1910 CE

The death of Edward VII ends the Edwardian era and begins George V’s reign in the United Kingdom; The Mexican Revolution ignites a decade-long struggle reshaping the nation’s politics and society; The Great January Comet of 1910 captivates observers worldwide with a spectacular celestial display; The 5 October 1910 revolution in Portugal topples the monarchy and establishes the First Portuguese Republic; The Great Fire of 1910 burns over three million acres in the northwestern United States, one of the largest wildfires in American history; The Tonypandy riots erupt in Wales during a coal miners’ strike, highlighting labor unrest and industrial hardships.

In the 1910s, the 20th century.

1910 at a glance

World population
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United States
William Howard Taft (President) Wikipedia rev. 1377869146
United Kingdom
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Russian Empire
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Qing dynasty
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French Third Republic
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German Empire
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Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • January 8 – Treaty of Punakha: The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan becomes a protectorate of the British Empire.source
  • January 15 – Amidst the constitutional crisis caused by the House of Lords rejecting the People's Budget, the January 1910 United Kingdom general election is held resulting in a hung parliament with neither Liberals nor Conservatives gaining a majority.source
  • 1 March - In the presidential election, Hermes da Fonseca receives 57.1% of the vote. Fonseca is supported by several of the most influential Republican parties, while his main opponent, Rui Barbosa, is supported by the Civilist Campaign.Brazilsource
  • March 3 – Morocco signs accords with France in Paris, permitting the French to occupy Casablanca and Oujda in return for military training, as part of refinancing of loans.source
  • March 17 – Progressive Republicans in the United States House of Representatives rebel against Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon, removing him from the Rules Committee and stripping him of his power to appoint committee chairmen.source
  • March 31 – Luzzatti's new government is accepted by the Italian Chamber of Deputies.Italysource
  • 7 April – 1910 Costa Rican general election: Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno is elected president, defeating Rafael Iglesias Castro.Costa Ricasource
  • May 6 – George V becomes King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland upon the death of his father, Edward VII.source
  • 22 May - A general election results in the Liberal Party, under incumbent prime minister Canalejas, being returned to power.Spainsource
  • May 31 – The Union of South Africa is created.source
  • August 22 – The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, by which the Empire of Japan formally annexes the Korean Empire, is signed (it becomes effectively void in 1945, which is formally recognised in 1965).source
  • August 22 – Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910: Japan formally annexes Korea. The treaty was proclaimed to the public (and became effective) on August 29, 1910, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.Japansource
  • August 28 – Montenegro is proclaimed an independent kingdom, under Nicholas I.source
  • 28 August – Portuguese legislative election, 1910.Portugalsource
  • August 29 – Emperor Sunjong of Korea abdicates and the country's monarchy is abolished.source
  • October 3 — first National Assembly of China convenes, urges Prince Chun to increase constitutional reforms.Chinasource
  • October 5 – 5 October 1910 revolution: The First Portuguese Republic is proclaimed in Lisbon; King Manuel II of Portugal flees to England.source
  • 15 October – Chilean presidential election, 1910Chilesource

