J. Plunkett, American chemist noted for discovering Teflon (d. 1994)

·       June 27 – Pierre Joubert, French illustrator (d. 2001)

·       June 28 – Ingrid Luterkort, Swedish actress, stage director (d. 2011)

July[edit]

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William Hanna

·       July 1 – Radcliffe Killam, American oilman, rancher, businessman, and philanthropist (d. 2007)

·       July 2 – Louise Laroche, one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 151912 (d. 1998)

·       July 4 – Gloria Stuart, American actress (d. 2010)

·       July 5 – S. Poniman, Indonesian singer, actor (d. 1978)

·       July 6

·       John Knott, Australian public servant (d. 1999)

·       Renι Le Grθves, French cyclist (d. 1946)

·       July 8 – Carlos Betances Ramνrez, first Puerto Rican to command a battalion in the Korean War (d. 2001)

·       July 9 – Govan Mbeki, South African anti-apartheid activist, politician (d. 2001)

·       July 10

·       Nguyễn Hữu Thọ, Vietnamese politician (d. 1996)

·       Ne Win, Burmese politician, military commander (d. 2002)

·       July 11

·       Sally Blane, American actress (d. 1997)

·       John Stapp, American career U.S. Air Force officer, flight surgeon, physician and biophysicist (d. 1999)

·       July 12

·       Samuel Hazard Gillespie, Jr., American counsel (d. 2011)

·       Laszlo Szapαry, Austrian sports shooter (d. 1998)

·       July 13 – Loongkoonan, Australian indigenous artist[citation needed]

·       July 14 – William Hanna, American animator (d. 2001)

·       July 15

·       Bettie du Toit, South African trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist (d. 2002)

·       Ken Lynch, American actor (d. 1990)

·       July 17 – James Coyne, 2nd Governor of the Bank of Canada (1955-1961) (d. 2012)

·       July 18 – Mamadou Dia, 1st Prime Minister of Senegal (d. 2009)

·       July 20 – Muriel Evans, American actress (d. 2000)

·       July 21 – Pietro Pasinati, Italian football player (d. 2000)

·       July 22

·       Gordon Blake, U.S. Air Force lieutenant general (d. 1997)

·       Ruthie Tompson, American animator, artist

·       July 27

·       Julien Gracq, French author (d. 2007)

·       Lupita Tovar, Mexican-American actress (d. 2016)

August[edit]

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Lucille Ricksen

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Mother Teresa

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Ruby Keeler

·       August 4

·       Anita Page, American actress (d. 2008)

·       William Schuman, American composer (d. 1992)

·       August 6 – Adoniran Barbosa, Brazilian musician, singer, composer, humorist and actor (d. 1982)

·       August 7 – Lucien Hervι, Hungarian-born French photographer (d. 2007)

·       August 10 – Aldo Buzzi, Italian architect, director and screenwriter (d. 2009)

·       August 12

·       Yusof bin Ishak, 1st President of Singapore (d. 1970)

·       Jane Wyatt, American actress (d. 2006)

·       August 14 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (d. 1995)

·       August 15 – Josef Klaus, 16th Chancellor of Austria (d. 2001)

·       August 19 – Saint Alphonsa, Indian saint (d. 1946)

·       August 22 – Lucille Ricksen, American silent film actress (d. 1925)

·       August 25

·       George Cisar, American baseball player (d. 2010)

·       Ruby Keeler, American actress, dancer (d. 1993)

·       Dorothea Tanning, American artist (d. 2012)

·       August 26

·       Katherine Fryer, English artist (d. 2017)

·       Mother Teresa, Albanian nun, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)

·       August 28 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)

·       August 29 – Georges Loinger, French resistance fighter

September[edit]

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Diosdado Macapagal

·       September 1 – Edda Mussolini, eldest child of Benito Mussolini (d. 1995)

·       September 3 – Maurice Papon, French civil servant and collaborator (d. 2007)

·       September 5 – Ralph Berkowitz, American composer, classical musician, and painter (d. 2011)

·       September 10 – Charles August Nichols, American animator, film director (d. 1992)

