1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). [edit] Events of 1910 [edit] January see also January 1910  New Year's Day card (United States) - January – In Greece, the Military League forces Parliament and George I of Greece to summon the National Assembly to revise the Constitution of Greece.
- January 10 – January 20 – In the United States, the 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field is held near Los Angeles, California (the first aviation meet to be held in the USA).
- January 15 – The United Kingdom General Election, held in response to the House of Lords' rejection of the 1909 budget, results in a reduced Liberal Party majority (Liberals, 275 seats; Labour, 40; Irish Nationalists, 82; Unionists [the title then preferred by the British Conservative Party], 273).
- January 16 – Constant rains in Paris, France, cause the Seine to overflow its banks, flooding the city. All but one line of the Paris Métro become filled with water, effectively draining water from the city.
[edit] February see also February 1910 see also March 1910 see also April 1910 [edit] August [edit] September [edit] October [edit] November - November 7 – The first air flight for the purpose of delivering commercial freight occurs between Dayton, Ohio and Columbus, Ohio by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse. The trip was made by Wright pilot Philip Parmalee.
- November 17 – Ralph Johnstone, a pilot for the Wright Exhibition Team, dies at Denver, Colorado after his machine breaks apart in mid air in full view of about 5,000 spectators. Johnstone becomes the first American pilot to die in the crash of an airplane in the United States.
- November 20 – Mexican Revolution: 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 Díaz.
- November 22 – U.S. Senator Aldrich and A.P. Andrews (Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Department), along with many of the country's leading financiers, who together represent about 1/6 of the world's wealth, are witnessed leaving Hoboken, New Jersey on a train together. They later arrive at the Jekyll Island Club to discuss monetary policy and the banking system, an event which some say is the impetus for the creation of the Federal Reserve.
- November 23 – The last execution in Sweden (by guillotine) is carried out against murderer Johan Alfred Ander.
[edit] December [edit] Undated [edit] Ongoing [edit] Births [edit] January–February - January 5 – Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (d. 1949)
- January 6 – Wright Morris, American photographer and writer (d. 1998)
- January 7 – Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas (d. 1994)
- January 8 – Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Russian dancer (d. 1998)
- January 11 – Maurice Buckmaster, English head of Special Operations Executive (d.1992)
- January 12 – Luise Rainer, German-born actress
- January 16 – Dizzy Dean, American baseball player (d. 1974)
- January 21 – Albert Rosellini, American politician
- January 23 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist (d. 1953)
- January 25 – Edgar V. Saks, Estonian statesman and historian (d. 1984)
- January 29 – Colin Middleton, Irish artist (d. 1983)
- January 30 – C Subramaniam, Indian politician (d. 2000)
- February 3 – Robert Earl Jones, American actor and father of James Earl Jones (d. 2006)
- February 5 – Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer
- February 6 – Irmgard Keun, German author (d. 1982)
- February 9 – Jacques Monod, French biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1976)
- February 10 – Georges Pire, Belgian monk, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1969)
- February 13 – William Shockley, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
- February 15 – Irena Sendler, Polish humanitarian (d. 2008)
- February 19 – Dorothy Janis, American actress
- February 27 – Joan Bennett, American actress (d. 1990)
[edit] March–April - March 1
- March 3 – Kittens Reichert, American silent movies child actor (d. 1990)
- March 5 – Momofuku Ando, Japanese inventor and businessman (d. 2007)
- March 9 – Samuel Barber, American composer (d. 1981)
- March 10 – Albert Facchiano, Italian-American criminal
- March 11 – Robert Havemann, German chemist (d. 1982)
- March 13 – Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
- March 23 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese screenwriter, producer, and director (d. 1998)
- March 24 – Clyde Barrow, American outlaw (d. 1934)
- March 25 – Magda Olivero, Italian soprano
- March 28 – Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr., American librarian (d. 2001)
- April 2 – Chico Xavier, popular medium in Brazil´s spiritism movement (d. 2002)
- April 10
- April 16
- April 23 – Simone Simon, French actress (d. 2005)
[edit] May–June - May 3 – Bernard Orchard, British biblical scholar (d. 2006)
- May 3 – Norman Corwin, American screenwriter
- May 12
- May 22 – Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (The Price Is Right) (d. 1985)
- May 23
- May 28 – T-Bone Walker, American singer (d. 1976)
- May 30
- June 8 – Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (d. 2003)
- June 10 – Armen Takhtajan, Soviet-Armenian botanist
- June 11 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, scientist, photographer and researcher (d. 1997)
- June 12 – Bill Naughton, British playwright (d. 1992)
- June 13 – Mary Whitehouse, British TV campaigner (d. 2001)
- June 14 – Rudolf Kempe, German conductor (d. 1976)
- June 17 – H. Owen Reed, American composer
- June 18 – E.G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998)
- June 19 – Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
- June 22 – Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986)
- June 22 – Konrad Zuse, German engineer (d. 1995)
- June 23
[edit] July–August - July 2 – Lorne Carr, Canadian hockey player (d. 2007)
- July 4 – Gloria Stuart, American actress
- July 11 – Irene Hervey, American actress (d. 1998)
- July 14
- July 17 – James Coyne, Canadian Bank of Canada Governor
- July 18 – Mamadou Dia, Senegal Prime Minister (d. 2009)
- July 29 – Julien Gracq, French author (d. 2007)
- July 30 – Edgar de Evia, American photographer (d. 2003)
- August 4 – Anita Page, American actress (d. 2008)
- August 7 – Lucien Hervé, Hungarian-born French photographer (d. 2007)
- August 10
- August 12
- August 14
- August 23 – Lonny Frey, American baseball player (d. 2009)
- August 25 – Dorothea Tanning, American artist
- August 26 – Mother Teresa, Albanian nun and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1997)
- August 28 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
[edit] September–October - September 3
- September 5 – Leila Mackinlay, née Leila Antionette Sterling (aka Brenda Grey), British romance writer.
