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January
* January 10 – January 20 – The first aviation meet to be held in the United States, the 1910 Los Angeles
International Air Meet at Dominguez Field, is held near Los Angeles, California.
February
* February 20 – Boutros Ghali, the first native-born prime minister of Egypt, is assassinated.
March
* March – An uprising against Ottoman rule breaks out in Albania.
* March 27 – A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary kills 312.
April
* April 20 – Comet Halley is visible from Earth.
May
* May 6 – George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
* May 18 – The earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
* May 31 – The Union of South Africa is created.
June
* June 22 The DELAG Zeppelin dirigible, Deustschland, makes the first commercial passeneger flight from
Friedrichshafen to Düsseldorf in Germany. The flight takes nine hours.
July
* July 4 – African-American boxer Jack Johnson defeats 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 and later arrest and
execution of murderer Dr. Hawley Crippen.
August
* August – Pan-American Union
* August 14 – A fire at the World Exhibition in Brussels destroys exhibitions of Britain and France.
* August 22 – The Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty is signed.
* August 28 – Montenegro is proclaimed an independent kingdom under Nicholas I.
* August 29 – Emperor Sunjong of the Korean Empire abdicates and the country's monarchy is abolished.
September
* September 1 – The Vatican introduces a compulsory oath against modernism, to be taken by all priests upon
ordination.
October
* October 5 – Portugal becomes a republic; King Manuel II of Portugal flees to England.
* October 7 - Switzerland bans absinthe.
* October 20 – The hull of the 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).
* October – First publication of infrared photographs, by Professor Robert Williams Wood in the Royal Photographic
Society Journal
November
* November 7 – The first air flight for the purpose of delivering commercial freight takes place in the United States of
America. The flight, made by Wright Brothers pilot Philip Parmalee between Dayton, Ohio and Columbus, Ohio.
* 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 23 The last execution in Sweden (by guillotine) is carried out against murderer Johan Alfred Ander.
December
* December 16 – Henri Coandă makes the first short flight in a plane with a jet engine.
Undated
* The electric streetcars of Austria-Hungary, France, Germany and Great Britain are carrying 6.7 million riders per
year.
* Karl Lueger retires as mayor of Vienna.
* Henry Ford sells 10,000 automobiles.
B i r t h s
January
* January 5 – Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (d. 1949)
* January 8 – Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Russian dancer (d. 1998)
* January 12 – Luise Rainer, German-born actress
* January 23 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist (d. 1953)
* January 25 – Edgar V. Saks, Estonian statesman and historian (d. 1984)
February
* February 5 – Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer
* February 6 – Irmgard Keun, German author (d. 1982)
* February 9 – Jacques Monod, French biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
* February 10 – Georges Pire, Belgian monk, Nobel laureate (d. 1969)
* February 13 – William Shockley, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1989)
* February 15 – Irena Sendler, Polish humanitarian (d. 2008)
* February 27
- Joan Bennett, American actress (d. 1990)
- Genrikh Gasparyan, Armenian chess player and composer (d. 1995)
March
* March 1
- Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
- David Niven, English actor (d. 1983)
* March 5 – Momofuku Ando, Japanese inventor and businessman (d. 2007)
* 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 24 – Clyde Barrow, American outlaw (d. 1934)
* March 25 – Magda Olivero, Italian soprano
April
* April 2 – Chico Xavier, Brazilian medium (d. 2002)
* April 10 – Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (d. 2004)
* April 23 – Simone Simon, French actress (d. 2005)
* April 26 – Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese film producer (d. 1997)
May
* May 12
- Johan Ferrier, Suriname President (d. 2010)
- Giulietta Simionato, Italian mezzo-soprano
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)
* May 23
- Scatman Crothers, American actor and musician (d. 1986)
- Artie Shaw, American clarinetist and bandleader (d. 2004)
* May 28 – T-Bone Walker, American singer (d. 1976)
* May 30
- Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978)
- Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004)
June
* June 10 – Armen Takhtajan, Soviet-Armenian botanist (d. 2009)
* June 11 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, scientist, photographer and
researcher (d. 1997)
* June 14 – Rudolf Kempe, German conductor (d. 1976)
* June 18 – E.G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998)
* June 19 – Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
* June 22 – Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986)
* June 22 – Konrad Zuse, German engineer (d. 1995)
* June 23
- Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (d. 1987)
- Gordon B. Hinckley, American religious leader (d. 2008)
July
* July 4 – Gloria Stuart, American actress
* July 14 – William Hanna, American animator (d. 2001)
* July 18 – Mamadou Dia, Senegal Prime Minister (d. 2009)
* July 29 – Julien Gracq, French author (d. 2007)
August
* August 4 – Anita Page, American actress (d. 2008)
* August 4 – William Schuman, American composer (d. 1992)
* August 7 – Lucien Hervé, Hungarian-born French photographer (d. 2007)
* August 10
- Aldo Buzzi, Italian architect, director and screenwriter (d. 2009)
- Ruby Keeler, American actress and dancer (d. 1993)
* August 12
- Yusof bin Ishak, first President of Singapore (d. 1970)
- Jane Wyatt, American actress (d. 2006)
* August 14 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (d. 1995)
* August 25 – Dorothea Tanning, American artist
* August 26 – Mother Teresa, Albanian nun and humanitarian, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
* August 28 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
September
* September 3 – Maurice Papon, French civil servant and collaborator (d. 2007)
* September 14 – Jack Hawkins, British actor (d. 1973)
* September 16
- Erich Kempka, German chauffeur and bodyguard of Adolf Hitler (d. 1975)
- Karl Kling, German race car driver (d. 2003)
* September 28 – Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino politician and resistance leader (d. 1942)
* September 29 – Virginia Bruce, American actress and singer (d. 1982)
October
* October 1 – Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (d. 1934)
* October 8 – Gus Hall, American Communist Leader (d. 2000)
* October 10 – Julius Shulman, American architectural photographer (d. 2009)
* October 19 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1995)
* October 23 – Richard Mortensen, Danish painter (d. 1993)
November
* November 26 – Cyril Cusack, South African–born actor (d. 1993)
December
* December 1 – Alicia Markova, English ballerina (d. 2004)
* December 2 – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer and author (d. 1991)
* December 4 – R. Venkataraman, Indian President (d. 2009)
* December 7 – Edmundo Ros, Trinidadian musician
* December 11 – Noel Rosa, Brazilian songwriter (d. 1937)
* December 15 – John Hammond, American record producer (d. 1987)
* December 19 – Jean Genet, French writer (d. 1986)
* December 29
- Michel Aflaq, Syrian political theorist, founder of Ba'athism (d. 1989)
- Ronald Coase, British economist, Nobel laureate
- Konsta Jylhä, Finnish violinist (d. 1984)
* December 30 – Paul Bowles, American author (d. 1999)
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