Conflict & Security

  • January 6 – Abé people in the French West Africa colony of Côte d'Ivoire rise against the colonial administration; the rebellion is brutally suppressed by the military.source
  • January 18/20 – Ottawa HC defeats Edmonton HC 21 goals to 11 to win the second Stanley Cup challenge in Ottawa's Dey's ArenaCanadasource
  • February – March: Field Marshal Kitchener tours New Zealand and makes a report to the Government on the defence of New Zealand.New Zealandsource
  • March 23 – A rebellion by Rif tribesmen in Spanish Morocco is finally suppressed after 8 months. During the conflict, an estimated 8,000 Berbers and 2,000 Spanish soldiers have been killed.source
  • March – Albanian revolt of 1910: An uprising against Ottoman rule breaks out in Albania.source
  • April 16 — Wang Jingwei and Luo Shixun were arrested separately. They were arrested for conspiracy to assassinate and kill Prince Chun in Beijing.Chinasource
  • May 20 – Kōtoku Incident: police searching the room of Miyashita Takichi, discover a socialist-anarchist plot to assassinate the Japanese Emperor Meiji, leading to mass arrests.Japansource
  • July 4 – Jack Johnson defeats James J. Jeffries by technical knockout in the 15th round at Reno, Nevada, in the bout billed as the "Fight of the Century". Johnson retains his world heavyweight boxing title over the previously undefeated Jeffries, who had been promoted as boxing's "Great White Hope". The result sparks race riots across more than 25 states, leaving at least 20 people dead.source
  • July 24 – Ottoman forces capture the city of Shkodër to put down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.source
  • July – First Girl Guide troops registered in the United Kingdom, under the supervision of Agnes Baden-Powell.source
  • 5 October – A coup d'état and proclamation of the Portuguese First RepublicPortugalsource
  • October 21 – The 11th National Congress of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) is held in Milan, dominated by the conflict between the reformist wing and the intransigent wing of the left. Leonida Bissolati and Ivanoe Bonomi attack Filippo Turati from the right, while Giuseppe Emanuele Modigliani and Gaetano Salvemini criticize from the left. At the far left is Benito Mussolini who is participating for the first time at the national party congress.Italysource
  • 25 October – Lorentz Henrik Müller Segelcke, politician and Minister (born 1829).Norwaysource
  • November 18 – Black Friday: 300 suffragettes clash with police outside the Parliament of the United Kingdom over the failure of the Conciliation Bill.source
  • November 20 – The Mexican Revolution begins, when Francisco I. Madero proclaims the elections of 1910 null and void, and calls for an armed revolution against the illegitimate presidency/dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz.source
  • November 22 – Revolt of the Lash at Rio de Janeiro: Mutineers in the Brazilian Navy, led by João Cândido, seize control of the new dreadnought battleship Minas Geraes and other ships, whose guns are aimed at the city as the crews demand improvements in their conditions (which are conceded on November 26 by the Brazilian government).source
  • 22 November - Revolt of the Lash: The mostly black crews of four Brazilian warships, led by João Cândido, mutiny shortly after a sailor receives 250 lashes. The crews depose their white officers and threaten to bombard Rio de Janeiro.Brazilsource
  • December 19 – The second 1910 United Kingdom general election (the last to be fought with an all-male electorate) concludes with confirmation of a majority for the Liberal Party in alliance with the Irish Parliamentary Party, resolving the battle of wills between the House of Commons of the United Kingdom and the House of Lords by giving a majority for restriction of the powers of the Lords and support for the Irish Home Rule movement.source

Exploration & Expansion

  • January 11 – Charcot Island is discovered by the Antarctic expedition led by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot on the ship Pourquoi Pas?source
  • February 12 – Chinese expedition to Tibet: A force of 2,000 Chinese troops march into Lhasa, the capital of Tibet; the 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso, is forced to flee to British India.source
  • 4 April – Sri Aurobindo began his spiritual pursuits in IndiaIndiasource
  • May 18–June 5 – The Italian rider Carlo Galetti wins the second Giro d'Italia stage bicycle race.Italysource
  • June 3 – The Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, led by Roald Amundsen on the steamer Fram, departs from Christiania (modern-day Oslo). No announcement until later in the year of Amundsen's intention to reach the South Pole.source
  • June 15 – The British Antarctic Expedition, led by Robert Falcon Scott on the whaler Terra Nova, departs from Cardiff for the South Pole.source
  • 4 July – Transvaal – Dunswart to Cranbourne, 3 mi 14 ch.South Africasource
  • 5 July: Herbert Pither reportedly makes a flight of "nearly a mile" at Riverton Beach.New Zealandsource
  • 23 September – Brussels Convention on Assistance and Salvage at Sea concluded.Belgiumsource
  • December - The Japanese Antarctic Expedition leaves Tokyo, led by Nobu Shirase.Japansource
  • The Great Britain rugby league team went on their first tour of Australasia and defeated Australia to win the Ashes.Australiasource
  • The first separate bicycle path in Copenhagen is established around The Lakes, when the existing bridle paths are converted into isolated cycleways to accommodate the heavy growth of cycles at that time.Denmarksource

