1910
1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).
Events
January-April
- January - In Greece, the Military League forces parliament and the king to summon National Assembly to revise Constitution.
- January 15- In the United Kingdom, General Election held in response to House of Lords rejection of David Lloyd George's (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).
- February 20- Boutros Ghali, first native born prime minister of Egypt, assassinated.
- 19 March - In USA, Republicans reduce the powers of the Speaker of the House of Representatives to influence Committee membership.
- April - Albanian revolt suppressed by Turkish army.
- 27 April - Louis Botha and James Hertzog (James Barry Munnik Hertzog found South Africa Party.
- 27 April - British House of Commons passes Lloyd George's 1909 'People's Budget' for second time; passed by House of Lords, 28 April
- 29 April - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
May-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.
- November 20 - Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero 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 16 - Henri Coanda makes first short flight in a plane with a jet engine.
- December 16 - In Houndsditch, London, four (Latvian) anarchists shoot three policemen in botched raid on a jewellers - three are arrested, other members of the gang escape but are later (January 1911)cornered in the 'siege of Sidney Street'.
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Births
January-April
- January 5 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete
- January 7 - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas, segregationist (d. 1994)
- January 8 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova , Russian dancer (d. 1988)
- January 12 - Luise Rainer, actress
- January 16 - Dizzy Dean, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1974)
- January 23 - Django Reinhardt, guitarist (d. 1953)
- February 5 - Francisco Varallo, footballer
- February 6 - Irmgard Keun, author (d. 1982)
- February 7 - Max Bense , philosopher (d. 1990)
- February 9 - Jacques Monod, biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965 (d. 1976)
- February 13 - William Bradford Shockley, physicist and social commentator
- February 27 - Joan Bennett, actress (d. 1990)
- March 9 - Samuel Barber, American composer (d. 1981)
- March 11 - Robert Havemann, chemist (d. 1982)
- March 13 - Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
- March 23 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director
- March 27 - John Pierce , electrical engineer
- April 4 - Juri Pawlowitsch German , writer (d. 1967)
May-December
- May 12 - Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (d. 1996)
- May 12 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, chemist (d. 1994)
- May 12 - Rudolf Kempe, German conductor
- May 22 - Johnny Olson, game show announcer (d. 1985)
- May 23 - Scatman Crothers, actor, musician (d. 1986)
- May 23 - Artie Shaw, clarinetist, bandleader
- May 28 - T-Bone Walker, blues singer (d. 1975)
- May 30 - Inge Meysel, actress
- May 30 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978)
- June 14 - Rudolf Kempe, German conductor (d. 1976)
- June 18 - E.G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998)
- June 22 - Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986)
- June 23 - Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (d. 1987)
- June 23 - Peaches Browning, actress (d. 1956)
- June 23 - Gordon B. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- July 4 - Gloria Stuart, actress
- July 11 - Irene Hervey, actress (d. 1998)
- July 14 - William Hanna, animator, half of Hanna-Barbera animation team (d. 2001)
- July 14 - Vincent Brome, biographer and novelist (d. 2004)
- August 14 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of musique concrète
- August 26 - Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, later known as Mother Teresa
- September 23 - Elliott Roosevelt, author, personality (d. 1990)
- October 14 - John Wooden, legendary basketball coach
- October 23 - Hayden Rorke , actor
- November 22 - Amy Elizabeth Thorpe , American spy in WW II
- December 15 - John Hammond, record producer (d. 1987)
- December 19 - Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright and poet (d. 1986)
- December 29 - Ronald Coase, economist
- Frank Abbandando, Mafia hitman
- Konsta Jylhä, Finnish folk violinist
Deaths
- January 27 - Thomas Crapper, inventor
- April 21 - Mark Twain, American novelist
- April 26 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian writer (b. 1832)
- May 6 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom
- May 18 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, singer and composer
- May 27 - Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, German bacteriologist
- May 29 - Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (b. 1837)
- May 31 - Elizabeth Blackwell, first female physician in the United States
- July 4 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (b. 1835)
- July 19 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer
- October 15 - Stanley Ketchel, American middleweight boxer (murdered)
- November 15 - Wilhelm Raabe, German novelist
- November 20 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist
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