[caption id=“attachment_2239” align=“alignright” width=“356”] Modern radio equipment[/caption] In the year 1910, the first public radio broadcast takes place, in New York City (Jan 13), William D. Boyce founds The Boy Scouts of America (Feb 8), slavery is made illegal in China (Mar 10), George V becomes King of the United Kingdom (May 6), the first commercial freight flight occurs, in Ohio (Nov 7), the last execution is carried out in Sweden, by guillotine (Nov 23), modern neon lighting is first demonstrated in Paris, France (Dec 3) - and all these fine people were born: 1919-0101 1919-0105 Hannu Leminen* screenwriter/ set designer/film director - Helsinki, Finland (1997/87) 1910-0109 Michel Aflaq* philosopher/ sociologist/Arab nationalist  - Damascus, Ottoman Syria (1989/79) 1910-0119 Ray Jennison* Am. football player - Onida, SD USA (1990/80) 1910-0120 Joy Adamson* (b Friederike Gessner) naturalist/artist/author (Born Free) - Troppau, Austria-Hungary (1980/69) 1910-0131 Kaarlo Wilska* actor/film production assistant - Viipuri, GD of Finland (1981/71) 1910-0201 1910-0206 Carlos Marcello* Italian-American mafioso - Tunis, Tunisia (1993/83) 1910-0207 Giovanni Onorato* actor - Palermo, Kingdom of Italy (1960/50) 1910-0212 Gunnar Höckert* long-distance runner/OG - Helsinki, Finland (1940/29) 1910-0213 William Shockley* physicist/N - Greater London, England (1989/79) 1910-0215 Irena Sendler* nurse/ humanitarian/social worker - Otwock, Poland (2008/98) 1910-0301 David Niven* actor - Belgravia, London, England (1983/73) 1910-0323 Akira Kurosawa* writer/film director - Omori, Tokyo Japan (1998/88) 1910-0323 Unto Salminen* actor/m to Kyllikki Väre/father figure of Esko Salminen - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1972/62) 1910-0324 Richard Conte* actor - Jersey City, NJ USA (1975/65)a 1910-0401 Elias Nilsson* cross-country skier (Vasaloppet) - Stugun, Sweden (2001/91) 1910-0408 Jack Bondurant* Prohibition-era gangster/farmer - Franklin County, VA USA (2000/90) 1910-0414 Stanisław Kowalski* railroad lineman/Centenarian masters athlete/ supercentenarian - Rogówek, Congress Poland, Russian Empire (2022/111) 1910-0415 Sulo Bärlund* athlete (shot put) - Kangasala, GD of Finland (1986/75) 1910-0430 1910-0501 J. Allen Hynek* astronomer/ ufologist - Chicago, IL USA (1986/75) 1910-0501 Marcello Petacci* physician/ businessman/the brother of dictator Benito Mussolini’s lover Clara Petacci - Rome, Kingdom of Italy (1945/34) 1910-0512 Dorothy Hodgkin* British chemist/N - Cairo, Egypt (1994/84) 1910-0519 Aarne Ervi* (b Elers) architect  - Forssa, GD of Finland (1977/67) 1910-0522 Francis Douglas* Catholic priest/heroic during war - Johnsonville, Wellington, New Zealand (1943/33) 1910-0523 Scatman Crothers* musician/actor/voice actor - Terre Haute, IN USA (1986/76) 1910-0603 Paulette Goddard* child fashion model/actress - Queens, NY USA (1990/79) 1910-0605 Arvid Broms* (b Arvi Autere) painter - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1968/57) 1910-0606 1901-0607 Harris Isbell* pharmacologist involved in unethical medical experiments - Arkansas USA (1994/84) 1910-0610 Chester “Howlin' Wolf” Burnett* blues singer/guitarist/ harmonica player - White Station, MS USA (1976/65) 1910-0610 Gene Moore* designer/ window dresser - Birmingham, AL USA (1998/88) 1910-0611 Jacques Cousteau* oceanographer/ filmmaker/co-inventor of the first successful Aqua-Lung - Saint-André-de-Cubzac, France (1997/87) 1910-0617 Diana Mosley* (b Miftord) author/wife of the Fascist leader Oswald Mosley - Westminster, London, England (2003/93) 1910-0622 Konrad Zuse* pioneering computer scientist/inventor/ businessman - Berlin, Prussia, German Empire (1995/85) 1910-0623 Jean Anouilh* dramatist - Bordeaux, France (1987/77) 1910-0701 1910-0702 Morris Cohen* communist spy/husband of Lona Cohen - Harlem, NY USA (1995/84) 1910-0702 Louise Laroche* one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic - Paris, France (1998/87) 1910-0704 Gloria Stuart* actress/ visual artist/activist - Santa Monica, CA USA (2010/100) 1910-0711 Sally Blane* (b Elizabeth Jane Young) actress - Salida, CO USA (1997/87) 1910-0714 William Hanna* animator/ producer - Melrose, NM USA (2001/90) 1910-0716 David Lack* evolutionary biologist - London, England (1973/62) 1910-0718 Mamadou Dia* Senegalese politician/PM - Kombolé, French West Africa (2009/98) 1910-0720 Muriel Evans* (b