Religion & Belief

  • January 10 – Le Devoir first publishedCanadasource
  • February 14 — Establishment of the Vicariate Apostolic of Central Chi-Li.Chinasource
  • March 10 – Nazareth Baptist Church, an African-initiated church, is founded by Prophet Isaiah Shembe.South Africasource
  • June 14–23 – Edinburgh Missionary Conference is held in Scotland, presided over by John Mott, launching the modern ecumenical movement and the modern missions movement.source
  • 31 August – Gafanha da Nazaré is founded by Prior Sardo and becomes the last Portuguese town to receive a foral (royal charter) from the monarchy, granted by King Manuel II.Portugalsource
  • 11 December – Lars Olsen Skrefsrud, missionary and language researcher in India (born 1840).Norwaysource
  • Monarch – Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946)Italysource
  • World Peace Foundation established.United Statessource
  • Thomas Carrington - Hen weddi deuluaidd fy nhadWalessource

Economy & Finance

  • 31 January – foundation of the All-Russian National Union, a moderate conservative party.Russiasource
  • May 5 – In Milan, the General Confederation of Italian Industry (Confederazione generale dell'industria italiana), commonly known as Confindustria, the Italian employers' federation and national chamber of commerce is founded.Italysource
  • 10 June – Fremad Amager is founded.Denmarksource
  • 19 July – Carl August Gulbranson, businessperson and politician (born 1831)Norwaysource
  • July 27 — On July 27, Qing Dynasty Government approved the loans from the foreign banks. (Shanghai rubber stock market crisis)Chinasource
  • 16 September – The Australian Treasury is given authority to issue currency, replacing the use of the British Pound.Australiasource
  • November – A confectionery brand Fujiya founded in Yokohama.Japansource
  • Practical Political Economy – Stephen LeacockCanadasource

Technology & Infrastructure

  • January 22 – Completion of construction of New York City's Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, at 700 ft the world's tallest building at this time, is celebrated.source
  • March 4 – The Rogers Pass avalanche buries a group of Canadian Pacific Railway workers clearing tracks in the Selkirk Mountains at Rogers Pass (British Columbia), making it the worst snowslide accident in Canadian history.source
  • March 8 – In France, Raymonde de Laroche is awarded Pilot's license No. 36 by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, becoming the first woman authorized to fly an airplane.source
  • March 10 – Release of In Old California, the first film made in Hollywood, California, directed by D. W. Griffith.source
  • April 5 – The Transandine Railway connecting Chile and Argentina is inaugurated.source
  • May 15 – Tullio Cariolato wins the 1910 Targa Florio endurance automobile race on Sicily driving a Franco.Italysource
  • 22 May – Belgian general election, 1910Belgiumsource
  • June 2 – Charles Rolls became the first person to fly across the English Channel and back without stopping.source
  • June 5 — The Nanyang industrial exposition opens.Chinasource
  • June 22 – DELAG Zeppelin dirigible Deutschland makes the first commercial passenger flight, from Friedrichshafen to Düsseldorf in Germany; the flight takes 9 hours.source
  • July 22 – A wireless telegraph sent from the SS Montrose results in the identification, arrest and execution of murderer Dr. Crippen.source
  • 1 October – The opening of Lumachan railway station in Tainan PrefectureTaiwansource
  • November 7 – The first air flight for the purpose of delivering commercial freight takes place in the United States. The flight, made by Wright brothers pilot Philip Parmalee, is between Dayton and Columbus, Ohio.source
  • November 14 – In the first takeoff from a ship by a fixed-wing aircraft, Eugene Ely takes off from a temporary platform erected over the bow of the light cruiser USS Birmingham in Hampton Roads, Virginia.source
  • December 3 – Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.source
  • 4 December – The railway line from Flisa to Elverum opened.Norwaysource
  • Henry Ford sells 10,000 automobiles.source
  • Hitachi, an electromechanics company, is founded as a mining machine repair factory in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.source
  • There are almost 50,000 flush toilets installed in Copenhagen.Denmarksource
  • Aero Club of New Zealand is formed in Auckland.New Zealandsource
  • Two Class A 4-6-2 Pacific type locomotives, built in their Durban workshops. In 1912, these locomotives will be designated Class 2C on the South African Railways (SAR).South Africasource