·       September 11 – Gerhard Schrφder, German politician (d. 1989)

·       September 14 – Jack Hawkins, British actor (d. 1973)

·       September 15 – Robert Carter, British Royal Air Force officer (d. 2012)

·       September 16

·       Erich Kempka, German chauffeur, bodyguard of Adolf Hitler (d. 1975)

·       Karl Kling, German race car driver (d. 2003)

·       September 19 – Margaret Lindsay, American film actress (d. 1981)

·       September 21 – Zhang Tianfu, Chinese agronomist, tea expert (d. 2017)

·       September 22

·       Louis Bisdee, Australian politician (d. 2010)

·       Hidekichi Miyazaki, Japanese masters athlete

·       September 24 – Ignatius J. "Pete" Galantin, United States Navy admiral (d. 2004)

·       September 28

·       Diosdado Macapagal, 9th President of the Philippines (d. 1997)

·       Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino politician, resistance leader (d. 1942)

·       September 29 – Virginia Bruce, American actress, singer (d. 1982)

·       September 30 – Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish major (d. 1962)

October[edit]

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Hayden Rorke

·       October 1

·       Bonnie Parker, American outlaw, member of Barrow Gang (d. 1934)

·       Attilio Pavesi, Italian Olympic cyclist (d. 2011)

·       October 8

·       Paulette Dubost, French actress (d. 2011)

·       Gus Hall, American Communist leader (d. 2000)

·       October 10

·       Sir Albert Margai, 2nd Prime Minister of Sierra Leone (d. 1980)

·       Julius Shulman, American architectural photographer (d. 2009)

·       October 13 – Robert McKimson, American animator, director (d. 1977)

·       October 19

·       Farid al-Atrash, Arab composer, singer, and actor (d. 1974)

·       Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)

·       October 23

·       Richard Mortensen, Danish painter (d. 1993)

·       Hayden Rorke, American actor (d. 1987)

·       October 25

·       Tyrus Wong, Chinese-born American artist (d. 2016)

·       David Lichine, Russian-American ballet dancer, choreographer (d. 1972)

·       October 27

·       Jack Carson, Canadian-born actor (d. 1963)

·       Herschel Daugherty, American television director (d. 1993)

·       October 31 – Trevor Housley, Australian public servant (d. 1968)

November[edit]

·       November 4 – Agda Rφssel, UN Ambassador (d. 2001)

·       November 6 – Erik Ode, German television actor (d. 1983)

·       November 10 – Tomαs Blanco, Spanish film actor (d. 1990)

·       November 14 – Errie Ball Welsh-born American golfer (d. 2014)

·       November 21 – Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia (d. 1999)

·       November 26 – Cyril Cusack, South African–born actor (d. 1993)

·       November 30 – Harry Bauler, American politician (d. 1962)

December[edit]

·       December 1

·       Hassan Alavikia, Iranian Army general (d. 2013)

·       Alicia Markova, English ballerina (d. 2004)

·       Louis Slotin, Canadian physicist, chemist (d. 1946)

·       December 2 – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer and author (d. 1991)

·       December 4 – R. Venkataraman, 8th President of India (d. 2009)

·       December 7

·       Louis Prima, American singer, songwriter, bandleader (d. 1978)

·       Edmundo Ros, Trinidadian musician (d. 2011)

·       December 10

·       Clegg Hoyt, American actor (d. 1967)

·       Izabella Zielińska, Polish pianist (d. 2017)

·       December 11 – Noel Rosa, Brazilian songwriter (d. 1937)

·       December 15 – John Hammond, American record producer (d. 1987)

·       December 18 – Eric Tindill, New Zealand cricketer, rugby union player (d. 2010)

·       December 19 – Jean Genet, French writer (d. 1986)

·       December 21 – Rosa Bouglione, French circus performer (d. 2018)

·       December 22

·       Elder Roma Wilson, American gospel harmonicistn (d. 2018)

·       Robert B. Fulton, American Navy officer (d. 2015)

·       December 23 – Kurt "Panzermeyer" Meyer, German Generalmajor der Waffen-SS, war criminal (d. 1961)