Evanson) actress/of Norwegian descent - Minneapolis, MN USA (2000/90) 1910-0727 Lupita Tovar* Mexican-American actress - Matias Romero, Mexico (2016/106) 1910-0803 Harry Downes* American football player/ coach - MA USA (1970/59) 1910-0808 Katherine Oppenheimer* wife of Robert Oppenheimer - Recklinghausen, German Empire (1972/62) 1910-0812 Yusof Ishak* journalist/civil servant/the first president of Singapore - Padang Gajah, Federated Malay States, British Malaya (1970/60) 1910-0817 Jane Barnes* actress/ columnist - Mansfield, MA USA (1998/87) 1910-0820 Eero Saarinen* Finnish-American architect/son of Eliel Saarinen - Kirkkonummi, GD of Finland (1961/51) 1910-0826 Katherine Fryer* artist/wood engraver - England (2017/106) 1910-0826 Mother Teresa* Albanian-Indian nun/ humanitarian/N - Üsküp, Ottoman Empire (1997/87) 1910-0828 Tjalling Koopmans* mathematician/ economist/N - ’s-Graveland, Netherlands (1985/74) 1910-0829 Georges Loinger* French soldier and resistance fighter who helped hundreds of Jewish children escape from occupied France - Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire (2018/108) 1910-0829 Vivien Thomas* laboratory supervisor/developer of a procedure used to treat blue baby syndrome/an unlikely cardiac surgery pioneer - Lake Providence, LA USA (1985/75) 1910-0901 Edda Mussolini* daughter of Benito Mussolini - Forlì, Romagna, Kingdom of Italy (1995/84) 1910-0905 Ralph Berkowitz* classical musician/composer/painter - Brooklyn, NY USA (2011/100) 1910-0907 Jósef Várszegi* athlete (javelin/OB) - Győr, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (1977/66) 1910-0910 Charles August Nichols* animator at Disney & Hanna-Barbera/film director - Milford, UT USA (1992/81) 1910-0916 Else Alfelt* painter /married to painter Carl-Henning Pedersen - Copenhagen, Denmark (1974/63) 1910-0920 1910-0922 Louis Bisdee* Tasmanian politician - Tasmania, Australia (2010/100) 1910-0922 Hidekichi Miyazaki* centenarian masters athlete - Hamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan (2019/108) 1910-0929 Virginia Bruce* actress /singer - Minneapolis, MN USA (1982/72) 1910-0930 Jussi Kekkonen* soldier/manager of shipping company/brother of Urho Kekkonen - Iisalmi, GD of Finland (1962/51) 1910-1001 1910-1008 Kirk Alyn* actor - Oxford, NJ USA (1999/88) 1910-1010 1910-1020 Chen Liting* playwright/ director/film theorist - Shanghai, China (2013/102) 1910-1023 Hayden Rorke* actor - Brooklyn, NY USA (1987/76) 1910-1024 Ivan Boyko* military leader/w Ukrainian parents - Zhornyshche village, Podolian Governorate, Russian Empire (1975/64) 1910-1030 1910-1101 1910-1104 Agda Rössel* (Jäderström) politician/ambassador - Gällivare, Sweden (2001/90) 1910-1106 Erik Ode* (b Odemar) actor/director - Berlin, German Empire (1983/72) 1910-1110 Tomás Blanco*actor - Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain (1990/79) 1910-1111 Carl A. Wirtanen* astronomer/ of Finnish descent - Kenosha, WI USA (1990/79) 1910-1114 Errie Ball* Welsh-American golfer - Bangor, Wales (2014/103) 1910-1115 1910-1120 Pauli Murray* lawyer/activist/author - Baltimore, MD USA (1985/74) 1910-1122 Mary Jackson* actress (The Waltons) - Milford, MI USA (2005/95) 1910-1125 1910-1126 Cyril Cusack* Irish actor - Durban, Natal, South Africa (1993/82) 1910-1130 1910-1201 Louis Slotin* physicist/chemist/participant of the Manhattan Project - Winnipeg, MB Canada (1946/35) 1910-1202 Russell Lynes* photographer/art historian/editor of Harper’s Magazine - Great Barrington, MA USA (1991/80) 1910-1204 Ramaswamy Venkataraman* lawyer/Indian independence activist/P- Rajamadam, Madras Presidency, British India (2009/98) 1910-1215 John Hammond* record producer/civil rights activist/music critic - New York City, NY USA (1987/76) 1910-1221 Rosa Bouglione* circus performer/matriarch of the Bouglione circus family - Ixelles, Belgium (2018/107) 1910-1224 Ellen Braumüller* athlete (javelin/OS) - Berlin, German Empire (1991/80) 1910-1229 Ronald Coase* economist/N/author - Willesden, London, England (2013/102) 1910-1230 Paul Bowles* expatriate composer/author/translator active in Tangers, Morocco - Queens, NY USA (1899/88) 1910-1230 Howard W. Jones* gynecological surgeon/in vitro fertilization specialist - Baltimore, MD USA (2015/104) 1910-1231 Clarine Coffin Grenfell* teacher/ poet/writer - Bangor, ME USA (2004/93) 1910-0 1910-0 1910-0 Updated 2025-0429 Helsinki Search for another year here