Science & Discovery

  • 5 January – Robert Svendsen set a Danish record when he reached a height of 84 during a flight at Kløvermarken in Amager.Denmarksource
  • January 12 – Great January Comet of 1910 first observed (perihelion: January 17).source
  • March 14 – The Lakeview Gusher is vented into the atmosphere.United Statessource
  • 21 March – Harry Houdini achieves one of the first powered flights in Australia.Australiasource
  • April 3 – The French rider Eugène Christophe wins the 4th Milan–San Remo bicycle race.Italysource
  • April 10 – Halley's Comet becomes visible with the naked eye (perihelion: April 20); Earth passes through its tail about May 19 (its next visit will be in 1986).source
  • 26 April – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, writer and the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (born 1832).Norwaysource
  • 22 June – The DELAG Zeppelin dirigible, Deutschland, makes the first commercial passenger flight from Friedrichshafen to Düsseldorf in Germany. The flight takes nine hours.Germanysource
  • 11 September - English-born actor-aviator Robert Loraine makes an aeroplane flight from Wales across the Irish Sea, landing some 200 feet (60 metres) short of the Irish coast in Dublin Bay.Walessource
  • October 20 – The hull of White Star ocean liner RMS Olympic is launched, at the Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast.source
  • Infrared photographs are first published by Professor Robert Williams Wood, in the Royal Photographic Society's journal.source
  • Great Britain tour of New Zealand – beat New Zealand 52–20 in AucklandNew Zealandsource

Health & Medicine

  • January 31 – American-born medical practitioner Hawley Harvey Crippen poisons his wife, Cora, and buries her body in the cellar of their London home (probable date).source
  • March 12 – actress Florence Lawrence becomes "the first true movie star" after being named in advertisements, having previously been billed only as "The Biograph Girl".United Statessource
  • March 20 – The first clinic for treatment of occupational diseases is opened in Milan (Italy).source
  • March – King Edward VII falls very ill with bronchitis in France, returning to London a few weeks later.United Kingdomsource
  • 7 April – Theodor Nilsen Stousland, politician (born 1842).Norwaysource
  • 30 September - The King Edward VII National Memorial Association begins its campaign to eradicate tuberculosis in Wales.Walessource
  • 15 October – Manchurian plague outbreak in the Russian Far East.Russiasource
  • Approximate date of origin of Manchurian plague, a form of pneumonic plague which by December is spreading through northeastern China, killing more than 40,000.source
  • 31 December – Census returns give total population of Belgium as 7,423,784.Belgiumsource
  • Witwatersrand gold mine owners come under pressure to improve sanitary conditions since a third of the black miners are dying of pneumonia.South Africasource
  • The white population in South Africa is 21.5% of the total.South Africasource

Crime & Justice

  • March 10 – Slavery in China, which has existed since the Shang dynasty, is made illegal.source
  • 20 May – Oscar Wergeland, painter (born 1844).Norwaysource
  • July 31 – British murderer Dr. Crippen is caught in Quebec CityCanadasource
  • 20 August - Crime of Cuenca: The disappearance of José María Grimaldos López leads to the arrest and imprisonment of two men. Grimaldos turns up, alive, in 1926.Spainsource
  • November 6 – The Italian rider Giovanni Micheletto wins the 6th Giro di Lombardia bicycle race.Italysource
  • November 23 – Murderer Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.Swedensource
  • December 12 – New York City socialite Dorothy Arnold disappears. Her family does not notify the police until 6 weeks later, after their own investigations fail to produce any results.United Statessource
  • 18 December - A storm causes substantial damage to the promenade at Aberystwyth.Walessource
  • New Zealand Trotting Cup: Wildwood Junior – 2nd winNew Zealandsource