·       December 29

·       Michel Aflaq, Syrian political theorist, founder of Ba'athism (d. 1989)

·       Ronald Coase, English-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)

·       December 30

·       Paul Bowles, American author (d. 1999)

·       Howard W. Jones, American surgeon, in vitro fertilization specialist (d. 2015)

·       December 31

·       Mallikarjun Mansur, Hindustani classical vocalist (d. 1992)

Unknown date[edit]

·       Fawzi Al-Mulki, Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1962)

·       Ralph Willis, American Piedmont bluescountry blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter (d. 1957)

Deaths[edit]

January[edit]

·       January 4 – Lιon Delagrange, French pioneer aviator (b. 1873)

·       January 5 – Lιon Walras, French economist (b. 1834)

·       January 12 – Bass Reeves, one of the first African-American Deputy U.S. Marshals west of the Mississippi River (b. 1838)

·       January 13 – Andrew Jackson Davis, American spiritualist (b. 1826)

·       January 25 – W. G. Read Mullan, American Jesuit, academic (b. 1860)

·       January 27 – Thomas Crapper, British plumber (b. 1836)

·       January 29 – Sir Charles Todd, Australian telegraph pioneer (b. 1826)

February[edit]

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Miguel Febres Cordero

·       February 6 – Alfonso Maria Fusco, Italian Roman Catholic priest, saint (b. 1839)

·       February 9 – Miguel Febres Cordero, Ecuadorian Roman Catholic religious brother (b. 1854)

·       February 14 – Giovanni Passannante, Italian anarchist (b. 1849)

·       February 20 – Boutros GhaliPrime Minister of Egypt (assassinated) (b. 1846)

·       February 23 – Vera Komissarzhevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1864)

·       February 26 – Esther E. Baldwin, American missionary (b. 1840)

March[edit]

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H. Maria George Colby

·       March 1 – Josι Domingo de Obaldνa, 2nd President of Panama (b. 1845)

·       March 4 – Knut Εngstrφm, Swedish physicist (b. 1857)

·       March 9 – Fredrik von Otter, 8th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1833)

·       March 10 – Karl Lueger, Austrian mayor (b. 1844)

·       March 18 – Julio Herrera y Reissig, Uruguayan poet, writer (b. 1875)

·       March 20 – Nadar, French photographer (b. 1820)

·       March 26 – An Jung-geun, Korean assassin (b. 1879)

·       March 27 – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist (b. 1835)

·       March 29 – H. Maria George Colby, American fashion editor (b. 1844)

·       March 30 – Jean Morιas, Greek poet, essayist and art critic (b. 1856)

April[edit]

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Mark Twain

·       April 4 – Augusta Harvey Worthen, American educator and author (b. 1823)

·       April 15 – Angelia Thurston Newman, American activist and author (b. 1837)

·       April 12 – William Graham Sumner, American social scientist (b. 1840)

·       April 21 – Mark Twain, American writer (b. 1835)

·       April 26 – Bjψrnstjerne Bjψrnson, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)

May[edit]

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King Edward VII of the United Kingdom

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Robert Koch

·       May 1 – Pierre Nord Alexis, President of Haiti (b. 1820)

·       May 3 – Howard Taylor Ricketts, American pathologist (b. 1871)

·       May 6 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)

·       May 10 – Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist (b. 1826)

·       May 12 – Sir William Huggins, British astronomer (b. 1824)

·       May 18 – Pauline Viardot, French mezzo-soprano, composer (b. 1821)

·       May 22 – Jules Renard, French writer (b. 1864)

·       May 27 – Robert Koch, German physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)

·       May 28 – Kαlmαn Mikszαth, Hungarian novelist (b. 1847)

·       May 29 – Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (b. 1837)

·       May 31 – Elizabeth Blackwell, British-born American physician (b. 1821)

June[edit]

·       June 5 – William Sydney Porter (alias O. Henry), American novelist (b. 1862)

·       June 11 – Maria Schininΰ, Italian Roman Catholic religious professed (b. 1844)

July[edit]

