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1910 (''' MCMX ''') was a Common Year Starting On Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar or a Common Year Starting On Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian Calendar .
Events
January-April
- January - In Greece , the Military League forces Parliament and George I Of Greece to summon National Assembly to revise Constitution .
- January 15 - In the United Kingdom , General Election held in response to House Of Lords rejection of the (1909) budget results in 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.
- February 20 - Boutros Ghali , first native born Prime Minister of Egypt , assassinated.
- March - Uprising against Ottoman rule breaks out in Albania .
- March 19 - In America, Republican s reduce the powers of the Speaker Of The House Of Representatives to influence Committee membership.
- March 30 - Mississippi Legislature founded The University Of Southern Mississippi .
- April - Albania n revolt suppressed by Turkish army.
- April 27 - Louis Botha and James Hertzog ( James Barry Munnik Hertzog ) found South Africa Party.
- April 27 - British House Of Commons passes David Lloyd George 's (1909) ' People's Budget ' for second time; passed by House of Lords, 28 April
- April 29 - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister Of Australia for the second time.
May-July
August-October
November-December
- November 7 - 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 .
- denounces President Porfirio Díaz , declares himself president, and calls for a revolution to overthrow the Government Of Mexico .
- November 23 - Last execution in Sweden (by Guillotine ) - murderer Johan Ander
- December - British Prime Minister Asquith makes second appeal in the same year to the electorate to resolve battle of wills with the House Of Lords (Liberals, 272; Labour , 42; Irish Nationalists, 84; Unionists , 272 - making a majority of 126 for restriction of the powers of the Lords and for Irish Home Rule ).
- December 12 - New York Socialite Dorothy Arnold disappears. Her family does not notify the Police until six weeks later, after their own investigations fail to produce any results.
- December 16 - Henri Coandă makes first short flight in a plane with a Jet Engine .
- December 16 - In Houndsditch, London , four ( Latvian ) Anarchist s shoot three policemen in botched raid on a Jeweller s - three are arrested, other members of the gang escape but are later (January 1911 ) cornered in the ' Siege Of Sidney Street '.
- December 19 - Edward Douglass White is sworn in as the 9th Chief Justice of the United States.
Births
January-April
- January 5 - Jack Lovelock , New Zealand athlete (d. 1949 )
- January 7 - Orval Faubus , Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994 )
- January 8 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova , Russian dancer (d. 1998 )
- January 12 - Luise Rainer , German-born actress
- January 16 - Dizzy Dean , baseball player (d. 1974 )
- January 23 - Django Reinhardt , Belgian guitarist (d. 1953 )
- January 29 - Colin Middleton , Northern Irish artist (d. 1983 )
- January 30 - C Subramaniam , Indian politician ( d. 2000 )
- 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 27 - Joan Bennett , American actress (d. 1990 )
- March 1 - Archer John Porter Martin , English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002 )
- March 1 - David Niven , English actor (d. 1983 )
- March 9 - Samuel Barber , American composer (d. 1981 )
- 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 28 - Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr. Bibliophile and director of the Pierpont Morgan Library (d. 2001 )
- April 10 - Ivan Goff , Australian screenwriter (d. 1999 )
- April 10 - Paul Sweezy , American economist and editor (d. 2004 )
- April 23 - Simone Simon , French actress (d. 2005 )
- April 30 - Al Lewis , American Actor (d. 2006
May-August
- May 12 - Charles B. Fulton , American jurist (d. 1996 )
- May 12 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin , British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994 )
- May 22 - Johnny Olson , American game show announcer (d. 1985 )
- May 23 - Scatman Crothers , American actor and musician (d. 1986 )
- May 23 - Artie Shaw , American clarinetist and bandleader (d. 2004 )
- May 28 - T-Bone Walker , American blues singer (d. 1976 )
- May 30 - Ralph Metcalfe , American athlete (d. 1978 )
- May 30 - Inge Meysel , German actress (d. 2004 )
- June 8 - Fernand Fonssagrives , French photographer (d. 2003 )
- June 12 - Bill Naughton , British playwright (d. 1992 )
- June 14 - Rudolf Kempe , German conductor (d. 1976 )
- 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 23 - Jean Anouilh , French dramatist (d. 1987 )
- June 23 - Peaches Browning , American actress (d. 1956 )
- June 23 - Gordon B. Hinckley , president of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints
- July 4 - Gloria Stuart , American actress
- July 11 - Irene Hervey , American actress (d. 1998 )
- July 14 - Vincent Brome , English biographer and novelist (d. 2004 )
- July 14 - William Hanna , American animator (d. 2001 )
- July 30 - Edgar De Evia , American photographer (d. 2003 )
- August 4 - Anita Page , American actress
- August 14 - Pierre Schaeffer , French composer (d. 1995 )
- August 27 - 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 )
September-December
- September 3 - Kitty Carlisle Hart , actress
- September 16 - Erich Kempka , chauffeur and bodyguard to Adolf Hitler (d. 1975 )
- September 16 - Karl Kling , German race car driver (d. 2003 )
- September 23 - Elliott Roosevelt , American author and World War II hero (d. 1990 )
- October 8 - Ray Lewis , Canadian runner (d. 2003 )
- October 14 - John Wooden , American basketball coach
- October 19 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar , Indian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995 )
- October 27 - Jack Carson , Canadian actor (d. 1963 )
- November 14 - Eric Malpass , English novelist (d. 1996 )
- December 1 - Alicia Markova , English ballerina (d. 2004 )
- December 11 - Hari Singh , Inspector General of Forests of India (d. 2003 )
- December 15 - John Hammond , American record producer (d. 1987 )
- December 19 - Jean Genet , French writer (d. 1986 )
- December 29 - Frank Abbandando , American gangster (d. 1942 )
- December 29 - Michel Aflaq , Syrian political theorist, founder of Ba'athism (d. 1989 )
- December 29 - Ronald Coase , British economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- December 29 - Konsta Jylhä , Finnish violinist (d. 1984 )
- December 30 - Paul Bowles , American author (d. 1999 )
Deaths
- January 5 - Léon Walras , French economist (b. 1834 )
- January 27 - Thomas Crapper , English inventor (b. 1836 )
- March 26 - An Jung-geun , Korean assassin of Japanese politician Ito Hirobumi (executed) (b. 1879 )
- April 21 - Mark Twain , American novelist (b. 1835 )
- April 26 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson , Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832 )
- May 6 - King Edward VII Of The United Kingdom (b. 1841 )
- May 18 - Pauline Garcia-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 29 - Mily Balakirev , Russian composer (b. 1837 )
- May 31 - Elizabeth Blackwell , first female physician in the United States (b. 1821 )
- July 4 - Giovanni Schiaparelli , Italian astronomer (b. 1835 )
- July 4 - Melville Fuller , Chief Justice Of The United States (b. 1833 )
- July 12 - Charles Stewart Rolls , British aviator and automobile manufacturer (b. 1877 )
- July 19 - Johann Gottfried Galle , German astronomer (b. 1812 )
- August 13 - Florence Nightingale , English nurse (b. 1820 )
- September 2 - Henri Rousseau , French painter (b. 1844 )
- September 17 Hormuzd Rassam , Iraqi archaeologist (b. 1826)
- October 15 - Stanley Ketchel , American boxer (murdered) (b. 1886 )
- 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 20 (N.S.) - Leo Tolstoy , Russian writer (b. 1828 )
Nobel prizes
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