Disasters & Accidents

  • January 31 – A coal mine explosion at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company in Primero, Colorado, kills 75 miners.source
  • February 1 – A coal mine explosion at the Browder Coal Company in Drakesboro, Kentucky kills 34 miners.source
  • February 2 – A coal mine explosion at the Palau mine at Las Esperanzas in the State of Coahuila in Mexico kills 68 miners.source
  • February 5 – A coal mine explosion at the Jefferson Clearfield Coal Company mine at Ernest, Pennsylvania, kills 11 miners (10 Hungarian) but another 110 are able to escape.source
  • February 9 – French liner General Chanzy sinks in the Mediterranean after striking rocks off Menorca, with only one survivor of the 157 on board.source
  • March 9 – The 17-month-long Westmoreland County coal strike of 1910–11, which at its peak will involve 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers across 65 mines, begins in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.United Statessource
  • March 27 – A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312 people after ballroom decorations catch alight.source
  • July 12 – Charles Rolls becomes the first British aviation fatality when his French-built Wright aeroplane suffers a broken rudder at an altitude of 80 ft and crashes during a contest at Bournemouth.source
  • 12 July - At the Bournemouth International Aviation Meeting, Charles Rolls becomes the first Briton to be killed in an air crash.Walessource
  • 11 September – English-born actor-aviator Robert Loraine made an aeroplane flight from Wales across the Irish Sea but landed some 200 feet (60 metres) short of the Irish coast in Dublin Bay.Irelandsource
  • 1 November – Coal miners are balloted for strike action by the South Wales Miners' Federation following a lock-out, resulting in 12,000 men working for the Cambrian Combine beginning a 10-month strike.United Kingdomsource
  • November 29 — The closing of Nanyang industrial exposition.Chinasource
  • December 9 – a coal mine explosion at Bellevue, Alberta, kills 31Canadasource
  • December 21 – Pretoria Pit disaster: a coal mine explosion at the Hulton Colliery Company of Westhoughton in Lancashire, England, kills 344 miners, with just one survivor.source
  • 21 December – The Pretoria Pit disaster: a massive underground explosion in a colliery belonging to the Hulton Colliery Company at Westhoughton in Lancashire, kills 344, with just one survivor, the second-worst mining accident in England and the third-worst in Britain.United Kingdomsource
  • Toto et sa soeur en bombe à BruxellesBelgiumsource
  • Twelve lighter Class 10-C 4-6-2 Pacific type locomotives. In 1912, they will be designated Class 10C on the SAR.South Africasource

Climate & Environment

  • 15 January – Constant rain in Paris causes the Seine to overflow its banks, flooding the city. All but one line of the Paris Métro becomes filled with water, effectively draining water from the city.Francesource
  • January 21 – The Great Flood of Paris begins when the Seine overflows its banks.source
  • March 1 – The Wellington, Washington avalanche sweeps away two Great Northern Railway (U.S.) passenger trains in the Cascade Mountains, killing 96, making it the worst snowslide accident in United States history.source
  • 13 April–4 May – The 1910 Costa Rica earthquakes destroy much of Cartago and kill hundreds of people.Costa Ricasource
  • June 7 – An earthquake hits the Province of Avellino and the town of Calitri in particular.Italysource
  • August 20 – The Great Fire of 1910 ("Big Blowup"), a wildfire that burns 4,700 square miles in the Inland Northwest of the United States, due to dry weather.source
  • August 20–21 – The Great Fire of 1910 wildfire burns about 3 e6acre in northeast Washington, northern Idaho, and western Montana over 2 days and kills 86 people (believed to be the largest fire in recorded United States history).United Statessource
  • October 7 – Baudette fire of 1910, a wildfire that burns ca. 350,000 square miles in Minnesota and Ontario, including several towns.source
  • 9 November – Hans Larsen Saakvitne, farmer, bailiff and politician (born 1839)Norwaysource
  • 19 November – A cyclone strikes the town of Broome, Western Australia, killing 40 people and destroying 20 houses.Australiasource
  • Auckland defend the Ranfurly Shield against Hawkes Bay (11–3), Wellington (3–3), Taranaki (16–9) and Canterbury (6–4)New Zealandsource
  • Treherbert RLFC fold after only their second season.Walessource

