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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1910

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Birthdays

January 2 - Srirangam Srinivasarao, Telugu Poet (d. 1983)
January 3 - Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (d. 2000)
January 5 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (d. 1949)
January 5 - Hugh Brannum, American actor (d. 1987)
January 6 - Wright Morris, American writer (d. 1998)
January 7 - Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani poet (d. 1984)
January 8 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Russian ballerina (d. 1988)
January 11 - Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (d. 1975)
January 12 - Luise Rainer, German actress
January 16 - Dizzy Dean, American baseball player (d. 1974)
January 20 - Joy Adamson, Austrian naturalist and writer (d. 1980)
January 23 - Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist (d. 1953)
January 26 - Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (d. 1989)
January 28 - John Banner, Austrian actor (d. 1973)
January 28 - Arnold Moss, American actor (d. 1989)
February 5 - Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer
February 5 - Charles Leblond, Canadian Cell Biologist (d. 2007)
February 6 - Irmgard Keun, German author (d. 1982)
February 6 - Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (d. 1993)
February 10 - Georges Pire, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969)
February 15 - Irena Sendler, Polish social worker (d. 2008)
February 17 - Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (d. 1979)
February 17 - Marc Lawrence, American actor (d. 2005)
February 21 - Douglas Bader, British pilot (d. 1982)
February 21 - Carmine Galante, Italian-born gangster (d. 1979)
February 27 - Joan Bennett, American actress (d. 1990)
February 27 - Peter De Vries, American writer (d. 1993)
February 27 - Ted Horn, American race car driver (d. 1948)
March 1 - David Niven, English actor (d. 1983)
March 3 - Kittens Reichert, American silent screen child actor (d. 1990)
March 8 - Bernard Benjamin, British statistician (d. 2002)
March 8 - Claire Trevor, American actress (d. 2000)
March 9 - Samuel Barber, American composer (d. 1981)
March 13 - Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
March 13 - Sammy Kaye, American musician (d. 1987)
March 19 - Joseph F. Carroll, US Air Force Lt. Gen. and Founding Director
March 21 - M S Khan, Bangladeshi intellectual (d. 1978)
March 22 - Nicholas Monsarrat, British novelist (d. 1979)
March 23 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (d. 1998)
March 24 - Richard Conte, American actor (d. 1975)
March 25 - Magda Olivero, Italian soprano
March 28 - Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr.
March 28 - Jimmie Dodd, American actor (d. 1964)
March 28 - Queen Ingrid of Denmark, (d. 2000)
April 8 - George Musso, American football player (d. 2000)
April 17 - Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (d. 1999)
April 23 - Simone Simon, French actress (d. 2005)
April 26 - Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese movie producer and creator of Godzilla (d. 1997)
April 28 - Sam Merwin, Jr.
May 2 - Alexander Bonnyman, U.S. Marine (d. 1943)
May 8 - Andrew E. Svenson, American children's book author and publisher (d. 1975)
May 15 - Constance Cummings, British actress (d. 2005)
May 16 - Olga Berggolts, Russian poet (d. 1975)
May 22 - Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (d. 1985)
May 23 - Margaret Wise Brown, American author (d. 1952)
May 23 - Scatman Crothers, American actor and musician (d. 1986)
May 28 - T-Bone Walker, American singer (d. 1975)
May 28 - Lady Rachel Kempson, English actress (d. 2003)
May 30 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978)
May 30 - Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004)
June 10 - Howlin' Wolf, American musician (d. 1976)
June 10 - Frank Demaree, American baseball player (d. 1958)
June 10 - Robert Still, English composer (d. 1971)
June 11 - Carmine Coppola, American composer
June 12 - Bill Naughton, English playwright (d. 1992)
June 13 - Mary Whitehouse, British campaigner (d. 2001)
June 13 - Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Galician writer (d. 1999)
June 13 - Mary Wickes, American actress (d. 1995)
June 15 - David Rose, American songwriter
June 17 - Red Foley, American musician (d. 1968)
June 18 - E.G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998)
June 18 - Dick Foran, American actor (d. 1979)
June 19 - Abe Fortas, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1982)
June 21 - Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Soviet poet (d. 1971)
June 23 - Milt Hinton, American jazz bassist (d. 2000)
June 29 - Frank Loesser, American composer (d. 1969)
June 29 - Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player (d. 1993)
July 4 - Gloria Stuart, American actress
July 5 - Georges Vedel, French public law (d. 2002)
July 11 - Irene Hervey, American actress (d. 1998)
July 14 - William Hanna, American animator (d. 2001)
July 16 - Stan McCabe, Australian cricketer (d. 1968)
July 27 - Julien Gracq, French writer (d. 2007)
August 1 - Walter Scharf, American composer (d. 2003)
August 1 - Mohammad Nissar, Indian cricketer (d. 1963)
August 2 - Roger MacDougall, writer (d. 1993)
August 4 - William Schuman, American composer (d. 1992)
August 4 - Anita Page, American actress (d.2008)
August 5 - Bruno Coquatrix, French songwriter and music impresario (d. 1979)
August 6 - Charles Crichton, British film director (d. 1999)
August 8 - Sylvia Sidney, American actress (d. 1999)
August 12 - Jane Wyatt, American actress (d. 2006)
August 14 - Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (d. 1995)
August 15 - Signe Hasso, Swedish actress (d. 2002)
August 23 - Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (d. 1979)
August 26 - Mother Teresa, Nobel Peace Prize winning Christian missionary (d. 1997)
September 3 - Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality (d. 2007)
September 3 - Maurice Papon, French Nazi collaborator (d. 2007)
September 4 - Denis Tomlinson, South African cricketer (d. 1993)
September 5 - Phiroze Palia, Indian cricketer (d. 1981)
September 8 - Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (d. 1994)
September 14 - Jack Hawkins, British actor (d. 1973)
September 14 - Yiannis Latsis, Greek shipping tycoon (d. 2003)
September 16 - Karl Kling, German race car driver (d. 2003)
September 16 - Erich Kempka, Adolf Hitler's chauffeur (d. 1975)
September 19 - Margaret Lindsay, American actress (d. 1981)
September 24 - Jean Servais, Belgian actor (d. 1976)
September 29 - Virginia Bruce, American actress (d. 1982)
October 1 - Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (d. 1934)
October 4 - Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player (d. 2002)
October 8 - Kirk Alyn, American actor (d. 1999)
October 8 - Ray Lewis, Canadian runner (d. 2003)
October 12 - Robert Fitzgerald, American poet and translator (d. 1985)
October 12 - Bob Sheppard, American baseball announcer
October 19 - Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (d. 1980)
October 27 - Jack Carson, Canadian actor (d. 1963)
November 3 - Richard Hurndall, British actor (d. 1984)
November 13 - William Bradford Huie, American writer and publisher (d. 1986)
November 14 - Eric Malpass, English novelist (d. 1996)
November 19 - Adrian Conan Doyle, son of Arthur Conan Doyle (d. 1970)
November 26 - Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (d. 1993)
November 29 - Antanas Škėma, Lithuanian writer
December 1 - Alicia Markova, English ballerina (d. 2004)
December 4 - Alex North, American film music composer (d. 1991)
December 5 - Abraham Polonsky, American screenwriter (d. 1999)
December 7 - Louis Prima, American musician (d. 1978)
December 7 - Edmundo Ros, Trinidadian musician
December 11 - Noel Rosa, Brazilian songwriter (d. 1937)
December 13 - Van Heflin, American actor (d. 1971)
December 15 - John H. Hammond, American musician (d. 1987)
December 18 - Abe Burrows, American playwright (d. 1985)
December 19 - Jean Genet, French writer (d. 1986)
December 24 - Fritz Leiber, American writer (d. 1992)
December 27 - Charles Olson, American poet (d. 1970)
December 28 - Billy Williams, American singer (d. 1972)
December 30 - Paul Bowles, American composer and author (d. 1999)
December 31 - Carl Dudley, American film director (d. 1973)