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Johann Gottfried Galle

·       July 4

·       Melville Fuller, American Chief Justice (b. 1833)

·       Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (b. 1835)

·       July 10 – Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (b. 1812)

·       July 12 – Charles Stewart Rolls, British aviator, automobile manufacturer (b. 1877)

August[edit]

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Florence Nightingale

·       August 10 – S. Isadore Miner, American journalist (b. 1863)

·       August 13 – Florence Nightingale, British nurse (b. 1820)

·       August 14 – Frank Podmore, British psychical researcher (b. 1856)

·       August 15 – Constantin Fahlberg, Russian chemist (b. 1850)

·       August 16 – Pedro Montt, 15th President of Chile (b. 1849)

·       August 26 – William James, American psychologist, philosopher (b. 1842)

·       August 28 – Paolo Mantegazza, Italian neurologist, physiologist, anthropologist, and fiction author (b. 1831)

September[edit]

·       September 2 – Henri Rousseau, French painter (b. 1844)

·       September 7 – William Holman Hunt, British Pre-Raphaelite painter (b. 1827)

·       September 16 – Hormuzd Rassam, Iraqi archaeologist (b. 1826)

·       September 27 – Jorge Chαvez, Peruvian aviator (b. 1887)

·       September 29 – Winslow Homer, American painter (b. 1836)

October[edit]

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King Chulalongkorn

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Jean Henri Dunant

·       October 17 – Julia Ward Howe, American abolitionist, poet (b. 1819)

·       October 21 – Charles van der Stappen, Belgian sculptor (b. 1843)

·       October 23 – King Chulalongkorn of Siam (b. 1853)

·       October 27 – Henrietta Gould Rowe, American litterateur (b. 1835)

·       October 30 – Jean Henri Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1828)

November[edit]

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Leo Tolstoy

·       November 6 – Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot, writer (b. 1838)

·       November 7 – Florencio Sαnchez, Uruguayan playwright (b. 1875)

·       November 13 – Isabel Grimes Richey, American poet (b. 1858)

·       November 15 – Wilhelm Raabe, German writer (b. 1831)

·       November 19 – Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, German chemist (b. 1835)

·       November 20 (N.S.) – Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (b. 1828)

·       November 23

·       Hawley Harvey Crippen, American murderer (executed) (b. 1862)

·       Octave Chanute, French-American engineer, aviation pioneer (b. 1832)

December[edit]

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Mary Baker Eddy

·       December 3

·       Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader, founder of Christian Science (b. 1821)

·       Wesley Merritt, American general (b. 1836)

·       December 29 – Reginald Doherty, British tennis player (b. 1872)

Unknown date[edit]

·       Emma Bedelia Dunham, American poet and teacher (b. 1826)

·       Lillie Eginton Warren, American speech educator (b. 1859)

Nobel Prizes[edit]

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·       Chemistry – Otto Wallach

·       Literature – Paul Heyse

·       Medicine – Albrecht Kossel

·       Peace – Permanent International Peace Bureau

·       Physics – Johannes Diderik van der Waals

References[edit]

1.     ^ Lebow, Eileen F. (2002). Before Amelia: Women Pilots in the Early Days of Aviation. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, Inc. p. 14. ISBN 1574884824.

2.     ^ Schonberg, Harold C. (1997). The Lives of the Great Composers. Norton. p. 479.

3.     ^ "Recalling the 1910 Harbin Plague". Sina.com (in Chinese).

4.     ^ Gamsa, Mark (February 2006). "The Epidemic of Pneumonic Plague in Manchuria 1910–1911"Past & Present190 (1): 147–183. doi:10.1093/pastj/gtj001. Retrieved 2013-03-08.

5.     ^ Goh, L. G.; Ho, T. M.; Phua, K. H. (January 1987). "Wisdom and Western Science: The Work of Dr Wu Lien-Teh"Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health. Historical Milestones. 1 (1): 99–109. doi:10.1177/101053958700100123. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-05-24. Retrieved 2013-03-08.

Primary sources and year books[edit]

·       New International Year Book 1910 970pp of detailed global coverage.

·       Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900-1933 (1997); global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 206–24.