Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s -
Table of contents |
2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Nobel Prizes |
Events
Year in topic
Births
1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years: 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 - 1910 - 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915
- January 7 - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas, segregationist (d. 1994)
- January 8 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, 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 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, social commentator
- February 27 - Joan Bennett, actress (d. 1990)
- March 9 - Samuel Barber, American composer
- 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 12 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, chemist (d. 1994)
- 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
- June 23 - Peaches Browning, actress (d. 1956)
- July 4 - Gloria Stuart, actress
- August 14 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of musique concrete
- August 26 - Mother Theresa
- September 23 - Elliott Roosevelt, author, personality (d. 1990)
- October 23 - Hayden Rorke, actor well known as Dr. Bellows on I Dream of Jeannie
- November 22 - Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, American spy in WW II
- December 19 - Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright and poet
- December 29 - Ronald Coase, economist
- Frank Abbandando, Mafia hitman
Deaths
- January 27 - Thomas Crapper, inventor
- April 21 - Mark Twain
- May 6 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom
- May 18 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, singer/composer
- May 27 - Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (b. 1843)
- May 29 - Mily Balakirev, composer
- May 31 - Elizabeth Blackwell, first female physician in the United States
- July 19 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (b. 1812)
- November 20 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and Peace)
Nobel Prizes
- Physics - Johannes Diderik van der Waals
- Chemistry - Otto Wallach
- Medicine - Albrecht Kossel
- Literature - Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse
- Peace - Permanent International Peace Bureau