Deaths

February 6 - Alfonso Maria Fusco. Beatified Italian Roman Catholic priest and founder, (b.1839)
March 10 - Carl Reinecke, German pianist
March 26 - An Jung-geun, Korean assassin of Ito Hirobumi (executed) (b. 1879)
March 28 - David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1837)
March 28 - Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (b. 1838)
April 21 - Mark Twain, American author and humorist (b. 1835)
April 26 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author
May 18 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (b. 1821)
May 18 - Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist (b.1841)
May 22 - Jules Renard, French author (b. 1864)
May 29 - Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (b. 1837)
June 5 - O. Henry, American author (b. 1862)
July 4 - Melville Weston Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1833)
July 14 - Marius Petipa, French dancer and choreographer (b. 1818)
August 13 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse (b. 1820)
October 15 - Stanley Ketchel, boxer (murdered) (b. 1886)
October 17 - Julia Ward Howe, American composer and abolitionist (b. 1819)
October 25 - Willie Anderson, Scottish-born golfer (b. 1878)
November 6 - Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (b. 1838)
November 15 - Wilhelm Raabe, German writer (b. 1831)
November 20 - Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian novelist (b. 1828)

Events

January 1 - Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear Admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members), since Horatio Nelson.
February 8 - The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
March 3 - Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he could devote full time to being a philanthropist.
March 9 - The Westmoreland County Coal Strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
March 14 - Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
March 17 - Luther Gulick and his wife Charlotte found Camp Fire Girls (now Camp Fire USA) (formally announced in 1912).
March 27 - Fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, killed 312
March 28 - Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
March 30 - Mississippi Legislature founded The University of Southern Mississippi.
May 4 - The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
May 6 - George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
May 11 - An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
May 15 - The last time a major earthquake happened on the Elsinore Fault Zone.
May 16 - The United States Congress authorizes the creation of the United States Bureau of Mines.
May 18 - The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
May 31 - Creation of the Union of South Africa.
June 1 - Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition leaves England.
June 19 - The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
July 4 - African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match sparking race riots across the United States.
August 8 - The US Army installs the first tricycle landing gear on the Army's Wright Flyer.
August 25 - Yellow Cab is founded.
August 29 - Japan changes Korea's name to Chōsen and appoints a governor-general to rule its new colony.
September 12 - Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter)
September 18 - In Amsterdam, 25,000 demonstrate for general suffrage.
September 22 - The Duke of York's Cinema opens in Brighton. It is still operating today, making it the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
October 1 - Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21.
October 4 - Declaration of the Portuguese Republic. King Manuel II flees to the United Kingdom.
October 4 - Adoption of the Flag of Bermuda.
October 5 - Portugal overthrows its monarchy and declares itself a republic.
October 10 - The Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity is established at Columbia University.
October 11 - Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.
October 14 - English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman biplane on Executive Avenue (now Pennsylvania Avenue) near the White House.
October 20 - The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland.
October 22 - Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and was subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
November 7 - The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
November 10 - The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
November 14 - Aviator Eugene Ely performs the first take off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
November 20 - Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosi, denouncing President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.
November 29 - The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine.
December 16 - During a ground test of his Coandă-1910 plane, Henri Coandă, caught unaware by the power of the engine, finds himself briefly airborne and loses control of the machine which crashes to the ground.

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