- September 6 – Walter Giesler, American soccer coach (d. 1976)
- September 10
- September 14 – Jack Hawkins, British actor (d. 1973)
- September 16
- September 23 – Elliott Roosevelt, American author and World War II hero (d. 1990)
- September 28 – Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino politician and resistance leader (d. 1942)
- September 29 – Virginia Bruce, American actress and singer (d. 1982)
- October 1
- October 7 – Henry P. McIlhenny, American art collector, socialite, philanthropist and the chairman of the Philadelphia Art Museum (d. 1986)
- October 8 – Ray Lewis, Canadian runner (d. 2003)
- October 8 – Gus Hall, American Communist Leader (d. 2000)
- October 10 – Julius Shulman, American architectural photographer (d. 2009)
- October 12
- October 13 – Otto Joachim, German-born Canadian composer
- October 14 – John Wooden, American basketball coach
- October 19 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
- October 23 – Richard Mortensen, Danish painter (d. 1993)
- October 27 – Jack Carson, Canadian actor (d. 1963)
[edit] November–December - November 8 – Denis Mahon, British art historian and collector
- November 9 – Carroll Quigley, American historian, polymath, and theorist of the evolution of civilizations (d.1977)
- November 13
- November 14 – Eric Malpass, English novelist (d. 1996)
- November 19 – Griffith Jones, British actor (d. 2007)
- November 26 – Cyril Cusack, South African–born actor (d. 1993)
- December 1 – Alicia Markova, English ballerina (d. 2004)
- December 2 – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine (d. 1991)
- December 4 – R. Venkataraman, Indian President (1987–2002) (d. 2009)
- December 7 – Edmundo Ros, Trinidadian musician
- December 11
- December 15 – John Hammond, American record producer (d. 1987)
- December 18
- December 19 – Jean Genet, French writer (d. 1986)
- December 29
- December 30 – Paul Bowles, American author (d. 1999)
- date unknown – Hilda Conkling, American child poet (d. 1986)
[edit] Deaths [edit] January–March [edit] April–June - April 16 – Julien Dupré, French artist (b. 1851)
- April 21 – Mark Twain,(pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens), American writer (b. 1835)
- April 26 – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
- May 1 – Pierre Nord Alexis, President of Haiti (b. 1820)
- May 3 – Lottie Collins, English singer and dancer (b. 1865)
- May 6 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, eldest son of Queen Victoria (b. 1841)
- May 10 – Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist (b. 1826)
- May 18 – Pauline Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (b. 1821)
- May 27 – Robert Koch, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1843)
- May 28 – Kálmán Mikszáth, Hungarian novelist (b. 1847)
- May 29 – Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (b. 1837)
- May 31 – Elizabeth Blackwell, first female physician in the United States (b. 1821)
- June 5 – O. Henry, (pseudonym of William Sydney Porter), American novelist (b. 1862)
[edit] July–September [edit] October–December - October 15 – Stanley Ketchel, American boxer (murdered) (b. 1886)
- October 17 – Julia Ward Howe, American abolitionist and poet (b. 1819)
- October 23 – King Chulalongkorn of Siam (b. 1853)
- October 30 – Jean Henri Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1828)
- November 6 – Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (b. 1838)
- November 15 – Wilhelm Raabe, German writer (b. 1831)
- November 17 – Ralph Johnstone, American aviator (b. 1886)
- November 20 (N.S.) – Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (b. 1828)
- November 23 – Hawley Harvey Crippen, American murderer (b. 1862)
- December 3 – Mary Baker Eddy, Founder of Christian Science movement (b. (1821)
- December 29 – Reggie Doherty, British tennis player (born 1872)
- December 31 – John Moisant, American aviator (b. 1868)
- December 31 – Arch Hoxsey, American aviator (b. (1884)
[edit] Nobel Prizes - ^ "Calendar in year 1910 (Russia)" (Julian on Friday), webpage: Julian-1910 (Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919).
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