Culture & Society

  • March 18 – The first filmed version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein comes out. Considered to be the first horror movie, it stars actor Charles Ogle as the monster.source
  • 7 May - João do Rio is elected to chair # 26 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.Brazilsource
  • May 14 – The Japan–British Exhibition opens at White City, London, the largest international exposition the Empire of Japan had participated in up to that time.Japansource
  • June 5 – The Nanyang industrial exposition ("Nanking Exposition"), an official world's fair, opens in Qing dynasty China.source
  • 17 June – Khodynka Aerodrome founded.Russiasource
  • June 25 – The ballet The Firebird, the first major work by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, commissioned by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, is premièred in Paris, bringing the composer international fame.source
  • July 9–10 – 'Fowler's match': the Eton v Harrow cricket match at Lord's ground in London, known after the captain of Eton College, Robert St Leger Fowler, and described as "what might just be the greatest cricket match of all time".source
  • 16 August – Berliner FV, German association football club founded.Germanysource
  • September 1 – Sport Club Corinthians Paulista is founded in Brazil by railwaymen; its Association football team will be the first FIFA Club World Cup champions in 2000.source
  • October 18 — At Nanking, Establishment of the Chinese Olympic Committee. (Chinese National Games)Chinasource
  • October 23 – Vajiravudh (Rama VI) is crowned King of Siam, after the death of his father, King Chulalongkorn (Rama V).source
  • December 3 – The first Nationalist Congress is held in Florence after which the Italian Nationalist Association (Associazione Nazionalista Italiana, ANI) is founded under the influence of Italian nationalists such as Enrico Corradini and Giovanni Papini. Upon its formation, the ANI supported the repatriation of Austrian held Italian-populated lands to Kingdom of Italy and was willing to endorse war with Austria-Hungary to do so.Italysource
  • December 10 – Giacomo Puccini's opera La fanciulla del West has its world première at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, conducted by Arturo Toscanini and starring Enrico Caruso and Emmy Destinn.source
  • December – The newspaper Vísir is founded.Icelandsource
  • The Pretoria and Johannesburg branches of the Transvaal University College (TUC) split into independent institutions. The branches will later become the University of Pretoria (Tuks) and the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) respectively.South Africasource

Births

  • January 10 – Allal al-Fassi, Moroccan politician, writer, poet and Islamic scholar (died 1974)source
  • February 13 – William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)source
  • February 21 – Douglas Bader, British fighter pilot (died 1982)source
  • March 4 – Tancredo Neves, President of Brazil (died 1985)source
  • 22 March – Thomas Liao, activistTaiwansource
  • March 23 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese screenwriter, producer and director (died 1998)source
  • March 27 – Hugh Nibley, American scholar and Latter-day Saint apologist (died 2005)source
  • 28 March – Lucian Büeler, figure skater (died 1952)Switzerlandsource
  • April 27 – Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (died 1988)source
  • May 24 – Ne Win, 4th President of Burma (died 2002)source
  • June 9 – Robert Cummings, American actor (died 1990)source
  • June 10 – Howlin' Wolf, American blues musician (died 1976)source
  • August 4 – Nematollah Nassiri, Persian politician.Iransource
  • August 12 – Yusof Ishak, 1st President of Singapore (died 1970)source
  • August 26 – Mother Teresa, Macedonian-born Albanian-Indian nun, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997)source
  • September 28 – Diosdado Macapagal, 9th President of the Philippines (died 1997)source
  • October 1 – Bonnie Parker, American outlaw, member of Barrow Gang (died 1934)source
  • 14 December – Óscar Osorio, politician (died 1969)El Salvadorsource

Deaths

  • 3 January – Antonio Saldaña, last king of Talamanca (born 1880)Costa Ricasource
  • February 20 – Boutros Ghali, the first native-born Prime Minister of Egypt, is assassinated in Cairo.source
  • April 21 – Mark Twain, American writer (born 1835)source
  • 27 April – Ángel Guirola, politician (born 1826)El Salvadorsource
  • May 6 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (born 1841)source
  • May 27 – Robert Koch, German physician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1843)source
  • May 31 – Elizabeth Blackwell, British-born American physician (born 1821)source
  • June 7 – Goldwin Smith, British-born Canadian historian and journalist (born 1823)source
  • July 4 – Melville Fuller, American Chief Justice (born 1833)source
  • August 13 – Florence Nightingale, British nurse (born 1820)source
  • August 26 – William James, American psychologist, philosopher (born 1842)source
  • September 22 – Ali Reza Khan Azod-ol-Molk, Iranian politician.Iransource
  • September 29 – Winslow Homer, American painter (born 1836)source
  • October 23 – King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) of Siam (born 1853)source
  • 30 October – Henry Dunant, humanitarian and businessman, co-founder of the Red Cross (born 1828)Switzerlandsource
  • November 20 (N.S.) – Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (born 1828)source
  • December 3 – Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader, founder of Christian Science (born 1821)source
  • December 8 – Paškal Buconjić, Herzegovinian Catholic bishop (born 1834)source